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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]
On March 28, Lorde's cover of "Take Me to the River", a Talking Heads cover of a song originally recorded by Al Green, was released as the third single. [13] On April 24, the 40th anniversary of the film's debut at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the album's release date was announced for May 17 by A24 Music. [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.
The album is a popular release of No Sleep Records as it has received ten pressings on vinyl for a total of 8,280 copies. [28] 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
After leaving art school, Talking Heads released their debut single, "Love → Building on Fire", in early 1977, [3] followed by their debut album, Talking Heads: 77, later that year. [1] The album contained "stripped down rock & roll" songs and was notable for its "odd guitar-tunings and rhythmic, single note patterns" and its "non-rhyming ...
Arnold's version, recorded in the same studio, was released as a single on November 14, 1969 in Germany and in September elsewhere [4] on Polydor and Atlantic Records. Its B-side was "Give a Hand, Take a Hand", also written by Barry and Maurice (the Bee Gees' would not release a version of the song until the Mr. Natural album in 1974.) [5] After Arnold recorded the song, she recorded the Bee ...
Further releases in the UK included "Hit and Run", a minor hit which reached No. 41 in 1985, "The River" which peaked at No. 44 in early 1986, and "What You Gonna Do About It" peaking at No. 63 in the summer of 1986. [1] The latter track was also featured on the band's self-titled album. They appeared on the Dance Aid single, released in April ...