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Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s
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45 rpm single record
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Elvis' Christmas Album
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It has been reissued in numerous different formats since its first release. The publication Music Vendor listed Elvis Christmas Album on their singles charts for two weeks in December 1957 – January 1958, with a position of #49. According to the latest certifications by the Recording Industry Association of America and it is the first Presley title to attain Diamond certification by the RIAA, and is also the best-selling Christmas/holiday album of all time in the United States. The album has sold 15 million copies worldwide, the two album sides divided into a program of secular Christmas songs on side one, with two traditional Christmas carols and the gospel numbers on side two. Those included two spirituals by innovator Thomas A. Dorsey, Peace in the Valley and Take My Hand, coincidentally, A Jolly Christmas from Frank Sinatra released the previous month by that other 1950s singing icon, also divided into a secular and a traditional side. While most of the songs selected were traditional Christmas fare, such as White Christmas and Silent Night, two new songs by regular suppliers of material for Presley were commissioned. One was Santa Bring My Baby Back and the other, was a rock and roll number, Santa Claus Is Back in Town, written by Jerry Leiber. Elvis had asked the pair to come up with another Christmas song during sessions for the album, within a few minutes, they had the song written, Silent Night and O Little Town of Bethlehem were arranged by Elvis Presley. While most US radio stations ignored Berlins request, at least one disc jockey was fired for playing a song from the album, unlike Elvis recording, however, their version attracted virtually no adverse reaction, and certainly no reported opposition from Irving Berlin. Part of the reason that The Drifters version of White Christmas was less controversial was because that version was played only on radio stations. Elvis Presleys version brought greater attention to The Drifters version which gained prominence with its inclusion in the 1990 movie Home Alone, original 1957 copies of Elvis Christmas Album were issued with a red booklet-like album cover featuring promotional photos from Elvis third movie Jailhouse Rock. Original copies with the gold sticker intact on the shrink wrap have proven to be among the most valuable of Elvis albums, adding to its already high value are limited red vinyl albums and album covers with gold print down the spine. Record labels for all original 1957 pressings are black with all-silver print, the famous His Masters Voice dog logo at the top of label, and LONG 33 1⁄3 PLAY at the bottom. The other new composition on the album, Santa, Bring My Baby Back to Me was paired with Santa Claus Is Back In Town, the single reached number seven on the UK Singles Chart in November 1957. Santa Claus Is Back In Town/Blue Christmas was a 1965 single release for the US market, Blue Christmas would re-enter the Christmas or Holiday Singles chart many times in the years that follow. Two different EPs, Elvis Sings Christmas Songs, EPA4108 in December 1957, the former topped the newly established Billboard EP Chart, while the latter failed to chart. Elvis Christmas Album was reissued two years after its first release, replacing the cover of the original with a close-up of Elvis as he posed against an outdoor. The album continued to reach the charts each year until 1962
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Elvis' Christmas Album
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1970 Camden release.
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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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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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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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I'll Be Home for Christmas
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Ill Be Home for Christmas is a Christmas song recorded in 1943 by Bing Crosby, who scored a top ten hit with the song. Originally written to soldiers overseas who longed to be home at Christmastime. The song is sung from the point of view of a soldier stationed overseas during World War II, in the message, he tells the family he will be coming home and to prepare the holiday for him, and requests snow, mistletoe, and presents on the tree. The song ends on a note, with the soldier saying, Ill be home for Christmas. Kim Gannon claimed on at least one occasion that he was not thinking of the soldiers when he wrote the lyrics but of all people who are unable to be home for Christmas. When he pitched the song to people in the music business, when playing golf with Bing Crosby, however, Gannon sang the song for Crosby, who decided to record it. The flip side of the recording was Danny Boy The song was written by the lyricist Kim Gannon. Buck Ram, who wrote a poem and song with the same title, was credited as a co-writer of the song following a lawsuit brought by Rams publisher. Bing Crosbys original 1943 release of the song on Decca Records listed only Walter Kent, later pressings added the name of Buck Ram to the songwriting credit. Within a month of release, the song charted for 11 weeks, the next year, the song reached number 19 on the charts. 441-B and U. S. Navy V-Disc No, the song from the broadcast has appeared in many Bing Crosby compilations. The song touched the hearts of Americans, soldiers and civilians alike, in the midst of World War II, Ill Be Home for Christmas became the most requested song at Christmas U. S. O. The GI magazine Yank said Crosby accomplished more for military morale than anyone else of that era, in December 1965, astronauts Frank Borman and Jim Lovell while on Gemini 7, requested Ill Be Home for Christmas be played for them by the NASA ground crew. After Gannons death in 1974, he left royalty rights to the song to the American Heart Association, Ill Be Home for Christmas was recorded by Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, Sara Evans, Kelly Clarkson, Seth MacFarlane, Pentatonix, and many other artists. This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Government document Ill be home for Christmas, American popular songs from the Revolutionary War to the present. Joel Whitburns pop hits, 1940-1954, compiled from Billboards pop singles charts 1940-1954, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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The original 1943 release by Bing Crosby on Decca, 18570A.
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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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Santa, Bring My Baby Back to Me
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Santa Bring My Baby Back is a 1957 song by Elvis Presley. The song was released on the RCA Victor Elvis Christmas Album in 1957, the song, written by Aaron Schroeder and Claude Demetrius, has been a popular Christmas song during the Holiday season on radio stations for decades although it was not released as a single. The song appeared originally as part of an RCA Victor 45 EP, EPA-4108, with Santa Claus is Back in Town, Blue Christmas, the EP reached #1 on the Billboard EP chart. The song was recorded on September 7,1957 and features the backing of the Jordanaires. Santa Bring My Baby Back was paired with Santa Claus Is Back In Town and was issued as a UK single concurrently with the release in 1957. The single reached #7 on the UK Singles Chart in November 1957, in the 1965 Rolling Stones documentary film Charlie Is My Darling, the song is sung impromptu by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards in a hotel lounge. Mae West recorded the song for her 1967 Christmas album Wild Christmas, the Reverend Horton Heat recorded the song for his 2005 Christmas album We Three Kings. Eleanor Friedberger released a version on the 2013 compilation album Holidays Rule. The song has also recorded or performed by The Smithereens, The Refreshments. Arena Venus, Kim Stockwood, Terry Buchwald, Chris Isaak, Janice Hagan, Rick Saucedo, Train recorded the song for their 2015 album Christmas in Tahoe. The King of Rock n Roll, The Complete 50s Masters, from Nashville to Memphis, The Essential 60s Masters, insert booklet. Last Train to Memphis, The Rise of Elvis Presley, Elvis Presley, If Every Day Was Like Christmas, liner notes
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"Santa, Bring My Baby Back to Me" cover
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1957 UK sheet music cover, Belinda Ltd., Southern Music, London.
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Pop music
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Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid 1950s. The terms popular music and pop music are used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular. Pop and rock were synonymous terms until the late 1960s, when they were used in opposition from each other. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music. Pop music is eclectic, and often borrows elements from other such as urban, dance, rock, Latin. Identifying factors include generally short to medium-length songs written in a format, as well as the common use of repeated choruses, melodic tunes. David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop music as a body of music which is distinguishable from popular, jazz, according to Pete Seeger, pop music is professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music, the music charts contain songs from a variety of sources, including classical, jazz, rock, and novelty songs. Pop music, as a genre, is seen as existing and developing separately, pop music continuously evolves along with the terms definition. The term pop song was first recorded as being used in 1926, Hatch and Millward indicate that many events in the history of recording in the 1920s can be seen as the birth of the modern pop music industry, including in country, blues and hillbilly music. The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that while pops earlier meaning meant concerts appealing to a wide audience. Since the late 1950s, however, pop has had the meaning of non-classical mus, usually in the form of songs, performed by such artists as the Beatles. Grove Music Online also states that, in the early 1960s pop music competed terminologically with beat music, while in the USA its coverage overlapped with that of rock and roll. From about 1967, the term was used in opposition to the term rock music. Whereas rock aspired to authenticity and an expansion of the possibilities of music, pop was more commercial, ephemeral. It is not driven by any significant ambition except profit and commercial reward, and, in musical terms, it is essentially conservative. It is, provided from on high rather than being made from below, pop is not a do-it-yourself music but is professionally produced and packaged. The beat and the melodies tend to be simple, with limited harmonic accompaniment, the lyrics of modern pop songs typically focus on simple themes – often love and romantic relationships – although there are notable exceptions
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The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that the term "pop" refers to music performed by such artists as the Rolling Stones (pictured here in a 2006 performance)
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According to several sources, MTV helped give rise to pop stars such as Michael Jackson and Madonna; and Jackson and Madonna helped make MTV.
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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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Alan Parsons in an ESO 50th anniversary video.
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A Danish recording session
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Do You Wanna Dance?
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Do You Want to Dance is a song written by American singer Bobby Freeman and recorded by him in 1958. It reached number No.5 on the United States Billboard Top 100 Sides pop chart, Cliff Richard and the Shadows version of the song reached No.2 in the United Kingdom in 1962, despite being a B-side. The Beach Boys version reached No.12 as Do You Wanna Dance. in the United States in 1965, a different song called Do You Wanna Dance. was a UK hit for Barry Blue in 1973. San Francisco-born teenager Bobby Freeman had been a member of groups the Romancers. When asked by a local DJ if he had any songs, he wrote several. These included Do You Want to Dance, which was heard by a record label executive. He signed Freeman to the label, and had the original recording overdubbed in New York by session musicians including guitarist Billy Mure. Released on the Jubilee subsidiary label Josie, Do You Want to Dance quickly rose to number 5 on the pop chart and number 2 on the R&B chart in early 1958, contrary to some reports, Jerry Garcia did not play on the record. The Cliff Richard and the Shadows version also known as Do You Wanna Dance was released in the United Kingdom as the B-side of Im Lookin Out the Window in May 1962. However, like seven other Cliff Richard singles released between 1959 and 1963, the B-side received an amount of airplay and made the New Musical Express UK singles chart in its own right. On this occasion, it became Richards second highest charting B-side, the single reached number 2 in the other UK singles charts, listing both tracks. Do You Want to Dance went on to become the more successful charting track from the single in some countries, reaching number 1 in the Netherlands, Australia, the single went on to sell over 1 million copies worldwide. Do You Want to Dance was included on the EP Cliff’s Hits, released November 1962, a live version appeared on Richards double album Japan Tour 74 issued in 1975. Do You Want to Dance was recorded on December 19,1961 at EMIs Abbey Road studios. The session, engineered by Malcolm Addy and produced by EMIs A&R man Norrie Paramor, featured new drummer Brian Bennett and Jet Harris on bass, soon to leave the Shadows in 1962. It peaked at number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was the highest charting Beach Boys song to feature Dennis Wilson on lead vocals, according to the contemporary United Press International chart published by newspapers across the United States it was number eight in April 1965. The B-side was Please Let Me Wonder, the song was also released on the 1965 album The Beach Boys Today. Do You Wanna Dance. was recorded on January 11,1965 at Gold Star Studios and was produced, arranged and conducted by Brian Wilson, take 3 of the song was used as the master
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"Do You Wanna Dance?"
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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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A depiction of the Nativity of Jesus with a Christmas tree backdrop
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Adoration of the Shepherds by Gerard van Honthorst depicts the nativity of Jesus
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Eastern Orthodox icon of the birth of Christ by St. Andrei Rublev, 15th century
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Nativity of Christ – medieval illustration from the Hortus deliciarum of Herrad of Landsberg (12th century)
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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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An 1896 issue of Billboard
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Cover of Billboard (January 26, 2013).
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Crooner
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Crooner is an American epithet given to male singers of jazz standards, mostly from the Great American Songbook, backed by either a full orchestra, a big band or a piano. Originally it was a term denoting a sentimental singing style made possible by the use of microphones. Some performers, such as Russ Columbo, did not accept the term and this dominant popular vocal style coincided with the advent of radio broadcasting and electrical recording. Before the advent of the microphone, popular singers like Al Jolson had to project to the seats of a theater, as did opera singers. The microphone made possible the more personal style and he could be heard by anyone with a phonograph or a radio. His first film, The Vagabond Lover, was promoted with the line, while his success brought press warnings of the Vallee Peril, this punk from Maine with the dripping voice required mounted police to beat back screaming, swooning females at his vaudeville shows. Even The New York Times predicted that crooning would be just a passing fad, the newspaper printed, They sing like that because they can’t help it. Their style is begging to go out of fashion…, crooners will soon go the way of tandem bicycles, mah jongg and midget golf. Voice range shifted from tenor to baritone, still, a 1931 record by Dick Robinson, Crosby, Columbo & Vallee, called upon men to fight these public enemies brought into homes via radio. There were female crooners, including Annette Hanshaw, Mildred Bailey and their performances had a variety of influences including ballads and swing and was included in popular film soundtracks. The term is used to describe a female singer, although Mildred Baileys pre-swing records as well as Helen Rowland are often considered part of the crooning style. Due to the country songs popularized by Bing Crosby, the style of singing became an enduring part of country music. Bing Crosby achieved a million seller with his 1940 rendition of the song San Antonio Rose, eddy Arnold, Jim Reeves and Ray Price are especially well known for their country crooner standards. Dean Martin is rather famous for the music he recorded in the period when he was working for Reprise Records. Fellow Italian-American crooner Perry Como recorded several albums with country producer Chet Atkins in Nashville, list of crooners Gary Giddins, Bing Crosby, A Pocketful of Dreams, The Early Years, 1903–1940. Boston, Little, Brown and Co.2001, allison McCracken, Real Men Dont Sing, Crooning in American Culture. Durham, NC, Duke University Press,2015
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Perry Como, October 1946
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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 Alan Freed and Cleveland, Ohio in the origins of rock and roll
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Chuck Berry in 1957
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Bill Haley and his Comets performing in the 1954 Universal International film Round Up of Rhythm
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Elvis Presley in a promotion shot for Jailhouse Rock in 1957
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The Jordanaires
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The Jordanaires were an American vocal quartet that formed as a gospel group in 1948. They are known for providing vocals for Elvis Presley, in live appearances. The group has worked in the recording studio, on stage. In 1948, Matt and Jack left to become full-time preachers and were replaced by Bob Hubbard, also a minister, and bass singer Culley Holt, after three years Money was replaced as pianist by Gordon Stoker. At that time, they formed the new group as the Melodizing Matthews, in Springfield, Missouri and this starting lineup lasted until 1949, at that time, Bob Hubbard was drafted and was replaced by Hoyt Hawkins. Later that year, Monty and Bill Matthews left, Hawkins switched to baritone, and new lead Neal Matthews was recruited. Don Bruce came in as a new first tenor, however, the group narrowed to a quartet, with Stoker taking over as first tenor. They became members of the Grand Ole Opry in 1949 and they recorded for Capitol Records in the early 1950s, and began providing vocal accompaniment behind solo singers in Nashville, Tennessee. The lineup changed again in 1954, with Culley Holt leaving, the quartet became well known in the southern gospel realm, and what made them stand out from other quartets of that time was how they would bring spirituals to a predominantly white audience. While continuing to turn out albums of their own, the group become better known for the signature background harmonies they have provided on dozens of secular records. Jarrett remained until 1958, at time, he was replaced by Ray Walker. October 31954 a teenage Elvis Presley made the drive from Memphis to Nashville to make his one, debuting his high-energy brand of rockabilly with Blue Moon of Kentucky it was his first live performance on national radio broadcast. He had just recorded his first record at Sun studios, Thats All Right just a few weeks prior, an afternoon in 1955, the Jordanaires played a show in Memphis with Eddy Arnold to publicize their new syndicated TV series, Eddy Arnold Time. He was on Sun Records at that time, on January 10,1956, Presley recorded his first session for RCA with guitarist Scotty Moore, bassist Bill Black, and drummer D. J. Fontana. I Got a Woman, Heartbreak Hotel, and Money Honey were recorded, Presley asked his new label RCA Victor if the Jordanaires could appear on the recordings. The next day Gordon Stoker was called by Chet Atkins to do a session with a new singer named Elvis. RCA had also just signed the Speer Family, Atkins asked Stoker to sing with Ben and Brock Speer so he could use them. The recording session for Im Counting on You and I Was the One was the first session Presley did with vocal background, by April 1956, Heartbreak Hotel was No.1
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The Jordanaires with Elvis, 1957
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Just minor third
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In the music theory of Western culture, a minor third is a musical interval that encompasses three half steps, or semitones. Staff notation represents the third as encompassing three staff positions. The minor third is one of two commonly occurring thirds and it is called minor because it is the smaller of the two, the major third spans an additional semitone. For example, the interval from A to C is a minor third, diminished and augmented thirds span the same number of staff positions, but consist of a different number of semitones. The minor third is a skip melodically, notable examples of ascending minor thirds include the opening two notes of Greensleeves and of Light My Fire. The minor third may be derived from the series as the interval between the fifth and sixth harmonics, or from the 19th harmonic. The minor third is used to express sadness in music. It is also a quartal tertian interval, as opposed to the major thirds quintality, the minor third is also obtainable in reference to a fundamental note from the undertone series, while the major third is obtainable as such from the overtone series. The minor scale is so named because of the presence of this interval between its tonic and mediant scale degrees, minor chords too take their name from the presence of this interval built on the chords root. A minor third, in just intonation, corresponds to a ratio of 6,5 or 315.64 cents. In an equal tempered tuning, a third is equal to three semitones, a ratio of 21/4,1, or 300 cents,15.64 cents narrower than the 6,5 ratio. If a minor third is tuned in accordance with the fundamental of the series, the result is a ratio of 19,16. The 12-TET minor third more closely approximates the 19-limit minor third 16,19 Play with only 2.49 cents error. Other pitch ratios are given related names, the minor third with ratio 7,6. The minor third is classed as an imperfect consonance and is considered one of the most consonant intervals after the unison, octave, perfect fifth, instruments in A – most commonly the A clarinet, sound a minor third lower than the written pitch. In music theory, a semiditone is the interval 32,27 and it is the minor third in Pythagorean tuning. The 32,27 Pythagorean minor third arises in the C major scale between D and F, Play It can be thought of as two octaves minus three justly tuned fifths. It is narrower than a justly tuned minor third by a syntonic comma, musical tuning List of meantone intervals Pythagorean interval
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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
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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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Santa Bring My Baby Back (To Me)
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Santa Bring My Baby Back is a 1957 song by Elvis Presley. The song was released on the RCA Victor Elvis Christmas Album in 1957, the song, written by Aaron Schroeder and Claude Demetrius, has been a popular Christmas song during the Holiday season on radio stations for decades although it was not released as a single. The song appeared originally as part of an RCA Victor 45 EP, EPA-4108, with Santa Claus is Back in Town, Blue Christmas, the EP reached #1 on the Billboard EP chart. The song was recorded on September 7,1957 and features the backing of the Jordanaires. Santa Bring My Baby Back was paired with Santa Claus Is Back In Town and was issued as a UK single concurrently with the release in 1957. The single reached #7 on the UK Singles Chart in November 1957, in the 1965 Rolling Stones documentary film Charlie Is My Darling, the song is sung impromptu by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards in a hotel lounge. Mae West recorded the song for her 1967 Christmas album Wild Christmas, the Reverend Horton Heat recorded the song for his 2005 Christmas album We Three Kings. Eleanor Friedberger released a version on the 2013 compilation album Holidays Rule. The song has also recorded or performed by The Smithereens, The Refreshments. Arena Venus, Kim Stockwood, Terry Buchwald, Chris Isaak, Janice Hagan, Rick Saucedo, Train recorded the song for their 2015 album Christmas in Tahoe. The King of Rock n Roll, The Complete 50s Masters, from Nashville to Memphis, The Essential 60s Masters, insert booklet. Last Train to Memphis, The Rise of Elvis Presley, Elvis Presley, If Every Day Was Like Christmas, liner notes
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"Santa, Bring My Baby Back to Me" cover
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1957 UK sheet music cover, Belinda Ltd., Southern Music, London.
