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Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s
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The Monkees
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The Monkees are an American rock band originally active between 1965 and 1971, with subsequent reunion albums and tours in the decades that followed. They were formed in Los Angeles in 1965 by Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider for the American television series The Monkees, the musical acting quartet was composed of Americans Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork and British actor and singer Davy Jones. The bands music was supervised by producer Don Kirshner. Dolenz described the Monkees as initially being a TV show about an imaginary band and that wanted to be The Beatles, that was never successful. The actor-musicians, however, soon became a real band, for the first few months of their initial five-year career as The Monkees, the four actor-musicians were allowed only limited roles in the recording studio. This was due in part to the amount of required to film the television series. Nonetheless, Nesmith did compose and produce some songs from the beginning and they eventually fought for and earned the right to collectively supervise all musical output under the bands name. The sitcom was canceled in 1968, but the continued to record music through 1971. A revival of interest in the show came in 1986. Up until 2011 the group had reunited and toured several times, despite the sudden death of Davy Jones on February 29,2012, the surviving members reunited for a tour in November–December 2012 and again in 2013 for a 24-date tour. Nesmith was able to some time up to join them in the latter stages of the US tour. The Monkees have sold more than 75 million records worldwide and had hits, including Last Train to Clarksville, Pleasant Valley Sunday, Daydream Believer. At their peak in 1967, the band outsold the Beatles, aspiring filmmaker Bob Rafelson developed the initial idea for The Monkees in 1962, but was unsuccessful in selling the series. He had tried selling it to Revue, the division of Universal Pictures. In May 1964, while working at Screen Gems, Rafelson teamed up with Bert Schneider, whose father, Abraham Schneider, headed the Colpix Television, Rafelson and Schneider ultimately formed Raybert Productions. The Beatles film A Hard Days Night inspired Rafelson and Schneider to revive Rafelsons idea for The Monkees, as The Raybert Producers, they sold the show to Screen Gems Television on April 16,1965. Rafelson and Schneiders original idea was to cast an existing New York folk rock group, the Lovin Spoonful, however, John Sebastian had already signed the band to a record contract, which would have denied Screen Gems the right to market music from the show. Jones had previously starred as the Artful Dodger in the Broadway show Oliver, which debuted on December 17,1962, and his performance was later seen on The Ed Sullivan Show the same night as the Beatles first appearance on that show, February 9,1964
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More of the Monkees
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More of the Monkees is the second full-length album by the Monkees. It was recorded in late 1966 and released on Colgems label #102 on January 9,1967 and it displaced the bands debut album from the top of the Billboard 200 chart and remained at No.1 for 18 weeks—the longest of any Monkees album. Combined, the first two Monkees albums were at the top of the Billboard chart for 31 consecutive weeks, More of the Monkees also went to No.1 in the UK. In the U. S. it has been certified platinum by the RIAA with sales of more than five million copies. More of the Monkees is also notable for being the first pop/rock album to be the album of the year in the U. S. Monkeemania had reached full swing by the time the album was released. The Monkees second single, Im a Believer—included on this album—held the number one position on the Billboard Hot 100, the release of More of the Monkees was rushed to capitalize on the bands popularity, catching even its members by surprise. The band learned of the albums existence while on tour in Cleveland, Ohio, the group began to grow concerned over their musical output, since this album and their debut, The Monkees, featured them limited to just vocals with scattered instrumental contributions. Kirshner had a rule that the Monkees were to provide only vocals on his productions. More of the Monkees has Nesmith limited to one song as lead vocalist and this outburst came after Moelis snapped to Nesmith, Youd better read your contract, when Nesmith threatened to quit. Kirshner was later dropped from the project altogether, the original pressing catalog number is COM/COS102. When the album was reissued in 1969 the Colgems symbol replaced the word Colgems on the bottom corner of the reverse side. It was standard practice for RCA to add an RE when any one side of a record sleeve had a revision, there were no mono copies issued in 1969 as they were phased out altogether in 1968. Some were previously unreleased, while others were on the 1994 Rhino reissue or the Missing Links series, studio chatter is included between some bonus tracks
