In 1958, the Esso Research Center reported that "tuning in rock & roll music on a car radio can cost a motorist money, because the rhythm can cause a driver to unconsciously jiggle the gas pedal, thus wasting fuel. He has appeared in over two dozen films, including Sling Blade with Billy Bob Thornton and several TV shows, including The Dukes of Hazzard, Baywatch and Tim Allen's Home Improvement. Bobby Hebb wrote his 1966 hit "Sunny" about an unknown woman's smile that had lifted his spirits after his brother had been killed in a knife fight outside a Nashville nightclub. At one point, The Beach Boys' Mike Love, keyboard player Billy Preston, Marilyn McCoo and Ron Townsend of The Fifth Dimension and guitarist Johnny Echols of the L. A. band Love, all attended Dorsey High School in Los Angeles. "The First Cut Is The Deepest", written by Cat Stevens in 1967, has been a hit record for P. P. Arnold (UK #18 in 1967), Keith Hampshire (Canadian #1 in 1973), Rod Stewart (US #21 in 1977) and Sheryl Crow (US #14 in 2003). At age 21, he became the youngest vice-president at Capitol Records and as a writer, producer, manager and promoter, he earned over 100 Gold and Platinum discs while writing over 75 Billboard charted songs. Paul McCartney performed at the 2012 London Olympics Opening Ceremony for the grand fee of 1 pound ($1. The phrase later became associated with Father Edward J. Flanagan, the founder of Boys Town, who came across a drawing, created by Van B. Hooper, of a young boy carrying his brother in the Christmas 1941 edition of the Louis Allis Messenger. Although they are fondly remembered as a pioneering Rock 'n' Roll band, Bill Haley And His Comets were a Country act called The Saddlemen just a few months before recording "Crazy Man, Crazy", the first Rock 'n' Roll song to hit the American charts. When "The Cover Of The Rolling Stone" was released by Dr. Hook, the magazine sold more copies in the next two weeks than any other time in their history. The Witch Is Dead", went on to write TV jingles and ad campaigns. "Happy Birthday" was the first song to be performed in outer space, sung by the Apollo IX astronauts on March 8, 1969. Louden Wainwright III, who reached #16 on the Billboard Hot 100 with "Dead Skunk In The Middle Of The Road" in 1973, was also an actor who appeared in three different episodes of M*A*S*H. For years it was reported that Paul Anka wrote "Diana" about one of his younger sibling's babysitters that he had a crush on.
Only two artists have ever been awarded a Grammy for Album Of The Year in two consecutive years. When nothing else came to them, they not only kept the phrase in the song, it ended up being used as the title to the now classic Rock tune by The Crystals. The only one to enter the Top 100 was 1975's "The London Chuck Berry Sessions", which went to #8. The Righteous Brothers' 1965 hit "Unchained Melody" started out as the theme to an obscure 1955 prison film called Unchained, based on the non-fiction book Prisoners are People by Kenyon J. Scudder. The four members of The Monkees were each paid $450 per episode in the first season of their TV show. Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road by Loudon Wainwright III The lyrics are pretty much exact from the record. With only 15 minutes of a 3 hour session left, The Diamonds recorded a song that they had just learned a few hours earlier called "Little Darlin'". When it was suggested that the band travel to Mount Everest to have their picture taken, the idea was quickly dismissed and they simply walked outside in front of Abbey Road Studios to be photographed walking across the street. Georgie Fame's "Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde" topped the UK chart on January 24th, 1968 and according to the lyrics, "Bonnie and Clyde got to be Public Enemy Number One". The Beach Boys' version of "Barbara Ann" was recorded live during an in-studio break, with Dean Torrence of Jan And Dean singing lead vocals. Paul McCartney wrote The Beatle's 1966 hit "Paperback Writer" in response to a request from an aunt who asked if he could "write a single that wasn't about love. Old Crow Medicine Show. Several of the major forces in the world of Rock 'n' Roll, including Jimi Hendrix and The Carpenters, started out as opening acts for Engelbert Humperdinck in the late '60s, '70's and '80s.
Got your dead rabbit and your dead raccoon. Songwriter Johnny Marks wrote many memorable Christmas songs, including "Holly Jolly Christmas", "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer", "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" and "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day". Its Five Oclock Somewhere. The Ed Sullivan Show was a TV institution on Sunday nights in America for 23 years and was a springboard for nearly every major music act in the 60s. While The Rascals' "People Got to Be Free" was perceived by some as being related to the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, it was actually recorded before the latter's death. His mother, Mae Axton co-wrote "Heartbreak Hotel" for Elvis Presley.
