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Released in October 1976, it was covered by Graeme "Shirley" Strachan (lead singer of Skyhooks) as his debut solo release and peaked at No. 3 on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Charts. [ 7 ] British band The Clash recorded a cover of the song in 1980 for Sandinista! , but the track didn't make it onto the album.
Credit Loleatta Holloway with takin' it up more than a few notches on a chorus nothing short of incredible." [7] A reviewer from Music Week commented, "Sampling is also an art form dear to Marky Mark & the Funky Bunch. But, to their credit, their debut single acknowledges their debut to Loleatta Holloway's now-familiar "It's such a good vibration".
Brenda Holloway (born June 26, 1946) is an American soul singer who was a recording artist for Motown Records during the 1960s. Her best-known recordings are the hits " Every Little Bit Hurts ", " When I'm Gone ", and " You've Made Me So Very Happy ".
Somebody Loan Me a Dime is a 1974 studio album by blues singer and guitarist Fenton Robinson, his debut under the Alligator Records imprint. Blending together some elements of jazz with Chicago blues and Texas blues , the album was largely critically well received and is regarded as important within his discography.
[1] [2] [3] In 1983, Watson and Wall cofounded Drop-a-Dime, an anti-crime organization which operated a hotline through which tips were confidentially passed from citizens to Boston police and federal agencies. [1] [2] [3] The name was a reference to dropping a dime, slang for putting a coin into a payphone to inform police of a crime. [2]
Holloway was born in Oldham on 31 March 1938. He was playing piano from the age of four, taking his first formal lessons aged seven. Aged 12, he was the organist and choirmaster at his local church. He began performing at ballroom dances and turned professional in 1954 when he joined Syd Willmott and his Band as a pianist.
Side two opens with a cover of the Jimmie Rodgers song "Waiting for a Train", in which an accentuated piano is accompanied by Scagg's yodels. [10] The penultimate track is "Loan Me a Dime", a cover of the Fenton Robinson song "Somebody Loan Me a Dime". The 1969 release lists Scaggs as the songwriter, but later reissues credit the song to Robinson.
Bought for a Dollar, Sold for a Dime is the sixth album by Little Axe, released on June 7, 2010 by Real World Records. [2] The album was originally issued as in demo form as digital download in May 2008.