"in the 20th. The single is included in David Wells' 2005 book ""Record Collector 100 Greatest Psychedelic Records"". Boeing Duveen and The Beautiful Soup Boeing Duveen and the Beautiful Soup was a 1960s British psychedelic rock band. 'Boeing Duveen' was Sam Hutt, a qualified doctor and associate of Pink Floyd who has been described as ""the underground community's de facto house doctor"" by David Wells, curator of Grapefruit. Hutt later became known for his work in the country and western genre under the name of Hank Wangford. The band released one single on 10 May 1968, ""Jabberwock"" backed by ""Which"
"I actually had more of an identity crisis with that than with Hank, because Hank is a fool. I quite like him. Dr. Sam was definitely threatening to become a monster."" His first writing credit (as Sam Hutt) was on a Sarah Miles 1965 single 'Where am I'. His first recording was credited as Boeing Duveen & The Beautiful Soup with ""Jabberwock""/""Which Dreamed It"" issued on UK Parlophone R 5696 in May 1968. He is co-credfited as the writer as ""Sam Hutt"" on both sides together with Lewis Carroll, the songs are adapted. In Sam's family background is radical: his"
"Rupert Holmes Rupert Holmes (born David Goldstein on February 24, 1947) is a British-American composer, singer-songwriter, musician, dramatist and author. He is widely known for the hit singles ""Escape (The Piña Colada Song)"" (1979) and ""Him"" (1980). He is also known for his musicals ""Drood"", which earned him two Tony Awards, and ""Curtains"", and for his television series ""Remember WENN"". Holmes was born David Goldstein in Northwich, Cheshire, England. His father, Leonard Eliot Goldstein, was a United States Army warrant officer and bandleader. His mother, Gwendolen Mary (""nee"" Pynn), was English, and both were musical. Holmes has dual British and"
"Samuel Jackson Pratt Samuel Jackson Pratt (25 December 1749 – 4 October 1814) was a prolific English poet, dramatist and novelist, writing under the pseudonym of ""Courtney Melmoth"" as well as under his own name. He authored around 40 publications between 1770 and 1810, some of which are still published today, and is probably best remembered as the author of ""Emma Corbett: or the Miseries of Civil War,"" (1780) and the poem ""Sympathy"" (1788). Although his reputation was tainted by scandal during his lifetime, he is today recognised as an early campaigner for animal welfare and the first English writer"
"Know It All"", Hunter Hayes' ""Wanted"", and Florida Georgia Line's ""Cruise"". Sam Hunt has also earned significant crossover appeal. His 2014 debut album ""Montevallo"" reached #1 on Top Country Albums and #3 on the ""Billboard"" 200. His 2017 single ""Body Like a Back Road"" reached #1 on Hot Country Songs, #6 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, and #11 on Adult Top 40. In 2018, many country achieved international pop hit singles in collaborations with mainstream pop artists. This included Chris Stapleton who collaboration with Justin Timberlake on UK & Hot 100 top ten single ""Say Something""; Urban-pop star Bebe Rexha"
"John Mellencamp John J Mellencamp (born October 7, 1951), previously known as Johnny Cougar, John Cougar, and John Cougar Mellencamp, is an American musician, singer-songwriter, painter, and actor. He is known for his catchy, populist brand of heartland rock, which emphasizes traditional instrumentation. Mellencamp rose to fame in the 1980s while ""honing an almost startlingly plainspoken writing style that, starting in 1982, yielded a string of Top 10 singles,"" including ""Hurts So Good,"" ""Jack & Diane,"" ""Crumblin' Down,"" ""Pink Houses,"" ""Lonely Ol' Night,"" ""Small Town,"" ""R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.,"" ""Paper in Fire"" and ""Cherry Bomb."" He has amassed 22 Top"
"Aqualung (musician) Matt Hales (born 17 January 1972) is an English songwriter, musician, and record producer who has been performing professionally under the name Aqualung since the early 2000s. Aqualung is best known in the UK for his song ""Strange and Beautiful,"" which was featured on a television advertisement for the new Volkswagen Beetle during the summer of 2002 and went on to become a Top 10 hit in the UK Singles Chart later that year. In the United States, Aqualung is also known for the song ""Brighter Than Sunshine,"" which had considerable airplay and was used in the film"
"Al Hirt Alois Maxwell ""Al"" Hirt (November 7, 1922 – April 27, 1999) was an American trumpeter and bandleader. He is best remembered for his million-selling recordings of ""Java"" and the accompanying album ""Honey in the Horn"" (1963), and for the theme song to ""The Green Hornet"". His nicknames included ""Jumbo"" and ""The Round Mound of Sound"". Colin Escott, an author of musician biographies, wrote that RCA Victor Records, for which Hirt had recorded most of his best-selling recordings and for which he had spent much of his professional recording career, had dubbed him with another moniker: ""The King."" Hirt"