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The Browns
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The Browns were an American country and folk music vocal trio best known for their 1959 Grammy-nominated hit, The Three Bells. They disbanded in 1967 and were elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in March 2015. James Edward, older sister Maxine, and younger sister Bonnie Brown sang individually in Pine Bluff, Arkansas until 1954, when Maxine and Jim Ed signed a record contract as a singing duo. They earned national recognition and a guest spot on Ernest Tubbs radio show for their self-penned song Looking Back to See, the song would be a hit again nearly 20 years later for Buck Owens and Susan Raye in 1972. They were joined in 1955 by then-recent high school graduate, 18-year-old Bonnie, Jim Ed and Maxine had first appeared on the show as a duo in 1955. Producer Si Siman signed them with RCA Victor in 1956, when Jim Ed was drafted in 1957, the group continued to record while he was on leave, and sister Norma filled in for him on tours, as did Billy Walker. In 1959, The Browns scored their biggest hit when their folk-pop single The Three Bells reached No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop, the song also peaked at No.10 on Billboards Rhythm and Blues listing. Based on a song called Les trois cloches, it was originally a hit in France for Édith Piaf, the recording sold over one million copies, and was nominated for both Record of the Year and the Best Group or Vocal Performance in the Grammy award categories in 1959. Their version of Blue Christmas reached No.97 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in December 1960. The Browns appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show and American Bandstand, with an international following, they toured Europe extensively and saw further moderate success on the country music charts. In 1963, they joined the Grand Ole Opry, Jim Ed began recording as a solo artist for RCA Victor in 1965 and these efforts quickly began overshadowing the trios recordings. Maxine sang lead vocal on the final singles released in 1968, Big Daddy and I Will Bring You Water. The trio officially disbanded that year and Maxine signed with Chart Records in 1969, in the 1980s, The Browns began performing occasionally in concert for the first time in nearly 20 years. In 2006, the trio performed The Old Lamplighter and The Three Bells for the PBS special, on June 11,2015, Jim Ed Brown died from lung cancer at age 81. On July 16,2016, Bonnie Brown also died from cancer at the age of 77. AAlso peaked at #35 on Adult Contemporary charts, Looking Back to See, A Country Music Memoir. The Browns at Allmusic. com The Browns at CMT. com Jim Ed Browns artist profile at Countrypolitian. com Maxine Browns Website
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Bonnie and Jim Ed (top) with Maxine in the late 1950s
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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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Shakin' Stevens
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Michael Barratt, known as Shakin Stevens, is a platinum-selling British rock and roll singer and songwriter who was the UKs biggest-selling singles artist of the 1980s. His recording and performing career began in the late 1960s, although it was not until 1980 that his success began. The oldest of his siblings were born in the mid 1920s, Jack Barratt died in 1972, aged 75, while May lived until 1984, dying at age 79. He grew up in Ely, Cardiff, and as a teenager in the mid-1960s he formed his first amateur rock and roll band with friends and became its vocalist. Originally named the Olympics, then the Cossacks, the band finally renamed as the Denims and performed gigs in the local Cardiff. In the late 1960s Stevens was associated with the Young Communist League, at the time the YCL was associated with several leading music industry figures, including Pete Townshend. Stevens married his wife, Carole, on 7 October 1967, at the time of their marriage, his official occupation was a milkman, and they lived in a flat which formed part of an office block in inner-city Cardiff. The office block was demolished years later. He is a supporter of his local football team Cardiff City. Having worked as an upholsterer and milkman, Barratt performed on weekends in clubs and pubs, having previously followed them as a fan and then as an occasional guest vocalist, Barratt joined the existing Penarth-based the Backbeats – originally formed in 1958 – as lead singer. Spotted by South Wales impresario Paul Legs Barrett - who was not a relative - Paul Barrett proposed repackaging the band as a 1950s-influenced rock n roll outfit under a new name. Michael Barratt agreed to choose a name, and so borrowing from old school friend Steven Vanderwalker. Fronting the newly named Shakin Stevens and the Sunsets, a break for the band presented itself when they were given a support slot for the Rolling Stones in December 1969. The band toured Germany, Belgium, France and the Netherlands in between UK dates, the Sunsets continue to perform, and still tour annually in the UK, Europe and Australia, fronted in recent years by Shakys nephew, Levi Barratt. Proby taking over the part for Elviss Las Vegas years, however, the expectations were overtaken by subsequent events. The media-wise Jack Good made sure that both the process and the early months of the show were widely and regularly covered by the British daily press. His 1984 hit Teardrops, which reached No, Chart successes also included his album Shaky reaching number 1 on the UK Albums Chart. Its original planned release was put back by a year to avoid clashing with the success of Band Aids charity single Do They Know Its Christmas
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Stevens in 1976
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Collective Soul
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Collective Soul is an American rock band originally from Stockbridge, Georgia. Now based in Atlanta, the group consists of lead vocalist Ed Roland, rhythm guitarist Dean Roland, bassist Will Turpin, drummer Johnny Rabb, before forming Collective Soul, singer Ed Roland studied music composition and guitar at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Since the mid-1980s Roland was involved in Atlantas underground music scene making demos and he also worked at Real 2 Reel Studios in Stockbridge, which was owned by bassist Will Turpins father, Bill Turpin. Rolands duties were producing, mixing and engineering for local Atlanta artists and he recorded his demos and released an independent solo album Ed-E Roland in 1991. At this time the group was known as Ed-E. That initial version of the Ed-E band dissolved in the mid to late 1980s due to incompatible musical tastes among other differences, Roland subsequently formed Marching Two-Step which included original Collective Soul drummer Shane Evans, Michele Rhea Caplinger, and Matt Serletic. Marching Two-Step were a local gigging band for a few years, Rolands early attempts to be signed to a recording contract by a label faced rejections. Caplinger would become a music industry publicist and was appointed executive director of the Atlanta Chapter of the Recording Academy in 2000. Serletic would go on to become a Grammy winning producer for Collective Soul, Matchbox Twenty, Blessid Union of Souls and Edwin McCain, after the demise of Rolands previous music collaborations, he enlisted musicians to record a demo in a basement. Roland initially intended to sell the songs to a company and had no immediate plans of forming a band out of it. The demo was submitted to Amy Staehling, host of the Georgia music show at Album 88, Georgia State University’s student radio station in Atlanta. She carted up the song Shine, and it was added to the stations rotation, the demo was also passed along to WJRR in Orlando, Florida which began playing Shine, soon to be its most requested song. Atlantic Records took note of the popularity of Shine and subsequently signed them to a contract, upon Collective Souls signing, Atlantic wished to capitalize on the bands success and quickly re-released the 1993 demo Hints Allegations and Things Left Unsaid as their first studio album. Although reluctant to have the unpolished demo represent their new line-up, Collective Soul gained international recognition, the band quickly began work on what they would consider their true debut record and were invited to perform at Woodstock 1994. They also toured extensively across North America, the group’s self-titled second album issued the following year, was certified RIAA triple platinum, and logged a 76-week run on the Billboard 200. Notable singles from Collective Soul included US Rock Chart No.1 hits December, Where The River Flows, and The World I Know, No.2 hit Gel, and the Top 10 hit Smashing Young Man. While the legal battles continued, the band went to a cabin, in the middle of 40 acres of cow pasture in Stockbridge and they recorded into a computer their impromptu efforts of songs Roland penned, and these became Disciplined Breakdown. The legal case was settled, and both parties were instructed not to discuss the outcome
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Collective Soul performing in Austin on November 17, 2012.
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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
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Jon Bon Jovi with Jonathan King in 1987
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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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Loretta Lynn
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Loretta Lynn is an American country music singer-songwriter with multiple gold albums over a career of almost 60 years. She is the most awarded female recording artist and the only female ACM Artist of the Decade. Lynn is the second of eight born to Clara Marie Clary and Melvin Theodore Ted Webb. In January 1948, 15-year-old Loretta married Oliver Doolittle Lynn and their life together inspired the music she wrote. In 1953 Doolittle bought her a $17 Harmony guitar and she often appeared at Bills Tavern in Blaine, Washington, and the Delta Grange Hall in Custer, Washington, with the Pen Brothers band and the Westerneers. She cut her first record, Im a Honky Tonk Girl and she became a part of the country music scene in Nashville in the 1960s. In 1967 she had the first of 16 number-one hits and her later hits include Dont Come Home A Drinkin, You Aint Woman Enough, Fist City, and Coal Miners Daughter. Lynn focused on womens issues with themes about philandering husbands and persistent mistresses. Country music radio stations refused to play her music, banning nine of her songs. She and contemporaries like Tammy Wynette provided a template for artists in country music to follow. Her best-selling 1976 autobiography, Coal Miners Daughter, was made into an Academy Award–winning film of the title in 1980, starring Sissy Spacek. Her album Van Lear Rose, released in 2004, was produced by the rock musician Jack White, Lynn and White were nominated for five Grammys. Lynn has received awards in country and American music. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama in 2013, Lynn has been a member of the Grand Ole Opry since joining on September 25,1962, her first appearance on the Grand Ole Opry was on October 15,1960. Lynn has recorded 70 albums, including 54 studio albums,15 compilation albums, and one tribute album, Lynn was born and raised in Butcher Hollow, Van Lear, Kentucky, a mining community near Paintsville. Her mother was of Scots-Irish and Cherokee ancestry, Loretta was the second of eight children. She was named after the film star Loretta Young, Ted Webb never got to see his daughter become famous, as he died in 1959 of coalworkers pneumoconiosis before Lorettas first single, Im A Honky Tonk Girl, was released. Besides her famous siblings and children who perform, she is related to the country singer Patty Loveless on her mothers side and she is also related, on her mothers side, to Venus Ramey, Miss America of 1944
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Loretta Lynn, 2005.
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Original childhood home of Loretta Lynn in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky
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Loretta Lynn touring in 1975
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The Lumineers
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The Lumineers are an American folk rock / Americana band based in Denver, Colorado. The two founding members and songwriters of the Lumineers are Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites, Schultz and Fraites began writing and performing together in New Jersey in 2005. Cellist and vocalist Neyla Pekarek joined the band in 2010 and they emerged as one of the most popular folk rock/ Americana artists during the revival of those genres and their growing popularity in the 2010’s. The bands stripped back raw sound draws heavily from artists that influenced Schultz and Fraites such as Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan and they are known for their energetic live shows and several international hit singles including Ho Hey”, “Stubborn Love”, “Ophelia” and “Cleopatra”. The Lumineers have released two albums on independent label in the U. S. Dualtone Records. Their second album Cleopatra debuted at #1 on the US Billboard top 200 album chart, and on the Canadian and British album charts, the band has become one of the top touring bands in the U. S. and also sells out shows around the world. In 2002, Josh, the brother of Jeremiah Fraites, died due to an overdose at the age of 19. Jeremiah and Joshs best friend, Wesley Schultz, began writing together to cope with their mutual loss, forming The Lumineers in Ramsey. In regards to this, Schultz has stated, Theres a certain level of growing up overnight that happens, as a band, it adds something thats very elusive — its hopefulness, but theres also some sorrow behind it, and theres some depth that defines who you are. When they originally began to collaborate, writing together and playing gigs around New York City, they did so under names including Free Beer, 6Cheek. Fraites elaborates, When Wes and I got together, our first band name was Free Beer and we were a crappy band doing covers. But we slowly started getting away from covers and writing originals and we were doing everything, vanilla singer-songwriter stuff, hard rock, electronic music. There was no focus, it was a mad, random mess, Schultz and Fraites invited Jason, or Jay, Van Dyke into the band in 2008. According to Schultz and Fraites, Van Dyke responded to a Craigslist ad that summer when the band was based in New York and was known as 6Cheek. However, he was still a member when the band would change its name to Wesley Jeremiah, the person running the show that night announced us as The Lumineers. So I decided to do something about it and it is likely that their frustration and difficulty finding success at this time inspired their song Dead Sea. In 2009, after considering relocating to London, Philadelphia, Boston, the two, in their, ignorance and naïveté, decided to move to Denver, Colorado, the duo then met the classically trained cellist, Neyla Pekarek. Although Pekarek had just recently graduated from college and was planning to become a teacher, she responded to a Craigslist ad posted by Schultz, as a three-piece, The Lumineers met Maxwell Hughes at an open mic event in Denver
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The Lumineers in 2013
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At 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. on August 2, 2012; touring with Old Crow Medicine Show. Wesley Schultz on acoustic guitar (right), Neyla Pekarek on cello (left).
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The Lumineers performing at the Rock4G concert in 2012.
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Black Stone Cherry
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Black Stone Cherry is an American hard rock band, formed in 2001 in Edmonton, Kentucky. They were signed to Roadrunner Records until 2015, the band is now signed to Mascot Label Group, the band consists of Chris Robertson, Ben Wells, Jon Lawhon, and John Fred Young. The bands fifth album, Kentucky was released on April 1,2016, Black Stone Cherry originated in Edmonton, Kentucky. Chris Robertson and John Fred Young, son of The Kentucky Headhunterss Richard Young, started to play music together early in their teens and were joined by Wells. Black Stone Cherry officially formed on June 4,2001 and they then took over the practice house that had been used by The Kentucky Headhunters since 1968 and began to record tracks. They also began holding shows at clubs in the area, in 2003, on Black Stone Cherry Records, the band released their first demo on CD called Rock N Roll Tape. The bands debut self-titled album was released in May 2006, after the band finished recording, they returned to Edmonton, invited by their former school principal, for a homecoming gig in the gym of the local middle school, which was attended by 1500 people. As the band entered the town, the streets were filled with people holding welcome home signs, in July 2007, they released a second recording, an EP which contained the song Rain Wizard along with two previously unreleased tracks. Their first live album was released on October 31,2007 and it was recorded at the Astoria in London, and copies were sold to the crowd immediately after the concert. The album is a limited edition, and as of January 2013 mint copies were selling for £200 on Amazon. On August 19,2008, Black Stone Cherry released their album, entitled Folklore. Four singles from the album, Blind Man, Please Come In, Things My Father Said, in 2008, the band supported Def Leppard and Whitesnake on their UK arena tour. In May 2009, they supported Nickelback on their Dark Horse tour and their third album Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea was released on May 31,2011. The album was produced by Howard Benson, the first single was titled White Trash Millionaire and was released at the end of March. The band was nominated for classic rock award in 2011, the band supported Alter Bridge alongside Theory of a Deadman on a tour of Europe from October to November 2011. Cavo co-headlined a tour with Black Stone Cherry in February 2012 with Rains as support, the band also headlined their own UK tour supported by Rival Sons. They opened for Chickenfoot on their American tour in the spring of 2012, Black Stone Cherry opened for Lynyrd Skynyrd and Bad Company on their co-headlining tour. The band first appeared at Download Festival in June 2013, the band recorded a new album in fall 2013, through early 2014
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Black Stone Cherry performing in San Antonio in 2014
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John Fred Young at Nova Rock Festival 2014
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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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TV commercial
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A television advertisement is a span of television programming produced and paid for by an organization, which conveys a message, typically to market a product or service. Advertisers and marketeers may refer to television commercials as TVCs, Advertising revenue provides a significant portion of the funding for most privately-owned television networks. As of 2016 the vast majority of television advertisements consist of advertising spots. Advertisements of this sort have promoted a variety of goods, services. The effects of television advertising upon the public have been the subject of philosophical discourse by such luminaries as Marshall McLuhan. In many countries, including the United States, television advertisements are considered indispensable for a political campaign. In other countries, such as France, political advertising on television is heavily restricted, while some countries, such as Norway, completely ban political advertisements. The announcement for Bulova watches, for which the company paid anywhere from $4.00 to $9.00, displayed a WNBT test pattern modified to look like a clock with the hands showing the time. The Bulova logo, with the phrase Bulova Watch Time, appeared in the lower quadrant of the test pattern while the second hand swept around the dial for one minute. The first TV ad broadcast in the UK went to air on ITV on September 22,1955, the first TV ad broadcast in Asia appeared on Nippon Television in Tokyo on August 28,1953, advertising Seikosha, it also displayed a clock with the current time. To accomplish the first step means different things in different parts of the world depending on the regulation in place, in the UK for example, clearance must be given by the body Clearcast. Another example is Venezuela where clearance is governed by a body called CNAC, the clearance provides guarantee to the broadcasters that the content of the advertisement meets legal guidelines. Because of this, special extended clearance sometimes applies to food, after the advent of cheap video software and consumer cameras, numerous individuals have offered video production services on the internet. Some of these ad jingles or catch-phrases may take on lives of their own, spawning gags that appear in films, television shows, magazines, comics, or literature. These long-lasting advertising elements may be said to have taken a place in the pop culture history of the demographic to whom they appeared. An example is the phrase, Winston tastes good like a cigarette should. Variations of this dialogue and direct references to it appeared as long as two decades after the advertising campaign expired, another example is Wheres the Beef. which grew so popular it was used in the 1984 presidential election by Walter Mondale. Another popular catch-phrase is Ive fallen and I cant get up, Advertising agencies often use humor as a tool in their creative marketing campaigns
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Television was still in its experimental phase in 1928, but the medium's potential to sell goods was already predicted.
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A still from an animated TV advertisement
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Television commercial in 1948
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Filming a movie ad
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Damian McGinty
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Damian Joseph McGinty, Jr. is an actor and singer from Derry, Northern Ireland. McGinty has been performing for over a decade, and was a member of the group Celtic Thunder for four years starting when he was fourteen. On 21 August 2011, McGinty won the Oxygen reality show The Glee Project, McGinty was born into a Catholic family in Derry, Northern Ireland, the son of Damian McGinty, Sr. and Joanne McGinty. Damian has two siblings, Emmett and Gemma, and is an avid Manchester United fan and he has been performing for over a decade, winning his first singing competition when he was just five years old. In 2006, McGinty won another competition and the following year and it was then passed along to Celtic Thunder Producer Sharon Browne and Music Director Phil Coulter, who invited McGinty to sing for their first show. McGinty joined the newly formed Celtic Thunder in 2007 as a boy soprano at 14, for three of his four years, Celtic Thunder was named Top World Album by Billboard magazine. In 2015, McGinty returned as the Special Guest in the Very Best of Celtic Thunder Tour and now, he takes on George Donaldsons place in the newest concert Legacy. In 2011, McGinty was selected as one of the top finalists, out of 40,000 contenders in a Myspace audition search, to be on the Oxygen reality show. The O visa arrived at the last moment, allowing him to compete and he became very popular with viewers due to his humor, talent, and hard work. Although his friend Cameron Mitchell, who quit the show, won the Bing Fan Favorite, McGinty’s rendition of Beyond the Sea impressed the judges who selected him as co-winner with Samuel Larsen for a seven episode arc on the third season of the Fox series Glee. He announced that he was leaving Celtic Thunder for Glee, in the third season of Glee, McGinty played Rory Flanagan, a foreign exchange student staying with Brittany S. Pierces family and befriended by Finn Hudson. His initial seven episodes were extended to the end of the third season and his smooth and lovely rendition of Blue Christmas was also on the Glee Christmas album, and he sang Home as a solo, as well as numerous group and duet songs. McGinty appeared in a sketch about his Irish accent on a MTV Glee-Cap The popular singer has over half a million fans on Twitter. Damian McGinty and Máiréad Carlin sang the Derry City of Culture anthem Let the River Run at the BBC TV Gala Concert Sons and Daughters. Carly Simon, who felt their rendition of her song was absolutely wonderful, released it as a single by her Iris Records. She also sang her song with them during the multi-star Oceana Partners Awards Gala in Beverly Hills, between 2008 and 2011 McGinty was in five PBS specials as a member of Celtic Thunder, The Show, It’s Entertainment, Christmas, Heritage and Storm. In 2013, McGinty appeared in two PBS specials and he joined former Celtic Thunder member Paul Byrom on his This is the Moment show, and later they did a short tour. The other special The Power of Music with Ethan Bortnick was also a 2014 US tour, McGinty gave a stunning performance of the national anthem before the Kansas City Royals vs
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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).
