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Gaspee Affair
Part of the events in the lead-up to the American Revolutionary War

Burning of HMS Gaspee
Date
June 9, 1772
Location
Near Gaspee Point, Warwick, Rhode Island
Result
American victory
Belligerents
Sons of Liberty Kingdom of Great Britain
Commanders and leaders
Abraham Whipple
John Brown William Dudingston +
Casualties and losses
None HMS Gaspee captured and burned
The Gaspee Affair was a significant event in the lead-up to the American Revolution. HMS Gaspee[1] was a British customs schooner that had been enforcing the Navigation Acts in and around Newport, Rhode Island, in 1772. It ran aground in shallow water while chasing the packet ship Hannah on June 9 near what is now known as Gaspee Point in Warwick, Rhode Island. A group of men led by Abraham Whipple and John Brown attacked, boarded, and torched the ship.[2]
The event increased hostilities between the American colonists and British officials, following the Boston Massacre in 1770. British officials in Rhode Island wanted to increase their control over the trade that had defined the small colony—legitimate trade as well as smuggling—in order to increase their revenue from the colony.[3] But Colonists increasingly protested the Stamp Act, the Townshend Acts, and other British impositions that had clashed with the colony's history of rum manufacturing, maritime trade, and slave trading.
This event and others in Narragansett Bay marked the first acts of violent uprising against the British crown's authority in America, preceding the Boston Tea Party by more than a year and moving the Colonies as a whole toward the war for independence.
Contents
1 Background
2 The incident
3 Aftermath and legacy
4 See also
5 Notes
6 Further reading
7 External links
Background[edit]
The customs service had a history of strong resistance in the Thirteen Colonies in the eighteenth century. Britain was at war during much of this period and was not in a strategic position to risk antagonizing its overseas colonies. Several successive ministries implemented new policies following Britain's victory in the Seven Years' War in an attempt to increase control within the colonies and to recoup the cost of the war from them. To that end, the Admiralty purchased six Marblehead sloops and schooners and gave them Anglicized French names based on their recent acquisitions in Canada, removing the French accents from St John, St Lawrence, Chaleur, Hope, Magdalen, and Gaspee.[4][page needed]
Parliament argued that the revenue was necessary in order to bolster military and naval defensive positions along the borders of their far-flung empire—but also to pay the debt which England had incurred in pursuing the war against France. These changes included deputizing the Royal Navy's sea officers to enforce customs laws in American ports.[5] The enforcements became increasingly intrusive and aggressive in Narragansett Bay; Rhode Islanders finally responded by attacking HMS St John in 1764, and they burned the customs ship HMS Liberty in 1768 on Goat Island in Newport harbor.[6]
In early 1772, Lieutenant William Dudingston sailed HMS Gaspee into Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay to force customs collection and mandatory inspection of cargo. He arrived in Rhode Island in February and met with Governor Joseph Wanton.[7] Soon after he began patrolling Narragansett Bay, Gaspee stopped and inspected the sloop Fortune on February 17 and seized 12 hogsheads of undeclared rum.[8] Dudingston sent Fortune and the seized rum to Boston, believing that any seized items left in a Rhode Island port would be reclaimed by the colonists.[9]
But this overbold move of sending Fortune to Boston brought outrage within the Rhode Island colony, because Dudingston had taken upon himself the authority to determine where trial should take place concerning this seizure, completely superseding the authority of Governor Wanton by doing so. Furthermore, it was a direct violation of the Rhode Island Royal Charter of 1663 to hold a trial outside of Rhode Island on an arrest that took place within the Colony.[10]
After this, Dudingston and his crew became increasingly aggressive in their searches, boardings, and seizures, even going so far as to stop merchants who were on shore and force searches of their wares. Public resentment and outrage continued to escalate against Gaspee in particular and against the British in general. On March 21, Rhode Island Deputy Governor Darius Sessions wrote to Governor Wanton regarding Lieutenant Dudingston, and he requested that the basis of Dudingston's authority be examined. In the letter, Sessions includes the opinion of Chief Justice Stephen Hopkins, who argues that "no commander of any vessel has any right to use any authority in the Body of the Colony without previously applying to the Governor and showing his warrant for so doing."[11] Wanton wrote to Dudingston the next day, demanding that he "produce me your commission and instructions, if any you have, which was your duty to have done when you first came within the jurisdiction of this Colony."[12] Dudingston returned a rude reply to the Governor, refusing to leave his ship or to acknowledge Wanton's elected authority within Rhode Island.
The incident[edit]
From an old engraving
On June 9, Gaspee gave chase to the packet ship Hannah, but Gaspee ran aground in shallow water on the northwestern side of the bay on what is now Gaspee Point. Her crew were unable to free her, although the rising tide might have allowed the ship to free herself; before that could happen, however, a band of Providence men led by John Brown decided to act on the "opportunity offered of putting an end to the trouble and vexation she daily caused."[13][14][15] They rowed out to the ship and boarded her at the break of dawn on June 10. The crew put up a feeble resistance in which Lieutenant Dudingston was shot and wounded, and the Providence men burned the ship to the waterline. Joseph Bucklin was the man who shot Lt. Dudingston;[16] other men who participated included Brown's brother Joseph of Providence, Simeon Potter of Bristol, and Robert Wickes of Warwick.[17][page needed] Most of the men involved were also members of the Sons of Liberty.
