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Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 05-02-2010
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YouTube - Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas - Little Children (1964)
from wikipedia
"Little Children" is a song written by J. Leslie McFarland and Mort Shuman. It was recorded by Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas, which reached number one in the UK Singles Chart in March 1964, and number seven in the US later the same year.
The lyric concerns a man's entreaties to his girlfriend's young siblings not to reveal his courtship of their elder sister and to leave them alone. As such, it was a departure from the traditional love songs hitherto recorded by Kramer (sometimes supplied by Lennon & McCartney)[1]. When offered another Lennon and McCartney song ("One and One is Two") for his next single by the manager of both groups, Brian Epstein, Kramer turned it down and chose "Little Children" instead after a search for suitable material from music publishers.
Kramer was a British Rail fitter until Beatles manager Brian Epstein signed him in 1963. Epstein put him with the Manchester group The Dakotas and got them to record some songs written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. They immediately scored a #2 UK hit with "Do You Want To Know a Secret," the first ever cover of a Lennon and McCartney song to chart. The follow up "Bad To Me," which was written specifically by John Lennon for the group, became their first UK chart topper. After another Lennon and McCartney Top Five single, "I'll Keep You Satisfied," they recorded this, which became their second UK #1 hit and their first American hit.
Songs People Should Hear - Wavehellomachine - 05-02-2010
"About A Girl" by Nirvana
"Ruby Tuesday" by The Rolling Stones
"Plush" by Stone Temple Pilots
"We're Going To Be Friends" by The White Stripes
" Ãnima" by Tool
"Simple Man" by Lynyrd Skynyrd
"If You Could Read My Mind" by Gordon Lightfoot
"Sunday Morning Coming Down" by Johnny Cash
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 06-02-2010
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YouTube - Musi c Explos ion - Little Bit O'So ul (1967)
Little Bit O' Soul is a song written in 1964 by British song writers John Carter and Ken Lewis, who had previously written big hits for The Ivy League and Herman's Hermits. Originally recorded by Birmingham band The Little Darlings and released in 1965 on Fontana Records, it was popularised by the American band The Music Explosion. The song was the only Top 40 hit by the band. It peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1967 and was awarded a gold record by the RIAA. The song was released as a single and later on the album of the same name.
Now when you're feelin' low and the fish won't bite
You need a little bit o' soul to put you right
You gotta make like you wanna kneel and pray
And then a little bit of soul will come your way
Now when your girl is gone and you're broke in two
You need a little bit o' soul to see you through
And when you raise the roof with your rock'n'roll
You'll get a lot more kicks with a little bit o' soul
And when your party falls 'cause ain't nobody groovin'
A little bit of soul and it really starts movin', yeah
And when you're in a mess and you feel like cryin'
Just remember this little song of mine
And as you go through life tryin' to reach your goal
Just remember what I said about a little bit o'soul
A little bit o' soul, yeah (a little bit o' soul
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 07-02-2010
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from wikipedia
"Red Rubber Ball" is a pop song which became a hit (going to #2 in the Billboard Hot 100) in the 1966 version recorded by The Cyrkle.
It was co-written by Paul Simon (of Simon and Garfunkel) and Bruce Woodley (of The Seekers). According to Cyrkle guitarist Tom Dawes, Simon offered it to The Cyrkle when they were opening for Simon and Garfunkel on tour. The song's tracks were recorded in stereo, with the bass, lead guitar, and percussion on the right track, acoustic guitar and electric organ on left, and the vocals on both.
The Seekers also recorded "Red Rubber Ball" for their 1966 album Come the Day (US-title: "Georgy Girl") â and the Seekers' recording of "Red Rubber Ball" can also be heard on 'Disc Three - 1966 - 1967' of the CD box set The Seekers Complete.
At "Music Notes", the sheet music for "Red Rubber Ball", for the album Simon and Garfunkel - Old Friends, also credits the songwriters as Paul Simon and Bruce Woodley
In an interview on The Colbert Report, Paul Simon said he wrote "Red Rubber Ball" while living in England to get a hundred pound advance from The Seekers. This came in response to Colbert's request for a song that was "on the cusp" and barely made it into his songbook Lyrics 1964-2008.
