Thread: Songs People Should Hear

YouTube - The Moody Blues - Go Now (Top of The Pops)

from wikipedia

"Go Now" is a 1964 song composed by Larry Banks and Milton Bennett. Bessie Banks originally performed this song, taking it to number forty on the Cash Box R&B singles chart. "Go Now" was made popular internationally later in 1964 when a group from Birmingham named The Moody Blues recorded it, with Denny Laine on guitar and lead vocals. When Denny Laine first heard Bessie Banks's, he immediately told the rest of the band that they needed to record the song. The song reached number one in the UK and number ten in the US. A short clip used to promote the video uses a striking visual style that pre-dated Queen's similar Bohemian Rhapsody video by a full decade. Laine continued to perform the song in concert during his years in Wings, and it is included in the group's Wings over America live album. He also sang the song at the Birmingham Heart Beat Charity Concert 1986 raising money for the local children's hospital.

The Moody Blues had little success with later singles after "Go Now", which led to Denny Laine's departure from the band, later being replaced by Justin Hayward. Bassist Clint Warwick had also departed the band at this time, and he was immediately replaced by John Lodge. With the new lineup, the Moody Blues continued to perform "Go Now" for a short time, up until they began writing their own material. Hayward sang the song during his first year with the band, and Ray Thomas attempted to sing it a couple of times himself.

The next successes for the Moody Blues would be 1967's "Nights in White Satin" and "Tuesday Afternoon."

At the time the single was released it was being promoted on TV with one of the first purpose-made promotional films in the pop era (produced and directed by their co-manager Alex Wharton), very much before The Beatles did with the promotional films of their singles "Rain" and "Paperback Writer", both released on 1966.

On June 21, 22, and 23, 1976, at The Forum in Inglewood,CA., Denny Laine performed "Go Now" with the band Wings, along with Paul McCartney on piano and vocals, Linda McCartney on vocals, and Jimmy McCullough on lead guitar. This version of "Go Now" appears on the Wings Over America live album.

In January 1997, "Go Now" was released on The Best of the Moody Blues; its release on this album was the first time it had been released on a Moody Blues compilation album. "Go Now" was also released on the subsequent Moody Blues' two-disc compilation album Anthology.

"Go Now" was later recorded by Ozzy Osbourne in 2005 for his Under Cover compilation album and by Simply Red in 2008 for their Simply Red 25: The Greatest Hits compilation.

The original Bessie Banks version was included the soundtrack to the film, Stonewall.

The version by The Moody Blues was famously used on the satirical British television show Spitting Image in a scene concerning then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. The song is also in the musical Return to the Forbidden Planet.

We've already said, "Goodbye."
Since you gotta go,
Oh, you better go now.
Go now, go now, (go now,)
(Go.) Before you see me cry.
I don't want you to tell me,
Just what you intend to do now.
'Cause how many times
I have to tell you,
Darlin', darlin',
I'm still in love
With you now?
Wo-oh oh-oh oh.
We've already said, "So long."
(I don't want to see you go.)
(Oh, you had better go now.)
Go now, go now, (go now.)
(Ooo-ooo.)
Don't you even try
Tellin' me that you really
Don't want me to end this way. Yay-ay.
'Cause, darlin', darlin',
Can't you see I want you to stay?
Yay-ay ay-ay ay.
(Since you've got to go,)
(Oh, you better go now.)
Go now, go now, (go now,)
(Ooo-ooo-ooo)
Before you see me cry.
I don't want you to tell me,
Just what you intend to do now.
'Cause how many times
I have to tell you,
Darlin', darlin',
I'm still in love, still in love,
With you now?
(Ooo ooo ooo ooo.)
I don't want to see you go,
But, darlin',
You'd better go now.

YouTube - Brenda Lee - I'm Sorry

from wikipedia

"I'm Sorry" is a 1960 hit song for then-15-year-old American country pop singer Brenda Lee. It peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in July 1960. Allmusic guide wrote that it is the pop star's "definitive song", and one of the "finest teen pop songs of its era". It was written by Dub Albritton and Ronnie Self. On the UK Singles Chart, the song peaked at number twelve.

