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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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Tom Jones (singer)
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Sir Thomas John Woodward OBE is a Welsh singer known by his stage name Tom Jones. Joness powerful voice has been described as a full-throated, robust baritone and his performing range has included pop, rock, R&B, show tunes, country, dance, soul and gospel. In 2008, the New York Times called Jones a musical shape shifter, who could slide from soulful rasp to pop croon, with a voice as husky as it was pretty. Jones received a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1966, an MTV Video Music Award in 1989, Jones was awarded an OBE in 1999 and in 2006 he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to music. Jones was born Thomas John Woodward, at 57 Kingsland Terrace, Treforest, Pontypridd, in Glamorgan and his parents were Thomas Woodward, a coal miner, and Freda Jones. His maternal grandfather, Albert Jones, was Welsh, and his grandmother, Ada Jones, was born in Pontypridd, to parents from Somerset. Jones attended Wood Road Infants School, Wood Road Junior School and he began singing at an early age, He would regularly sing at family gatherings, weddings and in his school choir. Jones did not like school or sports, but gained confidence through his singing talent, at 12 he was diagnosed with tuberculosis. Many years later he said, I spent two years in bed recovering and it was the worst time of my life. During convalescence he could do little else but listen to music, Joness bluesy singing style developed out of the sound of American soul music. His early influences included blues and R&B singers Little Richard, Solomon Burke, Jackie Wilson and Brook Benton, as well as Elvis Presley, in March 1957 Jones married his high school girlfriend, Linda Trenchard when they were expecting a child together, both aged 16. The couples son, Mark, was born in the month following their wedding, to support his young family Jones took a job working in a glove factory and was later employed in construction. Joness voice has been described as a full-throated, robust baritone and he became the frontman in 1963 for Tommy Scott and the Senators, a Welsh beat group. They soon gained a following and reputation in South Wales. In 1964, the group recorded several tracks with producer Joe Meek, who took them to various labels. Later that year, Decca producer Peter Sullivan saw Tommy Scott and the Senators performing in a club and directed them to manager Phil Solomon, the group continued to play gigs at dance halls and working mens clubs in South Wales. One night at the Top Hat in Cwmtillery, Wales, Jones was spotted by Gordon Mills, Mills became Joness manager and took the young singer to London, and also renamed him Tom Jones, to exploit the popularity of the Academy Award-winning 1963 film. Eventually, Mills got Jones a recording contract with Decca and his first single, Chills and Fever, was released in late 1964
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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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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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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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New Mexico
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New Mexico is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States of America. It was admitted to the Union as the 47th state on January 6,1912 and it is usually considered one of the Mountain States. New Mexico is fifth by area, the 36th-most populous, inhabited by Native Americans for thousands of years before European exploration, New Mexico was colonized by the Spanish in 1598 Imperial Spanish viceroyalty of New Spain. Later, it was part of independent Mexico before becoming a U. S. territory and eventually a U. S. state as a result of the Mexican–American War. Among U. S. states, New Mexico has the highest percentage of Hispanics, the major Native American nations in the state are Navajo, Pueblo, and Apache peoples. The demography and culture of the state are shaped by these strong Hispanic and Native American influences and its scarlet and gold colors are taken from the royal standards of Spain, along with the ancient sun symbol of the Zia, a Pueblo-related tribe. New Mexico, or Nuevo México in Spanish, is incorrectly believed to have taken its name from the nation of Mexico. The name simply stuck, even though the area had no connection to Mexico or the Mexica Indian tribes, Mexico, formerly a part of New Spain, adopted its name centuries later in 1821, after winning independence from Spanish rule. New Mexico was a part of the independent Mexican Empire and Federal Republic of Mexico for 27 years,1821 through 1848, New Mexico and Mexico developed as neighboring Spanish-speaking communities under Spanish rule, with relatively independent histories. The states total area is 121,412 square miles, the eastern border of New Mexico lies along 103° W longitude with the state of Oklahoma, and 2.2 miles west of 103° W longitude with Texas. On the southern border, Texas makes up the eastern two-thirds, while the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora make up the western third, the western border with Arizona runs along the 109°03 W longitude. The southwestern corner of the state is known as the Bootheel, the 37° N latitude parallel forms the northern boundary with Colorado. The