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1.
Listen to the Warm |
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Songwriter(s): |
Rod McKuen |
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Recording Artist: |
Rod McKuen |
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Date Recorded: |
1968 |
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Album: |
Listen to the Warm |
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Label: |
Stanyan Records |
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Notes:
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The album "Listen to the Warm", released in 1968, was a musical companion-piece to Rod McKuen's book of poems by the same name. By 1970, the book "Listen To The Warm" had sold one million copies, which was an all time record for poetry books at that time. It has since had thirty-six printings. The album "Listen To The Warm" went gold in 1970. |
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2.
Drowned World/Substitute for Love |
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Songwriter(s): |
Madonna, William Orbit, Rod McKuen, Anita Kerr, David Collins |
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Recording Artist: |
Madonna |
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Date Recorded: |
1998 |
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Album: |
Ray of Light |
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Label: |
Warner Brothers |
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Chart Position: |
#1 Spain, #10 UK |
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Notes:
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"Drowned World/Substitute For Love" is included on Madonna's GHV2 disc and her 2001 "Drowned World Tour" was named after the song. |
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3.
We Trying to Stay Alive |
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Songwriter(s): |
B. Gibb, R. Gibb, M. Gibb, N. Jean, S. Michel, J. Forte, N.
Robinson, K. Robinson |
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Recording Artist: |
Wyclef Jean |
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Date Recorded: |
1997 |
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Album: |
The Carnival |
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Label: |
Ruffhouse/Columbia |
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Notes:
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4.
Rumble |
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Songwriter(s): |
Mark
Grant/Link
Wray |
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Recording Artist: |
Link Wray |
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Date Recorded: |
April, 1958 |
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Album: |
1960: Link Wray & The Wraymen |
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Label: |
Cadence/Forevermore Records |
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Chart Position: |
Pop Singles, #16 |
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Notes:
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When "Rumble" was released
in 1958, several radio stations banned the record, feeling
that the recording was too suggestive, even though it was
an instrumental. Parents worried about their children becoming
'juvenile delinquents.' Regardless, the record sold more
than a million copies.
Pete
Townshend
of the Who once
stated that "if it hadn't been
for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would never have picked up
a guitar."
The song was used in the 1994
Quentin
Tarantino film PULP FICTION, starring
John
Travolta,
Uma
Thurman, and
Samuel
L.
Jackson
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| 5.
I Want You With Me |
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Songwriter(s):
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Woody
Harris |
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Recording Artist:
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Elvis
Presley |
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Date Recorded: |
1961 |
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Album: |
Something For Everybody |
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Label: |
RCA |
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Chart Position: |
Pop Albums, #1 |
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Notes:
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When Elvis left the Army,
he mainly recorded film soundtracks; however, this album
was not produced for a film. This particular song from the
album was the only selection to hint at his rock-a-billy
musical roots. |
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| 6.
Catfish |
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Songwriter(s):
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Jim
Wann/Bland Simpson |
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Recording Artist:
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Jim
Wann |
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Date Recorded: |
1982 |
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Album: |
PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES-Original
Cast Album |
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Label: |
CBS Records |
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Awards: |
The Broadway production was
nominated for a Tony Award: Best Musical. |
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Notes:
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Recording taken from the Jim
Wann
album PARDON MY SOUTHERN ACCENT
Following four months of packed houses Off-Broadway, PUMP
BOYS AND DINETTES moved to Broadway’s Princess Theatre,
opening on February 4, 1982. |
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| 7.
In Trance |
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Songwriter(s):
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Klaus
Meine/Rudolf Schenker |
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Recording Artist:
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The Scorpions |
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Date Recorded: |
1975 |
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Album: |
In Trance |
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Label: |
RCA |
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Notes:
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In 1975, the album IN TRANCE
was the best-selling RCA album in Japan. That
same year, in Europe, the
Scorpions shared top-billing with KISS. |
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| 8.
