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"Sea Cruise" is a song written and originally recorded by Huey "Piano" Smith and His Clowns in 1959. However, this track was not released until 1971. The best known version was recorded by Frankie Ford and released in 1959, with Ford’s voice dubbed over Smith's original backing track [1] (which featured ship's bell and horn sound-effects, boogie woogie piano, and a driving horn section and a ...
Ace released an LP by Ford, Let's Take A Sea Cruise With Frankie Ford, before the singer moved to Imperial Records in late 1960. He recorded with producer Dave Bartholomew , and released a version of " You Talk Too Much ", but Ford's recording missed out in competition with one by Joe Jones which was issued almost simultaneously.
In October 2007, Phillips was honored for his contributions to Louisiana music with induction into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame. [7] One of his last live performances was in April 2005 at the Jazz Fest in New Orleans, Louisiana, a few months before Hurricane Katrina. He died on March 14, 2020, his 94th birthday. [8] [1]
The Idlers sang at the re-interment of Captain Hopley Yeaton, the father of the Coast Guard, on October 19, 1975. [4] The Singing Idlers made an appearance on Saturday Night Live on February 28, 1976, [ 5 ] where Leon Redbone was the musical guest, and the hostess Jill Clayburgh sang "Sea Cruise" backed by the group. [ 6 ]
The song shares a title with, and features prominently in the plot-line of, the 1989 Harold Becker film Sea of Love starring Al Pacino and Ellen Barkin. [28] "Sea of Love" was used in the 2000 film Frequency starring Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel. "Sea of Love" was used to close out The Simpsons season 16 episode "Future-Drama".
Johnny Rivers (born John Henry Ramistella; November 7, 1942) [1] is an American retired musician. He achieved commercial success and popularity throughout the 1960s and 1970s as a singer and guitarist, characterized as a versatile and influential artist. [2]
"Sea Cruise" 50 — "A Real Cowboy (You Say You're)" 20 17 Crash Craddock: 1981 "It Was You" 37 — "I Just Need You for Tonight" 11 20 The New Will Never Wear Off of You "Now That the Feelings Gone" 38 — Changes: 1982 "Love Busted" 28 — The New Will Never Wear Off of You "The New Will Never Wear Off of You" 62 — 1983 "Tell Me When I'm ...
On his 1981 Live/Indian Summer album, Al Stewart introduced his song "Year of the Cat" with an odd anecdote about a mistaken-identity encounter involving Henry, Audrey Hepburn, and G. Gordon Liddy wearing an Elvis Presley mask. [9] Henry's original song was later featured on the soundtrack of the 1982 film Diner.