tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91369587421857945062024-03-13T22:38:40.868+00:00Elvis - The Stories and Songwriters Behind the SongsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136958742185794506.post-79186836583842557482019-11-28T15:02:00.002+00:002020-04-29T16:03:09.699+01:00The Jailhouse Rock Show<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The first of a weekly Radio Stockton (Teesside UK) Community Internet Radio Station with Trev Teasdel playing some of the original artists, alternative takes and modern remixes.The show is archived on Mixcloud so you should be able to listen to it anywhere that has internet. You are welcome to send in feedback, suggestions, corrections and so forth and as it goes on I hope to promote the good work others are doing online in this area.</span><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></b></span><a href="http://www.radiostockton.co.uk/"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">http://www.radiostockton.co.uk/</span></b></a></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136958742185794506.post-30443529743695563482019-03-11T14:03:00.002+00:002019-03-11T14:03:33.617+00:00Stop, Look and Listen<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Recorded February 15 / 1965 at Bell Sound Studios - New York. Line Up : Bill Haley [vocal]:Johnny Kay [Lead guitar]: Nick Masters [Steel Guitar]: Al Rappa [Bass]: Dave Francis [Drums]: Ernie Henry [Organ]: Rudy Pompilli [Tenor Sax]</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although the song is credited to Joy Byers - there is a debate about how many of her credited songs were written by the legendary producer Bob Johnson - who discovered Bob Dylan. I don;t know the answer but you can read about it here http://theelvisforum-phoenix.com/viewtopic.php?t=2833</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136958742185794506.post-73467149473245755592019-03-10T22:40:00.000+00:002019-03-10T22:40:51.640+00:00The Meanest Girl in Town (Yeah, She's Evil)<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<b>The Meanest Girl in Town</b>, also known as <b>Yeah, She's Evil</b>! is a rock and roll song written by Joy Byers, which was recorded in June 1964 by both Elvis Presley, as <i>The Meanest Girl in Town</i> for the soundtrack to the 1965 film release <i>Girl Happy,</i> and by <b>Bill Haley & His Comets</b> as <i>Yeah, She's Evil</i>! for a Decca Records single release.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Haley's recording was released during the summer of 1964, predating Presley's release (on the soundtrack to Girl Happy in 1965), although Presley actually recorded his version several days before Haley: on June 10, 1964, versus June 16, 1964 for Bill Haley & His Comets.</span><div>
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which Timi Yuro took to number 12 on the Hot 100 and 16 on the R&B charts.<br /><br />A number of her songs were also recorded by Elvis Presley including It Hurts Me, Please Don't Stop Loving Me and Let Yourself Go.<br /><br />She was married to producer Bob Johnston who worked with Bob Dylan (Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde), Johnny Cash (At Folsom Prison, At San Quentin), Simon & Garfunkel (Sounds of Silence, Parsley Sage Rosemary & Thyme) and Leonard Cohen (Songs From a Room, Songs of Love and Hate) among others. He died in 2015.<br /><br />Songs written or co-written by Joy Byers:<br /><br />What's a Matter Baby (Is It Hurting You) by Timi Yuro (1962 / #12 Pop / #16 R&B)<br />It Hurts Me by Elvis Presley (1964 / #29 Pop)<br />When You Loved Me by Brenda Lee (1964 / #47 Pop / #8 Adult Contemporary)<br />Wishing It Was You by Connie Francis (1965 / #57 Pop / #14 AC)<br />(No, No) I'm Losing You by Aretha Franklin (1965 / #34 AC)<br />Ring Dang Doo by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs (1965 / #33 Pop)<br />Gardenias In Her Hair by Marty Robbins (1967 / #9 Country)<br />Here Comes Heaven by Eddy Arnold (1967 / #91 Pop / #15 AC / #2 Country)<br />Let Yourself Go by Elvis Presley (1968 / #71 Pop / #15 U.K.)</span><div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136958742185794506.post-74043028430569548862019-03-05T23:43:00.001+00:002019-03-05T23:43:53.619+00:00Mystery Train - Little Junior Parker<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From <a href="http://www.smokestacklightnin.com/bios/junior%20parker.htm">http://www.smokestacklightnin.com/bios/junior%20parker.htm</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">" Junior Parker, also known as Little Junior Parker or "Mr Blues" (May 27, 1932–November 18, 1971) was a successful and influential Memphis blues singer and musician. He is best remembered for his unique voice which has been described as "honeyed," and "velvet-smooth. Junior Parker was born in either Clarksdale, Mississippi or West Memphis, Arkansas as Herman Parker, Jr. He sang in gospel groups as a child, and played on the various blues circuits beginning in his teenage years. His biggest influence as a harmonica player was Sonny Boy Williamson, with whom he worked before moving on to work for Howlin' Wolf in 1949. Around 1950 he was a member of Memphis's ad hoc group, the Beale Streeters, with Bobby 'Blue' Bland and B.B. King.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1951 he formed his own band, the Blue Flames, with guitarist Auburn 'Pat' Hare. Parker was discovered in 1952 by Ike Turner, who signed him to Modern Records. He put out one single on this record label, "You're My Angel."[ This brought him to the attention of Sam Phillips, and he and his band signed onto Sun Records in 1953. There they produced three successful songs: "Feelin' Good" (which reached # 5 on the Billboard R&B charts), "Love My Baby," and "Mystery Train" ,with Floyd Murphy (Matt "Guitar" Murphy's brother) on guitar, later covered by Elvis Presley.[ For Presley's version of "Mystery Train", Scotty Moore borrowed the guitar riff from Parker's "Love My Baby"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"If I Can Dream" is a song written by <b>Walter Earl Brown</b> and notable for its direct quotations of <b>Martin Luther King, Jr.</b> It was recorded by Presley in June 1968, two months after King's assassination. The recording was first released to the public as the finale of Presley's '68 Comeback Special.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the end of the speech, King departed from his prepared text for a partly improvised peroration on the theme of "I have a dream", possibly prompted by Mahalia Jackson's cry, "Tell them about the dream, Martin!" He had first delivered a speech incorporating some of the same sections in Detroit in June 1963, when he marched on Woodward Avenue with Walter Reuther and the Reverend C. L. Franklin, and had rehearsed other parts.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_a_Dream">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_a_Dream</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone." (Read the full text here - <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/martin-luther-kings-speech-dream-full-text/story?id=14358231&page=2#.T2evWcUaP30"> http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/martin-luther-kings-speech-dream-full-text/story?id=14358231&page=2#.T2evWcUaP30</a></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Writer - Walter Earl Brown</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Walter Earl Brown was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on Christmas Day, 1928 to Walter Lincoln Brown, a descendant of the english royal family and Hattie Earl. Earl's father, Walter played in a "swing" big band so as a child Earl traveled with his parents.... Earl had a prolific and illustrious career in show business as a singer, composer, vocal arranger, and writer of special material. His work in television, films, revues, musical recordings and nightclubs began at an early age and continued until his passing. During the 40's and 50's Earl is remembered for having been the arranger and singer in the highly acclaimed vocal group "The Skylarks". He wrote a hit song for Elvis Presley in 1968 entitled "If I Can Dream", which has been re-recorded by Barry Manilow and others and which was recently performed on "American Idol" by Celine Dion as a duet, with Elvis resurrected on stage as a holographic image. Earl wrote songs for Dianne Reeves, including the Grammy winning "Who's Minding The Store?", as well as for Frank Sinatra, Mama Cass, Michael Feinstein, and numerous others. For many years he was the vocal director on many hit variety shows including "The Danny Kaye Show", "The Dinah Shore Show", "The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour", "The Osmonds Brothers Show", "The Andy Williams Show", "The Carol Burnett Show" and many other television programs and specials. Most recently Earl was the vocal arranger and writer of special material for "The Palm Springs Follies" for the last 13 seasons of the revue." More here <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=24119368">http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=24119368</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The Girl of My Best Friend</b> " is a song written by <b>Sam Bobrick</b> and <b>Beverly Ross </b>and first released in 1959 by <b><a href="http://musicweird.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-mysterious-charlie-blackwell-and.html">Charlie Blackwell</a></b> as the B-side to his single "<i>Choppin' Mountains</i>". It was made famous as a cover by <b>Elvis Presley with The Jordanaire</b>s in 1960. It has also been covered by <b>Ral Donner</b> in 1960 (#19 US), <b>Johnny Burnette</b> in 1962 and by <b>Bryan Ferry </b>for his 1993 covers album Taxi. A dance hall version was also released as a single in the 1990 by <b>Tippa Irie</b> and <b>Peter Spence</b> on GT's Records and Mango." From <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_of_My_Best_Friend">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_of_My_Best_Friend</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While the <b>Charlie Blackwell</b> version is cited as the first version of <i>The Girl of My Best Friend </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Check out further information of <b>David Neale</b>'s site Elvis Presley - The Originals under the listing for this song regarding the songwriters and a link to more on Charles Blackwell <a href="https://davidneale.eu/elvis/originals/index.html">https://davidneale.eu/elvis/originals/index.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">According to this site "</span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Listening to the “Elvis Is Back” FTD we can hear how this song evolved and in the end how Elvis is more comfortable with the slower tempo after trying various rhythms even snapping his fingers as he tries to ride with the faster tempo</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">."</span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.elvis-collectors.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=60770">http://www.elvis-collectors.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=60770</a></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"After a three year, nine months and twenty seven day stint in the U.S. Air Force, Bobrick attended the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Illinois">University of Illinois</a> where he graduated with a degree in Journalism. He began his career writing for the popular children's show <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Kangaroo">Captain Kangaroo</a>. He also wrote for such shows as The Andy Griffith Show, Bewitched, The Flintstones, Get Smart, The Kraft Music Hall, and The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. He created the short-lived syndicated TV series Good Morning, Miss Bliss, which was resurrected by NBC as the long-running hit show Saved By The Bell. He has won three Writers Guild of America Awards for his television work and was nominated for an Emmy. He has also written several movies and later quit writing for film and television in 1990." Read more about his plays here <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Bobrick">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Bobrick</a></span><br />
