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"Run-Around" is a song by American rock band Blues Traveler, featured on their fourth studio album, Four (1994). The song was the band's breakthrough hit, peaking at number eight on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 13 on Canada's RPM 100 Hit Tracks chart.
"My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style", the album's most successful single, sampled Quincy Jones' "Soul Bossa Nova" — which was known to Canadian audiences as the theme tune to the game show Definition at the time of its release. The song was a hit in both Canada and Europe, winning a Juno Award for Rap Recording of the Year in 1992. [2]
20 All-Time Greatest Hits! is a compilation album by James Brown containing 20 of his most famous recordings. Released by Polydor in 1991 as a single-disc alternative to the Star Time four-CD box set, it features songs from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.
It was first released as a track on Brown's 1960 album Think!. The following year it was issued as a single, which reached the R&B Top Ten and became Brown's second single (after "Think") to enter the pop Top 40 (US charts: number 8 R&B; number 40 pop). [2] "Bewildered" became a staple of Brown's concerts for much of his career.
"Runaround Sue" was covered by then 15-year-old Leif Garrett in 1977. The song was the second of four releases from his debut album, all of which became U.S. chart hits. All four songs were covers of major hits from 1959 to 1963, including Dion's two biggest hits. Of the four, "Runaround Sue" was the most successful for Garrett.
[1] [2] It uses the main riff from the David Bowie song "Fame", released earlier the same year. [3] Guitarist Carlos Alomar, who created the borrowed riff and was a co-writer on "Fame", was briefly in Brown's band in the late 1960s. Alomar said, "[Bowie] was extremely flattered that James Brown would take one of his songs."
A contrafact is a musical composition built using the chord progression of a pre-existing song, but with a new melody and arrangement. Typically the original tune's progression and song form will be reused but occasionally just a section will be reused in the new composition. The term comes from classical music and was first applied to jazz by ...
The Runaround, an American mystery film directed by Charles Lamont; All Nighter (working title The Runaround), a 2017 American comedy directed by Gavin Wiesen; Runaround, a 1972–1973 American children's television show; Runaround (British game show), a 1975–1981 adaptation of the American show