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The Rattles performed in Hamburg, and played at the same venues as The Beatles on several occasions in 1962. [1] In 1964, the group recorded "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah", which charted in the UK. In 1968, they recorded their first version of "The Witch", with vocals by Henner Hoier. [ 1 ]
Edward Deming Andrews (1940), The Gift to be Simple - Songs, Dances and Rituals of the American Shakers, J.J. Augustin. Republished by Dover Publications in 1962 and 1967. ISBN 978-0-486-20022-4; Roger Lee Hall (2014/ revised edition, 2019), Simple Gifts: Great American Folk Song, PineTree Press. Multimedia disc with additional audio and video ...
Edna Bejarano is an Israeli-born German singer. She was born in 1951 in Tel Aviv, the daughter of Esther Bejarano. [1] The family moved to Germany in 1960. She was the lead singer of the German rock band The Rattles from 1970 until 1973 and sang on their biggest selling record, the 1970 song "The Witch", which sold over one million copies globally.
"The Witch" is a song by the American garage rock band the Sonics, written by vocalist Gerry Roslie, and first released as the group's debut single in November 1964 (see 1964 in music). It also appears on the Sonics' debut album Here Are the Sonics!!! .
The shekere (from Yoruba Ṣẹ̀kẹ̀rẹ̀) [1] is a percussion instrument consisting of a dried gourd with beads or cowries woven into a net covering the gourd. There are multiple ways to produce sounds with the instrument.
The Rattles, German rock band who recorded an upbeat version of "Zip-a-dee-doo-dah" in the 1960s also famous for their 1970 hit "The Witch" "Rattle" (song), a 2011 electro house song by Dutch duo Bingo Players "Rattle!", a 2020 song by American contemporary worship band Elevation Worship; Rattle Records, a New Zealand contemporary art-music label.
There are two sources for the text Gardner used to make this chant. The opening lines, with their repeated Eko eko refrain, apparently come from an article published in a 1921 edition of the journal Form [5] by J. F. C. Fuller, on "The Black Arts", reprinted in The Occult Review in April 1926, though "The Occult Review" 1923 is frequently mis-cited.
The band went on to sign a US record and distribution deal with Cleopatra Records who released much of their early cassette and vinyl singles and EPs in 1993 as an album under the title Foundation Stones, and a CD album Adrenaline which, along with the title track, also featuring earlier singles such as An Eye for the Main Chance and The Witch.