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Who Would Imagine a King is a Christmas song written and composed by Mervyn Warren and Hallerin Hilton Hill, and originally recorded by Whitney Houston for the soundtrack to the 1996 film, The Preacher's Wife. In 2009, Lotta Engberg recorded the song on the album Jul hos mig. [1]
"The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (An Evening with Pete King)", often referred to as "The Piano Has Been Drinking", is a song written and performed by Tom Waits. The song first appeared on his 1976 album Small Change , and an extended live version on the 1981 compilation album Bounced Checks .
King's early compositions include a Piano Sonata in F-sharp minor (1924), [10] two books of preludes (op. 5 and op. 7) and a Violin Sonata. But he became best known for the many light music genre pieces he wrote for piano with titles like Passing Clouds, Polka Piquante and Where Water Lilies Dream.
Landau regards "Smackwater Jack" as a good example of the effectiveness of Goffin's and King's songwriting partnership. [3] He regards Goffin as providing "brilliant and far-ranging" lyrics, while King "is subtly embellishing the musical form itself". [3] AllMusic critic Stewart Mason agrees that the song has "dry wit and several clever lines". [4]
The original version recorded by The Four Tops was a moderate success, charting at number 40 on the US Billboard's Hot Black Singles chart. [1]Due to the bigger success of the Whitney Houston version, "I Believe in You and Me" is most popularly known as a Whitney Houston song.
Timi Yuro - this was another distaff version (substituting "queen" for "king") and included in her album The Amazing Timi Yuro (1964). [11] Jerry Vale - Jerry Vale's Greatest Hits (1961). [12] Al Hirt released a version of the song in 1969. The song went to #16 on the Adult Contemporary chart and #116 on the Billboard Hot 100. [13]
Booker went on to record on piano with Larry Davis and his blues band in 1958, 1959, and 1960 in Houston, Texas. [19] In January 1960 in Chicago, he recorded on piano with Junior Parker. [19] He recorded on piano with Dave Bartholomew's studio band and Earl King, when King recorded for Imperial records in New Orleans in 1960 and 1961. [20]
The coda beginning "Cuando para mucho", which is an exact copy of the instrumental intro, is initially sung to a ii (F ♯ m 7 chord), which moves to V–I (B 6 to E 6 chords) on "cora-zon", then alternates back to ii (F ♯ m 7) on "Mundo paparazzi" and "Cuesto obrigato" before again V–I (B 6 –E 6) on "para-sol" and "carou-sel".