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Elvis Presley’s “In the Ghetto” had a different title. The writer of the song said the tune only became more poignant in the 21st century. “In the Ghetto” was a big hit and appeared on one of the singer’s most famous albums.
Elvis Presley‘s “In the Ghetto” was originally titled “The Vicious Circle.” The country singer who wrote the song explained why he didn’t use its original name. In addition, he discussed what it was like to pen multiple hit songs for the “Can’t Help Falling in Love” singer.
The original title of Elvis Presley’s ‘In the Ghetto’ didn’t rhyme with anything
Mac Davis is a country singer most known for his tune “Baby, Don’t Get Hooked on Me.” In addition, he wrote Elvis songs like “A Little Less Conversation,” “Memories,” ‘”Don’t Cry Daddy,” and “In the Ghetto.” During a 2017 interview with Songwriter Universe,...
Elvis Presley’s “In the Ghetto” had a different title. The writer of the song said the tune only became more poignant in the 21st century. “In the Ghetto” was a big hit and appeared on one of the singer’s most famous albums.
Elvis Presley‘s “In the Ghetto” was originally titled “The Vicious Circle.” The country singer who wrote the song explained why he didn’t use its original name. In addition, he discussed what it was like to pen multiple hit songs for the “Can’t Help Falling in Love” singer.
The original title of Elvis Presley’s ‘In the Ghetto’ didn’t rhyme with anything
Mac Davis is a country singer most known for his tune “Baby, Don’t Get Hooked on Me.” In addition, he wrote Elvis songs like “A Little Less Conversation,” “Memories,” ‘”Don’t Cry Daddy,” and “In the Ghetto.” During a 2017 interview with Songwriter Universe,...
- 8/9/2023
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
While Led Zeppelin is one of the greatest rock n’ roll bands ever, it would be hard to tell by looking at the charts. The main reason is that the band rarely released any singles as they wanted the focus to be on their albums. It cost them a chance at a No. 1 hit, but it didn’t seem like they cared.
Led Zeppelin never had a song reach No. 1 on the charts Led Zeppelin | Dick Barnatt/Redferns
Led Zeppelin has many memorable songs like “Stairway to Heaven”, “When the Levee Breaks”, and “Kashmir”. However, none of these songs charted well because the band rarely released singles. This most likely drove their record company, Atlantic Records, crazy, as the band’s singles would have sold tremendously well.
They did release 10 singles in the U.S., but none of them ever reached No. 1. A few of these include “Immigrant Song”, which peaked at No.
Led Zeppelin never had a song reach No. 1 on the charts Led Zeppelin | Dick Barnatt/Redferns
Led Zeppelin has many memorable songs like “Stairway to Heaven”, “When the Levee Breaks”, and “Kashmir”. However, none of these songs charted well because the band rarely released singles. This most likely drove their record company, Atlantic Records, crazy, as the band’s singles would have sold tremendously well.
They did release 10 singles in the U.S., but none of them ever reached No. 1. A few of these include “Immigrant Song”, which peaked at No.
- 5/9/2023
- by Ross Tanenbaum
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
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Don Graham, the music promotion pioneer who worked at Warner Bros. Records, A&m Records and Blue Thumb Records with the likes of Edd “Kookie” Byrnes and Connie Stevens, The Everly Brothers and Ike & Tina Turner, has died. He was 87.
Graham died Thursday in Los Angeles of stomach cancer, his family announced.
In 1958, Graham learned that Warner Bros. was about to start a record label and soon became head of its San Francisco operations. Under his leadership, Warner Bros. Records signed actors Edd “Kookie” Byrnes, Connie Stevens and Tab Hunter, plus The Everly Brothers and Peter, Paul & Mary.
One of Warner Bros.’ first records to be successful was “Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb” by Kookie and Stevens, based on Byrnes’ popular character on the ABC show 77 Sunset Strip. When top San Francisco radio station Kya would not add the song to its playlist,...
Don Graham, the music promotion pioneer who worked at Warner Bros. Records, A&m Records and Blue Thumb Records with the likes of Edd “Kookie” Byrnes and Connie Stevens, The Everly Brothers and Ike & Tina Turner, has died. He was 87.
