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Kinda Folksy
''Kinda Folksy'' is the debut album by vocal-trio The Springfields. It was directed by Ivor Raymonde. Track listing #"Wimoweh Mambo" (Paul Campbell, Solomon Linda) - 1:55 #" The Black Hills of Dakota" ( Paul Francis Webster, Sammy Fain) - 2:25 #"Row, Row, Row" (James V. Monaco, William Jerome) - 2:10 #"The Green Leaves of Summer" (Dimitri Tiomkin, Paul Francis Webster) - 2:15 #"Silver Dollar" (Clarke Van Ness, Jack Palmer) - 2:08 #" Allentown Jail" (Irving Gordon) - 2:35 #" Lonesome Traveller" (Traditional; arranged by Lee Hays) - 1:40 #" Dear Hearts And Gentle People" (Bob Hilliard, Sammy Fain) - 3:00 #"They Took John Away" (Bobby Sharp) - 2:15 #"Eso Es El Amor" (Pepe Iglesias; English lyrics: Sunny Skylar) - 2:05 #"Two Brothers" (Irving Gordon) - 2:35 #"Tzena, Tzena, Tzena" ( Issachar Miron, Julius Grossman, Mitchell Parish) - 2:14 Personnel ;The Springfields *Dusty Springfield - vocals *Tom Springfield - guitar, vocals * Mike Hurst - guitar, vocals with: *Ivor Raymonde I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Springfields
The Springfields were a British folk-pop vocal trio who had success in the early 1960s in the UK, US and Ireland. They included singer Dusty Springfield and her brother, songwriter Tom Springfield, along with Tim Feild, who was later replaced by Mike Hurst. Career The trio formed in 1960, when Mary "Dusty" O'Brien, who had been a member of all-girl singing trio The Lana Sisters, joined her brother Dion O'Brien and Tim Feild, who had been working as a duo, "The Kensington Squares". "The Springfields - Biography " , ''45cat.com''. Retrieved 20 August 2022 Dion became Tom Springfield, and Mary became Dusty Springfield. Tom Springfield was a songwriter and arranger with a wide knowledge of folk music and the group had strong vocal harmonies as well as Dusty's powerful lead. Occupying a musical sphere compar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Hays
Lee Elhardt Hays (March 14, 1914 – August 26, 1981) was an American folksinger and songwriter, best known for singing bass with the Weavers. Throughout his life, he was concerned with overcoming racism, inequality, and violence in society. He wrote or cowrote "Wasn't That a Time?", "If I Had a Hammer", and " Kisses Sweeter than Wine", which became Weavers' staples. He also familiarized audiences with songs of the 1930s labor movement, such as "We Shall Not Be Moved". Childhood Hays came naturally by his interest in folk music since his uncle was the eminent Missouri and Arkansas folklorist Vance Randolph, author of, among other works, the bestselling ''Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales'' and ''Who Blewed Up the Church House?''. Hays' social conscience was ignited when at age five he witnessed public lynchings of African-Americans. He was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, the youngest of the four children of William Benjamin Hays, a Methodist minister, and Ell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Springfields Albums
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1962 Debut Albums
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the '' Jian'an era of the Chinese Han Dynasty. * Emperor Xian of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Hurst (producer)
Mike Hurst (born Michael John Longhurst Pickworth, 19 September 1942) is an English musician and record producer. Biography A singer, songwriter and guitarist from the age of 13, Mike Hurst was encouraged by rock singer Eddie Cochran after auditioning for Jack Good's television show '' Oh Boy!'' but in 1960, after failing to secure a recording contract, Hurst moved away from music and began to work in insurance. Later, though, after his mother answered an advertisement in ''The Stage'', on his behalf, for a singer for a pop/folk group, Hurst won an audition. He joined Dusty and Tom Springfield in The Springfields in February 1962. After entering the UK Singles Chart with "Breakaway", they scored a hit single in the United States with "Silver Threads and Golden Needles", becoming the first UK vocal group to make the US Top 20. UK chart success continued in 1963 with " Island of Dreams" and " Say I Won't Be There". They were voted the top British group by readers of the ''NME'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Springfield
Tom Springfield (born Dionysius Patrick O'Brien, 2 July 1934 – 27 July 2022) was an English musician, songwriter and record producer who was prominent in the 1960s folk and pop music scene. He was the older brother of singer Dusty Springfield, with whom he performed in the Springfields. He wrote several hit songs for the Springfields (" Island of Dreams", " Say I Won't Be There") and later for the Seekers ("I'll Never Find Another You", "A World of Our Own", " The Carnival Is Over", "Georgy Girl"), whose records he also produced. Early life Known in early life as Dion O'Brien, he was born in Hampstead, London, on 2 July 1934, the first child of Gerard O'Brien and his wife Kay ( Ryle), originally from County Kerry. He attended the Royal Grammar School in High Wycombe from 1944 to 1950. National Service Springfield (O'Brien) joined the army for his National Service (1952–54), and was assigned to the Joint Services School for Linguists in Coulsdon, Surrey. The school was kno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dusty Springfield
Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999), known professionally as Dusty Springfield, was an English singer. With her distinctive mezzo-soprano sound, she was a popular singer of blue-eyed soul, Pop music, pop and dramatic Ballad, ballads, with chanson, French chanson, Country music, country, and Jazz music, jazz also in her repertoire. During her 1960s peak, she ranked among the most successful British female performers on both sides of the Atlantic. Her image – marked by a peroxide blonde bouffant/Beehive (hairstyle), beehive hairstyle, heavy makeup (thick black eyeliner and eye shadow) and evening gowns, as well as stylised, gestural performances – made her an icon of the Swinging Sixties. Born in West Hampstead in London into a family that enjoyed music, Springfield learned to sing at home. In 1958, she joined her first professional group, The Lana Sisters. Two years later, with her brother Tom Springfield and Reshad Feild, Tim Feild ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitchell Parish
Mitchell Parish (born Michael Hyman Pashelinsky; July 10, 1900 – March 31, 1993) was an American lyricist, notably as a writer of songs for stage and screen. Biography Parish was born to a Jewish family in Lithuania, Russian Empire in July 1900 His family emigrated to the United States, arriving on February 3, 1901, aboard the '' SS Dresden'' when he was less than a year old. They settled first in Louisiana where his paternal grandmother had relatives, but later moved to New York City, where he grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and received his education in the public schools. He attended Columbia University and N.Y.U. and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He eventually abandoned the notion of practicing law to become a songwriter. He served his apprenticeship as a writer of special material for vaudeville acts, and later established himself as a writer of songs for stage, screen and numerous musical revues. By the late 1920s, Parish was a well-regarded Tin Pan Alley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Issachar Miron
Issachar Miron ( he, יששכר מירון; July 5, 1920 – January 29, 2015) was an Israeli and American composer, best known for the song "Tzena, Tzena, Tzena". He was also a poet, writer, educator, filmmaker and stage producer. Biography Miron was born Stefan Michrowski in Kutno, Interwar Poland to a family of Shlomo Michrowski (department store owner, rabbi, and violinist) and Haya Helen Elbaum-Michrowski (a proficient amateur pianist). His mother died in 1927 at the age of 36 and his father perished in The Holocaust in the Chelmno Ghetto. Miron studied composition and conduction in Warsaw Conservatory and moved to Erez Israel in 1939, thus narrowly escaping the fate of his relatives. He served in the Jewish Brigade of the British Army (under the name of Issachar Michrowsky) and at that time composed the music to the song "Tzena, Tzena, Tzena" on the words of , a song later sung in 39 languages and recorded by numerous artists. At the deposition for the copyright violatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tzena, Tzena, Tzena
"Tzena, Tzena, Tzena" (), sometimes "Tzena, Tzena", is a song, written in 1941 in Hebrew. Its music is by Issachar Miron (a.k.a. Stefan Michrovsky), a Polish emigrant in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel), and the lyrics are by . History Miron, born in 1919, left Poland at the age of 19 in the late 1930s, thus avoiding the Holocaust. In 1941, while serving in the Jewish Brigade of the British forces, he composed the melody for lyrics written by Chagiz. The song became popular in Palestine and was played on the Kol Yisrael radio service. Julius Grossman, who did not know who composed the song, wrote the so-called third part of "Tzena" circa November 1946. After hearing Pete Seeger performing ''Tzena'', with The Weavers as backing, Gordon Jenkins made an arrangement of the song for the Weavers with English lyrics. The Jenkins/Weavers version, released by Decca Records under catalog number 27077, was one side of a two-sided hit, reaching No. 2 on the Bill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Hilliard
Bob Hilliard (born Hilliard Goldsmith; January 28, 1918 – February 1, 1971) was an American lyricist. He wrote the words for the songs: " Alice in Wonderland", "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning", " Any Day Now", "Dear Hearts and Gentle People", "Our Day Will Come", " My Little Corner of the World", " Tower of Strength" and " Seven Little Girls (Sitting in the Back Seat)". Career After finishing high school, Hilliard began working as a lyricist in Tin Pan Alley. At the age of 28 he had his first success with "The Coffee Song". During his Broadway years, Hilliard wrote successful scores for both '' Angel in the Wings'' (1947) and ''Hazel Flagg'' (1953). He also worked as lyricist of the film score for '' Alice in Wonderland'' (1951). This included providing the words to the theme song, as well as "I'm Late" and the unused Cheshire Cat song "I'm Odd." The 1954 comedy film ''Living It Up'' included his songs "Money Burns a Hole in My Pocket" and "That's What I Like." Hilli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dear Hearts And Gentle People
"Dear Hearts and Gentle People" is a popular song published in 1949 with music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Bob Hilliard. The song refers to the singer's hometown, and different versions allude to a range of U.S. states. Background The songwriters were inspired to write the song based on a scrap of paper with the words "Dear friends and gentle hearts" written on it that was found on the body of Stephen Foster when he was discovered dying in a New York hotel room in January 1864. 1949 recordings Popular versions were recorded in 1949 by: *The Dinah Shore recording was recorded on September 9, 1949, and released by Columbia Records (as catalog number 38605). This version alludes to Tennessee, Shore's home state. The recording first appeared on the ''Billboard'' charts on November 19, 1949, lasting 17 weeks and peaking at position number two. *The Gordon MacRae recording was recorded on October 21, 1949, and released by Capitol Records (as catalog number 777). It peaked at num ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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