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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
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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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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
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Publicity photo for Jailhouse Rock (1957)
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That's All Right
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Thats All Right is a song written and originally performed by blues singer Arthur Crudup. It is best known as the first single recorded and released by Elvis Presley, Presleys version was recorded on July 5,1954, and released on July 19,1954 with Blue Moon of Kentucky as the B-side. It is #113 on the 2010 Rolling Stone magazine list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, in July 2004, exactly 50 years after its first issuing, the song was released as a single in the United Kingdom, where it debuted and peaked at Number 3. The song was written by Arthur Big Boy Crudup, and originally recorded by him in Chicago on September 6,1946, some of the lyrics are traditional blues verses first recorded by Blind Lemon Jefferson in 1926. Crudups recording was released as a single on RCA Victor 20-2205, at the same session, he recorded a virtually identical tune with different lyrics, I Dont Know It, which was also released as a single. In early March 1949, the song was rereleased under the title, Thats All Right, Mama, Elvis Presleys version was recorded in July 1954. Its catalogue number was Sun 209, the label reads Thats All Right, and names the performers as Elvis Presley, Scotty and Bill. Arthur Crudup was credited as the composer on the label of Presleys single, an out-of-court settlement was supposed to pay Crudup an estimated $60,000 in back royalties, but never materialized. Crudup had used lines in his song that had been present in earlier blues recordings, a country music version by Marty Robbins peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in 1955. Black began joining in on his bass, and soon they were joined by Moore on guitar. Producer Sam Phillips, taken aback by this sudden upbeat atmosphere, blacks bass and guitars from Presley and Moore provided the instrumentation. The recording contains no drums or additional instruments, the song was produced in the style of a live recording. The following evening the trio recorded Blue Moon of Kentucky in a similar style, the recording session was Presleys fifth visit to the Sun Studio. His first two visits, the summer of 1953 and January 1954, had been private recordings, followed by two more visits in the summer of 1954, upon finishing the recording session, according to Scotty Moore, Bill Black remarked, Damn. Get that on the radio and theyll run us out of town, Sam Phillips gave copies of the record to local disc jockeys Dewey Phillips of WHBQ, Uncle Richard of WMPS, and Sleepy Eyed John Lepley of WHHM. On July 7,1954, Dewey Phillips played Thats All Right on his radio show Red. On hearing the news that Dewey was going to play his record, interest in the record was so intense that Dewey reportedly played the record 14 times and received over 40 telephone calls. Presley was persuaded to go to the station for an interview that night
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1954 Sun 45 release, Sun 209, by Elvis Presley, Scotty and Bill.
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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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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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"I Want You, I Need You, I Love You"
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My Baby Left Me
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My Baby Left Me is a rhythm and blues song written by blues singer Arthur Crudup. It was first recorded by Crudup in Chicago on November 8,1950, with Ransom Knowling on bass and Judge Riley on drums and it was included as a bonus track on the 2004 CD version of Rock n Roll. It was also a #37 UK Singles Chart hit in 1964 for Dave Berry, elton John used a snippet of My Baby Left Me as part of a medley during his concert performance of Burn Down the Mission on his 11-17-70 live album. My Baby Left Me was covered by rock band Slade and released as a single in 1977 as a tribute to Elvis Presley, the Slade version merged another Crudup written track, Thats All Right. The single spent four weeks on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at #32 and it became Slades last charting single until their career revival in 1980. The single was rated #788 for 1977 on Rate Your Music, Jim Lea stood in for him, and appears in Hills place on the finished recording. The track was performed on a handful of UK shows including Top of the Pops, as well as German shows Disco and it was performed the same year for a mimed gig on East German television and included interviews with each band member. The music video features the band performing the song on a stage and it was voted the second of the top three Slade music videos in the Slade Fan Club Poll of 1979. Record Mirror magazine reviewed the single release, A Slade slug at a Crudup past. But I can remember a time when Slade records were vixen fearsome rather than pleasant, fearsome on their own songs, not some cruising rocker from way back. Get out while the goings bad, cos its only going to get hideous. Its a bouncy, struttin 12-bar blues number quite unlike most of the earlier hit singles. On the other hand it could be that its similarity to the treatments of old blues numbers by a certain Johnny Winter Esq is clouding my judgement. Well have to wait and see, - Chas Chandler Writers of O. H. M. S. - Noddy Holder, Jim Lea Photograph - Gered Mankowitz Design - Jo Mirowski
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42.
Shake, Rattle and Roll
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Shake, Rattle and Roll is a twelve bar blues-form song, written in 1954 by Jesse Stone under his assumed songwriting name, Charles E. Calhoun. It was originally recorded by Big Joe Turner and most successfully by Bill Haley & His Comets, the song as sung by Big Joe Turner is ranked #127 on the Rolling Stone magazines list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Stone played around with various phrases before coming up with shake, rattle, however, the phrase had been used in earlier songs. In 1919, Al Bernard recorded a song about gambling with dice with the same title, the phrase is also heard in Roll The Bones by the Excelsior Quartette in 1922. Turners version was recorded in New York on February 15,1954, the shouting chorus on his version consisted of Jesse Stone, and record label executives Jerry Wexler and Ahmet Ertegün. The saxophone solo was by Sam The Man Taylor, other players included McHouston Mickey Baker on guitar and drummer Connie Kay. The song, in its incarnation, is highly sexual. Perhaps its most salacious lyric, which was absent from the later Bill Haley rendition, is Ive been holdin it in, way down underneath / You make me roll my eyes, baby, make me grit my teeth. On the recording, Turner slurred the lyric holdin it in, Bill Haley & His Comets cover version of the song, recorded on June 7,1954, featured the following members of the Comets, Johnny Grande, Billy Williamson, Marshall Lytle, and Joey Ambrose. It is known that Danny Cedrone, a musician who frequently worked for Haley, played lead guitar. Bill Haleys own stage drummer, Dick Richards, did not play on record but may have provided backing vocals since he participated in the recording of the songs B-side. This was Cedrones final recording session as he died ten days later. Haleys version was released in August and reached #7 on the Billboard pop chart, Gabler has explained that he would clean up lyrics because, I didnt want any censor with the radio station to bar the record from being played on the air. With NBC a lot of race records wouldnt get played because of the lyrics, so I had to watch that closely Both recordings are considered classics. Haleys version is peppier and brighter and it fits the definition of rock and roll as a merger of country music and rhythm and blues. Haley had started his career in music while Turner was a blues shouter. Comparing the two versions illustrates the differences between blues and rock n roll, a simple, stark instrumental backing is heard on the Turner version. Where Turners version uses a bass line, the Comets version, produced by Milt Gabler of Decca Records
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1954 release by Bill Haley and His Comets on Decca Records.
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Too Much (Elvis Presley song)
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Too Much is a #1 song recorded in a hit version by Elvis Presley and published by Elvis Presley Music in 1956. It was written by Bernard Weinman and Lee Rosenberg and it was first recorded in 1954 by Bernard Hardison on Republic Records. Elvis Presley recorded the song in September 1956 and first performed it on January 6,1957 on CBS-TVs The Ed Sullivan Show. Released as a single, Presleys Too Much reached number one on both the Cashbox and Billboard sales charts and went to three on the R&B chart. The single peaked at two on the then-named Top 100 chart, the main Billboard pop chart. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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"Too Much"
44.
All Shook Up
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All Shook Up is a song recorded by Elvis Presley, published by Elvis Presley Music, and composed by Otis Blackwell. The single topped the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 on April 13,1957 and it also topped the Billboard R&B chart for four weeks, becoming Presleys second single to do so, and peaked at No.3 on the country chart. It is certified 2X Platinum by the RIAA and it was ranked #352 on Rolling Stones list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. According to Peter Guralnick the song has a different origin, in his book Last Train To Memphis he wrote that Elvis thought All Shook Up was a good phrase for a refrain. For this he received a credit, his last. Elvis himself, during an interview on October 28,1957, said, I went to bed one night, had quite a dream, and woke up all shook up. I phoned a pal and told him about it, by morning, he had a new song, All Shook Up. Future Last House on the Left actor David Hess, using the stage name David Hill, was the first to record the song and release it a few weeks before Elvis on Aladdin Records, titled Im All Shook Up. Vicki Young recorded a different song with the title, All Shook Up, on Capitol Records with Big Dave and His Orchestra, written by Bill Bellman. On January 12,1957, Presley recorded the song at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, the duet vocal on the record is by the Jordanaires first tenor Gordon Stoker. Take 10 was selected for release, and in March the song entered Billboards Top 100 chart at #25, within three weeks it had knocked Perry Comos Round and Round off the top spot, and stayed there for eight consecutive weeks. The song also became Presleys first No. hit on the UK Singles Chart, sales of the single exceeded two million, and the song was named Billboards Year End number one song for 1957. According to biographer Mark Lewisohn in The Complete Beatles Chronicle, The Beatles regularly performed the song, sadly, there is no known recorded version from that time. However Quarryman Len Garry states that it was one of the songs the group played on July 6,1957, the day John Lennon met Paul McCartney, author Doug Sulpy adds that on Jan. That version of the song remains officially unreleased, in 1999 Paul McCartney cut a hard-rocking version on the album Run Devil Run, while his surviving former bandmates of The Quarrymen recorded it in 2004 on Songs We Remember. In 1991, Billy Joel recorded the song for the movie Honeymoon in Vegas and it was released as a single and peaked at No.92 in the US and No.27 in the UK. Suzi Quatro recorded the song for her solo album Suzi Quatro in 1973. Her recording of the song was released as a single in 1974, Presley invited Quatro to Graceland, commenting that her version was the best since the original
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45.
(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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Hard Headed Woman
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Hard Headed Woman is a number 1 rock and roll song recorded by Elvis Presley and published by Gladys Music, Presleys publishing company, in 1958. It is an American 12-bar blues written by African American songwriter Claude Demetrius and it was most notably recorded as a rock and roll song by Presley as part of the soundtrack for his 1958 motion picture King Creole, and was included on the record album of the same name. The song was released as a single in both 78 RPM and 45 RPM formats. In 1958 it went to No.1 on the Billboard charts and it became the first rock and roll single to earn the RIAA designation of Gold Record. The song has also recorded by Wanda Jackson, among others. Cat Stevens recorded a different song of the name, on his album Tea for the Tillerman. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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One Night (song)
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One Night is a song written by Dave Bartholomew, Pearl King, and Anita Steinman. It was an R&B hit for Smiley Lewis in 1956, before being recorded with greater success by Elvis Presley in 1959. The original recording of the song by Smiley Lewis, for Imperial Records, is sometimes titled One Night of Sin, in line with the original lyrics, the single reached No.11 on the Billboard R&B chart in early 1956. Presley recorded a version of the song with its lyrics on January 18,1957. Both Elvis manager and record company had reservations about the suggestive lyrics, Elvis did not give up on the song. Presleys recording credited Anita Steinman as an additional co-writer, with Bartholomew, on February 23,1957, at Radio Recorders in Los Angeles, he showed up with his new lyrics, feeling sure they would meet his labels approval. It was issued as a single in October 1958 and peaked at No.4 on Billboards singles chart, the song was published by Elvis Presley Music. Presleys recording was issued as a double A-side with I Got Stung, One Night, reached number four on the pop singles chart and number ten on the R&B chart. The song became the UKs 1000th number-one single upon its release in January 2005. It was also his last single to be issued on 78 RPM records in the United States, on 12 February 1959, it became the first song to reach No.1 on the Irish Music Charts Top 10, when they were being printed in the Evening Herald. It spent one week at the top spot, rock critic Pete Johnson observed that the song contains a triple negative with the lyrics I aint never did no wrong
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"One Night"
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Stuck on You (Elvis Presley song)
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Stuck on You is Elvis Presleys first hit single after his two-year stint in the US Army. Stuck on You peaked at six on the R&B chart. The song knocked Percy Faiths Theme from A Summer Place from the top spot, the record reached number three in the UK. The song was written by Aaron Schroeder and J. Leslie McFarland and published by Gladys Music, in New Zealand, the single had a special paper sleeve with the usual RCA logo top left and 45 R. P. M. Bottom left and included, in letters, ELVIS top right and bottom left. List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 1960 List of number-one singles in Australia during the 1960s Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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"Stuck on You"
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Surrender (Elvis Presley song)
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Surrender is a #1 song recorded by Elvis Presley and published by Elvis Presley Music in 1961. It is an adaptation by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman of the music of a 1902 Neapolitan ballad by Giambattista and it hit number one in the US and UK in 1961 and eventually became one of the best selling singles of all time. This was one of 25 songs Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman wrote for Presley and it has been recorded by many other artists. Elvis Presley - vocals The Jordanaires - backing vocals Scotty Moore - electric guitar Hank Garland - acoustic guitar Bob Moore - double bass D. J
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"Surrender"
51.
I Feel So Bad
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I Feel So Bad is a song written and originally recorded by Chuck Willis in 1953. A version of the song was recorded by Elvis Presley on March 12,1961 in RCA Studio B, in Nashville, Presley recorded a version of the song following the arrangements by Willis and his singing style. Presleys version reached No.5 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1961, the song, which was released on a double A-side single in the UK, reached No.4 on the UK singles chart, also in 1961. The band Cactus recorded it on their 1971 Atco release One Way. or Another, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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"I Feel So Bad"
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(Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame
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His Latest Flame is a song recorded in a hit version by Elvis Presley and published by Elvis Presley Music in 1961. It was written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman and originally recorded by Del Shannon on the album Runaway With Del Shannon, the more famous and successful recording by Presley was released in August 1961. However, the singles Hot 100 chart run was atypical of a Top Ten hit, in the autumn of 1961 it shot from 22 to 4, then dropped to 10, then 26, all within the space of four weeks. The single spent four weeks at No.1 in the UK Singles Chart — one of Presleys nine UK chart-toppers between 1960 and 1962 and it was also covered by home-recording artist R. Stevie Moore on his 1984 album Everything, in 1987 Marco T released a Spanish version of the song in Colombia. Also covered by underground L. A. Country/Americana artist JD Myers recorded a version featuring James Burton on guitar in 1997, the album never was officially released, but the song appears on the compilation album JD Myers, only available on the artists website. DJ and promo copies of the album featuring Burton can also be found on that website. The closest cover to Elvis version of song was recorded in England on The Embassy Records label in Nov of 1961 by Ray Pilgrim. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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"(Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame"
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Good Luck Charm
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Good luck charm is a charm that is believed to bring good luck. An example of this is a blessing that a minister or a priest gives at the end of a ceremony, later on, people assumed that spoken words were temporary whereas a solid object is more permanent. Objects that have extraordinary significance such as the believed to be from the cross of Jesus Christ were substituted for the original spoken or sung charms. Almost any object can be used as a charm, coins and buttons are good examples. Little things that are given to you very good lucky charms. It is because of the associations they make. Many souvenir shops have a range of items that may be used as good luck charms. Good luck charms are usually worn on the body there are exceptions. The “lucky rabbit charm” was passed on and incorporated into American culture by African slaves that were brought to the Americas, the lucky bag or the “Mojo” is another borrowed idea from African culture. It is used in ceremonies to carry several lucky objects or spells. The concept is that objects placed in the bag and charged will create a supernatural effect for the bearer. Even today, mojo bags are still used, europe also contributed to the concept of lucky charms. Adherents of St. Patrick, adopted the Four leaf clover as a symbol of Irish luck because clovers are abundant in the hills of Ireland, a four-leaf clover was consistently believed to be a lucky charm. This very old Irish verse describes why, One leaf is for fame, And one leaf is for wealth, And one is for a lover, And one to bring you glorious health
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She's Not You
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Shes Not You is a 1962 song recorded by Elvis Presley and published by Gladys Music, Elvis Presleys publishing company. Shes Not You reached No.5 on the Billboard Hot 100, in the UK, the single reached No.1 where it stayed for three weeks. It was written by Doc Pomus in collaboration with Leiber and Stoller and it was released by Presley in the key of F major. Episode 1 of the 2004 BBC miniseries Blackpool featured the Presley recording, accompanied on screen by the singing and dancing of the characters, chris Isaak covered this song on his 2011 album, Beyond the Sun. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Return to Sender (song)
