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Tryin' To Live My Life Without You
"Trying to Live My Life Without You" or "Tryin' to Live My Life Without You" is a song written by Eugene Frank Williams, originally popularized by soul music, soul singer Otis Clay. In early 1973 it reached #102 on the Billboard (magazine), ''Billboard'' Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles, Bubbling Under chart. On February 17, 1973, Clay performed the song on ''Soul Train''. It has since been covered by several other artists, most notably Bob Seger on his 1981 ''Nine Tonight'' album, Dr. Feelgood (band), Dr. Feelgood on their 1982 ''Fast Women & Slow Horses'' album, Brinsley Schwarz and at live performances by The California Honeydrops. Two lines are used by Drake in "Moth Balls" from Some_Sexy_Songs_4_U. Writing The song is sung from the point of view of a man who is addressing his former lover. During the song's verses, the narrator tells of various habits he has had over his lifetime, such as smoking "five packs of cigarettes a day", drinking "four or five bottles of wine." and wo ...
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Otis Clay
Otis Lee Clay (February 11, 1942 – January 8, 2016) was an American R&B and soul singer, who started in gospel music. In 2013, Clay was inducted to the Blues Hall of Fame. Early life Clay was born in Waxhaw, Mississippi, to a musical family, who moved in 1953 to Muncie, Indiana. After singing with local gospel group, the Voices of Hope, he returned to Mississippi to sing with the Christian Travelers, before settling in Chicago in 1957. There, he joined a series of gospel vocal groups including the Golden Jubilaires, the Famous Blue Jay Singers, the Holy Wonders, and the Pilgrim Harmonizers, before making his first solo secular recordings in 1962. They were unissued, and Clay joined the Gospel Songbirds, who recorded in Nashville in 1964 and who also included Maurice Dollison who sang R&B under the name Cash McCall, and then the Sensational Nightingales. Career In 1965, Clay signed with One-derful! Records in Chicago, to make secular recordings. After releasing a series ...
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Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Robert Clark Seger ( ; born May 6, 1945) is a retired American singer, songwriter, and musician. As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded with the groups Bob Seger and the Last Heard and the Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s, breaking through with his first album, ''Ramblin' Gamblin' Man'' (which contained his first national hit of the same name) in 1969. By the early 1970s, he had dropped the 'System' from his recordings and continued to strive for broader success with various other bands. In 1973, he put together the Silver Bullet Band, with a group of Detroit-area musicians, with whom he became most successful on the national level with the album ''Live Bullet'' (1976), recorded live in 1975 at Cobo Hall. In 1976, he achieved a national breakout with the studio album ''Night Moves (album), Night Moves''. On his studio albums, he also worked extensively with the Alabama-based Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, which appeared on several of Seger's b ...
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Hi Records Singles
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Otis Clay Songs
Otis may refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television * ''Otis'' (film), a direct-to-DVD 2008 American comedy horror film * "Otis" (''The Jeffersons''), a television episode * "Otis" (''Prison Break''), a television episode Music * ''Otis'' (Brian McFadden album), 2019 * ''Otis'' (Mojo Nixon album), 1990 * "Otis" (song), by Jay-Z and Kanye West, 2011 * "Otis", a song by Magma from '' Merci'', 1985 * "Otis", a song by Medeski Martin & Wood from '' Notes from the Underground'', 1992 * "Otis", a song by The Durutti Column from ''24 Hour Party People'' (soundtrack), 2002 * "Otis", a song by John Medeski from '' A Different Time'', 2013 People and fictional characters * Otis (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Otis (surname), a list of people * Otis (wrestler), a ring name of American professional wrestler Nikola Bogojević (born 1991) * Otis family, an American political family * Otis, American rapper in the duo Axe Murder Boyz Places United ...
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1972 Singles
Year 197 ( CXCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday 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 artificial canal between the Tigris ...
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Cashbox (magazine)
''Cashbox'', also known as ''Cash Box'', is an American music industry trade magazine, originally published weekly from July 1942 to November 1996. Ten years after its dissolution, it was revived and continues as ''Cashbox Magazine'', an online magazine with weekly charts and occasional special print issues. In addition to the music industry, the magazine covered the amusement arcade industry, including jukebox machines and arcade games. History Print edition charts (1942–1996) ''Cashbox'' was one of several magazines that published record charts in the United States. Its most prominent competitors were '' Billboard'' and '' Record World'' (known as ''Music Vendor'' prior to April 1964). Unlike ''Billboard'', ''Cashbox'' combined all currently available recordings of a song into one chart position with artist and label information shown for each version, alphabetized by label. Originally, no indication of which version was the biggest seller was given, but from October 25, 1 ...
