"Bound for Glory (film) Bound for Glory is a 1976 American biographical film directed by Hal Ashby and loosely adapted by Robert Getchell from Woody Guthrie's 1943 partly fictionalized autobiography ""Bound for Glory"". The film stars David Carradine as folk singer Woody Guthrie and Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon, Gail Strickland, John Lehne, Ji-Tu Cumbuka and Randy Quaid. ""Bound for Glory"" was the first motion picture in which inventor/operator Garrett Brown used his new Steadicam for filming moving scenes. Director of Photography Haskell Wexler won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography at the 49th Academy Awards. All of the main events"
"Bound for Glory (song) ""Bound For Glory"" is a song by Australian singer Angry Anderson. The song was released in August 1990 as the lead single from Anderson's studio album ""Blood from Stone]"". The song peaked at number 11 on the ARIA charts. The song was featured in a range of advertisements, and is now the theme music for the SYN radio program ""Bound for Glory"". It subsequently was named the unofficial anthem of the AFL and performed at the 1991 AFL Grand Final at Waverley Park between Hawthorn and West Coast on a vehicle that resembled The Batmobile. The"
"with readings from Guthrie's writings selected by Millard Lampell, a former member with Guthrie and others of the Almanac Singers. The album ""Bound for Glory"" was compiled and released following that event. The title was taken from Guthrie's 1943 autobiography, ""Bound for Glory"". The album includes a cyclostyled booklet with an introduction by Lampell, and the spoken and sung words. It has been re-released several times. The album does not credit songwriters, but they are easy to identify. There is an uncredited additional singer on ""There's a Better World a-Coming"", who may be Guthrie's frequent collaborator Cisco Houston. Bound for"
"this time Guthrie met Marjorie Mazia, a dancer in New York who would become his second wife. Mazia was an instructor at the prestigious Martha Graham Dance School, where she was assisting Sophie Maslow with her piece ""Folksay"". Based on the folklore and poetry collected by Carl Sandburg, ""Folksay"" included the adaptation of some of Guthrie's ""Dust Bowl Ballads"" for the dance. Guthrie continued to write songs and began work on his autobiography. The end product, ""Bound for Glory"", was completed with the patient editing assistance of Mazia and was first published by E.P. Dutton in 1943. It is vividly"
"him, he was two miles away; and he had held up shooting for three hours.” As of July 2018, ""Bound for Glory"" holds a rating of 85% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 20 reviews. Wins Nominated Besides the Academy Awards, this film won 1976 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Best Cinematography (Haskell Wexler) and National Board of Review Award for Best Actor (David Carradine). It was nominated for 4 Golden Globe Awards as well as Palme d'Or in 1977 Cannes Film Festival. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: Bound for Glory (film) Bound for"
"Ralph Blane Ralph Blane (July 26, 1914 – November 13, 1995) was an American composer, lyricist, and performer. Blane was born Ralph Uriah Hunsecker in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. He attended Tulsa Central High School. He began his career as a radio singer for NBC in the 1930s before turning to Broadway, where he was featured in ""New Faces of 1936"", ""Hooray for What!"", and ""Louisiana Purchase"". He contributed the lyrics and music to ""Best Foot Forward"" (1941) and ""Three Wishes for Jamie"" (1952). With partner Hugh Martin [although Hugh Martin disputes this, see collaboration controversy], Blane penned many American standards"
"Jesus Christ (Woody Guthrie song) ""Jesus Christ"" is a song written in 1940 by Woody Guthrie. The song argues that Jesus would have been killed by modern capitalist society much as he was in his own time. The song was partially sung and played on the piano by the Guthrie character in the biographical film ""Bound For Glory"", set to the same tune as the folk ballad ""Jesse James"". ""I wrote this song looking out of a rooming house window in New York City in the winter of Nineteen and Forty. I thought I had to put down on paper"
"produced fund raising tribute concerts for Phil Ochs, Paul Robeson, the Spanish civil war's Abraham Lincoln Brigade and, most memorably, for Woody Guthrie. After Guthrie's death in 1967, Leventhal virtually adopted Woody's son Arlo, who worked in his office before making his hit record Alice's Restaurant. He helped produce the film based on that song, and later co-produced the Oscar-winning ""Bound for Glory"" starring David Carradine as Woody Guthrie. Among his other films was the Pete Seeger documentary ""A Song and a Stone"" (1972), the Weavers documentary ""Wasn't that a Time!"" (1984) and the Emmy-winning ""We Shall Overcome"" (1988). Leventhal"
