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"The Banner Man" is a 1971 song by the British pop band Blue Mink. The song managed to reach the top ten on the UK charts peaking at #3 in May 1971. It was released as a single with the B-side "Mind Your Business". [1] [2] The single was written by Blue Mink founders Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway. [3]
The band's next single release was "The Banner Man" on Regal Zonophone in the spring of 1971. [1] It reached No. 3 in the UK chart, equalling the success of the debut single [3] and notable for its use of a brass band. [5]
The Son of God Goes Forth to War (1812) is a hymn by Reginald Heber [1] which appears, with reworked lyrics, in the novella The Man Who Would Be King (1888), by Rudyard Kipling and, set to the Irish tune The Moreen / The Minstrel Boy, in the film The Man Who Would Be King (1975), directed by John Huston. [2]
Despite being a California native, H.E.R. repped a Texas Rangers jersey for her performance before Game 1 of the 2023 World Series between the Rangers and Arizona Diamondbacks. The impressive ...
The time before that, former America’s Got Talent contestant Jackie Evancho performed “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Trump’s 2017 inauguration. This won’t be Macchio’s first time ...
The song is written from the point of view of a soldier who knows his opponents are also just people: "Machine gun, tearin' my body all apart / Evil man make me kill you, evil man make you kill me ...
George Harrison had the best-selling single of 1971 with "My Sweet Lord", which spent five weeks at number-one.He also reached number ten with "Bangla Desh".Rod Stewart made his chart debut this year with "Maggie May"/"Reason to Believe", which reached number-one in October, stayed there for five weeks, and became the second best selling single of the year.
Cook co-wrote "I Just Want to Dance with You" with John Prine; Prine recorded the song in 1986 for his album German Afternoons, and it was a hit for George Strait in 1998. [ 1 ] Cook and Greenaway also wrote "High 'N' Dry" ( Cliff Richard ), which was the B-side of " Congratulations ", [ 9 ] the runner-up song for the UK Eurovision Song Contest ...