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This is my most favourite song of all time....let me know if you can find an artist who HASN’T recorded it.
Name the song’s full title....the first artist to record it....the signature album, the songwriter(s)
Had modest success on Billboard Hot 100
It could easily be posted on another thread on JPF...I’ll post it there after the scramble is solved
Clue # 1
The intro is 5 seconds long and the song title is mentioned immediately after the intro and never mentioned again in the song....
Clue #2
The singer won half an EGOT
This should give it away
Creators of music have a responsibility to their craft. When they have finished using all the notes and words, they must pass them down to the next generation with a simple request. “Use these to create new music.”...Steven McDonald
When I say it had modest success on Billboard Hot 100, a cover of the song got to # 35....that same cover got to #1 on adult contemporary/easy listening charts...the original singer I don't think charted on Billboard Hot 100
Creators of music have a responsibility to their craft. When they have finished using all the notes and words, they must pass them down to the next generation with a simple request. “Use these to create new music.”...Steven McDonald
I had the vinyl, eight track, cassette and CD of the album...that's going back a few years...lol
Creators of music have a responsibility to their craft. When they have finished using all the notes and words, they must pass them down to the next generation with a simple request. “Use these to create new music.”...Steven McDonald
Elvis Tom Jones Roberta Flack The Temptations Diana Ross and the Supremes The Vogues Glen Campbell Sammy Davis Jr. Aretha Franklin Jennifer Hudson
Creators of music have a responsibility to their craft. When they have finished using all the notes and words, they must pass them down to the next generation with a simple request. “Use these to create new music.”...Steven McDonald
Congrats Mike!! You found your decoder ring...great job
Creators of music have a responsibility to their craft. When they have finished using all the notes and words, they must pass them down to the next generation with a simple request. “Use these to create new music.”...Steven McDonald
Creators of music have a responsibility to their craft. When they have finished using all the notes and words, they must pass them down to the next generation with a simple request. “Use these to create new music.”...Steven McDonald
"The Vogues" were the weakest link as they only had a 5 or 6 albums from which to find a song that everybody recorded but none had a big hit with. I was already thinking film or Broadway.
Last edited by Michael Zaneski; 10/30/2304:31 PM.
Fate doesn't hang on a wrong or right choice Fortune depends on the tone of your voice
-The Divine Comedy (Neil Hannon) from the song "Songs of Love" from the album "Casanova" (1996)
Congrats Mike!! You found your decoder ring...great job
He sure did…Congratulations Mike!! This had me stumped. I went to see this show when I was a kid on a local stage in Huntsville Al. Great game, great song!
It's amazing that it didn't really chart but was sung by so many artists....Jack Jones got to # 35...I just love the story behind the play....when I was young and felt a little down.....this got me back on track so many times
Creators of music have a responsibility to their craft. When they have finished using all the notes and words, they must pass them down to the next generation with a simple request. “Use these to create new music.”...Steven McDonald
Congrats Mike!! You found your decoder ring...great job
He sure did…Congratulations Mike!! This had me stumped. I went to see this show when I was a kid on a local stage in Huntsville Al. Great game, great song!
What I love about this thread, Craig, is just the point you're making...music always brings back the past
Creators of music have a responsibility to their craft. When they have finished using all the notes and words, they must pass them down to the next generation with a simple request. “Use these to create new music.”...Steven McDonald
To dream the impossible dream To fight the unbeatable foe To bear with unbearable sorrow And to run where the brave dare not go To right the unrightable wrong And to love pure and chaste from afar To try when your arms are too weary To reach the unreachable star This is my quest To follow that star No matter how hopeless No matter how far To fight for the right Without question or pause To be willing to march, march into Hell For that Heavenly cause And I know if I'll only be true To this glorious quest That my heart will lie peaceful and calm When I'm laid to my rest And the world will be better for this That one man, scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable The unreachable The unreachable star
Creators of music have a responsibility to their craft. When they have finished using all the notes and words, they must pass them down to the next generation with a simple request. “Use these to create new music.”...Steven McDonald
Don Quixote fought windmills and today we use windmills to fight climate change....go figure
Creators of music have a responsibility to their craft. When they have finished using all the notes and words, they must pass them down to the next generation with a simple request. “Use these to create new music.”...Steven McDonald
I might have been able to guess the Imp Dream song had I had more time to study it. Great Song! I always wanted to play that role in a musical production.
Gee Mike.........#110 sounds a little "dark." Is it one of John's S's songs? I'll probably need a hint or two, or maybe more notes.
Creators of music have a responsibility to their craft. When they have finished using all the notes and words, they must pass them down to the next generation with a simple request. “Use these to create new music.”...Steven McDonald
WOW! That's impressive, Steve! Congrats, you are correct!
Three guys that weren't really brothers play as a trio in Los Angeles in '64, in '65 move to Britain, become massive teen idols, getting more fan mail than The Beatles.
Scott goes solo, makes 5 increasingly more idiosyncratic albums featuring his own songwriting as well as covering a lot of Jacques Brel. Scott 4 is considered his masterpiece.
A classic from his middle period:
--imagine Jack Jones on acid...
In the last third of his life he became a modern classical composer while continuing to utilize his voice that was often compared to Jack Jones'. This combination of crooner vocals with "difficult music" made for some of the most unique records ever made, such as "Tilt" and "The Drift."
Scott Walker's life and career was that of an exploratory, innovative artist and composer. He died in 2019 at 73.
