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"Sh-Boom" ("Life Could Be a Dream") is a doo-wop song by the R&B vocal group the Chords. It was written by James Keyes, Claude Feaster, Carl Feaster, Floyd F. McRae, and William Edwards, members of the Chords, and was released in 1954.
In music, especially Western popular music, a bridge is a contrasting section that prepares for the return of the original material section. In a piece in which the original material or melody is referred to as the "A" section, the bridge may be the third eight-bar phrase in a 32-bar form (the B in AABA), or may be used more loosely in verse-chorus form, or, in a compound AABA form, used as a ...
Bridge chord on C Play ⓘ.. The Bridge chord is a bitonal chord named after its use in the music of composer Frank Bridge (1879–1941). It consists of a minor chord with the major chord a whole tone above (CE ♭ G & DF ♯ A), [1] [2] as well as a major chord with the minor chord a semitone above (CEG & D ♭ F ♭ A ♭), which share the same mediant (E/F ♭).
The Chords were one of the early acts to be signed to Cat Records, a subsidiary label of Atlantic Records. [ 2 ] Their debut single was a doo-wop version of a Patti Page song " Cross Over the Bridge ", and the record label reluctantly allowed a number penned by the Chords on the B-side . [ 3 ]
The "bridge" consists of a series of dominant seventh chords (III 7 –VI 7 –II 7 –V 7) that follow the circle of fourths (ragtime progression), sustained for two bars each, greatly slowing the harmonic rhythm as a contrast with the A sections. This is known as the Sears Roebuck bridge, named after Sears, Roebuck and Co. [11]
The implementation of chords using particular tunings is a defining part of the literature on guitar chords, which is omitted in the abstract musical-theory of chords for all instruments. For example, in the guitar (like other stringed instruments but unlike the piano ), open-string notes are not fretted and so require less hand-motion.
The song was covered in 1954 by The Chords for Cat Records (a subsidiary of Atlantic Records). [6] Anne Shelton with Ken Mackintosh and his orchestra recorded their version in London on March 11, 1954. It was released by EMI on the His Master's Voice label as catalog number B 10680. [7]
The Saint Patrick's Regional Secondary Men's Chamber Choir did a cover of the song during a cultural exchange event in 2006 in Vancouver, BC. [10] The American quintet Bounding Main released a cover of the song on their 2006 album Lost at Sea. [11] UK's sea shanty band Kimber's Men released a cover of the song on their 2010 album. [12]