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Songs People Should Hear - CMB1888 - 01-01-2010
@ Music Head
I just wanted to say that I always look at this thread but almost as much for the pictures of the artists you post as the recommendations - they are so evocative!
(the music is pretty cool as well)
thank you.
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 02-01-2010
CMB1888 Wrote:@ Music Headthanks for looking.:yo:
I just wanted to say that I always look at this thread but almost as much for the pictures of the artists you post as the recommendations - they are so evocative!
(the music is pretty cool as well)
thank you.
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 02-01-2010
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YouTube - Ricky Nelson - Travelin' Man 1961
from wikipedia & song facts
"Travelin' Man" was a number-one Billboard Hot 100 song in late-May 1961 by Ricky Nelson. It reached #2 in the U.K. It was written by songwriter Jerry Fuller.The short film made to promote the single has been claimed as the first music video.
The song details the loves of a traveling man. They were: a "pretty señorita" in Mexico, an eskimo in Alaska, a fraulein in Berlin, a china doll in Hong Kong, and a Polynesian in Waikiki. There were others as well, "in every port ... at least one," mentioned obliquely during the opening verse. The song was produced by Joe Johnson who was also famous for The Champs recording of "Tequila". Joe was the owner of 4 star music and Challenge Records in Nashville.
Ozzie Nelson realized that whenever he had Ricky sing on their show The Adventures Of Ozzie And Harriet, Ricky's record sales shot up the next day. So Ozzie tried to work it into the plot whenever Ricky had a new record out. As Ricky became popular and the demand for his songs was overwhelming, Ozzie realized that working his singing into the plot was going to be impossible, so Ozzie filmed Ricky singing "Travelin' Man," superimposed some travelogue scenes over the film and tacked it onto a show episode at the end. Viola! The music video was born.
Rick Nelson was born Eric Hilliard Nelson in 1940. He died in a small plane crash in Texas in 1985 while flying to a New Year's Eve concert. Mechanical problems and a cabin fire were suspected as the cause of the crash. Speculation that the fire was caused by someone on board freebasing cocaine was never proven, though aerosol cans were found at the crash site. The Nelson family said that the cans were part of the makeup box and that no drugs were involved. The matter was never completely resolved.
Songs People Should Hear - carbon_psycho - 02-01-2010
This thread should be called Songs People Should Hear by Music Head.
The man is unstoppable, he should be a music channel. I'd watch it.
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 03-01-2010
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpi8Bek6jdM
from wikipedia
"He'll Have to Go" is an American country and pop hit recorded on October 15, 1959 by Jim Reeves. The song, released in the fall of 1959, went on to become a massive hit in both genres early in 1960.
Reeves recorded what became one of country music's biggest hits ever after listening to a version recorded by singer Billy Brown. The song, written by Joe and Audrey Allison, was inspired after the couple was having difficulty communicating by telephone. Audrey had a soft voice and was unable to speak up so her husband could adequately hear her, so Joe would have his wife place the receiver closer to her mouth.
When Brown's version failed to become a hit, Reeves recorded his. It was promptly released to country radio ... as the B-side of the intended hit, "In a Mansion Stands My Love." However, "Mansion" failed to catch on, and disc jockeys began playing the B-side instead. It wasn't long before the song became a huge country and pop hit; several rhythm and blues radio stations played the song, too.
The song featured a rather simple musical track: piano by Floyd Cramer, Bob Moore on bass guitar and lead-guitarist Reeves. The first verse set the tone: "Put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone/Let's pretend that we're together all alone/I'll tell the man to turn the juke box way down low/And you can tell your friend there with you he'll have to go."
Country music historian Bill Malone noted that "He'll Have to Go" in most respects represented a conventional country song, but its arrangement and the vocal chorus "put this recording in the country pop vein." In addition, Malone lauded Reeves' vocal styling - lowered to "its natural resonant level" to project the "caressing style that became famous" - as being why "many people refer to him as the singer with the velvet touch."
"He'll Have to Go" reached #1 on the Hot Country Singles chart on February 8, 1960, where it remained for 14 consecutive weeks. The song was one of just five different titles to occupy the chart's summit during 1960.
In addition, the song reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1960 and #13 on the R&B Singles Chart [4]. It also had success abroad, reaching #1 on the Australian Singles Chart and #12 on the UK Singles Chart.
