"nine weeks in the Top 40. The No. 6 spot was just short of the achievement of his 1977 single ""2-4-6-8 Motorway"" with the Tom Robinson Band, which reached No. 5. It reached No. 1 on the UK Indie chart and stayed at No. 1 for three weeks. It later appeared on Robinson's 1984 album ""Hope and Glory"" and revived his career. Robinson has said that although ""My flip answer to the question of what song am I the most proud is ""(Wish I Had a) Grey Cortina"" ... the true answer is ""War Baby"" is the song that I'm"
"The Cortinas (punk band) The Cortinas were a Bristol-based punk rock band, originally active between 1976 and 1978. Guitarist Nick Sheppard went on to play with the Clash. In 2001, the band's debut single, ""Fascist Dictator"" (originally released in June 1977), was included in a leading British music magazine's list of the best punk-rock singles of all-time. Named after a car, the Ford Cortina, the band moved from R&B towards covering songs by punk forerunners like the New York Dolls and The Stooges. The band developed a large and enthusiastic following in their hometown. Unfortunately, their growing popularity began to"
"five teenage punk rockers"". The Cortinas (punk band) The Cortinas were a Bristol-based punk rock band, originally active between 1976 and 1978. Guitarist Nick Sheppard went on to play with the Clash. In 2001, the band's debut single, ""Fascist Dictator"" (originally released in June 1977), was included in a leading British music magazine's list of the best punk-rock singles of all-time. Named after a car, the Ford Cortina, the band moved from R&B towards covering songs by punk forerunners like the New York Dolls and The Stooges. The band developed a large and enthusiastic following in their hometown. Unfortunately, their"
"2-4-6-8 Motorway ""2-4-6-8 Motorway"" is a single by British punk rock/new wave group Tom Robinson Band which was released in 1977, and reached #5 in the UK singles chart. The music and lyrics were written by Tom Robinson, and it was the first single released by the Tom Robinson Band, who had formed in January 1977 and were signed to EMI in August 1977. Robinson wrote the song between leaving Café Society in 1976, and forming the Tom Robinson Band in 1977, when he was performing with whichever friends were available on the night, so the song had to be"
"several other bands including:- 2-4-6-8 Motorway ""2-4-6-8 Motorway"" is a single by British punk rock/new wave group Tom Robinson Band which was released in 1977, and reached #5 in the UK singles chart. The music and lyrics were written by Tom Robinson, and it was the first single released by the Tom Robinson Band, who had formed in January 1977 and were signed to EMI in August 1977. Robinson wrote the song between leaving Café Society in 1976, and forming the Tom Robinson Band in 1977, when he was performing with whichever friends were available on the night, so the"
"Tom Robinson Band Tom Robinson Band (TRB) are a British rock band, established in 1976 by singer, songwriter and bassist Tom Robinson. The band's debut single ""2-4-6-8 Motorway"" was a top five hit on the UK Singles Chart in 1977, and their third single, ""Up Against the Wall"", is seen by some as a classic punk rock single; while their début album, ""Power in the Darkness"" (1978), is regarded as a definitive late Seventies punk album. Tom Robinson began gigging in London in 1976. By the end of the year, he had decided to put together a permanent band. Robinson's"
"a UK album at the time, and Robinson still rues what he calls the “fatal mistake” of omitting the band’s most famous songs, ""2-4-6-8 Motorway"" and ""Glad to Be Gay"" from their debut album ""Power in the Darkness"", although it was on a 7"" EP included with the US release of ""Power in the Darkness"". The song has subsequently appeared on numerous compilation albums, including ""Rising Free"" (1980), ""The Collection"" (1987), ""Last Tango, Midnight at the Fringe"" (1988), ""Winter of '89"" (1992), ""Home from Home"" (1999) and ""Tom Robinson Band The Anthology 1977–1979"". It also appeared on """" (2003) The"
"Corrine, Corrina ""Corrine, Corrina"" (sometimes ""Corrina, Corrina"") is a 12-bar country blues song in the AAB form. ""Corrine, Corrina"" was first recorded by Bo Carter (Brunswick 7080, December 1928). However, it was not copyrighted until 1932 by Armenter ""Bo Carter"" Chatmon and his publishers, Mitchell Parish and J. Mayo Williams. The song is familiar for its opening verse: The Mississippi Sheiks, as the Jackson Blue Boys with Papa Charlie McCoy on vocals, recorded the same song in 1930; this time as ""Sweet Alberta"" (Columbia 14397-D), substituting the words ""Sweet Alberta"" for ""Corrine, Corrina"". ""Corrine, Corrina"" has been recorded in a"