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Return to Sender is a 1962 hit single recorded by American singer Elvis Presley and published by Elvis Presley Music. The song was written by Winfield Scott and Otis Blackwell, recorded on March 27,1962, at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, it is about a man mailing a letter to his girlfriend after an argument. She continually writes return to sender and he keeps receiving the letter with various reasons for returning to sender, including address unknown and he keeps mailing letters, refusing to believe the relationship is over. Presley performed Return to Sender in the film Girls, featuring Presleys longtime cohorts Barney Kessel on electric guitar, Tiny Timbrell on acoustic guitar, Ray Siegal on double bass, D. J. Another saxophonist, Bobby Keys, claimed he performed the solo at the instigation of pianist Glen D. Hardin, in his 2012 memoir Every Nights A Saturday Night, however, Hardin did not meet Presley until February 1970, when he joined his touring band. In addition, his claim is not supported by RCA, Ernst Jorgensen, the song peaked at #1 on the UK Singles Chart, and was even the UK Christmas number one of 1962. It also reached #2 on the American Billboard singles chart, but reached number 1 on the rival Cash Box, Return to Sender also went to #5 on the R&B charts. It was the first Christmas number one in Ireland, as the Irish Charts had been founded in October 1962, the single was certified Platinum by the RIAA for sales in excess of one million units in the US. Gerri Granger later recorded a song, Dont Want Your Letters. The song was arranged and conducted by Bert Keyes and it was released on the single Big Top 45-3128. The phrase no such zone in the song refers to U. S. postal zones, a postal zone was a one- or two-digit number written between the city and state, whereas a ZIP Code is a five- or nine-digit number written after the state. On January 8,1993, the U. S. Postal Service issued a postage stamp honoring Presley. Lyrics Elvis Presley Studio Recording Sessions, March 27,1962
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"Return to Sender"
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(You're the) Devil in Disguise
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Devil in Disguise is a 1963 single by Elvis Presley which was written by the songwriters Bill Giant, Bernie Baum and Florence Kaye. It was published by Elvis Presley Music in June 1963, the single was certified Gold by the RIAA for sales in excess of 500,000 units in the US. The song also topped Japans Utamatic record chart in the fall of 1963, the song went on to reach number 1 in the UK for a single week. Presley originally recorded the song May 26,1963, at RCA Studios in Nashville. Bass singer J. D. Sumner is featured in the song, singing in a low register to represent the Devil with the phrase, Oh, yes. Punk rock band The Misfits covered the song on the edition of Project 1950
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"(You're the) Devil in Disguise"
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It Hurts Me
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It Hurts Me is a 1964 Top 40 song recorded by Elvis Presley on RCA Victor. Credited to Joy Byers and Charles E. Daniels, It Hurts Me is a ballad that was a new song recorded by Elvis Presley on January 12,1964. Record producer and songwriter Bob Johnston revealed that he had written the songs attributed to his wife Joy Byers. This non-movie song became the B-side of an Elvis Presley movie single, Kissin Cousins, released February 10,1964. The A-side reached number 12 in the U. S. singles charts, while It Hurts Me reached number 29 but never became well-known or attained the classic stature promised by the song and the performance. The session that produced this recording marked the beginning of a month period during which Presley recorded no other non-movie songs. Elvis recorded a new version on June 20,1968 and used this song during the medley sequence of his 1968 NBC Comeback Special. There is a notable Spanish version in the Latin genre by Marco T Marco Tulio Sanchez, known as the voice of rock and roll in Colombia. It was just before Christmas,1962, as future Country Music icon Charlie Daniels was driving from El Paso, Texas, to the East Coast, that he began forming the idea that would become this song. Not very long afterwards his long-time friend Bob Johnston invited him to Nashville to co-write some songs, Daniels explained, Elvis came to town. He picked it up and held it for almost a year in what was called his portfolio and you know, theyd pick songs out for Elvis and when hed go in to record, hed review them, and if he liked it, hed do it. So anyway, he recorded it, and it was by far, said Daniels, although he never had the opportunity to shake Elvis Presleys hand, Daniels did meet his daughter, Lisa Marie, at an event in Memphis. I just got to tell her, I said, You know your dad picked one of my songs, I was a big fan, said Daniels. With her sunglasses on, she resembles her famous father so much that its spooky and she looks like a miniature Elvis with, of course, feminine features. Bob Johnston, who wrote this with Daniels, was writing under the name Joy Byers, Daniels was credited as Charles E. Daniels. Elvis Presley, A life in music
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Viva Las Vegas (song)
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Although Presley never sang the song live, it has since become widely known and often performed by others. The RIAA, on their part, credits the song as having sold 500,000 copies in the United States alone, as per their Gold Award certification, issued on March 27,1992. Released as the b-side of the Whatd I Say single from the film, Viva Las Vegas charted separately from its A-side. The Elvis version of Whatd I Say peaked at #21, the two sides having equivalent appeal in the marketplace, Viva Las Vegas reached #12 on the UK Singles Chart, improving to #15 after a reissue in 2007. In the years since its first release, the song has one of Presleys most recognized numbers. The song is featured in Looney Tunes, Back in Action where Bugs Bunny sings the song, punk band Dead Kennedys recorded a version of Viva Las Vegas on their debut album Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables. The song had been a part of their live set almost since the bands inception and their version strips the musical arrangement down to guitar, bass and drums, and uses a slightly faster tempo, yet maintains the songs melodic structure. It also features satirical lyric changes by lead singer Jello Biafra in the second and third verses, referencing a gambler using speed and this version can also be found in Terry Gilliams film adaptation of Hunter S. Thompsons Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Nina Hagen recorded a version of Viva Las Vegas on her album Nina Hagen, ZZ Top recorded a version of Viva Las Vegas as one of two new tracks on their Greatest Hits album. The Killers, who are from Las Vegas, often perform the song live, Polish street punk, Oi. band The Analogs covered the song in Polish, without changing its name. The bluegrass act The Grascals did a version of the song on their debut album and those Darn Accordions recorded an all-accordion instrumental version on their album Vongole Fisarmonica. Chilean punk band Fiskales Ad-Hok covered the song in Spanish, changing its name to Viva Santiago, the song is featured in the film The Big Lebowski. Shawn Colvin performs it as a folk ballad during the closing credits, a rock version in the film is credited to a band called Big Johnson, and is styled after the ZZ Top version. The Colvin version was recorded originally for the Rhino/Forward release, Til the Night is Gone, the Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas is a reference to the song. The Scooby-Doo movie Scooby-Doo. and the Monster of Mexico featured a variation of the song entitled Viva Mexico, done in a Latin beat. The song is a part of Bruce Springsteens live act, and was included in The Last Temptation of Elvis, an album of renditions by singers. Springsteens studio version of Viva Las Vegas was also included in the soundtrack of the film Honeymoon in Vegas, the Thrills performed Viva Las Vegas with James Burton at Elvis induction to the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2004. The song was recorded live and later released as a B-side to The Irish Keep Gate-crashing, the Dread Zeppelin version of Viva Las Vegas was used as the theme to the Travel Channel reality series American Casino
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You'll Be Gone
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Youll Be Gone is a song co-written by Elvis Presley and published by Elvis Presley Music and released in 1965 on the Girl Happy soundtrack album and as a 45 single. The song was recorded in 1962 and is significant because it was co-written by Elvis Presley, with his bodyguard Red West and Charlie Hodge. The other song that Elvis Presley composed was Thats Someone You Never Forget in 1961 with Red West, the song was recorded on Sunday, March 18,1962 at RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee. Youll Be Gone was released as an RCA Victor 45 picture sleeve single on February 9,1965 as the B side with Do the Clam, Youll Be Gone charted at no.121 on Billboard. Do the Clam reached no.21 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, in Canada, Youll Be Gone reached no.16 on the singles chart as a double A side with Do the Clam in February,1965 in a six-week chart run. The song was released as a 745 single by RCA, 47-9686. The single was released in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, France, Japan, Egypt. In France, the single was released as a picture sleeve 45 as RCA Victor 49801 in 1971, in Egypt, the single was released by Sono Cairo. He said I like the song Begin the Beguine, I like the melody but Id like to put new lyrics on it. When Cole Porter denied permission to alter the lyrics, Elvis, West, the song was replete with Latin rhythms and classical guitar passages. The beguine had been a popular in Martinique and Guadeloupe in the 1930s. One of these was Youll Be Gone, a song that he had himself with his good friends Red West. To his deep frustration, Priscilla remarked that she liked his rock n roll recordings better, Elvis had a fit, Priscilla was devastated, and Elvis never tried to write a song again. Elvis Presleys wife Priscilla noted in the notes to the CD Elvis by the Presleys. She recalled that he played her the song. J, Elvis Presley, A Life In Music. New York, St. Martins Press,1998, ISBN 0-312-18572-3 Jorgensen, Ernst
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1965 U.S. RCA Victor 45 picture sleeve, 47-8500, "Elvis sings You'll Be Gone".
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1965 U.S. RCA Victor 45 single release, 47-8500.
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Tell Me Why (1956 song)
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Tell Me Why is a popular song, written by Titus Turner in 1956. It is a slow, strong rhythm and blues ballad, and has a reminiscent of Just a Closer Walk With Thee. The first hit version was by Marie Knight, a black R&B singer, on the Mercurys subsidiary label and it was a local hit in the New Orleans and Texas. When it attracted attention, it went on to become a hit for Gale Storm and The Crew-Cuts in 1956. Presley recorded the track in 1957, but it was not released at that time and it reached #33 on the Billboard Hot 100 and became a gold record
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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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A cabaret troupe from Stockholm does Frankie and Johnny at Don't Tell Mama on tour in New York in 2011.
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A Little Less Conversation
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A Little Less Conversation is a song written by Mac Davis and Billy Strange originally performed by Elvis Presley for the 1968 film Live a Little, Love a Little. The song became a hit in the United States when released as a single with Almost in Love as the A-side. A2002 remix by Junkie XL of a later re-recording of the song by Presley became a worldwide hit, the song has made numerous appearances in popular culture and has been covered by several artists. A Little Less Conversation was first recorded on 7 March 1968 at Western Recorders in Hollywood, California, the song was not released on an LP until November 1970, when it was included on the RCA Camden budget label LP Almost in Love. There are several different takes that were made of the song in the session on 7 March, the single version used take 16, which was also used for the soundtrack of the film. The version released on the Almost In Love album is take 10, the musicians on the 7 March recording session included Hal Blaine, drums, Al Casey, guitar, Larry Knechtel, bass, and Don Randi, piano. Presley re-recorded the song in June 1968 for the soundtrack of his 1968 comeback special, ultimately, it was decided not to use this recording, and the song was dropped from the planned special. The newer version transposed the key of A major recording of three months earlier into E major and featured a vocal and heavy reverb with backup vocals from The Blossoms. In the mid-1990s, Joseph A. Tunzi sold this recording to Bertelsmann Music Group and it was included on the 1998 release Memories. Tunzi had been the first to document this recording in his 1996 book Elvis Sessions II, following the songs use in the 2001 film Oceans Eleven, A Little Less Conversation was remixed by Dutch musician Tom Holkenborg, better known as Junkie XL. The electronic remix featured Elvis with a voice, and added emphasis to the 1968 guitars, horns. Holkenborg is the first artist outside the Presley organization to receive authorization from the Elvis Presley estate to remix an Elvis Presley song, the electronic version of the song became a number-one hit in the UK in 2002. The song also became a top ten hit in upwards of 17 other countries, in 2002, the TV special version of A Little Less Conversation remixed by Junkie XL was used for Nikes 2002 FIFA World Cup advertising campaign, titled Secret Tournament. A single, credited to Elvis vs. JXL, was issued, at about the same time, a compilation of Presleys U. S. number-one chart hits, titled ELV1S,30 No.1 Hits, was being prepared for release. At the last minute, A Little Less Conversation was added as the albums 31st track just before its release in October 2002. The full 6,09 version was edited slightly and extended to 6,22, and this version was featured on the US version of Junkie XLs 2004 album Radio JXL, A Broadcast from the Computer Hell Cabin. In the United States, the peaked at #50 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart, the first Hot 100 hit for Presley since 1981. An uptempo eurodance remix was recorded by CJ Crew, appearing on the 2002 dance compilation Dancemania Speed 10, there are three very exclusive releases in Spanish, the film Live a Little, Love a Little and two mixes played by Marco T. a Colombian Rockabilly musician
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The original picture sleeve of the 1968 single.
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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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How Great Thou Art
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How Great Thou Art is a Christian hymn based on a Swedish traditional melody and a poem written by Carl Gustav Boberg in Mönsterås, Sweden in 1885. It was translated into German and then into Russian and became a hymn and it was translated into English from the Russian by English missionary Stuart K. Hine, who also added two original verses of his own. The composition was set to a Russian melody and it was popularised by George Beverly Shea and Cliff Barrows during the Billy Graham crusades. It was voted the United Kingdoms favourite hymn by BBCs Songs of Praise, how Great Thou Art was ranked second on a list of the favourite hymns of all time in a survey by Todays Christian magazine in 2001. Boberg wrote the poem O Store Gud in 1885 with nine verses, the inspiration for the poem came when Boberg was walking home from church near Kronobäck, Sweden, and listening to church bells. A sudden storm got Boberg’s attention, and then just as suddenly as it had made its appearance, according to J. Irving Erickson, Carl Boberg and some friends were returning home to Mönsterås from Kronobäck, where they had participated in an afternoon service. Presently a thundercloud appeared on the horizon, and soon lightning flashed across the sky, strong winds swept over the meadows and billowing fields of grain. The thunder pealed in loud claps, Then rain came in cool fresh showers. In a little while the storm was over, and a rainbow appeared and it was this series of sights, sounds, and experiences that inspired the writing of the song. It was very warm, an appeared on the horizon and soon there was thunder. We had to hurry to shelter, but the storm was soon over and the clear sky appeared. When I came home I opened my window toward the sea, there evidently had been a funeral and the bells were playing the tune of When eternitys clock calls my saved soul to its Sabbath rest. That evening, I wrote the song, O Store Gud, Boberg first published O Store Gud in the Mönsterås Tidningen on 13 March 1886. The poem became matched to an old Swedish folk tune and sung in public for the first known occasion in a church in the Swedish province of Värmland in 1888, eight verses appeared with the music in the 1890 Sions Harpan. In 1890 Boberg became the editor of Sanningsvittnet, the words and music were published for the first time in the 16 April 1891 edition of Sanningsvittnet. Instrumentation for both piano and guitar was provided by Adolph Edgren, a teacher and organist, who later migrated to the United States. Boberg later sold the rights to the Svenska Missionsförbundet, in 1891 all nine verses were published in the 1891 Covenant songbook, Sanningsvittnet. These versions were all in 3/4 time, in 1894 the Svenska Missionsförbundet sångbok published O Store Gud in 4/4 time as it has been sung ever since)
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In the Ghetto
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In the Ghetto is a song written by Mac Davis and made famous by Elvis Presley, who had a major comeback hit with it in 1969. It was released in 1969 as a 45 rpm single with Any Day Now as the flip side and it is a narrative of generational poverty, a boy is born to a mother who already has more children than she can feed in the ghetto of Chicago. The boy grows up hungry, steals and fights, purchases a gun and steals a car, attempts to run, the song implies that the newborn will meet the same fate, continuing the cycle of poverty and violence. In the Ghetto was recorded during Presleys session in the American Sound Studio in Memphis and it was Presleys first creative recording session since the 68 Comeback. Other hits recorded at this session were Suspicious Minds, Kentucky Rain, the song was Presleys first Top 10 hit in the US in four years, peaking at number 3, and his first UK Top 10 hit in three years, peaking at No.2. It was a hit in West Germany, Ireland, Norway, Australia. As a major hit, Presley included it in his setlist during his return to live performances at the International Hotel in Las Vegas in 1969. This version started without pause at the end of another hit from 1969 – Dont Cry Daddy, the song was recorded in 2007 by Lisa Marie Presley as a duet with her father to raise money for the Presley Foundation. The song was released on iTunes, after Elvis Presley, the song has been performed by many other artists. Among them were, most notably, Sammy Davis Jr, the Voice, Natalie Merchant, Bad Lieutenant, Fair Warning, Beats International, Eleanor Shanley, Chris Clark and Hecchi & Kethmer. The KLF used a sample of the Elvis recording in their ambient DJ album Chill Out, Mac Davis recorded a version of the song for a greatest hits album released in 1979. In 2011, Chris de Burgh covered the song on his album Footsteps 2, dancehall singer Sister Nancy used some of the songs lyrics in the song Coward of the Country, which appeared on her 1982 album One, Two. In 2014, cricketer Andrew Flintoff was asked to sing Elvis and he proceeded to sing In The Ghetto whilst the game was going on. In the Ghetto was covered by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and was their debut single and it was recorded at the Trident Studios in London and released as a 7 on June 18,1984 with the B-side The Moon Is in the Gutter. It reached 84 on the UK Singles Chart, while originally not present on any album, it was later included on the CD reissue of the bands first album, From Her to Eternity. In the Comedy Central show South Park, Eric Cartman sings In the Ghetto on two occasions, once in Chickenpox, then again when Kennys soul is trapped in Cartmans body in A Ladder to Heaven. Paul Shanklin recorded a parody called In a Yugo for Rush Limbaugh, in which an environmentally conscious family buys a Yugo to save gas, only to get killed by a truck after swerving to miss a duck. Later, Shanklin updated his parody for a new generation too young to remember the Yugo, replacing it with its perceived equivalent, el Vez recorded a version titled En el Barrio that mixed humor with details about Chicano struggles
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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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67.
