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"I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home)" is a 1970 song written by American musician Mark Farner and recorded by Grand Funk Railroad as the closing track to their 1970 album Closer to Home. Ten minutes in duration, it is the band's longest studio recording. One of the group's best-known songs, it is composed as two distinct but closely related ...
Upon the album's release, We're an American Band became the band's best-received album by critics, so far.Robert Christgau gave the album a B−, his highest rating for a Grand Funk Railroad album at the time (although Shinin' On (1974) and Grand Funk Hits (1976) would receive a B and B+, respectively). [4]
"Catch Me Now I'm Falling" is a song written by Ray Davies and first released by The Kinks as the second track on their 1979 album Low Budget. Written as a criticism of America's allies, the song depicts the fall of Captain America as a symbol of the United States' dire circumstances at the time.
Cooper was educated at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.He has a Bachelor of Music honours degree and a performer's diploma from the Royal Academy of Music, [2] and plays as a guest trumpeter with several orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra and new music specialists Klangforum Wien, as well as in West End musicals.
Clark Virgil Terry Jr. [1] (December 14, 1920 – February 21, 2015) [2] was an American swing and bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, and a composer and educator.
Mouth trumpet is a vocal technique that imitates the sound of the trumpet.. The mouth trumpet sound is produced by using the vocal cords to produce the desired pitch and passing the sound through the lips that are held together with just enough tension so that they vibrate at the same frequency as the vocal cords, producing a trumpet-like sound.
Year Album Peak chart positions Label US 200 [4]US Jazz [4]US R&B [4]1979 Browne Sugar: 147 6 50 Arista/GRP 1980 Love Approach: 18 1 1 1981 Yours Truly: 97 6
Poison (who also recorded for Capitol) covered it and released it as a single with a music video for their The Best of Poison: 20 Years of Rock (2006) compilation which peaked at No. 17 on the Billboard 200. [12] The song has also been covered by Rob Zombie, Garth Brooks, Phish, Kid Rock, Village People, Rascal Flatts, and others. [13]