"Listening (Adult Contemporary) Iain Matthews Iain Matthews (born Ian Matthews MacDonald, 16 June 1946) is an English musician and singer-songwriter. He was an original member of the British folk rock band Fairport Convention from 1967 to 1969 before leaving and forming his own band, Matthews Southern Comfort, which had a UK number one in 1970 with a cover version of Joni Mitchell's song ""Woodstock"". Born in Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire, Matthews was known in the 1960s as Ian MacDonald, but changed his name to Ian Matthews (his mother's maiden name) in 1968 to avoid confusion with Ian McDonald of King Crimson, with"
"#86 in Canada (Matthews Southern Comfort had a total of four US single releases, having had one non-charting US single: ""Colorado Springs Eternal"", in April 1970). Iain Matthews - as Ian Matthews - would as a solo act place three singles on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and also the Canadian charts, one of which: the November 1978 release ""Shake It"", would become a major hit, reaching a ""Billboard"" Hot 100 peak of #13 in April 1979, also reaching #6 in Canada. Despite his issues with ""Woodstock's"" success in 1970, Iain Matthews would state in 2017: ""Any kind of success in"
"to a head after a dreadful soundcheck at Birmingham town hall. I left the building, walked down to the station, got on a train home and locked my door for a week."" Matthews' debut solo album ""If You Saw Thro' My Eyes"" was a Vertigo Records release of 1 May 1971 while his former co-members - as Southern Comfort - would have three Harvest Records album releases before disbanding in 1972. In the UK, ""Woodstock"" would be the final single release by Matthews Southern Comfort - who had had two precedent non-charting UK singles - and ""Woodstock"" would remain Matthews'"
"Later That Same Year Later That Same Year is the 1970 album by country rock/folk rock musician Ian Matthews' band, Matthews Southern Comfort. This was Ian's third album after his departure from Fairport Convention in 1969, and was released in November 1970 shortly after the band's single ""Woodstock"" had reached Number One in the UK singles chart. For the US release in Spring 1971, ""Jonah"" was left off the album and was replaced with ""Woodstock"" which became the lead track. Side 1 Side 2 ""Later That Same Year"" was remastered and reissued in 2008 by BGO Records, with extensive new"
"Matthews' Southern Comfort (album) Matthews' Southern Comfort is the debut solo album by country rock/folk rock musician Ian Matthews, and was his first album after leaving Fairport Convention in 1969. The musicians who played on it with Matthews were luminaries of the British folk rock scene and included ex-Fairport colleagues Ashley Hutchings, Simon Nicol and Richard Thompson, plus Gerry Conway, the drummer from Eclection and Fotheringay. The touring and recording band Matthews Southern Comfort who went on to release two more albums, ""Second Spring"" and ""Later That Same Year"", would not be formed till later, with only pedal steel player"
"the band was no more: an October 1970 shake-up at MCA Records (UK) had resulted in Matthews Southern Comfort splitting with MCA - with the resultant cancellation of a US tour set to begin that November, the month of ""Woodstock's"" US single release - and in December 1970 Matthews had abruptly quit. Matthews would attribute his departure to the demands incumbent on his band's success with ""Woodstock:"" ""It created all this peripheral stuff that took up my time. What would've been time learning to be a songwriter, it became time spent doing interviews, photographs, tours and appearances;"" ""It all came"
"on their self-titled first album ""Fairport Convention"" and then with Sandy Denny on ""What We Did On Our Holidays"". During the recording of ""Unhalfbricking"" in 1969, as Fairport increasingly drew their material from a traditional British folk repertoire, Matthews found out he had not been invited to a recording session and, after a short discussion with producer Joe Boyd and Ashley Hutchings, left the band and departed on a musical direction of his own. In 1969 Matthews recorded his debut solo album, ""Matthews' Southern Comfort"", which was rooted in American country music and rockabilly. He made the album with ex-Fairport"
"colleagues Richard Thompson, Simon Nicol and Ashley Hutchings, plus guitarist Mark Griffiths, drummers Ray Duffy and Gerry Conway, pedal steel guitarist Gordon Huntley, and keyboardists Dolly Collins and Roger Coulam. This was his first significant experience as a songwriter, although the band did also cover versions of Neil Young and Ian and Sylvia songs. He followed it up by forming a working band, Matthews Southern Comfort (using the name of his first album, but without the apostrophe), releasing two more albums in short succession, ""Second Spring"" (1970 – UK #52) and ""Later That Same Year"" (1970). The band went through"
"doing the same."" Matthews would recall that once Tony Blackburn made ""Woodstock"" by Matthews Southern Comfort his record of the week, ""it began to sell 30,000 copies a day, eventually going from #10 to #1 in a week."" Issued on 24 July 1970, ""Woodstock"" debuted on the UK Top 50 on 26 September 1970 and reached #1 on 31 October 1970 remaining there for two additional weeks: a #2 hit in Ireland, ""Woodstock"" also had widespread success on the European continent, charting in Austria (#15), Denmark (#9), Finland (#23), Germany (#27), the Netherlands (#17), Norway (#2), Poland (#2), and Sweden"
"Gordon Huntley and Matthews appearing on all three albums. The album was released on the Uni label (a subsidiary of MCA Records) in January 1970 simultaneously with a first single ""Colorado Springs Eternal"", and took its name from a song, ""Southern Comfort"", by Canadian folk duo Ian and Sylvia (Tyson), which eventually appeared as the final track on ""Second Spring"". The original vinyl album was reissued on CD by Line Records in Germany in 1993 and a remastered version was issued by BGO records in 1996, not in its original form but as a 2-on-1 remaster along with ""Second Spring""."
