Who sang, 'Autumn Almanac' in 1967?
"1998 CD reissue of ""Something Else by The Kinks"" as well as most compilations. The stereo version, which is ten seconds longer and features more psychedelic audio effects such as a tape loop during the fadeout, appears on the 1972 compilation ""The Kink Kronikles"" as well as the deluxe 2-CD reissue of ""Something Else"". Dave Davies spoke highly of ""Autumn Almanac"" in an interview with ""Yahoo!"", saying, ""I was playing through 'Autumn Almanac' [recently] and it’s a phenomenal recording. You can understand why it has lasted so long."" Autumn Almanac ""Autumn Almanac"" is a song written by Ray Davies and"
"out a new single, ""Autumn Almanac"", in early October. Backed with ""Mister Pleasant"", the single became another Top 5 success for the group. Andy Miller points out that, despite its success, the single marks a turning point in the band's career—it would be their last entry into the UK Top Ten for three years: ""In retrospect, 'Autumn Almanac' marked the first hint of trouble for the Kinks. This glorious single, one of the greatest achievements of British 60s pop, was widely criticised at the time for being too similar to previous Davies efforts."" Nick Jones of ""Melody Maker"" asked, ""Is"
"era. Lavender Hill has featured as a site location for many British TV shows, including ""On The Buses"" and ""The Sweeney"", in the 1970s. In 1967 the English group The Kinks recorded a whimsical song entitled ""Lavender Hill"" which may have been under consideration as a follow-up single to Waterloo Sunset, but was rejected in favour of Autumn Almanac. The song was eventually released in the U.S. in 1973 on ""The Great Lost Kinks Album"", and has been described as ""a southerner's counterpoint to the Beatles' Penny Lane"", despite the fact that the Kinks hailed from North London. Notable former"
"2 boxed set. Mister Pleasant ""Mister Pleasant"" (usually spelt as Mr. Pleasant) is a song recorded by British rock group The Kinks in 1967, written by Ray Davies. It was released as a single in the US and mainland Europe but not in the UK. It was released in the UK six months later as the B-side to ""Autumn Almanac"". The song is now available as a bonus track to their album ""Face to Face"", and an alternate version was also released as a bonus track on the 2011 deluxe reissue of ""Something Else by the Kinks"". ""Mister Pleasant"" is"
"Forever Autumn (song) ""Forever Autumn"" is a song written by Jeff Wayne, Gary Osborne and Paul Vigrass. The original melody was written by Wayne in 1969 as a jingle for a Lego commercial. Vigrass and Osborne, the performers of the original jingle, added lyrics to the song and recorded it for inclusion on their 1972 album ""Queues"". Their interpretation was also released as a single and gained moderate commercial success in Japan, selling more than 100,000 copies and becoming a top-20 hit on the country's record chart. The best-known version is the recording by Justin Hayward from the album ""Jeff"
"Mister Pleasant ""Mister Pleasant"" (usually spelt as Mr. Pleasant) is a song recorded by British rock group The Kinks in 1967, written by Ray Davies. It was released as a single in the US and mainland Europe but not in the UK. It was released in the UK six months later as the B-side to ""Autumn Almanac"". The song is now available as a bonus track to their album ""Face to Face"", and an alternate version was also released as a bonus track on the 2011 deluxe reissue of ""Something Else by the Kinks"". ""Mister Pleasant"" is lyrically somewhat similar"
"Almanac Singers The Almanac Singers was an American New York City-based folk music group, active between 1940 and 1943, founded by Millard Lampell, Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, and Woody Guthrie. The group specialized in topical songs, mostly songs advocating an anti-war, anti-racism and pro-union philosophy. They were part of the Popular Front, an alliance of liberals and leftists, including the Communist Party USA (whose slogan, under their leader Earl Browder, was ""Communism is twentieth century Americanism""), who had vowed to put aside their differences in order to fight fascism and promote racial and religious inclusiveness and workers' rights. The Almanac"
"renown. Almanac Singers The Almanac Singers was an American New York City-based folk music group, active between 1940 and 1943, founded by Millard Lampell, Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, and Woody Guthrie. The group specialized in topical songs, mostly songs advocating an anti-war, anti-racism and pro-union philosophy. They were part of the Popular Front, an alliance of liberals and leftists, including the Communist Party USA (whose slogan, under their leader Earl Browder, was ""Communism is twentieth century Americanism""), who had vowed to put aside their differences in order to fight fascism and promote racial and religious inclusiveness and workers' rights. The"
