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In August that year, the song topped the Billboard Easy Listening chart for two weeks. [3] It was also a crossover hit, reaching No.45 on the US R&B chart. "Spinning Wheel" was nominated for three Grammy Awards at the 1970 ceremony, winning in the category Best Instrumental Arrangement. The arranger for the song was the band's saxophonist, Fred ...
"The Old Covered Bridge" "The Old Spinning Wheel" "The Scene Changes" "The West, A Nest and You" "There's a Cabin in the Pines" "There's a Home in Wyoming" "There's Little Box of Pine O" "There's No Light in the Lighthouse" "There's a Wild Rose that Grows" "They Cut Down the Old Pine" "Till the Clock Strikes Three" "Timber" "The Tree that ...
Elysa Gardner from Los Angeles Times said that Michael "achieves a light jazz feel [on the song] that also makes for good background music". [6] Paul Lester from Melody Maker said songs like "Spinning the Wheel" "are snazzily produced late-night smoochathons that'll provide horny shop assistants and bank clerks with shag material for months."
The words are sometimes said to be onomatopoeic, made up from the sound of the spinning wheel, “sarasponda, sarasponda, sarasponda", and then the sound of the foot pedal brake slowing down the wheel; "ret, set, set.” This interpretation, however, is questionable, due to the fact that spinning wheels don't have a "foot pedal brake", or any ...
"The Old Spinning Wheel" Victor 24357: May 10, 1933 () October 1933 () US Billboard 1934 #12, US #1 for 3 weeks, 22 total weeks 13: Jimmie Grier and His Orchestra "Stay as Sweet as You Are" [12] Brunswick 7307: October 5, 1934 () November 1934 () US Billboard 1934 #13, US #1 for 3 weeks, 8 total weeks 14
" Gretchen am Spinnrade" (Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel), Op. 2, D 118, is a Lied composed by Franz Schubert using the text from Part One, scene 15 of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust. With "Gretchen am Spinnrade" and some 600 other songs for voice and piano, Schubert contributed transformatively to the genre of Lied.
No, it’s not spelling “pimiento” wrong…
Bing Crosby included the song in a medley on his 1961 album 101 Gang Songs. It appears at the end of the song "Spinning Wheel", written by David Clayton-Thomas and performed by Blood, Sweat & Tears. The melody is also used in "Daar wordt aan de deur geklopt", a Dutch children's song for the celebration of Saint Nicholas Day.