"except where indicated Side One Side Two † These two tracks were included in a digitally remastered, Copy Controlled 2004 re-release. The sleeve notes of ""Power in the Darkness"" included the founding declaration of the Rock Against Racism movement. Power in the Darkness Power in the Darkness is the debut studio album by English punk band Tom Robinson Band, released in early 1978. The UK LP had ten tracks. It included inside the album cover a stencil similar to the cover art, but with the album title replaced by ""Tom Robinson Band""; it held the warning, ""This stencil is not"
"Bootzilla ""Bootzilla"" is a song recorded by Bootsy's Rubber Band, released on January 13, 1978. As the lead single from the album ""Bootsy? Player of the Year"", it held the #1 spot on the R&B chart for one week in 1978 (directly following fellow P-Funk outfit Parliament's #1 hit ""Flash Light"" a song originally penned with Bootsy Collins in mind for the lead vocal, however Collins turned it down). ""Bootzilla"" failed to make the Hot 100. The song's lyrics introduce Bootsy's wind-up toy alter ego Bootzilla, ""the world's only rhinestone rock-star doll."" The track features Bootsy Collins on drums as"
"Color Esperanza ""Color Esperanza"" (approximately in English: ""The ""Hope"" Color"") is the lead single from Diego Torres's fifth studio album ""Un Mundo Diferente"". The songs lyrics reflect on themes of hope and overcoming hard times in life and the song's uplifting beat reflects the lyrical themes. The song was written by Torres along with Cachorro López, the song's producer, Coti Sorokin and Spanish journalist Paco García Caridad. The song was performed on MTV Unplugged featuring group La Chilinguita. In 2003, the song was performed specially by Torres for the Pope John Paul II in Cuatro Vientos Airport in Madrid, Spain"
"Color of the Blues ""Color of the Blues"" is a 1958 country song written by George Jones and Lawton Williams and released by Jones on January 15, 1958. By the time of the release of ""Color of the Blues"" in 1957, Jones had been releasing singles for three years and had scored four Top 10 hits: ""Why Baby Why"" (1955), ""You Gotta Be My Baby"" (1956), ""Just One More"" (1956), and ""Don't Stop the Music"" (1957). However, his three previous singles had failed to chart and, in the wake of Elvis Presley's explosion in popularity, he had even recorded a"
"Hey Negrita (song) ""Hey Negrita"" is a song by The Rolling Stones that appeared on their 1976 album ""Black and Blue"". Credited to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Ron Wood apparently wrote the song's main riff, a piece of music he took with him to Munich's Musicland Studios where he and other guitarists were auditioning for the second guitarist slot left open after the departure of Mick Taylor. For his contribution, Wood would receive an ""inspiration by"" credit on the album. In 2003, Wood recounted, ""All of us, independently and together, were into reggae, and it was also a mood"
"Kodachrome (song) ""Kodachrome"" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Paul Simon. It was the lead single from his third studio album, ""There Goes Rhymin' Simon"" (1973), released on Columbia Records. The song is named after the Kodak 35mm film Kodachrome. An instrumental version was also music for Level 3 and Level 11 in the computer game ""Frantic Freddie"". After a review in ""Billboards May 12 issue praising its ""cheerfully antisocial lyrics,"" the song debuted at #82 in the Hot 100 on the week-ending May 19, 1973. The lyrics to this song on ""There Goes Rhymin' Simon"" differed in wording"
"Power in the Darkness Power in the Darkness is the debut studio album by English punk band Tom Robinson Band, released in early 1978. The UK LP had ten tracks. It included inside the album cover a stencil similar to the cover art, but with the album title replaced by ""Tom Robinson Band""; it held the warning, ""This stencil is not meant for spraying on public property!!!"". The US release was packaged with a seven-track bonus LP. The 1993 CD re-release included all 17 tracks. Two more tracks were included on a 2004 re-release. All tracks composed by Tom Robinson;"
