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It was the final track on their debut album Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1, released in October 1988. It was also issued in January 1989 as the band's second single. The recording features all the Wilburys except Bob Dylan as lead singers; George Harrison, Jeff Lynne and Roy Orbison sing the choruses in turn, while Tom Petty sings the verses
AllMusic managing editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine has similarly written: "It's impossible to picture a supergroup with a stronger pedigree than that (all that's missing is a Rolling Stone), but in another sense it's hard to call the Wilburys a true supergroup, since they arrived nearly two decades after the all-star craze of the '70s peaked, and ...
Released as a single, it reached number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 and number two on its Easy Listening charts. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] It was this version that popularized the song. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Cash Box described it as "an infectious medium-paced country-styled folk item with a haunting, extremely pretty melody" that seemed destined to replicate the ...
In typical Traveling Wilburys fashion, the whimsical supergroup skipped Vol. 2 entirely and named its second album Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3, with the members of the group adopting new aliases ...
According to statements by Harrison in the documentary The True History of the Traveling Wilburys (filmed in 1988 about the making of the album and re-released on the bonus DVD included in The Traveling Wilburys Collection), the whole band gave various contributions to all songs, although each song was mainly written by a single member; the joint songwriting credit came from the fact that ...
In 1961, 19-year-old Robert Allen Zimmerman dropped out of college in his native Minnesota, made a pilgrimage to New York City to meet his folk music idol Woody Guthrie, and decided to become, in ...
"It's All Right" is a 1963 song recorded by The Impressions and written by the group's lead singer, Curtis Mayfield. The single was the most successful chart entry of the group's career. "It's All Right" was one of two top-ten singles for the group on the Billboard Hot 100, and the first of six number ones on the Billboard R&B chart. [2]
Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 was released on 18 October 1988. [49] [50] Although the Wilburys were viewed as being mainly Harrison's project, all the participants were keen to maintain a collaborative identity. [44] [51] Rather than use his Dark Horse record label, they released the album on a new Warner's imprint, Wilbury Records. [44] "