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Silver Moon (Michael Nesmith Song)
''Silver Moon'' was the third single Michael Nesmith recorded as a solo artist and the second to reach the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. ''Silver Moon'' was released in 1970 from Nesmith's second solo album, ''Loose Salute''. Nesmith recorded the song with The First National Band and the song reached number 42 on the Top 100 and number seven on the Adult Contemporary charts. The track features a pedal steel guitar solo played by O.J. "Red" Rhodes. The song also went to number 13 in Canada and number seven in the Netherlands. Background Although Nesmith released several singles following "Silver Moon", "Silver Moon" was his last song to reach a notable status on the charts. On the B-side of "Silver Moon", the track "Lady of the Valley" appears. The now highly collectable quadraphonic 8-track tape release of ''Loose Salute'' (1970) features an extended version of "Silver Moon". It is a full-length rendition of the song with a cold ending. Similar to Nesmith's earlier single, " Joann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Nesmith
Robert Michael Nesmith or Mike Nesmith, (December 30, 1942 – December 10, 2021) was an American musician, songwriter, and actor. He was best known as a member of the pop rock band the Monkees and co-star of the TV series ''The Monkees'' (1966–1968). His songwriting credits include "Different Drum," which became a hit for Linda Ronstadt and the Stone Poneys. After the break-up of the Monkees, Nesmith continued his successful songwriting and performing career, first with the seminal country rock group the First National Band, with whom he had a top-40 hit, " Joanne", and then as a solo artist. He often played a custom-built Gretsch 12-string electric with the Monkees and afterwards. Nesmith founded Pacific Arts, a multimedia production and distribution company, in 1974, through which he helped pioneer the music video format. He created one of the first American television programs dedicated to music videos, ''PopClips'', which aired on Nickelodeon in 1980. He was asked to he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live At The Britt Festival
''Live at the Britt Festival'' is a live album by Michael Nesmith, released in 1999. It was recorded live at the Britt Festival in Jacksonville, Oregon, on June 19, 1992. To prepare for the concert, Nesmith conducted a limited U.S. tour which featured a similar set list as the Britt Festival. The performance was Nesmith's last with longtime collaborator and pedal steel guitarist Red Rhodes, who died on August 20, 1995.https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0722509/ The album features a rare occasion of Nesmith (as a solo artist) singing a Monkees song, "Papa Gene's Blues" (originally from the album ''The Monkees''). Track listing All songs written by Michael Nesmith except as otherwise noted. # "Two Different Roads" – 3:49 # "Papa Gene's Blues" – 4:50 # "Propinquity (I've Just Begun to Care)" – 5:53 # "Some of Shelly's Blues" – 3:17 # " Joanne" – 6:52 # "Tomorrow and Me" – 4:24 # "The Upside of Goodbye" – 3:32 # "Harmony Constant" – 4:22 # " Silver Moon" – 5:05 # "5 Secon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Songs Written By Michael Nesmith
A song is a musical composition intended to be performed by the human voice. This is often done at distinct and fixed pitches (melodies) using patterns of sound and silence. Songs contain various forms, such as those including the repetition and variation of sections. Written words created specifically for music, or for which music is specifically created, are called lyrics. If a pre-existing poem is set to composed music in classical music it is an art song. Songs that are sung on repeated pitches without distinct contours and patterns that rise and fall are called chants. Songs composed in a simple style that are learned informally "by ear" are often referred to as folk songs. Songs that are composed for professional singers who sell their recordings or live shows to the mass market are called popular songs. These songs, which have broad appeal, are often composed by professional songwriters, composers, and lyricists. Art songs are composed by trained classical composers fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970 Singles
Year 197 ( CXCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Magius and Rufinus (or, less frequently, year 950 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 197 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 * February 19 – Battle of Lugdunum: Emperor Septimius Severus defeats the self-proclaimed emperor Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum (modern Lyon). Albinus commits suicide; legionaries sack the town. * Septimius Severus returns to Rome and has about 30 of Albinus's supporters in the Senate executed. After his victory he declares himself the adopted son of the late Marcus Aurelius. * Septimius Severus forms new naval units, manning all the triremes in Italy with heavily armed troops for war in the East. His soldiers embark on an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glen Hardin
Glen Dee Hardin (born April 18, 1939) is an American piano player and arranger. He has performed and recorded with such artists as Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley, Emmylou Harris, John Denver, and Ricky Nelson. Career Hardin was born in Wellington, Texas, a small town in the Texas panhandle. After getting out of the Navy in 1959, Hardin began his musical career in Long Beach, California, and soon joined the house band at the Palomino Club in North Hollywood, called "Country Music's most important West Coast club" by the ''Los Angeles Times''. It featured such performers as Buck Owens, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Linda Ronstadt, Hoyt Axton and Willie Nelson and was also a popular hangout for other country entertainers such as Merle Haggard and Jerry Lee Lewis. Shortly afterwards, he became a member of the Shindogs, the featured band on ''Shindig!'', an American music variety show which aired on the ABC network from 1964 to 1966. The series house band, the Shin-diggers (later renamed t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ware (musician)