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A-side and B-side
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The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78,45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, whether singles, extended plays, or long-playing records. Creedence Clearwater Revival had hits with both A-side and B-side releases, others took the opposite approach, producer Phil Spector was in the habit of filling B-sides with on-the-spot instrumentals that no one would confuse with the A-side. With this practice, Spector was assured that airplay was focused on the side he wanted to be the hit side, the earliest 10-inch,78 rpm, shellac records were single sided. Double-sided recordings, with one song on side, were introduced in Europe by Columbia Records. There were no record charts until the 1930s, and radio stations did not play recorded music until the 1950s, in this time, A-sides and B-sides existed, but neither side was considered more important, the side did not convey anything about the content of the record. The term single came into use with the advent of vinyl records in the early 1950s. At first, most record labels would randomly assign which song would be an A-side, under this random system, many artists had so-called double-sided hits, where both songs on a record made one of the national sales charts, or would be featured on jukeboxes in public places. As time wore on, however, the convention for assigning songs to sides of the record changed. By the early sixties, the song on the A-side was the song that the company wanted radio stations to play. It was not until 1968, for instance, that the production of albums on a unit basis finally surpassed that of singles in the United Kingdom. In the late 1960s stereo versions of pop and rock songs began to appear on 45s. The majority of the 45s were played on AM radio stations, by the early 1970s, double-sided hits had become rare. Album sales had increased, and B-sides had become the side of the record where non-album, non-radio-friendly, with the advent of cassette and compact disc singles in the late 1980s, the A-side/B-side differentiation became much less meaningful. With the decline of cassette singles in the 1990s, the A-side/B-side dichotomy became virtually extinct, as the dominant medium. However, the term B-side is still used to refer to the tracks or coupling tracks on a CD single. With the advent of downloading music via the Internet, sales of CD singles and other media have declined. B-side songs may be released on the record as a single to provide extra value for money. There are several types of material released in this way, including a different version, or, in a concept record
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(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone
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Steppin Stone is a rock song by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart. It was first recorded by Paul Revere & the Raiders and appeared on their album Midnight Ride, released in May 1966. The song is musically, with a repeating verse chord progression of E major, G major, A major and C major, and a repeating bridge in cut time of E major, G major, A major. It is best known as a hit for The Monkees, released in November 1966. Musicians featured on the Monkees recording are, Micky Dolenz, Tommy Boyce, Wayne Erwin, Gerry McGee, and Louie Shelton, Bobby Hart, Larry Taylor, Billy Lewis, the Monkees version differs between the single version, stereo album version and mono album version. In the stereo version, the title is sung just before the second verse, whereas on the single and mono album versions. Additionally, the version has an edit in the fadeout. The mono album version does not have this edit and therefore has a longer coda, the single also does not have the edit, but it fades the song earlier than the mono album. All Monkees hits compilations through the mid-1980s used the stereo version, fields Memorial Electric String Band, The Pivots, Deadlok, The Rebounds, Barbi and the Kens, the Argentinian band Massacre and the UK band Scholars. It was also a hit for PJ & Duncan in 1996, when it reached number #11 on the UK Singles Chart
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Phonograph record
