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A-side and B-side
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The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78,45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, whether singles, extended plays, or long-playing records. Creedence Clearwater Revival had hits with both A-side and B-side releases, others took the opposite approach, producer Phil Spector was in the habit of filling B-sides with on-the-spot instrumentals that no one would confuse with the A-side. With this practice, Spector was assured that airplay was focused on the side he wanted to be the hit side, the earliest 10-inch,78 rpm, shellac records were single sided. Double-sided recordings, with one song on side, were introduced in Europe by Columbia Records. There were no record charts until the 1930s, and radio stations did not play recorded music until the 1950s, in this time, A-sides and B-sides existed, but neither side was considered more important, the side did not convey anything about the content of the record. The term single came into use with the advent of vinyl records in the early 1950s. At first, most record labels would randomly assign which song would be an A-side, under this random system, many artists had so-called double-sided hits, where both songs on a record made one of the national sales charts, or would be featured on jukeboxes in public places. As time wore on, however, the convention for assigning songs to sides of the record changed. By the early sixties, the song on the A-side was the song that the company wanted radio stations to play. It was not until 1968, for instance, that the production of albums on a unit basis finally surpassed that of singles in the United Kingdom. In the late 1960s stereo versions of pop and rock songs began to appear on 45s. The majority of the 45s were played on AM radio stations, by the early 1970s, double-sided hits had become rare. Album sales had increased, and B-sides had become the side of the record where non-album, non-radio-friendly, with the advent of cassette and compact disc singles in the late 1980s, the A-side/B-side differentiation became much less meaningful. With the decline of cassette singles in the 1990s, the A-side/B-side dichotomy became virtually extinct, as the dominant medium. However, the term B-side is still used to refer to the tracks or coupling tracks on a CD single. With the advent of downloading music via the Internet, sales of CD singles and other media have declined. B-side songs may be released on the record as a single to provide extra value for money. There are several types of material released in this way, including a different version, or, in a concept record
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Victor 17929A and 17929B.
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Wooden Heart
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Wooden Heart is a song best known for its use in the 1960 Elvis Presley film G. I. Presley performed the song live during his Dinner Show concert at the Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas in 1975, a recording available on the Elvis Presley live album Dinner At Eight. A cover version by Joe Dowell made it to one in the US at the end of August 1961. Dowells version also spent three weeks at one on the Easy Listening chart. Wooden Heart features several lines from the folk song, written in the German Swabian dialect. The Elvis Presley version was published by Gladys Music, Elvis Presleys publishing company, Bobby Vinton recorded his version in 1975 with those lines translated into Polish. This part being Sei mir gut, sei mir gut, sei mir wie du wirklich sollst and this literally means Be good to me, Be good to me, Be to me how you really should, How you really should. Blue Christmas b/w Wooden Heart Released, November 1964, RCA 447-0720 Elvis News Network – G. I, blues Joe Dowell biography Muß i denn zum Städtele hinaus, lyrics and translation Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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"Wooden Heart (Muss I Denn)"
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Hollywood, California
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Hollywood is an ethnically diverse, densely populated neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. It is notable as the home of the U. S. film industry, including several of its studios, and its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the industry. Hollywood was a community in 1870 and was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was consolidated with the city of Los Angeles in 1910, in 1853, one adobe hut stood in Nopalera, named for the Mexican Nopal cactus indigenous to the area. By 1870, an agricultural community flourished, the area was known as the Cahuenga Valley, after the pass in the Santa Monica Mountains immediately to the north. According to the diary of H. J. Whitley, known as the Father of Hollywood, along came a Chinese man in a wagon carrying wood. The man got out of the wagon and bowed, the Chinese man was asked what he was doing and replied, I holly-wood, meaning hauling wood. H. J. Whitley had an epiphany and decided to name his new town Hollywood, Holly would represent England and wood would represent his Scottish heritage. Whitley had already started over 100 towns across the western United States, Whitley arranged to buy the 500-acre E. C. Hurd ranch and disclosed to him his plans for the land. They agreed on a price and Hurd agreed to sell at a later date, before Whitley got off the ground with Hollywood, plans for the new town had spread to General Harrison Gray Otis, Hurds wife, eastern adjacent ranch co-owner Daeida Wilcox, and others. Daeida Wilcox may have learned of the name Hollywood from Ivar Weid, her neighbor in Holly Canyon and she recommended the same name to her husband, Harvey. In August 1887, Wilcox filed with the Los Angeles County Recorders office a deed and parcel map of property he had sold named Hollywood, Wilcox wanted to be the first to record it on a deed. The early real-estate boom busted that year, yet Hollywood began its slow growth. By 1900, the region had a post office, newspaper, hotel, Los Angeles, with a population of 102,479 lay 10 miles east through the vineyards, barley fields, and citrus groves. A single-track streetcar line ran down the middle of Prospect Avenue from it, but service was infrequent, the old citrus fruit-packing house was converted into a livery stable, improving transportation for the inhabitants of Hollywood. The Hollywood Hotel was opened in 1902 by H. J. Whitley who was a president of the Los Pacific Boulevard, having finally acquired the Hurd ranch and subdivided it, Whitley built the hotel to attract land buyers. Flanking the west side of Highland Avenue, the structure fronted on Prospect Avenue, the hotel was to become internationally known and was the center of the civic and social life and home of the stars for many years. Whitleys company developed and sold one of the residential areas
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The Four Ladies installation at the
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La Brea Avenue Gateway
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Glen-Holly Hotel, first hotel in Hollywood, at the corner of what is now Yucca Street. It was built in the 1890s.
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Hollywood Hotel, 1905
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The intersection of
Hollywood and Highland, 1907
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Christmas music
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Christmas music comprises a variety of genres of music normally performed or heard around the Christmas season. Music was a feature of the Christmas season and its celebrations. The earliest examples are hymnographic works intended for use in observance of both the Feast of the Nativity and Theophany, many of which are still in use by the Eastern Orthodox Church. The 13th century saw the rise of the written in the vernacular. In the Middle Ages, the English combined circle dances with singing, later, the word carol came to mean a song in which a religious topic is treated in a style that is familiar or festive. From Italy, it passed to France and Germany, and later to England, Music in itself soon became one of the greatest tributes to Christmas, and Christmas music includes some of the noblest compositions of the great musicians. During the Commonwealth of England government under Cromwell, the Rump Parliament prohibited the practice of singing Christmas carols as Pagan, like other customs associated with popular Catholic Christianity, it earned the disapproval of Protestant Puritans. Famously, Cromwells interregnum prohibited all celebrations of the Christmas holiday and this attempt to ban the public celebration of Christmas can also be seen in the early history of Father Christmas. The Westminster Assembly of Divines established Sunday as the holy day in the calendar in 1644. The new liturgy produced for the English church recognised this in 1645 and its celebration was declared an offence by Parliament in 1647. There is some debate as to the effectiveness of this ban, Puritans generally disapproved of the celebration of Christmas—a trend which continually resurfaced in Europe and the USA through the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. William Sandyss Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern, contained the first appearance in print of many now-classic English carols, singing carols in church was instituted on Christmas Eve 1880 in Truro Cathedral, Cornwall, England, which is now seen in churches all over the world. Christmas festivities, including music, are celebrated in a more secular fashion by such institutions as the Santa Claus Village, in Rovaniemi. The tradition of singing Christmas carols in return for alms or charity began in England in the century after the Restoration. Also from the century, there was the English custom, predominantly involving women, of taking a wassail bowl to their neighbours to solicit gifts. The status of Christmas as an important feast within the year also means there is a long tradition of music specially composed for celebrating the season. S. This is in due to the efforts of amateur choral societies during the nineteenth century. When it was composed, it was performed during Passiontide, jakub Jan Ryba, Czech Christmas Mass Hey, Master
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Child Christmas carolers in Bucharest, Romania 1929
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A Christmas minstrel playing pipe and tabor.
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A Christmas tree inside a home
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Blandfordia nobilis, or Christmas Bells, of eastern Australia
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Rhythm and blues
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Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated as R&B or RnB, is a genre of popular African-American music that originated in the 1940s. In the commercial rhythm and blues music typical of the 1950s through the 1970s, R&B lyrical themes often encapsulate the African-American experience of pain and the quest for freedom and joy. Lyrics focus heavily on the themes of triumphs and failures in terms of relationships, freedom, economics, aspirations, the term rhythm and blues has undergone a number of shifts in meaning. In the early 1950s it was applied to blues records. This tangent of RnB is now known as British rhythm and blues, by the 1970s, the term rhythm and blues changed again and was used as a blanket term for soul and funk. In the 1980s, a style of R&B developed, becoming known as Contemporary R&B. It combines elements of rhythm and blues, soul, funk, pop, hip hop, popular R&B vocalists at the end of the 20th century included Michael Jackson, R. Kelly, Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, and Mariah Carey. Although Jerry Wexler of Billboard magazine is credited with coining the term rhythm and blues as a term in the United States in 1948. It replaced the term race music, which came from within the black community. The term rhythm and blues was used by Billboard in its chart listings from June 1949 until August 1969, before the Rhythm and Blues name was instated, various record companies had already begun replacing the term race music with sepia series. In 2010 LaMont Robinson founded the Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame Museum, writer and producer Robert Palmer defined rhythm & blues as a catchall term referring to any music that was made by and for black Americans. He has used the term R&B as a synonym for jump blues, however, AllMusic separates it from jump blues because of its stronger, gospel-esque backbeat. Lawrence Cohn, author of Nothing but the Blues, writes that rhythm, according to him, the term embraced all black music except classical music and religious music, unless a gospel song sold enough to break into the charts. Well into the 21st century, the term R&B continues in use to music made by black musicians. In the commercial rhythm and blues music typical of the 1950s through the 1970s, arrangements were rehearsed to the point of effortlessness and were sometimes accompanied by background vocalists. Simple repetitive parts mesh, creating momentum and rhythmic interplay producing mellow, lilting, while singers are emotionally engaged with the lyrics, often intensely so, they remain cool, relaxed, and in control. The bands dressed in suits, and even uniforms, an associated with the modern popular music that rhythm. Lyrics often seemed fatalistic, and the music typically followed predictable patterns of chords, there was also increasing emphasis on the electric guitar as a lead instrument, as well as the piano and saxophone
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T-Bone Walker, American Folk Blues Festival 1972 (Heinrich Klaffs Collection 46)
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Louis Jordan, New York, N.Y., ca. July 1946 (William P. Gottlieb 04721).
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Big Joe Turner, Hamburg 1974 (Heinrich Klaffs Collection 86)
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The habanera rhythm shown as tresillo (lower notes) with the backbeat (upper note).
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RCA Records
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RCA Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc. It is one of SMEs three flagship labels, alongside Columbia Records and Epic Records. The label has released multiple genres of music, including pop, rock, hip hop, R&B, blues, jazz, the companys name is derived from the initials of the labels former parent company, the Radio Corporation of America. It is the second oldest recording company in US history, after sister label Columbia Records, RCAs Canadian unit is Sonys oldest label in Canada. It was one of only two Canadian record companies to survive the Great Depression, kelly, Enrique Iglesias, Foo Fighters, Kings of Leon, Kesha, Miley Cyrus, Giorgio Moroder, Jennifer Hudson, DAngelo, Pink, Tinashe, G-Eazy, Pitbull, Zayn and Wizkid. In 1929, the Radio Corporation of America purchased the Victor Talking Machine Company, then the worlds largest manufacturer of phonographs and phonograph records. The company then became RCA Victor but retained use of the Victor Records name on their labels until the beginning of 1946 when the labels were finally switched over to RCA Victor. With Victor, RCA acquired New World rights to the famous Nipper His Masters Voice trademark, in Shanghai, China, in 1931, RCA Victors British affiliate the Gramophone Company merged with the Columbia Graphophone Company to form EMI. This gave RCA head David Sarnoff a seat on the EMI board, in September 1931, RCA Victor introduced the first 33⅓ rpm records sold to the public, calling them Program Transcriptions. In the depths of the Great Depression, the format was a commercial failure, during the early part of the depression, RCA made a number of attempts to produce a successful cheap label to compete with the dime store labels. The first was the short-lived Timely Tunes label in 1931 sold at Montgomery Ward, in 1932, Bluebird Records was created as a sub-label of RCA Victor. It was originally an 8-inch record with a blue label. In 1933, RCA reintroduced Bluebird and Electradisk as a standard 10-inch label, another cheap label, Sunrise, was produced. The same musical couplings were issued on all three labels and Bluebird Records still survives eight decades after Electradisk and Sunrise were discontinued, RCA also produced records for Montgomery Ward label during the 1930s. Besides manufacturing records for themselves, RCA Victor operated RCA Custom which was the leading record manufacturer for independent record labels, RCA Custom also pressed record compilations for The Readers Digest Association. RCA sold its interest in EMI in 1935, but EMI continued to distribute RCA recordings in the UK, RCA also manufactured and distributed HMV classical recordings on the RCA and HMV labels in North America. During World War II, ties between RCA and its Japanese affiliate JVC were severed, the Japanese record company is today called Victor Entertainment and is still a JVC subsidiary. From 1942 to 1944, RCA Victor was seriously impacted by the American Federation of Musicians recording ban, virtually all union musicians could not make recordings during that period
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Label of an RCA Victor 78 RPM record from the 1950s; RCA manufactured 78s alongside the 45 until 1958.
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Label of an RCA Victor 45 RPM record from the 1950s; RCA used this label for its 45 RPM records from 1954 to at least 1964.
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RCA used this label for its American 45 RPM records during the Dynagroove era.
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RCA's LP label during the Dynagroove era was also used for 45 RPM records of the mid-to-late 1960s in countries such as Argentina, where this single was pressed.
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Songwriter
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A songwriter is an individual who writes the lyrics, melodies and chord progressions for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music. A songwriter can also be called a composer, although the term tends to be used mainly for individuals from the classical music genre. The pressure from the industry to produce popular hits means that songwriting is often an activity for which the tasks are distributed between a number of people. For example, a songwriter who excels at writing lyrics might be paired with a songwriter with a gift for creating original melodies, pop songs may be written by group members from the band or by staff writers – songwriters directly employed by music publishers. Some songwriters serve as their own publishers, while others have outside publishers. The old-style apprenticeship approach to learning how to write songs is being supplemented by university degrees and college diplomas, a knowledge of modern music technology, songwriting elements and business skills are necessary requirements to make a songwriting career in the 2010s. Several music colleges offer songwriting diplomas and degrees with music business modules, the legal power to grant these permissions may be bought, sold or transferred. This is governed by international copyright law, song pitching can be done on a songwriters behalf by their publisher or independently using tip sheets like RowFax, the MusicRow publication and SongQuarters. Skills associated with song-writing include entrepreneurism and creativity, songwriters who sign an exclusive songwriting agreement with a publisher are called staff writers. In the Nashville country music scene, there is a staff writer culture where contracted writers work normal 9-to-5 hours at the publishing office and are paid a regular salary. This salary is in effect the writers draw, an advance on future earnings, the publisher owns the copyright of songs written during the term of the agreement for a designated period, after which the songwriter can reclaim the copyright. In an interview with HitQuarters, songwriter Dave Berg extolled the benefits of the set-up, unlike contracted writers, some staff writers operate as employees for their respective publishers. Under the terms of work for hire agreements, the compositions created are fully owned by the publisher. In Nashville, young writers are often encouraged to avoid these types of contracts. Staff writers are common across the industry, but without the more office-like working arrangements favored in Nashville. All the major publishers employ writers under contract, songwriter Allan Eshuijs described his staff writer contract at Universal Music Publishing as a starter deal. His success under the arrangement eventually allowed him to found his own publishing company, so that he could. keep as much as possible, songwriters are also often skilled musicians. In addition to selling their songs and musical concepts for other artists to sing, songwriters need to create a number of elements for a song
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Songwriter and singer
Chris de Burgh.
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White Christmas (song)
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White Christmas is a 1942 Irving Berlin song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting. According to the Guinness World Records, the version sung by Bing Crosby is the single of all time. Other versions of the song, along with Crosbys, have sold over 150 million copies, accounts vary as to when and where Berlin wrote the song. He often stayed up all night writing—he told his secretary, Grab your pen, I just wrote the best song Ive ever written—heck, I just wrote the best song that anybodys ever written. At first, Crosby did not see anything special about the song and he just said I dont think we have any problems with that one, Irving. The song initially performed poorly and was overshadowed by Holiday Inns first hit song, Be Careful, by the end of October 1942, White Christmas topped the Your Hit Parade chart. It remained in position until well into the new year. A few weeks after the attacks on Pearl Harbor, Crosby introduced “White Christmas” on a Christmas Day broadcast, the Armed Forces Network was flooded with requests for the song. The recording is noted for Crosbys whistling during the second chorus, in 1942 alone, Crosbys recording spent eleven weeks on top of the Billboard charts. The original version hit number one on the Harlem Hit Parade for three weeks, Crosbys first-ever appearance on the black-oriented chart. Re-released by Decca, the returned to the No.1 spot during the holiday seasons of 1945 and 1946. The recording became a perennial, reappearing annually on the pop chart twenty separate times before Billboard magazine created a distinct Christmas chart for seasonal releases. In Holiday Inn, the won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1942. In the film, Crosby sings White Christmas as a duet with actress Marjorie Reynolds and this now-familiar scene was not the moviemakers initial plan. In the script as originally conceived, Reynolds, not Crosby, the song would feature in another Crosby film, the 1954 musical White Christmas, which became the highest-grossing film of 1954. The version most often heard today on radio during the Christmas season is the 1947 re-recording, the 1942 master was damaged due to frequent use. Crosby re-recorded the track on March 19,1947, accompanied again by the Trotter Orchestra, the re-recording is recognizable by the addition of flutes and celesta in the beginning. Although Crosby dismissed his role in the success, saying later that a jackdaw with a cleft palate could have sung it successfully
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1942 78 single release of "White Christmas" by Bing Crosby on Decca Records, 18429 A, with Ken Darby Singers and John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra, Matrix # DLA 3009.
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1945 V-Disc release by the U.S. Army of "White Christmas" and "I'll Be Home for Christmas" by Bing Crosby as No. 441B.
