Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Let's Live for Today" was recorded by the Grass Roots with the help of session musicians, including Sloan on lead guitar, and was released as a single in May 1967. [1] [3] The lead vocal on the Grass Roots' recording was sung by the band's bassist Rob Grill [1] and the distinctive "1-2-3-4" count-in before the chorus was sung by guitarist ...
Let's Live for Today is the second studio album by the American rock band the Grass Roots, released in July 1967 by Dunhill Records. A new group was brought in for this album which included Creed Bratton, Rick Coonce, Warren Entner and Rob Grill. It features their first top-ten hit by the same name, "Let's Live for Today". The bulk of the ...
Let's Live for Today may refer to: Let's Live for Today, a 1967 album by the Grass Roots "Let's Live for Today" (song), a 1967 song popularized by the Grass Roots ...
As the Grass Roots, they had their first top-10 hit in the summer of 1967 with "Let's Live for Today", an English-language cover version of "Piangi con me", a 1966 hit for the Anglo-Italian quartet The Rokes. "Let's Live for Today" sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc. [11]
The group re-recorded the song in English as "Let's Live for Today", with lyrics by Michael Julien of Dick James Music. Worldwide sales of "Piangi con me" exceeded one million copies, qualifying the record for a gold disc . [ 3 ]
After departing from The Grass Roots in the mid 70s, Entner went behind the scenes of the music business and became a manager. Owning his own firm Warren Entner Management, Entner managed a number of hard rock artists including Angel, Quiet Riot, Faith No More, [4] Rage Against the Machine, Deftones, as well as other acts such as The Grays, Failure and Nada Surf.
Julien's first major hit in the United States came in 1967, when he wrote new English lyrics and title of "Let's Live for Today", from the 1966 Italian-language song "Piangi con Me" ("Cry with Me"), a gold record for The Rokes, co-written by David "Shel" Shapiro of The Rokes and Italian lyricist Mogol.
The Grass Roots played at the Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival on Sunday, June 11, 1967, in the "summer of love" as their top ten hit "Let's Live For Today" was hitting the airwaves. This music festival is important because it occurred before the Monterey Pop Festival but did not have a movie to document it for the ages (see List ...