A recorded live cover was performed by Simon and Garfunkel.
Eggchair's cover was played in the 2004 movie, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story.
Canadian punk rock group The Diodes recorded a cover of this song as the first track on their debut album, The Diodes (1977). According to the liner notes of the 1998 Diodes anthology, Tired of Waking Up Tired, the band recorded the cover because Paul Simon had been vocal in his disapproval of punk rock music.
New Jersey ska-punk group Streetlight Manifesto has recorded a cover of the song for their upcoming album, 99 Songs of Revolution.
Songs People Should Hear - Don Bluesky - 07-02-2010
Greetings Mr Moderator. I remember hearing this song on the wireless and remember it well!
Songs People Should Hear - Don Bluesky - 07-02-2010
Hi MH.
Duke of Earl was covered by a UK Doo Wop covers band called Darts in the 70's. I think they are still touring today and they are still a good listen.
Didn't Sha Na Na contribute to the first Grease soundtrack?
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 08-02-2010
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from wikipedia
"Under the Boardwalk" is a hit pop song written by Kenny Young and Arthur Resnick and recorded by The Drifters in 1964.
The lyric describes a tryst between a man and his beloved in a seaside town (Coney Island, New York), who plan to privately meet "out of the sun" and out of sight from everyone else under a boardwalk. The instrumentation includes güiro, triangle and violins. The song's chorus is unusual in that it switches from a major to minor key. The opening line of the song references the Drifters' prior hit "Up on the Roof", showing the occasional thermal weakness of the rooftop getaway and setting the stage for an alternate meeting location, under the boardwalk.
The song was set to be recorded on May 21, 1964, but the band's lead singer, Rudy Lewis, unexpectedly died of a heroin overdose the night before. Lewis had sung lead on all of their hits since the 1960 departure of Ben E. King, including "Up on the Roof". Rather than reschedule the studio session to find a new frontman, former Drifters lead vocalist Johnny Moore was brought back to perform lead vocals for the recording. The last-minute move was a success, as the single, released on Atlantic Records, went to number four on the Billboard Hot 100 charts and number one for three non consecutive weeks on Cashbox Magazine's R&B chart.
There are two versions of the song. The mono 45 USA released version contains the line "We'll be falling in love." The stereo album version contains beneath the line "We'll be falling in love" also the line "We'll be making love". These are two entirely different recordings, not edits of one another, as the line "on a blanket with my baby is where I'll be" is sung differently in both versions.
The song ranked #487 on Rolling Stone's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
"Under the Boardwalk" has since been covered many times, including The Beach Boys, The Lincolns, John Mellencamp, The Undertones, Bette Midler, and the Tom Tom Club (whose version reached #22 in the UK Top 40 in 1982, becoming the first version of the song to chart in Britain). Versions by Billy Joe Royal, Bruce Willis (a #2 success in the UK), and Lynn Anderson (#24 on the Country singles) all reached the Billboard charts. Huey Lewis frequently plays the song in his concerts.
A cajun-tinged swamp pop parody of the song, "(Holly Beach) Under the Boardwalk" by Kenny Tibbs (Kenny Thibodeaux) and the Jokers was released in 1991 and was a perennial Louisiana jukebox favorite until Hurricane Rita virtually wiped out the small seaside resort of Holly Beach, Louisiana in 2005. Another parody cover version came from German Democratic Republic by Lothar & die Trabanten. The song "Unter dem Wartburg" (Under the Wartburg) describes the technical problems, a family father has with his Wartburg car while travelling from Dresden to Rimini.
A Spanish version ("Bajo la rambla") was recorded by the Argentine group "Los Gatos Salvajes" in 1965[4].
A cover of this song by The Rolling Stones (whose 1965 version was released as a single only in Australia and peaked at #1) was included in the album Rhythms del Mundo Classics in 2007.
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 08-02-2010
Don Bluesky Wrote:Hi MH.thanks for the info.
Duke of Earl was covered by a UK Doo Wop covers band called Darts in the 70's. I think they are still touring today and they are still a good listen.
Didn't Sha Na Na contribute to the first Grease soundtrack?
Wasn't aware of either of these.