"Tom Robinson Thomas Giles ""Tom"" Robinson (born 1 June 1950) is a British singer-songwriter, bassist, radio presenter and long-time LGBT rights activist, best known for the hits ""Glad to Be Gay"", ""2-4-6-8 Motorway"", and ""Don't Take No for an Answer"", with his Tom Robinson Band. He later peaked at No. 6 in the UK Singles Chart with his solo single ""War Baby"". Tom Robinson was born into a middle-class family in Cambridge on 1 June 1950. He attended Friends' School, Saffron Walden, a co-ed privately funded Quaker school, between 1961 and 1967. He played guitar in a trio at school"
"Laura Branigan Laura Ann Branigan (July 3, 1952 – August 26, 2004) was an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Her signature song, the platinum-certified 1982 single ""Gloria"", stayed on the U.S. ""Billboard"" Hot 100 for 36 weeks, then a record for a female artist, peaking at No. 2. It also reached number one in Australia and Canada. In 1984, she reached number one in Canada and Germany with the U.S. No. 4 hit ""Self Control"". She also had success in the United Kingdom with both ""Gloria"" and ""Self Control"" making the Top 10 there. Branigan's other singles included the Top"
"it was a deliberate inversion of the traditional American gospel song first recorded in the 1920s, ""This Train"", also known as ""This Train Is Bound for Glory"". (The song is often associated with Woody Guthrie, as the inspiration for his 1943 autobiography ""Bound for Glory"", but to music writer Dave Marsh, Springsteen's song was based more off of Sister Rosetta Tharpe's rendition.) In Springsteen's take, all are welcome on the train - not just ""the righteous and the holy"" of the original, but ""saints and sinners"", ""losers and winners"", ""whores and gamblers"" - you just get on board. Stretched to"
"three on the UK Singles Chart after the episode aired there. In 2009, in homage to this moment, the song was featured in the final episode of BBC3's comedy ""Gavin & Stacey"", during the wedding of characters Nessa and Dave. With the dissolution of Rose Tattoo, Anderson pressed on with his solo career, releasing the album ""Blood from Stone"" in 1990 which provided the No. 11 hit single ""Bound for Glory."" He performed the song during the pre-match entertainment at the 1991 AFL Grand Final between Hawthorn and , appearing on top of a Batmobile. According to The Punch's Michael"
"for the Sun label were reissued on CD by Bear Family Records in the early 1990s, and - with a number of unreleased recordings - by DeeGee Records in Germany in 1997. Mack Self Wiley Laverne ""Mack"" Self (22 May 1930 – 14 June 2011) was an American rockabilly singer, songwriter and musician, who recorded for Sun Records in the 1950s and was a member of the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. Self was born in Calico Bottoms, Phillips County, Arkansas, one of four children, and started playing guitar as a child, often performing with his friend C.W. Gatlin. In 1955,"
"also listed in Marquis Who's Who in the World, CEO, Alpha-1 Biologics, Stony Brook, NY; Margery Jan Bristow, speech pathologist and member of Threshold Singers; Gregory Scott Bristow, professional musician and music teacher; Kelly Robert Bristow, professional musician and sound engineer. Bristow married Gail Hamiter Rosen in 2003, and they divorced in 2008. Robert O'Neil Bristow Robert O'Neil Bristow (November 17, 1926 — August 15, 2018) was an American novelist known for depicting the lives of Black Americans in small town South Carolina during the years surrounding desegregation. His novel ""Time for Glory"" (1968, William Morrow & Co.) received the"
"Ballad for Americans (album) Ballad for Americans is a studio album of phonograph records by Bing Crosby released in 1940 featuring the popular ""Ballad for Americans"" sung by Crosby in an American-type patriotic style. In 1946, the two records in this album were put into a new album called ""What We So Proudly Hail"". This was Crosby's first studio album that was not a reissue of earlier singles. Crosby biographer Gary Giddins discussed the recording in his book ""Bing Crosby, A Pocketful of Dreams, The Early Years, 1903-1940"": ""Bing Crosby came of age, musically speaking, in his last week’s album,"
"how I felt about the rich folks and the poor ones."" Jesus Christ (Woody Guthrie song) ""Jesus Christ"" is a song written in 1940 by Woody Guthrie. The song argues that Jesus would have been killed by modern capitalist society much as he was in his own time. The song was partially sung and played on the piano by the Guthrie character in the biographical film ""Bound For Glory"", set to the same tune as the folk ballad ""Jesse James"". ""I wrote this song looking out of a rooming house window in New York City in the winter of Nineteen"