"Bernard Moore (poet) Samuel Syrus Hunt (1873–1953) wrote poetry under the pseudonym Bernard Moore. He had six books published of both his own and collected works beginning in 1914. Its subject is mainly Cornwall, in particular its fishermen but he also wrote war poetry. Many of his poems are written in the Cornish dialect. He also collected some Cornish songs. He is probably best known for his poem 'Travelling' which contrasts the sights and sounds of a railway journey through grimy urban London with the tranquility of the Liskeard to Looe branch line. Hunt lived in Catford, London and later"
"Jont Jont (Full name Jonathan Mark Smith Whittington, 17 August 1973 in Marylebone, London) is a British Singer-songwriter. First achieving prominence as a slow left-arm spinner for Middlesex County Cricket Club, he then shifted focus to poetry then to music. He is perhaps best known for his song ""Sweetheart"" which appears on the soundtrack to the 2005 US comedy film Wedding Crashers. Two tracks from his 2008 album ""Supernatural"" were featured in Season Five of US medical drama Grey's Anatomy. Dividing his youth between the USA and England, Jont first started writing poems aged fourteen<ref name=""Jont Interview 18/12/02"">Verzeletti, Christian. Jont"
"Albert Bokhare Saunders Albert Bokhare Saunders (1880–1946) was a successful and prolific composer of romantic and light classical music. He worked as an arranger for Sydney music publisher W.H. Palings. He worked under various pseudonyms including Albert Earl and Albert Trelba but is most widely known as Clement Scott. Saunders was born in Brewarrina, rural New South Wales. He has been credited as composer of ""Swiss Cradle Song"", possibly collected from the Māori folk song ""Po Ata Rau"" and given English language lyrics as ""Now is the Hour"", sung by departing troops in The Great War and recalled by patriotic"
"Sam Henry (musicologist) Samuel Henry (9 May 1878 – 23 May 1952), known as Sam Henry, was an Irish customs officer, pension officer, antiquarian, lecturer, writer, photographer, folklorist, and folk-song collector. He also played the fiddle and the tin whistle. He is best known for his collection of ballads and songs in ""Songs of the People"", the largest and most comprehensive collection of folk-songs from Northern Ireland assembled between the wars (1923 – 1939), when he was Song Editor for the ""Northern Constitution"", a weekly newspaper in Coleraine. Henry was born and educated in Sandleford, Coleraine, Northern Ireland. He came"
"James Blunt James Hillier Blount (born 22 February 1974), better known by his stage name James Blunt, is an English singer-songwriter, record producer and former British Army Officer. Blunt rose to fame in 2004 with the release of his debut album ""Back to Bedlam"", achieving worldwide fame with the singles ""You're Beautiful"" and ""Goodbye My Lover"". The album has sold over 11 million copies worldwide, topping the UK Albums Chart and peaking at number two in the US. ""You're Beautiful"" was number one in the UK, the US and a dozen other countries. ""Back to Bedlam"" was the best-selling album"
"Country Albums Chart and garnered two award nominations from the British Country Music Association. Sam Outlaw Sam Morgan (born July 28, 1982), professionally known as Sam Outlaw, is a country music singer-songwriter. Outlaw calls his music ""SoCal country"", country music refashioned with a Southern California vibe of the classic honky-tonk and troubadour pop. Outlaw was born in Aberdeen, South Dakota as Sam Morgan. At the age of 10, his family moved to southern California. He grew up in a conservative Christian home and was limited by his parents as to what kind of music he could listen to. He did"
"albums John Mellencamp John J Mellencamp (born October 7, 1951), previously known as Johnny Cougar, John Cougar, and John Cougar Mellencamp, is an American musician, singer-songwriter, painter, and actor. He is known for his catchy, populist brand of heartland rock, which emphasizes traditional instrumentation. Mellencamp rose to fame in the 1980s while ""honing an almost startlingly plainspoken writing style that, starting in 1982, yielded a string of Top 10 singles,"" including ""Hurts So Good,"" ""Jack & Diane,"" ""Crumblin' Down,"" ""Pink Houses,"" ""Lonely Ol' Night,"" ""Small Town,"" ""R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.,"" ""Paper in Fire"" and ""Cherry Bomb."" He has amassed 22"
"1932. The community is now known as Salt Works. No informant remembers Holmes using the name King Solomon Hill, so Wardlow concluded that Paramount Records chose to use his address as his recording name. Holmes was born near McComb, Mississippi, in 1897. In 1915 he followed his brother to northern Louisiana, where he married Roberta Allums. In 1920 he returned to McComb with his wife and their child, Essie. There he played with the most famous local blues musician, Sam Collins, known locally as ""Salty Dog Sam"" and on record as ""Cryin' Sam Collins"". When interviewed by Wardlow, Roberta recalled"