Graham died Thursday in Los Angeles of stomach cancer, his family announced.
In 1958, Graham learned that Warner Bros. was about to start a record label and soon became head of its San Francisco operations. Under his leadership, Warner Bros. Records signed actors Edd “Kookie” Byrnes, Connie Stevens and Tab Hunter, plus The Everly Brothers and Peter, Paul & Mary.
One of Warner Bros.’ first records to be successful was “Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb” by Kookie and Stevens, based on Byrnes’ popular character on the ABC show 77 Sunset Strip. When top San Francisco radio station Kya would not add the song to its playlist,...
- 7/12/2022
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
B.J. Thomas, the vocalist who mixed the stylish sophistication of a pop crooner and the down-home soul of a country singer on songs like the 1969 smash “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,” died Saturday in his Arlington, Texas home at the age of 78. A rep for Thomas confirmed the singer’s death. The cause of death was lung cancer, which Thomas had publicly revealed he had in March.
Thomas’ multi-genre success included major hits on the adult contemporary and Christian music charts, the latter of which would earn him five...
Thomas’ multi-genre success included major hits on the adult contemporary and Christian music charts, the latter of which would earn him five...
- 5/29/2021
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
Mac Davis, the country-music artist and songwriter behind some of Elvis Presley’s most indelible recordings, died Tuesday at 78. Davis became “critically ill following heart surgery in Nashville,” according to a tweet from his family on Monday. His manager confirmed the entertainer’s death in a statement.
Born in Lubbock, Texas, in 1942, Davis would evolve into a country and adult-contemporary crossover star with solo hits like “Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me,” “Stop and Smell the Roses,” and “One Hell of a Woman.” In 1974, he was named Entertainer of...
Born in Lubbock, Texas, in 1942, Davis would evolve into a country and adult-contemporary crossover star with solo hits like “Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me,” “Stop and Smell the Roses,” and “One Hell of a Woman.” In 1974, he was named Entertainer of...
- 9/30/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
In 1968, Tammy Wynette recorded one of her signature songs, the Bobby Braddock-Curly Putman classic, “D-i-v-o-r-c-e.” Serving as the title tune from Wynette’s third solo LP, the single — as well as the album — topped the charts, and would prove prophetic as Wynette’s second husband, songwriter Don Chapel, filed for divorce from the singer in October 1968.
While Wynette’s subsequent albums, beginning with 1969’s Stand By Your Man, would often feature her songwriting efforts, D-i-v-o-r-c-e consisted of several contemporary cover songs, including an “answer” version to the Bobby Goldsboro crossover hit “Honey,...
While Wynette’s subsequent albums, beginning with 1969’s Stand By Your Man, would often feature her songwriting efforts, D-i-v-o-r-c-e consisted of several contemporary cover songs, including an “answer” version to the Bobby Goldsboro crossover hit “Honey,...
- 6/18/2019
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
Was this a Supernatural episode to remember?
Dean may have lost his mind on Supernatural Season 12 Episode 11, but there was plenty to take in. From the comedic to the dramatic, this was an episode that really captured that memory loss for the character.
But what about those witches? Were they fantastic villains?
Join TV Fanatic staff writers Sean McKenna and Christine Laskodi and The Winchester Family Business’ Alice and Nightsky as they talk about “Regarding Dean.”
So turn on your light sticks and join in the latest Supernatural Round Table!
What was your favorite scene or quote?
Alice: No contest. I’m going with the ending montage with Dean on the mechanical bull and his other fun antics in the episode to the tune of Bobby Goldsboro’s “Broomstick Cowboy.”
The whole scene was out in left field, didn’t really fit with the episode, but I loved it anyway.
Dean may have lost his mind on Supernatural Season 12 Episode 11, but there was plenty to take in. From the comedic to the dramatic, this was an episode that really captured that memory loss for the character.
But what about those witches? Were they fantastic villains?