"Musical Version of The War of the Worlds – The New Generation"". Forever Autumn (song) ""Forever Autumn"" is a song written by Jeff Wayne, Gary Osborne and Paul Vigrass. The original melody was written by Wayne in 1969 as a jingle for a Lego commercial. Vigrass and Osborne, the performers of the original jingle, added lyrics to the song and recorded it for inclusion on their 1972 album ""Queues"". Their interpretation was also released as a single and gained moderate commercial success in Japan, selling more than 100,000 copies and becoming a top-20 hit on the country's record chart. The"
"and then as the intended B-side of the Bacharach/David composed ""The Beginning of Loneliness""; however disc jockeys preferred ""Alfie"", flipped the single to its B-side, and the track began to ascend the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in April 1967, with a major assist from Warwick's performance of ""Alfie"" on the 39th Academy Awards ceremony television broadcast live worldwide on April 10, 1967. ""Billboard""'s year end tally of the biggest Pop hits of 1967 ranked Warwick's version of ""Alfie"" at #44 in a Top 100 of the year composed otherwise of Top Ten hits. In 1968, Stevie Wonder released a harmonica instrumental"
"""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"
"Autumn '67 – Spring '68 Autumn '67 – Spring '68 is a 1972 compilation by the English psychedelic rock and progressive rock group the Nice. The album consists of outtakes and alternate versions of previously released songs, which were recorded between Autumn 1967 and Spring 1968. The cover for the UK issue was designed by Storm Thorgerson of Hipgnosis. It was released in the United States in 1973 with the title ""Autumn to Spring"" and different cover art. The album has been reissued on vinyl as ""The Nice Featuring America"". The album was remastered and reissued on Japanese SHM-CD in"
"Angeles. He had suffered from Guillain–Barré syndrome from 2010 until his death. ""NME"" - August 1967 Scott McKenzie Scott McKenzie (born Philip Wallach Blondheim III; January 10, 1939 – August 18, 2012) was an American singer and songwriter. He was best known for his 1967 hit single and generational anthem, ""San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)"". Philip Wallach Blondheim III was born in Jacksonville, Florida, on January 10, 1939, as the son of Philip Wallach Blondheim, Jr. by the former Dorothy Winifred Hudson. His family moved to Asheville, North Carolina, when he was six months old."
"Kinks have been called ""the most adamantly British of the Brit Invasion bands"" on account of Ray Davies' abiding fascination with England's imperial past and his tender, bittersweet evocations of ""a vanishing, romanticized world of village greens, pubs and public schools"". During the band's mid-period, he wrote many cheerfully eccentric—and often ironic—celebrations of traditional English culture and living: ""Village Green"" (1966), ""Afternoon Tea"" and ""Autumn Almanac"" (both 1967), ""The Last of the Steam-Powered Trains"" (1968), ""Victoria"" (1969), ""Have a Cuppa Tea"" (1971) and ""Cricket"" (1973). In other songs, Davies revived the style of British music hall, vaudeville and trad jazz:"
"1967–1970 1967–1970 (widely known as ""The Blue Album"") is a compilation of songs by the English rock band the Beatles, spanning the years indicated in the title. It was released with ""1962–1966"" (""The Red Album""), in 1973. ""1967–1970"" made number 1 on the American Billboard chart and number 2 on the British Album Chart. This album was re-released in September 1993 on CD, charting at number 4 in the United Kingdom. The album was compiled by Beatles manager Allen Klein. Songs performed by the Beatles as solo artists were also considered for inclusion, but as with the cover songs on"
"1967 hit ""Cold"") failed even to ""Bubble Under."" In 1967, only one single reached #1 on both charts ""Somethin' Stupid"" by Frank Sinatra and Nancy Sinatra. This trend began to reverse by the end of the decade. Notable artists with multiple #1 songs on this chart during the 1960s include Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Connie Francis, Dean Martin, Andy Williams, The 5th Dimension, and Glen Campbell. ""Love Is Blue"" by Paul Mauriat held the top of the Easy Listening chart for 11 weeks in 1968, which remained the longest stay at #1 until 1993. The Hot 100 and Easy Listening"