Don't Cry Daddy
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Dont Cry Daddy is a song written by Mac Davis, recorded by Elvis Presley in 1969. The song was written by Scott Davis and recorded by Elvis Presley on January 15 and 21,1969, the rhythm track was laid down on 15 January and Elvis vocal overdub on the 21st. Some speculate that it is a song, considering that Elviss father became a widower upon the death of his wife in 1958. The song reached #6 in the U. S. and #8 in the U. K, live recordings were made during his second season in Las Vegas during February 1970 and several of these have been released. However, during the show on 13 August 1970 at the International Hotel he recorded a version that led seamlessly into In the Ghetto. In 1997 Lisa Marie Presley made a video of Dont Cry Daddy and this video was presented on August 16,1997, at the tribute concert that marked the 20th anniversary of Elvis death. The video has Elvis original vocal, to which new instrumentation, the recording was not for commercial use. The song created a renewed interest in her as a recording artist, the song takes place in the mind of the husband of the wife and mother who is no longer present. The characters are the father, one of his children. The unnamed child begs the father not to cry, saying they will find a new mommy, Elvis fans comments and feelings about Dont Cry Daddy song Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Kentucky Rain
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Kentucky Rain was a 1970 hit song for Elvis Presley. Featuring pianist Ronnie Milsap and written by Eddie Rabbitt and Dick Heard and it was recorded at American Sound Studio. 1, while the track appear on the 2000 re-release of From Elvis in Memphis. During Elvis February 1970 engagement, he performed it some 16 times, Live versions are available on the box sets Elvis Aaron Presley and Live in Las Vegas. The song depicts an anxious lover in search of his love as he walks down through the Kentucky rain, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
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You Dont Have to Say You Love Me was also a Top Ten hit in Ireland for Red Hurley, in Italy for Wall Street Crash, and - as En koskaan - in Finland for Kristina Hautala. 1 in Italy in March 1965, springfield obtained an acetate recording of Donaggios song, but allowed a year to go by before actively pursuing the idea of recording an English version. We wanted to go to a trendy disco so we had about an hour to write it and we wrote the chorus and then we wrote the verse in a taxi to wherever we were going. Napier-Bell was later to title his first book You Dont Have to Say You Love Me after the song, springfield recorded her vocal the next day, unhappy with the acoustics in the recording booth she eventually moved into a stairwell to record. Springfield was not satisfied with her vocal until she had recorded 47 takes, released on 25 March 1966 in the U. K. the single release of Springfields recording became a huge hit and remains one of the songs most identified with her. When Dusty died from breast cancer in March 1999, the song was featured on Now 42 as a tribute to her, the song hit No.1 in the UK, and No.4 in the US. The song proved so popular in the US that Springfields 1965 album Evrythings Coming Up Dusty was released there with a different track listing. In 2004, the made the Rolling Stone list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time at No.491. You Dont Have to Say You Love Me was recorded by Elvis Presley for his 1970 album release Thats the Way It Is from which it was issued as the second single 6 October 1970. In October 1965 Richard Anthony recorded a French rendering of Io che non vivo, Jamais je ne vivrai sans toi, which served as the title cut of an album release. In Quebec Anthonys version of Jamais je ne vivrai sans toi competed with a cover version by Margot Lefebvre with both tracks co-ranked at No.38 in the annual ranking of the top hits of 1966. A Catalan rendering of Io che non vivo entitled Jo no puc viure sense tu was a 1965 single release for Renata.26 on the Hot Latin Tracks in Billboard. Elvis Presley version List of number-one singles from the 1960s List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1970 Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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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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It's a Matter of Time
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Its a Matter of Time is a 1973 song by Elvis Presley. It was recorded by him during the March 27–29,1972 recording session at the RCA Studios in Nashville, the song was first released in August 1972 as a B-side to Burning Love and then in November on the album Burning Love and Hits from His Movies, Volume 2. Billboard in its August 12,1972 issue put the single Burning Love / Its a Matter of Time on the recommended list. While the A-side made it to two on the Hot 100, the flip side charted both on the Billboard Easy Listening and Hot Country Singles charts. Burning Love / Its a Matter of Time became the last Elvis Presleys single to be certified platinum, * as Its a Matter of Time * as Its a Matter of Time / Burning Love Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Steamroller Blues
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Steamroller Blues, is a blues parody written by James Taylor, that appeared on his 1970 album Sweet Baby James. It was intended to mock the inauthentic blues bands of the day, the song later appeared on two of Taylors compilation albums and has been recorded by a variety of other artists. Rock journalist David Browne wrote that uring the Flying Machine days in the Village, Taylor had heard one too many pretentious white blues bands, rolling Stone Album Guide critic Mark Coleman, said Taylors song effectively mocks the straining pomposity of then-current white bluesmen. Taylor and Danny Kortchmar, both playing guitars, laid down the track in one night at Sunset Studios, the rhythm section being added later. A tight budget and production schedule forced Taylor to record the song despite suffering from a head cold, the song was included on Taylors diamond-selling Greatest Hits 1976 compilation using a live version recorded in August 1975 at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles. Another performance, from 1992, was included on his 1993 album, during the 1970s, Elvis Presley added Steamroller Blues to his concert repertoire and included it on his live album Aloha From Hawaii, Via Satellite. Presley also released it as a single in March 1973 with Fool as its track. It was later included on Presleys 2007 compilation The Essential Elvis Presley, a newly-orchestrated version was included on the 2015 album If I Can Dream with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Taylors song was recorded by country music singer Billy Dean and appeared on his 1994 album Fire in the Dark, isaac Hayes performed the song on an episode of The A-Team
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James Taylor's 1970/76 publicity photo
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T-R-O-U-B-L-E (song)
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T-R-O-U-B-L-E is a song written by Jerry Chesnut and recorded by Elvis Presley in 1975. It is a different song than Trouble, a song Presley first recorded in 1958, Jerry Chesnut wrote the song in 1975, taking inspiration from a singer and pianist named Little David Wilkins. The male narrator is a musician who performs at nightclubs as a source of income. During a performance at one club, the narrator notices a rather attractive young female entering the club by herself. This song was recorded in 1992 by American country music singer Travis Tritt and it was the third single released from his 1992 album of the same name. It peaked at #13 in the United States, and #17 in Canada, the music video was directed by Jack Cole. It features Tritt singing the song on a stage surrounded by a huge crowd, later, he jumps into the crowd to look for a certain girl. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee
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From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee is an album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released on May 16,1976 on RCA Records. According to Sony musics Elvis The Music site, the album was released on May 17, since music at this time period was normally released on Mondays, it is believed that the May 16th date is more accurate. It is often mistaken that this is a recording as the album states the songs were recorded live. While this is true, the songs were recorded live in the studio at a studio set up in Presleys mansion, Graceland. Two songs recorded during the session, Moody Blue and She Thinks I Still Care would be released the year on his final album. From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee was the Presleys fourth album to reach #1 on the Billboard country music album chart within the last four years. Hurt was a top 10 hit on both the country and adult contemporary charts, while For the Heart stalled at #45 on the country charts, the latter did make the pop top 30. Both songs would again find success on the charts in the 80s – For the Heart became the first single for the Judds in 1983. From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee was certified Gold on October 10,1977 by the RIAA, in 2000 the albums tracks were added to Moody Blue to create an expanded 19-track CD of the latter title. In 2000 a two-disc edition of From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, all songs recorded at Graceland, Memphis. Elvis Presley – vocals, guitars, bass on Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain J. D. com
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America the Beautiful
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America the Beautiful is an American patriotic song. The lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates, and the music was composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward at Grace Episcopal Church in Newark, New Jersey. Bates originally wrote the words as a poem, Pikes Peak, at that time, the poem was titled America for publication. Ward had originally written the music, Materna, for the hymn O Mother dear, Jerusalem in 1882, wards music combined with the Bates poem was first published in 1910 and titled America the Beautiful. The song is one of the most popular of the many American patriotic songs. In 1893, at the age of 33, Bates, an English professor at Wellesley College, had taken a trip to Colorado Springs, Colorado. On the pinnacle of that mountain, the words of the poem started to come to her, the poem was initially published two years later in The Congregationalist to commemorate the Fourth of July. It quickly caught the publics fancy, amended versions were published in 1904 and 1911. Several existing pieces of music were adapted to the poem, a hymn tune composed by Samuel A. Ward was generally considered the best music as early as 1910 and is still the popular tune today. Just as Bates had been inspired to write her poem, Ward, the tune came to him while he was on a ferryboat trip from Coney Island back to his home in New York City, after a leisurely summer day in 1882, and he immediately wrote it down. Supposedly, he was so anxious to capture the tune in his head and he composed the tune for the old hymn O Mother Dear, Jerusalem, retitling the work Materna. Wards music combined with Batess poem were first published together in 1910, Ward died in 1903, not knowing the national stature his music would attain since the music was only first applied to the song in 1904. Bates was more fortunate since the popularity was well established by the time of her death in 1929. At various times in the more than 100 years that have elapsed since the song was written, some prefer America the Beautiful over The Star-Spangled Banner due to the latters war-oriented imagery. Others prefer The Star-Spangled Banner for the same reason, while that national dichotomy has stymied any effort at changing the tradition of the national anthem, America the Beautiful continues to be held in high esteem by a large number of Americans. This song was used as the music of the television broadcast of the Tiangong-1 launch. The song is included in songbooks in a wide variety of religious congregations in the United States. Three different renditions of the song have entered the Hot Country Songs charts, the first was by Charlie Rich, which went to number 22 in 1976
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Commemoration plaque atop Pikes Peak in July 1999.
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Sheet music
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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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Wilson in 1970
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Carl (center) performing with the Beach Boys at Central Park, in 1971
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Carl Wilson's headstone over his grave.
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A Rickenbacker 360/12 identical to the 12-string guitar used by Carl in the early to mid-1960s
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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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Dennis Wilson in a 1970 promotional shot for Two-Lane Blacktop
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Bruce Johnston
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Bruce Arthur Johnston is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer best known as a member of The Beach Boys. In 1965, Johnston joined the band for performances, filling in for the groups co-founder Brian Wilson. Johnston then became a member on subsequent albums. He is also known for his early 1960s collaborations with Terry Melcher as Bruce & Terry and with the band the Rip Chords. As a child Johnston was adopted by William and Irene Johnston of Chicago and grew up on the West side of Los Angeles in Brentwood and his adoptive father was president of the Owl Rexall Drug Company in Los Angeles after moving from Walgreens in Chicago. Johnston attended the private Bel Air Town and Country School in Los Angeles, in high school, Johnston switched to contemporary music. He performed in a few beginning bands during this time and then moved on to working with musicians such as Sandy Nelson, Kim Fowley. Soon Johnston began backing people such as Ritchie Valens, the Everly Brothers, in 1959, while still in high school, Johnston arranged and played on his first hit record, Teen Beat by Sandy Nelson. The single reached the Billboard Top Ten, the same year, Johnston made his first single under his own name, Take This Pearl on Arwin Records as part of the Bruce & Jerry duo. In 1960, Johnston started his production career at Del-Fi Records, producing five singles. In 1963 came the first collaboration with his friend Terry Melcher, the first artist the pair produced was a group called the Rip Chords. The two of them made a few recordings as Bruce & Terry and the Rogues, but Melcher began to more on his production career. On April 9,1965, Johnston joined the Beach Boys, replacing Glen Campbell, Johnston did not start playing bass until his first tenure with the Beach Boys, and the very first vocal recording Johnston made as one of the Beach Boys was California Girls. Johnston is frequently credited as one of the original greatest supporters of the Beach Boys 1966 signature album Pet Sounds and he flew to London in May 1966 and played the album for John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and Keith Moon, who was a Beach Boys fan. Johnston also sang lead on three songs from the 1970 Beach Boys album Sunflower, Tears in the Morning, Deirdre, and At My Window. Johnston left the Beach Boys in 1972 to embark on a solo career, I Write the Songs has been recorded by over two hundred artists, and it currently has a cumulative singles/albums worldwide sales figure of twenty-five million copies. Johnston returned to the fold in 1978 at Brian Wilsons request to appear on the album L. A, the following year he was credited as sole producer on the follow-up LP, Keepin the Summer Alive. Johnston has remained with the Beach Boys ever since and was the member to continue touring with Mike Love as The Beach Boys after the death of Carl Wilson
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Bruce Johnston live in 2012
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Surfin' Safari
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Surfin Safari is the debut studio album by American rock band the Beach Boys, released on October 1,1962 on Capitol Records. The album peaked at number 32 in its 37-week run on the US charts, the album was preceded by two singles, Surfin and Surfin Safari, which charted at numbers 75 and 14, respectively. The success of Surfin Safari helped secure an album for the group while an additional single, Ten Little Indians, was issued. The group is comprised of people from Hawthorne, California, named Wilson … there’s Brian, Dennis, Carl, and their Dad, Murry Wilson. Then there’s the boys talented cousin, Mike Love … who sings both the tenor and deep bass parts in their unusual vocal arrangements. … young David Marks, a neighbor of the Wilsons who plays a rhythm guitar. Brian, the oldest of the Wilson boys, is the group’s leader, Carl is the very accomplished lead guitarist, while brother Dennis sings and plays the drums. None of them, incidentally, had any training. In the autumn of 1961, cousins Brian Wilson and Mike Love composed a song on surfing, titled Surfin at the behest of Brians younger sibling, Dennis Wilson. They quickly formed a band, bringing in the youngest Wilson brother Carl on lead guitar, Brian took up bass, Dennis the drums and Mike would be the frontman, while they all would harmonize vocals arranged by Brian. Released that December, produced by Hite Morgan, and backed by Luau, father Murry Wilson became the bands manager. He submitted a professionally recorded demo tape to Capitol Records that spring, the Beach Boys were signed and Surfin Safari b/w 409 was released as a single that June. With both Surfin Safari and 409 becoming hits, Capitol Records approved a full album, Brian Wilson, who regularly collaborated with Mike Love and Gary Usher, contributed the songs that made up the bulk of the LP. The second single, Ten Little Indians, was successful, reaching only number 49. Though Mike and Brian are the most prominent singers, Dennis makes his first vocal appearance on Little Girl, the front cover of Surfin Safari features a yellow pickup truck and surfboard, with band mates David Marks, Dennis Wilson, Mike Love, Brian Wilson and Carl Wilson. The photo was taken on the beach at Paradise Cove, north of Malibu, the picture was taken by in-house Capitol photographer Ken Veeder, in a photo shoot that would also produce the cover for the bands 1963 album Surfer Girl. The album was released through Capitol on October 1,1962, in the UK, the album was not released until April 1963, and failed to chart. 4 of the 12 songs on the album have been performed live in concert by the Beach Boys, Surfin Safari and 409 are regulars in set lists while Surfin and Summertime Blues have been played with varying frequency
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Shut Down Volume 2
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Shut Down Volume 2 is the fifth studio album by the American rock band the Beach Boys, released on March 2,1964 on Capitol. Produced by Brian Wilson, it was the first of three albums that the band would release in 1964. The album is the first not to feature rhythm guitarist David Marks, Shut Down Volume 2 reached number 13 in the US charts during a stay of 38 weeks. The name of the record is based on the Shut Down hot rod compilation released by Capitol in July 1963, the multi-artist compilation, including the Beach Boys songs Shut Down and 409, peaked at number seven on the Billboard album charts, showing for 44 weeks. This was the first album to not include David Marks as a performing member, while band mate Al Jardine had appeared on three of the previous four studio albums, this is the first to show him on a front sleeve photograph, taken by Capitol staff photographer George Jerman. The cover shows the band posing next to a selection of cars - notably, the multi-tracks for Shut Down Volume 2 went missing shortly after the albums release. In 2009, three reels of session out takes were unexpectedly retrieved with the help of biographer Jon Stebbins, due in part to the British invasion, the album peaked at 13 on the Billboard charts in the US. Shut Down Volume 2 didnt enter the Billboard albums chart until six weeks after release, despite the bands relatively sluggish commercial performance at the start of 1964, by the middle of the year, the Beach Boys career had recovered its momentum. Shut Down Volume 2 was listed by Cash Box as fourth-biggest selling rock album of 1964, Capitol released a 7-inch 33 1/3 mini-LP for jukeboxes with six tracks, the front album cover being the same, the back blank. Side 1, Keep an Eye on Summer / Fun, Fun, Fun / The Warmth of the Sun, side 2, Why Do Fools Fall in Love / In the Parkin Lot / Dont Worry Baby
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The Beach Boys Today!
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Also known simply as Today. is the eighth studio album by the American rock group the Beach Boys. It peaked at four on US record charts and was preceded by the top 10 singles When I Grow Up and Dance, Dance, Dance. Shortly before recording began, the completed their album All Summer Long. In December 1964, Brian Wilson suffered through a nervous breakdown while on a flight and he then became a regular user after he realized the profound effect it had on the way he perceived music, and resigned from touring with the group to focus solely on writing and producing. Produced, arranged, and largely written by Wilson with additional lyrics by Mike Love, signaled a departure from previous albums through Wilsons increasingly sophisticated, orchestral approach and the abandonment of themes related to surfing, cars, or teenage love. The tracks on side one feature a sound that contrasts side two, which consists mostly of ballads. Established the Beach Boys as album artists rather than just a singles band, author Scott Schinder referred to its suite-like structure as an early example of the rock album format being used to make a cohesive artistic statement. In 2012, the album was voted 271 on Rolling Stone magazines list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, in 2005, it was included in the musical reference book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Mid-1964 also saw the divorce of Mike Love from his first wife Frances St. Martin whom he had married in 1961. During the albums recording sessions, Love told Melody Maker that he, Brian Wilson had written his last surf song in April 1964, intending All Summer Long to be the groups final statement on beach-themed music. Wilson became physically and emotionally exhausted to a point that he suffered an anxiety attack on December 23,1964, during the recording sessions of Today. In January 1965, he informed the band that he intended to retire from touring and focus his attention solely on creating and producing music, marked a maturation in the Beach Boys lyric content by abandoning themes related to surfing, cars, or teenage love. Some love songs remained, but with an increase in depth, along with introspective tracks accompanied by adventurous. British rock critic Nick Kent explained, What was really happening was Brians approach to romance was becoming more and more personalized, according to author Scott Schinder, Today. It was thus the bands first flirtation with the album-as-art form, Brians recent introduction to marijuana, which he used as a stress reliever, greatly influenced the albums writing, as he later stated, Pot made the music grow in my head. PopMatters notes that even though Today. s A-side is filled with uptempo numbers, Wilson proves that he can be just as harmonically and structurally inventive with catchy dance songs as he can with emotional ballads. The journal explains that Dont Hurt My Little Sister is commonly suspected to be autobiographical, with Wilson alluding to his conflicted, according to Brians later collaborator Van Dyke Parks, Brian had a fervent desire to reinvent himself as an individual, not as a boy. This culminated in When I Grow Up, a song discussing his anxieties about becoming an adult, released as an A-sided single, it was one of the first rock songs to explore the subject of impending adulthood
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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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Sunflower (The Beach Boys album)
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Sunflower is the 16th studio album by American rock group The Beach Boys, released in August 1970, and their first on Reprise Records. It was preceded by the similarly unsuccessful singles Add Some Music to Your Day and Slip On Through, later followed up with Tears in the Morning, in the UK, the album performed better, peaking at number 29. Bandmates Al Jardine, Carl Wilson, Bruce Johnston, and Mike Love also contributed to its writing, eventually, the group presented the label with enough formidable material deemed satisfactory for release. In 2003, Sunflower was voted 380 in Rolling Stones The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, in 1997, it was voted 66 in The Guardians 100 Best Albums Ever. Following their last album, 20/20, Brian Wilson proposed that the group change their name from the Beach Boys to the Beach, thats how the public knows us, man. He put the paper on the piano and it stayed there until I picked it up, throughout 1969, the Beach Boys engaged in extended recording sessions for what would have been their final album entitled to Capitol Records. Tension between the band and label inflamed on April 12 when the Beach Boys sued the label for unpaid royalties, at a press conference ostensibly convened to promote Break Away to the European media, Wilson said We owe everyone money. And if we dont pick ourselves off our backsides and have a hit record soon, Ive always said, Be honest with your fans. I dont see why I should lie and say everything is rosy when its not. These incendiary remarks ultimately thwarted long-simmering contract negotiations with Deutsche Grammophon, the bands contract with Capitol Records expired on June 30, after which Capitol deleted the Beach Boys catalog from print, effectively cutting off their royalty flow. In November 1969, Murry Wilson sold the Sea of Tunes publishing company to A&M Records publishing division for $700,000, Brian, who had not approved this decision, was devastated. The groups reputation had fallen sharply in the US since 1967 and this deal was brokered by Van Dyke Parks, who was then employed as a multimedia executive at Warner Music Group. The contract dealt by Reprise stipulated Brians proactive involvement with the band in all albums in response to the minimal involvement he had with 20/20. Capitol had such faith in the album that they chose to release it only where the Beach Boys records were still selling respectably well—the UK. Dennis Wilson was the first Beach Boy to head back into the studio. Over this period, the Beach Boys worked on about four dozen studio tracks, the reels track listing follows, The project was then renamed Add Some Music with the subheading An Album Offering From The Beach Boys while they finished several more songs. In early 1970 before leaving for a tour of Australia and New Zealand, they assembled Add Some Music and submitted the album to Reprise, which the label rejected. The track listing was as follows, Around this time, the band assembled an album for Capitol with some tracks that would later be placed on Sunflower and it had working titles of Reverberation and The Fading Rock Group Revival
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Holland (album)