Join TV Fanatic staff writers Sean McKenna and Christine Laskodi and The Winchester Family Business’ Alice and Nightsky as they talk about “Regarding Dean.”
So turn on your light sticks and join in the latest Supernatural Round Table!
What was your favorite scene or quote?
Alice: No contest. I’m going with the ending montage with Dean on the mechanical bull and his other fun antics in the episode to the tune of Bobby Goldsboro’s “Broomstick Cowboy.”
The whole scene was out in left field, didn’t really fit with the episode, but I loved it anyway.
- 2/14/2017
- by Sean McKenna
- TVfanatic
What indie videogames lack in technical polish, they make up for with imagination. Simon explains why they're so important...
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Last year, GTA V became the fastest-selling piece of entertainment in history. Total War: Rome II, SimCity and Tomb Raider also came out last year, and were big hits. Part of me is overjoyed that my favourite entertainment medium is now so hugely popular. Yet another part of me wishes it was still more of a niche pursuit, as it was in the 1980 and 90s.
I cut my gaming teeth on an Amstrad Cpc (thank you Lord Sugar). It had a keyboard, a disk drive, and a green screen. Whenever I saw my dad trying to work on this thing I would be amazed, dazzled and aghast at just how ridiculously dull and turgid the beast was. Just lines and numbers on a green screen generating more numbers and lines.
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Last year, GTA V became the fastest-selling piece of entertainment in history. Total War: Rome II, SimCity and Tomb Raider also came out last year, and were big hits. Part of me is overjoyed that my favourite entertainment medium is now so hugely popular. Yet another part of me wishes it was still more of a niche pursuit, as it was in the 1980 and 90s.
I cut my gaming teeth on an Amstrad Cpc (thank you Lord Sugar). It had a keyboard, a disk drive, and a green screen. Whenever I saw my dad trying to work on this thing I would be amazed, dazzled and aghast at just how ridiculously dull and turgid the beast was. Just lines and numbers on a green screen generating more numbers and lines.
- 6/2/2014
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Supernatural Review, Season 7, Episode 5: “Shut Up, Dr. Phil”
Written by Brad Buckner & Eugenie Ross-Leming
Directed by Phil Sgriccia
Airs Fridays at 9pm (Et) on the CW
This week, on Supernatural: Cordy and Spike have communication problems, as do Sam and Dean, and Jenny bites into the nastiest cupcake ever
Thus far, season 7 of Supernatural has been uneven- two strong episodes followed by two weak ones. This week’s episode isn’t fantastic, but it’s a step in the right direction, and at least that’s something. “Shut Up, Dr. Phil” follows in the tradition of “Tall Tales” (Sam and Dean meet the Trickster) and “Wishful Thinking” (Sam and Dean find a wishing well), starting as a fairly straightforward episode before taking a left turn into comedy. Though it’s not nearly as successful as either “Tales” or “Thinking”, which include some of the most transcendent moments of...
Written by Brad Buckner & Eugenie Ross-Leming
Directed by Phil Sgriccia
Airs Fridays at 9pm (Et) on the CW
This week, on Supernatural: Cordy and Spike have communication problems, as do Sam and Dean, and Jenny bites into the nastiest cupcake ever
Thus far, season 7 of Supernatural has been uneven- two strong episodes followed by two weak ones. This week’s episode isn’t fantastic, but it’s a step in the right direction, and at least that’s something. “Shut Up, Dr. Phil” follows in the tradition of “Tall Tales” (Sam and Dean meet the Trickster) and “Wishful Thinking” (Sam and Dean find a wishing well), starting as a fairly straightforward episode before taking a left turn into comedy. Though it’s not nearly as successful as either “Tales” or “Thinking”, which include some of the most transcendent moments of...