"promote the interests of virtue, none of these errors should be remembered in his epitaph."" Samuel Jackson Pratt Samuel Jackson Pratt (25 December 1749 – 4 October 1814) was a prolific English poet, dramatist and novelist, writing under the pseudonym of ""Courtney Melmoth"" as well as under his own name. He authored around 40 publications between 1770 and 1810, some of which are still published today, and is probably best remembered as the author of ""Emma Corbett: or the Miseries of Civil War,"" (1780) and the poem ""Sympathy"" (1788). Although his reputation was tainted by scandal during his lifetime, he"
"Sam Cooke Samuel Cook (January 22, 1931 – December 11, 1964), known professionally as Sam Cooke, was an American singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur. Influential as both a singer and composer, he is commonly known as the King of Soul for his distinctive vocals and importance within popular music. He began singing as a child and joined The Soul Stirrers before moving to a solo career where he scored a string of hit songs like ""You Send Me"", ""A Change Is Gonna Come"", ""Wonderful World"", ""Chain Gang"", ""Twistin' the Night Away"", and ""Bring it on Home to Me"". His pioneering contributions"
"Sam Hall (song) “Sam Hall” is an old English folk song about a bitterly unrepentant criminal condemned to death (Roud #369). Prior to the mid-19th century it was called “Jack Hall”, after an infamous English thief, who was hanged in 1707 at Tyburn. Jack Hall’s parents sold him as a climbing boy for one guinea, which is why most versions of the song identify Sam or Jack Hall as a chimney sweep. Prior to 1988, the song had been collected from about 18 singers in the oral tradition, limited to Ireland, England and the USA, and there had been only"
"Sam Larner Samuel James Larner, (1878–1965), known as Sam, was a fisherman and traditional singer from Winterton, a fishing village in Norfolk, England. His life history was the basis for Ewan McColl's song ""The Shoals of Herring"", and his songs continue to be recorded by revival singers. Fishing was an almost inevitable occupation for one of nine children of a fisherman father growing up in a village with a population of 800 people, 300 of whom were fishermen. Larner is quoted as saying ""Why, for me and my brothers that was either sea or gaol, and that for my sisters"
"of £5000. Notes References Harry Champion William Henry Crump (17 April 1865 – 14 January 1942), better known by the stage name Harry Champion, was an English music hall composer, singer and Cockney comedian, whose onstage persona appealed chiefly to the working class communities of East London. His best-known recordings include ""Boiled Beef and Carrots"" (1909), ""I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am"" (1910), ""Any Old Iron"" (1911) and ""A Little Bit of Cucumber"" (1915). Champion was born in Bethnal Green, East London, to Henry Crump and his wife, Matilda ( Watson). He made his stage debut at the age of"
"over the horizon, [it] just lights everything up, and you go ""wow!""... I have a song, kind of a signature song, called ""Born to be a Cowboy."" It says, ""The life I love I freely chose; I'm at it yet tonight. I was born to be a cowboy, and I will be 'til I die."" In late 2013 American Cowboy Magazine released their ""Legends Collector's Edition"" where they listed Hampton among the ""Top 50 Greatest Country & Western Singers of All Time"" along with Johnny Cash, Roy Rogers, George Strait, Hank Williams, Ian Tyson, and Chris LeDoux. In April, 2014"
"Harry Champion William Henry Crump (17 April 1865 – 14 January 1942), better known by the stage name Harry Champion, was an English music hall composer, singer and Cockney comedian, whose onstage persona appealed chiefly to the working class communities of East London. His best-known recordings include ""Boiled Beef and Carrots"" (1909), ""I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am"" (1910), ""Any Old Iron"" (1911) and ""A Little Bit of Cucumber"" (1915). Champion was born in Bethnal Green, East London, to Henry Crump and his wife, Matilda ( Watson). He made his stage debut at the age of 17 at the Royal"
"Will Holt Will Holt (April 30, 1929 – May 31, 2015) was an American singer, songwriter, librettist and lyricist. He was known first and primarily as a folk performer during the 1950s, when he made early and influential recordings of such songs as ""Sinner Man"" and ""Lemon Tree"", for which he wrote the English lyrics. He later became known as an interpreter of the music of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, and made significant contributions to Broadway theatre during the 1970s. Born in Portland, Maine, but growing up in North Bridgton, Will Holt (his full name) learned to play the"
"Sonny James Jimmie Hugh Loden (May 1, 1928February 22, 2016), known professionally as Sonny James, was an American country music singer and songwriter best known for his 1957 hit, ""Young Love"". Dubbed the ""Southern Gentleman"" for his congenial manner, his greatest success came from ballads about the trials of love. James had 72 country and pop charted releases from 1953 to 1983, including an unprecedented five-year streak of 16 straight Billboard #1 singles among his 26 #1 hits. Twenty-one of his albums reached the country top ten from 1964 to 1976. James was given a star on the Hollywood Walk"
