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"Queen of Memphis" is a song written by Dave Gibson and Kathy Louvin, and recorded by American country music band Confederate Railroad. It was released in December 1992 as the third single from their album Confederate Railroad. It peaked at number 2 in the United States (behind "What Part of No" by Lorrie Morgan), and number 3 in Canada. It is ...
A 1929 Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy song, "When the Levee Breaks", [41] was adapted (with altered lyrics and a different melody) by Led Zeppelin and released in 1971 on their fourth album. "I'm Sailin'" was covered by Mazzy Star on their 1990 debut album, She Hangs Brightly. Her family is currently suing record companies and some artists ...
He co-wrote this song with a Memphis woman named Emma Dermer, and it was based on a couple of poems that circulated the South between 1926 and 1927. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] The song's lyrics are referenced in Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five , [ 19 ] and a Steinbeck referenced a song called "Ten-Cent Cotton and Forty-Cent Meat" in The Grapes of Wrath ...
Carla Venita Thomas (born December 21, 1942) [1] is an American singer, who is often referred to as the Queen of Memphis Soul.She is best known for her 1960s recordings for Atlantic and Stax including the hits "Gee Whiz (Look at His Eyes)" (1960), "B-A-B-Y" (1966) and "Tramp" (1967), a duet with Otis Redding.
"That's How I Got to Memphis", sometimes titled "How I Got to Memphis", is a country music standard written by American country music artist Tom T. Hall. The song tells a man's story of coming to Memphis to look for a former lover. The song first appeared on Hall's 1969 album Ballad of Forty Dollars & His Other Great Songs.
GloRilla, later posted images of the moment on Instagram with the caption, “Memphis made me, Frayser raised me.” Following the ceremony, GloRilla performed a brief set as part of the 901 Day ...
The song is a mid-tempo ballad in which the female narrator recalls a former lover whom she met in Memphis, Tennessee. It is composed in the key of A major with a vocal range of A 3 -E 5 . The main chord pattern on the verses is A-D twice, E-D twice, and E-G-A. [ 5 ]
Gangsta Boo was raised in the Whitehaven neighborhood and joined Memphis rap collective Three 6 Mafia as a 15-year-old MC phenom in 1994.