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Picture sleeve of 1959 reissue by Decca Records (9-23778)
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O Little Town of Bethlehem
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O Little Town of Bethlehem is a popular Christmas carol. The text was written by Phillips Brooks, an Episcopal priest, rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity and he was inspired by visiting the village of Bethlehem in the Sanjak of Jerusalem in 1865. Three years later, he wrote the poem for his church and his organist, Lewis Redner, redners tune, simply titled St. Louis, is the tune used most often for this carol in the United States. The simple music was written in haste and under great pressure. We were to practice it on the following Sunday, Mr. Brooks came to me on Friday, and said, ‘Redner, have you ground out that music yet to O Little Town of Bethlehem. I replied, No, but that he should have it by Sunday, on the Saturday night previous my brain was all confused about the tune. I thought more about my Sunday-school lesson than I did about the music, neither Mr. Brooks nor I ever thought the carol or the music to it would live beyond that Christmas of 1868. My recollection is that Richard McCauley, who then had a bookstore on Chestnut Street west of Thirteenth Street, in the Commonwealth, and sometimes in the U. S. the English hymn tune Forest Green is used instead. Forest Green was adapted by Ralph Vaughan Williams from an English folk ballad called The Ploughboys Dream which he had collected from a Mr. Garman of Forest Green, Surrey in 1903. Henry Garman was born in 1830 in Sussex, and in the 1901 census was living in Ockley, Surrey, although Mr Garman would have been nearer 73 when he recited the tune. The tune has a verse structure and is in the form A-A-B-A. Adapted into a hymn tune harmonised by Vaughan Williams, it was first published in the English Hymnal of 1906, two versions also exist by H. Walford Davies, called Wengen, and Christmas carol. Wengen was published in Hymns Ancient and Modern in 1922, meanwhile Christmas Carol is usually performed only by choirs rather than as a congregational hymn and this is because the first two verses are for treble voices with organ accompaniment, with only the final verse as a chorale/refrain harmony. This setting includes a recitative from the Gospel of Luke at the beginning and this version is often performed at the service of Nine Lessons and Carols in Kings College, Cambridge. William Rhys-Herbert included a new hymn-tune and harmonization as part of his 1909 cantata, Bethany. S
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Author's manuscript of first stanza
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Silent Night
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Silent Night is a popular Christmas carol, composed in 1818 by Franz Xaver Gruber to lyrics by Joseph Mohr in the small town of Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria. It was declared a cultural heritage by UNESCO in 2011. The song has been recorded by a number of singers from every music genre. The version sung by Bing Crosby is the third best-selling single of all-time, the song was first performed on Christmas Eve 1818 at St Nicholas parish church in Oberndorf, a village in the Austrian Empire on the Salzach river in present-day Austria. A young priest, Father Joseph Mohr, had come to Oberndorf the year before and he had written the lyrics of the song Stille Nacht in 1816 at Mariapfarr, the hometown of his father in the Salzburg Lungau region, where Joseph had worked as a co-adjutor. The melody was composed by Franz Xaver Gruber, schoolmaster and organist in the village of Arnsdorf. Before Christmas Eve, Mohr brought the words to Gruber and asked him to compose a melody, together they performed the new carol during the mass on the night of 24 December. The original manuscript has been lost, however, a manuscript was discovered in 1995 in Mohrs handwriting and dated by researchers as c. 1820. It states that Mohr wrote the words in 1816 when he was assigned to a church in Mariapfarr, Austria. This is the earliest manuscript that exists and the one in Mohrs handwriting. The version of the melody that is used today is a slow, meditative lullaby or pastorale, differing slightly from Grubers original. Today, the lyrics and melody are in the public domain, the carol has been translated into about 140 languages. Max Reger quotes the tune in the Christmas section of his organ pieces Sieben Stücke, several theatrical and television films depict how the song was ostensibly written. Most of them however are based on a legend, about the organ breaking down at the church in Oberndorf. The Legend of Silent Night TV film directed by Daniel Mann Silent Night, Silent Mouse television special directed and produced by Robin Crichton and narrated by Lynn Redgrave. org Text and music, Stille-Nacht-Association, Salzburg Silent Night Chapel, origin of song
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Franz Xaver Gruber, painted by Sebastian Stief (1846)
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Silent-Night-Chapel in Oberndorf
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Autograph (c. 1860) of the carol by Franz Gruber
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The Beach Boys
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The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California in 1961. The groups original lineup consisted of brothers Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, distinguished by their vocal harmonies and early surf songs, they are one of the most influential acts of the rock era. The Beach Boys began as a band managed by the Wilsons father Murry. Emerging at the vanguard of the California Sound, they performed material that reflected a southern California youth culture of surfing, cars. After 1964, they abandoned the surfing aesthetic for more personal lyrics, in 1966, the Pet Sounds album and Good Vibrations single vaulted the group to the top level of rock innovators and established the band as symbols of the nascent counterculture era. Following Smiles dissolution, Brian gradually ceded production and songwriting duties to the rest of the band, reducing his input because of mental health and substance abuse issues. The continued success of their greatest hits albums during the mid 1970s precipitated the transition into an oldies act. Since the 1980s, much-publicized legal wrangling over royalties, songwriting credits, Dennis drowned in 1983 and Carl died of lung cancer in 1998. After Carls death, many live configurations of the band fronted by Mike Love, Even though Wilson and Jardine have not performed with Love and Johnstons band since their one-off 2012 reunion tour, they remain a part of the Beach Boys corporation, Brother Records Inc. The Beach Boys are one of the most critically acclaimed, commercially successful, the group had over eighty songs chart worldwide, thirty-six of them US Top 40 hits, four reaching number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. They received their only Grammy Award for The Smile Sessions, the core quintet of the three Wilsons, Love and Jardine were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. At the time of his birthday on June 20,1958, Brian Wilson shared a bedroom with his brothers, Dennis and Carl – aged thirteen and eleven. He had watched his father, Murry Wilson, play piano, after dissecting songs such as Ivory Tower and Good News, Brian would teach family members how to sing the background harmonies. For his birthday that year, Brian received a tape recorder. He learned how to overdub, using his vocals and those of Carl, Brian played piano with Carl and David Marks, an eleven-year-old longtime neighbor, playing guitars they had each received as Christmas presents. Soon Brian and Carl were avidly listening to Johnny Otis KFOX radio show, inspired by the simple structure and vocals of the rhythm and blues songs he heard, Brian changed his piano-playing style and started writing songs. His enthusiasm interfered with his studies at school. Family gatherings brought the Wilsons in contact with cousin Mike Love, Brian taught Loves sister Maureen and a friend harmonies
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The Beach Boys during their 2012 reunion (left to right)
Brian Wilson,
David Marks,
Mike Love,
Bruce Johnston,
Al Jardine
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The historical landmark in Hawthorne, California marking where the Wilson family home once stood
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The Beach Boys, in
Pendleton outfits, performing at a local high school
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The Beach Boys performing "I Get Around" on
The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964
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Rock music
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It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by blues, rhythm and blues and country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of genres such as electric blues and folk. Musically, rock has centered on the guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar. Typically, rock is song-based music usually with a 4/4 time signature using a verse-chorus form, like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political in emphasis. Punk was an influence into the 1980s on the subsequent development of subgenres, including new wave, post-punk. From the 1990s alternative rock began to rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Britpop. Similarly, 1970s punk culture spawned the visually distinctive goth and emo subcultures and this trio of instruments has often been complemented by the inclusion of other instruments, particularly keyboards such as the piano, Hammond organ and synthesizers. The basic rock instrumentation was adapted from the blues band instrumentation. A group of musicians performing rock music is termed a rock band or rock group, Rock music is traditionally built on a foundation of simple unsyncopated rhythms in a 4/4 meter, with a repetitive snare drum back beat on beats two and four. Melodies are often derived from older musical modes, including the Dorian and Mixolydian, harmonies range from the common triad to parallel fourths and fifths and dissonant harmonic progressions. Critics have stressed the eclecticism and stylistic diversity of rock, because of its complex history and tendency to borrow from other musical and cultural forms, it has been argued that it is impossible to bind rock music to a rigidly delineated musical definition. These themes were inherited from a variety of sources, including the Tin Pan Alley pop tradition, folk music and rhythm, as a result, it has been seen as articulating the concerns of this group in both style and lyrics. Christgau, writing in 1972, said in spite of some exceptions, rock and roll usually implies an identification of male sexuality, according to Simon Frith rock was something more than pop, something more than rock and roll. Rock musicians combined an emphasis on skill and technique with the concept of art as artistic expression, original. The foundations of music are in rock and roll, which originated in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its immediate origins lay in a melding of various musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music, with country. In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music for a multi-racial audience, debate surrounds which record should be considered the first rock and roll record. Other artists with rock and roll hits included Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis
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Red Hot Chili Peppers in 2006, showing a quartet lineup for a rock band (from left to right: bassist, lead vocalist, drummer, and guitarist).
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Elvis Presley in a promotion shot for
Jailhouse Rock in 1957
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Chubby Checker in 2005
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The Beach Boys performing in 1964
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Capitol Records
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Capitol Records, LLC is an American record label which operates as a division of the Capitol Music Group. The label was founded as the first West Coast-based record label in the United States in 1942 by three industry insiders named Johnny Mercer, Buddy DeSylva and Glenn Wallichs, in 1955, the label was acquired by the British music conglomerate EMI as its North American subsidiary. EMI was later acquired by Universal Music Group in 2012 and was merged with the company in 2013, making Capitol Records, Capitol Records circular headquarter building located in Los Angeles is a recognized landmark of California. Mercer first raised the idea of starting a company while golfing with Harold Arlen. By 1941, Mercer was a songwriter and a singer with multiple successful releases. Mercer next suggested the idea to Wallichs while visiting his record store, Wallichs expressed interest in the idea and the pair negotiated an agreement whereby Mercer would run the company and identify their artists, while Wallichs managed the business side. On February 2,1942, Mercer and Wallichs met with DeSylva at a Hollywood restaurant to inquire about the possibility of investment of the company from Paramount Pictures, while DeSylva declined the proposal, he handed the pair a check worth $15,000. On March 27,1942, the three men incorporated as Liberty Records, in May 1942, the application was amended to change the companys name to Capitol Records. On April 6,1942, Mercer supervised Capitols first recording session where Martha Tilton recorded the song Moon Dreams, on May 5, Bobby Sherwood and his orchestra recorded two tracks in the studio. On May 21, Freddie Slack and his orchestra recorded three tracks in the studio, one with the orchestra, one with Ella Mae Morse called Cow-Cow Boogie, on June 4,1942, Capitol opened its first office in a second-floor room south of Sunset Boulevard. On that same day, Wallichs presented the companys first free record to Los Angeles disc jockey Peter Potter, on June 5,1942, Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra recorded four songs at the studio. On June 12, the recorded five more songs in the studio. On June 11, Tex Ritter recorded Jingle Jangle Jingle and Goodbye My Little Cherokee for his first Capitol recording session, and the songs formed Capitols 110th produced record. 133 - Get On Board Little Chillun - July 31,1942 - is a Freddie Slack/Ella Mae Morse/Mellowaires recording that might be the first rock n roll record and she has sometimes been called the first rock n roll singer. A good example is her 1942 recording of song which, with strong gospel, blues, boogie. Bone Walker recorded Mean Old World a pioneering example of the use of electric guitar. The earliest recording artists included co-owner Mercer, Whiteman, Tilton, Morse, Margaret Whiting, Jo Stafford, the Pied Pipers, Johnnie Johnston, Tex Ritter, Capitols first gold single was Morses Cow Cow Boogie in 1942. Capitols first album was Capitol Presents Songs By Johnny Mercer, a three 78-rpm disc set with recordings by Mercer, Stafford and the Pied Pipers, all with Westons Orchestra
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Capitol logo from 1969 to 1977
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
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Brian Wilson
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Brian Douglas Wilson is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer best known for being the multi-tasking leader and co-founder of the rock band the Beach Boys. After signing with Capitol Records in 1962, Wilson wrote or co-wrote more than two dozen Top 40 hits for the group, in the mid-1960s, Wilson composed, arranged and produced Pet Sounds, considered one of the greatest albums ever made. The intended follow-up to Pet Sounds, Smile, was canceled for various reasons, as he suffered repeated nervous breakdowns, Wilsons contributions to the Beach Boys diminished, and his erratic behavior led to tensions with the band. He remains a member of the Beach Boys corporation, Brother Records Incorporated, Wilsons work with the Beach Boys helped raise pop music to the level of high art. Wilson effectively set a precedent that allowed bands and artists to enter a recording studio and his songs became inextricably tied with the zeitgeist of the early 1960s, and he helped develop the sound of the wistful Flower Power era that proceeded. In later years, Wilson was regarded as a godfather to an era of musicians who were inspired by his melodic sensibilities, chamber pop orchestrations. His honors include being inducted into the 1988 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and winning Grammy Awards for Brian Wilson Presents Smile and The Smile Sessions. In lists published by Rolling Stone, Wilson ranked 52 for the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time in 2008 and 12 for the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time in 2015. In 2012, music publication NME ranked Wilson number 8 in its 50 Greatest Producers Ever list and he is an occasional actor and voice actor, having appeared in television shows, films, and other artists music videos. His life was portrayed in the 2014 biopic Love & Mercy, Brian Douglas Wilson was born on June 20,1942, at Centinela Hospital in Inglewood, California, the son of Audree Neva and Murry Wilson. He was the eldest of three boys, his brothers were Dennis and Carl. He has English, Swedish, Dutch, German, and Irish ancestry, when Brian was two, the family moved from Inglewood to 3701 West 119th Street in nearby Hawthorne, California. Murry Wilson said, He was very clever and quick, I just fell in love with him. At about age two, Brian heard George Gershwins Rhapsody in Blue, which had an emotional impact on him. A few years later, he was discovered to have diminished hearing in his right ear. The exact cause of hearing loss is unclear, though theories range from him simply being born partially deaf to a blow to the head from his father, or a neighborhood bully. While Brians father Murry was ostensibly a reasonable provider, he was often abusive, a minor musician and songwriter, he also encouraged his children in this field in numerous ways. At an early age, Brian was given six weeks of lessons on a toy accordion and, at seven and eight, at Hawthorne High School, Brian was on the football team as a quarterback, played baseball and was a cross-country runner in his senior year
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Brian Wilson (center) performing with the Beach Boys circa 1964.
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Wilson performing in England in 2009
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The Brian Wilson Band performing in 2005.
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Christmas
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In several countries, celebrating Christmas Eve on December 24 has the main focus rather than December 25, with gift-giving and sharing a traditional meal with the family. Although the month and date of Jesus birth are unknown, by the fourth century the Western Christian Church had placed Christmas on December 25. Today, most Christians celebrate on December 25 in the Gregorian calendar and this is not a disagreement over the date of Christmas as such, but rather a preference of which calendar should be used to determine the day that is December 25. Although it is not known why December 25 became a date of celebration, December 25 was the date the Romans marked as the winter solstice, the shortest, and therefore darkest day of the year. Jesus was identified with the Sun based on an Old Testament verse, the date is exactly nine months following Annunciation, when the conception of Jesus is celebrated. Finally, the Romans had a series of pagan festivals near the end of the year, so Christmas may have been scheduled at this time to appropriate, or compete with, one or more of these festivals. The celebratory customs associated in various countries with Christmas have a mix of pre-Christian, Christian, the economic impact of Christmas has grown steadily over the past few centuries in many regions of the world. Christmas is a form of Christs mass. It is derived from the Middle English Cristemasse, which is from Old English Crīstesmæsse, crīst is from Greek Khrīstos, a translation of Hebrew Māšîaḥ, Messiah, meaning anointed, and mæsse is from Latin missa, the celebration of the Eucharist. The form Christenmas was also used, but is now considered archaic and dialectal, it derives from Middle English Cristenmasse. In addition to Christmas, the holiday has been known by other names throughout its history. The Anglo-Saxons referred to the feast as midwinter, or, more rarely, Nativity, meaning birth, is from Latin nātīvitās. In Old English, Gēola referred to the corresponding to December and January. Noel entered English in the late 14th century and is from the Old French noël or naël, itself ultimately from the Latin nātālis, the canonical gospels of Luke and Matthew both describe Jesus as being born in Bethlehem in Judea, to a virgin mother. In the Gospel of Luke account, Joseph and Mary travel from Nazareth to Bethlehem for the census and it says that angels proclaimed him a savior for all people, and shepherds came to adore him. In the Matthew account, magi follow a star to Bethlehem to bring gifts to Jesus, King Herod orders the massacre of all the boys less than two years old in Bethlehem, but the family flees to Egypt and later settles in Nazareth. The Nativity stories of Matthew and Luke are prominent in the gospels, the first recorded Christmas celebration was in Rome in 336. Christmas played a role in the Arian controversy of the fourth century, the feast regained prominence after 800, when Charlemagne was crowned emperor on Christmas Day
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Ernest Tubb
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Ernest Dale Tubb, nicknamed the Texas Troubadour, was an American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest career hit song, Walking the Floor Over You, in 1948, he was the first singer to record a hit version of Blue Christmas, a song more commonly associated with Elvis Presley and his mid-1950s version. Another well-known Tubb hit was Waltz Across Texas, which one of his most requested songs and is often used in dance halls throughout Texas during waltz lessons. Tubb recorded duets with the then up-and-coming Loretta Lynn in the early 1960s, Tubb is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. Tubb was born on a farm near Crisp, in Ellis County. His father was a sharecropper, so Tubb spent his working on farms throughout the state. He was inspired by Jimmie Rodgers and spent his time learning to sing, yodel. At age 19, he took a job as a singer on San Antonio radio station KONO-AM, the pay was low so Tubb also dug ditches for the Works Progress Administration and then clerked at a drug store. In 1939 he moved to San Angelo, Texas and was hired to do a 15-minute afternoon live show on radio station KGKL-AM. He drove a delivery truck in order to support himself during this time. In 1936, Tubb contacted Jimmie Rodgers’s widow to ask for an autographed photo, a friendship developed and she was instrumental in getting Tubb a recording contract with RCA. His first two records were unsuccessful, a tonsillectomy in 1939 affected his singing style so he turned to songwriting. In 1940 he switched to Decca records to try singing again and it sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc in 1965 by the RIAA. Tubb joined the Grand Ole Opry in February 1943 and put together his band, Tubbs first band members were from Gadsden, Alabama. They were, Vernon Toby Reese, Chester Studdard, and Ray Kemo Head and he remained a regular on the radio show for four decades, and hosted his own Midnite Jamboree radio show each Saturday night after the Opry. Tubb headlined the first Grand Ole Opry show presented in Carnegie Hall in New York City in September 1947, Tubb always surrounded himself with some of Nashvilles best musicians. Jimmy Short, his first guitarist in the Troubadours, is credited with the Tubb sound of single-string guitar picking, from about 1943 to 1948, Short featured clean, clear riffs throughout Tubbs songs. Actually a jazz musician, Byrd—no relation to Jerry—remained with Tubb until 1959, another Tubb musician was actually his producer, Owen Bradley
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Russ Morgan
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Russ Morgan may also refer to a member of dance music group K-Klass. Russ Morgan was a big band leader and musical arranger in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s. He was one of the composers of Youre Nobody til Somebody Loves You along with Larry Stock, Morgan was the first to record the song. Born into a Welsh family in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Morgan was encouraged to express himself musically from the age of seven and his father, a coal-mine foreman, was a former musician who played drums in a local band in his spare time. Morgans mother had been a pianist in a vaudeville act, Morgan began to study piano and also went to work in the mines to earn money to help support his family and pay for his lessons. At fourteen, Morgan earned extra money as a pianist in a theater in Scranton and he also purchased a trombone and learned to play it. In 1921, he played trombone with a band, the Scranton Sirens. Besides Morgan, several of its members became famous, including Jimmy Dorsey on sax and clarinet, Billy Lustig on violin. In 1922, Morgan decided to go to New York, three years later, at the age of twenty-one, he did arrangements for both John Philip Sousa and Victor Herbert. He then joined Paul Spechts orchestra and toured throughout Europe with the orchestra, colleagues of Morgan in Spechts orchestra included Arthur Schutt, Don Lindley, Chauncey Morehouse, Orville Knapp, Paul Whiteman, Charlie Spivak and Artie Shaw. On his return from Europe, Jean Goldkette invited Morgan to Detroit to organize, lead, some members of the all-star Goldkette orchestra were his old associates. The band included Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Chauncey Morehouse, Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang, Bix Beiderbecke, Morgans first records were made for OKeh in mid 1930 exclusively for their short lived Parlophone PNY and Odeon ONY series, usually under the name Russell Brown and his Orchestra. For a short time in 1934, Morgan arranged for Fletcher Hendersons Orchestra, in 1935, he played trombone with the Original Dixieland Jazz Band when they recorded four sides for Vocalion. On September 12,1935, Morgan, playing piano and Joe Venuti on violin cut two sides for Brunswick, “Red Velvet” and “Black Satin. ”Most of the songs were written by Morgan and Venuti. Morgans biggest success came when he was offered the position of Musical Director for Detroit Radio Station WXYZ and his show, Music in the Morgan Manner, became one of the most popular radio shows. At one time during his run, he was directing nine commercial programs. While in Detroit, he did arranging for the Detroit 102 piece Symphony Orchestra demonstrating his musical experience. In the early 1930s, Morgan was in an accident that almost ended his career
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Billboard (magazine)
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Billboard is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries. It publishes pieces involving news, video, opinion, reviews, events and it is also known for its music charts, including the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200, tracking the most popular singles and albums in different genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows, Billboard was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegens interest in 1900 for $500, in the 1900s, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows. It also created a service for travelling entertainers. Billboard began focusing more on the industry as the jukebox, phonograph. Many topics it covered were spun-off into different magazines, including Amusement Business in 1961 to cover outdoor entertainment so that it could focus on music. After Donaldson died in 1925, Billboard was passed down to his children and Hennegans children, until it was sold to investors in 1985. The first issue of Billboard was published in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 1,1894 by William Donaldson, initially, it covered the advertising and bill posting industry and was called Billboard Advertising. At the time, billboards, posters and paper advertisements placed in public spaces were the means of advertising. Donaldson handled editorial and advertising, while Hennegan, who owned Hennegan Printing Co. managed magazine production, the first issues were just eight pages long. The paper had columns like The Bill Room Gossip and The Indefatigable, a department for agricultural fairs was established in 1896. The title was changed to The Billboard in 1897, after a brief departure over editorial differences, Donaldson purchased Hennegans interest in the business in 1900 for $500, to save it from bankruptcy. That May, Donaldson changed it from a monthly to a paper with a greater emphasis on breaking news. He improved editorial quality and opened new offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London and he also re-focused the magazine on outdoor entertainment like fairs, carnivals, circuses, vaudeville and burlesque shows. A section devoted to circuses was introduced in 1900, followed by more prominent coverage of events in 1901. Billboard also covered topics including regulation, a lack of professionalism, economics and it had a stage gossip column covering the private lives of entertainers, a tent show section covering traveling shows and a sub-section called Freaks to order. According to The Seattle Times, Donaldson also published articles attacking censorship, praising productions exhibiting good taste
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Billy Eckstine
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William Clarence Billy Eckstine was an American jazz and pop singer, and a bandleader of the swing era. He was noted for his rich, resonant, almost operatic bass-baritone voice, Eckstines recording of I Apologize was awarded the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999. Eckstines paternal grandparents were William F. Eckstein and Nannie Eckstein, William F. was born in Prussia and Nannie in Virginia. His parents were William Eckstein, a chauffeur, and Charlotte Eckstein, Eckstine was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a State Historical Marker is placed at 5913 Bryant St, Highland Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to mark the house where he grew up. Billys sister, Maxine, was a well-respected Spanish teacher at Taylor Allderdice High School in Pittsburgh and he attended Peabody High School before moving to Washington, DC. He attended Armstrong High School, St. Paul Normal and Industrial School and he left Howard in 1933, after winning first place in an amateur talent contest. He married his first wife, June, in 1942, after their divorce in 1952, he remarried shortly after to actress and model Carolle Drake in 1953, and they remained married until his death. Heading to Chicago, Eckstine joined Earl Hines Grand Terrace Orchestra in 1939, staying with the band as vocalist and trumpeter, by that time, Eckstine had begun to make a name for himself through the Hines bands juke-box hits as Stormy Monday Blues and his own Jelly Jelly. In 1944, Eckstine formed his own big band and it became the school for adventurous young musicians who would shape the future of jazz. Included in this group were Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon, Miles Davis, Art Blakey, Charlie Parker, tadd Dameron, Gil Fuller and Jerry Valentine were among the bands arrangers. The Billy Eckstine Orchestra is considered to be the first bop big-band, both were awarded a gold disc by the RIAA. Dizzy Gillespie, in reflecting on the band in his 1979 autobiography To Be or Not to Bop, gives this perspective and our attack was strong, and we were playing bebop, the modern style. No other band like this one existed in the world, Eckstine became a solo performer in 1947, with records featuring lush sophisticated orchestrations. Even before folding his band, Eckstine had recorded solo to support it, far more successful than his band recordings, these prefigured Eckstine’s future career. Eckstine would go on to record over a dozen hits during the late 1940s and he signed with the newly established MGM Records, and had immediate hits with revivals of Everything I Have Is Yours, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart’s Blue Moon, and Juan Tizol’s Caravan. Eckstine had further success in 1950 with Victor Young’s theme song to My Foolish Heart, and his 1950 appearance at the Paramount Theatre in New York City drew a larger audience than Frank Sinatra at his Paramount performance. One photograph taken by Holmes and published in LIFE showed Eckstine with a group of female admirers, Eckstines biographer Cary Ginell, wrote of the image that Holmes. captured a moment of shared exuberance, joy, and affection, unblemished by racial tension. Holmes would later describe the photograph as the favorite of the many she had taken in her career as it. told just what the world should be like
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Billy Eckstine in New York City c.1946
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Sarah Vaughan & Billy Eckstine at Monterey Jazz Festival 1981. Photo by Brian McMillen
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Rock-and-roll
