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An American Trilogy (book)
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An American Trilogy, Death, Slavery, and Dominion on the Banks of the Cape Fear River is a 2009 is a non-fiction work by Steven M. Wise about the pig industry in North Carolina. Wise is an American legal scholar who specializes in animal protection, Wise writes that the work makes the employees callous, and writes that they are often immigrants who will accept any kind of work, and who are the least likely to report what they see there. The regulations that do exist are not enforced, he writes, barbara Bamberger Scott writes for Curled Up with a Good Book that An American Trilogy is a dramatic and incisive book. She writes that Wise is not asking people to boycott pork and he is looking for advocates for the pig, not converts to veganism. Publishers Weekly calls the book a muddled manifesto, Wise combines what the reviewer writes are genuine outrages with banalities, for example, disapproving of paintings of pigs at the World Pork Expo. The reviewer adds that Readers who root around a bit will find more cogent discussions of animal-rights issues elsewhere, intensive pig farming Wise, Steven M. An American Trilogy, Death, Slavery, and Dominion on the Banks of the Cape Fear River
An American Trilogy (book)
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An American Trilogy: Death, Slavery, and Dominion on the Banks of the Cape Fear River
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Mickey Newbury
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Milton Sims Mickey Newbury, Jr. was an American songwriter, a critically acclaimed recording artist, and a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Newbury was born in Houston, Texas, on May 19,1940, to Mamie Ellen, as a teenager, Newbury sang tenor in a moderately successful vocal group called The Embers. The group opened for famous performers, such as Sam Cooke. Although Newbury tried to make a living from his music by singing in clubs, after four years in the military, he again set his sights on making a living as a songwriter. Before long, he moved to Nashville and signed with the publishing company Acuff-Rose Music. In 1966, country star Don Gibson had a Top Ten country hit with Newburys Funny Familiar Forgotten Feelings while Tom Jones scored a hit with the same song. This feat has not been repeated, based on his phenomenal success as a writer, Newbury scored a solo deal with RCA and recorded Harlequin Melodies. Sonically, the album is different from anything else Newbury would record. The artist largely disowned the album, considering its successor Looks Like Rain his true debut, some of the songs on Harlequin Melodies would be re-recorded by Newbury for later albums, with very marked differences. Just about every aspect of his recording, Looks Like Rain, was unconventional by Nashvilles standards at the time. Cinderella Sound was located in a area of Madison and was run by guitarist Wayne Moss. Newbury would record three albums at Cinderella Sound that defied categorization, one significant aspect of their production is the inclusion sound effects to link the songs, which gave the LPs a conceptual feel and would become a Newbury trademark. His next album, Frisco Mable Joy, includes his most famous song, An American Trilogy, according to Joe Ziemers Newbury memoir Crystal & Stone, Newbury was moved to perform the song—which had been banned in some southern states—as a protest against censorship. It is the song most associated with Newbury and his original recording, reaching #26 in 1972. Newburys version would remain in the Top 40 for seven weeks, in 1972, Elvis Presleys version reached #66 and peaked at #31 on the Easy Listening chart, but it became the grandiose highlight of his live shows. The song gained exposure when Presley performed it during his Aloha From Hawaii television special in January 1973. However, his albums did not sell much, in part because of their eclecticism and Newburys growing disdain for the music business, the Outlaws a year later, which would be recognized as country musics first platinum album. Jennings and Nelson, along with a coterie of other like-minded outlaws, were heralded by many as visionaries for their independent spirit and reaped the rewards of record-breaking sales
Mickey Newbury
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Elvis Presley
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Elvis Aaron Presley was an American singer and actor. Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century, he is referred to as the King of Rock and Roll. Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, and relocated to Memphis and his music career began there in 1954, when he recorded a song with producer Sam Phillips at Sun Records. Accompanied by guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, Presley was a popularizer of rockabilly. RCA Victor acquired his contract in a deal arranged by Colonel Tom Parker, Presleys first RCA single, Heartbreak Hotel, was released in January 1956 and became a number-one hit in the United States. He was regarded as the figure of rock and roll after a series of successful network television appearances. In November 1956, Presley made his debut in Love Me Tender. In 1958, he was drafted into military service, in 1973, Presley featured in the first globally broadcast concert via satellite, Aloha from Hawaii. Several years of drug abuse severely damaged his health. Presley is one of the most celebrated and influential musicians of the 20th century and he won three Grammys, also receiving the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at age 36, and has been inducted into multiple music halls of fame. Presley was born on January 8,1935, in Tupelo, Mississippi, to Gladys Love and Vernon Elvis Presley, Jesse Garon Presley, his identical twin brother, was delivered stillborn 35 minutes before his own birth. Thus, as a child, Presley became close to both parents and formed an especially close bond with his mother. The family attended an Assembly of God, where he found his musical inspiration. Although he was in conflict with the Pentecostal church in his later years, rev. Rex Humbard officiated at his funeral, as Presley had been an admirer of Humbards ministry. Presleys ancestry was primarily a Western European mix, including Scots-Irish, Scottish, German, gladyss great-great-grandmother, Morning Dove White, was possibly a Cherokee Native American. Gladys was regarded by relatives and friends as the dominant member of the small family, Vernon moved from one odd job to the next, evincing little ambition. The family often relied on help from neighbors and government food assistance, the Presleys survived the F5 tornado in the 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak. In 1938, they lost their home after Vernon was found guilty of kiting a check written by the landowner, Orville S. Bean and he was jailed for eight months, and Gladys and Elvis moved in with relatives
Elvis Presley
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Presley in a publicity photograph for the 1957 film
Jailhouse Rock
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Presley's birthplace in
Tupelo, Mississippi
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Presley in a
Sun Records promotional photograph, 1954
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The "iconic cover" of
Presley's 1956 debut album featuring a photo taken July 31, 1955, in Tampa, Florida
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Dixie (song)
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Dixie, also known as Dixies Land, I Wish I Was in Dixie, and other titles, is a popular American song. It is one of the most distinctively American musical products of the 19th century, although not a folk song at its creation, Dixie has since entered the American folk vernacular. The song likely cemented the word Dixie in the American vocabulary as a toponym for the Southern United States, although most sources credit Ohio-born Daniel Decatur Emmett with the songs composition, other people have claimed to have composed Dixie, even during Emmetts lifetime. Compounding the problem of establishing the songs authorship are Emmetts own confused accounts of its writing. The latest challenge has come on behalf of the Snowden Family of Knox County, Ohio, the song originated in the blackface minstrel shows of the 1850s and quickly became popular across the United States. During the American Civil War, Dixie was adopted as a de facto anthem of the Confederacy, New versions appeared at this time that more explicitly tied the song to the events of the Civil War. Since the advent of the Civil Rights Movement, many have identified the lyrics of the song with the iconography, today, Dixie is sometimes considered offensive, and its critics link the act of singing it to sympathy for slavery or racial separation in the American South. Its supporters, on the hand, view it as a legitimate aspect of Southern culture and heritage. The song was a favorite of President Abraham Lincoln, he had it played at some of his political rallies, Dixie is structured into five 2-measure groups of alternating verses and refrains, following an AABC pattern. As the song became popular, the audience joined the troupe in singing the chorus. Traditionally, another eight measures of unaccompanied fiddle playing followed, coming to a close in the middle, since 1936. The song was played at a tempo slower than the one usually played today. Rhythmically, the music is characterized by a heavy, nonchalant, inelegant strut, and is in duple meter, Dixie employs a single rhythmic motive, which is integrated into long, melodic phrases. The melodic content consists primarily of arpeggiations of the tonic triad, the melody of the chorus emulates natural inflections of the voice, and may account for some of the songs popularity. According to musicologist Hans Nathan, Dixie resembles other material that Dan Emmett wrote for Bryants Minstrels, and, in writing it, the second part is probably related to even older material, most likely Scottish folk songs. The chorus follows portions of Johnny Roach, an Emmett piece from earlier in 1859, as with other blackface material, performances of Dixie were accompanied by dancing. The song is a walkaround, which began with a few minstrels acting out the lyrics. Dancers probably performed between verses, and a single used the fiddle solo at the end of the song to strut, twirl his cane, or mustache
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Sheet music cover, c. 1900.
Dixie (song)
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Detail from a playbill of the Bryant's Minstrels depicting the first part of a walkaround, dated 19 December 1859.
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"I Wish I Was in Dixie's Land" Sheet music
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Lew and Ben Snowden on banjo and fiddle in the second-story gable of their home,
Clinton, Knox County, Ohio, c. 1890s.