Queen of the Hop |
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Songwriter(s):
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Woody
Harris/Bobby Darin |
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Recording Artist:
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Bobby
Darin |
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Date Recorded: |
April 10, 1958 |
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Album: |
1961: The Bobby
Darin Story |
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Label: |
Atco/Warner
Special Products |
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Chart Position: |
Pop Singles, #9
1961: The Bobby Darin Story - Pop Albums, #18 |
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Notes:
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Dion
& The Belmonts and Danny
& The Juniors also recorded "Queen of the Hop." |
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| 9.
Jack The Ripper |
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Songwriter(s):
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M.
Cooper/Link Wray |
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Recording Artist:
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Link Wray |
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Date Recorded: |
1963 |
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Label: |
Swan Records/Forevermore Records |
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Chart Position: |
Pop Singles, #13 |
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Notes:
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"Jack The Ripper" was named
for a dance, or 'dirty boogie,' that was popular in Baltimore
at the time that Link Wray recorded the song.
In 1999, "Jack The Ripper" was used in the first Taco Bell
commercials that incorporated the talking Chihuahua. |
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| 10.
Early In The Morning |
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Songwriter(s):
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Woody
Harris/Bobby Darin |
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Recording Artist:
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Buddy Holly |
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Date Recorded: |
1958 |
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Album: |
1959: The Buddy Holly
Story-Pop
Albums, #11 |
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Label: |
Coral Records |
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Chart Position: |
Pop Singles, #32 |
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Notes:
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Bobby
Darin (1958), Z.Z. Hill (1971), Bobby
Vee (1963), Rose Maddox
(1961), Connie Francis (1997) and Skeeter
Davis (1967), among others, have recorded this song. |
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| 11.
Kurski
Funk |
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Songwriter(s):
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Paul Winter/Oscar Castro-Neves/Paul
Halley |
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Recording Artist:
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The Paul
Winter Consort
with The Dimitri Pokrovsky Singers |
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Date Recorded: |
March - June, 1987 |
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Album: |
Earthbeat |
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Label: |
Living Earth Music |
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Notes:
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Featured as the theme from
the hit television show SURVIVOR. |
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| 12.
Rock Bottom |
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Songwriter(s):
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Phil
Mogg/Michael Schenker |
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Recording Artist:
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UFO |
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Date Recorded: |
1974 |
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Album: |
Phenomenon |
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Label: |
Chrysalis |
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Notes:
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This song is from 1979 live
UFO concert album STRANGERS IN THE NIGH. That album hit
#42 on the Pop Album charts, and is considered to be one
of the three top live albums of the 1970s, along with KISS
and Peter Frampton.
“Rock Bottom” was recently used in the WB television
show SUPERNATURAL. |
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| 13.
Some Of My Best Friends Are The Blues |
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Songwriter(s):
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Al
Byron/Woody Harris |
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Recording Artist:
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Della
Reese |
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Date Recorded: |
1967 |
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Album: |
Della
On Strings Of Blue |
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Label: |
ABC-Paramount |
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Notes:
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"Some Of My Best Friends Are
The Blues" has also been recorded by Lena Horne (1998),
Jimmy Witherspoon
(1964), Shirley Horn
(1965), and Sara
Lazarus (2004), among
others. |
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| 14.
Rock-A-Billy |
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Songwriter(s):
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Woody
Harris/Eddie Deane |
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Recording Artist:
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Guy
Mitchell |
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Date Recorded: |
1957 |
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Label: |
Sony |
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Chart Position: |
Pop Singles, #10 |
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Notes:
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"Rock-A-Billy" hit #1 in the
U.K. |
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| 15.
Doctor, Doctor |
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Songwriter(s):
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Phil
Mogg/Michael Schenker |
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Recording Artist:
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UFO |
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Date Recorded: |
1974 |
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Album: |
Phenomenon |
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Label: |
Chrysalis |
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Notes:
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The 1979 live UFO concert
album, STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT, contains this song. STRANGERS
IN THE NIGHT hit #42 on the Pop Album charts.
“Doctor Doctor” was
recently used in VH1’s I LOVE THE 70s AGAIN. |
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