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Prior to Bobby Bare's success with "Detroit City," country singer Billy Grammer released his version of the Danny Dill-Mel Tillis penned song. [3] His version was known as "I Wanna Go Home" and peaked at #18 on the Billboard country charts in 1963. [4] The song is the working man's complaint, and "with its melody reminiscent of the 'Sloop John ...
The music and lyrics were written in 1925 by Jimmy Campbell and Reg Connelly.They self-published the sheet music and it became their first big success, selling 2 million copies and providing the financial basis of their publishing firm, Campbell, Connelly & Co. [1] Campbell and Connelly published the sheet music and recorded the song under the pseudonym "Irving King".
There have been many recordings of the song since the early 1950s, with variant titles including "I Want to Go Home" and "Wreck of the John B". In 1966, American rock band the Beach Boys recorded a folk rock adaptation that was produced and arranged by Brian Wilson and released as the second single from their album Pet Sounds. The record peaked ...
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"I Wanna Go Home (with You)" Jack Joyce Joe Candullo 1949 with The Fontane Sisters featuring instrumental backing from Mitchell Ayres Orchestra [229] "I Want to Give" Enrique Raul de Jesus (aka J. Marcelo) J. Eduardo Ruben Carballo English: Gene Nash 1973 [17] "I Want to Thank Your Folks" Bennie Benjamin George Weiss 1946 with Lloyd Shaffer ...
Jimmy Thomas (January 20, 1939 – April 25, 2022) was an American soul singer and songwriter. He was best known as a vocalist for Ike Turner . [ 1 ] Thomas joined Turner's Kings of Rhythm in 1958, and remained with the band when the Ike & Tina Turner Revue was formed in 1960.
“I think you can listen to holiday music whenever you want… a good song is a good song,” he says of his "hot take." ... Some are funny, some are classics, some are ones you go, ‘Oh, I ...
Folk singer Lead Belly performed the song (as "Gee, But I Want to Go Home" or "Army Life" [3]) on several 1940s recordings. The song was released as a single, titled "I Don't Want No More of Army Life", in 1950 by Texas Jim Robertson [ 4 ]