"liner notes by David Wells. In addition to the original UK track listing, the reissue included 4 bonus tracks: ""Woodstock"", ""The Struggle"", ""Parting"" and ""Scion"". ""Woodstock"", the band's cover of the Joni Mitchell song, had been a UK Number 1 single in October 1970 backed by ""Scion""; ""The Struggle"" was the B-side of the single ""Colorado Springs Eternal"" taken from the first album, ""Matthews' Southern Comfort"". ""Parting"" was the B-side of the ""Ballad Of Obray Ramsay"" single. Later That Same Year Later That Same Year is the 1970 album by country rock/folk rock musician Ian Matthews' band, Matthews Southern Comfort."
"her lone Spokane label effort, ""Worried About You"". During the late 1960s Matthews also cut a series of singles for her Big Hit label, including ""I Have No Choice"", ""My Momma Didn't Lie"", and ""Don't Be Discouraged"". However, as the decade of the sixties came to a close, so did Northern Recording Company and all of her subsidiaries, and as the 1970s were being ushered in, Matthews turned her attention to Black Nasty, an up-and-coming funk group that featured two of her children, Artwell and Aubrey. In 1973, Matthews produced the band's only album, ""Talking to the People"", which was"
"of the ""Billboard"" 200 album chart where it reached a #80 peak in February concurrent with the #13 ""Billboard"" Hot 100 peak of the ""Shake It"" single, which would remain Matthews' only Top 40 hit, the second single from the ""Stealin' Home"" album: ""Give Me an Inch"", peaking at #67 and proving Matthews final Hot 100 entry. (Matthews, who had reached #23 on the Hot 100 in 1972 fronting the Matthews' Southern Comfort single ""Woodstock"", had as a solo act had one prior Hot 100 entry with ""Da Doo Ron Ron"" also in 1972.) Matthews would be afforded his final"
"sole UK charting single: although previously a member of Fairport Convention Matthews had not been featured on their one charting single: ""Si tu dois partir,"" and Matthews would never rank in the UK charts as a solo artist. In other territories two further tracks were issued as singles from the third and final Matthews Southern Comfort album ""Later That Same Year"" - which outside the British Isles included ""Woodstock"" - : ""Mare, Take Me Home"" and ""Tell Me Why"" both of which just made the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 at respectively #96 and #98, while ""Mare, Take Me Home"" peaked at"
"guitars (DENnis-huntLEY). The 1960s saw Huntley playing the ""Country"" circuit, especially the USAF bases, with bands such as George Brown's Alabama Hayriders, The Saddletramps, Dougie Dee and the Dee Men. In 1969 Huntley played as session musician on Keith Christmas's ""Stimulus"" album, and on Iain Matthews' debut album ""Matthews' Southern Comfort"", subsequently becoming a member of the Matthews Southern Comfort band. In 1970 he played on the band's single ""Woodstock"", which reached No. 1 in the UK record charts on 31 October and remained there for 3 weeks. In 1970 Huntley also played steel guitar on the track ""Country Comfort"""
"Cropredy Festival. Matthews had been a member of Fairport Convention between 1967 and 1969, and then left to work solo, soon afterwards forming his own band, Matthews Southern Comfort. After that band split up, he recorded two solo albums, ""If You Saw Thro' My Eyes"" and ""Tigers Will Survive"" in 1971, before forming Plainsong, with Roberts, Richards and Ronga, in early 1972. The band were signed by Elektra Records, and recorded an album, ""In Search of Amelia Earhart"". The album mixed songs by both Matthews and Roberts with covers, including versions of ""Red River Dave"" McEnery's song ""Amelia Earhart's Last"
