TERRY HOKNES - My All Time Favorite Songs and Music - Billboard magazine Hot 100 chart data plus my personal chart data plus youtube video and historical facts and trivia hoknes@hotmail.com

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

1661	ELO	CALLING AMERICA	1986
1662	LONDONBEAT	I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT YOU	1991
1663	DALE ENNS & TERRY HOKNES	DIGGING A LONELY HOLE	2009
1664	POLICE	BEHIND MY CAMEL	1980
1665	DEBBIE GIBSON	ELECTRIC YOUTH	1989
1666	ROLLING STONES	DOWNTOWN SUZIE	1975
1667	KINKS	MOVING PICTURE	1979
1668	LARRY NORMAN	PRELUDE	1969
1669	LIMP BIZKIT	NOOKIE	1999
1670	SPIRIT	MY ROAD	1975
1671	TIFFANY	I THINK WE'RE ALONE NOW	1987
1672	TROOPER	ROUND ROUND WE GO	1978
1673	SONNY JAMES	YOUNG LOVE	1957
1674	SPIRIT	URANTIA	1975
1675	ALAN WHITE	GIDDY	1975
1676	RINGO STARR	BYE BYE BLACKBIRD	1970
1677	CHICAGO THE MUSICAL	WE BOTH REACHED FOR THE GUN	1998
1678	COUNTRY JOE & THE FISH	ROCK AND SOUL MUSIC	1969
1679	KLAATU	WE'RE OFF YOU KNOW	1977
1680	DAVE MATTHEWS BAND	WHERE ARE YOU GOING	2002

ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA - CALLING AMERICA (1986) hit #18

This is one of the last albums I bought brand new in the vinyl album format in spring 1986 at age 15 in Grade 10. This song sounds a lot like the Belinda Carlisle hit Leave A Light On from 1989.

Calling America" is a song by the rock music group Electric Light Orchestra released as a single from their 1986 (see 1986 in music) album Balance of Power. It became the band's first hit in three years. The song is, like most of the songs on Balance of Power, musically upbeat and bright but lyrically darker, concerning a dishonest lover. Released as a single in 1986, the song peaked at number eighteen on the Billboard singles chart, making it their final hit single in the United States.

Balance of Power is an album by the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) released in 1986.

Balance of Power was the last studio album by the Electric Light Orchestra for a period of over 15 years (until Zoom was released in 2001). By this time Kelly Groucutt had departed and the group was pared down to a trio, with Jeff Lynne handling bass (in addition to his usual guitar work) and more dabbling with electronic percussion and synthesisers. ELO played some live concerts in the UK and Europe (their last for fifteen years), and in one UK show George Harrison performed as guest guitarist.

"On this heavy-hearted record [Balance Of Power] with an ironically cheerful musical sound and no strings whatsoever, songs like So Serious and Getting To The Point could be ruing the loss of a romance, but both are indicative of Lynne's feelings about the group that had been the focus of his musical life for so many years. 'I guess we've really been out of touch,' he sings in the former, the latter he mourns, 'It's getting to the point of no return/And all that I can do is stand and watch it burn.'" - Ira Robbins (1995 liner notes for Strange Magic: The Best Of Electric Light Orchestra)

LONDONBEAT - I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT YOU (1991) hit #1

I've Been Thinking About You" is a song recorded by Londonbeat. It was released as a single in the last months of 1990 in many countries.

It hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on April 13, 1991, having hit number two in the United Kingdom the previous year. The song also topped the singles charts in Spain, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands and Australia.

Part of the song was sampled and prominently featured in the song "Physical" recorded by Alcazar.

Londonbeat was originally a British and American R&B and dance band who scored a number of pop and dance hits in the early 1990s.

Londonbeat's career started in the Netherlands where "There's a Beat Going On" reached the Top 10, and then "9 A.M (The Comfort Zone)" which subsequently became a modest success in the United Kingdom. They are best known for their song "I've Been Thinking About You", which hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the Hot Dance Music/Club Play charts in 1991, and for their close harmonies.

