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London Girls
"London Girls" is a song by Chas & Dave from the album '' Job Lot'', which was released as a single on 13 February 1983 and entered the UK Singles Chart at number 99. The song stayed in the charts for 9 weeks and peaked at number 63 on 26 March 1983. Composition The song was written in 1980 in a writing session with Dave Peacock in a cottage in Ashton, East Northamptonshire. Covers Tori Amos recorded a cover of "London Girls" in 1996 during the ''Boys for Pele'' album sessions; it was released as a b-side on her maxi single for "Caught a Lite Sneeze" together with another Chas & Dave song, "Thats What I Like Mick (The Sandwich Song)" in the United Kingdom. It was released with "Talula" in the United States. The Belgian group De Strangers released a Flemish version titled "'n Antwârpse Griet" (An Antwerp Girl), which reached No. 36 on the Belgian chart. See also * Chas & Dave discography This is a discography of the British duo Chas & Dave. Included are single and album ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chas & Dave
Chas & Dave (often billed as Chas 'n' Dave) were an English pop rock duo, formed in London by Chas Hodges and Dave Peacock (musician), Dave Peacock. They were most notable as creators and performers of a musical style labelled ''rockney'' (a portmanteau of ''rock music, rock'' and ''cockney''), which mixes "pub singalong, music-hall humour, boogie-woogie piano and pre-Beatles rock 'n' roll". For a time, ''Rockney'' was also the name of their record label, their major breakthrough being "Gertcha" in 1979, which peaked at No. 20 in the UK Singles Chart, and was the first of eight Top 40 hit singles the duo played on. They had their biggest success in the early 1980s with "Rabbit (song), Rabbit" and "Ain't No Pleasing You". They also had nine charting albums. In October 2013 they released ''That's What Happens'', their first studio album in 18 years. History Formation Chas Hodges, Charles Nicholas "Chas" Hodges and Dave Peacock (musician), David Victor "Dave" Peacock met in 1963, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tori Amos
Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos; August 22, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. She is a classically trained musician with a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Having already begun composing instrumental pieces on piano, Amos won a full scholarship to the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University at the age of five, the youngest person ever to have been admitted. She had to leave at the age of eleven when her scholarship was discontinued for what ''Rolling Stone'' described as "musical insubordination". Amos was the lead singer of the short-lived 1980s Pop music, pop-rock group Y Kant Tori Read before achieving her breakthrough as a solo artist in the early 1990s. Her songs focus on a broad range of topics, including sexuality, feminism, politics, and religion. Her charting singles include "Crucify (song), Crucify", "Silent All These Years", "God (Tori Amos song), God", "Cornflake Girl", "Caught a Lite Sneeze", "Professional Widow", "Spark (Tori Amos song), Spark", "1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chas & Dave Songs
Chas may refer to: __NOTOC__ Places * Chas, Puy-de-Dôme, a commune in central France * Chas, Bokaro, a city in Jharkhand, India * Chas block, an administrative division in Jharkhand, India * Chas, Khed, a panchayat village in Maharashtra, India * Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ or CHOP), a self-declared autonomous zone in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington in the United States in 2020. Newspapers * ''Chas'' (newspaper), a Russian-language newspaper in Latvia People * Chas (given name), often a nickname for Charles, including a list of people with the name Fictional characters * Chas Chandler (comics), a supporting character in the ''Hellblazer'' comic series and the main character of ''Hellblazer Presents: Chas – The Knowledge'' * Chas Dingle, on the British soap opera ''Emmerdale'' See also * Parque Chas, a district of Buenos Aires, Argentina * Chaz (other) Chaz (less frequently ''Chas'' or '' Chazz'') is an English masculine given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1983 Singles
1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the true Internet). * January 6 – Pope John Paul II appoints a bishop over the Czechoslovak exile community, which the ''Rudé právo'' newspaper calls a "provocation." This begins a year-long disagreement between the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and the Vatican, leading to the eventual restoration of diplomatic relations between the two states. * January 14 – The head of Bangladesh's military dictatorship, Hussain Muhammad Ershad, announces his intentions to "turn Bangladesh into an Islamic state." * January 18 – U.S. Secretary of the Interior James G. Watt makes controversial remarks blaming poor living conditions on Native American reservations on "the failures of socialism." Watt will eventually resign in September after a serie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chas & Dave Discography
This is a discography of the British duo Chas & Dave. Included are single and album releases and their UK chart peaks. Albums Singles Participations * 1982 : Billy King – ''Wake Up Little Suzie'' (Single, Minstrel) * 1983 : Eric Clapton - ''Odds and Sods'' (Album, Beano) * 1983 : Clarence 'Frogman' Henry – ''That Old Piano'' (Single, Rockney) * 1986 : The TV Hits Album Two - ''Crackerjack'' (Album, Towerbell Records) * 2010 : Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra – ''Rockinghorse'' (Album, Rhino Records A rhinoceros ( ; ; ; : rhinoceros or rhinoceroses), commonly abbreviated to rhino, is a member of any of the five extant taxon, extant species (or numerous extinct species) of odd-toed ungulates (perissodactyls) in the family (biology), famil ...) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Chas and Dave discography Discographies of British artists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Talula
