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Elvis Presley recorded a version of "Love Letters" on May 26, 1966. [15] Just over a week later, on June 8, 1966, RCA released the song as a single, with "Come What May" as the B-side. [15] [16] "Love Letters" peaked at No. 19 on the Billboard Hot 100 on July 22, 1966, staying on the chart for only seven weeks. [17]
Pat Boone's version became a major hit in June and July 1957, spending 5 weeks at number one on the Billboard Top 100, with 34 weeks in total on the chart. Billboard ranked it as the No. 2 song for 1957. [4] In Canada, the song spent two weeks at number one. [5] The song was used in Boone's 1957 film Bernardine. Boone did the whistling in the ...
OCLC number 892018719 Songfacts is a music-oriented website that has articles about songs, detailing the meaning behind the lyrics, how and when they were recorded, and any other info that can be found.
"Astronomy" is a song by American rock band Blue Öyster Cult that has appeared on several of the band's albums. It was first released on their 1974 album Secret Treaties . Their second live album, Some Enchanted Evening , included a version with an extended guitar solo and a third version was included on the Imaginos album.
The song's lyrics imagine the scenario of a lonely and homesick astronaut, in search of other life. Another band to use space as musical inspiration is the Christian " Astro - Rock " group Brave Saint Saturn , whose three albums, So Far from Home , The Light of Things Hoped For , and Anti-Meridian , form a trilogy that chronicles the journey of ...
The song peaked at 39 on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming the band's fourth and final top-40 hit there, number seven in New Zealand and the top 30 in Canada and the United Kingdom. In Canada, it coincidentally finished at number 33 on the RPM Alternative 30 year-end chart for 1997.
In 1962, American singer and actress Ketty Lester recorded the song for her Love Letters album. Swedish pianist Jan Johansson recorded a jazz version of the song for his 1967 album Jazz på ryska. This version was titled "Kvällar i Moskvas Förstäder" which translates to "Evenings in Moscow's suburbs". [6]
The song was released as the A-side of Elektra single 45605 in July, 1966. The B-side was "No. Fourteen", an outtake from the band's earlier recordings. "7 and 7 Is" made the Billboard Pop Singles chart on July 30, 1966, peaking at number 33 during a ten-week chart run and becoming the band's highest-charting hit single.