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"Guitar Man" is a 1967 song written and originally recorded by Jerry Reed, who took his version of it to number 53 on the Billboard country music charts in 1967. Soon after Reed's single appeared, Elvis Presley recorded the song [ 1 ] with Reed playing the guitar part, and it became a minor country and pop hit.
"The Guitar Man" is a song written by David Gates and originally recorded by the rock group Bread. It first appeared on Bread's 1972 album, Guitar Man.It is a mixture of the sounds of soft rock, including strings and acoustic guitar, and the addition of a wah-wah effect electric guitar, played by Larry Knechtel.
The typewritten lyrics accounted for one-third of the sales, totaling $508,000. The sheets included three drafts of Dylan’s 1965 song “Mr. Tambourine Man” from his album Bringing It All Back ...
"Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard and The Strangers. It was released in September 1971 as the first single from the album Let Me Tell You About a Song. The song was Haggard and the Strangers tenth No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles. The song topped the chart for ...
The second single from R.E.M.’s third album, Fables of the Reconstruction, “Driver 8” is one of the group’s best-known songs, with quotable lyrics (which is almost unheard of for a pre-Out ...
During the 1970 television season, he was a regular on The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, and in 1971 he released his biggest hit, the chart-topper "When You're Hot, You're Hot", [1] which is a story song with most of the lyrics being spoken rather than sung. The song concerns the singer's near success at shooting dice, a police raid, and a judge ...
Guitar Man is an Elvis Presley album released by RCA Records in January 1981. [2] The album consists of ten songs that Presley's longtime producer, Felton Jarvis, took and re-imagined for a contemporary sound. The instrumentation and backing singers from the original recordings were stripped away for new instrumentation.
Produced by Cale, Guitar Man differs from the albums he made in the seventies and early eighties in that while those records featured numerous top-shelf session players, Cale provided the instrumentation on Guitar Man himself, augmented by wife Christine Lakeland on guitar and background vocals and drummer James Cruce on the opener “Death in the Wilderness.”