"Talula" is a song by American singer-songwriter Tori Amos, released by Atlantic and EastWest as the second single from her third studio album, '' Boys for Pele'' (1996). The song reached number 22 on the UK Singles Chart and appeared in the Jan de Bont film ''Twister''. The single version, titled "The Tornado Mix", is remixed by BT, who went on to work with Amos on " Blue Skies", and includes a minor dance beat. In the UK, "Talula (The Tornado Mix)" replaced the original version of the song on later pressings of the album and eventual re-pressings in the US and Australia. BT also remixed an extended mix called the "Synesthasia Mix" which appeared on copies of the single. Meaning The song is about the concept of ideal woman and the fear of losing someone. The lyrics includes references to queens like Marie Antoinette and Anne Boleyn. The B-side "Sister Named Desire" is a reference to Delirium's sister/brother Desire of '' Sandman'', created by Amos' friend Neil Gaiman. The c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caught A Lite Sneeze
"Caught a Lite Sneeze" is a song by American singer-songwriter Tori Amos, released by Atlantic and EastWest as the first single from her third studio album, '' Boys for Pele'' (1996), on January 1, 1996. The song is about wanting to do anything to keep a relationship going, knowing that it is over. It references Nine Inch Nails's album '' Pretty Hate Machine'' in the lyrics "''Caught a lite sneeze / Dreamed a little dream / Made my own pretty hate machine.''" On December 11, 1995, Atlantic made the song available for streaming on their website, one of the earliest examples of a major label implementing such a feature. Following the song's release, it reached number 60 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100, number three on the ''Billboard'' Triple-A chart, and number 20 on the UK Singles Chart. Despite being one of Amos's higher-charting singles, it does not appear on her best-of collection, '' Tales of a Librarian''. In live performances from 1996 and 1998, Amos would frequently inse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxi Single
A maxi single, maxi-single, or maxi CD (sometimes abbreviated to MCD or CDM) is a music single release with more than the usual two tracks of an A-side song and a B-side song. Maxi singles are often mistaken for extended plays (EPs), especially in the digital era such as the categorization on iTunes, Apple Music, or Spotify. An EP usually consists at least four different "songs" without any specific A-side, while a maxi-single may contain four or more tracks but only in form of remixes to complement one or two songs as the A-side. ''Billboard'' considers EPs for albums chart ( ''Billboard'' 200) and considers maxi-singles for songs chart ( ''Billboard'' Hot 100). First maxi singles Mungo Jerry's first single, " In the Summertime", was the first maxi single in the world. The term came into wide use in the 1970s, where it usually referred to 7-inch vinyl singles featuring one track on the A-side and two on the B-side. The 1975 reissue of David Bowie's " Space Oddity", where t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boys For Pele
''Boys for Pele'' is the third studio album by American singer and songwriter Tori Amos. Preceded by the first single, " Caught a Lite Sneeze", by three weeks, the album was released on January 22, 1996, in the United Kingdom, on January 23 in the United States, and on January 29 in Australia. Despite the album being Amos's least radio friendly material to date, ''Boys for Pele'' debuted at number two on both the US ''Billboard'' 200 and the UK Albums Chart, making it her biggest simultaneous transatlantic debut, her first ''Billboard'' top 10 debut, and the highest-charting US debut of her career to date. ''Boys for Pele'' was recorded in rural Ireland and Louisiana and features 18 songs that incorporate harpsichord, clavichord, harmonium, gospel choirs, brass bands and full orchestras. Amos wrote all of the tracks, and for the first time, she served as sole producer for her own album. For Amos, the album was a step into a different direction, in terms of singing, songwriting, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashton, East Northamptonshire
Ashton is a village and civil parish about ¾ mile east of Oundle in the east of the English county of Northamptonshire forming part of the unitary authority of North Northamptonshire. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 219. History The villages name means 'ash-tree farm/settlement'. The Manor of Ashton is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. The manor house was rebuilt by the Marriott family c1600. Ashton was re-built in 1900 by the Rothschild family for estate workers, to designs by William Huckvale. The village is the birthplace of Miriam Rothschild, natural scientist and author. In 1952 George and Lillian Peach were murdered at their home in the village. The crime remains Northamptonshire's oldest unsolved murder case. The World Conker Championships was founded at Ashton in 1965 when a group of anglers held a conker contest at the Chequered Skipper pub when the weather was too bad to go fishing. The event was held in Ashton for 45 years bef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Job Lot (album)
This is a discography of the British duo Chas & Dave. Included are single and album releases and their UK chart peaks. Albums Singles Participations * 1982 : Billy King – ''Wake Up Little Suzie'' (Single, Minstrel) * 1983 : Eric Clapton - ''Odds and Sods'' (Album, Beano) * 1983 : Clarence 'Frogman' Henry – ''That Old Piano'' (Single, Rockney) * 1986 : The TV Hits Album Two - ''Crackerjack'' (Album, Towerbell Records) * 2010 : Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra – ''Rockinghorse'' (Album, Rhino Records A rhinoceros ( ; ; ; : rhinoceros or rhinoceroses), commonly abbreviated to rhino, is a member of any of the five extant taxon, extant species (or numerous extinct species) of odd-toed ungulates (perissodactyls) in the family (biology), famil ...) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Chas and Dave discography Discographies of British artists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
