"her 1965 album ""Runnin' Out of Fools""; Franklin performed the song (with Ray Johnson providing the counter-vocal) on the March 10, 1965 episode of the TV program ""Shindig!"". Franklin's version of ""Mockingbird"" was one of several tracks to which Columbia Records company gave a single release after the singer's commercial success with Atlantic Records in 1967; released at the same time as Franklin's Atlantic single album ""Chain of Fools""—which would reach #2—Franklin's version of ""Mockingbird"" scored two weeks at #94 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in December 1967. American singer-songwriters Carly Simon and James Taylor recorded a remake of ""Mockingbird"""
"in the autumn of 1973, and the track was released as the lead single from Simon's fourth studio album ""Hotcakes"" in 1974. It was Taylor's idea to remake ""Mockingbird"", which he knew from a live performance by Inez and Charlie Foxx at the Apollo Theater in 1965, and which song Taylor and his sister Kate Taylor had often sung for fun as teenagers. The song features a considerable lyrical adjustment by Taylor and keyboard work from Dr. John, Robbie Robertson's rhythm guitar and a tenor saxophone solo by Michael Brecker. ""Mockingbird"" rose to number 5 on the ""Billboard"" Pop singles"
"Mockingbird (Inez & Charlie Foxx song) ""Mockingbird"" is a 1963 song written and recorded by Inez and Charlie Foxx, based on the lullaby ""Hush Little Baby"". The original single was credited to Inez Foxx with vocal accompaniment by her brother Charlie, as they alternated the lyric on a syllabic basis. Considered something of a novelty song, it was a great success for them upon its release by Sue Records (Symbol Records), reaching number 2 on the U.S. Top Black Singles / Rhythm & Blues chart and number 7 on the U.S. popular music singles chart in late summer 1963. Chris"
"Mockingbird (Rob Thomas song) Mockingbird is a song by American recording artist Rob Thomas. It is the fourth single from the album ""Cradlesong"", released on April 20, 2010. The song debuted at #50 on the ARIA Charts and, in the US, debuted at 29 on the Adult Pop Songs chart and at 100 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, making his third song of ""Cradlesong"" to reach the Hot 100. For the chart week ending August 28, 2010, the song reached #95 on the Hot 100. ""Mockingbird"" marks Thomas's ninth solo top 10 and eighth consecutive top 5 hit on the"
"but a viewer's film of the performance has surfaced online. Mockingbird (Inez & Charlie Foxx song) ""Mockingbird"" is a 1963 song written and recorded by Inez and Charlie Foxx, based on the lullaby ""Hush Little Baby"". The original single was credited to Inez Foxx with vocal accompaniment by her brother Charlie, as they alternated the lyric on a syllabic basis. Considered something of a novelty song, it was a great success for them upon its release by Sue Records (Symbol Records), reaching number 2 on the U.S. Top Black Singles / Rhythm & Blues chart and number 7 on the"
"Trisha Noble as respectively Johnny and Thelma; Campbell and Noble recorded their version of ""Mockingbird"" for the ""Shout!"" soundtrack album released that March. The Belle Stars did a cover version of the song Mockingbird in 1982. It was released as their third and final cover. It peaked at #51 in the charts, although the single after it, Sign of the Times, peaked at #3. It was the third single from the band's only self-titled album. Taj Mahal's soulful version on his 1993 album Dancing the Blues features a duet with Etta James. Toby Keith reached number 27 on Hot Country"
"Adult Pop Songs chart, peaking at number four. Thomas's combined 21 trips to the chart's top 10 (counting the singles as lead singer of Matchbox Twenty) gives him the second best top 10 sum in the chart's history after only Goo Goo Dolls' 13. Mockingbird (Rob Thomas song) Mockingbird is a song by American recording artist Rob Thomas. It is the fourth single from the album ""Cradlesong"", released on April 20, 2010. The song debuted at #50 on the ARIA Charts and, in the US, debuted at 29 on the Adult Pop Songs chart and at 100 on the ""Billboard"""
"Hotcakes (album) Hotcakes is singer-songwriter Carly Simon's fourth studio album. Released in 1974, it became one of her biggest selling albums. The album featured the major hits ""Mockingbird"", a duet with her then-husband James Taylor (a cover of a 1963 hit for Inez and Charlie Foxx), and ""Haven't Got Time for the Pain"". Recorded during her pregnancy with her first child, many of the album's songs reflected Simon's upbeat mood during this period. The album's cover photo, taken by Ed Caraeff, shows the pregnant Simon sitting in a gleamingly white kitchen, smiling brightly and wearing a bohemian white linen dress."
