TERRY HOKNES - MY FAVORITE SONGS OF ALL TIME !  hoknes@hotmail.com   

841

PHILIP PHILIPS

HOME

2012

842

BOY CRAZY

ALL YOU HAVE TO DO

1993

843

BEATLES

THE WORD

1965

844

BR549

CHEROKEE BOOGIE

1996

845

GEORGE HARRISON

FASTER

1979

846

URIAH HEEP

THE WIZARD

1972

847

XYLON

ONE WOMAN BEHIND

1995

848

BILLY KLIPPERT

GOING UNDER

2006

849

MARY HOPKIN

GOODBYE

1969

850

ELTON JOHN

SORRY SEEMS TO BE THE HARDEST WORD

1976

851

ASIA

ONLY TIME WILL TELL

1982

852

NORTON ANTHOLOGY

ISTAMPITA PALAMENTO

1000

853

ELO

MANHATTAN RUMBLE

1971

854

REM

TEXARKANA

1991

855

RICK DERRINGER

JUMP JUMP JUMP

1973

856

MARGARITA SHAMRAKOV

TRAGEDY

2005

857

BAY CITY ROLLERS

SHANG A LANG

1974

858

5TH DIMENSION

GIRLS SONG

1967

859

BANGLES

BE WITH YOU

1989

860

BEATLES

WHEN I GET HOME

1964
    PHILIP PHILIPS - HOME (2012) hit #9
Home" is the debut single and coronation song from American Idol season 11 winner Phillip Phillips. The song was co-written by Drew Pearson and Greg Holden, and produced by Drew Pearson.   Phillips first performed the song on the season's final performance night on May 22, 2012, and then again on the finale after he was declared the winner. His recording of "Home" was released as a single on May 23, 2012. The single debuted at number ten on the Billboard Hot 100 with a first week sales figure of 278,000 downloads. It is the biggest digital sales week for any Idol winner's coronation song.   The song was written by Drew Pearson and Greg Holden, and chosen by Jimmy Iovine as a coronation song for the eventual winner of Season 11 of American Idol, Phillip Phillips. According to Drew Pearson, it was originally intended for Greg Holden, but was submitted to Idol as a possible finale number by Pearson's publishing company, Pulse Recordings. Pearson and Holden had previously not met before but were brought together to write the song, with Holden the primary lyricist. The song was written in three hours and a demo recorded. Holden had performed the song in his tour, but he expressed no intention of releasing his recording of the song. Pearson cited Mumford & Sons, Arcade Fire and a few Irish bands as influences for the song

"Home" debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 10, the first time in four years a coronation single from an American Idol winner reach the top 10 since David Cook's single "The Time of My Life" debuted at number three. It sold 278,000 the first week, which is the biggest digital sales week for a winner's coronation song, surpassing David Cook's "Time of My Life" first week sales of 236,000 in 2008, and is also the second-best digital sales week ever for any "Idol" contestant, behind Kelly Clarkson's 2009 song "My Life Would Suck Without You" which sold 280,000 in its debut week. The song was later used in the NBC coverage of the 2012 Summer Olympics, and the song reentered the Hot 100 at 84 on August 1 on the strength of one night boost in sales after its first airing. The song then sold over 105,000 copies in a span of the three days the next week, and totalled 228,000 for the week. It also re-entered the Top 10 and reached a new high of number 9 in the Hot 100 chart the same week, the first song to reach the Hot 100's Top 10 in separate chart runs in a single calendar year. The following week its sales exceeded a million
    BOY KRAZY - ALL YOU HAVE TO DO (1993)

Album: Boy Krazy (1993)

Boy Krazy was a New York City-based girl group that saw brief fame in 1993 with their hit single "That's What Love Can Do".   The group was put together through auditions by a management company in New York. Boy Krazy featured female singers Kimberly Blake, Josselyne Jones, Johnna Lee Cummings, Renée Veneziale, and Ruth Ann Roberts (a former Miss Junior America). Their signature Pop song "That's What Love Can Do", written and produced by British mega music trio Stock Aitken & Waterman, was released in 1991, but it failed to become a hit. Shortly after the release of the single, Veneziale left the band.