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She was born in Brooklyn, New York, and as a child moved with her family to Lakewood, New Jersey where she learned the piano. While at school, she began writing poetry and song lyrics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While living in The Bronx as a teenager, she began canvassing writers at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brill_Building">Brill Building</a> with some of her songs. The first to be recorded was "<i>Dim, Dim The Lights (I Want Some Atmosphere)</i>", co-written with black songwriter <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Dixson">Julius Dixson</a> (or Dixon), which was recorded by <b>Bill Haley and His Comets</b> in 1954 and became a crossover hit in both the pop chart and R&B chart the following year. The song was the first rock and roll song recorded by a white singer to reach the R&B chart, and was hailed by Alan Freed as "the grand daddy song of rock n’ roll".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1958 she and Dixson wrote one of her most lasting songs, "<i>Lollipop</i>". When Dixson explained that he was late for a songwriting session because his daughter had gotten a lollipop stuck in her hair, Ross began writing the song, and later recorded a demo version with Dixson's neighbor, teenager <b>Ronald Gumm </b>(or Gumps). Dixson, who owned the master and had produced the demo, then agreed to let RCA Records release it as by "Ronald and Ruby". The pair's version rose up the chart reaching no.20, but when it was learned that Ronald and Ruby were an inter-racial duo, television appearances that had been previously booked got cancelled. Cover versions by <b>The Chordettes</b> (no.2 in the US) and <b>The Mudlarks</b> (no.2 in the UK) rose higher up the charts, and the song became an international hit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While working at the Brill Building with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Barry">Jeff Barry</a> in the late 1950s, she was recruited by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Aberbach">Jean Aberbach</a> to</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">work for the publishing company <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_%26_Range">Hill & Range</a>. She co-wrote the song "<i>Dixieland Rock</i>" with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Schroeder">Aaron Schroeder</a>, using the pseudonym <b>Rachel Frank</b>. The song was recorded by <b>Elvis Presley</b> for his 1958 movie <i>King Creole </i>and released on the soundtrack album. She also wrote "The Girl of My Best Friend" with Sam Bobrick. The song was first released as the B-side of a single by Charlie Blackwell, before being covered in 1960 by Presley. At Hill & Range she met aspiring songwriter <b>Phil Spector</b>, and began collaborating with him on songs and demo recordings."</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136958742185794506.post-85254574775388500762012-10-03T22:10:00.001+01:002019-03-03T18:25:29.096+00:00The Thrill of Your Love - Carl McVoy<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>The Thrill of Your Love</i> (featured on <i>Elvis is Back</i> 1960) was written by <b>Stan Kesler</b> who also wrote or co-wrote <i>I Forgot to Remember to Forget / I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone / Playing for Keeps / If I'm a Fool for Loving You.</i></span><br />
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<b>Colonel Snow</b> mentioned that this song was originally sang by <b>Carl McVoy</b> 1958 under the title <i>A Woman's Love (The Thrill of Your Love) </i>and here it is -</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"McVoy was cousin to the younger <b>Jerry Lee Lewis</b>. He had been to New York with his father, who had been a minister there. McVoy got hooked on boogie-woogie while in New York, which he subsequently brought back to Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Jerry Lee Lewis would visit his older cousin and get him to show him things on the piano.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Plucked from the construction industry by <b>Ray Harris</b>, McVoy recorded "<i>You Are My Sunshine</i>" at Sun Records, which was the single that launched Hi Records. McVoy recorded a number of other sides at Sun in 1957 and 1958, most which have remained unissued.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He subsequently went back to Hi as pianist with <b>The Bill Black Combo</b>, but quit in the mid 1960s and returned to the construction industry forming his own company Carmack Construction. He died at the age of 61 early in 1992." Source <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_McVoy">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_McVoy</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kesler (sometimes <i>Kessler</i> written) began his musical career in the <b>Clyde Leoppard</b> country band <b>Snearly Ranch Boys</b>, <b>Buddy Holobaugh</b> (guitar), <b>Stan Kesler</b> (steel guitar), <b>Jan Ledbetter</b> (bass), <b>Smokey Joe Baugh</b> (Piano / Vocal ) and <b>William "Bill" Taylor</b> (vocals) and <b>Johnny Bernero </b>passed (drums). <b>Scotty Moore.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stan Kesler's first recording session as a steel guitarist for Sun took place on 25 October 1954 for <b>Maggie Sue Wimberleys</b> <i>How Long / Daydreams Come True</i> (# 229) along with <b>Quinton Claunch</b> (guitar), <b>Marcus Van Story </b>(bass) and <b>Bill Cantrell</b> instead (fiddle). On 17 February 1955 was followed by the music of <b>Charlie Feathers</b>' song <i>Peepin 'Eyes</i>. Feathers again sought the services of Kesler, as on 1 November 1955 <i>Defrost Your Heart / Wedding Gown of White</i> (published in January 1956), was recorded. As <b>Roy Orbison'</b>s support group <b>The Teen Kings</b> unlike Orbison got a record deal."</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136958742185794506.post-74207962935414207842012-10-01T18:59:00.002+01:002019-11-07T19:46:31.776+00:00Love Letters<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Love Letters</b> is a 1945 popular song with music by <i>Victor Young</i> and lyrics by <i>Edward Heyman</i>. The song appeared, without lyrics, in the movie of the same name, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song for 1945.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presley recorded the song twice, once in 1966 for single release and again in June 1970.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was aware back in the 60's that Presley's version followed the<b> Ketty Lester</b> version with its sparse piano work but wasn't aware of the earlier version by <b>Dick Haymes</b>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is the <b>Dick Haymes</b> orchestral version from 1945.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Richard Benjamin "Dick" Haymes (September 13, 1918 – March 28, 1980) was an actor and singer. He was one of the most popular male vocalists of the 1940s and early 1950s. He was the older brother of Bob Haymes, who was an actor, television host, and songwriter. Haymes was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1918.[1][2] His mother, whom Haymes predeceased, was Irish-born Marguerite Haymes (1894–1987), a well-known vocal coach and instructor. Dick Haymes became a vocalist in a number of big bands, worked in Hollywood, on radio, and in films throughout the 1940s/1950s." <b>Read More</b> here <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Haymes">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Haymes</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here's <b>Ketty Lester's</b> version from 1962</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Ketty Lester </b>(born Revoyda Frierson, August 16, 1934) " is an American singer and actress, who is best known for her 1962 hit single, "Love Letters", which reached the Top 5 of the charts in both the United States and the United Kingdom. The daughter of a farmer, she was born in Hope, Arkansas, one of a family of 15 children, and first sang in her church and school choirs. She won a scholarship to study music at San Francisco State College, and in the early 1950s began performing under the name Ketty Lester in the city's Purple Onion club. She later appeared as a contestant on the game show You Bet Your Life, and toured Europe as a singer with Cab Calloway's orchestra." <b>Read More</b> here <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketty_Lester">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketty_Lester</a></span><br />
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<b>Victor Young (Composer)</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Young was born in Chicago on 8 August 1900 into a very musical family, his father being a member of one <b>Joseph Sheehan’</b>s touring Opera company. The young Victor began playing violin at the age of six, and was sent over to Poland when he was ten to stay with his grandfather and study at Warsaw Imperial Conservatory, achieving the Diploma of Merit. He studied the piano with <b>Isidor Philipp</b> of the Paris Conservatory. While still a teenager he embarked on a career as a concert violinist with the Warsaw Philharmonic under <b>Julius Wertheim</b> before returning to Chicago in 1920 to join the orchestra at Central Park Casino. He then went to Los Angeles to join his Polish fiancée, finding employment first as a fiddler in impresario <b>Sid Grauman's Million Dollar Theatre Orchestra </b>then going on to be appointed concert-master for Paramount-Publix Theatres.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1930 Chicago bandleader and radio-star <b>Isham Jones</b> commissioned Young to write a ballad instrumental of <b>Hoagy Carmichael's</b> "Stardust," which had been played, up until then, as an up-tempo number. Young slowed it down and played the melody as a gorgeous romantic violin solo which inspired Mitchell Parish to write lyrics for what then became one of the great love songs of all time." <b>Read More</b> here <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Young">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Young</a></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Edward Heyman (lyricist)</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Edward Heyman (March 14, 1907 – October 16, 1981) "was an American musician and lyricist, best known for his compositions "Body and Soul", "When I Fall in Love", and "For Sentimental Reasons". He also contributed many songs for films.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Heyman studied at the University of Michigan where he had an early start on his career writing college musicals. After graduating from college Heyman moved back to New York City where he started working with a number of experienced musicians like Victor Young ("When I Fall in Love"), Dana Suesse ("You Ought to Be in Pictures") and Johnny Green ("Body and Soul", "Out of Nowhere", "I Cover the Waterfront", and "Easy Come, Easy Go").</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From 1939 to 1954, Heyman contributed songs to film scores including That Girl From Paris, Curly Top, Kissing Bandit, Delightfully Dangerous and Northwest Outpost.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Arguably Heyman's biggest hit is his composition "Body and Soul", written in 1930, often recorded (in 1939 by Coleman Hawkins and since by many others), which frequently crops up in films, most recently in 2002's Catch Me If You Can. Heyman also wrote "Through the Years", "For Sentimental Reasons", "Blame It on My Youth" (with Oscar Levant), "Love Letters", "Blue Star" (theme of the television Series Medic), "The Wonder of You", "Boo-Hoo", "Bluebird of Happiness", and "You're Mine, You".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Out of Nowhere" by <b>Johnny Greene</b> and <b>Edward Heyman </b>became a standard piece of gypsy swing, a musical style established by <b>Django Reinhardt</b> in the 1930s. Gypsy swing remains popular to this day, for additional information see Django Reinhardt and Rosenberg Trio." <b>Read More</b> here <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Heyman">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Heyman</a></span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136958742185794506.post-46412270337594131602012-09-27T15:55:00.002+01:002019-11-08T22:14:32.064+00:00How Do You Think I Feel?<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I first heard this as a teenager in 1965 when I bought an old EP (Extended Play) disc with <i>Long Tall Sally, How's the World Treating You, First in Line and How Do You Think I Feel.