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This song – which strongly resembles Bob Dylan's music in the mid-1960s – was released as the band's first single in 1966 under the name Mouse. [1] Jerry Howell (who was also in Jerry Vee and the Catalinas) [ 4 ] and Ken (Nardo) Murray joined the group shortly thereafter, and most of their remaining music was released under the name Mouse ...
By the early seventies, Jones was a much more nuanced singer than he had been a decade earlier, and "Sometimes You Just Can't Win," which rose to #10 on the charts, was a prime example of how his singing could be, at times, frightening in its intensity. The song, a suicidal lament about unrequited love, begins softly with gently picked mandolin:
Finishing the album in November, under the working title The Magic Hour, Jon flew home and recorded an EP to release before the album. The first single was released in February 2011, called "Santo Domingo" (previously known as " Ham On Rye , named after a Charles Bukowski book") While writing, Jon decided to add a new song to the album and flew ...
"Sometimes You Just Can't Win" 1971 — 10: 7 First in the Hearts of Country Music Lovers "Right Won't Touch a Hand" — 7: 10 "I'll Follow You (Up to Our Cloud)" — 13 — George Jones with Love "We Can Make It" 1972 — 6: 4 George Jones (We Can Make It) "Loving You Could Never Be Better" — 2: 1 "A Picture of Me (Without You)" — 5: 13 A ...
"Sometimes You Just Can't Win," the B-side to the "Get Closer" single, peaked at number 27 on Billboard ' s Hot Country Songs chart. [ 12 ] Ronstadt was nominated in early 1983 for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance Female and Best Rock Vocal Performance Female for the album and the song "Get Closer", losing to Melissa Manchester and ...
The release continued her streak of Top 40 hits with "Get Closer" and "I Knew You When" – a 1965 hit by Billy Joe Royal – while the Jimmy Webb song "Easy For You To Say" was a surprise Top 10 Adult Contemporary hit in the spring of 1983. "Sometimes You Just Can't Win" was picked up by country radio, and made it to number 27 on that listing.
The local radio always have a contest where you call when they play same artist back to back so you can win a prize. Then I learned they had a "now playing" and "up next" feature on their web site.
There was some talk [on NoHomers.net] about the ending—we just did that because [(1)] it's really funny and shocking, (2) we like the lesson of "sometimes, you just can't win"—the whole Frank Grimes episode is a study in frustration and hence Homer has the last laugh and (3) we wanted to show that in real life, being Homer Simpson could be ...