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Everybody Knows (Dave Clark Five Album)
''Everybody Knows'' is the twelfth US album by the British band the Dave Clark Five. Released in January 1968 on Epic Records, it contained four hit singles, a rock cover version of the old Bing Crosby hit "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby", the band's guitarist Lenny Davidson's song "Red and Blue", cover of the Majors soul song "A Little Bit Now", and the UK chartbuster " Everybody Knows". It is the band's last American album and the first not to enter the Billboard Top 200 chart. Overview The album combined modern musical trends of soul and rock and roll ("You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby", "Concentration Baby", "A Little Bit Now"), powerful ballads ("Everybody Knows", "I'll Do the Best I Can", "At the Place") with a slight influence of psychedelic music ("Lost in His Dreams"). LP was produced by Dave Clark himself. Most of the songs were composed by the band members. The album's biggest UK hit "Everybody Knows" (written by Barry Mason and Les Reed) was sung by guitaris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track cartridge, 8-track or Cassette tape, cassette), or digital distribution, digital. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78 rpm records (78s) collected in a bound book resembling a photo album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the ''album era''. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983, being gradually supplanted by the cassette tape throughout the 1970s and early 1980s; the popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
5 By 5 (1964–69)
''5 By 5 (1964–69)'' is a British album by the Dave Clark Five, released in November 1968. The subtitle of the album was "14 Titles by Dave Clark Five". It contains the band's two big hit singles "The Red Balloon" and the ballad "No One Can Break a Heart Like You". Alongside this, it also included two American hit singles, cover of the Majors soul song "Just a Little Bit Now" and " Please Stay" originally recorded by American band the Drifters. Overview Although the Dave Clark Five released twelve albums in the United States, this was only their fourth UK album. It had the same title as their tenth US album, yet did not contain any of the same songs. The artwork was a copy of another US LP " Everybody Knows" and comes in a textured jacket. The years "1964–69" in the album title gave the impression that it was a compilation album, but this was not true. The LP was released on the fifth anniversary of the Dave Clark Five's professionalization, and that's what the timestamp refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Davis (songwriter)
Roquel "Billy" Davis (July 11, 1932 – September 2, 2004), of Detroit, was an American songwriter, record producer, and singer. Davis was also known as a writer/producer of commercial jingles, mostly for Coca-Cola. He was also known as Tyran Carlo on writing credits. Early in his career in Detroit, Davis sang and wrote with an early version of the Four Tops called "The Four Aims", which included his cousin Lawrence Payton. In the late-1950s, he collaborated with Berry Gordy, the Motown Records founder, to write a number of hit songs for Jackie Wilson. The most notable of these was " Lonely Teardrops", written by Davis, Gordy, and Gordy's sister Gwen, who was Davis's girlfriend at the time. Davis and Gwen Gordy later founded Anna Records, which was the distributor of the early singles from Berry Gordy's newly formed Tamla label. The two also wrote " Reet Petite (The Finest Girl You Ever Want to Meet)" for Wilson, which was a top 10 hit for the singer in the UK and later to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
5 By 5 (Dave Clark Five Album)
''5 by 5 '' is the tenth American album by the British band the Dave Clark Five. It was released on 20 February 1967 and contained the Top 50 hit "Nineteen Days". The LP reached the Billboard Top 200 and the Cashbox Top 100. The album was only released in the US; the similarly named British album (subtitled " 14 Titles by Dave Clark Five") did not contain any of the same songs. Overview The album continued the tendency of previous albums to offer a greater variety of musical styles. Genre-wise, it stood between rock and roll ("Nineteen Days"), rhythm and blues ("Something I've Always Wanted", "You Don't Want My Loving", "Small Talk"), country ("Picture Of You") and good-time music in the vein of The Lovin' Spoonful ("Sitting Here Baby"). All songs were composed by the band members and produced by Dave Clark, and the album was released in both mono (LN 24236) and stereo (BN 26236). The artwork featured the band members in a black and white photograph remotely reminiscent of the '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satisfied With You
''Satisfied with You'' is the ninth album released in the US by the British band the Dave Clark Five. It was released on 15 August 1966 and contained three hit songs, "Look Before You Leap", "Please Tell Me Why" and "Satisfied with You". The LP hit the Billboard Top 200 and the Cashbox Top 100. Overview The album contained ten songs and continued the tendency of its predecessor "Try Too Hard" to offer a wider collage of styles. It included songs in the rock and roll ("Good Lovin'"), country ("Satisfied with You") and waltz ("Please Tell Me Why") styles, as well as expressive ballads ("Go On"). But in fact, it didn't stray from the tried-and-true successful style of the Dave Clark Five and had none of the progressive tendencies of the emerging psychedelic music or anti-war messages. Dave Clark said, "To me our music was to have fun with, to enjoy – not any message. That’s always been my feeling: it makes you feel good." All the songs were composed by members of the band, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Got What It Takes
"You Got What It Takes" is a 1959 single by Marv Johnson. In the US it reached number 2 on the Black Singles chart, and number 10 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 early in 1960. In the UK Singles Chart it reached a high of number 7. The original recording of "You Got What It Takes" was by Bobby Parker on Vee-Jay 279 in 1958. Parker claims to have written the song, and his name is on the 1958 recording, but later versions credit Berry Gordy, Gwen Gordy, Billy Davis, and sometimes Marv Johnson. Parker told the ''Forgotten Hits'' newsletter in 2008: I wrote 'You've Got What It Takes,' that was MY song. Even had the Paul Hucklebuck Williams band playing on it behind me... And then Berry Gordy just stole it out from under me, just put his name on it. And what could I do? I was just trying to make a living, playing guitar and singing, how was I going to go on and fight Berry Gordy, big as he was, and Motown Records? There wasn't really nothing I could do about it - it was just too b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blueberry Hill