"He'll Have to Go" has been covered by many artists, most notably Elvis Presley and Ry Cooder. Presley recorded his version of "He'll Have to Go" on Oct. 31, 1976 at his last known studio recording session; it is believed to be the final song he ever recorded in a studio setting.[5] "He'll Have to Go" is also the sole cover song ever issued by the British group Prefab Sprout, their version appearing on the US pressing of their album Two Wheels Good.
The song prompted the answer song "He'll Have To Stay" by Jeanne Black. Her song reached No. 6 on the Billboard Hot C&W Sides chart later in 1960. Skeeter Davis made a cover of it in 1961.
Elton John performed "He'll Have to Go" live on a number of occasions, perhaps most notably in 1979 on his acoustic tour with percussionist Ray Cooper, which included eight historic performances in the Soviet Union; a first for a Western rock artist. Elton had performed the song as part of his regular setlist when he was a pub piano player at the Northwood Hills Hotel in the early 1960s.
The Notting Hillbillies covered this song a few times during their short 1998 tour. Mark Knopfler also covered it.
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 04-01-2010
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YouTube - mary wells - my guy (shindig 1965) (LIVE)
from wikipedia
"My Guy" is a 1964 number-one hit single recorded by Mary Wells for the Motown label. Written and produced by Smokey Robinson of The Miracles, the song is a woman's dedication to the goodness of her man ("There's not a man today who could take me away from my guy").
The single became the biggest hit ever for Wells, Motown's first female star, and reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart and #5 in the U.K. The song led the Cashbox Magazine R&B chart for seven weeks. "My Guy" also happened to be Wells' last hit single for Motown, excepting duets she recorded with label mate Marvin Gaye. An option in her recording contract allowed Wells to terminate it at her discretion after she reached her twenty-first birthday on May 13, 1964. Encouraged by her ex-husband, Wells broke her Motown contract and signed with 20th Century Fox in hopes of higher royalties and possible movie roles. However, Wells' career never again reached the heights it had at Motown, and she never again had a hit single as big as "My Guy".
As one of Motown's signature hits, "My Guy" has been covered often, with versions by The Supremes, Petula Clark, Claudine Longet, Aretha Franklin, Margo Smith, and more having been recorded over the years. The cover version of the song with the biggest chart impact in the United States was by Sister Sledge in 1982 (#23). One notable cover, used in the Whoopi Goldberg film Sister Act, substitutes "My Guy" with "My God", transforming the song into a faux-gospel number. In 1980, Amii Stewart and Johnny Bristol recorded it as a duet in a medley with another Motown classic, the Temptations' "My Girl"; it reached only #63 in the U.S. Wells herself re-recorded the song in a funk rendition for her 1984 album, I'm a Lady.
In 1999, "My Guy" was inducted to the Grammy Hall of Fame.
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 05-01-2010
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YouTube - Johnny Tillotson It Keeps Right On A Hurtin'
from song facts
Of all the songs written by Tillotson, this song is his most successful. It was inspired by his father's terminal illness, despite having lyrics that are sung as a lover to a heartbreaker.
This was Tillotson's first hit to make the Country charts, reaching #4. By the time this song reached its peak, Tillotson enlisted in the National Guard where he stayed for 6 months. During that time, he recorded new songs (mainly Country standards) for his album of the same name. The album capitalized on the success of the song and helped change his image from a teen-idol singer to a Country-Pop singer (Country music was the market that Tillotson always aimed for).
This received a Grammy nomination for Best Country & Western Recording; it lost to Burl Ives' hit "Funny Way of Laughin'."
A version by Billy Joe Royal reached #17 on the Country charts in 1988. Other artists who have covered this include Bobby Darin, Shelley Fabares, Ferlin Husky, Sonny James, Hank Locklin, Dean Martin, Elvis Presley, Boots Randolph, Slim Whitman, and the Wilburn Brothers.
US Chart: 3 UK Chart: 31
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 06-01-2010
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YouTube - "Shop Around" TRUE STEREO MIX Smokey Robinson & The Miracles (1960) HQ Sound
from wikipedia
"Shop Around" is a 1961 single by The Miracles (credited as "The Miracles featuring Bill 'Smokey' Robinson") for the Tamla (Motown) label, catalog number T 54034. It is notable as being the label's first #1 hit on the Billboard magazine R&B singles chart, and also hit #2 on the Hot 100.[1]. "Shop Around" also reached #1 on Cash Box pop charts and is also noted for being the first million-selling record for The Miracles and for The Motown Record Corporation, as well as a 2006 Grammy Hall of Fame inductee.