"member of a group. He has also released fanclub-only bootlegs known as the ""Castaway Club"" series. Tom Robinson Thomas Giles ""Tom"" Robinson (born 1 June 1950) is a British singer-songwriter, bassist, radio presenter and long-time LGBT rights activist, best known for the hits ""Glad to Be Gay"", ""2-4-6-8 Motorway"", and ""Don't Take No for an Answer"", with his Tom Robinson Band. He later peaked at No. 6 in the UK Singles Chart with his solo single ""War Baby"". Tom Robinson was born into a middle-class family in Cambridge on 1 June 1950. He attended Friends' School, Saffron Walden, a co-ed"
"told in the artist's down-home dialect, with the flair and imagery of a true storyteller. ""Library Journal"" complained about the ""too careful reproduction of illiterate speech"". But Clifton Fadiman, reviewing the book in the ""New York Times"", paid the author a fine tribute: ""Someday people are going to wake up to the fact that Woody Guthrie and the ten thousand songs that leap and tumble off the strings of his music box are a national possession, like Yellowstone and Yosemite, and part of the best stuff this country has to show the world."" A film adaptation of ""Bound for Glory"""
"featured in Catherine Marshall's novel, ""Christy"", before the prologue. It is sung in the movie ""Stir Crazy"" by the character Grossberger portrayed by Erland Van Lidth. Jim and Anna sing the song in Tillie Olsen's novel """" as they arrive in the Dakotas. The 3/4 time and melancholy of the song contrast with the hope they are feeling as they arrive there. The song is performed by Ronny Cox (Ozark Bule) and David Carradine (Woody Guthrie) in the Academy Award winning film (Best Cinematography/Best Music-Score) ""Bound for Glory"" (biography of Woody Guthrie) in the scene that takes place in a"
"Song For Song For is the debut album by American jazz saxophonist Joseph Jarman, recorded in 1966 and released on the Delmark label. Jarman's regular quintet with saxophonist Fred Anderson, trumpeter Billy Brimfield, bassist Charles Clark and drummer Thurman Barker was augmented for the record by another drummer, Steve McCall, and a new figure, pianist Christopher Gaddy, who had just returned from army service. Gaddy died on March 12, 1968, less than a month before his twenty-fifth birthday. ""Song For"" was his only recorded performance. Before joining Jarman, Anderson and Brimfield co-led a quartet which was one of the seminal"
"Cecil Gant Cecil Gant (April 4, 1913 – February 4, 1951) was an American blues singer, songwriter and pianist, whose recordings of both ballads and ""fiery piano rockers"" were successful in the mid- and late 1940s, and influenced the early development of rock and roll. His biggest hit was the 1944 ballad, ""I Wonder"". Gant was born in Columbia, Tennessee, but was raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He returned to Nashville, Tennessee and worked there as a musician, as well as touring with his own band, from the mid-1930s until he joined the army during World War II. In 1944, after"
"Art Mooney Arthur Joseph Mooney (February 11, 1911 – September 9, 1993) was an American singer and bandleader. His biggest hits were ""I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover"" and ""Baby Face"" in 1948 and ""Nuttin' For Christmas,"" with Barry Gordon, in 1955. His fourth million selling song ""Honey-Babe"" (1955) was used in the motion picture, ""Battle Cry,"" having reached the Top 10 in the US. He also made a popular 1948 recording of ""Bluebird of Happiness."" Mooney's name, as well as his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, was prominently featured in the 1990 motion picture ""The Adventures"
"track on CD Song For Song For is the debut album by American jazz saxophonist Joseph Jarman, recorded in 1966 and released on the Delmark label. Jarman's regular quintet with saxophonist Fred Anderson, trumpeter Billy Brimfield, bassist Charles Clark and drummer Thurman Barker was augmented for the record by another drummer, Steve McCall, and a new figure, pianist Christopher Gaddy, who had just returned from army service. Gaddy died on March 12, 1968, less than a month before his twenty-fifth birthday. ""Song For"" was his only recorded performance. Before joining Jarman, Anderson and Brimfield co-led a quartet which was one"
"2006 from complications of a stroke and diabetes. He is survived by his wife, children, and grandchildren. King Floyd King Floyd (February 13, 1945 – March 6, 2006) was a New Orleans soul singer and songwriter, best known for his Top 10 hit from 1970, ""Groove Me"". King Floyd III was born in New Orleans in 1945. His musical career started as a singer at the Sho-Bar on Bourbon Street. Following a stint in the army, Floyd went to California, where he joined up with record producer Harold Battiste. His debut album, ""A Man In Love,"" featuring songs co-written with"
"with solo guitar, and vocals. The following is a list of Wood Newton compositions that were chart hits. Wood Newton Wood Newton (born September 16, 1946 in Hampton, Arkansas) is an American songwriter and musician based in Nashville, Tennessee. Newton was born in Hampton, Arkansas, and graduated from Hampton High School in Hampton, Arkansas in 1964. He graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1970. In 1978 and 1979, Newton recorded for Elektra Records, charting the singles ""Last Exit for Love"", ""Lock, Stock & Barrel"" and ""Julie (Do I Ever Cross Your Mind?)"". He later became a songwriter for other"