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1965 was the year of riff based pop songs like<i> Ticket to Ride, Mr Tambourine Man</i> etc. and so didn't sound quite so out of place with all the new music coming out. However it was an old release that surfaced in a sale in the local record shop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The song was written by <b>Wayne Walker</b> and <b>Webb Pierce</b>. <b>David Neale</b> (link to his site in the topbar menu) suggests the first version was by <b>Red Sovine</b> in April 1954, followed closely in November by <b>Jimmy Rogers Snow. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This<b> Red Sovine </b>with a different song - <i>Juke Joint Johnny</i> ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Born Woodrow Wilson Sovine on July 17, 1918 in Charleston, WV, Red Sovine made his first attempt at a musical career in his teens along with Johnnie Bailes (of the Bailes Brothers) as members of Jim Pike's Carolina Tar Heels and then as the "Singing Sailors". Red then opted for a factory job in Elanor, WV working his way into mid-management while still doing a program on local radio.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1948, the Bailes Brothers encouraged Red to join them in Shreveport, LA After a brief stint at KWKH in Shreveport, Hank Williams lent a helping hand in securing a slot at WFSA in Montgomery, AL later that same year and a recording contract with MGM.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1949, Red returned to Shreveport and joined the Louisiana Hayride replacing Hank Williams. In 1952, fellow Hayride star Webb Pierce asked Red to come to Nashville to front his band which led to a recording contract with Decca in 1954 and to appearances on the Grand Ole Opry." Read more Here <a href="http://www.virtualtruckroute.com/music_sovine.html">http://www.virtualtruckroute.com/music_sovine.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Born 1936, son of country star <b>Hank Snow</b>, Jimmie Rodgers Snow appeared to have everything going his way. With famous friends like <b>Elvis Presley </b>and <b>Buddy Holly</b>, Jimmie began to rocket his way to stardom on the RCA label.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But Jimmie soon learned that there was something that wealth and fame cannot provide is lasting peace. In front of his parents house, Jimmie Rodgers Snow committed his life to Christ and soon answered the call to preach.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of his early sermons was recently featured in a PBS documentary about Rock and Roll. The show featured a clip which is on display at the the rock and roll hall of fame of an early sermon by Jimmie Snow denouncing the evils of Rock and Roll." Source - <a href="http://www.jimmysnow.com/aboutme.html">http://www.jimmysnow.com/aboutme.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Born Wayne Paul Walker, December 13, 1925, Quapaw, Oklahoma, <span style="text-align: center;">Died January 2, 1979, Nashville, Tennessee. </span><span style="text-align: center;">Wayne Walker was a prolific songwriter, with no less than 526 titles in the BMI database, 23 of which have won BMI awards. He was less successful as a singer, though he made some fine recordings, both in the rockabilly and the country field. Born in Oklahoma, Walker was raised in Kilgore, Texas, before moving to Shreveport, Louisiana. He worked as a vacuum cleaner salesman, fire escape salesman, car salesman, and roofer while getting his music career off the ground. He appeared on the Louisiana Hayride, where he met Tillman Franks and Webb Pierce and with their encouragement he was soon placing his songs with local artists. With Pierce he wrote the song "How Do You Think I Feel", which was first recorded by Red Sovine in early 1954 (Decca 29068), but the best known version is of course by Elvis Presley, on his second LP. " Read more here </span><a href="http://www.rockabilly.nl/references/messages/wayne_walker.htm">http://www.rockabilly.nl/references/messages/wayne_walker.htm</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Webb Michael Pierce (August 8, 1921 – February 24, 1991) was one of the most popular American honky tonk vocalists of the 1950s, charting more number one hits than any other country artist during the decade.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136958742185794506.post-2624580158417899662012-09-22T21:36:00.000+01:002019-03-03T18:40:50.865+00:00Hot Dog - Young Jessie<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was an Elvis fan at school during the 60's, ironically during the period when he was less popular owing to the <b>Beatles</b>. In April 1964, when the <b>Beatles</b> were No 1 with <i>Can't Buy Me Love</i>, I became an Elvis fan, although I still liked the Beatles and all the new music of the mid 60's. I was away at boarding school in Shropshire (UK) and the weekly 'treat' was a film show in the main hall every Saturday. Mostly old films like Fred Astaire, <b>George Formby</b> or war films. On this occasion we had something more up to date - Elvis's <i>Loving You. </i>Even so it was 7 years old by 1964 - the latest Elvis film at the time was <i>Love in Las Vegas</i>. I didn't know much about Elvis at the time but the film grabbed me, the youthful Elvis and the lively music. Hot Dog was one of the tracks that grabbed me, but there were so many good songs in that film, <i>Mean Woman Blues, Teddy Bear</i> etc. A hobby at the time was reading Elvis Monthly and learning about some of the background to some of the early Elvis songs or listening to Mike Raven's R & B show on the radio. Hence my interest in this song.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I discovered from <b>David Neale</b>'s site <a href="http://davidneale.eu/elvis/originals/list3.html">http://davidneale.eu/elvis/originals/list3.html</a> that <i>Hot Dog</i> was not specially written for the film but had been written Leiber and Stoller. David tells us '<i>Young Jessie recorded this number in 1956 for the Modern label, but it was not issued until 1982 on the Ace label</i>.'</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Who was Young Jessie? </span></b><br />
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<b>Wikipedia </b>tells us <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Jessie">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Jessie</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">" <b>Obediah Donnell "Obie" Jessie</b> (born December 28, 1936, Lincoln Manor, Dallas, Texas), is an African American R&B and jazz singer and songwriter. He recorded as <b>Young Jessie</b> in the 1950s and 1960s, and was known for his solo career, work with <b>The Flairs</b> and a brief stint in <b>The Coasters</b>. More recently he has performed and recorded jazz as <b>Obie Jessie</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jessie's father was a cook but had no musical background. His mother, <b>Malinda (née Harris)</b> was very musical, playing piano and other instruments; she had a brief musical career under the name Plunky Harris. On his mother's side of the family, Jessie was also kin to blues musician <b>Blind Lemon Jefferson</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1946, he moved with his family to Los Angeles, where he began studying music, and formed a vocal group, The Debonaires, which also included<b> Richard Berry</b>. The group recorded Jessie's song, "<i>I Had A Love</i>", in 1953, and the single was released under the name of <i>The Hollywood Blue Jays</i>. They then renamed themselves as <b>The Flairs</b>, and won a recording contract with <i>Modern Records</i>. However, in 1954 Jessie signed a solo contract with producers <b>Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller</b>, and began recording as "<b>Young Jessie</b>". He said: "<i>[The name] came about because I sounded like I was forty, like ancient for a boy of 17. I had this deep baritone voice and the Biharis wanted me to get close to the rock 'n' roll market. I could have called myself Obie Jessie but I didn't want people to think I was old."</i></span><br />
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In 1955 he wrote and recorded the single "<i>Mary Lou</i>," later covered by <b>Ronnie Hawkins</b> in 1959, <b>Steve Miller Band</b> in 1973, <b>Bob Seger</b> in 1976, <b>Gene Clark</b> in 1977 and <b>The Oblivians</b> in 1997. In 1956, he released "<i>Hit Git And Split</i>", co-written with <b>Buck Ram</b> and recorded in New York City with guitarist <b>Mickey Baker</b>. He also briefly recorded with <b>The Coasters</b> in 1957 (including harmony vocals on "Searchin'" and "Young Blood"), and appeared on records by <b>The Crescendos</b> and <b>Johnny Morisette</b>, as well as being a writer for other artists' recordings, including <b>The Chargers and Jimmy Norman.</b> He released the single "<i>Shuffle In the Gravel"/"Make Believe</i>", again produced by <b>Leiber and Stoller</b>, on the Atco label in 1957."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Read More here <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Jessie">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Jessie</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's<b> Young Jessie's</b> <i>Mary Lou</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And <b>The Flairs - </b><i>She Wants to Rock</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hot dog, you say you're really coming back</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And baby, I can hardly wait</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm gonna meet you at the gate, hot dog</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I fell in love with you and then you went away</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hot dog, soon everything will be all right</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hot dog, we're gonna have a ball tonight</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's gonna be just like old times, hot dog</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You went away and every day was misery</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hot dog, when you come walking off the train</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh how lonely I have been</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136958742185794506.post-62661672132264996672012-09-16T18:53:00.000+01:002019-03-03T18:45:43.005+00:00Stay Away - based on Greensleeves.<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The song <i>Stay Away</i> was recorded for (but not used) for the 26th Elvis movie <i>Stay Away Joe</i> in 1968. It was written by <b>Sid Tepper</b> and <b>Roy C Bennett</b> but based on the tune on the English folk tune <i>Greensleeves</i> and not to be confused with the title song - <i>Stay Away Joe </i>which has a more hill-billy feel. Stay away was used however for the B side of US Male.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whether the '<i>racing country guitars</i>' do the traditional melody justice is a good question of course! <b>Robert Mathew-Walker</b>, in <i>Elvis Presley - A Study in Music</i>, felt that " <i>the words and the arrangement do not come up to the haunting quality of the original </i>"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Still the film itself and the music marked an important break from the usual formula Presley films and the original song is interesting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<i>Greensleeves</i>" is a traditional English folk song and tune, a <i>ground</i> either of the form called a <i>romanesca</i> or of its slight variant, the <i>passamezzo antico </i>(see below for definitions)<i> </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is often thought that <i>Greensleeves </i>was written by <b>King Henry V111</b> but -</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"There is a persistent belief that <i>Greensleeves</i> was composed by <b>Henry VIII</b> for his lover and future queen consort <b>Anne Boleyn</b>. Boleyn allegedly rejected King Henry's attempts to seduce her and this rejection may be referred to in the song when the writer's love "<i>cast me off discourteously</i>". However, Henry did not compose "<i>Greensleeves</i>", which is probably Elizabethan in origin and is based on an Italian style of composition that did not reach England until after his death.