"UK in 1965. Somewhat irritated by her greater success with the song, Ochs sometimes introduced it as ""by Joan Baez"" in his live performances. All the songs are by Phil Ochs unless otherwise noted. +=omitted from the CD edition. There but for Fortune (album) There but for Fortune was a 1989 compilation that summed up the three albums that Phil Ochs recorded for Elektra Records between 1964 and 1966. The album drew heavily from the third, presenting ten of its eleven tracks, and presenting six and five respectively from the first and second. The compact disc edition omits three tracks,"
"recorded by conservative singer Willie Cater. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down ""The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"" is a song written by Robbie Robertson and originally recorded by the Canadian roots rock group the Band in 1969 and released on their eponymous second album. Levon Helm provided the lead vocals. The song is a first-person narrative relating the economic and social distress experienced by the protagonist, a poor white Southerner, during the last year of the American Civil War, when George Stoneman was raiding southwest Virginia. Frequently appearing on lists of the best rock songs of all"
"reference to her hit single. In October 1964, Baez recorded ""There but for Fortune"" for ""Joan Baez/5"". It was released in the U.S. as a single in June, 1965, with ""Daddy, You Been on My Mind"", a Bob Dylan song, as the B-side. In July, it was released as a single in the U.K., where its B-side was ""Plaisir D'Amour"". The single became a Top Ten hit in the U.K., reaching #8. It was also nominated for a Grammy Award for ""Best Folk Recording"". In the U.S. it peaked at #50 on the ""Billboard"" chart — a good showing, but"
"The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down ""The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"" is a song written by Robbie Robertson and originally recorded by the Canadian roots rock group the Band in 1969 and released on their eponymous second album. Levon Helm provided the lead vocals. The song is a first-person narrative relating the economic and social distress experienced by the protagonist, a poor white Southerner, during the last year of the American Civil War, when George Stoneman was raiding southwest Virginia. Frequently appearing on lists of the best rock songs of all time, it has been cited as"
"but for Fortune"" and The Band's ""The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"". She is also known for ""Farewell, Angelina"", ""Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word"", ""Forever Young"", ""Here's to You"", ""Joe Hill"", ""Sweet Sir Galahad"" and ""We Shall Overcome"". She was one of the first major artists to record the songs of Bob Dylan in the early 1960s; Baez was already an internationally celebrated artist and did much to popularize his early songwriting efforts. Baez also performed fourteen songs at the 1969 Woodstock Festival and has displayed a lifelong commitment to political and social activism in the fields of"
"Joan Baez/5 Joan Baez/5 is a 1964 album by American folk singer Joan Baez. It peaked at number 12 on the ""Billboard"" 200 chart. The single ""There But for Fortune"" reached number 50 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S. and became a top-ten single in the U.K. Unlike her prior albums, ""Joan Baez/5"" was divided evenly between contemporary work and traditional folk material. ""There But for Fortune"" was written by Phil Ochs, and she also included Bob Dylan's ""It Ain't Me Babe"" and Johnny Cash's ""I Still Miss Someone"", as well as a number of traditional English and"
"The Originals (band) The Originals, often called ""Motown's best-kept secret,"" were a successful Motown R&B and soul group during the late 1960s and the 1970s, most notable for the hits ""Baby, I'm For Real,"" ""The Bells,"" and the disco classic ""Down To Love Town."" Formed in 1966, the group originally consisted of baritone singer Freddie Gorman, tenor/falsetto Walter Gaines, and tenors C. P. Spencer and Hank Dixon (and briefly Joe Stubbs). Ty Hunter replaced Spencer when he left to go solo in the early 1970s. They had all previously sung in other Detroit groups, Spencer having been an original member"
"songs in her repertory on her four prior LPs, Baez had to broaden the range of her music, and she opened up some promising new territory in the process."" Reissue bonus tracks Joan Baez/5 Joan Baez/5 is a 1964 album by American folk singer Joan Baez. It peaked at number 12 on the ""Billboard"" 200 chart. The single ""There But for Fortune"" reached number 50 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S. and became a top-ten single in the U.K. Unlike her prior albums, ""Joan Baez/5"" was divided evenly between contemporary work and traditional folk material. ""There But for"
