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#10741 From: Jack Snead <ajsnead@...>
Date: Sat Oct 4, 2008 4:34 pm
Subject: Broken Glass 1 (Original Mike Bourke) ajsblue
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A Mean, Original, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Guitar Instrumental With  Lots
Of Overdrive Electric Guitar And Monster Bass

Mike, from Australia composed this great MIDI in 2001.
(Mike said his MIDI was inspired by the great guitar playing
of Ace Frehley from the group "Kiss" and the song "Fractured Mirror"
270kb, 11.23mpt

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#10742 From: Jack Snead <ajsnead@...>
Date: Sat Oct 4, 2008 4:56 pm
Subject: Wheels (Hank Snow, Chet Atkin's++) (Seq Chuck Duklis) ajsblue
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One Of Chet's Greatest Guitar Instrumentals Included On His 1958 Album:
"Guitar For All Seasons"
Composed by Norman Petty
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This MIDI Is Erroneously Named All Over The Net As "Big Wheels Rollin'
Which Was Actually A Big Johnny Horton Hit In 1959 And Was Composed By
Orea &  Wilson

Chuck Duklis, Originally is from Colbert, Georgia and is now residing in
Panama.

I have hosted a page for Chuck's MIDI's for several years.
http://www.ajsmidi.com/duklis/duklis.html

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#10743 From: Jack Snead <ajsnead@...>
Date: Sat Oct 4, 2008 6:03 pm
Subject: I Want To Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart (Patsy Montana) (Seq Bob Graham) ajsblue
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A Million-Selling Cowboy Tune For Patsy Montana & The Prairie Ramblers
First Recorded In 1935

Patsy Was The First Female Recording Artist Ever To Have A Million
Selling Record

Patsy Montana Was Elected Into The Country Music Hall Of Fame In
1996, The Year She Passed Away
Her Real Name Was Rubye Blevins
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Bob made this MIDI by scanning the sheet music and converting to MIDI
using the program MIDISCAN, MUSITEK, Ojai, California.

You have probably seen that inside many MIDI files and thought that they
programmed the MIDI, however it is just a program and apparently did not
have a place in the program where the sequencer, scanner could put their
credentials.

Some sequencers after using the program to scan a piece of sheet music
would then edit the MIDI using another sequencing program and then
insert their credentials.

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#10744 From: Jack Snead <ajsnead@...>
Date: Sat Oct 4, 2008 6:53 pm
Subject: Too Old To Cut The Mustard Anymore (Bill Carlisle) (Seq Frank Schrober) ajsblue
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This Great Country/Novelty Tune Was A Top 10 Hit For Bill In 1952
and also was a big hit for Red Foley & Ernest Tubb in a duet the same
year and has been covered by numerous other artists both in Country &
Pop.
Composed by Bill Carlisle.
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Frank "Grandpa" Schrober from Alabama, USA celebrated his 85'th birthday
yesterday, Oct. 03, 2008.
I contacted Frank & He replied:

Good afternoon Jack,
Thank you for the  birthday greeting and thank you for being my friend.
I wish you and yours God's blessings.
Your friend, Frank

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#10745 From: Jack Snead <ajsnead@...>
Date: Sat Oct 4, 2008 8:53 pm
Subject: To All The Girls I've Loved Before (Willie Nelson & Julio Iglesias) (Seq Dr. ChartChai MeeSangNin) ajsblue
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A Blockbuster #1 Country Single &�#5 Pop Single For The Duet In 1984
And Is Included On Many Of Their Albums Including Julio's 1984
Album: "1100 Bel Air Place" And
Willie's 1985 Album: "Half Nelson"
The Duo Also Received The 1984 CMA Award For "Vocal Duo Of The Year"
For Their Version Of The Song
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The great sequencer is from Thailand.

This tune is one of my many, many favorites.
http://www.ajsmidi.com/favorite/favorite.html

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#10746 From: "Cat >^..^< Jefferson" <oneqtcat@...>
Date: Sat Oct 4, 2008 9:52 pm
Subject: To Donya Quick no1jazzcat
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Please contact me at my addy, oneqtcat@...
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#10747 From: Wild West <wild_west2@...>
Date: Sat Oct 4, 2008 11:51 pm
Subject: Freeware: MIDI Tab Player wild_west_48
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For our guitar playing members, this may be useful? At least it's free!

Midi Tab Player is guitar player's companion software that loads Midi files, displays the finger positions while playing the guitar sound and the accompaniment. It offers convenient practice features such as tempo change, step play, loop practice and sound mute. Midi Tab Player finds the optimal fingering positions using Axontone(TM) a sophisticated transcription algorithm. The free Fan version displays a brief advertisement screen.

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#10748 From: Wild West <wild_west2@...>
Date: Sun Oct 5, 2008 4:46 pm
Subject: This Week In Rock n Roll History: October 5th to October 11th wild_west_48
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Don't Leave Home Without Us!

1939 - ClassicBands.com

October 10
The real Eleanor Rigby died in her sleep of unknown causes at the age of 44. The 1966 Beatles' song that featured her name wasn't really written about her, as Paul McCartney's first draft of the song named the character Miss Daisy Hawkins. Eleanor Rigby's tombstone was noticed in the 1980s in the graveyard of St. Peter's Parish Church in Woolton, Liverpool, a few feet from where McCartney and Lennon had met for the first time in 1957.

1952 - ClassicBands.com

October 7
Bob Horn's Bandstand debuts on WFIL-TV in Philadelphia. Less than four years later, the weekly show will be hosted by Dick Clark and will go on to be the most influential US music program in Rock history.

1955 - ClassicBands.com

October 8
The Four Aces led the US hit parade with "Love Is A Many Splendored Thing", the first US number one record that was specifically written for a motion picture.

October 11
Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash kick off an eleven date tour of the Southern US states in Abilene, Texas.

1956 - ClassicBands.com

October 10
Elvis Presley's "Love Me Tender" entered the Billboard chart for a 19 week stay. It was #1 for 5 of those weeks. The song, from Presley's first film of the same name, was adapted from the tune "Aura Lee", written in 1861.

1957 - ClassicBands.com

October 7
RCA Victor has already received a half-million advanced orders for Elvis Presley's Christmas album. So far only 200,000 copies have been pressed.

October 8
Jerry Lee Lewis records his biggest hit, "Great Balls of Fire" as a follow-up to his six million seller, "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On".

1958 - ClassicBands.com

October 5
Cliff Richard and The Shadows played their first gig together when they appeared at the Victoria Hall, Hanley, England.

October 6
Billboard Magazine runs an article that states "payola, that under-the-turntable device whereby record companies win plugs and influence disc jockeys, is fast growing into a monster that may yet destroy its creators. According to key record execs, jockey payola is so widespread that it's no longer possible to measure its effectiveness." Disc jockey Alan Freed's career will soon be ended by the scandal.

October 7
Georgia Gibbs sings "The Hula-Hoop Song" on The Ed Sullivan Show, giving the hula-hoop craze in the US an even further boost.

October 9
Eddie Cochran records "C'mon Everybody". It will prove to be his last US Top 40 hit, reaching #35.

1959 - ClassicBands.com

October 5
21 year old Paul Evans reaches the Billboard chart for the first time with a novelty song called "Seven Little Girls" (sittin' in the back seat, kissin' and huggin' with Fred). As well as his own recording career, Evans wrote many hits for other artists, including Bobby Vinton's "Roses Are Red" and The Kalin Twins "When".

October 9
21 year old Bobby Darin becomes the youngest performer to headline at the Sands Hotel's Copa Room in Las Vegas. The previous record-holder, Johnny Mathis, appeared at 23. Darin was touring in support of his mega-hit, "Mack The Knife", which was number one in the US this week.

October 10
Barry Gordy's first release on the newly established Motown Records, "Bad Girls" by The Miracles, enters the Billboard Pop chart. Unfortunately for all concerned, it will only stay there for two weeks, then fade into oblivion.

1960 - ClassicBands.com

October 10
A silly novelty song called "Mr. Custer" by Larry Verne was the number one single in America. The record told a story about a US cavalry trooper who tries to talk his way out of fighting the Sioux Indians at Little Big Horn in 1876. The song failed to chart at all in the UK.

October 11
Aretha Franklin appears at the Village Vanguard club in New York, marking the first non-gospel performance of her career.

1961 - ClassicBands.com

October 5
Neil Sedaka records "Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen", which will become his eighth US Top 20 hit. He will go on to have thirteen more.

October 5
As a follow up to their US number one smash, "Blue Moon", The Marcels release a similar sounding tune called "Heartaches", which will climb to number seven on the US Pop chart.

October 9
"Hit The Road Jack" becomes Ray Charles' second US #1 hit. In the UK, it reached #6.

1962 - ClassicBands.com

October 5
The Beatles' first single, "Love Me Do", backed with "P.S. I Love You", is released in the UK. The record gets its first radio play the same evening on the EMI-owned Radio Luxembourg and will peak at #17 on the UK chart in December.

October 8
After a five year absence, Little Richard makes his return to Rock 'n' Roll as he kicks off his first ever tour of the UK, sharing the bill with Sam Cooke.

October 9
Britain's BBC bans Bobby 'Boris' Pickett's "Monster Mash". Although the song is neither obscene or controversial, it's about a horror movie party and like many other songs, is banned under a catch-all regulation prohibiting the broadcast of anything deemed "offensive."

1964 - ClassicBands.com

October 7
The Beatles appear on a taped episode of the American Rock 'n' Roll TV show Shindig!. From London, they perform "I'm a Loser", "Boys" and "Kansas City".

October 9
The Rolling Stones announce the cancellation of a planned South African tour due to an anti-apartheid embargo by the British Musicians' Union.

October 9
The Beach Boys record "Dance Dance Dance", with Glen Campbell playing the lead guitar intro. It would go on to become their twelfth US Top 40 hit.

October 10
The Shangri-Las' "Leader Of The Pack" is released. Of their six US Top 40 hits, this will be their only number one.

1965 - ClassicBands.com

October 5
Johnny Cash was arrested crossing the Mexican border into El Paso, Texas after customs officials found hundreds of pills in his guitar case. He would receive a suspended jail sentence and a $1,000 fine.

October 6
Gary Lewis and the Playboys enter the studio to record two of their biggest hits, "She's Just My Style" and "Sure Gonna Miss Her".

October 9
"Yesterday" by The Beatles, topped both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Cashbox Magazine Best Sellers chart. The song was actually recorded by Paul McCartney alone, as John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr were not in the studio.

October 9
The Miracles' "My Girl Has Gone" enters the Hot 100 where it will reach #14. It's the Motown group's 20th pop chart entry.

October 10
The Supremes make the first of many appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show.

October 11
Gerry Marsden of Gerry & the Pacemakers marries the secretary of his fan club, Pauline Behan.