Carrying on as a foursome, the group released their second single "All You Have To Do" in 1992, but it also failed to chart. That same year, "That's What Love Can Do" started gaining success in clubs and discothèques across America and substantial airplay on radio stations. The song was remixed and re-released, becoming a hit in the US, reaching the Billboard Hot 100 Top 20 in early 1993, peaking at #18. It also reached #1 in Pop airplay on the Radio & Records CHR/Pop chart. In the liners from their self-titled album the group credited KQKS/Denver, Colorado for breaking the latter after one of the staffers played a version of the track in December 1992.   The album Boy Krazy was released in 1993, and also included the follow-up single "Good Times With Bad Boys", which also hit the Billboard Hot 100.   Main lead singer Cummings left the band in late 1993. The remaining members tried to develop a new album unsuccessfully and the group split shortly after. Additionally, they were supposed to release "Love is a Freaky Thing" as their fourth single, but it was never released. It failed to chart anyway. 

    THE BEATLES - THE WORD (1965)

Album:  Rubber Soul (1965)

The Word" is a song by The Beatles first released on their 1965 album Rubber Soul. It has been cited as the first instance in which The Beatles began writing about love in more abstract terms, versus concrete girl/boy terms, a la "She Loves You", with preaching lyrics such as "The word is love" and "Say the word and you'll be free".

The song was co-written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. According to Lennon, it was written together but it was "mainly mine". They wrote it after smoking marijuana, something they hadn't done before in a composing session, which from McCartney's perspective (opposite to Lennon's), "got in the way of songwriting". Paul on the subject:

“ We smoked a bit of pot, then we wrote out a multicolored lyric sheet, the first time we'd ever done that. We normally didn't smoke when we were working. It got in the way of songwriting because it would just cloud your mind up — "Oh, shit, what are we doing?" It's better to be straight. But we did this multicolor thing
    BR 549 - CHEROKEE BOOGIE (1996)

September 17th 1998 - my #7 favorite daily song for 67 days at age 27 now selling on ebay and the internet for 4 months and performing on the road now with Marilyn for 5 years.

BR5-49 is the self-titled debut album of the American country music band BR5-49. The album was released in 1996 on the Arista Nashville label. Three singles were released from the album, all of which charted on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts. "Cherokee Boogie", the first of these three, was the highest charting, reaching #44. Following it were "Even If It's Wrong" at #68 and "Little Ramona (Gone Hillbilly Nuts)" at #61.

The contains five covers: The aforementioned "Cherokee Boogie" was previously recorded by Johnny Horton, "I Ain't Never" and "Honky Tonk Song" were previously recorded by Mel Tillis, and the former was previously a hit for Webb Pierce as well. Also, "Crazy Arms" is a cover of a Ray Price song, and "Cherokee Boogie" was originally recorded by Moon Mullican on his 1958 album Moon Mullican Sings His All-Time Greatest Hits.

BR549 (originally spelled BR5-49) is an American country music band. Founded in 1993, the band originally comprised Gary Bennett (lead and background vocals, acoustic guitar), Don Herron (steel guitar, Dobro, fiddle, mandolin, acoustic guitar), "Smilin'" Jay McDowell (upright bass), Chuck Mead (lead and background vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar), and "Hawk" Shaw Wilson (drums, background vocals). Bennett and McDowell left the band in 2001, with Chris Scruggs and Geoff Firebaugh respectively replacing them. Both Firebaugh and Scruggs later left the band as well; Mark Miller has become the band's third bassist.
    GEORGE HARRISON - FASTER (1979)

Album: George Harrison (1979)

I first got this album sometime in 1982 at age 11 while we lived with my grandparents for 9 months on Taylor Street as I have a recording of singing Faster along with my mother before we moved to Ruth Street in Dec 1982.    This has always been one of my favorite albums by George.