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A broadside ballad by this name was registered at the <b>London Stationer's Company</b> in September 1580,by Richard Jones, as "<i>A Newe Northen Dittye of ye Ladye Greene Sleves</i>". Six more ballads followed in less than a year, one on the same day, 3 September 1580 ("<i>Ye Ladie Greene Sleeves answere to Donkyn hir frende</i>" by<b> Edward White</b>), then on 15 and 18 September (by <b>Henry Carr</b> and again by White), 14 December (<b>Richard Jones</b> again), 13 February 1581 (<b>Wiliam Elderton</b>), and August 1581 (White's third contribution, "<i>Greene Sleeves is worne awaie, Yellow Sleeves Comme to decaie, Blacke Sleeves I holde in despite, But White Sleeves is my delighte</i>". It then appears in the surviving <i>A Handful of Pleasant Delights (1584)</i> as <i>A New Courtly Sonnet of the Lady Green Sleeves</i>. To the new tune of Green Sleeves.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The tune is found in several late-16th-century and early 17th-century sources, such as B<i>allet's MS Lute Book</i> and <i>Het Luitboek van Thysius</i>, as well as various manuscripts preserved in the Cambridge University libraries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One possible interpretation of the lyrics is that <i>Lady Green Sleeves</i> was a promiscuous young woman and perhaps a prostitute.At the time, the word "<i>green</i>" had sexual connotations, most notably in the phrase "<i>a green gown</i>", a reference to the way that grass stains might be seen on a woman's dress if she had engaged in sexual intercourse out-of-doors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An alternative explanation is that <i>Lady Green Sleeves</i> was, through her costume, incorrectly assumed to be immoral. Her "<i>discourteous</i>" rejection of the singer's advances supports the contention that she is not.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Nevill Coghill's translation of <i>The Canterbury Tales</i>, he explains that "green [for <b>Chaucer’</b>s age] was the colour of lightness in love. This is echoed in '<i>Greensleeves is my delight'</i> and elsewhere."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Shakespeare's <i>The Merry Wives of Windsor</i>, written around 1602, the character<i> Mistress Ford</i> refers twice without any explanation to the tune of "<i>Greensleeves</i>" and <b>Falstaff</b> later exclaims:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'<i>Let the sky rain potatoes! Let it thunder to the tune of 'Greensleeves'!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These allusions indicate that the song was already well known at that time.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Musical Structure</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A <i>ground </i>or an <i>ostinato</i> is (derived from Italian: "<i>stubborn</i>", compare English: '<i>obstinate</i>') is a motif or phrase, which is persistently repeated in the same musical voice, usually at the same pitch. The best known ostinato based piece may be Ravel's Boléro." Read more here - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostinato#Ground_bass">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostinato#Ground_bass</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"A<i> Romanesca</i> (originating in Spain) was a song form popular in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. It was most popular with Italian composers of the early Baroque period. A <i>romanesca</i> is composed of a sequence of four chords with a simple, repeating bass, which provide the groundwork for variations and improvisation. A famous example is the refrain of "Greensleeves" (<i>whose verses follow the progression of the passamezzo antico, of which the romanesca is an alteration</i>). The <i>romanesca</i> is usually in triple meter and its soprano formula (melody) resembles that of the passamezzo antico but a third higher." Read more here - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanesca">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanesca</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The <i>passamezzo antico</i> was a ground bass or chord progression popular during the Italian Renaissance and known throughout Europe in the 16th century. The progression is a variant of the double tonic: its major mode variant is known as the passamezzo moderno.</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136958742185794506.post-73512446308255742232012-09-15T22:57:00.003+01:002019-11-11T17:17:25.114+00:00Tender feeling - (based on Shenandoah)<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Tender Feeling</i> is based on the melody of<i> Shenandoah</i> and was recorded 17th October 1963 as part of the soundtrack for the presley movie <i>Kissin' Cousins</i>. It's a kind of unacknowledged form of Folk Rock, but before the term was coined. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was a gem of a song among an album of mainly nondescript film plot songs for the film which was released in 1964. The film's plot revolves around "<i>The U.S. government wanting to build a missile silo inside a Tennessee mountain, but the backwoods hillbillies who own it refuse to lease it to them</i>" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Presley plays two parts in the film and even fights his own look a like - a GI scout and his lookalike hillbilly cousin! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tender Feeling was written by - or rather adapted from - <i>Shenandoah</i>, with new lyrics by songwriting team <i>Giant Baum and Kaye</i> who penned <i>Devil in Disguise</i>. The song structure is AABA where A = a verses, B = the Bridge. Shenandoah became a film itself shortly afterwards in 1965, starring Jimmy Stewart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />Shenandoah is a sea shanty, logging song, fur traders’ ballad. Some lyrics of this song heard before 1860 tell the story of a fur trader who fell in love with the daughter of the Oneida Iroquois pine tree chief Shenandoah . <b>Paul Robeson</b> famously recorded Shenandoah but the earliest recorded version is by <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Campbell_(singer)">Albert Campbell</a> & Henry Burr </b>1917.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Shenandoah was first printed as part of <b>William L. Alden's</b> article "<i>Sailor Songs</i>", in the July 1882 issue of Harper's New Monthly Magazine. There have been several lyric sets to Shenandoah.The lyrics refer to the Native American chief and the missouri not the later adaption in Virginia of the Shenandoah Valley. and river.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Tender Feeling</i> follows an AABA song pattern where A = a verse and B = the Bridge or middle / contrasting section. The original song seems to be an AAA pattern - ie verses without a bridge section, which is one of the musical / lyrical differences between <i>Tender Feeling</i> and <i>Shenandoah</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">" <i>Oh Shenandoah </i>(also called simply <i>Shenandoah</i>, or <i>Across the Wide Missouri)</i> is a traditional American folk song of uncertain origin, dating at least to the early 19th century. The song is number 324 in the Roud Folk Song Index, but is not listed amongst the Child Ballads.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The lyrics may tell the story of a roving trader in love with the daughter of an Indian chief; in this interpretation, the rover tells the chief of his intent to take the girl with him far to the west, across the Missouri River. Other interpretations tell of a pioneer's nostalgia for the Shenandoah River Valley in Virginia, or of a Confederate soldier in the American Civil War, dreaming of his country home in Virginia. The provenance of the song is unclear. The song is also associated with escaped slaves. They were said to sing the song in gratitude because the river allowed their scent to be lost.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The song had become popular as a sea chanty with sailors by the 1880s. Alfred Mason Williams' 1895 Studies in Folk-song and Popular Poetry called it a "good specimen of a bowline chant". In his 1931 book on sea and river chanteys entitled Capstan Bars, David Bone wrote that "Oh Shenandoah" originated as a river chanty or shanty and then became popular with sea-going crews in the early 19th century.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The U.S. congressman for Missouri Ike Skelton noted in 2005 that local artist George Caleb Bingham immortalized the jolly flatboatmen who plied the Missouri River in the early 19th century; these same flatboatmen were known for their chanties, including the lovely "Oh Shenandoah". This boatmen's song found its way down the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers to the American clipper ships, and thus around the world." Source <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_Shenandoah">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_Shenandoah</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The lyrics to the varying versions of <i>Shenandoah</i> can be viewed by following the above Wikipedia link - Oh Shenandoah. As per the folk / blues oral traditions, lyrics and melodies weren't etched in stone back then before the commercialisation of popular music and varied place to place, time to time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The <b>Shenandoah Valley</b> history - This area in Virginia isn't the setting for Shenandoah which mentions 'the wide missouri" - but has somehow adopted the name. "“Everything had a thrifty look,” wrote a Confederate soldier in the Shenandoah Valley in 1861. “The horses and cattle were fat and sleek; the large barns were overflowing with the gathered crops; the houses looked comfortable; and the fences were in splendid order. It was a truly a land of milk and honey.” Read more here <a href="http://southernnationalist.com/blog/2011/06/03/the-shenandoah-valley-in-1861-imperiled-land-of-milk-honey/">http://southernnationalist.com/blog/2011/06/03/the-shenandoah-valley-in-1861-imperiled-land-of-milk-honey/</a></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1Shenandoah River, United States38.8095157 -78.370826338.0176422 -79.63425380000001 39.6013892 -77.1073988tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136958742185794506.post-77178484618282827432012-09-14T22:50:00.003+01:002019-03-03T22:51:50.915+00:00You Don't Know Me - Eddy Arnold<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had always though the original version of this song was <b>Ray Charles</b>, who had a hit with it in 1962 but actually it was written by <b>Cindy Walker</b> and <b>Eddie Arnold</b> and sang by him in 1956..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was first recorded by Eddie Arnold in 1955 and released as a single on April 21, 1956 on RCA Victor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The first version of the song to make the Billboard charts was by <b>Jerry Vale</b> in 1956, peaking at #14 on the pop chart. Arnold's version charted two months later, released as an RCA Victor single, 47-6502, backed with "<i>The Rockin' Mockin' Bird</i>", which reached #10 on the Billboard country chart. Cash Box magazine, which combined all best-selling versions at one position, included a version by <b>Carmen McRae</b> that never appeared in the Billboard Top 100 Sides listing." Source <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Don't_Know_Me_(Eddy_Arnold_song)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Don't_Know_Me_(Eddy_Arnold_song)</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In high school, to earn money, Vale took a job shining shoes in a barbershop in New York City. He sang while he shined shoes, and his boss liked the sound so well that he paid for music lessons for the boy. Enjoying the lessons, Vale started singing in high school musicals and at a local nightclub. This led to additional club dates, including one that lasted for three years at a club in the suburb of Yonkers, New York, just north of the city. When <b>Paul Insetta</b>, (who was a road manager for Guy Mitchell and a hit songwriter) heard him there, he signed him to a management contract, changed his name, and further coached him. He then arranged for Vale to record some demonstration records of songs he'd written, and brought the demos to Columbia Records. Vale then signed a recording contract with Columbia, and Insetta managed him for many years. His version of "<i>The Star-Spangled Banner</i>", recorded in the late 1960s, was a fixture at many sporting events for years." Source <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Vale">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Vale</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1962 <b>Ray Charles</b> had a hit with <b>You Don't Know Me</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Elvis recorded <i>You Don't Know</i> me in 1967 for disc and an orchestrated version for inclusion in <i>Clambake</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Cindy Walker </b>(July 20, 1918 – March 23, 2006) "was a prolific American songwriter, as well as a country music singer and dancer. As a songwriter Walker was responsible for a large number of popular and enduring songs recorded by many different artists. She adopted a craftsman-like approach to her songwriting, often tailoring particular songs to specific recording artists. She produced a large body of songs that have been described as “direct, honest and unpretentious”. She had Top 10 hits spread over five decades. Walker was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1997 and inducted into the Texas Heritage Songwriters Hall of Fame in March 2011." Source <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Walker">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Walker</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Eddie Arnold Richard Edward "Eddy" Arnold (May 15, 1918 – May 8, 2008)</b> "was an American country music singer who performed for six decades. He was a so-called Nashville sound (country/popular music) innovator of the late 1950s, and scored 147 songs on the Billboard country music charts, second only to George Jones. He sold more than 85 million records. A member of the Grand Ole Opry (beginning 1943) and the Country Music Hall of Fame (beginning 1966), Arnold ranked 22nd on Country Music Television's 2003 list of "The 40 Greatest Men of Country Music." He co-wrote the country and pop standard "You Don't Know Me".