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The groove usually starts near the periphery and ends near the center of the disc. The phonograph disc record was the medium used for music reproduction until late in the 20th century. It had co-existed with the cylinder from the late 1880s. Records retained the largest market share even when new formats such as compact cassette were mass-marketed, by the late 1980s, digital media, in the form of the compact disc, had gained a larger market share, and the vinyl record left the mainstream in 1991. The phonograph record has made a resurgence in the early 21st century –9.2 million records were sold in the U. S. in 2014. Likewise, in the UK sales have increased five-fold from 2009 to 2014, as of 2017,48 record pressing facilities remain worldwide,18 in the United States and 30 in other countries. The increased popularity of vinyl has led to the investment in new, only two producers of lacquers remains, Apollo Masters in California, USA, and MDC in Japan. Vinyl records may be scratched or warped if stored incorrectly but if they are not exposed to heat or broken. The large cover are valued by collectors and artists for the space given for visual expression, in the 2000s, these tracings were first scanned by audio engineers and digitally converted into audible sound. Phonautograms of singing and speech made by Scott in 1860 were played back as sound for the first time in 2008, along with a tuning fork tone and unintelligible snippets recorded as early as 1857, these are the earliest known recordings of sound. In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, unlike the phonautograph, it was capable of both recording and reproducing sound. Despite the similarity of name, there is no evidence that Edisons phonograph was based on Scotts phonautograph. Edison first tried recording sound on a paper tape, with the idea of creating a telephone repeater analogous to the telegraph repeater he had been working on. The tinfoil was wrapped around a metal cylinder and a sound-vibrated stylus indented the tinfoil while the cylinder was rotated. The recording could be played back immediately, Edison also invented variations of the phonograph that used tape and disc formats. A decade later, Edison developed a greatly improved phonograph that used a wax cylinder instead of a foil sheet. This proved to be both a better-sounding and far more useful and durable device, the wax phonograph cylinder created the recorded sound market at the end of the 1880s and dominated it through the early years of the 20th century. Berliners earliest discs, first marketed in 1889, but only in Europe, were 12.5 cm in diameter, both the records and the machine were adequate only for use as a toy or curiosity, due to the limited sound quality
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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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Colgems Records
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Colgems Records was a record label that existed from 1966 to 1971. It was a joint venture between Screen Gems, the division of Columbia Pictures, and RCA Records to issue records by the Monkees. The label would also issue soundtrack recordings for Screen Gems and Columbia Pictures productions, RCA acted as manufacturer and distributor for Colgems. An earlier label, Colpix Records, was dissolved to make way for the new company, even before the Monkees began, Colpix had signed two future members – Davy Jones, recruited to Screen Gems by Ward Sylvester, and Michael Nesmith, who recorded as Michael Blessing. Eventually, the Colpix catalog was sold to Roulette Records, today, the Colpix catalog is owned jointly by Rhino/Warner and EMI. The non-Monkees Colgems roster included Sally Field, Jewel Akens, Sajid Khan, Paula Wayne, limited, the Hung Jury, Fountain of Youth, The Lewis & Clarke Expedition, Hoyt Axton, Alex Keenan and comedian Rich Little. In Cold Blood, Head and Guess Whos Coming to Dinner were also released on Colgems, Colgems Records slumped after the critical and commercial failure of the final Monkees album Changes, which featured only Davy Jones and Micky Dolenz. The labels last release, titled Barrel Full of Monkees and showcasing its flagship act, appeared in 1971, Colgems then closed, and its master recordings and artists were folded into the Bell Records family, which, unlike Colgems, was wholly owned by Columbia Pictures. Bell itself was closed, and Columbias music division was reorganized into Arista Records. In 1979, Columbia Pictures sold Arista to BMG-owned Ariola Records, six years later, Ariolas parent company, BMG, merged with RCA Records. Today, the assets of Colgems Records is controlled by Sony Music Entertainment, the parent company, Sony, acquired Columbia Pictures in 1989. All of The Monkees recordings are currently owned by Rhino Records, Rhino acquired the entire Monkees audio catalog, The Monkees TV series, their 1968 feature film Head, and the rights to The Monkees name and logo, in August 1994. SME merged Arista into RCA Records in 2011, a label related to Colgems was SGC Records. SGC issued albums by Nazz through Atlantic Records in a deal similar to the one Screen Gems held with RCA. List of record labels The Colpix/Colgems story
