"The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore (album) The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore is the second North-American album release by the Walker Brothers. Released in 1966, the album was the group's fourth overall. ""Portrait"" was not released in the United States or Canada. In its place Smash Records compiled ""The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore"" as the group's second American album. This alternate album shifted around the running order even more so than ""Introducing the Walker Brothers"" altered the group's début and substituted the majority of the album's tracks, leaving only ""Just For a Thrill"", ""Old Folks"", ""People Get Ready"""
"distributed it on a national scale, and promoted the band by booking television appearances on ""American Bandstand"" and ""Where the Action Is"". On October 29, 1966, after a steady climb up the charts, the single peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for a week before being overtaken by The Monkees' ""Last Train to Clarksville"". It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA. The next two singles for ""Question Mark and the Mysterians"", ""I Need Somebody"" and ""Can't Get Enough of You Baby"", also charted, but were nowhere near as successful"
"Nat's young son Steve Kipner, who went on to front Sydney-based beat band Steve & The Board and subsequently formed the British-based pop duo Tin Tin with fellow Australian Steve Groves. Sunshine's greatest success was solo singer Normie Rowe, who scored a string of major Australian hits between 1965 and 1968, and his double-A-sided 1965 single ""Que Sera Sera"" / ""Shakin' All Over"" became one of the biggest-selling local hits of the 1960s and is still one of the biggest selling Australian singles of all time. The Sunshine roster featured several male solo singers including Normie Rowe, Peter Doyle (who"
"Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me ""Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me"" is a song written by English singer Elton John and his lyricist Bernie Taupin. It was originally recorded in 1974 by Elton John for his studio album ""Caribou"" and was released as a single that peaked at number two on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart and reached number 16 on the UK Singles Chart. The song found further success in 1991 in a live cover version recorded as a duet between John and George Michael, which reached number one in the UK and US."
"first No. 1 hit. The Beatles later recorded a cover of it in 1965, with Ringo Starr as lead singer. Ringo Starr later re-recorded the song as a duet with Owens in 1988. The 1966 album ""Carnegie Hall Concert"" was a smash hit and further cemented Buck Owens and the Buckaroos as more than just another honky tonk country band. They achieved crossover success on to the pop charts. During that year, R&B singer Ray Charles released cover versions of two of Owens' songs that became pop hits: ""Crying Time"" and ""Together Again"". In 1967, Owens and the Buckaroos toured"
"1960s include Judy Henske, Richard and Mimi Fariña, and the Mugwumps, the latter of which were a New York band featuring future members of the Lovin' Spoonful and the Mamas & the Papas. Also of note are the Australian band the Seekers, who had relocated to England in 1964 and reached number 1 on the UK Singles Chart with ""I'll Never Find Another You"" in February 1965. Unterberger has noted that, although it was not strictly a folk song, ""I'll Never Find Another You"" was heavily influenced by Peter, Paul and Mary and featured a cyclical, twelve-string guitar part that"
"Ain't No Sunshine ""Ain't No Sunshine"" is a song by Bill Withers from his 1971 album ""Just As I Am,"" produced by Booker T. Jones. The record featured musicians Donald ""Duck"" Dunn on bass guitar, Al Jackson, Jr. on drums and Stephen Stills on guitar. String arrangements were done by Booker T. Jones, and recorded in Memphis by engineer Terry Manning. The song is in the key of A minor. The song was released as a single in 1971, becoming a breakthrough hit for Withers, reaching number six on the U.S. R&B Chart and number three on the ""Billboard"" Hot"
"release, and stayed at the top of the charts for seven weeks, making it the Popular Music Song of the Year in 1966. ""And the Grass Won't Pay No Mind"" brought covers from Elvis Presley (who also interpreted ""Sweet Caroline"") and Mark Lindsay, former lead singer for Paul Revere & the Raiders. Other notable artists who recorded his early songs were the English hard-rock band Deep Purple, Lulu, and Cliff Richard. In 1966, Diamond signed a deal with Bert Berns's Bang Records, then a subsidiary of Atlantic. His first release on that label, ""Solitary Man"", became his first true hit"
