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"American Pie" is a song by American singer and songwriter Don McLean. Recorded and released in 1971 on the album of the same name, the single was the number-one US hit for four weeks in 1972 starting January 15 [2] after just eight weeks on the US Billboard charts (where it entered at number 69). [3]
"The Day I Died" is the second single from electronic music artist Just Jack taken from his third studio album All Night Cinema. It was released on 17 August 2009. [ 1 ] The song made the Radio 1 A-list, and XFM B-list, before the single was officially released.
[a] [1] [2] The event became known as "The Day the Music Died" after singer-songwriter Don McLean referred to it as such in his 1971 song "American Pie". At the time, Holly and his band, consisting of Waylon Jennings , Tommy Allsup , and Carl Bunch , were playing on the "Winter Dance Party" tour across the American Midwest .
The song takes its title from the 1950 film noir In a Lonely Place, starring Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame, and its pre-chorus lyrics are largely adapted from key lines of dialogue in the film; at one point, Bogart's character says, "I was born when she kissed me.
In 1939 "Antigonish" was adapted as a popular song titled "The Little Man Who Wasn't There", by Harold Adamson with music by Bernie Hanighen, both of whom received the songwriting credits. [3] A 1939 recording of the song by the Glenn Miller Orchestra , with vocals by Tex Beneke , became an 11-week hit on Your Hit Parade and reached #7.
On a hot summer day in 1963, more than 200,000 demonstrators calling for civil rights joined Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Doris Day's grandson says he wasn't allowed to see his ailing grandmother in her final years alive. Ryan Melcher, whose father is Day's late son, Terry Melcher, took to Facebook to reveal that he ...
Kris Radcliffe “died unexpectedly” at the age of 51 on Wednesday, Oct. 30, according to his co-anchor Lindsay Liepman, who announced the news during NBC affiliate KCEN-TV's evening telecast ...