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Blackface
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Ahmedu Augustine Obiabo known by his stage name Blackface Naija or just Blackface is a Nigerian dancehall, ragga and reggae singer and songwriter. He is best known as co-writer of African Queen with 2face Idibia, Blackface was a founding member of the Nigerian band Plantashun Boyz that he formed in 2000 with Tuface and musician Chibuzor Oji. Blackface and Tuface had met in 1996 when they were studying at the Institute of Management Technology in Enugu, Faze joined a brief while later. The band released two successful albums Body and Soul in 2000 and Sold Out in 2003, the band broke up in 2004, to be briefly reunited in 2007 for just one more album Plan B. Although he kept sustainable relations with Faze, his rift with Tuface widened, after the Plantashun Boiz split up in 2004, Blackface led a solo musical career. He released the hip hop album Ghetto Child in May 2004 collaborating with a number of artists, the album contains Hard Life featuring Alabai as the first single. He also recorded an album for his crew D Tribunal called What We Are. After Ghetto Child, he released Evergreen, Jungle Fever, Me, Musiq and I, Dancehall Business, in 2013, he made a collaborative album 200 with Maine Eazz. Blackface was married with Dayo for eight years and has two children, Caroline and Alex, the couple agreed to separate pending divorce procedures
Blackface
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Minstrel show
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The minstrel show, or minstrelsy, was an American form of entertainment developed in the post-Civil War 19th century. Each show consisted of skits, variety acts, dancing. The shows were performed by people in make-up or blackface for the purpose of playing the role of black people. There were also some African-American performers and all-black minstrel groups that formed and toured, Minstrel shows lampooned black people as dim-witted, lazy, buffoonish, superstitious and happy-go-lucky. Minstrel shows emerged as brief burlesques and comic entractes in the early 1830s and were developed into full-fledged form in the next decade, by 1848, blackface minstrel shows were the national artform, translating formal art such as opera into popular terms for a general audience. By the turn of the 20th century, the show enjoyed but a shadow of its former popularity. The form survived as professional entertainment until about 1910, amateur performances continued until the 1960s in high schools, the genre has had a lasting legacy and influence and was featured in a television series as recently as the late 1970s. Generally, as the civil rights movement progressed and gained acceptance, the typical minstrel performance followed a three-act structure. The troupe first danced onto stage then exchanged wisecracks and sang songs, the second part featured a variety of entertainments, including the pun-filled stump speech. The final act consisted of a slapstick musical plantation skit or a send-up of a popular play, Minstrel songs and sketches featured several stock characters, most popularly the slave and the dandy. These were further divided into such as the mammy, her counterpart the old darky, the provocative mulatto wench. Minstrels claimed that their songs and dances were authentically black, although the extent of the black influence remains debated, spirituals entered the repertoire in the 1870s, marking the first undeniably black music to be used in minstrelsy. Blackface minstrelsy was the first theatrical form that was distinctly American, during the 1830s and 1840s at the height of its popularity, it was at the epicenter of the American music industry. For several decades it provided the means through which American whites viewed black people, on the one hand, it had strong racist aspects, on the other, it afforded white Americans a singular and broad awareness of what some whites considered significant aspects of black culture in America. Although the minstrel shows were popular, being consistently packed with families from all walks of life and every ethnic group. Although white theatrical portrayals of black characters date back to as early as 1604, by the late 18th century, blackface characters began appearing on the American stage, usually as servant types whose roles did little more than provide some element of comic relief. Eventually, similar performers appeared in entractes in New York theaters and other such as taverns. Author Constance Rourke even claimed that Forrests impression was so good he could fool blacks when he mingled with them in the streets, Thomas Dartmouth Rices successful song-and-dance number, Jump Jim Crow, brought blackface performance to a new level of prominence in the early 1830s
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Detail from cover of The Celebrated Negro Melodies, as Sung by the Virginia Minstrels, 1843
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Thomas D. Rice from sheet music cover of "Sich a Getting Up Stairs", 1830s
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Sheet music cover for "Dandy Jim from Caroline", featuring
Dan Emmett (center) and the other
Virginia Minstrels, c. 1844
Minstrel show
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Poster for
Haverly's United Mastodon Minstrels
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Confederate States of America
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The Confederate States, officially the Confederate States of America, commonly referred to as the Confederacy, was a breakaway country of 11 secessionist slave states existing from 1861 to 1865. It was never recognized as an Independent country, although it achieved belligerent status by Britain. A new Confederate government was established in February 1861 before Lincoln took office in March, after the Civil War began in April, four slave states of the Upper South – Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina – also declared their secession and joined the Confederacy. The government of the United States rejected the claims of secession, the Civil War began with the April 12,1861, Confederate attack upon Fort Sumter, a Union fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. In spring 1865, after four years of fighting which led to an estimated 620,000 military deaths, all the Confederate forces surrendered. Jefferson Davis later lamented that the Confederacy had disappeared in 1865, Missouri and Kentucky were represented by partisan factions from those states, while the legitimate governments of those two states retained formal adherence to the Union. Also fighting for the Confederacy were two of the Five Civilized Tribes located in Indian Territory and a new, but uncontrolled, Confederate Territory of Arizona. Efforts by certain factions in Maryland to secede were halted by federal imposition of law, while Delaware, though of divided loyalty. A Unionist government in parts of Virginia organized the new state of West Virginia. With the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1,1863, the Union made abolition of slavery a war goal, as Union forces moved southward, large numbers of plantation slaves were freed. Many joined the Union lines, enrolling in service as soldiers, teamsters and laborers, the most notable advance was Shermans March to the Sea in late 1864. Much of the Confederacys infrastructure was destroyed, including telegraphs, railroads, plantations in the path of Shermans forces were severely damaged. Internal movement became increasingly difficult for Southerners, weakening the economy and these losses created an insurmountable disadvantage in men, materiel, and finance. Public support for Confederate President Jefferson Daviss administration eroded over time due to repeated military reverses, economic hardships, after four years of campaigning, Richmond was captured by Union forces in April 1865. Shortly afterward, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, President Davis was captured on May 10,1865, and jailed in preparation for a treason trial that was ultimately never held. The U. S. government began a process known as Reconstruction which attempted to resolve the political and constitutional issues of the Civil War. By 1877, the Compromise of 1877 ended Reconstruction in the former Confederate states, Confederate veterans had been temporarily disenfranchised by Reconstruction policy. The prewar South had many areas, the war left the entire region economically devastated by military action, ruined infrastructure
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Alexander Stephens CSA Vice President; old Whig friend of Lincoln; author of 'Cornerstone Speech'
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Flag (1861–1863)
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William L. Yancey, Alabama Fire-Eater, "The Orator of Secession".
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William Henry Gist, Governor of South Carolina, called the Secessionist Convention.
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Bahamas
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The Bahamas, known officially as the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, is an archipelagic state within the Lucayan Archipelago. The capital is Nassau on the island of New Providence, the designation of the Bahamas can refer either to the country or to the larger island chain that it shares with the Turks and Caicos Islands. As stated in the mandate/manifesto of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force, the Bahamas is the site of Columbus first landfall in the New World in 1492. At that time, the islands were inhabited by the Lucayan, although the Spanish never colonised the Bahamas, they shipped the native Lucayans to slavery in Hispaniola. The islands were mostly deserted from 1513 until 1648, when English colonists from Bermuda settled on the island of Eleuthera, the Bahamas became a British Crown colony in 1718, when the British clamped down on piracy. After the American War of Independence, the Crown resettled thousands of American Loyalists in the Bahamas, they brought their slaves with them, Africans constituted the majority of the population from this period. Slavery in the Bahamas was abolished in 1834, Today the descendants of slaves and free Africans make up nearly 90% of the population, issues related to the slavery years are part of society. The Bahamas became an independent Commonwealth realm in 1973, retaining Queen Elizabeth II as its monarch, in terms of gross domestic product per capita, the Bahamas is one of the richest countries in the Americas, with an economy based on tourism and finance. The name Bahamas is derived from either the Taino ba ha ma, alternatively, it may originate from Guanahani, a local name of unclear meaning. In English, the Bahamas is one of two countries whose self-standing short name begins with the word the, along with The Gambia. Taino people moved into the uninhabited southern Bahamas from Hispaniola and Cuba around the 11th century and they came to be known as the Lucayan people. An estimated 30,000 Lucayan inhabited the Bahamas at the time of Christopher Columbus arrival in 1492, Columbuss first landfall in the New World was on an island he named San Salvador. Some researchers believe this site to be present-day San Salvador Island, an alternative theory holds that Columbus landed to the southeast on Samana Cay, according to calculations made in 1986 by National Geographic writer and editor Joseph Judge, based on Columbuss log. Evidence in support of this remains inconclusive, on the landfall island, Columbus made first contact with the Lucayan and exchanged goods with them. The Spanish forced much of the Lucayan population to Hispaniola for use as forced labour, the slaves suffered from harsh conditions and most died from contracting diseases to which they had no immunity, half of the Taino died from smallpox alone. The population of the Bahamas was severely diminished, in 1648, the Eleutherian Adventurers, led by William Sayle, migrated from Bermuda. These English Puritans established the first permanent European settlement on an island which they named Eleuthera—the name derives from the Greek word for freedom and they later settled New Providence, naming it Sayles Island after one of their leaders. To survive, the settlers salvaged goods from wrecks, in 1670 King Charles II granted the islands to the Lords Proprietors of the Carolinas in North America
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A depiction of Columbus' first landing, claiming possession of the
New World for Spain in
caravels; the
Niña and the
Pinta, on Watling Island, an island of The Bahamas that the natives called
Guanahani and that he named San Salvador, on October 12, 1492.
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Flag
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Sign at
Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park commemorating hundreds of
African-American slaves who escaped to freedom in the early 1820s in the Bahamas.
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Edward VIII, the
Duke of Windsor and
Governor of the Bahamas from 1940 to 1945.
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African American
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African Americans are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa. The term may also be used to only those individuals who are descended from enslaved Africans. As a compound adjective the term is usually hyphenated as African-American, Black and African Americans constitute the third largest racial and ethnic group in the United States. Most African Americans are of West and Central African descent and are descendants of enslaved peoples within the boundaries of the present United States. On average, African Americans are of 73. 2–80. 9% West African, 18–24% European, according to US Census Bureau data, African immigrants generally do not self-identify as African American. The overwhelming majority of African immigrants identify instead with their own respective ethnicities, immigrants from some Caribbean, Central American and South American nations and their descendants may or may not also self-identify with the term. After the founding of the United States, black people continued to be enslaved, believed to be inferior to white people, they were treated as second-class citizens. The Naturalization Act of 1790 limited U. S. citizenship to whites only, in 2008, Barack Obama became the first African American to be elected President of the United States. The first African slaves arrived via Santo Domingo to the San Miguel de Gualdape colony, the ill-fated colony was almost immediately disrupted by a fight over leadership, during which the slaves revolted and fled the colony to seek refuge among local Native Americans. De Ayllón and many of the colonists died shortly afterwards of an epidemic, the settlers and the slaves who had not escaped returned to Haiti, whence they had come. The first recorded Africans in British North America were 20 and odd negroes who came to Jamestown, as English settlers died from harsh conditions, more and more Africans were brought to work as laborers. Typically, young men or women would sign a contract of indenture in exchange for transportation to the New World, the landowner received 50 acres of land from the state for each servant purchased from a ships captain. An indentured servant would work for years without wages. The status of indentured servants in early Virginia and Maryland was similar to slavery, servants could be bought, sold, or leased and they could be physically beaten for disobedience or running away. Africans could legally raise crops and cattle to purchase their freedom and they raised families, married other Africans and sometimes intermarried with Native Americans or English settlers. By the 1640s and 1650s, several African families owned farms around Jamestown and some became wealthy by colonial standards and purchased indentured servants of their own. In 1640, the Virginia General Court recorded the earliest documentation of slavery when they sentenced John Punch. One of Dutch African arrivals, Anthony Johnson, would own one of the first black slaves, John Casor
African American
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An artist's conception of
Crispus Attucks (1723–1770), the first "
martyr " of the
American Revolution. He was of
Native American and African American descent.
African American
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Jesse Owens shook racial stereotypes both with Nazis and segregationists in the USA at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
African American
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An African-American boy outside of
Cincinnati,
Ohio in the 1940s.
African American
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March on Washington, August 28, 1963, shows civil rights leaders and union leaders.