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While elements of rock and roll can be heard in blues records from the 1920s and in country records of the 1930s, the genre did not acquire its name until the 1950s. For the purpose of differentiation, this deals with the first definition. The beat is essentially a blues rhythm with an accentuated backbeat, classic rock and roll is usually played with one or two electric guitars, a double bass or string bass or an electric bass guitar, and a drum kit. Beyond simply a style, rock and roll, as seen in movies and on television, influenced lifestyles, fashion, attitudes. In addition, rock and roll may have contributed to the civil rights movement because both African-American and white American teens enjoyed the music and it went on to spawn various genres, often without the initially characteristic backbeat, that are now more commonly called simply rock music or rock. The term rock and roll now has at least two different meanings, both in common usage, the American Heritage Dictionary and the Merriam-Webster Dictionary both define rock and roll as synonymous with rock music. Encyclopædia Britannica, on the hand, regards it as the music that originated in the mid-1950s. In 1934, the song Rock and Roll by the Boswell Sisters appeared in the film Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round, in 1942, Billboard magazine columnist Maurie Orodenker started to use the term rock-and-roll to describe upbeat recordings such as Rock Me by Sister Rosetta Tharpe. By 1943, the Rock and Roll Inn in South Merchantville, in 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing this music style while popularizing the phrase to describe it. The origins of rock and roll have been debated by commentators. The migration of former slaves and their descendants to major urban centers such as St. The immediate roots of rock and roll lay in the rhythm and blues, then called race music, particularly significant influences were jazz, blues, gospel, country, and folk. The 1940s saw the use of blaring horns, shouted lyrics. In the same period, particularly on the West Coast and in the Midwest, similarly, country boogie and Chicago electric blues supplied many of the elements that would be seen as characteristic of rock and roll. Rock and roll arrived at a time of technological change, soon after the development of the electric guitar, amplifier and microphone. It was the realization that relatively affluent white teenagers were listening to music that led to the development of what was to be defined as rock. Because the development of rock and roll was a process, no single record can be identified as unambiguously the first rock. Other artists with rock and roll hits included Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis
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Sign commemorating the role of
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Major third
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In classical music from Western culture, a third is a musical interval encompassing three staff positions, and the major third is a third spanning four semitones. Along with the third, the major third is one of two commonly occurring thirds. It is qualified as major because it is the larger of the two, the major third spans four semitones, the third three. The major third may be derived from the series as the interval between the fourth and fifth harmonics. The major scale is so named because of the presence of this interval between its tonic and mediant scale degrees, the major chord also takes its name from the presence of this interval built on the chords root. The older concept of a made a dissonantly wide major third with the ratio 81,64. The septimal major third is 9,7, the major third is 14,11. A helpful way to recognize a third is to hum the first two notes of Kumbaya or of When the Saints Go Marching In. A descending major third is heard at the starts of Goodnight, Ladies and Swing Low, in equal temperament three major thirds in a row are equal to an octave. This is sometimes called the circle of thirds, in just intonation, however, three 5,4 major thirds are less than an octave. For example, three 5,4 major thirds from C is B♯, the difference between this just-tuned B♯ and C, like that between G♯ and A♭, is called a diesis, about 41 cents. The major third is classed as an imperfect consonance and is considered one of the most consonant intervals after the unison, octave, perfect fifth, a diminished fourth is enharmonically equivalent to a major third. For example, B–D♯ is a third, but if the same pitches are spelled B and E♭. B–E♭ occurs in the C harmonic minor scale, the major third is used in guitar tunings. For the standard tuning, only the interval between the 3rd and 2nd strings is a third, each of the intervals between the other pairs of consecutive strings is a perfect fourth. In an alternative tuning, the tuning, each of the intervals are major thirds. Decade, compound just major third Ear training List of meantone intervals Doubling the cube, 21/3 = 3√2
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Neutral third
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A neutral third is a musical interval wider than a minor third play but narrower than a major third play, named by Jan Pieter Land in 1880, the name has been taken over by Alois Hába. Three distinct intervals may be termed neutral thirds, The undecimal neutral third has a ratio of 11,9 between the frequencies of the two tones, or about 347.41 cents play. A tridecimal neutral third play has a ratio of 16,13 between the frequencies of the two tones, or about 359.47 cents and this is the largest neutral third, and occurs infrequently in music, as little music utilizes the 13th harmonic. An equal-tempered neutral third play is characterized by a difference in 350 cents between the two tones, a wider than the 11,9 ratio, and exactly half of an equal-tempered perfect fifth. These intervals are all within about 12 cents and are difficult for most people to distinguish by ear, neutral thirds are roughly a quarter tone sharp from 12 equal temperament minor thirds and a quarter tone flat from 12-ET major thirds. In just intonation, as well as in such as 31-ET, 41-ET, or 72-ET, which more closely approximate just intonation. A neutral third can be formed by stacking a neutral second together with a whole tone, zalzals wosta, a neutral third of 354.55 cents, may be constructed through the addition of a whole tone and a three quarter tone, 9/8 X 12/11 = 27/22. Based on its positioning in the series, the undecimal neutral third implies a root one whole tone below the lower of the two notes. A triad formed by two thirds is neither major nor minor, thus the neutral thirds triad is ambiguous. While it is not found in twelve tone equal temperament it is found in such as the quarter tone scale Play. Infants experiment with singing, and a few studies of individual infants singing found that neutral thirds regularly arise in their improvisations, the neutral third has been used by a number of modern composers, including Charles Ives, James Tenney, and Gayle Young. The equal-tempered neutral third may be found in the tone scale. Undecimal neutral thirds appear in traditional Georgian music, neutral thirds are also found in American folk music. Blue notes on the note of a scale can be seen as a variant of a neutral third with the tonic. Similarly the blue note on the note of the scale can be seen as a neutral third with the dominant. Unlike most classical music, blue notes do not have exact values, two steps of seven-tone equal temperament form an interval of 342.8571 cents, which is within 5 cents of 347.4079 for the undecimal neutral third. This is an equal temperament in reasonably common use, at least in the form of seven equal. Close approximations to the neutral third appear in 53-ET and 72-ET
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Septimal minor third
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In music, the septimal minor third play, also called the subminor third, is the musical interval exactly or approximately equal to a 7/6 ratio of frequencies. In terms of cents, it is 267 cents, a quartertone of size 36/35 flatter than a just minor third of 6/5, in 24-tone equal temperament five quarter tones approximate the septimal minor third at 250 cents. It has a darker but generally pleasing character when compared to the 6/5 third, a triad formed by using it in place of the minor third is called a septimal minor or subminor triad play. In the meantone era the interval made its appearance as the minor third in remote keys. Composer Ben Johnston uses a small 7 as an accidental to indicate a note is lowered 49 cents, the position of this note also appears on the scale of the Moodswinger. Yuri Landman indicated the positions of his instrument in a color dotted series. The septimal minor third position is cyan blue as well as the knotted positions of the seventh harmonic. Twelve-tone equal temperament, as used in Western music, does not provide a good approximation for this interval. 19-TET, 22-TET, 31-TET, 41-TET, 53-TET, and 72-TET each offer successively better matches to this interval, several non-Western and just intonation tunings, such as the 43-tone scale developed by Harry Partch, do feature the septimal minor third. Depending on the timbre of the pitches, humans sometimes perceive this root pitch even if it is not played, the phenomenon of hearing this root pitch is evident in the following sound file, which uses a pure sine wave. For comparison, the pitch is played after the interval has been played
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Play on words
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Word play or wordplay is a literary technique and a form of wit in which the words that are used become the main subject of the work, primarily for the purpose of intended effect or amusement. Word play is common in oral cultures as a method of reinforcing meaning. Examples of text-based word play are found in languages with or without alphabet-based scripts, for example, linguistic fossils and set phrases are often manipulated for word play, as in Wellerisms, Well have to rehearse that, said the undertaker as the coffin fell out of the car. Another use of fossils is in using antonyms of unpaired words – I was well-coiffed and sheveled, most writers engage in word play to some extent, but certain writers are particularly committed to, or adept at, word play as a major feature of their work. Shakespeares quibbles have made him a noted punster, wodehouse was hailed by The Times as a comic genius recognized in his lifetime as a classic and an old master of farce for his own acclaimed wordplay. James Joyce, author of Ulysses, is another noted word-player, an epitaph, probably unassigned to any grave, demonstrates use in rhyme. Here lie the bones of one Bun He was killed with a gun and his name was not Bun but Wood But Wood would not rhyme with gun But Bun would. Crossword puzzles often employ wordplay to challenge solvers, cryptic crosswords especially are based on elaborate systems of wordplay. Young Thug used a play on words in his verse on Sacrifices by Drake featuring 2 Chainz, Ima use her name, like, Who is he. I said Ima username, like, Who is he, word play can enter common usage as neologisms. Word play is closely related to games, that is. See also language game for a linguists variation, etymology Figure of speech List of forms of word play Metaphor Simile A categorized taxonomy of word play composed of record-holding words
Play on words
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A site-specific wordplay painting from
Above in
Lima, Peru, commenting on the
cocaine crisis and exportation
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Many businesses use word play to their advantage by making their business names more memorable. This business is located near the
United Nations Headquarters and plays on the term
UN Peacekeepers.
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Quail egg
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Quail eggs are considered a delicacy in many parts of the world, including Asia, Europe, and North America. In Japanese cuisine, they are used raw or cooked as tamago in sushi. In some other countries, quail eggs are considered less exotic, in Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela, a single hard-boiled quail egg is a common topping on hot dogs and hamburgers, often fixed into place with a toothpick. In the Philippines, kwek-kwek is a street food delicacy. In Vietnam, bags of boiled eggs are sold on street stalls as inexpensive beer snacks. In South Korea, large, inexpensive bags of boiled eggs are sold in grocery stores. In some Parts of Western Africa, the Easterners call the quail egg Ogazi Egg, the eggs are usually hawked at cheap prices by vendors in parks and roadsides
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Potato galettes, served with quail eggs.
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Quail Egg as compared to a chicken egg, duck egg, and human hand
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Pickled and
smoked quail eggs at
Noma restaurant in
Copenhagen
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Billboard Hot 100
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The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for singles, published weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on sales, radio play and online streaming, the weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday, when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but was changed to Friday to Thursday in July 2015. Radio airplay, which, unlike sales figures and streaming data, is available on a real-time basis. A new chart is compiled and officially released to the public by Billboard on Tuesdays, as of the issue for the week ending on April 15,2017, the Hot 100 has had 1,061 different number one hits. The current number one song is Shape of You by Ed Sheeran, prior to 1955, Billboard did not have a unified, all-encompassing popularity chart, instead measuring songs by individual metrics. At the start of the era in 1955, three such charts existed, Best Sellers in Stores was the first Billboard chart, established in 1936. This chart ranked the biggest selling singles in retail stores, as reported by merchants surveyed throughout the country, Most Played by Jockeys was Billboards original airplay chart. It ranked the most played songs on United States radio stations, as reported by radio disc jockeys, Most Played in Jukeboxes ranked the most played songs in jukeboxes across the United States. On the week ending November 12,1955, Billboard published The Top 100 for the first time, the Top 100 combined all aspects of a singles performance, based on a point system that typically gave sales more weight than radio airplay. The Best Sellers In Stores, Most Played by Jockeys and Most Played in Jukeboxes charts continued to be published concurrently with the new Top 100 chart. The week ending July 28,1958 was the publication of the Most Played By Jockeys and Top 100 charts. On August 4,1958, Billboard premiered one main all-genre singles chart, the Hot 100 quickly became the industry standard and Billboard discontinued the Best Sellers In Stores chart on October 13,1958. The Billboard Hot 100 is still the standard by which a songs popularity is measured in the United States, the Hot 100 is ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen BDS, sales data compiled by Nielsen Soundscan and streaming activity provided by online music sources. There are several component charts that contribute to the calculation of the Hot 100. Charts are ranked by number of gross audience impressions, computed by cross-referencing exact times of radio airplay with Arbitron listener data. Hot Singles Sales, the top selling singles compiled from a sample of retail store, mass merchant and internet sales reports collected, compiled. The chart is released weekly and measures sales of commercial singles. With the decline in sales of singles in the US
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The Billboard logo
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Tammy Wynette
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Tammy Wynette was an American country music singer-songwriter and one of country musics best-known artists and biggest-selling female singers. Wynette was called the First Lady of Country Music, and her best-known song, many of her hits dealt with classic themes of loneliness, divorce, and the difficulties of life and relationships. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Wynette charted 20 No.1 songs, along with Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton, she is credited with having defined the role of women in country music during the 1970s. Wynettes marriage to country music singer George Jones in 1969, which ended in divorce in 1975, created a music couple, following the earlier success of Johnny Cash. Jones and Wynette recorded a sequence of albums and singles that hit the charts throughout the 1970s, Tammy Wynette was born Virginia Wynette Pugh near Tremont, Mississippi, the only child of Mildred Faye and William Hollice Pugh. Wynettes father was a farmer and local musician who died of a brain tumor when Wynette was nine months old and her mother worked in an office, as a substitute school teacher, as well as on the family farm. In 1946, Mildred Pugh married Foy Lee, a farmer, Wynette grew up in her maternal grandparents home, which had no indoor toilets or running water. She was raised with an aunt, Carolyn Russell, who was five years older. As a girl, Wynette taught herself to play a variety of instruments that had been left by her deceased father. Wynette attended Tremont High School, where she was a basketball player. A month before graduation, several months before her 18th birthday, she wed her first husband and he was a construction worker, but had trouble keeping a job, and they moved from place to place several times. Wynette worked as a waitress, a receptionist, and a barmaid, in 1963, she attended Beauty College in Tupelo, Mississippi, where she learned to be a hairdresser. She continued to renew her cosmetology license every year for the rest of her life – just in case she ever had to go back to a daily job and she left Euple, her first husband, before the birth of their third daughter. That baby developed spinal meningitis, and Wynette tried to earn money by performing at night. Euple did not support her ambition to become a country singer, years later he appeared at one of her concerts as she was signing autographs and asked for one. She signed it Dream on, baby, in 1965, Wynette sang on the Country Boy Eddie Show on WBRC-TV in Birmingham, while working as a hairdresser in Midfield, AL, and this led to performances with Porter Wagoner. In 1966, she moved with her three daughters from Birmingham to Nashville, Tennessee, where she attempted to get a recording contract, after being turned down repeatedly by all of the other record companies, she auditioned for the producer Billy Sherrill. Sherrill was originally reluctant to sign her up, but decided to do so after finding himself in need of a singer for Apartment No.9, when Sherrill heard Wynette sing it, he was impressed and decided to sign her up to Epic Records in 1966
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Wynette in 1971
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Jon Bon Jovi
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As a songwriter, Bon Jovi was inducted into Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2009. In 2012, Bon Jovi ranked number fifty on the list of Billboard magazines Power 100, in 1996, People magazine named him as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People In The World. In 2000, the magazine named him as the Sexiest Rock Star. He was ranked 31st in the Top 100 Heavy Metal Vocalists by Hit Parader, in addition, Bon Jovi was the one of the founders and majority owners of the Arena Football League team Philadelphia Soul. He is the founder of The Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation which was founded in 2006 and exists to combat issues that force families and individuals into economic despair. He also campaigned for Al Gore in the 2000 Presidential election, John Kerry in the 2004 Presidential election, in 2010, President Barack Obama named Bon Jovi to the White House Council for Community Solutions. He was also awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humanities from Monmouth University in 2001, John Francis Bongiovi, Jr. was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, the son of two former Marines, barber John Francis Bongiovi, Sr. and Playboy Bunny turned florist Carol. He has two brothers, Anthony and Matthew and his father was of Italian and Slovak ancestry and his mother is of German and Russian descent. He has stated that he is a relative of singer Frank Sinatra. He spent summers in Erie, Pennsylvania, with his grandparents, as a child, John attended St. Joseph High School, in Metuchen, New Jersey, during his freshman and sophomore years. He later transferred to Sayreville War Memorial High School in Parlin, as a result, his academic records displayed poor grades. By the time he was 16, John Bongiovi was playing clubs and it was not long before he joined up with keyboardist David Bryan, who played with him in a ten-piece rhythm and blues band called Atlantic City Expressway. He also performed with bands called The Rest, The Lechers and John Bongiovi, when he was seventeen, Jon Bon Jovi was working sweeping floors at his cousin Tony Bongiovis recording studio. During 1983 Jon Bon Jovi joined Scandal as a rhythm guitarist and he also appears during a demo recording of the music video for Scandals 1983 single Loves Got A Line On You which reached No.59 in the US. In June 1982, Jon Bon Jovi recorded a song called Runaway, the studio musicians who helped record Runaway – known as The All Star Review – were guitarist Tim Pierce, keyboardist Roy Bittan, drummer Frankie LaRocka, and bassist Hugh McDonald. He went to record companies, including Atlantic Records and Mercury. Bon Jovi visited rock radio station WAPP103. 5FM The Apple in New York City and he spoke directly to the promotion director John Lassman, who accepted the song Runaway for inclusion on the stations compilation album of local homegrown talent. Along the way, Mercury Records gave Bon Jovi a recording contract in 1983, tapped to play lead guitar was Jon Bon Jovis neighbor Dave Sabo, who later formed the group Skid Row
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Bon Jovi at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2009
Jon Bon Jovi
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Jon Bon Jovi with
Jonathan King in 1987
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Lost Highway Tour
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Martina McBride
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Martina Mariea McBride is an American country music singer-songwriter and record producer. She is known for her soprano singing range and her country pop material, McBride was signed to RCA Records in 1991, and made her debut the following year as a neo-traditionalist country singer with the single, The Time Has Come. Five of these went to No.1 on the country chart between 1995 and 2001, and one peaked at No.1 on the adult contemporary chart in 2003. She has been called the Celine Dion of Country Music when she was recognized for her soprano singing range, McBride has recorded a total of 13 studio albums, two greatest hits compilations, one live album, as well as two additional compilation albums. Eight of her albums and two of her compilations have received an RIAA Gold certification, or higher. In the U. S. she has sold over 14 million albums, in addition, McBride has won the Country Music Associations Female Vocalist of the Year award four times and the Academy of Country Musics Top Female Vocalist award three times. She is also a 14-time Grammy Award nominee, Martina Mariea Schiff was born in Sharon, Kansas on July 29,1966. She has two brothers, Martin and Steve, who play in her concert band, and a sister. Martinas parents, Daryl and Jeanne Schiff, owned a dairy farm, Daryl, who was also a cabinetry shop owner, exposed Martina to country music at a young age. Listening to country music helped her acquire a love for singing, after school, she would spend hours singing along to the records of such popular artists as Reba McEntire, Linda Ronstadt, Juice Newton, Jeanne Pruett, Connie Smith, and Patsy Cline. Around the age of eight or nine, Martina began singing with a band her father fronted, as Schiff grew older her role in the band progressively increased, from simply singing, to also playing keyboard with them. She enjoyed performing in her early years, Martina began performing with a local rock band, The Penetrators, in Wichita instead. Then, in 1987, Schiff gathered a group of musicians called Lotus and started looking for rehearsal space, after marrying, the couple moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1989 with the hope of beginning a career in country music. John McBride joined Garth Brookss sound crew and later became his concert production manager, Martina occasionally joined her husband on the road and helped sell Garth Brooks souvenirs. In 1990, impressed by Martinas enthusiastic spirit, Brooks offered her the position of his opening act provided she could obtain a recording contract, McBride released her debut studio album by RCA Records in 1992, titled The Time Has Come. It was produced by Paul Worley and Ed Seay and this albums title track made number 23 on the country music charts, but the next two singles both failed to make top 40. Unlike her later country pop-influenced albums, The Time Has Come featured honky tonk, the Way That I Am was McBrides second album. Its first two singles both brought her into the top ten, My Baby Loves Me peaked at number two, and Life No.9 at number six
Martina McBride
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McBride in
Nashville, August 2014
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Christmas Duets
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Three tracks on the album do not have duet vocals, The First Noel, If I Get Home On Christmas Day, and Winter Wonderland. However, the tracks for these songs were re-recorded by contemporary musicians. The Martina McBride and Carrie Underwood duets have both charted on the Billboard country charts, with the reaching the Top 40. The second version of Blue Christmas was never released outside of the video
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Christmas Duets
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The Year Without a Santa Claus
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The Year Without a Santa Claus is a 1974 Christmas stop motion animated television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. The story is based on Phyllis McGinleys 1956 book of the same name and it was originally broadcast on December 10,1974 on ABC. The film was Shirley Booths final acting credit as she retired from acting after its completion, Santa Claus wakes up with a cold after Thanksgiving but not quite yet Christmas—according to Mrs. Claus. He is told by his doctor–who thinks that nobody cares about Christmas any more–that he should make changes to his routine. Santa decides to take a holiday instead of delivering gifts, traveling on, they become lost in Southtown, a small town in the Southern United States. They receive a citation from a policeman for riding a vixen the wrong way on a street, crossing the white line. They try to disguise Vixen as a dog, but Vixen is captured and they befriend a boy named Ignatius Iggy Thistlewhite and visit the skeptical Mayor of Southtown. The Mayor laughs hysterically at their story but agrees to free Vixen if Jingle and Jangle prove that they are elves by making it snow in Southtown on Christmas Day. On their behalf, Mrs. Claus visits the Miser brothers to ask Snow Miser to make it snow in Southtown, Snow Miser declares that the town is under Heat Misers control. Mrs. Claus proposes a compromise, Heat Miser will agree only if Snow Miser will surrender the North Pole to his control, when Snow Miser refuses, Mrs. Claus decides to go over their heads by speaking to their mother. Mrs. Claus arrives at Mother Natures house where she persuades Heat Miser, Santa, dressed in civilian clothes, arrives in Southtown to rescue Vixen. He discovers that people still believe in him and in the spirit of Christmas when all the worlds children make him presents. This sets off headlines around the world, one little girl is saddened by Santas decision to skip his Christmas Eve journey, and she writes that shell have a Blue Christmas. Touched by all the caring and generosity, Santa decides to pack the sleigh and make his Christmas Eve journey after all, television is the shows current distributor, through their ownership of the post-1973 Rankin/Bass TV library. On September 5,1991, the special was first released on VHS by Vestron Video in the Christmas Classics Series line, warner Home Video released the special on VHS on September 2,1992 and also re-released it on VHS on September 28,1999. The special was released on DVD on October 31,2000. Warner Home Video released the special on Blu-ray on October 5,2010, a widescreen DVD was released on December 12,2006. Claus and two of his helper-elves, Jingle and Jangle and they decide to provide Santa with some proof that children still believe and that they still deserve toys from Santa, so the elves visit the United States in search of Christmas spirit
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The Year Without a Santa Claus
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The Number 23
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The Number 23 is a 2007 American psychological thriller film written by Fernley Phillips and directed by Joel Schumacher. Starring Jim Carrey, the film was released in the United States on February 23,2007 and this is the second film to pair Schumacher and Carrey, the first being Batman Forever. The Number 23 was considered to be both critically and commercially. Carrey was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor for his performance in the film, but he lost to Eddie Murphy for Norbit. The plot involves an obsession with the 23 enigma, which is the idea that all incidents and events are connected to the number 23. Walter Sparrow is an Animal Control Officer and married to Agatha, they have a son, at a bookstore, Agatha begins looking at a book titled The Number 23 written by Topsy Kretts. She later gives Walter the book as a birthday present, Walter starts reading the book, noticing odd similarities between himself and the main character, a detective who refers to himself as Fingerling. Walter begins to have dreams of murdering Agatha, Walter becomes obsessed with the number 23 - just as Fingerling does in the book - and tries to warn Agatha that the number is going to come after her. She tells him he is crazy, Walter comes to realize that he is Topsy Kretts, having written the book as a way to rid himself of the guilt he felt over murdering a woman named Laura Tollins. He was never suspected of the crime, and a man named Kyle Flinch was convicted and imprisoned instead and he then remembers that he had dated Tollins 13 years earlier, but that she had left him for Flinch. Walter stabbed her to death in a rage, and left the scene of the crime moments before Flinch arrived and touched the knife, leaving his fingerprints. Wracked with guilt, Walter decided to kill himself and began writing a note, but found that he could not stop writing. He then jumped out of a window, but survived and was left with amnesia, fearing he will hurt his family, he leaves home and moves to a hotel - the same one he had attempted suicide in. Agatha finds Walter at the hotel and tries to him that he is no longer the person he was when he wrote the book. He insists that he is a killer, and tells Agatha to leave before he kills her, too. He leaves the hotel and runs into the street, where he allows himself to be run over by a bus. He turns himself in to the police and is awaiting sentencing, having been told that the judge will likely go easy on him. A funeral procession takes place in front of Tollins grave, where it is implied her body has finally laid to rest, as Flinch observes
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Theatrical release poster
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Extraordinary Merry Christmas
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Extraordinary Merry Christmas is the ninth episode and mid-season finale of the third season of the American musical television series Glee, and the fifty-third overall. Nine songs are performed over the course of the episode, eight of which come from the second Glee Christmas soundtrack album, Glee, The Music, the remaining eight songs are covers, and all nine were released as singles. Reviewers generally praised the music in the episode, although reviewers were polarized in their views of the episode as a whole, the special within the episode received mostly favorable comments, though the rest of the episode was deemed light on plot. Some aspects of the sequences were criticized, such as Rachels excessive demands for Christmas presents despite the fact that she is Jewish. Upon its initial airing, this episode was viewed by 7.13 million American viewers, the total viewership was up marginally from the previous episode, Hold On to Sixteen. Sue recruits the club to sing at a homeless shelter where she will be volunteering to distract her from the first Christmas without her sister Jean. Finn tells Rachel that all he wants for Christmas is her, Rachel replies that he is also all she wants, but gives Finn a long list of Christmas present suggestions. Her dialogue, All I want is what I have coming to me, All I want is my fair share is a verbatim homage to Sallys Christmas list scene with Charlie Brown in the Christmas classic, A Charlie Brown Christmas. Just as Charlie Brown is with Sally, Finn is appalled by how much Rachel wants, when she later hints that an early gift would not be amiss, he surprises her with the donation of a sow in her name to needy Africans. Rachel is unhappy, reminds Finn that she is a vegan, New Directions celebrates the holidays as Mercedes sings All I Want For Christmas Is You. Rory dedicates the song Blue Christmas to his family, this is his first Christmas away from them, Sam offers to take Rory home with him to show him a true American Christmas. Glee club director Will Schuester announces that New Directions has been asked to create a special for the local PBS station. Rory will play Itchy the Holiday Elf and recite Frosty the Snowman, Sam points out that Frosty does not have a happy ending, and that a little sadness is also part of Christmas. Artie only wants to present the merry part and will be rewriting Frosty to fit, Sue interrupts a rehearsal for the show to reconfirm that New Directions will be singing at the homeless shelter on Friday, but the special is also set for Friday. Artie asks to reschedule, but Sue says they are expected and is adamant. The club members decide to do the broadcast, and Sue leaves in disgust, when Rory as Itchy arrives, the others are dismayed when he says he will not be reading Frosty the Snowman, he instead reads the biblical nativity story from the Gospel according to Luke. Quinn and Sam are at the shelter with Sue, helping to serve the rapidly disappearing meal. The glee club sings Do They Know Its Christmas, back at McKinley, Rachel has a change of heart and names Finns gift sow Barbra
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The episode marked the directorial debut of Glee star
Matthew Morrison (pictured).