Previous attacks by the colonists on British naval vessels had gone unpunished. In one case, a customs yacht was actually destroyed by fire with no administrative response.[18] But in 1772, the Admiralty would not ignore the destruction of one of its military vessels on station. The American Department consulted the Solicitor and Attorneys General, who investigated and advised the Privy Council on the legal and constitutional options available. The Crown turned to a centuries-old institution of investigation: the Royal Commission of Inquiry, made up of the chiefs of the supreme courts of Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey, the judge of the vice-admiralty of Boston, and Governor Joseph Wanton of Rhode Island.
The Dockyard Act passed in April demanded that anyone suspected of burning British ships should be extradited and tried in England; however, the Gaspee raiders were charged with treason.[19] The task of the commission was to determine which colonists had sufficient evidence against them to warrant shipping them to England for trial. The Commission was unable to obtain sufficient evidence and declared their inability to deal with the case.
Nonetheless, colonial Whigs were alarmed at the prospect of Americans being sent to England for trial, and a committee of correspondence was formed in Boston to consult on the crisis. In Virginia, the House of Burgesses was so alarmed that they also formed an inter-colonial committee of correspondence to consult with similar committees throughout the Thirteen Colonies. The Rev. John Allen preached a sermon at the Second Baptist Church in Boston which utilized the Gaspee affair to warn listeners about greedy monarchs, corrupt judges, and conspiracies in the London government. This sermon was printed seven different times in four colonial cities, becoming one of the most popular pamphlets of Colonial America.[20] This pamphlet and editorials by numerous colonial newspaper editors awoke colonial Whigs from a lull of inactivity in 1772, thus inaugurating a series of conflicts that culminated in the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
Aftermath and legacy[edit]
The British called for the apprehension and trial of the people responsible for shooting Dudingston and destroying the Gaspee. Rhode Island Governor Wanton and Deputy Governor Sessions echoed those British sentiments, though they lacked enthusiasm for punishing their fellow Rhode Islanders.[21] A British midshipman from Gaspee described the attackers as "merchants and masters of vessels, who were at my bureau reading and examining my papers."[22] Admiral Montagu wrote to Governor Wanton on July 8, nearly a month after the burning of the schooner, and utilized the account of Aaron Briggs, an indentured servant claiming to have participated in the June 9 burning. Montagu identified five Rhode Islanders, in varying levels of detail, whom he wanted Governor Wanton to investigate and bring to justice: John Brown, Joseph Brown, Simeon Potter, Dr. Weeks, and Richmond.[23]
Governor Wanton responded to this demand by examining the claims made by Aaron Briggs. Samuel Tompkins and Samuel Thurston, the proprietors of the Prudence Island farm where Briggs worked, gave testimony challenging his account of June 9. Both men stated that Briggs had been present at work the evening of June 9 and early in the morning on June 10. Additionally, Wanton received further evidence from two other indentured servants working with Briggs, and both stated that Briggs had been present throughout the night in question. Thus, Wanton believed that Briggs was no more than an imposter. Dudingston and Montagu challenged Wanton's assertions, Montagu saying that "it is clear to me from many corroborating circumstances, that he is no imposter."[24]
The city of Warwick, Rhode Island commemorates the Gaspee affair each year with Gaspee Days.[25] This festival includes arts and crafts and races, but the highlight is the Gaspee Days parade, which features burning the Gaspee in effigy and a Revolutionary War battle reenactment, among other entertainments.
Gaspee Point is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. There is also a plaque in the front of a parking lot on South Main Street in Providence, Rhode Island identifying the location of the Sabin Tavern, where the plot was planned to burn the Gaspee.
See also[edit]
Historiography of the Gaspee Affair
HMS Diana
Caroline affair
Notes[edit]
Jump up ^ Bartlett: Destruction of the Gaspee – "His Britannic Majesty's Schooner Gaspee." Accessed June 9, 2009.
Jump up ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on January 5, 2009. Retrieved May 27, 2009. This version of the story is told by Ephraim Bowen and John Mawney in William R. Staples The Documentary History of the Destruction of the Gaspee. The only other testimony from a contemporary is that of Aaron Biggs (sometimes Briggs), an escaped slave who told a slightly different version of the story. His telling of the events was later discredited, however, when it was found that it had been given under duress. (Bartlett, John Russell. A History of the Destruction of His Britannic Majesty's Schooner Gaspee, In Narragansett Bay, On the 10th of June 1772 (Providence, RI.: A. Crawford Greene, 1861), pp. 84–87). We also have testimony from the crew and officers of the Gaspee, who reported a larger number of attackers and more boats.
Jump up ^ Staples, William (1845). The Documentary History of the Destruction of the Gaspee. Providence: Knowles, Vose, and Anthony. p. 3.
