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"It's the Same Old Song" was recorded by the Four Tops for the Motown label. [1] It was released in 1965 as the second single from their second album.Written and produced by Motown's main production team Holland–Dozier–Holland, the song is today one of The Tops' signatures, and was reportedly created—from initial concept to commercial release—in 24 hours.
The album contains three hit singles. "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)" reached No. 1 on both the Black Singles and Pop Singles charts, while "It's the Same Old Song" reached No. 2 and No. 5 respectively, and "Something About You" reached No. 9 and No. 19. [5]
"It's the Same Old Shillelagh" is an Irish novelty song written by Pat White. Its subject is a young Irish-American who inherits his father's shillelagh.The composer himself recorded this song on May 25, 1927 for Victor Records (No. 20760), [1] and the record was distributed through the Yorkville Phonograph Shop in New York City.
Of the three singles released from the album, only one, a cover of the Four Tops' "It's the Same Old Song", managed to place in the top forty of the Billboard Hot 100.
But those examples "were not on the same theme as Burns’s song, so it is debatable if they could be considered ‘the same song’ sung to Burns by the old man,” wrote Stephen Winick, PhD, a ...
The album contains covers of "It's the Same Old Song" and "Keep Your Head to the Sky". [8] [9] Daddy-O rapped on "Forbidden Love". [10] Kenny Gamble coproduced "Take This Song", which features singers from the musical Sarafina! [11] [12] The Brecker Brothers appeared on several tracks. [13] The title track is, in part, about apartheid in South ...
Four Tops - It's The Same Old Song; Junior Walker & the Allstars - (I'm a) Road Runner; Diana Ross & The Supremes - I Hear a Symphony; Four Tops - Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever; The Isley Brothers - This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak For You) Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston - It Takes Two; Stevie Wonder - Uptight (Everything's Alright)
The song "Auld Lang Syne" comes from a Robert Burns poem. Burns was the national poet of Scotland and wrote the poem in 1788, but it wasn't published until 1799—three years after his death.