"Christy Minstrels, Peter, Paul and Mary, The Spokesmen, and Sammy Walker. Peter, Paul and Mary's cover features a bridge between the third and forth verses, containing references to hunger and children, written by Noel Paul Stookey. Also, a French version, ""Où va la chance?"", with lyrics adapted by Eddy Marnay, was originally performed by Françoise Hardy and later covered by Isabelle Boulay. There but for Fortune (song) ""There but for Fortune"" is a song by American folk musician Phil Ochs. Ochs wrote the song in 1963 and recorded it twice, for ""New Folks Volume 2"" (Vanguard, 1964) and ""Phil Ochs"
"Dorsey Dixon Dorsey Murdock Dixon (October 14, 1897, Darlington, South Carolina – April 18, 1968, Plant City, Florida) was an American old-time and country music songwriter and musician. He was also a millworker who spent much of his life working in textile mills in North and South Carolina. Dixon's best known songs were ""Wreck on the Highway"", which resulted in a copyright dispute with country musician Roy Acuff, and ""Babies in the Mill"", which was about the Southern textile industry's exploitation of child labor in the early 20th century. Dorsey Dixon was born on October 14, 1897 in Darlington, South"
"Nothin' 'Bout my Life Wrote Out, Because I Had it Too Rough in Life"". Dorsey Dixon Dorsey Murdock Dixon (October 14, 1897, Darlington, South Carolina – April 18, 1968, Plant City, Florida) was an American old-time and country music songwriter and musician. He was also a millworker who spent much of his life working in textile mills in North and South Carolina. Dixon's best known songs were ""Wreck on the Highway"", which resulted in a copyright dispute with country musician Roy Acuff, and ""Babies in the Mill"", which was about the Southern textile industry's exploitation of child labor in the"
"seemingly pulled from Newsweek. The seminal ""There But For Fortune"" made its debut here. All songs by Phil Ochs. The Early Years (Phil Ochs album) The Early Years is a compilation of seven recordings Phil Ochs made for a Vanguard compilation in 1964 and twelve made at three Newport Folk Festivals in 1963, 1964 and 1966, the latter tracks previously released on the 1996 compilation ""Live at Newport"". Of the seven studio tracks, only five had actually been released by Vanguard on the compilation ""The Original New Folks, Vol. 2"", ""How Long"" and ""Davey Moore"" making their debut here. They"
"Charlie Walker (musician) Charlie Walker (November 2, 1926 – September 12, 2008)<ref name='cmt.com/1594705'> </ref> was an American country musician born in Copeville, Texas. He held membership in the Grand Ole Opry from 1967, and was inducted into the Country Radio DJ Hall of Fame in 1981. Walker worked as a disc jockey in the early 1950s at KENS in San Antonio, Texas before signing with Decca Records. His first hit, ""Only You, Only You"" was co-written with Jack Newman and reached No. 9 on the country chart in January 1956. Walker later signed with Columbia Records and reached No. 2"
"Houston. The album reunited The Fortunes' original three vocalists: Rod Allen, Glen Dale, and Barry Pritchard, for the first time since the summer of 1966, when Dale had departed the band. The song's co-writer John Macleod had begun to record Pickettywitch for Pye Records in the summer of 1969, the band's debut single ""You Got Me So I Don't Know"" being released 25 July 1969: for their second release Macleod had the band record ""That Same Old Feeling"" with a resultant #5 hit spending five weeks in the Top Ten in March and April 1970: the track also afforded Pickettywitch"
"had career resurgences in the 2000s garage rock scene. Bands like Reigning Sound, Goober & the Peas, and The Black Keys have all cited Fortune artists as influential. Detroit's Motown Records dominated soul music for many years. Musicians included Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, Aretha Franklin (buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Detroit, where The Four Tops are also buried), Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye, Martha & the Vandellas, Smokey Robinson, Mary Wells (#1 with ""My Guy""), The Supremes and The Jackson 5. All of these artists had a #1 Billboard Hot 100 hit, except Martha & the Vandellas. The Supremes had 12"
"Fortune, a name he had previously considered for another artist he signed in 1959, Georgie Fame. The newly christened Fortune signed to Pye Records as a solo artist, and released four singles, two of which became hits in the UK Singles Chart in 1960. ""Be Mine"" reached No. 4, whilst the follow-up, ""This Love I Have For You"" was a Top 30 hit. In April 1960, Fortune and Jerry Keller replaced Eddie Cochran on Gene Vincent's then current UK tour, after Cochran's untimely death in a road accident. Later in the 1960s, Fortune joined a group called the Staggerlees. Lance"