states New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Utah come together at the Four Corners in the corner of New Mexico. New Mexico, although a state, has very little water. Its surface water area is about 250 square miles, the New Mexican landscape ranges from wide, rose-colored deserts to broken mesas to high, snow-capped peaks. Despite New Mexicos arid image, heavily forested mountain wildernesses cover a significant portion of the state, the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the southernmost part of the Rocky Mountains, run roughly north-south along the east side of the Rio Grande in the rugged, pastoral north. The most important of New Mexicos rivers are the Rio Grande, Pecos, Canadian, San Juan, the Rio Grande is tied for the fourth-longest river in the United States. Tourists visiting these sites bring significant money to the state, other areas of geographical and scenic interest include Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument and the Gila Wilderness in the southwest of the state
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The Walt Disney Company
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The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California. It is the second largest media conglomerate in terms of revenue. Disney was founded on October 16,1923 – by brothers Walt Disney, the company also operated under the names The Walt Disney Studio and then Walt Disney Productions. Taking on its current name in 1986, it expanded its operations and also started divisions focused upon theater, radio, music, publishing. In addition, Disney has since created corporate divisions in order to more mature content than is typically associated with its flagship family-oriented brands. The company is best known for the products of its studio, Walt Disney Studios. Disneys other three divisions are Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, Disney Media Networks, and Disney Consumer Products. The company has been a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average since May 6,1991, Mickey Mouse, an early and well-known cartoon creation of the company, is a primary symbol and mascot for Disney. In early 1923, Kansas City, Missouri, animator Walt Disney created a film entitled Alices Wonderland. After the bankruptcy in 1923 of his previous firm, Laugh-O-Gram Studios, Disney moved to Hollywood to join his brother, Walt and Roy Disney formed Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio that same year. More animated films followed after Alice, in January 1926, with the completion of the Disney studio on Hyperion Street, the Disney Brothers Studios name was changed to the Walt Disney Studio. The distributor owned Oswald, so Disney only made a few hundred dollars, Disney completed 26 Oswald shorts before losing the contract in February 1928, due to a legal loophole, when Winklers husband Charles Mintz took over their distribution company. After failing to take over the Disney Studio, Mintz hired away four of Disneys primary animators to start his own animation studio, Snappy Comedies. In 1928, to recover from the loss of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Disney came up with the idea of a character named Mortimer while on a train headed to California. The mouse was later renamed Mickey Mouse and starred in several Disney produced films, ub Iwerks refined Disneys initial design of Mickey Mouse. Disneys first sound film Steamboat Willie, a cartoon starring Mickey, was released on November 18,1928 through Pat Powers distribution company and it was the first Mickey Mouse sound cartoon released, but the third to be created, behind Plane Crazy and The Gallopin Gaucho. Disney used Pat Powers Cinephone system, created by Powers using Lee De Forests Phonofilm system, Steamboat Willie premiered at B. S. Mosss Colony Theater in New York City, now The Broadway Theatre. Disneys Plane Crazy and The Galloping Gaucho were then retrofitted with synchronized sound tracks, Disney continued to produce cartoons with Mickey Mouse and other characters, and began the Silly Symphonies series with Columbia Pictures signing on as Symphonies distributor in August 1929
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Pinocchio (1940 film)
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Pinocchio is a 1940 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and based on the Italian childrens novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. It was the animated feature film produced by Disney, made after the success of Snow White. The plot of the film involves an old wood-carver named Geppetto who carves a puppet named Pinocchio. The puppet is brought to life by a fairy, who informs him that he can become a real boy if he proves himself to be brave, truthful. Pinocchios efforts to become a real boy involve encounters with a host of unsavory characters, the film was adapted by Aurelius Battaglia, William Cottrell, Otto Englander, Erdman Penner, Joseph Sabo, Ted Sears, and Webb Smith from Collodis book. The production was supervised by Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske, and the sequences were directed by Norman Ferguson, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney. Pinocchio was an achievement in the area of effects animation, giving realistic movement to vehicles, machinery and natural elements such as rain, lightning, smoke, shadows. The film was released to theaters by RKO Radio Pictures on February 7,1940, critical analysis of Pinocchio identifies it as a simple morality tale that teaches children of the benefits of hard work