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Post by The Cats on Dec 28, 2022 16:59:09 GMT -5
With A Little Help From My Friends
JOE COCKER - 1969 Woodstock
English singer Joe Cocker's version of "With a Little Help from My Friends" was a radical re-arrangement of the original, inspired by Cocker's influences of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles.[20] Recorded by Denny Cordell and Tony Visconti, it used a slower tempo than the original and deployed different chords in the middle eight while adding a lengthy instrumental introduction.
Cocker performed the song at Woodstock in 1969 and that performance was included in the documentary film, Woodstock. Two weeks later he performed it at the Isle of Wight Festival 1969. This version gained even more fame when it was used as the opening theme song for the television series The Wonder Years. In 2002 he would perform the song at the Party at the Palace held at Buckingham Palace Garden in commemoration of the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. In 2014, a BBC poll saw it voted the seventh best cover song ever. In 2001, Cocker's version of the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
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Post by The Cats on Dec 28, 2022 18:57:07 GMT -5
...another great song by the Righteous Brothers... Unchained Melody
"Unchained Melody" is a 1955 song with music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret. North wrote the music as a theme for the prison film Unchained (1955), hence the song title. Todd Duncan sang the vocals for the film soundtrack, and it has since become a standard and one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, most notably by the Righteous Brothers in 1965. According to the song's publishing administrator, over 1,500 recordings of "Unchained Melody" have been made by more than 670 artists, in multiple languages
Of the hundreds of recordings made, the Righteous Brothers' version, with a solo by Bobby Hatfield, became the jukebox standard after its release. According to his singing partner Bill Medley, they had agreed to do one solo piece each per album. Both wanted to sing "Unchained Melody" for their fourth album, but Hatfield won the coin toss. Hatfield changed the melody in the final verse and many subsequent covers of the song are based on his version. The Righteous Brothers recording achieved a second round of great popularity when featured in the film Ghost in 1990. In 2004, it was number 27 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema.
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Post by The Cats on Jan 13, 2023 20:31:34 GMT -5
The Way We Were is a 1973 American romantic drama film starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford. Arthur Laurents wrote both the novel and screenplay based on his college days at Cornell University. The soundtrack album became a gold record and hit the Top 20 on the Billboard 200, while the title song became a gold single, topping the Billboard Hot 100 and selling more than two million copies. Billboard named "The Way We Were" as the number 1 pop hit of 1974. In 1998, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and finished at number eight on the American Film Institute's 100 Years...
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Post by The Cats on Jan 15, 2023 22:36:08 GMT -5
Night Moves by Bob Seger
"Night Moves" is a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Seger. It was the lead single from his ninth studio album of the same name. Seger wrote the song as a coming-of-age tale about adolescent love and adult memory of it. It was based on Seger's own teenage love affair he experienced in the early 1960s. Released as a single in December 1976, it reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100.
While Seger actually owned a 1962 Chevy, he felt "'60" flowed better in the song, Seger uses the word "points" in verse one to reference his pointed boots and his love interest's breasts. An intense summertime teenaged love affair is described, knowingly more sexual than romantic, with short instrumental lines breaking the evocative imagery, sometimes in mid-sentence. Piano, backing vocals, electric guitar and organ are added as the song's emotional nostalgia builds momentum. Then suddenly it stops, as the narrative flashes forward to some period in the future, where he hums a song from 1962.
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Post by The Cats on Jan 23, 2023 21:15:26 GMT -5
These Eyes - The Guess Who
1969
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Post by The Cats on Jan 23, 2023 21:24:40 GMT -5
Carolina In My Mind by James Taylor
"Carolina in My Mind" is a song written and performed by singer-songwriter James Taylor, which first appeared on his 1968 self-titled debut album. Taylor wrote it while overseas recording for the Beatles' label Apple Records, and the song's themes reflect his homesickness at the time. Released as a single in 1969, the song earned critical praise but not commercial success. It was re-recorded for Taylor's 1976 Greatest Hits album in the version that is most familiar to listeners. It has been a staple of Taylor's concert performances over the decades of his career.
Strongly tied to a sense of geographic place, "Carolina in My Mind" has been called an unofficial state anthem for North Carolina. Taylor started writing the song at producer Peter Asher's London flat on Marylebone High Street, resumed work on it while on holiday on the Mediterranean island of Formentera, and then completed it while stranded on the nearby island of Ibiza with Karin, a Swedish girl he had just met. The song reflects Taylor's homesickness at the time, as he was missing his family, his dog and his state.
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Post by The Cats on Feb 3, 2023 15:33:35 GMT -5
Roy Orbison - You Got It (Live 1988)
The song was released posthumously on January 3, 1989, after Orbison's death from a heart attack on December 6, 1988. "You Got It" was written by Orbison and his Traveling Wilburys bandmates Jeff Lynne and Tom Petty. Their first songwriting collaboration, it was written during the Christmas season of 1987 and recorded in Mike Campbell's garage in Los Angeles, California, in April 1988. Lynne, Petty and Phil Jones provided other instrumentation and background vocals.
Orbison gave his only public rendition of the hit at the Diamond Awards Festival in Antwerp, Belgium, on November 19, 1988, just 17 days before his death and before the single was released. This is that performance.
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Post by The Cats on Feb 10, 2023 19:14:06 GMT -5
"Turn Around, Look at Me" by The Vogues
is a song written by Jerry Capehart and Glen Campbell, though Campbell is not officially credited. In 1961, Glen Campbell released his version as a single. This was his first song to chart in the United States, hitting #62 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 1968, The Vogues released their remake as a single. This version was by far the most successful, reaching #7 on the Hot 100 and #3 on the Adult Contemporary chart.
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Post by The Cats on Feb 14, 2023 21:30:51 GMT -5
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - by Bachman Turner Overdrive
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Post by The Cats on Feb 16, 2023 21:39:57 GMT -5
Elvis Presley - In The Ghetto
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