Brian Wilson and Mike Love got the inspiration for The Beach Boys' hit "Fun, Fun" Fun" after drummer Dennis Wilson said about his girlfriend, "We'll have fun 'til her daddy takes the T'bird away". While over 500 million songs were legally downloaded in 2006, over 5 billion were downloaded illegally. The inspiration for the song was taken directly from the last line in The Four Seasons' 1964 hit, "Rag Doll". The skunk got squashed, there you are. They are three of the candidates who didn't get past the jamming phase in their unsuccessful bid to replace The Rolling Stone's Mick Taylor. In 1963, after The Beatles had moved to London, John Lennon had a conversation with fashion model Sonny Freeman, who told John that her father had been shot by a German soldier for his anti-Nazi views. Karang - Out of tune? There is no one named Marshall Tucker in The Marshall Tucker Band. The BBC initially refused to play "My Generation" because it did not want to offend people who stutter, but reversed its decision after the song soared to #2 on the UK charts. Dino, Desi and Billy's only Billboard Top 20 hit, "I'm A Fool", was written by Elvis Presley's longtime bodyguard, Red West, who based the song on one that rhymes with it, "Don't Be Cruel". Other names that the group considered were "Redwood" and "Tricycle". The name was changed when he first recorded it and when it was re-recorded in 1962, it went to the top of the Billboard Hot 100.
The New Christy Minstrels, who had a mid-sixties hit with "Green Green", have had several members who went on to find other fame. IM SO LONESOME I COULD CRY. On October 2, 2014, from what police ruled a murder-suicide. Joe South wrote Deep Purple's US #4 hit "Hush", which he adapted from an old American spiritual that included the line: "Hush, I thought I heard Jesus calling my name. Wayne Wadhams, the keyboard player and lead vocalist for The Fifth Estate on their 1967 hit "Ding Dong! Glen Campbell started his musical career as a studio musician, playing on hit records like "The Reverend Mr. Black" by The Kingston Trio, "Strangers In The Night" by Frank Sinatra, "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" and "Unchained Melody" by The Righteous Brothers, "Dance, Dance, Dance" by The Beach Boys, "Honolulu Lulu" by Jan And Dean and many, many others. Elvis Presley's father, Vernon Presley, died on June 26th, 1979, exactly two years after Elvis gave his final performance.
Albert Hammond's 1972, Billboard #5 hit "It Never Rains In Southern California" was actually written in London, England, which receives about 29 inches of rainfall every year. After adding Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight and Elton John to Dionne's track, the song raised over $3 million for the American Foundation for AIDS Research. The A-side won for Best R&B Vocal Performance By A Duo, Group Or Chorus, and the B-side took the award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance. East Bound and Down. It would go on to become the first song with an expletive in its title to reach the Top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #16. Paul Rodgers did not name his group after the Jeff Bridges film Bad Company as is often quoted. Although he was named Johnny Allen Hendrix at birth, his tombstone reads James M. "Jimi" Hendrix. Partly because Burdon was not a good player, he took up singing and the band switched to Rock 'n' Roll. According to journalist Ivor Davis, who accompanied The Beatles on their first North American tour, most of the autographed pictures handed out were actually signed by the band's Press Agent Derek Taylor, Road Manager Mal Evans and Brian Epstein's assistant Neil Aspinall and seldom by The Beatles themselves. Actors Walter Matthau, Rock Hudson, Slyvester Stallone, Joe Pesci, Burt Reynolds and Jerry Mathers have all recorded albums. The piano player on Simon And Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" is Larry Knechtel, who later joined the Soft Rock group Bread. Annette Kleinbard, who sang lead vocals on The Teddy Bears' 1958 hit, "To Know Him Is To Love Him", suffered a near fatal car crash in 1959 which required four operations.
Top Tabs & Chords by Loudon Wainwright Iii, don't miss these songs! Annette Kleinbard was the female vocalist in The Teddy Bears, who, along with Phil Spector and Marshall Leib, had a 1958 hit called "To Know Him Is To Love Him". Three members of the Young Rascals, Felix Cavaliere, Gene Cornish and Eddie Brigati were once members of Joey Dee And The Starlighters, who scored a number one hit in 1961 with "The Peppermint Twist". The 1969 LP "Abby Road" features the only original UK Beatles album sleeve to show neither the artist name nor the album title on its front cover. Radio station CKXL in Calgary also banned "Elvis's Christmas Album", saying "Presley sings the Christmas songs exactly as we expected he would. Springsteen later said about the song: "It went as far in the direction of Pop music as I wanted to go, and probably a little farther. Gituru - Your Guitar Teacher. Marvin Gaye's father shot and killed the famous singer with the same gun his son had given him the previous Christmas. The Murmaids #3 1963 hit, "Popsicles and Icicles" was written by David Gates, the future founder of the Soft Rock group, Bread. Includes 1 print + interactive copy with lifetime access in our free apps. "Stay" recorded by Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs, was written by Williams in 1953 when he was just 15 years old.
After Sam Phillips built a new recording studio in 1959, the original Sun Records building at 706 Union Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee, became a warehouse for auto parts. Archie Bell co-wrote his million selling hit "Tighten Up" after learning that he had been drafted. Friends in Low Places. Paul McCartney's 1977 hit, "Mull Of Kintyre" is his all-time largest selling record in the UK, either with or without The Beatles. Singer Jessi Colter, best remembered for her 1975, Billboard #4 hit, "I'm Not Lisa", married guitarist Duane Eddy in 1961 and Country star Waylon Jennings in 1969. "The Amboy Dukes" was actually the name of a novel about gang members and their lifestyle.
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