"John Marascalco John Marascalco (born John S. Marascalso, 27 March 1931)) is an American songwriter, who was most noted for the songs he wrote for Little Richard. He was born in Grenada, Mississippi. He co-wrote several of the most seminal songs in 1950s rock and roll. Together with Robert Blackwell, he wrote the songs ""Good Golly Miss Molly"", ""Ready Teddy"", and ""Rip It Up"" made famous by Little Richard. Also for Little Richard, Marascalco co-wrote ""Heeby Jeebies"", ""She's Got It"", and ""Groovy Little Suzy"". He co-wrote the song ""Goodnight My Love"" with George Motola made famous by Jesse Belvin and"
"of ""Long Tall Sally"". The song, with its twelve-bar blues chord progression, provided the foundation of Little Richard's career. It was seen as a very aggressive song that contained more features of African American vernacular music than any other past recordings in this style. Richard's contract with Peacock had been purchased by Specialty Records owner Art Rupe, who also owned the publishing company that bought Richard's songs. Specialty's deal with Richard was typical of most record companies's dealings with their artists. ""Tutti Frutti"" provided the title for one of the earliest books about the development of rock and roll and"
"""Long Tall Sally"" EP. According to music critic Richie Unterberger, ""George Harrison's resonant 12-string electric guitar leads were hugely influential; the movie helped persuade the Byrds, then folksingers, to plunge all out into rock & roll, and the Beatles would be hugely influential on the folk-rock explosion of 1965. The Beatles' success, too, had begun to open the US market for fellow English bands like the Rolling Stones, the Animals, and the Kinks, and inspired young American groups like the Beau Brummels, Lovin' Spoonful, and others to mount a challenge of their own with self-penned material that owed a great"
"""Long Tall Sally"", which would influence performers such as James Brown, Elvis Presley, and Otis Redding. Ruth Brown on the Atlantic label, placed hits in the top five every year from 1951 through 1954: ""Teardrops from My Eyes"", ""Five, Ten, Fifteen Hours"", ""(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean"" and ""What a Dream"". Faye Adams's ""Shake a Hand"" made it to number two in 1952. In 1953, the R&B record-buying public made Willie Mae Thornton's original recording of Leiber and Stoller's ""Hound Dog"" the number three hit that year. Ruth Brown was very prominent among female R&B stars; her popularity was"
"The Beatles' Long Tall Sally The Beatles' Long Tall Sally is The Beatles' final album to be released exclusively in Canada. It was a mono release on the Capitol Records label (catalogue number T 6063) in May 1964. After the release of this album, Beatles' records in Canada would match the group's United States releases, starting with the United Artists version of the ""A Hard Day's Night"" album, and, on Capitol, ""Something New"". This was done under orders from Capitol president Alan W. Livingston. Earlier American Beatle album releases were also issued in Canada. This album borrows its name—and two"
"Long Tall Sally (EP) Long Tall Sally by the Beatles was their fifth official EP release, and the first British EP that included songs not previously released on an album or single in the United Kingdom (two of the tracks had seen an American release earlier in the year on ""The Beatles' Second Album"", with the other two released on the North American album ""Something New""). It was released by Parlophone in mono with the catalogue number GEP 8913 and released in the United Kingdom on 19 June 1964. It was also released in Spain and France. ""I Call Your"
"jump blues style of Joe Brown and Billy Wright. However, it wasn't until he prepared a demo in 1954, that caught the attention of Specialty Records, that the world would start to hear his new, uptempo, funky rhythm and blues that would catapult him to fame in 1955 and help define the sound of rock and roll. A rapid succession of rhythm-and-blues hits followed, beginning with ""Tutti Frutti"" and ""Long Tall Sally"", which would influence performers such as James Brown, Elvis Presley, and Otis Redding. At the urging of Leonard Chess at Chess Records, Chuck Berry had reworked a country"
"""Good Golly, Miss Molly"". The song itself was later recorded by Chuck Miller, Earl Richards, Merrill Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Freddy Cannon, Canned Heat, Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen, The Flamin' Groovies, Mitch Woods, Meat Puppets, George Thorogood and others. A cover by Asleep at the Wheel peaked at number 17 on the ""Billboard"" Hot Country Singles chart in 1987. The House of Blue Lights (song) ""The House of Blue Lights"" is a popular song published in 1946, written by Don Raye and Freddie Slack. It was first recorded by Freddie Slack with singer Ella Mae"
