BCB Bans sings Take It To The Limit by The Eagles
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BCB Band sings Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades by Timbuk3. This is a catchy silly
BCB Band sings Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades by Timbuk3. This is a catchy silly tune. Hope you like it.
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BCB band sings "Don't Be Cruel" by Otis Blackwell.
"Don't Be Cruel" is a song by Otis B
BCB band sings "Don't Be Cruel" by Otis Blackwell.
"Don't Be Cruel" is a song by Otis Blackwell, which was recorded by Elvis Presley in 1956. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002. In 2004 it was listed number 197 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
"Don't Be Cruel" was originally the A side of RCA single 47-6604, with "Hound Dog" on the b-side, [1] although both sides became chart-toppers, RCA reissuing the single in later decades as double A-sided. The single was the first to top all three extant Billboard charts: pop, rhythm & blues, and country & western.
The song was recorded for RCA Victor by Elvis' regular band of Scotty Moore on lead guitar (with Elvis usually providing rhythm guitar), Bill Black on bass, D.J. Fontana on drums and backing vocals from the Jordanaires. Presley recorded this song on July 2, 1956 at RCA's New York City studio. The producing credit was given to RCA's Steve Sholes, however the studio recordings reveal that Elvis produced the songs in this session (as well as many others) himself, which is verified by the band members. Presley selected the song, reworked the arrangement himself on piano, and recorded eight takes of the song with the band (number 7 being the take released on the record) during one recording session following the thirty takes of "Hound Dog" (number 28 being released on the record) recorded that day. "Any Way You Want Me" was also recorded in that same session following "Don't Be Cruel". "Don't Be Cruel" and "Hound Dog" were released on July 13, 1956.
Elvis Presley's reworking of the Otis Blackwell demo, his changes to the music and the lyrics, arguably justifies his receiving a co-songwriting credit, although obviously Blackwell was the principal writer of the song.
Presley, Scotty, Bill, DJ, and the Jordanaires first performed "Don't Be Cruel" on national televsion on the September 9, 1956 the Ed Sullivan Show. They revisited the song twice more when appearing on the Sullivan Show: October 28 of the same year, and on January 6, 1957.[2]
The song, listed as "Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog" at the time of its release, hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 the week ending August 18, 1956, and remained in the pole position for 11 consecutive weeks, tying it with the 1950 Anton Karas hit The Third Man Theme and the 1951/1952 Johnnie Ray hit Cry for the longest stay at number one by a single record until 1992's smash "End of the Road" by Boyz II Men.
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BCB Band of Oklahoma City sings "Slow Hand" by ... (more)
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BCB Band of Oklahoma City sings "Seminole Wind" by John Anderson. Often imitated never duplicated!
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BCB Band sings Rollin' With The Flow by Charlie Rich, The Silver Fox.
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BCB Band sings You Don't Mess Around With Jim by Jim Croce.
James Joseph Croce was bor
BCB Band sings You Don't Mess Around With Jim by Jim Croce.
James Joseph Croce was born in Philadelphia on Jan. 10, 1943. Originally a university disc jockey, he played in various rock bands before moving to New York City in 1967, where he performed in folk clubs. By 1969, he and his wife Ingrid were signed to Capitol Records for the album Approaching Day. The album failed, so Croce returned to Pennsylvania, taking on work as a truck driver and telephone engineer.
Meanwhile, he continued with songwriting. After sending demo tapes to former college friend and New York record producer Tommy West, he secured a new contract with the ABC Records label. His second album, 1972's You Don't Mess Around With Jim, provided him with a Top 10 hit with the title track and, along with "Operator (That's Not The Way It Feels)," helped establish Croce as a songwriter of distinction. The album also climbed to the top of the album chart in July.
In April 1973, he topped the charts with the narrative "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown," but a few months later, he died (along with four others, including the pilot) when a charter plane crashed into a tree at the end of the runway at the Natchitoches, La., airport. In the wake of his death, he registered another Top 10 hit with "I Got a Name," and the contemplative "Time in a Bottle" provided him with a posthumous No. 1 in 1974. During 1974, further releases kept him on the charts, including "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song" and "Workin' at the Car Wash Blues." His son, A.J. Croce, began his own recording career in the '90s, and the country label River North released a tribute to Jim in 1997.
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BCB Band sings Midnight Special by Lead Belly.
Huddie William Ledbetter, (January, 1888
BCB Band sings Midnight Special by Lead Belly.