A demo of "I've Been Thinking About You" surfaced on audio cassettes and circulated amongst record companies around the time Londonbeat released their début in 1988. "I've Been Thinking About You" was originally intended for release on Speak. However, record labels advised the band to hold off releasing the song on their debut LP so that the band could, as labels said, "... find its footing; develop an audience". The demo recording, originally completed in late 1987, is currently circulating on the internet, and originally brought to the internet's attention in a link to a Londonbeat on a German message board in 2006. German magazines, however, reported on the song just as Speak was being released in 1988.

DALE ENNS & TERRY HOKNES - DIGGING A LONELY HOLE (2009)

Dale and I had been in the band The Secretions together in 1994-1995. We recorded this composition in my home studio in 2009. Dale sang lead vocals and played acoustic guitar. I played electric guitars, bass, synth, electronic drum kit.

THE POLICE - BEHIND MY CAMEL (1980)

Album: Zenyatta Mondatta (1980)

I got this album in January 1982 at age 11 as part of my 11 records for a penny the first time I joined Columbia House record club. I also got REO Speedwagon, Journey, Joe Jackson, Pat Benatar, Rick Springfield, Rush etc. My big brother John Lipscomb really liked the Police and eventually gave me all his records in 1984 when he had outgrown them all. This instrumental was my favorite on the album.

The album is the last of the Police's early era, influenced by reggae and punk and featuring few musical elements on top of the core guitar, bass, and drums. The record has two instrumentals, "The Other Way of Stopping" and the Grammy-winning "Behind My Camel" (a third song, "Voices Inside My Head", is instrumental except for the words "Voices inside my head/ Echoes of things that you said", which are repeated a couple of times in the middle of the song). "Behind My Camel" was guitarist Andy Summers' first entirely self-penned composition. As with many of Summers and Copeland's compositions, Sting refused to play on it, an act of protest which usually resulted in the song in question being scrapped. Convinced of the song's quality, however, Andy Summers recorded the bass line himself, overdubbing the guitar parts. According to Sting, "I hated that song so much that, one day when I was in the studio, I found the tape lying on the table. So I took it around the back of the studio and actually buried it in the garden." Nigel Gray believes that the title was an in-joke by Andy Summers: "He didn't tell me this himself but I'm 98% sure the reason is this: what would you find behind a camel? A monumental pile of shit." The song would go on to win the 1982 Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.

Zenyattà Mondatta went to #5 in the U.S. and #1 in the UK and Australia, spurred by the success of the Sting-penned singles "Don't Stand So Close to Me" and "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da". It would later receive glowing reviews from re-assessments in Rolling Stone and Q Magazine, among others, but was the least well-received of the five albums by The Police, and the only one not to obtain a spot on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

DEBBIE GIBSON - ELECTRIC YOUTH (1989)

Album: Electric Youth (1989)

May 27th 1989 - my #2 favorite current top 40 hit for 2 weeks at age 18.

June 27th 1989 - my #3 favorite song for 5 days at age 18 a few months before entering 1st year University. In the late 80's Tiffany and Debbie Gibson were the 2 female teen stars that everyone including me had a crush on and I had posters of both on my walls.

"Electric Youth" (Atlantic 88919; Atlantic UK A8919; Atlantic Japan 09P3-6130) is the seventh single from American singer-songwriter-actress Deborah Gibson, and the second from her second album Electric Youth (LP 81932). Produced by Fred Zarr and engineered by Phil Castellano for BiZarr Music, Inc., it became one of her most famous songs, peaking at number eleven on the Billboard Hot 100 and fourteen on the UK Singles Chart. Douglas Breitbart was executive producer.

Gibson had written the song as a statement about how young people of that era were seen and how their ideas were often ignored. As a teenager herself, she was a firm believer that the beliefs and ideas held by young people were just as important as those held by adults and the song reminded people of this. It also reminded them that the current youth would become the next generation of adults.

The music video was directed by Gibson and Jim Yukich and was nominated for a moonman at the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards for Best Art Direction in a video.

