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"America" was inspired by a five-day road excursion Simon undertook in September 1964 with Chitty. Producer Tom Wilson had called Simon, living in London at the time, back to the United States to finalize mixes and artwork for their debut studio album, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. [3] Simon, reluctant to leave Chitty, invited her to come with him; they spent five days driving the country together ...
Love Beats Rhymes is an American musical drama film directed by RZA. The film stars Azealia Banks as a 25-year-old rapper from Staten Island, New York who wants to pursue a music career. The film also co stars Lorraine Toussaint , Jill Scott , Lucien Laviscount , MC Jin , Hana Mae Lee , John David Washington and Common .
The album was released in June 1983. "The Border", featuring Bunnell's reworked lyrics, strings by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and an energetic saxophone solo by Raphael Ravenscroft, hit number 33 on the Billboard singles chart - what would turn out to be America's last Top 40 pop hit to date. The single fared far better on adult ...
America's best-known song is their 1972 debut single, "A Horse with No Name". It was the lead-off single to their self-titled debut album and became their first number one on the Billboard Hot 100 . The song was also a Top 5 hit in the United Kingdom reaching number three on the UK Singles Chart .
Timothy E. Scheurer, author of Born in the USA: The Myth of America in Popular Music from Colonial Times to the Present (2007), wrote that the album "may remind some of Sly Stone prior to There's a Riot Going On and other African-American artists of the 1970s in its tacit assumption that the world imagined by Dr. King is still possible, that ...
Date (in US) Movie title Song title Artist Writer US charts UK charts Miscellaneous July 21 The High and the Mighty “The High and the Mighty” LeRoy Holmes: music by Dimitri Tiomkin, lyrics by Ned Washington: 9 20 also charted in the US in 1954 by Victor Young, # 8, Les Baxter #6 and Johnny Desmond # 28
Release Date Album "Crank That" September 16, 2008 You Can't Spell Slaughter Without Laughter "Sex Ed Rocks" November 21, 2008 Non-album single "Things That Rhyme with Orange" July 22, 2009 You Can't Spell Slaughter Without Laughter "Four Years Foreplay" September 17, 2009 Non-album single "Excite Dyke" June 15, 2010 Astral Rejection
[5] [6] On May 20, 2024, it was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), becoming Pavement's first certified release. [7] [8] By the time of being certified Gold, the song had 148 million streams on Spotify. [8] By contrast, "Cut Your Hair," the band's second-most popular song on Spotify, had 42 million streams. [8]