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Sh-Boom. " Sh-Boom " (" Life Could Be a Dream ") is an early doo-wop song by the R&B vocal group The Chords. It was written by James Keyes, Claude Feaster, Carl Feaster, Floyd F. McRae, and William Edwards, members of The Chords, and published in 1954. It is sometimes considered the first doo-wop or rock 'n' roll record to reach the top ten on ...
The Chords were one of the early acts to be signed to Cat Records, a subsidiary label of Atlantic Records. [2] Their debut single was a doo-wop version of a Patti Page song "Cross Over the Bridge", and the record label reluctantly allowed a number penned by the Chords on the B-side. [3]
Melody. "Bunessan". Performed. 1931. ( 1931) " Morning Has Broken " is a Christian hymn first published in 1931. It has words by English author Eleanor Farjeon and was inspired by the village of Alfriston in East Sussex, then set to a traditional Scottish Gaelic tune, "Bunessan". [1] It is often sung in children's services and in funeral services.
Jerry Murad (1918–1996) ( chromatic harmonica) was an Armenian born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1918, and moved to America at the age of 2. He played diatonic harmonicas at first, and took up chromatic soon after. Murad played Hohner 270s and 64s, as well as the Musette, a harmonica made especially for him that replicates the sound qualities of a ...
Bell Bottom Trousers was the last song with a military connection to be featured on the popular radio and television broadcast Your Hit Parade. [2] The recording by Tony Pastor 's orchestra was made on April 4, 1945 and released by RCA Victor Records as catalog number 20-1661, with the flip side "Five Salted Peanuts". [3]
The chord structure is in the key of F with an A major chord "borrowed" from the D minor scale, [9] similar to fellow album track "All the Madmen". [10] Throughout the song, Visconti's bass "runs scales" under the chorus and a melody "elsewhere", Woodmansey plays "ecstatic" drum fills deep in the mix and Latin-style percussion "trembling" on ...
The House of the Rising Sun. " The House of the Rising Sun " is an American traditional folk song, sometimes called " Rising Sun Blues ". It tells of a person's life gone wrong in the city of New Orleans. Many versions also urge a sibling or parents and children to avoid the same fate. The most successful commercial version, recorded in 1964 by ...
The "Horst-Wessel-Lied" ("Horst Wessel Song"; German:[hɔʁstˈvɛsl̩liːt]ⓘ), also known by its opening words "Die Fahne hoch" ("Raise the Flag", lit. 'The Flag High'), was the anthem of the Nazi Party(NSDAP) from 1930 to 1945. From 1933 to 1945, the Nazis made it the co-national anthem of Germany, along with the first stanza of the ...