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Holland is the 19th studio album by the American rock group the Beach Boys, released on January 8,1973. Self-produced by the band, the peaked at number 36 in the US. The album is the last to feature Blondie Chaplin and Ricky Fataar, who joined the band the year to record Carl. The photograph on the front cover is an upside down image of the Kromme Waal. Holland included a bonus EP, Mount Vernon and Fairway, a fairy tale written by Brian Wilson about a magical transistor radio who appears to a young prince. Narration was provided by the manager, Jack Rieley. To record the album, the members and their families moved to Baambrugge, in the Netherlands. Regarding this time, vocalist and guitarist Al Jardine later noted and we were working 24/7 in a small homemade rebuilt piece meal little studio in a garage next to a cow pasture. We didn’t even have the electricity so that kind of affected the sound of our equipment. Hollands bonus EP, entitled Mount Vernon and Fairway, was based on the intersection where the Love family lived in Los Angeles, Wilson originally intended it to be the centerpiece of a new Beach Boys album, consisting of the tracks from the EP and Funky Pretty. Brian Wilson has said that he listened to Randy Newmans 1972 album Sail Away over and over while writing down the lyrics which became the Mount Vernon. The instrumental tracks for the album were released on Good Vibrations, Thirty Years of The Beach Boys as Fairy Tale Music. At the end of the 1973, Rolling Stone named Holland as one of their picks for album of the year, in 2000, Elvis Costello ranked the album as one of his favorite records of all time. Camper Van Beethoven have disclosed that when recording their album La Costa Perdida, denotes an unordered list All narration by Jack Rieley, except Magic Transistor Radio, narrated by Brian Wilson. Albums UK Singles US Singles Chart information courtesy of Allmusic and other music databases
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M.I.U. Album
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Album is the 22nd studio album by The Beach Boys, released on October 2,1978 on Brother/Reprise. Recorded during a time for the band, only Mike Love, Al Jardine. Produced by Al Jardine and songwriter Ron Altbach, the title stems from Maharishi International University in Fairfield, Iowa. After the release of Love You, The Beach Boys fell into dispute over the direction of the band, Brian Wilson began regressing back into drug use and mental illness. Dennis was readying his debut album, Pacific Ocean Blue. I. U. The album was rejected by Reprise Records for not being commercially viable. Dennis was largely unavailable for the new project, of which he, consequently, when it was time to record the album in September 1977, only Love, Jardine and Brian Wilson showed up. The original intention was for Brian Wilson to produce the album, the production credit on the album was given to Al Jardine and songwriting partner Ron Altbach, with Brian billed as executive producer, though the exact nature of this role was never clarified. The group submitted the Christmas-themed Merry Christmas from the Beach Boys in late 1977, but it was rejected by the record company, the track listing was revised a final time in 1978, when the LP was now called M. I. Album, the bands last for Reprise Records before embarking on their CBS Records contract. A Brian Wilson produced cover of Buddy Hollys Peggy Sue, originally recorded on April 15,1976, released as a single it charted at No.59 in the United States. The original Brian Wilson version was issued in place of the Jardine version when M. I. U. Album was briefly re-issued by Sony Music in 1991, but was soon discontinued, Music critic Nick Kent called the album dreadful. He said that its content was ignored by critics. Upon its initial release, Rolling Stone stated, M. I. U, album seems contrived and artificial right from the start. Album was reissued on CD in 2002, upon the albums re-release, The A. V. Club stated, M. I. U. is competent enough, but its also the sound of a group buying into its own mythology, allMusic issued a more negative review, stating, The mainstream late-70s production techniques are predictable and frequently cloying. Album also included several of the worst Beach Boys songs ever to make it to vinyl, compared with what had come before, M. I. U
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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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Still Cruisin'
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Still Cruisin is the 26th studio album by The Beach Boys, their thirty-fifth official album, and their last release of the 1980s. It is also the last album of new material released during a return to Capitol Records. Still Cruisin was left out of Capitols Beach Boys re-issue campaign in 2000 and 2001, after Kokomo gave the Beach Boys their first number one hit in the US since 1966s Good Vibrations, the band decided to put together an album of recent and classic songs. The classic songs included had been heard in recent films, the songs Still Cruisin, Somewhere Near Japan and Island Girl were recorded for the album by the touring Beach Boys band as well as studio musicians and producer Terry Melcher. Due to his relationship with Dr. Eugene Landy, Brian Wilsons lone contribution to this album was In My Car. However, as subsequent court actions have seen Landys name removed from other songs, such as those on Wilsons 1988 album. Kokomo was a recent single, as was Wipe Out, a duet with American rap group the Fat Boys, mike Love said of the album, The theme of that album was to have been songs that have been in movies. So to me the concept was a bit diluted there politically. Riding on the coattails of Kokomo, Still Cruisin went gold in the US and Austria, during Capitols Beach Boys re-issue campaign in 2000 and 2001 however, Still Cruisin was left behind and allowed to go out of print. S. During a chart stay of 22 weeks and it reached number 12 in Austria number 25 in Switzerlandand number 43 in Sweden. Top Pop Singles 1955–2001, Joel Whitburn, c, top Pop Albums 1955–2001, Joel Whitburn, c
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That's Why God Made the Radio
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Thats Why God Made the Radio is the twenty-ninth studio album by American rock band The Beach Boys, released on June 5,2012 on Capitol Records. Produced by Brian Wilson, the album was recorded to coincide with the bands 50th anniversary, jim Peterik has said that the albums title came from a comment made by Brian in response to Peteriks description of an AM radio broadcast filtering through a cars oval speaker. That he had isolated specifically for the Beach Boys, so he asked me to compile those and it was more than a few. The two proceeded to meet with Mike Love in Palm Springs, who agreed to a collaboration. In the late 2000s, reports began to circulate that the members of the Beach Boys would reunite for a 50th Anniversary tour. The studio reunion was kicked off by a remake of the bands 1968 single, Do It Again, the next day, the group recorded the albums opening track, Think About the Days. Wilson and Love discussed the album and tour in an interview on February 16,2012. The duo said the album was halfway done with Wilson doing most of the writing and stating that all of the songs flow into each other. Wilson considers the track, Thats Why God Made the Radio. The album ends with a Pet Sounds- and Smile-inspired suite, the suite, originally six tracks and dubbed the Life Suite, ended up to be the final four tracks on the album, Strange World, From There to Back Again, Pacific Coast Highway, and Summers Gone. One song, Id Go Anywhere, was left off as it was unfinished, Thomas described the making, He really wanted to do like a kind of reflection of California from the standpoint of a, you know, a guy who’s almost 70 years old. So it’s driving down Pacific Coast Highway and thinking about his life in retrospect, so this suite was a series of maybe one or two minute vignettes that he had like 15 of them that he would start and never finish. When I put them together on ProTools, it was eerie to me that all fit together. This song was written a year before the song that followed it, but yet they fit perfectly, modulation, key move. Then Brian started assembling these little bits and I kind of dreamed… I was 10 years old when Smile was recorded, I have no special authority to tell you that’s how it did. It just seemed like all these little pieces became like this theme, many of the songs were written in collaboration with Thomas, whose input sometimes included entire chord progressions. Spring Vacation originated during Your Imagination and contained new lyrics by Love written reportedly in five minutes and it was changed when Wilson decided he would like to record a follow-up. The song was written in reflection of his mothers death and the end of Carls life, whereas songs like From There to Back Again, Isnt It Time, Beaches in Mind, Shelter and The Private Life of Bill and Sue were written for the new album
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Beach Boys Concert
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Beach Boys Concert is the first live album by the Beach Boys, released in 1964. It is their album in all, and their third alone in the same year. The album was recorded live at the Memorial Auditorium in Sacramento, in 2014, Live in Sacramento 1964 was released, containing additional performances from these concert dates. The album includes songs that the Beach Boys regularly performed live but had not previously included on an album, such as Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow. The Little Old Lady from Pasadena was actually a Jan & Dean hit, alongside those were a sampling of their favorites, such as Hawaii, In My Room, Fun, Fun, Fun, and I Get Around. Studio doctoring on Beach Boys Concert is very evident, from the vocals. Most obviously, Brian Wilson used the music tracks for both Fun, Fun, Fun and I Get Around, both of which had elements removed to make them appear as though they were new performances. A truncated version was released on Pickwick Records as Wow, Beach Boys Concert was paired on CD with Live in London, with bonus tracks from both periods. Bonus Tracks include Dont Worry Baby and Heroes And Villains.1990, the Nearest Faraway Place, Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys and the Southern California Experience, Timothy White, 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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The Beach Boys in Concert
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The Beach Boys in Concert is the third live album released by the U. S. pop group The Beach Boys. It was released in late 1973, in the U. S. the live album was their first live album since Beach Boys Concert released nine years earlier. Their second, Live in London, was released in the UK in 1970, the Beach Boys in Concert gave the band their best chart peak since 1967s Wild Honey by reaching No. 25, and earning them their first gold record since 1966s Best of The Beach Boys, the album is now available on a single-disc CD. The cover art includes a rendition of Cyrus Dallins statue Appeal to the Great Spirit, highlights include updated interpretations of Caroline, No, You Still Believe in Me, Heroes and Villains, Dont Worry Baby, and Surfer Girl. Of the newer material, Marcella, Sail On, Sailor, Funky Pretty, and The Trader are joined, among others, with Holland out-take We Got Love, the Beach Boys in Concert hit No.25 in the US during a chart stay of 24 weeks. This is the live album and the final album on which Blondie Chaplin and Ricky Fataar appeared as official members. All tracks written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love, unless otherwise noted. S. A, the Beach Boys in Concert CD booklet notes, Paul Williams, c.2000. The Nearest Faraway Place, Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys, top Pop Singles 1955-2001, Joel Whitburn, c. Top Pop Albums 1955-2001, Joel Whitburn, c
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Rarities (The Beach Boys album)
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Rarities is a Beach Boys compilation album released in 1983 by Capitol Records. It is a collection of outtakes, alternate mixes & B-sides recorded between 1962 &1970, included are songs written or made popular by The Beatles, The Box Tops, Stevie Wonder, Ersel Hickey and Lead Belly. Also featured are several standards, such as The Lords Prayer, the album sold poorly and was quickly deleted. S. A. S. A. To anyone else, its pleasant but non-essential
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Made in U.S.A. (The Beach Boys album)
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Made in U. S. A. is a 1986 double vinyl album compilation of some of The Beach Boys biggest successes. Released by their record label, Capitol Records, it marked a brief return to the label, with whom The Beach Boys released one further album. Rock n Roll to the Rescue is a Mike Love/Melcher collaboration, both were released as singles and made the U. S. pop singles chart. A slow seller, Made in U. S. A. reached number 96 in the U. S. and ultimately went double platinum there, though with other compilations now available, Made in U. S. A. has since been deleted. The first video released for Made in U. S. A. was for the single, the video features a common Beach Boys theme of the beach, surfboards, and cars. The video features all members of the Beach Boys with the exception of David Marks, the second music video produced for the album was a black and white video of the song, California Dreamin. The video is filmed at a church and features all members of The Beach Boys. All songs by Brian Wilson and Mike Love, except where noted, Surfin Safari –2,05409 –1,58 Surfin U. S. A. S. A. Reached #96 in the U. S. during a stay of 12 weeks. The Nearest Faraway Place, Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys, top Pop Singles 1955-2001, Joel Whitburn, c. Top Pop Albums 1955-2001, Joel Whitburn, c
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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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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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The 50th Reunion Tour
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The 50th Reunion Tour was a 2012 world concert tour by The Beach Boys, an American rock band. The tour marked the first time since 1965 that founding member Brian Wilson had performed on a tour with the band, although from 1965 to 1996 he did join them in select shows. The tour also marked the first time that The Beach Boys had played at the Hollywood Bowl since 1967, having sold it out both times. Before each show, the invited fans who purchased a special ticket in to watch their sound check and to briefly meet the band. Prior to the tour the band made their first public appearance together since 1996 at the Grammy Awards, on May 18,2012 the band appeared for an hour-long interview on Charlie Rose Show and performed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno June 7,2012. Throughout June and July, PBS aired a 90-minute performance by the band featuring footage from their May 2,2012 show in Florida. On June 15,2012, the date they played a show in Maryland. A 2-hour documentary titled The Beach Boys, Summers Gone is due to be aired at some point during summer although a date and channel have yet to be announced. According to Mike Love during the bands QVC performance in which 20,000 copies of the new album were sold, the group also opened the June 3,2012 show with a 20-minute set consisting of Beach Boys songs. At the groups June 3,2012 performance at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine, California, they were joined onstage for the last few songs by Dean Torrence, surviving member of Jan and Dean. Bruce Johnston stepped away from his keyboard to take photographs from the front of the stage of Torrence singing with The Beach Boys, as for what the future holds beyond the tour, Mike Love stated that Were looking at our present and future. I think were going to be doing this again with Brian for a long time, Wilson even said he is already thinking of the next Beach Boys album, which he would make after the tour. This time I would like to do rock n roll. I would like it to be a bit harder and faster Wilson said, Love said that these shows will not be part of the concert series of the reunion tour. According to Brian Wilson, he had no idea Love planned these tour dates. Wilson stated that he is having a lot of fun on the reunion tour, Love stated in July 2012 that Theres talk of us going and doing a return to the Grammys next year, and theres talk about doing another album together. Theres nothing in stone, but theres a lot of ideas being floated around, so after this year, after completing the 50th anniversary reunion, well entertain doing some more studio work and see what we can come up with and can do in the future. He further added that the label is stoked about what is happening and is pushing for more music and more tour dates
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The reunited Beach Boys performing in May 2012.
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Beach Boys Historic Landmark
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The Beach Boys Historic Landmark commemorates the site of the childhood home of Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson of The Beach Boys. Music industry notables such as Dick Clark and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame were among the letter-writers who supported the BBHLs landmark application process and its status as a California State Historic Landmark NO. The image face of the landmark was inspired by the cover of Surfer Girl. Six gold 45 records are embedded in the base of the landmark, each with the name of one of the Beach Boys, the names of donors, Wilson friends and family members, and the Beach Boys Landmark Committee are engraved into the monument bricks. The construction work was undertaken by Scott Wilson, Denniss adopted son, the landmark plaque reads, It was here that the childhood home of Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson developed their unique musical skills. During Labor Day weekend 1961, they, their cousin Mike Love, and a friend Al Jardine, gathered here to record a tape of their breakthrough song “Surfin’. ”This marked the birth of the group known worldwide as the Beach Boys. The music of the Beach Boys broadcast to the world an image of California as a place of sun, surf, less than a month after the unveiling of the landmark, it was targeted by graffiti vandals. MySpace page for the monument, with a number of photos of the 2005 dedication ceremony, http, //www. myspace. com/beachboyshistoriclandmark
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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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California Sound
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The California Sound is a popular music aesthetic that originates with American pop and rock recording artists from Southern California in the 1960s. It was first related to the California Myth, a narrative inspired by the states beach culture that commonly appeared in the lyrics of commercial pop songs. Later, the Sound was expanded outside of its initial geography, a derivative form of it was later classified as sunshine pop. The Sound was originally identified for harnessing a wide-eyed, sunny optimism that marked southern California teenage life in the late 1950s and its imagery is primarily represented by Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys, who are credited for the Sounds instigation via their debut single Surfin in 1961. Along with Jan and Dean, the Beach Boys encapsulated surfing, hot rod culture, other propellants included songwriters and/or record producers Gary Usher, Curt Boettcher, Bruce Johnston, Terry Melcher, and Roger Christian. The Beach Boys surf music was not entirely of their own invention, however, previous surf musicians did not project a world view as the Beach Boys did. The genesis of the California Sound is said to be the Beach Boys debut single Surfin in 1961, while the bands leader Brian Wilson then collaborated with Jan Berry for several hit singles written and produced for other artists, they recorded what would later be regarded the California Sound. University of Southern California history professor Kevin Starr has stated that the band was important for embodying the era of the Silent Generation. He explained that the group could not help but mythologize a landscape and way of life that was already so surreal, so proto-mythic, the California Sound was thus a musical translation of the California Myth. The titles of their songs said it as well as anything, Little Deuce Coupe, Surfer Girl, Fun, Fun, Fun, Dance, Dance, Dance, and California Girls. With these hits and others, the groups bassist and songwriter, Brian Wilson, created a new sound in rock and it was called the surf sound, but in fact it was a combination of older rock verities set in entirely new lyrical and musical contexts. The Beach Boys surf music was not entirely of their own invention, however, previous surf musicians did not project a world view as the Beach Boys did. Wilson once said of its myth, Its not just the surfing, its the outdoors and cars and sunshine, its the society of California, al Jardine of the Beach Boys argued that It’s not entirely a myth. There are still some elements that are true, especially for a first-time observer. But to be able to come here and to drive that coast on Route 1 and you experience the water and the animals and the sea life, the whole thing. Capitol Records staff producer Nick Venet, who worked with the early on. Allmusics review of the groups All Summer Long calls it a potent example of the California Myths idyllic dream world of sun, surf, and fun while containing qualities of sunshine pop. Author Luis Sanchez believes that the entirety of the album All Summer Long was the nearest the Beach Boys ever got to a version of the California myth
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A young couple watching the sunset on a Los Angeles beach with surfboard in hand
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The Beach Boys in a promotional shot used for their 1965 single " California Girls "
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Terry Melcher (left) with the Byrds ' Gene Clark and David Crosby
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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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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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Smile (The Beach Boys album)
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Smile was a projected album by American rock band the Beach Boys intended to follow their 11th studio album, Pet Sounds. Some of the original Smile tracks eventually found their way onto subsequent Beach Boys studio, working with lyricist Van Dyke Parks, Smile was composed as a multi-thematic concept album, existing today in its unfinished and fragmented state as an unordered series of abstract musical vignettes. Its genesis came during the recording of Pet Sounds, when Wilson began recording a new single, the track was created by an unprecedented recording technique, over 90 hours of tape was recorded, spliced, and reduced into a three-minute pop song. It quickly became the bands biggest international hit yet, Smile was to be produced in a similar fashion and its projected singles were Heroes and Villains, a Western musical comedy, and Vega-Tables, a satire of physical fitness. The albums collapse has been attributed to personal, technical. The majority of its tracks were completed between August and December 1966. A deadline set for January 1967 was missed, and Parks soon distanced himself from the project, in June, the Beach Boys reconvened at Brians makeshift home studio to record Smiley Smile. Many attempts were made to complete the original Smile, most of which were derailed by Wilson. As a solo artist, Wilson reinterpreted the project for concert performances in 2004, although he had ostensibly completed the work, Wilson clarified that his 2004 arrangement differed substantially from how he had first conceptualized the album during the 1960s. On October 31,2011, The Smile Sessions was released containing an approximation of what the Beach Boys completed Smile might have sounded like based on the structure of Brian Wilson Presents Smile. In 2012, the compilation was ranked number 381 in Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list, in 2013, it won the Best Historical Album award at the 55th Grammy Awards. In May 1966, the Beach Boys released their studio album, Pet Sounds. He intended the album as a collection of art pieces which belong together yet could stand alone. Its stylistic shift had alienated fans, containing an expanded palette of orchestral timbres. Wilson was then beginning to be questioned by the group over their new direction, meanwhile, without the groups approval, Capitol issued a rushed greatest hits compilation to follow Pet Sounds, Best of The Beach Boys. It was quickly certified gold by the RIAA, cementing a demand for material in the Beach Boys earlier style, crucial to the inception and creation of Smile was Wilsons meeting with burgeoning songwriter Van Dyke Parks in February 1966. They had been introduced to other by mutual friends David Crosby and Terry Melcher. When Wilson took notice of Parks unique manner of speaking, he asked him if he could write lyrics for Good Vibrations, Parks declined for the reason that he thought there was nothing he could add to the track
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Official planned LP cover with artwork by Frank Holmes. Other versions included a " duophonic stereo " banner on top.
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Smile was partly intended to combat the British Invasion sparked by the Beatles in 1964
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The Capitol Records Building in Hollywood
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Wilson was quoted saying that if Smile had been released, " Sgt. Pepper would have kicked our ass", though several critics believe Smile challenges the legacy of the Beatles and Sgt. Pepper.
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Lei'd in Hawaii
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Some of these recordings have seen release on subsequent compilation albums, box sets, and bootleg recordings. Member Bruce Johnston refused to travel for the reason that it had all got too weird, the band was also chronically under-rehearsed, adding new songs to their set list such as Gettin Hungry, Heroes and Villains, and a cover of the Box Tops song The Letter. Ultimately, the band performed too poorly for the material to be released, only six tracks were recorded before the idea was abandoned in favor of a regular studio album. The August 25 show and Heider sessions are available on the unauthorized compilation Aloha From Hawaii, in 1994, bootleg label Vigotone released a compilation of the Leid in Hawaii recordings entitled Leid in Hawaii Rehearsal. It featured additional studio outtakes such as Were Together Again from Friends, the Beach Boys, The Definitive Diary of Americas Greatest Band, on Stage and in the Studio. Catch a Wave, The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Beach Boys Brian Wilson, smile, The Story of Brian Wilsons Lost Masterpiece
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Merry Christmas from the Beach Boys
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Merry Christmas from the Beach Boys is an unreleased studio album by American rock band the Beach Boys. Planned for issue in November/December 1978, the album would have followed their twenty-first studio album Love You and its content was a mixture of original songs penned by the group and traditional standards. The album was produced by Brian Wilson after the dissolution of Adult Child, some of its recordings were later released on the 1998 compilation Ultimate Christmas. The track listing was revised a final time in 1978, when their twenty-second LP was finally published as M. I. U, merry Christmas from the Beach Boys was mostly recorded between November and December 1977 at the Maharishi International University in Iowa. Exceptions are Seasons in the Sun, Santas On His Way, Michael Rowed the Boat Ashore, other songs worked on during these sessions would later be reworked for M. I. U. These include that albums Belles of Paris and Kona Coast, conceived as Bells of Christmas, track sequencing adapted from Andrew Doe. Wilson | length2 =2,51 | title3 = Winter Symphony | writer3 = B. Wilson | extra3 = B. Wilson | length3 =3,02 | title4 = Michael Row the Boat Ashore | writer4 = traditional | extra4 = B. I. U. Album Ultimate Christmas The Beach Boys bootleg recordings List of unreleased songs recorded by the Beach Boys
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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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The Royal Festival Hall in London was where Wilson chose to debut Smile with his band.
