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Despite the album not performing well on the charts at the time of the release, it started to attract considerable attention in 1975, when guitarist Ritchie Blackmore covered the second track, "Black Sheep of the Family" - itself a cover, originally by Fat Mattress - for the debut album from Rainbow.
"Black Sheep" is a song written by Danny Darst and Robert Altman, and recorded by American country music artist John Anderson. It was released in September 1983 as the first single from the album All the People Are Talkin'. The song was Anderson's third number one on the country chart.
Brody wrote "Black Sheep" based on personal experience. He said he "often felt like an outsider" at times in his life, both as a child in church, and as an adult being a musician. [2] It was partially inspired by his decision to pursue a career in music. [3] Brody wrote the song in Nashville, where he was living at the time. [4]
Brian Stokes Mitchell in 2008 sang this song with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, complete with donkey, cow, and sheep "voices". Garth Brooks recorded it on his 1992 platinum album Beyond the Season, giving the verses to various songwriter friends [5]. "The Friendly Beasts / L'Amikaj Bestoj" is a (free) simple score with all seven verses in ...
"Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" is an English nursery rhyme, the earliest printed version of which dates from around 1744. The words have barely changed in two and a half centuries. The words have barely changed in two and a half centuries.
Black Sheep is a double album by Julian Cope, released on Head Heritage in 2008. It is Cope's twentyfourth solo album and features 11 protest songs across two half-hour CDs. [ 3 ] Each CD represents "one side of an LP " with their own titles, Return of the Native and Return of the Alternative . [ 4 ]
"I'm Working on a Building" is a song in both the African American spiritual and southern gospel traditions. The song has become a standard of the genres. It has been recorded many times, by artists such as The Carter Family, [1] Bill Monroe, [2] Elvis Presley, [3] the Oak Ridge Boys, [3] B. B. King, [4] John Fogerty, [5] The Seldom Scene, [6] and Theo Lawrence.
"Steal Away" is a standard Gospel song, and is found in the hymnals of many Protestant denominations. An arrangement of the song is included in the oratorio A Child of Our Time, first performed in 1944, by the classical composer Michael Tippett (1908–98). Many recordings of the song have been made, including versions by Pat Boone [6] and Nat ...