"Dusty Springfield, Harry Nilsson and Cher, Juice Newton, Manfred Mann, and the Animals. Ike & Tina Turner released it as a single from their album ""River Deep – Mountain High"". Ike & Tina's version was the only version that became a charted hit peaking at #16 on the UK pop charts. A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knocking Everyday) ""A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knocking Everyday)"" is a 1963 song issued as the B-side to Motown singing group Martha and the Vandellas' hit single, ""Heat Wave"", released on the Gordy label. The song, written and produced by Vandellas cohorts,"
"A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knocking Everyday) ""A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knocking Everyday)"" is a 1963 song issued as the B-side to Motown singing group Martha and the Vandellas' hit single, ""Heat Wave"", released on the Gordy label. The song, written and produced by Vandellas cohorts, Holland–Dozier–Holland, is a song where a woman praises her lover for loving her after she ""broke (his) heart and made (him) blue"" saying afterwards ""instead of hurting back"" telling her he loved her. The song, while not released as a single, is regarded as a sixties classic with notable covers by"
"to hear how, even though he was only mucking about, the harmonies and rhythms were pure Brian Wilson. No one else could've been playing that piano."" Wilson claimed that he had been attempting to get the lyrics from Spector to record a version with the pop duo American Spring, but Spector was ""strangely reluctant"" to give away the song. In 1995, Wilson recorded his version–with co-production by Andy Paley–for the Nilsson tribute album """". This Could Be the Night (1966 song) ""This Could Be the Night"" is a song written by American musicians Harry Nilsson and Phil Spector in tribute"
"He Don't Love You (Like I Love You) ""He Don't Love You (Like I Love You)"" is a 1975 No. 1 song in the United States sung by Tony Orlando and Dawn. It topped the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart on May 3, 1975, and remained there for three weeks. The song also went to No. 1 on the US adult contemporary chart for one week in 1975. It was later certified Gold by the RIAA. Under its original title ""He Will Break Your Heart,"" the song was also a top-ten hit for one of its songwriters, Jerry Butler, in 1960."
"song: one in the 1970s and another in the 1990s. Harry Nilsson wrote ""This Could Be the Night"" (1966) as a tribute to Wilson, with production helmed by Spector. Modern Folk Quartet's Henry Diltz recalled Wilson at the studio during the sessions: ""we could see him in the recording booth, in his robe and slippers, sitting there playing our song over and over, for what seemed like hours"". Wilson deemed it one of Nilsson's very best compositions and one of Spector's best productions, explaining ""Well, the idea they've been dating and waiting and finally they made love … I love"
"For the Love of Harry: Everybody Sings Nilsson For the Love of Harry: Everybody Sings Nilsson, released on 9 May 1995 by Musicmasters, is a tribute album to Harry Nilsson released after his death. Proceeds went to the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. Shortly before Nilsson's 1993 heart attack, he was visited by Al Kooper of Blood, Sweat & Tears, who had previously recorded versions of Nilsson's ""Without Her"" and ""Mournin’ Glory Story"". Kooper learned of Nilsson's financial troubles and later met with producer Danny Kapilian with the idea of persuading Nilsson's friends and colleagues to record a tribute album"
"You by Harry Nilsson ""Hurting Each Other"" also peaked at number one on the Easy Listening chart. ""Billboard"" ranked it as the No. 65 song for 1972. The Carpenters performed ""Hurting Each Other"" at many live concerts, including a shortened version from the ""Live in Osaka"" concert in 1974. Hurting Each Other ""Hurting Each Other"" is a song popularized by the Carpenters in 1972. It was written by Gary Geld and Peter Udell in 1965, and was recorded multiple times by artists from Ruby & the Romantics to Rosemary Clooney. One early version of the song was recorded by Jimmy"
"including by BMI, the performing rights organization. However, Nilsson biographer Alyn Shipton notes that the song was copyrighted by Nilsson alone on March 30, 1966. It is one of three songs credited jointly to Nilsson and Spector, the other two being ""Here I Sit"" and ""Paradise"". Shipton describes the lyrics as expressing ""the heady mixture of hope, desire, and fear experienced when a couple who have been dating for a while are on the point of finally conquering their inhibitions and making love for the first time."" Wilson deemed it one of Nilsson's very best compositions and one of Spector's"