According to the Billboard Book of Number One Hits by Fred Bronson, Brenda Lee recorded the song early in 1960 but her label, Decca Records, held it from release for several months out of concern that a 15-year-old girl was not mature enough to sing about unrequited love. When the song finally was released, it was considered to be the flip side of the more uptempo "That's All You Gotta Do." Although "That's All You Gotta Do" was a chart success in its own right, reaching number six on the Hot 100, it was "I'm Sorry" that became the smash hit and the standard. On other charts, "I'm Sorry" peaked at number four on the R&B chart and "That's All You Gotta Do" peaked at number nineteen on the R&B charts.

Although it was never released to country radio as a single, "I'm Sorry" would in time become accepted by country fans as a standard of the genre. The song — a fixture on many "country oldies" programs — was an early example of the then-new "Nashville Sound," a style which emphasized a stringed-instrumental sound and background vocals.

Ben Vaughn referenced it in his song "I'm Sorry (But So Is Brenda Lee)".

I'm sorry, so sorry
That I was such a fool
I didn't know
Love could be so cruel
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Uh-oh
Oh, yes
You tell me mistakes
Are part of being young
But that don't right
The wrong that's been done
[Spoken:]
(I'm sorry) I'm sorry
(So sorry) So sorry
Please accept my apology
But love is blind
And I was to blind to see
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Uh-oh
Oh, yes
You tell me mistakes
Are part of being young
But that don't right
The wrong that's been done
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Uh-oh
Oh, yes
I'm sorry, so sorry
Please accept my apology
But love was blind
And I was too blind to see

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq1fpN1qWv8

from wikipedia

"Kind of a Drag" is a song written by Jim Holvay and recorded by The Buckinghams. The single reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in February 1967, remaining in the top position for two weeks. It was the first of the band's three Top 10 hits in 1967.

The Buckinghams are an American rock band from Chicago, Illinois. They formed in 1966 and went on to become one of the top selling acts of 1967. The band dissolved in 1970 but reformed in 1980 and still tours as part of "oldies" shows in America.

In 1965, guitarist Carl Giammarese and bassist Nick Fortuna were invited to join a band called The Centuries. They, along with keyboardist Dennis Miccolis, later became members of another band, The Pulsations, whose members included drummer John Poulos and vocalists George LeGros and Dennis Tufano. By early 1966 LeGros was forced to leave after he was drafted. After winning a local battle of the bands competition, The Pulsations secured a job as the house band on WGN-TV's variety show called All-Time Hits in 1966. The show's producers suggested they adopt a name reflective of the British invasion, which was popular at the time, and the band adopted the name The Buckinghams, which was suggested by a security guard at the station.

In early 1966 the band signed their first record contract with local label USA Records and recorded twelve songs that year. Several were released as singles, including "I'll Go Crazy", a song originally recorded by James Brown & The Famous Flames and The Beatles' "I Call Your Name". However, it was their number one single, "Kind of a Drag", that provided them with national exposure. "Kind of a Drag" was written by Chicago-based songwriter Jim Holvay, who had been performing with a group called The Mob, and spent two weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1967. The co-producers of "Kind of a Drag" were the band's first personal manager Carl Bonafede and big band leader Dan Belloc, owner of the Holiday Ballroom in Chicago. The arranger of the now famous horn sound was Frank Tesinsky. The engineer at the first recording sessions held at historic Chess Records in Chicago was Ron Malo. Following this, the band's debut album, also entitled Kind of a Drag, was released and featured the band's early recordings.

In late 1966 keyboardist Miccolis was replaced by Larry Nestor, who only stayed in the band a short time and was, in turn, replaced by Marty Grebb in early 1967. Around this time the band members were introduced to James William Guercio, formerly the bassist and road manager for Chad and Jeremy, who then signed them to a management contract with Ebbins-Guercio Associates. The Buckinghams were courted by several record labels before deciding on promotion specialist Jim Scully, who quickly got them a new contract with Columbia (CBS) Records. Guercio, who became the group's producer, continued the group's "brass-rock" approach, and the band produced four more Top-20 hits in 1967: "Don't You Care" (#6), "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" (#5), "Hey Baby (They're Playing Our Song)" (#12) and "Susan" (#11), (three of which were written by Jim Holvay and Gary Beisber). The same year, The Buckinghams were named by Billboard Magazine as "The Most Listened to Band in America."