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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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Pacific Ocean Blue
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Pacific Ocean Blue is the debut album by American songwriter-musician Dennis Wilson, co-founder of the Beach Boys, and the only one to be released in his lifetime. When released in August 1977, it was received critically. Two singles were issued from the album, River Song and You and I, the album remains a focal point of Wilsons legacy, being referred to as a classic. Wilson intended to record a follow-up, entitled Bambu, but the album was left unfinished at the time of his death in December 1983. At the time of recording, Dennis hard living had begun affecting his looks and more importantly his singing voice, recalling the time Wilson spent working on the album, co-producer Gregg Jakobson said, This was when he fully accepted himself as an artist. Brian had shown him chords on the piano, but as hed become more proficient the music that came forth was not derivative of that, having his own studio helped tremendously. With a little encouragement, and the tools, Dennis took off. Brian reported that his reaction when Dennis played him early mixes of the album was Dennis, released in August 1977, Pacific Ocean Blue received glowing reviews for its depth and emotion. It has allegedly been praised by his older brother Brian Wilson, the album also performed poorly in the U. S. charts peaking at a disappointing #96 during a short 12 week chart run, and eventually went on to sell fewer than 5,000 copies. It has appeared on several Best-of lists including Robert Dimerys 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, in 2005, it was ranked #18 in GQs The 100 Coolest Albums in the World Right Now. Copies of the extremely rare 1991 CD sold for over $200, legacy Recordings released a special 30th anniversary, 2-disc edition of Pacific Ocean Blue on June 17,2008. It includes material from the Bambu sessions, a limited edition 180-gram vinyl multi-LP box set was also released on the Sundazed label. Notable on the reissue is the inclusion of the song Holy Man, recorded for Pacific Ocean Blue in 1977, Wilson had completed work on the instrumental backing track but never finished a satisfactory vocal, erasing an original attempt. For the reissue, Taylor Hawkins of the Foo Fighters was recruited to record a version in Wilsons style given their similarities. The songs original lyricist, Gregg Jakobson, was tapped to help recall the original melody. Despite missing the UK Album Chart on its original 1977 release, in addition, the package managed to attain a high of #8 on Billboards Top Pop Catalog Albums chart. Official Site Pacific Ocean Blue at MusicBrainz Buddyheads review/interview of POB/Bambu reissue
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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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We Three Kings
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We Three Kings, also known as We Three Kings of Orient Are or The Quest of the Magi, is a Christmas carol that was written by John Henry Hopkins, Jr. in 1857. At the time of composing the carol, Hopkins served as the rector of Christ Episcopal Church in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, many versions of this song have been composed and it remains a popular Christmas carol. John Henry Hopkins, Jr. organized the carol in such a way that three male voices would each sing a verse by himself in order to correspond with the three kings. The first and last verses of the carol are sung together by all three as verses of praise, while the verses are sung individually with each king describing the gift he was bringing. The refrain proceeds to praise the beauty of the Star of Bethlehem, nowadays, however, the Magis solos are typically not observed when singing the carol. The carols melody has been described as sad and shifting in nature, because of this, it highly resembles a song from the Middle Ages and Middle Eastern music, both of which it has been frequently compared to. The carol centres around the Biblical Magi, who visited Jesus during his Nativity and gave him gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh while paying homage to him. Though the event is recounted in the Gospel of Matthew, there are no further details given with regards to their names, hence, the names of the Magi—Melchior, Caspar and Balthazar—and their status as kings from the Orient are legendary and based on tradition. The number three stems from the fact there were three separate gifts that were given. At the time he was writing We Three Kings in 1857, John Henry Hopkins, Jr. was serving as the rector of Christ Episcopal Church in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Although he originally worked as a journalist for a New York newspaper and studied to become a lawyer, during his final year of teaching at the seminary, Hopkins wrote We Three Kings for a Christmas pageant held at the college. It was extremely uncommon that Hopkins wrote both the lyrics and music, contemporary composers, usually wrote either the lyrics or music. Originally titled Three Kings of Orient, it was sung within his circle of family, because of the popularity it achieved among them, Hopkins decided to publish the carol in 1862 in his book Carols, Hymns and Songs. In 1916, the carol was printed in the hymnal for the Episcopal Church and we Three Kings was also included in the Oxford Book of Carols published in 1928, which praised the song as one of the most successful of modern composed carols. The Book of World Famous Music Classical, Popular and Folk, images of early editions of the carol and historical information Free typeset sheet music from Cantorion. org Lyrics to We Three Kings
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Jingle Bells
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Jingle Bells is one of the best-known and commonly sung American songs in the world. It was written by James Lord Pierpont and published under the title One Horse Open Sleigh in the autumn of 1857. Some area choirs adopted it as part of their repertoire in the 1860s and 1870s and it was first recorded by the Edison Male Quartette in 1898 on an Edison cylinder, and became a Christmas favorite in the early twentieth century. It is a question where and when Pierpont originally composed the song that would become known as Jingle Bells. According to the Medford Historical Society, the song was inspired by the towns popular sleigh races during the 19th century, Jingle Bells was originally copyrighted with the name One Horse Open Sleigh on September 16,1857. The song has passed into the public domain. In August of the year, James Pierpont married the daughter of the mayor of Savannah. He stayed on in the city even after the church closed due to its abolitionist leanings, Jingle Bells was often used as a drinking song at parties, people would jingle the ice in their glasses as they sang. Music historian James Fuld notes that the jingle in the title. The rhythm of the tune mimics that of a trotting horses bells, however, jingle bells is commonly taken to mean a certain kind of bell. Jingle Bells Although less well-known than the opening, the remaining verses depict high-speed youthful fun and it is unknown who replaced the words with those of the modern version. The original 1857 Jingle Bells had a different chorus featuring a more classical-style melody. The Jingle Bells tune is used in French and German songs, both songs celebrate winter fun, as in the English version. The French song, titled Vive le vent, was written by Francis Blanche and contains references to Father Time, Baby New Year, there are several German versions of Jingle Bells, including the popular Roy Black versions of Christkindl and Christmastime. The Swedish version titled Bjällerklang contains a few lines, eight bars long. Those were added by the Swedish lyricists, Eric Sandström and Gösta Westerberg, James Lord Pierponts 1857 composition Jingle Bells became one of the most performed and most recognizable secular holiday songs ever written, not only in the United States, but around the world. In recognition of achievement, James Lord Pierpont was voted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Jingle Bells was first recorded by the Edison Male Quartette in 1898 on an Edison cylinder as part of a Christmas medley entitled Sleigh Ride Party, in 1902, the Hayden Quartet recorded Jingle Bells
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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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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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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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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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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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Romanza
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Romanza is the first compilation album by Italian singer Andrea Bocelli, released internationally in 1997. Although a compilation, Romanza is considered Bocellis breakthrough album and remains his most commercially successful to date, topping charts all across Europe and Latin America. With over 20 million copies worldwide, it is the best-selling Italian album of all time. The album is a compilation of Bocellis two previous pop albums, Il Mare Calmo della Sera, released in 1994, and Bocelli, being Bocellis first album released in the United States and Canada, the album and Bocelli himself, were heavily promoted. This included Bocelli being featured in Hotel Bellagios commercials in North America, in 1997, Bocelli won 3 major awards in Germany. All 3 ceremonies were broadcast live in Germany, the album was also supported in Germany, by a series of concerts, including 22 open-air concerts in the country, as well as an indoor concert in Oberhausen. In the United Kingdom, Bocelli held a concert with Sarah Brightman, at the Royal Albert Hall, in London, back in Italy, on September 27, Bocelli sang again before the Pope at the International Eucharistic Congress, in Bologna. On October 19, he sang at the TeleFood benefit concert held in Vatican City, on December 15 and 20,1997, Bocelli held a concert in Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, in Paris, France, and a concert in Seefeld, Austria. A music video for each of three versions was released in those countries. In addition, a video of the Portuguese version of the song, sang with Brazilian singer Sandy, was also released in Brazil and Portugal. It also received platinum status in the United States with 4. To date, the album remains Bocellis most commercially successful, and is considered his breakthrough album, a Night in Tuscany, Bocellis first PBS Great Performances special, filmed in 1997, was designed to promote the album. The DVD of the program was Internationally released November 10,1998. be
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First Day of My Life (Melanie C song)
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First Day of My Life is a song by British singer-songwriter, Melanie C. It was released on 30 September 2005 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland as the third and final single from Melanie Cs third solo album, the song became the most successful Melanie Cs single in Europe, spending two years in different European charts. To date, the single has sold over 1,5 million copies worldwide, the song was not from the original Beautiful Intentions release, but was included on a re-release in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and other European countries. The video was shot on location in Hannover, Germany, on 26 August 2005, for key scenes of the video, a busy downtown thoroughfare known to locals as the Raschplatzhochstraße or Raschplatz overpass was closed for the afternoon. The song also was nominated as The Single of the Year at the 2006 ECHO Awards in Germany, on 15 September 2006 First Day of My Life went platinum in Germany, selling over 400,000 copies. After a huge success of single in Europe, Melanie recorded this song in French, to promote the single. First Day of My Life also appeared on Chisholms fourth album This Time as a track for the Italian release. The song spent 76 weeks in the Switzerland singles chart, entering on 16 October 2005 at number 15 and it peaked at number 1 for two weeks from 13 to 20 November 2005. It became such a success in the German speaking countries due to its appearance as the song of the German soap opera telenovela Wege zum Glück. These are the formats and track listings of single releases of First Day of My Life. Melanie C performed the song on the concert tours, Beautiful Intentions Tour Live Hits The Sea – Live
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My Christmas
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My Christmas is the thirteenth studio album and first Christmas album released by Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli. Blige, Natalie Cole, Reba McEntire, Katherine Jenkins, The Mormon Tabernacle Choir and it also includes God Bless Us Everyone, the only original song of the album, which Bocelli recorded for the closing of the 2009 film, A Christmas Carol. He completed his performance in Leicester Square with, God Bless Us Everyone, the song of the movie. He returned to the United Kingdom, December 16, for an appearance on The One Show, broadcast live by BBC One, Rai Uno also broadcast the performance later that day, during the Zecchino dOro Festival. The following day, Bocelli was among Fabio Fazios guests, on his popular Italian talk-show, Che tempo che fa, during the program Bocelli talked about his album and performed The Lords Prayer, White Christmas, and Silent Night. It was also announced that Bocelli will return to the show, December 20, in North America, Bocelli gave 6 concerts. On November 28, he performed in the BankAtlantic Center, in Sunrise and his last three arena concerts alone grossed a total of over 5. In the United States, Bocelli made a number of high-profile TV appearances and he first performed White Christmas at the 83rd annual Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade, broadcast live on NBC, November 26. He then performed the song again, November 30, during The Today Show also live, Bocelli also sang Adeste Fideles and was interviewed by Barbara Walters and Joy Behar on The View, which aired December 2, on ABC. On December 8, he performed Jingle Bells with The Muppets on NBCs The Jay Leno Show. Bocelli also performed White Christmas and Silent Night, on Larry King Lives and Fox & Friends holiday specials, broadcast December 23 on CNN, Bocellis rendition of Silent Night was chosen as the Starbucks iTunes Pick of the Week, for December 1,2009. Starbucks also offered My Christmas for sale, in their stores, however, for financial and political reasons, the concert was later canceled on short notice, along with all the other events scheduled for Christmas in the city. As part of the 2010 leg of the My Christmas Tour, Bocelli gave two concerts in the two largest indoor arenas of the United Kingdom, The O2 Arena, in London, and the M. E. N. Arena, in Manchester, and a concert in the largest indoor arena in Ireland, The O2 and his sold out concert at the O2 in London, was the most attended show in the venues history, with 16,500 people attending the event. In early December, Bocelli gave 6 concerts in the United States, the Toyota Center concert, in Houston, was attended by former president George Bush, Sr. and first lady Barbara Bush. Bocelli also toke part in the Christmas in Washington special on December 12, in the presence of president Barack Obama, on December 19, Bocelli gave a concert, conducted by Claudio Scimone, in the Italian Senate. Bocelli gave 5 concerts in the United States in December 2011, Bocelli also performed White Christmas in an appearance at Good Morning America, airing December 22. The album received positive reviews
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Andrea Bocelli and Mary J. Blige performing " What Child Is This " on The Oprah Winfrey Show, while David Foster plays the piano, in November 2009.
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Clay Walker (album)
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Clay Walker is the self-titled debut album of American country music singer Clay Walker. It was released in 1993 on Giant Records and produced by James Stroud, the album produced four singles on the Billboard country music charts, of which three — Whats It to You, Live Until I Die and Dreaming with My Eyes Open — reached Number One. Respectively, these were the first, second, and fourth singles from the album, the third single, Where Do I Fit in the Picture, peaked at #11. Additionally, White Palace peaked at #67 based on unsolicited airplay, after hearing about Walker, James Stroud flew down to Beaumont, Texas to meet him and see his show. After being completely impressed, Stroud brought Walker to Nashville to record demos and then signed him to Giant, Stroud revealed, Clay is very consistent, and thats pretty rare in such a young act. Hes one of artists who, when he sings and you hear him going down on tape. I knew it with Clint, and I could hear it with Clay, Walker explained the meeting in SUCCESS by saying, I finished the last song, chased Stroud to his limousine and asked him if everything was OK. He said yes and that he would see me in a couple of weeks to start recording an album, in an interview with the Los Angeles Times Walker said, It was frustrating that I wasnt getting a contract, but I never doubted Id eventually get one from somebody. Thats because my father taught me something else too--to have incredible confidence in myself, Walker told Country Song Roundup, The songs that I write are normally either a true life experience, or theyre things that Ive witnessed from other people, friends or family. When you write, you become vulnerable, if youre gonna be true to yourself and write what you really feel, thats what you have to do, you have to put down on paper exactly what youre feeling. I make myself very vulnerable because I open up my thoughts and they could be criticized, Walker was one of several musicians including Tracy Byrd and Mark Chesnutt who came from Beaumont, Texas when his debut album was released. He told The Spokesman-Review, Beaumont is a goldmine for talent, Ill guarantee you every label in Nashville could go there for a couple of months. Walker also stated, Im a lot more influenced by Haggard than anyone else, I like those powerful ballads and two-steppin music. I love swing too, but its probably that competition thing again. Walker told The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in addition to Merle Haggard, My influences were Hank Williams Sr. George Jones, and Charley Pride - the kind of country my dad liked, Im convinced traditional country music will come back more and more. After all its the real thing and its honest, and its not just a sound, its a way of life. Whats It to You was previously recorded by Curtis Wright, its co-writer, Dreaming with My Eyes Open was also featured in the soundtrack to the 1993 film The Thing Called Love. The final track, I Dont Know How Love Starts, was co-written by Pirates of the Mississippi member Rich Alves
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What's It to You
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It was released In July 1993 as the lead-off single from his self-titled debut album, and became Walkers first Number One single. Curtis Wright wrote the song with Robert Ellis Orrall, Wright also recorded it on his own self-titled debut album for Liberty Records in 1992. Wrights version was produced by James Stroud, who also produced Walkers version, im surprised, but lately when I go out there, theyre going bonkers. After the single hit the one position, Walker stated It used to be that having your song go No.1 meant a certain degree of success. Now, there are so many acts who do it, you just gotta go back out. In another interview, Walker said, Having a No.1 hit doesnt mean youre making any money that you did a few years ago. The song is about a man who is confessing his love to a woman and he wants to know what love is to her. Geoffrey Hines of The Washington Post wrote that Whats It to You is A silly little song that could be dismissed if it werent for the way Walker glides into the chorus melody. Larry Daniels of KNIX in Phoenix said Whats It To You Is one of our three best records right now. Dave Moulter of the Observer-Reporter wrote, Whats It to You is representative of the Beaumont, Texas native style, clay Walkers first music video was directed by Marc Ball. It features Walker and his performing the song on stage and uses the aspect of a behind the scenes look at filming. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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If I Could Make a Living
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If I Could Make a Living is the title of American country music singer Clay Walkers second album, released in 1994 on Giant Records. Like his self-titled debut album, this album was certified platinum by the RIAA. It produced the singles If I Could Make a Living, This Woman and This Man, and My Heart Will Never Know, which respectively reached #1, #1, for the second one, the water was a little more clear. He also said, The only thing I try to do is just look for good songs, I think if you do that, it does two things, It gets you some hits on radio, and it gives the listener a little variety. In an interview with The Plain Dealer Walker said, Speaking of the sophomore jinx, I hope my second album does as well as the first album. I think Ive progressed some as a singer and performer since the first one and he also stated, On the first album, Id been writing for years and had all my best work to pick from. Thats one thing Ive missed, not being able to write on the road, I went home for two weeks and wrote three songs for this album. Walker told the Boca Raton News, about his success of his albums and said, theyll play music they think is good. Im flattered to be considered one of the artists they like, after the albums release, Walker stated, Ill be honest, the second album could have been stronger, but with the success weve had, I know we avoided the sophomore jinx. I just felt really pressed when selecting songs for the entire album, in an interview with The Dallas Morning News, Walker said, In the early 80s and maybe even the late 80s it was an artist-driven business. You probably werent taken seriously if you werent over 35 years old and you still have to go out there and hit a home run with every single you release. There are so many artists out there that do mediocre material, and it doesnt matter how good you sing, how many notes you can hit, how high or how low you can go, you have to make people believe what youre singing. You cant fool the public all the time and it makes me buckle down and try to find the best music I can find. Im not looking for one-hit wonders or that gimmick record, I want it to take a steady climb. I think I appreciate every show more than I used to because I know it could be taken from me, but part of the song -- What good is first place when youre in a rat race. Money aint everything, means I have tried to remain true to myself and be completely honest as a recording artist, everything that has happened to me over the last several years gave me a newfound courage. Walker has written and chosen material that treat old themes in new ways, and his vocal intensity carries them all off. Susan Beyer of The Ottawa Citizen gave the album a review and wrote, At times, he sounds a little too congested
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My Heart Will Never Know
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My Heart Will Never Know is a song written by Steve Dorff and Billy Kirsch, and recorded by American country music artist Clay Walker. It was released in May 1995 as the third and final single from his album If I Could Make a Living and it peaked at number 16 in the United States and number 6 in Canada. Larry Flick of Billboard gave the song a positive review writing One of the brightest stars in country musics new wave and he delivers one of his best-ever vocal performances, conveying all the heartbreak of this well-written ballads lyric. Sonia Murray of the Atlanta Constitution wrote My Heart Will Never Know, has enough pop inflection to make it appealing to listeners who grew up on recent rock n roll. Theyll also grab concertgoers whove switched from rock to country as theyve grown older, the music video was directed by Bill Young and premiered in mid-1995. My Heart Will Never Know debuted at number 66 on the U. S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of May 6,1995, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Who Needs You Baby
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Who Needs You Baby is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Clay Walker. It was released in September 1995 as the single to his album Hypnotize the Moon. It peaked at #2 in both the United States and Canada, the song was written by Walker, Kim Williams and Randy Boudreaux. Larry Flick of Billboard gave the song a positive review writing It boasts a chorus, lots of steel. Country radio readily embraces Walker, and this effort should give them lots to be happy about. The music video features kids and people at a theater watching Clay Walker in an old black-and-white-themed movie titled The Singing Cowboy. It was directed by Steven T. Miller and R. Brad Murano, the video was film at the Plaza Theatre in Carrollton, Texas and on a ranch near Santa Fe, New Mexico. It peaked at #1 on CMTs Top 12 Countdown in 1995, the music video also received a Special Jury Award at Worldfest Houston in 1996. Walker performed Who Needs You Baby with the 350 member University of Texas marching band at half time of the University of Texas/University of Oklahoma game at the Cotton Bowl on October 14,1995, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Hypnotize the Moon (song)