Faster" is the third single from George Harrison's 1979 eponymous album George Harrison. Faster begins the second side of the LP, and is the sixth track on the CD. It was released as the third single of the album but was not issued as a 45 in the USA.

During 1977 Harrison went to a lot of Formula One races instead of writing any songs. Harrison had been talking to Niki Lauda after the Watkins Glen Race, and became inspired to write a song "that Niki-Jody-Emerson and the gang could enjoy". Harrison got the title of the song from Jackie Stewart's book, and then wrote the chorus.He wrote the rest of the song in a way that did not limit it to only motor cars, the only car-related word being machinery. However, when sound effects from the 1978 British Grand Prix were added to the song, it was clearly associated to motor cars.

The song was dedicated to "the Entire Formula One Circus" and in memory of Ronnie Peterson. The single was released by Harrison to assist the fundraising for the "Gunnar Nilsson Cancer Fund", a fund started after the death of the Swedish driver Gunnar Nilsson in 1978, caused by cancer. The single however failed to chart.   

George Harrison is the eponymous album release by George Harrison in 1979, his seventh studio album. It was recorded during a period of domestic happiness in which Harrison married Olivia Trinidad Arias and his son Dhani was born.
    URIAH HEEP - THE WIZARD (1972)

Album: Demons And Wizards (1972)

Uriah Heep is my all time favorite heavy metal group and I consider them to be the last of my all time favorite bands to be discovered from 1980-1990.  The lead singer of Uriah Heep since 1986 is Bernie Shaw who is from Saskatoon, SK who actually was in a band with my friend Doug Hergott.

January 29th 1990 - my #2 favorite daily song for 4 days at age 19 in 1st year University at St Peters College in Muenster, SK where I lived in residence for the year

Uriah Heep are an English rock band formed in London in 1969 and are regarded as one of the seminal hard rock acts of the early 1970s. Uriah Heep's progressive/art rock/heavy metal fusion's distinctive features have always been massive keyboards sound, strong vocal harmonies and (in the early years) David Byron's operatic vocals. Twelve of the band's albums have made it to the UK Albums Chart (Return to Fantasy reached No. 7 in 1975) while of the fifteen Billboard 200 Uriah Heep albums Demons and Wizards was the most successful (#23, 1972). In the late 1970s the band had massive success in Germany, where the "Lady in Black" single was a big hit

 
    XYLON COZENS - ONE WOMAN BEHIND (1995)

Album:  Xylon I (1995)

Xylon Cozens was a childhood friend of mine who was highly influenced by 60's recording with great vocal harmonies such as The Beach Boys.  He had been a member of the accapella vocal group Streetnix.   He began songwriting and came up with some amazing truly original songs and sounds. Recording this album in Saskatoon, SK, Canada in 1995.  His album featured many guest musicians such as his father Nigel Cozens playing guitar tracks.    Some intricate layered vocal harmonies throughout the album which I really liked with some unpleasant sounding chords at times.   I was there for his CD release party.   He had originally recorded some demo's for this album on my 8-track cassette Tascam recorder which I used to rent to him.  I had done a slide guitar track for him but don't know what song it was.  Xylon had formerly been a vocal singer in the accapella group Streetnix from September 1991 to December 1992 at the time I was in 3rd year University.

February 13th 1996 - my #3 favorite daily song for 223 days at age 25 while I was on the road performing with Marilyn now for 2.5 years.  This year I borrowed money from my grandma and bought my very own computer for the first time ever after sharing Marilyn's for the past year so that I could input comic book price guide value details in spreadsheets and also work on printing lyrics for our live show and for doing promotional materials for Marilyn. 
    BILLY KLIPPERT - GOING UNDER (2006)

Album:  Naked And The Simple Truth (2006)

February 22nd 2007 - my #2 favorite daily song for 16 days at age 36 while living alone at Eastview and focused on promoting my new original hard rock band Orange Lucy as we competed in Band Warz at The Roxy every week.  

