Who had a hit in 1968 with Yummy Yummy Yummy
"Yummy Yummy Yummy ""Yummy Yummy Yummy"" is a song by Arthur Resnick and Joey Levine, first recorded by Ohio Express in 1968. Their version reached No. 4 on the U.S. Pop Singles chart in June and No. 5 on the UK Singles Chart. It has since been covered by many artists. Ohio Express was a studio concoction and none of the ""official"" members appear on the record. Joey Levine sang lead vocals. Joey Levine sang ""Yummy Yummy Yummy"" live for the first time ever in Henderson, Tennessee at the Caravan Of Stars XV, on May 17, 2008. ""Time"" Magazine included"
"the B-side to her single ""Spanky and Our Gang."" Other contemporary recordings include those by Bobbie Gentry and Glen Campbell (on the album ""Bobbie Gentry and Glen Campbell"", 1968), Baja Marimba Band (on the album ""Do You Know the Way to San Jose?"" 1968), Julie London (on ""Yummy, Yummy, Yummy"", 1969), Richard ""Groove"" Holmes (on ""Welcome Home"", 1969), and Sue Raney (on ""With A Little Help From My Friends"", 1969). ""Sunday Mornin'"" was listed as one of the ""102 most performed songs in the BMI repertoire during 1968"". In 1968, Marie Laforêt released ""Et Si Je T'Aime"", a French version"
"program ""Yume de Aimashō"" on 16 August 1961. It became a smash hit and was released on red vinyl on October 15. It remained the highest selling record until January 1962, three months after its release. His international breakthrough came in 1963 during a visit to Japan by Louis Benjamin, an executive of British record company Pye Records. Hearing the song several times, Benjamin decided to bring it back to England. Due to concerns that the title would be too hard for English-speakers to pronounce or remember, the song was renamed ""Sukiyaki"", after the Japanese cooked beef dish familiar to"
"Leapy Lee Leapy Lee (born Graham Pulleyblank, but later changed to Lee Graham, 2 July 1939, Eastbourne, England) is an English singer, best known for his 1968 single ""Little Arrows"", which reached No. 2 in the UK Singles Chart, and was a Top 40 country and pop hit in the United States. The song ""Little Arrows"", written by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood, was also the title track of his first album, released in 1968 on Decca Records. It reached No. 71 in the ""Billboard"" 200 album chart. ""Little Arrows"", released in the UK by MCA Records, became a hit,"
"Wynne, Arkansas, died May 5, 2008, Memphis, Tennessee) from the Board of Directors. ""Cry Like a Baby"" was a million-seller in 1968, peaking at #2 on the Hot 100. It has been covered by the Hacienda Brothers and Kim Carnes. ""I Met Her In Church"" and ""Choo-Choo Train"" were smaller hits released later that year. Towards the end of 1968, the band switched producers, with Dan Penn being replaced by the team of Cogbill and Chips Moman. This team was responsible for producing the band's final 1968 hit ""Sweet Cream Ladies, Forward March"" (which debuted on the Hot 100 on"
"the Famous Flames had a hit with ""Shout and Shimmy"", which was their rendition of The Isley Brothers' ""Shout"", but the song was dismissed by at least one critic as ""a truly shameless ripoff of [the song]... basically the fast parts of ""Shout"" with the gospel inflections removed and the word 'shimmy' added."". Nevertheless,""Shout and Shimmy"" was a hit, and James and The Famous Flames sang and performed this song on Dick Clark's ""American Bandstand"",on a telecast dated June 11, 1962. Their 1963 live recording at the Apollo Theater was released as ""Live at the Apollo"", which peaked at number-two"
"such songs as 1964's ""Hanky Panky"", 1966's ""It's Only Love"", and 1967's ""I Think We're Alone Now"" and ""Gettin' Together"", as is Tommy Roe with his 1966 Hit, ""Sweet Pea"", but critics are divided on one possible major bubblegum band prototype: The Monkees. Although the band began as a prefabricated, fictional rock group concocted to sell records and TV advertising time, the band later wrested creative control from their creators. The success of the Lemon Pipers' ""Green Tambourine"" (US No. 1, February 1968, produced by Paul Leka) was followed by a wave of bubblegum delivered by the Super K Productions"
"success of ""Hanky Panky"" by a defunct group, the Shondells, whose membership included Tommy James, revived James' career, where he assembled a new group under the name Tommy James and the Shondells. They followed with twelve more top 40 singles. In 1967, Strawberry Alarm Clock emerged from the garage outfit Thee Sixpence and had a No. 1 hit in 1967 with psychedelic ""Incense and Peppermints"". Garage rock was not an exclusively male phenomenon—it fostered the emergence of all-female bands whose members played their own instruments. One of the first of such acts was New York's Goldie and the Gingerbreads, who"
