author: spencer leigh

Frank Sinatra: An Extraordinary Life

... Hey There' from The Pajama Game, produced by Mitch Miller. When Frank met the composer Richard Adler at a party, he said to him, 'I'm the schmuck who turned down 'Hey There'.' He indulged in some good-natured banter on The Amos'n'Andy ...

1,000 UK Number One Hits

Jon Kutner, Spencer Leigh. 231. Nancy Sinatra & Frank Sinatra Somethin' Stupid Label & Cat No.: Reprise RS 23166 Producers: Jimmy Bowen / Lee Hazlewood Writers: C. Carson Parks Date reached No. 1: 13 April 1967 Weeks at No. 1: 2. I. N THE ...

Bob Dylan: Outlaw Blues

... Bob Dylan physically is a thin man. We know from Dont Look Back, there is no end of candidates. When he finished the song, the drummer Bobby Gregg said, 'That's a nasty song, Bob ... Mr. Jones lives in Lincoln, Nebraska. He hangs around ...

Simon & Garfunkel: Together Alone

... piano on 'Bridge Over Troubled Water', bass on the Byrds' 'Mr Tambourine Man', harmonica on Dean Martin's 'Houston' and being the guitar man on Bread's 'Guitar Man'. He had also raised cattle and prospected for gold (and found it) ...

Elvis Presley: Caught in a Trap

... script, but that wasn't his audition piece. When he met Hal Wallis at Paramount, actually on April Fool's Day, he was asked to read from a new script, The Rainmaker. He was reading the part of Jimmy Curry and acting with Frank Faylen ...

Little Richard: Send Me Some Lovin'

... sheet music fell to the floor and rather than stop singing , Louis improvised his vocal . His nonsense syllables have come to be known as ' scat ' , a style copied by Ella Fitzgerald , Little Richard and Van Morrison , to name but three ...

The Cavern Club: The Rise of The Beatles and Merseybeat

... ukulele. Steve Harley sang Elvis Presley's 'Love Me' “which is appropriate ... Sweet Lord'. Billy Butler announced that an old drunk was going to stagger ... the Cavern, I was told that my.

Love Me Do to Love Me Don't: Beatles on Record

... ultimate is their second album where everything came together. Look at the picture with their families on that first ... Guitar Gently Weeps/ Happiness Is a Warm Gun Side 2: Martha My Dear/ I'm So Tired/ Blackbird/ Piggies/ Rocky Racoon ...

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