"also the musical genre) are palindromes. Agnetha Fältskog's version was the second single from her fifth Swedish solo-album ""Elva kvinnor i ett hus"" (Eleven Women In One House). It was the only song from this album not to have been composed by Fältskog herself. Despite the fact that Fältskog never promoted the single in Sweden, it peaked at No. 4 on the singles chart on 1 January 1976 during a 20-week chart run, and it also became Fältskog's third No. 1 on radio chart Svensktoppen, entering the chart on 22 November 1975 and spending a total of eleven weeks on"
"Göran Fristorp. They competed in Melodifestivalen 1973 with the song ""Sommar'n som aldrig säger nej."" They won the contest over ABBA, who finished in third place with their song ""Ring Ring (Bara du slog en signal)."" As a result of that victory, the duo represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1973, where they translated their song into English with the title ""You're Summer (You Never Tell Me No)"" and finished fifth. In 1979, af Geijerstam was sound engineer for ABBA's North American and European tour. Claes af Geijerstam Claes Olof af Geijerstam (; born February 6, 1946 in Norrköping,"
"a crucial bridge between the baroque psychedelic pop of the late Sixties and the more personal singer-songwriter era of the Seventies"". The RIAA certified ""Nilsson Schmilsson"" and ""Son of Schmilsson"" as gold records, indicating over 500,000 units sold each. His honors include Grammy Awards for two of his recordings; Best Contemporary Vocal Performance, Male in 1970 for ""Everybody's Talkin'"" and Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male in 1973 for ""Without You"". In 1994, Nilsson died of a heart attack while in the midst of recording new material for a since-unreleased comeback album. Nilsson was born in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn in 1941. His"
"Tommy Nilsson Erik Tommy Nilsson (born 11 March 1960 in Köping) is a Swedish rock singer and composer. Some Swedish critics state that he has one of the best voices of Sweden. In the late 1970s, the artist was the singer of Swedish heavy metal band Horizont. The group released two albums but a French producer, Yves Accary, contacted Nilsson and signed him to a French record company. The singer enjoyed his first big hit in France in 1981 with the song ""No Way No How"". The single sold one million copies and the album 200 000 copies. ""No Way"
"and its native planting programs on eastern Long Island. Billy Squier William Haislip Squier (, born May 12, 1950) is an American rock musician. Squier had a string of arena rock hits in the 1980s. He is best known for the song ""The Stroke"", from his 1981 album ""Don't Say No"". Other hits include ""My Kinda Lover"", ""In the Dark"", ""Rock Me Tonite"", ""Lonely Is the Night"", ""Everybody Wants You"" and ""Emotions in Motion"". Squier was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts. He is a 1968 graduate of Wellesley High School. While growing up, he began playing piano and guitar, but did"
"her single ""När kärleken föds"" (""It Must Have Been Love""), released 26 April 2006. A Danny Saucedo recording peaked at 24th position at the Swedish singles chart. In 2010, the song was recorded by Zekes on the album ""En så'n natt. In 2016 Jill Johnson performed the song in English, as ""Open Your Heart"", during ""Så mycket bättre"". Öppna din dörr Öppna din dörr is a song written by Tommy Nilsson, and recorded by him, released as a 1994 single. and on the album ""En kvinnas man"". The single peaked at second position in Sweden and 10th position in Norway"
"on her own. Frequent recording sessions brought the foursome closer together during the summer. After the 1970 release of ""Lycka"", two more singles credited to ""Björn & Benny"" were released in Sweden, ""Det kan ingen doktor hjälpa"" (""No Doctor Can Help with That"") and ""Tänk om jorden vore ung"" (""Imagine If Earth Was Young""), with more prominent vocals by Fältskog and Lyngstad–and moderate chart success. Fältskog and Ulvaeus, now married, started performing together with Andersson on a regular basis at the Swedish folkparks in the middle of 1971. Stig Anderson, founder and owner of Polar Music, was determined to break"
"Att älska dig Att älska dig is a song written by Robert Olausson, Sonja Aldén, Bobby Ljunggren and Henrik Wikström, and performed by Shirley Clamp at Melodifestivalen 2005, where the song reached fourth place. Shirley Clamp also recorded the song in English, as ""Miracle"", at her 2009 compilation album ""För den som älskar - en samling"" 2009. During a parody pause act during Melodifestivalen 2009, Shirley Clamp performed the song pretending to be a cashier woman, sitting at checkout singing ""a chicken"". The single peaked at number four on the Swedish singles chart. The song was also tested for Svensktoppen,"