Huddie William Ledbetter, (January, 1888 -- December 6, 1949) was an American folk and blues musician, notable for his clear and forceful singing, his virtuosity on the twelve string guitar, and the rich songbook of folk standards he introduced. He is best known as Leadbelly or Lead Belly. Though many releases list him as "Leadbelly," he himself spelled it "Lead Belly." This is also the usage on his tombstone, [1][2] as well as the Lead Belly Foundation.
Although he most commonly played the twelve string, he could also play the piano, mandolin, harmonica, violin, concertina, and accordion. In some of his recordings, such as in one of his versions of the folk ballad "John Hardy", he performs on the accordion instead of the guitar. In other recordings he just sings while clapping his hands or stomping his foot. The topics of Lead Belly's music covered a wide range of subjects, including gospel songs; blues songs about women, liquor and racism; and folk songs about cowboys, prison, work, sailors, cattle herding and dancing. He also wrote songs concerning the newsmakers of the day, such as President Franklin Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, Jean Harlow, the Scottsboro Boys and multi-millionaire Howard Hughes.
Lead Belly's vast songbook, much of which he adapted from previous sources, has provided material for numerous folk, country, pop and rock acts since his time. Examples:
ABBA recorded both "Pick A Bale Of Cotton" and "Midnight Special"
Pete Seeger's band The Weavers had a hit with "Goodnight Irene" the year after Lead Belly's death
The Animals had a hit with "The House of the Rising Sun" in 1964 and See See Rider in 1966
Ram Jam recorded Black Betty in 1977
Creedence Clearwater Revival recorded a popular version of "Midnight Special" and "Cotton Fields" in 1969
Mark Lanegan covered "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" for his album The Winding Sheet (1990), with Kurt Cobain participating
Nirvana covered "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" in 1993 on their MTV Unplugged performance. Kurt Cobain prefaces the song by referring to Lead Belly as "my favorite performer... our favorite performer". Cobain also mentions an offer that was made to him by a man representing the Lead Belly estate to buy Lead Belly's guitar for $500,000. Nirvana's 2004 boxed set With the Lights Out contains four Lead Belly covers: "Where Did You Sleep Last Night"; "They Hung Him On A Cross", "Ain't It A Shame" and an instrumental cover of "Grey Goose".
Davy Graham covered "Leavin' Blues"
Harry Belafonte covered "Sylvie" (attributed to Huddie Ledbetter and "Paul Campbell," a collective pen name[6] for The Weavers) for his album Belafonte at Carnegie Hall (1959).
The Rolling Stones adapted "The Bourgeois Blues" for "When The Whip Comes Down".
Van Morrison's first performance as a child was "Good Night, Irene", and he later recorded the song with Lonnie Donegan. In the title track to Morrison's Astral Weeks, the lyrics that refer to Lead Belly: "Talkin' to Huddie Ledbetter/Showin' pictures on the wall/" seem to be based on Morrison's real life custom of carrying around a poster of Lead Belly and hanging it on the wall wherever he was living. This was revealed in a Rolling Stone interview in 1978, where Morrison refers Lead Belly as "my guru".[7] He also mentions Lead Belly in the lyrics to his 1982 semi-autobigraphical song "Cleaning Windows" alongside other blues musicians that inspired Morrison in his youth.
Bryan Ferry also covered "Good Night, Irene" for his album, "Frantic"
Nigel Blackwell impersonates Lead Belly in the Half Man Half Biscuit song "24 Hour Garage People"
Led Zeppelin adapted 'Gallis Pole' into 'Gallows Pole' on their third album
Weddings Parties Anything have recorded 'Bourgouis Blues'
Rory Gallagher covered 'Western Plain', his version going by the title 'Out On The Western Plain'
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BCB Band sings I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am by Merle Haggard.
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BCB Band sings Lonely People by America.
America is an English-American folk rock band,
BCB Band sings Lonely People by America.
America is an English-American folk rock band, originally composed of members Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell, and Dan Peek. The three members were barely past their teenage years when they became an overnight musical sensation in 1972; they reached a peak in popularity in the early to mid 1970s and early 1980s. Among the band's best known songs are "A Horse with No Name", "Sister Golden Hair" (both of which reached Number 1), "Ventura Highway", and "Tin Man".
Although their music was frequently derided by critics, from a commercial standpoint the band's singles and albums were exceptionally successful. They were popular enough to attract the services of famed Beatles producer George Martin for a run of seven albums. The band survived the loss of one of its original members near the peak of its success only to see Beckley and Bunnell return the act to the top of charts as a duo with "You Can Do Magic" in 1982. Consistently touring for well over three decades, America still maintains a strong following and performs over 100 shows per year. On January 16, 2007, America released Here & Now, the band's first major label studio album in over twenty years.
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