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Soul Man" went to number two on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States during the autumn of 1967. It was kept out of the top spot by the song "To Sir With Love" by Lulu. [11] Outside the US, it peaked at number two in Canada. [12] "Soul Man" was awarded the 1968 Grammy Award for Best Rhythm & Blues Group Performance, Vocal or Instrumental. [6]
Leslie Johnson (June 20, 1933 – August 22, 2018), [1] [2] known as Lazy Lester, was an American blues musician who sang and played the harmonica and guitar. In a career spanning the 1950s to 2018, he pioneered swamp blues, [3] and also played harmonica blues, rhythm and blues and Louisiana blues.
Willie Tyler (born September 8, 1940) is an American ventriloquist, comedian and actor. [1] He has been credited as Willie Tyler and Lester or Willie Tyler & Lester.Tyler recorded "Cannibal" for Motown Records in 1968, but it was not released.
The ChordPro (also known as Chord) format is a text-based markup language for representing chord charts by describing the position of chords in relation to the song's lyrics. ChordPro also provides markup to denote song sections (e.g., verse, chorus, bridge), song metadata (e.g., title, tempo, key), and generic annotations (i.e., notes to the ...
Leslie Thompson Baxter (March 14, 1922 – January 15, 1996) was an American musician, composer and conductor. [1] After working as an arranger and composer for swing bands, he developed his own style of easy listening music, known as exotica and scored over 250 radio, television and motion pictures numbers.
On December 10, 2012, Lester Chambers and Alexis Ohanian (Reddit co-founder) teamed up to launch a Kickstarter project together with the intent to make a new album titled Lester's Time Has Come. Chambers also spoke with Reddit users on December 13, 2012, at an AMA (Ask Me Anything) event and to mention the Kickstarter project to those ...
Lester's maternal grandmother moved the Abrams family from the Southwest to Omaha in the early 1900s; Lester's multi-racial father met his bi-racial mother there. Lester was born in 1945, and, as a child, had serious problems explaining his cultural background, which included ancestry from both Native and Black America.
About Time (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack to the 2013 film of the same name directed by Richard Curtis. [1] The soundtrack was released on 3 September 2013 by Decca Records , and featured contemporary hits from the 1990s and early 2000s. [ 2 ]