* - but on the inner label of the record, billed as "The Nick Gravenites / John Cipollina Band // ** - but it's best-known by The Lovin' Spoonful, Jim Kweskin / Click on Link above/ left, to view the original album

His only album to chart nationally // Click on Link above/ left, to view the original album

He re-recorded this for his 1979 album, 'Wild Mountain Flowers' (Flying Fish)

Hit in 1967 for both Johnny Cash/ June Carter Cash (Feb 1967) , and Nancy Sinatra/ Lee Hazlewood (Aug 1967: B-side of ' You Only Live Twice')

* - Oddly, although this had become a Folk standard and was recorded by a number of other artists, starting with Judy Henske in Nov 1963 {also by Carolyn Hester, Richie Havens}, Wheeler did not release his version until over 3 years later, in 1967

* - Roger Miller, Justin Tubb also recorded this song before Kristofferson did.

* - they would divorce the following year

'Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs' #148 / * - It was also recorded by Kenny Rogers and The First Edition, also Gordon Lightfoot before Joplin's version was released in Jan 1971 - it was Joplin's only solo Top-40 single. // Click on Link above/ left, to view the original album

Kristofferson originally recorded this in July 1971, on his second album 'The Silver Tongued Devil and I'

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REAL name: Derek Rogers / Described as "Roy Orbison With a head wound" :)) . From Montreal, Québec, Canada. // Click on the Link above, left, to view the CD.

* - from Feb 1968 (single); also on their only album 'Safe at Home' (March 1968)

Comparisons to John Prine Are In Order. / Click the Link above, left,to view the CD.

* - Their 3rd album, May 2002 {4AD, Elektra}

They are a four piece Americana group from New Orleans, led by songwriter Luke Spurr Al

From Memphis

* - This was Cline's real name

* - however, the biggest hit version of this classic was by Joe Hinton, a #1 R&B hit in the fall of 1964

Click on the Link above, left to view the original 10" shellac record.

Click on the Link above, left, to view the album it was first on; notice how the entire group is in silhoutte, so that combined with their "shockingly" (for that time) long hair, some buyers "might" believe that they were (Cough, cough ...) British. That's what passed for "marketing" back then ... / Need evidence? - Click on the Link above, left, to view the album cover.

* - Billed as 'The Escorts'; this was his 'signature' song, he re-recorded it a number of times / Click on the Link above, left to view the original single

Click on the Link above, left to view the original 10" shellac record.

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From Grand Rapids, MI, 1961 to 1966 // * - Full CD title: 'The "Soundsations " "Shout" Including The "Ramrods" Complete Recordings'

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* - Oddly, the actual writer, Warren Zevon, didn't record this song till 4 years later, on his second (eponymous) album in April 1976

* -THIS starts out as a re-write of "Candy Man" by Roy Orbison (July 1961), then really goes off the rails .... / It wasn't released, it escaped! / Click on Link above/ left, to view the original single.

* - ABOUT the album title, from Wiki: "The word 'sacrilicious' is a portmanteau of "sacrilegious" and "delicious". It was popularized in "Homer Loves Flanders", a 1994 episode of the television series 'The Simpsons'."

* - In 1954, he saw the Joan Crawford film "Johnny Guitar", and adopted that as his new stage name. / Watson died May 17th, 1996, age 61 on stage in Japan. // Click on Link above/ left, to view the original single.