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Moontan
''Moontan'' is the ninth album by Dutch rock band Golden Earring, released in 1973. It contains the radio hit "Radar Love", and was voted ninth-best Dutch pop album ever by readers of music magazine ''Oor'' in 2008. In the '' Q'' & ''Mojo'' Classic Special Edition ''Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock'', the album rated No. 32 in its list of "40 Cosmic Rock Albums". ''Moontan'' is the band's most successful album in the United States, being the only Golden Earring album to be certified Gold by the RIAA. "Vanilla Queen" twice samples Marilyn Monroe's character in ''There's No Business Like Show Business'': "Well, in simple English I'm..." from the "Lazy" performance and "What's your name, Honey?" from the "Heat Wave" performance. Track listing All songs written by Hay and Kooymans except where noted. Original track listing (European/UK version) # "Candy's Going Bad" – 6:12 # "Are You Receiving Me" (John Fenton, Hay, Kooymans) – 9:31 # "Suzy Lunacy (Mental Rock)" – 4:24 # ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Earring
Golden Earring (originally known as The Tornados) was a Dutch rock band, founded in 1961 in The Hague as The Golden Earrings. They achieved worldwide fame with their international hit songs "Radar Love" in 1973, which went to number one on the Dutch charts, reached the top ten in the United Kingdom, and went to number thirteen on the United States charts, " Twilight Zone" in 1982, and "When the Lady Smiles" in 1984. During their career they had nearly 30 top-ten singles on the Dutch charts and released 25 studio albums. The band went through a number of early line-up changes, though the band reached a stable line-up in 1970, consisting of Rinus Gerritsen (bass and keyboards), George Kooymans (vocals and guitar), Barry Hay (vocals, guitar, flute and saxophone), and Cesar Zuiderwijk (drums and percussion), which remained unchanged until the band broke up in 2021 following the diagnosis of Kooymans with ALS. A number of other musicians also appeared in short stints with the ban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Together (Golden Earring Album)
''Together'' is an album by Dutch rock band Golden Earring, released in 1972. The album was not issued in the U.S. Track listing All songs written by Kooymans except where noted. #"All Day Watcher" – 4:49 #"Avalanche of Love" – 4:14 #"Cruisin' Southern Germany" (Hay) – 3:00 #"Brother Wind" – 7:54 #"Buddy Joe" – 3:48 #"Jangalene" – 5:08 #"From Heaven from Hell" – 6:06 #"Thousand Feet Below You" – 4:11 Personnel *George Kooymans - guitar, vocals *Rinus Gerritsen - bass guitar, keyboards * Barry Hay - flute, guitar, saxophone, vocals *Cesar Zuiderwijk Cornelis Johannes "Cesar" Zuiderwijk, (born 18 July 1948) is a Dutch drummer. He is best known as the drummer of the Dutch rock band Golden Earring from 1970 until their retirement in 2021. Biography When Zuiderwijk was twelve he started play ... - drums Production *Producer: Fred Haayen *Engineer: Frank Owen *Mastering: Hans Brethouwer *Photography: Frits Van Swoll Charts References {{Authority contr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radar Love
"Radar Love" is a song by the Dutch rock band Golden Earring. The single version of "Radar Love" reached #10 on the ''Cash Box'' Top 100 and #13 in ''Billboard'' in the United States. It also hit the Top 10 in many countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, and Spain. Lyrics The song is written from the point of view of a truck driver who says he has some sort of psychic connection with his girlfriend — "radar love". He senses that she urgently wants him to be with her, and it makes him reckless. His recklessness causes him to have a fatal accident, but even in the afterlife the song's narrator and his lover still have radar love. Composition Like other famous songs of the era (" Highway Star", "Stairway to Heaven", "Bohemian Rhapsody"), "Radar Love" is composed as a suite with several distinctive and quite different sections (although the tonality remains similar throughout). The intro starts with a guitar riff in four movements. The first movement i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Switch (Golden Earring Album)
''Switch'' is the tenth album by Dutch rock band Golden Earring, released in 1975. Track listing All songs written by Hay and Kooymans except where noted. #"Intro: Plus Minus Absurdio" – 3:08 #"Love Is a Rodeo" – 3:37 #"The Switch" – 5:27 #"Kill Me (Ce Soir)" (John Fenton, Hay, Kooymans) – 6:22 #"Tons of Time" – 4:20 #"Daddy's Gonna Save My Soul" – 4:15 #"Troubles and Hassles" – 4:20 #"Lonesome D.J." – 4:36 Personnel * George Kooymans - guitar, vocals * Rinus Gerritsen - bass, keyboards * Barry Hay - flute, vocals * Cesar Zuiderwijk - drums * Robert Jan Stips - keyboard Additional personnel * Bertus Borgers - saxophone * Eelco Gelling - guitar Production *Producer: Golden Earring *Executive producer: Fred Haayen *Engineer: Andy Knight, John Kriek, Jan Schuurman *Mixing: Andy Knight, John Kriek *Arranger: Golden Earring *String arrangements: Robert Jan Stips *Art direction: George Osaki *Concept: Barry Hay *Photography: Paul Gerritsma, Graham Hughes Charts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vince Taylor
Vince Taylor (14 July 1939 – 28 August 1991), born Brian Maurice Holden, was an English rock and roll Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock 'n' roll, or rock 'n roll) is a Genre (music), genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It Origins of rock and roll, originated from Africa ... singer. As the lead singer of Vince Taylor and His Playboys, sometimes Vince Taylor and The Playboys, he was successful primarily in France and other parts of Continental Europe during the late 1950s and early 1960s, afterwards falling into obscurity amidst personal problems and drug abuse. He is best remembered for his 1959 song "Brand New Cadillac", which The Clash covered on their album ''London Calling''. He was among the inspirations for David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust (character), Ziggy Stardust character. Biography Early life Taylor spent his early life in Isleworth, Middlesex. When he was seven, the Holdens emigrated to A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Track Records
