myLot Discussions | | Songs Of The Century | | The list, in the order of votes received. Each song is followed by the name of an artist who made a recording of the song.Title Artist
1. "Over the Rainbow" Judy Garland
2. "White Christmas" Bing Crosby
3. "This Land Is Your Land" Woody Guthrie
4. "Respect" Aretha Franklin
5. "American Pie" Don McLean
6. "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" The Andrews Sisters
7. West Side Story (Album) Original Cast
8. "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" Billy Murray
9. "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" The Righteous Brothers
10. "The Entertainer" Scott Joplin
11. "In the Mood" Glenn Miller Orchestra
12. "Rock Around the Clock" Bill Haley & His Comets
13. "When the Saints Go Marching In" Louis Armstrong
14. "You Are My Sunshine" Jimmie Davis
15. "Mack the Knife" Bobby Darin
16. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" The Rolling Stones
17. "Take the A Train" Duke Ellington Orchestra
18. "Blueberry Hill" Fats Domino
19. "God Bless America " Kate Smith
20. "Stars and Stripes Forever" Sousa's Band
21. "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" Marvin Gaye
22. "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay" Otis Redding
23. "I Left My Heart In San Francisco " Tony Bennett
24. "Good Vibrations"... | |
| | Author: Charles classic a gospel remake | | 04/19/2007 7:40 PM, AP
John Gerome
You say you've never heard the Southern Tones' gospel song "It Must Be Jesus"?Think again.
Ray Charles rewrote the lyrics to the tune and put his own twist to it, and it became his 1955 classic, "I Got a Woman"In doing so, the late singer laid the underpinnings of rock 'n' roll, author Peter Guralnick said Thursday."Before `I Got a Woman' there had never been so direct and blatant a transcription of an actual gospel song," said Guralnick, who's written biographies on Elvis Presley and Sam Cooke and several books on American roots music.
Charles' R&B smash was seen as a sacrilege by some, with preachers denouncing it from the pulpit. But Guralnick said it opened the doors for gospel-based soul singers like Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett and the Motown sound.
Guralnick, a visiting professor at Vanderbilt University, discussed the song during a lecture at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, which is currently presenting the exhibit "I Can't Stop Loving You: Ray Charles and Country Music."While Charles is widely regarded an R&B legend, his lengthy legacy also extends into jazz, pop and... | |
| | count our blessings!! | | We made it!! These peopls did not:- Shelley Winters, actressWilson Pickett, soul singerChris Penn, actorCoretta Scott King, civil rights campaigner and widow of Martin Luther KingPeter Benchley, authorDennis Weaver, actorSlobodan Milosevic, former President of YugoslaviaGene Pitney, singerLee Jong-wook, Head of the World Health OrganizationDesmond Dekker, singerAaron Spelling, Television ProducerSyd Barrett, founder member of Pink FloydNaguib Mahfouz, Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian authorPieter Willem Botha, former president of South AfricaJack Palance, actorMilton Friedman, EconomistRobert Altman, film directorAugusto Pinochet, fomer president/dictator of ChileAhmet Ertegun, founder of Atlantic RecordsJoseph Barbera, animatorCaspar Weinberger, former U.S. defense secretaryMickey Spillane, authorRed Buttons, actorJames Brown, singer
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| | Music world lost Rawls, Pickett, others in 2006 | | LOU RAWLS
Velvet-voiced singer and longtime community activist
Lou Rawls, 72, January 6 in Los Angeles. His trademark song "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine," was released in 1976 and exemplifies the classic "Philadelphia Sound." Rawls recorded 52 albums in a career that spanned nearly five decades and won Grammy Awards for hits "Your Good Thing (Is About to End)," "Natural Man" and "Lady Love." He also played a major role in United Negro College Fund telethons in the '80s that raised more than $200 million and appeared in 18 movies and 16 TV series.
WILSON PICKETT
Soul/R&B legend Wilson Pickett, 64, January 19 in Virginia. In 1965, Pickett signed a solo deal with Atlantic, scoring a No. 21 pop hit with "In the Midnight Hour," which he co-wrote with legendary sessions musician Steve Cropper. A slew of late '60s R&B/soul hits followed, five of which reached No. 1 on The Billboard R&B charts. Pickett was a 1991 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. His last studio album, "It's Harder Now," (1999) won W.C. Handy Awards for soul/blues album of the year and comeback album of the year, and Pickett himself was named soul/blues male artist of the year.
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| | Which celebrity death was the biggest in 2006? | | We lost a lot of famous people in the year 2006. Who would you say was the biggest death and why?Steve Irwin, Don Knotts, Dana Reeves, James Brown,Ed Brantley,Coretta Scott King, Jack Palance, Mike Douglas, Wilson Pickett, etc.
While there were several, I think the most shocking was the death of Steve Irwin. He was young, healthy and doing what he loved when he died. Conservation lost a friend when he died. | |
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