"The Tears of a Clown ""The Tears of a Clown"" is a song written by Hank Cosby, Smokey Robinson, and Stevie Wonder and originally recorded by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles for the Tamla Records label subsidiary of Motown, first appearing on the 1967 album ""Make It Happen."" It was re-released in the United Kingdom as a single in July 1970, and it became a #1 hit on the UK Singles Chart for the week ending 12 September 1970. Subsequently, Motown released ""The Tears of a Clown"" as a single in the United States as well, where it quickly became"
"as The Tears of a Clown in 1970. Stevie Wonder was a contributing writer on three of the album's songs, the aforementioned """"""The Tears of a Clown"", ""After You Put Back the Pieces (I'll Still Have a Broken Heart)"", and """"""My Love Is Your Love (Forever)"""""". Holland-Dozier-Holland contributed the delightful good-times dance song ""It's a Good Feeling"". Smokey's fellow Miracles Warren ""Pete"" Moore and Marv Tarplin collaborated with him on the songs ""You Must Be Love"" (a popular regional hit tune), and ""The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage"" (a Top 20 Hit) respectively, and all of"
"One Dozen Roses One Dozen Roses is a 1971 album by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, issued on Motown Records' Tamla label. The penultimate album before lead singer Smokey Robinson departed the group for a solo career, ""One Dozen Roses"" features the Top 20 ""Billboard"" Hot 100 hit single ""I Don't Blame You at All"". Also included is the group's number-one smash hit ""The Tears of a Clown"", which was also made available through the reissue of the 1967 Miracles LP ""Make It Happen"" as ""The Tears of a Clown"". Both of these songs were also huge hits in England,"
"of a Clown"" rose to number three on the UK Singles Chart. Wanting to profit from the new buzz suddenly surrounding Davies, a solo LP was slated for release sometime in 1968 or 1969. The follow-up single, ""Susannah's Still Alive"", was released in November 1967; however, it only reached number 20 on the ""Melody Maker"" chart. The release of the solo album was held back, and it was decided to wait and see how another single would fare. As anticipation grew for the release of the new LP, it was nicknamed ""A Hole in the Sock Of"". ""Lincoln County"" was"
"number 44. This song would be Carnes' biggest solo hit until ""Bette Davis Eyes"". More Love (Smokey Robinson and the Miracles song) ""More Love"" is a 1967 hit single recorded by the American soul group The Miracles for Motown Records' Tamla label. The single, included on the group's 1967 album ""Make It Happen"", later reissued in 1970 as ""The Tears of a Clown"". Kim Carnes' husky 1980 cover of the song hit the Top 10 of ""Billboard""s Adult Contemporary and Hot 100 charts. This song's origins are born from real-life heartbreak and personal tragedy. Miracles lead singer Smokey Robinson wrote,"
"Productions. The show featured Rhiannon Drake and Richard Beavis, amongst others. On 1 October, he appeared on ""The Chris Evans Breakfast Show"" talking about his career and Eurovision. Michael Julien Michael Julien (a.k.a. Peter Warne) is a British songwriter, who is the co-writer of a number of hit songs across the world. He co-wrote the winning song at the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest and has been presented with an Ivor Novello Award for songwriting. During his early years, Michael Julien wrote a song for Norman Wisdom's album ""Heart of a Clown"" called ""Impossible"" in 1954. Julien's first major hit came"
"#1 hit ""The Tears of a Clown"". Baby, Baby Don't Cry ""Baby, Baby Don't Cry"", released in December 1968, is a single recorded by The Miracles for Motown Records' Tamla label. The composition was written by Miracles lead singer Smokey Robinson, Motown staff writers Al Cleveland and Terry Johnson, a former member of The Flamingos. Robinson, Johnson, and Miracles member Warren ""Pete"" Moore were the song's producers. ""Baby Baby Don't Cry"" was a top 10 pop hit for The Miracles, peaking at number eight on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in the United States, and at a Top 10 R&B hit"
"(the first single under this imprint) but nationally licensed to Chess Records. Three of the tracks included were B-sides — ""Who's Lovin' You,"" ""Choosey Beggar,"" and ""(You Can) Depend on Me"" — respectively the flipsides to ""Shop Around,"" ""Going to A Go-Go,"" and ""Way Over There,"" with ""Choosey Beggar"" charting independently of its A-side on the R&B singles chart. ""The Tears of A Clown"" had been initially buried as a track on the album ""Make It Happen"" in 1967, but to quell clamor for more record releases by the group in the United Kingdom became a belated hit three years"
"the success of the #1 hit ""The Tears of a Clown"", Tamla-Motown UK decided to re-release this single instead of the newly-recorded follow-up, ""I Don't Blame You At All"". This re-release peaked at #13 in the UK in February 1971. ""(Come 'Round Here) I'm the One You Need"" was the most successful single featured on their album ""Away We a Go-Go"", and has been covered by acts such as The Jackson 5, The Cowsills, and The GP's. In 1967 The Miracles themselves recorded an Italian language version, entitled ""Non sono quello che tu vuoi"" (""I'm not that man you want"")."