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1944, Arnold signed a contract with RCA Victor, with manager Colonel Tom Parker, who later managed Elvis Presley. Arnold's first single was little noticed, but the next, "Each Minute Seems a Million Years", scored No. 5 on the country charts during 1945. Its success began a decade of unprecedented chart performance; Arnold's next 57 singles all scored the Top Ten, including 19 number one scoring successes."</span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136958742185794506.post-46362511662293718712012-09-14T01:26:00.002+01:002019-03-03T22:53:31.933+00:00Devil in Disguise<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I owe this one to the <b>Colonel Snow</b>, who commented on the <i>Rip it Up </i>post and directed me to Elvis the kings site<span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.elvisthekingscourt.com/">http://www.elvisthekingscourt.com/</a></span>- worth a look for information and links if you haven't visited it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found some interesting links which Colonel Snow posted on the Elvis forum which I think is part of the same site.<span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://www.theelvisforum.com/post65037.html">http://www.theelvisforum.com/post65037.html</a></span> Thank you <b>Colonel Snow</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is one of them - the demo version of <i>Devil in Disguise. </i>Unlike most of the posts on here, D<i>evil in Disguise </i>wasn't a song Elvis picked up on but one which was specially written for him by the prolific team Giant Baum and Kaye who wrote many of his film songs. This was one of the better songs that was not featured in any of Presley's movies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<i>(You're the) Devil in Disguise"</i> is a UK number one single by <b>Elvis Presley</b> which was written by the songwriting team <b>Giant, Baum and Kaye</b> and published by Elvis Presley Music in 1963. It peaked at number three in the US on the Billboard singles chart and number nine on the Billboard Rhythm and Blues singles chart, becoming his last top ten single on the Rhythm and Blues charts. The single was certified "Gold" by the RIAA for sales in excess of 1 000,000 units in the US. The song also topped Japan's Utamatic record chart in the fall of 1963.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1963, when the song was debuted to a British audience on the BBC television show Juke Box Jury, the celebrity guest <b>John Lennon</b> voted the song “a miss” stating on the new song that Elvis Presley was "like <b>Bing Crosby</b> now."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Presley originally recorded the song May 26, 1963 at RCA Studios in Nashville. "(You're the) Devil in Disguise" and its flipside, "<i>Please Don't Drag That String Around</i>", was recorded for a full-length album that was scheduled for release in 1963, but RCA chose instead to release the album piecemeal on singles and as soundtrack album bonus tracks.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The song is noted for Presley's singing in a low register to represent the Devil with the repeated phrase "Oh, Yes, You Are", before the song's fade." Source <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(You're_the)_Devil_in_Disguise">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(You're_the)_Devil_in_Disguise</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1963 Elvis's chart positions slipped from a string of No 1's and 2's in the UK NME charts to No 9 for <i>One Broken Heart for Sale</i> and then hitting various points outside the top ten, perhaps 11, 12 14. <i>Devil in Disguise</i> hit the No 2 spot in the UK NME charts, kept from the top, not by the Beatles, but <b>Frank Ifield'</b>s <i>Confessing (that I Love you)</i> in July 1963.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The song was written by <b>Giant, Baum and Kaye. </b><a href="http://rarerockinrecords.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/giant-baum-kaye-poof-up-in-smoke.html">http://rarerockinrecords.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/giant-baum-kaye-poof-up-in-smoke.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Bill Giant</b> (who sang on the demo) "(March 2, 1930 – November 26, 1987) was a songwriter whose work included over 40 songs for Elvis Presley. Giant grew up in New York City and was known as Bill (Harvey) Zimmerman. He was part of the popular songwriting team Giant, Baum and Kaye, writing songs with Bernie Baum and Florence Kaye. The majority of their work was used in Presley movies, although their most popular recording was "(You're The) Devil in Disguise" which reached #3 on the Billboard charts. They were also credited with writing the American version of Osamu Tezuka's anime "Kimba the White Lion" (1965). Bill also wrote the Pat Boone hit "Speedy Gonzales". Source <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Giant">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Giant</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>"Bernie Baum</b> <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> </span>(October 13, 1929 – August 28, 1993) would be the first to have any sort of success, he wrote with Stephen Weiss "Music, Music, Music" which went to number 1 in 1950 and was recorded by numerous people including Petula Clark, Bill Haley & The Comets, The Happenings and many other versions. This made Bernie very popular and he was only 19 years old and he became the "Golden Boy of The Brill Building". It was during this period in 1950 where Florence meets Bernie in front of the Brill Building and they decided to be a songwriting team.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first two important compositions were "Heaven Knows Why" & "Believing In You" were recorded by The Four Sensations and released on Rainbow Records in 1952. It was reviewed by Billboard on January 26, 1952 giving "Heaven Knows Why" an Excellent rating. "Heaven Knows Why" was covered by Bob Connolly, Wini Brown & Her Boyfriends & Bill Farrell all in 1952. In 1953 Lee Fields recorded the Baum-Kaye written with Mark Woods song "Apron Strings, Apron Strings" backed with her own version of "Believing In You" it was released in 1953 by Barry Records and Billboard released an Ad for the record on March 7, 1953. Other versions of "Believing In You" are by Sandy Solo also on the Barry label. "Apron String, Apron String" became "Mama's Boy" in 1959 and recorded again by Lee Fields under the name of Linda Fields on Brunswick Records. Another notable song is "Can You" recorded by Micki Marlo in 1954 for Capitol Records." Source <a href="http://rarerockinrecords.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/giant-baum-kaye-poof-up-in-smoke.html">http://rarerockinrecords.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/giant-baum-kaye-poof-up-in-smoke.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Florence Kaye</b> "(January 19, 1919 - May 12, 2006) was a member of a song-writing trio that also included Harvey Zimmerman (better known as Bill Giant) and Bernie Baum. She was born in New York City. She performed a radio show in Georgia and entertained troops for United Service Organizations." <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Kaye">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Kaye</a></span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136958742185794506.post-81732708694019348262012-09-13T23:57:00.002+01:002019-03-03T22:54:43.605+00:00Hi Heel Sneakers - Tommy Tucker<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>"Hi-Heel Sneakers</i> is a blues song recorded by<b> Tommy Tucker</b> in 1963. The song, an uptempo twelve-bar blues, "has a spare, lilting musical framework" with a strong vocal. Tommy Tucker's original recording hit number one on the <i>Cash Box R&B </i>Locations chart and number eleven on the <i>Billboard Hot 100</i>. <b>Tommy Tucker</b> was the stage name of<b> Robert Higginbotham</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over 1000 artists have recorded Hi-Heel Sneakers including Elvis in September 1967, Nashville. The song, which Tucker penned, has appeared in several soundtracks, for example <i>The Who's</i> <i>Quadrophenia </i>(1979); the HBO special The Promiseland; motion pictures, e.g. Lion of Africa, Lackawanna Blues, Frankie's House; commercial jingles and television shows such as Late Night with David Letterman, sitcoms Rags to Riches, Redd Foxx Show; plus at sporting events such as the women's 1997 NCAA Basketball Championship." Source - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-Heel_Sneakers">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-Heel_Sneakers</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Robert Higginbotham better known by his stage name, Tommy Tucker (March 5, 1933 – January 22, 1982) was an American blues singer-songwriter and pianist. He is best known for the 1964 hit song, "Hi-Heel Sneakers", that went to #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and peaked at #23 in the UK Singles Chart.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was born Robert Higginbotham, to Leroy and Mary Higginbotham, the fifth of eleven chidren, in Springfield, Ohio. Tucker's follow-up release, "Long Tall Shorty", was less successful. Nevertheless, musicians that played on his albums included Louisiana Red, Willie Dixon and Donny Hathaway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tucker co-wrote a song with Atlantic Records founder executive Ahmet Ertegün, called "My Girl (I Really Love Her So)". Tucker left the music industry in the late 1960s, taking a position as a real estate agent in New Jersey. He also did freelance writing for a local newspaper in East Orange, New Jersey, writing of the plight and ignorance of black males in America, and the gullibility and exploitation of African Americans in general by the white-dominated media.[citation needed] Tucker currently has four albums selling in Europe and over the internet, through the Red Lightnin' record label.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tucker was the father of up-and-coming blues artist Teeny Tucker (real name Regina Westbrook),[citation needed] and was the cousin of Joan Higginbotham, the U.S. female astronaut who launched in November 2006 on the Space Shuttle Discovery. Tucker died in 1982 at the age of 48 at College Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, from inhaling carbon tetrachloride while refinishing the hardwood floors of his home; though his death has been alternatively attributed to food poisoning." Source - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Tucker_(singer)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Tucker_(singer)</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Robert Mathew-Walker</b> says of Elvis's version of <i>Hi-Heel Sneakers</i> in <i>Presley - A Story in Music</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<i>Hi-Heel Sneakers (a hit for Tommy Tucker three years before), Presley's performance, to use the then current jargon 'more rocker than mod'. The song does not stand up to this treatment, and although the treatment is subtle and erotic, its cleverness means Presley has little chance to get going.