edna Posted March 22, 2015 Report Posted March 22, 2015 The Songfactor's Personal Top 10: CanAm This week there is 6(six) songs needing facts. CanAM's Personal Top 10 1. Long Gone – George Thorogood 2. The Nazz Are Blue – The Yardbirds 3. Race With The Devil – The Stray Cats 4. Cruise On Out – Rory Gallagher 5. Keep On Rockin' – Alvin Lee 6. The Captain & The Kid – Elton John If you have any info on any of the songs mentioned anywhere in this thread, please feel free to post your knowledge here. Submissions on songs will be collated and sent to the main site and you will receive credit for your contribution. As always the Songfish thanks you :guitar: :rock:
edna Posted March 22, 2015 Report Posted March 22, 2015 "Long Gone" George Thorogood Written by George Thorogood. A track of his 1985 LP "Maverick", by George Thorogood (& The Destroyers. It was recorded in 1984. The song wasn't released as a single. Hank Carter plays saxophone.
edna Posted March 22, 2015 Report Posted March 22, 2015 "The Nazz Are Blue" The Yardbirds Written by Chris Dreja, Jim McCarty, Jeff Beck, Keith Relf and Paul Samwell-Smith. A track of their album "Roger The Engineer", released in July 1966. The album was called "Yardbirds" in the UK. The Philadelphia band The Nazz took their name from this song. In 1952, the American comedian Lord Buckley recorded a popular monologue, "The Nazz", which is a re-telling of the story of Jesus of Nazareth. Buckley's monologue inspired the song "The Nazz Are Blue" by British rock group The Yardbirds from their album Roger the Engineer.
edna Posted March 22, 2015 Report Posted March 22, 2015 "Race With The Devil" The Stray Cats Written by Tex Davies and Gene Vincent. First recorded by Gene Vincent in 1956. A track from their album "Rock Therapy" from 1986.
edna Posted March 22, 2015 Report Posted March 22, 2015 "Cruise On Out" Rory Gallagher Written by Rory Gallagher. A track from his compilation album "BBC Sessions", with songs recorded live at the BBC between 1971 and 1986 and released posthumously in 1999.
edna Posted March 22, 2015 Report Posted March 22, 2015 "Keep On Rockin'" Alvin Lee Written by Alvin Lee A track from his 1994 album, "Nineteen Ninety Four".
edna Posted March 22, 2015 Report Posted March 22, 2015 "The Captain & The Kid" Elton John Written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin. A track from his album "The Captain & The Kid", from September 2006.
chutzpah Posted March 23, 2015 Report Posted March 23, 2015 Cruise On Out- Rory Gallagher was released in 1978 on the album Photo Finish Keep On Rockin- Alvin Lee was released in 1994 with the US album title I Hear You Rockin
Zabadak Posted March 23, 2015 Report Posted March 23, 2015 (edited) "Race With The Devil" The Stray Cats Written by Tex Davies and Gene Vincent. First recorded by Gene Vincent in 1956. A track from their album "Rock Therapy" from 1986. Actually a duet with Dave Edmunds. He was credited first so it was on his label, Swan Song, not the band's Arista. :rock: Edited March 23, 2015 by Guest Age-related blindness
chutzpah Posted March 23, 2015 Report Posted March 23, 2015 Thank you Chutz!! you're very welcome Edna
edna Posted March 23, 2015 Report Posted March 23, 2015 And thank you very much, Zab!!! :inlove: I didn't know that and I'm still an Edmunds fan...
Zabadak Posted March 24, 2015 Report Posted March 24, 2015 And thank you very much, Zab!!! :inlove: I didn't know that and I'm still an Edmunds fan... Quality dude!
edna Posted March 30, 2015 Report Posted March 30, 2015 The Songfactor's Choice Top 10 #407 This week there is 6(six) songs needing facts. Songfactor's Choice Top 10 #407 1. Wrap It Up – Fabulous Thunderbirds (1986) 2. Razamanaz – Nazareth (1973) 3. Jesse – Carly Simon (1980) 4. Where Did My Spring Go – The Kinks (1973) 5. Sugar – Maroon 5 (2015) 6. Can't Let You Go – Rainbow (1983) If you have any info on any of the songs mentioned anywhere in this thread, please feel free to post your knowledge here. Submissions on songs will be collated and sent to the main site and you will receive credit for your contribution. As always the Songfish thanks you :guitar: :rock:
chutzpah Posted March 30, 2015 Report Posted March 30, 2015 Can't Let You Go- Rainbow From the album Bent Out Of Shape released in 1983. The single reached #42 on the UK singles chart.
edna Posted March 30, 2015 Report Posted March 30, 2015 "Sugar" Maroon Wrtten by Adam Levine, Lukasz Gottwald, Jacob Kasher Hindlin, Mike Posner, Ammo and Cirkut. A track from their album "V", released in January 13, 2015 as the third single. It made #2 on Billboard Hot 100. "Sugar" is a disco, funk-pop and soul song with a length of three minutes and fifty-six seconds. It features a wide range of instruments including, a guitar provided by James Valentine and Dr. Luke, bass played by Mickey Madden and synth bass provided by Dr. Luke. The producer Cirkut provided the core percussion while PJ Morton, Jesse Carmichael, Dr. Luke, Ammo and Cirkut contributed to the keyboards. Musically, "Sugar" combines the grooves of the funk and "synth-driven" of the 1980s music nostalgia feeling. According to Kobalt Music Publishing's digital sheet music for the song, "Sugar" is composed in the key of D major (recorded a half-step lower in D-flat major) and set in common time signature, and has a moderately slow groove of 124 beats per minute. Levine's vocals span from the low note of D4 to the high note of F6. Kyle Anderson of Entertainment Weekly noted the reminiscence of "Sugar" to the works by singer Bruno Mars. Brad Wete of Billboard magazine compared the song's production to that of Katy Perry's 2014 single "Birthday", which was also produced by Cirkut, together with Dr. Luke. Similarly, Rolling Stone's Jon Dolan compared the song to the works of Perry and wrote that the "funk-guitar licks zip across a spry, sun-drunk groove as Levine sings..."Lyrically, Levine sings the lines to his romantic interest, "I just wanna be there where you are/And I gotta get one little taste". Jon Caramanica of The New York Times wrote that on the Levine sounds most lecherous while singing the lyrics, "I want that red velvet, I want that sugar sweet." According to him "he croons so cleanly it's possible to imagine that he is truly singing about cake."
Brad_M Posted March 30, 2015 Report Posted March 30, 2015 "Razamanaz" - Nazareth The title track from their 1973 album Razamanaz. :guitar:
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