"(1959) by Mississippi Fred McDowell, but these are believed to be in reference to Kokomo, Indiana. The ""Kokomo"" single backed with ""Tutti Frutti"" by Little Richard was first released through Elektra Records in July 1988. It peaked at the #1 position on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 on November 5, 1988, replacing ""A Groovy Kind of Love"" by Phil Collins. Thus it became The Beach Boys' first #1 hit in the United States since ""Good Vibrations"" in 1966, marking the longest time span between two number-one hits in America for any band (22 years). It is also their only #1 hit"
"biggest hits were ""Mony Mony"" by Tommy James and the Shondells (number 1 in the UK in 1968) and ""Je t'aime... moi non plus"" by Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin (1969). Jane Birkin's panting sounds in this song (as if the pair was making love in the recording studio) resulted in it being banned in many countries. In Italy, Spain and Sweden the broadcasting of the record was prohibited. In the UK the BBC refused to broadcast it. Originally the record had been released by Fontana Records, but the record company's management withdrew it after it had reached number 2"
"Mony Mony ""Mony Mony"" is a 1968 single by American pop rock band Tommy James and the Shondells, which reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart and No. 3 in the U.S. Written by Bobby Bloom, Ritchie Cordell, Bo Gentry and Tommy James, the song has appeared in various film and television works such as the Oliver Stone drama ""Heaven & Earth"". It was also covered by English singer-songwriter Billy Idol in 1981. Idol's version, which took in more of a rock sound, became an international top 40 hit and additionally revived public interest in the original garage rock"
"1970. By October 1970, he co-produced, co-wrote, and sang another Sunflower regional hit single ""Hippie Lady"" under the pseudonym the Yummies. In early 1971, ""Song of a Thousand Voices"" was translated into French by Hubert Ithier and recorded by the French songstress Mireille Mathieu as ""La Chansons Des Souvenirs"" for her ""Love Story"" Extended Play single on the Philips label. It was also released as a 45RPM single. Both versions became substantial hits in France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Israel. ""Song of a Thousand Voices"" has also been covered in a Spanish language hit version ""Donde?"" by Latin Pop star"
"Peppermint Trolley Company The Peppermint Trolley Company was an American sunshine pop band known for their 1968 single ""Baby You Come Rollin' 'Cross My Mind"" as well as their performances on ""Mannix"", ""The Beverly Hillbillies"" and their arrangement and performance of ""The Brady Bunch"" original theme song. Peppermint Trolley Company released one album and five singles on the Acta label, a subsidiary of Dot Records. The original line-up included Jimmy Faragher (vocals, bass, guitar), Danny Faragher (vocals, keyboards), Casey Cunningham (drums) and Patrick McClure (guitar, vocals). McClure was later replaced by Greg Tornquist. In 1969, Jimmy and Danny Faragher, Cunningham"
"took their name from Jerry Lee Lewis's ""Great Balls of Fire"". They reached the Top 40 with the singles ""Torquay"" (1959), ""Bulldog"" (1960) and ""Quite a Party"" (1961). ""Quite a Party"" peaked at #29 in the UK Singles Chart in August 1961. Tharp, Budd and Trammell left the group in the early 1960s, but the Fireballs added Doug Roberts on drums, plus Petty Studio singer/pianist Jimmy Gilmer (born September 15, 1940 in Chicago and raised in Amarillo, Texas) to the group. Billed as Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs, the group reached number 1 on the Billboard chart with ""Sugar Shack"","
"Clay Hammond Clay Hammond (21 June 1936 – 4 February 2011) was an American R&B and soul singer and songwriter. As well as recording in his own right, he is most notable for writing ""Part Time Love"", a no.1 R&B chart hit in 1963 for Little Johnny Taylor. Clayton Hammond Jr. was born in Groesbeck, Texas. In 1956 he became a founding member of the gospel group The Mighty Clouds of Joy in Los Angeles, with Little Johnny Taylor and others. His younger brother, Walter Hammond, became a member of vocal group The Olympics. Clay Hammond made his first recording"
"Slim Harpo James Isaac Moore (January 11, 1924 – January 31, 1970), better known by his stage name Slim Harpo, was an American blues musician, a leading exponent of the swamp blues style, and ""one of the most commercially successful blues artists of his day"". His most successful and influential recordings included ""I'm a King Bee"" (1957), ""Rainin' In My Heart"" (1961), and ""Baby Scratch My Back"" (1966) which reached no. 1 on the R&B chart and no.16 on the US pop chart. A master of the blues harmonica, his stage name was derived from the popular nickname for that"
"suggest around 1963, 1964 or later in the decade. James Ray (singer) James Ray (1941 – c. 1964), born James Jay Raymond, was an African American R&B singer of the early 1960s best known for the hit single ""If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody"", which went to number 10 on the US ""Billboard"" R&B chart. and number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1962. He also recorded the original version of ""Got My Mind Set on You"", later a number-one hit for George Harrison. Born in Washington, D.C., Ray stood just 5' tall and first recorded as"
