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You're So Fine (The Falcons Song)
"You're So Fine" is the title of a popular song performed by The Falcons. Background The song was released as a single in 1959 and reached number seventeen on the US ''Billboard'' chart. Chart history Covers * Johnny Burnette's 1961 album ''Johnny Burnett'' featured the song. * The song was recorded by Boz Scaggs for his 1965 album '' Boz''. * Wilson Pickett, who joined The Falcons a year after they recorded the song, used it as the B-side to his single version of " Land of a 1000 Dances", recorded in May 1966. His version was backed by the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section.Pickett, Wilson, The Exciting Wilson Pickett, Atlantic #8129, released 1966. Notes from Atlantic CD released 1993 * Ike and Tina Turner included the song on the 1966 album '' River Deep - Mountain High'', although the song was likely recorded prior to that year. * A live version of the song was included as a bonus track on a rerelease of Grinderswitch's 1974 album ''Honest To Goodness''. * Tony Orlando used t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Falcons
The Falcons were an American rhythm and blues vocal group, some of whose members went on to be influential in soul music. History The Falcons formed in 1955 in Detroit, Michigan on the Mercury Records imprint. After personnel changes in 1956, The Falcons had hits for the Lu Pine Records label with the million-selling " You're So Fine" (1959), and "I Found a Love" (1962). The group recorded under the production wing of Robert West, who gave the group a gospel sound and recorded the singers on his own Flick label. "You're So Fine" was a national hit, charting at No. 17, on United Artists' Unart label after being picked up from Flick. Joe Stubbs was the lead singer, also on the singles "Just for Your Love" (1959) and "The Teacher" (1960), before Wilson Pickett replaced him in 1960. After 1963, the Fabulous Playboys took over the Falcons name. The later group comprised Carlis 'Sonny' Munro, James Gibson, Johnny Alvin, and Alton Hollowell. This group made the R&B chart in 1966, wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boz (album)
''Boz'' is the debut album by Boz Scaggs, recorded under the name "William R. Scaggs" at Europafilm Studios in Stockholm, Sweden, on September 30, 1965. It was released in Sweden by Polydor Records in October 1965. Track listing The back of the album jacket lists two songs in the incorrect sequence. This track sequence lists the song titles as printed on the labels on the album itself. The album labels contain many songwriter credit errors. The songwriters listed below are correct. Side one # "Steamboat" – 2:10 (Buddy Lucas) Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller">Leiber/Stoller'/small> # " Baby Let Me Follow You Down" – 2:19 ( Gary Davis, Dave van Ronk, Eric von Schmidt) ncorrectly listed on the album label as 'van Schmidt'/small> # "Girl from the North Country" – 3:33 (Bob Dylan) # " You're So Fine" – 2:07 ( Lance Finnie, Willie Schofield) ncorrectly listed on the album label as 'le Vang'/small> # " Got You on My Mind" – 2:57 ( Joe Thomas, Howard Biggs) ncorrectly lis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Me Again (album)
''Love Me Again'' is an album by the American musician Rita Coolidge, released in 1978 through A&M Records. "You" was released as the first single. It was previously recorded by Australian recording artist Marcia Hines. Coolidge's version, in contrast to Hines', is more mellow in tone and it became a Top 40 hit in both the United States and Canada during the summer of 1978. Despite the song having previously hit in Australia, Coolidge's version did not chart there. The title track "Love Me Again" was released as a single and then covered and appeared as a single for Patti Austin in 1980. Critical reception ''The Globe and Mail'' wrote that Coolidge "is at her most effective when the beat is slow and she gets plenty of time to think... 'Slow Dancer', with Booker T. in the background, is the best cut on the album, and a tedious version of 'Bye Bye Love' is the worst." Track listing Side one # "You" (Tom Snow) – 3:14 # "Slow Dancer" (Boz Scaggs, George Daly) – 4:01 # " Sweet I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rita Coolidge
