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The song was successful, especially in Brazil, being played on Rede Globo's soap opera Final Feliz. In a June 2021 video posted on YouTube, record producer Rick Beato called "Never Gonna Let You Go" "the most complex pop song of all time", due to its use of frequent key changes, inverted chords and unusual chord progressions. [4]
Sergio Mendes [1] is an album by Brazilian keyboardist Sérgio Mendes, released in 1983 on A&M Records.It was his first top 40 album in nearly a decade and a half, his second self-titled album, and was accompanied by his biggest chart single ever, "Never Gonna Let You Go", a song written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil and with a lead vocal performed by Joe Pizzulo and Leeza Miller that reached ...
Joe Pizzulo (born June 15, 1951) is an American vocalist best known as one of the lead singers on 1980s hit singles credited to Sérgio Mendes, including "Never Gonna Let You Go" [1] (from Mendes' self-titled 1983 album) and "Alibis" (from the 1984 album Confetti).
Despite that track's failure, RCA green-lit Schatz producing Robinson's debut album Never Gonna Let You Go. The title cut, a Schatz original, became a #10 disco hit but another album track, "Turn the Beat Around", began to build "buzz" and was expediently released as a single, topping the disco charts on March 20, 1976. [5]
The song originally sampled "Impeach the President" (1973) by The Honey Drippers, [1] with the chorus of Rose Royce's "Ooh Boy" sung by Jackson ("Ooh, boy, I love you so; never, ever gonna let you go…once I get my hands on you" and "…I hope you feel the same way, too"). The music video features Whoopi Goldberg, Regina King, Angela Bassett ...
A single, a version of a Question Mark and the Mysterians song, "I'm Never Gonna Let You Go", was released but failed to make the chart. Haines left the group in 1969, reportedly turning down an offer to join Black Sabbath and eventually forming the Norman Haines Band. [ 3 ]
"Never Gonna Let You Go" (1976) " Turn the Beat Around " is a disco song written by Gerald Jackson and Peter Jackson, and performed by American actress and singer Vicki Sue Robinson in 1976 (see 1976 in music ), originally appearing on her debut album, Never Gonna Let You Go (1976).
They traveled to New York to record their follow-up single, "I'm Gone Slide", which appeared on Heigh-Ho in September, 1965. [1] [2] The song is credited to Barnett, who came up with the idea for the song and wrote the words, but John Bardi arranged the music. [1] [5] Jimmy Musgrove supplied the aptly insolent and "punky" lead vocal. [1]