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"Stormy" is a hit song by the Classics IV released on their LP Mamas and Papas/Soul Train in 1968. It entered Billboard Magazine October 26, 1968, peaking at #5 [4] on the Billboard Hot 100 and #26 Easy Listening. [5] The final line of the chorus has the singer pleading to the girl: "Bring back that sunny day."
They then added lyrics to a local jazz song which became the hit "Spooky" for the Classics IV, of which both Buie and Cobb were members. [3] Cobb and Buie eventually co-wrote most of the hits for what became Dennis Yost & the Classics IV , including the gold-certified singles "Stormy" and "Traces".
Mamas and Papas/Soul Train is the second album by Classics IV, released in 1968 on Imperial Records. The album was reissued in 1984 by Liberty Records, with "The Girl from Ipanema" omitted from it. [2] [3] [4] The album scratched the Billboard Top LPs, peaking at No. 196. "Stormy" was a Top 5 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.
The band changed its name to The Classics IV featuring Dennis Yost and enjoyed two more top-10 hits, "Stormy" (1968, Hot 100 No. 5) and "Traces" (1969, Hot 100 No. 2, Easy Listening No. 2), the latter of which Emory Gordy also co-wrote. Cobb and Buie borrowed heavily from 1936's "Every Day with Jesus" by Robert C. and Wendell P. Loveless to pen ...
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In 1967, he started working with the group Classics IV, writing with the group's guitarist, James Cobb, to add lyrics to Mike Sharpe's instrumental "Spooky". [4] Subsequent songs co-written with Cobb included Sandy Posey's " I Take It Back " and the Classics IV hits " Stormy ", " Traces ", "Every Day With You Girl" and "What Am I Crying For?"
This is an A–Z list of jazz tunes which have been covered by multiple jazz artists. It includes the more popular jazz standards, lesser-known or minor standards, and many other songs and compositions which may have entered a jazz musician's or jazz singer's repertoire or be featured in the Real Books, but may not be performed as regularly or as widely as many of the popular standards.
"Stormy" (song), a 1968 song by the Classics IV; Stormy, a drama starring Noah Beery Jr., also the title character played by Beery; Stormy (2024 film), an upcoming American documentary film; Stormy, a character from the children's TV show Rainbow Brite; Derek "Stormy" Waters, a character in the American animated TV show Sealab 2021