"Ballad From Hell"", ""How To Rob A Bank"", and ""Destroy My Love"". All three tracks were released as singles. On September 30, 2014, the band released the song ""Horns & Tails"", which features a guest appearance from Reese Van Riper. On November 4, 2014, the band released their cover of Paul McCartney & Wings' ""Jet"" for the Treehouse Sound breast cancer compilation. Those Mockingbirds Those Mockingbirds are an American band from Montclair, New Jersey, consisting of Adam Bird (vocals, Kyle Walters (guitar), and Kevin Walters (drums, vocals, percussion). They released their first studio recording, ""No Symmetry"", on their own label"
"chart and number 10 on the ""Billboard"" Adult Contemporary chart, and was certified Gold by the RIAA, signifying sales of one million copies in the US. The Simon/Taylor version of ""Mockingbird"" also charted in Canada (#3), New Zealand (#6), South Africa (#13), the UK (#34) and Australia (see subsection below). Simon overcame her fear of live performing to come onstage to sing ""Mockingbird"" with Taylor during his 1975 tour; the duo also performed ""Mockingbird"" live at the No Nukes Concert at Madison Square Garden in September 1979, the performance being recorded for the """" album and also the movie ""No"
"Am I"", was co-written by Norma Tanega and Norma Kutzer. By late 1966, Springfield was in a domestic relationship with Tanega – a US-born singer-songwriter who had a UK Top 30 hit with the novelty song, ""Walkin' My Cat Named Dog"". Springfield's ITV series ""It Must Be Dusty"" was broadcast in May and June 1968, episode six featured a duet performance of ""Mockingbird"" with singer-guitarist Jimi Hendrix fronting his band, The Experience. By 1968 Carole King, a songwriter whom Springfield had frequently tapped for material, had embarked on a solo singing career, while her relationship with the chart-peaking Bacharach-David partnership"
"the Simon/Taylor version of ""Mockingbird"" charted simultaneously with another version - this one featuring the original lyrics - by Johnny O'Keefe sung with his resident background vocalist Margaret McLaren; the two versions were ranked in tandem on the charts, peaking at #8 for four weeks beginning in May 1974. O'Keefe, who had performed ""Mockingbird"" in 1964 as compere of the ""Sing Sing Sing"" musical show, had recorded the track with McLaren in October 1972, the track having a single release in 1973 and appearing on the local ""hit parade"" in Adelaide that November around the time the Simon/Taylor version was"
"Mockingbird (Allison Moorer album) Mockingbird is an album of covers by Allison Moorer released in 2008. Moorer covers songs by Nina Simone, Patti Smith, Cat Power, June Carter Cash, Joni Mitchell, as well as her sister Shelby Lynne. ""Mockingbird"" was produced by Buddy Miller. In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek wrote that it ""is a natural sounding set of covers that runs the gamut from rock and barrelhouse blues, to jazz, country, and traditional and indie folk."" The title track, the only original song on the album, written by Moorer, is ""a breezy acoustic ballad."" Moore's rendition of Patti"
"singer-guitarist Gouldman, bassist Bernard Basso and drummer Kevin Godley, formerly of The Sabres with Creme). The Mockingbirds recorded five singles in 1965–66 without any success, before dissolving. The guitarist in both The Whirlwinds and The Mockingbirds was Stephen Jacobson, brother of well-known writer Howard Jacobson. In June 1967, Godley and Creme reunited and recorded a solitary single (""Seeing Things Green"" b/w ""Easy Life"" on UK CBS) under the name ""The Yellow Bellow Room Boom"". In 1969, Gouldman took them to a Marmalade Records recording session. The boss Giorgio Gomelsky was impressed with Godley's falsetto voice and offered them a recording"
"Mockingbird's Mouth (2014), as well as a full length album, Southern Iron (2016), for which Hultquist has toured the United States. Hultquist has performed with many artists, including The Bacon Brothers, Sean Hayes (musician), Corey Smith (musician), Bob Schneider, and Matthew Logan Vasquez. Derik Hultquist Derik Hultquist is an American singer/songwriter from Alcoa, TN. He is currently a staff writer for Carnival Music in Nashville, TN. Derik has also released three EP's with Carnival Recording Company; ""Whether Report"" (2012), ""Leaning On The Rain"" (2012), ""Mockingbird's Mouth"" (2014). Growing up in Alcoa, TN Hultquist split his time between athletics and music."