Billy Klippert is a Canadian rock singer/songwriter who rose to fame via the first season of Canadian Idol, in which he finished 3rd.

His self-titled debut album on the Orange Record Label reached 36th spot on Canada's top 100 albums chart in July 2004. His second album Naked & The Simple Truth was released on October 3, 2006, the first single from which was 'Going Under'. In March 2007, Klippert won a Canadian Music Week Indie Award for Favourite Pop Artist of the Year.
    MARY HOPKIN - GOODBYE (1969) hit #13

May 22nd 1989 - my #1 favorite daily song for 3 days at age 18 a few months before entering 1st year University.  I had first started performing this song at age 12 and have a recording singing it in 1983 on vocal and guitar even though I didn't know the melody and chord structure very well yet.

Goodbye" is a song written by Paul McCartney (but credited to Lennon–McCartney) and performed by Mary Hopkin. It was released on 28 March 1969, and it reached No. 2 in the UK singles chart, prevented from reaching the top position by the Beatles' single "Get Back" In the U.S., the song reached No. 13 on the singles chart. In the Netherlands the single peaked at No. 1.

The song was produced by Paul McCartney and arranged by Richard Hewson.

The song was never officially released by either the Beatles or Paul McCartney, although bootleg recordings exist of McCartney's original demo of the song, recorded for Mary Hopkin

Mary Hopkin (born 3 May 1950), credited on some recordings as Mary Visconti, is a Welsh folk singer best known for her 1968 UK number one single "Those Were The Days". She was one of the first musicians to sign to The Beatles' Apple label.
    ELTON JOHN - SORRY SEEMS TO BE THE HARDEST WORD (1976) hit #6
Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word" is a song written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin. It was recorded by Elton John and released in 1976, both as a single and as part of the Blue Moves album. It was his second single on Rocket Records. The song is a mournful ballad about a romantic relationship which is falling apart. The song is in the key of G melodic minor.

The song was a Top 20 hit, reaching No. 11 in the United Kingdom and No. 6 in the United States. In addition, the song went to No. 1 on the Easy Listening chart. In the US, it was certified Gold on 25 January 1977 by the RIAA.

The song also appeared the following year on Greatest Hits Volume II, though for copyright reasons it no longer appears on the current version of that album. It now appears on Greatest Hits 1976-1986, The Very Best of Elton John and in Greatest Hits 1970-2002, as well as a number of other compilations.

The song is also featured prominently in the 1977 movie Slap Shot.

Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947) is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor. He has worked with lyricist Bernie Taupin as his songwriter partner since 1967; they have collaborated on more than 30 albums to date.

In his four-decade career John has sold more than 250 million records, making him one of the most successful artists of all time. His single "Candle in the Wind 1997" has sold over 33 million copies worldwide, and is the best selling single in Billboard history. He has more than 50 Top 40 hits, including seven consecutive No. 1 US albums, 56 Top 40 singles, 16 Top 10, four No. 2 hits, and nine No. 1 hits. He has won six Grammy Awards, four Brit Awards, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Tony Award. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him Number 49 on its list of the 100 greatest artists of all time
    ASIA - ONLY TIME WILL TELL (1982)
Only Time Will Tell" is the third single released by progressive rock band Asia from their 1982 eponymous debut.

The song was the band's second top ten hit on the U.S. Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, peaking at number 8. It also peaked at number 17 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 pop chart. It reached number 54 On the U.K. Top 100 Singles chart.

The song was featured in the Family Guy episode, "The Splendid Source

Asia is a British rock group formed in 1981. The band was labeled a supergroup as it included former members of several veteran progressive rock bands, namely bassist/vocalist John Wetton (formerly in Mogul Thrash, Family, King Crimson, Roxy Music, Uriah Heep, U.K. and Wishbone Ash), guitarist Steve Howe (formerly in Yes), keyboardist Geoff Downes (of Yes and The Buggles) and drummer Carl Palmer (formerly in The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Atomic Rooster and Emerson, Lake & Palmer).