1966 - ClassicBands.com

October 6
British rocker Johnny Kidd was killed in a car crash in Manchester, England, at the age of 26. The car was being driven by the husband of the secretary of his fan club. Although he never made a dent in the US record charts, Kidd had several hits in the UK. He is best remembered on the North America music scene for writing The Guess Who's 1965 chart debut, "Shakin' All Over".

October 8
Cream drummer Ginger Baker collapsed on a Sussex University stage after playing a 20 minute drum solo. He recovered in a local hospital.

1967 - ClassicBands.com

October 5
The Association's "Never My Love" reached its peak position of number 2 on Billboard's Hot 100. As of the end of 2001, The Recording Industry Association of America listed it as the second most played song in the 20th century with over 7 million radio plays. "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" by The Righteous Brothers was first with over 8 million. To see the rest of the list, see our page on Classic Rock's Most Played Songs.

October 7
Cass Elliot of the Mamas & Papas spends the night in a London jail after a dispute over her hotel bill. The charges would be dropped the next day, however a TV and concert appearance had to be cancelled.

October 7
The Beatles reject an offer of $1 million from promoter Sid Bernstein to make a second appearance at New York's Shea Stadium . He originally brought the group to Shea in August 1965.

October 11
The Bee Gees scored their first UK #1 with "Massachusetts". That same day, deportation orders for two members of the group's backing band, Colin Peterson and Vince Melouney, were rescinded by UK Home Secretary Roy Jenkins, citing the band's economic value to Britain.

1968 - ClassicBands.com

October 7
Jose Feliciano performs a controversial version of The Star Spangled Banner before the fifth game of the World Series between the Detroit Tigers and the St. Louis Cardinals.

October 8
Mama Cass Elliot appears as a solo act at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas. The two week run was abruptly cancelled when opening night proved to be a disaster. Cass has tonsillitis and her band is poorly rehearsed.

October 11
Aretha Franklin is awarded her seventh gold record for Burt Bacharach and Hal David's "I Say a Little Prayer".

1969 - ClassicBands.com

October 6
George Harrison's song "Something" is released as the "A" side of a Beatles' 45, a first for Harrison. Along with Lennon and McCartney's "Come Together", the single will reach number one in the US next month.

October 9
For the first time in the history of the UK music TV show Top Of The Pops, producers refuse to air the number one song in the nation. "Je T'Aime Moi Non Plus" was a provocative, French language love song performed by songwriter Serge Gainsbourg and actress Jane Birkin, that had caused such a stir in Britain that the original label, Fontana, dropped the record despite its being number 2 on the charts. A small record company, Major Minor, immediately bought the rights and saw the song climb to number 1, the first French song to ever do so. In the US, despite being popular on University campuses, the record received little or no air-play and did not chart.

October 11
Grand Funk Railroad's debut LP, "On Time" enters the Billboard Hot 200 album chart at #65. Although music critics bash them, Grand Funk will become one of the best selling acts in Rock history.

1970 - ClassicBands.com

October 10
Neil Diamond's "Cracklin' Rosie" topped the Billboard singles chart. The song was actually inspired by a story that Neil heard on a trip to an Indian reservation and has nothing at all to do with wine.

October 10
FCC Commissioner Nicholas Johnson responds to Vice President Spiro Agnew's charge that Rock music drives young people to drugs, by playing Rock music during a speech, saying that Agnew would do well to listen to song lyrics to understand what's happening around the US.

October 10
Smokey Robinson and The Miracles' "Tears Of A Clown" is released. By December, it will top both the Billboard Pop and R&B charts as well as the Cashbox Best Sellers list.

October 11
Elvis Presley adds to his collection of honorary police badges when he is sworn in as a Special Deputy Sheriff of Bel Air, California.

1971 - ClassicBands.com

October 7
"Got To Be There", Michael Jackson's first solo single, was released by Motown Records. The song would take over a month to enter the Billboard Hot 100, where it would top out at #4.

October 9
Rod Stewart has the best selling record on both sides of the Atlantic with the two sided hit "Maggie May" / "Reason To Believe".

1973 - ClassicBands.com

October 6
Cher had the top tune in the US with a song written especially for her, "Half-Breed". In the UK however, the single did not chart.

October 9
Elvis and Priscilla Presley are granted a divorce after six and half years of marriage. She is given property along with $725,000 and an additional $4,200 a month for the support of their five-year old daughter, Lisa Marie. The settlement also includes half the proceeds from the sale of an L.A. home and five percent of the total outstanding stock in two publishing companies. The couple emerge from a Santa Monica, California courthouse arm in arm, kiss and depart separately.

1974 - ClassicBands.com

October 5
Olivia Newton-John had her first chart topping album with "If You Love Me, Let Me Know", which contained her third US number one single, "I Honestly Love You".

October 5
The Guess Who's "Clap For The Wolfman" peaks at #6 on Billboard's Hot 100. The track featured the voice of legendary disc jockey, Wolfman Jack.

October 5
The Beach Boys went to #1 on the US album chart for the second time with "Endless Summer".

October 8
After a long dry spell, Dionne Warwicke returned to the US top ten with "Then Came You", recorded with The Spinners. Due to some superstitious feelings having to do with astrology, the former Ms. Warwick added an "e" to the end of her name for good luck. She would later return to the old spelling, which is actually a mis-spelled version of her real name: Warrick.

October 11
John Denver reached #1 on the UK singles chart with "Annie's Song", which had topped the US charts the previous July.

1975 - ClassicBands.com

October 5
Harry Chapin's "Cats in the Cradle" is released. It will enter the Hot 100 in November and top the chart just before Christmas.

October 7
John Lennon won his lengthy battle to stay in the US when the three judge panel of the US Court of Appeals in New York ruled that his 1968 arrest in Britain for possession of marijuana was "contrary to US ideas of due process and is invalid as a means of banishing the former Beatle from America." Two days later, Lennon and his wife Yoko celebrate his 35th birthday with the birth of their only child, Sean Ono Lennon.

October 11
Neil Sedaka's comeback continued with his second number one hit of the year, "Bad Blood". In the span of just eight months, he also wrote two other chart topping hits, his own "Laughter In The Rain" and The Captain and Tennille's "Love Will Keep Us Together".

October 11
Janis Ian performs "At Seventeen" on the very first broadcast of NBC-TV's Saturday Night Live.

1976 - ClassicBands.com

October 5
Hall and Oates' second album, "Abandoned Luncheonette", which contained the hit single "She's Gone", is certified gold just three weeks after its release.

October 6
Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots receive a gold record for one of the more bizarre novelty hits of the decade, "Disco Duck". In December, it will become only the fourth single ever to be certified platinum.

October 8
The Sex Pistols receive a £40,000 ($68,000) signing bonus after inking a recording deal with EMI Records.

October 9
"A Fifth of Beethoven" by Walter Murphy and the Big Apple Band reaches the top of the Billboard singles chart and is awarded a gold record. In the UK it made it to #28. The song was a Disco treatment of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.

October 10
The Who and the Grateful Dead play the second of two back-to-back shows at Oakland Stadium. Neither of the shows is a sell out.

1977 - ClassicBands.com

October 6
Actress Britt Eklund launches a $15-million palimony suit against Rod Stewart. The case would be later settled out of court.

October 8
Billy Joel's breakthrough album, "The Stranger", enters the Billboard album chart, where it would crack the Top 10. The LP contained four US Top 30 singles and would be his first effort to reach the UK album chart.

October 8
David Soul, star of the hit American TV show Starsky and Hutch, reaches the top of the UK charts for the second time this year with "Silver Lady". The previous April, "Don't Give Up On Us" went to #1.

1978 - ClassicBands.com

October 6
ABBA's Benny Anderson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad are married. The union would last just three years.

October 6
Mick Jagger offers an apology to the Reverend Jesse Jackson after Jackson denounces the Stones' song, "Some Girls" as racist. Jagger, however, refuses to change the lyrics.

October 7
The Rolling Stones perform "Beast Of Burden" on NBC's Saturday Night Live.

October 10
Singer Steve Tyler and guitarist Joe Perry of Aerosmith are injured at a Philadelphia concert after a firecracker is thrown on stage. From then on, the group performs from behind a cyclone fence.

1979 - ClassicBands.com

October 5
A little more than a year after the death of drummer Keith Moon, The Who's "The Kids Are Alright" goes platinum.

October 6
Robert John had the top tune on the Billboard Pop chart with a song called "Sad Eyes". It had been nearly 21 years since his first chart appearance in 1958 with a minor hit, "White Bucks and Saddle Shoes". "Sad Eyes" reached #31 in the UK.

October 6
The Eagles' "Heartache Tonight" is released. It will become their fifth Billboard number one single.

October 8
Warner Brothers Records rush releases Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk" album weeks ahead of schedule when tracks begin mysteriously popping up on US radio stations.

October 10
Fleetwood Mac receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

October 10
A motion picture called The Rose, starring Bette Midler as a Rock singer, (transparently based on Janis Joplin) premieres in Los Angeles.

1980 - ClassicBands.com

October 6
Even though he resurrected their career in the mid 1970s, The Bee Gees filed a $200-million law suit against their manager, Robert Stigwood, claiming mis-management. The lawsuit would be settled out of court, with mutual public apologies in May 1981.

October 8
Bob Marley collapses onstage during a concert in Pittsburgh. He is flown to Sloan-Kettering Hospital in New York City and then to Ethiopia to rest. He would later be admitted to a German disease-treatment center, but would die of brain tumor in May 1981.

October 9
John Lennon releases "Starting Over", his first single in five years. It would top the Billboard Hot 100 for five weeks, starting at the end of December.

October 9
Although he had scored 15 UK top 40 singles during the 1970s, Gary Glitter declared bankruptcy.

1981 - ClassicBands.com

October 5
Jud Strunk, comedian and singer / songwriter who appeared on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In and scored a number 14 hit with "Daisy A Day" in 1973, died in a small plane crash in the state of Maine. He was 45.

1982 - ClassicBands.com

October 5
Twenty years after its first release, EMI Records re-issues The Beatles' "Love Me Do" in the UK. It will rise to #4 by the end of the month.

October 7
Led Zeppelin's guitarist Jimmy Page received a 12 month conditional discharge after being found guilty of cocaine possession.

1984 - ClassicBands.com

October 8
Although her Pop career was on the decline, Anne Murray won the Country Music Association's Album of the Year Award for "A Little Good News". She was the first woman to ever win the award.

1987 - ClassicBands.com

October 8
Chuck Berry is awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His film biography, Hail, Hail Rock & Roll premiered the same night.

October 10
The three members of ZZ Top made advance bookings for seats on the first passenger flight to the Moon.

