The Crazy World of Arthur Brown was the name of an album (produced by The Who's Pete Townshend and featuring covers of songs by James Brown and Screamin' Jay Hawkins) and the group, led by outlandish English singer Arthur Brown, that recorded the album and had one charted hit in the U.S., "Fire," which peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1968; Brown was a psychedelic rocker whose performances, which sometimes involved fire and nudity, had a significant influence on the music and acts of later shock-rockers Alice Cooper and Kiss.
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That's a hard one. Fire-Ohio Players...too new. Fire and Rain-James Taylor..too new. Then I thought of the man in black, Johnny Cash classic "Ring Of Fire"...perfect.
As far as Patsy Cline, Jim Croce, Buddy Holly, Rick Nelson, Otis Redding, Ritchie Valens, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Bar-Kays, Big Bopper, and almost Little Richard...teach your children well...Rock 'n Roll and small aircraft don't mix.
As far as Patsy Cline, Jim Croce, Buddy Holly, Rick Nelson, Otis Redding, Ritchie Valens, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Bar-Kays, Big Bopper, and almost Little Richard...teach your children well...Rock 'n Roll and small aircraft don't mix.
The Cowsills were a family pop group -- Barbara Cowsill, her five sons and one daughter -- from Rhode Island who had two singles that each peaked for two weeks at #2, "The Rain, The Park & Other Things" in 1967, and "Hair" (from the rock musical of the same name) in 1969; the group was the inspiration for the TV musical series The Partridge Family.
“Wish It Would Rain” is a 1968 album by The Temptations on the Motown label. Included on the album are the hit singles "I Wish It Would Rain" and "I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You)", both featuring David Ruffin on lead and co-written by Motown writer Roger Penzabene, who committed suicide on New Years Eve 1967 because of the breakup described in these two songs.AlexBrowne said:The Cowsills were a family pop group -- Barbara Cowsill, her five sons and one daughter -- from Rhode Island who had two singles that each peaked for two weeks at #2, "The Rain, The Park & Other Things" in 1967, and "Hair" (from the rock musical of the same name) in 1969; the group was the inspiration for the TV musical series The Partridge Family.
Never let it be said that Dionne Warwick was not among the best female vocalists of the rock era -- just listen to a sampling of her great hits about love, including "You'll Never Get To Heaven (If You Break My Heart)" from 1964 and "I'll Never Fall In Love Again" from 1969, both produced by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, and "I'll Never Love This Way Again" from 1979, produced by Barry Manilow.
Petula Clark, CBE, is an English singer, actress and composer best known for her upbeat popular international hits of the 1960s, especially "Downtown". With more than 70 million records sold worldwide, she is the most successful British female solo recording artist and is cited as such in the Guinness Book of World Records. "Downtown" went to #1 on the US charts in January 1965 and sold three million copies in America. It was the first of fifteen consecutive Top 40 hits Clark scored in the US, including "I Know a Place," "My Love," "A Sign of the Times," "I Couldn't Live Without Your Love," "This Is My Song" and "Don't Sleep in the Subway."amfmsw said:Reverb was the Dan Ingram "word of the day" when the Universals recorded "Again". A much sought after do ------ collector's 45.
As well as a genius and creative pioneer in the early cinema, Charles Chaplin was a prolific writer and composer. Some of you may be surprised to grab your Warner Brothers 45 of Pet Clark's "This Is My Song" and see the composer credit in parantheses (C.Chaplin), THAT very C Chaplin.
"Smile" was the theme music written by Charlie Chaplin in 1936 for his final silent picture, Modern Times, and after John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons turned it into a standard by adding lyrics in 1954, it became a hit for Nat "King" Cole; other artists who charted with it include Sunny Gale (1954), David Whitfield (1954), Tony Bennett (1959), Timi Yuro (1961), Ferrante & Teicher (1962, an instrumental version), and Betty Everett & Jerry Butler (1964).
The creator of "Hot Rod Lincoln" is Charlie Ryan. He fashioned both the car and the song.AlexBrowne said:"Smile" was the theme music written by Charlie Chaplin in 1936 for his final silent picture, Modern Times, and after John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons turned it into a standard by adding lyrics in 1954, it became a hit for Nat "King" Cole; other artists who charted with it include Sunny Gale (1954), David Whitfield (1954), Tony Bennett (1959), Timi Yuro (1961), Ferrante & Teicher (1962, an instrumental version), and Betty Everett & Jerry Butler (1964).