Extraordinary Merry Christmas
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Amber Riley (pictured) as Mercedes gave an "utterly joyful" performance of "All I Want for Christmas Is You".
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The duet of "Let It Snow" by Kurt (Chris Colfer, left) and Blaine (Darren Criss, right) was widely praised
Extraordinary Merry Christmas
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Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album Volume 2
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Glee, The Music, The Christmas Album Volume 2 is the tenth soundtrack album by the cast of the American musical television series Glee, released by Columbia Records on November 11,2011. The album features twelve Christmas tunes, ten covers and two original songs, the original songs are both written by Adam Anders, Peer Åström and Shelly Peiken, Extraordinary Merry Christmas and Christmas Eve with You. The album debuted on the Billboard 200 at number six, selling 71,000 copies in its first week. Heather Phares of Allmusic gave the album a rating of three-and-a-half stars out of a five, and wrote that listeners know what to expect. She did note that the flags when unfamiliar songs are presented and singled out the original song Extraordinary Merry Christmas in this regard. She also criticized the song of the album, Do They Know It’s Christmas
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Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album Volume 2
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Elvis Presley singles discography
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The discography of Elvis Presley starts on July 19,1954, with the release of his first commercial single, and ends in February 1978. All other releases are included in the sections, and obviously all compact disc box sets were also released after Presleys death. In August 1992, he was awarded with 110 gold, platinum and multi-platinum albums and singles, according to Presleys record label, RCA, he is the best selling artist of all time, with sales over 1 billion records worldwide in all formats. Both of these claims were disputed by music historian Joel Whitburn, Whitburn lists Elvis as having 18 number 1 hits and 38 top ten hits. Elvis Presley Enterprises claims Elvis had 40 top ten hits, the differences depend on whether a double-sided hit single is counted as one hit single, or two hit songs. Before the age of compact discs and digital downloads, singles were released on vinyl 45 RPM records. Both songs of many Elvis singles became hits and were listed on the charts, Hound Dog / Dont Be Cruel was a double sided hit single that topped the Billboard Sales chart for 11 weeks in 1956. At the time, Hound Dog was listed as the number 1 A-side for the first five weeks, now Billboard lists it as a single double sided hit. This article lists Elvis Presley’s hits, both A-sides and B-sides, on the Billboard singles charts, as well as rival music publications, Cash Box, another measure of an artist’s popular impact is sales. Elvis Presley Enterprises has disputed the RIAA’s claim, pointing out several omissions in the RIAA’s figures. The RIAA bases its claim on album sales only, and does not include sales in determining the highest selling solo artist. While Elvis’ album sales are significant, his sales were also significant as can be seen in the tables below. During much of Elvis’ career in the 1950s and 1960s, single sales were considered the market for the industry. It was not until the late 1960s and early 1970s that albums became the market for the industry. RIAA does not certify sales of less than 500,000 units for albums, Elvis has had numerous albums and singles which have sold hundreds of thousands of units each but have not reached the 500,000 threshold. Taken together, these could add up to millions in sales that are not recognized by the RIAA. RIAA sales certifications are not automatic, the record company must pay a fee and request an audit from the RIAA in order to certify sales. During Elvis’ life, RCA submitted few of Elvis’ recordings for RIAA certification, instead of paying for RIAA certification, RCA and other companies would simply award their own “Gold Record” to artists based on their internal sales figures
Elvis Presley singles discography
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Publicity photo for
Jailhouse Rock (1957)
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Blue Moon of Kentucky
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Blue Moon of Kentucky is a waltz written in 1946 by bluegrass musician Bill Monroe and recorded by his band, the Blue Grass Boys. The song has since recorded by many artists, including Elvis Presley. In 2003 the song was chosen to be added to the United States Library of Congress National Recording Registry, Blue Moon is the official bluegrass song of Kentucky. In 2002, Monroes version was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry, in 2003, CMT ranked Blue Moon number 11 in its list of 100 Greatest Songs in Country Music. Bill Monroe wrote the song in 1946, recording it for Columbia Records on September 16 and it was released in early 1947. At the time, the Bluegrass Boys included vocalist and guitarist Lester Flatt and banjoist Earl Scruggs, who would form their own bluegrass band. Both Flatt and Scruggs performed on the recording, although Bill Monroe supplied the vocals on this song, the song, described as a bluegrass waltz, had become a United States wide hit by 1947 and also became enormously popular with other bluegrass, country and early rockabilly acts. The song was revered by the Grand Ole Opry and others, the search for another song to release along with Thats All Right at Sun Records in July 1954 led to Blue Moon of Kentucky via Bill Black. According to Scotty Moore, We all of us knew we needed something. Elvis joins in with him, starts playing and singing along with him. Presley, Moore and Black, with the encouragement of Sam Phillips, transformed Monroes slow waltz, in 3/4 time, into an upbeat, after an early rendition of the song, Sun Records owner Sam Phillips exclaimed, BOY, thats fine, thats fine. As with all of the Presley records issued by Sun, the artists were listed and stylized as ELVIS PRESLEY SCOTTY and BILL. The same night that Dewey Phillips first played the flip side of this first release of Presleys music on WHBQ, Thats All Right, bob Neal of WMPS played the record too. The pop jockeys, entranced by something new, began slipping Thats All Right and Blue Moon of Kentucky in amongst the easy listening pop of Teresa Brewer, Nat Cole, Tony Bennett and others. With Presleys version of Monroes song consistently rated higher, both began to chart across the Southern United States. Billboard has the song listed only in Memphis, and as number 6 with Thats All Right at number 7 on October 9 in the C&W Territorial Best Sellers. By October 23, Blue Moon was in the top 10 in Memphis, Nashville, fellow Sun Records artist Charlie Feathers has often claimed that he came up with the arrangement of the song used by Presley. The song was used in a scene of the 2005 TV miniseries Elvis. In 1954, the Stanley Brothers recorded a version of the song using Presleys 4/4 arrangement with bluegrass instrumentation, neatly bridging the stylistic gap between Monroes and Presleys approaches
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"Blue Moon of Kentucky"
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Good Rocking Tonight
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Good Rocking Tonight was originally a jump blues song released in 1947 by its writer, Roy Brown and was covered by many other recording artists. The song includes the refrain, Well I heard the news. The song anticipated elements of rock and roll music, Brown had first offered his song to Wynonie Harris, who turned it down. He then approached Cecil Gant later that night, but after hearing Brown sing, Gant made a 2,30 AM phone call to Jules Braun, after Roy Brown sang his song over the phone, Braun asked Brown to sing it a second time. He then told Gant, Give him fifty dollars and dont let him out of your sight, five weeks later, Brown recorded the song for DeLuxe Records. Only after Browns record had gained traction in New Orleans did Harris decide to cover it, harriss version was even more energetic than Browns original version, featuring black gospel style handclapping. This may have contributed to the greater success on the national R&B chart. Browns original recording hit #13 of the Billboard R&B chart, but Harris record became a #1 R&B hit, Browns single would re-enter the chart in 1949, peaking at #11. Harris had a reputation for carousing, and sometimes forgot lyrics, the song is a primer of sorts on the popular black music of the era, making lyrical reference to Sweet Lorraine, Sioux City Sue, Sweet Georgia Brown, Caldonia, Elder Brown, and Deacon Jones. All of these characters had figured prominently in previous hit songs, while Brown missed out on the biggest hit version of his song, its success kicked off his own career, which included two #1 R&B hits. In 1949, he released Rockin at Midnight, a sequel to Good Rockin Tonight and it reached #2 on the R&B chart, where it remained for a month. In 1954, Good Rockin Tonight was the second Sun Records release by Elvis Presley, along with I Dont Care if the Sun Dont Shine on the flip side. Presley and his bandmates hewed closer to the original Roy Brown version, described as a flat-out rocker country radio programmers blanched, and older audiences were somewhat mystified. A live show broadcast from Houston DJ Bill Collies club documented that the crowd responded to the song. Blue Moon of Kentucky, the version of the Bill Monroe classic, has the fans go stark raving nuts with joy. Both sides of this second record featuring Elvis Presley, Scotty, the song was used for the biopic Elvis, which starred Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as Presley, it was used for a montage sequence where he is performing at the Louisiana Hayride in 1954. Carl Perkins in 1958 on his album Whole Lotta Shakin, link Wray in 1965 under the name Good Rockin Tonight. Paul McCartney recorded the song for the Unplugged album, montrose recorded the song for their 1973 self-titled debut album
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"Good Rockin' Tonight"
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I Forgot to Remember to Forget
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I Forgot to Remember to Forget is a country song written by Stan Kesler and Charlie Feathers. It was recorded at Sun Studio on July 11,1955, by Elvis Presley, Scotty Moore, Bill Black, and Johnny Bernero on drums and it was rereleased by RCA Victor in December 1955. Moores guitar had a Nashville steel guitar sound, and Black played a clip-clop rhythm and this is the closest the trio came to a traditional country song while at Sun. The record reached #4 on the Billboard Most Played by Jockeys chart and it was the first recording to make Elvis Presley a national known country music star. The song remained on the charts for 39 weeks. The flip side of this release, Mystery Train, peaked at the #11 position on the national Billboard Country Chart, the Beatles covered this song once for the BBC radio show, From Us To You, on 1 May 1964, with George Harrison on lead vocals. The song is notable for being the last time the Beatles performed a song for the BBC that wasnt recorded for EMI, the song is also notable for its double-time rhythmic changes during the bridge. The band was becoming more experimental at the time, after they recorded I Call Your Name, the song wasnt officially released until 1994, when it was included on Live at the BBC. George Harrison – vocals, lead guitar John Lennon – rhythm guitar Paul McCartney – bass Ringo Starr – drums Jerry Lee Lewis recorded the song in 1957, composer Charlie Feathers has also recorded it. Johnny Cash covered and released song in 1959 on the Sun LP Greatest. B. J. Thomas included this song on his 1972 album, chuck Jackson, Ral Donner, Robert Gordon, Johnny Hallyday, The Deighton Family, Hicksville Bombers, and Wanda Jackson recorded this song as well. Chris Isaak also covered this song on his 2011 album, Beyond the Sun, bob Dylan and The Band recorded this song in 1967, it was released on the 2014 album, The Bootleg Series Vol.11, The Basement Tapes Complete. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Heartbreak Hotel
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Heartbreak Hotel is a song recorded by American singer Elvis Presley. It was released as a single on January 27,1956 and it was written by Tommy Durden, Mae Boren Axton, and Elvis Presley. A newspaper article about the suicide of a man who jumped from a hotel window inspired the lyrics. Axton presented the song to Presley in November 1955 at a music convention in Nashville. Presley agreed to record it, and did so on January 10,1956, in a session with his band, the Blue Moon Boys, the guitarist Chet Atkins, and the pianist Floyd Cramer. Heartbreak Hotel comprises an eight-bar blues progression, with heavy reverberation throughout the track, Heartbreak Hotel achieved unheard of feats as it reached the top 5 of Country and Western, pop, and Rhythm n Blues charts simultaneously. It would eventually be certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. It became a staple of Presleys repertoire in live appearances, last performed by him on May 29,1977, at the Civic Center in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1995 Heartbreak Hotel was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and that year it was also included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fames 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. The song was written in 1955, by Mae Boren Axton, a school teacher with a background in musical promotion. Kroliks story was published in media, and received further publicity after he was shot and killed in an attempted robbery in El Paso. On August 25,1955, the El Paso Times reported Kroliks death under the headline Story Of Person Who Walked Lonely Street, Axton and Durden give different accounts of how the song was written. Durdens account is that he had written the song and performed it with his band the Swing Billys before he presented it to Axton. Axtons account is that Durden had only written a few lines of the song and she says that the report of the suicide stunned her, and she told Durden, Everybody in the world has someone who cares. Lets put a Heartbreak Hotel at the end of this lonely street and they were interrupted by the arrival of Glenn Reeves, a local performer who had previously worked with Axton. The duo asked Reeves to help with the song, but after hearing the title he remarked that it was the silliest thing Ive ever heard, the song was written within an hour, and Durden recorded it onto Axtons tape recorder. Reeves returned, and after hearing the song he was asked to provide a demo for Axton in the style of Elvis Presley. Reeves obliged, but once again turned down the offer of a credit for his input
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I Want You, I Need You, I Love You
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I Want You, I Need You, I Love You is a popular song written by Maurice Mysels and Ira Kosloff. It is known best for being Elvis Presleys seventh RCA Victor single release, before the creation of the Billboard Hot 100 chart during 1958, there were a number of charts including Jukebox plays, Store charts, and Airplay charts. The song scored No.1 on the Billboard Top Sellers in Stores chart, during April 1956, Variety Magazine reported that Presleys sixth RCA Victor single, Heartbreak Hotel, had sold one million copies. RCA Victor producer Steve Sholes wanted a single to be the next release. Due to Presleys busy touring schedule, Sholes needed to get him into the studio as soon as possible, Presley and his band chartered a small propeller airplane to Nashville for one day of recording between shows. En route from Amarillo, the developed engine trouble and fell through the sky several times. Upon arrival in Nashville on the morning of April 14, all four were disconcerted. Presley arrived at the RCA Victor Studios without ideas for the session and therefore had no choice but to use Sholes suggestions, one of which was I Want You, I Need You. Being used to working hours, coupled with his traumatic experience during his overnight flight. Take after take was ruined for one reason or another and the band was not relaxed, Presley, usually a very quick study with a song, couldnt get the lyrics right. After 17 takes during three hours, Sholes decided Presley and the band werent able to properly and sent them home. After the session, Sholes listened to the takes again and he wasnt happy with the results of what he considered to be an unprofessional and wasted session. He knew that with Presleys busy touring schedule it could be months before RCA Victor got him back into a studio. Performing what was a rare and generally unsuccessful procedure for the 1950s. His cuts were so seamless, nobody at RCA Victor could tell it wasnt from a single take, I Want You, I Need You, I Love You was backed with My Baby Left Me and was released on May 4,1956. Pre-orders of over 300,000 were the biggest ever in the history of the company. At the time of its release, Presley had three songs in the Top 20, Heartbreak Hotel/I Was the One, My Baby Left Me, and I Want You, I Need You, I Love You. On June 5,1956, Presley performed the song on The Milton Berle Show, as well as an early version of Hound Dog that resulted in both overwhelmingly favorable audience reaction and outrage
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Blue Suede Shoes
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Blue Suede Shoes is a rock-and-roll standard written and first recorded by Carl Perkins in 1955. It is considered one of the first rockabilly records, incorporating elements of blues, country, Perkinss original version of the song was on the Cashbox Best Selling Singles list for 16 weeks and spent two weeks in the number 2 position. Elvis Presley performed his version of the three different times on national television. It was also recorded by Buddy Holly and Eddie Cochran, among many others, Johnny Cash planted the seed for the song in the fall of 1955, while Perkins, Cash, Elvis Presley, and other Louisiana Hayride acts toured throughout the South. Cash told Perkins of an airman, C. V. White, who he had met when serving in the military in Germany. Cash suggested that Carl write a song about the shoes, Carl replied, I dont know anything about shoes. How can I write a song about shoes, when Perkins played a dance on December 4,1955, he noticed a couple dancing near the stage. Between songs, Carl heard a stern, forceful voice say, Uh-uh, Carl looked down and noted that the boy was wearing blue suede shoes and one had a scuff mark. Good gracious, a pretty little thing like that and all he can think about is his blue suede shoes and that night Perkins began working on a song based on the incident. His first thought was to frame it with a nursery rhyme and he considered, and quickly discarded Little Jack Horner. and See a spider going up the wall. Then settled on One for the money, leaving his bed and working with his Les Paul guitar, he started with an A chord. After playing five chords while singing Well, its one for the money and he broke into a boogie rhythm. He quickly grabbed a brown paper potato sack and wrote the song down, writing the title out as Blue Swade, S-W-A-D-E – I couldnt even spell it right, according to Perkins, On December 17,1955, I wrote Blue Suede Shoes. I recorded it on December 19, for Sun Records, which released the second take of the song, suns producer, Sam Phillips, suggested that the lyric go cat go be changed to go man go, but the suggestion was not taken. Perkinss recording of Blue Suede Shoes was released on January 1,1956, two copies of the song on 78-rpm records were sent to Perkins but arrived broken. He soon discovered that the song was available in the newer 7 microgrooved 45-rpm format and was disappointed that he didnt have a copy in the older, in Jackson, where Perkins lived, and Memphis, radio stations were playing the flip side of the record, Honey Dont. Shoes became the side of choice throughout the South and Southwest, on February 11 it was the number 2 single on Memphis charts, it was number one the next week and remained there for the next three months. Perkins made four appearances on the radio program Big D Jamboree on station KRLD in Dallas, the Jamboree was broadcast from the Dallas Sportatorium, with about four thousand seats, and it sold out for each of Perkins performances