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Spiritual (music)
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Spirituals are generally Christian songs that were created by African slaves in the United States. Spirituals were originally a tradition that imparted Christian values while also describing the hardships of slavery. Although spirituals were originally unaccompanied monophonic songs, they are best known today in harmonized choral arrangements and this historic group of uniquely American songs is now recognized as a distinct genre of music. Slave Songs of the United States, the first major collection of Negro spirituals, was published in 1867 and they are a result of the interaction of music and religion from Africa with music and religion of European origin. Further, this occurred only in the United States. Africans who converted to Christianity in other parts of the world, even in the Caribbean and Latin America, Negro spirituals were primarily expressions of religious faith. Some may also have served as socio-political protests veiled as assimilation to white American culture and they originated among enslaved Africans in the United States. Slavery was introduced to the British colonies in the early 17th century, in the United States, these people would remain in bondage for the entire 18th century and much of the 19th century. Most were not fully emancipated until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1865, Slaves were forbidden from speaking their native languages, and were generally converted to Christianity. With narrow vocabularies, slaves would use the words they did know to translate biblical information, while some slave owners believed that Christian slaves would be more docile, others came to feel that stories of Moses leading the Israelites out of bondage were counterproductive. Forced conversion only worked to a point since church attendance might be required, some slaves became Christians voluntarily, either because it helped them endure hardships or because membership may have offered other benefits. Many of the Slaves turned towards the Baptist or Methodist churches, in some places enslaved Africans were permitted, or even encouraged, to hold their own prayer meetings. During these meetings, worshipers would sing, chant, dance, along with spirituals, shouts also emerged in the Praise Houses. Shouts begin slowly with the shuffling of feet and clapping of hands, drums were used as they had been in Africa, for communication. When the connection between drumming, communication, and resistance was eventually made drums were forbidden. Slaves introduced a number of new instruments to America, the bones, body percussion, and an instrument variously called the bania, banju, or banjar and they drew on native rhythms and their African heritage. They brought with them from Africa long-standing religious traditions that highlighted the importance of storytelling, Music was an essential element in communicating identity, shared social mores, traditional customs, and ethnic history. The primary function of the spirituals was as communal songs sung in a religious gathering, Negro spirituals may also have served as socio-political protests veiled as assimilation to the white American culture
Spiritual (music)
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Folk music
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Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival. The term originated in the 19th century, but is applied to music older than that. Some types of music are also called world music. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways, as music transmitted orally, music with unknown composers and it has been contrasted with commercial and classical styles. Starting in the century, a new form of popular folk music evolved from traditional folk music. This process and period is called the revival and reached a zenith in the 1960s. This form of music is called contemporary folk music or folk revival music to distinguish it from earlier folk forms. Smaller, similar revivals have occurred elsewhere in the world at other times and this type of folk music also includes fusion genres such as folk rock, folk metal, electric folk, and others. Even individual songs may be a blend of the two, a consistent definition of traditional folk music is elusive. The terms folk music, folk song, and folk dance are comparatively recent expressions and they are extensions of the term folklore, which was coined in 1846 by the English antiquarian William Thoms to describe the traditions, customs, and superstitions of the uncultured classes. Traditional folk music also includes most indigenous music, however, despite the assembly of an enormous body of work over some two centuries, there is still no certain definition of what folk music is. Some do not even agree that the term Folk Music should be used, Folk music may tend to have certain characteristics but it cannot clearly be differentiated in purely musical terms. One meaning often given is that of old songs, with no known composers, the fashioning and re-fashioning of the music by the community that give it its folk character. Such definitions depend upon processes rather than abstract musical types, one widely used definition is simply Folk music is what the people sing. For Scholes, as well as for Cecil Sharp and Béla Bartók, Folk music was already. seen as the authentic expression of a way of life now past or about to disappear, particularly in a community uninfluenced by art music and by commercial and printed song. In these terms folk music may be seen as part of a schema comprising four types, primitive or tribal, elite or art, folk. Music in this genre is often called traditional music. Although the term is only descriptive, in some cases people use it as the name of a genre
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Béla Bartók recording Slovak peasant singers in 1908
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Indians always distinguished between classical and folk music, though in the past even classical Indian music used to rely on the unwritten transmission of repertoire.
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Armenian traditional musicians
Folk music
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Assyrians playing
zurna and
Davul, the typically used instruments for their folk music.
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The Battle Hymn of the Republic
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The Battle Hymn of the Republic, also known as Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory outside of the United States, is a song by American writer Julia Ward Howe using the music from the song John Browns Body. Howes more famous lyrics were written in November 1861, and first published in The Atlantic Monthly in February 1862, the song links the judgment of the wicked at the end of the age with the American Civil War. Since that time, it has become a popular and well-known American patriotic song. The Glory, Hallelujah tune was a folk hymn developed in the oral tradition of camp meetings in the southern United States. In the first known version, Canaans Happy Shore, the text includes the verse Oh, Brothers will you meet me /On Canaans happy shore. And chorus There well shout and give him glory /For glory is his own, the tune and variants of these words spread across both the southern and northern United States. At a flag-raising ceremony at Fort Warren, near Boston, Massachusetts on Sunday May 12,1861, Brothers tune and the Glory, Hallelujah chorus, was publicly played perhaps for the first time. The American Civil War had begun the previous month, in 1890, George Kimball wrote his account of how the 2nd Infantry Battalion of the Massachusetts militia, known as the Tiger Battalion, collectively worked out the lyrics to John Browns Body. Kimball wrote, We had a jovial Scotchman in the battalion, named John Brown. and as he happened to bear the name of the old hero of Harpers Ferry. These ditties underwent various ramifications, until eventually the lines were reached, — John Browns body lies a-mouldering in the grave, and, — Hes gone to be a soldier in the army of the Lord, His souls marching on. These lines seemed to give satisfaction, the idea that Browns soul was marching on receiving recognition at once as having a germ of inspiration in it. They were sung over and over again with a deal of gusto. Some leaders of the battalion, feeling the words were coarse and irreverent, tried to urge the adoption of more fitting lyrics, the lyrics were soon prepared for publication by members of the battalion, together with publisher C. S. Hall. They selected and polished verses they felt appropriate, and may even have enlisted the services of a poet to help polish. Kimballs battalion was dispatched to Murray, Kentucky early in the Civil War, rufus R. Dawes, then in command of Company K of the 6th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, stated in his memoirs that the man who started the singing was Sergeant John Ticknor of his company. Howes companion at the review, The Reverend James Freeman Clarke, of the writing of the lyrics, Howe remembered, I went to bed that night as usual, and slept, according to my wont, quite soundly. I awoke in the gray of the twilight, and as I lay waiting for the dawn. Having thought out all the stanzas, I said to myself, I must get up and write these verses down, lest I fall asleep again and forget them
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
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As originally published 1862 in
The Atlantic Monthly
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
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Cover of the 1862 sheet music for "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"
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Union Army
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The Union Army was the land force that fought for the Union during the American Civil War,1861 to 1865. It included the permanent regular army of the United States, which was augmented by numbers of temporary units consisting of volunteers as well as conscripts. The Union Army fought and eventually defeated the Confederate Army during the war, at least two and a half million men served in the Union Army, almost all were volunteers. About 360,000 Union soldiers died from all causes,280,000 were wounded and 200,000 deserted. When the American Civil War began in April 1861, there were only 16,000 men in the U. S. Army, and of these many Southern officers resigned and joined the Confederate army. The U. S. Army consisted of ten regiments of infantry, four of artillery, Lincolns call forced the border states to choose sides, and four seceded, making the Confederacy eleven states strong. The war proved to be longer and more extensive than anyone North or South had expected, the call for volunteers initially was easily met by patriotic Northerners, abolitionists, and even immigrants who enlisted for a steady income and meals. Over 10,000 Germans in New York and Pennsylvania immediately responded to Lincolns call, as more men were needed, however, the number of volunteers fell and both money bounties and forced conscription had to be turned to. Nevertheless, between April 1861 and April 1865, at least two and a million men served in the Union Army, of whom the majority were volunteers. It is a misconception that the South held an advantage because of the percentage of professional officers who resigned to join the Confederate army. At the start of the war, there were 824 graduates of the U. S, Military Academy on the active list, of these,296 resigned or were dismissed, and 184 of those became Confederate officers. Of the approximately 900 West Point graduates who were civilians,400 returned to the Union Army and 99 to the Confederate. Therefore, the ratio of Union to Confederate professional officers was 642 to 283, the South did have the advantage of other military colleges, such as The Citadel and Virginia Military Institute, but they produced fewer officers. The Union Army was composed of numerous organizations, which were generally organized geographically, Military Division A collection of Departments reporting to one commander. Military Divisions were similar to the modern term Theater, and were modeled close to, though not synonymous with. Department An organization that covered a region, including responsibilities for the Federal installations therein. Those named for states usually referred to Southern states that had been occupied and it was more common to name departments for rivers or regions. District A subdivision of a Department, there were also Subdistricts for smaller regions
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The
21st Michigan Infantry, a company of
William Tecumseh Sherman 's army
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Flag of the United States from 1863 until 1865.
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Recruiting poster for the First Battalion, New York Mounted Rifles
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Noncommissioned officers of the 93rd New York Infantry
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American Civil War
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The American Civil War was an internal conflict fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865. The Union faced secessionists in eleven Southern states grouped together as the Confederate States of America, the Union won the war, which remains the bloodiest in U. S. history. Among the 34 U. S. states in February 1861, War broke out in April 1861 when Confederates attacked the U. S. fortress of Fort Sumter. The Confederacy grew to eleven states, it claimed two more states, the Indian Territory, and the southern portions of the western territories of Arizona. The Confederacy was never recognized by the United States government nor by any foreign country. The states that remained loyal, including border states where slavery was legal, were known as the Union or the North, the war ended with the surrender of all the Confederate armies and the dissolution of the Confederate government in the spring of 1865. The war had its origin in the issue of slavery. The Confederacy collapsed and 4 million slaves were freed, but before his inauguration, seven slave states with cotton-based economies formed the Confederacy. The first six to declare secession had the highest proportions of slaves in their populations, the first seven with state legislatures to resolve for secession included split majorities for unionists Douglas and Bell in Georgia with 51% and Louisiana with 55%. Alabama had voted 46% for those unionists, Mississippi with 40%, Florida with 38%, Texas with 25%, of these, only Texas held a referendum on secession. Eight remaining slave states continued to reject calls for secession, outgoing Democratic President James Buchanan and the incoming Republicans rejected secession as illegal. Lincolns March 4,1861 inaugural address declared that his administration would not initiate a civil war, speaking directly to the Southern States, he reaffirmed, I have no purpose, directly or indirectly to interfere with the institution of slavery in the United States where it exists. I believe I have no right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. After Confederate forces seized numerous federal forts within territory claimed by the Confederacy, efforts at compromise failed, the Confederates assumed that European countries were so dependent on King Cotton that they would intervene, but none did, and none recognized the new Confederate States of America. Hostilities began on April 12,1861, when Confederate forces fired upon Fort Sumter, while in the Western Theater the Union made significant permanent gains, in the Eastern Theater, the battle was inconclusive in 1861–62. The autumn 1862 Confederate campaigns into Maryland and Kentucky failed, dissuading British intervention, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which made ending slavery a war goal. To the west, by summer 1862 the Union destroyed the Confederate river navy, then much of their western armies, the 1863 Union siege of Vicksburg split the Confederacy in two at the Mississippi River. In 1863, Robert E. Lees Confederate incursion north ended at the Battle of Gettysburg, Western successes led to Ulysses S. Grants command of all Union armies in 1864
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New Orleans the largest cotton exporting port for New England and Great Britain textile mills, shipping Mississippi River Valley goods from North, South and Border states.
