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[4] Pitchfork writer Ian Cohen complained about the length of Oldie, saying "Oldie" probably doesn’t need to be ten and a half minutes long.", and providing ways he thought the song could've been "tighter", stating that speeding up the BPM, or having Earl's verse be the closing verse, and cutting out Jasper Dolphin's verse entirely.
Nino and the Ebb Tides released a version of the song as a single in 1961, but it did not chart. [3] Ted Knight released a version of the song on his 1975 album Hi Guys. [4] John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band released a version of the song on the 1983 soundtrack album for the film Eddie and the Cruisers. Kenny Vance sang lead on the song. [5]
"Reach Out I'll Be There" (also formatted as "Reach Out (I'll Be There)") is a song recorded by the American vocal quartet Four Tops from their fourth studio album, Reach Out (1967). Written and produced by Motown 's main production team, Holland–Dozier–Holland , [ 3 ] the song is one of the most widely-known Motown hits of the 1960s and is ...
The song was one of DC5's top hits, reaching number 5 on the UK Singles Chart in the late summer of 1965, [4] and number 4 on the U.S. pop singles chart, [5] later that fall. In the U.S., "Catch" remains one of the DC5's most played tunes on oldies radio stations. Billboard described the song as a "pulsating rocker." [6]
Barbra Streisand, who had starred in Funny Girl, the 1964 Broadway musical based on Brice's life, recorded "Second Hand Rose" as part of her 1965 television special My Name Is Barbra, releasing it as a single for the tie-in studio album My Name Is Barbra, Two....
Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music, broadly characterized as classic rock and pop rock, from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as well as for a radio format playing this music.
"Way Over There" is a 1960 Motown soul song and single, written by William "Smokey" Robinson, produced by Berry Gordy, and first performed by the Miracles (credited as "The Miracles featuring Bill 'Smokey' Robinson") for the Tamla label. [1] It was one of The Miracles' earliest charting singles, reaching #94 on the Billboard Pop chart.
The song also reached number one in Ireland and reached the Top 10 in Canada and Australia, but did not chart in the United States. "Mouldy Old Dough" (the title being an adaptation of the 1920s jazz phrase, "vo-de-o-do") [ 3 ] became the second biggest selling UK single of the year, behind The Band of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards ' bagpipe ...