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Songs People Should Hear - kerry101 - 27-01-2010
Gave it all away. by Boyzone.
" i will learn to live before i die, learn to love and learn to cry"
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 28-01-2010
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YouTube - Brian Hyland - Sealed with a kiss 1962
from wikipedia
This archetypal American high-school teen love song was composed by Gary Geld and lyricist Peter Udell. The duo began their writing partnership in the early sixties and wrote over 100 songs together. One of their first songs was this, which they wrote in 1960 and was a hit for Brian Hyland two years later. Hyland said in 1000 UK #1 Hits by Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh, "Sealed With A Kiss was recorded about a year before I did it by The Four Voices, who had a sound like The Brothers Four. It dragged and didn't have any life in it, so it wasn't a hit. I told them we should do it. Gary Geld was a classically trained musician and he had been inspired to write it from a finger exercise for the piano."
This was Hyland's biggest hit in the UK, but 2 years earlier in the US at the age of 16, he enjoyed an American chart topper with "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini."
In 1989 Jason Donavon covered this, taking it to the top of the UK hits. He personally chose this as his follow up to "Too Many Broken Hearts," which also reached the top. Brian Hyland commented in 1000 UK #1 Hits, "I didn't mind his version-he got all the chords right."
The song became a hit again in 1968 when Gary Lewis and the Playboys released it as a single. This version also had a high placing on the Hot 100.
A third Top 40 Hot 100 version came in 1972, when Bobby Vinton released his version as a single. This version also placed high on Billboard's adult contemporary chart.
The Bobby Vinton version was used in both the trailer and end credits of the film All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2007) starring Amber Heard.
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 29-01-2010
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YouTube - Herman's Hermits - Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter
from wikipedia
"Mrs Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter" is a popular song written by Trevor Peacock. It was originally sung by actor Sir Tom Courtenay in The Lads, a British TV play of 1963.
The best-known version of the song is by Herman's Hermits, who took it to number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in April 1965. Herman's Hermits had two U.S. number-ones, the other being "I'm Henry VIII, I Am". The band never released them as singles in Britain. "Mrs Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter" was recorded as an afterthought in two takes and featured unique muted rhythm guitar by Keith Hopwood and heavily accented vocals by Peter Noone with backing from Karl Green and Keith Hopwood. The band never dreamed it would be a single let alone hit number one in the U.S.(Hopwood pers. correspondence.) According to Pete Noone, the song was well known to British bands; it would often be performed at birthday parties, substituting the name of the girl whose party was being celebrated, i.e. "Mrs. Smith" or "Mrs. Jones" instead of "Mrs. Brown".
The bridge (the section with these lines "Walkin` about, even in a crowd, well You`ll pick her out, makes a bloke feel so proud") has a most unusual chord progression, straying far from the normally expected range of keys, and suddenly coming back to the home key on "so proud".
The song was released in Japan on Odeon records, a subsidiary of Toshiba, as OR-1272. It was backed by the song Wonderful World.
Herman's Hermits also featured in a film of the same name, and recorded an album in 1968 with the same title.
This song is about a guy who is heartbroken over losing his girl, and decides to tell her mother all about it. It was originally sung by the actor Tom Courtney in 1963 in a British television play. The song was written by Trevor Peacock, who was also appearing in the play. Trevor Peacock is well known to British TV audiences for playing the part of Jim Trott in the BBC sitcom The Vicar of Dibley.
The producer Mickie Most needed a song to complete Herman's Hermits' debut album and Trevor Peacock gave them this. It was never intended for single release but after an American DJ started giving it airplay, their record label issued it as a 45 and it became their first American #1. In their native Britain it was never released as a single. Later in the year they returned to the top of the American charts with their revival of the old British musical number "I'm Henry The 8th I Am."
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 30-01-2010
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from wikipedia
"See You in September" is a song written by Sid Wayne and Sherman Edwards in 1959 which was a Top 30 hit that summer as first recorded by the Tempos; when remade by the Happenings in 1966 the song reached #3.
Sid Wayne would recall the song's inception: "I was in the habit of going from my home on Long Island every day to Brill Building, on Tin Pan Alley [to] meet with different songwriters there. We'd eat at Jack Dempsey's or The Turf Restaurant and then we'd go up to one of the publishers' offices and work in the piano room. We'd sit around saying to each other, 'What do you want to write today? A hit or a standard?'" At 11 a.m. on a Friday in June 1959 Wayne thus met up with Sherman Edwards: "he said, 'What do you want to write?' 'I'd like to write a song called See You in September,"' I said. We talked it back and forth and I think I may have contributed part of the opening music, but with Sherman it didn't matter, because he could throw me back half the lyric - that's how he worked. I think probably by two in the afternoon we got the song finished. It needed to be written; it was like boiling inside of us."
