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Live At Montezuma Hall
''Live at Montezuma Hall'' is the first live album from singer-songwriter Mickey Newbury, recorded at Montezuma Hall at San Diego State University in 1973. Featuring Newbury performing solo with an acoustic guitar, the album is notable for touching renditions of many of Newbury's excellent songs and for his personable and humored performance. The set was not edited for the album. ''Live at Montezuma Hall'' was collected for CD issue on the eight-disc ''Mickey Newbury Collection'' from Mountain Retreat, Newbury's own label in the mid-1990s, along with nine other Newbury albums from 1969–1981. Track listing All tracks composed by Mickey Newbury; except where indicated # "How I Love Them Old Songs" - 2:11 # "Heaven Help the Child" - 5:27 # "Earthquake" - 4:11 # "Cortelia Clark" - 5:47 # "I Came to Hear the Music" - 5:07 # " San Francisco Mabel Joy" - 5:52 # "Bugger Red Blues (The Truck Song)" - 6:21 # "How Many Times (Must the Piper Be Paid for His Song)" - 4:41 # " An American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mickey Newbury
Milton Sims "Mickey" Newbury Jr. (May 19, 1940 – September 29, 2002) was an American songwriter, recording artist, and a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Early life and career Newbury was born in Houston, Texas, on May 19, 1940, to Mamie Ellen (née Taylor) and Milton Newbury. As a teenager, Newbury sang tenor in a moderately successful vocal group called The Embers. The group opened for several famous performers, such as Sam Cooke and Johnny Cash. Although Newbury tried to make a living from his music by singing in clubs, he put his musical career on hold at age 19 when he joined the Air Force. After four years in the military, he again set his sights on making a living as a songwriter. Before long, he moved to Nashville and signed with the prestigious publishing company Acuff-Rose Music. Newbury started out releasing singles of his own, with his first release being "Who's Gonna Cry (When I'm Gone)" in 1964, as well writing songs for other artists. In 1966, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Diego State University
San Diego State University (SDSU) is a public research university in San Diego, California. Founded in 1897 as San Diego Normal School, it is the third-oldest university and southernmost in the 23-member California State University (CSU) system. In Fall 2022, SDSU hit an all time high enrollment record student body of nearly 37,000 and an alumni base of more than 300,000. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". In the 2015–16 fiscal year, the university obtained $130 million in public and private funding—a total of 707 awards—up from $120.6 million the previous fiscal year. As reported by the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index released by the Academic Analytics organization of Stony Brook, New York, SDSU had the highest research output of any small research university in the United States in 2006 and 2007. SDSU sponsors the second-highest number of Fulbright Scholars in the State of California, just behind UC Berkeley. Since 2005, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Country Music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, old-time, and American folk music forms including Appalachian, Cajun, Creole, and the cowboy Western music styles of Hawaiian, New Mexico, Red Dirt, Tejano, and Texas country. Country music often consists of ballads and honky-tonk dance tunes with generally simple form, folk lyrics, and harmonies often accompanied by string instruments such as electric and acoustic guitars, steel guitars (such as pedal steels and dobros), banjos, and fiddles as well as harmonicas. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history. The term ''country music'' gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to '' hillbilly music'', with "country music" being used today to describe many styles and subgenres. It came to encomp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elektra Records
Elektra Records (or Elektra Entertainment) is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group, founded in 1950 by Jac Holzman and Paul Rickolt. It played an important role in the development of contemporary folk and rock music between the 1950s and 1970s. In 2004, it was consolidated into WMG's Atlantic Records Group. After five years of dormancy, the label was revived as an imprint of Atlantic in 2009. In October 2018, Elektra was detached from the Atlantic Records umbrella and reorganized into Elektra Music Group, once again operating as an independently managed frontline label of Warner Music. In June 2022, Elektra Music Group was merged with 300 Entertainment to create the umbrella label 300 Elektra Entertainment (3EE), though both Elektra and 300 will continue to maintain their separate identities as labels. History 1950–1971: Founding and early history Elektra was formed in 1950, as the ''Elektra-Stratford Record Corporation'', with a singles label called Stratford R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heaven Help The Child
''Heaven Help the Child'' is a 1973 studio album by country singer-songwriter Mickey Newbury. The album was Newbury's third consecutive release recorded at Cinderella Studios. Noted for its dramatic remakes of four previous Newbury songs: "Sweet Memories" and "Good Morning Dear" from '' Harlequin Melodies'', "Sunshine" from '' Sings His Own'', and "San Francisco Mabel Joy" from ''Looks Like Rain'', the album is considered equal among Newbury's acclaimed ''Looks Like Rain'' and ''Frisco Mabel Joy''. Apart from its definitive versions of three of Newbury's early songwriting hits, the album is also acclaimed for its title track, with its multi-generational narrative, the haunting "Cortelia Clark", and the bluegrass classic "Why You Been Gone So Long". In his AllMusic review of the LP, Thom Jurek declares, "Newbury, for the third time in as many recording sessions, came up with a record that defies categorization. And for the third time in a row, he had done the impossible, created a ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Came To Hear The Music
