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Alan Garrity
Alan Garrity is a musician who had a number of hits in South Africa and Rhodesia. He had his first hit with ''Put Your Hand in the Hand'' which was No 1 on the Springbok Top 20 chart for four weeks in 1971. This was followed up by ''I Need Someone'' which reached No 2 on Springbok Top 20 and spent 33 weeks on the charts and won the 1972 South African Recording Industry (SARI) Award for Best Song of the Year. In 1973, he won SARI awards for Best Album of the Year and Best Male Vocalist. His next single, a cover of ''Home Isn't Home Anymore'', reached no 5 on the charts. In 1975 he won a second SARI Award for Best Male Vocalist and his third in 1981 along with a SARI for Top Twenty Artist of the Year. Discography Singles * "Put Your Hand in the Hand" (1971) - (South Africa #1) * "The Dream Waltz" (1971) * "Somehow, Somewhere" (1971) * "I Need Someone" (1971) * "Till The Rivers All Run Dry" (1972) * "Home Isn't Home Anymore Home Isn't Home Anymore was a hit for Bunny Walters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Put Your Hand In The Hand
"Put Your Hand in the Hand" is a gospel pop song composed by Gene MacLellan and first recorded by Canadian singer Anne Murray from her third studio album '' Honey, Wheat and Laughter''. It became a hit single for the Canadian band Ocean, released as their debut single and title track to their debut album. The song peaked at No. 2 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot 100, kept from No. 1 by "Joy to the World" by Three Dog Night. It remained in the top 10 for seven weeks, and was ranked as the No. 33 song for 1971 according to ''Billboard''. The song also reached No. 4 on the Adult Contemporary chart. The band received fan mail for the song from religious figures such as Billy Graham and the Bishop of Toronto. After MacLellan's suicide in 1995, his friend and fellow Atlantic Canadian musician Ron Hynes wrote the song "Godspeed" as a tribute, the lyrics for which reference the title of this song. The song was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Springbok Radio
Springbok Radio (spelled ''Springbokradio'' in Afrikaans, ) was a South African nationwide radio station that operated from 1950 to 1986. History SABC's decision in December 1945 to develop a commercial service was constrained by post-war financial issues. After almost five years of investigation and after consulting Lord Reith of the BBC and the South African government, it decided to introduce commercial radio to supplement the SABC's public service English and Afrikaans networks and help solve the SABC's financial problems. The SABC would build the equipment and facilities and would place them at the disposal of advertisers and their agencies at cost for productions and allow them to make use of SABC's production staff. On 1 May 1950, the first commercial radio station in South Africa, Springbok Radio, took to the air. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Home Isn't Home Anymore
Home Isn't Home Anymore was a hit for Bunny Walters in 1973. It was his fourth top twenty single and followed "Take The Money And Run". Background Having three other charting singles with the first being "Just Out of Reach", followed by "Brandy", and "Take The Money And Run", this was his fourth top twenty single. The song backed with " Quando Quando" was released on Impact IR 1080 in 1973. The recording was produced by Bernie Allen and featured The Yandall Sisters on backing vocals. Chart history On February 12, 1973, the single entered the New Zealand chart at no. 18. The final position of the song was no. 18. Earlier versions The song had been recorded previously by Heathmore (UK, 1969), Joe Harris (Belgium, 1969), Inga Sulin (Finland, 1969, as "Tyhjä koti"), Rex Gildo (Germany 1969 as "Komm Doch Zu Mir"), Alan Garrity (South Africa, 1972), and Joe Dolan Joseph Francis Robert Dolan (16 October 1939 – 26 December 2007) was an Irish entertainer, recording artist, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South African Singer-songwriters
South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz'' ("south"), possibly related to the same Proto-Indo-European root that the word ''sun'' derived from. Some languages describe south in the same way, from the fact that it is the direction of the sun at noon (in the Northern Hemisphere), like Latin meridies 'noon, south' (from medius 'middle' + dies 'day', cf English meridional), while others describe south as the right-hand side of the rising sun, like Biblical Hebrew תֵּימָן teiman 'south' from יָמִין yamin 'right', Aramaic תַּימנַא taymna from יָמִין yamin 'right' and Syriac ܬܰܝܡܢܳܐ taymna from ܝܰܡܝܺܢܳܐ yamina (hence the name of Yemen, the land to the south/right of the Levant). Navigation By convention, the ''bottom or down-facing side'' of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
