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The band had its only hit in 1964 with a cover version of the song "California Sun" by Joe Jones. It climbed the pop charts when the No. 1 song was "I Want to Hold Your Hand" by the Beatles. [3] Fortson, Pennell and Nolte left the group for the Marine Corps shortly after recording "California Sun". They were replaced by Jim Boal (lead guitar ...
The Offspring covered the song (in the style of the Ramones) on their Days Go By Tour in 2013. [13] [14] English band Palma Violets covered it as the B-side of their single "We Found Love". [15] A version by Swedish band Ola & the Janglers was released in 1970 (sung in English). Gyllene Tider recorded a version in 1981 with Swedish lyrics ...
Let's Have a Party is the debut album by the American rock band the Rivieras released in 1964 by USA Records. This album contains the band's biggest hit, "California Sun", which reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. [2] The album continues the band's popular surf style, and contains covers of classic and contemporary rock and roll ...
Campus Party is the second and final studio album by the American rock band the Rivieras released in 1965 through Riviera Records. This album continued the band's "frat rock" sound, and contains many popular cover songs done in this style.
Riviera also released one full-length LP; Campus Party by the Rivieras in 1964. This album was the follow-up to the band's debut album, Let's Have a Party , which was released on USA Records. Most records released on the label without wide distribution are scarce to find today, and demand high values in the collectors' market.
One famous recording of the song with the Mercer lyrics is by Ella Fitzgerald on her album Like Someone in Love from 1957. Fitzgerald recorded the song again in 1964 for her album Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Songbook and once more in 1978. "Midnight Sun" also became part of the repertoire of Carmen McRae after she recorded it first ...
The popularity of the song is lampooned in a 1940s film short. [4] In the film, The King's Men (who also performed on Fibber McGee and Molly) play young men living in a boarding house who are endlessly singing the song while getting dressed, eating dinner, playing cards, etc., until an exasperated fellow boarder (William Irving) finally has them removed to an insane asylum.
The Riviera" is a song written and composed by Cy Coleman and Joseph Allen McCarthy in 1953. The song was intended for the John Murray Anderson's Almanac revue, but was instead picked up by cabaret singer Mabel Mercer [ 1 ] and included in her album Songs by Mabel Mercer, Vol. 3 (1953). [ 2 ]