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"Witchcraft"

Frank Sinatra

Written by Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh.

Frank Sinatra recorded the song in May 1957 and it was released as a single, B-sided by "Tell Her You Love Her" by the end of the year.

It made #20 in the US charts and spent there sixteen weeks.

Cy Coleman had composed the music for "Take Five", a revue. Carolyn Leigh wrote the lyrics so Sinatra could record it, arranged by Nelson Riddle.

It was included as a track of "The Complete Capitol Singles Collection", in 1996.

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"Season Of The Witch"

Vanilla Fudge

Written by Donovan Leitch.

Here's the facts for the original song.

Vanilla Fudge recorded tehir version for their June 1968 album, "Renaissance".

The band also interpolates lyrics from a second Essra Mohawk song, "We Never Learn", into their rendition of "Season of the Witch".

The cover of Donovan's "Season of the Witch" does more with those two famous chords than most. It is a highlight and proves that covers should have been evenly matched with the originals on these early discs. That's what got them the audience in the first place, and reinvention is what they did best.

The single, released in june 1968 had "Season Of The Witch, Pt.1"as the A-side and "Season Of The Witch, Pt.2" as the B-side. It made #65 on Billboard Hot 100.

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"Witchcraft"

Frank Sinatra

Written by Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh.

Frank Sinatra recorded the song in May 1957 and it was released as a single, B-sided by "Tell Her You Love Her" by the end of the year.

It made #20 in the US charts and spent there sixteen weeks.

Cy Coleman had composed the music for "Take Five", a revue. Carolyn Leigh wrote the lyrics so Sinatra could record it, arranged by Nelson Riddle.

It was included as a track of "The Complete Capitol Singles Collection", in 1996.

Released in the UK in January 1958 - in a rare (for the Yook) picture sleeve - and charted at #12. :sing1:

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"Rebels"

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

Written by Tom Petty.

A track of his 1985 album, "Southern Accent", it was also the first single released from the LP.

It made #74 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop list.

Petty broke his hand in 1984, while recording this song for the album,

...so high on drugs that he couldn't get an arrangement he liked. Petty went into the control room, and put the original demo tape on, which featured just him and a Rickenbacker 12-string guitar. This made him so furious that he stormed up the stairs into his house, and punched the wall with his left hand, causing him to powder it. After a while, Tom Petty called Jimmy Iovine in to help him finish "Rebels" along with some other tracks on Southern Accents. Alan "Bugs" Weidel, Tom's roadie, considers "Rebels" a least favorite of his due to Petty's broken hand.

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Rebels - Tom Petty

During the recording stage of this song, Tom Petty went into the control room to listen to the demo tape, which featured him with a Rickenbacker 12 string guitar. This made him very agitated as he was on drugs at the time, so he went upstairs and punched the wall so hard that he broke it and was unable to perform or record for quite some time.

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Dappled's Personal Top 10

This time there is 10(ten) songs needing facts.

1. The Supernatural – John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

2. War Pigs – Cake

3. So Lonely – The Hollies

4. No Face, No Name, No Number – Traffic

5. Day is Done – Nick Drake

6. Last Night – The MarKeys

7. What – The Move

8. Sailing – Sutherland Brothers

9. Anna Julia – Jim Capaldi feat/ George Harrison

10. Hey Darling – The Spencer Davis Group

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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War Pigs - Cake

A cover of the Black Sabbath track originally released on 1970's Paranoid, it was featured on Cake's 1997 "B-Sides and Rarities" album which features mostly covers. Limited edition versions of the album also contain a live recording of "War Pigs", featuring Steven Drozd of the Flaming Lips performing with the band in concert.

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"The Supernatural"

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers

Written by Peter Green.

A track from "A Hard Road", released on February 1967.

The notable instrumental track "The Supernatural", a guitar improvisation in the key of D minor, has much in common with Peter Green's later hit composition "Black Magic Woman".

...devastating instrumental "Supernatural." Green's use of thick sustain on this track clearly pointed the way to his use of guitar riffs with elongated, slithery tones on Fleetwood Mac's "Albatross" and "Black Magic Woman," as well as anticipating some aspects of Carlos Santana's style.
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"So Lonely"

The Hollies

Written by L. Ransford (the pseudonym for Allan Clarke, Tony Hicks and Graham Nash)

A track of their album "The Hollies", recorded between November 1964 and July 1965 and released in September 1965.

The song was the B-side for "Look Through Any Window", the only single released from the LP.

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"Sailing"

The Sutherland Brothers

"Sailing" is a song written by Gavin Sutherland and recorded by The Sutherland Bros. Band (featuring the Sutherland Brothers Gavin and Iain). Released in June 1972, it can be found on their album 'Lifeboat' released in the same year.

Rod Stewart recorded the song at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Sheffield, Alabama, for his 1975 album Atlantic Crossing, and it was subsequently a number 1 hit in the UK in September 1975 for four weeks.

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"No Face, No Name, No Number"

Traffic

Written by Jim Capaldi and Steve Winwood.

A track of their album "Mr Fantasy", recorded between April and November 1967, released in December 1967.

Also a single, with "(Roamin' in the Gloamin' with)40,000 Headmen" as the B-side.

It was released in 1968 and it made #40 in the UK charts.

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"Last Night"

The MarKeys

Written by Charles Axton, Floyd Newman, Gilbert C. Caple, Jerry Lee Smith, and Chips Moman.

An instrumental track from their 1961 album "Last Night!", released as a single in June 1961.

B-sided by "Night Before".

The song made #3 in the Pop Charts and #2 in the R&B charts in the US.

It was the title tune for"Salut les Copains", a very popular radio show in France.

According to Steve Cropper, in an interview with Paul Nassari of the Sunday Mail newspaper (Adelaide, Australia), "Jerry Lee ‘Smoochy’ Smith came up with the piano riff that was played on organ. Since [producer Chips] Moman didn’t want a guitar on it for whatever reason, I wound up playing the hold-down on the organ on the root note. "It hurts me in the Mar-Keys history when people say I wasn’t in the Mar-Keys because there’s no guitar on Last Night but I have to differ with them."

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"Anna Julia"

Jim Capaldi feat/ George Harrison

Written by Marcelo Camelo.

The original song was written and recorded by the Brezilian band "Los Hermanos".

The lyrics were translated into English. The song was a track of Capaldi's 2001 album, "Living On The Outside" with George Harrison playing guitar.

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The Songfactor's Top 10 #356

This week there is 4(two) songs needing facts.

1. If This Is It – Huey Lewis & The News (1983)

2. You – George Harrison (1975)

3. Cuddly Toy – Harry Nillson (1967)

4. Turn Back the Hands of Time – Tyrone Davis (1970)

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: :drummer: :rock:

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The Songfactor's Top 10 #356

This week there is 4(two) songs needing facts.

2. You – George Harrison (1975)

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: :drummer: :rock:

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