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Tutti Frutti (song)
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Tutti Frutti is a song written by Little Richard along with Dorothy LaBostrie that was recorded in 1955 and became his first major hit record. The song introduced several of rock musics most characteristic features, including its loud volume and vocal style emphasizing power. In 2007, a panel of renowned recording artists voted Tutti Frutti No.1 on Mojos The Top 100 Records That Changed The World, hailing the recording as the sound of the birth of rock. Library of Congress National Recording Registry added the recording to its registry, in April 2012, Rolling Stone magazine declared that the song still contains what has to be considered the most inspired rock lyric ever recorded, A wop bop alu bop, a wop bam boom. In February 1955, he sent a tape to Specialty Records. The band included Lee Allen and Alvin Red Tyler on saxophones, Huey Smith on piano, Frank Fields on double bass, Justin Adams on guitar, however, as the session wore on, Little Richards anarchic performance style was not being fully captured on tape. In frustration during a break, he started pounding a piano and singing a ribald song that he had written and composed. According to some accounts, he first wrote and performed the song while working as a janitor in a bus station, the song that he sang was a piece of music that he “had polished in clubs across the South. Blackwell contacted local songwriter Dorothy LaBostrie to revise the lyrics, with Little Richard still playing in his characteristic style, according to Blackwell, LaBostrie didnt understand melody, but she was definitely a “prolific writer. Aw rooty was an expression meaning All right. Some sources considered this a pseudonym used by Specialty label owner Art Rupe to claim royalties on some of his labels songs, songwriter LaBostrie was quoted as saying, Little Richard didnt write none of Tutti Frutti. She was still receiving royalty checks on the average of $5,000 every three to six months from the song in the 1980s. Blackwell said time constraints prevented the development of a new arrangement, the song was recorded on September 14,1955. Released on Specialty 561, the record entered the Billboard Rhythm and Blues chart at the end of December 1955 and it also reached No.17 on the Billboard pop chart. In the UK, it only scraped into the top 30 in 1957, the song, with its twelve-bar blues chord progression, provided the foundation of Little Richards career. It was seen as an aggressive song that contained more features of African American vernacular music than any other past recordings in this style. Richards contract with Peacock had been purchased by Specialty Records owner Art Rupe, specialtys deal with Richard was typical of most record companiess dealings with their artists. Tutti Frutti provided the title for one of the earliest books about the development of rock and roll and pop music from the 1950s, Nik Cohns Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom
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Lawdy Miss Clawdy
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Lawdy Miss Clawdy is a rhythm and blues song by New Orleans singer/songwriter Lloyd Price that grandly introduced The New Orleans Sound. It was first recorded by Price in 1952 with Fats Domino and Dave Bartholomew during his first session for Art Rupe, the song became one of the biggest selling R&B records of 1952 and crossed over to other audiences. Lawdy Miss Clawdy inspired many songs and has been recorded by a variety of artists, while still in high school, Lloyd Price was working for New Orleans radio station WBOK. He provided jingles for products, including those hawked by disc jockey James Okey Dokey Smith. One of Smiths catch phrases was Lawdy Miss Clawdy, which he used in ad slogans such as Lawdy Miss Clawdy, eat Mothers Homemade Pies, Prices accompanying tune proved popular with the radio audience and he developed it into a full-length song. In 1952, Art Rupe, founder of Specialty Records in Los Angeles, local recording studio owner Cosimo Matassa introduced him to Dave Bartholomew, who co-wrote and produced many of Fats Dominos early hit records. Bartholomew invited nineteen-year-old Lloyd Price to audition for Rupe at Matassas J&M Studio, the accounts differ on what happened next. Lawdy Miss Clawdy was recorded March 13,1952 at Cosimo Matassas J&M Studios in New Orleans, the first attempts at performing the song were not successful, reportedly because Bartholomew was dissatisfied with Doucettes piano part. When Fats Domino arrived at the studio, he was persuaded by Bartholomew to sit in on the recording, after one run through, Bartholomew announced OK, thats it and Matassa started the tape recorder. Lawdy Miss Clawdy opens with Fat Dominos rolling trills. in a cascading, although Domino had recorded several songs using his trade-mark piano triplets style, Prices hit provided it with its greatest exposure up to that time. Domino repeats his intro for the piano solo, another key element of the song is Earl Palmers drumming, described as loping, midtempo shuffle beats with their busy ride cymbal. This is anchored by Palmers emphasis on the snare of the second and fourth beats of each bar, in characteristic New Orleans-style, the rest of the backing instrumentation also contributes to the songs rhythmic drive by providing different elements of rhythm, in several different patterns. This complex, layered beat might also be compared to African polyrhythms, Lawdy Miss Clawdy follows an eight-bar blues progression and has been notated in 12/8 time in the key of A♭. The songs melody is derived from Fats Dominos 1950 hit The Fat Man, Prices song also features most of the same backing musicians as Dominos song. Prices vocals have been described as heartbroken wails, expressive, wailing and his lyrics deal with teenage angst over a relationship. Specialty Records released Lawdy Miss Clawdy in April 1952 and on May 17,1952 it entered Billboards R&B chart, the song reached number one, where it spent seven weeks. Lawdy Miss Clawdy was also one of the top records for 1952, Lawdy Miss Clawdy became R&B Record of the Year for 1952 in both Billboard and Cashbox magazines, it also earned Price Cashboxs Best New R&B Singer of 1952 designation. In 1995, it was added to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fames list of the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock, authors Dawson and Propes discussed Lawdy Miss Clawdy among the first rock and roll songs
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Love Me Tender (song)
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Love Me Tender is a 1956 song recorded by Elvis Presley and published by Elvis Presley Music from the eponymous 20th Century Fox film. The words and music are credited to Ken Darby under the pseudonym Vera Matson, the name of his wife, the RCA Victor recording by Elvis Presley was no.1 on both the Billboard and Cashbox charts in 1956. The song was adapted from the tune of Aura Lee, a sentimental Civil War ballad, the 1956 song Love Me Tender puts new words to a new musical adaptation of the Civil War song Aura Lee, published in 1861. Aura Lee had music by George R. Poulton and words by W. W. Fosdick and it later became popular with college glee clubs and barbershop quartets. It was also sung at the U. S, military Academy at West Point, New York. The principal writer of the lyrics was Ken Darby, who also adapted Poultons Civil War tune, the song was published by Elvis Presley Music. and credited to Presley and Darbys wife Vera Matson. As with nearly all his early RCA recordings, Presley took control in the studio not being credited as producer. He would regularly change arrangements and lyrics to the point that the song was barely recognizable. Ken Darby described Elvis Presleys role in the creation of the song, He adjusted the music, Elvis has the most terrific ear of anyone I have ever met. He does not read music, but he does not need to, All I had to do was play the song for him once, and he made it his own. He has perfect judgment of what is right for him and he exercised that judgment when he chose Love Me Tender as his theme song. Elvis Presley performed Love Me Tender on The Ed Sullivan Show on September 9,1956, shortly before the release and about a month before the movie. On the following day, RCA received 1 million advance orders, the studio, 20th Century Fox, originally wanted to call the movie The Reno Brothers but instead re-titled it Love Me Tender to capitalize on the songs popularity. Movie producer David Weisbart would not allow Presleys regular band to play on the soundtrack, the single debuted at #2 on the Best Sellers in Stores pop singles chart, the first time a single made its first appearance at the #2 position. The song hit #1 on the Billboard charts the week ending November 3,1956, remaining in the position for 5 weeks, Love Me Tender also reached number three for three weeks on the R&B chart. It was also an achievement as Love Me Tender succeeded another Presley single and this occurrence marked two important events in Billboard history. This version was ranked #437 on Rolling Stones list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, in 1968, Presley recorded a 52-second track entitled Violet for the soundtrack of the film The Trouble with Girls. Unreleased until after Presleys death, the song was Presleys second adaptation of Aura Lee, the song was also performed in the Golden Globe-winning concert film Elvis on Tour
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(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear
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Teddy Bear is a popular song first recorded by Elvis Presley in 1957 for the soundtrack of his second motion picture, Loving You, during which Presley performs the song on screen. It was written by Kal Mann and Bernie Lowe and published in 1957 by Gladys Music, clear melodic roots of this tune can be heard in the many early recordings of Boll Weevil, a traditional blues song. The song was a US number-one hit for Elvis Presley during the summer of 1957, staying at number-one for seven weeks, teddy Bear would also hit number one on the R&B Best Sellers List, becoming his fourth number one on that chart. In addition the song would hit one on the country charts for a single week. Elvis Presley – lead vocal, acoustic guitar Dudley Brooks – piano Bill Black – double bass D. J, fontana – drums The Jordanaires – backing vocals Walter Scharf – producer Thorne Nogar – engineer Pat Boone on his LP Pat Boone Sings Guess Who. Also, during episodes of Full House, the three main adult characters would often sing the song as a lullaby for Michelle Tanner. Disney featured a video in the special DTV Romancin, set entirely to clips featuring the bear characters from the companys animated films
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Jailhouse Rock (song)
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Jailhouse Rock is a song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller that first became a hit for Elvis Presley. The song was released as an RCA Victor 45rpm single on September 24,1957, to coincide with the release of Presleys motion picture, Jailhouse Rock. The song as recorded by Presley is #67 on Rolling Stones list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and was named one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fames 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. In 2004, it finished at #21 on AFIs 100 Years.100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema, on 27 November 2016, the Grammy Hall of Fame announced its induction, along with that of another 24 songs. The film version differs from the version of the song, featuring backing instrumentation. Some of the named in the song are real people. Shifty Henry was a well-known LA musician, not a criminal, the Purple Gang was a real mob. Sad Sack was a U. S. Army nickname in World War II for a loser, according to Rolling Stone, Leiber and Stollers theme song for Presleys third movie was decidedly silly, the kind of tongue-in-cheek goof they had come up with for The Coasters. The King, however, sang it as straight rock & roll, overlooking the jokes in the lyrics and then introducing Scotty Moores guitar solo with a cry so intense that the take almost collapses. Gender studies scholars cite the song for its famous reference to homoerotics behind bars, while music critic Garry Mulholland writes, Jailhouse Rock was always a queer lyric, douglas Brode writes of the filmed production number that its amazing that the sequence passed by the censors. The single, with its B-side Treat Me Nice was a US #1 hit for seven weeks in the fall of 1957, and it was the first record to enter the UK charts at No.1. In addition, Jailhouse Rock spent one week at the top of the US country charts, and reached the No.2 position on the R&B chart. Also in 1957, Jailhouse Rock was the song in an EP, together with other songs from the film, namely Young and Beautiful, I Want to be Free, Dont Leave Me Now. It topped the Billboard EP charts, eventually selling two million copies and earning a double-platinum RIAA certification. In 2005, the song was re-released in the UK and reached No.1 for a week, when it became the lowest-selling number 1 in UK history. The Beatles regularly performed Jailhouse Rock starting in 1958 and continuing all the way through 1960 with John Lennon on lead vocal, quarryman Len Garry states that the group actually started performing the song in 1957. It is the last song in the motion picture The Blues Brothers, the song is featured in the 1995 film Casper and the 2006 animated television film Leroy & Stitch. American Idol Season 5 contestant Taylor Hicks performed it on May 9,2006, in an episode of Full House, Jesse and Becky sing this song at their wedding reception
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Wear My Ring Around Your Neck
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Wear My Ring Around Your Neck is a song written by Bert Carroll and Russell Moody, performed by Elvis Presley, which was released in 1958. It was particularly notable for breaking a string of ten consecutive number 1 hits for Presley achieved in just two years and it was Presleys 6th number-one hit in the American R&B Charts, and peaked at number 2 on the American Pop Charts. American country music singer Ricky Van Shelton covered the song for the soundtrack of the 1992 movie Honeymoon in Vegas, sheltons version, also included on his album Greatest Hits Plus, peaked at number 26 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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King Creole (song)
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King Creole is a song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. The song was and performed by Elvis Presley and recorded in 1958, the song is based on King Creole, a Cajun guitar player from New Orleans who is proficient in all different styles of rock and roll. The song was released as a single in the UK in 1958 and it reached No.2 in the UK Singles Chart. In 2007 the single was re-released and spent one week in the chart at No.15, the song is about a man of Creole descent who is a freelancing street performer in New Orleans. The man in the song, who goes by the nickname of King Creole, is known for his style of guitar playing. It can be inferred from the song that King Creole used a guitar, since the song mentions string bending and rock-and-roll. The song also states that King Creole played from a well-rounded song repertoire, and would light, dark, serious. In 2010, Sony Music released a version of the song in the album Viva Elvis. The song has a rock feel, and a driving drum rhythm
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Rock-A-Hula Baby
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Rock-A-Hula Baby is a song performed by Elvis Presley for the 1961 movie Blue Hawaii. Written by Ben Weisman, Fred Wise, and Dolores Fuller, it is a mix of Hawaiian folk and rock. It was the first song published by Fuller, who would eventually co-write a dozen songs for Presley. A double A-sided release with Cant Help Falling in Love, it peaked at No.1 in the UK Singles Chart in February 1962, the song has appeared on several compilation albums due to its chart success. The title song of the 1992 movie Rock-a-Doodle parodied Rock-A-Hula Baby
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One Broken Heart for Sale
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It Happened at the Worlds Fair is the seventeenth album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released by RCA Victor in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP2697, in April 1963. It is the soundtrack to the 1963 film of the same name starring Presley, recording sessions took place at Radio Recorders in Hollywood on August 30 and September 22,1962. It peaked at four on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart. Initially booked for August 28 and 29, sessions were delayed as Presley had taken ill, One Broken Heart for Sale and They Remind Me Too Much of You would be released ahead of time on January 29 as a single to promote both the album and the film. Broken Heart just missed the top ten, peaking at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100, originally a deluxe - priced gatefold sleeve album was planned, but with 20 minutes of music and the relative failure of One Broken Heart For Sale the idea was abandoned. In 2003 It Happened at the Worlds Fair was reissued on the Follow That Dream edition that contained the album along with numerous alternate takes
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Crying in the Chapel
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Crying in the Chapel is a song written by Artie Glenn for his son Darrell to sing. Darrell recorded it while still in school in 1953, along with Arties band the Rhythm Riders. The song was rejected by Hill and Range Songs and Acuff-Rose Music, the song was eventually published by Valley Publishers which also released the single featuring Darrell Glenn. It became a hit and then it went nationwide. The original version of the song was issued in May 1953, the song became one of the most covered of 1953. Darrell Glenns original recording reached number one on the Cash Box charts, a recording by June Valli with orchestra directed by Joe Reisman was made in New York City on June 11,1953. It was released by RCA Victor Records as catalog umber 20-5368 and by EMI on the His Masters Voice label as catalog numbers HR10007, N14105 and CS14. This was the most successful pop version on the Billboard charts, on October 30,1960, Elvis Presley recorded a version of the song during the sessions for his RCA Records gospel album, His Hand in Mine. The single reached number one on the British charts in 1965 where it stayed for two weeks and it was later included as a bonus track on Presleys 1967 gospel album, How Great Thou Art. The single was eventually certified Platinum by the RIAA for sales in excess of one million units in the US, a vinyl single was also released by JAD in 2002. They feature a duet between Bob Marley and Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie in medley style. This duet version single hit number one in the UK Echoes magazine in April 1998, a dub version entitled War/Selassie in Dub was released on the flip side. A later Jamaican DJ version by Joseph Cotton entitled Conflicts was released on the Rastafari label in 2009, more than 50 artists have released a version of Crying in the Chapel. The black R&B group, The Orioles, recorded a version of the song which became a major success in 1953. The Orioles version went to one on the R&B chart. It was included on the album for the film American Graffiti. Arne Alm wrote the Swedish lyrics, raya Avellan and Yngve Stoors Hawaiiorkester recorded Klockorna i dalen in Stockholm on October 10,1953. The song was released on the 78 rpm record Cupol 4780, ken Griffin recorded a version in 1953
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1953 sheet music cover featuring Darrell Glenn on the cover, Valley Publishers, Inc., New York.