"half of country music duo, Brown & Gray. Their debut single has surpassed 2.7 million streams and 1.7 million YouTube plays. Top Down is a Highway Find in the US, and featured on the BBC Radio 2 B Playlist in the UK. Sam Gray (musician) Sam Gray is an English singer and songwriter from Hull, England, who has composed songs for a multitude of artists including Hardwell, DJ Katch, Solano, Abi Phillips (from the British soap opera ""Hollyoaks""), Manovski, Ben Saunders, Alle Farben, Julian Martel, The Magician, Julian Perretta, Nile Rodgers, and Tobtok, garnering over 100 million streams in the"
"Freddie Hart Frederick Segrest (December 21, 1926 – October 27, 2018), known professionally as Freddie Hart, was an American country musician and songwriter best known for his chart-topping country song and lone pop hit ""Easy Loving,"" which won the Country Music Association Song of the Year award in 1971 and 1972. Hart charted singles from 1953 to 1987, and later became a gospel singer. He performed at music festivals and other venues until he died. Hart was born to a sharecropper family in Loachapoka, Alabama, in 1926 and spent his childhood in nearby Phenix City, Alabama, along with his 11"
"line"". When written these stations were part of the London, Chatham and Dover Railway, now Kent Thameslink. St. Paul's has since been renamed Blackfriars and Kent Thameslink trains no longer call at Loughborough Junction. Bernard Moore (poet) Samuel Syrus Hunt (1873–1953) wrote poetry under the pseudonym Bernard Moore. He had six books published of both his own and collected works beginning in 1914. Its subject is mainly Cornwall, in particular its fishermen but he also wrote war poetry. Many of his poems are written in the Cornish dialect. He also collected some Cornish songs. He is probably best known for"
"fine wine retailer and distributor, La Cantina Wines. Each of the five wine varieties (Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir, Merlot Malbec) features poetry from Hunt on the label and has a QR code that enable users to listen Hunt, Kilgour and The Heavy 8s performing brief excerpts of the poems. For a comprehensive list of works, check the catalogue at the National Library of New Zealand Sam Hunt (poet) Samuel Percival Maitland Hunt (born 4 July 1946, Castor Bay Auckland) is a New Zealand poet, especially known for his public performances of poetry, not only his own poems,"
"Dogs, Children and) Watermelon Wine"" #93 in their list of the 100 greatest country songs. On February 12, 2008, Hall was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Is also a member of the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame Tom T. Hall Thomas T. Hall (born May 25, 1936 in Olive Hill, Kentucky) is an American country music songwriter, singer, instrumentalist, novelist, and short-story writer. He has written 12 No. 1 hit songs, with 26 more that reached the Top 10, including the No. 1 international pop crossover smash ""Harper Valley PTA"" and the hit ""I Love"", which reached"
"of their act as a young child. Citations Sources Salty Holmes Floyd Holmes (March 6, 1910 – January 1, 1970), better known as Salty Holmes, was an American country musician and Western B-movie actor. Holmes was born of Cherokee lineage in Glasgow, Kentucky. He became a virtuoso on the harmonica, specializing in the style known as ""talking harp"" which imitated the human voice (much like Sonny Terry). He also played the jug and guitar. He formed the group The Kentucky Ramblers in 1930, who changed their name to The Prairie Ramblers in 1933 and began broadcasting on Chicago radio station"
"and several hits on both the country charts and the Billboard Hot 100. Singer-songwriter Unknown Hinson became famous for his appearance in the Charlotte television show ""Wild, Wild, South"", after which Hinson started his own band and toured in southern states. Other rock stars who featured a country song on their albums were Don Henley and Poison. In 2005, country singer Carrie Underwood rose to fame as the winner of the fourth season of ""American Idol"" and has since become one of the most prominent recording artists of 2006 through 2016, with worldwide sales of more than 65 million records"
"Robert Stephen Hawker Robert Stephen Hawker (1803–1875) was an Anglican priest, poet, antiquarian of Cornwall and reputed eccentric. He is best known as the writer of ""The Song of the Western Men"" with its chorus line of ""And shall Trelawny die? / Here's twenty thousand Cornish men / will know the reason why!"", which he published anonymously in 1825. His name became known after Charles Dickens acknowledged his authorship of ""The Song of the Western Men"" in the serial magazine ""Household Words"". Hawker was born in the clergy house of Charles Church, Plymouth, on 3 December 1803. He was the"