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Oh! Carol (RCA Camden Album)
''Oh Carol'' is a 1974 compilation album by pop rock singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka. It was released in Great Britain and throughout Western Europe on the RCA Camden label on both LP and cassette tape. The album features some of his better-known hits from the 1950s and 1960s along with some selections from a concert he gave in Sydney, Australia. Track listing Side 1 # Oh! Carol (1959) # Calendar Girl (1961) # The Father of Girls (c. 1974?) # Breaking Up Is Hard To Do (1962) # Proud Mary (c. 1974?) # Little Devil (1961) Side 2 #< |
Neil Sedaka
Neil Sedaka (; born March 13, 1939) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. Since his music career began in 1957, he has sold millions of records worldwide and has written or co-written over 500 songs for himself and other artists, collaborating mostly with lyricists Howard Greenfield, Howard "Howie" Greenfield and Phil Cody. After a short-lived tenure as a founding member of the doo-wop group the Tokens, Sedaka achieved a string of hit singles over the late 1950s and early 1960s, including "Oh! Carol" (1959), "Calendar Girl (song), Calendar Girl" (1960), "Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen" (1961) and "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" (1962). His popularity declined by the mid-1960s, but was revived in the mid-1970s, solidified by the 1975 US Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100 number ones "Laughter in the Rain" and "Bad Blood (Neil Sedaka song), Bad Blood". Sedaka maintained a successful career as a songwriter, penning hits for other artists including "Stupid Cupid" (Connie Fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proud Mary
"Proud Mary" is a song written by John Fogerty and first recorded by his band Creedence Clearwater Revival. It was released by Fantasy Records as a single from the band's second studio album, ''Bayou Country'', which was issued by the same record company and is generally considered to have been released in early January 1969, although one source states that it came out just before Christmas 1968. The song became a major hit in the United States, peaking at No. 2 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in March 1969, the first of five singles to peak at No. 2 for the group. A cover version by Ike and Tina Turner, released two years later in 1971, did nearly as well, reaching No. 4 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and winning a Grammy Award. Background and recording In a 1969 interview, Fogerty said that he wrote it in the two days after he was discharged from the National Guard. In the liner notes for the 2008 expanded reissue of ''Bayou Country'', Joel Selvin explained that the songs for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Everything Is Beautiful
"Everything Is Beautiful" is a song written, composed, and performed by Ray Stevens. It has appeared on many of Stevens's albums, including one named after the song, and has become a pop standard and common in religious performances. The children heard singing the chorus of the song, using the hymn, "Jesus Loves the Little Children", are from the Oak Hill Elementary School in Nashville, Tennessee. This group includes Stevens's two daughters. The song was responsible for two wins at the Grammy Awards of 1971: Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for Ray Stevens and Grammy Award for Best Inspirational Performance for Jake Hess. Stevens's recording was the Number 1 song on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 for two weeks in the summer of 1970. The song also spent three weeks atop the adult contemporary chart. Many country stations played the song, with it peaking at number 39 on ''Billboard''s chart. ''Billboard'' ranked the record as the No. 12 song of 1970. The song includes an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Of Clowns
The following is a comprehensive discography of Neil Sedaka, the United States, American singer. Original studio albums 1950s *1959: ''Rock with Sedaka'' (titled 'Neil Sedaka' in some territories) 1960s *1961: ''Circulate'' (10 of the 12 songs are covers of 1930s-1950s standards; released in Japan under the title ''Look To The Rainbow''https://www.ebay.com/itm/385421344525?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20211130125621%26meid%3D2d357d67711540349b46d80c8fbf1394%26pid%3D101465%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D144949699403%26itm%3D385421344525%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D3817808&_trksid=p3817808.c101465.m3507) *1961: ''Neil Sedaka Sings Little Devil and His Other Hits'' *1963: ''Three Great Guys'' (with Paul Anka and Sam Cooke) *1969: ''Workin' on a Groovy Thing (Neil Sedaka album), Workin' on a Groovy Thing'' (released in the UK as ''Sounds of Sedaka'') 1970s *1971: ''Emergence (Neil Sedaka album), Emergence'' *1972: ''Solitaire (Neil Sedaka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stairway To Heaven (Neil Sedaka Song)
"Stairway to Heaven" is a song written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield. It was released as a 45 rpm single and appeared on Sedaka's 1960 album ''Neil Sedaka Sings Little Devil and His Other Hits''. Sedaka's "Stairway to Heaven" predates by 11 years Led Zeppelin's song of the same name, which was released in 1971 and written by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant. Sedaka remarked in 2021: " You can't copyright a title, so Led Zeppelin, I forgive you!" Composition Sedaka described the song as a "sandwich song:" the main verses and chorus, the "meat" of the song, are enveloped in a "bread," a short musical snippet repeated at the beginning and end of the song (in this case, the phrase "Climb up, way up high"). The style would become a trademark of Sedaka and Greenfield's compositions of the early 1960s. Personnel The personnel includes King Curtis on saxophone, Don Arnone, Art Ryerson and Everett Barksdale on guitar, Milt Hinton on bass, Irving Faberman on timpani and Dave "Panama" F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My World Keeps Getting Smaller Every Day
My or MY may refer to: Arts and entertainment * My (radio station) My (formerly known as My FM) is a Malaysian-Chinese language private radio station managed by Astro Radio, a subsidiary of Astro Holdings Sdn Bhd. In 2015, as according to Nielsen RAM Survey Wave #1, My FM maintained its position as Malaysia's ..., a Malaysian radio station * Little My, a fictional character in the Moomins universe * My (album), ''My'' (album), by Edyta Górniak * My (EP), ''My'' (EP), by Cho Mi-yeon Business * Marketing year, variable period * Model year, product identifier Transport * Motoryacht * Merchant vessel#Name prefixes, Motor Yacht, a name prefix for merchant vessels * Midwest Airlines (Egypt), IATA airline designation * MAXjet Airways, United States, defunct IATA airline designation Other uses * ''My'', the genitive form of I (pronoun), the English pronoun ''I'' * Malaysia, ISO 3166-1 country code ** .my, the country-code top level domain (ccTLD) * Burmese language (IS ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star-Crossed Lovers (song)