John A. Ware (born May 2, 1944 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American drummer and percussionist known primarily for his session and live performance work. Biography Early years Ware was born in Tulsa but grew up in Oklahoma City. As a child, he first had piano lessons and then drum lessons. By age 14, he was playing with local bands, and at age 16, he met Jesse Ed Davis. In 1961, Ware and Davis attended every Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks gig they could get into, with Ware paying special attention to drummer Levon Helm. West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band In 1965, Ware was playing in the band Laughing Wind, along with Danny Harris (guitar), Shaun Harris (bass), and Michael Lloyd (guitar) and they joined up with attorney Bob Markley, who renamed them the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. Ware was a member of the band from 1966 to 1968. The Corvettes and Linda Ronstadt Ware was a member of the Corvettes, a band which also included Chris Darrow (guitar, vocals), Jeff Hanna ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John London
John Carl Kuehne (February 6, 1942 – February 12, 2000), better known as John London, was an American musician and songwriter, and was involved in several Hollywood television and movie productions. He was most notably associated with both the band The Monkees and their television series. Kuehne was born in Brazos County, Texas. database, FamilySearch (accessed 2 September 2015), John Carl Kuehne, 06 Feb 1942; from "Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2005); citing Texas Department of State Health Services. He became a friend of , who had played with him (mostly |
Kent Music Report
The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music enthusiast David Kent from May 1974 through to January 1999. The chart was re-branded the Australian Music Report (AMR) in July 1987. From June 1988, the Australian Recording Industry Association, which had been using the top 50 portion of the report under licence since mid-1983, chose to produce their own listing as the ARIA Charts. Before the Kent Report, ''Go-Set'' magazine published weekly Top-40 Singles from 1966, and Album charts from 1970 until the magazine's demise in August 1974. David Kent later published Australian charts from 1940 to 1973 in a retrospective fashion, using state by state chart data obtained from various Australian radio stations. Background Kent had spent a number of years previously working in the music industry at both EMI and Phonogram records and had developed the report initially as a hobby. The Kent Music Report was first release ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Movies Of The Mind
''Movies of the Mind'' is a live album from Michael Nesmith. The album documents Nesmith's 2013 2-month tour of the United States. According to Nesmith, the songs played on the album touched a chronological and thematic history of Nesmith's solo music. He stated, "I picked my favorites to play, the ones I have come to love over the years, and the ones that are most requested by fans of my solo work." The album was available directly through Nesmith's website "Videoranch". A Super Deluxe Edition, which featured a vinyl LP record, two CDs, and a signed Certificate of Authenticity, was limited to 200 pressings. Side one of the vinyl LP featured studio recordings of recent Nesmith songs, planned for release on an upcoming album, "Around the Sun". These tracks were previously available for download on "Videoranch" in MP3 form. Side two of the LP included 2013 live tracks, including Nesmith's first composition, "Papa Gene's Blues", which was featured on the album ''The Monkees''. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live At The Palais
''Live at the Palais'' is a live album by American singer-songwriter Michael Nesmith, originally released in 1978. It was recorded in 1977 at the Palais Theatre in Melbourne. Most of the songs on the album were derived from the half-dozen albums Nesmith recorded for RCA Records in the early 1970s. The album reunited Nesmith with drummer John Ware, whom he had worked with on his first three albums '' Magnetic South'', ''Loose Salute'', and '' Nevada Fighter'', and also marked one of his first collaborations with guitarist John Jorgenson and keyboardist John Hobbs; both would play in the group the Hellecasters with help from Nesmith. The album did not sell very well. Nesmith lampoons the album on his Grammy Award winning 1981 music/comedy video, ''Elephant Parts''. CD release In the 1990s, when his Pacific Arts back catalog was being reissued on CD, Nesmith withheld ''Live at the Palais'' from re-release citing dissatisfaction with his performance. However, due to demand from his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loose Salute
''Loose Salute'' is the second solo album by American singer-songwriter Michael Nesmith released during his post-Monkees career. Issued by RCA Records in 1970 and dedicated to Tony Richland, it peaked at No. 159 on the Billboard Pop Albums charts. History The version of " Listen to the Band" featured on the album is the song's third version; previous versions appeared on ''33⅓ Revolutions per Monkee'' (featuring The Monkees' final performance of the 1960s with Peter Tork) and as a mid-1969 single by The Monkees. Nesmith also re-recorded his (then) unreleased Monkees song, "Carlisle Wheeling". However, for ''Loose Salute'', he changed the name of the song to "Conversations". The album featured a quasi-instrumental number, "First National Dance," which was recorded for the album but replaced at the last minute by "Silver Moon", which was released as a single in Australia and did quite well there, reaching #14 on the charts. A cover of Jerry Reed's song "Guitar Man" was record ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Rhodes
Orville J. Rhodes, better known as Red Rhodes or O. J. Rhodes (December 30, 1930 – August 20, 1995), was an American pedal steel guitarist. His mother taught him to play the Dobro at the age of five, but at the age of fifteen he switched to the steel guitar. He was a boxer and an oil company engineer before he settled into music. He moved to Los Angeles in 1960 and became a session musician. Rhodes played pedal steel on many country rock, pop and rock albums with The Monkees, Michael Nesmith, James Taylor, The Beach Boys, Seals and Crofts, The Byrds, The Carpenters, Spanky and Our Gang, and many other groups, as part of the Wrecking Crew studio musicians. He is most often remembered for his work with former Monkee Michael Nesmith on Nesmith's solo albums in the early 1970s. Rhodes is also credited with the "other-worldly" effects he created with pedal steel on The Ventures futuristic album ''The Ventures in Space'' in 1964. In the late 1970s Rhodes shifted his foc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