"cover of ""That Same Old Feeling"" by session group Candy Apple reached a #25 chart peak in the ""Go-Set"" National Top 60 Singles chart in the autumn of 1970: the single was released by Astor Records who were also the label of release for the Pickettywitch version in Australia, where neither the Pickettywitch version nor that by The Fortunes - released by United Artists - would chart. ""That Same Old Feeling"" has also been recorded by the Flying Machine (album ""Down to Earth""/ 1970), Liz Damon's Orient Express (album ""Liz Damon's Orient Express""/ 1970), the Red Birds () (album ""Fly"
"in 1975 on Reprise Records. The album was surprisingly eclectic, especially by Nashville standards, including cover versions of the Beatles' ""For No One"", Merle Haggard's ""Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down"" and the Louvin Brothers' ""If I Could Only Win Your Love"". It also featured ""Bluebird Wine"", a composition by a young Texas songwriter, Rodney Crowell, who was the first in a long line of songwriters whose talents Harris has championed. The record was one of the most expensive country records produced at the time, featuring the talents of James Burton, Glen Hardin, Ron Tutt, Ray Pohlman, and Bill Payne,"
"a publisher friend told him that Bob Shane of the folk music group the Kingston Trio would be in the publisher's office the next morning, and the publisher asked Drake to write a song for Shane to sing solo. Shane recorded it for the album ""Goin' Places"" and other folk performers covered it. In a 2009 interview, Drake said that in 1965, Frank Sinatra had heard the song on his car radio as he was driving home in the desert and immediately pulled over in the middle of the night to a gas station and pay phone. He called Gordon"
"Way to Go"" (2002) and ""This World We Live In"" (2006). Overall, Foster has had thirteen songs on the ""Billboard"" Hot Country Songs charts, including the Top Ten hits ""Just Call Me Lonesome"" (#10, 1992) and ""Nobody Wins"" (#2, 1993). His songs have been recorded by Gary Allan, Sara Evans, Keith Urban, Hootie and the Blowfish, and Jack Ingram. Foster was born in Del Rio, Texas, as the second of four children. His father was a lawyer who sang and played guitar and by age 12, Foster began playing the guitar as well, and by 14, he began writing songs."
"Carl Belew Carl Robert Belew (April 21, 1931 – October 31, 1990) was an American country music singer and songwriter. Belew recorded for Decca, RCA Victor, and MCA in the 1950s through 1970s, charting 11 times on Hot Country Songs. He also wrote singles for Johnnie & Jack, Eddy Arnold, Jim Reeves, and others. Born in Salina, Oklahoma, Belew's musical career began in the 1950s when he performed on the Louisiana Hayride. He signed to Decca Records by the end of the decade, reaching number 9 on the country music charts with ""Am I That Easy to Forget"", which was"
"Luther Dixon Luther Dixon (August 7, 1931 – October 22, 2009) was an American songwriter, record producer, and singer. Dixon's songs achieved their greatest success in the 1950s and 1960s, and were recorded by Elvis Presley, the Beatles, the Jackson 5, B.B. King, Jerry Lee Lewis, Dusty Springfield, Jimmy Reed and others. As a producer, Dixon helped create the signature sound of the girl group the Shirelles. Dixon was born in Jacksonville, Florida, but his family moved to Brooklyn, New York, when he was young. He learned to sing in church. Dixon began his professional career in 1954 with the"
"Band"" album was ""The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"". The song tells a fictional story of a Confederate citizen's experiences at the end of the American Civil War, and features actual historical events worked into the song to create a larger American mythos. Although the Band's original version was not released as a single, a cover version by Joan Baez went to #3 on the charts in 1971 and helped to popularize the song. Several other tracks from ""The Band"" received significant radio airplay, and would become staples in the group's concert appearances. ""Up on Cripple Creek"" peaked at"
"Farmer"", ""Family Man"", ""Baby Rocked Her Dolly"", and ""A Little South of Memphis"". He performed on the ""Louisiana Hayride"" and the ""Grand Ole Opry"", and was featured in ""Cashbox"" magazine. His last charting hit came in 1964, and he recorded with United Artists in 1965, but quit the music business soon after. He worked as a car salesman in Arlington, Texas later in life. In the 1980s, Bear Family Records reissued his LPs. Frankie Miller (country musician) Frankie Miller (born December 17, 1931, Victoria, Texas) is an American country musician. Miller landed time singing on local station KNAL and recorded"
"/ Good Bye, I Hate To See You Go 1970 Fortune Records Fortune Records was an American family operated, independent record label located in Detroit, Michigan from 1946 to 1995. The label owners were Jack and Devora Brown, their son Sheldon Brown recorded for the label. Original releases tapered off after 1972 aside from a few albums in the mid-1980s. Fortune specialized in R&B, blues, soul and doo-wop music, although the label also released pop, big band, hillbilly, gospel, rock and roll, and polka records. Fortune released some doo-wop tunes by Nolan Strong & The Diablos, such as ""The Wind"""