"detail of her relationship with Sutcliffe and the Beatles, the film was not well received by others depicted in the movie. Paul McCartney said: One of my annoyances about the film ""Backbeat"" is that they've actually taken my rock 'n' rollness off me. They give John the song ""Long Tall Sally"" to sing and he never sang it in his life. But now it's set in cement. It's like the Buddy Holly and Glenn Miller stories. ""The Buddy Holly Story"" does not even mention Norman Petty, and ""The Glenn Miller Story"" is a sugarcoated version of his life. Now ""Backbeat"""
"love Paul"", and being pursued by Frankie Avalon, also playing himself. Tall Paul ""Tall Paul"" is a song recorded by Annette Funicello and written by the Sherman Brothers. It marked the first time that a female singer reached a top ten slot for a rock and roll single. It also spotlighted Annette from amongst the other Mouseketeers on the Mickey Mouse Club and paved the way for the movie career which followed. Walt Disney personally took notice of the string of chart toppers which the Sherman Brothers were writing for Annette and subsequently asked the songwriters to work for him"
"million copies. Little Richard's next hit single, ""Long Tall Sally"" (1956), became his first to reach No. 1 on the R&B chart and the first to reach the top ten of the pop charts in both America and Britain. Like ""Tutti Frutti"", it sold over a million copies. Following his success, Little Richard built up his backup band, The Upsetters, with the addition of saxophonists Clifford ""Gene"" Burks and leader Grady Gaines, bassist Olsie ""Baysee"" Robinson and guitarist Nathaniel ""Buster"" Douglas. Little Richard began performing on package tours across the United States, often appearing last, where he would steal the"
"it, Paul McCartney was reported to say: In addition to their studio recording of the song, the Beatles recorded ""Long Tall Sally"" for BBC radio broadcasts on seven occasions during 1963 and 1964. Two of these versions have been officially released, on the compilation albums ""Live at the BBC"" (1994) and ""On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2"" (2013). In addition, a live recording from the 1964 television special ""Around the Beatles"" was included on the ""Anthology 1"" compilation (1995). The live album ""The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl"" (1977) includes a 1964 concert recording of the song."
"Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress ""Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress"" (also titled ""Long Cool Woman"" or ""Long Cool Woman (in a Black Dress)"") is a song written by Allan Clarke, Roger Cook, and Roger Greenaway and performed by the British rock group The Hollies. Originally appearing on the album ""Distant Light"", it was released as a single on 17 April 1972 (on Parlophone in the United Kingdom), selling 1.5 million copies in the United States and two million worldwide. It reached No. 2 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in September 1972. ""Billboard"" ranked it as the"
"Tall, Tall Trees ""Tall, Tall Trees"" is a song co-written by American singers George Jones and Roger Miller. Both singers recorded their own versions: Jones on his 1958 album ""Long Live King George"", and Miller on his 1970 album ""A Trip in the Country"". However, it was not until October 1995 that the song was released as a single, by Alan Jackson, as one of the newly recorded tracks for his 1995 compilation album ""The Greatest Hits Collection"". Jackson's cover was his eleventh Number One hit on the ""Billboard"" country charts. The song is an up-tempo in which the narrator"
"""dual mono/simulated stereo"" sound by emphasizing the higher frequencies on the right channel and lower frequency on the left. The Beatles' Long Tall Sally The Beatles' Long Tall Sally is The Beatles' final album to be released exclusively in Canada. It was a mono release on the Capitol Records label (catalogue number T 6063) in May 1964. After the release of this album, Beatles' records in Canada would match the group's United States releases, starting with the United Artists version of the ""A Hard Day's Night"" album, and, on Capitol, ""Something New"". This was done under orders from Capitol president"
"Harry Tally Harry Lee Tally (June 30, 1866 – August 16, 1939) was an American tenor singer of popular songs, who recorded between 1902 and 1917. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and began performing in a popular vaudeville act, the Empire City Quartet. Described as ""a sweet-voiced tenor"", he first recorded as a solo singer in late 1902, and thereafter recorded prolifically for several labels, particularly Columbia, Victor, and Edison. He recorded a wide variety of material, from sentimental to comic. Among his most commercially successful songs were ""Seminole"" (first recorded in 1903), ""Wait 'Till the Sun Shines, Nellie"""