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Record World
''Record World'' magazine was one of three major weekly music industry trade magazines in the United States, with ''Billboard'' and '' Cashbox''. It was founded in 1946 as ''Music Vendor''. In 1964, it was changed to ''Record World'' under the ownership of Sid Parnes and Bob Austin. It ceased publication on April 10, 1982. History Growth ''Music Vendor'' published its first music chart for the week ending October 4, 1954. ''Record World'' was housed in New York City at 1700 Broadway, at 53rd Street, across the street from the Ed Sullivan Theater. Its West Coast editorial offices were located in Los Angeles on Sunset and Vine. Peak ''Record World'' showed musical diversity by printing a "Non-Rock" survey, comparable to ''Billboard's'' "Easy Listening" / "Adult Contemporary" chart. This chart began in the February 4, 1967, issue, and ended on April 1, 1972, having morphed to the name "The MOR Chart" by 1971. Several titles of interest appeared on this 40-position list without ...
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Liner Notes
Liner notes (also sleeve notes or album notes) are the writings found on the sleeves of LP record albums and in booklets that come inserted into the compact disc jewel case or cassette j-cards. Origin Liner notes are descended from the program notes for musical concerts, and developed into notes that were printed on the outer album jacket or the inner sleeve used to protect a traditional 12-inch vinyl record, i.e., long playing or gramophone record album. The term descends from the name "record liner" or "album liner". Album liner notes survived format changes from vinyl LP to cassette to CD. These notes can be sources of information about the contents of the recording as well as broader cultural topics. Contents Common material Such notes often contained a mix of factual and anecdotal material, and occasionally a discography for the artist or the issuing record label. Liner notes were also an occasion for thoughtful signed essays on the artist by another party, often a ...
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Memphis Soul
Memphis soul, also known as the Memphis sound, is the most prominent strain of Southern soul. It is a shimmering, sultry style produced in the 1960s and 1970s at Stax Records and Hi Records in Memphis, Tennessee, featuring melodic unison horn lines, organ, guitar, bass, and a driving beat on the drums. Many of the songs in this style were performed by vocalists backed by the house bands of Stax Records, Stax, Hi Records, Hi and Goldwax Records. Memphis soul sound is different from the Motown Records, Motown sound from Detroit or the lighter sound of Chicago soul. After the rise of disco in the late 1970s, Memphis soul declined in popularity. The Stax Museum of American Soul Music is dedicated to preserving the Memphis sound. Overview/Memphis Soul Soul music is an emotional genre that began by expression of the struggles within the African American community. Soul is similar to genres like Motown or Rhythm and Blues but is unique because of its tonality and origin. Memphis musici ...
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Feel Like A Number
"Feel Like a Number" is a song written by Bob Seger that was first released on his 1978 album with the Silver Bullet Band, '' Stranger in Town''. It was also released as the B-side of the top 5 single " Still the Same" and a live version from the album ''Nine Tonight'' was released as a single in 1981. The song was featured in the 1981 movie ''Body Heat''. Lyrics and music ''Ultimate Classic Rock'' critic Jim Allen describes "Feel Like a Number" as a "rough-hewn proletarian anthem." Similarly, ''Billboard'' critic Ed Harrison described the song as "anthem-like," a "spirited rocker" and as a "working class dirge...that sums up the complaints of the working class." The lyrics are sung by an ordinary worker who feels devalued, unrecognized and unappreciated by modern, impersonal society. He feels like his coworkers to be "just another drone," the telephone company considers him "just another phone," and the Internal Revenue Service considers him just "another file." At the end o ...
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The Horizontal Bop
"The Horizontal Bop" is a song written by Bob Seger that was first released on his 1980 album '' Against the Wind''. It was also released as the fourth single from the album, backed by "Her Strut." The single did not perform as well as the earlier singles from the album, stalling at #42 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Music and lyrics Unlike the earlier, more successful singles from ''Against the Wind'', " Against the Wind," "You'll Accomp'ny Me" and " Fire Lake," "The Horizontal Bop" is not a ballad but a fast rock and roll song. Roy Trakin of '' The Daily News'' felt it lacked the drive of the more popular, slower songs from ''Against the Wind''. Music critic Herb Ditzel describes it as being a "tongue-in-cheek devil-may-care basic ockerthat has its roots in hundreds of songs." Ed Padgett describes it as a "Chuck Berry style song." The subject is having sex. Music journalist Jimmy Guterman and arts editor Owen O'Donnell describe the song as being a "huffy song about sex" as ...
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