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Peters describes "History of Man" as "Jo March coded," as Jo March's character in Little Woman made a lot of the same points the song makes, specifically during her monologue on the complexities of women where she says, "Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as ...
Coven signed with Mercury Records and released their debut album, Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls in 1969. The music on the album was considered underground rock; what made it distinctive was the heavy emphasis on diabolical subject matter, including songs such as "The White Witch of Rose Hall" (based on the story of Annie Palmer), "For ...
The album marked the first appearance in music of the sign of the horns, inverted crosses, and the phrase "Hail Satan". Today, these are characteristics of the heavy metal genres. [ 4 ] According to rock journalist Lester Bangs , "in England lie unskilled laborers like Black Sabbath , which was hyped as a rockin' ritual celebration of the ...
The idea for the song came from a marital situation that Darryl Carter knew of where the wife was about to "tip out" on an unresponsive husband. [1] Carter and Linda Womack (the daughter of Sam Cooke and one-time stepdaughter of Bobby who later married Bobby's brother, Cecil) originally wrote the song with Jackie Wilson in mind.
The three songs were all released between late 1969 and late 1970. [4] Follow-up efforts such as 1971's "Stop the World and Let Me Off" were not as successful. After changing their name to "Mind, Body and Soul," they spent the rest of the 1970s playing the Detroit bar circuit. The band was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame in 1999. [5]
The song went to number 3 on Cash Box and number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1968. [4] The band recorded the song in August 1967, [5] and it was released as their debut single in September. It was certified as a million-selling Gold disc in February 1968. [6] The B-side was a cover of the Tim Hardin song "Don't Make Promises."
Cash Box said that the song is "a rousing, soulful tune with a driving R&B feel". [5] Billboard said it has "two varieties of charisma plus a furious funk production". [6] Spin wrote, "That this hard-driving feminist anthem works so wonderfully for both women is a testament to the talent of Lennox. Any lesser singer would have wilted and died ...
Robin Clark is an American vocalist known for her work as a vocalist on David Bowie's 1975 album Young Americans and Simple Minds' 1985 album Once Upon a Time. Clark was born in New York. In 1967, when Clark was 17, she and future singer and songwriter Luther Vandross worked together after school in the stockroom at Alexander's department store ...