THE ROLLING STONES - DOWNTOWN SUZIE (1975)

Album: Metamorphosis (1975)

I received Tattoo You for Xmas 1981 at age 10 and then quickly followed up with Big Hits for my 11th birthday on January 15th 1982 and then sometime afterwards got More Hot Rocks and Aftermath. At age 11 these was the only songs I knew of the Stones but to this date would say More Hot Rocks is my favorite Stones album. I was given a new copy of Undercover for Xmas 1983 when it came out. Other than those albums I have not appreciated any other Stones albums except hit compilations. I saw The Rolling Stones in concert in Regina, SK in 2006 with Valerie I was dating plus my mother and sister and friends Dan and Debbie. I sold my unique Regina concert t-shirt on ebay in 2007 for $56.00

December 2th 1989 - my #2 favorite daily song for 6 days at age 18 while staying at the monastery at Muenster, SK at St Peters College for 1st year University. This is the last time I tried to learn an entire Rolling Stones album.

Metamorphosis is the third compilation album of The Rolling Stones music released by former manager Allen Klein's ABKCO Records (who usurped control of the band's Decca/London material in 1970) after the band's departure from Decca and Klein. Released in 1975, Metamorphosis centers on outtakes and alternate versions of well-known songs recorded from 1964 to 1970.

After the release of Hot Rocks 1964–1971 in 1971, an album entitled Necrophilia was compiled for release as the follow-up, with the aid of Andrew Loog Oldham, featuring many previously unreleased (or, more accurately, discarded) outtakes from the Rolling Stones' Decca/London period. While that project failed to materialize—with More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies) being released in its place—most of the unreleased songs were held over for a future project. In 1974, in order to give it an air of authority, Bill Wyman involved himself in compiling an album he entitled Black Box. However, Allen Klein wanted more Mick Jagger/Keith Richards songs in the project for monetary reasons, and Wyman's version remained unreleased. Metamorphosis was issued in its place.

THE KINKS - MOVING PICTURE (1979)

Album: Low Budget (1979)

November 4th 1989 - my #2 favorite daily song for 1 day at age 18 while living at the monastery for 1st year University in Muenster, SK.

Low Budget is a 1979 album by the English rock group, The Kinks. It was a great success for the group, becoming their best-selling non-compilation album, peaking at #11 on the US album charts

The Kinks were an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, North London, by brothers Ray and Dave Davies in 1964. Categorised in the United States as a British Invasion band, The Kinks are recognised as one of the most important and influential rock acts of the era. Their music was influenced by a wide range of genres, including rhythm and blues, British music hall, folk and country. Ray Davies (lead vocals, rhythm guitar) and Dave Davies (lead guitar, vocals) remained members throughout the group's 32-year run. Original members Pete Quaife (bass guitar, vocals) and Mick Avory (drums and percussion) were replaced by John Dalton in 1969 and Bob Henrit in 1984, respectively. Dalton was in turn replaced by Jim Rodford in 1978. Keyboardist Nicky Hopkins accompanied the band during studio sessions in the mid-1960s. Later, various keyboardists, including John Gosling and Ian Gibbons, were full-time members

The Kinks had five Top 10 singles on the US Billboard chart. Nine of their albums charted in the Top 40. In the UK, the group had seventeen Top 20 singles and five Top 10 albums. Four of their albums have been certified gold by the RIAA. Among numerous honours, they received the Ivor Novello Award for "Outstanding Service to British Music". In 1990, their first year of eligibility, the original four members of The Kinks were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, as well as the UK Music Hall of Fame in November 2005

LARRY NORMAN - PRELUDE (1969)

One of a few christian rock albums I have really liked even being non-christian. This is considered the granddaddy of Christian rock and this album truly is a masterpiece being one of the first records ever to use modern instrumentation and rock styles to sing about religion. This album was therefore controversial by Christians when first released.

I first picked up this album at the Frances Morrison Library book/record sale and bought the album for 10 cents in 1987 not knowing what it sounded like but just knew it was a late 1960's album which is what attracted me to it.