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Hypnotize the Moon is a song written by Steve Dorff and Eric Kaz, and recorded by American country music singer Clay Walker. It was released in January 1996 as the single and title track from Walkers CD Hypnotize the Moon. It peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, larry Flick of Billboard gave the song a positive review, The pretty melody and sentimental lyrics should prove popular with country radio listeners. The music video was directed by Bill Young and it starts out in a house museum with a boy who is on a tour, and before going along with the tour, he takes a look at a picture of a woman. Then he starts to imagine her at a party in a past themed time, Hypnotize the Moon debuted at number 55 on the U. S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of January 13,1996. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Rumor Has It (Clay Walker album)
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Rumor Has It is country music singer Clay Walkers fourth album. It was released April 8,1997, on Giant Records, the album was certified platinum by the RIAA and reached #32 on the Billboard album charts. Singles released from it include the track, One, Two, I Love You, Watch This. Which respectively reached #1, #18, #4, and #2 on the Hot Country Songs charts between 1997 and 1998, in an interview with The Spokesman Review Walker stated I wanted this album to be even more country. I felt the sounds on the records were beginning to get a stock and sounded, to me anyway. I felt it needed to get back to a more rural sound. Rumor Has It was the first album Walker released after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, during an interview with CMT he stated, The most important thing that I have learned is there are two things that really matter. The fans are personable, and theyre not just a number and they really care about who you are. Like when I was diagnosed with MS, I saw a different side of music than I ever realized was there. I thought it all was just a business, secondly, I learned that hit records are what makes the career. You have to have hit records, and you have to find the best songs out there. Those are the two most important things -- be loyal to the fans because theyre loyal to you, and its really that simple, and you cant have one without the other I dont think. Walker also said, For me, I still feel like a newcomer, I think Im just now starting to put out my best work, or Im getting ready to. Ive had a lot of experience with James Stroud in the studio, so album wise, I feel like Im growing a lot. Mikel Toombs of The San Diego Union-Tribune gave the album a negative review writing, An overactive arrangement, and Walkers singing also doesnt benefit Country Boy and City Girl, a failed attempt at a Randy Travis weeper, although the utterly clichéd lyrics are even more deadly. To be fair, Walker is adept at snappy, sappy fare like Id Say Thats Right, but most of this CDs value remains in the foldout miniposter that backs the packaging. Buffalo News gave the two stars and wrote, I wish the man well, but his music just leaves me cold. Yes, he turns out a clever song like One, Two, I Love You from this set
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Ordinary People (Clay Walker song)
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Ordinary People is a song written by Ed Hill and Craig Wiseman, and recorded by American country music singer Clay Walker. It was released in May 1998 as the first single from his Greatest Hits album, the song is Walkers sixteenth single release, as well as his sixteenth Top forty hit on the Billboard country singles charts. However, it was his lowest charting single at the time of its release as well as his first single to miss the top twenty, the song describes how ordinary people have extraordinary love. The narrator compares ordinary people to famous people, larry Flick of Billboard gave the song a positive rating Cynics might be quick too dismiss the lyrics as being to syrupy. However, its a sentiment that country musics core audience can relate to, Walker teams with James Stroud for production that is understated, while Walker turns in a plaintive, heartfelt performance. Ordinary People is Walkers sixteenth Top 40 single on the Billboard country singles charts, the song spent nineteen weeks on the charts, peaking at number 35 on the chart week of July 4. It also peaked at number 22 on the RPM Country Tracks charts in Canada, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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You're Beginning to Get to Me
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Youre Beginning to Get to Me is a song written by Tom Shapiro and Aaron Barker, and recorded by American country music singer Clay Walker. It was released in August 1998 as the single from his Greatest Hits album. It peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, the song debuted at number 63 on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart dated August 22,1998. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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She's Always Right
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Shes Always Right is a song written by Richie McDonald, Phil Barnhart and Ed Hill, and recorded by American country music singer Clay Walker. It was released in January 1999 as the first single and title track from his album Live, Laugh and it peaked at #16 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts, becoming his 17th top 20 hit on the chart. Walker told Country Weekly, I loved this song from the moment I heard it, I love it when men are able to let their women be in control, because, to me, thats a sign of strength. My favorite line is, She likes chocolate about as much as she likes me, in my case, thats probably true. Men stay the same and I always smile when I sing that song, Im a much happier person in my marriage than I was five or six years ago because I figured that out. Walker told the Lodi News-Sentinel, Im a romantic, so I like love songs, I guess there are a lot of people out there that are in love or want to be in love. Richie McDonald who co-wrote Shes Always Right previously toured with Walker as a member of Lonestar in 1996, Shes Always Right is about a man whose lover according to him is always right and perfect for him no matter what she does. She is always there beside him when he needs her, stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic in his review of the album wrote Shes Always Right has a good sense of humor. A music video was created for the song and it was directed by Michael Merriman. The video debuted on CMTs Delivery Room on March 24th 1999 Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Live, Laugh, Love (song)
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Live, Laugh, Love is a song written by Allen Shamblin and Gary Nicholson, and recorded by American country music singer Clay Walker. It was released in August 1999 as the single and title track from his album of the same name. Live, Laugh, Love reached a peak of #11 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts and it also peaked at #21 in Canada and at #65 on the Hot 100. In an interview with The Flint Journal Walker said, Its really become my theme song and you have to live, laugh and love no matter whats going on in your life. Its not that you ignore or go into denial about MS, the song is up-tempo in which the narrator discusses living life to the fullest. Its one of songs that just instantly makes you feel better after youve heard it. It can almost mentally take you to a beach and put a piña colada in your hand--its that fresh. Lance Ringel of The Ledger wrote, The title track is an utterly infectious uptempo number that has hit written all over it, the music video for this song was directed by Deaton Flanigen. This song entered the Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart at number 70 on the chart dated August 7,1999, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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The Chain of Love
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The Chain of Love is a song written by Rory Lee Feek and Jonnie Barnett, and recorded by American country music singer Clay Walker. It was released in January 2000 as the single from his album Live, Laugh. The Chain of Love reached a peak of number 3 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts and it was also his second Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. A mid-tempo song in the key of D Major, The Chain of Love centralizes on a series of characters who, by helping each other in some way, form a chain of love amongst them. In the first verse, a character named Joe is driving. He then stops and changes the tire for her, and after she asks how much she should pay him, in the second verse, the lady has headed down the road to a small café. While eating there, she notices that the waitress is heavily pregnant, after paying the waitress with a $100 bill, the lady leaves behind a note for the waitress on a napkin without accepting her change. Written on the napkin is the same request stated by Joe in the first chorus — an invitation to continue the chain of love, the waitress, by the third verse, has returned to her home. Joining her husband in bed, she begins to think of the money and it is then revealed that her husband is Joe, the same person who changed the tire for the lady. Walker told The Dallas Morning News, I was in Denver the other day, got off an airplane, got on the bus and went to a restaurant. This guy, about 6-foot-6, walked up to us and told us at the table and he said, I wouldnt just say that to anybody. Then he turned around and walked off, never said another word, didnt ask for an autograph and he just wanted to share his story. Walker also revealed the song was not intended to be a single and said and its just one of those shockers where people come out of the woods to talk about it. Its pretty special when you touch people like that, in another interview Walker said, Its just great story song, where the ending takes you by surprise. Brian Wahlert of Country Standard Time said that the song was a heartwarming story, phyllis Stark of Billboard listed The Chain of Love as the tenth best country single of 2000. The music video for this song features Walker singing at an abandoned drive-in theater, the music video was directed by Michael Cargile and was filmed in Houston, Texas. The music video was nominated for Video of the Year at the 2000 Christian Country Music Awards and this song entered the Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart at number 74 in late 1999 as an album cut. It was officially released as a single in early 2000, and it charted for 34 weeks on that chart, and quickly climbed to number 3 on the chart dated May 27,2000, where it held for two weeks, before falling to number 4 afterwards
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Say No More (Clay Walker album)
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Say No More is country music singer Clay Walkers sixth album. It was released on March 27,2001, as his last studio album for the Giant Records label, after that albums release, Giant Records closed its doors. The album reached #129 on the Billboard album charts, the albums two singles were its title track and If You Ever Feel Like Loving Me Again, both of which were minor Top 40 hits on the Hot Country Songs charts. In addition to singles, the album features a cover of Ritchie Valens La Bamba. During an interview, Walker stated he had a dream when he recorded Say No More which was Selling dreams and he also stated that the album is Riskier, yet potentially more fulfilling then some of his other albums. In press releases, Walker said that recording La Bamba took a lot of guts to try this, I worked four years learning enough Spanish because I wanted it to be so correct that when a Latino hears it, he doesnt go, Theres a gringo. In an interview with the Arizona Daily Star Walker said, There was a serious breakdown, really, this project has gotten lost. Its kind of heartbreaking as an artist, but its one of those lumps you take on the chin, I have a lot of ambition and a lot of heart and a lot of things to prove to myself, Im not happy with the level were at. I feel like we could be higher and its driven me to be a better artist. While promoting A Few Questions, Walker told the Daily News, the last record we did the label folded two weeks after it was released. That stung me, but Im proud of the music we made, well jump in, full steam, with those people to determine how we assume responsibility for marketing and promoting their work. This is a package that effectively demonstrates Walkers versatility and maturity. Mario Tarradell of The Dallas Morning News also gave it a rating, calling the album the most complete and accomplished outing since his solid. Tarradell also wrote The record offers a batch of tunes that showcase his pliable voice, his country and swing roots. Hes frequently traded Texas grit for Nashville polish but with Say No More hes combined both to create classy, commercial country. Carole L. Philipps of The Cincinnati Post wrote Clay Walker, michael D. Clark of the Houston Chronicle gave the album a B rating and wrote The good news for Walker fans is that the country-pop album formula that has stoked his career hasnt been abandoned. He simply has turned it inside out, instead of throwing a weeper like This Woman and This Man or Hypnotize the Moon in along with his rodeo swagger, Say No More is built on gut kicks. Overall, though, Say No More finds a light-footed hip-swiveler with a heavy heart, track after track, the smooth-singing Texan piles it on -- theres an ordinary song about an unordinary girl and a slick song about being rough around the edges
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Say No More (song)
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Say No More is a song written by George Teren and Tom Shapiro and recorded by American country music singer Clay Walker. It was released in February 2001 as the track and first single to his album Say No More. It peaked at number 33 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks, Walker stated Say No More is probably the most different song weve ever cut. I like it from a creative aspect and its one of those songs that makes you keep listening because the chord changes are very different. The male narrator tells his female lover to say no more about their relationship ending. He understand that it wasnt working and that they are through, in a review of Walkers album Say No More, Maria Konicki Dinoia of AllMusic wrote, The albums title track is an awesome song about falling out of love. In a review of the album on About. com, it was written The first single off the album is the title track, and its a great power ballad. Say No More debuted at number 59 on the U. S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of February 24,2001, the song is Walkers twenty-first Top 40 single on the Billboard country singles charts. The song peaked at number 33 for the week of April 14 and spent twelve weeks on the chart
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'Fore She Was Mama
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Fore She Was Mama is a song written by Casey Beathard and Phil ODonnell, and recorded by American country music singer Clay Walker. It was released in October 2006 as the first single from his album Fall and it peaked at #21 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks in 2007. It was also his first chart entry since Jesus Was a Country Boy in 2004. In an interview with the Associated Press, Walker revealed, “It’s great when a song can be humorous without being hokey, anytime we do it, it gets a huge reaction. I think a lot of moms are looking in the mirror saying, ‘I hope the kids aren’t looking at my face right now, because I’m blushing. ”The singer tells a first-person account of when he was ten years old. When his mother finds out that her box has been spotted, she burns it, in a review of Walkers album Fall, The Associated Press described Fore She Was Mama as having Just the right balance of humor and drama. Its got a catchy chorus that will stick in your head. The website New Country Star called it A fun and funny little song and also wrote The lyrics arent your usual CW style, stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic in his review of Fall called Fore She Was Mama wry and funny. The editors at USA Today said the song is slightly creepy, Walker is at his best at moments like that. A music video was created for the song, it was directed by Roman White and this song debuted at #56 on the U. S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart dated September 23,2006. Fore She Was Mama is Walkers twenty-sixth Top 40 single on the chart, the song peaked at #21 on the chart week of February 24,2007
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Fall (Clay Walker song)
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Both versions were released within weeks of each other in mid-2007, while Walkers version was released to country radio, Lockes was released to the adult contemporary radio format. Walkers reached number 5 on the U. S. country singles charts, go West front man Peter Cox has recorded a version of Fall on his 2010 CD The S1 Sessions. Fall is a ballad in which the narrator addresses a lover who has had a bad day. The narrator then offers moral support to the lover, Fall, go on and lose it all / Every doubt, Walkers version, the first version of the song to be released, was the second single from his 2007 album, which was also titled Fall. A music video was issued on October 17,2007, Walker stated that Fall was one of his favorite songs on his album. He knows what he wants and he communicates that with the musicians really well, in an interview with The Flint Journal Walker said, Fall was a huge hit for us. I think people are going to want to see us and ticket sales are going up. As long as people want to hear us -- and I feel like they do -- were going to get out, chuck Taylor of Billboard wrote Walkers rich, confident baritone offers all the more reassurance, as does his self-assured smile. Kevin John Coyne of Country Universe gave the song a B+ rating and wrote, roman White directed the songs music video. Walker performed the song on The Montel Williams Show on April 11,2008 and his version of the song debuted at #59 on the Hot Country Songs chart dated April 7,2007. It charted for 37 weeks and peaked at #5 on the chart dated November 17,2007. It became his first Top Ten country hit since I Cant Sleep and this version also peaked at #56 on the Billboard Hot 100, his first peak on that chart since I Cant Sleep. Kimberley Locke covered the song as the single from her album Based on a True Story. Lockes version was released to Adult Contemporary radio on February 25,2008, Billboard reviewed the single as a stunning showcase for the versatile vocalist and suggests this may be her most satisfying single yet along with 8th World Wonder
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Where Do I Go from You
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Where Do I Go from You is a song written by Don Cook, Clint Daniels, and Ryan Tyndell and recorded by American country music singer Clay Walker. It was released in August 2010 as the single to his album She Wont Be Lonely Long. It peaked at #26 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts, prior to Where Do I Go from You being released as a single, Walker expressed that he thought Summer Song would be a better choice. He explained in an interview with CMT, There can only be one boss, and we know who that is. In an interview with GAC, Walker explained the song by saying, Out of all the songs Ive recorded since Whats It To You, my first record, production-wise its as modern as anything Ive ever done. Im pretty much considered a new traditionalist, but I do have R&B, Walker told the Albuquerque Journal, I like the new single thats out right now because its musically just one of those songs you can groove to right away. Its not one that you have to think about, so I like the fact that my record label picked it as the follow-up. Where Do I Go from You is about a man who is not sure what to do anymore after his girlfriend has left him and he tries to forget about her but her memory keeps coming back to him and he remains lost about where to go from her. Karlie Justus of Engine 145 gave the song a thumbs up rating and she described the song as pairing a well-crafted melody with a solid, engaging performance that’s both a throwback to the singer’s heyday and a worthwhile contribution to contemporary country. Matt Bjorke of Roughstock gave the song four-and-a-half stars and described it as having an interesting lyric, alison Bonaguro of CMT gave the song a positive remark writing With mandolin and steel behind him, he seems to have one-upped himself musically and vocally. Amanda Johnson of Digital Rodeo wrote His emotional tenor and strong country vocals keep the future alive for this great artist, I predict he has his next Top 5 on the line and maybe a #1. The website Urban Country Blog gave the song a positive review writing With radio making a shift to more traditional material again. Where Do I Go from You debuted at number 60 on the U. S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart dated August 14,2010, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Like We Never Said Goodbye
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Like We Never Said Goodbye is a song written by Cory Batten and Tiffany Goss and recorded by American country music singer Clay Walker. It was released in January 2012 as the second single to his album She Wont Be Lonely Long. It is also the 32nd single of Walkers career, the song was written after a reunion of the two songwriters Cory Batten and Tiffany Goss after working together previously on the song Down by the River on the Brooks and Dunn album Hillbilly Deluxe. Batten told the website Taste of Country, We hadn’t really written together for about a year, Tiffany and I have always been really close friends. We saw each other at a restaurant, and was like, what would be the next logical thing that happens. How do you break that ice and start talking again, I knew I wanted it to have a snowball effect with the story. You see each other, and then this happens and this happens and this happens … like a snowball effect, like if I hadn’t of walked back in, then we would have never sat down to talk. If we hadn’t sat down to talk, we would never have had that glass of wine, Batten also revealed, Clay told me after he heard it, he knew immediately that he wanted to cut it. He’s always told me that he’s been a big fan of the song and he said he believed in it as much as any song that he has ever recorded. Like We Never Said Goodbye is about a man who by chance runs into an old flame at a bar, after talking, the man and his ex begin communicating like the old times when they were together. The bar closes after a long time talking and they talk about getting back together, Walker performed the song on The Rachael Ray Show on December 23,2011. He also performed the song on The Bachelor on January 23, billy Dukes of Taste of Country gave the song a four and a half stars out of five. He wrote, Like We Never Said Goodbye’ relies on a meter, a sort of bouncy shuffle that is familiar because we’re familiar with Walker. It may not be a song makes a great first impression. Writers at Country Your Way wrote, Like is a very catchy love ballad that is reminiscent of Walker’s hits in the mid 90’s, well written and extremely well performed, Like should be able to connect with many people and remind them of their loves and loves lost. Like We Never Said Goodbye debuted at number 57 on the U. S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart dated December 3,2011 after unsolicited airplay, the song re-entered the chart at number 60 for the week of January 14. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Blue Christmas (song)
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Blue Christmas is a Christmas song written by Billy Hayes and Jay W. Johnson and most famously performed by Elvis Presley. It is a tale of unrequited love during the holidays and is a staple of Christmas music. Both Morgans and Winterhalters versions featured a shorter pop edit of the original lyrics, Elvis Presley cemented the status of Blue Christmas as a rock-and-roll holiday classic by recording it for his 1957 LP Elvis Christmas Album. In addition to contributing to the tone of the song. Presleys original 1957 version was released as a commercially available single for the first time in 1964 and this single was also a hit in the United Kingdom, reaching No.11 on the British singles chart during the week of 26 December 1964. A track on The Beach Boys Christmas Album, the Beach Boys version reached No.3 on the US Christmas charts, but did not chart in the UK. Following the success of Presleys version, the song has been recorded by a host of rock and country artists,1960, The Browns version peaked at No.97 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in December 1960. 2016, The Lumineers did a cover,2016, Black Stone Cherry did a cover
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