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While the song was climbing the charts, Casey Kasem reported on American Top 40 that shortly following Cummings' departure from The Guess Who to pursue a solo career, his girlfriend of nine years left him for another man. "Stand Tall" was born from him taking his frustration, challenges and despondency to the piano and forging the melody there.
The single "Stand Tall" was an international hit and sold more than one million copies in the United States. [21] [22] In 1977 he was presented with a Juno Award as best male vocalist. [23] Also in 1977 he provided backing vocals for the Eric Carmen album Boats Against the Current, [24] and released his second solo album My Own Way to Rock. [25]
Of its ten songs was the Larry Butler and Ben Peters composition "Standing Tall". [1] Wynette recorded the song in April 1978, which was three months prior to the recording by Billie Jo Spears. Wynette's version of "Standing Tall" was produced by Billy Sherrill. The song appeared as an album track on Womanhood when the disc was released in July ...
Carmel was listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as 9 ft 0 in (2.74 m) tall, and billed at the heights of 8 ft 9 in (2.67 m) and 9 ft 0.625 in (2.76 m) tall, though he may have more realistically been around 7 ft 3 in (2.21 m) tall. He was variously a mutual funds salesman, carnival sideshow act, film actor, rock and roll band singer ...
Stand Tall may refer to: "Stand Tall" (Burton Cummings song), 1976 "Stand Tall" (Bahjat song), 2015 "Stand Tall" (Childish Gambino song), 2016; Stand Tall, a 1997 bodybuilding documentary; Stand Tall, a 2002 novel by Joan Bauer
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Sounds of the Seventies was a 40-volume series issued by Time-Life during the late 1980s and early-to-mid 1990s, spotlighting pop music of the 1970s.. Much like Time-Life's other series chronicling popular music, volumes in the "Sounds of the Seventies" series covered a specific time period, including individual years in some volumes, and different parts of the decade (for instance, the early ...
The show airs both low-budget and classic horror and science-fiction movies, with host "Svengoolie" – a portmanteau of the words Svengali and ghoul – played by Rich Koz [4] (pronounced "Koze"), who wears thick skull-like makeup around his eyes and cheekbones, a moustache, goatee, and long wig, all black, and a black top hat with a tuxedo jacket over a bright-red, open-collared, pleated ...