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Calendar Girl (song)
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"Calendar Girl"
Single by Neil Sedaka
B-side
"The Same Old Fool"
Released
December 1960
Genre
Brill Building[1]
Length
2:32[2]
Label
RCA Victor
Songwriter(s)
Neil Sedaka
Howard Greenfield
Neil Sedaka singles chronology
"Run Samson Run"
(1960) "Calendar Girl"
(1960) "Little Devil"
(1961)
"Run Samson Run"
(1960) "Calendar Girl"
(1961) "Little Devil"
(1961)
"Calendar Girl" is a song by Neil Sedaka. The music was composed by Sedaka and the lyrics by Howard Greenfield.[3] Recorded in 1960 and released in 1961, it was a Top-5 hit single for Sedaka, peaking at #4 on the US charts and #1 on the Canadian and Japanese charts.[4][5]
Contents
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1 Background
2 Promotional video
3 Reception
4 Covers
5 Personnel
6 References
Background[edit]
Howard Greenfield got the inspiration for the song title from an old movie listing in TV Guide.[citation needed] Record producer Joe Viglione, writing for AllMusic, describes the song as a G-rated calendar of pin-ups such as Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe,[2] using verbal rather than visual imagery. Each month gives a different reason for the singer's affection for the titular character, and September—"I light the candles at your sweet sixteen"—may be a reference to Sedaka's yet-to-be-released hit "Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen" or just an acknowledgement of his target audience.[2] Other months in the song reference Valentine's Day in February, the Easter Bunny in April, a junior prom in May and June.[2]
Instrumentation on the song was provided by Stan Applebaum and His Orchestra, with Gary Chester on drums.[2][6] Recording of the song required 26 takes over a three-hour period.[citation needed]
The song was released to a 45 rpm single backed with a country-and-western song, "The Same Old Fool". Both songs were also released on a Compact 33 Single, a short-lived format that RCA Victor promoted in the early 1960s.
Promotional video[edit]
A contemporary Scopitone promotional clip for the song was filmed in color. It consists of Neil Sedaka playing the piano and dancing alongside a number of models, on a mock stage made to resemble calendar themes.
Reception[edit]
"Calendar Girl" became Sedaka's sixth hit in two years, but was also his first top-five record.[2] The song peaked at #4 on the US Billboard chart and #1 on the Canadian and Japanese chart in 1961.[7] In New Zealand, the song reached #7.[8] The recording peaked at number 8 in the UK.[9]
Covers[edit]
Petula Clark recorded a French-language cover of this song, Tout Au Long Du Calendrier.
The Swedish group Sven-Ingvars - then called Sven-Ingvars Kvartett - recorded a version of Calendar Girl on their second EP "Pony Time" in 1961.
In 1977, Tina Arena and John Bowles recorded a version for their album "Tiny Tina and Little John".
In 1978, The Beach Boys recorded a version of "Calendar Girl" with Mike Love on lead. This version was never released by The Beach Boys but was lightly modified by Mike Love for his first solo album, Looking Back with Love.[10][11]
In 1978, Purina Cat Chow also did a commercial using a track called "Calendar Cat", which sounds like Neil Sedaka's "Calendar Girl".
In 1991, Mexicana pop band OV7 (then "La onda vaselina"") recorded a version in Spanish were entitled "Calendario de Amor".
In 1998, the Brazilian singer Eliana recorded the song on his sixth studio album, titled "Um Calendário do Amor".[12]
In 2013, Shakey Graves (Alejandro Rose-Garcia) recorded a cover of "Calendar Girl" for his album "Story Of My Life."
The song was featured in the 2016 superhero comedy film Deadpool during a montage of sex scenes between Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) and Vanessa Carlysle (Morena Baccarin).
Personnel[edit]
The personnel on the original recording include Al Caiola, Buck Pizzarelli, Art Ryerson and Bill Suyker on guitar, George Duvivier on bass, Ernie Hayes on piano, Jerome Richardson on sax, and David "Panama" Francis on drums.
