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Hotcakes is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Carly Simon, released by Elektra Records, on January 11, 1974. Featuring the major hits " Haven't Got Time for the Pain " and " Mockingbird ", the latter a duet with her then-husband James Taylor , Hotcakes became one of Simon's biggest selling albums.
The Belle Stars did a cover version of the song "Mockingbird" in 1982. It was released as their third and final cover. It peaked at No. 51 in the charts, although the single after it, "Sign of the Times", peaked at No. 3. It was the third single from the band's album The Belle Stars.
Mockingbird was produced by Buddy Miller. In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek wrote that it "is a natural sounding set of covers that runs the gamut from rock and barrelhouse blues, to jazz, country, and traditional and indie folk." The title track, the only original song on the album, written by Moorer, is "a breezy acoustic ballad."
It relates the story of a singer dreaming of his sweetheart, now dead and buried, and a mockingbird, whose song the couple once enjoyed, now singing over her grave. However, the melody is moderately lively. "Listen to the Mocking Bird" was one of the most popular ballads of the era and sold more than twenty million copies of sheet music. [4]
Broadcast is the debut studio album by the English rock band Cutting Crew.It was first released in the United Kingdom in November 1986, and was later released more widely, including in the United States, Canada and Japan in March 1987 with different packaging and four remixed tracks ("Any Colour", "One for the Mockingbird", "I've Been in Love Before" and "(I Just) Died in Your Arms"), all of ...
"Only a Northern Song" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1969 soundtrack album Yellow Submarine. Written by George Harrison , it was the first of four songs the band provided for the 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine , to meet their contractual obligations to United Artists .
Overkill covered the song on their 1999 cover album Coverkill. Japanese melodic punk band Hi-Standard covered this song on their Making the Road album. In 2013, soul singer Charles Bradley released a single with his version of the song. UK based Heavy/Doom Metal band Raven Black Night covered this song on their 2013's album Barbarian Winter.
The video made to accompany the song shows the brothers rescuing a classic car (specifically, a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air convertible) from a junk yard, restoring it (in a series of shots that compress an unknown number of weeks, or months, into 35 seconds of video time) to drivable condition, then finally taking it out for a spin.