"Sun. The song reached the ""Billboard"" national country music chart #1 position on February 25, 1956 on the ""Billboard"" C&W Best Sellers in Stores chart, and remained there at #1 for 2 weeks, and spent 5 weeks at #1 on the ""Billboard"" C&W Most Played in Juke Boxes chart. The record reached #4 on the ""Billboard"" Most Played by Jockeys chart. It was the first recording to make Elvis Presley a nationally-known country music star. The song remained on the country charts for 39 weeks. The flip side of this release, ""Mystery Train"", peaked at the #11 position on the"
"Band's 1966 number 1 hit, ""Winchester Cathedral"", and the pair wrote Herman's Hermits 1965 hit ""Can't You Hear My Heartbeat"", which reached number 2 on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100. Carter, Lewis and Ford continued as The Ivy League, who had a number of chart hits, and also providing backing vocals on such hit singles as The Who's ""I Can't Explain""). In 1966 they left the Ivy League to form the production company 'Sunny Music', creating The Flower Pot Men whose hit ""Let's Go To San Francisco"" reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart in 1967. By this time"
"first period of British success in the late 1960s started with ""New York Mining Disaster 1941"" and the band added drummer Colin Petersen and guitarist Vince Melouney to their line up. They toured Europe in 1967 and 1968 as well as the US in August 1968. The band's first UK No. 1 was ""Massachusetts"" which features Gibb on lead vocal. On the day it reached number one, 5 November 1967, Robin Gibb recalled to ""The Mail on Sunday"" on 1 November 2009: On 13 June 1968, Gibb recorded demos for seven songs, accompanying himself on guitar. The tape listed Robin"
"Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin' ""Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin'"" is a song written by Joe Greene and released in 1946 by Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five. Jordan's version reached No. 3 in ""Billboard""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s chart of ""Most-Played Juke Box Race Records"". The song was recorded by Ray Charles, and appeared in his 1959's album The Genius of Ray Charles. Charles's version reached No. 17 on ""Billboard""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s ""Hot R&B Sides"" and No. 95 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. It was also recorded by Jackie DeShannon on her 1965 album ""This is Jackie De Shannon"", Paul McCartney"
"1966 with The Beatles. The song peaked at #2 on the ""Billboard Hot 100"" chart in late August 1966 behind, Summer in the City by The Lovin' Spoonful. Cher recorded the song for her third solo album Chér released in 1966. The song is considered to be a tribute to her then husband, Sonny Bono. It was released as a single in Europe and Asia, and it achieved success in numerous countries. ""Sunny '76"" is a disco version of Bobby Hebb's song. Like the original 1966 version, it features Hebb. However, the song was updated with a disco beat so"
"and winter of 1965. After a month-long run at the top of the R&B charts, the song reached #4 on the US pop charts and #11 in the UK, and gave Chess its first million-selling single since Chuck Berry a decade earlier. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. Bass followed with ""Recovery,"" which did moderately well, peaking at #13 (R&B) and #37 (pop) in early 1966. The same year brought two more R&B hits, ""I Can't Rest"" (backed with ""I Surrender)"" and ""You'll Never Know."" Her only album with Chess Records, ""The New Look"","
"Masquerade Is Over"" (Chancellor 1110), 7/62; ""Remember Me"" (Warner Brothers 5367), 8/63; and ""Ain't Gonna Dance"" (aka ""Ain't Gonna Cry"", Roulette 4563), 7/64. In total, the group appeared on an unusually high number of record labels, even for their era, when such label-hopping was far more of a common practice. In 1965, Parris retooled his band, and started a three-year run of getting substantial airplay almost exclusively inside his home state of Connecticut, as Fred Parris and the Restless Hearts. Songs included ""No Use In Crying"" (Checker 1108), 5/65; ""Blushing Bride/Giving My Love To You"" (Green-Sea 106), 8/66; ""Bring It"
"1996, The Chemical Brothers released the single ""Setting Sun"" inspired by The Beatles' ""Tomorrow Never Knows"" and featuring Oasis' Noel Gallagher on vocals - a well-known admirer of The Beatles' work. Setting Sun hit #1 on the UK Singles Chart on its first week of release and the common consensus was The Chemical Brothers had sampled/looped significant parts of Tomorrow Never Knows in the creation of Setting Sun. The three remaining Beatles took legal action against the Chemical Brothers/Virgin Records for copyright infringement, however, a musicologist proved the Chemical Brothers had independently created Setting Sun - albeit in a similar"