Jump up ^ Bartlett, John Russell (1861). A History of the Destruction of His Britannic Majesty's Schooner Gaspee, in Narragansett Bay, on the 10th June, 1772: Accompanied by the Correspondence Connected Therewith; the Action of the General Assembly of Rhode Island Thereon, and the Official Journal of the Proceedings of the Commission of Inquiry, on the Same. A. C. Greene, printer to the state. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
Jump up ^ See Barrow, Thomas C. Trade and Empire: The British Customs Service in Colonial America, 1660–1775 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967) especially page 177. See also Gipson, Lawrence Henry, The British Empire Before the American Revolution, Vol. XII The Triumphant Empire: Britain Sails into the Storm, 1770–1776. (New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1965) especially page 26 footnote 79.
Jump up ^ Warships of the world to 1900, Volume 799, Ships of the World Series:Warships of the World to 1900, Lincoln P. Paine (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000) pg. 95 [1]
Jump up ^ Lovejoy, David S. (1958). Rhode Island Politics and the American Revolution, 1760-1776. Providence: Brown University Press. pp. 157. Governor Wanton and Lieutenant Dudingston discussed the 1769 burning of the Liberty in their first meeting. In the burning, Rhode Islanders destroyed and set fire to the British vessel in Newport, allowing the ships to escape that had been seized by the Liberty. Wanton implied that Dudingston might find the same troubles years later, which prompted Dudingston to send the Fortune to Boston.
Jump up ^ Staples (1845), p. 7.
Jump up ^ Staples (1845), p. 6.
Jump up ^ Samuel Greene Arnold, History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Vol. 2, New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1859.
Jump up ^ Staples (1845), p. 3.
Jump up ^ Staples (1845), p. 4.
Jump up ^ Staples (1845), p. 8.
Jump up ^ This version of the story is told by Ephraim Bowen and John Mawney in Staples (1845), pp. 14–16. These men made these statements in 1826 relying on their memories from 67 years earlier.
Jump up ^ Arthur M Schlesinger, Sr. "Political Mobs and the American Revolution, 1765-1776," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 90:4 (1955), 245.
Jump up ^ "Joseph Bucklin V Biography". Joseph Bucklin Society. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
Jump up ^ Staples (1845)
Jump up ^ Staples (1845), p. xxxii
Jump up ^ Edward Thurlow and Alexander Wedderburn (the Attorney and Solicitor General) wrote to the Earl of Hillsborough on August 10, 1772 dismissing the Dockyard Act and demanding the charge of high treason instead for levying war against the King. National Archives (Public Record Office, United Kingdom) CO (Colonial Office Records) 5 159 folder 26.
Jump up ^ G. Jack Gravelee and James R. Irvine, eds. Pamphlets and the American Revolution: Rhetoric, Politics, Literature, and the Popular Press (Delmare, NY: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1976), viii.
Jump up ^ Staples (1845), p. 16.
Jump up ^ Staples (1845), p. 14.
Jump up ^ Staples (1845), p. 17.
Jump up ^ Staples (1845), pp. 17–20.
Jump up ^ "Gaspee Days Committee".
Further reading[edit]
Steven Park (2016). The Burning of His Majesty's Schooner Gaspee: An Attack on Crown Rule Before the American Revolution. Westholme Publishing;. ISBN 978-1594162671.
External links[edit]
The Gaspee Virtual Archives
A History of the Destruction of His Britannic Majesty's Schooner Gaspee by John Russell Bartlett, at The Gaspee Virtual Archives
Doing Research on the Gaspee Affair: Primary and Secondary Bibliographic Sources
"Gaspee, The". Encyclopedia Americana. 1920.
The Quest for the Gaspee 2003 - NOAA
gaspee.info, website of the Joseph Bucklin Society.
Podcast description of the Gaspee Affair
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The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera, created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. It first aired on March 26, 1973. The longest-running current cast member is Doug Davidson, who has portrayed private investigator Paul Williams since May 23, 1978.[1] Jeanne Cooper, who portrayed the soap opera's matriarch Katherine Chancellor, holds the record for the series' longest-running cast member, airing from November 1973 until her death in May 2013.[2] Melody Thomas Scott and Eric Braeden, who portray Nikki and Victor Newman, are the second and third longest-running cast members, having joined in February 1979 and February 1980, respectively.[1][3] Kate Linder has portrayed Esther Valentine since April 1982, and rounds out the series' top four longest-running cast members.[4] The following list is of cast members who are currently on the show: both main and recurring members, as well as those who are debuting, departing or returning from the series.