"Anna Nordell Anna Sara Christina Engh (born Nordell) (born February 19, 1982) is a Swedish singer. ""Drømmer jeg?"", performed with Danish Johnny Deluxe reached the top 5 on the MTV Up North chart. Nordell also wrote a song for the soundtrack of the Swedish movie ""Det blir aldrig som man tänkt sig"" and performed ""I’ll still love you then"" for the soundtrack of the ""Message in a bottle"". Nordell's voice is featured in Bomfunk MC's' ""Turn It Up"", 2005 Rock Angelz album and in Celine Dion's album ""One Heart"". Her other back vocals include those provided for Victoria Beckham, Tata"
"for Tommy Nilsson, for his song, ""En Dag"", which represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1989. She has also sung in the choir for Army of Lovers, Tomas Ledin, Niklas Strömstedt, Christer Sandelin, Tommy Körberg and Carola Häggkvist. She has toured the world together with Roxette. Vicki still performs in the Stockholm Pride event, on keyboard, guitar, and as a vocalist. Vicki Benckert Vicki Benckert, born 17 October 1960, is a Swedish pop singer. Vicki Benckert broke through in the Swedish Melodifestivalen 1984, where she had written three of the songs ""Kärleksmagi"", ""Sankta Cecilia"" and ""Livet är som ett"
"Harry Nilsson Harry Edward Nilsson III (June 15, 1941 – January 15, 1994), usually credited as Nilsson, was an American singer-songwriter who achieved the peak of his commercial success in the early 1970s. His work is characterized by pioneering vocal overdub experiments, returns to the Great American Songbook, and fusions of Caribbean sounds. A tenor with a three-and-a-half octave range, Nilsson was one of the few major pop-rock recording artists of his era to achieve significant commercial success without ever performing major public concerts or undertaking regular tours. The craft of his songs and the defiant attitude he projected remains"
"Eurovision Song Contest 1989 with the ballad ""En dag"" (""One day"") and placed fourth. He has also made several Swedish hits in Sweden; ""Allt som jag känner"" (""Everything that I feel"") (a duet with Tone Norum) in 1987, ""Öppna din dörr"" (""Open your door"") in 1994, ""Dina färger var blå"" (""Your colours were blue"") in 1996, and ""Amelia"" in 2005. In 1988, he was given an award for best Swedish male artist and in 1990 received a gold disc for his album ""Follow the Road"". In 1997, Nilsson co-starred with Mary Wilson of the Supremes in ""Supreme Soul"", the story"
"Run"". In 1973, British band Wizzard, led by Roy Wood, had three Spector-influenced hits with ""See My Baby Jive"", ""Angel Fingers"" and ""I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday"", the latter becoming a perennial Christmas hit. Other contemporaries influenced by Spector include George Morton, Sonny & Cher, the Rolling Stones, the Four Tops, Mark Wirtz, the Lovin' Spoonful, and the Beatles. Swedish pop group ABBA cited Spector as an influence, and used similar Wall of Sound techniques in their early songs, including ""Ring Ring"", ""Waterloo"", and ""Dancing Queen"". ""You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth"", from Meat Loaf's"
"Jörgen Elofsson Kjell Åke Jörgen Elofsson (born 14 January 1962) is a Swedish Grammy-nominated songwriter. One of the writers of the songwriter-team at the legendary studio Cheiron Studios (Denniz PoP, Max Martin, Kristian Lundin, Andreas Carlsson, Rami Yacoub, Per Magnusson, David Kreuger, Herbie Crichlow, Jake Schulze, Alexander Kronlund, & Alexandra Talomaa) where he made a big success with songs such as Britney Spears ""Sometimes"" & ""(You Drive Me) Crazy"" just to name a few. He's also known for co-writing hit songs like Kelly Clarkson's ""Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)"", which was nominated for Song the Year and Record of the"
"and Björn setting their sights on international stardom with their fiancées, Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Agnetha Fältskog. Aiming to follow in ABBA's victorious footsteps, Svenne and Lotta competed in the Swedish heats for the Eurovision Song Contest, Melodifestivalen 1975, with the song ""Bang-A-Boomerang"", but finished 3rd. The song however became their breakthrough in Scandinavia, and the duo became especially popular in Denmark. In the early 1980s they even took the very unusual step of recording a Danish language version of their Swedish hit ""När Dagen Försvinner"" (a cover of Alan Sorrenti's ""Tu sei l'unica donna per me""), retitled ""Når Dagen Forsvinder""."