"Comes Autumn Time Comes Autumn Time is a concert overture by Leo Sowerby. Originally composed for organ in October 1916, it was orchestrated the following year. The organ version was both commissioned and premiered by Eric DeLamarter at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago on October 20, 1916. Because the piece was so well received, DeLamarter then asked the composer for an orchestral version, which he led in an all-Sowerby concert in Chicago in January 1917. With the score's publication in 1919 by the Boston Music Company, writes Francis Crociata of the Leo Sowerby Foundation, ""Comes Autumn Time"" was soon performed"
"Mrs. Miller Elva Ruby Miller (October 5, 1907 – July 5, 1997), who recorded under the name ""Mrs. Miller"", was an American singer who gained some fame in the 1960s for her series of shrill and off-key renditions of popular songs such as ""Moon River"", ""Monday, Monday"", ""A Lover's Concerto"", and ""Downtown"". Singing in an untrained, Mermanesque, vibrato-laden style, according to Irving Wallace, David Wallechinsky and Amy Wallace in ""The Book of Lists 2,"" Miller's voice was compared to the sound of ""roaches scurrying across a trash can lid."" Nevertheless, ""Downtown"" reached the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 singles chart in April"
"Eagle and Eric LeBlanc, he died in Arizona in the late 1980s; some other sources date his death to 1970. Sidney Maiden Sidney Maiden (April 1917 – c. 1987) was an American country blues musician. Maiden principally played harmonica accompaniment, but also sang on some of his own recordings, in addition to writing several compositions. His best known work is ""Eclipse of the Sun"" (1948). Maiden was born in Evelyn, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana, in 1917, although some sources state 1923. By the early 1940s, he had relocated to California and met K. C. Douglas. They both steadfastly stuck to playing"
"Myles Rudge Myles Peter Carpenter Rudge (8 July 1926 – 10 October 2007) was an English songwriter, known for writing the lyrics for novelty songs. His songs ""Hole in the Ground"" and ""Right Said Fred"" were both British Top 10 chart hits in 1962, both recorded by Bernard Cribbins to music by Ted Dicks and produced by George Martin for Parlophone. Another of his songs, ""A Windmill in Old Amsterdam"", was a hit in 1965 for Ronnie Hilton, and won an Ivor Novello Award in 1966 for the Year’s Outstanding Novelty Composition. Rudge was born in Bristol, England, where his"
"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 relying too heavily on covers. However, they named the original songs ""Somebody Help Me,"""
"Ken Lane Kermit ""Ken"" Lane (December 20, 1912 – November 23, 1996) was an American musician from Brooklyn, New York. He was best known to audiences as Dean Martin's pianist on ""The Dean Martin Show"" in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but was already well known in the film community before that. With Irving Taylor and Sam Coslow, Lane co-wrote ""Everybody Loves Somebody"" in 1947. Frank Sinatra recorded it first, followed by Dinah Washington and Peggy Lee before Martin recorded it in 1964 and took it to #1 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 list in August of that year."
"with country music, and it became one of the most popular recordings of 1960s country music. It is generally considered to be Arnold's best-known song. The musicians on the Arnold session were Grady Martin, Velma Smith (guitars), Henry Strzelecki (bass), Jerry Carrigan (drums), Floyd Cramer (piano), Bill Walker (vibes), Harvey Wolfe (cello), Pamela Goldsmith, Ruby Ann Story (violas), Brenton Banks, Solie Fott, Lillian Hunt, Martin Katham, Shelly Kurland (violins), and the Anita Kerr Singers (vocal chorus). Harry James recorded a version on the 1966 album ""Harry James & His Western Friends"" (Dot DLP 3735 and DLP 25735) and again on"
"standard. Autumn Leaves (Bill Evans album) Autumn Leaves is a 1980 album by Bill Evans with Eddie Gómez on bass and Marty Morell on drums. It was released by Lotus, Italy. The title track of the album, Autumn Leaves, is one of the most recorded songs in the world. The original name of the song was ""Les Feuilles Mortes"" (Dead Leaves) composed by Joseph Kosma, with lyrics written by the poet, Jacques Prévert in 1945, in France. Later in 1947, English lyrics were written by the Academy Award winning lyricist and songwriter Johnny Mercer. It then became a pop and"
"Charles Aznavour Charles Aznavour (; born Shahnour Vaghinag Aznavourian, ; 22 May 1924 – 1 October 2018) was a French-Armenian singer, lyricist, and diplomat. Aznavour was known for his distinctive tenor voice: clear and ringing in its upper reaches, with gravelly and profound low notes. In a composer/singer/songwriter career spanning over 70 years, he recorded more than 1,200 songs interpreted in nine languages. Moreover, he wrote or co-wrote more than 1,000 songs for himself and others. Aznavour was one of France's most popular and enduring singers. He sold 180 million records during his lifetime and was dubbed France's Frank Sinatra,"