- 10/22/2011
- by Kate Kulzick
- SoundOnSight
Igor Stravinsky may have been right when he said, "Music is the best way to digest time." But I'm sure the great Russian composer would have agreed that some music--particularly pop hits whose predictable melodies and insipid lyrics have a way of permanently implanting themselves in our minds--inspire nothing so much as a desire for regurgitation. In Part One, we revisited such recorded catastrophes as Bobby Goldsboro's Honey, Morris Albert's Feelings and Charlene's I've Never Been to Me. Strong candidates for Part 2 included such stomach-churning charttoppers as Barry Manilow's I Write the Songs (no, you don't, not even this one, which was penned by Beach Boy Bruce Johnston), Helen Reddy's I Am Woman (no, you're not) and Starship's We Built This City on Rock and Roll (no, you most definitely did not). A carton of Maalox later, l submit the...
- 7/29/2010
- by Michael Sigman
- Huffington Post
Marvin Hamlisch hosts Marvin Hamlisch Presents: The .70s, The Way We Were, a television special featuring performers re-creating their big hits from the 1970s. The special stars Bj Thomas, Three Dog Night, Debby Boone, Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr., Ray Stevens, Freda Payne, Guy and Ralna, Bobby Goldsboro, Billy Joe Royal, Peaches and Herb, Jonathan Edwards, Gloria Gaynor and composer and conductor Hamlisch himself. The event is part of special programming airing in July-August 2010 (check local listings) on PBS stations. In addition to the live stage performances, the program looks back at warm and wonderful memories of the 1970s. Hamlisch looks back on the 1970s with nostalgia. .The country breathed a sigh of relief when the...
- 7/4/2010
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Opens Nov. 18
TORONTO -- Director Neil Jordan, whose 1996 film, "The General", was based on a novel by Ireland's Michael McCabe, again collaborates with the author on "Breakfast on Pluto".
A trippy tale surveying the life and times on one Patrick "Kitten" Braden, a blissfully oblivious tranvestite who finds himself getting mixed up with the IRA while searching for his long lost mother, the film has obvious parallels to Jordan's "The Crying Game".
But unlike that 1992 Oscar-winner, there's no big surprise ending here, although it really could have used one.
For while the sunny production values and '70s bubblegum soundtrack carry the film up to a point, there's a more-of-the-same quality to the narrative that simply can't sustain its 36-chapter, 135-minute running time.
Even with the suddenly ubiquitous Cillian Murphy in the title role, this Sony Classics release will hold limited commercial appeal.
Murphy goes from "Red Eye" to rouge lips to take on the role of "Kitten", a delicate-featured lad/lass with a breathy wisp of a voice that makes him sound like an Irish Michael Jackson.
Abandoned as a baby by his mother, a woman said to be the spitting image of Mitzi Gaynor, young Patrick occupies his youth trying on his step-sister's frocks and otherwise scandalizing his tiny Irish village.
When he becomes old enough to hitch a ride, Kitten embarks on a quest to track down his Ma, and along the way he meets up with a parade of colorful characters beginning with Billy Rock (Gavin Friday) the lead singer of a traveling rockabilly band that incorporates glam makeup and Wild West Indian themes, with whom he becomes romantically attached.
It's around this time he also becomes unwittingly involved in IRA activities and it's here that things become problematic.
Although it may have worked in book form, the juxtaposition of Kitten's escapades against a bloodily tumultuous period in Irish history, never convincingly jibe on screen, with the end result feeling like a forced conceit rather than an inspired concept.
Equally problematic is that Kitten's character, drawn by Jordan and McCabe, just isn't sufficiently interesting or likable to be around, despite Murphy's committed performance. It's one that's reminiscent of Gael Garcia Bernal's more provocative turn in Almodovar's "Bad Education".
Some amusing support is provided by a number of previous Jordan collaborators, including Liam Neeson as a priest with a secret link to Kitten's past, Stephen Rea as a lonely, smitten magician and Brendan Gleeson as a costumed kiddie theme park character named Uncle Bulgaria.
And it's hard to fault a soundtrack that manages to accommodate Van Morrison, Bobby Goldsboro, Harry Nilsson and the British band Middle of the Road, whose ridiculously infectious "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" effectively nails the desired loopy tone that the picture strives unsuccessfully to maintain.
BREAKFAST ON PLUTO
Sony Pictures Classics
A Pathe Pictures and Sony Pictures Classics presentation.
