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Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 15-01-2010
gryphon Wrote:Did You Ever Have A Dream Come True.What's this off of?
Did you mean Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind
Songs People Should Hear - gryphon - 15-01-2010
My fault ! You are right !
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 16-01-2010
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YouTube - Dion And The Belmonts - Runaround sue
from wikipedia
"Runaround Sue" is a pop song, originally a US #1 hit for the singer Dion during 1961. The song ranked #342 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
The song was written by Ernie Maresca and Dion DiMucci. It was recorded in 1961 by Dion, backed by vocal group The Del-Satins. Released on Laurie Records, it topped the Billboard Hot 100 for one week in October of that year, and also reached number 11 in the UK charts.
It is a song about a man whose ex-girlfriend had commitment trouble and "ran around" (hence the name of the song) with other people in the city. The song caught on with millions for its catchy hook "Hey, hey, hum-ba-diddy-diddy".
In the liner notes of Dion's box set King Of The New York Streets, he writes:
It came about by partying in a schoolyard. We were jamming, hitting tops of boxes. I gave everyone parts like the horn parts we'd hear in the Apollo Theater and it became a jam that we kept up for 45 minutes. I came up with all kinds of stuff. But when I actually wrote the song and brought it into the studio to record it, well, her name wasn't actually Sue. It was about, you know, some girl who loved to be worshiped but as soon as you want a commitment and express your love for her, she's gone. So the song was a reaction to that kind of woman.
Co-writer Ernie Maresca said:
Everybody was singing in the neighborhood, on the street corners and in the hallways. I was in a group called The Regents at the time. They didn't have a hit yet. Everybody was coming to me for songs, which was nice, you know. ... I'd never even heard of Laurie Records until I went up there with Dion and met Gene and Bob [Schwartz] who owned the company. After they put out 'No One Knows', I would go up there with demos. I used to cut a lot of demos, you know. Then they cut an album and on it they put "Runaround Sue".
The song's melody is very similar to "Quarter to Three", a song released by Gary U.S. Bonds a few months prior to the release of "Runaround Sue."
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 17-01-2010
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YouTube - PAUL & PAULA - HEY PAULA
from wikipedia
"Hey Paula" is a song recorded by Paul & Paula. It hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on the week ending February 9, 1963, and also made it to number one on the Hot R&B Singles chart. "Paul" was the song's writer, Ray Hildebrand, a student at Howard Payne College in Brownwood, Texas. "Paula" was Jill Jackson, the niece of the owner of the boarding house where Ray lived.
Hildebrand wrote the song, originally titled "Paul and Paula", taking inspiration from the Annette Funicello hit Tall Paul. Hildebrand and Jackson performed the song on a local radio station and the song soon became popular enough for the duo to try to make a professional recording. They went to a studio in Fort Worth, Texas, and were fotunate enough to find a producer, Major Bill Smith, with studio time and musicians booked and a missing lead vocalist. He recorded their version of the song and released it on his LeCam Records label, changing the name to "Hey Paula", credited to Jill and Ray. When the record became a success, it was picked up by the larger Philips Records, which changed the billing to Paul and Paula.
When the song was released on Phillips, it hit the national charts in late 1962, reaching number one on both the pop and R&B charts in 1963. It spawned a follow-up top ten hit, "Young Lovers", and a series of other hits for the duo.
Songs People Should Hear - carbon_psycho - 17-01-2010
Mike & the Mechanics - The Living Years
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 17-01-2010
carbon_psycho Wrote:Mike & the Mechanics - The Living Yearsa great song, and probably the only one on that album
Songs People Should Hear - carbon_psycho - 17-01-2010
If so, then fortunately the only one I had heard from it.
Another song that I really like is the song from Joseph & His Technicolor Dreamcoat. Can't remember the name though, this song reminds me a lot of it.
Songs People Should Hear - TheBluesBerry - 18-01-2010
Anything by 'Vast'
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 18-01-2010
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjQQmzEyVgA
from wikipedia
"We'll Sing in the Sunshine" was a popular folk song written and recorded by Gale Garnett, a New Zealand-born Canadian singer-actress. On September 5, 1964, it reached #4 on the U.S. Hot 100 chart, and also spent seven weeks atop the U.S. "Easy Listening" chart. "We'll Sing in the Sunshine" was Garnett's only single to reach the Top 40, and won her a 1965 Grammy. It was later covered by Helen Reddy in a 1978 version that remained faithful to Garnett's original; it reached #12 on the Easy Listening chart.
In Garnett's wistful vocal arrangement, a young woman tells a man that she will live with him for one year (but no longer) before moving on. The subtle theme of a woman taking charge in a relationship was a rarity in the early 1960s. The song is sometimes compared to the 1968 Merrilee Rush recording "Angel of the Morning" (in which another woman speaks of a no-strings-attached relationship). By 1968, however, record companies were placing fewer restrictions on what female popular singers could perform, so Garnett's song is considered to be ahead of its time.
Apart from the Helen Reddy version, the song was covered in 1967 by Sonny & Cher, in 1984 by Dolly Parton and Trini Lopez included it on his album All My Best.
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 19-01-2010
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YouTube - Sonny And Cher - I Got You Babe
from wikipedia
"I Got You Babe" is a 1965 number-one hit single by American pop music duo Sonny & Cher.
Sonny Bono, a songwriter and record producer for Phil Spector, wrote the song for himself and his wife, Cher, late at night in their basement. Noted session drummer Hal Blaine performed the drums for the song. Bono was inspired to write the song to capitalize on the popularity of the term "babe," as heard in Bob Dylan's "It Ain't Me Babe" which was a hit for The Turtles.
Upon recording and releasing the song, "I Got You Babe" became the duo's biggest single, their signature song, and a defining recording[citation needed] of the early hippie countercultural movement. In August 1965, the single spent three weeks at the number-one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 and number nineteen on the R&B charts in the United States [1]. The duo's single also hit number one in the United Kingdom.
The song has been frequently covered and featured in film and television, including Sonny and Cher's own The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour. "I Got You Babe" made a bit of a comeback when it was heavily featured as Phil Connor's alarm clock wake up music in the 1993 movie Groundhog Day. Upon re-release, the single re-charted in the UK, reaching #66.
The song was later covered by Cher in a music video that featured Beavis and Butthead as a rapt audience to Cher's performance. In the video, the idiot pair refer to her former husband Bono as a dork and a wuss, to which Cher agrees.
Sonny and Cher last performed the song together during an impromptu reunion on NBC's Late Night with David Letterman on Nov. 13, 1987.[2][3] The song placed at #444 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of all time.