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Happy 94th birthday to American composer, songwriter, record producer, pianist, and singer Burt Bacharach born 12 May 1928. With Hal David he wrote many classic songs including, ‘Close To You’, ’24 Hours From Tulsa’, ‘Make It Easy On Yourself’, ‘Magic Moments’, ‘I Say A Little Prayer’. He won two Oscars for the film score to […]
11 April 1953, Hank Williams’ ‘Your Cheatin’ Heart’ was at No.1 on the Billboard country chart. The story goes that Williams was prompted to write the song when thinking about his first wife, Audrey Williams, while driving around with his second, Billie Jean Jones who she is supposed to have written down the lyrics for […]
6 April 1968, Simon And Garfunkel went to No.1 on the US album chart with the soundtrack of Mike Nichols’ movie The Graduate. The film boosted the profile of the folk-rock duo and on the strength of the hit single ‘Mrs. Robinson’, the soundtrack album rose to the top of the charts. https://youtu.be/nkXyreJV604 Mrs. Robinson […]
23 Oct 2020, American country music singer and songwriter Jerry Jeff Walker died of throat cancer age 78. He wrote ‘Mr Bojangles’ a hit for The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in 1970. Since then Walker’s song has been recorded by many popular artists, including Garth Brooks, Chet Atkins, Jim Croce, Jamie Cullum, John Denver, Neil […]
27 Sept 1967, Working on new songs The Beatles recorded various parts for the new John Lennon song ‘I Am The Walrus’ and the new Paul McCartney song ‘Fool On The Hill.’ Lennon received a letter from a pupil at Quarry Bank High School, that mentioned an English teacher was making his class analyse Beatles’ […]
Happy 75th birthday to American singer Linda Ronstadt born 15 July 1946, who had the 1975 US No.1 single ‘You’re No Good’, and the 1989 UK No.2 single with Aaron Neville, ‘Don’t Know Much’ plus over 15 other US Top 40 hits. She has earned 11 Grammy Awards, three American Music Awards, two Academy of […]