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Frankie and Johnny (song)
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Frankie and Johnny is a traditional American popular song. It tells the story of a woman, Frankie, who finds that her man Johnny was making love to another woman, Frankie is then arrested, in some versions of the song she is also executed. The song was inspired by one or more actual murders, one of these took place in an apartment building located at 212 Targee Street in St. Louis, Missouri, at 2,00 on the morning of October 15,1899. Frankie Baker, a 22-year-old woman, shot her 17-year-old lover Allen Britt in the abdomen, Britt had just returned from a cakewalk at a local dance hall, where he and another woman, Nelly Bly, had won a prize in a slow-dancing contest. Britt died of his wounds four days later at the City Hospital, on trial, Baker claimed that Britt had attacked her with a knife and that she acted in self-defense, she was acquitted and died in a Portland, Oregon, mental institution in 1952. In 1899, popular St Louis balladeer Bill Dooley composed Frankie Killed Allen shortly after the Baker murder case, the song has also been linked to Frances Frankie Stewart Silver, convicted in 1832 of murdering her husband Charles Silver in Burke County, North Carolina. Unlike Frankie Baker, Silver was executed, what has come to be the traditional version of the melody was also published in 1912, as the verse to the song Youre My Baby, with music is attributed to Nat. At least 256 different recordings of Frankie and Johnny have been made since the early 20th century, anika Noni Rose, and Stevie Wonder. A1966 recording by Elvis Presley became a record as the title song of a Presley movie. Thompson was a street singer from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. As a jazz standard it has also recorded by numerous bands and instrumentalists including Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Bunny Berigan, Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington. Champion Jack Dupree set his version in New Orleans, retitling it Rampart, ace Cannon recorded an instrumental version for his 1994 album Entertainer. The story of Frankie and Johnny has been the inspiration for films, including Her Man, Frankie and Johnnie. Terrence McNallys 1987 play, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, was adapted for a 1991 film titled Frankie and Johnny starring Al Pacino, in 1930 director and actor John Huston wrote and produced a puppet play titled Frankie and Johnnie based on the Frankie Baker case. One of Hustons main sources was his interview with Baker and Britt’s neighbor Richard Clay, comedian Harry Langdon performed the song in his 1930 short The Fighting Parson, in a variant on his vaudeville routine originally performed in blackface. Mae West inserted her ballad in her successful Broadway play Diamond Lil, West sang the ballad again in her 1933 Paramount film She Done Him Wrong, which takes its title from the refrain, substituting genders. She also sang it years later on the CBS television special Back Lot U. S. A. The song was used in the 1932 film Red-Headed Woman, in a scene where actress Jean Harlows character is drinking and lamenting having been jilted by her married lover and it is also sung by a river boat crew in Bed of Roses, a film released the following year
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If Every Day Was Like Christmas
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The song was recorded on June 10,1966 at RCA Studio B in Nashville and featured The Jordanaires and The Imperials Quartet on backing vocals. The song was written by Red West, the single reached No.2 on Billboards Best Bets For Christmas survey in 1966, and returned to the chart in 1967, spending a total of eight weeks in the chart. In the United Kingdom, the song reached Number 13 in the UK Singles Chart in December 1966, the song was included on the 1970 RCA Camden reissue of Elvis Christmas Album collection, which was re-released by Pickwick Records in 1975 and by RCA in 1985. The album was certified Diamond by the RIAA in 2011 with sales of over 10 million copies, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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If I Can Dream
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If I Can Dream is a song made famous by Elvis Presley, written by Walter Earl Brown and notable for its direct quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr. The song was published by Elvis Presleys music publishing company Gladys Music and it was recorded by Presley in June 1968, two months after Kings assassination. The recording was first released to the public as the finale of Presleys 68 Comeback Special, although the song is not technically gospel music, Presley performed the song with the intensity and intonations of southern gospel. It has since appeared on various Presley gospel and/or inspirational compilations, Brown was asked to write a song to replace Ill Be Home for Christmas as the grand finale on NBCs Elvis. He wrote If I Can Dream, and when Presley heard it he proclaimed Im never going to sing another song I dont believe in, Im never going to make another picture I dont believe in. The song was published by Elvis Presleys company Gladys Music, Inc, when Colonel Tom Parker heard the song demonstrated by Earl Brown, he said, This aint Elvis kind of song. Elvis was also there, unbeknownst to him, and he said, Id like to try it, Earl Brown said that when Elvis recorded the song, Brown saw tears rolling down the cheeks of the three back up singers. One of them whispered to him, Elvis has never sung with so much emotion before, band-related errors prevented the first take from becoming the master. It charted on Billboards Hot 100 for 13 weeks, peaking at #12, with more than one million sales, in Canada the song peaked at 6 on RPMs top singles chart, lasting more than several weeks. The song has appeared in many Presley compilations since its release, sony BMG remastered the song in 2004, for future compilations. The song is referred to as stereo mix in 68 Comeback Special releases after 2004, other compilations, such as Platinum - A Life In Music, include alternative takes on the song that are not as polished as the official takes. For instance, the vocalists are not present in most of these takes. Barry Manilow did the song on his Live on Broadway album in 1990, it was included on the subsequent box set compilation album The Complete Collection. On American Idol 6, Celine Dion sang If I Can Dream as a duet with Presley and it was later included on The Best of Celine Dion & David Foster. In the 2005 CBS miniseries Elvis, the original Comeback Special segment is re-enacted in the epilogue scene with Jonathan Rhys Meyers lip synching to the song. The Elvis Presley version is used as the title song for the new 2010 reality based television series of the same title created by Simon Fuller and produced by 19 Entertainment and CKX. CKX, Inc. owns 85% of Elvis Presley Enterprises, in 2010 Terry Venables recorded a cover of the song in association with British newspaper The Sun. The version is meshed with Bread, Freedom by Egyptian musician Ramy Essam, the song was used in the ending of the ESPN 30for30 about the Buffalo Bills
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Suspicious Minds
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Suspicious Minds is an American song written and first recorded by American songwriter Mark James. After James recording failed commercially, the song was handed to Elvis Presley by producer Chips Moman, becoming a one song in 1969. Suspicious Minds was widely regarded as the single that returned Presleys career success and it was his eighteenth and last number-one single in the United States. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked it No.91 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, session guitarist Reggie Young played on both the James and Presley versions. The song is about a mistrusting and dysfunctional relationship, and the need of the characters to overcome their issues in order to maintain it. Written in 1968 by Mark James, who was also co-writer of Always on My Mind, Chips Moman had asked James to come to Memphis to write songs for American Sound Studio. At the time, James was residing in Houston, James had written three songs that became number one hits in the Southern United States. American Sound Studio was gaining a reputation in the industry as the Box Tops had just recorded The Letter there so James relocated to Memphis. James said that one night, he was fooling around on his Fender guitar and using his Hammond organ pedals for a bass line. James at the time was married to his first wife, but still had feelings for his childhood sweetheart, Jamess wife had suspicions of his feelings. James felt it was a time for him and that all three were caught in this trap that they could not walk out of. At the recording session, James sang the vocals. The horns, strings and vocals of the Holladay Sisters were later overdubbed, after the tape was mixed, James and Moman flew to New York, where Jamess manager had contacts with Scepter Records. The label loved the song and put it out, but Scepter did not have the money to new artists. Later that year, Don Crews, Momans partner, told James that Presley had booked their studio to record what would become the From Elvis in Memphis album, Crews kept asking James if he had any songs that would be right for Presley. James felt Presley needed a mature rock n roll song to bring him back as Tom Jones was a hot artist at the time, Crews and James thought of Suspicious Minds and James began urging others to get Presley to hear it. Even though Jamess recording had not been successful, upon reviewing the song Presley decided he could turn it into a hit. Marty Lacker, a friend of Elvis, suggested he record at the studio
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Patch It Up
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Elvis, Thats the Way It Is is a 1970 American documentary film directed by Denis Sanders. The film documents American singer Elvis Presleys Summer Festival in Las Vegas during August 1970 and it was his first non-dramatic film since the beginning of his film career in 1956, and the film gives a clear view of Presleys return to live performances after years of making films. The original concept as devised by technical advisor Colonel Tom Parker was in view of Elviss triumphant return to live performances was a closed circuit television presentation of one show and this was the first show of Elvis first tour in 13 years. Elvis and his band are seen rehearsing for the Las Vegas engagement at MGM Studios in Culver City, California. There are scenes of Elvis running through such tunes as I Just Cant Help Believing, Whatd I Say, Little Sister, Words, Thats All Right Mama, the rehearsal sequences were filmed during late July 1970. There is also a session of rehearsals that takes place in the Showroom Internationale of the International Hotel in Las Vegas, together, Elvis and the entire group run through songs from Mary In the Morning to Polk Salad Annie. These rehearsals took place on August 7,1970, footage of an Elvis Appreciation Society convention in Luxembourg was shot on September 5,1970. Radio Luxembourg DJs Tony Prince and Peter Aldersley are on hand to lead the festivities, a tandem bicycle owned by Elvis is raffled off to a lucky fan in the audience. Additionally, various musicians are seen performing their own versions of Elvis songs and he sings many well-known songs, including several of those that he had been seen rehearsing earlier in the film. The movie is intercut with footage of fans offering commentary about what Elvis means to them, officials at the International Hotel. A soundtrack album was released in conjunction with the film and it was Presleys first full-length film soundtrack album since 1968s Speedway, and the last as his final film, 1972s Elvis on Tour, did not have a soundtrack release. It was only a soundtrack release, as it did not include all of the live performances. A Special Edition was released in 2001 in conjunction with the Special Edition of the movie, the new version eliminated much of the documentary and non-Elvis content of the original in favor of adding additional performances of Elvis rehearsing and in concert. The final film runs 12 minutes shorter than the original, but contains more music, the special edition was released on January 19,2001, when this new version made its worldwide debut on the cable network, Turner Classic Movies and produced by award-winning producer Rick Schmidlin. In August 2007 a two-disc DVD special edition was released by Warner/Turner that has both the reworked version plus the original cut, the original, however, has only a mono soundtrack. The DVD also includes approximately 35 minutes of performances and other footage that was not included in either edition. A Two Disc Special Edition Premium Digibook was announced for release in August 12,2014, academy Award® nominated Lucien Ballard was the cinematographer
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Adeste Fideles
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The original four verses of the hymn were extended to a total of eight, and these have been translated into many languages. The English translation of O Come, All Ye Faithful by the English Catholic priest Frederick Oakeley, the present harmonisation is from the English Hymnal. An original manuscript of the oldest known version, dating from 1751, is held by Stonyhurst College in Lancashire, thomas Arne, whom Wade knew, is another possible composer. Wade included it in his own publication of Cantus Diversi and it was published again in the 1760 edition of Evening Offices of the Church. It also appeared in Samuel Webbes An Essay on the Church Plain Chant, there are additional Latin verses in various sources
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Good Times (Elvis Presley album)
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Good Times is a 1974 album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley and his 20th studio album. The album includes a collection of songs that vary in style, released the same day as the recording of Elvis, Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis was being made, the title was taken from the song Talk About the Good Times. Many of the songs are covers of hits at the time, like Spanish Eyes, charting low at the time of its release, it was considered typical 1970s Elvis material and was his first album to hit the cut-out bins. The album did have some success though upon its release, becoming a Cashbox #1 hit. Original copies of the LP with the sticker on the cover are very rare, music page CPL1-0475 Good Times Guide part of the The Elvis Presley Record Research Database AFL1-0475 Good Times Guide part of the The Elvis Presley Record Research Database Good Times at Discogs
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Unchained Melody
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Unchained Melody is a 1955 song with music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret. North used the music as a theme for the prison film Unchained. Todd Duncan sang the vocals for the film soundtrack and it has since become a standard and one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, most notably by the Righteous Brothers. According to the songs publishing administrator, over 1,500 recordings of Unchained Melody have been made by more than 670 artists in multiple languages, the song and Do They Know Its Christmas are the only songs to reach number one in four different recordings in the UK. Of the hundreds of recordings made, it was the July 1965 version by the Righteous Brothers, performed as a solo by Bobby Hatfield and this version achieved a second round of great popularity when it was featured in the 1990 blockbuster film Ghost. In 2004, it finished at number 27 on AFIs 100 Years.100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema, in 1954, North was contracted to compose the score for the prison film Unchained. North composed and recorded the score, and then was asked to write a song based upon the movies theme, North asked lyricist Hy Zaret to write the lyric, but Zaret initially declined, saying he was too busy painting his house. North was able to him to take the job. Zaret refused the producer’s request to include the word unchained in his lyrics, the song eventually became known as the Unchained Melody even though the song does not actually include the word unchained. Instead, Zaret chose to focus on someone who pines for a lover he has not seen in a long, the 1955 film centered around a man who contemplates either escaping from prison to live life on the run or completing his sentence and returning to his wife and family. The song has a harmonic device as the bridge ends on the tonic chord rather than the more usual dominant chord. With Todd Duncan singing the vocals, the song was nominated for an Oscar in 1955, Todd Duncan sang the vocals for the film soundtrack. He performs a version in the film, playing one of the prisoners. Lying on a bed, he sings it accompanied by another prisoner on guitar while others listen sadly, bandleader Les Baxter released a version which reached number 1 on the US charts and number 10 in the UK. The words unchain me are sung repeatedly at the beginning and the lyrics are sung by a choir, Billboard ranked this version as the No.5 song of 1955. Al Hibbler followed close behind with a version, and it reached number 3 on the Billboard charts. He was quickly followed by Jimmy Young, whose version hit number 1 on the British charts, Jimmy Young also later re-recorded another version of his 1955 charttopper in early 1964 and that version charted at number 43 in the UK. Two weeks after Youngs version entered the top 10 of the British charts in June 1955 Liberace would score a number 20 hit, roy Hamiltons version reached number one on the R&B Best Sellers list and number 6 on the pop chart
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Carl Wilson
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Carl Dean Wilson was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer who co-founded the Beach Boys. He is best remembered as their lead guitarist and as the youngest brother of bandmates Brian, unlike other members of the band, he often played alongside the studio musicians employed during the groups critical and commercial peak in the mid 1960s. During the 1980s, he attempted to launch a career, releasing the albums Carl Wilson. Shortly before his death, he recorded material with Gerry Beckley and Robert Lamm, in 1988, Carl was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Beach Boys. Carl Dean Wilson was born in Hawthorne, California, the youngest son of Audree Neva, from his pre-teens he practiced harmony vocals under the guidance of his brother Brian, who often sang in the family music room with his mother and brothers. Inspired by country star Spade Cooley, at the age of 12, Carl asked his parents to buy him a guitar, for which he took some lessons. In 1982, Carl remembered from this time, The kid across the street, David Marks, was taking lessons from John Maus, so I started. David and I were about 12 and John was only three years older, but we thought he was a shit-hot guitarist, John and his sister Judy did fraternity gigs together as a duo. Later John moved to England and became one of the Walker Brothers and he showed me some fingerpicking techniques and strumming stuff that I still use. When I play a solo, hes still there, while Brian perfected the bands vocal style and keyboard base, Carls Chuck Berry-esque guitar became an early Beach Boys trademark. While in high school, Carl also studied saxophone, turning 15 as the groups first hit, Surfin, broke locally in Los Angeles, Carls father and manager, Murry, bought him a Fender Jaguar guitar. Dave Marsh, in The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll, Carls lead vocals in the bands first three years were infrequent. Although all members of the played on their early recordings. Unlike the other members of the band, Carl often played alongside session musicians and he also recorded his individual guitar leads during the Beach Boys vocal sessions, with his guitar plugged directly into the soundboard. His playing can be heard on tracks like 1965s Girl Dont Tell Me, after Brians retirement from touring in 1965, Carl became the musical director of the band onstage. Contracts at that time stipulated that promoters hire Carl Wilson plus four other musicians, following his lead vocal performance on God Only Knows in 1966, Carl was increasingly lead vocalist for the band, a role previously dominated by Mike Love and Brian. He sang leads on the singles Good Vibrations, Darlin, starting with the album Wild Honey, Brian requested that Carl become more involved in the Beach Boys records. In 1969, the Beach Boys rendition of I Can Hear Music was the first track produced solely by Carl Wilson, by then, he had effectively become the bands in-studio leader, producing the bulk of the albums during the early 1970s
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Dennis Wilson
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Dennis Carl Wilson was an American musician, singer, and songwriter who co-founded the Beach Boys. He is best remembered as their drummer and as the brother of bandmates Brian. Dennis was the only true surfer in the Beach Boys, and he was also known for his brief association with then-aspiring songwriter Charles Manson, who was later convicted of murder conspiracy. Dennis served mainly on drums and backing vocals for the Beach Boys from its formation until his death in 1983 and it is often erroneously stated that Dennis drumming in the bands recordings was filled in exclusively by studio musicians. His drumming is documented on a number of the singles, including I Get Around, Fun, Fun, Fun. While he was allowed few lead vocals in the 1960s, his prominence as a singer-songwriter increased into the 1970s and his original songs for the group included Little Bird, Forever, and Slip On Through. Although uncredited, Wilson helped pen You Are So Beautiful, a hit for Joe Cocker in 1974 and his music has been characterized for reflecting his edginess and exhibited little of his happy charm, setting it apart from Brian’s music. By all appearances the happy-go-lucky Beach Boy, Dennis Wilson lived out the proverbial live-fast-die-young motto and his wild side masked an underside that was, by turns, brooding, self-loathing, sensitive, and anxious. Wilsons only solo album, Pacific Ocean Blue, was released to warm reviews, written and recorded over a span of several years, the album peaked on US record charts at number 96 during a 12-week stay. Sessions for a follow-up, Bambu, disintegrated before his death in 1983, five years later, Wilson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Beach Boys. Dennis Carl Wilson was the son of Audree Neva and Murry Gage Wilson and he spent his family years with his brothers and parents in Hawthorne, California. Dennis role in the dynamic, which he himself acknowledged, was that of the black sheep. Though anxiety-filled and aggressive at times he was sensitive and generous. Out of the three Wilson brothers, he was the most likely to get beaten by their strong-willed father Murry. However, Dennis would sing with his brothers late at night in their shared bedroom, Brian noted of the late night brotherly three-part harmonies, We developed a little blend which aided us when we started to get into the Beach Boys stuff. Dennis mother, Audree, forced Brian to include Dennis in the lineup of the Beach Boys. Urged by older cousin Mike Love, Dennis had approached Brian to form a group, the Beach Boys formed in August 1961, with Murry taking over as manager, and were immediately successful. Though the Beach Boys developed their image based on the California surfing culture, in the early years of the Beach Boys, Brian gave him the role of the drummer
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Blondie Chaplin
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Terence William Blondie Chaplin is a singer and guitarist from Durban, South Africa, where he played in the band The Flames in the mid-to late-1960s. He became known to audiences in the early 1970s as a singer. He is a backing vocalist, percussionist, and acoustic rhythm guitarist for English band The Rolling Stones on their recordings and tours over a 10-year period. To date he has released two studio albums. Both Chaplin and Ricky Fataar were members of Durban-based rock band The Flames and their 1968 album Soulfire produced a hit in South Africa, the bands cover of For Your Precious Love was #1 on white radio for thirteen weeks. Beach Boy Carl Wilson heard The Flames while the band was performing in London, Wilson signed them to the Beach Boys Brother Records label and produced their self-titled album, The Flame, which featured soulful rock/pop songs in the vein of The Beach Boys and Badfinger. The Flames were the band aside from The Beach Boys to record for Brother Records. Chaplin, along with drummer Ricky Fataar, joined the Beach Boys when original drummer Dennis Wilson suffered an injury that left him unable to play the drums for almost two years. For the Beach Boys, it was a period in which long-time member Bruce Johnston had departed the band, as a result, Chaplin and Fataar joined the Beach Boys as full-fledged members and not merely as backing musicians. Chaplin left the group in 1973 after a dispute with the Beach Boys management, Chaplin sang lead on various Beach Boys songs from two studio albums, Carl and the Passions – So Tough and Holland, and plays on the live album The Beach Boys in Concert. Sail On, Sailor from the album Holland, on which he is the singer, is his signature song. Following his time with the Beach Boys, Chaplin recorded a self-titled album, during the late 1980s Chaplin toured with The Band, replacing some of Richard Manuels vocals and playing guitar and, occasionally, drums. Chaplin was also a player in former Byrds members Gene Clark and Michael Clarkes then new band, The 20th Anniversary Celebration of the Byrds. Chaplin appeared on the Jennifer Warnes albums Shot Through the Heart, The Hunter, Chaplin also played on High on the Hog, the ninth studio album by The Band, released in 1996, to which he also contributed his composition, Where I Should Always Be. Chaplin toured with former Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor and performed on his live album, the Bridges to Babylon album lists Chaplins credits as backing vocals, tambourine, piano, bass guitar, percussion, shakers, and maracas. Chaplin is the vocalist, songwriter, and lead guitar player with Skollie, Chaplin has recorded three solo albums, most recently Between Us in 2006. In late 2013, Chaplin was featured at select shows of former Beach Boys bandmate Brian Wilson and he also joined Wilsons Pet Sounds 50th Anniversary World Tour in 2016, performing alongside the touring band. Other albums and videos from the Blondie Chaplin catalogue, The Flames – Burning Soul/Soulfire. com
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All Summer Long (album)
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All Summer Long is the sixth studio album by the Beach Boys and their second in 1964. It rose to four in the US during a forty-nine week chart stay. I Get Around preceded the release by some two months and quickly raced to become their first number one single in the US, they also had a UK Top 10 debut with a number seven peak. The albums sessions were recorded in the aftermath of the British Invasion, marking a turning point in the Beach Boys career. All Summer Long was to be their album which reveled in California beach culture. Songs from this album are featured on the EP Four by the Beach Boys. Drive-In was recorded shortly after the release of Little Deuce Coupe in October 1963 and that April, during the recording sessions of I Get Around and Little Honda, Brian relieved his father Murry Wilson of his managerial duties after three years. An attempt at reconciliation on Murrys part, much of it captured on the tapes for the 1965 recording sessions of Help Me, Rhonda, All Summer Long was to be the Beach Boys final album which reveled in California beach culture. Only one song explicitly references surfing, Dont Back Down, while Little Honda is the hot rod song. The location for the shoot was once again Paradise Cove, north of Malibu, on first pressings of the LP, the song Dont Back Down is misprinted as Dont Break Down on the front cover. This version of the LP sleeve also has the titles printed in the same mustard-colored ink as the album title. Subsequent printings with the typo corrected have the titles printed in black. The Beach Boys were later featured in the 1965 film The Girls on the Beach, performing Girls on the Beach, Lonely Sea and their appearance was filmed in April 1964, a month before All Summer Long was completed. Following a 1990s court case, the songs I Get Around, All Summer Long, Wendy, drive-In, and Dont Back Down were amended to include a songwriting credit to Mike Love that did not exist previously. All tracks written by Brian Wilson/Mike Love except where noted, partial credits courtesy of session archivist Craig Slowinski. They are amalgamated from all tracks except Well Run Away, Carls Big Chance, drive-In, and Our Favorite Recording Sessions. The Beach Boys FAQ, All Thats Left to Know About Americas Band, the Nearest Far Away Place, Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys, and the Southern California Experience
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Smiley Smile
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Smiley Smile is the 12th studio album by American rock band the Beach Boys, released on September 18,1967. Though the album reached number 9 on UK record charts, Smiley Smile resonated only moderately with US audiences, critics generally received the album with confusion. Discounting the inclusion of standalone single Good Vibrations and the solo-credited Gettin Hungry, only one single was issued from Smiley Smile, Heroes and Villains. The album was recorded largely in a span of six weeks at Brian Wilsons makeshift home studio following his declaration that most of the Smile tapes were off-limits. After settling payment disputes with Capitol Records, Smiley Smile was distributed in collaboration with Brother Records, Smile was left unfinished while the group embarked on new projects. Carl Wilson famously compared Smiley Smile and Smile to a bunt instead of a grand slam, Smiley Smile has since grown in stature to become a cult and critical favorite in the Beach Boys oeuvre. In 1974, it was voted the 64th greatest album of all time by NME writers, in 2000, it was one of 100 albums featured in the book The Ambient Century as a landmark in the development of ambient music. In October 1966, the Beach Boys released Good Vibrations, an elaborately produced single which had international success. Smile was conceived as an extension of the songs recording approach, several months later, the project was shelved due to technical problems, internal resistance, and legal disputes. After the announcement that Smile was cancelled in May 1967, the Beach Boys were still under pressure and contractual obligation to record, on June 2,1967, Wilson declared to his band mates that most of the material recorded during the Smile era was now distinctly off-limits. In 1968, Wilson intimated on the subject of Surfs Up and other Smile material, was supposed to come out on the Smile album, and that, didnt want to put them on the album. I didnt think that the songs were right for the public at the time, I just didnt have a. commercial feeling about some of these songs, what weve never released. Maybe some people like to hang on to certain songs as their own songs that theyve written. You know, what theyve written is nice for them, but a lot of people just dont like it. In January 1968, Wilson elaborated further to journalist Jamake Highwater that he had run out of ideas in a sense. He says, I decided not to try any more, and not try and do great things. The Smiley Smile era was so great, it was unbelievable, personally, spiritually, everything, it was great. I didnt have any paranoia feelings, in 1983, brother and band member Carl Wilson reflected, It was also a thing of, What if it didnt turn out to be great, what if it had totally flopped
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Wild Honey (album)