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1 Cast
1.1 Main cast
1.2 Recurring cast
2 Cast changes
2.1 Departing
3 Previous cast members
4 References and notes
5 External links
Cast
Main cast
Actor
Character
Duration
Peter Bergman
Jack Abbott 1989–
Marco Annicelli 2015
Eric Braeden
Victor Newman 1980–
Sharon Case
Sharon Newman 1994–
Brooks Darnell
Nate Hastings 2018–
Doug Davidson
Paul Williams 1978–
Eileen Davidson
Ashley Abbott 1982–88, 1999–
Cait Fairbanks
Tessa Porter 2017–
Noah Alexander Gerry
Charlie Ashby 2017–
Daniel Goddard
Cane Ashby 2007–
Caleb Atkinson 2011
Camryn Grimes
Cassie Newman 1997–2007, 2009–10, 2013–14
Mariah Copeland 2014–
Amelia Heinle
Victoria Newman 2005–
Bryton James
Devon Hamilton 2004–
Christel Khalil
Lily Ashby 2002–05, 2006–
Hunter King
Summer Newman 2012–16, 2018–
Christian LeBlanc
Michael Baldwin 1991–93, 1997–
Kate Linder
Esther Valentine 1982–
Michael Mealor
Kyle Abbott 2018–
Mishael Morgan
Hilary Hamilton 2013–
Joshua Morrow
Nicholas Newman 1994–
Melissa Ordway
Abby Newman 2013–
Melody Thomas Scott
Nikki Newman 1979–
Kristoff St. John
Neil Winters 1991–
Lexie Stevenson
Mattie Ashby 2017–
Jason Thompson
Billy Abbott 2016–
Gina Tognoni
Phyllis Summers 2014–
Recurring cast
Actor
Character
Duration
Marla Adams
Dina Abbott Mergeron 1983–86, 1991, 1996, 2008, 2017–
Catherine Bach
Anita Lawson 2012–
Lauralee Bell
Christine Blair Williams 1983–2006, 2010–
Tracey E. Bregman
Lauren Fenmore Baldwin 1983–95, 2000–
Sarah Smythe 2010
Jason Canela
Arturo Rosales 2018–
Judith Chapman
Jill Foster Abbott 1994
Gloria Abbott Bardwell 2005–
Angell Conwell
Leslie Michaelson 2010–
Jerry Douglas
John Abbott 1982–2013, 2015–
Alistair Wallingford 2008
Margarita Franco
Mrs. Martinez 2016–
Robert Gant
David Sherman 2013–
Shanica Knowles
Simone 2018–
Kelly Kruger
Mackenzie Browning 2002–03, 2018–
Alyvia Alyn Lind
Faith Newman 2011–
Beth Maitland
Traci Abbott 1982–96, 1999, 2001, 2006–
Greg Rikaart
Kevin Fisher 2003–
Tristan Rogers
Colin Atkinson 2010–12, 2014–
Abhi Sinha
Ravi Shapur 2016–
Jess Walton
Jill Atkinson 1987–
Lauren Woodland
Brittany Hodges 2000–05, 2018–
Cast changes
Departing
Actor
Character
Date
Ref.
Eileen Davidson
Ashley Abbott TBA 2018 [5]
Mishael Morgan
Hilary Curtis [6][7]
Previous cast members
Main article: List of previous The Young and the Restless cast members
References and notes
^ Jump up to: a b The Young and the Restless Weekdays. "The Young and the Restless Cast: Doug Davidson". Cbs.com. Retrieved September 23, 2012.
Jump up ^ The Young and the Restless Weekdays. "The Young and the Restless Cast: Jeanne Cooper". Cbs.com. Retrieved September 23, 2012.
Jump up ^ The Young and the Restless Weekdays (July 20, 2007). "The Young and the Restless Cast: Eric Braeden". Cbs.com. Retrieved September 23, 2012.
Jump up ^ "Show Guide: Cast Bio: Kate Linder". Sony. Archived from the original on January 10, 2012. Retrieved January 6, 2012.
Jump up ^ Jubinville, Mike (June 26, 2018). "Eileen Davidson Quits The Young and the Restless". Daytime Confidential. United States: Confidential Media, Inc. (SAY Media. Archived from the original on June 27, 2018. Retrieved June 26, 2018.
Jump up ^ Bowe, Jillian (June 6, 2018). "Mishael Morgan DEPARTS The Young and the Restless". Daytime Confidential. United States: Confidential Media, Inc. (SAY Media). Retrieved June 6, 2018.
Jump up ^ SOD (June 6, 2018). "Y&R's Mishael Morgan Leaving". Soap Opera Digest. United States: American Media, Inc. Odyssey Magazine Publishing Group Inc. Retrieved June 8, 2018.