and middle-class values. It eventually made a profit in its 1945 reissue, and is considered one of the greatest animated films ever made, the film and characters are still prevalent in popular culture, featuring at various Disney parks and in other forms of entertainment. In 1994, Pinocchio was added to the United States National Film Registry for being deemed culturally, historically, Jiminy Cricket explains that he is going to tell a story of a wish coming true. His story begins in the workshop of a woodworker named Geppetto, Jiminy watches as Geppetto finishes work on a wooden marionette whom he names Pinocchio. Before falling asleep, Geppetto makes a wish on a star that Pinocchio be a real boy, during the night, a Blue Fairy visits the workshop and brings Pinocchio to life, although he still remains a puppet. She informs him if he proves himself brave, truthful, and unselfish, he will become a real boy. Geppetto discovers that his wish has come true, and is filled with joy. However, on his way to school, Pinocchio is led astray by Honest John the Fox and his companion, Gideon the Cat, Pinocchio becomes Strombolis star attraction as a marionette who can sing and dance without strings. However, when Pinocchio wants to go home for the night, Jiminy arrives to see Pinocchio, and is unable to free him. The Blue Fairy appears, and asks Pinocchio why he was not at school, Jiminy urges Pinocchio to tell the truth, but instead he starts telling lies, which causes his nose to grow longer and longer. Pinocchio vows to be good from now on, and the Blue Fairy returns his nose to its form and sets him free
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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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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Reload (Tom Jones album)
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Reload is an album by Welsh singer Tom Jones, released in 1999. To ensure that the finished product retained the sound of artists, he also recorded the tracks in the same studios these artists used. Reload became the highest seller of Jones career, reaching #1 on the British charts in 1999 and its biggest single was the collaboration with Mousse T, Sexbomb, which reached #3 on the UK Singles Chart, and was later used in a 2003 episode of The Simpsons. The album has more than six million copies worldwide. A special edition release of the album includes remixes of Sexbomb
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Praise & Blame
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Praise & Blame is the 39th studio album by Welsh musician Tom Jones, released 26 July 2010. The album was Jones’ first release with Island Records and was recorded in 2009 at the Real World Studios in England. Produced by Ethan Johns, Praise & Blame was made up of little known devotional and gospel covers. Upon its release, Praise & Blame received generally positive reviews from most critics. ”Giving the album five stars, the albums stripped down production and focus upon spiritual songs gained numerous comparisons to Johnny Cashs American series and Elvis Presleys 1968 comeback. It is a respectful, expressively focused exploration of a genre beloved by Mr. Jones’s American counterpart, Elvis Presley
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All You Need Is Love
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All You Need Is Love is a song by the English rock band the Beatles that was released as a non-album single in July 1967. It was written by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartney, the Beatles performed the song over a pre-recorded backing track as Britains contribution to Our World, the first live global television link. Watched by over 400 million in 25 countries, the programme was broadcast via satellite on 25 June 1967, the song captured the utopian sentiments of the Summer of Love era and topped singles charts in Britain, the United States and many other countries. All You Need Is Love was later included on the US Magical Mystery Tour album and it also appears in a sequence in the Beatles 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine and on the accompanying soundtrack album. For Our World, the Beatles were asked to provide a song with a message that could be understood by everyone. All You Need Is Love was selected for Our World for its social significance over the Paul McCartney-written Your Mother Should Know. In a statement to Melody Maker magazine, Brian Epstein, the manager, said of All You Need Is Love, It was an inspired song. The nice thing about it is that it cannot be misinterpreted and it is a clear message saying that love is everything. Lennon later attributed the songs simple lyrical statements to his liking of slogans and he also likened the song to a propaganda piece, adding, Im a revolutionary artist. My art is dedicated to change, author Mark Hertsgaard views it as the Beatles most political song yet up to 1967 and the origins of Lennons posthumous standing as a humanitarian hero. McCartney said, It was certainly tailored to once we had it, but Ive got a feeling it was just one of Johns songs that was coming anyway. All You Need Is Love is notable for its time signature. The main verse pattern contains a total of 29 beats, split into two 7/4 measures, a bar of 8/4, followed by a one bar return of 7/4 before repeating the pattern. The chorus, however, maintains a steady 4/4 beat with the exception of the last bar of 6/4, after the verse learn how to play the game, its easy, the bass alters the prolonged V chord with F#, E, C and B notes. The song is notable for a use of a dominant or V chord on Its easy. Supporting the same note with different and unexpected chords has been termed a characteristic Beatles technique. George Martin recalled that in All You Need Is Love the boys, wanted to freak out at the end, and just go mad. During the long fade-out, elements of other songs can be heard, including Greensleeves, Invention No.8 in F major by J. S. Bach, In the Mood
