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It remains popular today and, with 2,200 cover versions, [2] is one of the most covered songs in the history of recorded music. [note 1] "Yesterday" was voted the best song of the 20th century in a 1999 BBC Radio 2 poll of music experts and listeners and was also voted the No. 1 pop song of all time by MTV and Rolling Stone magazine the ...
"La Isla Bonita" (Spanish for "The Beautiful Island") is a song by American singer Madonna from her third studio album True Blue (1986). Patrick Leonard and Bruce Gaitsch created it as an instrumental demo and offered it to singer Michael Jackson, who turned it down. When Leonard met Madonna to start working on True Blue, he played the demo for ...
Reordered or repeated chords "California Dreamin'" (1965) by The Mamas & the Papas, where two chords have changed places: i (– i 2) – VI – VII – V 5 4-3. (Note: the "i 2" notation represents a tonic chord whose seventh falls in the bass; a "5 4-3" notation suggests a suspended chord resolving to a triad [16]) Foreign chords, bassline ...
In the United States, the best-known version was recorded by country musician Roy Clark.His version, under the English title "Yesterday When I Was Young," became his biggest hit up to that time on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart, peaking at No. 9 in August 1969, and it became his only top 40 pop hit, peaking at No. 19.
"Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday" is a soul song written by Ron Miller and Bryan Wells, released by American Motown singer-songwriter-musician Stevie Wonder on the album My Cherie Amour (1969). It peaked at number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 the weeks of December 13 and 20, 1969 and become Wonder's ninth Top 10 single of the 1960s.
Kidd also facilitated the hiring of Stuart as a staff writer at Rogers Music, which published "Yesterday's Gone", although the song remained unrecorded until Stuart and Clyde began performing as a duo, eventually recording "Yesterday's Gone" in July 1963 in a session at Abbey Road Studios produced and arranged by John Barry, who had discovered ...
In one, "Moon Over Naples" was written as a Neapolitan song, and this vocal version was recorded by Sergio Franchi in 1965, but the song did not chart. In another set of lyrics, the composition became a song about a Mexican woman, and the song title was changed to "Spanish Eyes". [5] Both lyricists are credited in these two versions. [6] [7]
The album's title is the literal Spanish translation of the song's title. Recording sessions for the eight new Spanish tracks took place in January 1980 at Stockholm's Polar Music studios. Swedish/Spanish journalist Ana Martinez del Valle assisted lead vocalists Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad with pronunciation. [3]