Rita Coolidge (born May 1, 1945) is an American recording artist. During the 1970s and 1980s, her songs were on ''Billboard'' magazine's pop, country, adult contemporary, and jazz charts, and she won two Grammy Awards with fellow musician and then-husband Kris Kristofferson. Her recordings include " (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher", " We're All Alone", " I'd Rather Leave While I'm in Love" and the theme song for the 1983 James Bond film ''Octopussy'': " All Time High". Life and career Early life Coolidge was born in Lafayette, Tennessee. She is the daughter of Dick and Charlotte Coolidge, a minister and schoolteacher, with sisters Linda and Priscilla, and brother Raymond. ''Biography'' wrote in 2020, "Her father was a full-blooded Cherokee, and her mother was half Cherokee and half Scottish." She attended Nashville's Maplewood High School and was graduated from Andrew Jackson Senior High School in Jacksonville, Florida. Coolidge is a graduate of Florida State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Orlando
Michael Anthony Orlando Cassavitis (born April 3, 1944), known professionally as Tony Orlando, is an American Pop music, pop/Rock music, rock singer, songwriter, and music executive whose career spans nearly seven decades. He is best known for his work as part of Tony Orlando and Dawn. In 1993, he opened the Tony Orlando Yellow Ribbon Music Theatre in Branson, Missouri. He ended his act there in 2013 and has since continued to perform many live shows as a headliner, mostly in Las Vegas, Nevada. When his song "Candida" became an international number-one song, he began to use his name in the group becoming "Dawn featuring Tony Orlando" and then "Tony Orlando and Dawn". The group had 19 other top 40 tracks, including "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree", the top-selling hit of 1973 and one of the biggest selling singles of all time. The group also had a hit variety program, ''The Tony Orlando and Dawn Show'' on CBS from 1974 to 1976. They then broke-up in 1977, after which h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grinderswitch
Grinderswitch was a southern rock band formed near Macon, Georgia in 1973. Formed from a collaboration of musicians through word of mouth and connections to already established bands and musicians, Grinderswitch became a known act during the peak of the southern rock era. They recorded two albums for Capricorn Records in the mid-1970s, but never achieved the widespread recognition enjoyed by some of the label's other artists, such as The Allman Brothers Band and Marshall Tucker Band. In the UK, they are perhaps best known for their recording "Pickin' the Blues", which was used for many years by the disc jockey John Peel as the theme tune for his BBC radio shows. History Grinderswitch’s earliest incarnation began in 1972 when Allman Brothers roadie and guitar tech Joe Dan Petty was looking to put a band together. During this time, Dickey Betts was also attempting to form a band due to the uncertain fate of the Allman Brothers Band after the death of Duane Allman. Les Dudek, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Deep – Mountain High (album)
''River Deep – Mountain High'' is a studio album by Ike & Tina Turner. It was originally released by London Records in the UK in 1966, and later A&M Records in the US in 1969. In 2017, ''Pitchfork'' ranked it at No. 40 on their list of the 200 Best Albums of the 1960s. Background and recording After watching Ike & Tina Turner perform in a club on the Sunset Strip, producer Phil Spector invited them to perform on ''The Big T.N.T Show'' in 1965. Spector wanted to produce for Tina Turner and sign the duo to his Philles label. He negotiated a deal with Ike Turner for creative control over his sessions with Tina Turner, but Ike & Tina Turner were still signed to Loma Records, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Records. Spector negotiated a deal with their manager Bob Krasnow, also head of Loma, offering $20,000 to have them released from their contract. Spector signed Ike & Tina Turner and the Ikettes to his label in April 1966. By the time Ike & Tina Turner signed to Philles, the alb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ike And Tina Turner
Ike or IKE may refer to: People and fictional characters * Ike (given name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or nickname * Ike (surname), a list of people * Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969), Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II and President of the United States * Reverend Ike, American minister and television evangelist Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II (1935–2009) * Cliff Edwards (1895–1971), American singer and voice actor known as "Ukulele Ike" Arts and entertainment * ''Ike'' (miniseries), a 1979 television miniseries about President Dwight D. Eisenhower * '' Ike: Countdown to D-Day'', a 2004 American television film * Ike, a fictional moon in the game ''Kerbal Space Program'' Other uses * Tropical Storm Ike, three tropical cyclones * Internet Key Exchange, a network protocol used by IPsec VPNs * IKE Group, an economic research group at Aalborg University, Denmark * Ike, Texas, an unincorporated communi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section
