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It is an upbeat Chicago-style shuffle featuring James' amplified slide guitar and vocal. He recorded it in 1960 for Chess Records, during a session that also produced "Talk to Me Baby" ("I Can't Hold Out") and "The Sun Is Shining", a follow-up to his popular single "The Sky Is Crying". [1]
I remember standing in the wings waiting to go on; my knees were shaking. We were nervous, man! I’ll never forget, Dr. Jive said, ‘Here are your five young men from New York City that have a big record around town of ‘Castle In The Sky.’ Let’s welcome the Holiday recording stars, The Bop Chords!’
"The Sky Is Crying" is identified as a blues standard [8] and in 1991, James' original was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in the "Classics of Blues Recordings" category. [9] Record producer Bobby Robinson noted that the song is "a magnificent vehicle both for Elmore's emotion-packed blues vocal and his ringing slide guitar". [9]
Following is a list of popular music songs which feature a chord progression commonly known as Andalusian cadences.. Items in the list are sorted alphabetically by the band or artist's name.
It was written by James Keyes, Claude Feaster, Carl Feaster, Floyd F. McRae, and William Edwards, members of the Chords, and was released in 1954. It is sometimes considered the first doo-wop or rock and roll record to reach the top ten on the pop charts (as opposed to the R&B charts), as it was a top-10 hit that year for both the Chords (who ...
In the Middle Ages, simultaneous notes a fourth apart were heard as a consonance.During the common practice period (between about 1600 and 1900), this interval came to be heard either as a dissonance (when appearing as a suspension requiring resolution in the voice leading) or as a consonance (when the root of the chord appears in parts higher than the fifth of the chord).
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In jazz music, on the other hand, such chords are extremely common, and in this setting the mystic chord can be viewed simply as a C 13 ♯ 11 chord with the fifth omitted. In the score to the right is an example of a Duke Ellington composition that uses a different voicing of this chord at the end of the second bar, played on E (E 13 ♯ 11 ).