"Cloud That Cried"" ran their course, more hit songs followed. They included ""Please, Mr. Sun"", ""Such a Night,"" ""Walkin' My Baby Back Home,"" ""A Sinner Am I"" and ""Yes Tonight Josephine."" He had a United Kingdom number 1 hit with ""Just Walkin' in the Rain"" (which Ray initially disliked) during the Christmas season in 1956. He hit again in 1957 with ""You Don't Owe Me a Thing,"" which reached number 10 on the Billboard charts in the United States. Though his American popularity was declining in 1957, he remained popular in the United Kingdom, breaking the attendance record at the"
"The Supremes, was first replaced by ""Mr. Tambourine Man"" by The Byrds, then regained the top spot before being replaced by ""(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"" by The Rolling Stones. ""Billboard"" ranked the record as the No. 2 song of 1965. It was also the Four Tops first Top 40 single in the UK, reaching #23 on its original release, and a 1970 reissue peaked at #10 in the UK charts. The song finds lead singer Levi Stubbs, assisted by the other three Tops and The Andantes, pleadingly professing his love to a woman: ""Sugar pie, honey bunch/I'm weaker than"
"United States, the song peaked at number 23 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 on 9 July 1966, and remained in that position the following week. The ""Paperback Writer"" single reached number 1 in the UK (for two weeks starting on 23 June). ""Rolling Stone"" magazine ranks ""Rain"" 463rd in its list of ""The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time"". On a similar list compiled by the New York radio station Q104.3, the song appeared at number 382. ""Rain"" is notable for Ringo Starr's drumming, which Starr rates as his best recorded performance. Both Ian MacDonald and ""Rolling Stone"" described his"
"number 6), ""The Night Has A Thousand Eyes"" (1963, US number 3; UK number 3) and ""Come Back When You Grow Up"" (1967, US number 3). On the recording of ""Come Back When You Grow Up"" Bobby Vee and The Strangers are credited. However, that was merely the record label giving a name to the studio musicians working that day. Bobby's original band, The Shadows, backed him on the road, but changed their name to The Strangers upon learning of the UK band The Shadows who backed Cliff Richard. They had not backed him since 1963. He also recorded, in"
"number-one from a previous position beneath the Top 20, following The Beatles and the 27–1 leap of their single ""Can't Buy Me Love"" in April 1964. In addition, it was the first number-one collaboration between solo women since 1979's two-weeks number-one run of ""No More Tears (Enough Is Enough),"" performed by Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer. The same week, ""The Boy Is Mine"" also moved to number-one on the Hot R&B Singles, Hot 100 Singles Sales and Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales charts. Within the first month of its purchasable release the song went on to sell 605,000 units. It spent"
"It also predates what The Beatles did with promotional films of their singles ""Rain"" and ""Paperback Writer"", both released in 1966. But, The Beatles had done many promotional films in 1964 and 1965. The song reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart in late January 1965. In the US, ""Go Now!"" did not enter the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 until mid-February 1965; it peaked at No. 10. The next chart successes for The Moody Blues would be with ""Nights in White Satin"" and ""Tuesday Afternoon"" in 1968. The Moody Blues had little success with singles after ""Go Now!"" in the"
"""High Time Baby,"" ""On the Green Light,"" and ""When I Come Home"" as highlights. Autumn '66 Autumn' 66 is the third studio album by the British rock group The Spencer Davis Group released in 1966. Although the album was not released in the US, the single ""Somebody Help Me"" was on the US Billboard Hot 100 charts for seven weeks and peaked at number 47 in July, 1967. The Allmusic retrospective review by Richie Unterberger commented that ""At the peak of their popularity, the Spencer Davis Group's albums were considerably less impressive than their hits"", and criticized the album for"
"Paperback Writer ""Paperback Writer"" is a 1966 song recorded and released by the English rock band the Beatles. Written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon (credited to Lennon–McCartney), the song was released as the A-side of their eleventh single. The single went to the No. 1 spot in the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, West Germany, Australia, New Zealand and Norway. On the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100, the song was at No. 1 for two non-consecutive weeks, being interrupted by Frank Sinatra's ""Strangers in the Night"". ""Paperback Writer"" was the last new song by the Beatles to be featured on"
"Let the Sunshine In (album) Let the Sunshine In is the sixteenth studio album by Diana Ross & the Supremes recorded and released by Motown in 1969. It contains the hit single ""I'm Livin' in Shame"" (the sequel to 1968's number-one hit ""Love Child""), ""The Composer,"" a Smokey Robinson composition that peaked at number 27, and ""No Matter What Sign You Are,"" - a single produced by Motown chief Berry Gordy that failed to crack to Top 30 (peaking at number 31). Though the album was released when the group consisted of Diana Ross, Mary Wilson and Cindy Birdsong, original"