"on the pop albums chart. Gaye's album wasn't the only album to be re-released after a hit single: in 1970, The Miracles' ""Make It Happen"" album, initially released in 1967, was re-released in 1970 as ""Tears of a Clown"", after that song hit number-one in the US and internationally. That same year, Diana Ross' self-titled debut album was re-released as ""Ain't No Mountain High Enough"" after that song's success. Though Whitfield only produced just one song on the album (producers included Ivy Jo Hunter, Ashford & Simpson and Frank Wilson), Gaye and Whitfield will embark on a two-album collaboration. However,"
"Billboard Top 20, seven top 10 singles, and a number one single (""The Tears of a Clown"") while the Robinsons and Tarplin were members. Following the departure of Tarplin and the Robinsons, the rest of the group continued with singer Billy Griffin and managed by Martin Pichinson who helped rebuild the Miracles, they scored two final top 20 singles, ""Do It Baby"" and ""Love Machine"", a second No. 1 hit, which topped the charts before the group departed for Columbia Records in 1977, recording as a quintet with Billy's brother Donald Griffin replacing Marv Tarplin, where after a few releases,"
"He played the title role in the film ""Cromwell"" in 1970 opposite Alec Guinness as King Charles I of England. That year British exhibitors voted him the 9th most popular star at the UK box office. Harris recorded several albums of music, one of which, ""A Tramp Shining"", included the seven-minute hit song ""MacArthur Park"" (Harris insisted on singing the lyric as ""MacArthur's Park""). This song was written by Jimmy Webb, and it reached number 2 on the American ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart. It also topped several music sales charts in Europe during the summer of 1968. ""MacArthur Park"" sold"
"the UK Singles Chart for three weeks in February 1972. It was one of the first hit singles to feature a Moog synthesizer, which in this case was programmed and played by studio engineer and record producer Chris Thomas. A different account was given by Chicory Tip's Rick Foster, who stated in an interview with TV and radio broadcaster Stuart Cameron in 2012 that the Moog was played by the musician who joined them on ""Top of the Pops"", whose name he could not remember. The single sold over one million copies by July 1972, and was awarded a gold"
"costumes or as roller-skating angels, often wielding custard pies for good measure, they were one of the most picturesque groups in the British glam rock era. In January 1973 they scored their first Top 10 hit with ""Ball Park Incident"". Their biggest hit was with their second single. ""See My Baby Jive"", Wood's faithful and affectionate tribute to the Phil Spector generated 'Wall of Sound', made No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart for four weeks. It sold over one million copies globally, and was awarded gold disc status. The follow-up, ""Angel Fingers"", also topped the charts for one week."
"to me mum's house with the same old out-of-tune piano and I plunked out three notes, and it turned into the song."" The single release was met with considerable success in the UK, hitting #3, thus prompting Dave Davies to consider embarking on a solo career. When subsequent singles were met with less success, the idea was set aside until 1980, with his debut album being ""AFL1-3603"". Death of a Clown ""Death of a Clown"" is a song by Dave Davies, member of British rock group The Kinks, released as his debut solo single in 1967. The song was co-written"
"of Art, but was expelled in 1964. From this basis, and other Birmingham-based groups, was formed the Move, and they quickly entered the UK Singles Chart. Their single ""Night of Fear"" climbed to No. 2 in early 1967. Their third hit, ""Flowers in the Rain"", was the first song played at the launch of BBC Radio 1 in 1967, and the band evolved over a three-year period. After the departure of the Move's lead singer Carl Wayne, Wood's influence became more prominent. In 1967 Wood (and fellow Move member Trevor Burton) supplied backing vocals on the track ""You Got Me"
"Death of a Clown ""Death of a Clown"" is a song by Dave Davies, member of British rock group The Kinks, released as his debut solo single in 1967. The song was co-written with his brother Ray Davies, who contributed the 5-bar ""La la la"" hook; Ray's first wife, Rasa, sings this phrase as well as descant in the second verse, while Ray himself sings harmony in the refrain. Nicky Hopkins played the distinctive introduction, using fingerpicks on the strings of a piano. The single was credited to Dave Davies but the song also appeared on the Kinks' album ""Something"
"Gates, also covers (""Unchained Melody"" No. 1 for 4 consecutive weeks in March and April 2002 and ""Anyone of Us (Stupid Mistake)"" for another 3 weeks in July 2002). Dee Dee Warwick, Dionne's sister, covered ""Suspicious Minds"" while Elvis Presley's version was still on the charts. Warwick's version was a minor U.S. pop hit, peaking at No. 80 in 1970. It reached No.24 on the Billboard R&B chart for 8 May 1971. B. J. Thomas recorded the song for his 1969 album ""Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"". Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter recorded the song for RCA in 1970."