External links
Soaps.com – Young and Restless
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William J. Bell
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Mal Young
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Cane Ashby
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Mattie Ashby
Sam Ashby
Lily Winters Ashby
Colin Atkinson
Michael Baldwin
Gloria Abbott Bardwell
Christine Blair
Mackenzie Browning
Mariah Copeland
Hilary Curtis
Lauren Fenmore
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Christian Newman
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Paul Williams
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Genevieve Atkinson
Avery Bailey Clark
Eden Baldwin
Fenmore Baldwin
Jeffrey Bardwell
Isabella Braña
Brad Carlton
Colleen Carlton
Daisy Carter
Sheila Carter
Chance Chancellor
Katherine Chancellor
Joe Clark
Matt Clark
Greg Foster
Dr. Snapper Foster
Sam Gibson
Scotty Grainger
Diego Guittierez
Nathan Hastings
Jana Hawkes
J.T. Hellstrom
Reed Hellstrom
Juliet Helton
Brittany Hodges
Cole Howard
Diane Jenkins
Mamie Johnson
Anita Lawson
Chelsea Lawson
Leanna Love
Ronan Malloy
Dylan McAvoy
Tucker McCall
Ryan McNeil
Tyler Michaelson
Chloe Mitchell
Amber Moore
Adam Newman
Cassie Newman
Connor Newman
Noah Newman
Summer Newman
Cassandra Rawlins
Stitch Rayburn
Gina Roma
Daniel Romalotti
Danny Romalotti
Luca Santori
Deacon Sharpe
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Rex Sterling
Heather Stevens
Grace Turner
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Ricky Williams
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Olivia Winters
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Right Here Waiting
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"Right Here Waiting"
Single by Richard Marx
from the album Repeat Offender
B-side
"Wait for the Sunrise"
Released
June 29, 1989 (1989-06-29)
Format
7-inch single
CD single
cassette
12-inch 45 rpm maxi single
Recorded
December 11, 1988
Studio
Magic Record, Salt Lake City, Utah
Genre
Soft rock[1]
Length
4:24
Label
EMI
Songwriter(s)
Richard Marx
Producer(s)
Richard Marx
David Cole
Richard Marx singles chronology
"Satisfied"
(1989) "Right Here Waiting"
(1989) "Angelia"
(1989)
Music video
"Right Here Waiting" on YouTube
"Right Here Waiting" is a song by American singer and songwriter Richard Marx. It was released in June 29, 1989, as the second single from his second album, Repeat Offender. The song was a global hit, topping charts throughout the world, including the U.S. where it reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100.[2] It was certified Platinum by the RIAA.[3] The song has been covered by many artists, including Monica for her album The Boy Is Mine.
Contents
1 Original version
1.1 Background and writing
1.2 Chart performances
1.3 Track listings
1.4 Charts and sales
1.4.1 Weekly charts
1.4.2 Year-end charts
1.4.3 Certifications
2 Monica cover
2.1 Charts
3 References
4 External links
Original version[edit]
Background and writing[edit]
"Right Here Waiting" was the second single from Repeat Offender, after "Satisfied". Marx wrote the song on the road as a love letter to his wife, the actress Cynthia Rhodes, who was in South Africa shooting on a film.[4] The track was arranged by Marx with Jeffery (C.J.) Vanston to feature none of the heavy drums and synthesizers popular at the time, with Marx's vocal accompanied only by classical guitar (by Bruce Gaitsch) and keyboards (by Vanston). It is one of Marx's most frequently covered compositions.
Chart performances[edit]
"Right Here Waiting" entered the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart at number 44 in the week of July 8, 1989, and became Marx's third consecutive number one single on August 12, 1989.[2] Certified Gold on August 21, the record spent three consecutive weeks at number one, replaced by Paula Abdul's "Cold Hearted" in the week of September 2, 1989. The song was Marx's first of several to go to number one on the Hot Adult Contemporary Chart. Certified Platinum on October 16, 1989, "Right Here Waiting" is Marx's best selling single. It is also his most enduring, charting in the top 15 of Billboard's Hot Adult Contemporary Recurrents chart for four years running, from 2000 to 2003, more than ten years after its release. The song also reached #1 on the Radio & Records CHR/Pop Airplay chart on August 4, 1989 staying on the top of the chart for three weeks and remained on the chart for thirteen weeks.[5]
In the United Kingdom, the song was released in September 1989 and peaked at #2.[6]
Track listings[edit]
7" single
"Right Here Waiting" — 4:23
"Wait for the Sunrise" — 4:13
3" single
"Right Here Waiting" — 4:23
"Wait for the Sunrise" — 4:13
"Hold on to the Nights" (live at the Palace Theatre, Los Angeles, CA) — 4:48
CD single
"Right Here Waiting"
"Hold on to the Nights" (live)
"That Was Lulu" (live)
"Wild Life"
Cassette
"Right Here Waiting" — 4:23
"Wait for the Sunrise" — 4:13
"Right Here Waiting" — 4:23
"Wait for the Sunrise" — 4:13
Charts and sales[edit]
Weekly charts[edit]
Chart (1989–1990)
Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[7] 1
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[8] 19
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[9] 3
Canada (The Record)[10] 1
Canada Top Singles (RPM) 1
France (SNEP)[11] 19
Germany (Official German Charts)[12] 12
Ireland (IRMA)[13] 1
Italy (FIMI)[14] 48
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[15] 3
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[16] 1
Norway (VG-lista)[17] 4
Spain (AFYVE)[18] 17
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[19] 7
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[20] 6
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[21] 2
US Billboard Hot 100[22] 1
US Radio & Records CHR/Pop Airplay Chart[5][23] 1
US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)[24] 1
Chart (2000)
Peak
position
US Adult Contemporary Recurrents (Billboard)[25] 10
Year-end charts[edit]
Chart (1989)
Rank
Australia (ARIA)[26] 14
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[27] 2
New Zealand [28] 35
UK [29] 30
US Billboard Hot 100 11
Certifications[edit]
Country
Certification
Date
Sales certified
Canada[30] Gold September 27, 1989 50,000
UK[31] Silver September 1, 1989 200,000
U.S.[3] Platinum October 16, 1989 1,000,000
Monica cover[edit]
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"Right Here Waiting"
Single by Monica featuring 112
from the album The Boy is Mine
Released
December 14, 1999 (1999-12-14) (R&B radio)
Format
7-inch single
Recorded
1998
Genre
R&B
Length
4:29
Label
Arista
Songwriter(s)
Richard Marx, Bruce Gaitsch
Producer(s)
David Foster
Monica singles chronology
"Gone Be Fine"
(1999) "Right Here Waiting"
(1999) "I've Got to Have It"
(2000)
"Right Here Waiting" was covered by the American R&B artist Monica. It was only released in the United States in December 1999 as the seventh and final single from her second studio album, The Boy Is Mine, and features the R&B band 112. No music video was made for the song.