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Songwriter
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A songwriter is an individual who writes the lyrics, melodies and chord progressions for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music. A songwriter can also be called a composer, although the term tends to be used mainly for individuals from the classical music genre. The pressure from the industry to produce popular hits means that songwriting is often an activity for which the tasks are distributed between a number of people. For example, a songwriter who excels at writing lyrics might be paired with a songwriter with a gift for creating original melodies, pop songs may be written by group members from the band or by staff writers – songwriters directly employed by music publishers. Some songwriters serve as their own publishers, while others have outside publishers. The old-style apprenticeship approach to learning how to write songs is being supplemented by university degrees and college diplomas, a knowledge of modern music technology, songwriting elements and business skills are necessary requirements to make a songwriting career in the 2010s. Several music colleges offer songwriting diplomas and degrees with music business modules, the legal power to grant these permissions may be bought, sold or transferred. This is governed by international copyright law, song pitching can be done on a songwriters behalf by their publisher or independently using tip sheets like RowFax, the MusicRow publication and SongQuarters. Skills associated with song-writing include entrepreneurism and creativity, songwriters who sign an exclusive songwriting agreement with a publisher are called staff writers. In the Nashville country music scene, there is a staff writer culture where contracted writers work normal 9-to-5 hours at the publishing office and are paid a regular salary. This salary is in effect the writers draw, an advance on future earnings, the publisher owns the copyright of songs written during the term of the agreement for a designated period, after which the songwriter can reclaim the copyright. In an interview with HitQuarters, songwriter Dave Berg extolled the benefits of the set-up, unlike contracted writers, some staff writers operate as employees for their respective publishers. Under the terms of work for hire agreements, the compositions created are fully owned by the publisher. In Nashville, young writers are often encouraged to avoid these types of contracts. Staff writers are common across the industry, but without the more office-like working arrangements favored in Nashville. All the major publishers employ writers under contract, songwriter Allan Eshuijs described his staff writer contract at Universal Music Publishing as a starter deal. His success under the arrangement eventually allowed him to found his own publishing company, so that he could. keep as much as possible, songwriters are also often skilled musicians. In addition to selling their songs and musical concepts for other artists to sing, songwriters need to create a number of elements for a song
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Neil Diamond
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Neil Leslie Diamond is an American singer-songwriter, musician and actor. One of the worlds best-selling artists of all time, he has sold over 120 million records worldwide since the start of his career in the 1960s. With 38 songs in the Top 10, he is the second most successful artist in the history of the Billboard Adult Contemporary Top 10 charts and his songs have been covered internationally by many performers from a variety of musical genres. Diamond was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984 and into the Rock, additionally, he received the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000 and in 2011 was an honoree at Kennedy Center. On the Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts, he has had eleven No, Sweet Caroline is played frequently at sporting events, and has become an anthem for the Boston Red Sox. Diamond was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a Jewish family descended from Russian and his parents were Rose and Akeeba Kieve Diamond, a dry-goods merchant. He grew up in homes in Brooklyn, having also spent four years in Cheyenne, Wyoming. In Brooklyn he attended Erasmus Hall High School and was a member of the Freshman Chorus and they were not close friends at the time, Diamond recalls, We were two poor kids in Brooklyn. We hung out in the front of Erasmus High and smoked cigarettes, after his family moved he then attended Abraham Lincoln High School, and was a member of the fencing team. For his 16th birthday, he received his first guitar, and the next thing, I got a guitar when we got back to Brooklyn, started to take