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A customized version of the song, "Life Is a Rock, but 'CFL Rolled Me", was the last rock and roll song played on the Larry Lujack show on WCFL in Chicago [9] on March 15, 1976, before the station switched from Top 40 to beautiful music format. Rival AM station WLS had their own rendition: "Life Is a Rock, WLS Rolled Me".
Levine sang lead vocals on several Top 40 singles including "Run Run Run" by The Third Rail (1966), "Yummy Yummy Yummy" (co-written with Artie Resnick), and three others by The Ohio Express (1968–1969), "Quick Joey Small (Run Joey Run)" by Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus (1968), and the record that best showcased his rapid speech delivery, "Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me ...
This song's greatest exposure was in Chevrolet truck television advertisements from 1991 until 2004, [9] for their massively successful "Like a Rock" campaign. [5] Chevrolet originally wanted to use Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." for the ad campaign but when Springsteen declined "Like a Rock" was chosen.
Life on a Rock is the fifteenth studio album by American country music artist Kenny Chesney. It was released on April 30, 2013 via Blue Chair and Columbia Records. [1] [2] Chesney co-wrote eight of the album's ten tracks [3] and co-produced the album with Buddy Cannon. [4] It was recorded in Los Angeles, Hawaii, Jamaica, Key West, London, and ...
The Beastie Boys' 1985 "Rock Hard"/"Party's Gettin' Rough"/"Beastie Groove" EP came out on the success of Rubin's production work with breakthrough act Run-DMC, of which previous recordings were produced by Simmons and Orange Krush's musician Larry Smith. His productions were characterized by occasionally fusing rap with heavy rock.
The Rock was also part of the highest-rated match of the 21st century when his WWF Championship defense against Shane McMahon, on May 1, 2000, got an 8.3 rating, making it the highest-rated segment of all time, behind "This Is Your Life". In 2011, the Rock's return to an episode of Raw generated an average of 4.7 million viewers in the United ...
The Blues Magoos are an American rock group from The Bronx, a borough of New York City, United States. [2] They were at the forefront of the psychedelic music trend, beginning in 1966. [3] They are best known for the hit song "(We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet", their only single to reach the Billboard top fifty.
"Loves Me Like a Rock" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Paul Simon. It was the second single from his third studio album, There Goes Rhymin' Simon (1973), released on Columbia Records . It features background vocals from the Dixie Hummingbirds , a Southern black gospel group.