Upon This Rock is the debut solo album by pioneering Christian rock musician Larry Norman, released in 1969. It is considered to be "the first full-blown Christian rock album

In 1969 Norman returned to Capitol Records, now headed by Mike Curb, to honor his original 1966 contract with the understanding that he would have complete artistic control. Believing that "Kids just don't want to listen to God's empty songs anymore", in December 1969 Capitol released Norman's first solo rock album, Upon This Rock, "the first major label record to marry rock music with the gospel". "the Sergeant Pepper of Christianity", widely regarded as "the album that first recruited rock in the service of salvation", later cited as being "one of the roots of the current Contemporary Christian Music"; and now considered to be the first full-blown Christian rock album".

LIMP BIZKIT - NOOKIE (1999)

October 7th 1999 - my #8 favorite daily song for 95 days at age 28 on the road with Marilyn now for 6 years.

Nookie" is the first single released from the album Significant Other by Limp Bizkit. It was nominated for "Best Hard Rock Performance" at the 2000 Grammy Awards.

One of the reasons Fred Durst attributes to the song becoming a success is that it's sung slower, and in a fashion where his lyrics are easier to understand, in contrast to his style in Three Dollar Bill, Yall$, where the lyrics in some songs are indistinguishable due to the fast screaming style Fred uses on the album.

The song features an interlude at the end, which features Fred Durst breaking a couple of items with the band laughing, leading into "Break Stuff".

The intro and verse beat for "Nookie" is a 1 bar sample (starting at 1'05) from the song "You're Getting a Little Too Smart" by early 1970s R&B act The Detroit Emeralds. It however does not appear on the song credits. Guitarist Wes Borland used a custom built baritone guitar with only four strings: tuned nearly an octave downward from standard tuning, the string's pitches were F#, F#, B and E. For the lowest F# string (which is one octave lower than the higher F# tuned string), Borland made this string a bass guitar string. Borland also plays this particular guitar in the music video for the song.

SPIRIT - MY ROAD (1975)

Album: Spirit Of 76 (1975)

January 1991 - age 20 in 2nd year University. I played bass guitar in the band The Smoking Crawdads with Mark Rogstad, Gerard Saretsky and Jed Evans since October 1990. I listened to this album continously in Nanny's old bedroom that I was now staying in at Taylor Street using my sister Leslie's little portable record player.

Spirit of '76, released in May 1975, was the first of four albums that Spirit would (initially) release for Mercury Records. Though all four albums were greatly influenced by the time that Randy California spent living in Hawaii, this album bears that influence more than any of the others (aside from maybe Future Games). Though it was largely ignored upon its first release, many fans consider it to be one of Spirit's best albums. Most of this double album was compiled as part of the Mercury Years compilation in 1997. It was properly reissued on CD by Beat Goes On in 2003.

TIFFANY - I THINK WE'RE ALONE NOW (1987) hit #1

I Think We're Alone Now" is a song written by Ritchie Cordell. It was initially a 1967 hit for the American recording artists Tommy James & the Shondells, reaching #4 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song has since been covered several times by other artists. In 1987, a version of the song by Tiffany reached #1 on the charts of various countries including the U.S., the UK, Canada, and New Zealand.

The song was re-popularized when American singer Tiffany covered the song for her first album Tiffany (1987). Tiffany's version of the song spent two weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (and was unusually followed on the top spot by another Tommy James & the Shondells cover, "Mony Mony" by Billy Idol) and three weeks at #1 on the UK Singles Chart. The video was shot in a shopping mall which echoed the way her early career had been promoted. Elements of the video were filmed in the now demolished Bullring Centre in Birmingham, UK.

When George Tobin, Tiffany's manager, gave Tiffany the cassette of the original version by Tommy James & the Shondells, Tiffany hated the idea of recording a version of her own for her album mostly because she thought the song wasn't modern or hip enough. It turned out to be her biggest hit once she recorded it.

"I Think We're Alone Now" was not the first single from Tiffany's debut album. The first single was "Danny", but radio started picking up "I Think We're Alone Now", another track on the album. It became a runaway #1 hit and was the eighteenth highest selling single for 1987 and the thirty-second highest selling single in Australia for 1988.

This version is referenced in the alternative group Weezer's song "Heart Songs" on the band's 2008 Red Album, but in the song it is mentioned that it was sung by Debbie Gibson, another teen idol who was around at the same time as Tiffany. When Rivers Cuomo wrote the song, he had noticed the oversight on his part and that he knew that the song was recorded by Tiffany, but he left the part in the song where he mentions Debbie Gibson singing the song. A 2008 documentary focusing on two fans obsessed with Tiffany was named after the song.