Charts[edit]
Chart (1999)
Peak
position
US Billboard Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles 1
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Jon O'Brien (November 1, 2010). "Stories to Tell - Richard Marx". AllMusic. Retrieved June 23, 2014.
^ Jump up to: a b Billboard Allmusic.com (Retrieved September 8, 2008)
^ Jump up to: a b U.S. certifications riaa.com (Retrieved September 8, 2008)
Jump up ^ "Right Here Waiting by Richard Marx Songfacts".
^ Jump up to: a b "Right here waiting".
Jump up ^ "Right Here Waiting", UK Singles Chart Chartstats.com (Retrieved September 8, 2008)
Jump up ^ "Australian-charts.com – Richard Marx – Right Here Waiting". ARIA Top 50 Singles.
Jump up ^ "Austriancharts.at – Richard Marx – Right Here Waiting" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40.
Jump up ^ "Ultratop.be – Richard Marx – Right Here Waiting" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50.
Jump up ^ [ Nanda Lwin (1999). Top 40 Hits: The Essential Chart Guide. Music Data Canada. ISBN 1-896594-13-1.
Jump up ^ "Lescharts.com – Richard Marx – Right Here Waiting" (in French). Les classement single.
Jump up ^ "Musicline.de – Richard Marx Single-Chartverfolgung" (in German). Media Control Charts. PhonoNet GmbH.
Jump up ^ Irish Single Chart Irishcharts.ie Archived 2009-06-03 at WebCite (Retrieved February 15, 2008)
Jump up ^ "Hit Parade Italia - Indice per Interprete: M".
Jump up ^ "Nederlandse Top 40 – Richard Marx" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40.
Jump up ^ "Charts.nz – Richard Marx – Right Here Waiting". Top 40 Singles.
Jump up ^ "Norwegiancharts.com – Richard Marx – Right Here Waiting". VG-lista.
Jump up ^ Salaverri, Fernando (September 2005). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (1st ed.). Spain: Fundación Autor-SGAE. ISBN 84-8048-639-2.
Jump up ^ "Swedishcharts.com – Richard Marx – Right Here Waiting". Singles Top 100.
Jump up ^ "Swisscharts.com – Richard Marx – Right Here Waiting". Swiss Singles Chart.
Jump up ^ "Richard Marx: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved April 23, 2017.
Jump up ^ "Richard Marx Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved April 23, 2017.
Jump up ^ "Richard Marx".
Jump up ^ "Richard Marx Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard. Retrieved April 23, 2017.
Jump up ^ "Richard Marx chart history for Adult Contemporary Recurrents". Billboard. Retrieved May 30, 2017.
Jump up ^ 1989 Australian Singles Chart aria.com Archived June 11, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. (Retrieved September 8, 2008)
Jump up ^ "Top Singles - Volume 51, No. 8, December 23, 1989". RPM. December 23, 1999. Archived from the original on September 7, 2017. Retrieved November 22, 2017.
Jump up ^ Official New Zealand Music Charts - End Of Year Chart 1989
Jump up ^ "Year-End Charts '89 – Top 100 Singles". Music Week. London, England: Spotlight Publications. 3 March 1990. p. 16.