Asia's eponymous debut album Asia, released in March 1982, received considerable commercial success, spending nine weeks at number one in the U.S. album chart and selling over 4 million copies in the U.S. alone. The album sold over 10 million worldwide. The singles "Only Time Will Tell" (No.17) and "Heat of the Moment" (No.4) became huge Top 40 hits, with the latter cracking the Top Five, and the former remaining a stadium favourite at U.S. sporting events. "Sole Survivor" also received heavy air play on rock stations across the U.S., as did "Wildest Dreams" and "Here Comes The Feeling". The band's best performing single, and perhaps their most recognised and popular hit song, "Heat of the Moment", climbed to No.4 on the American Top 40 charts, having debuted on the AT40 on 1 May 1982, and spent a total of 12 weeks in there.
    NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF WESTERN MUSIC - ISTAMPITA PALAMENTO

October 28th 1990 - my #9 favorite daily song for 4 days at age 19.

I studied the history of western music over the past 5 centuries in a University course taught by Dr Walter Kreytzig at the University of Saskatchewan during my 2nd year course in 1990/1991 season at age 19 and we had to learn all the original styles of music that were created and how music progressed.  This song came from Side 2 of the Volume 1 tape of the series.   This traditional song was written approximately 1200 AD and therefore is a 1000 years old and definitely the oldest song on my favorite songs list as it predates classical music by hundreds of years and is an early example of polyphony with numerous instruments
    ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA - MANHATTAN RUMBLE (49TH STREET MASSACRE) (1971)

November 25th 2007 - my #5 favorite daily song for 37 days at age 36 after being married to Valerie for 2 months living on Eastview.  Spooky vaudeville inspired piano instrumental !

The Electric Light Orchestra is the debut studio album by English rock band Electric Light Orchestra, released in December 1971. In the US, the album was released in early 1972 as No Answer, after a misunderstood telephone message made by a United Artists Records executive asking about the album name. The caller, having failed to reach the ELO contact, wrote down "no answer" in their notes, and this was misconstrued to be the name of the album.

The album is focused on the core trio of Roy Wood, Jeff Lynne, and Bev Bevan who were the remaining members of rock group The Move. The Move were still releasing singles in the UK at the same time as this project was undertaken, but interest was soon to be abandoned in Wood's former band. The sound is unique on this recording in comparison to the more slickly produced ELO albums of the subsequent Jeff Lynne years, incorporating many wind instruments and replacing guitar parts with heavy, "sawing" cello riffs, giving this recording an experimental "Baroque-and-roll" feel; indeed, "The Battle of Marston Moor" is the most baroque-influenced track on the album. On this track, Roy Wood, in addition to playing virtually all the instruments, had to provide the percussion as well because Bev Bevan, normally the group's percussionist and drummer, refused to play on the track because of his low opinion of it. However, the overall musical connection to The Beatles (it had been stated by the bandmembers that ELO was formed to "pick up where The Beatles left off...") is quite apparent in this album; tracks such as "10538 Overture", "Mr. Radio" and "Look at Me Now" were strongly influenced by such Beatles tracks as "I Am The Walrus", "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Eleanor Rigby" in the last one's case. Despite the experimental nature of the album (or perhaps because of it) it charted on both sides of the Atlantic. The more mainstream "10538 Overture" became a top ten hit in the UK.

 
    R.E.M. - TEXARKANA (1991)

Album:  Out Of Time (1991)

July 4th 1991 - my #3 favorite daily song for 7 days at age 20 finishing 2nd year University.  I bought this cassette tape used at the bookstore across from the University of Saskatchewan and is the only full length album by REM I have ever gotten into.

Texarkana" is the name of a song from R.E.M.'s studio album Out of Time. Although it was not released as a single, it managed to chart at number 4 on the Modern Rock Tracks Chart and number six on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. This song was written, musically and lyrically, by bassist Mike Mills (credited to Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe), as vocalist Michael Stipe had been having problems for weeks trying to come up with lyrics for it. As a result, Mills also sang lead vocals.

