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"The Jolly Green Giant" is a song written by Lynn Easton, Don Harris, and Dewey Terry and performed by The Kingsmen. It reached No.1 on the Canadian chart, No.4 on the U.S. pop chart, and No.25 on the U.S. R&B chart in 1965. [1] It was featured on their 1965 album The Kingsmen Volume 3. [2]
[80] [78] K-tel had also similarly marketed the Lynn Easton re-recording of "The Jolly Green Giant". Also in 1983, a music video, The Kingsmen – Live at Delta House , aired on MTV . [ 81 ] Directed by David Jester, the video recreated the raucous, toga party atmosphere popularized in National Lampoon's Animal House using the "Delta House" on ...
The Kingsmen's third album featured "The Jolly Green Giant", a novelty number which reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart and #25 on the Billboard R&B chart, along with several other R&B classics and a couple of Wailers covers. As with previous albums, crowd noise overdubs were added on some tracks to simulate a live performance.
Jolly Green Giant statue in Blue Earth, Minnesota. "The Valley of the Jolly Green Giant" refers to the Minnesota River valley around Le Sueur.Today, just before dropping down into the valley heading south on U.S. Route 169 an enormous wooden sign of the Jolly Green Giant, along with the Little Green Sprout, is visible with the caption "Welcome to the Valley."
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The Kingsmen in Person is the first album by the rock band The Kingsmen, released in 1963. ... "Death of an Angel", and "The Jolly Green Giant". Track listing
The Kingsmen Greatest Hits is the seventh album by American rock band The Kingsmen, ... The Jolly Green Giant – 1:56 (L. Easton, Don Harris, Dewey Terry) [4] [5]
Jack Ely was born on September 11, 1943, in Portland, Oregon. [1] Both of his parents were music majors at the University of Oregon, and his father, Ken Ely, was a singer. [2] [3] His father died when he was four years old and his mother subsequently remarried.