"Karma Chameleon ""Karma Chameleon"" is a song by English band Culture Club, featured on the group's 1983 album ""Colour by Numbers"". The single spent three weeks at number one on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in early 1984, becoming the group's biggest hit and only US number-one single among their many top 10 hits. The sleeve features work from the photographer David Levine. In the group's home country of the United Kingdom, it became the second Culture Club single to reach the top of the UK Singles Chart (after ""Do You Really Want to Hurt Me""), where it stayed for"
"that the new groups are in it solely to be famous and for the money. The final lines fret over the social decline of Britain, noting sardonically that things were getting to the point where even Adolf Hitler could expect to be sent a limousine in the unlikely event of flying into London. The single was issued in June 1978 with four different colour sleeves – blue, green, yellow and pink. This song was one of Joe Strummer's favourites. He continued to play it live with his new band The Mescaleros and it was played at his funeral. The song"
"Tom Robinson Thomas Giles ""Tom"" Robinson (born 1 June 1950) is a British singer-songwriter, bassist, radio presenter and long-time LGBT rights activist, best known for the hits ""Glad to Be Gay"", ""2-4-6-8 Motorway"", and ""Don't Take No for an Answer"", with his Tom Robinson Band. He later peaked at No. 6 in the UK Singles Chart with his solo single ""War Baby"". Tom Robinson was born into a middle-class family in Cambridge on 1 June 1950. He attended Friends' School, Saffron Walden, a co-ed privately funded Quaker school, between 1961 and 1967. He played guitar in a trio at school"
"but ""Reggatta de Blanc"" still hit No. 25 on the US album charts. The band's first live performance of ""Message in a Bottle"" was on the BBC's television show ""Rock Goes to College"" filmed at Hatfield Polytechnic College in Hertfordshire. The instrumental title track ""Regatta de Blanc"" won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. In February 1980, the single ""So Lonely"" was re-issued in the UK. Originally a non-charting flop when first issued in late 1978, upon re-release the track became a UK top 10 hit, peaking at No. 6. In March 1980, the Police began their first"
"Color Him Father ""Color Him Father"" is a song released by funk and soul group The Winstons. It was released in 1969, and reached number 2 on the R&B charts and number 7 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 that same year. Its composer, Richard Lewis Spencer, won a Grammy Award for Best R&B song in 1970. ""Color Him Father"" is one of the best known songs by The Winstons. It was released as a single, and the B-side contained an instrumental track titled ""Amen, Brother"". ""Amen, Brother"" contains what has now become one of the most heavily sampled drum breaks"
"Vietnam War. The word ""color,"" in the song, means ""label"" or ""call"" and follows the 'color' motif set in Barbra Streisand's 1963 release of ""My Coloring Book."" The song served as a major musical inspiration for the 2016 track ""Celebrate"" by Anderson .Paak. Color Him Father ""Color Him Father"" is a song released by funk and soul group The Winstons. It was released in 1969, and reached number 2 on the R&B charts and number 7 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 that same year. Its composer, Richard Lewis Spencer, won a Grammy Award for Best R&B song in 1970. ""Color"
"Harmony Korine (song) ""Harmony Korine"" is a song by English musician, songwriter and music producer Steven Wilson. The song is the first track off of ""Insurgentes"", Wilson's first full-length solo studio album. The single is named after the American filmmaker of the same name. The song was NPR's ""Song of the day"" on 4 March 2009. A single of the same name was released by Kscope record label on black, white and red 7-inch vinyl format, limited to 1,000 copies each one. Its B-Side, a song titled ""The 78"", was previously available as a hidden track in the second disc"
"in code by a series of coloured blocks. The key enabling this to be deciphered was printed on the back sleeve of the album, ""Power, Corruption & Lies"". ""Blue Monday"" and ""Power, Corruption & Lies"" are two of four Factory releases from this time period to employ the colour code, the others being ""Confusion"" by New Order and ""From the Hip"" by Section 25. The single's original sleeve, created by Factory designer Peter Saville and Brett Wickens, was die-cut with a silver inner sleeve. It cost so much to produce that Factory Records actually lost money on each copy sold."