lessons and almost immediately began to write songs, he said. He adds that his attraction to songwriting was the first real interest he had growing up, Diamond also used his newly-developing skill at writing lyrics to write poetry. By writing poems for girls he was attracted to in school and his male classmates took note and began asking him to write poems for them which they would sing and use with equal success. He spent the following his graduation as a waiter in the Catskills resort area. There he first met Jaye Posner, who would, years later, Diamond next attended New York University as a pre-med major on a fencing scholarship. His skill at fencing made him a member of the 1960 NCAA mens championship team, however, he was often bored in classes, and found writing song lyrics more to his liking. He began cutting classes and taking the train up to Tin Pan Alley where he tried to get some of his songs heard by music publishers. By his senior year, and just 10 units short of graduation, Sunbeam Music Publishing offered him a 16-week job writing songs for $50 a week, and he dropped out of college to accept it. After his 16 weeks at Sunbeam Music were up, he was not rehired, I never really chose songwriting, he says
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
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Last Train to Clarksville
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Last Train to Clarksville was the debut single by The Monkees. It was released August 16,1966 and later included on the groups 1966 self-titled album, which was released on October 10,1966. The song, written by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart was recorded at RCA Victor Studio B in Hollywood on July 25,1966 and was already on the Boss Hit Bounds on 17 August 1966, the song topped the Billboard Hot 100 on November 5,1966. Lead vocals were performed by The Monkees drummer Micky Dolenz, last Train to Clarksville was featured in seven episodes of the Monkees TV show, the most for any Monkees song. The Beatles song had been one in the US charts three months earlier. The lyrics tell of a man phoning the woman he loves, urging her to him at a train station in Clarksville before he must leave. The Vietnam War was then going on, and what was not made explicit was that the song was about a soldier leaving for the war zone. It is often said that the song refers to Clarksville, Tennessee, which is near Fort Campbell, Kentucky, the home of the 101st Airborne Division, however, according to songwriter Bobby Hart, it was not specifically written with that town in mind. Hart said, We were just looking for a name that sounded good, theres a little town in northern Arizona I used to go through in the summer on the way to Oak Creek Canyon called Clarksdale. We were throwing out names, and when we got to Clarksdale and we didnt know it at the time, there is an Army base near the town of Clarksville, Tennessee — which would have fit the bill fine for the story line. We couldnt be too direct with The Monkees and we couldnt really make a protest song out of it — we kind of snuck it in. Though Clarksville is in the title, the video accompanying the song on the Monkees TV show showed a sign pointing to Clarkesville. Hart got the idea for the lyrics when he turned on the radio and he thought Paul McCartney was singing Take the last train, and decided to use the line when he found out McCartney was actually singing Paperback Writer. Hart knew that The Monkees TV series was pitched as a series in the spirit of The Beatles movie A Hard Days Night. To do that, he made sure to put a guitar riff in this song. Although LAs Wrecking Crew provided the instrumentals for many early Monkees songs, Boyce, the lead guitar was written and played by Louie Shelton. Zadnji voz za Čačak is a song by Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band Riblja Čorba, b-side features the song Lud sto posto
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A Little Bit Me, a Little Bit You
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A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You is a song by Neil Diamond that was released by The Monkees in 1967. Davy Jones sang the lead vocal and it went to #1 in the US Cashbox charts and #2 on the Billboard charts. The records B-side was Michael Nesmiths The Girl I Knew Somewhere and it was also included in the Im A Believer EP in Europe that year. Neil Diamond never made a recording of the song. At least one recording of such a performance exists and circulates, while the band members themselves chose which songs they would record, Kirshner tended to favor his writing stable for record releases, singles in particular. B-sides to singles, which paid the royalty rates as A-sides, were reserved as a kind of bonus for the Brill Building writers. While the Monkees were willing to cooperate with Kirshner, he was not willing to reciprocate or to listen to many of