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Wild Honey is the 13th studio album by American rock band the Beach Boys, released on December 18,1967. The album contrasts with many Beach Boys LPs that came before it with its R&B and its name is a double entendre suggesting both edible honey and honey as a term of endearment, also the namesake of the albums lead single and opening track. The single became a hit with only a short chart stay. Its follow-up Darlin reached the US Top 20, the album itself reached number 24 in the US and number seven in the UK. The albums sessions began immediately after the abandonment of Leid in Hawaii, a live album. The track Here Comes the Night was later redone by the group as a single in the late 1970s and was a minor hit. The Wild Honey sessions were preceded by an attempt at recording a live-in-the-studio album, when conflicts arose, the idea was dropped in favor of a new studio album. We think this is a great album and we might just be biased because we work for the Beach Boys. According to Steven Gaines, Wild Honey is considered by many to be a soul album, jason Fine, writing in The Rolling Stone Album Guide, called it a rougher album of California soul. In The Rough Guide to Rock, Nig Hodgkins called Wild Honey the Beach Boys party album which mixed rhythm and blues, pop, and soul styles, while Billboard referred to it as a pop rock record. Lenny Kaye, writing for Wondering Sound, felt that its R&B leanings may be attributed to Mike Love, David Leaf said that this Beach Boys soul album was in part a response to critics claims that the group consisted of ball-less choir boys. According to writer Byron Preiss, Carl Wilson came into prominence singing leads and working on production, and the focus of the project was something thoroughly unexpected, the group had turned around, getting closer to their R&B roots. Brian Chidester of Paste magazine called it one in a series of albums by the Beach Boys. Without Brians drive, of course, they could no longer be those auteurs, the piano was slightly detuned, which Brian says made it more like a twelve-string guitar, to get a more mellow sound. I loved what it did to the sound of the record, Brian, fatigued by the multi-tasking role he had taken up with the Beach Boys for several years, requested that Carl become more involved with albums recording. Carl explained, Wild Honey was music for Brian to cool out by, recorded mostly at Brians home studio, Wild Honey differs in many ways from previous Beach Boys albums. It contains very little group singing compared to previous albums, the recording sessions lasted only several weeks, compared to the several months required for Good Vibrations. Let the Wind Blow was the first composition recorded by the group that is in 3/4 time from beginning to end, how She Boogaloeed It was the first original Beach Boys song not to feature contributions from Brian
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L.A. (Light Album)
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L. A. is the 23rd studio album by The Beach Boys, released on March 19,1979. Johnston was brought in when it became clear that the ailing Brian Wilson was in no fit state to produce the album, L. A. reached #100 in the US during a chart stay of thirteen weeks, and #32 in the UK. Despite a new $8 million contract with CBS Records calling for Brian Wilson to write and produce 75% of the songs on each new album and his arrangement of the traditional song Shortenin Bread was also older, although the recording was more recent. The vocals for songs were recorded without Brian. Good Timin hit #40 in the US, the first song attempted for L. A. was entitled California Feelin. It would remain unreleased until 2013 for the compilation Made in California, both Baby Blue and Love Surrounds Me were originally recorded for Dennis Wilsons never-released second solo album, Bambu. These would be the last Dennis Wilson songs released before his death in 1983, L. A. spawned a top-ten hit in the UK with Al Jardines Bach-inspired Lady Lynda, written for his wife, and later rerecorded as Lady Liberty after their divorce. Jardine recently revealed that Dennis Wilson made a contribution to the songs lush string arrangement. Mike Loves Japanese-flavored Sumahama was also a UK single chart entry later in 1979, possibly the albums most controversial moment was an eleven-minute disco recasting of Wild Honeys Here Comes the Night that caused considerable consternation among fans. The song was played live during a few dates at New York Citys Radio City Music Hall in March 1979 before being dropped from the live set due to adverse audience reaction. Nevertheless, an abridged 4,34 version made the charts in the US as the lead single, L. A. peaked at #100 in the US, and #32 in the UK. Upon its release, L. A. received generally negative reviews, rolling Stone critic Dave Marsh stated that, The Beach Boys have not made great rock music since Wild Honey made competent pop music since Holland, he concluded that the album is worse than awful. CD booklet notes, Jeff Tamarkin, c.2000, the Nearest Faraway Place, Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys and the Southern California Experience, Timothy White, c. Wouldnt It Be Nice - My Own Story, Brian Wilson and Todd Gold, top Pop Singles 1955-2001, Joel Whitburn, c. Top Pop Albums 1955-2001, Joel Whitburn, c, allmusic. com Smiley Smile Message Board - The Definitive Vocal Credits Thread, posts by Beach Boys archivist Alan Boyd and others
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The Beach Boys (album)
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The Beach Boys is the eponymous twenty-fifth studio album by American rock band The Beach Boys, released on June 10,1985. Produced by Steve Levine, the album is the bands first recording after the death of founding member Dennis Wilson. It was also the bands first album to be recorded digitally and it was also the last album released by James William Guercios Caribou Records. For the album, the band hired Culture Club producer Steve Levine, who took them into the world of machines, synthesizers, sampling. Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson, Mike Love, Bruce Johnston and Al Jardine all took active roles in the project, writing new songs for it, with Stevie Wonder. The album was recorded during summer 1984 at Red Bus studio in London and it features Motown artist Stevie Wonder on harmonica and keyboards on the song I Do Love You, which he also wrote. Ringo Starr also appears on the track California Calling, noted guitarist Gary Moore features on all tracks playing both guitar and synthaxe. Brian Wilson contributed a song written in 1982 by himself and Dennis Wilson called Oh Lord, also cut from the album was a cover of At the Hop with lead vocals by Mike Love. Two videos were produced to promote the album, Getcha Back, both videos feature a stereotypical nerd as the central character who socializes near the beach. In Getcha Back, all members are featured in a story of childhood love separated until the couple reaches their teenage years. In the second video, Its Gettin Late, the character learns about the trials. The only Beach Boys member to appear in Its Gettin Late is Brian Wilson and he is shown picking up a seashell and using it to listen to the song California Calling. Although Getcha Back, was a top 30 hit, the album only reached #52 in the U. S, after the album, CBS Records let the bands contract expire, leaving them without a record deal for the first time in years. Eugene Landy originally received co-writers credit for all Brian Wilson compositions and this credit was omitted on later editions. - Contains personnel listings for both but only details instruments for the latter, top Pop Albums 1955-2001, Joel Whitburn, c
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Live in London (The Beach Boys album)
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Live in London is a live album by American rock band the Beach Boys released by EMI in the UK in May 1970. When released in the US on November 15,1976, the album was renamed Beach Boys 69 via Capitol Records. After the surprise success of the Endless Summer and Spirit of America hits packages in 1974 and 1975 and it was during this time that Capitol decided to strike while the iron was hot and issue a renamed edition of the album for the first time in the US. The reissue had art by rock artist Jim Evans, and a new title, Beach Boys 69. Despite this, the became a small chart success in the US, following the Top 10 placing of 15 Big Ones. The UK edition failed to chart and it is believed that The Beach Boys owed Capitol one more album, and so, this release ended their relationship with the record label, and with EMI in the UK. When their albums were remastered for CD in 1990, Live in London was paired with their 1964 live release Beach Boys Concert, All tracks written by Brian Wilson/Mike Love, unless otherwise noted. A live version of Dennis Wilsons All I Want to Do was recorded at these concerts and it remained unreleased until 1983s Beach Boys Rarities compilation album. The live version of Good Vibrations featured here is in the game Rock Band 3, surfs Up, The Beach Boys On Record Brad Elliott c.1981 Beach Boys Concert/Live in London CD booklet notes, David Leaf, c
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Live in London
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Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of The Beach Boys
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Good Vibrations, Thirty Years of The Beach Boys is a 1993 boxed set released by Capitol Records which collects tracks spanning The Beach Boys entire career to that point on four CDs. A fifth disc contains mostly studio tracks, complete vocal and instrumental tracks. The set also includes a car window decal, though it never charted, Good Vibrations, Thirty Years of The Beach Boys went gold in the US just over four months after its release. The first four discs anthologize the band with mostly mono single versions, but also several demos and unreleased songs, included is 30 minutes of music from the 1966/1967 Smile sessions, which had never been officially released, though had been heavily bootlegged for years. In addition, there is a recording at the end of Disc 1 of a young Brian Wilson singing Happy Birthday Four Freshmen to his favorite vocal group into his multi-track tape recorder in 1960. All songs by Brian Wilson and Mike Love, except where noted, tracks noted are from the original 1966–67 Smile sessions. Good Vibrations, Thirty Years of The Beach Boys booklet notes, David Leaf, c.1993
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Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of The Beach Boys
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Made in California
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Made in California is a compilation box set by the Beach Boys, released on August 27,2013. The set is released through Capitol Records and is packaged in a form emulating a high school yearbook, the set contains six CDs with tracks that span the bands entire career, including outtakes, demos, B-sides, rarities, alternate takes and versions, over 60 previously unreleased. It supersedes the theretofore career-spanning 1993 box set Good Vibrations, Thirty Years of The Beach Boys, originally announced for a 2012 release, alongside the two-disc compilation album Fifty Big Ones, the box set was ultimately delayed. In Spring 2013 an August 27 release date was confirmed, and on June 11, much of the box set features unreleased work by the Wilson brothers Dennis and Carl, which the surviving members were said to have pushed for. Dennis song Live Again was especially anticipated toward the release of the box set and it was rejected during the 1971 sessions for the Surfs Up album due to group conflicts. Some previously bootlegged unreleased material was left off the compilation due to the group being uncomfortable with its contents, of them, they were Stevie, My Solution, Carry Me Home, Thank Him, and Walkin. To promote the album, fans were given the opportunity to contribute to the production of a video for the previously unreleased track California Feelin via Tongal. The same service offered fans the chance to submit a lead track for Goin to the Beach, with the winners performance mixed into the song by Mark Linett. The winner was awarded a custom guitar. A downloadable version of Goin to the Beach was made available on July 22,2013 as an incentive for pre-ordering the box-set, original stereo mixes unless otherwise noted. Tracks marked ♦ are exclusive to Made in California. Home Recordings / Surfin Rehearsal Highlights -2,58 ♦ Surfin -2,27 Their Hearts Were Full of Spring -2,37 Surfin Safari -2,17409 -2,09 Lonely Sea ♦ -2,39 Surfin U. S. A
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Made in California 1962–2012
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Endless Harmony: The Beach Boys Story
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Endless Harmony, The Beach Boys Story is a 1998 biographical documentary directed by Alan Boyd. The film is a biography of the American rock band The Beach Boys, the documentary features archived footage and interviews by band members along with interviews from musicians such as Jackson Browne, Glen Campbell, Elvis Costello, and Sean Lennon. The soundtrack to the documentary was released along with the documentarys release, endless Harmony, The Beach Boys Story at the Internet Movie Database
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Theatrical release poster
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Radiant Radish
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The Radiant Radish was a health food store located at the corner of Melrose Avenue and San Vicente Boulevard in West Hollywood, California from 1969 to 1971. It was managed by Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, his cousin Steve Korthoff, sometime in 1969, erstwhile Beach Boys bandleader Brian Wilson opened a short-lived health food store called the Radiant Radish. It was co-founded by his cousin, Steve Korthoff, and the road manager. The shop was preceded by Wilsons fervent interest in physical fitness once exemplified in the song Vegetables, while working at the shop, he met journalist and radio presenter Jack Rieley, who would manage the Beach Boys and act as Wilsons principal lyricist for a brief period. The store was famously profiled in a written by Tom Nolan for Rolling Stone, The Beach Boys. After watching Ingmar Bergmans Skammen at a theater, Nolan encountered Wilson alone at the store as he was clad in a bathrobe, just three years after writing and producing Good Vibrations, Brian Wilson was selling vitamins out of a health food store in West Hollywood. The Radiant Radish closed in 1971 due to unprofitable produce expenditures, in 2015, when asked what his favorite part about running the store was, Wilson responded, The cash register. The Radiant Radish is mentioned in the lyric to H. E. L. P, is on the Way, a song Wilson wrote for the Beach Boys, author David Toop remarked that it could have been the only pop song in history to mention enemas. The shop appears as an illustration on the cover of the tribute album Smiles, Vibes & Harmony, A Tribute to Brian Wilson
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The Radiant Radish in 1969
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Chamber pop
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Chamber pop is a subgenre of indie rock or indie pop which grew in the mid 1990s as a reaction against the fuzz distortion and lo-fi aesthetic prominent in alternative music. The Beach Boys Brian Wilson informed much of the genre, as did composer Burt Bacharach, specific works that helped define the style include the Beach Boys albums Pet Sounds and Smile, as well as the majority of Louis Phillipes productions for él Records. The combination of string sections and rock music has been called symphonic pop, chamber pop, and ork-pop. Ork-pop refers to a branch of underground rock musicians who shared an affinity with the Beach Boys 1966 studio album Pet Sounds, such as the High Llamas and bands from the Elephant 6 collective. According to CMJs David Jerman, the name was the creation of rock critics, encompassing everyone from fans of the Beach Boys to fans of Bacharach and Mancini. Strongly influenced by the rich orchestrations of Burt Bacharach, Brian Wilson, allMusic states that the genre carries on the spirit of the baroque pop of the 1960s, while cultural writers Joseph Fisher and Brian Flota call it the heir to baroque pop. Another major source of influence was the singer Scott Walker, new York Daily News Jim Farber summarizes the genre, think Donovan meets Burt Bacharach. Just as ork-pop acts shared a love for Wilson, they held an admiration for one anothers work. Newsmakers believes that the Beach Boys Pet Sounds helped define chamber pop as intimate, precisely arranged songs with rocks sweep, following the album was the groups unfinished 1966–67 work Smile, a collaboration between Brian Wilson and lyricist Van Dyke Parks that also heavily influenced the genre. According to the High Llamas Sean OHagan, Pet Sounds had been the beginning of the great pop experiment, but it wasnt allowed to continue, because rock and roll got hold of the whole thing and stopped it. Pop didnt take off again until this decade, author Carl Wilson says that Brians pained vulnerability, uses of offbeat instruments, intricate harmonies, and the Smile saga itself became a common reference point for chamber pop bands. In the late 1980s, the majority of Louis Phillipes productions for él Records also made sophisticated use of orchestras and voices that embodied and defined the chamber pop style. Chamber pop was part of a trend which involved musicians who rejected traditional rock conventions, such as Tortoise and Stereolab. The genres orchestration is more complex than rock music, making extensive use of brass. Although modern rock groups like Smashing Pumpkins, Oasis, and R. E. M, occasionally used strings, their approach was considerably less intricate. The High Llamas were one of the first to anticipate the easy-listening fad with their 1993 debut album Gideon Gaye. OHagan felt that There is this misconception that American college rock with twisted baseball hats and checked shirts is adventurous. All these bands sound like Nirvana and Pearl Jam and its a shame that it couldnt be discovered from the get-go for what it is
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The Beatles (with help from
George Martin) consciously chose their orchestral arrangements to reflect an
English Baroque feel, as per their contemporaries.
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The Beach Boys bootleg recordings
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The Beach Boys bootleg recordings are recordings of performances by the Beach Boys that attained some level of public circulation without being available as a legal release. Many albums by the band were fully assembled or near completion before being shelved, rejected, in recent years, new rarities compilations and reissues of studio albums have been released with studio outtakes included as bonus tracks. Some recordings have never seen wide public circulation, others are only rumored to exist, were misapprehended to tangentially related projects, or have yet to surface in the hands of archivists or record collectors. In 2013, the won the Grammy Award for Best Historical Album. In 2011, Uncut voted Smile the number one greatest bootleg recording of all time, in 2003, Stylus Magazine named the Beach Boys Smile, Landlocked, Adult Child, and Dennis Wilsons Bambu A Lost Album Category Unto Themselves. This article includes commonly bootlegged material and unreleased recordings which are reported to exist, the current existence of most of the Beach Boys tape masters was made possible by the fact that the band were in control of their own material. Typically, record labels at the time would possess the multi-tracks, however, a myriad of original multi-track masters have been lost due to various circumstances. Some reported currently missing are, Good Vibrations, The final multi-track and it is speculated to have been left behind at CBS Columbia Square shortly after the record was made. Smile, A half-inch reel that may have also left behind or destroyed at Capitol Records headquarters in 1968. This includes the multi-tracks to songs Wonderful and Cabinessence, various tracks recorded since the 1960s with little information known beyond their song titles. In the last few decades, reels of tape that were thought to be lost have been intermittently rediscovered,1990 – CBS Columbia Square delivered a reel of 1965-era tapes sourced from the album Summer Days which were thought to be lost. When the studio closed, an amount of tapes were left behind. Ten years later, they were all destroyed without checking for inventory, 2010s – A piano demo of Surfs Up was found hidden within a reel of the Wild Honey track Country Air. It was soon included on The Smile Sessions,2013 – Acetates were unearthed that showed Im in Great Shape as part of the projected Heroes and Villains single. Before the release of Made in California, a reel of tapes sourced from November 1964 live performances broadcast on BBC were retrieved,2014 – Writer Brian Chidester reported that additional Brian Wilson recordings dated from the late 1960s and early 1970s were recently found. In 1993, the bootleg label Vigotone released a 2 CD edition of Smile,1998, the label Vigotone followed up with Heroes and Vibrations, a forty-minute disc culling working tapes from Good Vibrations and Heroes and Villains. Those involved with releasing these bootlegs were later apprehended by authorities, discography Provided by the Allmusic database and Bret Wheadon. The following compilations contain previously unreleased material by the Beach Boys
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List of songs covered by the Beach Boys
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This article is a list of cover versions recorded and released by the Beach Boys as a band and as solo artists. The Beach Boys, The Definitive Diary of Americas Greatest Band, on Stage, inside the Music of Brian Wilson, the Songs, Sounds, and Influences of the Beach Boys Founding Genius
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The Beach Boys in 1965
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The Beach Boys discography
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The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California in 1961. Their discography from 1961 to 1984 was originally released on the format, with the 1985 album. The Beach Boys catalogue has been released on reel-to-reel, 8-track, cassette, CD, MiniDisc, the group has released 29 studio albums,8 live albums,55 compilation albums, and 71 singles. The release dates and sequence of The Beach Boys albums in the UK up to Pet Sounds differ significantly from the original U. S. releases. Contains a considerable number of unreleased recordings, All previously unreleased recordings. For Beach Boys singles not issued under the name, charting B-sides, EP tracks, featured tracks, Christmas singles and non-American A-sides
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The Beach Boys in 1964
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Bedroom Tapes
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The Bedroom Tapes are a collection of studio and home recordings by the Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson from the late 1960s and early 1970s. After the construction of his home recording studio, Wilson amassed a large body of work which was left mostly unreleased. The material approximately covers the years 1968–74, beginning after his retreat from the Beach Boys, accordingly, the Bedroom Tapes represents the whole era and not a specific project conceived of by Wilson himself, it is important to acknowledge that cut-off lines of delineation can easily blur. Throughout the early 1970s, Wilson amassed a myriad of home demo recordings which became informally known as the Bedroom Tapes. Bandmate Bruce Johnston remembers, Brian went through a period where he would write songs and play them for a few people in his living room and he would disappear back up to his bedroom and the song with him. Friend Terry Melcher similarly likened Brian to Aesop emerging to deliver his latest fable each time he came down from his room to present a new song, the Beach Boys albums Smiley Smile, Wild Honey, and Friends were recorded partially at the home studio. Following a stay at an institution, Wilson rarely finished a single track. The home studio was dismantled in 1972, most of the unreleased recordings are lo-fi, its unclear whether this production approach was intentional or a result of Brians disinterest in the recording process. Some of the material has described as schizophrenia on tape, and intensely personal songs of gentle humanism and strange experimentation. You get hints of it earlier in things like the tags to California Girls, Wouldnt It Be Nice and all throughout Smile, but it takes on an almost manic edge in the 70s. Brians daughters have reflected on this period, as Wendy Wilson remembers, Where other people take a run to release some stress, he would go to the piano. Some associated tracks were released shortly after their recording and included on the Beach Boys albums, is on the Way, Games Two Can Play, Soulful Old Man Sunshine, and California Feelin would be released decades later as part of various compilations and box sets. Additionally, Chidester believes the Beach Boys holding company Brother Records simply dont see a market for such uncommercially conceived music. Shortsightedness also could be blamed for the bands inertia regarding Smile, yet it remains to be seen whether the same audience would find in the Bedroom Tapes a common mystique. Later in the year, he reported that many additional Brian Wilson recordings dated from the late 1960s and early 1970s were recently found. In a June 2015 interview to promote the film Love & Mercy, director Bill Pohlad responded after being asked about the Bedroom Tapes, I have heard a lot of stuff and been privy to a lot of things. It’s not a secret there is a lot of great Brian Wilson music out there that is not generally available yet. Hopefully someday more of that come out
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The Beach Boys' main songwriter and producer
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Brother Studios '
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The Beach Boys performing in the early 1970s without Brian
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Andy Paley sessions
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The Andy Paley sessions are an unfinished recording project by American songwriter-musicians Brian Wilson and Andy Paley. Begun in the early 1990s, the intent was to record an album comprising original material written. It was the last time Brian would work with the band before the death of his brother, Paley previously worked with Wilson as a co-producer and co-writer for the albums Brian Wilson and Sweet Insanity. In February 1992, California courts issued an order on Brians therapist Eugene Landy. The next day, Wilson phoned Paley explaining that they were now free to do whatever they wanted, without an album or recording contract in mind, the two proceeded to write and record several dozen songs that reflected Wilsons personal interests. He was also subject to legal wrangling between bandmate Mike Love for songwriting credits and back royalties which resolved in December 1994. Many internal conflicts prevented the album from completion, Carl disliked the material, as did Brians wife and manager Melinda, and record labels expressed little interest in signing Brian to a contract. Few of the Paley sessions recordings have seen official release since then, songwriter-producer-multi-instrumentalist Andy Paley first worked with Brian Wilson for the album Brian Wilson, which Paley later called a pretty good record. There were too many cooks and Brian wasnt really calling the shots, encouraged by Paley, some songs from the album drew from close to 170 rough tape demos kept in briefcases next to Wilsons piano. Paley said, Theres great stuff, but there are also what I call hamburger songs, a lot of those are real junk. After working on the material for several months, additional producers and songwriters were called in for Wilson, the duo reteamed for the recording of Sweet Insanity, which Paley called even less real Brian than the first one, and it was left unreleased. Paley remembered that Wilson would speak of each songs vocal arrangement in terms of parts the Beach Boys would sing. Wilson called it some of the best material Ive done in a long time, adding that he is baffled why Smile continued to attract attention, quipping. The new material just kicks the shit out of Smile, co-founder Roger Joseph Manning, Jr. told Rocky Mountain News in 1993, Brians an amazing guy and still has a lot of musical ideas. Him being one of my heroes, it was amazing to sit in a room with him and at a piano. People ask me what hes like, and Ive said hes like a powerful computer with a really bad printer. After Beach Boy Mike Love successfully sued Wilson for songwriting credits – which resulted in Wilson losing $5 million – Wilson told MOJO in February 1995, Mike, Theres a lot of shit Andy I got written for him. I just had to get through that goddamn trial, Wilson said in March 1995, Im trying to get used to our new thing, and I think I will
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Cover artwork from an unofficial CD bootleg which pictures Paley (left) and Wilson (right)
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Don Was produced the abandoned November 1995 Beach Boys sessions
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Brian Wilson Presents Smile
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Brian Wilson Presents Smile is the sixth studio album by Brian Wilson, released in September 2004. It began as a series of performances which were later adapted for a 2005 direct-to-video concert film of the same name. The album received acclaim and earned Wilson his first Grammy Award. The project was conceived in 1966 as Smile, a concept album recorded by the Beach Boys written in collaboration between Wilson and lyricist Van Dyke Parks. It was intended to succeed the groups 11th studio album Pet Sounds and was based on the methods of their single Good Vibrations. Many years after the project was shelved due to personal and technical difficulties with recording, motivated by the unexpected positive reception, a studio-recorded version was then released by Wilson as a solo album. Recorded from scratch, Brian Wilson Presents Smile eschews the Beach Boys Smile sessions by containing all-new instrumental and vocal performances, recordings from the original Beach Boys sessions were later released as The Smile Sessions in 2011. It featured a reconstruction of the Beach Boys Smile album that followed the track listing template never before established until the release of Brian Wilson Presents Smile. The Smile album as it was to be recorded by the Beach Boys was worked on for a year before being shelved indefinitely. Following the recording of the album Stars and Stripes Vol.1, the group discussed finishing Smile, after Carls death in 1998, Brian began reemerging with a string of solo albums and his first solo live tours. In 2000 and 2002, Wilson performed the entirety of Pet Sounds at several venues as part of a world tour, recordings from Wilsons 2002 concerts were released for Brian Wilson Presents Pet Sounds Live. In March 2001, this brought Wilson to perform Heroes and Villains for the first time in decades at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City for A Tribute to Brian Wilson, a performance of Cabinessence was considered, but dropped due to its complexity. When members of Wilsons band suggested performing the majority of Smile in concert as a follow up to his Pet Sounds Live, starting in 2003, he proceeded to complete the albums unfinished structure with help from his band and original Smile lyricist Van Dyke Parks. On May 22,2003, it was announced that Wilson. Darian Sahanaja of Wilsons band was integral to the albums completion, with Brians stuff of that period, if you try to dissect it from the finished product, especially where you have vocals on top of the instruments, youre never going to get it all. Not all material stemming from the Beach Boys Smile sessions were used by Wilson, according to Sahanaja, the tracks He Gives Speeches and Youre With Me Tonight were played to Wilson, but declined for use. Sahanaja reasoned, I imagine that its just like youre making a movie — you film a lot of scenes. Youre most likely going to leave footage on the cutting-room floor, altogether, these writing sessions ran for about two weeks in the fall of 2003
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Brian Wilson Presents Smile
Brian Wilson Presents Smile
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The
Royal Festival Hall in
London was where Wilson chose to debut Smile with his band.