</i>"</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136958742185794506.post-54068197890717714782012-03-24T20:50:00.000+00:002019-03-03T22:55:57.869+00:00Rip it Up<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<i>Rip It Up</i>" is a song written by <b>Robert Blackwell</b> and <b>John Marascalco</b>. It was first released by <b>Bill Haley and his Comets</b> and <b>Little Richard </b>in 1956. The Little Richard version hit number one on the R&B Best Sellers chart for two weeks and peaked at number seventeen on the pop chart." <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rip_It_Up_(song)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rip_It_Up_(song)</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Born <b>Robert Alexander Blackwell</b> in Seattle, Washington, he led a jazz group in the late 1940s that included pianist <b>Ray Charles</b> and trumpeter <b>Quincy Jones</b>. He moved to Hollywood, California to continue study composition, but he instead took a job at Art Rupe's Specialty Records as an arranger and producer. He worked with<b> Larry Williams, Lloyd Price</b> and <b>Guitar Slim,</b> as well as producing <b>Little Richard'</b>s rise to stardom in 1955.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In addition to producing <b>Little Richard</b>'s breakthrough hit "<i>Tutti Frutti</i>" following hearing him sing the song in the studio, Blackwell also produced Little Richard's other mid-50s hits, co-writing some as them as well, including: "<i>Long Tall Sally</i>"; "<i>Good Golly Miss Molly"; "Ready Teddy</i>"; and "<i>Rip It Up</i>". They all quickly became rock and roll standards, and have subsequently been covered by hundreds of artists including <b>Elvis Presley, The Beatles </b>and <b>Creedence Clearwater Revival</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He also produced <b>Sam Cooke</b>'s hit "<i>You Send Me</i>". Blackwell left Specialty in 1957, taking <b>Sam Cooke</b> with him to <i>Keen Records</i>. He was the West Coast A&R director for <i>Mercury Records</i> from 1959 to 1963, and produced <b>Little Richard'</b>s gospel recordings for that label. He became Richard's manager and continued to work with him into the 1970s.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1981 Blackwell produced some songs for <b>Bob Dylan'</b>s album, <i>Shot of Love</i>, including the title track.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">John Marascalco (born John S. Marascalso, 27 March 1931 is an American songwriter, who is most noted for his collaborations with <b>Robert Blackwell.</b> Marascalco had a hand in some of the big R&B and rock and roll hits of the 1950s and 1960s.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Together with <b>Robert Blackwell</b>, he wrote the songs "<i>Good Golly Miss Molly", "Ready, Teddy"</i>, and "<i>Rip It Up</i>" made famous by <b>Little Richard</b>. Like <b>Norman Petty with Buddy Holly, Robert "Bumps" Blackwell </b>put his name on the songwriting credits although<b> Marascalco</b> was the actual writer of the songs. Also for <b>Little Richard, Marascalco</b> co-wrote "<i>Heeby Jeebies</i>", "<i>She's Got It</i>", and "<i>Groovy Little Suzy</i>". He also co-wrote the song "<i>Goodnight My Love</i>" with <i>George Motola</i> made famous by <i>Jesse Belvin</i> and <i>Paul Anka.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Furthermore he co-wrote songs with <b>Fats Domino</b> ("<i>Be My Guest</i>"), <b>Scott Turner</b> and <b>Harry Nilsson</b>, and helped to finance Nilsson's early recording efforts. <b>Marascalso</b> and <b>Turner</b> collaborated on songs for Nilsson, such as "<i>I Just Ain't Right</i>" and "<i>Building Me Up,</i>" both of which appear on the albums Nilsson '62: The Debut Sessions and Early Tymes. Marascalco and Nilsson wrote songs together, including "Baby Baby" and "Born in Grenada" (Spotlight on Nilsson).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Marascalco co-composed "<i>Send Me Some Lovin</i>'" with <i>Leo Price</i>, and this was recorded by Little Richard. The Crickets for their 1957 debut album, The "<b>Chirping" Crickets, Sam Cooke</b>, and <b>John Lennon </b>also recorded the song. He also penned "<i>Wouldn't You Know</i>", which was recorded by <b>Billy Lee Riley.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Wooden Heart", created by <b>Fred Wise, Ben Weisman, Kay Twomey</b> and adapted and arranged by German bandleader <b>Bert Kaempfert</b>, based on a German folk song by <b>Friedrich Silcher</b>, "<i>Muss i' denn zum Städtele hinaus</i>", originating from the Rems Valley in Württemberg, Southwest Germany. "<i>Wooden Heart</i>" features several lines from the original folk song, written in the German Swabian dialect, spoken in Württemberg. The <b>Elvis Presley</b> version was published by <i>Gladys Music</i>, Elvis Presley's publishing company." Read More at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooden_Heart">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooden_Heart</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Marlene Dietrich </b>recorded a version of the song sometime before 1958, pre-dating Presley, in the original German language, which appears as a B-side on a 1959 version of her single "<i>Lili Marlene"</i>', released by Philips in association with Columbia Records.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Joe Dowell</b> released a cover version in 1961 after Elvis and made it to No 1 in the USA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Elvis Presley version featured two parts in German, the first one is the first four lines of "<i>Muss i' denn zum Städtele hinaus</i>", whereas the second part appears towards the end and is based on a translation of the English version (therefore not appearing in the original German folk lyrics). This part being "<i>Sei mir gut, sei mir gut, sei mir wie du wirklich sollst, wie du wirklich sollst...</i>" This literally means "<i>Be good to me, Be good to me, Be to me how you really should, How you really should..."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Friedrich Silcher- </b>Composer of the German Folk Song<b> - Muss i' denn zum Städtele hinaus</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Silcher was a preeminent composer, poet, editor, music teacher, director, and preserver of German folk song and traditional choral music.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Philipp Friedrich Silcher was born on June 27, 1789, in a schoolhouse in the wine area of Schnait in Remstal, a son of the teacher Karl Johann Silcher.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a teenager in 1803 he began a three-year apprenticeship as "Schulknecht" to Ferdinand Auberlen in Fellbach, who was well known as a good musician and valued arranger of men's choral music. In 1806 he became a teaching assistant in Schorndorf, where he also was a tutor in the house of the Kreishauptmann Freiherr von Berlichingen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1817 Silcher became Musikdirektor at the University of Tübingen."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Read more</b> about <b>Friedrich Silcher</b> here <a href="http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/bio/fritz2.html">http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/bio/fritz2.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Newcastle and International poet <b>Keith Armstrong</b> - <i>The Jingling Geordie</i> often travels to <b>Tübingen</b> for readings and poetic associations. He recently wrote this poem about <b>Friedrich Silcher</b> inspired by his statue</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Keith Armstrong</b> (Visit his website here<a href="http://keithyboyarmstrong.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/wooden-heart-new-song-in-morning-for.html?utm_source=BP_recent"> <b>http://keithyboyarmstrong.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/wooden-heart-new-song-in-morning-for.html?utm_source=BP_recent</b></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WOODEN HEART: A NEW SONG IN THE MORNING FOR PHILIPP FRIEDRICH SILCHER (1789-1860)* - Keith Armstrong</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Through an arch of towering plane trees,I reach to touch the hips</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of an upright Swabian girl,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">her lips</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">fresh with strawberries</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">from a breakfast bowl of kisses</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sprinkled with sugar</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and yesterday’s cream.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The birds of the Platanenallee</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">fly on the wings of melancholy,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the breeze of history</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">scenting their songs.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It dawns on me</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that the rain</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">will lash against our faces</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">as we push our way</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">through the saluting wood.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The day is crumbling already</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">around us</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with the leaves memorably</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">crunching under our futile tread.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Half way along the soaking avenue,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the sun like a song</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sparkles in my eyes</span><br />
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and lights my last hours</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with the beauty of skies.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And suddenly</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">your lump of a statue</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">bursting through the leaves,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a kind of terrible stone</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">trapping your crumbling tunes </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">inside rock.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To take a frail life</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and carve it into something immortal</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is a folly as well as a tribute</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to the hypocrisy of pompous little leaders</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">seeking to employ music</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for their brutal ends.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I say</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and so we sing</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of beautiful glances</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and military funerals</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of dead songbirds</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in the path of bullets.I climb in spiritto reach the flesh of this lovely girl,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for a moment</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am happy and then it is gone</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">behind the clouds of war.