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Clockwise from top:
Battle of Gettysburg,
Union Captain John Tidball's artillery,
Confederate prisoners,
ironclad USS Atlanta, ruins of
Richmond, Virginia,
Battle of Franklin
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Sen. Stephen Douglas, author of the
Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854
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Sen. John J. Crittenden, of the 1860
Crittenden Compromise
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Frisco Mabel Joy
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Frisco Mable Joy is the 1971 concept album by singer-songwriter Mickey Newbury. This was the second of three albums Newbury recorded at Cinderella Sound, the album includes the original version of An American Trilogy, which Elvis Presley later performed in his Las Vegas shows with much success. How Many Times is a dramatically re-imagined version of a song first released on Harlequin Melodies, other standout tracks include The Futures Not What It Used to Be, Remember The Good, Frisco Depot, and How I Love Them Old Songs. The track San Francisco Mabel Joy was not initially part of the album and this release marks the first time that Frisco Mabel Joy has been released on CD in remastered form, after the original master tapes were rediscovered in 2010. All songs written by Mickey Newbury unless otherwise noted, the song is largely associated with Presleys interpretation, though in execution it is substantively different from Newburys original version. How I Love Them Old Songs has merited over thirty different cover versions including recordings by Gene Vincent, Carol Channing, Bill Monroe, and Don Gibson. Mickey Gilley recorded the song on his 1975 album Movin On, Remember The Good has been recorded by Eddy Arnold, Roy Orbison, Brook Benton, and Glenn Yarbrough, among others. Frisco Depot was recorded by Waylon Jennings in 1972 prior to his breakthrough Lonesome, Onry, robert Forster included Frisco Depot on his 1995 covers album I Had a New York Girlfriend. The song has also covered by Roberta Flack and Ronny Cox. Roger Miller recorded Swiss Cottage Place prior to the release of Newburys LP. Ronnie Milsap recorded a version of The Futures Not What It Used To Be in 1977. In 2000 Peter Blackstock, the founder of No Depression magazine, Artists that participated in the recording include Dave Alvin performing Mobile Blue, Michael Fracassos Remember The Good, and Kris Kristofferson recording San Francisco Mabel Joy. Manowar included An American Trilogy on their 2002 album Warriors of the World Frisco Mabel Joy at AllMusic Mickey Newbury Website Mickey Newbury, Songs Covered By Over 1,100 Artists
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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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Elvis on Tour
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Elvis on Tour is a Golden Globe Award-winning American musical documentary film released by MGM in 1972. It was the thirty-third and final motion picture to star Elvis Presley before his death in 1977. A follow-up to the 1970 release Elvis, Thats the Way it Is, another musical documentary, Elvis on Tour also contains vintage footage of Presleys famous 1956 appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show and pre-tour rehearsal footage. It also includes footage of enthusiastic fan reactions scattered throughout the film, also included are portions of a forty-minute interview that Presley gave about his life and career before filming began. Presleys manager, Colonel Tom Parker, was unhappy with the inclusion of a scene which mocked Presleys acting career by showing screen kisses taken from a number of his previous films. According to the producers, it was a dig at the repetitiveness of these films by changing the background. Among those working on film were Martin Scorsese, who supervised montage sequences. The film was directed by Pierre Adidge and Robert Abel, the concert film reached #13 on the Variety National Box Office Survey. In general, documentaries were very rarely box office successes, however, despite costing upwards of $1.6 million to produce, most of which was Presleys $1 million fee, the film recouped its production costs after just three days in theaters. The 1997 VHS reissue was negatively criticized because of the lack of the images that were present on all previously released VHS copies of the film. Although Presley would be offered numerous roles over the next few years. Footage from Elvis on Tour would later be reused in the 1981 Elvis documentary This Is Elvis, the working titles of the film were Sold Out and then Standing Room Only, and a soundtrack album was planned with this title, but never released. All of the songs were performed by Elvis onstage unless otherwise noted. Many outtakes exist in the MGM vaults, including a performance of For The Good Times from the Hampton Roads. There was no album released to accompany the movie. However more recently some rehearsals and a complete show have been released by BMG, Elvis on Tour - The Rehearsals Elvis - Close Up Rehearsals and the four shows in their entirety have all been released unofficially. As part of the 75th birthday celebrations of Elvis Presley, Warner Bros. released a version of Elvis On Tour on DVD. However, the Johnny B. Goode live recording over the credits was replaced with a live recording of Dont Be Cruel due to copyright issues
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Elvis on Tour
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Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite
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Aloha from Hawaii Via Satellite is a concert that was headlined by Elvis Presley, and was broadcast live via satellite on January 14,1973. The concert took place at the Honolulu International Center in Honolulu and aired in over 40 countries across Asia, despite the satellite innovation, the United States did not air the concert until April 4,1973. Viewing figures have been estimated to be between 1 and 1.5 billion viewers worldwide, the show was the most expensive entertainment special at the time, costing $2.5 million. On July 8,1972, inspired by a recent visit made by U. S, as the show had already been planned prior to this upset, the original shows, now set for November, would still go ahead but without being filmed. Parker held another conference on September 4,1972, in Las Vegas to confirm that the concert, now titled Aloha From Hawaii. Two weeks after the Las Vegas press conference Parker received a letter from Honolulu Advertiser columnist Eddie Sherman, Sherman had read in news accounts that there was to be no charge for admittance to the concerts, instead a donation for charity was required. Seeing the chance to publicize Presleys charitable nature once again, Parker eagerly agreed, producer-director Marty Pasetta had attended one of Presleys concerts at Long Beach in mid-November, and he had found it to be boring and lacking in any physical excitement. He approached Parker with ideas about the broadcast, including a runway that led out from the stage so Presley could get closer to his audience, Parker insisted that the ideas were useless, and that Presley would agree that they were useless. Pasetta, however, decided to approach Presley about the ideas anyway and was surprised to find that he would be happy to do whatever Pasetta felt was best for the show. This was another example of the rift between Presley and his manager. He also announced officially that it would now be in aid of the Kui Lee Cancer Fund, Presley arrived in Hawaii again on January 9, a day after his 38th birthday, to begin rehearsals. He had lost twenty-five pounds for the show and was confident after news that his sales were increasing. Rehearsals were held at the Hilton Hawaiian Village while the set was being constructed. Although there were technical problems, the rehearsals were an overall success. Presley taped a January 12 rehearsal concert as a fail-safe in case anything went wrong with the satellite during the actual broadcast, for both shows, Presley was dressed in a white American Eagle jumpsuit designed by Bill Belew. The broadcast was directed by Marty Pasetta, who was then in charge of directing the Oscar ceremonies, audience tickets for the January 14 concert and its January 12 pre-broadcast rehearsal show carried no price. Each audience member was asked to pay whatever he or she could afford, the performance and concert merchandise sales raised $75,000 for the Kui Lee Cancer Fund in Hawaii. According to Elvis Presley Enterprises, between 1 and 1.5 billion people watched the one-hour broadcast live, the album containing the music from the concert was a blockbuster hit, becoming Presleys first chart-topping album in the US since the soundtrack to Roustabout in 1965
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Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite
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Elvis Presley, 1973 Aloha From Hawaii television broadcast
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Aloha from Hawaii jumpsuit on exhibit at Graceland
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Manic Street Preachers
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Manic Street Preachers are a Welsh rock band formed in 1986 in Blackwood, Wales and consisting of James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire and Sean Moore. They are often known as The Manics. After the release of their first single, Suicide Alley, Richey Edwards joined the band as co-lyricist, despite the albums failure to meet this level of success, the band carried on with their career. The group later became a trio when Edwards disappeared on 1 February 1995, Bradfield, Moore and Wire went on to gain critical and commercial success. The band have released albums and three compilations, Forever Delayed, Lipstick Traces and National Treasures – The Complete Singles. The bands later albums retained a leftist politicisation and intellectual lyrical style while adopting a broader alternative rock sound, to date, they have sold more than 10 million albums worldwide. Over their career the Manics have headlined several festivals including Glastonbury, T in the Park, V Festival and they have won eleven NME Awards, eight Q Awards and four BRIT Awards. The Manics were also nominated for the Mercury Prize in 1996 and 1999, Manic Street Preachers formed in 1986 at Oakdale Comprehensive School, Blackwood, South Wales. During this time, Bradfield, alongside the classically trained Sean Moore, Original bassist Flicker left the band in early 1988, reportedly because he believed that the band were moving away from their punk roots. The band continued as a three-piece, with Wire switching from guitar to bass, the Manics intended to restore revolution to rock and roll at a time when Britain was dominated by shoegaze and acid house. The NME magazine gave Suicide Alley an enthusiastic review, citing a press release by Richey Edwards, in 1990 the Manic Street Preachers signed a deal with label Damaged Goods Records for one EP. The four-track New Art Riot E. P. attracted as much media interest for its attacks on fellow musicians as for the actual music, with the help of Hall or Nothing management, the Manics signed to indie label Heavenly Records. The band recorded their first single for the label, entitled Motown Junk and their next single, You Love Us, sampled Krzysztof Pendereckis Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima as well as Iggy Pop. The video featured Nicky Wire in drag as Marilyn Monroe and contained references to the film Betty Blue. In a now legendary interview with then-NME journalist Steve Lamacq, Edwards carved the phrase 4REAL into his arm with a blade to prove their sincerity. He was taken to hospital and received seventeen stitches, as a result of their controversial behaviour, the Manics quickly became favourites of the British music press, which helped them build a rabidly dedicated following. Columbia Records of Sony Music UK signed the band shortly afterwards, the bands debut album, Generation Terrorists, was released in 1992 on the Columbia Records imprint. The liner notes contained a quote for each of the albums eighteen songs
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Manic Street Preachers in 2014. From left to right:
James Dean Bradfield,
Sean Moore and
Nicky Wire
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Manic Street Preachers in Japan circa 1993
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Edwards with 4 Real carved into his arm in a discussion with the
NME. He disappeared without a trace on February 1st, 1995.