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Wilson organized his band to continue performing Smile throughout 2004 and 2005
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Co-founder
Mike Love with bandmates
Bruce Johnston and
David Marks performing as the Beach Boys in 2008
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Goodbye Surfing, Hello God!
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Is an article written by Jules Siegel chronicling his experiences with Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys during recording sessions for the abandoned studio album Smile. It was first published in the magazine Cheetah in October 1967, in 2011, it was made available by Atavist as an e-book. In the mid-1960s, Jules Siegel had a brief, close acquaintance with Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, in addition to several others who comprised a coterie of journalists and businessmen. Siegel accompanied Wilson for much of the Smile era, Siegel, who had recently migrated from New York to Los Angeles, was impressed with Wilson, and he documented his experiences for an article which he had presold for The Saturday Evening Post. Ultimately, as Siegel claims in the piece, the magazine rejected his story due his overly enthusiastic depiction of Wilsons material and it was instead published in the magazine Cheetah, which is now defunct. After its publication, the article propelled the resultant mythology of Smile, author Luis Sanchez commented, He probably had no idea that in writing this story he was also laying the foundation for a mythology that would eventually curl back on to itself and become a snare. The title Goodbye Surfing, Hello God, within the 1996 album The Psychedelic Years by Dutch avant-garde band Palnickx, an excerpt from the text is read out loud
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Cover of 2011 reprint published by
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Good Vibrations (musical)
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Good Vibrations is a Broadway jukebox musical featuring the music of Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys. It opened February 2,2005, at the Eugene ONeill Theatre, the musical follows the tale of three high school friends who want to escape their small New England town and drive to California. However, none of them own a car, so they invite the unpopular valedictorian girl who has a crush on one of the guys to use her for her car, and drama and romance ensue. The cast on opening night starred Kate Reinders as Caroline, David Larsen as Bobby, Tituss Burgess as Eddie, Brandon Wardell as Dave, Jessica-Snow Wilson as Marcella, janet Dacal, Sarah Glendening and Krysta Rodriguez made their Broadway debuts in the show. S. A. Since the songs were not tailor-made for the musical, critics complained that songs did little to progress the plot or give insight into the characters. Therefore, despite an energetic cast and a score of favorite tunes
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Broadway Playbill
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Brian Wilson Presents Pet Sounds Live
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Brian Wilson Presents Pet Sounds Live is the second live album released by Brian Wilson. Coming directly after his first live package, Live at the Roxy Theatre, beginning in the summer of 2000, Wilson and his band began performing Pet Sounds in a live context worldwide. By the time Pet Sounds Live was recorded at Londons Royal Festival Hall over three nights in January 2002, the material had been practiced and performed a multitude of times. Brian sang all the vocals, including songs that had originally been sung by Mike Love or Carl Wilson. A Japanese release of the album on the Toshiba EMI label contains two songs, the first two from the 1968 Beach Boys album Friends, Meant for You and Friends. All songs by Brian Wilson/Tony Asher, except where noted
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Brian Wilson Presents Pet Sounds Live
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Smiling Pets
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The album focuses on content originating from the perennial Pet Sounds and the mythical Smile project. It was also issued as a double-vinyl LP, albeit with an ordered track list. Some song titles differ from how they have been published by the Beach Boys. The most prominent of which is Tones, which is a cover of the instrumental Smile track Holidays, prior to Smiling Pets, most Smile material was only sparsely available on the compilation Good Vibrations, Thirty Years of The Beach Boys. Tones was actually a title for an entirely different composition recorded by Carl Wilson during Smile sessions. Another misleading title is Heroes and Villains, which can arguably be more accurately described as a reprise of Do You Like Worms, tracks from this album would later reappear on individual band compilations or album reissues. Surfin U. S. A. is present in form on Melt-Bananas MxBx 1998/13,000 Miles at Light Velocity. Secret Chiefs 3s covers of Good Vibrations and Heroes and Villains are on their compilation Path of Most Resistance. The Olivia Tremor Controls versions of Do You Like Worms. and Little Pad were later included as tracks on reissued releases of Music from the Unrealized Film Script. An album similarly-fashioned to Smiling Pets was released two years earlier, entitled The Christmas Album, which was a tribute to the compilation A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector and it was also compiled by Seiji Morita and featured some of the same performers. The Ships and FORMS are aliases of the Olivia Tremor Control and Secret Chiefs 3, onoTetsu is the pianist for Harpy, an experimental Japanese noise band. Little is known about the albums more unrecognizable artists Sports Guitar or R. Gree & Grey Tea
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Smiling Pets
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Brother Records
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Brother Records, Inc. is a holding company established in 1967 that holds the intellectual property rights of The Beach Boys, including The Beach Boys trademark. Prior to being incorporated, Brother Records was a label founded by Beach Boys manager Nick Grillo in October 1966. Its output was distributed by Capitol Records in 1967, and then Reprise Records throughout 1970–78, motivated in no small part by the negative reaction of Capitol Records to some of Brians ideas for Smile, the new company gave the band more control over their recordings. In 1983, shortly after the death of Dennis Wilson, his estate sold his share back to the corporation to repay loans, in 1998, following Carl Wilsons death, his share of the corporation passed to and is still controlled by his estate. The labels first releases were the Beach Boys Heroes and Villains single and Smiley Smile album in 1967, distributed by Capitol Records. In 1969, however, concurrent with their signing to Reprise Records, the Brother label was reactivated, beginning with the single Add Some Music to Your Day, and the Sunflower album. Numerous other Beach Boys albums followed on the joint Brother/Reprise label during the 1970s, including Holland, an album by The Flame, produced by Carl Wilson, was released in 1970 on the Brother label, distributed by Star-day King Records. By the late 1970s, Beach Boys records were issued on Brother, as of 2007, the most recent CD re-release series of the Beach Boys 1970s albums is on the joint Brother/Capitol Records label. Since the 1980s, Brother Records business manager is Elliott Lott, the logo for Brother Records is a rendition of Cyrus E. Dallins life size bronze statue, Appeal to the Great Spirit, in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The choice of the logo was Brians, edwards, David, Patrice Eyries, Mike Callahan
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Brother Records
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Little Saint Nick
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Little Saint Nick is a holiday-themed hot rod song about Santa Claus and his sleigh, written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love for American rock band the Beach Boys. The song was first released as a single on December 9,1963 and its B-side was an a cappella cover of The Lords Prayer. The idea for the song was inspired by record producer Phil Spectors plans to record a Christmas album. Wilson recalled, I wrote the lyrics to it while I was out on a date, some of its rhythm and structure derives from the groups Little Deuce Coupe, also co-written by Wilson and released as a single six months earlier. Love was not originally listed as the co-writer of Little Saint Nick and his credit was awarded after a 1990s lawsuit. The single also reached number 69 on the weekly sales chart surveyed by Cashbox magazine. Eventually, over several more Christmases, it was credited as an unofficial million-seller, Little Saint Nick reappeared on The Beach Boys Christmas Album in 1964, with the stereo pressings of the album containing a new mix that removes the overdubbed sleigh bells and tuned percussion. This was done so that it would fit better with the sound of the albums first side, another version of the song, utilizing the melody from the All Summer Long song Drive-In, was recorded during the album sessions but remained unreleased until a 1991 CD reissue
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"Little Saint Nick"
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Frosty the Snowman
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Frosty the Snowman is a popular Christmas song written by Walter Jack Rollins and Steve Nelson, and first recorded by Gene Autry and the Cass County Boys in 1950. Like Rudolph, Frosty was subsequently adapted to other media including a television special by Rankin/Bass Productions. The song recounts the tale of Frosty, a snowman who is brought to life through a magical silk hat that a group of children find. Although Frosty enjoys roaming throughout town with the children who constructed him, he runs afoul of a cop and leaves town. Although it is regarded as a Christmas song, the original lyrics make no mention of the holiday. The song supposedly takes place in White Plains, New York, or Armonk, New York, in 1954, the UPA studio brought Frosty to life in a three-minute animated short which appears regularly on WGN-TV. This production included a bouncy, jazzy a cappella version of the song, the short had previously been telecast annually on WGNs The Bozo Show, along with its two other companion cartoons. The three cartoons are also a tradition on WJAC-TV in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, which not only broadcasts the cartoons on their station, but also makes them available on their website. Paul Frees and June Foray both also voice characters including Karen and Santa Claus in this animated special produced and directed by Arthur Rankin Jr. and this was a story based on the discovery of Frosty the Snowman. Three sequels were produced, Frostys Winter Wonderland in 1976, in which Frosty got married, CBS own spiritual sequel, Frosty Returns, was broadcast in 1992. On Christmas compilation albums, Jimmy Durantes version was spliced together from the story soundtrack, Frosty the Snowman at Don Marksteins Toonopedia. Archived from the original on July 30,2016
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A Little Golden Book storybook edition of the popular song (1950). The illustrator was
Corinne Malvern.
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Auld Lang Syne
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Auld Lang Syne is a Scots poem written by Robert Burns in 1788 and set to the tune of a traditional folk song. It is well known in countries, especially in the English-speaking world. By extension, it is sung at funerals, graduations. The international Scouting movement, in countries, uses it to close jamborees. The songs Scots title may be translated into standard English as old long since, or more idiomatically, long long ago, consequently, For auld lang syne, as it appears in the first line of the chorus, might be loosely translated as for old times. The phrase Auld Lang Syne is also used in poems by Robert Ayton, Allan Ramsay. Matthew Fitt uses the phrase In the days of auld lang syne as the equivalent of Once upon a time, in his retelling of fairy tales in the Scots language. CHORUS, On old long syne my Jo, On old long syne, That thou canst never once reflect and it is a fair supposition to attribute the rest of the poem to Burns himself. There is some doubt as to whether the melody used today is the same one Burns originally intended, singing the song on Hogmanay or New Years Eve very quickly became a Scots custom that soon spread to other parts of the British Isles. As Scots emigrated around the world, they took the song with them, a manuscript of Auld Lang Syne is held in the permanent collection of The Lilly Library at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. The song begins by posing a question, Is it right that old times be forgotten. The answer is generally interpreted as a call to remember long-standing friendships, thomsons Select Songs of Scotland was published in 1799 in which the second verse about greeting and toasting was moved to its present position at the end. Most common use of the song only the first verse. The last lines of both of these are sung with the extra words For the sake of or And days of. This allows one note for each word, rather than the slight melisma required to fit Burns original words to the melody. † dine = dinner time‡ ch = voiceless velar fricative, /x/, at the back of the mouth like /k/, similar to Bach in German* syne = since or then – pronounced like sign rather than zine. The tune to which Auld Lang Syne is commonly sung is a pentatonic Scots folk melody, English composer William Shield seems to quote the Auld Lang Syne melody briefly at the end of the overture to his opera Rosina, which may be its first recorded use. For instance, Burns poem Coming Through the Rye is sung to a tune that might also be based on the Millers Wedding
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John Masey Wright and John Rogers' illustration of the poem, c. 1841.
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Little Honda
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Little Honda is a song written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love for the American rock band the Beach Boys. It was released on their 1964 album All Summer Long, and featured on their EP, the song pays tribute to the small Honda motorcycle and its ease of operation, specifically the Honda 50. Immediately following its appearance on All Summer Long, the song was covered by The Hondells, capitol Records then later released it as a single for the Beach Boys, and their version peaked at #65 on the U. S. Billboard 100. Regarding the songs sound, Carl Wilson recalls, does exactly what he wants to do. I remember — this is so funny — when we did Little Honda, Brian wanted me to get this real distorted guitar sound and this guitar sounds like shit, I said. And he goes, Would you fucking do it, when I heard it, I felt like an asshole. That was before fuzz became a big deal,1997 – Yo La Tengo, I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One 2003 – Expulsados, Altoparlantes 2003 – Travoltas, Party. 2003 – The Demonics, Demons on Wheels 2011 – Cosmonauts, New Psychic Denim EP Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Cover of the 1966 Italian single
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Child of Winter (Christmas Song)
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Child of Winter is a Christmas song written by Brian Wilson and Stephen Kalinich. It was recorded by the American rock band the Beach Boys and was released as a single in 1974 backed with Susie Cincinnati and it was the only Beach Boys single between the albums Holland and 15 Big Ones. An early version with Dennis Wilson on lead vocals and Carl Wilson singing the bridge is reported to exist, when released in other countries, the single featured the live version of Good Vibrations from The Beach Boys In Concert as a B-side. Child of Winter was included on the bands 1998 compilation Ultimate Christmas
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Non-US cover artwork
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Il Mare Calmo della Sera
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It was certified Gold in the Netherlands. It was followed by the release of Bocelli, which topped charts all over Europe, in 1992, Bocellis first break as a singer came when Italian rock singer Zucchero Fornaciari auditioned tenors to record a demo version of Miserere, which he had co-written with U2s Bono. Successfully passing the audition, Bocelli recorded the tune as a duet with Pavarotti, with whom he became close friends, even singing at his second wedding. After touring all over Europe with Zucchero in 1993, Bocelli was then invited to perform at the Pavarotti & Friends, Bocelli was then signed to Sugar Music by Caterina Caselli, who persuaded him to participate in the Sanremo music festival. He eventually won the section of the competition in 1994, with Il mare calmo della sera. After the Festival, Bocelli released his first studio single also titled Il mare calmo della sera, the single was also included in both of Bocellis Greatest hits albums, Romanza in 1997, and The Best of Andrea Bocelli, Vivere in 2007. be
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Il mare calmo della sera
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Il mare calmo della sera (song)
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Il mare calmo della sera is a song written by Zucchero Fornaciari, Giampiero Felisatti and Gloria Nuti, for Andrea Bocelli. Bocelli won the Sanremo Festival in 1994, singing the song and it is among Bocellis most popular and well-known songs. In 1992, Bocellis first break as a singer came when Italian rock singer Zucchero Fornaciari auditioned tenors to record a version of Miserere. Passing the audition, Bocelli recorded the tune as a duet with Pavarotti, with whom he became close friends, even singing at his second wedding. After touring all over Europe with Zucchero in 1993, Bocelli was then invited to perform at the Pavarotti & Friends, held in Modena, Bocelli was then signed to Sugar Music by Caterina Caselli, who persuaded him to participate in the Sanremo music festival. He eventually won the section of the competition in 1994. After the festival, Bocelli released his first studio album, also titled Il mare calmo della sera, the single was also included in both of Bocellis Greatest hits albums, Romanza in 1997, and The Best of Andrea Bocelli, Vivere in 2007. Bocelli on Ultratop. be Bocelli on acharts. us
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"Il mare calmo della sera"
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Vivere (Dare to Live)
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Vivere is a song written by Italian singer-songwriter Gerardina Trovato with Angelo Anastasio and Celso Valli. It was first recorded as a duet between Trovato and Italian pop tenor Andrea Bocelli and included in Trovatos 1994 album Non è un film as well as on Bocellis debut album Il Mare Calmo della Sera. It was also released as a B-side single with Bocellis Con te partirò in 1996 and it was featured on the compilation album Romanza. The later was nominated for Record of the Year at the Latin Grammy Awards of 2008. Vivere was composed by Italian singer-songwriter Gerardina Trovato for her studio album, Non è un film. Trovato decided to invite Bocelli to record the song with her meeting him at one of Zucchero Fornaciaris concerts. Bocelli and Trovato performed the song as a duet during Trovatos 1994 Italian tour. Pausini performs her part of the song in English, Vive ya, a Spanish version of the duet, was later released as a single. It was nominated the year, for Record of the Year at the Latin Grammy Awards of 2008. The music video for the song was directed by Beniamino Catena and was produced by Paolo Soravia, the video promotes the Progetto Vivere, a charity project supported by Action Aid against poverty. In July 2007, the song was performed live by Bocelli and this performance was included in Bocellis video album Vivere Live in Tuscany, released in 2008. Bocelli and Pausini sang the Spanish-language version of the song during the 8th Latin Grammy Awards, on 8 November 2007 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada. On 22 January 2008, Pausini and Bocelli dueted again performing Vivere during the Telegatto Awards, Digital download – Vivere Vivere –4,18 Digital download – Vive ya Vive ya –4,18 Vivere Vive ya Bocelli on Billboard. com Bocelli on Ultratop. be
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"Vivere"
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"Vivere (Dare to Live)" / "Vive ya (Dare to Live)"
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Vivo per lei
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Vivo per lei is the name of a 1995 song recorded by Italian artist Andrea Bocelli as duet with Giorgia for his album Bocelli. The version with Marta Sánchez topped the Spanish singles chart in 1996 under the title Vivo por ella and is available on her album One Step Closer. The version with Ségara was released in December 1997 and became a hit in Belgium and it was the fifth single from Ségaras first studio album, Cœur de verre. The version with Judy Weiss was also one in Switzerland in 1997. The song in Italian was originally written by the group O. R. O. in 1995 for their album Vivo per, the song won the Disco per lestate edition of that year. During the same year, the lyrics of the song were rewritten, still in Italian, by Gatto Panceri, the new lyrics were characterized by the fact that lei in the title referred to music whereas in the original song lei referred to a girl. Thus the new version of Vivo per lei became a tribute to music using the pronoun in the title, lei in Italian, ella in Spanish, elle in French, ela in Portuguese, on live performances of the song, Bocelli may sing exclusively in Italian. The songs piano melody resembles an Elton John composition, for international versions, German lyrics were written by Michael Kunze, French lyrics by Art Mengo, and Spanish lyrics by Luis Gómez Escolar. There is also a Greek version called Se Thelo edo sung by Dimitra Galani, during Ségaras first tour, the song was performed, but Bocelli was replaced by Bruno Pelletier. This version is available on the live album En concert à lOlympia and it was also included on Ségaras compilation Le Best of and on Bruno Pelletiers album Sur Scene. The song was covered in 2004 by Calogero, Chimène Badi, bonnie Tyler recorded English vocals on the song in 1997, and the song was scheduled to be released as the lead single from her album All in One Voice. It was retitled Live for Love, due to disputes between EastWest Records and Sugar Music, their version of the song remains unreleased. In a 2014 interview, Tyler recalled that EastWest asked for more retail royalty points than they agreed following a version Bocelli recorded with Sarah Brightman, Sugar Music refused their demands and terminated the collaboration. Panceri and Bocellis version of the song evokes the blind tenors attachment to music as the pillar and love of his life. The English-speaking listener is challenged to uncover whom the person referred to by lei is, on first glance it appears the song refers to a woman, perhaps a lover, as the first verse is sung by Bocelli. The female voice in the verse suggests that the person is somebody who is respected and loved by both men and women. The lyrics progress to say that she is always the protagonist and if there is another life, the singers would devote their lives to her again. Eventually, Bocelli sings, vivo per lei, la musica, I live for her, music, revealing that the meaning of the song is about music
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Cover from the duet version with Hélène Ségara
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Sogno
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Sogno is the fifth studio album by Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli. The album sold 2.5 million copies in America, Bocelli was subsequently nominated for Best New Artist at the Grammys, the first and so far only time a classical artist had been nominated in the category since 1961. Sogno was released internationally on April 6,1999, the album was released in Spanish under the name Sueño. In Japan it was released as Yume no Kaori, in 1999, Bocelli was nominated for Best New Artist at the Grammys, which marked the first time a classical artist had been nominated in the category in 38 years. The Prayer, his duet with Celine Dion from the album, the album sold 2.5 million copies in America, and over 10 million copies worldwide
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Sogno
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The Prayer (Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli song)
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The Prayer is a popular song written by David Foster, Carole Bayer Sager, Alberto Testa and Tony Renis. It is most commonly known as a duet between Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli, the song won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1999 and a Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals in 2000. Originally The Prayer was recorded as two solo versions, Dions in English and Bocellis in Italian. They appeared on the Quest for Camelot soundtrack in May 1998, the duet was included on albums by both artists, released a few months later on Sogno and These Times Are Special Times. The song won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song from the 1998 film Quest for Camelot, in that film, Dion sang it as a solo with slightly different lyrics. It was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1999, Dion performed it with Bocelli at both ceremonies. It was also featured on Dions compilation The Collectors Series, Volume One and greatest hits My Love, a re-recorded solo version by Celine Dion appeared on her 2004 album Miracle. Dion performed The Prayer live during her Taking Chances Tour as a duet with Bocelli on the screen. The song appeared also on Bocellis 2007 compilation The Best of Andrea Bocelli, Dion joined Bocelli to perform the song in his Concerto, One Night in Central Park concert in 2011, the performance was subsequently released on CD and DVD. Both Dion and Bocelli have sung the song with other artists, the Prayer was popular on the adult contemporary charts in Canada and the United States, peaking at number 6 and number 22 respectively. It has also become popular during Christmas, weddings and, in some cases, paul Verna from Billboard called this song a gorgeous duet. Chuck Taylor from Billboard reviewed The Prayer, calling it a breathtaking, ultra-lush song, although he felt that the song is an unorthodox track for the radio, Taylor called it affecting, heartwarming, absolutely exquisite and one of Dions most radiant performances ever. The two performed the song during her CBS TV special Thats Just the Woman in Me, aired on 15 February 2008 and this version was released as a music download in the U. S. and Canada two days earlier. It entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number 70 and appeared on a few other Billboard charts, Pop 100 at number 50, Hot Digital Songs at number 32, the single sold 37,531 copies in its first week. In Canada, the peaked at number 37 on the Canadian Hot 100. 2008 North American digital single The Prayer –4,38 Callea first performed song during Australian Idol 2004. He received an ovation for this performance. He would go on to be runner-up in this series, at the completion of the show, Callea was signed to Sony BMG, and he released The Prayer as his debut single
The Prayer (Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli song)
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"The Prayer"
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"The Prayer (Live)"
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