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Baby, It's Cold Outside
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Baby, Its Cold Outside is a song written by Frank Loesser in 1944. Originally recorded for the film Neptunes Daughter, it has been recorded by artists since its original release, including Ray Charles, Dolly Parton. Loesser would introduce himself as the Evil of Two Loessers, a play on the theme of the song, trying to keep the girl from leaving and this was a period when the Hollywood elites chief entertainment was throwing parties and inviting guests who were expected to perform. Garland wrote that after the first performance, We become instant parlor room stars and we got invited to all the best parties for years on the basis of Baby. It was our ticket to caviar and truffles, parties were built around our being the closing act. Garland considered it their song and was furious when Loesser told her he was selling the song, garland wrote, I felt as betrayed as if Id caught him in bed with another woman. The mouse wants to stay and enjoy herself, but feels obligated to return home, worried what family, every line in the song features a statement from the mouse followed by a response from the wolf, which is musically known as a call and response song. Although some critical analyses of the song have highlighted parts of the such as Whats in this drink. Was a common idiom of the used to rebuke social expectations by blaming ones actions on the influence of alcohol. In 1948, after years of performing the song at various parties, Loesser sold the rights to MGM. These performances earned Loesser an Academy Award for Best Original Song, in at least one published version the tempo of the song is given as Loesserando, a humorous reference to the composers name. The following versions were recorded in 1949, The recording by Dinah Shore and Buddy Clark was recorded on March 17 and it first reached the Billboard Best Seller chart on May 6,1949, and lasted 19 weeks on the chart, peaking at No.4. The recording by Margaret Whiting and Johnny Mercer was recorded on March 18 and it first reached the Billboard Best Seller chart on May 6,1949, and lasted 19 weeks on the chart, peaking at No.4. The recording by Don Cornell and Laura Leslie with the Sammy Kaye orchestra was recorded on April 12 and it first reached the Billboard Best Seller chart on June 24,1949, and lasted 10 weeks on the chart, peaking at No.13. The recording by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Jordan was recorded on April 28 and it first reached the Billboard Best Seller chart on June 17,1949, and lasted seven weeks on the chart, peaking at No.17. A parody recording was made by Homer and Jethro with June Carter, it went to No.9 on the country charts, Baby, Its Cold Outside has been recorded by numerous other artists over the years. At least five different versions of the song have made at least one singles chart in the United States,120 on the Billboard 2002013, Jimmy Fallon and Cecily Strong on Saturday Night Live. The song begins in the manner, but after sex, roles reverse
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Black Betty
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Black Betty is a 20th-century African-American work song often credited to Huddie Lead Belly Ledbetter as the author, though the earliest recordings are not by him. Some sources claim it is one of Lead Bellys many adaptations of folk material. There are numerous recorded versions, including a cappella, folk, the best known modern recordings are rock versions by Ram Jam, Tom Jones, and Spiderbait, all of which were hits. The origin and meaning of the lyrics are subject to debate, historically the Black Betty of the title may refer to the nickname given to a number of objects, a musket, a bottle of whiskey, a whip, or a penitentiary transfer wagon. Some sources claim the song is derived from an 18th-century marching cadence about a musket with a black painted stock. In the British Army from the early 18th century the standard musket had a walnut stock, there is no citation however for this firearm or a subsequent model being known as a Black Betty. In January 1736, Benjamin Franklin published The Drinkers Dictionary in the Pennsylvania Gazette offering 228 round-about phrases for being drunk, one of those phrases is Hes kissd black Betty. Other sources give the meaning of Black Betty in the United States as a liquor bottle, in Caldwellss Illustrated Combination Centennial Atlas of Washington Co. This challenge was given when the bridegroom party was about a mile from the destination-home where the ceremony was to be had. Upon securing the prize, referred to as Black Betty, the winner of the race would bring the back to the bridegroom. The whiskey was offered to the bridegroom first and then successively to each of the grooms friends, in the resulting article for Musical Quarterly, titled Sinful Songs of the Southern Negro, Lomax again mentions the nickname of the bullwhip is Black Betty. Steven Cornelius in his book, Music of the Civil War Era, states in a section concerning folk music following the end that prisoners sang of