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Manic Street Preachers live in Brighton in 2004
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Everything Must Go (Manic Street Preachers album)
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Everything Must Go is the fourth studio album by Welsh alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. It was released on 20 May 1996, through Epic Records and it represented a shift in the groups sound due to Edwards departure, the album charted in mainland Europe, Asia and Australia, eventually selling over two million copies. Everything Must Go is frequently featured and voted highly in lists for one of the best albums of all time by music publications such as NME. Singer-songwriter James Dean Bradfield said that the sound of the drums was crucial on the album to set the tone. Producer Mike Hedges was the person the group had in mind since The Holy Bible in part for his role on Siouxsie. The band stayed in France in Normandy to work at Hedges own studio which contained a mixing desk coming from the Abbey Road Studios, the working title of the album was Sounds in the Grass, named after a series of paintings by Jackson Pollock. Everything Must Go takes its name from a play by Patrick Jones, Everything Must Go represents a change of style for the band. The lyrical focus of the album is also shifted, due in part to Edwards departure, the albums lyrical themes would continue through their next record, This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours. Due to Edwards departure the tone of the lyrics and the subjects of the songs changed significantly. Wire stated about the aesthetic and the feel of the album, saying that, With Everything Must Go, in the way we talked about it, we were the most timid wed ever been, because we were very nervous. It was strange because it was the most un-Manics weve been about in an album, the opening song of the album has been described by the band as a song that reflects the way that the UK accepts the American culture and worships it. In the 10th anniversary edition, Bradfield stated that the song suited the mood of the album, as well it reminds him of the times Nicky and Richey wrote lyrics together. Being Edwards work, Bradfield denies that this song or any other written by Edwards and featured on the album is a tribute to Richey, by the bands words Enola/Alone is both uplifting and melancholic, and thats why people can grab on as Wire says. The lyrics are inspired to some extent by Camera Lucida. It has been made a parallel between the lyrics and Richeys condition, interiors is a tribute to Willem de Kooning, a painter who suffered from Alzheimers Disease. It was inspired by a documentary on De Koonings experience of suffering the condition, further Away was the bands moment of freedom, where Wire stated that this song could never been written before in the early years, being described as almost a love song. It was release as a single only in Japan, the B-side, Sepia, is a reference to the final scene of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, where the two main characters are shown in freeze frame, which then is colourised to sepia tone. As for No Surface all Feeling part of the guitar was recorded by Edwards, the album was released on 20 May 1996
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Everything Must Go
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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
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The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, based in London, was formed by Sir Thomas Beecham in 1946. In its early days the orchestra secured profitable recording contracts and important engagements including the Glyndebourne Festival Opera and the concerts of the Royal Philharmonic Society. Since Beechams death the RPO has had seven chief conductors, including Rudolf Kempe, Antal Doráti, André Previn and Vladimir Ashkenazy, others closely associated with the orchestra have included Sir Charles Groves, Sir Charles Mackerras, Peter Maxwell Davies, Yehudi Menuhin and Leopold Stokowski. In 2004 the orchestra acquired its first permanent London base, at the new Cadogan Hall in Chelsea, the RPO also gives concerts at the Royal Festival Hall, the Royal Albert Hall and venues around the UK and other countries. In 1932 the conductor Sir Thomas Beecham had founded the London Philharmonic Orchestra, which, with the backing of supporters, he ran until 1940. Beecham left to conduct in Australia and then the US, the orchestra continued without him after reorganising itself as a self-governing body. On Beechams return to England in September 1944 the LPO welcomed him back, if he were to become chief conductor again it would be as a paid employee of the orchestra. Beecham responded, I emphatically refuse to be wagged by any orchestra, I am going to found one more great orchestra to round off my career. His new orchestra to rival the Philharmonia would, he told Legge, be launched in the most auspicious circumstances, in 1946 Beecham reached an agreement with the Royal Philharmonic Society, his new orchestra would replace the LPO at all the Societys concerts. He thus gained the right to name the new ensemble the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Beecham arranged with the Glyndebourne Festival that the RPO should be the resident orchestra at Glyndebourne seasons. He secured backing, including that of record companies in the US as well as Britain, the music critic Lyndon Jenkins writes, Naturally, it quickly became known that he was planning another orchestra, at which the cry Hell never get the players. Went up just as it had done in 1932, Beecham was unmoved, I always get the players, he retorted. Among other considerations, they are so good they refuse to play under anybody, Beecham appointed Victor Olof as his orchestral manager, and they started recruiting. At the top of their list were leading musicians with whom Beecham had worked before the war, four had been founder members of the LPO fifteen years previously, Reginald Kell, Gerald Jackson, James Bradshaw and Jack Silvester. From the current LPO they engaged the oboist Peter Newbury, Beecham persuaded the veteran bassoonist Archie Camden, who had been pursuing a solo career, to return to orchestral work. The cellos were led by Raymond Clark, enlisted from the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the principal horn player was Dennis Brain, who already held the same post in Legges Philharmonia, but managed to play for both orchestras. Jenkins speculates that as Beecham knew all Britains orchestral leaders at first hand he decided not to try to lure any of them away, on 11 September 1946 the Royal Philharmonic assembled for its first rehearsal. Four days later it gave its first concert, at the Davis Theatre, Beecham telegraphed a colleague, Press virtually unanimous in praise of orchestra
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The RPO at
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Arms of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
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Beecham rehearsing in 1948
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Clifford Curzon, soloist at the RPO's Silver Jubilee concert
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Heavy metal music
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Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and the United States. Heavy metal lyrics and performance styles are associated with aggression. The first heavy metal such as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath. During the mid-1970s, Judas Priest helped spur the evolution by discarding much of its blues influence, Motörhead introduced a punk rock sensibility. Beginning in the late 1970s, bands in the new wave of British heavy metal such as Iron Maiden, before the end of the decade, heavy metal fans became known as metalheads or headbangers. During the 1980s, glam metal became popular with such as Mötley Crüe. Since the mid-1990s popular styles have further expanded the definition of the genre and these include groove metal and nu metal, the latter of which often incorporates elements of grunge and hip hop. Heavy metal is characterized by loud distorted guitars, emphatic rhythms, dense bass-and-drum sound. Metal subgenres variously emphasize, alter, or omit one or more of these attributes, the typical band lineup includes a drummer, a bassist, a rhythm guitarist, a lead guitarist, and a singer, who may or may not be an instrumentalist. Keyboard instruments are used to enhance the fullness of the sound. Deep Purples Jon Lord played an overdriven Hammond organ, in 1970, John Paul Jones used a Moog synthesizer on Led Zeppelin III, by the 1990s, in. almost every subgenre of heavy metal synthesizers were used. The electric guitar and the power that it projects through amplification has historically been the key element in heavy metal. The heavy metal guitar sound comes from a use of high volumes. Guitar solos are an element of the heavy metal code. That underscores the significance of the guitar to the genre, most heavy metal songs featur at least one guitar solo, which is a primary means through which the heavy metal performer expresses virtuosity. One exception is nu metal bands, which tend to omit guitar solos, with rhythm guitar parts, the heavy crunch sound in heavy metal. Palm muting the strings with the hand and using distortion. Palm muting creates a tighter, more sound and it emphasizes the low end
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Judas Priest, performing in 2005
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Enid Williams from
Girlschool and
Lemmy from
Motörhead singing "Please Don't Touch" live in 2009. The ties that bind the two bands started in the 1980s and are still strong today.
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Ritchie Blackmore, founder of
Deep Purple and
Rainbow, known for the neoclassical approach in his guitar performances
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King Diamond, known for writing conceptual lyrics about horror stories
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Manowar
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Manowar is an American heavy metal band from Auburn, New York. Formed in 1980, the group is known for lyrics based on fantasy, the band is also known for a loud and bombastic sound. In an interview for MTV in February 2007, bassist Joey DeMaio lamented that these days, theres a lack of big, epic metal that is drenched with crushing guitars and choirs. So its nice to be one of the few bands thats actually doing that, in 1984 the band was included in the Guinness Book of World Records for delivering the loudest performance, a record which they have since broken on 2 occasions. They also hold the record for the longest heavy metal concert after playing for 5 hours and 1 minute in Bulgaria in 2008. They also have known for their slogan Death to false metal. Although the band has never been a commercial success in the United States. Dedicated fans are known and referred to by the band as Metal Warriors, Manowarriors, Ross the Boss, a former member of the punk rock band The Dictators, was the guitar player in Black Sabbaths support band, Shakin Street. The two bonded over their musical interests, became friends and decided to form a band. At the end of the tour with Black Sabbath, the duo got together to form Manowar, to complete the roster, they hired singer Eric Adams, a former classmate and friend of DeMaio. On the strength of their demo, Manowar secured a recording contract with label Liberty Records in 1981. The label pressured the band to produce a number of songs in a short time towards a debut album. The resultant album, Battle Hymns, was released the following year, the legendary actor and director Orson Welles served in the role of narrator on Dark Avenger. Soon after the release, Manowar engaged in their first tour. The band played support for hard rocker Ted Nugent, but their collaboration lasted only a few months, Manowar then decided to put together a short tour by themselves and all the arrangements were made in a few weeks by their manager. Despite these setbacks, the band gained fame on this short tour and also began to get their first European fans, particularly in the United Kingdom. Stressed from the strain of the performances, Hamzik decided to leave the band at the end of this tour and was replaced with Scott Columbus. By 1983, the band left Liberty Records and struck a deal with Megaforce Records in the US, the signing was a cover story in the 1983 July–August issue No.47 of Kerrang
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Manowar in
Hamburg during their 2007 tour.