"releasing a recording of the Buddy Holly song ""Look at Me"", backed with ""Baby Not Like You"", written by Lol Creme, in June 1964. Gouldman dissolved the Whirlwinds in late 1964, and the following February formed the Mockingbirds with Jacobson, Basso, and a former member of fellow Manchester band the Sabres, Kevin Godley (drums). The Mockingbirds signed with the Columbia label, which rejected Gouldman's first offering as a single – ""For Your Love"" (later a major hit for the Yardbirds) – and issued two singles, ""That's How (It's Gonna Stay)"" (February 1965, also issued in the US on ABC Paramount)"
"Mockingbird (Eminem song) ""Mockingbird"" is a song by American rapper Eminem from his fifth studio album ""Encore"" (2004). It was released as the fifth single from the album in April 2005. It peaked at number eleven on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, and number four in the United Kingdom. It received a Grammy nomination for Best Rap Solo Performance. ""Mockingbird"" was later included on Eminem's greatest hits compilation album """" (2005). The song is another that addresses Eminem's relationship with his daughter Hailie Jade, his adopted daughter Alaina and his relationship with his wife Kim. The single cover features a still"
"Foxx's ""Mockingbird"" and Bo Diddley's eponymous song ""Bo Diddley"", as well as Bobby McFerrin and Yo-Yo Ma's ""Hush Little Baby"" and Eminem's ""Mockingbird"". Aretha Franklin, Carly Simon, James Taylor, Etta James, Taj Mahal and Dusty Springfield have each recorded ""Mockingbird"", which is an R&B variant of the song. ""Mockingbird"" was featured humorously as a car travel song in the films ""National Lampoon's Vacation"" (1983) and ""Dumb & Dumber"" (1994). ""Hush Little Baby"" has also been used in the play ""The Miracle Worker,"" about Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan. 2016 saw this song recorded by violinist Vov Dylan for the album"
"Songs in 2004 with a cover featuring his daughter, Krystal Keith. It appears on Keith's ""Greatest Hits 2"" album. In 2007, Eddie Money remade ""Mockingbird"" for his album of classic Soul covers ""Wanna Go Back""; he was partnered by his daughter Jesse Money. On the television series ""Blossom"", Melissa Manchester and Joey Lawrence—playing mother and son—duet on ""Mockingbird"" after a solo by Manchester on ""Hush Little Baby"". ""Mockingbird"" is also performed by characters in the television series ""Will & Grace"" and in the films ""National Lampoon's Vacation"" (1983) and ""Dumb & Dumber"" (1994). American rapper Eminem also used the lullaby"
"Listen to the Mocking Bird ""Listen to the Mocking Bird"" (1855) is an American popular song of the mid-19th century. Its lyrics were composed by Septimus Winner under the pseudonym ""Alice Hawthorne"", and its music was by Richard Milburn. It relates the story of a singer dreaming of his sweetheart, now dead and buried, and a mockingbird, whose song the couple once enjoyed, now singing over her grave. Yet the melody is moderately lively. ""Listen to the Mocking Bird"" was one of the most popular ballads of the era and sold more than twenty million copies of sheet music. It"
"on sides 1 and 2, respectively. The horn players are uncredited. Sweet Baby James Sweet Baby James is the second album by American singer-songwriter James Taylor, and his first release on Warner Bros. Records. Released in February 1970, the album includes one of Taylor's earliest successful singles: ""Fire and Rain"", which reached #3 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. The album itself reached #3 on the ""Billboard"" Album Charts. ""Sweet Baby James"" made Taylor one of the main forces of the ascendant singer-songwriter movement. The album was nominated to a Grammy Award for Album of the Year, in 1971. The album"
