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Jolene (song)
"Jolene" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Dolly Parton. It was produced by Bob Ferguson and recorded at RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee on May 22, 1973, then released in October 1973, by RCA Victor as the first single and title track from her album of the same name. Considered by music critics to be one of the most representative songs of the country genre, the song was ranked No. 217 on ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's list of " the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" in 2004 and No. 63 on the revised version of the list in 2021. The song was nominated at the Grammy Awards for Best Female Country Vocal Performance twice, in 1975 and 1976 for its live recording. The song was covered in English and Spanish by many artists, including Olivia Newton-John, the White Stripes, Miley Cyrus and Måneskin. Pentatonix 2016 version won the Grammy Award for Best Country Duo/Group Performance. In 2024, Beyoncé covered the song with significant changes in lyri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolly Parton
Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, actress, and philanthropist, known primarily as a country music, country musician. After achieving success as a songwriter for others, Parton's debut album, ''Hello, I'm Dolly'', was released in 1967, commencing a career spanning 60 years and Dolly Parton albums discography, 49 studio albums. Her forty-ninth solo studio album, ''Rockstar (Dolly Parton album), Rockstar'' (2023), became her highest-charting Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200 album, peaking at number-three. Described as a "country legend", Parton has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, making her one of the List of best-selling music artists, best-selling music artists of all time. Her music includes Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)-certified gold, platinum and multi-platinum awards. She has had 25 single (music), singles reach No.1 on the ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' country music charts, a reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Måneskin
is an Italian Rock music, rock band formed in Rome in 2016. The band is composed of lead vocalist Damiano David, bassist Victoria De Angelis, guitarist Thomas Raggi, and drummer Ethan Torchio. Performing in the streets in their early days, Måneskin rose to prominence after coming in second in the X Factor (Italian season 11), eleventh season of the Italian version of ''X Factor (Italian TV series), X Factor'' in 2017. Their international breakthrough occurred when the foursome won the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 for with the song "". Måneskin has released three studio albums, (2018), ''Teatro d'ira: Vol. I'' (2021), and ''Rush!'' (2023), plus an extended play, and 13 singles, which have topped Italian and European music charts. They have received 34 platinum and seven gold certifications from Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana, FIMI, and had sold over a million records in Italy before their post-Eurovision breakthrough. Previously, the band's most successful Italian si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WNYC
WNYC is an audio service brand, under the control of New York Public Radio, a non-profit organization. Radio and other audio programming is primarily provided by a pair of nonprofit, noncommercial, public radio stations: WNYC (AM) and WNYC-FM, located in New York City. Both stations are members of NPR and carry local and national news/talk programs. WNYC reaches more than one million listeners each week and has the largest public radio audience in the United States. The WNYC stations are co-owned with Newark, New Jersey-licensed classical music outlet WQXR-FM (105.9 MHz), and all three broadcast from studios located in the Hudson Square neighborhood in lower Manhattan. WNYC has been an early adopter of new technologies including HD radio, live audio streaming, and podcasting. RSS feeds and email newsletters link to archived audio of individual program segments. WNYC also makes some of its programming available on Sirius XM satellite radio. Programming The WNYC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolly Parton's America
''Dolly Parton's America'' is a 2019 podcast hosted by Jad Abumrad and reported and produced by Shima Oliaee at WNYC Studios. It is a nine-part non-fiction series based on Dolly Parton's career and enduring legacy. The series begins with how Abumrad learned that his father, Naji Abumrad, a doctor, had befriended Parton after she survived a minor traffic accident. Abumrad sought out an introduction to Parton in an effort to understand how she remains one of the most popular and well respected musicians in America. Each episode covers a different aspect of Parton's career, from her early life, to her unique approach to politics, her most famous songs and creation of the Dollywood theme park. The name of the podcast was based on a history class at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville also titled Dolly Parton’s America taught by Dr. Lynn Sacco. Reception ''Dolly Parton's America'' received largely positive responses from most mainstream media, including NPR, ''The Guardian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Answer Song
An answer song, response song or answer record is a song (usually a recorded track) made in answer to a previous song, normally by another artist. The concept became widespread in blues and R&B recorded music in the 1930s to the 1950s. Answer songs were also popular in country music in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, sometimes as female responses to an original hit by a male artist or male responses to a hit by a female artist. The original " Hound Dog" song sung by Big Mama Thornton reached number 1 in 1953, and there were six answer songs in response; the most successful of these was "Bear Cat", by Rufus Thomas which reached number 3. That led to a successful copyright lawsuit for $35,000, which is said to have led Sam Phillips of Sun Records to sell Elvis Presley's recording contract to RCA. In ''Rock Eras: Interpretations of Music and Society'', Jim Curtis says that "the series of answer songs which were hits in 1960 ... indicates the dissociation of the singer from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bobby Bones Show