"You're Summer ""You're Summer"" was the Swedish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1973, performed in English by Claes af Geijerstam and Göran Fristorp as Nova. The song was originally performed in Swedish as ""Sommaren som aldrig säger nej"", when it won the Swedish national selection, Melodifestivalen 1973, but was subsequently translated to English for the Eurovision as the rules requiring participant countries to sing in their own language was scrapped that year. This was first time Sweden had its entry performed in English since ""Absent Friend"" in 1965 In the song a comparison is made between a lover and"
"a third. This was done at Treriksröset, when he hit a golf ball from Norway, through Sweden, and into Finland. Lasse Berghagen Lars ""Lasse"" Nils Berghagen (born 13 May 1945) is a Swedish singer, songwriter and actor. Berghagen is a well known singer-songwriter in Sweden. He released his first record in 1965, aged just 19. Four years later, in 1969, he released the single ""Teddybjörnen Fredriksson"" (""The Teddybear Fredriksson""), which has become a classic. Other hits include ""Sträck ut din hand"", ""En kväll i juni"" and ""Stockholm i mitt hjärta"". Berghagen won the Swedish 1975 Melodifestivalen with the song ""Jennie,"
"pendlar varje dag"" (""He commutes every day"") with the new lyrics by , on her 1981 album ""Angel of the Morning"". This version also stayed at Svensktoppen for 9 weeks during the period 21 February-18 April 1982, with a chart peak of #4. Also in 1981, the Bulgarian-French singer Sylvie Vartan recorded a French cover of the song entitled ""L'amour, c'est comme une cigarette"" (Love is like a cigarette), with lyrics entirely unrelated to the Easton original. Idols South Africa winner Anke Pietrangeli covered the song on her album ""Tribute to the Great Female Vocalists"" in 2009. It was revealed"
"Öppna din dörr Öppna din dörr is a song written by Tommy Nilsson, and recorded by him, released as a 1994 single. and on the album ""En kvinnas man"". The single peaked at second position in Sweden and 10th position in Norway at the singles chart. It also became Svensktoppen hit, charting for 24 weeks between 18 June-26 November 1994, topping the chart. It was also appointed ""Svensktoppen song of the year 1994"". The song also became a Trackslistan hit. Shirley Clamp recorded the song for her 2006 album ""Favoriter på svenska"" and it also acted as a B-side for"
"and ""Can't You Stay?"". Her second album, ""This Time"", featured another hit, the vocal duet ""Allt som jag känner"" with Tommy Nilsson, and a guest appearance by Yngwie Malmsteen on the song ""Point of No Return"". Her 1990 album, ""Red"", was produced by her then husband/musician/producer Max Lorentz. Norum's 1992 hit, ""Don't Turn Around"", was a cover of the Tina Turner song. The last appearance of Tone Norum was in the tribute album to the Swedish singer Alf Robertson ""Till Alf Robertson Med Kärlek"" (2011), with the song ""Om Du Har Ett Hjärta"". Tone Norum Tone Norum (born 18 September"
"Nilsson Schmilsson Nilsson Schmilsson is the seventh album by American singer Harry Nilsson, released by RCA Records in November 1971. It was Nilsson's most commercially successful work, producing three of his best-known songs. Among these was the number 1 hit ""Without You"", written by Pete Ham and Tom Evans of the group Badfinger. The album was the first of two Nilsson albums recorded in London and produced by Richard Perry. ""Jump into the Fire"" and ""Coconut"", both written by Nilsson, also became hits. The album performed well at the 1973 Grammy Awards, earning a nomination for Album of the Year,"
"love is like the beach"") and ""I denna ljuva sommartid"" were played on the church organ and sung by the choir and guests. Al Fakir performed ""Fix You"" by Coldplay. A Swedish version of ""Umbrella"", called ""Paraply"", was performed by David Pagmar. The couple exited the church to a rendition of ""Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee"" led by gospel vocalist Samuel Ljungblahd. The hymn contained an interpolation of Janet Jackson's ""What Have You Done For Me Lately"", like the version performed in the film ""Sister Act 2"". Swedish musicians Avicii and Icona Pop performed at the wedding reception. The colourful"
"Billy Squier William Haislip Squier (, born May 12, 1950) is an American rock musician. Squier had a string of arena rock hits in the 1980s. He is best known for the song ""The Stroke"", from his 1981 album ""Don't Say No"". Other hits include ""My Kinda Lover"", ""In the Dark"", ""Rock Me Tonite"", ""Lonely Is the Night"", ""Everybody Wants You"" and ""Emotions in Motion"". Squier was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts. He is a 1968 graduate of Wellesley High School. While growing up, he began playing piano and guitar, but did not become serious with music until discovering John Mayall's"
"Tonight"", this album produced two more chart singles for Larsen: the 24 ""I Don't Know What She Said"" and the 42 ""Spoken Like a Man"". The former was co-written by Warner Bros. Records artist Lane Turner. ""Rockin' You Tonight"" also included covers of Mac Davis ""Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me"" and Mark Chesnutt's ""I'm in Love with a Married Woman"", as well as a duet with Gretchen Wilson entitled ""Lips of a Bottle"". He also recorded separately a cover of ""I Wish That I Could Fall in Love Today"" on a tribute album to Barbara Mandrell. He also toured"
"Swedish entry for the 1973 Eurovision Song Contest. After several days, Andersson and Ulvaeus came up with the tune for the Swedish version of ""Ring Ring"", with the working title ""Klocklåt"" (Clock Tune). Stig Anderson wrote the lyrics with the intention of making a ""poppy"" song, trying to remove the pomp and circumstance surrounding the Eurovision Song Contest at the time. After this, the song was retitled ""Ring Ring"". To make it more accessible to a universal audience, Anderson asked American songwriter Neil Sedaka, together with his songwriting partner, Phil Cody, to pen the lyrics for an English version. On"