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Special Duties was created in October 1977 by schoolfellows Steve Green (Aka Arrogant), Steve Norris (Aka Duty) and Nigel Baker. They were punks at school, but the idea of forming their own band came when they saw The Adverts in Colchester. The fact that the three schoolboys couldn't play and didn't own any instruments didn't discourage them.
Initially the band's drummer, Joey switched to lead vocals shortly after the group's formation. Appearing on all the band's releases, he, along with guitarist Johnny Ramone, are the only two original members who stayed in the band until it disbanded in 1996. Following the Ramones' breakup, he embarked on a solo career before dying of lymphoma ...
Keep on Singing", later a No. 15 single for Helen Reddy in April 1974, was another hit for Roberts, reaching No. 50 on the Hot 100 in March 1973. [3] "Rocky" brought his greatest success, reaching No. 9 on the Hot 100 in October 1975. [3] The track also reached No. 22 in the UK in November 1975, which to date is Roberts' only chart appearance ...
A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are used in a broad range of popular music, traditional music, and world music styles.
"Original" is a song performed by Sia for the original motion picture soundtrack of the 2020 film Dolittle. The song was released for digital download and streaming on January 10, 2020. [ 3 ] A lyric video was made available on YouTube on 17 January 2020.
"People" is a song composed by Jule Styne with lyrics by Bob Merrill for the 1964 Broadway musical Funny Girl starring Barbra Streisand, who introduced the song. The song was released as a single in 1964 with " I Am Woman ", a solo version of "You Are Woman, I Am Man", also from Funny Girl .
On December 20, 2011, JibJab released a video about the year 2011 in review with a song called "2011, Buh-Bye", [71] to the tune of the title song. [72] In 2012 Hollie Steel starred and sang "My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean" [73] [74] in the 55 minute musical docudrama, Children on the Titanic [75] available on Amazon Video [76] and on YouTube. [77]
"Memories" is a 1968 song originally recorded by Elvis Presley. It was written by Billy Strange and Mac Davis demo sang by Phil Johnson (Last Freight Train, Lying Cheating Stealing, Lonely One) specially for Presley to perform on Elvis, his comeback TV special that would air on NBC on December 3, 1968.