"was deeply moved by the song. Constantly playing the single, Johnson phonetically learned its lyrics and taught them to her sister, with the pair participating in neighborhood talent shows singing ""Sukiyaki"" while performing their approximation of an Oriental dance number. Years later, after A Taste of Honey had scored their 1978 #1 hit ""Boogie Oogie Oogie, Johnson had heard the Linda Ronstadt hit remake of Smokey Robinson and the Miracles' ""Ooo Baby Baby"" on her car radio causing Johnson to realize that remaking a 1960's hit could be a good career move for A Taste of Honey, with Johnson's obvious"
"and featured in transitional singles ""Say What You're Saying"" (1967) by Clancy Eccles and ""People Funny Boy"" (1968) by Lee ""Scratch"" Perry. The Pioneers' 1968 track ""Long Shot (Bus' Me Bet)"" has been identified as the earliest recorded example of the new rhythm sound that became known as reggae. Early 1968 was when the first ""bona fide"" reggae records were released: ""Nanny Goat"" by Larry Marshall and ""No More Heartaches"" by The Beltones. That same year, the newest Jamaican sound began to spawn big-name imitators in other countries. American artist Johnny Nash's 1968 hit ""Hold Me Tight"" has been credited"
"Yummy (Gwen Stefani song) ""Yummy"" is a song recorded by American singer and songwriter Gwen Stefani, featuring American musician Pharrell Williams, from her second solo studio album, ""The Sweet Escape"" (2006). The track was released on November 11, 2006 as a promotional single for the parent album's release through Interscope Records. It was developed during several sessions in Miami, Florida and Hollywood, California in July 2005, for an intended EP or as extra tracks on her video album ""Harajuku Lovers Live"" (2005). The song was written by Stefani and Williams and produced by The Neptunes. Musically, the collaboration is a"
"gaining the attention of figures in the music business, the first individual to discover Rathborne was Joey Levine, a songwriter of tin-pan alley fame who penned 60's classic, 'Yummy Yummy Yummy' among others. He decided to produce several songs for Rathborne and brought him to music industry figures eventually attracting management to Rathborne's Career. In 2011 Rathborne was signed to Los Angeles independent label, 'Dilettante' and Australian label, 'Speak N' Spell Records' and released a Double E.P. Record entitled, ""Dog Years/I Can Be One E.P."". The Record was self-released by Rathborne in the U.K. on his own label, 'True Believer'."
"single in 1968 was the more wistful ""100 Years"" (U.S. No.69). In 1968 she recorded the Kenny Young song ""The Highway Song"" with Mickie Most producing for the U.K. and European markets. The song reached Top 20 in the U.K. and other European countries. Sinatra enjoyed a parallel recording career cutting duets with the husky-voiced, country-and-western-inspired Hazlewood, starting with ""Summer Wine"" (originally the B-side of ""Sugar Town""). Their biggest hit was a cover of the country song, ""Jackson"". The single peaked at #14 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in the summer of 1967, when Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash"
"team Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway were behind the production."""" The line-up of the Flower Pot Men had changed considerably by then. Lord and Simper left in summer 1968, Neil Landon in December 1968 to become lead singer of Fat Mattress. Neil was then replaced by backing band member Ricky Wolff in January 1969. Wolff, Burrows, Shaw and Nelson stayed with Greenaway, added new musicians and changed their name to White Plains, who scored a hit with ""My Baby Loves Lovin'"" in 1970. The Flower Pot Men dissolved at that point. Burrows and Shaw later surfaced in another John Carter"
"1965 single, ""You Don't Know Like I Know"", started a series of ten straight top twenty ""Billboard"" R&B hits that included ""Hold On! I'm Comin'"" (1966), ""You Got Me Hummin' (1966), ""When Something Is Wrong with My Baby"" (1967), ""Soul Man"" (1967), and ""I Thank You"" (1968). Most of their hits were penned by Isaac Hayes and David Porter. In most recordings, they were also backed by Hayes on piano with Booker T and the MGs and The Memphis Horns. The ending of their association with the Stax record label and their frequently volatile relationship contributed to their first break-up"
"them and was not specifically Indian or European/American in style. This was a breakthrough for East Indian Caribbean music, but the fame was short lived. Chutney music exploded again in 1968 with the female singer Dropati, who released an album entitled ""Let's Sing & Dance"", made up of traditional wedding songs. These songs became huge hits within the East Indian Caribbean community. The album gained recognition for chutney music as a legitimate form and united East Indians, regardless of their birthplace. 1969 was a turning point for chutney music when record producer Moean Mohammed recorded Sundar Popo with Harry Mahabir's"