''The Bobby Bones Show'' is an American, nationally syndicated country music radio show aired during the morning hours. The Bobby Bones Show, which originally aired from Austin, Texas, now broadcasts from studios at WSIX-FM in Nashville. Premiere Networks, a subsidiary of iHeartMedia, syndicated the show internationally in Halifax and Manchester, UK. The program is broadcast on weekdays between 5:00 AM and 10:00 AM Central Time with a "Top 30 Countdown” show aired on Saturday mornings and hosted by Bones. Starting in 2019, a new show called “The Women of iHeartCountry”, was hosted by Bones’s co-host Amy, in which she interviews female country stars, and plays only country songs by female country stars. The show is broadcast between 6:00 AM and 7:00 AM Central Time on Sundays. In some radio markets, the show is recorded and heard in the evening; this is especially true in Canada, where it is carried by Bell Media Radio's Pure Country network. The program is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe South
Joe South (born Joseph Alfred Souter; February 28, 1940 – September 5, 2012) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. Best known for his songwriting, South won the Grammy Award for Grammy Award for Song of the Year, Song of the Year in 1970 for "Games People Play (Joe South song), Games People Play" and was again nominated for the award in 1972 for "Rose Garden (Joe South song), Rose Garden". Career South had met and was encouraged by Bill Lowery (record producer), Bill Lowery, an Atlanta music publisher and radio personality. He began his recording career in Atlanta with the National Recording Corporation, where he served as staff guitarist along with other NRC artists Ray Stevens and Jerry Reed. South's earliest recordings have been re-released by NRC on CD. He soon returned to Nashville with The Manrando Group and then on to Charlie Wayne Felts Promotions. (Charlie Wayne Felts is the cousin of Rockabilly Hall of Fame Inductee and Grand Ole Opry Mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayne Moss
Wayne Moss (born February 9, 1938, in South Charleston, West Virginia, United States) is an American guitar player, bassist, record producer and songwriter best known for his session work in Nashville. In 1961, Moss founded Cinderella Sound recording studio. In 2011 it was Nashville's oldest surviving independent studio. Moss was one of the founders of Area Code 615 and Barefoot Jerry, both bands made up of Nashville session players. Biography Moss was born in 1938 in South Charleston, West Virginia. As a teenager he played in bands in nearby Charleston before eventually moving to Nashville, Tennessee in 1959. He became friends with Kenny Buttrey and Charlie McCoy. Hargus "Pig" Robbins hired him as a session musician, leading to Moss playing on recordings by artists including Patsy Cline, Waylon Jennings, Loretta Lynn, Charley Pride, Joan Baez, Steve Miller Band, and Linda Ronstadt. The first number one hit song that Moss played on was Tommy Roe's " Sheila" (1962). He also p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chip Young
Chip Young (born Jerry Marvin Stembridge, May 19, 1938 – December 20, 2014) was an American session guitarist, and later record producer who worked primarily out of Nashville, Tennessee. Biography Chip Young was born Jerry Marvin Stembridge in Atlanta, Georgia and was famous for his thumb-style guitar picking. Young played on records by Eddy Arnold, Bobby Bare, J. J. Cale, Guy Clark, Skeeter Davis, Waylon Jennings, George Jones, Kris Kristofferson, Jerry Lee Lewis, Charlie Louvin, Charlie McCoy, Ronnie Milsap, Willie Nelson, The Oak Ridge Boys, Dolly Parton, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, Charley Pride, Leon Russell, Earl Scruggs, Nancy Sinatra, Tanya Tucker, Tony Joe White, and many more. Young 'Un Sound In 1968 Young built his own recording studio, Young 'Un Sound, on the outskirts of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, approximately 35 miles southeast of Nashville. In 1975, Young established a Nashville studio for Young 'Un Sound when he purchased the Monument Recording Studios. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is the Canadian Public broadcasting, public broadcaster for both radio and television. It is a Crown corporation that serves as the national public broadcaster, with its English-language and French-language service units known as CBC and Radio-Canada, respectively. Although some local stations in Canada predate its founding, the CBC is the oldest continually-existing broadcasting network in Canada. The CBC was established on November 2, 1936. The CBC operates four terrestrial radio networks: The English-language CBC Radio One and CBC Music, and the French-language Ici Radio-Canada Première and Ici Musique (international radio service Radio Canada International historically transmitted via shortwave radio, but since 2012 its content is only available as podcasts on its website). The CBC also operates two terrestrial television networks, the English-language CBC Television and the French-language Ici Radio-C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard Hot 100
The ''Billboard'' Hot 100, also known as simply the Hot 100, is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by '' Billboard'' magazine. Chart rankings are based on sales (physical and digital), online streaming, and radio airplay in the U.S. A new chart is compiled and released online to the public by ''Billboard''s website on Tuesdays but post-dated to the following Saturday, when the printed magazine first reaches newsstands. The weekly tracking period for sales is currently Friday–Thursday, after being changed in July 2015. It was initially Monday–Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991. This tracking period also applies to compiling online streaming data. Radio airplay is readily available on a real-time basis, unlike sales figures and streaming, but is also tracked on the same Friday–Thursday cycle, effective with the chart dated July 17, 2021. Previously, radio was tracked Monday–Sunday and, before Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
