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The group reportedly auditioned the song for famed record producer Bobby Robinson while he was sick in bed, but he rejected them, stating the song "wasn't commercial enough". [5] When the Chords recorded their debut single for Cat Records, a cover of Patti Page 's " Cross Over the Bridge ", the label reluctantly allowed them to record "Sh-Boom ...
"Monkey Gone to Heaven" is a song by the American alternative rock band Pixies. Recorded in November 1988 during the sessions for the band's 1989 album Doolittle , it was released as a single in March, and included as the seventh track on the album when it was released a month later in April.
"Randy Scouse Git" is a song written by Micky Dolenz in 1967 and recorded by the Monkees. It was the first song written by Dolenz to be commercially released, and it became a number 2 hit in the UK where it was retitled "Alternate Title" after the record company (RCA) complained that the original title was actually somewhat "rude to British audiences" and requested that The Monkees supply an ...
The song was released as the lead single from the group's second studio album, The Great Radio Controversy. The song peaked at #13 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs chart on March 18, 1989. Along with " Love Song " and "What You Give", "Heaven's Trail (No Way Out)" is considered to be one of the band's signature songs . [ 2 ]
The song's refrain begins, "There's a hole in Daddy's arm where all the money goes" and concludes with "Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios". Time magazine reviewed the song on July 24, 1972. [3] "Sam Stone" ranked eighth in a Rolling Stone magazine 2013 poll of the "ten saddest songs of all time". [4]
That's really how the whole feel of the song came about, because when Colin brought it up, at about half that tempo, on a nylon-string guitar, it was a case of, "Well, this is a great melody, and great subject matter, but it's going to go nowhere like that. [11] Among the idiosyncrasies of the song's arrangement is Partridge's high backing vocals.
The song was used as the theme song for the distribution outside Germany of the TV show series Deutschland 83. The song was used in AMC 's Breaking Bad , in a scene where Hank Schrader, Walter White, and Walter Jr. watch a video of the drug chemist Gale Boetticher singing the song at a karaoke bar on a vacation to Thailand.
"Heaven" is a song by English electronic music band Depeche Mode, released as the lead single from their thirteenth studio album, Delta Machine (2013). Written by Martin Gore and produced by Ben Hillier , the song was world-premiered on KROQ 's morning show Kevin and Bean on 30 January 2013. [ 4 ]