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And this is for you Friedrich</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">from my fluttering heart</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in a sea of shaking branches,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">reaching out</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for humanity</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to triumph</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">over the horror</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of the mundane, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a gift of a song for you,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a lovely glass of wine</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">as the armies march again</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">into the blind alley</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of a bleak despair:</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Keith Armstrong</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wooden Heart - The lyrics</span></b><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can't you see<br />I love you?<br />Please don't break my heart in two,<br />That's not hard to do,<br />'Cause I don't have a wooden heart.<br />And if you say goodbye,<br />Then I know that I would cry,<br />Maybe I would die,<br />'Cause I don't have a wooden heart.<br /><br />There's no strings upon this love of mine,<br />It was always you from the start.<br />Treat me nice,<br />Treat me good,<br />Treat me like you really should,<br />'Cause I'm not made of wood,<br />And I don't have a wooden heart.<br /><br />Muss i denn, muss i denn<br />Zum Staedtele hinaus,<br />Staedtele hinaus,<br />Und du, mein schat, bleibst hier?<br /><br />Muss i denn, muss i denn<br />Zum Staedtele hinaus,<br />Staedtele hinaus,<br />Und du, mein schat, bleibst hier?<br />(Got to go, got to go,<br />Got to leave this town,<br />Leave this town<br />And you, my dear, stay here?).<br /><br />There's no strings upon this love of mine,<br />It was always you from the start,<br /><br />Sei mir gut,<br />Sei mir gut,<br />Sei mir wie du wirklich sollst,<br />Wie du wirklich sollst,<br /><br /><br />(Treat me nice,<br />Treat me good,<br />Treat me like you really should,<br />Like you really should), <br />'Cause I don't have a wooden heart.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*Swabian musician Philipp Friedrich Silcher originally composed the tune, based on a folk lyric, used in the pop song ‘Wooden Heart’. His statue by Wilhelm Julius Frick (1884-1964), erected in 1941, is in Tuebingen by the River Neckar.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The original version is here in English</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"German folk song (Swabian / South-West German), first Appeared in print in 1827 Lyrics (in Swabian German / Swabian): Friedrich Silcherstraße (1789-1860) Chorus: Runkfunkchor Leipzig Scenes from "home" (1984): Homecoming of . a young soldier from the Great War. I did a rough translation of the lyric into standard Swabian German (High German) as follows: ----- Do I have to, I have to because away from the town, town away , And you, my darling stay here? If I come, I come, when I get back, get back, I return, my dear, to you. Even if I can simply be with you not all, relationships (gear) I but my joy (to) thee when I come, I come, when I get back, get back, I return, my dear, to you .. How are you crying as you cry, That I walk (go away) must, hike (go away) must As if love would be over now? Are just outside, just outside are many girls, many girls, My darling, I stay true to you. Do not you think if I see one other, immediately would love my past ; just are out there, just out there are many girls, many girls . My darling, I remain loyal to you over the year, throughout the year, when my grape harvest is finished, grape harvest is done, Here I am again (message me here me here again); Am I then, am I still your baby, baby still, So should (it) be the wedding. Over the year, when my (working) time is over, since (then) I belong to my and your (own person / available); Am I then, am I still your baby, baby still, So should (it) be the wedding over the year, when my (working) time is over, since (then) I belong to my and your (own available ); Am I then, am I still your baby, baby still, So should (it) be the wedding -----"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Scenes from "Heimat" (1984): Homecoming of a young soldier from the Great War.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Taken from this choral version of the original song here (You will have to go to youtube to listen as it can;t be embedded)<b> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7vYKkpnhbA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7vYKkpnhbA</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Good Rocking Tonight</b> was originally a jump blues song released in 1947 by its writer, <b>Roy Brown</b> and was covered by many other recording artists. The song includes the memorable refrain, "<i>Well I heard the news, there's good rocking tonight!</i>"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brown had first offered his song to <b>Wynonie Harris</b>, who turned it down. Only after the Brown's record gained traction in New Orleans did Harris decide to cover it. Harris's version was even more energetic than Brown's original version, featuring black gospel style handclapping. This may have contributed to the composition's greater success on the national R&B chart. Brown's original recording hit number 13 of the Billboard R&B chart, but Harris' record became a number one R&B hit and remained on the chart for half a year.Brown's single would re-enter the chart in 1949, peaking at #11...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While Brown missed out on the biggest hit version of his song, its success kicked off his own career, which included two #1 R&B hits. In 1949, he released "<i>Rockin' at Midnight</i>", a sequel to "<i>Good Rockin' Tonight</i>", which might be thought of as "<i>Good Rockin' Tonight part II</i>" because it included updates on the same characters as the original. It reached #2 on the R&B chart, where it remained for a month. (From <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Rocking_Tonight">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Rocking_Tonight</a> )</span><br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nN8tN-xONM0/T2ztqzl76MI/AAAAAAAACLU/Cv6cE9_Vvns/s1600/51bVwj+laYL._SL500_AA300_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nN8tN-xONM0/T2ztqzl76MI/AAAAAAAACLU/Cv6cE9_Vvns/s200/51bVwj+laYL._SL500_AA300_.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Roy Brown</b> was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. As with many R&B singers, he started singing gospel music in the church. His mother was an accomplished singer and church organist. After a move to Los Angeles, California some time in the 1940s, and a brief period spent as a professional boxer in the welterweight category, he won a singing contest in 1945 at the Million Dollar Theater covering "There's No You", originally recorded by Bing Crosby. In 1946, Brown moved to Galveston, Texas, where he sang in Joe Coleman's group performing mostly songs from the Hit Parade, in a club called the Club Granada. His numbers included a song he wrote entitled "Good Rocking Tonight". After being rejected by the Armed Forces because of flat feet, he secured his first major job in a Shreveport, Louisiana club singing mostly pop ballads such as "Stardust" and "Blue Hawaii." The owner of Bill Riley's Palace Park hired him, as Brown told a Blues Unlimited interviewer, because of his appeal as "a Negro who sounds white." It was at the Palace Park that Brown started developing a blues repertoire, learning contemporary R&B tunes such as "Jelly Jelly" (recorded by Billy Eckstine). He returned to New Orleans in 1947, where he performed at The Dew Drop Inn.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1954, "Good Rockin' Tonight" was the second Sun Records release by Elvis Presley, along with "I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine" on the flip side. Presley and his bandmates hewed closer to the original Roy Brown version. READ MORE - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Brown_(blues_musician)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Brown_(blues_musician)</a></span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136958742185794506.post-44758304956181185202012-03-22T15:43:00.000+00:002019-03-03T23:03:38.910+00:00His Latest Flame - Del Shannon<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>(Marie's the name of) His Latest Flame)</i> was written by <b>Doc Pomus</b> and <b>Mort Shuman</b> and originally recorded by <b>Del Shannon</b> on the album "<i>Runaway With Del Shannon</i>" which was recorded June 21st and released in June 1961. More details here - <a href="http://davidneale.eu/elvis/originals/list1.html">http://davidneale.eu/elvis/originals/list1.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Elvis recorded it soon after on June 25th / 26th 1961 and it was released in August 1961 as a single. <b>Del Shannon's</b> version was a possible follow up single to <i>Runaway</i> but they released his own composition <i>Hats Off to Larry</i> instead. The song featured a <b>Bo Diddley</b> beat. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(Marie's_the_Name)_His_Latest_Flame">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(Marie's_the_Name)_His_Latest_Flame</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Big Mama Thornton's</b> biggest hit was <b>Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller</b>'s "<b>Hound Dog</b>," recorded at Radio Recorders in Los Angeles on August 13, 1952. Thornton’s "Hound Dog" was the first record Leiber and Stoller produced themselves. They took over the session because their work had sometimes been misrepresented, and on this one they knew how they wanted the drums to sound; <b>Johnny Otis</b> produced the record and played drums on the recording. This 1953 <i>Peacock Records </i>release (#1612) was number one on the Billboard rhythm and blues charts for seven weeks. Otis received a writing credit on all 6 of the 1953 pressings. However, in 1957 Otis' claim to have co-written the song with Leiber and Stoller was dismissed in the New York Federal Court.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thornton gave this account of how the original was created to <b>Ralph J. Gleason</b>. “They were just a couple of kids, and they had this song written on the back of a paper bag.” She added a few interjections of her own, played around with the rhythm (some of the choruses have thirteen rather than twelve bars), and had the band bark and howl like hound dogs at the end of the song. In fact, she interacts constantly in a call and response fashion during a one minute long guitar "solo" by Pete Lewis. Her vocals include lines such as: "<i>Aw, listen to that ole hound dog howl...OOOOoooow,</i>" "<i>Now wag your tail</i>," and "<i>Aw, get it, get it, get it</i>."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thornton's delivery has flexible phrasing making use of micro-inflections and syncopations. Over a steady backbeat, she starts out singing each line as one long upbeat. When the words change from "<i>You ain't nothin' but a HOUND Dog,"</i> she begins to shift the downbeat around: "<i>You TOLD me you was high-class / but I can SEE through that, You ain't NOTHIN</i>' but a hound dog." Each has a focal accent which is never repeated" <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hound_Dog_(song)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hound_Dog_(song)</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bernie Lowe suspected that "Hound Dog" could potentially have greater appeal, and asked Freddie Bell of Freddie Bell and the Bellboys to rewrite the lyrics to appeal to a broader radio audience. "Snoopin' round my door" was replaced with "cryin' all the time," and "You can wag your tail, but I ain't gonna feed you no more" was replaced by "You ain't never caught a rabbit, and you ain't no friend of mine." This new version of "Hound Dog" was recorded on Lowe's Teen Records in 1955 (TEEN 101 with "Move Me Baby" on the flip side, two of four songs the group did with Lowe that year). The regional popularity of this release, along with the group's showmanship, yielded both a tour, and an engagement in the Las Vegas Sands Hotel's Silver Queen Bar.