"Clifford T. Ward Clifford Thomas Ward (10 February 1944 – 18 December 2001) was an English singer-songwriter, best known for his career as a solo artist. Ward's 1973 album ""Home Thoughts"" remains his best known recording, and he had hit singles with songs such as ""Gaye"" and ""Scullery"". His reluctance to tour in support of recorded work may have affected his chances of more substantial mainstream success. Born in Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire, Ward was the fifth child of Kathleen and Frank Ward, a carpet factory worker, and he had one older sister and three older brothers. He was educated at Stourport"
"and his battle against MS. Half of the songs were Ward's own, and half were numbers written by others about him. In November 2001, Ward contracted pneumonia and died in Tenbury Community Hospital a few weeks later on 18 December 2001. Clifford T. Ward Clifford Thomas Ward (10 February 1944 – 18 December 2001) was an English singer-songwriter, best known for his career as a solo artist. Ward's 1973 album ""Home Thoughts"" remains his best known recording, and he had hit singles with songs such as ""Gaye"" and ""Scullery"". His reluctance to tour in support of recorded work may have"
"Honor Bound (song) ""Honor Bound"" is a song written by Tommy Rocco, Charlie Black and Austin Roberts, and recorded by American country music artist Earl Thomas Conley. It was released in January 1985 as the second single from the album ""Treadin' Water"". The song was Earl Thomas Conley's eighth number one country single. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of thirteen weeks on the country chart. Kip Kirby of ""Billboard"" magazine reviewed the song favorably, calling it an ""understated, impassioned statement on the dilemma of a woman bound only by honor; rhythm is"
"Forrest (singer) Forrest Melvill Thomas Jr. (April 21, 1953 – September 9, 2013), known professionally as Forrest, was an American singer, based in the Netherlands. Born in Galveston, Texas, where he sang in church during childhood, he moved to Los Angeles, California as a teen and won several contests there as a singer. After this stage in his career, he moved to the Netherlands, where he had a hit in 1983 with the song, ""Rock the Boat"", a cover of The Hues Corporation's 1974 No. 1 US hit. His version peaked at No. 4 in the UK Singles Chart and"
"Hymn 43 ""Hymn 43"" is a song by British progressive rock group Jethro Tull. It is off their ""Aqualung"" album and was released as a single by Reprise Records. The song reached 91 on the Billboard Hot 100. Songwriter Ian Anderson described the song as ""a blues for Jesus, about the gory, glory seekers who use his name as an excuse for a lot of unsavoury things. You know, 'Hey Dad, it's not my fault — the missionaries lied.'"" Sean Murphy of PopMatters wrote that, ""For “Hymn 43” Anderson sets his sights on the U.S.A. and in quick order sets"
"Granite Records. Stone's son, Curtis Stone, played in Highway 101. His first wife, Dorothy, died in 1989, and he married songwriter Joan Carol. Cliffie Stone died from a heart attack on January 16, 1998 at his Saugus, California home. Cliffie Stone Clifford Gilpin Snyder (March 1, 1917 – January 16, 1998), professionally Cliffie Stone, was an American country singer, musician, record producer, music publisher, and radio and TV personality who was pivotal in the development of California’s thriving country music scene after World War II during a career that lasted six decades. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall"
"organization Promoting Enduring Peace. He is the first Artist to receive the award. Solo Acoustic (2004) acoustic tour with Sara Watkins Jackson Browne Clyde Jackson Browne (born October 9, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has sold over 18 million albums in the United States. Coming to prominence in the 1970s, Browne has written and recorded songs such as ""These Days"", ""The Pretender"", ""Running on Empty"", ""Lawyers in Love"", ""Doctor My Eyes"", ""Take It Easy"", ""For a Rocker"", and ""Somebody's Baby"". In 2004, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, and"
"(songs inspired by the film Eddie The Eagle) and appears on the end credits for the film. . Holly Johnson William Holly Johnson (born William Johnson, 9 February 1960), known professionally as Holly Johnson, is an English artist, musician, and writer, best known as the lead vocalist of Frankie Goes to Hollywood, who achieved huge commercial success in the mid-1980s. Prior to that, in the late 1970s he was a bassist for the band Big in Japan. In 1989, Johnson's debut solo album, ""Blast"", reached number one in the UK albums chart. Two singles from the album – ""Love Train"""