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 09-02-2010
still tears me up after 40 years
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YouTube - Bobby Goldsboro - Honey
"Honey", also known as "Honey (I Miss You)", is a song written by Bobby Russell. He first produced it with former Kingston Trio member Bob Shane. Then he gave it to American singer Bobby Goldsboro who recorded it for his tenth album Honey. The song's protagonist mourns his deceased lover, beginning with him looking at a tree in their garden, remembering "it was just a twig" on the day that they planted it together, then reflecting on their relationship before turning to the day "the angels came."
It was released as a single in the U.S. in 1968 (see 1968 in music) and spent five weeks at the top of the Billboard Pop Singles Chart, from April 7 to May 11, and three weeks atop Billboard's Hot Country Singles chart. It was preceded on the Billboard Hot 100 by "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding, and was followed by Archie Bell & the Drells' "Tighten Up". It was Goldsboro's first and only number-one hit on the Pop Singles and Country Singles charts, and it was his first song to top the Adult Contemporary chart. "Honey" reached number two on the UK Singles Chart, and a re-release of the single in England in 1975 (see 1975 in music) was also popular. In Australia it spent four weeks at #1 on the ARIA Charts, replacing The Beatles' "Lady Madonna", and was the sixth most popular song of 1968.
One day in Spring 1968, Bobby Goldsboro was sitting at home in his apartment in Nashville, Tennessee, when Larry Henley (the falsetto singer from the group The Newbeats) walked in to talk to him. Larry Henley had said that he had just heard this nice new song that Bobby Russell had played for him. Bobby Russell's office at Acuff-Rose Music was right across the street from where Goldsboro lived. So they went over to Bobby Russell's office. Russell then played the song, Honey, for Larry Henley and Bobby Goldsboro, on a guitar. At the end of the song, Henley said "That's a great song. Wasn't that just beautiful" or words to that effect. Goldsboro just thought "If that's what makes you happy, then okay", but the song "didn't do anything for him", he later remembered. Goldsboro then went back to his apartment.
A few weeks later, Goldsboro was sitting in the office of his new producer, Bob Montgomery (his producer up to that point had been Jack Gold, who produced "Little Things", "See The Funny Little Clown", and most of the pre-1968 songs that he did). Bob Montgomery and Bobby Goldsboro were sitting around and thinking about new songs that he could sing. Then, in an ironic twist of events, Bob Montgomery took him over to Bobby Russell's office again, and the three were all thinking together, and Goldsboro said "How about that other song you played for me the other day?". And Russell said "You mean "Honey"?? Goldsboro replied "Yes". So Russell played the song for Montgomery and Goldsboro, with another guitar, and it just "floored them both". Goldsboro was delighted. He asked Russell if he could try singing the song as a possibility of a new hit. Russell told him Bob Shane, from the group The Kingston Trio already had recorded the song. It was already getting a little bit of airplay on radio stations. Russell said to Bobby Goldsboro that it was in top 20 in the music charts down in Texas, where Shane was from. Russell told Goldsboro that he could have a try at the song if Shane's record flopped. Luckily nothing happened for Shane, so then Bobby Goldsboro recorded "Honey", and it became a number one hit song for 5 weeks in April 1968. (summarized from liner notes by Steve Kolanjian from "The Best Of Bobby Goldsboro: Honey by Bobby Goldsboro", September 1991, issued by Capitol-EMI Records, available on CD).
Bobby Russell was married to Vicki Lawrence (who played Mama Thelma Harper on the TV sitcom Mama's Family in the 1980s) from June 1972 until November 1974. He wrote several other songs other than "Honey", including The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia, which was sung by his then wife Vicki Lawrence (they got divorced in 1974), and the O.C. Smith song Little Green Apples, which was a big hit in 1969. Russell died of a heart attack on November 19, 1992, in Nicholasville, Kentucky, which is near Lexington. He was only 52 years old when he passed away in November 1992.
Larry Henley later ended up writing The Wind Beneath My Wings for Bette Midler from the movie Beaches in 1989. He still lives in Nashville.
Songs People Should Hear - Don Bluesky - 09-02-2010
Wishing Well by Bob Mould on the album Workbook. Actually IMHO the whole album really flows well. I think I prefer his solo and Sugar work to his Husker Du days.