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"Cab Driver" is a song written by Carson Parks and performed by The Mills Brothers featuring Sy Oliver and His Orchestra. It reached #3 on the Easy Listening chart, #21 on the Cashbox chart, and #23 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1968. [1] It was featured on their 1968 album Fortuosity. [2]
The Mills Brothers ad in The Film Daily, 1932. The Mills Brothers, sometimes billed The Four Mills Brothers and originally known as Four Boys and a Guitar, [1] were an American jazz and traditional pop vocal quartet who made more than 2,000 recordings that sold more than 50 million copies and garnered at least three dozen gold records.
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Kravitz wrote the song after an altercation with a cab driver. [1] Although the song deals with racism and discrimination, he wrote it with a sense of humor. [2]
Cab Driver, Paper Doll, My Shy Violet (Pickwick, 1969) No Turnin' Back (Paramount, 1970) What a Wonderful World (Paramount, 1972) A Donut and a Dream (Paramount, 1972) Louis and the Mills Brothers (MCA Coral, 1973) Half a Sixpence with Count Basie (Vogue, 1973) Opus One (Rediffusion, 1973) Cab Driver (Ranwood, 1974) Inspiration (ABC Songbird, 1974)
Jack Alvo, cab driver "Let's take a look at your numbers." It was only days after 9/11, when he'd narrowly escaped his World Trade Center office, and this comment from his manager made Jack Alvo ...
"Taxi" is a song written by Harry Chapin, released as a single in early 1972 to coincide with the release of his album Heads & Tales. It is an autobiographical ballad using first-person narrative to tell the story of a taxi cab driver meeting an old flame from his youth when he picks her up in his cab.
"Car 67" is a novelty song by 'Driver 67' released in November 1978. It was in the UK Singles Chart for twelve weeks, reaching a high of No. 7 in February 1979. [1] The song is a ballad revolving around a cab driver who had split up with his girlfriend the previous day and how he is refusing to make a particular pick-up at 83 Royal Gardens (the passenger, unbeknownst to the controller, is the ...