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Kansas City (Leiber and Stoller song) " Kansas City " is a rhythm and blues song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller in 1952. [1] First recorded by Little Willie Littlefield the same year, as "K. C. Loving", the song later became a chart-topping hit when it was recorded by Wilbert Harrison in 1959. "Kansas City" is one of Leiber and ...
Harrison recorded "Kansas City" for the Harlem-based entrepreneur Bobby Robinson, who released it on his Fury record label. At the height of the song's success, Robinson was sued by Savoy Records who informed them that the release of the record in March 1959 [4] violated a contract Harrison had with that label that was to expire in August 1959 ...
Sneaky Sound System singles chronology. "Goodbye". (2007) " Kansas City ". (2008) "When We Were Young". (2008) " Kansas City " is the first single by Australian dance group Sneaky Sound System, taken from their second studio album 2 . The Adam Callen directed music video was nominated for Best Video at the ARIA Music Awards of 2008.
Kansas City (Oklahoma!) Kansas City (. Oklahoma! ) " Kansas City " is a song from the 1943 musical Oklahoma!. The plot set-up for it is the return of cowboy Will Parker from an excursion to the city of the same name. He describes his experiences in song. The song describes the wonders of the city and its entertainments (from the viewpoint of a ...
Kansas City Shuffle. A " Kansas City Shuffle " is an advanced form of a bait-and-switch confidence game employing misdirection, subterfuge, and playing on the " mark 's" arrogance and/or self-loathing. It is also the title of a 1926 jazz song named after the scheme.
Moten Swing. " Moten Swing " (originally " Moten's Swing ") is a 1932 jazz standard by Bennie Moten and his Kansas City Orchestra. It was an important jazz standard in the move towards a freer form of orchestral jazz and the development of Swing music. Moten and his Orchestra, which included Count Basie on piano, achieved much success with it ...
The Beatles performed the song as early as September 5, 1962, at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, and in December of that year at the Star-Club in Hamburg. [4] In 1964, the group released the albums Beatles for Sale (UK) and Beatles VI (US) featuring an arrangement of "Kansas City" based on the issued Little Richard version.
Kansas City Bomber (song) " Kansas City Bomber " is a song by Phil Ochs, a US singer-songwriter best known for the protest songs he wrote in the 1960s. In 1972, record producer Lee Housekeeper asked Ochs to write the theme song for the film Kansas City Bomber, a film about roller derby starring Raquel Welch. [1][2] Although Ochs enjoyed ...