By 4:30 p.m. that day Wayne and Edwards had reworked their composition, simplifying it so as to appeal to the teen demographic, and proceeded to make the rounds of publishers to pitch the song which, after one rejection, met with an enthusiastic reception from Jack Gold, owner of the local Paris label, who by 8 p.m. had telephoned the Tempos1 in their hometown of Pittsburgh. The group had been flown in to New York City by the next day: Saturday. Sid Wayne - ""By Monday the record was cut [with the Billy Mure orchestra], test pressings were Thursday, and by Friday the song was played on WNEW in New York. The thing took off like wildfire....Five hundred dollars to split between the two of us [ie. Wayne & Edwards]...was a damn good week's pay in 1961." [1]
In fact the Tempos' "See You in September" failed to become a hit in the New York City area and despite breaking in San Francisco in June of 1959 the single did not reach the national charts until that July. Despite a subsequent swift ascent of the Billboard Hot 100, the single's momentum fell sharply at the end of August with a resultant #23 peak. Although overshadowed by the Happenings' #3 remake, the Tempos' version of "See You in September" did gain considerable currency in 1973 by virtue of its inclusion on the American Graffiti soundtrack.
Bob Miranda of the Happenings recalls that he and the other members of the group considered the original version of "See You in September", which was "sort of a slow Cha-Cha [to be] a great song and kind of a shitty record. We always looked for that. If you want to revise something and put your own sound to it, I think you should look for a great song that was not a great record." Recorded in the spring of 1966, the Happenings" version of "See You in September" was produced by Bob Crewe for the B.T. Puppy label and its arrangement - by Herb Bernstein - recalled both the recordings of the Tokens - who owned B. T. Puppy - and Crewe's protégés the Four Seasons. Although - as had happened with the Tempos' version in 1959 - the Happenings' 1966 take on "See You in September" did not enter the Billboard Hot 100 until the month of July the record broke in enough major markets to reach the Top Ten by the second week of August and despite peaking at #3 the first week of September the single had enough staying power to remain in the Top Ten throughout the rest of the month. [3]. The popularity of "See You in September" was sufficient to secure the Happenings an invitation to the Sanremo Music Festival in June 1967; there they performed their hit in Italian as "Aria de settembre".
Songs People Should Hear - carbon_psycho - 30-01-2010
Damien Rice - Blower's Daughter
YouTube - Damien Rice - The Blower's Daughter - Official Video
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 30-01-2010
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YouTube - Damien Rice - The Blower's Daughter - Official Video
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Songs People Should Hear - marcia9 - 31-01-2010
okay, maybe not everyones cup of tea, but my favorite growing up was Big Girls Don't Cry.... hav eno idea who the performer is...
Songs People Should Hear - marcia9 - 31-01-2010
okay, maybe not everyones cup of tea, but my favorite growing up was Big Girls Don't Cry.... hav eno idea who the performer is...
okay, a,little shock... Ijust checked it and it's a group called
Frankie Vally and the Four Seasons... and for some reason I was always sure it was a female artist ;-)
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 31-01-2010
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YouTube - The Everly Brothers-Cathy's Clown
from wikipedia
"Cathy's Clown" is a popular song, written and recorded by The Everly Brothers. It was their first single for Warner Bros., after spending three years on Archie Bleyer's Cadence label. "Cathy's Clown" sold eight-million copies worldwide, spending five weeks at number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart and one week on the R&B charts. Overseas, "Cathy's Clown" spent seven weeks at number one in the UK in May and June 1960. This was the first single to simultaneously top the UK and US charts. It would become the Everly Brothers' biggest hit single and their fourth and final number one. The song is ranked number 149 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 01-02-2010
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YouTube - Johnny Preston - Running Bear
from wikipedia
"Running Bear" is a song written by J.P. Richardson (aka The Big Bopper) sung most famously by Johnny Preston in 1959. Preston first sang the song in 1959 with background vocals by Richardson and George Jones, and it was number one for three weeks in January 1960 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. The song also reached number one in the UK in 1960.
Richardson was a friend of Preston and offered "Running Bear" to him after hearing him perform in a club. Preston recorded the song at the Gold Star Studios in Houston, Texas in 1958. The session's producer was Bill Hall with Preston on vocals, Link Davis on saxophone. Richardson, Hall, and Jones performed the song's Indian chants.
Preston was signed to Mercury Records, and "Running Bear" was released in August 1959, seven months after Richardson's death in the plane crash that also killed Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens.
"Running Bear" tells the story of Running Bear, a "young Indian brave", and Little White Dove, an "Indian maid". The two are in love but are separated by two factors:
Their tribes' hatred of each other. Each hailed from one of the two tribes, which were at war with each other ("Their tribes fought with each other / So their love could never be.")
A raging river, which also serves as a metaphor for their other separation.
The two, desiring to be together despite their obstacles and the risks for navigating the river, dive into the raging river to unite. After sharing a passionate kiss, they are pulled down by the swift current and drown. The lyrics tell the rest: "Now they'll always be together / In their happy hunting ground."