1988 - ClassicBands.com

October 8
Pink Floyd's "Dark Side Of The Moon" finally falls off of Billboard's Hot 200 Album Chart after a record 741 weeks.

1989 - ClassicBands.com

October 7
Jefferson Airplane play a concert where admission is a can of food for the San Francisco Food Bank.

October 8
Responding to Rolling Stone guitarist Ron Wood's suggestion that The Who were only staging a 25th Anniversary Tour for the money, Pete Townshend fires back with: "Mick needs a lot more than I do. His last album was a flop."

October 11
Michael Jackson attends the opening ceremony of the Michael Jackson Auditorium at his former school, Gardner Street Elementary in Hollywood, California. In November, 2003, school officials covered over Jackson's name with painted plywood, leaving only the word "auditorium" showing, after receiving requests from angry parents when Jackson was booked on suspicion of child molestation.

1990 - ClassicBands.com

October 8
Procol Harum's drummer, Barrie Wilson died after several months in a coma following a car accident. He was 43.

1991 - ClassicBands.com

October 6
Michael Jackson gives away the bride at Elizabeth Taylor's seventh wedding, held at Jackson's Neverland Ranch. The Groom was construction worker Larry Fortensky, whom Taylor would divorce in 1997. When asked why she married so many times, Taylor said that she was a very moral person and would never sleep with a man unless she was married to him.

October 11
Apple Computer settled a lawsuit launched by The Beatles' record company, Apple Corporation, over name and logo rights. The computer company reportedly paid about $29 million to settle the suit.

1992 - ClassicBands.com

October 5
Temptations singer Eddie Kendricks died of cancer, a year after having one lung removed. He was 52.

October 8
The US Postal Service announces a commemorative stamp booklet that includes rock legends Bill Haley, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Ritchie Valens, Clyde McPhatter, Otis Redding and Dinah Washington.

1993 - ClassicBands.com

October 5
The Beatles' "1962-1966" (The Red Album) and "1967-1970" (The Blue Album) are released on CD.

1994 - ClassicBands.com

October 6
The Eagles reunion tour is halted when Glenn Frey is admitted to hospital for emergency stomach surgery.

October 8
Elvis Aaron Presley: The Tribute is broadcast live on pay-per-view TV in the US. In attendance at the Pyramid Arena in Memphis are Lisa Marie Presley and her husband, Michael Jackson.

1995 - ClassicBands.com

October 7
Alanis Morisette becomes the first Canadian female artist to top the Billboard album chart when "Jagged Little Pill" reaches #1. The CD will become a Platinum selling disc, nine times over.

October 10
Twenty one years after "Frampton Comes Alive" sold over 16 million copies, Peter Frampton released "Frampton Comes Alive II".

1997 - ClassicBands.com

October 11
Elton John went to #1 on the Billboard singles chart with his world-wide hit "Candle In The Wind" (Princess Diana version), his eighth US chart topping single. The record would go on to become the largest selling single in history, replacing Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" for that honor.

1999 - ClassicBands.com

October 5
Paul McCartney releases his first album since the death of his wife Linda in April 1998. Entitled "Run Devil Run", the CD is a collection of Rock oldies along with new McCartney songs.

October 5
Roger Daltrey announced that The Who were reforming, making their first performance in Las Vegas. The show was also being planned to be broadcast live on the internet.

October 10
A charity auction selling Elvis Presley's belongings was held at The Grand Hotel in Las Vegas. His wristwatch sold for $32,500, a cigar box $25,000, an autographed baseball sold for $19,000 and his 1956 Lincoln Continental went for $250,000.

October 11
Michael Jackson's wife, Deborah Rowe, filed for divorce after three years of marriage. The couple met when Rowe was working as a nurse at his plastic surgeon's office.

2000 - ClassicBands.com

October 5
Benjamin Orr, bassist / vocalist for the Cars lost his fight with pancreatic cancer on October 5th, at the age of 53. Orr sang lead vocals on some of the band's most recognizable hits, such as "Just What I Needed", "Bye Bye Love", "Drive" and "Let's Go".

2002 - ClassicBands.com

October 6
Mick Jagger donated £100,000 ($184,000) to his old Grammar school in Dartford to help pay for a music director and buy musical instruments.

October 9
John Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman was denied parole for a second time on October 9th, the same day that Lennon would have turned 62. The state parole board issued a statement that said releasing Chapman after 22 years in prison would "deprecate the seriousness" of the crime and while Chapman had "acceptable" behavior in prison, that didn't guarantee he wouldn't pose a threat to society. At his first parole hearing two years earlier, Chapman said he did not deserve to go free. The 48 year old prisoner lived in a housing unit separate from the general population for his own safety and worked as a clerk.

2003 - ClassicBands.com

October 11
The studio session for Elvis Presley's debut single "That's All Right" was voted the most pivotal moment in Rock history by Mojo Magazine readers. Bob Dylan's switch from acoustic to electric guitars in 1965 came second.

2004 - ClassicBands.com

October 11
Buffalo Springfield bassist Bruce Palmer died on October 11th of an apparent heart attack. He was 58.

2005 - ClassicBands.com

October 5
Michael Jackson filed a lawsuit against concert promoter Marcel Avram to prevent arbitration over a disputed concert contract from 1999.

October 7
Singer Boy George was arrested on suspicion of possessing drugs and making a fake police report after he called the emergency service number and falsely said his home had been burglarized. Officers arrived on the scene and discovered a small amount of cocaine next to a computer.

2006 - ClassicBands.com

October 5
Jeffrey Borer, the man who admitted secretly videotaping Michael Jackson on a private jet, was sentenced to six months of home detention and fined $10,000. Borer, who was the owner of private jet firm XtraJet, had instructed an employee to buy and install two video recorders on the plane.

October 6
The Four Tops sang the national anthem before Game 3 of baseball's American League Divisional Playoff Series at Comerica Park in Detroit.

October 10
Mark David Chapman was told by a parole board that he must serve at least another two years in Attica Correctional Facility for murdering John Lennon. "While the panel notes your satisfactory institutional adjustment," the decision said, "due to the extremely violent nature of the offence, your release would not be in the best interest of the community."

2007 - ClassicBands.com

October 5
The recording industry won a key fight against illegal music downloading when a federal jury found a Minnesota woman guilty of sharing copyrighted music online and levied $220,000 in damages against her. In the first such lawsuit to go to trial, the record companies accused the woman of downloading the songs without permission and offering them online through a Kazaa file-sharing account. The Recording Industry Association of America has filed over 26,000 similar lawsuits since 2003.

October 9
Most of George Harrison's solo music made its digital debut with the release of iTunes versions of his albums. Harrison's catalog was the last of the four Beatles' to go digital.

Classic Rockers In The News

Kingston Trio's Nick Reynolds dies

Tina Turner opens North American tour

Grateful Dead's Bob Weir breaks ribs

Springsteen, Joel sign on for Obama benefit

Allman Brothers earn Billboard Legend Of Live award

Metallica scores third week atop Billboard 200

Plant says no tour or recording with Zeppelin

Rock and Roll Birthdays

October 5^th

1924 - Jose Jimenez ("The Astronaut")
1938 - Carlo Mastrangelo - vocalist for Dion and The Belmonts ("A Teenager In Love")
1941 - Wally Lester of The Skyliners ("Since I Don't Have You")
1942 - Richard Street of The Temptations ("My Girl")
1943 - Steve Miller ("The Joker")
1945 - Brian Connolly - vocalist for Sweet ("Ballroon Blitz")
1949 - B.W. Stevenson ("My Maria")

October 6^th

1946 - Millie Small ("My Boy Lollipop")
1949 - Thomas McClary - guitar and vocals for The Commodores ("Night Shift")
1949 - Bobby Farrell - vocalist for Boney M ("Rivers Of Babylon")
1951 - Kevin Cronin - keyboards for REO Speedwagon ("Keep On Loving You")

October 7^th

1939 - Colin Cooper - saxophone for The Climax Blues Band ("Couldn't Get It Right")
1941 - Tony Silvester - vocalist for The Main Ingredient ("Everybody Plays The Fool")
1941 - Martin Murray - lead guitarist for The Honeycombs ("Have I The Right")
1945 - Kevin Godley - drummer for 10cc ("I'm Not In Love")
1949 - David Hope - bassist for Kansas ("Dust In The Wind")
1951 - John Cougar Mellencamp ("Jack and Diane")

October 8^th

1934 - Doc Green - baritone vocalist for The Drifters ("Save The Last Dance For Me")
1940 - Fred Cash - vocalist for The Impressions ("It's All Right")
1941 - George Bellamy - rhythm guitarist for The Tornados ("Telstar")
1949 - Hamish Stuart - guitarist / vocalist for The Average White Band ("Pick up the Pieces")
1945 - Butch Rillera - drummer for Redbone ("Come And Get Your Love")
1950 - Robert 'Kool' Bell - leader of Kool and The Gang ("Celebrate")

October 9^th

1937 - Pat Burke - saxaphone for The Foundations ("Build Me Up Buttercup")
1940 - John Lennon - singer / guitarist for The Beatles ("She Loves You")
1944 - John Entwistle - bassist for The Who ("I Can See For Miles")
1946 - Don Baskin - vocalist for The Syndicate of Sound ("Little Girl")
1948 - Jackson Browne ("Runnin' On Empty")

October 10^th

1914 - Ivory Joe Hunter ("Since I Met You Baby")
1943 - Denis D'Ell - vocalist for The Honeycombes ("Have I The Right")
1948 - Cyril Neville of The Neville Brothers ("Tell It Like It Is")
1955 - David Lee Roth - lead singer for Van Halen ("Jump")

October 11^th

1946 - Gary Mallaber - drummer for The Steve Miller Band ("Abracadabra")
1949 - Daryl Hall - keyboards / vocals for Hall and Oates ("I Can't Go For That")
1950 - Andrew Woolfolk - saxophone for Earth Wind and Fire ("Shining Star")

In The USA

Click The Titles To Hear The Song
Year	Song	Artist
1956	Don't Be Cruel	Elvis Presley
1957	Honeycomb	Jimmie Rodgers
1958	It's All In The Game	Tommy Edwards
1959	Mack The Knife	Bobby Darin
1960	My Heart Has A Mind Of Its Own	Connie Francis
1961	Crying	Roy Orbison
1962	Sherry	The Four Seaons
1963	Blue Velvet	Bobby Vinton
1964	Oh, Pretty Woman	Roy Orbison
1965	Yesterday	The Beatles
1966	Cherish	The Association
1967	The Letter	The Box Tops
1968	Hey Jude	The Beatles
1969	Little Woman	Bobby Sherman
1970	Candida	Dawn
1971	Maggie May	Rod Stewart
1972	Baby, Don't Get Hooked On Me	Mac Davis
1973	Half-Breed	Cher
1974	Then Came You	Dionne Warwicke and The Spinners
1975	I'm Sorry	John Denver
1976	A Fifth Of Beethoven	Walter Murphy and The Big Apple Band
1977	You Light Up My Life	Debby Boone
1978	Kiss You All Over	Exile
1979	Sad Eyes	Robert John
1980	Another One Bites The Dust	Queen
1981	Endless Love	Diana Ross and Lionel Richie
1982	Jack and Diane	John Cougar
1983	Total Eclipse Of The Heart	Bonnie Tyler
1984	Let's Go Crazy	Prince and the Revolution
1985	Money For Nothing	Dire Straits