TROOPER - ROUND ROUND WE GO (1978)

Album: Thick As Thieves (1978)

In the fall of 2001 record engineer Neil Meckelborg wanted to license and record Canadian songs for karaoke CD's that were unavailable. We worked on a Trooper karaoke tribute CD featuring most of the songs from their greatest hit Hot Shots album. The project started with me performing all the keyboards, bass, drum, horns, strings parts all sequenced. He hired John Lisi to add guitar tracks and Neil mixed and packaged and did the licensing. Finally these great songs by Trooper were available across Canada in karaoke format.

Thick as Thieves is the fourth album by Canadian rock band Trooper, released in 1978. The album was produced by Randy Bachman of Bachman–Turner Overdrive and The Guess Who fame. The album went platinum in their home country, and featured the group's only successful U.S. single, "Raise a Little Hell". This album also contained the hit "Round, Round We Go" written and sung by Frank Ludwig, and "The Moment That it Takes" written by Stewart and Underhill and sung by Ludwig.

Trooper is a Juno Award winning Canadian rock band that developed from a group formed by vocalist Ramon McGuire and guitarist Brian Smith in 1975. The group is best known for its Canadian hits: "Raise a Little Hell", "We're Here for a Good Time (Not a Long Time)", "The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car", "General Hand Grenade

SONNY JAMES - YOUNG LOVE (1957) hit #1 on Billboard

Great song with a strong melodic verse and chorus. I like the vocal phrasing on this version much better than the Tab Hunter version which is also hit #1 that year.

"Young Love" is a popular song, written by Ric Cartey and Carole Joyner and published in 1956.

The original version was recorded by Ric Cartey With The Jiva-Tones on November 24, 1956. It was originally released in 1956 by Stars Records as catalog number 539 and one month later by RCA Records as catalog number 47-6751. Cartey's version never charted, but better-known versions were released by Sonny James, Tab Hunter (in a version that did even better on the charts) and The Crew-Cuts.

The recording by Sonny James was released by Capitol Records as catalog number 3602. It first reached the Billboard magazine charts on January 5, 1957. On the Disk Jockey chart, it peaked at #1; on the Best Seller chart, at #2; on the Juke Box chart, at #4; on the composite chart of the top 100 songs, it reached #2. On Billboard's country music charts, it was a No. 1 hit for nine weeks, and remained the longest-reigning of James' 23 chart-topping songs on the chart.

Vocal backing on the recording was provided by the Eligibles, a Pacific Northwest vocal group that backed Sonny James on several songs, including the singles, "Talk of the School" and "Pure Love" (both 1959). The group itself recorded twelve singles and three albums from 1959 to 1963

SPIRIT - URANTIA (1975)

Album: Spirit Of 76 (1975)

ALAN WHITE - GIDDY (1975)

Album: Ramshackled (1975)

Alan White was the drummer for John Lennon & Plastic Ono Band and then the drummer for Yes for the past 40 years. This progressive/moody/jazz song ended the album and is one I have played over and over. Yes being one of my favorite groups of all time is the reason I picked up this album in 1987.

Ramshackled is the debut solo album by Alan White, drummer for British progressive rock band Yes. It was released in 1975 on Atlantic Records, during a period when all five of the Yes band members (Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Steve Howe, Patrick Moraz and White) released solo albums. White had worked with Pete Kirtley and Kenny Craddock in the Alan Price Set and Happy Magazine. White, Kirtley, Craddock and Colin Gibson then worked together in the short-lived Griffin in 1969. In the early 1970s, White, Kirtley, Craddock, Gibson and Bud Beadle played together in unsigned band Simpson's Pure Oxygen. For his debut solo album, White brought Kirtley, Craddock, Gibson and Beadle back together.

RINGO STARR - BYE BYE BLACKBIRD (1970)

Album: Sentimental Journey (1970)

My friend Terry Butler had this album and I think I traded him the new Journey album for it thinking he was getting the better part of the deal but I was very happy to acquire another Beatles related album on my quest to owning them at age 11 in 1982.