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Eric Adams of Manowar, 2002 Bercy Paris live
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Karl Logan
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Warriors of the World
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Warriors of the World is the ninth album by heavy metal band Manowar, released on June 4,2002. The song Nessun Dorma was dedicated to Adams mother who had died earlier that year, amongst its varied tracks are tributes to Wagner, Pavarotti and Elvis Presley. The album peaked at #2 on the German charts, the song Warriors of the World United had a music video filmed in 2002. Director Neil Johnson solely owns the rights to the music video, all songs written by Joey DeMaio, except where noted. Eric Adams – vocals Karl Logan – guitar, keyboards Joey DeMaio – bass guitar, keyboards Scott Columbus – drums Ken Kelly - cover artwork Lyrics at darklyrics. com Official artist website
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Warriors of the World
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Cardiff Arms Park Male Choir
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Cardiff Arms Park Male Choir is a choir based at Cardiff Arms Park in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. On 1 September 1966, following Cardiff RFCs 35-0 defeat of Cardiff & District, the Cardiff Athletic Male Voice Choir first met on the following Monday,5 September, in the old Skittle Alley at the Rugby Club. There were twenty-five members present for the first meeting, the choir changed its name in 2000 to become the Cardiff Arms Park Male Choir, helping to raise the profile of the choir and perpetuate the name of the Arms Park. The choir sang live on Grandstand in 2002 and recorded an advertisement for the BBCs Six Nations rugby coverage alongside Goldie Lookin Chain in 2006, the choir were also filmed for an in-flight advertisement for Qantas airlines. They appeared on the Rogue Trader section of Watchdog, made a brief appearance on Strictly Come Dancing. The choir has performed alongside numerous stars, including Hayley Westenra, Charlotte Church, Max Boyce, Peter Karrie, Shân Cothi, Goldie Lookin Chain and Foreigner. The choir has travelled to Scotland, Ireland, the Czech Republic, France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Poland, some of the choir joined as guests of Dowlais Male Choir in their performances at the 2008 Festival Interceltique de Lorient. The choir took part in the World Choir at the National Stadium in Cardiff in 1993, in 2009 the choir sang at the opening of the new Cardiff library. The Manic Street Preachers opened the library, and the choir sang a specially arranged version of their song A Design for Life, the choir sang at the opening of the new John Lewis department store in Cardiff in September 2009 as well as recording their radio advertisement. The choirs involvement was included in a subsequent BBC documentary, the choir celebrated its fortieth anniversary in 2006 with a number of events, including a dinner at the Arms Park and a European tour. The main event was a massed male concert at St Davids Hall, the concert featured over 400 singers made up of choristers from Canoldir, Dowlais, Gwent, Kenfig Hill, Maesteg, Neath, Penybontfawr and Pontarddulais male choirs alongside the Cardiff choristers. They were accompanied by a 53-strong orchestra, and the guest artists were the Llanishen Fach Primary School choir, following on from the success of the massed concert in 2006, the choir joined forces with Canoldir Male Choir to create the AngloWelsh Festival of Male Choirs. The first concerts of the festival took place in April/May 2009 in Symphony Hall, Birmingham and St Davids Hall. Participating choirs were Cardiff Arms Park, Canoldir, Dowlais, Kenfig Hill, Kidderminster, Leigh Orpheus, Neath, Shrewsbury, Penybontfawr, the guest artists were Les Chansonelles and John Garner in Birmingham, and Llanishen Fach Primary School choir and Shân Cothi in Cardiff. The second AngloWelsh Festival of Male Choirs took place in St Davids Hall, the massed choir was made up of Biddulph, Budleigh Salterton, Cardiff Arms Park, Canoldir, Cotswold, Dowlais, Mynyddislwyn, Newtown & District, Pontypridd, Shrewsbury, Tenby and Ynysowen male choirs. Guest artists were the Llanishen Fach Primary School choir and Gary Griffiths, david Last is the current musical director of the choir, and Jo Scullin is the choirs accompanist. David has also been director of Dowlais Male Choir
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The Blue Blacks
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Massed Male Choral Celebration
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Julia Ward Howe
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Julia Ward Howe was an American poet and author, best known for writing The Battle Hymn of the Republic. She was also an advocate for abolitionism and was a social activist, Howe was born in New York City. She was the fourth of seven born to an upper middle class couple. Her father Samuel Ward III was a Wall Street stockbroker, well-to-do banker and her mother was the poet Julia Rush Cutler, related to Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox of the American Revolution. She died of tuberculosis when her daughter was five years old and she was educated by private tutors and in schools for young ladies until she was sixteen. Her eldest brother Samuel Cutler Ward traveled in Europe and brought home a private library and she had access to these modern works, many contradicting the Calvinistic world view presented by her father. She became well read and intelligent, though as much a social butterfly as she was a scholar and she was brought into contact with some of the greatest minds of her time because of her father’s status as a successful banker. She interacted with Charles Dickens, Charles Sumner, and Margaret Fuller, sam married into the prominent Astor family, allowing him great social freedom that he shared with his sister. The siblings were cast into mourning time when their father died in 1839, shortly afterwards, brother Henry died, then Samuels wife Emily died, along with their newborn child. Julia was visiting Boston in 1841 when she met Samuel Gridley Howe and they announced their engagement quite suddenly on February 21. Howe had courted her for a time, but he had recently shown an interest in her sister Louisa. In 1843, they married despite their age difference. She gave birth to their first child while honeymooning in Europe and she bore their last child in 1858 at the age of forty. They had six children, Julia Romana Howe, Florence Marion Howe, Henry Marion Howe, Laura Elizabeth Howe, Maud Howe, Julia was likewise an aunt of novelist Francis Marion Crawford. Howe lived and raised her children in South Boston, while her husband pursued his advocacy work and she hid her unhappiness with their marriage behind a cheerful demeanor and singing at parties, earning the nickname the family champagne from her children. She made frequent visits to Gardiner, Maine where she stayed at The Yellow House and she was unhappy with her surroundings, so she took lectures, and studied foreign languages, and wrote plays and dramas. Julia had published essays on Goethe, Schiller and Lamartine before her marriage to Howe, in the New York Review and her book Passion-Flowers was published in December 1853. The book collected intensely personal poems and was written without the awareness of her husband and her second anonymous collection, Words for the Hour, appeared in 1857
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Julia Ward Howe
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International Standard Book Number
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The International Standard Book Number is a unique numeric commercial book identifier. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an e-book, a paperback and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, the method of assigning an ISBN is nation-based and varies from country to country, often depending on how large the publishing industry is within a country. The initial ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering created in 1966, the 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108. Occasionally, a book may appear without a printed ISBN if it is printed privately or the author does not follow the usual ISBN procedure, however, this can be rectified later. Another identifier, the International Standard Serial Number, identifies periodical publications such as magazines, the ISBN configuration of recognition was generated in 1967 in the United Kingdom by David Whitaker and in 1968 in the US by Emery Koltay. The 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the International Organization for Standardization and was published in 1970 as international standard ISO2108, the United Kingdom continued to use the 9-digit SBN code until 1974. The ISO on-line facility only refers back to 1978, an SBN may be converted to an ISBN by prefixing the digit 0. For example, the edition of Mr. J. G. Reeder Returns, published by Hodder in 1965, has SBN340013818 -340 indicating the publisher,01381 their serial number. This can be converted to ISBN 0-340-01381-8, the check digit does not need to be re-calculated, since 1 January 2007, ISBNs have contained 13 digits, a format that is compatible with Bookland European Article Number EAN-13s. An ISBN is assigned to each edition and variation of a book, for example, an ebook, a paperback, and a hardcover edition of the same book would each have a different ISBN. The ISBN is 13 digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007, a 13-digit ISBN can be separated into its parts, and when this is done it is customary to separate the parts with hyphens or spaces. Separating the parts of a 10-digit ISBN is also done with either hyphens or spaces, figuring out how to correctly separate a given ISBN number is complicated, because most of the parts do not use a fixed number of digits. ISBN issuance is country-specific, in that ISBNs are issued by the ISBN registration agency that is responsible for country or territory regardless of the publication language. Some ISBN registration agencies are based in national libraries or within ministries of culture, in other cases, the ISBN registration service is provided by organisations such as bibliographic data providers that are not government funded. In Canada, ISBNs are issued at no cost with the purpose of encouraging Canadian culture. In the United Kingdom, United States, and some countries, where the service is provided by non-government-funded organisations. Australia, ISBNs are issued by the library services agency Thorpe-Bowker
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A 13-digit ISBN, 978-3-16-148410-0, as represented by an
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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
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Blue Moon of Kentucky
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Blue Moon of Kentucky is a waltz written in 1946 by bluegrass musician Bill Monroe and recorded by his band, the Blue Grass Boys. The song has since recorded by many artists, including Elvis Presley. In 2003 the song was chosen to be added to the United States Library of Congress National Recording Registry, Blue Moon is the official bluegrass song of Kentucky. In 2002, Monroes version was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry, in 2003, CMT ranked Blue Moon number 11 in its list of 100 Greatest Songs in Country Music. Bill Monroe wrote the song in 1946, recording it for Columbia Records on September 16 and it was released in early 1947. At the time, the Bluegrass Boys included vocalist and guitarist Lester Flatt and banjoist Earl Scruggs, who would form their own bluegrass band. Both Flatt and Scruggs performed on the recording, although Bill Monroe supplied the vocals on this song, the song, described as a bluegrass waltz, had become a United States wide hit by 1947 and also became enormously popular with other bluegrass, country and early rockabilly acts. The song was revered by the Grand Ole Opry and others, the search for another song to release along with Thats All Right at Sun Records in July 1954 led to Blue Moon of Kentucky via Bill Black. According to Scotty Moore, We all of us knew we needed something. Elvis joins in with him, starts playing and singing along with him. Presley, Moore and Black, with the encouragement of Sam Phillips, transformed Monroes slow waltz, in 3/4 time, into an upbeat, after an early rendition of the song, Sun Records owner Sam Phillips exclaimed, BOY, thats fine, thats fine. As with all of the Presley records issued by Sun, the artists were listed and stylized as ELVIS PRESLEY SCOTTY and BILL. The same night that Dewey Phillips first played the flip side of this first release of Presleys music on WHBQ, Thats All Right, bob Neal of WMPS played the record too. The pop jockeys, entranced by something new, began slipping Thats All Right and Blue Moon of Kentucky in amongst the easy listening pop of Teresa Brewer, Nat Cole, Tony Bennett and others. With Presleys version of Monroes song consistently rated higher, both began to chart across the Southern United States. Billboard has the song listed only in Memphis, and as number 6 with Thats All Right at number 7 on October 9 in the C&W Territorial Best Sellers. By October 23, Blue Moon was in the top 10 in Memphis, Nashville, fellow Sun Records artist Charlie Feathers has often claimed that he came up with the arrangement of the song used by Presley. The song was used in a scene of the 2005 TV miniseries Elvis. In 1954, the Stanley Brothers recorded a version of the song using Presleys 4/4 arrangement with bluegrass instrumentation, neatly bridging the stylistic gap between Monroes and Presleys approaches
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"Blue Moon of Kentucky"
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Good Rocking Tonight