"of Zsuzsa Koncz. The band, which previously gained its Budapest-wide fame from small club concerts playing Italian and English hits (like ones from The Hurricanes, The Shadows and The Beatles) recorded its first albums ""Long Tall Sally"" and ""Little Richard/Chapel"". The band was more and more often accompanied by the young Levente Szörényi, with whom Bródy began their acclaimed musical partnership. After many of the members finished university, the band went through multiple changes, but was getting more and more fame. Adding to the atmosphere of playing western music, Bródy and Szörényi wrote lyrics that - embedding the possibility of"
"Long Tall Sally"". This longer (12-song) Canadian album did not include ""Money"", ""Thank You Girl"" or ""She Loves You"" but instead had ""I Want to Hold Your Hand"", ""I Saw Her Standing There"", ""This Boy"" and ""Misery"". In 1968, ""The Beatles' Second Album"", ""The Early Beatles"" and ""Meet the Beatles!"" were released in Canada, though the earlier Canadian LPs remained in print (eventually with stereo mixes) until the CD era precipitated their deletion in the late 1980s. All tracks written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, except where noted. See also: Lennon–McCartney. Note: The Capitol 8-track (8XT-2080) added one additional"
"worked. In 1962, concert promoter Don Arden persuaded Little Richard to tour Europe after telling him his records were still selling well there. Arden booked him as the headline artist, with Sam Cooke second on the bill. Little Richard, thinking it was a gospel tour, performed gospel material at the first show and received a tepid response (Cooke did not open that show, as he was delayed in arriving). After Cooke opened the second show, with vigorous applause from the crowd, Little Richard and his organist Billy Preston warmed up in darkness before launching into ""Long Tall Sally"", resulting in"
"Name"" was written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, a song they originally gave to Billy J. Kramer and his backing band The Dakotas. Kramer released it as the B-side to ""Bad to Me"", a Lennon song that Kramer took to number 1. The remaining songs were covers. The picture on the album cover was taken by Robert Freeman, as stated on the back. Long Tall Sally (EP) Long Tall Sally by the Beatles was their fifth official EP release, and the first British EP that included songs not previously released on an album or single in the United Kingdom"
"Mars' song, ""Runaway Baby"" from his album, ""Doo-Wops & Hooligans"" was cited by ""The New York Times"" as ""channeling Little Richard"". Prior to his passing in 2017, Audioslave's and Soundgarden's frontman Chris Cornell traced his musical influences back to Little Richard via The Beatles. Little Richard received the ""Cashbox"" Triple Crown Award for ""Long Tall Sally"" in 1956. In 1984, he was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. He was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986, being a member of the initial class of inductees chosen for that honor. In 1990, he received"
"Without Your Love"", ""Colour My World"", ""This Is My Song,"" ""Kiss Me Goodbye,"" and ""Don't Sleep in the Subway"", and she was dubbed ""the First Lady of the British Invasion"". She has sold more than 68 million records. Clark was born to Doris (née Phillips) and Leslie Norman Clark in Epsom, Surrey, England on 15 November 1932. Both of her parents were nurses there at Long Grove Hospital. Her mother was of Welsh ancestry and her father was English. Young Sally's stage name of ""Petula"" was invented by her father, Leslie Clark; he joked it was a combination of the"
"UK releases. Included were the five remaining tracks from ""With the Beatles"". Also included were ""Thank You Girl"" (the B-side to the single ""From Me to You""), the single ""She Loves You""/""I'll Get You"", ""You Can't Do That"" (the B-side to the single ""Can't Buy Me Love"") from the upcoming ""A Hard Day's Night"" UK soundtrack, and two new songs, ""Long Tall Sally"" and ""I Call Your Name"", both released two months later in the UK on the ""Long Tall Sally"" EP. Capitol Records engineers, headed by record executive Dave Dexter, Jr., added considerable echo and reverb to the stereo"
"""Long Tall Sally"" EP in June in the UK. In July, the song was included on the American album ""Something New"". Capitol Records released it as a single, with ""Matchbox"" (also a 12-bar blues, from the ""Long Tall Sally"" EP) as the flip side. ""Slow Down"" reached number 25 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. The song is also included on the 1988 ""Past Masters"" compilation. A performance specifically recorded for broadcast by the BBC is found on the album ""Live at the BBC"" (1994). Ian MacDonald criticised the performance as ""one of the Beatles' least successful rock-and-roll covers"", lacking ""bottom,"
""""". A recording artist, in 1958 she recorded ""Our Gal Sal"", backed by Bill Haley & His Comets, selling thousands of records under the Clymax label. Haley co-wrote ""A.B.C. Rock"" and ""Rocky the Rockin' Rabbit"" for Starr, which were released as singles (the former would later be covered by Haley himself; the latter was released in 1959 as a standalone single unconnected with the album). Although ""Our Gal Sal"" was out of print by the 1960s, in the 1970s and 1980s several of these recordings reappeared on a series of compilation albums put out by the UK-based Rollercoaster Records label"