By mid-1968 The Buckinghams had parted company with Guercio and Columbia Records assigned staff producer Jim Wisner to work with the group on their third album, In One Ear and Gone Tomorrow. The album featured material written by Grebb, Giammarese and Tufano, Despite the release of a new single, Back in Love Again, they were unable to duplicate their 1967 success without Guercio, who had gone on to explore the "brass rock" concept further with Blood Sweat and Tears and Chicago. By late 1968 Marty Grebb & Nick Fortuna had left and were replaced by keyboardist John Turner and bassist Curtis Bachman, a former member of The Centuries along with Giammarese. Bachman had also been a member of The Pulsations briefly before leaving to join the band Saturday's Child. There were no more hits, though, and band dissolved in early 1970,[5] and a greatest hits record was released in 1975 by Columbia called "Made in Chicago".[6] After the break-up, Tufano and Giammarese formed the duo Tufano & Giammarese and recorded three albums for Lou Adler's record label, Ode Records, forming a touring band in time for their second album. Drummer John Poulos, who had secured the Ode Records recording contract for the duo, became a manager of several rock bands, including The Boyzz from Illinoizz. Poulos died of drug-related heart failure on March 26, 1980.

Kind of a drag
When your baby don't love you
Kind of a drag
When you know she's been untrue
Oh oh, listen to what I've gotta to say
Girl, I still love you
I'll always love you
Anyway, anyway, anyway
Kind of a drag
When your baby says goodbye
Kind of a drag
When you feel like you want to cry
Girl, even though you make me feel blue
I still love you
I'll always love you
Anyway, Anyway, Anyway
Oh, listen to what I've gotta say
Girl, I still love you
I'll always love you
Anyway, anyway, anyway

Top deck of a Liverpool bus late at night............................Paul

McCartney........................George Harrison.......................Audition time

YouTube - Bill Justis Raunchy

Out comes George's guitar

2.25 later .....................Your in son !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YouTube - Little Peggy March - I will follow him (best version)

from wikipedia

"I Will Follow Him" is a song recorded by Little Peggy March. The music was written by Frank Pourcel (using the pseudonym J.W. Stole) and Paul Mauriat (using the pseudonym Del Roma). The music was adapted by Arthur Altman and the English lyrics were written by Norman Gimbel.

The song is a translation of the French language tune "Chariot" recorded a year earlier by Petula Clark, which hit #1 in France and #8 in Belgium and earned Clark a gold record. (Clark's Italian and German recordings of the song were also major hits.)

The song began as an instrumental piece, recorded in 1961 by Franck Pourcel, appearing on the 1961 European LP release: "Amour, Danse, Et Violons. No.17". At the same time, it also appeared on the EP release: "La Voix de son Maitre". Pourcel co-wrote the song with friend and fellow French bandleader Paul Mauriat. Franck Pourcel's original recording was popular on MOR or "easy listening" stations. Paul Mauriat himself later recorded an instrumental version in 1976 with a disco beat, using moog synthesizers.

March's English version, backed with "Wind Up Doll", was released by RCA Victor and hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on April 27, 1963, making 15-year-old March the youngest female artist to have a US chart-topping single. Her version also made it to #1 on the soul singles chart.

Peggy March (born Margaret Annemarie Battavio, March 8, 1948, Lansdale, Pennsylvania) is an American pop singer. She is primarily remembered for her 1963 million-selling song "I Will Follow Him".

She was discovered at age thirteen singing at her cousin's wedding and was introduced to the record producer partnership Hugo & Luigi. They gave her the nickname Little Peggy March because she was only 4'10" in height, she was only thirteen, the first record she did with them was "Little Me", and her birthdate was in the month of March.

On April 24, 1963, her single "I Will Follow Him" soared to number one on the U.S. charts. Recorded in early January 1963 and released January 22 of that year, March was only 14 at the time. March became the youngest female artist with a number one hit, a record that still stands for the Billboard Hot 100. The recording also took the number one spot in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Japan, and Scandinavia. It was a translation of the French song "Chariot" recorded a year earlier by Petula Clark.

March's success also came with financial trouble. She was a minor and the Coogan Law prevented her parents from managing her money. The responsibility was placed on her manager, Russell Smith. It was discovered in 1966 that he had squandered the fortune away, leaving her with $500. Peggy graduated from Lansdale Catholic High School in 1966. She soon had a new manager, Arnie Harris, who later on became her husband. They had one daughter, Sande, born in 1974.