Charlie Ryan was a musician, songwriter and a car guy. In the late 1940s, he purchased a used 1941 Lincoln Zephyr four-door sedan. After a couple of years, he decided to make a hot rod out of it. He removed the Zephyr body, cut two feet off the frame to shorten the wheelbase and dropped a 1930 Ford Model A coupe body on it. Charlie installed a '48 V-12 engine in it along with the 3 speed + overdrive '48 transmission. The car had a lot of Lincoln touches on it, including cut-down Zephyr bumpers, a Lincoln emblem on the radiator, and the Lincoln greyhound radiator ornament. The interior had a narrowed '41 Zephyr dashboard. While he was working on the car, Charlie was thinking about the song. By the early 1950s, he had the lyrics worked out and began performing it. Charlie Ryan recorded "Hot Rod Lincoln" in 1955; it was released as a single by Souvenir Records in 1957. It became a major hit in many regions of the United States. "Hot Rod Lincoln" has been performed by many artists - Johnny Bond had a regional hit with the song in 1959; Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen covered it in 1972, going to #9 on Billboard charts.
Today, at 83 years old, Charlie Ryan is semi-retired - but he still occasionally performs the song. Charlie and Ruthie (married 62 years) spend their summers at their Spokane, Washington home - their winters relaxing in Arizona. And, after all these years, they still have the car.
In 1964, the fine R&B singer Shirley Ellis caught fire with a novelty song, "The Name Game," based on a rhyming game she played as a child; she co-wrote it with her husband and manager Lincoln Chase, and one verse of it used his name:
Lincoln, Lincoln, bo-binkin,
Banana-fana fo-finkin,
Fee-fi-mo-minkin,
Lincoln!
Also rhymed in the song were Shirley, Arnold, Tony, Billy, Marsha, and (a little trick with) Nick -- but names like Chuck and Mitch were confined to taunting on schoolyard playgrounds!
Lincoln, Lincoln, bo-binkin,
Banana-fana fo-finkin,
Fee-fi-mo-minkin,
Lincoln!
Also rhymed in the song were Shirley, Arnold, Tony, Billy, Marsha, and (a little trick with) Nick -- but names like Chuck and Mitch were confined to taunting on schoolyard playgrounds!
Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels was a white soul group from Detroit with several hit songs on the charts in the mid-60's. The group's first recording, “I Need Help”, went nowhere but its second effort went all the way to the top ten. “Jenny Take A Ride!” was actually a medley of “C. C. Rider”, a song that had been done by Chuck Willis in the 50's, and “Jenny, Jenny”, which had been a top ten 50’s song for Little Richard. Mitch Ryder added his own flair to the song and it was a big hit.AlexBrowne said:In 1964, the fine R&B singer Shirley Ellis caught fire with a novelty song, "The Name Game," based on a rhyming game she played as a child; she co-wrote it with her husband and manager Lincoln Chase, and one verse of it used his name:
Lincoln, Lincoln, bo-binkin,
Banana-fana fo-finkin,
Fee-fi-mo-minkin,
Lincoln!
Also rhymed in the song were Shirley, Arnold, Tony, Billy, Marsha, and (a little trick with) Nick -- but names like Chuck and Mitch were confined to taunting on schoolyard playgrounds!
The late '50s and early '60s gave us some unorthodox instrumental hits including "Wheels" by The String-A-Longs, which peaked at #3 in early 1961; The String-A-Longs, who had two other minor instrumental hits later that year ("Brass Buttons" and "Should I"), were a quintet with an unusual makeup: four guitar players and one drummer.
The Paris Sisters (Priscilla, Sherell & Albeth) were an American girl group from San Francisco. They are best remembered for two U.S. Top 40 singles - "I Love How You Love Me" (1961, #5) and "He Knows I Love Him Too Much" (1962, #34), both produced by Phil SpectorAlexBrowne said:The late '50s and early '60s gave us some unorthodox instrumental hits including "Wheels" by The String-A-Longs, which peaked at #3 in early 1961; The String-A-Longs, who had two other minor instrumental hits later that year ("Brass Buttons" and "Should I"), were a quintet with an unusual makeup: four guitar players and one drummer.
Scott McKenzie (born Philip Blondheim) was not from California -- he grew up in Virginia -- but his 1967 hit "San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)" came to represent the hippie culture which flourished in the Haight-Ashbury section of the city; McKenzie had sung with John Phillips in The Journeymen, and although he decided not to join his friend when The Mamas & The Papas were formed, John Phillips played guitar and Michelle Phillips played the bells on "San Francisco" -- and McKenzie eventually did become a "Papa" when he joined a new version of The Mamas & The Papas in the 1980s!
