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The original recording of "Midnight Confessions" was a demo by the Evergreen Blues Band, whose manager – Lou Josie – wrote the song. The demo contained a horn section and caught the attention of record producer/engineer Steve Barri, who was looking to produce a song for the Grass Roots that was a "West Coast" version of a Motown-style ...
The Grass Roots song "Midnight Confessions" was featured in the 1997 film Jackie Brown. In 2006 former manager Marty Angelo published a book entitled Once Life Matters: A New Beginning , which has numerous stories about his life on the road with Rob Grill and the Grass Roots in the early 1970s.
The group went straight to the Top 10 with the song "Let's Live for Today" in 1967 and toured the United States. Iconic hit songs such as "Midnight Confessions" cemented the group's standing as major contributors to the rock-music scene. [3] The Grass Roots had top songwriters offering their best songs to them and wrote many songs themselves.
The LP's release in the fall of 1968 followed the success of the group's highest-charting single, "Midnight Confessions". It featured a song written by Carole King and Toni Stern titled "Lady Pleasure", which was previously unreleased by the group, as well as a new single, "Bella Linda", which was originally written (in Italian, as "Balla Linda ...
Entner is best known for his vocal contributions on some of The Grass Roots' biggest hits, most notably the memorable "1-2-3-4" count-in to the chorus, as well as lead vocal on the chorus, of Let's Live for Today and the Middle 8 of the song Midnight Confessions.
The one song not on either previous album was "Sooner or Later," which had become the band's first Billboard top 10 entry since "Midnight Confessions" in 1968 and would be their last. The songs on this release include three songs that reached the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 , eleven that reached the top 40, and a total of fifteen songs that ...
Yes, there’s old standby “Auld Lang Syne” — a song written by Scottish poet Robert Burns in 1788 — but there are more contemporary New Year’s Eve songs to play as you pop champagne ...
Midnight Confessions + Who Will You Be Tomorrow Dunhill 5 5 1969 Bella Linda Hot Bright Lights Dunhill 28 20 Melody For You All Good Things Come To An End Dunhill Lovin' Things You And Love Are The Same Dunhill 49 35 River Is Wide, The (You Gotta) Live For Love Dunhill 31 16 I'd Wait A Million Years Fly Me To Havana Dunhill 15 12 Heaven Knows