Black Betty. Robert Vells, in Life Flows On in Endless Song, Folk Songs and American History, writes, In later versions, Black Betty was depicted as various vehicles, including a motorcycle and a hot rod. Black Betty is the name given to the Queen of Spades in the card game Hearts. The song was first recorded in the field by US musicologists John and Alan Lomax in 1933, performed a cappella by the convict James Baker and a group at Central State Farm, Sugar Land, Texas. The Lomaxes were recording for the Library of Congress and later field recordings in 1934,1936, a notated version was published in 1934 in the Lomaxes book American Ballads and Folk Songs. It was recorded commercially in New York in 1939 for the Musicraft label by Lead Belly, Musicraft issued the recording in 1939 as part of a 78rpm five-disc album entitled Negro Sinful Songs sung by Lead Belly. Lead Belly had an association with the Lomaxes, and had himself served time in State prison farms
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Burning Down the House
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Burning Down the House is a song by new wave band Talking Heads, released in July 1983 as the first single from their fifth studio album Speaking in Tongues. This song started from a jam, says bassist Tina Weymouth in the notes of Once in a Lifetime. Chris had just been to see Parliament-Funkadelic in its glory at Madison Square Garden. During the jam, he kept yelling Burn down the house, which was a P-Funk audience chant, and David dug the line, changing it to the finished version, Burning down the house. The initial lyrics were different, however. Id have loads and loads of phrases collected that I thought thematically had something to do one another. The house used in the Burning Down the House video is located on Myrtle Street in Union, throughout the video, Byrnes head is superimposed in front of the house. Max Illidge, vocalist of the band 40 Below Summer, is featured as a boy in the video. This was revealed on an episode of Headbangers Ball, rockets Redglare was also in the video playing Jerry Harrisons part. Despite this success, the song was not a hit outside of North America, in Australia it peaked at a very modest #94, while in the UK, where Talking Heads would release 14 charting singles, it failed to make the charts at all. It also appeared in the TV series Numb3rs episode Shadow Markets, in 2013, the live version from Stop Making Sense was used to open the final chapter of Lars von Triers Nymphomaniac. In an episode of the TV show Six Feet Under, Ruth Fisher sings Burning Down the House in front of the rest of the family on karaoke at a family party. In the final episode of the sitcom Home Improvement on Tool Time all the shows favorite guests return and perform the song while Tim, the 1999 drama film Pirates of Silicon Valley featured this song on its soundtrack, playing during the closing credits. The movie 13 Going on 30, the young Matt dances to this song at the beginning, featured in the Ken Burns documentary Baseball during the 1970s New York Yankees story. The song appeared on Halt and Catch Fire S03E03 before cut to credits It also appeared in the intro to Fire Man, in 1999, singer Tom Jones recorded a version of Burning Down the House with the group The Cardigans for his album of collaborations titled Reload. In common with the tracks on the album, the recording was made with the collaborators choice of producer and studios, in this case Tore Johansson and Tambourine Studios in Malmö. The track was released as the single from Reload in September 1999 and became a hit across Europe, reaching #2 in Sweden and the top ten in Finland, Norway. The single was backed with Jones live recordings of the EMF song Unbelievable and The Beatles Come Together, as well as remixes of Burning Down the House by Delakota, Pepe Deluxe and DJ Scissorkicks
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Carrying a Torch
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Carrying a Torch is a popular song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and released on his 1991 double album, Hymns to the Silence. It was also included on his 2015 album Duets, Re-working the Catalogue with Clare Teal, tom Jones also recorded the song, together with Van Morrison, on his album Carrying a Torch. Their version of the song was released as a single and charted at #57 in 1991 in the UK and this collaboration came about when Morrison showed his newly written song Carrying a Torch to Jones, who was so impressed that he invited Morrison to play on his new record. Morrison wrote, played on and produced four tracks appeared on Jones album. Bob Dylan has also performed the song occasionally at his concerts, Van Morrison, No Surrender, London, Vintage Books ISBN 978-0-09-943183-1 Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Darlin' (Poacher song)