"The liner notes by John Tobler for the BGO reissue in 1996 revealed 'Steve Barlby' to be a pseudonym for Ken Howard and Alan Blaikely, a successful song-writing partnership in the pop music industry and Matthews' managers at the time. Matthews' Southern Comfort (album) Matthews' Southern Comfort is the debut solo album by country rock/folk rock musician Ian Matthews, and was his first album after leaving Fairport Convention in 1969. The musicians who played on it with Matthews were luminaries of the British folk rock scene and included ex-Fairport colleagues Ashley Hutchings, Simon Nicol and Richard Thompson, plus Gerry Conway,"
"included on Clark's 1973 francophone album ""Petula"". The 2002 DVD release ""Petula Clark: A Sign of the Times"" which features footage from Clark's performance at the Virginia Arts Festival May 20–21, 2001, includes her performance of ""The Wedding Song (There Is Love)"" (so entitled). Prior to the release of the Petula Clark version, Southern Comfort had recorded ""Wedding Song (There Is Love)"" for their 1972 album ""Stir Don't Shake"" from which it was issued as a single in August 1972. (Southern Comfort had been Iain Matthews band but Matthews had gone solo in 1971: the Southern Comfort lineup on ""Stir"
"Only a Northern Song ""Only a Northern Song"" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1969 soundtrack album ""Yellow Submarine"". Written by George Harrison, it was recorded mainly in February 1967 during the sessions for ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"" but the Beatles chose not to include it on that album. Instead, it was the first of the four new songs that the band provided for the 1968 animated film ""Yellow Submarine"", to meet their contractual obligations to United Artists. Harrison wrote ""Only a Northern Song"" out of dissatisfaction with his status as a"
"add just a couple of songs that had Top 40 potential, without compromising the rest of the material [and the album] did precisely what it was supposed to do: it raised my profile, without lowering my credibility."" (Matthews, who had reached #23 on the Hot 100 in 1972 fronting the Matthews' Southern Comfort single ""Woodstock"", had as a solo act had one prior Hot 100 entry with ""Da Doo Ron Ron"" also in 1972.) Also Matthews would give credit for the success of ""Shake It"" to Mushroom Records, who picked up the ""Stealin' Home"" album for U.S. and Canadian release:"
"promote the album. During the following year, the group was briefly known as ""The South Londoners"" and ""The Southerners"", but by the time of the group's second recording, again providing harmony vocals to Connor on ""Songs from Trinidad"" (1955, Argo RG57), it had settled on The Southlanders as its name, and went on to record a third album with him. The group's biggest commercial hit, and its only appearance in the UK Top 40 Singles Chart, was their 1957 cover version of ""Alone"", which sold over one million copies. ""Alone"", released by Decca Records, entered the Chart on 22 November"
"""What We Did on Our Holidays"" and ""Unhalfbricking"". These recordings marked the growth of much greater musicality and song-writing ability among the band. The first of these featured the Thompson-penned ""Meet on the Ledge"", which became their second single and eventually the band's unofficial anthem. During the recording of ""Unhalfbricking"", Matthews left after having sung on only one song, eventually to form Matthews Southern Comfort. He was not replaced; the other male members covered his vocal parts. The album featured a guest appearance by Birmingham folk fiddler Dave Swarbrick on a recording of ""A Sailor's Life"", a traditional song brought"
"The Motels The Motels are an American new wave band from Berkeley, California that is best known for the singles ""Only the Lonely"" and ""Suddenly Last Summer""---each of which peaked at No. 9 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, in 1982 and 1983, respectively. In 1980, The Motels song ""Total Control"" reached No. 7 on the Australian chart (for two weeks), and their song ""Danger"" reached No. 15 on the French chart. Martha Davis, the lead singer, reformed a version of the band called ""The Motels featuring Martha Davis"" in 1998 and toured under that name with various line-ups of musicians."
