Happy Valentine's Day Thanks Harold // Additional discographical, biographical information was added by Lawrence Azrin; check out the links at your leisure.
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* - but released as 2 separate single LPs in the UK // His only US #1 album; it was ranked # 10 on Classic Rock magazine's list of "The 100 Greatest Rock Albums Ever". Music journalist/ author Peter Doggett argues it is very likely the greatest rock album of all time because of its exceptional concept, artful melodies, experimentation, and skilled musicianship, which he felt remains unparalleled by any other rock artist (from 'Wikipedia').
Their high tenor Terry "Buzzy" Johnson re-arranged the song when they were having trouble coming up with a new approach; the solution came to Johnson while he was sleeping, and he quickly called the group to his room at around 4 am to have them rehearse the new version, complete with "doo‑bop sh‑bop" backing vocals and harmonies. Then in the studio, Johnson directed the musicians to play piano, guitar and gentle brush-driven drums in a stretched-out triplet rhythm, with extra sustain on the third of the chord in the guitar and the fifth in the piano. // #158 on the "Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs of All Time", 2003
* - Not released in the US till 1940 (Decca) / This was Marlene Dietrich's "signature" song; it was also performed by the early Beatles (available on the double-LP "Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany"; recorded in 1962), also Kevin Ayers. /
Click on Link above, left, to view the original 10" record..
Real name: Philip Baptiste / * - I'm sure it was on a vinyl compilation before this CD, but I couldn't track it down // ** - later picked up for national distribution by Mercury Records / Click on Link above, left, to view the original local single
[Original Swedish EP **] • (Swedish Sonet, Sept 1966)
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* - But probably best-known from Ray Charles' early 1956 hit version // ** - The EP was titled 'You Put The Hurt On Me'; originally the only soource for this recording / Click the Link above, left to view the original Swedish 4-song Exteded-Play
* LATER a hit for The Shirelles {1961 - but 1st released as a single in May 1959}, Mamas & Papas {Feb1967} // ** - in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, NYC, NY
Many songwriters have cited "God Only Knows" as their personal favorite song, including Paul McCartney and Jimmy Webb. // Click the Link above, left, to view the the original German single, with a full-color picture sleeve. / * that's in less than four years!
This album was # 288 on "The Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list, in 2003 / * - but their 7th US studio release; both 'Kink-Size' (Feb 1965) and 'Kinkdom' (Nov 1965) were American creations from US/ UK singles, EP and album tracks not on US releases yet. {YES - Reprise sure did squeeze as many albums out of them as they could; including a 'Greatest Hits' and a Live LP, that's 9 Kinks albums in a little over 3 years! - LsA)
The song is about Clapton's unrequited love for Pattie Boyd, then the wife of George Harrison. This is #117 on the Rolling Stone list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time", 2003 // Click on the Link above, left, to view the original single.
* - This album is sometimes referred to as "Randy Newman Creates Something New Under the Sun" / The album sold so poorly that Warner Brotherts Records offered anyone who bought to trade the album for another in the company's catalog. // In 2017, the album was ranked the 97th greatest album of the 1960s by Pitchfork.
* - Rolling Stone named Price's recording #18 on its "40 Saddest Country Songs of All Time" list in 2014 / Released as a Dutch single by Green, Oct 1973 - Click on Link above, left, to view the Dutch single, with a picture sleeve
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6:03
Artist:
Miles Davis Quintet [Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart] [Billed as 'Miles Davis Quintet']
* - HUGE hit for The Righteous Brothers, Nov 1964, followed by countless covers, starting almost immediately (in the UK, Cilla Black's version was almost as successful as the original)
Franklin and session background vocalists "The Sweet Inspirations" were singing the song for fun while rehearsing for the "Aretha Now" album, and they reinvented Dionne's original, mainly through the prominence of Clayton Ivey's piano. // This was originally the B-side of Aretha's 'The House That Jack Built' single.
* - In England, released as the B-side of 'Let's Pretend', May 1967 / Also on the soundtrack to the film of the same name / Born as 'Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie'
... This song was originally on Paul McCartney's debut solo album, titled 'McCartney' (April 17, 1970/ Apple Records) / This song was #347 on The Rolling Stone "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" 2011 list // FOR you TRUE RECORD NERDS: * - a studio version of 'Maybe I'm Amazed' was later released as a single in April 1971, the B-side was 'Oh Lord I'm Browned Off'.
Time:
6:47
Artist:
The Stooges [Dave Alexander, Ron Ashton, Scott Ashton, Iggy Pop]
* -At the "Phoenix 1 Club", Washington DC, 1981. Solomon Burke is accompanied by the "Realtones". / #429 on the "Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" listing, 2004
