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Friedlander suggested it be built around a song already known as The Caisson Song (alternatively The Field Artillery Song or The Caissons Go Rolling Along). The song was thought to perhaps be of Civil War origin, and was unpublished, and its composer believed to be dead. Sousa agreed, changed the harmonic structure, set it in a different key ...
Robert A. Heinlein used the 1908 Caisson Song as the basis for "The Road Song of the Transport Cadets", the official song of the fictional United States Academy of Transport in his 1940 short story "The Roads Must Roll". However, characters in the story refer to the origin as both the "Song of the Caissons" and the "field artillery song." [11]
The Cars North American Tour Spring 2011; R. Road Rage Tour This page was last edited on 2 June 2023, at 23:36 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Robinson co-formed the Cars in 1976, and came up with the Cars' band name [6] and is credited with designing the album covers. [7] Robinson was the only member of the Cars who was a Massachusetts native. He was a member of DMZ when he left to form the Cars. After the breakup of the Cars, Robinson retired from the music industry, and ran a ...
Move Like This is the seventh and final studio album by American rock band the Cars, released on May 10, 2011.It was their first since 1987's Door to Door, and the only one without bassist and vocalist Benjamin Orr, who had died of pancreatic cancer in 2000.
The Cars were an American rock band who recorded 89 songs during their career, of which included 86 originals and 3 covers.Emerging from the new wave scene in the late 1970s, the group consisted of singer, rhythm guitarist, and songwriter Ric Ocasek, bassist and singer Benjamin Orr, lead guitarist Elliot Easton, keyboardist Greg Hawkes, and drummer David Robinson.
It had never been recorded in studio, except as a demo in 1977. They enjoyed the tune so much that the 1987 version of the song made it onto the album. The opening track, "Leave or Stay", also was originally a 1977 demo that was not properly recorded until Door to Door, although they had often played the song live in the band's early days. [3]
"Sad Song" is the lead single by the American rock band the Cars from their 2011 studio album Move Like This, and the second to last single put out in their lifetime, discounting reissues ("Free" would be their last, and did not chart). A brief clip of the track was released in December 2010; [1] the full song was released to radio on March 1 ...