Track Record (a.k.a. Track Records) was founded in 1966 in London by Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp, then managers of the rock group The Who. It was one of the first British-owned independent record labels in the United Kingdom. The most successful artists whose work appeared on the Track label were The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Who, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Thunderclap Newman and Golden Earring. The label ceased operations in 1978 but was revived in 1999. Background Track was originally intended to provide more creative freedom for the Who, but according to Stamp, at the end of 1966, he and Lambert were spurred to set up Track in order to get involved with new arrival from the United States, Jimi Hendrix. Even though Hendrix was not in need of management (as he had already signed an agreement with Chas Chandler) he was in need of a UK label. Lambert and Stamp had already grappled with the rigid confines of the established record companies. In 1966, they were involv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Kooymans
George Jan Kooymans (born 11 March 1948, The Hague, Netherlands) is a Dutch guitarist and vocalist. He is best known for his work with the Dutch group Golden Earring. Kooymans wrote "Twilight Zone (Golden Earring song), Twilight Zone", the group's only Top 10 Pop Single on the US Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100, which hit No. 1 on the ''Billboard'' Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks, Top Album Tracks chart. Kooymans also wrote and produced for other artists. In 2017 and 2018 he released two albums as a member of Vreemde Kostgangers (Strange Boarders), a Dutch-language supergroup he formed with Henny Vrienten (bass player of the band Doe Maar) and singer-songwriter Boudewijn de Groot. In February, 2021, Kooymans announced that he was suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and would retire. Shortly afterward, Golden Earring announced they would disband. Discography Golden Earring Solo albums *''Jojo'' (1971) *''Solo'' (1987) *''On Location'' (as Kooymans-Carillo wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electric Guitars
An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic guitar exist). It uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals, which ultimately are reproduced as sound by loudspeakers. The sound is sometimes shaped or electronically altered to achieve different timbres or tonal qualities on the amplifier settings or the knobs on the guitar from that of an acoustic guitar. Often, this is done through the use of effects such as reverb, distortion and "overdrive"; the latter is considered to be a key element of electric blues guitar music and jazz and rock guitar playing. Invented in 1932, the electric guitar was adopted by jazz guitar players, who wanted to play single-note guitar solos in large big band ensembles. Early proponents of the electric guitar o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
There's No Business Like Show Business (film)
''Irving Berlin's There's No Business Like Show Business'' is a 1954 American musical comedy-drama film directed by Walter Lang. It stars an ensemble cast, consisting of Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Marilyn Monroe, Dan Dailey, Johnnie Ray, and Mitzi Gaynor. The title is borrowed from the famous song in the stage musical (and MGM film) '' Annie Get Your Gun''. The screenplay was written by Phoebe Ephron and Henry Ephron, based on a story by Lamar Trotti; and the movie was Fox's first musical in CinemaScope and DeLuxe Color. O'Connor later called the film the best picture he ever made. Summary The story opens in 1919 and chronicles the ups and downs in the careers of Terence and Molly Donahue, a husband-and-wife vaudeville team. Throughout the years, the Donahues reconcile a stable family life with professional success. Their children, Steve, Katy, and Tim, join the act one by one, and they eventually become known as The Five Donahues. However, as the children mature, they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percussion
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Excluding zoomusicological instruments and the human voice, the percussion family is believed to include the oldest musical instruments.''The Oxford Companion to Music'', 10th edition, p.775, In spite of being a very common term to designate instruments, and to relate them to their players, the percussionists, percussion is not a systematic classificatory category of instruments, as described by the scientific field of organology. It is shown below that percussion instruments may belong to the organological classes of ideophone, membranophone, aerophone and cordophone. The percussion section of an orchestra most commonly contains instruments such as the timpani, snare drum, bass drum, tambourine, belonging to the membranophones, and cy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Backing Vocals
A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are used in a broad range of popular music, traditional music, and world music styles. Solo artists may employ professional backing vocalists in studio recording sessions as well as during concerts. In many rock and metal bands (e.g., the power trio), the musicians doing backing vocals also play instruments, such as guitar, electric bass, drums or keyboards. In Latin or Afro-Cuban groups, backing singers may play percussion instruments or shakers while singing. In some pop and hip hop groups and in musical theater, they may be required to perform dance routines while singing through headset microphones. Styles of background vocals vary according to the type of song and genre of music. In pop and country songs, backing vocalists may sing harmo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saxophone
The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to produce a sound wave inside the instrument's body. The pitch is controlled by opening and closing holes in the body to change the effective length of the tube. The holes are closed by leather pads attached to keys operated by the player. Saxophones are made in various sizes and are almost always treated as transposing instruments. Saxophone players are called '' saxophonists''. The saxophone is used in a wide range of musical styles including classical music (such as concert bands, chamber music, solo repertoire, and occasionally orchestras), military bands, marching bands, jazz (such as big bands and jazz combos), and contemporary music. The saxophone is also used as a solo and melody instrument or as a member of a horn section in som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