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Darlin is a song written in 1970 by English sax player Stewart Oscar Blandamer. There have been many recorded versions of the song, including those by David Rogers as a country song, further famous versions were recorded by Tom Jones, Barbara Mandrell, Smokie and Johnny Reid. The song was first released by Warrington country band Poacher in 1978, Miller recorded the song in 1978 and had an international hit with it. It reached number 1 on the Norwegian Singles Chart, and 6 in the UK Singles Chart, a country music version was recorded by the American singer David Rogers. Released on the Republic label, it was never included on an album, Rogers recording was a relatively minor hit reaching #18 on the Billboard country singles charts. Barbara Mandrell released a version in 1979, which served as the B-side to her number one single Years. In 1980, the song was one of two by Bonnie Raitt included on the soundtrack of the film, Urban Cowboy and it was not released as a single, although her other contribution, Dont It Make You Want to Dance was issued to Country radio. It failed to crack the Top 40 on the chart, peaking at #42, in 1981, Welsh pop singer Tom Jones released the song as a single from his Mercury Records album Darlin. Jones rendition also reached the country music Top 20, peaking at #19 there in addition to reaching number 3 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100, the British band Smokie recorded a cover version in their 2000 covers album Uncovered. In 2004, singer Bonnie Tyler released a version of the song on her album Simply Believe, in 2007, Canadian singer Johnny Reid also released a version of the song on the album Kicking Stones. His version peaked at number 57 on the Canadian Hot 100, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Help Yourself (Tom Jones song)
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Help Yourself is a song recorded by Welsh singer Tom Jones in 1968. The song is one of Jones best known songs and reached five in the UK Singles Chart in its original run. It topped the charts in both Ireland and Germany, and spent three weeks at the top spot in Australia, the American single reached Billboard peaks of number 35 pop and number three easy listening, and is still widely played on adult-standards radio. British author and songwriter Jack Fishman wrote the English lyrics, which bear no relation to the original Italian, the song was recorded by comedian Steve Coogan in character as Tony Ferrino. The track was used in the TV show, included on an album and released as a single in November 1996, in 1972, Hong Kong female singer Frances Yip recorded it on her Frances Yip Greatest Hits LP album with Life Records. In the 1970s this song was performed by Soviet baritone singer Muslim Magomayev. In 1978, the song was covered by Filipino singer Sam Sorono on his Sings Tom Jones Greatest Hits LP album with EMI Records The song is featured in the movie Anchorman, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Islands in the Stream (song)
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Islands in the Stream is a song written by the Bee Gees and sung by American country music artists Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton. Named after the Ernest Hemingway novel, it was written for Marvin Gaye in an R&B style. It was released in August 1983 as the first single from Rogers album Eyes That See in the Dark, the song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States, giving both Rogers and Parton their second pop number-one hit. It also topped the Country and Adult Contemporary charts and it has been certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for selling over two million physical copies in the US. In 2005 the song topped CMTs poll of the best country duets of all time, Parton, Rogers and Parton went on to record a Christmas album together, and had an additional hit with their 1985 duet Real Love. The song is sung in C major moderate 4/4 time, with Rogers and Parton alternating lead vocals and their version features a key change from C major to A-flat major. By contrast the Bee Gees recorded version has no key change, in both versions the chorus is syncopated, with the phrase starting one quaver before the 4th beat of the bar. It knocked Bonnie Tylers Total Eclipse of the Heart out of No.1 on Billboards Hot 100, also topping the Country, in December of that year it was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America for selling over two million physical copies in the US. It has also sold 569,000 digital copies in the US as of November 2013, while the song was at the very top of the country charts, another of Rogers singles Scarlet Fever reached #5. In Australia the song was one for one week in December 1983. The song reached a peak of No.7 in the UK singles chart in 1983, since then it has also sold 245,577 digital copies in the UK as of July 2014. In September 2016, in Supergirl, the song was played at the bar in the episode Welcome to Earth. The song was used as title track for the Danish TV series Måske i morgen shown on Danish national television DR. Swedish pop and country singer Kikki Danielsson covered the song on her 1983 album Singles Bar, canadian vocalist Leslie Feist recorded a version of this song with her friends the Constantines. It appeared as number 9 on the disc in the Deluxe Edition of The Reminder. In 1994 the majorcan singer Tomeu Penya recorded a version of song with lyrics in a Balearic dialect of catalan. This version was a duet sung with Adriana Ceballos an argentinian singer, in the US television series The Office, Michael Scott performs a karaoke version of the song in the E-mail Surveillance episode. While waiting for someone to join him for the duet, Michael awkwardly finds himself singing the part in falsetto until he is finally joined by the Jim Halpert character
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It's Not Unusual