Jump up ^ Canada certifications cria.ca Archived May 1, 2010, at the Wayback Machine. (Retrieved September 8, 2008)
Jump up ^ UK certifications Bpi.co.uk (Retrieved September 8, 2008)
External links[edit]
Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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"Don't Mean Nothing"
"Should've Known Better"
"Endless Summer Nights"
"Hold On to the Nights"
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"Right Here Waiting"
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"Nothin' You Can Do About It"
"Too Late to Say Goodbye"
"Children of the Night"
"Keep Coming Back"
"Hazard"
"Take This Heart"
"Chains Around My Heart"
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"Silent Scream"
"The Way She Loves Me"
"Nothing Left Behind Us"
"Until I Find You Again"
"At the Beginning"
"Days in Avalon"
"Straight from My Heart"
"When You're Gone"
"Nothing Left To Say"
"Ready to Fly"
"Everybody"
"When You Loved Me"
"When Love Is All You've Got"
"Christmas Spirit"
"Wouldn't Let Me Love You"
"Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"
"The Little Drummer Boy"
"Christmas Mornings"
"O Holy Night"
"Just Go"
"Whatever We Started"
"Beautiful Goodbye"
"Last Thing I Wanted"
"Dance With My Father"
Songs written
"What About Me" (Kenny Rogers, James Ingram, Kim Carnes/1984)
"Crazy" (Kenny Rogers/1985)
"Somebody Took My Love" (Durell Coleman)/1985
"Edge of a Broken Heart" (Vixen/1989)
"Nothing to Hide" (Poco/1989)
"The Best of Me" (Cliff Richard/1989)
"Heart in Pieces" (Tim Feehan/1990)
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Baba O'Riley
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"Baba O'Riley"
Single by The Who
from the album Who's Next
B-side
"My Wife"
Released
23 October 1971 (1971-10-23)[1]
Format
7-inch single
Recorded
May 1971,
Olympic Studios, London, England[2]
Genre
Hard rock[3]
Length
5:08
Label
Polydor
Songwriter(s)
Pete Townshend
Producer(s)
The Who
Associate producer:
Glyn Johns
Executive producers:
Kit Lambert
Chris Stamp
Pete Kameron
The Who singles chronology
"Let's See Action"
(1971) "Baba O'Riley"
(1971) "Behind Blue Eyes"
(1971)
"Let's See Action"
(1971) "Baba O'Riley"
(1971) "Behind Blue Eyes"
(1971)
Who's Next track listing
9 tracks [show]
Side one
"Baba O'Riley"
"Bargain"
"Love Ain't for Keeping"
"My Wife"
"The Song Is Over"
Side two
"Getting in Tune"
"Going Mobile"
"Behind Blue Eyes"
"Won't Get Fooled Again"
"Baba O'Riley" is a song by the English rock band The Who. It is the opening track to the band's studio album Who's Next, and was issued in Europe as a single on 23 October 1971, coupled with "My Wife". It also features as the theme song for CSI: New York.
Roger Daltrey sings most of the song, with Pete Townshend singing the middle eight: "Don't cry/don't raise your eye/it's only teenage wasteland". The song's title is a combination of the names of two of Townshend's philosophical and musical influences, Meher Baba and Terry Riley.
"Baba O'Riley" was included in Time magazine's list of the All-Time 100 Songs, Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time", and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one of the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll.
Contents
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1 Background and composition
2 Recording and release
3 Reception and legacy
4 Personnel
5 Charts
6 References
7 External links
Background and composition[edit]
Townshend originally wrote "Baba O'Riley" for his Lifehouse project, a rock opera that was to be the follow-up to the Who's 1969 opera, Tommy. In Lifehouse, the song would be sung at the beginning by a Scottish farmer named Ray, as he gathers his wife Sally and his two children to begin their exodus to London. When Lifehouse was scrapped, eight of the songs were salvaged and recorded for The Who's 1971 album Who's Next, with "Baba O'Riley" as the lead-off track.
Townshend stated in an interview that "'Baba O'Riley' is about the absolute desolation of teenagers at Woodstock, where audience members were strung out on acid and 20 people had brain damage. The irony was that some listeners took the song to be a teenage celebration: 'Teenage Wasteland, yes! We're all wasted!'"[4]
The "Baba O'Riley" title combines the names of Meher Baba and Terry Riley, two of Townshend's philosophical and musical mentors.[5] The song is often mistakenly called "Teenage Wasteland", after the phrase repeated in the song. "Teenage Wasteland" was in fact a working title for the song in its early incarnations as part of the Lifehouse project, but eventually became the title for a different but related song by Townshend, which is slower and features different lyrics.[6] A demo of "Teenage Wasteland" is featured on Lifehouse Chronicles, a six disc set of music related to the Lifehouse project, and on several Townshend compilations and videos.
The song uses a I-V-IV chord progression and is composed in the key of F major. However, it was recorded using the European "A" which is 446 HZ rather than the standard 440 HZ.[7]
Recording and release[edit]
"Baba O'Riley"'s backing track was derived from the Lifehouse concept, where Townshend wanted to input the vital signs and personality of Meher Baba into a synthesiser, which would then generate music based on that data. When this idea fell through, Townshend instead recorded a Lowrey Berkshire Deluxe TBO-1 organ using its marimba repeat feature as the backing track.[8] This modal approach was inspired by the work of minimalist composer Terry Riley.
The song was derived from a nine-minute demo, which the band reconstructed.[9] "Baba O'Riley" was initially 30 minutes in length, but was edited down to the "high points" of the track for Who's Next.[10] The other parts of the song appeared on the third disc of Townshend's Lifehouse Chronicles as "Baba M1 (O'Riley 1st Movement 1971)" and "Baba M2 (2nd Movement Part 1 1971)".
"Baba O'Riley" was released in November 1971 as a single in several European countries. However, in the United Kingdom and the United States, it was only released as part of the album Who's Next.
Reception and legacy[edit]
The Who performing Baba O'Riley live at Manchester Arena in 2014.