"and a neck vertebra. An operation was performed to lift the collarbone, which was believed to be resting on a major artery and interrupting blood flow to the arm. Sharon later revealed that Osbourne had stopped breathing following the crash and was resuscitated by Osbourne's then personal bodyguard, Sam Ruston. While in hospital, Osbourne achieved his first ever UK number one single, a duet of the Black Sabbath ballad, ""Changes"" with daughter Kelly. In doing so, he broke the record of the longest period between an artist's first UK chart appearance (with Black Sabbath's ""Paranoid"", number four in August 1970)"
"in 2005, Jim Irvin of ""Mojo"" said that its arrival at number 1 on 8 June 1967, on the same day that the Beatles' ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"" topped the national albums chart, marked the start of the Summer of Love in Britain. According to music historian Harvey Kubernik, in the context of the Summer of Love, ""A Whiter Shade of Pale"" was the ""one song [that] stood above all others, its Everest-like status conferred by no less than John Lennon and Paul McCartney, who were enthralled by the Chaucerian wordplay and heavenly Baroque accompaniment"". Kubernik also writes"
"UK number one single, when it peaked there for two weeks in July 1980. It was certified as ""silver"" by the British Phonographic Industry. The song peaked at number eight on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in the US. In late 1995, two Australian dance performers released versions of the song. Sydney singer Olivia Featuring Paula (on the MDS label) released a dance version first, followed by Kirsty K. (on Central Station Records). Both versions charted on the ARIA Singles and Dance Charts in the first half of 1996. In 2000, ELO's Jeff Lynne re-recorded the song, with his own vocals,"
"Back the Hands of Time"" and ""(Baby) Can I Change Your Mind"" and Tony Joe White's ""Rainy Night in Georgia"". He topped the Jamaican charts in 1970 with ""Have a Little Faith"", a record that reputedly sold 50,000 copies on its release in the UK. It failed to chart in the UK because the sales were largely through specialist music shops and not statistically counted by the official chart compilers. In mid-1970 Nicky Thomas' interpretation of The Winstons version of ""Love of the Common People"" resulted in a UK hit. The record reached number nine in the UK Singles Chart,"
"The Cryan' Shames (1966), The American Breed (1967), The Frost (1970), The Partridge Family (1972), Bruce Springsteen (performed only a handful of times in his career, but acknowledged by him as one of his primary influences in the 1970s), Udo Lindenberg (in a German language adaption in the 1970s for which commercial success was small), Blue Öyster Cult (1978), Steve Bender (1978), Gilla (1979), Angelic Upstarts (1980), Gardens & Villa, Grand Funk Railroad (1981), David Johansen (1982, and a hit on album oriented rock radio and MTV as part of an Animals medley), Fear (1982), The Angels (1986), Richard Thompson"
"took off. It climbed to No.2 and remained in the Top 40 for 43 weeks. This marked the start of a 3-year period in which Cassidy became one of the biggest record-sellers and a pre-eminent teen idol in the U.K. and Australia (where ""Cherish"" hit No.1) at the same time as his sales in the U.S. were falling. In March 1973 (following two successful singles from Cassidy's second album ""Rock Me Baby"") the UK fan-favorite ""I Am a Clown"" with its memorable spoken introduction was belatedly issued as a single, and reached No.3. ""Cherish"" was deleted from catalogs in the"
"the United Kingdom in the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest, achieving second place with ""Knock, Knock Who's There?"" Although she gave a confident performance and sang in a crystal-clear voice, and despite being the pre-contest favourite, Hopkin lost to ""All Kinds of Everything"", performed by Irish singer Dana. Produced by Mickie Most, ""Knock, Knock Who's There?"" was released as a single on 23 March 1970 and peaked at number 2 in the UK. It was a worldwide hit, selling over a million copies. Hopkin's final big hit was ""Think About Your Children"", released in October 1970, which reached number 19 in"
