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All I kept from the original was: "Old time rock and roll, that kind of music just soothes the soul, I reminisce about the days of old with that old time rock and roll". I rewrote the verses and I never took credit. That was the dumbest thing I ever did. And Tom Jones (Thomas E. Jones) and George Jackson know it, too.
While visiting his father in Alabama, [1] he stopped at the Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, and played the guitar solo on the Bob Seger hit "Old Time Rock and Roll". He was not credited for this performance on the Stranger in Town album, but was later credited on the Greatest Hits album and Ultimate Hits: Rock and Roll Never Forgets .
The world's largest and most valuable gem opal "Olympic Australis" was found in August 1956 at the "Eight Mile" opal field in Coober Pedy. It weighs 17,000 carats (3.4 kg; 7.5 lb) and is 11 inches (280 mm) long, with a height of 4 + 3 ⁄ 4 in (120 mm) and a width of 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (110 mm).
The History of Rock 'n' Roll is a ten episode television documentary mini-series produced by Time-Life. It originally aired on the Prime Time Entertainment Network from March to May in 1995. All parts were later released on VHS, DVD, and reran on TLC and VH1 , the latter which showed all ten parts in the last 10 weeks of the year 1999 on Friday ...
With the growing popularity of rock and roll in the 1950s, much of what baby boomers considered to be their parents' music, traditional pop, was pushed aside. [8] Popular music sung by such performers as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee and their contemporaries was relegated in the 1960s and 1970s to television, where they ...
Seven Ages of Rock (also known as 7 Ages of Rock) is a BBC Two series, co-produced by BBC Worldwide and VH1 Classic in 2007 about the history of rock music. Seven Ages of Rock's intertitle It comprised six 60-minute episodes (reduced to 48 minutes for VH1 Classic ), with a final episode of 90 minutes, and was broadcast on Saturdays at 21:00 ...
The first music parody “In Living Color” tackled in its first season was MC Hammer’s ubiquitous “U Can’t Touch This.” With Tommy Davidson playing the superstar rapper, he and the cast ...
George Henry Jackson (March 12, 1945 – April 14, 2013) was an American blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll/rock and soul singer-songwriter. His prominence was as a prolific and skilled songwriter: he wrote or co-wrote many hit songs for other musicians, including "Down Home Blues", "One Bad Apple", "Old Time Rock and Roll" and "The Only Way Is Up".