The song title is a reference to the town of Texarkana, on the border of Texas and Arkansas, which was originally mentioned in the chorus before it was changed.

Out of Time is the seventh album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released on Warner Bros. Records in 1991. With Out of Time R.E.M.'s status grew from that of a cult band to a massive international act. The record topped the album sales charts in both the U.S. and the United Kingdom, spending 109 weeks on American album charts and enjoying two separate spells at the summit, and 183 weeks on the British charts, and spending a single week at the top. The album sold over four and a half million copies in the US and over 18 million copies worldwide. The album won three Grammy Awards in 1992: one as Best Alternative Music Album, and two for the first single, "Losing My Religion".

Out of Time combines elements of pop, folk and classical music heard on their previous album Green, with a new concentration on country elements that would continue on 1992's Automatic for the People.
    RICK DERRINGER - JUMP JUMP JUMP (1973)

Album:  All American Boy (1973)

This was the last album I listened to in rotation before moving away from home the first time on September 6th to Muenster, SK to the monastery at St Peters College for 1st year University at age 18.  My grandpa died on September 8th 1989.

All American Boy is an album by Rick Derringer, released on Blue Sky Records in 1973. "Joy Ride" and "Time Warp" (not to be confused with The Rocky Horror Picture Show song) are instrumentals.

Rick Derringer (born Richard Zehringer, August 5, 1947) is an American guitarist, vocalist, and entertainer.

In 1973, the song's author, Rick Derringer recorded the song for his solo debut album All American Boy. The song was released as a single and reached #23 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it his highest showing in the record charts. It has become a staple of 1970s rock music compilations and classic rock radio. Derringer has recorded several live versions of the "Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo" over the years

Derringer appeared on Alice Cooper's Killer album in 1971, playing the solo on "Under My Wheels." Derringer opened for Led Zeppelin on their last American tour. Derringer was also a featured guitarist on several Todd Rundgren albums in the 1970s, including Something/Anything? (1972), A Wizard, a True Star (1973), Initiation (1975) and the live album Back to the Bars (1978).
 

 

    MARGARITA SHAMRAKOV - TRAGEDY (2005)

Album:  Tragedy (2007)

I joined a unique website in November 2005 called www.garageband.com which was for unsigned music acts that wanted to get online critiques from their fellow unsigned peers.   To get your songs critiqued you had to first critique 20 other songs by unknown acts.  They would only play the song for you and not give you any bio or info about the act itself.  I first heard What Is The Meaning Of Life by Margarita Shamrakov on the site and gave it rave reviews. 

I liked all her music so much that I contacted her and we would write back and forth periodically for the next 6 years. I was impressed in all the self promotion she had done online including getting 146,000 views on her myspace page.  She had won a John Lennon songwriting contest and had met Yoko Ono in person. My wife Valerie and I went to New York in April 2011 and got to meet up with Margarita for supper.   There is something amazing about Margarita's songs that intrigue me with their dark melodies, great hooks, piano riffs and unique chord structures.

December 7th 2005 - one of my favorite daily songs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GarageBand.com

http://www.myspace.com/margarita

 
    THE BAY CITY ROLLERS - SHANG A LANG (1974)

Album:   Rollin (1974)

In 2007 I purchased the Bay City Rollers Greatest Hits CD and for the first time listened to all of their hits and really got into the early 70's material the most that were NOT hits in the USA including this one.  This was in fact their biggest hit at the time in early 1974.   Gary Glitter style meets 50's rock. 

June 5th 2007 - my favorite #1 daily song for 21 days making it my #9 favorite daily song of 2007.   Valerie now back together again for the final time went through some real rocky emotions as her brother tried to split us apart.  My son Nicholas was now 14 months old.