"American record charts as leaders of a second wave of R&B oriented bands. In addition to Chicago blues numbers, the Rolling Stones also covered songs by Chuck Berry and Bobby and Shirley Womack, the latter's, ""It's All Over Now"", giving them their first UK number one in 1964. After the success of their cover of ""Little Red Rooster"" in 1964, the song-writing partnership between Jagger and Richards gradually began to dominate the band's output, giving them their breakthrough international hit ""(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (1965), a song which borrowed phrases and rhythms from R&B standards, and would be covered"
"I'll Never Smile Again ""I'll Never Smile Again"" is a 1940 song written by Ruth Lowe. The most successful and best-known version of the song was recorded by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra, with vocals provided by Frank Sinatra and The Pied Pipers. This recording was released as a Victor 78, 26628A, in 1940. This version was number one on ""Billboard""'s first ""National List of Best Selling Retail Records"" — the first official national music chart — on July 27, 1940, staying at the top spot for 12 weeks until October 12, 1940. The tune was inducted into the Grammy"
"bands, such as the Seeds and the Shadows of Knight. They also made a national television appearance on ""Hullabaloo."" There is also an uncredited electric organist. Time Won't Let Me ""Time Won't Let Me"" is a garage rock song that was recorded by the Outsiders, from Cleveland, Ohio, in 1965, and which became a major hit in the United States in 1966, reaching #5 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 on the week of April 16 of that year.<ref name=""Billboard (Time Wont'/Chart)""></ref> It is ranked as the 42nd biggest American hit of 1966. The song was composed by the band's guitarist"
"Abe Most (sax/wwd); Victor Arno, Israel Baker, Alex Beller, Herman Clebanoff, James Getzoff, Anatol Kaminsky, Ralph Schaeffer, Paul Shure, Victor Bay (vln); Barbara Simons, Paul Robyn (via); Justin DiTullio, Elizabeth Greenschpoon, Armand Kaproff (vie); Bill Miller (p); Artie Kane (organ); Al Viola (g); Ralph Pena (b); Irving Cottier (d); Victor Feldman (perc); Nelson Riddle (cond). Strangers in the Night (Frank Sinatra album) Strangers in the Night is a 1966 studio album by Frank Sinatra. It marked Sinatra's return to #1 on the pop album charts in the mid-1960s, and consolidated the comeback he started in 1965. Combining pop hits with"
"1967. It was considerably better received in his homeland – the single reached #7, and remained for 14 weeks in the bestsellers in the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It sold over one million copies worldwide, earning a gold disc. The track was written by Tony Powers (lyrics) and George Fischoff (music), arranged by Joe Renzetti, and was produced by Jerry Ross. Its title relates to the normal human body temperature in degrees Fahrenheit. His debut album, ""98.6/Ain't Gonna Lie"", was also issued on the Mercury label. His 1968 second Mercury LP, ""Out of Crank"", failed to sell well. The low"
"then a string of hits for Sandie Shaw. They included ""Girl Don't Come"" (No. 3, 1964/65), ""I'll Stop at Nothing"" (No. 4, 1965), ""Message Understood"" (No. 6, 1965) and ""Long Live Love"" (No. 1, 1965). The latter remained a chart topper in the UK Singles Chart for three weeks. ""Girl Don't Come"" was covered by Cher on her debut album, ""All I Really Want to Do"". Also in 1965, Andrews as a solo artist, got to No. 3 in the same listings with ""Yesterday Man"", which peaked in Germany at No. 1 for four weeks; followed up with a No."
"only found out about the single being a hit via the music press. The dramatic success of the song prompted Simon to return to the US, the duo reformed, and they soon became one of the flagship acts of the folk-rock boom of the mid-1960s. Their next album ""Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme"" went to No. 4 on the ""Billboard"" album chart and spawned the Top 20 single ""A Hazy Shade of Winter"", but progress slowed during 1966-67 as Simon struggled with writer's block and the demands of constant touring. They shot back to the top in 1968 after Simon"
"older recordings—RCA, Mercury and Sun—to look for potential hits among the Rich tracks in their vaults. One of the first such songs to be released as a single was ""There Won't Be Anymore."" An earlier blues version of ""There Won't Be Anymore"" was recorded at Sun by Rich in the late 1950s/early 1960s. Issued in December 1973, at the time his Epic single ""The Most Beautiful Girl"" was peaking in popularity, ""There Won't Be Anymore"" quickly became Rich's fourth #1 song overall, and the first of his five chart-toppers during 1974. The B-side of the 1973 release of ""There Won't"