29-04-2015

The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band - So Delicious

Hitchcock Railway (1968)

Written by Dunn and McCashen
O: Jose Feliciano 1968 on RCA-Victor













José Feliciano     October 1968    
Mongo Santamaría     1969    
Dunn and McCashen     August 1969    
Joe Cocker     November 1969    
Anno Domini [1]     1971    
Claire Lynch     August 5, 1997    


Zucchero - Per colpa di chi    1995

18-02-2015

Dead Skunk (1972)

"Dead Skunk" is a 1972 novelty song by Loudon Wainwright III.

The song is musically a simple folk song based on acoustic guitar, but accompanied by drums and strings. The lyrics describe a dead skunk in the middle of a busy road and the smell it produces for pedestrians. Wainwright said the song was an accident, written in 15 minutes.

Although the single was released in November 1972, it was not until well into 1973 that it caught on with radio stations, and its number 16 peak on the Billboard Hot 100 chart was not reached until the week ending 31 March 1973. It was the only record to chart for Wainwright.

The song has been played every Friday near 9 am, on Top 40 radio station KRRY ("Y101") in Quincy, Illinois, since 1985. Y101 disc jockeys Dennis Oliver and Jeffrey Dorsey claim the two have played "Dead Skunk" more than any other radio station in the United States.

The song has replaced the traditional "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" as the 7th inning stretch song at Georgia Institute of Technology Russ Chandler Baseball Stadium.
(wikipedia)

(songfacts)
Wainwright confessed it only took about 12 minutes to pen "Dead Skunk," which became his most well-known song. The singer's brief sniff of fame left him with a foul odor. "Yeah, and it was revolting in some ways, horrible and I hated it, because it was grotesque," said Wainwright to the A.V. Club."It can be grotesque at that level where you are riding around in cars and there are 14-year-old kids pressing their faces up against the window. For no reason other than your song is on the radio. It made me very uncomfortable, particularly at that time. I imagine that now I would see it with a little more humor and detachment, but when I was 25 and it happened to me, it kind of blew me away."







Dutch Cover about a whit duck on the middle of the road. 1976
P Koelewijn wrote the dutch text. 




17-02-2015

Le coeur au bout des doigts (1967)

Written by Jacqueline Taïeb
O: Jacqueline Taïeb on Impact

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Cherry Vang Me 1982 in Dutch Top 40. Highest position # 28 
Totally 4 weeks in that chart.
Written by Simon Been & Cherry Wijdenbosch!!! 
The original writer is not mentioned on the single. 







Schali-Schala-Schalu (1966)

Written by Flohr & Falk O: Uschi Reno 1966 on Cornet

31-01-2015

The Originals of Bob Dylans "Shadows in the Night".



1.I'm a fool to want you - Frank Sinatra (1951) Columbia


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2. The night we called a day - Johnny Long and his orchestra 15-12-1941 Decca
Didn't find the song yet
A review from "Turntable Previews" Ferbuary 1942


Frank Sinatra recorded it 19-01-1942 Jo Stafford in March
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3. Stay with me - Frank Sinatra (1963) Columbia
written by Jerome Moross &  Caroly Leigh


2003 recorded byJackie Richardson



4. Autumn Leaves. Original: "Les feuilles mortes" by Cora Vaucaire (1948)
Written by  Jacques Prévert.
Recorded by: Look here
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5. Why Try to Change Me Now - Cy Coleman 1950 on Album with the same name
 written by Cy Coleman and Joseph Allan McCarthy



This is not the original song. This video is from 1957.

Covered by Fiona Apple 2009, Nancy Wilson 1968, Sammy Davis Jr. (with the Count Basie Orchestra) 1965 and many others. 

Here the original from the album.




6.  Some Enchanted Evening - Ezio Pinza (1949) Columbia)
 Written by Rodgers ans Hammerstein



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7. Full Moon and Empty Arms - Ray Noble and his Orchestra (1945)  Columbia
written by Buddy Kaye / Ted Mossman - based on Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2.






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8. Where Are You - Gertrude Niesen (1937) Brunswick
Written by Jimmy McHugh and Harold Adamson  The song was written for the 1937 film Top of the Town and was originally performed by Gertrude Niesen







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9. What'll I Do - Paul Whiteman & His Orchester 1924
written by Irving Berlin 1923.


First recording with vocals by Frances Alda?  1924



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10. That Lucky Old Sun - Vaughn Monroe & his Orchestra (1949) RCA
Written by: Beasley Smith/ Haven Gillespie



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