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Fontenot, Robert (November 1, 2015). "What is Brill Building Music?". About.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Viglione, Joe. "Neil Sedaka – Calendar Girl: Song Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
Jump up ^ Talevski, Nick (2010). Knocking on heaven's door rock obituaries. London: Omnibus. p. 225. ISBN 9780857121172.
Jump up ^ Shepherd [ed.], John (2003). Continuum encyclopedia of popular music of the world. London: Continuum. p. 669. ISBN 9781847144720. CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link)
Jump up ^ "All-Time Hit Songs Broadcast Music, Inc.". Billboard: 49. 25 January 1964.
Jump up ^ Chester, Katrina. "PARTIAL GARY CHESTER DISCOGRAPHY". The Official Gary Chester Website. Retrieved 5 May 2015.
Jump up ^ History of Rock: Neil Sedaka
Jump up ^ http://www.flavourofnz.co.nz/index.php?qpageID=Lever%20hit%20parades&qyear=1961&qmonth=Mar&qweek=23-Mar-1961#n_view_location
Jump up ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 333. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
Jump up ^ Doe, Andrew Grayham. "VAULTS". Endless Summer Quarterly. Retrieved December 11, 2014.
Jump up ^ http://www.beachboys.com/solosI.html
Jump up ^ http://www.discogs.com/Eliana-Eliana/release/4679099
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Sweet Child o' Mine
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"Sweet Child o' Mine"
1988 US vinyl issue
Single by Guns N' Roses
from the album Appetite for Destruction
B-side
"It's So Easy (Live)" (US)
"Out ta Get Me" (UK)
Released
August 17, 1988 (1988-08-17) (US)
May 29, 1989 (1989-05-29) (UK)
Format
7"
10"
12"
CS
CD
Recorded
1987
Genre
Hard rock
Length
5:56 (album version)
4:59 (single version)
Label
Geffen
Songwriter(s)
Axl Rose
Slash
Izzy Stradlin
Producer(s)
Mike Clink
Guns N' Roses singles chronology
"Welcome to the Jungle"
(1987) "Sweet Child o' Mine"
(1988) "Paradise City"
(1988)
"Welcome to the Jungle"
(1987) "Sweet Child o' Mine"
(1988) "Paradise City"
(1988)
Appetite for Destruction track listing
"Think About You"
(8) "Sweet Child o' Mine"
(9) "You're Crazy"
(10)
Greatest Hits track listing
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(1) "Sweet Child o' Mine"
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"Sweet Child o' Mine" is a song by American rock band Guns N' Roses, appearing on their debut album Appetite for Destruction. Released in August 1988 as the album's third single, the song topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart,[1] becoming the band's first and only number-one single in the U.S. Billboard ranked it as the No. 5 song for 1988.[2] Re-released in 1989, it reached number six on the UK Singles Chart.[3] Guitarist Slash said in 1990, "[The song] turned into a huge hit and now it makes me sick. I mean, I like it, but I hate what it represents."[4]
Contents
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1 Background and composition
2 Music video
3 Reception
4 Australian Crawl controversy
5 Formats and track listing
6 Personnel
7 Charts and certifications
7.1 Weekly charts
8 In Popular Culture
8.1 Certifications
9 See also
10 References
11 External links
Background and composition[edit]
The thing about 'Sweet Child O' Mine,' it was written in five minutes. It was one of those songs, only three chords. You know that guitar lick Slash does at the beginning? It was kinda like a joke because we thought, 'What is this song? It's gonna be nothing, it'll be filler on the record.' And except that vocal-wise, it's very sweet and sincere, Slash was just fuckin' around when he first wrote that lick.
