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"The Tears of a Clown" is a song written by Hank Cosby, Smokey Robinson, and Stevie Wonder and originally recorded by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles for the Tamla Records label subsidiary of Motown, first appearing on the 1967 album Make It Happen.
Judi Dench, who performed the role of Desirée in London, commented on the context of the song during an interview with Alan Titchmarsh.The play is "a dark play about people who, at the beginning, are with wrong partners and in the end it is hopefully going to become right, and she (Desirée) mistimes her life in a way and realizes when she re-meets the man she had an affair with and had a ...
"Cathy's Clown" is noted for its unorthodox structure, such as beginning on a chorus and having bridges but no verses. The song was a worldwide success and the best-selling single of the Everly Brothers' career. Because of its enduring influence on popular music the song was added to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in ...
He does not mind being shot out of a cannon, and plans to tell the world that she "made a crying clown" out of him. According to disc jockeys at the time the song was released, the calliope-like riff used in the song based on the "Entrance of the Gladiators" theme, was a synthesized recording of a woman's voice rather than a musical instrument.
The song was the sixth track from Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell released as a single. It reached number 38 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and number 26 on the UK Singles Chart and Canada's RPM Top Singles chart. On the latter chart, it stayed at that position for four weeks. [15] In Australia, the single peaked at number 52 in June 1994.
The song received two significant "rock era" remakes: a ballad version by the Everly Brothers in 1961 which reached No. 20 on Billboard, [3] and an up-tempo version by Frank Ifield which reached No. 8 on the UK Singles Chart on 15 February 1964, [4] as well as in New Zealand. [5] In the U.S., Ifield's version reached No. 128. [6]
The song peaked at No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart on 23 January 2005. It was the Chemical Brothers' highest-charting single in their native United Kingdom since "Hey Boy Hey Girl", which had also reached No. 3 in 1999. The song peaked at No. 1 in Greece and Spain. In Australia, it was ranked No. 65 on Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2004. [5]
Oh, No! It's Devo is the fifth studio album by American new wave band Devo, released in 1982 by Warner Bros. Records.The album was recorded over a period of four months, between May and September 1982, at Cherokee Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, and was produced by Roy Thomas Baker.