"after over two years without setting foot in a studio, he recorded his biggest-selling record, ""Hello, Dolly!"", a song by Jerry Herman, originally sung by Carol Channing. Armstrong's version remained on the Hot 100 for 22 weeks, longer than any other record produced that year, and went to No. 1 making him, at 62 years, 9 months and 5 days, the oldest person ever to accomplish that feat. In the process, he dislodged the Beatles from the No. 1 position they had occupied for 14 consecutive weeks with three different songs. Armstrong kept touring well into his 60s, even visiting"
"""sell"" any.'"") The success of the recording took the record industry by surprise. It featured for weeks in the ""Billboard"" charts, the sole classical album alongside best sellers by Elvis Presley and Pat Boone, and brought Solti's name to international prominence. He appeared with leading orchestras in New York, Vienna and Los Angeles, and at Covent Garden he conducted ""Der Rosenkavalier"" and Britten's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"". In 1960 Solti signed a three-year contract to be music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic from 1962. Even before he took the post the Philharmonic's autocratic president, Dorothy Chandler, breached his contract"
"'62: The Debut Sessions"" and ""Early Tymes"". Marascalco and Nilsson also wrote songs together, including ""Baby Baby"" and ""Born in Grenada. John Marascalco John Marascalco (born John S. Marascalso, 27 March 1931)) is an American songwriter, who was most noted for the songs he wrote for Little Richard. He was born in Grenada, Mississippi. He co-wrote several of the most seminal songs in 1950s rock and roll. Together with Robert Blackwell, he wrote the songs ""Good Golly Miss Molly"", ""Ready Teddy"", and ""Rip It Up"" made famous by Little Richard. Also for Little Richard, Marascalco co-wrote ""Heeby Jeebies"", ""She's Got"
"on the national ""Billboard"" chart. The former would eventually become the group's most-covered song, with some 100 versions by other artists to date, including the #4 1971 hit by Ike & Tina Turner, two years to the week after the CCR version peaked. John Fogerty cites this song as being the result of high spirits on gaining his discharge from the Army Reserve. The album also featured a remake of the rock & roll classic ""Good Golly, Miss Molly"" and the band's nine-minute live-show closer, ""Keep On Chooglin'"". Weeks later, during March 1969, ""Bad Moon Rising"" backed with ""Lodi"" was"
"Hello, Dolly! (Louis Armstrong album) Hello Dolly! is a jazz album by Louis Armstrong and His All Stars, which at the time included Joe Darensbourg, Billy Kyle, Big Chief Russell Moore, Arvell Shaw, and Trummy Young. The tracks were mostly recorded on December 3, 1963, and April 18, 1964, in New York City. It was released by Kapp Records in 1964 and became Armstrong's most commercially successful album. Greg Adams gave the album 3½ out of 5 stars in Allmusic and said, ""Armstrong had one of the most recognizable and personality-laden voices of the 20th century, and although he was"
"Shirley Ellis Shirley Marie O'Garra (stage name: Shirley Ellis; married name: Shirley Elliston; 19 January 1929 [though her Social Security card shows 20 Jan 1927] – 5 October 2005) was an American soul music singer and songwriter of West Indian origin. She is best known for her novelty hits ""The Nitty Gritty"" (1963) (US no. 8), ""The Name Game"" (1964) (US no. 3) and ""The Clapping Song"" (1965) (US no. 8 and UK no. 6). ""The Clapping Song"" sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. By 1954 she had written two songs which were recorded by"
"Mary Ford Mary Ford (born Iris Colleen Summers; July 7, 1924 – September 30, 1977) was an American vocalist and guitarist, comprising half of the husband-and-wife musical team Les Paul and Mary Ford. Between 1950 and 1954, the couple had 16 top-ten hits, including ""How High the Moon"" and ""Vaya con Dios"", which were number one hits on the ""Billboard"" charts. In 1951 alone they sold six million records. With Paul, Ford became one of the early practitioners of multi-tracking. Mary Ford was born Iris Colleen Summers in El Monte, California, the second daughter of Marshall McKinley Summers (born February"
"Henry Strzelecki Henry Pershing Strzelecki (August 8, 1939 – December 30, 2014) was a Nashville studio musician who performed with Chet Atkins, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Eddy Arnold, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Ronnie Milsap, Merle Haggard, and many others. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Strzelecki began playing country music in his teens. He wrote the novelty song ""Long Tall Texan,"" which was a hit for The Beach Boys. He worked with Chet Atkins for many years, both in the studio and on tour. He was considered a primary member of the Nashville A-Team and worked with nearly every star to come"