In The United Kingdom

1956	Lay Down Your Arms	Anne Shelton
1957	Diana	Paul Anka
1958	Stupid Cupid	Connie Francis
1959	Here Comes Summer	Jerry Keller
1960	Tell Laura I Love Her	Ricky Valance
1961	Kon-Tiki	The Shadows
1962	Telstar	The Tornados
1963	She Loves You	The Beatles
1964	Oh, Pretty Woman	Roy Orbison
1965	Tears	Ken Dodd
1966	Distant Drums	Jim Reeves
1967	The Last Waltz	Engelbert Humperdinck
1968	Those Were The Days	Mary Hopkin
1969	Je T'Aime...Moi Non Plus	Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg
1970	Band Of Gold	Freda Payne
1971	Maggie May	Rod Stewart
1972	How Can I Be Sure	David Cassidy
1973	Eye Level	The Simon Park Orchestra
1974	Kung Fu Fighting	Carl Douglas
1975	Hold Me Close	David Essex
1976	Mississippi	Pussycat
1977	Silver Lady	David Soul
1978	Summer Nights	John Travolta and Olivia Newton John
1979	Message In A Bottle	The Police
1980	Don't Stand So Close To Me	The Police
1981	Prince Charming	Adam and The Ants
1982	Pass The Dutchie	Musical Youth
1983	Karma Chameleon	Culture Club
1984	I Just Called To Say I Love You	Stevie Wonder
1985	If I Was	Midge Ure

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#10749 From: Jack Snead <ajsnead@...>
Date: Sun Oct 5, 2008 6:15 pm
Subject: Rocky Mountain High (John Denver) (Seq Jan Zachary, aka "ZaxPax" ajsblue
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A Beautiful Folk-Rock Song Written And Recorded In 1972 For His
Album By The Same Name
The Song Reached The Top 10 On The Adult Contemporary, Pop,
Easy Listening And Country Charts In 1973 And Is Still
Considered To Be One Of His Greatest Hits
(The Song Is 1 Of 2 Of The State Of Colorado's Official
State Songs)
W&M By John Denver & Mike Taylor
John Denver's real name was Henry John Deutchendorf, Jr.
(1943-1997)
John was killed in a plane crash in 1997.
45kb, 6.28mpt

Jan Zachary, from New Jersey, USA was one of the first sequencers I met
on the net back in 1997.

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#10750 From: Jack Snead <ajsnead@...>
Date: Sun Oct 5, 2008 9:53 pm
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to Jason from Louisiana.

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I hope you enjoy the group.

Please carefully review the posting rules before posting any of your
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Feel free to ask as many questions as you want or to request MIDI's that
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#10751 From: Jack Snead <ajsnead@...>
Date: Sun Oct 5, 2008 11:20 pm
Subject: Cowboy Cadillac (Garth Brooks) (Seq Eddie Step) ajsblue
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A Contemporary Country, New Traditionalist Country Song
And A Great Line Dancin' Tune From Garth's 1997 Album:
"Sevens"
W&M By Garth Brooks & Bryan Kennedy
26kb, 2.09mpt

Eddie Step is from the United Kingdom

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#10752 From: Jack Snead <ajsnead@...>
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Subject: Come A Little Bit Closer (Various) (Seq Chuck Duklis) ajsblue
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A No. 3 Pop Hit In 1964 For Jay & The Americans And Also Made Popular By
A Duet By Johnny Duncan & Janie Fricke, In A Great Country/Skiffle Style
And Also Recorded By Jay Black In A Rock Style And Willie Bobo In A
Latin/Jazz Style And Several Other Artists Through The 00's
W&M By Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart
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#10753 From: "Frank Warby" <frank.warby@...>
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Hello Jack

The name Johnny Duncan brought back some memories from the past 1955,When I was playing skiffle at the Skiffle Cellar In Soho London,Where Johnny also played,Happy Days

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A No. 3 Pop Hit In 1964 For Jay & The Americans And Also Made Popular By
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#10754 From: Bob <rasrealtor@...>
Date: Sun Oct 5, 2008 6:42 pm
Subject: Pipeline - The Chantays - Seq. Mark Oehl rasrealtor
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Pipeline (1962-63)
by The Chantays
Seq. © 2004 by Mark Oehl
9.5 kb - 1:37

The Chantay's - Pipeline (Lawrence Welk Show 5/18/63)

"Pipeline" is a surf rock song by The Chantays. It was also recorded by Johnny Thunders, Hank Marvin, Agent Orange, The Ventures, The Challengers, Anthrax, and Dick Dale with the help of Stevie Ray Vaughan. It was also covered by Hot Butter on their 1973 album, More Hot Butter, and erstwhile-Beach Boy Bruce Johnston cut a disco version in 1977.

The original release was on Downey 104-B, and was picked up for nationwide distribution by Dot Records, which released it as Dot 16440-B. (The ostensible A-side, "Move It", never went anyplace, making this an example of a "flipped disc".) For some reason, all 45-rpm releases showed the band name as "Chantay's", with the so-called greengrocer's apostrophe.

The song, originally called "Liberty's Whip," was renamed after the band members saw the Bruce Brown film entitled "Endless Summer", a groundbreaking documentary film of two california natives circling the globe in search of the perfect wave. The term "pipeline" refers to a phenomenon in surfing in which the crest of the wave on which a surfer is riding goes completely over his head and lands in front of him, leaving him in the center of what, from his viewpoint, looks like a pipe made of water. The song, fitting in with the popular surfing craze of the time, swiftly rose up the Billboard Pop charts, reaching #4, and becoming a classic hit of its time.

Although they had a myriad of surf tunes, "Pipeline" was the Chantays' only hit single, and is considered one of the landmarks of the surf genre. The track's distinctive sound was in large part due to the mix being "upside down", in that the bass and rhythm guitars were at the forefront, while the lead guitar, piano and drums were buried. Although the 45 was released only in monaural, the track was recorded in wide stereo, with the rhythm guitar hard left, the bass and drums hard right, and the piano and lead guitar centered. Modern reissues, beginning with the 1984 MCA Records 7" single, are stereophonic.

In November, 1997, the Chantays recorded a new acoustic version of the song, titled "Pipeline Unplugged", which was released on their album "Waiting For The Tide".

The song was previously used as background music for BBC Match of the Day "Goal of the Month" competition.

A live cover version of "Pipeline", performed by Johnny Thunders, plays over the closing credits to TV-series The Sopranos episode 74, entitled "The Ride".

The Chantays:

Bob Spickard - Guitar: Original Member
Brian Carman - Guitar: Original Member
Bob Welch - Drums: Original Member
Warren Waters - Bass: Original Member
Rob Marshall - Piano: Original Member
Ricky Lewis - Guitar: Long Time Member
Gil Orr - Guitar/Bass: Long Time Member
Brian Nussle - Bass: Long Time Member

Instrumental Only

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#10755 From: Bob <rasrealtor@...>
Date: Sun Oct 5, 2008 4:27 pm
Subject: Classical Gas - Mason Williams - Seq. Mark Oehl rasrealtor
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Two versions, both seq. by Mark:

Classical Gas (Classic Guitar)
by Mason Williams
Seq. © 2000 by Mark Oehl
5.2 kb - 2:07

Classical Gas (Steel Guitar)
by Mason Williams
Seq. © 2000 by Mark Oehl
5.2 kb - 2:07

MASON WILLIAMS CLASSICAL GAS

"Classical Gas" is an instrumental piece written by Mason Williams. The title of the song was originally "Classical Gasoline" but was changed to "Classical Gas" by the music copyist. On the original recording, Williams plays guitar and is accompanied by an orchestral backing. It was released in February 1968 from the album The Mason Williams Phonograph Record. In August 1968 it reached Number 2 on the American charts and went on to sell over a million copies (the song also topped the Billboard Easy Listening survey). Williams re-recorded the tune as a solo guitar piece on his 1970 album Hand Made. He also recorded a version with Mannheim Steamroller in 1987.

The composer, Mason Williams, was the head writer for the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour at the time of the piece's release. It saw its television premiere on the show and Williams performed it several times over several editions. After the piece had reached the Top Ten, Williams asked an experimental filmmaker named Dan McLaughlin to create a video montage of classical art works edited in time to the music, using a visual effect now known as kinestasis. The pioneering work, "3000 Years of Art", premiered in the summer of 1968 and may have helped push the song high on the charts.

Instrumental Only.

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#10756 From: Bob <rasrealtor@...>
Date: Sun Oct 5, 2008 7:00 pm
Subject: Thank The Lord For The Night Time - Neil Diamond - Seq. Mick O'Neill rasrealtor
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Thank The Lord For The Night Time
Written by: Neil Diamond
Performed by Neil Diamond
Seq. March 15, 1999 by Mick O'Neill
Copyright notice: Released to the public domain for non-commercial use.
24 kb - 2:16

Neil Diamond - Thank The Lord For the Night Time (Live 1969)
(Video is stills, and those aren't even very good, but the music is there, and rocks.)

Neil Leslie Diamond (link id discography) (born January 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and occasional actor.

Neil Diamond is one of pop music's most enduring and successful singer-songwriters. As a successful pop music performer, Diamond scored a number of hits worldwide in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Critic William Ruhlmann wrote of Diamond, "As of 2001, he claimed worldwide record sales of 115 million copies, and as of 2002 he was ranked third, behind only Elton John and Barbra Streisand, on the list of the most successful adult contemporary artists in the history of the Billboard chart." As of May 2005 Diamond had sold 120 million records worldwide, including 48 million records in the U.S.

Though his record sales declined somewhat after the 1980s, Diamond continues to tour successfully, and maintains a very loyal following. Diamond's songs have been recorded by a vast array of performers from many different musical genres.

Diamond was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984, and in 2000 received the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award.

This song is performed by Neil Diamond and appears on the album Just For You (1967).

