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Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 15-12-2009
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKCnHWas3HQ
from wikipedia
"Downtown" is a pop song composed by Tony Hatch following a first-time visit to New York City, most famously recorded by Petula Clark, whose version topped the singles charts in both the U.S. and the U.K. in early 1965.
Hatch had originally intended to present "Downtown" to The Drifters, but when British singer Petula Clark heard the incomplete tune, she proposed that if he could write lyrics to match the quality of the melody, she would be interested in recording it.
The song was recorded 16 October 1964 at the Pye Studios in Marble Arch. The session featured guitarists Vic Flick, Jimmy Page and Big Jim Sullivan, and also drummer Bobby Graham and the Breakaways vocal group. Thirty minutes before the session was scheduled, Hatch was still completing the lyrics to "Downtown" in the studio's washroom.
"Downtown" was released in late 1964 and became a best seller in English, French, Italian, and German versions, topping music charts worldwide (with 3 million copies sold in the US alone) and introducing Clark, who had been a popular recording artist and actress in Europe for nearly 20 years, to the American record-buying public. She continued her success in the United States with a string of fifteen consecutive Top 40 hits.
"Downtown" was the first song by a British female artist to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart and went on to win the Grammy Award for Best Rock and Roll Song. It was enrolled in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2004.
Clark re-recorded the song four times, in 1976 (with a disco beat), in 1984 (with a new piano and trumpet intro that leads into the song's original opening), in 1988 with Dutch producer Eddy Ouwens for the album "My Greatest" for release in the UK, Germany and Benelux only, and in 1996. In addition, the original 1964 recording was remixed and re-released in 1988, 1999, and 2003. Clark, who in the early 1960s maintained a concurrent non-English musical career throughout Europe, also recorded French, German and Italian versions in early 1965. While the German version retained the original title, the French version was retitled Dans le Temps and the Italian version was called Ciao Ciao.
Following 9/11, New York City adopted Clark's version of "Downtown" as the theme song for a series of commercials encouraging tourism to Lower Manhattan. The song has been used by other metropolitan areas â including Chicago, Indianapolis, and Singapore â for promotional purposes as well.
Songs People Should Hear - carbon_psycho - 15-12-2009
Wow.. That's my favourite song.. I feel so bad, it wasn't me who shared that.
Thanks Music head.
Songs People Should Hear - carbon_psycho - 15-12-2009
Velvet Underground - Oh Sweet Nuthin.
YouTube - The Velvet Underground - Oh! Sweet Nuthin'
Songs People Should Hear - Iota - 15-12-2009
YouTube - Spazz - Sword Of The Lord
Mighty Morphing Power Violence! WHOS READY TO KICK SOME CHRISTIAN KEISTER?
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 16-12-2009
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The Association ? Cherish ? Video & free listening at Last.fm
from wikipedia
Cherish is a pop music song written by Terry Kirkman and recorded by The Association. Released in 1966, the song reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in September of that year and remained in the top position for three weeks. In Canada the song also reached number one. Nina Simone recorded her version on 1967's Silk and Soul.
Session musician Doug Rhodes, also member of The Music Machine, played the Celesta on the recording.
David Cassidy recorded his own version on his 1972 album Cherish; his version of the song reached #9 on the Hot 100 chart and spent one week at #1 on the adult contemporary chart (#3 in Canada). Barry Manilow covered this song, along with Windy, on Manilow's 2006 album, The Greatest Songs of the Sixties. Other covers have been performed by artists such as The Four Tops and Jodeci, but the original Association version of the song appears at the end of The Simpsons Season 20 Episode 6, entitled "Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words", and The Nanny Season 5 Episode 15, entitled "The Engagement". The chords for this song also appear in Spongebob Squarepants Season 5 Episode 13, entitled "Breath of Fresh Squidward".
Known for its simple lyrics and complex vocal harmonies, "Cherish" is widely regarded as one of the greatest love songs ever written, and the original version still gets regular airplay today
Songs People Should Hear - gryphon - 16-12-2009
Absolutely Excellent Choice....................Vocal perfection!:hand:
Songs People Should Hear - kvincent5555 - 16-12-2009
Music Head Wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKCnHWas3HQ
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This is the version I heard growing up:
YouTube - Downtown by Mrs. Miller
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 16-12-2009
kvincent5555 Wrote:This is the version I heard growing up:That's too sad.
YouTube - Downtown by Mrs. Miller
Susan Boyle's mom probably
Songs People Should Hear - Drealm - 17-12-2009
I discovered this song in a movie and for me it's one of the best "old song" I've heard.
YouTube - Patsy Cline - Back In Baby's Arms
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 17-12-2009
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YouTube - Dion The Wanderer
from wikipedia
"The Wanderer" is a song written by Ernie Maresca and originally recorded by Dion. The song, with a 12-bar blues-base verse and an eight-bar bridge, tells the story of a travelling man and his many loves. The song is ranked #239 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Maresca had co-written Dion's previous # 1 hit, "Runaround Sue", but originally intended "The Wanderer" to be recorded by another group, Nino and the Ebbtides. They passed on it in favour of another Maresca song, so Dion was given it as the B-side of his follow-up single, "The Majestic", a song which his record company had chosen for him. The record was turned over by radio DJs who preferred "The Wanderer", which duly entered the US charts in December 1961 and rose to # 2 in early 1962. It also reached # 10 in the UK, and # 1 in Australia.
The song was recorded with an uncredited background vocal group, the Del-Satins, in a rockier style than Dion's earlier hits with the Belmonts. The Del-Satins were an established doowop group led by Stan Ziska (later known as Stan Sommers), who at the time were also contracted to Laurie Records, and who later formed the core of Johnny Maestro and the Brooklyn Bridge.
Dion said of "The Wanderer":
At its roots, it's more than meets the eye. "The Wanderer" is black music filtered through an Italian neighborhood that comes out with an attitude. It's my perception of a lot of songs like "I'm A Man" by Bo Diddley or "Hoochie Coochie Man" by Muddy Waters. But you know, "The Wanderer" is really a sad song. A lot of guys don't understand that. Bruce Springsteen was the only guy who accurately expressed what that song was about. It's "I roam from town to town and go through life without a care, I'm as happy as a clown with my two fists of iron, but I'm going nowhere." In the fifties, you didn't get that dark. It sounds like a lot of fun but it's about going nowhere.
However, on Maresca's original demo of the song, the lyrics were "with my two fists of iron and my bottle of beer", and the change to "with my two fists of iron but I'm going nowhere" in fact seems to have been at the record company's insistence.