Kacey Lee Musgraves (born August 21, 1988) is an American Country music, country singer. She has won six Grammy Awards, seven Country Music Association Awards, and three Academy of Country Music Awards. Musgraves self-released three solo albums and one as Texas Two Bits, before appearing on the fifth season of the USA Network's singing competition ''Nashville Star'' in 2007, where she placed seventh. Musgraves also released a Christmas-themed album, ''A Very Kacey Christmas,'' in 2016. Her fourth studio album ''Golden Hour (Kacey Musgraves album), Golden Hour'' (2018) was released to widespread critical acclaim and won all four of its nominated Grammy Award categories, including Grammy Award for Album of the Year, Album of the Year and Grammy Award for Best Country Album, Best Country Album. The album's first two singles, "Space Cowboy (Kacey Musgraves song), Space Cowboy" and "Butterflies (Kacey Musgraves song), Butterflies", won the Grammy Award for Best Country Song and Grammy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen
"Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen" is a pop song released in 1961 by Neil Sedaka. Sedaka wrote the music and performed the song, while the lyrics were written by Howard Greenfield. The song is noted for being similar in musical structure to Take Good Care of My Baby by Bobby Vee (another 1961 hit), and additionally for its resemblance to the melody of the Chiffons' subsequent 1963 hit " One Fine Day". Both of these songs exhibiting similarity to "Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen" were penned by the team of Carole King and Gerry Goffin (King and Sedaka were close friends in high school, and Sedaka was known for his appropriation of other popular song motifs in his work). The song reached #6 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart and No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart. The narrator sings the song to a younger acquaintance who had up to that point had more of a sibling-like relationship (“when you were only six, I was your big brother”) upon her sixteenth birthday, reminiscing about the ups and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Devil
"Little Devil" is a song written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield and was released in 1961 as a single by Sedaka. It was the title track of Sedaka's 1961 album ''Neil Sedaka Sings Little Devil and His Other Hits''. It became a hit for him reaching #11 in the US Billboard Charts. The personnel on the song included Al Caiola, Bucky Pizzarelli and Charles Macy on guitar, George Duvivier on bass, Phil Kraus on percussion, David "Panama" Francis on drums, Romeo Penque, Sol Schlinger and Herman Yorks on saxophone. Jack Keller and Ernie Hayes on piano, Harry Lookofsky, Julius Held, David Nadien, Paul Winter (violinist), Paul Winter, Arnold Eidus and Julius Brand on violins. Language versions "Little Devil" was Sedaka's first song to be translated into Italian - "Esagerata". It was also translated into German ("Crazy Daisy") and Spanish ("Diablito"). References 1961 singles 1961 songs Neil Sedaka songs Songs with lyrics by Howard Greenfield Songs written by Neil Sedaka {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
"Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" is a song recorded by Neil Sedaka, co-written by Sedaka and Howard Greenfield. Sedaka recorded this song twice, in 1962 and 1975, in two significantly different arrangements, and it is considered to be his signature song.Breaking Up Is Hard To Do Song ReviewNovember 29, 2011 Between 1970 and 1975, it was a top-40 hit three separate times for three separate artists: Lenny Welch, The Partridge Family and Sedaka's second version. Original version In his daily mini-concert on June 12, 2020, Sedaka recalled that the song's iconic scat intro was a result of him and Greenfield being unable to come up with a lyric for that section of the song and Sedaka improvising a vocalise, which they liked so much that they kept it in the finished product. Described by AllMusic as "two minutes and sixteen seconds of pure pop magic," "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" hit number one on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 on August 11, 1962, and peaked at number twelve on the Hot R&B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pop Music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom. The terms ''popular music'' and ''pop music'' are often used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular and includes many disparate styles. During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. ''Rock'' and ''pop'' music remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after which ''pop'' became associated with music that was more commercial, ephemeral, and accessible. Although much of the music that appears on record charts is considered to be pop music, the genre is distinguished from chart music. Identifying factors usually include repeated choruses and hooks, short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse-chorus structure), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much pop music also borrows elements from other styles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Father Of Girls
''Look to Your Heart'' is Perry Como's 16th RCA Victor 12" long-play album. This album, released shortly after the previous Christmas LP, is one filled with tender ballads and soft standards. Sessions were recorded five months prior at Webster Hall studios in New York where several early Como albums were produced. A number of these selections were first introduced a year earlier on the 1967 NBC ''Perry Como Holiday Special''. It included a recent single, ''(The) Father of Girls''. Work by composers Johnny Mercer, Lerner and Loewe and Rodgers and Hart are highlights in this collection. The album contained one hit single, "The Father of Girls." It reached #92 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and #10 Easy Listening in the winter of 1968, preceding the release of the LP.''Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990'' - Track listing Side 1 #"Look to Your Heart" (Music by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Sammy Cahn) #" My Cup Runneth Over" (Music by Harvey Schmidt and lyrics by Tom J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