Credits:
Director: Neil Jordan
Producers: Alan Moloney, Neil Jordan, Stephen Wooley
Screenwriters: Neil Jordan, Patrick McCabe
Based on the original novel by Patrick McCabe
Director of photography: Declan Quinn
Production designer: Tom Conroy
Editor: Tony Lawson
Costume designer: Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh
Cast:
Patrick "Kitten" Braden: Cillian Murphy
Father Bernard: Liam Neeson
Bertie the Magician: Stephen Rea
Charlie: Ruth Negga
Irwin: Laurence Kinlan
Billy Rock: Gavin Friday
Mr. Silky String: Bryan Ferry
Running time -- 135 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
TORONTO -- Director Neil Jordan, whose 1996 film, "The General", was based on a novel by Ireland's Michael McCabe, again collaborates with the author on "Breakfast on Pluto".
A trippy tale surveying the life and times on one Patrick "Kitten" Braden, a blissfully oblivious tranvestite who finds himself getting mixed up with the IRA while searching for his long lost mother, the film has obvious parallels to Jordan's "The Crying Game".
But unlike that 1992 Oscar-winner, there's no big surprise ending here, although it really could have used one.
For while the sunny production values and '70s bubblegum soundtrack carry the film up to a point, there's a more-of-the-same quality to the narrative that simply can't sustain its 36-chapter, 135-minute running time.
Even with the suddenly ubiquitous Cillian Murphy in the title role, this Sony Classics release will hold limited commercial appeal.
Murphy goes from "Red Eye" to rouge lips to take on the role of "Kitten", a delicate-featured lad/lass with a breathy wisp of a voice that makes him sound like an Irish Michael Jackson.
Abandoned as a baby by his mother, a woman said to be the spitting image of Mitzi Gaynor, young Patrick occupies his youth trying on his step-sister's frocks and otherwise scandalizing his tiny Irish village.
When he becomes old enough to hitch a ride, Kitten embarks on a quest to track down his Ma, and along the way he meets up with a parade of colorful characters beginning with Billy Rock (Gavin Friday) the lead singer of a traveling rockabilly band that incorporates glam makeup and Wild West Indian themes, with whom he becomes romantically attached.
It's around this time he also becomes unwittingly involved in IRA activities and it's here that things become problematic.
Although it may have worked in book form, the juxtaposition of Kitten's escapades against a bloodily tumultuous period in Irish history, never convincingly jibe on screen, with the end result feeling like a forced conceit rather than an inspired concept.
Equally problematic is that Kitten's character, drawn by Jordan and McCabe, just isn't sufficiently interesting or likable to be around, despite Murphy's committed performance. It's one that's reminiscent of Gael Garcia Bernal's more provocative turn in Almodovar's "Bad Education".
Some amusing support is provided by a number of previous Jordan collaborators, including Liam Neeson as a priest with a secret link to Kitten's past, Stephen Rea as a lonely, smitten magician and Brendan Gleeson as a costumed kiddie theme park character named Uncle Bulgaria.
And it's hard to fault a soundtrack that manages to accommodate Van Morrison, Bobby Goldsboro, Harry Nilsson and the British band Middle of the Road, whose ridiculously infectious "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" effectively nails the desired loopy tone that the picture strives unsuccessfully to maintain.
BREAKFAST ON PLUTO
Sony Pictures Classics
A Pathe Pictures and Sony Pictures Classics presentation.
Credits:
Director: Neil Jordan
Producers: Alan Moloney, Neil Jordan, Stephen Wooley
Screenwriters: Neil Jordan, Patrick McCabe
Based on the original novel by Patrick McCabe
Director of photography: Declan Quinn
Production designer: Tom Conroy
Editor: Tony Lawson
Costume designer: Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh
Cast:
Patrick "Kitten" Braden: Cillian Murphy
Father Bernard: Liam Neeson
Bertie the Magician: Stephen Rea
Charlie: Ruth Negga
Irwin: Laurence Kinlan
Billy Rock: Gavin Friday
Mr. Silky String: Bryan Ferry
Running time -- 135 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 9/12/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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