Lyrics:

Daytime turns me off, and I don't mean maybe
Nine-to-five ain't taking me where I'm bound
When it's done, I run out to see my baby
We get groovin' when the sun goes down

I thank the Lord for the night time
To forget the day
A day of up-, uptight time
Baby, chase it away
I get relaxation
It's a time to groove
I thank the Lord for the night time
I thank the Lord for you

I'll talk about plans now, baby, I got plenty
Nothing ever seems turn out the way it should
Talk about money, girl, I ain't got any
Seems like just one time I'm feelin' good

I thank the Lord for the night time
To forget the day
A day of up-, uptight time
Baby, chase it away
I get relaxation
It's a time to groove
I thank the Lord for the night time
I thank the Lord for you

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#10757 From: Bob <rasrealtor@...>
Date: Sun Oct 5, 2008 9:44 pm
Subject: Ain't That A Kick In The Head - Dean Martin - Seq. Ron Tilden rasrealtor
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Ain't That A Kick In The Head (1960)
Words and Music by: Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen
by Dean Martin (1960)
Seq. Ron Tilden
31.9 kb - 2:29

Dean Martin - Ain't That A Kick In The Head (from the original "Oceans Eleven")

Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti; June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, film actor, television personality and comedian. He was one of the most well known musical artists of the 1950s and 1960s. Martin's hit singles included the songs "Memories Are Made Of This", "That's Amore", "Everybody Loves Somebody", "Mambo Italiano", "Sway", "Volare" and "Ain't That A Kick In The Head?" One of the organizers of "The Rat Pack," he was a major star in four areas of show business: concert stage, recordings, motion pictures, and television.

Ain't That a Kick in the Head? is a song which was written in 1960 with music by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Sammy Cahn. It was first recorded on May 10, 1960 by Dean Martin, with conducting by Nelson Riddle. Dean performed the song in Ocean's Eleven in an alternate arrangement featuring vibraphonist Red Norvo and his quartet.

In 2007, the song appeared in Meter Made, an episode of the FOX animated sitcom, American Dad.

The song has been recorded by many performers, including Robbie Williams, Westlife, Ray Quinn, and Hazell Dean. It also appeared in the soundtrack to the Ocean's Thirteen. It was also used as the soundtrack to a commercial for Budweiser, which was broadcast during Super Bowl XLI.

Lyrics:

How lucky can one guy be?

I kissed her and she kissed me
Like the fella once said,
"ain't that a kick in the head?"
The room was completely black,
I hugged her and she hugged back
Like the sailor said, quote,
"ain't that a hole in the boat?"

My head keeps spinnin',
I go to sleep and keep grinnin'
If this is just the beginnin',
My life is gonna be bee-yoo-tee-ful

I've sunshine enough to spread,
It's just like the fella said
Tell me quick, ain't love a kick in the head?

Like the fella once said,
"ain't that a kick in the head?"
Like the sailor said, quote,
"ain't that a hole in the boat?"

My head keeps spinnin',
I go to sleep and keep grinnin'
If this is just the beginnin',
My life is gonna be bee-yoo-tee-ful

She's tellin' me we'll be wed,
She's picked out a king-size bed
I couldn't feel any better or i'd be sick
Tell me quick oh, ain't love a kick?
Tell me quick ain't love a kick in the head?

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#10758 From: Bob <rasrealtor@...>
Date: Sun Oct 5, 2008 7:19 pm
Subject: Against All Odds - Phil Collins - Seq. Phil Smith, "Satman Sounds" rasrealtor
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Against All Odds
by Phil Collins (Official Website)
Seq. Phil Smith, "Satman Sounds" (Tribute Website)
Seq. Revised 2/98
18.5 kb - 3:10

Phil Collins - Against All Odds
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"Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" is a song originally written and recorded by British singer Phil Collins. The song was the main theme for the 1984 film of the same name, and first appeared on its soundtrack. It is a ballad in which its protagonist implores his/her ex-lover to "take a look at me now", knowing that reconciliation is "against all odds" but worth a try. It has been covered by several artists.

This song is on the video game Karaoke Revolution Volume 3. It is also downloadable content for the game Karaoke Revolution Presents: American Idol Encore.

Philip David Charles Collins, RVO (born 30 January 1951 Chiswick, London) is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, keyboardist and actor best known as the lead singer and drummer of English progressive rock group Genesis and as a Grammy and Academy Award-winning solo artist. He has also appeared in several films.

Collins sang the lead vocals on eight American chart-toppers between 1984 and 1989; seven as a solo artist and one with Genesis. His singles, often dealing with lost love, ranged from the drum-heavy "In the Air Tonight", to the dance pop of "Sussudio", to the political statements of his most successful song, "Another Day In Paradise". His international popularity transformed Genesis from a progressive rock group to a regular on the pop charts and an early MTV mainstay.

Collins' professional career began as a drummer, first with obscure rock group Flaming Youth and then more famously with Genesis. In Genesis, Collins originally supplied backing vocals for front man Peter Gabriel, singing lead on only two songs: "For Absent Friends" from 1971's Nursery Cryme album and "More Fool Me" from Selling England by the Pound, which was released in 1973. On Gabriel's departure in 1975, Collins became the group's lead singer. As the decade closed, Genesis's first international hit, "Follow You, Follow Me", demonstrated a drastic change from the band's early years. His concurrent solo career, heavily influenced by his personal life, brought both him and Genesis commercial success. According to Atlantic Records, Collins' total worldwide sales as a solo artist, as of 2002, were 150 million.

Lyrics:

How can I just let you walk away,
just let you leave without a trace
When I stand here taking every breath with you, ooh
You're the only one who really knew me at all

How can you just walk away from me,
when all I can do is watch you leave
Cos we've shared the laughter and the pain,
and even shared the tears
You're the only one who really knew me at all

So take a look at me now,
'cos there's just an empty space
And there's nothing left here to remind me,
just the memory of your face
Take a look at me now,
'cos there's just an empty space
And you coming back to me
is against all odds and that's what I've got to face

I wish I could just make you turn around,
turn around and see me cry
There's so much I need to say to you,
so many reasons why
You're the only one who really knew me at all

So take a look at me now,
'cos there's just an empty space
And there's nothing left here to remind me,
just the memory of your face
Take a look at me now,
'cos there's just an empty space
But to wait for you,
well that's all I can do and that's what I've got to face
Take a good look at me now,
'cos I'll still be standing here
And you coming back to me is against all odds
That's the chance I've got to take, oh, oho

Just take a look at me now

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#10759 From: "Jack Snead" <ajsmidi@...>
Date: Mon Oct 6, 2008 9:43 pm
Subject: Re: Attn Jack and] Come A Little Bit Closer (Various) (Seq Chuck Duklis) ajsmidi
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Frank,
Here's another Johnny Duncan and Janie Fricke duet from 1976 that hit
#4 on the Country charts.
"Stranger" also sequenced by Chuck Duklis
W&M by Kris Kristofferson
Jack

On 10/6/08, Frank Warby <frank.warby@...> wrote:
> Hello Jack
> The name Johnny Duncan brought back some memories from the past 1955,When I
> was playing skiffle at the Skiffle Cellar In Soho London,Where Johnny also
> played,Happy Days
> Frank Warby CT,VCM
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> www.frankmusicman.co.uk
>   ----- Original Message -----
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>   To: midkar@yahoogroups.com
>   Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 1:42 AM
>   Subject: [midkar] Come A Little Bit Closer (Various) (Seq Chuck Duklis)
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>
>   A No. 3 Pop Hit In 1964 For Jay & The Americans And Also Made Popular By
>   A Duet By Johnny Duncan & Janie Fricke, In A Great Country/Skiffle Style
>   And Also Recorded By Jay Black In A Rock Style And Willie Bobo In A
>   Latin/Jazz Style And Several Other Artists Through The 00's
>   W&M By Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart
>   43kb, 1.44mpt
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>   Country, Country/Pop, Latin/Jazz, Love Songs, Pop & Skiffle
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#10760 From: "Frank Warby" <frank.warby@...>
Date: Mon Oct 6, 2008 10:03 pm
Subject: Attn Jack and] Come A Little Bit Closer (Various) (Seq Chuck Duklis) frank_warby
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Thanks Jack,

Wishing you well

Frank Warby CT,VCM
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Frank,
Here's another Johnny Duncan and Janie Fricke duet from 1976 that

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#10761 From: "Karen Spann" <kspann@...>
Date: Mon Oct 6, 2008 10:11 pm
Subject: Re: Req - Somebody's Knockin' kaz1661
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--- In midkar@yahoogroups.com, "Bob Eldridge" <bobeld@...> wrote:
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> Somebody's Knockin' (should I let em' in)?
> Terri Gibbs 1980
>
> Anyone have this song?
>
> Thanks
> Regards,
> Bob Eldridge
>
Could I get a copy of this midi file too please, Jack.
kaz1603@...

TIA

Kaz

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#10762 From: "Jack Snead" <ajsmidi@...>
Date: Mon Oct 6, 2008 10:25 pm
Subject: Re: Re: Req - Somebody's Knockin' ajsmidi
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Kaz,
I just sent it to your personal mail.

Jack

On 10/6/08, Karen Spann <kspann@...> wrote:
> --- In midkar@yahoogroups.com, "Bob Eldridge" <bobeld@...> wrote:
>>
>> Somebody's Knockin' (should I let em' in)?
>> Terri Gibbs 1980
>>
>> Anyone have this song?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Regards,
>> Bob Eldridge
>>
> Could I get a copy of this midi file too please, Jack.
> kaz1603@...
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> TIA
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#10763 From: Wild West <wild_west2@...>
Date: Mon Oct 6, 2008 11:57 pm
Subject: Leo Sayer: More Than I Can Say seq Chris Hankins wild_west_48
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Excellent!! Chris just does backing tracks, so sing away!

Leo Sayer (born Gerard Hugh Sayer, 21 May 1948, Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex) is an English singer-songwriter and musician, now based in Australia, whose singing career has spanned four decades.

Sayer has had success worldwide with his single and album releases, particularly in the UK and the U.S. He was initially discovered by David Courtney, who co-managed him with the singer-turned-manager, Adam Faith. Sayer began his music career co-writing songs with David Courtney, including "Giving It All Away," which gave Roger Daltrey of The Who his first hit as a soloist in 1973.

That same year, Sayer began his career as a recording artist. At the time of his initial chart breakthrough in Britain, with his debut hit "The Show Must Go On," he wore a pierrot style outfit and make-up.

He had subsequent single hits with "One Man Band" (1974), "Long Tall Glasses" (1975) and "Moonlighting" (1975).

In 1976, Sayer released three Beatles songs, "I Am the Walrus", "Let It Be" and "The Long and Winding Road" in the movie All This and World War II.

