Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Lettermen are an American male pop vocal trio whose trademark is close-harmony pop songs with light arrangements. The group started in 1959. [1] They have had two Top 10 singles (both No. 7), 16 Top 10 singles on the Adult Contemporary chart (including one No. 1), 32 consecutive Billboard chart albums, 11 gold records, and four Grammy nominations.
The song was the group's first major hit. [2] The Lettermen recorded the song in 1964, on an album of the same name, that reached number six on the Billboard Easy Listening chart in 1970. It peaked at number 73 on the Billboard Hot 100 the same year. [3] The Shangri-Las, ("He Cried"), [4] took their rendition to number 65 on the Billboard Hot ...
The term comes from "Shangri-La" as the hidden valley of delight in James Hilton's 1933 novel Lost Horizon.The term "Shangri-La," especially in the 1930s and 1940s, was slang for heaven or paradise, [1] and the song is about the joy of being in love.
Songs recorded by The Lettermen. Pages in category "The Lettermen songs" ... Shangri-La (1946 song) She Cried; Silly Boy (She Doesn't Love You) Softly, as I Leave You ...
It is a 1965 Top 10 hit ballad originally recorded by Little Anthony & The Imperials. Linda Ronstadt also had a Top 10 hit with her cover version in 1980. The song has been re-recorded by numerous artists including The Lettermen, who took the song to number twelve in September 1969.
Maxwell went on to devising his own arrangements, and composed three songs for which he is remembered: "Little Dipper" (1959, recorded under the name The Mickey Mozart Quintet) peaked at #30 on the Billboard Hot 100, [6] "Ebb Tide" (1953) was a perennial favorite, and "Shangri-La" was a hit in 1957 for The Four Coins and 1969 for The Lettermen.
"Shangri-La" (1946 song), popularized by The Four Coins in 1957 and The Lettermen in 1969 "Shangri-La" (Chatmonchy song), 2006 "Shangri-La", a 1997 song by Denki Groove "Shangri-La" (Gerard Joling song), the Dutch entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 1988 "Shangri-La" (The Kinks song), 1969 "Shangri-La", by EOB from the album Earth, 2020
In 1965, the Detergents released a parody song, "I Can Never Eat Home Anymore", that was not as successful as their previous spoof on the Shangri-Las, "Leader of the Laundromat". [ 6 ] [ 7 ] David Wrench featured Henry Priestman released a version of the song on his 1998 EP David Wrench Sings the Songs of The Shangri-La's .