their ideas, Michael Nesmith led the band through a struggle for more creative control, and the chance to play their own accompaniment on records. He, in particular, wanted his songs featured on Monkees singles, early in 1967, the band recorded two songs for selection as their next single, All of Your Toys and a remake of The Girl I Knew Somewhere, both with Micky Dolenz on lead vocals. With Diamonds Im a Believer already a hit, Kirshner gave Diamond first shot at writing a followup and he persuaded Davy Jones to fly to New York and record a solo session with producer Jeff Barry in February 1967. Barry produced Diamonds newest offerings, and also his own She Hangs Out, a Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You and She Hangs Out were chosen by Kirshner for the next Monkees single. He also authorized pressing and distribution of the single picture sleeve. Kirshners reasoning was that a third Monkees hit in a row, done his way and he also pressed a number of promo copies, bearing the label My Favorite Monkee - Davy Jones Sings. The Monkees themselves were irritated enough that an album, More of the Monkees, had been issued with no input from them save their vocals. They lobbied the shows producers, Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider, for a role in their music output. When copies of Kirshners single appeared in Canada, and the song began to get airplay in both Canada and the US, Kirshner was dismissed, on the grounds that he had issued an unauthorized record, the single was withdrawn in Canada, and canceled in the US. The backing vocals are not identified in the credits of any of the collections the song appears on, the Monkees Tale, by Eric Lefcowitz, ISBN9780867193381 The Monkees Greatest Hits, liner notes Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Micky Dolenz
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Dolenz was born at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, in Los Angeles, California, the son of actors George Dolenz and Janelle Johnson. Dolenz began his business career in 1956 when he starred in a children’s show called Circus Boy under the name Mickey Braddock. He played a water boy for the elephants in a one-ring circus at the start of the 20th century. The program ran for two seasons, after which Dolenz made sporadic appearances on television shows and pursued his education. Dolenz went to Ulysses S. Grant High School in Valley Glen, Los Angeles, California, and graduated in 1962. In 1964, he was cast as Ed in the episode Born of Kings and Angels of the NBC education drama series, Mr. Novak, Dolenz was attending college in Los Angeles when he was hired for the drummer role in NBCs The Monkees. Although it has been written about, Micky Dolenz originally had his own rock group called Micky And The One-Nighters in the early-mid 60s with himself as lead singer. He even had penned at least one or two tunes of his own at the time. According to Dolenz his bands live stage act included a lot of Rock songs, cover songs and even some R&B and it would indeed be Johnny B. Good that Dolenz sang at his Monkees audition and that got him hired for the show, what is equally interesting is that he had actually cut two 45s in 1965 but that they went unreleased until the Monkees great success in 1967. He was not at that time a drummer and he needed lessons even to be able to mime credibly but eventually was taught how to play properly. By the time The Monkees went on tour in late 1966, Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, writers of many of The Monkees songs, observed quickly that when brought into the studio together, the four actors would try to crack each other up. Because of this, they would bring in each singer individually. The antics escalated until one time Micky poured a cup of coke on Don Kirshners head, at the time, Dolenz did not know Kirshner on sight. Dolenz wrote a few of the band’s self-penned songs as well as providing the vocals for such hits as Last Train to Clarksville, Take a Giant Step. Towards the end of the series’ hectic two-year run, Dolenz directed, Micky purchased one of the first 25 Moog synthesizers, the third Moog Synthesizer ever commercially sold. His performance on the Monkees song Daily Nightly from the LP Pisces, Aquarius and he eventually sold his instrument to Bobby Sherman. Since Davy Joness death in 2012, Dolenz has been the member of The Monkees who has been with the band continuously since its inception
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Billboard Hot 100