In 1977, he had a US number one with "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" (a U.S. Grammy Award winner for the year's best Rhythm and Blues Song), as well as the romantic ballad, "When I Need You" (1977), which reached number one in both the UK and U.S. Sayer also had remakes of Bobby Vee's Sonny Curtis/Jerry Allison composition, "More Than I Can Say" (his fourth UK number 2 hit, and in the U.S., number 2 pop and number one in the adult contemporary chart), and Buddy Holly's "Raining In My Heart" (1979) and "Orchard Road" in 1983. In the U.S., three of his singles - "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" (1977), "When I Need You," (1977) and "More Than I Can Say" (1980) - were certified gold.

Sayer made an appearance on The Muppet Show during the third season (second show) on which he sang "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing," "The Show Must Go On," and "When I Need You."

He also provided songs for the soundtrack for the English language version of the French-Belgian animated film, The Missing Link (1980).Template:Http://www.cinemovies.fr/fiche cast.php?IDfilm=5408

In 1990, he contributed to the last recording studio collaboration between Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson, Woolfson's solo album Freudiana, performing "I Am A Mirror".

In 2000, "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" was featured in the hit film, Charlie's Angels, and was on the accompanying soundtrack album.

Sayer's debut UK hit, "The Show Must Go On," was covered by Three Dog Night for the U.S. market and reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1974. Phil Collins covered Sayer's Billy Nichols' song "I Can't Stop Loving You" (originally a U.K. No.6 hit for Sayer) for his 2002 album, Testify. It reached number one on the U.S. adult contemporary chart.

In 2005, Sayer moved to Sydney, Australia, where he remains based to this day. On 12 February 2006, made a surprise return to number one in the UK Singles Chart, with Meck's remix of "Thunder In My Heart." He has also appeared in the Australian comedy, Stupid, Stupid Man.

Leo Sayer: At His Very Best, a career spanning compilation album, was released in the UK on 6 March 2006. It exclusively features the Meck single, alongside Sayer classics such as, "When I Need You" and "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing".

Celebrity Big Brother 5

In 2007, Sayer was the fifth person to join the Celebrity Big Brother UK house at the start of the series.

Sayer walked out of the Big Brother house on 12 January ostensibly because he was refused a supply of fresh underwear.

1967 hotel fire

In January 1967, while Sayer was working as a hall porter at the King's Hotel in Hove, he assisted in the rescue of guests from a fire that damaged the first floor of the hotel. He was rescued by builders working on a block of flats beside the hotel.

Wiggles Guest Appearance

Sayer made a guest appearance on The Wiggles 2008 DVD, "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing". The DVD features the Sayer musical hit of the same name.

2008

In 2008 Sayer released a new album in Australia, "Don't Wait Until Tomorrow". This album, produced by Garth Porter (from Australian Pop Band Sherbet), and released by Universal Music Australia, features selections from his catalogue in an entirely new setting, re-arranged with strings and acoustic and jazz instrumentation.

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Leo Sayer: More Than I Can Say

Wow wow yea yea
I love you more than I can say
Ill love you twice as much tomorrow
Oh love you more than I can say
Wow wow yea yea
I miss you evry single day
Why must my life be filled with sorrow
I love you more than I can say
Why dont you know I need you so
Oh tell me please I gotta know
Do you mean to make me cry
Am I just another guy
Wow wow yea yea
I love you more than I can say
Ill love you twice as much tomorrow
Oh love you more than I can say
I love you more than I can say
I love you more than I can say

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#10764 From: Wild West <wild_west2@...>
Date: Tue Oct 7, 2008 12:07 am
Subject: Danny Williams: Moon River seq Chris Hankins wild_west_48
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Great!!

Watch a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQCwzHfj5-A

Recordings

"Moon River" was released by South African singer Danny Williams, and reached the UK number one. Shortly thereafter, Andy Williams recorded the song and made it his theme song. It was a hit for Jerry Butler in 1961, reaching number 11 in the Billboard charts. Other artists that have covered the song are The Afghan Whigs, Benny Anderssons Orkester, Paul Anka, Blake, Louis Armstrong, Vince Guaraldi, Beru Revue, Mary Black, Sarah Brightman, Liz Callaway, Perry Como, Ray Conniff, Bobby Darin, Ania Dąbrowska, Dr. John, Billy Eckstine, The Four Freshmen, Connie Francis, Bill Frisell (instrumental), Emi Fujita, Judy Garland, Karel Gott, Grant Green (instrumental), Patty Griffin, The Innocence Mission (although this version is sometimes incorrectly cited as being performed by Milla Jovovich), Bradley Joseph (instrumental), Kim Yoo-jin, James Last, Joey McIntyre, Johnny Mathis, Brad Mehldau, Jane Monheit, Morrissey, Patsy Ann Noble, Jim Reeves, John Barrowman, R.E.M., Mia Riddle, Andrea Ross, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Sarah Vaughan, Nan Vernon, Kid Koala, Westlife, Victoria Williams, and Tata Young.

Mercer himself recorded the song in 1974 for his album (appropriately named) My Huckleberry Friend.

"Moon River" is a song composed by Johnny Mercer (lyrics) and Henry Mancini (music) in 1961, for whom it won that year's Academy Award for Best Original Song. It is most well-known for being sung in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's by Audrey Hepburn, although it has been covered by many other artists.

It became the theme song for Andy Williams, who first recorded the song in 1961 and performed it at the Academy Awards ceremonies in 1962. He sang the first eight bars of the song at the beginning of his television show; he also named his production company and venue in Branson, Missouri after Moon River.

The success of the song was responsible for re-launching Mercer's career as a songwriter, which had stalled in the mid-1950s because rock and roll replaced jazz standards as the popular music of the time. An inlet near Savannah, Georgia, Johnny Mercer's hometown, was named Moon River in honor of him and this song. The popularity of the song is such that it has been used as a test sample in a study on people's memories of popular songs.

Lyrics

The phrase "Huckleberry friend" was explained by Mercer in an interview with Terry Gross on National Public Radio's "Fresh Air". In his childhood, Mercer would go collect huckleberries with friends along the river. Thus it is a nostalgic reference to childhood. Other comment about the song has noted that it is particularly reminiscent of Mercer's youth in the Southern United States.

Music analysis

The original Henry Mancini recording is in F major. The song opens with an instantly recognizable melody - "moon river", featuring the distinctive perfect fifth upward leap from the 5th (C) to the 2nd (G), which is immediately balanced and contrasted by the subsequent graceful step to the tonic (F), before gliding down (as you sail down the river) with four consecutive steps (E-D-C-B♭). Another upward leap follows (F-high E) before the five consecutive steps are repeated again, followed by another leap downwards (C-F) to a step (G). The chord progression is as follows: tonic (F major), sixth (D minor), fourth (B♭ major), tonic (F major), fourth (B♭ major), tonic (F major), seventh (Edim7), major third (A major).

"You dream maker" features many leaps of thirds and fifths; "you dream maker" sees the melody drop from the third to the dominant before leaping to the fifth and dropping to the third; this is repeated in "you heartbreaker". "Wherever you're going, I'm going your way"'s dramatic message is emphasised by the dramatic melody to accompany the lyrics in an arpeggiated tonic chord ascending melody where the third moves to the tonic which moves up the arpeggio into the third, the fifth and lastly, the (octave), creating a nice high climax, before stepping down to the seventh. There is a melodic sequence where the octave-seventh-sixth motive ("going, I'm") is repeated one step lower (seventh-sixth-fifth) ("going your") before moving to the sixth; This is matched by the harmonic sequence as well; where the chord progression moves from Bm-E (a rise of a fourth), repeated a step lower (Am-D), before moving one step lower (Gm-C).

The first part of the melody "moon river" is then repeated in "two drifters", before moving to a coda in "we're after the same rainbow's end" - which features the same arpeggiated tonic chord ascending melody (F-A-C-high F) before moving up and down just like the shape of the rainbow (F-G-F) - an example of word painting - and then moving down to "end" on C (which is matched by the chord F/A), before the "wider than a mile" melody of E-D-C-B♭-C is repeated two times, which is followed by a graceful closure of the song, "moon river, and me" (F-B♭-G-A-F): note the melodic sequence that follows as the interval of a descending third is repeated a step lower again.

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#10765 From: Wild West <wild_west2@...>
Date: Tue Oct 7, 2008 12:16 am
Subject: Beatles: Mother Nature's Son seq by member David Barnes wild_west_48
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Very good!!

"Mother Nature's Son" is a Lennon/McCartney song, released by The Beatles on The Beatles (The White Album). It was written primarily by Paul McCartney, and was inspired by a lecture given by the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi while The Beatles were in India. The same lecture inspired Lennon's unreleased song "Child of Nature," the tune of which he later re-used for "Jealous Guy." The song was later covered by Harry Nilsson.

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Beatles: Mother Nature's Son

 D Dsus4 D Bm E
Born a poor young country boy Mother Nature's son
A D Dm G D
All day long I'm sitting singing songs for everyone
D Dsus4 D Bm E
Sit beside a mountain stream See her waters rise
A D Dm G D
Listen to the pretty sound of music as she flies
D G D
Do do do do do do do do do do do
D G D Dmaj7 D7
do do do do do do do do do
G Gm
Do do do do do do do do
D
Yeah yeah yeah
D Dsus4 D Bm E
Find me in my field of grass Mother Nature's son
A D Dm G D
Swaying daisies sing a lazy song beneath the sun
D G D
Do do do do do do do do do do do
D G D Dmaj7 D7
do do do do do do do do do
G Gm
Do do do do do do do do
D
Yeah yeah yeah
D Dsus4 D Bm E A D Dm G D
D Dm G D
Oh Mother Nature's Son
Intro:
E --2-3-2-1-3-5-3-5-3-2----------------------------------------
B --3-----3-----0-----3----------------------------------------
G --2-----2-----0-----2----------------------------------------
D --0-----0-----0-----0----------------------------------------
A -------------------------------------------------------------
E -------------------------------------------------------------
Middle Lead (play along with the "do do do" part):
E ----0-2-------0---2---3-2-0---2---2-------0---2---3-2-0---2--
B --3---3---3---3---3---0---0-3-3---3---3---3---3---0---0-3-3--
G --2-------2---------------------------2----------------------
D --0-----0---0---0---0-----------0---0---0---0---0------------
A -------------------------------------------------------------
E -------------------------------------------------------------
E ---2-2---0-2-3-2-2-0------------------------------------------
B ---2-1-3-------------3----------------------------------------
G ---2-2---------------0----------------------------------------
D ---0-0---------------0----------------------------------------
A ---------------------2----------------------------------------
E ---------------------3----------------------------------------
MOTHER NATURE'S SON- The Beatles
INTRO:
(slowly pluck these) (strum a bit on each of
these)
E ---2---2---2------------------5--3--0--3p2--0h2-2h3-0h2-0h2---
B ---3---3---3------------------3--3--3--3-3--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3---
G -4---2---1--------------------2--2--2--2-2--2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2---
D ------------------------------0--0--0--0-0--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---
A --------------------------------------------------------------
E -------------0------------------------------------------------
(let ring, then
slap guitar a bit)
D G/D D Bm D E9 (hit low E string)
Born a poor young country boy Mother Nature's son
A D/A A D/A A D/A A D/A D Dm G/D D
All day long I'm sitting singing songs for everyone
D Dm G/D D
D G/D D Bm D E9 (riff)
Sit beside a mountain stream See her waters rise
A D/A A D/A A D/A A D/A D Dm G/D D
Listen to the pretty sound of music as she flies
G/D D
Do do do do, do-yoo do do do
D G/D D Dmaj7 D7
do do do do, do-yoo do do do
D7sus4 D7 G/D Gm/D D
N
Find me in my field of grass Mother Nature's son (riff)
Swaying daisies sing a lazy song beneath the sun
G/D D
Do do do do, do-yoo do do do
D G/D D Dmaj7 D7
do do do do, do-yoo do do do
D7sus4 D7 G/D Gm/D D
Do do do do do do do yeah yeah yeah
(repeat verse chords while singing/humming the tune)
D Dm G/D D7
Oh Mother Nature's Son
RIFF:
D -------2---
A -----2-----
E -0-4-------
G/D: x x 0 0 0 3 E9: x x 0 1 3 2
D7sus5: x x 0 2 1 3 D/A: x 0 4 2 3 0
(from The White Album, 1968)
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Here are the chords for Mother Nature's Son by the Beatles
D Dsus4 D
Born a poor young country boy
Bm A G
Mother Nature's Son.
A D A D A D A A7sus4 D
All day long I'm sitting singing songs for everyone.
D F G D F G
Sit beside a mountain stream
see her waters rise.
Listen to the pretty sound of music as she flies.
D A D G D
Du du du du du du du du 2X
D Dmaj7 D7 D7sus2 G Gm D
du du du Yeah, yeah,
Find me in my field of grass
Mother Natures Son.
Swaying daisies sing a lazy song beneath the sun.
Mother Natures Son.