"Autumn Leaves (Bill Evans album) Autumn Leaves is a 1980 album by Bill Evans with Eddie Gómez on bass and Marty Morell on drums. It was released by Lotus, Italy. The title track of the album, Autumn Leaves, is one of the most recorded songs in the world. The original name of the song was ""Les Feuilles Mortes"" (Dead Leaves) composed by Joseph Kosma, with lyrics written by the poet, Jacques Prévert in 1945, in France. Later in 1947, English lyrics were written by the Academy Award winning lyricist and songwriter Johnny Mercer. It then became a pop and jazz"
"Who Will Answer? (song) ""Who Will Answer?"", released as a single in November 1967, is the title track of the 1968 album ""Who Will Answer?"" by the adult contemporary singer Ed Ames. Originally written as the Spanish song ""Aleluya No. 1"" by the Philippines-born Spanish singer-songwriter, poet and painter Luis Eduardo Aute, it was adapted into an English-language version with new lyrics by songwriter Sheila Davis. Luis Eduardo Aute's Spanish-language song ""Aleluya No. 1"" became a number-one hit in Spain in spring 1967 and was well received in other Spanish-speaking countries. Subsequently, Eddie Deane, of the music publisher Sunbury Music,"
"wife Lotte Lenya both recorded the song in 1957, and Jo Stafford, Patti Page as well as Anne Shelton also recorded versions during the 1950s. In 1958 Eydie Gormé included the song in her album, ""Love is the season""; in 1963, Decca issued Georgia Brown's album ""September Song: the Music of Kurt Weill""; and in 1989 both Lena Horne in ""The Men in My Life"", and Julie Wilson in an album of Kurt Weill songs. Frances Langford, a popular singer during the big band era, also sang a beautiful rendition of the September Song. Elaine Paige recorded the song for"
"horn sections of those earlier songs, this LP features an orchestra with nine violinists. These strings provide a delicate interplay with the vocals, allowing the listener to easily hear and take in the lyrics. Notes September of My Years September of My Years is a 1965 studio album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released on Reprise Records in September 1965 on LP and October 1986 on CD. The orchestral arrangements are by Gordon Jenkins, their fifth album collaboration. It peaked at No. 5 on the ""Billboard"" Pop Albums chart. Sinatra was to turn 50 years old in December 1965, and"
"Luxembourg in the Eurovision Song Contest 1967 Luxembourg was represented by 17-year-old Greek singer Vicky Leandros (billed on the night simply as Vicky), with the song '""L'amour est bleu"", at the 1967 Eurovision Song Contest, which took place on 8 April in Vienna. The song was chosen internally by broadcaster RTL. ""L'amour est bleu"" finished only fourth in the contest, but went on to become one of the most globally successful and instantly recognisable melodies ever to come out of Eurovision. An instrumental version of the song (""Love Is Blue"") recorded by French orchestra leader Paul Mauriat topped the United"
"Lynn Anderson Lynn Rene Anderson (September 26, 1947 – July 30, 2015) was an American country music singer known for a string of hits from the 1960s to the 1980s, most notably her worldwide hit and signature song ""Rose Garden"" (1970). Anderson's crossover appeal and regular exposure on national television helped her become one of the most popular and successful country stars of the 1970s. Anderson charted 12 No. 1, 18 Top 10, and more than 50 Top 40 hit singles. In addition to being named ""Top Female Vocalist"" by the Academy of Country Music (ACM) twice and ""Female Vocalist"
"Autumn Leaves (1945 song) ""Autumn Leaves"" is a popular song and jazz standard composed by Joseph Kosma with lyrics by Jacques Prévert. Kosma was a native of Hungary who was introduced to Prevert in Paris. They collaborated on the song """" (""The Dead Leaves"") for the 1946 film ""Les portes de la nuit"" where it was sung by Irène Joachim. Kosma was influenced by a piece of ballet music, ""Rendez-vous"" written for Roland Petit, which was itself borrowed partially from ""Poème d'octobre"" by Jules Massenet. Johnny Mercer wrote English lyrics and gave it the title ""Autumn Leaves"". Paul McCartney controls"
"Autumnsong ""Autumnsong"" is a song by Manic Street Preachers and was the third single taken from the album ""Send Away the Tigers"". It was released on 23 July 2007. It peaked and debuted at number #10 in the UK Singles Chart. As with all ""Send Away the Tigers""-related promotional material, the cover image is taken from the photography book ""Monika Monster Future First Woman On Mars"" by Valerie Philips. The song ""1404"" recalls a 'lost chapter' in Welsh history, when Owain Glyndŵr was crowned Prince of Wales in that year having successfully revolted against the English. He was, however, the"