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"The Blizzard" is a song written by Harlan Howard and originally recorded for RCA by Jim Reeves. It was released in early 1961 on the album Tall Tales and Short Tempers and also as a single , [ 1 ] peaking at number 4 on the Billboard country chart .
Blizzard of Ozz is the debut studio album by English heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne, released on 12 September 1980 in the UK and on 27 March 1981 in the US. The album was Osbourne's first release following his firing from Black Sabbath in 1979. [ 10 ]
"Goodbye to Romance" was the first track written for Blizzard of Ozz, and the first song that Osbourne and guitarist Randy Rhoads completed together. [5] Osbourne has said that the song was his way of saying farewell to his former band Black Sabbath. [6] The lyrics of "Goodbye to Romance" express mourning over a love being lost. [7]
Blizzard is a 2003 American/Canadian Christmas-themed family film directed by LeVar Burton and starring Brenda Blethyn, Christopher Plummer, Kevin Pollak, and Whoopi Goldberg. Plot [ edit ]
The song is one of Osbourne's best known and recognizable as a solo performer. [7] It was rated 9th-greatest guitar solo ever by readers of Guitar World magazine. [ 8 ] The song was also ranked ninth by VH1 on the list of the 40 Greatest Metal Songs [ 9 ] and in 2009 it was named the 23rd-greatest hard rock song of all time also by VH1, [ 10 ...
"Mr. Crowley" is a song by English heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne, about English occultist Aleister Crowley. Written by Osbourne, guitarist Randy Rhoads and bass guitarist/lyricist Bob Daisley, it was released on Osbourne's debut solo album Blizzard of Ozz in September 1980 in the United Kingdom. [2]
When he was 12 years of age, he began writing songs, "an enthusiasm fueled by an appetite for books and an ear for a telling phrase." [2] After serving as a paratrooper with the United States Army, he went to Los Angeles, California, hoping to sell his music. [1] Howard did manual labor while writing songs and pushing his finished material.
In keeping with the film character Gilda being "the ultimate femme fatale", the song sung by her in two scenes facetiously credits the amorous activities of a woman named "Mame" as the true cause of three well-known cataclysmic events in American history: The Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the Great Blizzard of 1888 in New York City and the 1906 ...