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The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for singles, published weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on sales, radio play and online streaming, the weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday, when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but was changed to Friday to Thursday in July 2015. Radio airplay, which, unlike sales figures and streaming data, is available on a real-time basis. A new chart is compiled and officially released to the public by Billboard on Tuesdays, as of the issue for the week ending on April 15,2017, the Hot 100 has had 1,061 different number one hits. The current number one song is Shape of You by Ed Sheeran, prior to 1955, Billboard did not have a unified, all-encompassing popularity chart, instead measuring songs by individual metrics. At the start of the era in 1955, three such charts existed, Best Sellers in Stores was the first Billboard chart, established in 1936. This chart ranked the biggest selling singles in retail stores, as reported by merchants surveyed throughout the country, Most Played by Jockeys was Billboards original airplay chart. It ranked the most played songs on United States radio stations, as reported by radio disc jockeys, Most Played in Jukeboxes ranked the most played songs in jukeboxes across the United States. On the week ending November 12,1955, Billboard published The Top 100 for the first time, the Top 100 combined all aspects of a singles performance, based on a point system that typically gave sales more weight than radio airplay. The Best Sellers In Stores, Most Played by Jockeys and Most Played in Jukeboxes charts continued to be published concurrently with the new Top 100 chart. The week ending July 28,1958 was the publication of the Most Played By Jockeys and Top 100 charts. On August 4,1958, Billboard premiered one main all-genre singles chart, the Hot 100 quickly became the industry standard and Billboard discontinued the Best Sellers In Stores chart on October 13,1958. The Billboard Hot 100 is still the standard by which a songs popularity is measured in the United States, the Hot 100 is ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen BDS, sales data compiled by Nielsen Soundscan and streaming activity provided by online music sources. There are several component charts that contribute to the calculation of the Hot 100. Charts are ranked by number of gross audience impressions, computed by cross-referencing exact times of radio airplay with Arbitron listener data. Hot Singles Sales, the top selling singles compiled from a sample of retail store, mass merchant and internet sales reports collected, compiled. The chart is released weekly and measures sales of commercial singles. With the decline in sales of singles in the US
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The Monkees (TV series)
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The Monkees is an American situation comedy that aired on NBC from September 12,1966 to March 25,1968. The series follows the adventures of four men trying to make a name for themselves as a rock n roll band. The show introduced a number of innovative new-wave film techniques to series television and won two Emmy Awards in 1967. The program ended on Labor Day 1968 at the finish of its season and has received a long afterlife in Saturday morning repeats and syndication. The series centered on the adventures of The Monkees, a rock band from Los Angeles, California consisting of Micky, Davy, Michael. The comic elements of the storyline were provided by the strange encounters that the band would have while searching for their big break. In the early 1960s, aspiring filmmakers Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider had formed Raybert Productions and were trying to get a foot in the door in Hollywood. Inspired by the Beatles film A Hard Days Night, the duo decided to develop a series about a fictional rock n roll group. In April,1965, Raybert sold the idea to Screen Gems, and by August. On September 8,1965, trade publications Daily Variety and The Hollywood Reporter ran an ad seeking Folk & Roll Musicians-Singers for acting roles in new TV series, as many as 400 hopefuls showed up to be considered as one of 4 insane boys. Fourteen actors from the pool were brought back for screen tests. Micky Dolenz, son of screen actor George Dolenz, had prior experience as the 10-year-old star of the Circus Boy series in the 1950s. He was actively auditioning for pilots at the time and was told about the Raybert project by his agent, englishman Davy Jones was a former jockey who had achieved some initial success on the musical stage. Already appearing in Columbia Pictures productions and recording for the Colpix record label, Nesmith was the only one of The Monkees who had come in based on seeing the trade magazine ad. He showed up to the audition with his laundry and impressed Rafelson and Schneider with his laid-back style, Nesmith also wore a woollen hat to keep his hair out of his eyes when he rode his motorcycle, leading to early promotional materials which nicknamed him Wool Hat. The hat remained part of Nesmiths wardrobe, but the name was dropped after the pilot, Peter Tork was recommended to Rafelson and Schneider by friend Stephen Stills at his own audition. Tork, a skilled multi-instrumentalist, had performed at various Greenwich Village folk clubs before moving west, each episode would contain at least one musical romp which might have nothing to do with the storyline. In retrospect, these vignettes now look very much like music videos, short and they also believed strongly in the programs ability to appeal to young people, intentionally framing the kids as heroes and the adults as heavies