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#10766 From: Wild West <wild_west2@...>
Date: Tue Oct 7, 2008 12:39 am
Subject: Billy Joel: Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) seq Kris Kelley wild_west_48
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Excellent!!

"Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)" is a hit song written and recorded by Billy Joel. The track details the singer's disgust with the upwardly-mobile bourgeois aspirations of working and lower-middle class New Yorkers who take pride at working long hours in order to afford the outward signs of having "made it". Named characters have stereotypically immigrant or first-generation American names (Anthony, Mama Leone, Sergeant O'Leary) and their jobs are blue-collar. Joel considers their rejection of their working-class roots (trading a Chevy for a Cadillac and buying a house in Hackensack) to be ultimately futile; In the end, the rewards are a "heart attack-ack-ack-ack-ack" or "a broken back" (c.f. Joel's portrayal of himself in "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant").

According to Joel, Anthony isn't a real person, but rather "every Irish, Polish, and Italian kid trying to make a living in the U.S."

The song originally appeared on his 1977 album, The Stranger. A live performance of it can be heard on 2000 Years: The Millennium Concert.

Broadway musical

Main article: Movin' Out (musical)

The Twyla Tharp Broadway dance musical Movin' Out, featuring the songs of Billy Joel, opened at the Richard Rodgers Theater, New York, on October 24, 2002, and played 1,307 performances before closing in December 2005. The lead piano player and singer of the show was Michael Cavanaugh. It toured the U.S. extensively from 2004 through 2007, featuring Darren Holden as lead Piano Man, and Matt Wilson, James Fox and Matthew Friedman as second Piano Men. The show transferred to London's West End on April 10, 2006, at the Apollo Victoria Theatre - where James Fox played lead piano and sang, with Darren Reeves as second piano man. However, it closed early on 22nd May due to poor ticket sales.

Movin' Out is also the title of the original Broadway cast album taken from the above musical.

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Billy Joel: Movin' Out

ARTIST: Billy Joel
TITLE: Movin' Out
Lyrics and Chords


Anthony works in the grocery store
Savin' his pennies for someday
Mama Leone left a note on the door
She said, "Sonny, move out to the country"
Ah but working too hard can give you a
Heart attack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack
You oughta know by now - You oughta know by now
Who needs a house out in Hackensack
Is that all you get for your money

/ Dm - Gm - / C C7 F - / : / Dm - G7 - / Gm7 - C - /
    / Dm - G7 - / C7 - F - /

{Refrain}
And it seems such a waste of time
If that's what it's all about
Mama, if that's movin' up then I'm movin' out
Mm, I'm movin' out

/ Bb - C - / A7 - Dm - / Bb - Em7 - A7 - / 
     / Dm - Gm7 - C7 - Fmaj7 - /

Sergeant O'Leary is walkin' the beat
At night he becomes a bartender
He works at Mister Cacciatore's down on Sullivan Street
Across from the medical center
And he's tradin' in his Chevy for a
Cadillac-ac-ac-ac-ac-ac
You oughta know by now - You oughta know by now
And if he can't drive with a broken back
At least he can polish the fenders

{Refrain}

You should never argue with a
Crazy mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mind
You oughta know by now - You oughta know by now
You can pay Uncle Sam with the overtime
Is that all you get for your money

{As refrain}
And if that's what you have in mind
Yeah, if that's what you're all about
Good luck movin' up 'cause I'm movin' out
Mm, I'm movin' out
I'm movin' out

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#10768 From: "Doug Thompson" <d.thompson@...>
Date: Tue Oct 7, 2008 7:15 am
Subject: Re: Leo Sayer: More Than I Can Say seq Chris Hankins the_vickar
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Hey Chris

Very nice track - Well done!

Regards

Doug Thompson

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Subject: [midkar] Leo Sayer: More Than I Can Say seq Chris Hankins
Excellent!! Chris just does backing tracks, so sing away!

Leo Sayer (born Gerard Hugh Sayer, 21 May 1948, Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex) is an English singer-songwriter and musician, now based in Australia, whose singing career has spanned four decades.

Sayer has had success worldwide with his single and album releases, particularly in the UK and the U.S. He was initially discovered by David Courtney, who co-managed him with the singer-turned-manager, Adam Faith. Sayer began his music career co-writing songs with David Courtney, including "Giving It All Away," which gave Roger Daltrey of The Who his first hit as a soloist in 1973.

That same year, Sayer began his career as a recording artist. At the time of his initial chart breakthrough in Britain, with his debut hit "The Show Must Go On," he wore a pierrot style outfit and make-up.

He had subsequent single hits with "One Man Band" (1974), "Long Tall Glasses" (1975) and "Moonlighting" (1975).

In 1976, Sayer released three Beatles songs, "I Am the Walrus", "Let It Be" and "The Long and Winding Road" in the movie All This and World War II.

In 1977, he had a US number one with "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" (a U.S. Grammy Award winner for the year's best Rhythm and Blues Song), as well as the romantic ballad, "When I Need You" (1977), which reached number one in both the UK and U.S. Sayer also had remakes of Bobby Vee's Sonny Curtis/Jerry Allison composition, "More Than I Can Say" (his fourth UK number 2 hit, and in the U.S., number 2 pop and number one in the adult contemporary chart), and Buddy Holly's "Raining In My Heart" (1979) and "Orchard Road" in 1983. In the U.S., three of his singles - "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" (1977), "When I Need You," (1977) and "More Than I Can Say" (1980) - were certified gold.

Sayer made an appearance on The Muppet Show during the third season (second show) on which he sang "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing," "The Show Must Go On," and "When I Need You."

He also provided songs for the soundtrack for the English language version of the French-Belgian animated film, The Missing Link (1980).Template:Http://www.cinemovies.fr/fiche cast.php?IDfilm=5408

In 1990, he contributed to the last recording studio collaboration between Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson, Woolfson's solo album Freudiana, performing "I Am A Mirror".

In 2000, "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" was featured in the hit film, Charlie's Angels, and was on the accompanying soundtrack album.

Sayer's debut UK hit, "The Show Must Go On," was covered by Three Dog Night for the U.S. market and reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1974. Phil Collins covered Sayer's Billy Nichols' song "I Can't Stop Loving You" (originally a U.K. No.6 hit for Sayer) for his 2002 album, Testify. It reached number one on the U.S. adult contemporary chart.

In 2005, Sayer moved to Sydney, Australia, where he remains based to this day. On 12 February 2006, made a surprise return to number one in the UK Singles Chart, with Meck's remix of "Thunder In My Heart." He has also appeared in the Australian comedy, Stupid, Stupid Man.

Leo Sayer: At His Very Best, a career spanning compilation album, was released in the UK on 6 March 2006. It exclusively features the Meck single, alongside Sayer classics such as, "When I Need You" and "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing".

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In 2007, Sayer was the fifth person to join the Celebrity Big Brother UK house at the start of the series.

Sayer walked out of the Big Brother house on 12 January ostensibly because he was refused a supply of fresh underwear.

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In January 1967, while Sayer was working as a hall porter at the King's Hotel in Hove, he assisted in the rescue of guests from a fire that damaged the first floor of the hotel. He was rescued by builders working on a block of flats beside the hotel.

Wiggles Guest Appearance

Sayer made a guest appearance on The Wiggles 2008 DVD, "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing". The DVD features the Sayer musical hit of the same name.

2008

In 2008 Sayer released a new album in Australia, "Don't Wait Until Tomorrow". This album, produced by Garth Porter (from Australian Pop Band Sherbet), and released by Universal Music Australia, features selections from his catalogue in an entirely new setting, re-arranged with strings and acoustic and jazz instrumentation.

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Leo Sayer: More Than I Can Say

Wow wow yea yea
I love you more than I can say
Ill love you twice as much tomorrow
Oh love you more than I can say
Wow wow yea yea
I miss you evry single day
Why must my life be filled with sorrow
I love you more than I can say
Why dont you know I need you so
Oh tell me please I gotta know
Do you mean to make me cry
Am I just another guy
Wow wow yea yea
I love you more than I can say
Ill love you twice as much tomorrow
Oh love you more than I can say
I love you more than I can say
I love you more than I can say
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#10769 From: "Frank Warby" <frank.warby@...>
Date: Tue Oct 7, 2008 12:00 pm
Subject: Re: Danny Williams: Moon River seq Chris Hankins frank_warby
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Hello Dan

I had the pleasure of working with Danny Williams In December 2004 a year before his death,He was an excellent Vocalist

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Subject: [midkar] Danny Williams: Moon River seq Chris Hankins
Great!!

