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The original lyrics were written by Jacques Prévert in French, and the English lyrics were by Johnny Mercer. An instrumental recording by pianist Roger Williams was a number one best-seller in the US Billboard charts of 1955. Since its introduction "Autumn Leaves" has become a jazz standard, and it is one of the most recorded songs by jazz ...
The Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie (Roud # 545) is a Scottish folk song about a thwarted romance between a soldier and a woman. Like many folk songs, the authorship is unattributed, there is no strict version of the lyrics, and it is often referred to by its opening line "There once was a troop o' Irish dragoons".
While Hunter was in New Mexico, he wrote lyrics for three songs. These songs—"China Cat Sunflower", "St. Stephen", and "Alligator"—would become hits for the Grateful Dead. [1] In 1965, Garcia, Ron McKernan, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh and Bill Kreutzmann formed a band, initially called the Warlocks, but soon renamed the Grateful Dead. They covered ...
Go to Heaven is the eleventh studio album (sixteenth overall) by rock band the Grateful Dead, released April 28, 1980, by Arista Records.It is the band's first album with keyboardist Brent Mydland.
Perhaps chief among them is that it is live Grateful Dead at its most accessible, with the Dead sounding vivid and tight and full of pep, characteristics shared by all four shows on May 1977: Get Shown the Light. Compared to most Grateful Dead shows, Cornell '77 (and its chronological neighbors) are excellent places for (some) newbie listeners ...
Autumn Leaves (Bill Evans album), 1980; Autumn Leaves, an album by Don Byas; Autumn Leaves (Nat Adderley album) "Autumn Leaves" (Daniel Kajmakoski song), North Macedonia's 2015 Eurovision entry "Autumn Leaves", a song by Ved Buens Ende from Written in Waters "Autumn Leaves", a song by Ed Sheeran from + "Autumn Leaves" (Chris Brown song), a song ...
Also on the Autumn Records roster was The Great Society, a short-lived Haight-Ashbury group that recorded the first version of "Somebody to Love" on Autumn's short-lived North Beach label, which became a 1967 hit for Jefferson Airplane. [2] [3] The label dissolved in 1966. Tom Donahue, a San Francisco DJ who worked for KYA radio, owned the ...
"Dire Wolf" is a ballad by the Grateful Dead, released as the third track on their 1970 album Workingman's Dead. The lyrics were written by Robert Hunter after watching a film adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles. The music, containing elements of country and folk music, was composed by Jerry Garcia on the same day. The song tells the ...