''I Came to Hear the Music'' is the 1974 album by singer-songwriter Mickey Newbury, his fourth release on Elektra Records. The cover photography was by Norman Seeff. ''I Came to Hear the Music'' was collected for CD issue on the eight-disc '' Mickey Newbury Collection'' from Mountain Retreat, Newbury's own label in the mid-1990s, along with nine other Newbury albums from 1969 to 1981. Track listing All tracks composed by Mickey Newbury # "I Came To Hear The Music" - 4:15 # "Breeze Lullaby" - 1:51 # "You Only Live Once (In a While)" - 3:28 # "Yesterday's Gone" - 3:30 # "If You See Her" - 4:14 # "Dizzy Lizzy" - 3:54 # "If I Could Be" - 2:52 # "Organized Noise" - 2:22 # "Love, Look At Us Now" - 2:58 # "Baby's Not Home" - 3:47 # "1 X 1 Ain't 2" - 5:01 Charts Cover versions * "Love Look At Us Now" was recorded by Edward Woodward, Johnny Rodriguez and Joe Simon. * "1x1 Ain't 2" was covered by psychedelic garage band Neal Ford and the Fanatics. * "If You See Her" appeared on al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allmusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mickey Newbury Collection
''The Mickey Newbury Collection'' collects the ten albums Mickey Newbury released on three labels between 1969 and 1981 on an eight disc set. The set was released and is available through Mountain Retreat, a label run by Newbury and later Newbury's family. While Newbury had an impressive reputation as an artist and songwriter, at the time of the set's release in 1998, these recordings had been out of print for years. The original master tapes were lost by the labels, and so the recordings on the collection are digital transfers from virgin vinyl copies. The packaging replicates the original album art. The collection includes the albums ''Looks Like Rain'' (1969), ''Frisco Mabel Joy'' (1971), '' Heaven Help The Child'' (1973), '' Live At Montezuma Hall'' (1973), ''I Came to Hear the Music'' (1974), and '' Lovers'' (1975) on individual discs, as well as ''Rusty Tracks'' (1977), and '' His Eye Is on the Sparrow'' (1978), '' The Sailor'' (1979) and '' After All These Years'' (198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An American Trilogy
"An American Trilogy" is a 1972 song medley arranged by country composer Mickey Newbury and popularized by Elvis Presley, who included it as a showstopper in his concert routines. The medley uses three 19th-century songs: *"Dixie" — a popular folk song about the southern United States. *"The Battle Hymn of the Republic" — a marching hymn of the Union Army during the American Civil War; and *"All My Trials" — a Bahamian lullaby related to African American spirituals and widely used by folk music revivalists First performances Newbury first recorded "An American Trilogy" for his 1971 album ''Frisco Mabel Joy'', and the medley featured prominently on his first concert album, ''Live at Montezuma Hall'', released in 1973. The studio recording reached No. 26 on the charts in 1972, and No. 9 on Billboard's Easy Listening chart. Newbury's version was used for nightly TV sign offs for KTBS, KLFY & WRBT in the mid to late 1970s. Presley began singing "An American Trilogy" in conc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy Mayfield
Percy Mayfield (August 12, 1920August 11, 1984) was an American Rhythm and blues singer with a smooth vocal style. He also was a songwriter, known for the songs " Please Send Me Someone to Love" and "Hit the Road Jack", the latter being a song first recorded by Ray Charles. Career Mayfield was born in Minden, Louisiana, the seat of Webster Parish, in the northwestern part of the state. As a youth, he had a talent for poetry, which led him to songwriting and singing. He began his performing career in Texas and then moved to Los Angeles in 1942, but without success as a singer until 1947, when a small record label, Swing Time Records, signed him to record his song "Two Years of Torture," with a band that included the saxophonist Maxwell Davis, the guitarist Chuck Norris, and the pianist Willard McDaniel. The record sold steadily over the next few years, prompting Art Rupe to sign Mayfield to his label, Specialty Records, in 1950. Mayfield's vocal style was influenced by such sty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye
"She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye" is a song written by Doug Gilmore and Mickey Newbury, and recorded by American country music artist Jerry Lee Lewis. Released in September 1969, it was the first single from his album ''She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye''. The song peaked at number 2 on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles chart. It also reached number 1 on the ''RPM'' Country Tracks chart in Canada. Newbury's recording of the song was included on his 1969 album ''Looks Like Rain''. Kenny Rogers and The First Edition also recorded the track on their best-selling album ''Something's Burning ''Something's Burning'' is the fifth album by Kenny Rogers & The First Edition, released in 1970. Singles Only one single was issued from the album, the title song " Something's Burning" with "Momma's Waiting" on the flip side. It was a worldw ...''. A cover by Ronnie Milsap peaked at number 15 on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles chart in 1975. Chart performance Jerry Lee Lewis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
