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"Get a Job" is a song by The Silhouettes released in November 1957. It reached the number one spot on the Billboard pop and R&B singles charts in February 1958, [1] and was later included in Robert Christgau's "Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960s recordings, published in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981). [2]
"Silhouettes" is a song made famous by the doo-wop group the Rays in 1957, peaking at number 3 on the U.S Billboard Hot 100. A competing version by the Diamonds was also successful. In 1965 it was a number 5 hit in the US for Herman's Hermits , and in 1990 it was a number 10 hit in the UK for Cliff Richard .
The Silhouettes were formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, in 1956, at first using the name The Thunderbirds. [1] Their classic hit "Get a Job" – originally the B-side to "I Am Lonely" – was issued by their manager, Kae Williams, on his own Junior Records label [1] before being sold to the nationally distributed Ember label in late 1957. [4]
Born in Newark in 1930 [1] and raised in Belleville, New Jersey, Crewe demonstrated an early and apparent gift for both art and music. [citation needed] Although lacking in formal musical training, he gravitated to learning from many of the great 19th- and 20th-century classical romantic composers as well as giants of jazz and swing, including Stan Kenton, Harry James, Duke Ellington, Benny ...
March 1957: Zombies of Mora Tau: Co-production with Clover Productions The Man Who Turned to Stone: April 1, 1957: The Phantom Stagecoach: April 12, 1957: The Strange One: Co-production with Horizon Pictures: April 17, 1957: Abandon Ship! Co-production with Copa Productions April 25, 1957: The Garment Jungle: April 1957: The Guns of Fort Petticoat
Elvis Presley had four songs on the year-end top 50, the most of any artist in 1957, including "All Shook Up", the number one song of the year. Fats Domino had three songs on the year-end top 50. This is a list of Billboard magazine's top 50 singles of 1957 according to retail sales. [1]
Advertisement from 1957. According to a contemporary review for The New York Times, the film was "a mélange of mediocre melodrama" that sought to "portray sisters who run afoul of the law and are sent to a prison farm populated almost entirely by rock 'n' roll addicts...Call it a fate almost worse than death," and noted that "the amazingly endowed Miss Van Doren [...] renders a variety of ...
Les Girls (also known as Cole Porter's Les Girls) is a 1957 American CinemaScope musical comedy film directed by George Cukor and produced by Sol C. Siegel, with Saul Chaplin as associate producer. The screenplay by John Patrick and story by Vera Caspary. The music and lyrics were by Cole Porter.