A wonderful documentary exists, "Scott Walker: 30 Century Man."
when I saw the scramble, I was thinking The Bee Gees, The Who or The Guess Who as possibly being the group....then when you mentioned Frankie Vallie..I thought maybe the song was written by Barry Gibb ...so I looked up FV songs and there it was ...I thought it had to have a long title
Creators of music have a responsibility to their craft. When they have finished using all the notes and words, they must pass them down to the next generation with a simple request. “Use these to create new music.”...Steven McDonald
Creators of music have a responsibility to their craft. When they have finished using all the notes and words, they must pass them down to the next generation with a simple request. “Use these to create new music.”...Steven McDonald
Probably a female vocalist since you pitched it in soprano register, or the dude from The Stylistics, lol...or Frankie Valli...not...
This song was recorded by a male group, with at least one member a tenor. Though I wouldn’t say they were known for their voices, like the Vogues or something. Clue: a ‘60s song that reached #3 U.S. and #1 in Canada. Name the song, group, and songwriter(s).
Two songwriting teams that wrote for Jay and the Americans were Boyce/Hart and Pomus/Shuman...neither wrote a USA number three hit for any group/band, or a song beginning with that sung melody. Goffin/King did, "Pleasant Valley Sunday" for the Monkees, but there's no such NTT melody in that song. It even was #1 in Canada, but it ain't the song....d a n g...............
Must be a more obscure song that Jay and the Americans recorded, and by a songwriting team that's none of the above...
NOT Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil... not Crewe/Gaudio...
--and the only hit Bacharach and David wrote for a group in the Sixties was "Little Red Book" by Love which bubbled under the top 40.
S T U M P E D....
Last edited by Michael Zaneski; 10/31/2311:03 PM.
Fate doesn't hang on a wrong or right choice Fortune depends on the tone of your voice
-The Divine Comedy (Neil Hannon) from the song "Songs of Love" from the album "Casanova" (1996)
I messed up by not scanning The Monkees discography thoroughly like I did the Boyce and Hart wikipedia page that does NOT mention Valleri (!), and I shouldn't have needed to, as I know the song well. Now I feel like an idiot! In a good way, that is.
Last edited by Michael Zaneski; 11/01/2301:13 PM.
Fate doesn't hang on a wrong or right choice Fortune depends on the tone of your voice
-The Divine Comedy (Neil Hannon) from the song "Songs of Love" from the album "Casanova" (1996)
The Monkees discography thoroughly like I did the Boyce and Hart wikipedia page that does NOT mention Valleri (!)
Hey Mike, I was wondering about that! As I recall reading, Boyce & Hart were the original producers of the song as well and it was recut because the Monkees’ TV show required that they be noted as producers, or something like that… maybe that’s why it wasn’t found..
Yeah, the Boyce/Hart Wikipedia page mentioned "Pleasant Valley Sunday" and my thinking was that any top ten song would be mentioned, as they had less than a dozen all told...
Love the song, even the obvious "homage" to Richards' "Satisfaction" lick...
Last edited by Michael Zaneski; 11/01/2301:36 PM.
Fate doesn't hang on a wrong or right choice Fortune depends on the tone of your voice
-The Divine Comedy (Neil Hannon) from the song "Songs of Love" from the album "Casanova" (1996)
When I saw the Monkees clue and checked out that Pleasant Valley Sunday made it to #1 in Canada and #3 in US--thought that must be it. Your 2nd piano does sound more like the Valerie melody. I think I would have gotten it on my next research trip--but not too much free time on my hands. I think that was my 2nd fav Monkees song, 1st being Day Dream Believer, 3rd, Last train to Clarksville. I'm a Believer which I think was their 1st big hit just got over-played for me I think. I wasn't a big Monkees fan being a Beatles fan at that time and wasn't keen on them being a TV auditioned band. But give them credit, they actually weren't too bad on their own. Heck, I'm old enough to remember Mickey as "Circus Boy" on that TV show late 50's--ouch!
Google it. He was a little blond headed boy probably about 10 or 11 years old when he played the role of circus boy. He really hadn’t changed a lot you can definitely recognize him when you see it. I’m sure you can find it online. I think the series was on like maybe 1957 to 1960.
Google it. He was a little blond headed boy probably about 10 or 11 years old when he played the role of circus boy. He really hadn’t changed a lot you can definitely recognize him when you see it. I’m sure you can find it online. I think the series was on like maybe 1957 to 1960.
This sounds like Toby Tyler, a book I read as a kid. He ran away to the circus and had a rough go.
Two songs, one singer, two songwriters, both big hits
Creators of music have a responsibility to their craft. When they have finished using all the notes and words, they must pass them down to the next generation with a simple request. “Use these to create new music.”...Steven McDonald
I was quite surprised who the songwriter was on one of the songs...the songwriter was a great singer as well....
Creators of music have a responsibility to their craft. When they have finished using all the notes and words, they must pass them down to the next generation with a simple request. “Use these to create new music.”...Steven McDonald
The songs are connected other than the same singer
Last edited by VNORTH2; 11/07/2306:02 AM.
Creators of music have a responsibility to their craft. When they have finished using all the notes and words, they must pass them down to the next generation with a simple request. “Use these to create new music.”...Steven McDonald
Creators of music have a responsibility to their craft. When they have finished using all the notes and words, they must pass them down to the next generation with a simple request. “Use these to create new music.”...Steven McDonald
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