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Randall Stuart Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an American singer, songwriter, arranger, pianist, composer, conductor and orchestrator. He is known for his non-rhotic Southern-accented singing style, early Americana-influenced songs (often with mordant or satirical lyrics), and various film scores. [5]
Crow had written a song called "I Still Love You" but was unhappy with its lyrics; she used its melody and adapted the poem for her lyrics to "All I Wanna Do". The song earned Cooper considerable royalties and helped to promote his book, originally published in a run of only 500 copies in 1987, into multiple reprints. [7]
"All I Wanna Do" anticipated the reverb-saturated production styles of acts such as Panda Bear, whose 2007 album Person Pitch led critics to rediscover the song in light of the Beach Boys' continued influence on contemporary indie music. [2] "All I Wanna Do" has been cited as a point of origin of the dream pop, [2] shoegaze, and chillwave genres.
In Living Color – Heavy D and Eddie F (seasons 1–2, 5); ("Cause That's the Way You Livin' When You're in Living Color") – Heavy D. and The Boyz (seasons 3–4) In the Heat of the Night – music by Quincy Jones , lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman , performed by Bill Champlin
"Easy" is a song by American band Commodores from their fifth studio album, Commodores (1977), released on the Motown label. Group member Lionel Richie wrote "Easy" with the intention of it becoming another crossover hit for the group given the success of a previous single, "Just to Be Close to You", which spent two weeks at number one on the US Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart (now known as ...
Speaking about the disgraced film producer in Sav Rodgers' documentary Chasing Chasing Amy, Smith recalls screening the movie for Weinstein, 72, and feeling overjoyed at his reaction. "He's crying ...
The original song as recorded by Dobie Gray in 1979 was a love song without a storyline, unlike the later version by Heart.. In the Heart version of the song, which is also played out in the accompanying music video, interspersed with sequences of the band performing the song, singer Ann Wilson sings of a one-night stand with a handsome young male hitchhiker.
The song "All I Really Want to Do" was the only single to be taken from the album and reached #15 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #9 on the UK singles chart. [4] The song also entered the Canadian, Dutch, and Swedish single charts. "All I Really Want to Do" was the first single to be released by Cher under that name and was also her first solo hit.