"since before the formation of Motown Records. In late 1960, the group recorded their first hit single, ""Shop Around"", which became Motown's first million-selling hit record. Between 1960 and 1970, Robinson would produce 26 top forty hits with the Miracles as lead singer, chief songwriter and producer, including several top ten hits such as ""You've Really Got a Hold on Me"", ""Mickey's Monkey"", ""I Second That Emotion"", ""Baby Baby Don't Cry"" and the group's only number-one hit during their Robinson years, ""The Tears of a Clown"". Other notable hits such as ""Ooo Baby Baby"", ""Going to a Go-Go"", ""The Tracks"
"A Tear"" released in July 1970, which peaked at #11 on the Kent Music Report Albums Charts. Looking Through a Tear Looking Through A Tear is the third studio album by Australian pop singer Johnny Farnham, it was released in Australia by EMI Records in July 1970. Farnham's covers of Harry Nilsson's ""One"", and B. J. Thomas' ""Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head"" were released as singles, and helped to propel the album to #11 on the Australian Kent Music Report Album Charts. ""One""/""Mr. Whippy"" (non-album track) was released as a double A-side in July 1969 and peaked at #4"
"roles of Emile DeBecque, Bloody Mary and Joe Cable were sung by Giorgio Tozzi, Muriel Smith (who had played the role in the original London production) and Bill Lee, respectively. The album became a major success, reaching No.1 in both the US and UK. In the US, the album stayed at No.1 for seven months - the fourth longest run ever. In the UK, the album remained in the top five for 27 consecutive weeks before reaching No.1 in November 1958. It stayed at the top for a record-breaking 115 weeks (the first 70 of these consecutively - including the"
"Babylon"", ""Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs"" and ""The Smurf Song"", became the group's biggest hit with sales of over one million, reaching number 3 in the UK chart. They achieved four other UK hit singles in the 1960s and 1970s but their only US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 charted single, ""The Topical Song"", was another comedic parody written by the American poet Robert Spring White. Based upon Supertramp's ""The Logical Song"", White, who also took the 1980 American Song Festival award in the folk category for ""Where Does The River Go"", confined his humorous lyric compositions for the Barron"
"1970. ""The Wonder of You"" was one of his most successful records in the UK ever, topping the UK Singles Chart for six weeks in the summer of that year. It is his fifth biggest seller in the UK to date, with sales of 891,000. It also stayed at number one in the Irish Charts for three weeks that same year. This was the 59th Top 40 hit of his career. Presley's version also reached number 37 on the US Country Singles chart, and number one on the easy listening chart. ""The Wonder of You"" was one of about thirty-five"
"Number One on the UK Singles Chart in 1988. The song's lyrics referenced the Daleks and the TARDIS, and its melody was based largely around the show's opening theme. As well as both Mankind and The Timelords, many other acts have incorporated the ""Doctor Who"" theme music into their own compositions. British rock band Pink Floyd briefly used the theme during their 1971 single ""One of These Days"", which featured a ""Doctor Who""-related music video. The theme music has also been covered by several other acts, such as Orbital, while other bands such as Coldcut have featured samples of the"
"blend of Weller's barbed lyrics with pop melodies eventually led to their first number one single, ""Going Underground"", in March 1980. They became the only band other than the Beatles to perform both sides of the same single (""Town Called Malice"" and ""Precious"") on one edition of ""Top of the Pops"". The Jam even had two singles, ""That's Entertainment"" and ""Just Who Is the 5 O'Clock Hero?"", reach No. 21 and No. 8 respectively in the UK singles chart despite not even being released as singles in the UK – they got there purely on the strength of the huge"
"and Carmichael agreed that Hughes could commission Harold Adamson to write suitable lyrics. In its film review, ""Time Out"" magazine commented: Re-released as a result, this time with the Adamson lyrics sung by Carmichael, the song again didn't do well in the Hot 100, but released through Decca Records hit No.1 in the United Kingdom and a number of other countries. The song became a perennial classic in the UK, with most releases since Carmichael's within that country. The best known is 1976's (Clive) Robin Sarstedt's, who became a one-hit wonder when the track reached No.3. The backing music to"