Duff McKagan, 1988[5]
Slash has been quoted as having an initial disdain for the song due to its roots as simply a "string skipping" exercise and a joke at the time.[5] During a jam session at the band's house in the Sunset Strip,[6] drummer Steven Adler and Slash were warming up and Slash began to play a "circus" melody while making faces at Adler. Rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin asked Slash to play it again. Stradlin came up with some chords, Duff McKagan created a bassline and Adler planned a beat. In his autobiography, Slash said "within an hour my guitar exercise had become something else". Meanwhile, lead singer Axl Rose was listening to the musicians upstairs in his room and was inspired to write lyrics, which became complete by the following afternoon.[7] He based it on his girlfriend Erin Everly, and declared that Lynyrd Skynyrd served as an inspiration "to make sure that we'd got that heartfelt feeling".[6] On the next composing session in Burbank, the band added both a bridge and a guitar solo.[7]
When the band recorded demos with producer Spencer Proffer, he suggested adding a breakdown at the song's end. The musicians agreed, but were not sure what to do. Listening to the demo in a loop, Rose started saying to himself, "Where do we go? Where do we go now?" and Proffer suggested that he sing that.[7]
Music video[edit]
The "Sweet Child o' Mine" video depicts the band rehearsing in the Huntington Ballroom at Huntington Beach, surrounded by crew members. All of the band members' girlfriends at the time were shown in the clip: Rose's girlfriend Erin Everly, whose father is Don Everly of The Everly Brothers; McKagan's girlfriend Mandy Brix, from the all-female rock band The Lame Flames; Stradlin's girlfriend Angela Nicoletti; Adler's girlfriend Cheryl Swiderski; and Slash's girlfriend Sally McLaughlin. Stradlin's dog was also featured. The video was extremely successful on MTV, and helped launch the song to success on mainstream radio.
To make "Sweet Child o' Mine" more marketable to MTV and radio stations, the song was cut from 5:56 to 4:59, for the video/radio edit, with much of Slash's solo removed. This drew the ire of the band, including Rose, who commented on it in a 1989 interview with Rolling Stone: "I hate the radio edit of 'Sweet Child O' Mine.' Radio stations said, "Well, your vocals aren't cut." "My favorite part of the song is Slash's slow solo; it's the heaviest part for me. There's no reason for it to be missing except to create more space for commercials, so the radio-station owners can get more advertising dollars. When you get the chopped version of 'Paradise City' or half of 'Sweet Child' and 'Patience' cut, you're getting screwed." The video uses the same edits as the radio version.
A 7-inch vinyl format and cassette single were released. The album version of the song was included on the US single release, while the UK single was the "edit/remix" version. The 12" vinyl format also contained the longer LP version. The b-side to the single is a non-album, live version of "It's So Easy".
On an interview on Eddie Trunk's New York radio show in May 2006, Rose stated that his original concept for the video focused on the theme of drug trafficking. According to Rose, the video was to depict an Asian woman carrying a baby into a foreign land, only to discover at the end that the child was dead and filled with heroin. This concept was rejected by Geffen Records.
There is also an alternative video for "Sweet Child o' Mine" in the same place, but with different shots and filmed in black & white.[8]
Reception[edit]
"Sweet Child o' Mine" placed No. 37 on Guitar World's list of the "100 Greatest Guitar Solos." It also came in at number three on Blender's 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born, and at No. 198 on Rolling Stone's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[9] In March 2005, Q magazine placed it at No. 6 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks. On a 2004 Total Guitar magazine poll, the introduction's famous riff was voted number-one riff of all-time by the readers of the magazine.[10] It was also in Rolling Stone's 40 Greatest Songs that Changed the World. It places No. 7 in VH1's "100 Greatest Songs of the '80s", and placed No. 210 on the RIAA Songs of the Century list.