July 17th 1990 - my #8 favorite daily song for 1 day at age 19 before entering 2nd year University celebrating Ringo's 50th birthday.

Sentimental Journey is the debut solo album by former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, released in 1970, as the band was splintering apart. Although Starr was the third member of the group to issue solo work (after George Harrison and John Lennon), Sentimental Journey is notable for being the first non-avant-garde studio album by a member of the band, in light of the experimental, soundtrack or live releases his aforementioned bandmates had already released. Paul McCartney's debut, McCartney, would follow three weeks after Sentimental Journey's release.

Sentimental Journey received fair reviews upon its release, although many critics found the idea of Starr covering standards a bit odd considering his musical background. His fame in the Beatles was all that was required, however, to get it all the way to #7 in the UK - with no single release to promote it - and #22 in the US. Although the style of the album took many by surprise, Starr's swift follow-up, Beaucoups of Blues, would be just as radical a stylistic shift.

The pub on the cover of the album is The Empress in Dingle, Liverpool, which is one of the nearest pubs to Ringo's place of birth. The superimposed figures in the windows of the pub are Ringo's relatives.

CHICAGO The Musical Broadway Cast 1998 - WE BOTH REACHED FOR THE GUN (1998)

Album: Chicago Broadway Cast (1998)

April 24th 1998 - my #5 favorite daily song for 109 days. I had taken this CD out of the library because James Naughton, actor from the Planet of the Apes 1974 TV series sings on 3 tracks including this amazing hard to sing piece from the musical.

Chicago is a musical set in Prohibition-era Chicago. The music is by John Kander with lyrics by Fred Ebb and a book by Ebb and Bob Fosse. The story is a satire on corruption in the administration of criminal justice and the concept of the "celebrity criminal". The musical is based on a 1926 play of the same name by reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins about actual criminals and crimes she reported on.

The original Broadway production opened June 3, 1975, at the 46th Street Theatre and ran for 936 performances. Bob Fosse choreographed the original production, and his style is strongly identified with the show. Chicago's 1996 Broadway revival holds the record for the longest-running musical revival on Broadway and is its fourth longest-running show. As of January 2012, it has played for more than 6,200 performances. The musical was produced in London's West End and on several tours and international productions. The Academy Award-winning film version (2002) of the musical was directed by Rob Marshall and starred Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, John C. Reilly, and Queen Latifah

COUNTRY JOE & THE FISH - ROCK AND SOUL MUSIC Live At Woodstock (1969)

Album: Woodstock (1970)

August 22nd 1989 - my #5 favorite daily song for 3 days at age 18 while staying at Manitou Beach at our family Walters cabin. This was the last holiday/trip I made with my grandfather Les Walters of Walters Cycle Co a month before he died. I had taped the Woodstock album so I could listen to it at the lake on my ghettoblaster to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Woodstock festival that week.

Country Joe and the Fish was a rock band most widely known for musical protests against the Vietnam War, from 1966 to 1971, and also regarded as a seminal influence to psychedelic rock.

The group's name is derived from communist politics; "Country Joe" was a popular name for Joseph Stalin in the 1940s, while "the fish" refers to Mao Zedong's statement that the true revolutionary "moves through the peasantry as the fish does through water." The group began with the nucleus of "Country Joe" McDonald (lead vocals) and Barry "The Fish" Melton (lead guitar), recording and performing for the "Teach-in" protests against the Vietnam War in 1965. Co-founders McDonald and Melton added musicians as needed over the life of the band. By 1967, the group included Gary "Chicken" Hirsh (drums) (born March 9, 1940, in Chicago, Illinois); David Cohen (keyboards) (born August 4, 1942, in Brooklyn, New York) and Bruce Barthol (bass) (born November 11, 1947 in Berkeley, California). The 1967 lineup lasted only two years, and by the 1969 Woodstock Festival, the lineup included Greg 'Duke' Dewey (drums), Mark Kapner (keyboards) and Doug Metzler (bass).