"Baba O'Riley" appears at No. 349 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".[11] The song is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one of the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll.[12] The band Pearl Jam regularly plays a cover of the song during concerts, and a readers' poll in Rolling Stone awarded this cover as #8 in their Greatest Live Cover Songs.[13]
The Tubes performed the song on 9 September 1978 at the Knebworth Festival in tribute to Keith Moon, who had died two days earlier.[14]
"Baba O'Riley" was used as the theme song for the popular television series CSI: NY (2004–13); each CSI series used a Who song as its theme.[15] The song plays in the opening segment of the Miami Vice episode "Out Where the Buses Don't Run" (season two, 1985).[16] One of the working titles of That '70s Show (1998–2006) was "Teenage Wasteland," a reference to the repeated lyric in the song.[17] The song was also used in trailers for A Bug's Life (1998), American Beauty (1999), Resident Evil: Retribution (2012), and The Peanuts Movie (2015).[18] The song has also been used in episode 14 of season one in the TV series House and in episode 10 of season one in the TV series The Newsroom. A remixed version of this song, re-done by Alan Wilkis, appears in the 2012 remake of Need for Speed: Most Wanted, as well as the Family Guy season 13 episode "Quagmire's Mom" and episode 11 of season one of Superstore.
Since 2003, "Baba O'Riley" is played during player introductions for the Los Angeles Lakers during home games at the Staples Center.[19] The song is played prior to live UFC events during a highlight package showing some of the most famous fights in the mixed martial arts company's history.[20] It is also the official theme song of competitive eater Joey Chestnut.[21]
At both the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2012 London Olympics, the track "The Road Goes On Forever" by High Contrast is used during a countdown to the start of the proceedings, this song samples Baba O'Riley with a higher tempo as a 120bpm dance track.[22] Baba O'Riley was then performed by the Who as their first number during the last musical segment at the closing ceremony, with Daltrey singing a changed lyric of "Don't cry/Just raise your eye/There's more than teenage wasteland".[23] The song was also sampled in the song "Best Song Ever" by One Direction. Baba O' Riley is also used as the pregame music at Sanford Stadium and is played approximately 7 minutes before every Georgia home football game.
Personnel[edit]
Roger Daltrey – lead vocals, harmonica (live versions only)
Pete Townshend – lead vocals (middle eight), Lowrey TBO-1 organ,[24] piano, guitar
John Entwistle – bass guitar
Keith Moon – drums
Dave Arbus – violin[25] (studio recording)
Charts[edit]
Chart (1972)
Peak position
Dutch Singles Chart 11[1]
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b "Baba O'Riley". ung Medien / hitparade.ch. Retrieved 28 November 2011.
Jump up ^ Who's Next 1995 Remastered Liner Notes Page 17
Jump up ^ John Atkins (1 February 2000). The Who on Record: A Critical History, 1963-1998. McFarland. p. 158. ISBN 978-0-7864-4097-9.
Jump up ^ Guitar World Vol. 30 No. 9 pg. 76
Jump up ^ The Who: The Ultimate Collection (Media notes). The Who. MCA Records. 2002. p. 12.
Jump up ^ Lifehouse Chronicles box set
Jump up ^ "Baba O’Riley Guitar Lesson – The Who". TheGuitarLesson.com. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
Jump up ^ "Pete's Equipment, Lowrey Berkshire Deluxe TBO-1".
Jump up ^ Who's Next 1995 Remastered Liner Notes Page 17
Jump up ^ "The Hypertext Who " Article Archive — The Who Puts the Bomp (1971)". Thewho.net. Retrieved 4 January 2012.
Jump up ^ "The RS 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". Rolling Stone. 2006-12-09. Archived from the original on 2006-08-15. Retrieved 2009-08-14.
Jump up ^ "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll". Archived from the original on 2008-07-07. Retrieved 2008-07-09.
Jump up ^ "Readers' Poll: The Greatest Live Cover Songs". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2013-09-01.
Jump up ^ "Baba O'Riley / The Kids Are Alright - The Tubes with Todd Rundgren". YouTube. 9 September 1978. Retrieved 16 November 2016.
Jump up ^ Duboff, Josh (2010-02-07). "The Who Performs CSI Medley". New York The song was also used in the Fourth Season of One Tree Hill the song plays in the thirteenth episode "Pictures of You". Retrieved 2013-09-01.
Jump up ^ * Moore, Allen F. (2003). Analyzing Popular Music. Cambridge University Press. p. 67. ISBN 052177120X.
Jump up ^ "DVD Verdict Review - That '70s Show: Season One". Retrieved 18 September 2012.
Jump up ^ "The Peanuts Movie Trailer: An Underdog and His Dog". Slashfilm.com. 2015-06-16. Retrieved 2016-10-03.
Jump up ^ McMenamin, Dave (2010-10-04). "London Called, But Lakers Don't Figure to Be Back Any Time Soon". ESPN. Retrieved 2012-01-04.
Jump up ^ "Q&A with local MMA announcer Ray Flores". Post-Tribune. 2011-08-23. Retrieved 2012-03-09.
Jump up ^ Heilpern, John (July 2011). "The Fastest Mouth on Earth". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2013-09-01.
Jump up ^ "High Contrast’s Olympic Story: Part 3 - Highly Contrasting". highlycontrasting.com.
Jump up ^ "Did Roger Daltrey Forget the Lyrics to "Baba O'Riley"?". CBS News. 13 August 2012. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
Jump up ^ "Lowrey Berkshire Deluxe TBO-1 | Pete Townshend’s Guitar Gear | Whotabs". Thewho.net. Retrieved 2016-10-03.
Jump up ^ "Who's Next - The Who | Credits". AllMusic. 1971-08-14. Retrieved 2016-10-03.
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