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Through a connection to producer Ralph Bass, they wrote "Kansas City" specifically for West Coast blues/R&B artist Little Willie Littlefield. [2] There was an initial disagreement between the two writers over the song's melody: Leiber (who wrote the lyrics) preferred a traditional blues song, while Stoller wanted a more distinctive vocal line; Stoller ultimately prevailed.
The litigation, which lasted until September 1959, abruptly prevented Robinson from issuing follow-ups to "Kansas City" while Harrison was a star. [ 5 ] Meanwhile, Harrison continued to perform and record but it would be another ten years before he again cracked the Billboard Top 40 when he released the self-penned " Let's Work Together (Part 1 ...
b/w "Kansas City Woman" Atlantic 1098 – 3 King of the Stroll "Juanita" / Atlantic 1112 – 7 "Whatcha' Gonna Do When Your Baby Leaves You" – 11 "Come on Home" b/w "It Were You" OKeh 7067 – – Non-album tracks "Charged with Cheating" b/w "Two Spoons of Tears" (from My Story) OKeh 7070 – – Chuck Willis Wails the Blues: 1957 "C. C ...
Here I Come may refer to: "Here I Come" (The Roots song), 2006 "Here I Come" (Fergie song), 2008 Here I Come, a 1985 album by Barrington Levy, and the title song; Here I Come, the British title for Harvard, Here I Come!, a 1941 American film directed by Lew Landers
The band's first single, "Rock Lobster", recorded for DB Records in 1978, was an underground success, selling over 2,000 copies, that led to gigs at CBGB and Max's Kansas City. Both this version of "Rock Lobster" and its B-side, "52 Girls", are different recordings from those that appear on the band's 1979 debut album, and the early version of ...
"I Don't Know How to Love Him" had originally been published with different lyrics in autumn 1967, the original title being "Kansas Morning". The melody's main theme has come under some scrutiny for being non-original, being compared to a theme from Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor.
In 2011, Yauch directed and wrote a surreal comedic short film entitled Fight for Your Right Revisited to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the original video's release. The short film serves as a video for the single "Make Some Noise" from Hot Sauce Committee Part Two. Most of the non-sequitur dialogue between characters were a result of ...
Turner was born May 18, 1911, in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. [5] His father was killed in a train accident when Turner was four years old. He sang in his church, and on street corners for money. He left school at age fourteen to work in Kansas City's nightclubs, first as a cook and later as a singing bartender.