"Those Mockingbirds Those Mockingbirds are an American band from Montclair, New Jersey, consisting of Adam Bird (vocals, Kyle Walters (guitar), and Kevin Walters (drums, vocals, percussion). They released their first studio recording, ""No Symmetry"", on their own label L.E. Records with distribution from SideCho Records in April 2010. The release was produced by Those Mockingbirds & Tom Beaujour (Nada Surf, Phoenix) former Editor-in-Chief of Revolver Magazine, and recorded at Nuthouse Studio & White Heat Studio. ""No Symmetry"" debuted at No. 1 on Amazon's Movers & Shakers Chart. Also in April 2010 a video was released indicating Those Mockingbirds had kidnapped"
"Gorgoni (as the duo Just Us), Billy Vera, Ted Daryll and Jerry Ragovoy. Taylor's best-known songs are ""Wild Thing,"" which, though originally recorded in 1965 by Jordan Christopher & The Wild Ones, became famous as both a 1966 hit single for The Troggs and a 1967 live performance by Jimi Hendrix, and ""Angel of the Morning,"" likewise originally recorded by Evie Sands in 1967, but becoming a hit for Merrilee Rush in 1968, and then a million-selling single in 1981 for country-pop singer Juice Newton. Other notable pop and country songs written by Taylor include ""He Sits at Your Table"""
"Smith's 'Dancing Barefoot' ""has to be heard to be believed"" and is ""a contender for best track on the set."" After raving over Moorer's creative and emotional interpretations of many of the album's other tracks, Jurek concludes by claiming that ""Mockingbird"" is her ""warmest, most ambitious, and gutsy record yet."" Mockingbird (Allison Moorer album) Mockingbird is an album of covers by Allison Moorer released in 2008. Moorer covers songs by Nina Simone, Patti Smith, Cat Power, June Carter Cash, Joni Mitchell, as well as her sister Shelby Lynne. ""Mockingbird"" was produced by Buddy Miller. In his review for AllMusic, Thom"
"and a multi-Platinum greatest hits collection, and three Gold-certified albums. All but three of her studio albums have charted on the ""Billboard"" 200, with 12 charting in the Top 40, and five in the Top 10. Two of her compilation albums have also charted in the Top 40. Apart from her album successes, she also has amassed 24 ""Billboard"" Hot 100 singles, with 13 of them hitting the Top 40, and 28 ""Billboard"" Adult Contemporary chart singles, all charting in the Top 40. Four of her singles have been certified Gold by the RIAA: ""You're So Vain"", ""Mockingbird"" (with James"
"the violin strings. In the movie ""The Palm Beach Story"" (1942) The Ale and Quail Club is seen singing ""Sweet Adeline"" to Claudette Colbert. ""Listen to the Mocking Bird"" follows. It can be heard in the background. Listen to the Mocking Bird ""Listen to the Mocking Bird"" (1855) is an American popular song of the mid-19th century. Its lyrics were composed by Septimus Winner under the pseudonym ""Alice Hawthorne"", and its music was by Richard Milburn. It relates the story of a singer dreaming of his sweetheart, now dead and buried, and a mockingbird, whose song the couple once enjoyed,"
"- Eminem March 3: ""Do Something"" - Britney Spears March 4: ""Mockingbird"" - Eminem March 14: ""Mockingbird"" - Eminem March 15: ""The Number One Spot"" - Ludacris March 16: ""Mockingbird"" - Eminem March 17: ""Mockingbird"" - Eminem March 18: ""Candy Shop"" - 50 Cent feat Olivia March 21: ""Over"" - Lindsay Lohan March 22: ""Mockingbird"" - Eminem March 23: ""It's Like That"" - Mariah Carey featuring Fatman Scoop March 24: ""It's Like That"" - Mariah Carey featuring Fat Man Scoop March 25: ""Mockingbird"" - Eminem March 28: ""Mockingbird"" - Eminem March 29: ""Mockingbird"" - Eminem March 30: ""Signs"" - Snoop"
