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"Hold Me"

P.J.Proby

Written by Little Jack Little and Ira Schuster

"Hold Me" was recorded and released in 1964 as a single, B-sided by "The Tip Of My Fingers" and it made #3 in the UK and #5 in Canada.

The great guitar solo on Hold Me was played by Big Jim Sullivan, who featured on a lot of British 60s hits.

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The Songfactor's Top 10 #364

This week there is 7(SEVEN) songs needing facts.

The Songfactor's Choice Top 10 #364

1. Roll Me Away – Bob Seger (1983)

2. Breaking The Chains – Dokken (1983)

3. One By One – The Black Seeds (2006)

4. Late Again – Steelers Wheel (1972)

5. Two Lane Highway – Pure Prairie League (1975)

6. Strangelove – Depeche Mode (1987)

7. Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers – ZZ Top (1973)

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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"Roll Me Away"

Bob Seger

Written by Bob Seger.

A track from his December 1982 album "The Distance" and also a single, B-sided by "The Real Love".

The single was released in January 1983 and it made #13 on Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks and #27 on Billboard Hot 100.

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"Breaking The Chains"

Dokken

Written by Don Dokken/George Lynch.

The single was released in 1983 and it made #32 on the Hot Mainstream Charts.

It's also the track of their debut album with the same title. It was released in 1981 in Europe and in 1983 in the US.

Opener "Breaking the Chains" remains a pop/rock perennial (forever linked to the accompanying apocalyptic video wherein Don and the boys, well, break the chains).

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"One By One"

The Black Seeds

Credited to The Black Seeds.

From their 2006 album "Into The Dojo", released in 2006.

The single "One by One" was released in 2006 but didn't chart.

It was used in AMC's Breaking Bad Season 2 Episode, "4 Days Out" and also appears on the series' official soundtrack

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"Two Lane Highway"

Pure Prairie League

Written by Larry Goshorn

The song is the opening track of their album "Two Lane Highway", recorded between December 18, 1974 – January 23, 1975 and released on April 1975.

The song was released as a single and it made #97 in the Pop Singles Chart.

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"Strangelove"

Depeche Mode

Written by Martin Gore.

A track of their 1987 album "Music For The Masses".

The single was B-sided by "Pimpf" and "Agent Orange" and it wass released on 13 April 1987.

It made #50 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US, #16 in the UK charts, #2 in Germany and in South Africa and it also charted in other European countries.

The original version of "Strangelove" is a fast-paced pop track. Though successful, this did not seem to fit with Music for the Masses's darker style, so Daniel Miller made a slower version that became the album version

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"Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers"

ZZ Top

Written by Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard.

A track from their "Tres Hombres", 1973.

A "Radio minor hit", it was released as a single as the B-side of "La Grange" in the UK.

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The Songfactor's Top 10 #365

This week there is 3(three) songs needing facts.

The Songfactor's Choice Top 10 #365

1. Feel Your Love Tonight – Van Halen (1978)

2. People Get Ready – The Chambers Brothers (1967)

3. Touch and Go – The Cars (1980)

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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"Feel Your Love Tonight"

Van Halen

Written by Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen, Michael Anthony and David Lee Roth.

A track fro their debut album, released in february 1978.

It was also released as the B-side for the third sngle from the album, "Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love".

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"People Get Ready"

The Chambers Brothers

Written by Curtis Mayfield.

First recorded and released by The Impressions in 1965.

Here's some facts for the song.

The Chamber Brothers included the song in their debut album, "People Get Ready", 1966.

The group also does a beautiful job of harmonizing on Curtis Mayfield's "People Get Ready"
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"Touch and Go"

The Cars

Written by Ric Ocasek.

A track from their 1980 album "Panorama".

Also a single released in August 25th B-sided by "Down Boys".

It made #37 on Billboard Hot 100.

The song's verses feature the use of polymeter. The bass and drums are playing in a time signature of 5/4, while the vocals, keyboards, and guitar are playing in 4/4. For the lengthy pre-chorus and chorus, all instruments (and vocals) conform to the 4/4 signature. The guitar solo was played over music similar to the chorus, but with some sections extended to give Elliot Easton more measures on the chords E minor, F major, and G major, to build his flashy, melodic solo which resolves to a C major seventh chord.
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The Songfactor's Top 10 #366

This week there is 5(five) songs needing facts.

The Songfactor's Choice Top 10 #366

1. White Rhythm and Blues – J.D. Souther (feat Phil Everly) (1979)

2. She's My Baby – The Traveling Wilburys (1990)

3. A House Is Not A Home – Dionne Warwick (1964)

4. Waist Deep In The Big Muddy – Pete Seeger (1967)

5. All I Wanna Do is Make Love To You – Heart (1990)

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 Songfactor's Top 10 #366

This week there is 5(five) songs needing facts.

The Songfactor's Choice Top 10 #366

3. A House Is Not A Home – Dionne Warwick (1964)

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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"All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You"

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In the liner notes of Heart's album The Road Home, Ann Wilson commented on the band's dislike for the song, stating, "Actually we had sworn off it because it kind of stood for everything we wanted to get away from. It was a song by "Mutt" Lange, who we liked, and it was originally written for Don Henley, but there was a lot of pressure on us to do the song at the time."[

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Waist Deep In The Big Muddy was recorded in 1967. It did not chart.

The song tells the story of a platoon wading in a river in Louisiana on a practice patrol in 1942. Imperiously ignoring his sergeant's concerns, the captain orders the platoon to continue with himself in the lead, until they are finally up to their necks. Suddenly, the Captain drowns and the sergeant instantly orders the unit to turn back to the original shore. It turns out the Captain was not aware that the river was deeper with a joining stream upriver. The narrator declines to state an obvious moral, but intimates from what he has read in the paper that his nation itself is being led into similar peril by authoritarian fools. Each verse ends with a line noting that "the big fool said to push on", except for the final verse, which changes to the present tense, and the fourth verse which says "the big fool dead and gone". The story is similar to the Ribbon Creek incident, which occurred in 1956.

The song was considered symbolic of the Vietnam War and President Lyndon Johnson's policy of escalation, then widely seen as pushing the United States deeper into the increasingly unpopular war. The captain's criticism of a dissenting sergeant as a "Nervous Nelly" in the song's third verse appears to mimick Johnson's epithet for critics of the war.[1] Seeger often performed the song at concerts and rallies, and in late 1967 he was invited to perform on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Seeger chose to perform "Big Muddy," and sang the song on the taping of the CBS show in September, 1967 but CBS management objected to its political tone, and censored the song prior to broadcast. Following the strong support from the show's hosts, CBS later relented, and allowed Seeger to come back and sing the song on the Brothers' February 25, 1968, show. Ironically, at the time, Seeger was under contract to Columbia Records, which was owned by CBS, and had just recorded the song in an album titled Waist Deep in the Big Muddy and Other Love Songs This broadcast is included on the DVD The Best of the Smothers Brothers.

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