The song is currently ranked as the 104th greatest song of all time, as well as the best song of 1987, by Acclaimed Music.[11] The song has sold 2,609,000 digital copies in the US as of March 2012.[12]
Australian Crawl controversy[edit]
In 2015, the web page of the Australian music TV channel MAX published an article by music writer Nathan Jolly that noted similarities between "Sweet Child o' Mine" and the song "Unpublished Critics" by the Australian band Australian Crawl, from 1981.[13] The article included both songs, inviting readers to compare the two. It also cited a reader's comment on an earlier article[14] that had originally drawn attention to the similarities between the songs. As of May 2015, this comment no longer appeared on the earlier article. The story went viral[15] quickly, encouraging several comments on both the MAX article and the suggestion that "Unpublished Critics" had influenced "Sweet Child o' Mine",[16][17][18][19] including one from Duff McKagan, bass player with Guns N' Roses when "Sweet Child o' Mine" was written and recorded.[20] McKagan found the similarities between the songs "stunning," but admitted that he had not previously heard "Unpublished Critics."[21]
Formats and track listing[edit]
All tracks written by Guns N' Roses except where noted.
US 7" vinyl (27963-7)
No.
Title
Length
1. "Sweet Child o' Mine" (LP Version) 5:55
2. "It's So Easy" (Live at The Marquee Club 06.28.1987)
UK 7" vinyl (GEF 43)
No.
Title
Length
1. "Sweet Child o' Mine" (Remix/Edit) 3:57
2. "Out Ta Get Me" (LP Version) 4:20
Total length: 8:17
UK 10" vinyl (GEF 43TE), 12" vinyl (GEF 43T), 12" vinyl Metallic Sleeve(GEF 43TV)
No.
Title
Length
1. "Sweet Child o' Mine" (LP Version) 5:55
2. "Out Ta Get Me" (LP Version) 4:20
3. "Rocket Queen" (LP Version)
UK re-release 7" vinyl (GEF 55)
No.
Title
Length
1. "Sweet Child o' Mine" (Remix/Edit) 3:57
2. "Out Ta Get Me" (LP Version) 4:20
UK re-release 12" vinyl (GEF 55T), 3" CD (GEF 55CD)
No.
Title
Writer(s)
Length
1. "Sweet Child o' Mine" (LP Version) 5:55
2. "Move to the City" (LP Version) Guns N' Roses, Del James, Chris Weber
3. "Whole Lotta Rosie" (Live AC/DC Cover) Angus Young, Malcolm Young, Bon Scott
4. "It's So Easy" (Live) Guns N' Roses, West Arkeen
Personnel[edit]
Axl Rose – vocals
Slash – lead guitar
Izzy Stradlin – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Duff "Rose" McKagan – bass guitar, backing vocals
Steven Adler – drums
Charts and certifications[edit]
Weekly charts[edit]
Chart (1988–1989)
Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[22]
11
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[23]
11
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[24]
36
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[25]
7
Finland (The Official Finnish Charts)[26]
23
Ireland (IRMA)[27]
4
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[28]
5
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[29]
20
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[30]
30
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[31]
27
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[32]
15
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[33]
6
UK Rock and Metal (Official Charts Company)[34]
1
US Billboard Hot 100[35]
1
US Mainstream Rock (Billboard)[36]
7
In Popular Culture[edit]
"Sweet Child O' Mine" has been used in several films, such as:
Bad Dreams (1988)
State of Grace (1990)
Big Daddy (1999)
The Wrestler (2008)
Gulliver's Travels (2010)
Roffa (2013)
The Big Short (2015)
Kamp Holland (2016)

Certifications[edit]
Region
Certification
Certified units/Sales
Italy (FIMI)[37]
2× Platinum 100,000
United Kingdom (BPI)[38]
Platinum 600,000
United States (RIAA)[39]
Platinum (MT) 1,000,000[40]
*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
sales+streaming figures based on certification alone
See also[edit]
List of best-selling singles in the United States
List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 1988 (U.S.)
List of UK Rock Chart number-one singles of 2010
References[edit]
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