"Sweet Baby James Sweet Baby James is the second album by American singer-songwriter James Taylor, and his first release on Warner Bros. Records. Released in February 1970, the album includes one of Taylor's earliest successful singles: ""Fire and Rain"", which reached #3 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. The album itself reached #3 on the ""Billboard"" Album Charts. ""Sweet Baby James"" made Taylor one of the main forces of the ascendant singer-songwriter movement. The album was nominated to a Grammy Award for Album of the Year, in 1971. The album was listed at #104 on ""Rolling Stone"" ""Magazine""'s 500 Greatest Albums"
"How Sweet It Is to Be Loved by You How Sweet It Is to Be Loved by You is the fifth studio album released by American singer and songwriter Marvin Gaye, released in 1965. The album features the successful title track, which at the time was his best-selling single. Other hits include ""Try It Baby"" (which features The Temptations) and ""Baby Don't You Do It"" (with backing vocals provided by The Andantes). The song ""How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)"" has been covered by many notable musicians, including James Taylor, Joan Osborne, Michael McDonald and Michael Bublé."
"How Sweet It Is to Be Loved by You How Sweet It Is to Be Loved by You is the fifth studio album released by American singer and songwriter Marvin Gaye, released in 1965. The album features the successful title track, which at the time was his best-selling single. Other hits include ""Try It Baby"" (which features The Temptations) and ""Baby Don't You Do It"" (with backing vocals provided by The Andantes). The song ""How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)"" has been covered by many notable musicians, including James Taylor, Joan Osborne, Michael McDonald and Michael Bublé."
"Cliff Friend Cliff Friend (October 1, 1893 – June 27, 1974) was an accomplished songwriter and pianist. A member of Tin Pan Alley, Friend co-wrote several hits including ""Lovesick Blues"", ""My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now"" and ""The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down"", also known as the theme song to the ""Looney Tunes"" cartoon series. Friend was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1893. His father was first violinist with the Woods Theater Orchestra. Friend studied at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music with the aim of becoming a concert pianist, until a three-year bout of tuberculosis. Friend met Harry Richman while working on vaudeville"
"James Thornton (songwriter) James Thornton (December 5, 1861 – July 27, 1938) was an American songwriter and vaudeville performer. He is primarily remembered today as the composer of the 1898 song, ""When You Were Sweet Sixteen"". Thornton started his career as a ""singing waiter"" in Boston, Massachusetts, and then achieved success with his wife, Elisabeth ""Bonnie"" Cox, in music halls throughout the US as what was then called a ""serio-comic"" or ""monologist"" (essentially a stand-up comic) and singer. During his career, he also performed in a vaudeville team with Charles B. Lawlor. Thornton's compositions included: ""When You Were Sweet Sixteen"","
"Sam Taylor (blues musician) Sam Taylor (October 25, 1934 – January 5, 2009) was an American jump blues musician and songwriter. Taylor's more popular recordings included ""Funny"", ""Drinking Straight Tequila"", and ""Voice of the Blues"". He variously worked with Joey Dee and the Starliters, Otis Redding, B.T. Express, The Drifters, Big Joe Turner, T-Bone Walker, Sam & Dave, Tracy Nelson, Mother Earth, and The Isley Brothers. Taylor was inducted to the Long Island Music Hall of Fame. Born Samuel Willis Taylor Jr. in Crichton, a suburb of Mobile, Alabama, Taylor began singing gospel at the age of three. His Long"