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Its Not Unusual is a song written by Les Reed and Gordon Mills, first recorded by a then-unknown Tom Jones, after having first been offered to Sandie Shaw. Jones recorded what was intended to be a demo for Shaw, the record was the second Decca single Jones released, reaching number one in the UK Singles Chart in 1965. It was also the first hit for Jones in the US, the single was released in the US on the Parrot label and also reached number 3 on Billboards easy listening chart. The BBC initially refused to play the song because of Jones’s sexy image, Jones performed the song several times on The Ed Sullivan Show in the US, first on 2 May 1965, then again on 13 June 1965. He sang the song again on the show when he returned on 21 April 1968, Jones later used this song as the theme for his late 1960s–early 1970s television musical variety series This Is Tom Jones. It has since become his signature song, in the sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, on several occasions Carlton Banks lip-synchs to Its Not Unusual with comedic choreography. Tom Jones also guest-starred on the show a few times, the first studio version of the song was subsequently released in 1995 as part of the compilation album The Legendary Tom Jones - 30th Anniversary Album. The songs musical arranger was Les Reed, page does list the session in his online discography, however. Drums were played by Scottish percussionist Andy White, who had drummed for The Beatles. or possibly by or Ronnie Verrell. Joness group Tom Jones and the Squires were missing their regular player for the session. Drummer Chris Slade ran across the street to the La Giaconda coffee house, as was standard practice in the 1960s, session musicians were used instead of Joness regular backing band. The Dells also recorded a version in 1965 and released it as the track of an LP on Vee-Jay records in Chicago. It was released as the B-side to their recording of Stay in My Corner. Glen Campbell recorded the song on his 1965 album The Big Bad Rock Guitar of Glen Campbell, in 1966, South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela included the song to his album Hugh Masekelas Next Album. The Supremes recorded a version of song for their Supremes A Go-Go album. It was recently released on a collection of Supremes previously unreleased recordings, italian rock singer Little Tony performed a local version with the title Non è normale. American alternative band Wild Colonials covered the song, which appeared on their album Reel Life vol 1 and those Darn Accordions recorded an all-accordion instrumental version for their 1992 album Vongole Fisarmonica. Cher recorded a version of the song on her 1966 record, filipino singer Nora Aunor on her album, More, more, more of Nora Aunor Writer Les Reed and his orchestra also recorded an instrumental version on their 1971 record, Colour Me
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Kiss (Prince song)
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Kiss is a 1986 single by Prince and The Revolution, from the album Parade. The song ranked number 464 on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, NME ranked the song number 4 in their list of The 150 Greatest Singles of All Time. The same magazine voted Kiss the best single of the year 1986, following Princes death, the song re-charted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 28 and jumped to number 23 the week after. The song also reached two on the French Singles Chart. As of April 30,2016, it has sold 1,330,336 copies in the United States, age of Chance and The Art of Noise also released versions of the song that were critical and chart successes. The song is written in the key of A major and has a tempo of 112 beats per minute in common time, Princes vocals span an octave in the song, from E4 to E5. Kiss started as an acoustic demo, about a minute in length. Prince gave the song to the funk band Mazarati for their debut album, Mazarati and producer David Z drastically reworked the song, giving it its stripped-down minimalist sound. When Mazarati delivered the song to Prince, he was amazed at their work and he replaced their lead vocal, added the guitar break in the chorus and edited the song to its present form. Mazarati were credited for their backing vocals, which Prince left intact, Prince added the song at the last minute to Parade. Despite Warner Bros. not wanting to release it as a single, Kiss became Princes third number-one U. S. hit following 1984s highly successful When Doves Cry and it was also a big hit across the Atlantic, reaching #6 on the UK Singles Chart. The song won Prince another Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, the song became a staple at Princes concerts and was usually sung partially by the audience. The 12″ single of the song is an extension of the album track, the extended section is based on the funky guitar line and contains much fuller instrumentation than the main track, including bass guitar, organ and horns. New lyrics are present from Prince, along with Jill Jones, the B-side of Kiss was ♥ or $, sung in a processed, higher-pitched vocal, which Prince would later use for his Camille material. The song relates to the theme in Under the Cherry Moon, the extended Kiss was included on 2006s Ultimate, ♥ or $ was recently re-released as a digital B-side on iTunes. The music video is directed by Rebecca Blake, in the plot of the video, Prince appears in a half shirt and leather jacket and then all shirtless and performs dance choreography in a hall. He is accompanied by the veiled dancer Monique Manning wearing black lingerie, bass player Geoff Taylor described it as, We basically removed the sex and replaced it with lump hammers. The band worked out the music from hearing it in clubs and consulted Smash Hits for the lyrics, the band first recorded the track for a Peel session in June 1986, when the Prince version was still in the UK charts