[14] The Bellboys' Vegas version of the song was a comedy-burlesque with show-stopping va-va-voom choreography. Jerry Leiber, the original lyricist, found these changes irritating, saying that the rewritten words made "no sense". <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hound_Dog_(song)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hound_Dog_(song)</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Elvis Presley's first, apparently not very successful, appearance in Las Vegas, as an "extra added attraction," was in the Venus Room of the new Frontier Hotel from April 23 through May 6, 1956. Freddie Bell and the Bellboys were the hot act in town, and Elvis went to the Sands to take in their show. Elvis not only enjoyed the show, but also loved their reworking of "Hound Dog" and asked Freddie if he had any objections to him recording his own version. By May 16 Elvis had added “Hound Dog” to his live performances. The song was done as comic relief, and Presley based the lyrics, which he sometimes changed, and "gyrations" on what he had seen at the Sands. The song always got a big reaction and became the standard closer.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Drummer D. J. Fontana put it this way: "We took that from a band we saw in Vegas, Freddie Bell and the Bellboys. They were doing the song kinda like that. We went out there every night to watch them. He'd say: 'Let's go watch that band. It's a good band!' That's where he heard 'Hound Dog,' and shortly thereafter he said: 'Let's try that song.'" "Hound Dog" became Elvis and Scotty and Bill's closing number for the first time on May 15, 1956 at Ellis Auditorium in Memphis.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Presley first performed "Hound Dog" to a nationwide television audience on The Milton Berle Show on June 5, 1956, his second appearance with Berle. By this time, Scotty Moore had added a guitar solo, and D.J. Fontana had added a hot drum roll between verses of the song. Presley appeared for the first time on national television sans guitar. Before his death, Berle told an interviewer that he had told Elvis to leave his guitar backstage. "Let 'em see you, son," advised Uncle Miltie</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An upbeat version ended abruptly as Presley threw his arm back, then began to vamp at half tempo, "You ain't-a nuthin' but a hound dog, cuh-crying all the time. You ain't never caught a rabbit..." A final wave signaled the band to stop. Elvis pointed threateningly at the audience, and belted out, "You ain't no friend of mine. Over 40,000,000 people saw the performance and the next day controversy exploded. Berle's network received many letters of protest. The various self appointed guardians of public morality attacked Elvis in the press. TV critics began a merciless campaign against Elvis, making statements that he had a "caterwauling voice and nonsense lyrics" and was an "influence on juvenile delinquency," (despite the fact that when he started the movements, most of the audience laughed at it) and began using the nickname, "Elvis the Pelvis".</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136958742185794506.post-35367794786630954862012-03-20T22:38:00.000+00:002019-03-03T23:06:42.633+00:00So Glad You're Mine - Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lwv70DvMsLE/T2kGCoy374I/AAAAAAAACK0/21kVVqziVU8/s1600/216px-Arthur_Big_Boy_Crudup_(blues_musician).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lwv70DvMsLE/T2kGCoy374I/AAAAAAAACK0/21kVVqziVU8/s1600/216px-Arthur_Big_Boy_Crudup_(blues_musician).jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup (August 24, 1905 – March 28, 1974) was an American Delta blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known outside blues circles for writing songs such as "That's All Right" (1946),"My Baby Left Me" and "So Glad You're Mine", later covered by Elvis Presley and dozens of other artists. Read more on wiki -</span><br />
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"If I Can Dream" is a song written by <b>Walter Earl Brown</b> and notable for its direct quotations of <b>Martin Luther</b> <b>King,</b> <b>Jr.</b> It was recorded by Presley in June 1968, two months after King's assassination. The recording was first released to the public as the finale of Presley's '68 Comeback Special.<br />
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Brown was asked to write a song to replace "I'll Be Home For Christmas" as the grand finale on NBC's "Elvis" (June 20–23, 1968). He wrote "If I Can Dream," and when Presley heard it he proclaimed "I'm never going to sing another song I don't believe in. I'm never going to make another picture I don't believe in."<br />
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Steve Binder, who produced Presley’s 1968 television comeback special, recalled the origin of Presley’s hit “If I Can Dream.” Presley and Binder were looking for a way to end the show. The two had discussed Elvis’ dismay over the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy. Binder was struck by the conversation and ordered <b>W. Earl Brown</b>, a songwriter working on the show, to come up with a song incorporating Presley’s concern to use as the finale to the show. So even though Presley did not write the song, his viewpoint was expressed in its composition."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Can_Dream">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Can_Dream</a><br />
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"<i>I Have a Dream</i>" is a 17-minute public speech by <b>Martin Luther King, Jr</b>. delivered on August 28, 1963, in which he called for racial equality and an end to discrimination. The speech, from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement. Delivered to over 200,000 civil rights supporters, the speech was ranked the top American speech of the 20th century by a 1999 poll of scholars of public address.According to U.S. Representative John Lewis, who also spoke that day as the President of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, "Dr. King had the power, the ability, and the capacity to transform those steps on the Lincoln Memorial into a monumental area that will forever be recognized. By speaking the way he did, he educated, he inspired, he informed not just the people there, but people throughout America and unborn generations."<br />
At the end of the speech, King departed from his prepared text for a partly improvised peroration on the theme of "I have a dream", possibly prompted by Mahalia Jackson's cry, "Tell them about the dream, Martin!" He had first delivered a speech incorporating some of the same sections in Detroit in June 1963, when he marched on Woodward Avenue with Walter Reuther and the Reverend C. L. Franklin, and had rehearsed other parts.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_a_Dream">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_a_Dream</a><br />
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"must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone." (Read the full text here - <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/martin-luther-kings-speech-dream-full-text/story?id=14358231&page=2#.T2evWcUaP30">http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/martin-luther-kings-speech-dream-full-text/story?id=14358231&page=2#.T2evWcUaP30</a><br />
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"Walter Earl Brown was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on Christmas Day, 1928 to Walter Lincoln Brown, a descendant of the english royal family and Hattie Earl. Earl's father, Walter played in a "swing" big band so as a child Earl traveled with his parents.... Earl had a prolific and illustrious career in show business as a singer, composer, vocal arranger, and writer of special material. His work in television, films, revues, musical recordings and nightclubs began at an early age and continued until his passing. During the 40's and 50's Earl is remembered for having been the arranger and singer in the highly acclaimed vocal group "The Skylarks". He wrote a hit song for Elvis Presley in 1968 entitled "If I Can Dream", which has been re-recorded by Barry Manilow and others and which was recently performed on "American Idol" by Celine Dion as a duet, with Elvis resurrected on stage as a holographic image. Earl wrote songs for Dianne Reeves, including the Grammy winning "Who's Minding The Store?", as well as for Frank Sinatra, Mama Cass, Michael Feinstein, and numerous others. For many years he was the vocal director on many hit variety shows including "The Danny Kaye Show", "The Dinah Shore Show", "The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour", "The Osmonds Brothers Show", "The Andy Williams Show", "The Carol Burnett Show" and many other television programs and specials. Most recently Earl was the vocal arranger and writer of special material for "The Palm Springs Follies" for the last 13 seasons of the revue." More here <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=24119368">http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=24119368</a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136958742185794506.post-20047482318998030802012-03-18T23:04:00.000+00:002019-11-21T15:38:57.324+00:00Little Eqypt - The Coasters<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Little Egypt</i> was a <b>Leiber and Stoller</b> composition for the <b>The Coasters</b> and hit for them in 1961. In the song, Little Egypt is depicted as a burlesque dancer/stripper, wearing "<i>nuttin' but a button and a bow</i>" and has a circus barker intro and a dramatic middle eight capped by one of the funniest images in the Coasters' entire oeuvre: "<i>She had a picture of a cowboy tattooed on her spine, sayin' 'Phoenix, Arizona 1949.</i>'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1893, at the Egyptian Theater on the World's Columbian Exposition Midway in Chicago, Raqs dancers performed for the first time in the United States. Sol Bloom presented a show titled "<i>The Algerian Dancers of Morocco</i>" at the attraction called "<i>A Street in Cairo</i>" produced by <b>Gaston Akoun</b>, which included <b>Spyropoulos</b>, though she was neither Egyptian nor Algerian, but Syrian. Spyropoulos was billed as <b>Fatima, </b>but because of her size, she had been called "<i>Little Egypt</i>" as a backstage nickname.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Spyropoulos stole the show, and popularized this form of dancing, which came to be referred to as the "<i>Hoochee-Coochee</i>", or the "<i>shimmy and shake</i>". At that time the word "<i>bellydance</i>" ( correct name <i>Raks Sharki</i>) had not yet entered the American vocabulary, as Spyropoulos was the first in the U.S. to demonstrate the "<i>danse du ventre</i>" (literally "<i>dance of the belly</i>") first seen by the French during <b>Napoleon'</b>s incursions into Egypt at the end of the eighteenth century. Today the word "<i>hootchy-kootchy</i>" generally means an erotic suggestive dance and is often erroneously conflated with the group of dances originating in the Middle East that we now call bellydance. It is said Little Egypt changed Vaudeville into Burlesque with her striptease and many promoters cashed in on her striptease but she never actually stripped, only teased.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Ashea Wabe</b> who became front-page news item in 1896 after she danced at a swank Fifth Avenue bachelor party for <b>Herbert Seeley</b>. A rival dancer falsely reported that Wabe was going to dance nude and the party was raided by the vice squad.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The raid brought some amount of fame to Wabe. She was hired by Broadway impresario <b>Oscar Hammerstein I</b> to appear as herself in a humorous parody of the Seeley dinner. She might have then been forgotten except for a series of photographs taken by <b>Benjamin Falk</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A third by the name of<b> Fatima Djemille</b> (1890-3/14/1921) appeared at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. It is said but not confirmed that this Fatima was the subject of two early films, Edison's Coochee Coochee Dance (1896) and Fatima (1897). performed at Coney Island for many years.</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9136958742185794506.post-62914536560378292762012-03-16T18:19:00.000+00:002019-03-03T23:24:28.445+00:00King Creole<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">King Creole was both the title of Elvis's fourth movie and a song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. The song was recorded by Elvis on 23rd January 1958 and first released on the film soundtrack August 10th 1958.http://www.secondhandsongs.com/performance/93056</span><br />
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