"(using stage name Kōichi Fuji), was issued as a single in 1966. However, it was initially released as a work composed by Kōichi Sugiyama, and Tsutsumi's name was not credit on the original pressing of the record. Tsutsumi's first hit, ""Barairo no Kumo"", was performed by the Village Singers and released as a single in 1967. He rose to fame in 1969, after release of ""Blue Light Yokohama"" recorded by singer and actress Ayumi Ishida. It was released as a single on Christmas Day of 1968 and topped the Japanese Oricon sales chart in the following year, becoming the fifth"
"1963, guitarist Lonnie Mack recorded a fast-paced instrumental version, which he called ""Memphis"". It went to #5 on Billboard's Pop chart and #4 on Billboard's R&B chart. In 1964 singer Johnny Rivers recorded another version of the tune (which he, following Mack, called ""Memphis""), copying Mack's pacing and some of his instrumental improvisations, and reinstating the vocal line from Berry's original. This version hit #2 on Billboard's Pop chart (behind ""I Get Around"" by the Beach Boys). In 1981, country singer-songwriter Fred Knoblock recorded his rendition of ""Memphis"". It went to #10 on Billboard's Country chart and #28 on Billboard's"
"ins, and the close. Although it was quite unlike the rock sound that Dion had become famous for in the early 1960s, and even more unlike Holler and Gernhard's previous collaboration in the 1966 novelty smash ""Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron"", ""Abraham, Martin and John"" nonetheless was a major American hit single in late 1968. It reached #4 on the U.S. pop singles chart and was awarded an RIAA gold record for selling a million copies. In Canada, it topped the charts, reaching #1 in the ""RPM 100"" on November 25, 1968. In 2001 this recording would be ranked number"
"Build Me Up Buttercup ""Build Me Up Buttercup"" is a song written by Mike d'Abo and Tony Macaulay, and released by The Foundations in 1968 with Colin Young singing lead vocals. Young had replaced Clem Curtis during 1968 and this was the first Foundations hit on which he sang. It hit #1 on the ""Cash Box"" Top 100 and #3 on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in early 1969. It was also a #2 hit in the United Kingdom. It was quickly certified Gold by the RIAA for sales of over a million US copies. In 2003, Colin Young recorded"
"Build Me Up Buttercup ""Build Me Up Buttercup"" is a song written by Mike d'Abo and Tony Macaulay, and released by The Foundations in 1968 with Colin Young singing lead vocals. Young had replaced Clem Curtis during 1968 and this was the first Foundations hit on which he sang. It hit #1 on the ""Cash Box"" Top 100 and #3 on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in early 1969. It was also a #2 hit in the United Kingdom. It was quickly certified Gold by the RIAA for sales of over a million US copies. In 2003, Colin Young recorded"
"Lee ""Scratch"" Perry. The Pioneers' 1968 track ""Long Shot (Bus' Me Bet)"" has been identified as the earliest recorded example of the new rhythm sound that became known as reggae. Early 1968 was when the first ""bona fide"" reggae records were released: ""Nanny Goat"" by Larry Marshall and ""No More Heartaches"" by The Beltones. That same year, the newest Jamaican sound began to spawn big-name imitators in other countries. American artist Johnny Nash's 1968 hit ""Hold Me Tight"" has been credited with first putting reggae in the American listener charts. Around the same time, reggae influences were starting to surface"
"chart, but the duo's November 1965 single, ""You Don't Know Like I Know,"" started a series of ten straight top twenty ""Billboard"" R&B hits, including ""Hold On, I'm Comin'"" (1966), ""You Got Me Hummin'"" (1966), ""When Something Is Wrong with My Baby"" (1967), ""Soul Man"" (1967), and ""I Thank You"" (1968). Starting with ""Hold On, I'm Comin'"", Moore was typically given the lead vocal (first verse and lead voice in chorus) on most of their recordings. Prater sang the tenor lead first verse on their only ballad to become a hit single, ""When Something Is Wrong with My Baby"", demonstrating"
"Lead Belly's ""Cotton Fields,"" ""Come Go with Me"" and ""Peggy Sue"" on the ""M.I.U. Album"" were Jardine productions, the first being a measurable hit in the UK. Jardine instigated the Beach Boys' recording of a cover of the Mamas and the Papas' song ""California Dreamin'"" (featuring Roger McGuinn), reaching No. 8 on the ""Billboard"" adult contemporary chart in 1986. The associated music video featured in heavy rotation on MTV and secured extensive international airplay. The video featured all the surviving Beach Boys and two of the three surviving members of the Mamas and the Papas, John Phillips and Michelle Phillips"