"""Paint It, Black"", the comma being an error by Decca Records, but, nonetheless, stirred controversy among fans over its racial interpretation. Upon further reissues to the UK in 1990 and 2007, ""Paint It Black"" charted at number 61 and 70, respectively. ""Paint It Black"" has appeared on numerous Stones compilations, including ""Hot Rocks 1964–1971"" (1971), ""30 Greatest Hits"" (1977), """" (1989), ""Forty Licks"" (2002), and ""GRRR!"" (2012). Live recordings are featured on the concert albums ""Flashpoint"" (1991), ""Live Licks"" (2004), ""Shine a Light"" (2008), ""Hyde Park Live"" (2013), and """" (2016). The song was featured in the music video games"
"were available in clear, blue, green, red, amber, and yellow, with clear and blue being the largest sellers. In 1976 the company broadened the line to include ""Rainbow"" Vistalites with multicolored shells, with ""Tequila Sunrise"" (a combination of red, orange and yellow stripes) being one of the most popular combinations. Multi-colored acrylic shells were co-invented by Elvis Presley's drummer Ronn Tutt. Tutt, however, tried his invention and was unimpressed, enough that he immediately went back to playing maple drums. Other Vistalite variations included bass drums without tom mounts (often referred to as ""virgin"" bass drums) and concert toms (toms without"
"intro song. Current members Former members Red Rider Red Rider, later known as Tom Cochrane & Red Rider, is a Canadian rock band popular in the 1980s. While they achieved great success in Canada, the band never had a song in the Top 40 in the United States, although ""Lunatic Fringe"" became popular on album-oriented rock radio. They also charted on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 with ""Young Thing, Wild Dreams (Rock Me)"", and charted comparably to ""Lunatic Fringe"" on Mainstream Rock (AOR) with ""Big League"" (which remains popular to this day), ""Human Race"", and ""Power"". Red Rider was formed in"
"to that of 1980s Thatcherite economic policies. Both of these themes are portrayed on the sleeve artwork for the single - an animated image of a man and woman from the time of the Highland Clearances superimposed onto a black and white photograph of the interior of Gartcosh steel works after its closure in 1986. The song was later recorded, as a single, in a fuller arrangement with producer Gerry Rafferty and became a hit in November 1987, peaking at #2 and #3 on the Irish Singles Chart and UK singles chart in November 1987 and December 1987 respectively. The"
"and backing vocals with Richards and Wood. ""Hey Negrita"" has only been performed live during the Tour of Europe '76, evidently because of the controversial lyrics (although one of the longtime mainstays of the band's shows, ""Brown Sugar"", has similar issues with its lyrics). Hey Negrita (song) ""Hey Negrita"" is a song by The Rolling Stones that appeared on their 1976 album ""Black and Blue"". Credited to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Ron Wood apparently wrote the song's main riff, a piece of music he took with him to Munich's Musicland Studios where he and other guitarists were auditioning for"
"Loves You"". Burlesque revivalist Dita Von Teese is pictured on the front cover of the EP. Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair (EP) Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair is the title of a 2003 EP by the American rock band The Twilight Singers. The song ""Black Is the Colour (Of My True Love's Hair)"" is a traditional folk song which was first known in the United States about 1915. However, it may have come from Scotland originally. It is about a girl who is waiting for her lover to return from sea. Greg"
"Rosanna (song) ""Rosanna"" is a song written by David Paich and performed by the American rock band Toto, the opening track and the first single from their 1982 album ""Toto IV"". This song won the Record of the Year Grammy Award in the 1983 presentations. ""Rosanna"" was also nominated for the Song of the Year award. The song ""Rosanna"" peaked at No. 2 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 for five consecutive weeks, behind two different songs, ""Don't You Want Me"" by The Human League and ""Eye of the Tiger"" by Survivor. It was also one of the band's most successful"
"label run by The Police manager Miles Copeland and Mark Perry. On 16 July 1977, a few weeks after releasing ""Fascist Dictator"", the band recorded a session at Maida Vale 4 studio, for John Peel at BBC Radio 1. The track listing was ""Defiant Pose"", ""Television Families"", ""Having It"", and ""Further Education"". Later the Cortinas signed for CBS Records and released one album, ""True Romances"". One critic described the album as ""disappointing"" but rescued from ""bland oblivion"" by ""cheeky tracks such as ""Ask Mr. Waverly"" and ""I Trust Valerie Singleton"". Another called it a mix of ""rock'n’roll, R&B and pop-rock"""
"at the start of the album version while the single version begins with the sound of a police siren instead. Lyrically, the song is about class economics and race and thus proved controversial: some people thought it was advocating a kind of race war. The song was written after Joe Strummer and bassist Paul Simonon were involved in the riots at the Notting Hill Carnival of 1976. The single's cover photograph was taken by Caroline Coon on 5 November 1976 at the band's rehearsal studio in Camden Town. The photo was inspired by real-life events where youths were randomly stopped"
"horn arrangements. The most notable song to feature the orchestral coloring was ""Love to Love"". In 1994, a CD comprising this album and ""No Heavy Petting"" was released by BGO Records. 2008 EMI's remastered edition includes 4 live bonus tracks, recorded at The Roundhouse, London. The album cover erroneously states that these tracks were recorded in 1976, but the correct year is 1977. EMI did correct the writing credits, with Paul Raymond finally being credited for his contributions. The title track and ""Love to Love"" were featured in the 1999 movie ""Detroit Rock City"". ""Love to Love"" was also covered"