The Stones___ their first___, Come On, a song by the singer Chuck Berry, and___ it on 7 June, 1963. They never performed it when they___ because it wasn't their song. But their fans found out about the record, and so many people bought it that it___ in the UK and went ...
The Christmas song was written in 1951 by Meredith Willson, who also wrote The Music Man. Originally the title was originally titled “It’s Beginning to Look Like Christmas”. The popular belief is the song was written while Willson was staying at the Yarmouth’s Grand Hotel in Yarmouth, ...
When it comes tomusic plagiarism, the topic is more controversial than you might expect. Although there are many examples oflegitimate borrowing in music(also known as sampling), when disputes arise about who really wrote a song the process of attribution becomes much more complicated. For years,...
"Satisfaction" was rock of the Stones' own bold design — although Richards may also have been dreaming of Chuck Berry that night in Clearwater. Jagger later suggested that Richards unconsciously got the hook for "Satisfaction" from a line in Berry's 1955 single "30 Days" ("I don...
which prompted Paul to exclaim, “Yeah...or should I say 'No.'” Another version started off at a very rapid pace and developed into a medley with “Little Demon” by Screamin' Jay Hawkins and three Chuck Berry songs, namely “Maybelene,”“You Can't Catch Me” and “Brown Eyed Hand...
I eliminated the obvious choice–“Surfin’ USA”–because Brian Wilson freely admits basing the song on Chuck Berry’s “Sweet Little Sixteen” (Berry even shares songwriting credit) andBrian Wilson is an original. “Catch a Wave,” written by Wilson and Mike Love, is off the 1963 albumSur...
In his traditional high-energy blues style, Chuck Berry screams a harrowing story of terror about an unscheduled train and a panicked foreman trying to clear the rails of workers before its imminent arrival! “Engineer blows the whistle loud and long ...
8. “Great Day”- Paul wrote this album-closer in the early 70’s, and it’s eerie how well he recaptures his sound from that era, right down to Linda’s backing vocals. On an album that looks back as much as ahead, it makes for the right kind of send-off. ...
25 pm of this broadcast that evening was "Kaiser-Walzer" byJohann Strauss II. Therefore, notwithstanding references to Beethoven and Tchaikovsky in the Chuck Berry classic from the "With The Beatles" album back in 1963, it was actually the classical composer Strauss that inspired George to write...
Make and Model:This song about a street race that ended in tragedy became the duo’s fourth top 10 hit on the Hot 100 in May 1964 — score one for the Americans amid the British Invasion. The duo’sJanBerry co-wrote the song and produced and arranged the single under Lou Adler’s ...