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Recordings

"Moon River" was released by South African singer Danny Williams, and reached the UK number one. Shortly thereafter, Andy Williams recorded the song and made it his theme song. It was a hit for Jerry Butler in 1961, reaching number 11 in the Billboard charts. Other artists that have covered the song are The Afghan Whigs, Benny Anderssons Orkester, Paul Anka, Blake, Louis Armstrong, Vince Guaraldi, Beru Revue, Mary Black, Sarah Brightman, Liz Callaway, Perry Como, Ray Conniff, Bobby Darin, Ania Dąbrowska, Dr. John, Billy Eckstine, The Four Freshmen, Connie Francis, Bill Frisell (instrumental), Emi Fujita, Judy Garland, Karel Gott, Grant Green (instrumental), Patty Griffin, The Innocence Mission (although this version is sometimes incorrectly cited as being performed by Milla Jovovich), Bradley Joseph (instrumental), Kim Yoo-jin, James Last, Joey McIntyre, Johnny Mathis, Brad Mehldau, Jane Monheit, Morrissey, Patsy Ann Noble, Jim Reeves, John Barrowman, R.E.M., Mia Riddle, Andrea Ross, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Sarah Vaughan, Nan Vernon, Kid Koala, Westlife, Victoria Williams, and Tata Young.

Mercer himself recorded the song in 1974 for his album (appropriately named) My Huckleberry Friend.

"Moon River" is a song composed by Johnny Mercer (lyrics) and Henry Mancini (music) in 1961, for whom it won that year's Academy Award for Best Original Song. It is most well-known for being sung in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's by Audrey Hepburn, although it has been covered by many other artists.

It became the theme song for Andy Williams, who first recorded the song in 1961 and performed it at the Academy Awards ceremonies in 1962. He sang the first eight bars of the song at the beginning of his television show; he also named his production company and venue in Branson, Missouri after Moon River.
The success of the song was responsible for re-launching Mercer's career as a songwriter, which had stalled in the mid-1950s because rock and roll replaced jazz standards as the popular music of the time. An inlet near Savannah, Georgia, Johnny Mercer's hometown, was named Moon River in honor of him and this song. The popularity of the song is such that it has been used as a test sample in a study on people's memories of popular songs.

Lyrics

The phrase "Huckleberry friend" was explained by Mercer in an interview with Terry Gross on National Public Radio's "Fresh Air". In his childhood, Mercer would go collect huckleberries with friends along the river. Thus it is a nostalgic reference to childhood. Other comment about the song has noted that it is particularly reminiscent of Mercer's youth in the Southern United States.

Music analysis

The original Henry Mancini recording is in F major. The song opens with an instantly recognizable melody - "moon river", featuring the distinctive perfect fifth upward leap from the 5th (C) to the 2nd (G), which is immediately balanced and contrasted by the subsequent graceful step to the tonic (F), before gliding down (as you sail down the river) with four consecutive steps (E-D-C-B♭). Another upward leap follows (F-high E) before the five consecutive steps are repeated again, followed by another leap downwards (C-F) to a step (G). The chord progression is as follows: tonic (F major), sixth (D minor), fourth (B♭ major), tonic (F major), fourth (B♭ major), tonic (F major), seventh (Edim7), major third (A major).

"You dream maker" features many leaps of thirds and fifths; "you dream maker" sees the melody drop from the third to the dominant before leaping to the fifth and dropping to the third; this is repeated in "you heartbreaker". "Wherever you're going, I'm going your way"'s dramatic message is emphasised by the dramatic melody to accompany the lyrics in an arpeggiated tonic chord ascending melody where the third moves to the tonic which moves up the arpeggio into the third, the fifth and lastly, the (octave), creating a nice high climax, before stepping down to the seventh. There is a melodic sequence where the octave-seventh-sixth motive ("going, I'm") is repeated one step lower (seventh-sixth-fifth) ("going your") before moving to the sixth; This is matched by the harmonic sequence as well; where the chord progression moves from Bm-E (a rise of a fourth), repeated a step lower (Am-D), before moving one step lower (Gm-C).

The first part of the melody "moon river" is then repeated in "two drifters", before moving to a coda in "we're after the same rainbow's end" - which features the same arpeggiated tonic chord ascending melody (F-A-C-high F) before moving up and down just like the shape of the rainbow (F-G-F) - an example of word painting - and then moving down to "end" on C (which is matched by the chord F/A), before the "wider than a mile" melody of E-D-C-B♭-C is repeated two times, which is followed by a graceful closure of the song, "moon river, and me" (F-B♭-G-A-F): note the melodic sequence that follows as the interval of a descending third is repeated a step lower again.
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#10770 From: "Bob Barnes" <bobwbarnes@...>
Date: Tue Oct 7, 2008 12:17 pm
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A great oldie. Bob

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#10771 From: Bob <rasrealtor@...>
Date: Tue Oct 7, 2008 2:17 pm
Subject: Re: It's Only A Paper Moon rasrealtor
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Great sequence, Bob. But an oldie only chronologically. It's a classic. I've included some background of the song along with lyrics.
Thanks for this MIDI.

(me) Bob

Published in 1933, "It's Only a Paper Moon" (link will reveal all the recording artists of the song) is a popular song written by Harold Arlen with lyrics by E. Y. Harburg and Billy Rose. It was written originally for an unsuccessful broadway play called The Great Magoo, set in Coney Island. It was subsequently used in the movie Take a Chance, later in 1933. But its lasting fame stems from a series of recordings of the song by popular artists such as the Paul Whiteman Orchestra, the Nat King Cole Trio, and Ella Fitzgerald, and from its use as a vehicle for improvisation by many jazz musicians.
The song was included in the Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire, which opened in 1947.
The song lent its title to the 1973 Peter Bogdanovich film Paper Moon and the subsequent television series of the same name.
The song, with a newly composed counter-melody by Kander and Ebb, is a musical segment in the film Funny Lady, starring Barbra Streisand and James Caan.
The song was used in the Star Trek series Deep Space Nine in an episode with the same title as the song.

Music by Harold Arlen, lyrics by E.Y. Harburg and Billy Rose, 1933

Harold Arlen was a busy man in 1932. When he wasn't performing at the Palace as a featured songwriter or accompanying Ethel Merman, he was writing songs for The Cotton Club, hits like "Stormy Weather" and "I've Got the World on a String." Hollywood was calling, too, wanting some of that Cotton Club magic in their movies.

Meanwhile, over at the Selwyn Theatre on 42nd St, Billy Rose was producing a new play by Ben Hecht and Gene Fowler, The Great Magoo, a show about the ambitions and love among the workers at Coney Island; it was not a musical. But Rose asked Arlen for a song anyway. and Arlen found the time to come up with a tune. Yip Harburg recalls the task:

"(Rose) called and said, 'We need a song here for guy who's a Coney Island barker. A very cynical guy who falls in love and finds that the world is not all Coney Island-- not papier mache and lights and that sort of gaudy stuff. But it's got to be a love song.' Well, I tried to think of a cynical love story, something that this kind of a guy would sing. But I could never really be cynical. I could see life in all its totality, its reality." (Interview with Max Wilk, 1973)

Harburg and Rose finally hammered out some lyrics together to the number they called "If You Believed in Me."

Say it's only a paper moon Sailing over a cardboard sea But, it wouldn't be make-believe if you believed in me

Unfortunately, the show was a flop. Audiences instead were flocking to see Ethel Merman in Take a Chance at the Apollo, literally right next door to the Selwyn. This Nacio Herb Brown musical was such a hit that Hollywood rushed its version into production, taking several actors from the cast with it (but not Merman. She'd be replaced with Lilian Roth). One of the cast members who went to Hollywood was June Knight. And she was given a new song to sing with Charles "Buddy" Rogers that she hadn't done on Broadway-- a song from the show next door, newly retitled "It's Only a Paper Moon."

While the movie is mostly forgotten now, the song had staying power. Many people attribute the song's popularity to Nat King Cole. The King Cole Trio put out a recording on Capitol records in 1944, which charted at #23. Ella Fitzgerald's cover went to #9 on Billboard's Pop charts the following year backed up by the Delta Rhythm Boys on Decca, and both recordings can be heard today on nostalgia formatted radio stations. But Cole, and Fitzgerald, (and pretty much all the big bands at the time) were merely reviving an old favorite from the movie: Paul Whiteman had charted with the song in 1933 (#9), and even one of the cast members of Take a Chance, Cliff Edwards, AKA "Ukulele Ike" had success with his recording (#13 in 1933).

Yes it's only a canvas sky Hanging over a muslin tree But it wouldn't be make-believe if you believe in me Bridge: Without your love It's a honkey-tonk parade Without your love It's a melody played in a penny arcade It's a Barnum and Bailey world Just as phoney as it can be But, it wouldn't be make-believe if you believed in me

Harburg's and Rose's lyrics have made the song a pop standard. Among those who have recorded the song are Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Harry Nilsson, Rosemary Clooney, Bing Crosby, Bobby Darin, Dion and the Belmonts, Marvin Gaye, Dick Haymes, Maureen McGovern, Mitch Miller, Jim Reeves, Mel Torme, James Taylor, and even Rufus Wainwright.

Notably, this song, like much of the Arlen songbook, has also become a jazz standard --a favorite of instrumentalists, and so you can also find recordings from Django Reinhardt, Chet Baker, Count Basie, Art Blakely, Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Stephane Grapelli, Coleman Hawkins, Lionel Hampton, Stan Kenton, Gene Krupa, Marian McPartland, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum, and Lester Young.

Sources:
George Townsend. "It's Only a Paper Moon." The Perry Como Discography Website. 10 May 2004. <http://kokomo.ca/early_years/its_only_a_paper_moon.htm> (25 May 2004)
"Take a Chance (1933)." Internet Movie Database. <http://imdb.com/title/tt0024640/> (25 May 2004)
"Take a Chance." Internet Broadway Database. <http://www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=11687> (25 May 2004)
Samuel Arlen and Sharon Zak Marotta . "Harold Arlen - Biography - The Cotton Club Years." The Official Harold Arlen Website. <http://www.haroldarlen.com/bio-4.html> (25 May 2004)
Max Wilk. They're Playing Our Song. Atheneum: New York, 1973.

Music by Harold Arlen.
Lyrics by E.Y. (Yip) Harburg

I never feel a thing is real
When I'm away from you
Out of your embrace
The world's a temporary parking place

Mmm, mm, mm, mm
A bubble for a minute
Mmm, mm, mm, mm
You smile, the bubble has a rainbow in it

Say, it's only a paper moon
Sailing over a cardboard sea
But it wouldn't be make-believe
If you believed in me

Yes, it's only a canvas sky
Hanging over a muslin tree
But it wouldn't be make-believe
If you believed in me

Without your love
It's a honky-tonk parade
Without your love
It's a melody played in a penny arcade

It's a barnum and bailey world
Just as phony as it can be
But it wouldn't be make-believe
If you believed in me
Bob Barnes wrote:

A great oldie. Bob

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