Show Tunes and Dogs Thanks Harold who suggested the Show Tunes theme and many of the tunes // Additional discographical, biographical information was added by Lawrence Azrin. Also, check out the links at your leisure.
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Label is co-founded by John Leventhal and Rosanne Cash (distributed by Thirty Tigers). // "Floyd Cramer" was a pianist, part of Nashville's "A-list team" team of first-call session musicians. He also had a successful solo career, recording over 50 studio albums, and having 21 chart singles from 1958 to 1980.
Joe White released over 60 singles in Jamaica, starting in 1962. / * - FULL title of comp: 'Rock A Shacka Vol. 20 - Sugar & Spice - 14 Studio 1 Rock Steady Sure Shots' / Click on the Link above, to view the original single.
* - All proceeds go to "The Slim Dunlap Fund"; Dunlap was a member of The Replacements / PERSONNEL: – Tommy Stinson: Bass, Vocals / Josh Freese: Drums / Dave Minehan - Guitar / Paul Westerberg m- Vocals, Guitar
This Rodgers- Hammerstein classic from the 1945 play/1956 movie "Carousel" somehow became a soccer fan favorite, first in Liverpool, when "Gerry & the Pacemakers" singer/ leader Gerry Marsden presented Liverpool manager Bill Shankly with a recording of his forthcoming single during a pre-season coach trip in the summer of 1963 (It was officially released in England, Oct 1963). The song quickly became the anthem of Liverpool Football club, and is now sung by its supporters moments before the start of each home game, with this version played over the public address system.
Their high tenor Terry "Buzzy" Johnson re-arranged the song when they were having trouble coming up with a new approach; the solution came to Johnson while he was sleeping, and he quickly called the group to his room at around 4 am to have them rehearse the new version, complete with "doo‑bop sh‑bop" backing vocals and harmonies. Then in the studio, Johnson directed the musicians to play piano, guitar and gentle brush-driven drums in a stretched-out triplet rhythm, with extra sustain on the third of the chord in the guitar and the fifth in the piano. // #158 on the "Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs of All Time", 2003
* - ALSO, memorably performed by Marylin Monroe, in the 1953 film version. Monroe's rendition of the song was ranked the "Twelth best Film Song Of The Century" by AFI (the American Film Institute).
* - All proceeds go to "The Slim Dunlap Fund"; Dunlap was a member of The Replacements / PERSONNEL: – Tommy Stinson: Bass, Vocals / Josh Freese: Drums / Dave Minehan - Guitar / Paul Westerberg m- Vocals, Guitar
* - In an exploration of the evolution of 'Mack the Knife', The Financial Times says: "Bobby Darin took the song by the scruff of the neck and turned it into the swing classic widely known today. Unlike the Brecht-Weill original, which remains in the same key throughout, Darin’s version changes key, chromatically, no fewer than five times, ratcheting up the tension". // Click on the Link above/ left, to view the original singlw, with a picture sleeve.
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5:36
Artist:
Joe Cocker [Billed as 'Joe Cocker with Mad Dogs & Englishmen']
Song:
Cry Me A River [Originally by Julie London, Oct 1955 */ recorded during rehearsals]
* - featured in the 1956 film "The Girl Can't Help It", starring Jayne Mansfield (and in which London appeared) . /Click on the Link above, to view the original single, with a picture sleeve
* - Kurt Weill's wife // # 42 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time"; In 2020, online media magazine Loudwire ranked it as one of the "25 Legendary Rock Albums With No Weak Songs".
Jesse McReynolds died June 23rd, 2023 at age 92. He played mandolin many years with his brother Jim McReynolds, first as "The McReynolds Brothers" {1947 - 1952}, then as "Jim & Jesse" (1952 - 2002}.
* - The FULL, whole-hog billing: ' Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton - Kansas City Bill [aka Johnny Otis] & Orch ' / Click on Link above, left to view the original shellac single // LET's GET this STRAIGHT - Elvis' cover was based more on a 1955 cover by "Freddie Bell and the Bellboys", than on Thornton's original // Mike Leiber recalled: "We saw Big Mama and she knocked me cold. She looked like the biggest, baddest, saltiest chick you would ever see. And she was mean, a 'lady bear,' as they used to call 'em. She must have been 350 pounds, and she had all these scars all over her face" conveying words which could not be sung. "But how to do it without actually saying it? And how to do it telling a story? I couldn't just have a song full of expletives."