Rollin', released in 1974, was the first full-length album by Scotland's Bay City Rollers. The album included three British chart hits ("Remember", "Shang-a-Lang", "Summerlove Sensation") and the debut of "Saturday Night", never a British hit yet a #1 smash in America.

While the album itself was not issued in America, several of the songs would later appear on the band's self-titled 1975 US debut

The Bay City Rollers were a Scottish pop band who were most popular in the 1970s. The British Hit Singles & Albums noted that they were "tartan teen sensations from Edinburgh", and were "the first of many acts heralded as the 'Biggest Group since The Beatles' and one of the most screamed-at teeny-bopper acts of the 1970s". For a relatively brief but fervent period (nicknamed "Rollermania"), they were worldwide teen idols. The group's line-up featured numerous changes over the years, but the classic line-up during its heyday included guitarists Eric Faulkner and Stuart Wood, singer Les McKeown, bassist Alan Longmuir, and drummer Derek Longmuir
    5TH DIMENSION - GIRL'S SONG (1967)

Album: The Magic Garden (1967)

One of my favorites from this group

July 4th 1989 - my #1 favorite song for 3 days.   Great singalong double tracked chorus.

The Magic Garden is the second album by American pop group The 5th Dimension, released in 1967

The 5th Dimension is an American popular music vocal group, whose repertoire also includes pop, R&B, soul, and jazz.

Originally known as The Hi-Fi's, the group changed its name to The 5th Dimension in late 1966 and was best-known during the late 1960s and early 1970s for popularizing the hits "Up, Up and Away", "Stoned Soul Picnic", "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In", "Wedding Bell Blues", "One Less Bell to Answer", "(Last Night) I Didn't Get to Sleep at All", and The Magic Garden LP.

The five original members were Billy Davis, Jr., Florence LaRue, Marilyn McCoo, Lamonte McLemore, and Ron Townson. They have recorded for several different labels over their long careers. Their first work appeared on the Soul City label, which was started by Imperial Records/United Artists Records recording artist Johnny Rivers. The group would later record for Bell/Arista Records, ABC Records, and Motown Records

 
    THE BANGLES - BE WITH YOU (1989)

Album:  Everything (1988)

I got this cassette tape for Xmas 1988 at age 17 and one of my favorites on the album would become a future single.

January 12th 1989 - my #2 favorite daily song for 14 including my 18th birthday the year after highschool.

Be With You" is a song by The Bangles. Taken from their third album Everything (1988), it was released as a single in 1989

The song was composed by drummer Debbi Peterson and Walter Iglehart, and produced by Davitt Sigerson. Peterson sang lead vocals on the song, one of the only two A-sides upon which she did so. The track was remixed by Chris Lord-Alge for the single release. This is also their third consecutive Billboard Top 40 hit single written by at least one band member. The song reached #30 on Billboard in June 1989, becoming the last one to hit the charts, a situation that contributed more to the group's dissolution months later.

The Bangles are an American all-female band that originated in the early 1980s, scoring several hit singles during the decade
    THE BEATLES - WHEN I GET HOME (1964)

Album:  A Hard Days Night  (1964)

I first heard this song on the US album release Something New (1964) that I picked up brand new at Army & Navy Department Store for about $10.99 in 1982.

When I Get Home" is a John Lennon composition (credited to Lennon–McCartney) recorded by The Beatles on 2 June 1964, during the last session for their LP A Hard Day's Night. Its first US release was on the Something New LP.

Influenced somewhat by the Shirelles, "When I Get Home" is essentially a rock and roll number, but with its unusual chord progressions (changing from major to minor keys and back) it bucks the genre to some extent. Lennon liked this particular ploy, and used it on many of his songs at the time.

Typical also of this period of the Beatles is the vocal leap into falsetto.

After completing "When I Get Home" in 11 takes, the Beatles finished recording another Lennon song, "Any Time At All", which they had started work on earlier that day. They also recorded Paul McCartney's "Things We Said Today" during the same session.   A mono mix was made on 4 June 1964, although this was replaced when new mono and stereo mixes were made on 22 June.