Love him, I love him, I love him
And where he goes I'll follow, I'll follow, I'll follow
I will follow him, follow him wherever he may go
There isn't an ocean too deep
A mountain so high it can keep me away
I must follow him, ever since he touched my hand I knew
That near him I always must be
And nothing can keep him from me
He is my destiny
I love him, I love him, I love him
And where he goes I'll follow, I'll follow, I'll follow
He'll always be my true love, my true love, my true love
From now until forever, forever, forever
I will follow him, follow him wherever he may go
There isn't an ocean too deep
A mountain so high it can keep, keep me away
Away from my love
I love him, I love him, I love him
And where he goes I'll follow, I'll follow, I'll follow
He'll always be my true love, my true love, my true love
From now until forever, forever, forever
I will follow him, follow him wherever he may go
There isn't an ocean too deep
A mountain so high it can keep, keep me away
Away from my love
Do-do do-do-do do-do-do and where he goes
I'll follow, I'll follow, I'll follow
I know I'll always love him

YouTube - Debbie Reynolds - Tammy

Wonderful song

Never have managed to track down the film

This morning just dusted off my Crowded House Together Alone album and thought I'd quickly mention these amazing gems:-

YouTube - Crowded House - Fingers Of Love [Incomplete promo video] (Fingers Of Love track)
YouTube - Together Alone by Crowded House 1993 (Together Alone track)

I've been listening to this lots over the past few weeks and think its worth an inclusion


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qa28ZrHPcc&feature=fvst

Originally Posted by gryphon

I've been listening to this lots over the past few weeks and think its worth an inclusion


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qa28ZrHPcc&feature=fvst

I think most of that whole album is awesome.
But we are not supposed to like her because she became too popular.

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from wikipedia

"Dawn (Go Away)" is a song written by Bob Gaudio and Sandy Linzer and recorded by The Four Seasons in January 1964 as the Four Seasons were involved in a royalty dispute with Vee-Jay Records. As the lawsuit was making its way through the American judiciary system, the group recorded "Dawn" and a handful of other songs and withheld the master tapes from Vee-Jay, which then claimed breach of contract. The dispute would not be settled until 1965, a year after the Four Seasons officially left Vee-Jay.

Later that month, Atlantic Records rejected "Dawn". The group signed with Philips Records, a subsidiary of Mercury Records, shortly thereafter. "Dawn (Go Away)" was released even later that month. It took only four weeks for "Dawn" to climb the Billboard Hot 100 chart to #3 - and was prevented from going higher by the then-omnipresent "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "She Loves You" (which turned out to be the top two singles for the 1964, according to Billboard). "Dawn" stayed at #3 for three weeks, until it was pushed out of the spot (and the Top Five) by three other Beatles singles ("Twist and Shout", "Please Please Me", and "Can't Buy Me Love").

The single version (with a two-line sung introduction) was not recorded in true stereo. Early "stereo" album releases were rechanneled (with the high and low frequencies on one channel and the midrange on the other); later stereo issues, from the Edizione d'Oro greatest hits album onward, offer a different take of the recording, beginning with a short drum intro, featuring a louder drum backing and slightly different vocals. Both versions are two minutes, ten seconds long.

"Dawn (Go Away)" was the only Philips single crediting the Four Seasons that did not have the notation "featuring the 'sound' of Frankie Valli".

Pretty as a midsummer's morn,
They call her Dawn.
Dawn,
Go away I'm no good for you.
Oh Dawn,
Stay with him, he'll be good to you.
Hang on,
Hang on to you.
Think,
What a big man he'll be.
Think,
Of the places you'll see.
Now think what the future would be with a poor boy like me.
Dawn go away,
Please go away.
Although I know,
I want you to stay.
Dawn go away,
Please go away.
Baby, don't cry.
It's better this way.
Ahh, ahh, ah.
Ohh-ohh-oh.
Dawn,
Go away back where you belong.
Girl we can't,
Change the places where we were born.
Before you say,
That you want me.
I want you to think,
What your family would say.
Think,
What your throwing away.
Now think what the future would be with a poor boy like me.
Meee-ee.
Dawn,
Go away I'm no good for you.
Dawn,
Go away I'm no good for you