"Top 20, peaking at #18. It was also a Top 40 hit in England in 1970, reaching # 31 on the British UK Chart. The first hit by the group that did not feature original lead singer Billy Gordon, ""Just a Little Misunderstanding"" featured lead vocals by his replacement, Joseph Stubbs, who previously sang for the Detroit-based R&B group The Falcons. In this hard-driving, uptempo song, Stubbs, as the song's narrator, portrays a man trying to apologize to his wife for his bad behavior, only to find out that she is about to leave him. This was Stubbs' only lead"
"Records and Warner Brothers during 1970–79. Stevens' biggest hit in the U.S. was his gospel-inflected single ""Everything Is Beautiful"" (1970). The single won a Grammy Award, was the theme song for his summer 1970 TV show, hit number one on both the pop and Adult-Contemporary charts, and marked his first time in the Top 40 on the country charts, peaking at number 39. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. His other 1970 singles were ""America, Communicate With Me"" and ""Sunset Strip,"" both of which reached the Top 20 on the Adult-Contemporary lists. His novelty"
"numerous artists over the ensuing 75 years. The Les Paul and Mary Ford version went to #6 on the Billboard 100 chart in 1954 and was featured in a popular Southern Comfort commercial in 2013. Joe Barry's 1961 swamp pop version sold over 1 million copies. Ray Charles recorded it in 1965; Ringo Starr included it on his first solo album in 1970; and Boz Scaggs made it the title song on his 2015 release, which went to #1 on the Billboard blues chart. Daffan left active performance in the 1960s, and founded a Nashville-based publishing house with Hank Snow."
"six songs on the first side of the record and five on the opposite side. The album has never been reissued on compact disc. The lead single released from Smith's future album was the album's sixth track entitled ""He's Everywhere"" in July 1970. The single became Smith's first Top 40 and Top 30 single, reaching #25 on the ""Billboard"" Country music chart that year. In November 1970, ""Help Me Make It Through the Night"" was released and became Smith's biggest hit and signature song. It reached #1 on the ""Billboard Magazine"" Hot Country Singles chart, #8 on the ""Billboard"" Hot"
"also included a cover of the religious standard, ""Amazing Grace"" and the Gospel song, ""Wait for the Light to Shine,"" as Smith was beginning to add more Christian music material into her RCA studio albums. The album was issued on a 12-inch LP record, with five songs on each side of the record. The album has not been reissued on a compact disc since its initial release by RCA in the summer of 1971. ""Just One Time""'s title track became the album's only single. The song was released as a single in April 1971 and became a major hit on"
"Canyon)"" had been released as a single in August 1967; it peaked at number twenty in the US, but failed to chart in the UK. After the second single, ""Safe in My Garden"" (May 1968), made it only to number fifty-three, Dunhill released Elliot's solo feature from the album, a remake of ""Dream a Little Dream of Me"", as a single credited to ""Mama Cass with the Mamas and the Papas"" in June 1968 – against John Phillips' wishes. It reached number twelve in the US and became the band's first single to chart in the UK after five failures,"
"number one single...is featured on the record."" The Best of Johnny Mathis 1975–1980 The Best of Johnny Mathis 1975–1980 is a compilation album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released in the fall of 1980 by Columbia Records. This collection is similar to his last major compilation, 1972's ""Johnny Mathis' All-Time Greatest Hits"", in that it excludes many of his American radio hits of this period (""Arianne"", ""Begin the Beguine"", ""Do Me Wrong, but Do Me"", ""Loving You-Losing You"", ""One Day in Your Life"", ""Stardust"", ""Yellow Roses on Her Gown"", and ""You're All I Need to Get By"","
"It Together"" (Side A) and ""Mary On The Runaround"" (Side B) which were composed by Jon Mark but were not included on the group's lone album. Both songs were released as bonus tracks on a CD edition of the group's debutalbum ""Sweet Thursday"". The group's lone album ""Sweet Thursday"" was released in August 1969 in the U.S. on Tetragrammaton Records (the band had signed with that label in November 1968). It is most remembered for the ten-minute-long progressive rock radio turntable hit ""Gilbert Street"". The record company went bust soon thereafter, after only a very limited record pressing. Sweet Thursday"
"on their Take Cover EP. Nothing but a Heartache ""Nothing but a Heartache"" is a pop hit originally released on the Deram Records label in November 1968 by South Carolina trio The Flirtations. Produced by Wayne Bickerton and co-written by Bickerton and Tony Waddington — the British songwriting/producing duo later responsible for the 1970s successes of The Rubettes — ""Nothing But a Heartache"" just missed the UK Top 50, peaking at 51. However the track reached the Top 40 in both the Netherlands (#36) and in the US, where it spent two weeks at #34 in late May 1969 during"
"Nothing but a Heartache ""Nothing but a Heartache"" is a pop hit originally released on the Deram Records label in November 1968 by South Carolina trio The Flirtations. Produced by Wayne Bickerton and co-written by Bickerton and Tony Waddington — the British songwriting/producing duo later responsible for the 1970s successes of The Rubettes — ""Nothing But a Heartache"" just missed the UK Top 50, peaking at 51. However the track reached the Top 40 in both the Netherlands (#36) and in the US, where it spent two weeks at #34 in late May 1969 during what was then considered a"