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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

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"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.
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"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:

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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.

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"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."

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