"Blueberry Hill" is a popular American song published in 1940 and first recorded and released by Sammy Kaye in 1940 on RCA Victor. It is best remembered for its 1950s rock and roll version by Fats Domino. Glenn Miller peaked at no. 2 on the ''Billboard'' pop singles chart in 1940 with his recording on RCA Bluebird Records featuring Ray Eberle on vocals. In 1941, Gene Autry made a recording of this song for Regal Zonophone. He also sang it in the 1941 movie " The Singing Hill". Background The music for "Blueberry Hill" was composed by Vincent Rose and the lyrics by Larry Stock and Al Lewis. The song was turned down by another publisher until being bought and published in 1940 by Chappell & Company. The song was recorded over ten times that year. Recordings Sammy Kaye initially recorded and released the first recording of the song on RCA Victor Records with vocals by Tommy Ryan on May 31, 1940. The first hit version and the most successful in 1940 was by the Glenn Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Payton
The Dave Clark Five, also known as the DC5, were an English rock and roll band formed in 1958 in Tottenham, London. Drummer Dave Clark was the group's leader, producer and co-songwriter. In January 1964, they had their first UK top-ten single, " Glad All Over", which knocked the Beatles' " I Want to Hold Your Hand" off the top of the UK Singles Chart. It peaked at No. 6 in the United States in April 1964. Although this was their only UK No. 1, they topped the US chart in December 1965, with their cover of Bobby Day's " Over and Over". Their other UK top-ten hits include " Bits and Pieces", " Can't You See That She's Mine", " Catch Us If You Can", " Everybody Knows", " The Red Balloon", " Good Old Rock 'n' Roll", and a version of Chet Powers' " Get Together" (retitled as "Everybody Get Together"). They were the second group of the British Invasion to appear on ''The Ed Sullivan Show'' in the United States (for two weeks in March 1964 following the Beatles' three weeks the pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Mercer
John Herndon Mercer (November 18, 1909 – June 25, 1976) was an American lyricist, songwriter, and singer, as well as a record label executive who co-founded Capitol Records with music industry businessmen Buddy DeSylva and Wallichs Music City, Glenn E. Wallichs. He is best known as a Tin Pan Alley lyricist, but he also composed music and was a popular singer who recorded his own as well as others' songs from the mid-1930s through the mid-1950s. Mercer's songs were among the most successful hits of the time, including "Moon River", "Days of Wine and Roses (song), Days of Wine and Roses", "Autumn Leaves (1945 song), Autumn Leaves", and "Hooray for Hollywood". He wrote the lyrics to more than 1,500 songs, including compositions for movies and Broadway theatre, Broadway shows. He received nineteen Academy Awards, Oscar nominations, and won four Academy Award for Best Original Song, Best Original Song Oscars. Early life Mercer was born in 1909, in Savannah, Georgia, where one o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Warren
Harry Warren (born Salvatore Antonio Guaragna; December 24, 1893 – September 22, 1981) was an American composer and the first major American songwriter to write primarily for film. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song eleven times and won three Oscars for composing " Lullaby of Broadway", " You'll Never Know" and " On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe". He wrote the music for the first blockbuster film musical, '' 42nd Street'', choreographed by Busby Berkeley, with whom he would collaborate on many musical films. Over a career spanning six decades, Warren wrote more than 800 songs. Other well known Warren hits included "I Only Have Eyes for You", " You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby", " Jeepers Creepers", " The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money)", " That's Amore", " There Will Never Be Another You", " The More I See You", " At Last" and " Chattanooga Choo Choo" (the last of which was the first gold record in history). Warren was one of Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby
"You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" is a popular song with music by Harry Warren and lyrics by Johnny Mercer, written in 1938 for the Warner Brothers movie '' Hard to Get,'' released November 1938, in which it was sung by Dick Powell. The biggest-selling hit version was recorded by Bing Crosby, with Bob Crosby and his orchestra while other contemporaneous hit versions included recordings by Tommy Dorsey (with vocal by Edythe Wright) and Russ Morgan. It was also revived by Bobby Darin in 1961, reaching the charts again that year. The song has been recorded by many other artists (see below for a partial list) and is considered a popular standard. It was used frequently in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons, also produced by Warner Brothers, under the musical direction of Carl W. Stalling. Recorded versions *Russ Morgan and his orchestra (recorded August 26, 1938, released by Decca Records as catalog number 2125A, with the flip side "This Is Madness") *Tommy Dorsey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Ragovoy
Jordan "Jerry" Ragovoy (September 4, 1930 – July 13, 2011) was an American songwriter and record producer who wrote several pop songs including the instrumental " Time Is on My Side" (under the pseudonym of Norman Meade for Kai Winding), which was recorded by the Rolling Stones with lyrics added by Jimmy Norman for an earlier version by Irma Thomas; " Stay With Me" for Lorraine Ellison (later covered by Bette Midler in the film '' The Rose''); and " Piece of My Heart", which became a significant hit for Janis Joplin when still with Big Brother and the Holding Company. During the 1960s, Ragovoy "helped mould the new African-American sound of soul music", according to the obituary in ''The Guardian''. During this venture, he co-wrote the Afro-pop dance song " Pata Pata" with Miriam Makeba; the song became a major hit for Makeba and was covered by numerous other artists. He founded the New York recording studio The Hit Factory in 1969, producing and arranging artists such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
