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Purple People Eater on YouTube, by Sheb Wooley. Gusto Records (1979). (2:25 minutes) " The Purple People Eater " is a novelty song written and performed by Sheb Wooley, which reached No. 1 in the Billboard pop charts in 1958 from June 9 to July 14, No. 1 in Canada, [4] reached No. 12 overall in the UK Singles Chart, and topped the Australian chart.
Vic Chesnutt, a folk singer discovered by R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe, recorded a very loose cover of the song for the 1992 R.E.M. tribute album Surprise Your Pig. Newfoundland folk-rockers Great Big Sea covered the song on their 1997 album Play under the title "End of the World".
List of set classes. Ninth chord. Open chord. Passing chord. Primary triad. Quartal chord. Root (chord) Seventh chord. Synthetic chord.
The song begins in a slow tempo with acoustic instruments (guitar and recorders) before introducing electric instruments. The final section is an uptempo hard rock arrangement, highlighted by Page's guitar solo and Plant's vocals, which ends with the plaintive a cappella line: "And she's buying a stairway to heaven".
[12] In jazz, 7 ♯ 9 chords, along with 7 ♭ 9 chords, are often employed as the dominant chord in a minor ii–V–I turnaround. For example, a ii–V–I in C minor could be played as: Dm 7 ♭ 5 – G 7 ♯ 9 – Cm 7. The 7 ♯ 9 represents a major divergence from the world of tertian chord theory, where chords are stacks of major and ...
Additionally, the song was a crossover success: It was Madonna's first Adult Contemporary number-one, topping the chart for three weeks. [ 56 ] [ 8 ] By the end of 1986, "Live to Tell" ranked 12th on the Adult Contemporary chart, and 35th on the Hot 100.
Long Haired Lover from Liverpool. "Long Haired Lover from Liverpool" is a pop song best known as a hit for Little Jimmy Osmond. Written by Christopher Kingsley (credited as Christopher Dowden on the UK release) and produced by Mike Curb and Perry Botkin Jr, "Long Haired Lover from Liverpool " was a UK number one single for Jimmy Osmond. [ 1]
Michael Omartian. " We Are the World " is a charity single originally recorded by the supergroup USA for Africa in 1985. It was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie and produced by Quincy Jones and Michael Omartian for the album We Are the World. With sales in excess of 20 million copies, it is the eighth- best-selling physical single ...