The Miracles' original version was ranked #495 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
The song, written by Robinson and Berry Gordy, depicts a mother giving her now-grown son advice about how to find a woman worthy of being a girlfriend or wife ("My mama told me/'you better shop around'"). The original recorded version of the song had a strong blues influence, and was released in the local Detroit, Michigan area before Gordy decided that the song needed to be re-recorded in order to be more commercially viable outside of Detroit. So at 3 a.m. one morning, Robinson, Claudette Rogers, Bobby Rogers, Ronnie White, and Pete Moore recorded a new, poppier version of "Shop Around" that became a major national hit. The original record label credits Bill "Smokey" Robinson as the writer, with Berry Gordy as producer.
Since its release, "Shop Around" has become an often-remade tune, on record, in live performance, and on television. One notable version by Captain & Tennille hit #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1976; Toni Tennille changed the song's lyrics slightly so that they were sung from a woman's perspective. Their version also topped the adult contemporary chart for one week in 1976, the duo's fourth #1 on this chart.
"Shop Around" also inspired an answer record, "Don't Let Him Shop Around," performed by Debbie Dean (the first white female artist, but sometimes misidentified as the first white artist ever signed to a Motown labelâthis distinction actually belongs to instrumental combo Nick and the Jaguars). Dean's "Don't Let Him Shop Around" charted #92 on the Hot 100 in February 1961 and was Dean's only chart entry. Smokey Robinson later recorded a sequel song for his 1987 album One Heartbeat, entitled "It's Time To Stop Shopping Around."
"Shop Around's" B-side, "Who's Lovin' You", also became a Motown classic composition, mostly due to its plethora of covers, including a famous one by The Jackson 5 in 1969.
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 07-01-2010
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YouTube - Association - Windy
from wikipedia
"Windy" is a pop music song written by Ruthann Friedman and recorded by The Association. Released in 1967, the song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in July of that year. Later in 1967, an instrumental version by jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery became his biggest Hot 100 hit when it peaked at number forty-four. "Windy" was The Association's second U.S. number-one, following "Cherish" in 1966.
According to rumor, the original lyrics by Ruthann Friedman were about a man, and The Association changed them to be about a woman.
"There are many explanations of who Windy actually was in Ruthann's life. She would have you know, she being me Ruthann Friedman, that none of them are true. Windy was, indeed, a female and purely a fictitious character who popped into my head one fine day in 1967...
During the recording session the Association members, sure that they were in the middle of recording a hit,called the song writer, me again, in to sing on the fade at the end. I can be heard singing a blues harmony as the song fades out..."
Session musician Hal Blaine was brought in to play drums.
The song was featured in an episode of The Drew Carey Show, where the character Nigel Wick (played by Craig Ferguson) played it on the harp. It was also featured recently in the second season finale of HBO's Big Love, where Teeny Henrickson leads a children's dance troupe while the song is playing for the annual Pioneers Festival. In 2009 the song, with slightly altered lyrics, was sung by actor Brad Garrett in an advertisement for 7-Up.
A version of the song was used as the theme tune on the nightly Today programme broadcast on Thames Television from 1968 to 1977.
Comedy rockers Paul and Storm did a parody version called âLindsayâ about Lindsay Lohan.
Barry Manilow and The Association covered this song along with "Cherish" on the 2006 album The Greatest Songs of the Sixties. Also recorded by Astrud Gilberto on her album Windy.
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 08-01-2010
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YouTube - Tommy Roe Sheila
from wikipedia
"Sheila" is a song written and recorded by Tommy Roe with the help of Robert Bosch. The single reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 on September 1, 1962, remaining in the top position for two weeks and peaking at number six on the R&B charts. The song reached #3 on the U.K. charts.
The original version of the song was recorded by Roe for Judd Records in 1960 with his then backing group The Satins, but it failed to sell. Roe wrote this song as a response to Buddy Holly's hit "Peggy Sue" (Roe was heavily influenced by Holly). When Roe accepted a deal with ABC-Paramount, the song was rerecorded and the second version was released as the B-side to "Save Your Kisses."
Joe South, who is best known for his Grammy winning hit "Games People Play" was originally a session man. This song was among the famous 1960s hits South played guitar on.
A build up of global sales of "Sheila" meant that the R.I.A.A. did not present the gold record until 1969.