"Dixie"", going on the road in the coming season; this musical farce was Davis's property with Tom McIntosh. On October 18, 1899, Davis died at home in Whitestone. At the time of his death, Gussie Davis had published more than three hundred songs and certainly left more in manuscript. Also notable is Davis's ""Irene, Good Night"" (1886), which entered the folk song repertoire, albeit significantly altered, as ""Goodnight, Irene"" in ""Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Lead Belly"" (1936). Gussie Davis Gussie Lord Davis (December 3, 1863 – October 18, 1899) was an African-American songwriter born in Dayton, Ohio. Davis"
"the song ""The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"" was also featured as part of a promotional-only compilation album released by Capitol records entitled ""The Greatest Music Ever Sold"" (Capitol SPRO-8511/8512), which was distributed to record stores during the 1976 Holiday season as part of Capitol's ""Greatest Music Ever Sold"" campaign which promoted 15 greatest hits albums issued by the record label. The Best of the Band The Best of the Band is the first greatest hits package by Canadian-American rock group The Band. Featuring ten tracks taken from six of their first seven albums (not counting 1974's ""Before the"
"country, and jazz. My Babe ""My Babe"" is a Chicago blues song and a blues standard written by Willie Dixon for Little Walter. Released in 1955 on Checker Records, a subsidiary of Chess Records, the song was the only Dixon composition ever to become a number one R&B single and it was one of the biggest hits of either of their careers. Dixon based ""My Babe"" on the traditional gospel song ""This Train (Is Bound For Glory)"", recorded by Sister Rosetta Tharpe as ""This Train"". He reworked the arrangement and lyrics from the sacred (the procession of saints into Heaven)"
"questions for ... Kay Starr. ""Goldmine"", 29, 26. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1499165 Kay Starr Katherine Laverne Starks (July 21, 1922November 3, 2016), known professionally as Kay Starr, was an American pop and jazz singer who enjoyed considerable success in the late 1940s and 1950s. She is best remembered for introducing two songs that became No. 1 hits ""Wheel of Fortune"" in 1951 and ""(The) Rock and Roll Waltz"" in 1955. Starr was successful in every field of music she tried, such as jazz, pop, and country; but her roots were in jazz. Billie Holiday called her ""the only white woman who"
"song's transmission is acknowledged in ""Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus: Writings 1968–2010"" (Public Affairs, 2010, p. 410). Washington taught Joan Baez ""There But For Fortune"" by Phil Ochs, which provided Baez with her first appearance on the singles chart. (You can tell she learned it from him because he had made a lyric change; where Ochs had written ""whose face is growing pale"", Jackie, being black, had substituted ""whose life has grown stale""—which is how Baez sings it.) Originally managed by Manny Greenhill, Joan Baez's manager, Washington later did his own bookings. He is currently managed by Mitch Greenhill, (Manny's"
"the Top 40 hit Natural One by the band Folk Implosion as well as his involvement with Fort Apache Studios in Boston. He was also a member of the A&M recording act, Orbit. In 2005, after working together on Barry’s solo album, ""All the Money in the World"", the pair began writing, producing, recording and mixing for other artists under the name WAX LTD. In 2009, WAX LTD moved their operations into the former TTG Studios in Hollywood, CA, where a number of acts from the 1960s and 1970s recorded such as Jimi Hendrix, the Velvet Underground, the Doors, Neil"
"Records A-101) and more making a name for themselves in early years. In 1967 P.J. Proby recorded his only Top 30 hit ""Niki Hoeky"" by Jim Ford, Lolly Vegas, and Pat Vegas. The next year, Bobbie Gentry performed the Cajun-influenced song on The Summer Smothers Brothers Show. Pat Vegas also wrote songs for legendary names like Aretha Franklin amongst others. According to Pat Vegas, Jimi Hendrix, himself part Cherokee, inspired the musicians to form an all-Native American rock group. They signed as the band ""Redbone"" to Epic Records in 1969. The band then consisted of Pat Vegas, Lolly Vegas, Peter"
"their two daughters, Helen-Marie, was born. Tara was born two years later. Gilbert O'Sullivan Gilbert O'Sullivan (born Raymond Edward O'Sullivan, 1 December 1946) is an Irish-English singer-songwriter, best known for his early 1970s hits ""Alone Again (Naturally)"", ""Clair"", and ""Get Down"". Worldwide he has charted 16 top-40 records, including six No. 1 songs, the first of which was 1970's ""Nothing Rhymed"". His most successful recording period was between 1970 and 1980, though he has since recorded ten studio albums up to 2015. Speaking in 2009 he said, ""I write pop songs. That's all I want to do. I have no"