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The song was released on Doug and the Slugs' 1980 album Cognac and Bologna (1980), [15] as well as their greatest hits albums Ten Big Ones (1984) and Slugcology 101 (1996). [ 16 ] [ 17 ] It also appeared on the multi-artist compilations Hitline (1980, K-Tel Records ) and Oh What a Feeling: A Vital Collection of Canadian Music Vol. 2 (2001).
Doug and The Slugs' final album, 1992's Tales From Terminal City, came out on their own Tomcat Records label. It is the only Doug and The Slugs album not to have hit the Canadian charts. Most of the Slugs left the band after 1992, although Kendall stayed until 1994.
Douglas Craig Bennett (October 31, 1951 – October 16, 2004) was the lead singer of Canadian rock band Doug and the Slugs. He also produced and directed music videos for artists such as Headpins, Trooper, Zappacosta, Suzanne Gitzi, and Images in Vogue as well as for the Slugs themselves. Born in Toronto, Bennett moved to Vancouver in 1973. In ...
A new version of the classic alphabet song has people questioning if they ever knew their ABCs at all. Television writer and comedian Noah Garfinkel took to Twitter on Friday to share a clip of ...
Music for the alphabet song including some common variations on the lyrics "The ABC Song" [a] is the best-known song used to recite the English alphabet in alphabetical order. It is commonly used to teach the alphabet to children in English-speaking countries. "The ABC Song" was first copyrighted in 1835 by Boston music publisher Charles Bradlee.
"Tomcat Prowl", written by Doug Bennett and John Burton, is a song performed by Doug and the Slugs for the soundtrack to the 1988 action film Iron Eagle II. It was the group's second-highest-charting single in their native Canada, reaching #23 on the RPM Top 100 Singles chart. [ 1 ]
Music critic Rudyard Kennedy of Allmusic stated: [11]. What makes this album a real keeper, though, is that if you dig a little deeper and get to the words hiding under the Slugs' peppy, poppy grooves, you'll find that the characters in singer-songwriter Doug Bennett's tunes are rarely as upbeat as the songs they inhabit.
Kate Bush used phonetic reversal in her songs "Watching You Without Me" (1985) and "Leave it Open" (1982). The English rock band Radiohead used the effect on the song "Like Spinning Plates", released on their 2001 album Amnesiac. Singer Thom Yorke sang the lyrics backwards; this recording was in turn reversed to create "backwards-sounding ...