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September Morn (album)
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September Morn is the thirteenth studio album by the American singer Neil Diamond. Released in 1979, the album includes a version of the Motown classic Dancing in the Street. The title track was a chart hit, and became Diamonds 30th Top 40 hit in the U. S. The song peaked at number 17 on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100, number 14 on the Cash Box Top 100, in Canada, it peaked at number 15. The song was a bigger hit on the Adult Contemporary charts. Neil Diamond - vocals, guitar Tom Hensley - piano, keyboards Bob Gaudio - piano Alan Lindgren - piano, synthesizers Reinie Press - bass Doug Rhone, Richard Bennett - guitar Dennis St
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Just for You (Neil Diamond album)
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Just for You is the second album by Neil Diamond. Like his debut, it has never released on CD, though all. All tracks are available on the compilation album The Bang Years 1966-1968. Curiously, the year-old hit Cherry Cherry also appears here, whilst the then-current hit Kentucky Woman does not, solitary Man also re-appears in its 1966 version. This version would be re-released in 1970 and chart at #21 and this was Diamonds first album consisting entirely of original material, and his final album for the Bang label. All songs written by Neil Diamond
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The Fifth Estate (band)
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The Fifth Estate, formerly known as The D-Men, is an American rock band formed in 1963 in Stamford, Connecticut. The band began in Stamford, Connecticut, in 1963, as The D-Men, early on, as The D-Men, the band played many small shows and local clubs but soon gravitated to Greenwich Village and larger clubs where they often played six nights a week for long stretches. Boston Skyline released a 28-song collection of their music in 1993, the program was at that time co-hosted by Brian Epstein, who expressed an interest in signing them. They later won a Murray the K call-in contest for best new release over The Dave Clark Five, in 1966 they changed their name to The Fifth Estate. They had a national / international hit in 1967 with a pop version of Ding-Dong. The Witch Is Dead, which reached No.11 on the Hot 100, the song was recorded and released around the world in five different languages, and incorporated parts of La Bouree, from Terpsichore by 17th-century composer Michael Praetorius. That same year, The Fifth Estate recorded their version of Heigh Ho. another film theme, this time from Disneys first feature film, 1937s Snow White. It now receives substantial radio, Internet and Sirius XM play in the US, the original five-member band lineup was consistent for six years. In that time they recorded about 100 songs, and released 13 singles and they also appeared in a 1967 TV episode of Malibu U, with weird overlays and film footage. In 1968, on The Frodis Caper, the last of their 58 television show episodes, The Monkees covered The Fifth Estates version of Ding Dong. The Fifth Estate toured with such as Count Five, The Electric Prunes, The Music Explosion, The Buckinghams, The Ronettes, Gene Pitney, The Lovin Spoonful, The Turtles, The Byrds. They also did the Upbeat with another Greenwich Village band, The Velvet Underground, in 1970, they all went off on different projects, but have since re-established the band and continue to perform and record. Their new album, TIME TUNNEL, was recorded in 2010/11 and it was produced with the assistance of and mixed by Shel Talmy, the original producer for The Kinks, The Who, The Easybeats, Manfred Mann, early Jimmy Page and David Bowie. On Sept.19,2012, The Fifth Estate - Anthology 1 was released by Fuel 2000/Universal Music Group and its a 2-CD set with a 20 page booklet and 40 songs, more than half never released before. In May,2014 the German label Break-A-Way Records released a 14 song vinyl album of the bands early 1964 -1966 material called I Wanna Shout. On August 12,2014, following the success of the 2012 Anthology 1 release. This album, like their 2012 Time Tunnel album, was mixed and executive-produced by Shel Talmy, the Witch Is Dead Ding Dong. The Witch Is Back, 1964-1969 Time Tunnel The Fifth Estate - Anthology 1 1964-1969 I Wanna Shout,12 Vinyl Take The Fifth Surf, Rocks & Fuzz Bands 1963 &1964 material