The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section is a group of American session musicians based in the northern Alabama town of Muscle Shoals. One of the most prominent American studio house bands from the 1960s to the 1980s, these musicians, individually or as a group, have been associated with more than 500 recordings, including 75 gold and platinum hits. They were masters at creating a southern combination of R&B, soul and country music known as the "Muscle Shoals sound" to back up black artists, who were often in disbelief to learn that the studio musicians were white. Over the years from 1962 to 1969, there have been two successive groups under the name "Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section" and the common factor in the two was an association with Rick Hall at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals. The original group hired by Hall in the early 1960s was Norbert Putnam, David Briggs, and Jerry Carrigan, who created hit records that brought recognition and stature to this unknown and out-of-the-way s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Land Of A 1000 Dances
"Land of a Thousand Dances" or "Land of 1000 Dances" is a song written and first recorded by the American rhythm and blues singer Chris Kenner in 1962. It later became a bigger hit in versions by Cannibal & the Headhunters and Wilson Pickett. A version by Thee Midniters reached number 27 in Canada on March 22, 1965. The song references a number of dance styles/moves including the Twist, the Alligator, the Mashed Potato, the Watusi and the Pony. Background The original Chris Kenner recording, which peaked at No. 77 on the ''Billboard'' chart in 1963, mentions 16 dances: the Pony, the Chicken, the Mashed Potato, the Alligator, the Watusi, the Twist, the Fly, the Jerk, the Tango, the Yo-Yo, the Sweet Pea, the Hand Jive, the Slop, the Bop, the Fish, and the Popeye. Kenner's original recording included a brief, gospel-influenced, a capella introduction with the words: "Children, go where I send you / (Where will you send me?) / I'm gon' send you to that land / the land of a thous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilson Pickett
Wilson Pickett (March 18, 1941 – January 19, 2006) was an American singer and songwriter. A major figure in the development of soul music, Pickett recorded more than 50 songs that made the US R&B charts, many of which crossed over to the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Among his best-known hits are " In the Midnight Hour" (which he co-wrote), " Land of 1000 Dances", " 634-5789 (Soulsville, U.S.A.)", " Mustang Sally", " Funky Broadway", "Engine No. 9", and " Don't Knock My Love". Pickett was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991, in recognition of his impact on songwriting and recording. Biography Early life and family Pickett was born March 18, 1941, in Prattville, Alabama, and sang in Baptist church choirs. He was the fourth of 11 children and called his mother "the baddest woman in my book," telling historian Gerri Hirshey: "I get scared of her now. She used to hit me with anything, skillets, stove wood ... ne time I ran away andcried for a week. Stayed i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boz Scaggs
William Royce "Boz" Scaggs (born June 8, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He was a bandmate of Steve Miller (musician), Steve Miller in the Ardells in the early 1960s and a member of the Steve Miller Band from 1967 to 1968. Scaggs began his solo career in 1969, though he lacked a major hit until his 1976 album, ''Silk Degrees'', peaked at number 2 on the Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200 and produced the hit singles "Lido Shuffle" and "Lowdown (Boz Scaggs song), Lowdown". Scaggs produced two more RIAA certification, platinum-certified albums in ''Down Two Then Left'' and ''Middle Man (album), Middle Man'', the latter of which produced the top-40 singles "Breakdown Dead Ahead" and "Jojo (Boz Scaggs song), Jojo". After a hiatus for most of the 1980s, he returned to recording and touring in 1988, releasing ''Other Roads'' and later joining the New York Rock and Soul Revue. Scaggs opened the nightclub Slim's, a popular music venue in San Francisco (it closed i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
