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The song was originally released on The Moody Blues' 1967 album Days of Future Passed, a concept album chronicling a typical day. On the album, it was part one of "The Afternoon" track titled "Forever Afternoon (Tuesday?)". Justin Hayward said that he wrote the song on a Tuesday afternoon in Lydiard Park, in his hometown of Swindon.
It was written in 1924 by William J. Marsh, [1] [2] who was born in Liverpool, United Kingdom, and emigrated to Texas as a young man, and Gladys Yoakum Wright (1891–1956), [3] [4] of Fort Worth, Texas. It was selected as the official state song by a concurrent resolution of the Texas Legislature in 1929 following
Jim Jackson first recorded the opening line, "T for Texas, T for Tennessee" on his song "Jim Jackson's Kansas City Blues", a month before the "Blue Yodel" recording session took place. Around the same time as Rodgers's recording, the line appeared in Lonnie Johnson's rendition of Jackson's song, and later in Frank Stokes's "Nehi Mamma Blues". [24]
“It’s a real live boogie and a real live hoedown.” Home & Garden. Lighter Side
"Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad)" (commonly referred to as "Stormy Monday") is a song written and recorded by American blues electric guitar pioneer T-Bone Walker. It is a slow twelve-bar blues performed in the West Coast blues -style that features Walker's smooth, plaintive vocal and distinctive guitar work.
In the wake of TikTok chatter that Beyoncé’s new song “Texas Hold ‘Em” sounds eerily similar to an iconic children’s series theme song, the show’s composer has weighed in on the matter.
Meanwhile, "Texas Hold 'Em" is about laying your cards down, down, down, down before you pour some sugar and honey on your honey, and get down for the real-life boogie and a real-life hoedown as ...
In 1999, the Texas tourism board ran an ad campaign featuring Lyle Lovett singing the refrain "That's Right, You're Not from Texas, but Texas wants you anyway." [ 2 ] Possibly because of the national exposure of the ad campaign, the phrase has been used independently, even in non-musical contexts as a general expression conveying Texans ...