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Good Rocking Tonight was originally a jump blues song released in 1947 by its writer, Roy Brown and was covered by many other recording artists. The song includes the refrain, Well I heard the news. The song anticipated elements of rock and roll music, Brown had first offered his song to Wynonie Harris, who turned it down. He then approached Cecil Gant later that night, but after hearing Brown sing, Gant made a 2,30 AM phone call to Jules Braun, after Roy Brown sang his song over the phone, Braun asked Brown to sing it a second time. He then told Gant, Give him fifty dollars and dont let him out of your sight, five weeks later, Brown recorded the song for DeLuxe Records. Only after Browns record had gained traction in New Orleans did Harris decide to cover it, harriss version was even more energetic than Browns original version, featuring black gospel style handclapping. This may have contributed to the greater success on the national R&B chart. Browns original recording hit #13 of the Billboard R&B chart, but Harris record became a #1 R&B hit, Browns single would re-enter the chart in 1949, peaking at #11. Harris had a reputation for carousing, and sometimes forgot lyrics, the song is a primer of sorts on the popular black music of the era, making lyrical reference to Sweet Lorraine, Sioux City Sue, Sweet Georgia Brown, Caldonia, Elder Brown, and Deacon Jones. All of these characters had figured prominently in previous hit songs, while Brown missed out on the biggest hit version of his song, its success kicked off his own career, which included two #1 R&B hits. In 1949, he released Rockin at Midnight, a sequel to Good Rockin Tonight and it reached #2 on the R&B chart, where it remained for a month. In 1954, Good Rockin Tonight was the second Sun Records release by Elvis Presley, along with I Dont Care if the Sun Dont Shine on the flip side. Presley and his bandmates hewed closer to the original Roy Brown version, described as a flat-out rocker country radio programmers blanched, and older audiences were somewhat mystified. A live show broadcast from Houston DJ Bill Collies club documented that the crowd responded to the song. Blue Moon of Kentucky, the version of the Bill Monroe classic, has the fans go stark raving nuts with joy. Both sides of this second record featuring Elvis Presley, Scotty, the song was used for the biopic Elvis, which starred Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as Presley, it was used for a montage sequence where he is performing at the Louisiana Hayride in 1954. Carl Perkins in 1958 on his album Whole Lotta Shakin, link Wray in 1965 under the name Good Rockin Tonight. Paul McCartney recorded the song for the Unplugged album, montrose recorded the song for their 1973 self-titled debut album
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"Good Rockin' Tonight"
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I Forgot to Remember to Forget
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I Forgot to Remember to Forget is a country song written by Stan Kesler and Charlie Feathers. It was recorded at Sun Studio on July 11,1955, by Elvis Presley, Scotty Moore, Bill Black, and Johnny Bernero on drums and it was rereleased by RCA Victor in December 1955. Moores guitar had a Nashville steel guitar sound, and Black played a clip-clop rhythm and this is the closest the trio came to a traditional country song while at Sun. The record reached #4 on the Billboard Most Played by Jockeys chart and it was the first recording to make Elvis Presley a national known country music star. The song remained on the charts for 39 weeks. The flip side of this release, Mystery Train, peaked at the #11 position on the national Billboard Country Chart, the Beatles covered this song once for the BBC radio show, From Us To You, on 1 May 1964, with George Harrison on lead vocals. The song is notable for being the last time the Beatles performed a song for the BBC that wasnt recorded for EMI, the song is also notable for its double-time rhythmic changes during the bridge. The band was becoming more experimental at the time, after they recorded I Call Your Name, the song wasnt officially released until 1994, when it was included on Live at the BBC. George Harrison – vocals, lead guitar John Lennon – rhythm guitar Paul McCartney – bass Ringo Starr – drums Jerry Lee Lewis recorded the song in 1957, composer Charlie Feathers has also recorded it. Johnny Cash covered and released song in 1959 on the Sun LP Greatest. B. J. Thomas included this song on his 1972 album, chuck Jackson, Ral Donner, Robert Gordon, Johnny Hallyday, The Deighton Family, Hicksville Bombers, and Wanda Jackson recorded this song as well. Chris Isaak also covered this song on his 2011 album, Beyond the Sun, bob Dylan and The Band recorded this song in 1967, it was released on the 2014 album, The Bootleg Series Vol.11, The Basement Tapes Complete. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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"I Forgot to Remember to Forget"
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Mystery Train
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Mystery Train is a song written and recorded by American blues musician Junior Parker in 1953. Junior Parker, billed as Little Juniors Blue Flames, recorded the song, considered a blues standard, the song was released on the Sun label. The song was written by Junior Parker, with a credit later given to Phillips, One commentator noted One of the mysteries about Mystery Train was where the title came from, it was mentioned nowhere in the song. Accompanying Parker is his band the Blue Flames, whose members at the time are believed to have included, Floyd Murphy, William Johnson, Kenneth Banks, John Bowers. Elvis Presleys version of Mystery Train was first released on August 20,1955 as the B-side of I Forgot to Remember to Forget, Presleys version would be ranked #77 on Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list in 2003. It was again produced by Sam Phillips at Sun Studios, and featured Presley on vocals and rhythm guitar, Scotty Moore on lead guitar, Moore used a country lead break, and toward the end of the record is an echo of the 1946 Sixteen Tons by Merle Travis. For Presleys version of Mystery Train, Scotty Moore also borrowed the riff from Junior Parkers Love My Baby. Victor released a pop version of the song by The Turtles with backing by Hugo Winterhalter and these Turtles are unlikely to have been the 1960s pop group of the same name, since the lead singers of that group were eight years old at the time. Paired with I Forgot to Remember to Forget, the record was in the Top 10 in Billboards C&W listings, RCA Victor rereleased this recording in December 1955 after acquiring it as part of a contract with Presley. This issue of the peaked at #11 on the national Billboard Country Chart. Mystery Train is now considered to be an enduring classic and it was the first recording to make Elvis Presley a nationally known country music star. Black, who had success with the Bill Black Combo, once said to a visitor to his house in Memphis, as he pointed to a framed 78rpm Sun Record of Mystery Train on the wall, Now there was a record. Presleys version was ranked the third most acclaimed song of 1955, Presleys version also appeared in Jim Jarmuschs film of the same title. In 1973, with the approval of Sam Phillips, Robbie Robertson of The Band wrote additional lyrics for Mystery Train, and they later performed the song with Paul Butterfield for their 1976 farewell concert The Last Waltz. A variety of musicians have recorded Mystery Train, including,1965 – Sam the Sham,1965 – Vince Melouney did a cover of this song with Robin Gibb and Maurice Gibb on backing vocals. The song was on his album, Punkville,1965 – The Paul Butterfield Blues Band from The Paul Butterfield Blues Band 1967 – Ricky Nelson from Country Fever. 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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"Heartbreak Hotel"
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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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"My Baby Left Me"
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Hound Dog (song)
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Hound Dog is a twelve-bar blues song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Thorntons recording of Hound Dog is listed as one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fames 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll, Hound Dog has been recorded more than 250 times. Presleys version, which sold about 10 million copies globally, was his best-selling song and an emblem of the rock n roll revolution. It was simultaneously No.1 on the US pop, country, and R&B charts in 1956, and it topped the pop chart for 11 weeks — a record that stood for 36 years. Presleys 1956 RCA recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1988, on August 12,1952, R&B bandleader Johnny Otis asked 19-year-old songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller to his home to meet blues singer Willie Mae Big Mama Thornton. Thornton had been signed by Diamond Don Robeys Houston-based Peacock Records the year before, after hearing Thornton rehearse several songs, Leiber and Stoller forged a tune to suit her personality—brusque and badass. In an interview in Rolling Stone in April 1990, Stoller said, She was a blues singer. But it was as much her appearance as her blues style influenced the writing of Hound Dog. Leiber recalled, We saw Big Mama and she knocked me cold and she looked like the biggest, baddest, saltiest chick you would ever see. And she was mean, a bear, as they used to call em. She must have been 350 pounds, and she had all these all over her face conveying words which could not be sung. But how to do it without saying it. And how to do it telling a story, I couldnt just have a song full of expletives. In 1999, Leiber said, I was trying to get something like the Furry Lewis phrase Dirty Mother Furya. I was looking for something closer to that but I couldnt find it, because everything I went for was too coarse, R&B expert George A. Moonoogian concurs, calling it a biting and scathing satire in the double-entendre genre of 1950s rhythm and blues. Said Leiber, Hound Dog took like twelve minutes, thats not a complicated piece of work. But the rhyme scheme was difficult, also the metric structure of the music was not easy. According to Leiber, as soon as they reached the parking lot and Stollers 1937 Plymouth and we got to Johnny Otiss house and Mike went right to the piano…didnt even bother to sit down
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Blue Suede Shoes
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Blue Suede Shoes is a rock-and-roll standard written and first recorded by Carl Perkins in 1955. It is considered one of the first rockabilly records, incorporating elements of blues, country, Perkinss original version of the song was on the Cashbox Best Selling Singles list for 16 weeks and spent two weeks in the number 2 position. Elvis Presley performed his version of the three different times on national television. It was also recorded by Buddy Holly and Eddie Cochran, among many others, Johnny Cash planted the seed for the song in the fall of 1955, while Perkins, Cash, Elvis Presley, and other Louisiana Hayride acts toured throughout the South. Cash told Perkins of an airman, C. V. White, who he had met when serving in the military in Germany. Cash suggested that Carl write a song about the shoes, Carl replied, I dont know anything about shoes. How can I write a song about shoes, when Perkins played a dance on December 4,1955, he noticed a couple dancing near the stage. Between songs, Carl heard a stern, forceful voice say, Uh-uh, Carl looked down and noted that the boy was wearing blue suede shoes and one had a scuff mark. Good gracious, a pretty little thing like that and all he can think about is his blue suede shoes and that night Perkins began working on a song based on the incident. His first thought was to frame it with a nursery rhyme and he considered, and quickly discarded Little Jack Horner. and See a spider going up the wall. Then settled on One for the money, leaving his bed and working with his Les Paul guitar, he started with an A chord. After playing five chords while singing Well, its one for the money and he broke into a boogie rhythm. He quickly grabbed a brown paper potato sack and wrote the song down, writing the title out as Blue Swade, S-W-A-D-E – I couldnt even spell it right, according to Perkins, On December 17,1955, I wrote Blue Suede Shoes. I recorded it on December 19, for Sun Records, which released the second take of the song, suns producer, Sam Phillips, suggested that the lyric go cat go be changed to go man go, but the suggestion was not taken. Perkinss recording of Blue Suede Shoes was released on January 1,1956, two copies of the song on 78-rpm records were sent to Perkins but arrived broken. He soon discovered that the song was available in the newer 7 microgrooved 45-rpm format and was disappointed that he didnt have a copy in the older, in Jackson, where Perkins lived, and Memphis, radio stations were playing the flip side of the record, Honey Dont. Shoes became the side of choice throughout the South and Southwest, on February 11 it was the number 2 single on Memphis charts, it was number one the next week and remained there for the next three months. Perkins made four appearances on the radio program Big D Jamboree on station KRLD in Dallas, the Jamboree was broadcast from the Dallas Sportatorium, with about four thousand seats, and it sold out for each of Perkins performances
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Shoes in Elvis exhibit similar to those that inspired the song
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Tutti Frutti (song)
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Tutti Frutti is a song written by Little Richard along with Dorothy LaBostrie that was recorded in 1955 and became his first major hit record. The song introduced several of rock musics most characteristic features, including its loud volume and vocal style emphasizing power. In 2007, a panel of renowned recording artists voted Tutti Frutti No.1 on Mojos The Top 100 Records That Changed The World, hailing the recording as the sound of the birth of rock. Library of Congress National Recording Registry added the recording to its registry, in April 2012, Rolling Stone magazine declared that the song still contains what has to be considered the most inspired rock lyric ever recorded, A wop bop alu bop, a wop bam boom. In February 1955, he sent a tape to Specialty Records. The band included Lee Allen and Alvin Red Tyler on saxophones, Huey Smith on piano, Frank Fields on double bass, Justin Adams on guitar, however, as the session wore on, Little Richards anarchic performance style was not being fully captured on tape. In frustration during a break, he started pounding a piano and singing a ribald song that he had written and composed. According to some accounts, he first wrote and performed the song while working as a janitor in a bus station, the song that he sang was a piece of music that he “had polished in clubs across the South. Blackwell contacted local songwriter Dorothy LaBostrie to revise the lyrics, with Little Richard still playing in his characteristic style, according to Blackwell, LaBostrie didnt understand melody, but she was definitely a “prolific writer. Aw rooty was an expression meaning All right. Some sources considered this a pseudonym used by Specialty label owner Art Rupe to claim royalties on some of his labels songs, songwriter LaBostrie was quoted as saying, Little Richard didnt write none of Tutti Frutti. She was still receiving royalty checks on the average of $5,000 every three to six months from the song in the 1980s. Blackwell said time constraints prevented the development of a new arrangement, the song was recorded on September 14,1955. Released on Specialty 561, the record entered the Billboard Rhythm and Blues chart at the end of December 1955 and it also reached No.17 on the Billboard pop chart. In the UK, it only scraped into the top 30 in 1957, the song, with its twelve-bar blues chord progression, provided the foundation of Little Richards career. It was seen as an aggressive song that contained more features of African American vernacular music than any other past recordings in this style. Richards contract with Peacock had been purchased by Specialty Records owner Art Rupe, specialtys deal with Richard was typical of most record companiess dealings with their artists. Tutti Frutti provided the title for one of the earliest books about the development of rock and roll and pop music from the 1950s, Nik Cohns Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom
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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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Lawdy Miss Clawdy
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Lawdy Miss Clawdy is a rhythm and blues song by New Orleans singer/songwriter Lloyd Price that grandly introduced The New Orleans Sound. It was first recorded by Price in 1952 with Fats Domino and Dave Bartholomew during his first session for Art Rupe, the song became one of the biggest selling R&B records of 1952 and crossed over to other audiences. Lawdy Miss Clawdy inspired many songs and has been recorded by a variety of artists, while still in high school, Lloyd Price was working for New Orleans radio station WBOK. He provided jingles for products, including those hawked by disc jockey James Okey Dokey Smith. One of Smiths catch phrases was Lawdy Miss Clawdy, which he used in ad slogans such as Lawdy Miss Clawdy, eat Mothers Homemade Pies, Prices accompanying tune proved popular with the radio audience and he developed it into a full-length song. In 1952, Art Rupe, founder of Specialty Records in Los Angeles, local recording studio owner Cosimo Matassa introduced him to Dave Bartholomew, who co-wrote and produced many of Fats Dominos early hit records. Bartholomew invited nineteen-year-old Lloyd Price to audition for Rupe at Matassas J&M Studio, the accounts differ on what happened next. Lawdy Miss Clawdy was recorded March 13,1952 at Cosimo Matassas J&M Studios in New Orleans, the first attempts at performing the song were not successful, reportedly because Bartholomew was dissatisfied with Doucettes piano part. When Fats Domino arrived at the studio, he was persuaded by Bartholomew to sit in on the recording, after one run through, Bartholomew announced OK, thats it and Matassa started the tape recorder. Lawdy Miss Clawdy opens with Fat Dominos rolling trills. in a cascading, although Domino had recorded several songs using his trade-mark piano triplets style, Prices hit provided it with its greatest exposure up to that time. Domino repeats his intro for the piano solo, another key element of the song is Earl Palmers drumming, described as loping, midtempo shuffle beats with their busy ride cymbal. This is anchored by Palmers emphasis on the snare of the second and fourth beats of each bar, in characteristic New Orleans-style, the rest of the backing instrumentation also contributes to the songs rhythmic drive by providing different elements of rhythm, in several different patterns. This complex, layered beat might also be compared to African polyrhythms, Lawdy Miss Clawdy follows an eight-bar blues progression and has been notated in 12/8 time in the key of A♭. The songs melody is derived from Fats Dominos 1950 hit The Fat Man, Prices song also features most of the same backing musicians as Dominos song. Prices vocals have been described as heartbroken wails, expressive, wailing and his lyrics deal with teenage angst over a relationship. Specialty Records released Lawdy Miss Clawdy in April 1952 and on May 17,1952 it entered Billboards R&B chart, the song reached number one, where it spent seven weeks. Lawdy Miss Clawdy was also one of the top records for 1952, Lawdy Miss Clawdy became R&B Record of the Year for 1952 in both Billboard and Cashbox magazines, it also earned Price Cashboxs Best New R&B Singer of 1952 designation. In 1995, it was added to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fames list of the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock, authors Dawson and Propes discussed Lawdy Miss Clawdy among the first rock and roll songs
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Love Me Tender (song)
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Love Me Tender is a 1956 song recorded by Elvis Presley and published by Elvis Presley Music from the eponymous 20th Century Fox film. The words and music are credited to Ken Darby under the pseudonym Vera Matson, the name of his wife, the RCA Victor recording by Elvis Presley was no.1 on both the Billboard and Cashbox charts in 1956. The song was adapted from the tune of Aura Lee, a sentimental Civil War ballad, the 1956 song Love Me Tender puts new words to a new musical adaptation of the Civil War song Aura Lee, published in 1861. Aura Lee had music by George R. Poulton and words by W. W. Fosdick and it later became popular with college glee clubs and barbershop quartets. It was also sung at the U. S, military Academy at West Point, New York. The principal writer of the lyrics was Ken Darby, who also adapted Poultons Civil War tune, the song was published by Elvis Presley Music. and credited to Presley and Darbys wife Vera Matson. As with nearly all his early RCA recordings, Presley took control in the studio not being credited as producer. He would regularly change arrangements and lyrics to the point that the song was barely recognizable. Ken Darby described Elvis Presleys role in the creation of the song, He adjusted the music, Elvis has the most terrific ear of anyone I have ever met. He does not read music, but he does not need to, All I had to do was play the song for him once, and he made it his own. He has perfect judgment of what is right for him and he exercised that judgment when he chose Love Me Tender as his theme song. Elvis Presley performed Love Me Tender on The Ed Sullivan Show on September 9,1956, shortly before the release and about a month before the movie. On the following day, RCA received 1 million advance orders, the studio, 20th Century Fox, originally wanted to call the movie The Reno Brothers but instead re-titled it Love Me Tender to capitalize on the songs popularity. Movie producer David Weisbart would not allow Presleys regular band to play on the soundtrack, the single debuted at #2 on the Best Sellers in Stores pop singles chart, the first time a single made its first appearance at the #2 position. The song hit #1 on the Billboard charts the week ending November 3,1956, remaining in the position for 5 weeks, Love Me Tender also reached number three for three weeks on the R&B chart. It was also an achievement as Love Me Tender succeeded another Presley single and this occurrence marked two important events in Billboard history. This version was ranked #437 on Rolling Stones list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, in 1968, Presley recorded a 52-second track entitled Violet for the soundtrack of the film The Trouble with Girls. Unreleased until after Presleys death, the song was Presleys second adaptation of Aura Lee, the song was also performed in the Golden Globe-winning concert film Elvis on Tour
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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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43.
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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"All Shook Up" single
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44.
(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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Paralyzed (Elvis Presley song)
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Paralyzed is a 1956 song recorded by Elvis Presley for his album Elvis. The song was recorded on September 2,1956, and has well received by modern music critics. The song was written by Otis Blackwell, with Elvis receiving partial song-writing credit, Paralyzed reached #59 on the Billboard pop singles chart in 1956. The song was off of the Elvis album, the song was released as an EP by RCA Victor in the U. S. Elvis Volume 1, RCA EPA-992, which was released on October 19,1956. In the UK, Paralyzed reached no.8 in August,1957 in a 10-week chart run, Elvis Presley performed the song on the 1956 Million Dollar Quartet sessions and live in concert in 1956. A live version is featured on the 5-CD box set The Young Man with the Big Beat, the song also appears on the 1990 BMG collection The Million Dollar Quartet and The Complete Million Dollar Quartet. The song is also on the box set The King of Rock and Roll, the song was also performed on the December 16,1956 Louisiana Hayride. The song was recorded at Radio Recorders, Hollywood, California, produced by Steve Sholes, warwick, Neil, Kutner, Jon, Brown, Tony. The Complete Book of the British Charts, Singles & Albums, come Softly, Darling, Hear What I Say, Listening in a State of Distraction—A Tribute to the Work of Walter Benjamin, Elvis Presley, and Robert Christgau. The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, ISBN 0-8230-7499-4 Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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"Paralyzed" cover
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1956 UK sheet music, Aberbach, London.
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Jailhouse Rock (song)
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Jailhouse Rock is a song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller that first became a hit for Elvis Presley. The song was released as an RCA Victor 45rpm single on September 24,1957, to coincide with the release of Presleys motion picture, Jailhouse Rock. The song as recorded by Presley is #67 on Rolling Stones list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and was named one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fames 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. In 2004, it finished at #21 on AFIs 100 Years.100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema, on 27 November 2016, the Grammy Hall of Fame announced its induction, along with that of another 24 songs. The film version differs from the version of the song, featuring backing instrumentation. Some of the named in the song are real people. Shifty Henry was a well-known LA musician, not a criminal, the Purple Gang was a real mob. Sad Sack was a U. S. Army nickname in World War II for a loser, according to Rolling Stone, Leiber and Stollers theme song for Presleys third movie was decidedly silly, the kind of tongue-in-cheek goof they had come up with for The Coasters. The King, however, sang it as straight rock & roll, overlooking the jokes in the lyrics and then introducing Scotty Moores guitar solo with a cry so intense that the take almost collapses. Gender studies scholars cite the song for its famous reference to homoerotics behind bars, while music critic Garry Mulholland writes, Jailhouse Rock was always a queer lyric, douglas Brode writes of the filmed production number that its amazing that the sequence passed by the censors. The single, with its B-side Treat Me Nice was a US #1 hit for seven weeks in the fall of 1957, and it was the first record to enter the UK charts at No.1. In addition, Jailhouse Rock spent one week at the top of the US country charts, and reached the No.2 position on the R&B chart. Also in 1957, Jailhouse Rock was the song in an EP, together with other songs from the film, namely Young and Beautiful, I Want to be Free, Dont Leave Me Now. It topped the Billboard EP charts, eventually selling two million copies and earning a double-platinum RIAA certification. In 2005, the song was re-released in the UK and reached No.1 for a week, when it became the lowest-selling number 1 in UK history. The Beatles regularly performed Jailhouse Rock starting in 1958 and continuing all the way through 1960 with John Lennon on lead vocal, quarryman Len Garry states that the group actually started performing the song in 1957. It is the last song in the motion picture The Blues Brothers, the song is featured in the 1995 film Casper and the 2006 animated television film Leroy & Stitch. American Idol Season 5 contestant Taylor Hicks performed it on May 9,2006, in an episode of Full House, Jesse and Becky sing this song at their wedding reception
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Wear My Ring Around Your Neck
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Wear My Ring Around Your Neck is a song written by Bert Carroll and Russell Moody, performed by Elvis Presley, which was released in 1958. It was particularly notable for breaking a string of ten consecutive number 1 hits for Presley achieved in just two years and it was Presleys 6th number-one hit in the American R&B Charts, and peaked at number 2 on the American Pop Charts. American country music singer Ricky Van Shelton covered the song for the soundtrack of the 1992 movie Honeymoon in Vegas, sheltons version, also included on his album Greatest Hits Plus, peaked at number 26 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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"Wear My Ring Around Your Neck"
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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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King Creole (song)
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King Creole is a song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. The song was and performed by Elvis Presley and recorded in 1958, the song is based on King Creole, a Cajun guitar player from New Orleans who is proficient in all different styles of rock and roll. The song was released as a single in the UK in 1958 and it reached No.2 in the UK Singles Chart. In 2007 the single was re-released and spent one week in the chart at No.15, the song is about a man of Creole descent who is a freelancing street performer in New Orleans. The man in the song, who goes by the nickname of King Creole, is known for his style of guitar playing. It can be inferred from the song that King Creole used a guitar, since the song mentions string bending and rock-and-roll. The song also states that King Creole played from a well-rounded song repertoire, and would light, dark, serious. In 2010, Sony Music released a version of the song in the album Viva Elvis. The song has a rock feel, and a driving drum rhythm
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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"