Their biggest hit was the anti-war "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag", which debuted the same year as the band, but became best known after Country Joe's solo acoustic performance of it at Woodstock. Country Joe was sued in 2001 by Kid Ory's daughter, Babette Ory, who claimed McDonald's "Fixin" Rag infringed her copyright to Kid Ory's Dixieland jazz standard "Muskrat Ramble". In August 2003, the court case was decided in McDonald's favor, since Kid Ory, Babette Ory, and the Muskat Ramble publisher had all known of the song in the late 1960s, but no complaint was made for decades. Finding the complaint objectively unreasonable, the court awarded McDonald some of his attorney's fees and costs. Due to the long delay and prejudice, including death of key witnesses, the court did not even reach the lack of substantial similarity issue. Babette Ory and her attorney appealed, and the appellate court affirmed the decision in favor of McDonald.

Country Joe's anti-war activity led to his being called as a witness at the Chicago Seven conspiracy trial in 1969, where he recited the lyrics to "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag".

KLAATU - WE'RE OFF YOU KNOW (1977)

Album: Hope (1977)

I discovered Klaatu in March 1985 at age 14 in Grade 9 with the album Hope. I had built a fort in grandmas basement using her brown couch flipped over. I laid in there with my record player and played this album 100 times in a two week period. To this date this album is possibly my #1 favorite album of all time. Klaatu are definitely one of the most influential bands on my music and influence. I had listened to Klaatu originally due to the Beatles rumour connection. Roy Wood and Klaatu are the only two acts to debut at #1 on my favorite daily group chart (both in 1985) showing the instant appreciation of these two acts early on in my charts. Unfortunately I had no daily song charts during the first run of promotion in 1985 to show my first appreciation for the individual songs.

March 28th 1990 - my #8 favorite daily song for 1 day at age 19 while living at the monastery in Muenster, SK for 1st year University celebrating the 5th anniversary of discovering Klaatu.

Hope, released in September 1977, is the second album by the Canadian progressive rock group Klaatu. It is a concept album, recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra, about the sole survivor of an arrogant race of beings, who warns space travellers of hazards in the last days of his life. Many fans and critics consider Hope to be the most creative of the Klaatu albums. It won a Juno Award for "Best Engineered Album" and a Canadian Music Critics award for "Best Album" in 1977. An alternate version of Hope was released in 2005 as part of the group's Sun Set collection of rarities. The alternate version on Sun Set included the complete contributions of the London Symphony Orchestra, which had largely been removed from the version released in 1977. The alternate version also includes a short unreleased track, "Epilogue," which had originally been intended to be placed between "So Said the Lighthouse Keeper" and "Hope."

DAVE MATTHEWS BAND - WHERE ARE YOU GOING (2002) hit #38

Where Are You Going" is the first single from Dave Matthews Band's album Busted Stuff. The single reached #38 on the Billboard Hot 100, #20 on the Modern Rock Tracks, and topped the Triple A chart. The song was featured in the 2002 Adam Sandler motion picture, Mr. Deeds. It is also featured on the 2008 film Flash of Genius. "Where Are You Going" is one of two songs from Busted Stuff that did not originally appear on The Lillywhite Sessions.

Dave Matthews Band, abbreviated DMB, is an American rock band that was formed in Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A. in 1991. Lyrical themes focus on topics ranging from love, sex, the enjoyment and appreciation of life, to ending racism, and political and anti-war statements. The founding members were singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave Matthews, bassist Stefan Lessard, drummer/backing vocalist Carter Beauford and saxophonist LeRoi Moore. Boyd Tinsley was added to the band as a violinist soon after the band was formed. Moore died suddenly in August 2008 due to complications from an ATV accident. Grammy Award-winner Jeff Coffin, of Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, has since filled Moore's spot as the band's saxophonist. Rashawn Ross and Tim Reynolds have also become full-time touring members of the band. As of 2010, Dave Matthews Band has approximate sales between 30 and 40 million copies worldwide.

The band is known for their annual summer-long tours of the US and Europe, featuring lengthy improvisational renditions of their songs, accompanied by an elaborate video and lighting show. This portion of the tour has become a stamp of DMB and has grown with the band since Fenton Williams began in the early 1990s.