Anthony Dominick Benedetto was born in Queens, New York in 1926. He attended New York's High School of Industrial Art where he studied painting and music. He then set his sights on a professional singing career, performing as a singing waiter in several Queens Italian restaurants. Benedetto simplified his stage name to Tony Bennett, signed with Columbia Records in 1950 and began his long and successful career as a singer and entertainer. His first big hit was "Because of You", a ballad which reached #1 on the pop charts in 1951, then #1 hits with "Cold, Cold Heart" (1951), and "Rags to Riches" (1953). In 1962, Bennett released the song "I Left My Heart in San Francisco." Although this only reached #19 on the Billboard Hot 100, it spent close to a year on various other charts, won Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Best Male Solo Vocal Performance, and over the years would become known as his signature song. In 2001, it was ranked 23rd on an RIAA/NEA list of the most historically significant Songs of the 20th Century.AlexBrowne said:Scott McKenzie (born Philip Blondheim) was not from California -- he grew up in Virginia -- but his 1967 hit "San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)" came to represent the hippie culture which flourished in the Haight-Ashbury section of the city; McKenzie had sung with John Phillips in The Journeymen, and although he decided not to join his friend when The Mamas & The Papas were formed, John Phillips played guitar and Michelle Phillips played the bells on "San Francisco" -- and McKenzie eventually did become a "Papa" when he joined a new version of The Mamas & The Papas in the 1980s!
The Dave Clark Five were formed in 1960 in Tottenham, England, and were the second group from the UK, behind The Beatles, to chart with a song during the British Invasion in 1964, "Glad All Over," which peaked at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100; they had five Top 5 singles, all in 1964 and 1965: "Over And Over" (their only #1), "Because," "Bits And Pieces," "Catch Us If You Can" (from their movie Having A Wild Weekend), and "Can't You See That She's Mine."
Although usually grouped with country music singers, Miller's unique style defies easy classification. His string of pop hits in the 1960s were mostly humorous novelty songs with whimsical lyrics, coupled with scat singing or vocalese riffs filled with nonsense syllables, such as, ”Dang Me”, “Chug-a-lug”, “Do-Wacka-Do” , “Kansas City Star”, and “England Swings”. Others were sincere ballads, none more so than his signature song, "King of the Road", a major 1965 hit.AlexBrowne said:The Dave Clark Five were formed in 1960 in Tottenham, England, and were the second group from the UK, behind The Beatles, to chart with a song during the British Invasion in 1964, "Glad All Over," which peaked at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100; they had five Top 5 singles, all in 1964 and 1965: "Over And Over" (their only #1), "Because," "Bits And Pieces," "Catch Us If You Can" (from their movie Having A Wild Weekend), and "Can't You See That She's Mine."
The official song of Kansas City is "Kansas City," one of the earliest collaborations between Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, neither of whom had been to the city when they wrote the song: Little Willie Littlefield recorded it first -- a blues version under the title "K.C. Lovin'" -- in 1952, but it didn't become a classic until Wilbert Harrison's 1959 single of it became a million-seller, #1 on both the pop and R&B charts; The Beatles, Hank Ballard And The Midnighters, Little Richard, and Trini Lopez are among the many ohers who have recorded it, and it's played in Kauffman Stadium after every Kansas City Royals game -- The Beatles' version after a Royals' victory and Harrison's version after a (much more common) Royals' loss!
Little Willie John, best known for his 1956 hit “Fever”, had a string of R&B hits with King Records before and after that, including “All Around The World” (1955), “I’m Shakin”, “Suffering with the Blues”, “Need Your Love So Bad”, “Sleep” (1960), and “Talk To Me” – recorded in 1958, peaking at #5 R&B and #20 Pop. In all, John made the Billboard Top 100 a total of 14 times.AlexBrowne said:The official song of Kansas City is "Kansas City," one of the earliest collaborations between Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, neither of whom had been to the city when they wrote the song: Little Willie Littlefield recorded it first -- a blues version under the title "K.C. Lovin'" -- in 1952, but it didn't become a classic until Wilbert Harrison's 1959 single of it became a million-seller, #1 on both the pop and R&B charts; The Beatles, Hank Ballard And The Midnighters, Little Richard, and Trini Lopez are among the many ohers who have recorded it, and it's played in Kauffman Stadium after every Kansas City Royals game -- The Beatles' version after a Royals' victory and Harrison's version after a (much more common) Royals' loss!
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