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Green claims he received more royalties from Big Mouth Billy Bass than from any other recordings of the song. [citation needed] The singing mechanism was originally activated by a motion sensor and was designed to startle a passerby. Eventually, a button was added to activate it. There have been many variants of Big Mouth Billy Bass produced by ...
The song was used as the title track of the award-winning 2008 compilation album Take Me to the River: A Southern Soul Story 1961–1977. [12] [13] In 1999 the tune was used in the popular animatronic singing toy "Big Mouth Billy Bass". This recording sung by Steve Haas was arranged and produced for the toy's manufacturers, Gemmy Industries. [14]
Unlike previous Al Green albums, this album featured only one major hit, "Sha-La-La (Make Me Happy)" which peaked at No. 7 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 the week of December 21, 1974, [6] but did contain the original version of "Take Me to the River", a song which went to No. 26 on the Billboard chart when covered by Talking Heads in 1978.
All eight pressings combined is a total of 6400 sales of the album on vinyl alone. [29] In 2012, British publication Rock Sound added La Dispute's debut album into their 101 Modern Classics, placed at number 53. They considered the album more of a classic than Korn's Follow The Leader and Rage Against the Machine's Battle of Los Angeles.
Born in Coronado, California, Weymouth is the daughter of Laura Bouchage and U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Ralph Weymouth (1917–2020). The third of eight children, her siblings include Lani and Laura Weymouth, who are collaborators in Tina's band Tom Tom Club, and architect Yann Weymouth, the designer of the Salvador Dalí Museum in Florida.
Robbie Robertson produced several hits on the Billboard Mainstream Rock charts, with "Showdown at Big Sky" coming in the highest (#2) and "Sweet Fire of Love" the second highest (#7). [13] The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for "Best Rock / Vocal Album". [14] Robbie Robertson was certified gold in the United States in 1991. [15]
"Take Me Home, Country Roads", also known simply as "Country Roads", is a song written by Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert and John Denver. It was released as a single performed by Denver on April 12, 1971, peaking at number two on Billboard ' s US Hot 100 singles for the week ending August 28, 1971.
Back to the River is the fifth and final solo studio album by blues musician Susan Tedeschi, released October 28, 2008, on Verve Forecast. [ 1 ] Production was handled by Tedeschi herself and her husband Derek Trucks , with George Drakoulias co-producing all tracks except "Butterfly".