"three months. It was also the first U.S. No. 1 hit for the Buddah label. The Lemon Pipers never repeated this success, though their ""Rice Is Nice"" and ""Jelly Jungle"", both also written by Leka and Pinz, made the charts in 1968. The song's lyricist, Rochelle ""Shelley"" Pinz (1943–2004) was a writer at the Brill Building, working with Leka. She said: In early Spring, 1966, while standing in front of the Brill Building I watched a man holding a tambourine begging for money. I wrote a poem about him and called the poem, 'Green Tambourine.' I added it to my"
"Other musicians heard on the record include Elliot Fisher (electric violin), Manny Klein (piccolo trumpet) and Muzzy Marcellino, whose whistling is heard during the recording. Much to the surprise of Montenegro and the musicians who worked with him, this cover of the film theme became a hit single during 1968. It peaked at #2 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart in June of that year, held off the top spot by another song from a film, Simon & Garfunkel's ""Mrs. Robinson"" (from the 1967 film ""The Graduate""). It spent three weeks atop the ""Billboard"" Easy Listening chart during the same"
"Green Is the Colour ""Green Is the Colour"" is a track on Pink Floyd's 1969 ""More"". It was composed and written by Roger Waters and sung by David Gilmour. A tin whistle is heard in the song, played by drummer Nick Mason's then-wife Lindy. A live version of the song was released as the third single to promote ""The Early Years 1965–1972"" box set in October 2016. Live arrangements of the song were performed as a full electric band piece and at a slower tempo. Richard Wright built a calm sheen of warbling organ sound throughout, which created a more"
"and recorded at the Royal Albert Hall in 1970. Moby Dick (instrumental) ""Moby Dick"" is an instrumental tune and drum solo by English rock band Led Zeppelin, featured on their 1969 album ""Led Zeppelin II"". Named after the whale in the novel ""Moby-Dick"" by Herman Melville, it was also known by the alternate titles ""Pat's Delight"" (early 1968–1969 version with completely different guitar riff) and ""Over the Top"" (with ""Out on the Tiles"" intro section and original closing reprise) during various points of the band's career. The tune emerged after Led Zeppelin guitarist and producer Jimmy Page would often catch"
"""Green"" which includes a CD, a DVD-Audio disc containing a 5.1-channel surround sound mix by Elliot Scheiner, lyrics, and the original CD booklet with expanded liner notes. Green Note Box sets Works cited Green (R.E.M. album) Green is the sixth studio album by American rock band R.E.M., released on November 7, 1988 by Warner Bros. Records. Produced by the band and Scott Litt, it continued to explore political issues both in its lyrics and packaging. The band experimented on the album, writing major-key rock songs and incorporating new instruments into their sound including the mandolin, as well as switching their"
"stops (including three percussion stops) and converted to electro-pneumatic action. It was still the largest organ in Britain at that time. The 2014 Pink Floyd album ""The Endless River"", includes a track, ""Autumn '68"", featuring a recording of band member Richard Wright playing the organ in 1969. In the 1970s, Harrisons refurbished the console and replaced the switchgear in the action, made minor changes to the voicing and added a roof to attempt to project the sound forward, which was not successful. One interesting note in this period is that composer Wendy Carlos featured the organ during the closing title"
"3634 and DLP 25634). In 1969, ""Green Onions"" was covered by Dick Hyman; his version peaked at No. 87 on the Canadian singles charts. During the 1968 jam concerts at the Fillmore West in San Francisco that produced ""The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper"", guitarist Mike Bloomfield and organist Al Kooper performed a jam of ""Green Onions"" that was included on the album. The song was sampled for Maxi Priest and Shaggy's 1996 recording of ""That Girl"". Booker T. & the M.G.'s released a follow-up to ""Green Onions"", titled ""Mo' Onions"", on the album ""Green Onions"" in"
"are produced by special flue pipes having a similar voice and timbre. All of the reed pipes use weighted tongues. The tuning wires are held firmly in place to maintain the correct tuning. The Grand Ophicleide rank is extended one octave above the 16' unison rank, allowing an 8' register to be drawn from the rank; it is playable from the 85-key Great manual and from the 32-key pedalboard. To provide all the power needed in the pedal, the organ has ten 32-foot stops: The organ has been recognized by ""Guinness World Records"" as the largest musical instrument, the loudest"
"discharged from the military. On Sunday June 9, 1968 the group played a concert in Detroit at the Grande Ballroom opening for Cream. At the last minute, Silverman informed the others that he would not be joining them at the show. The band, desperately in need of the money, took to the stage as a trio. They liked their sound as a threesome and decided to remain that way. In 1968 the band signed with manager Mark Barger, who was handling the career of a fellow Ohio band, The Lemon Pipers, who had just scored a big hit with ""Green"
"Moby Dick (instrumental) ""Moby Dick"" is an instrumental tune and drum solo by English rock band Led Zeppelin, featured on their 1969 album ""Led Zeppelin II"". Named after the whale in the novel ""Moby-Dick"" by Herman Melville, it was also known by the alternate titles ""Pat's Delight"" (early 1968–1969 version with completely different guitar riff) and ""Over the Top"" (with ""Out on the Tiles"" intro section and original closing reprise) during various points of the band's career. The tune emerged after Led Zeppelin guitarist and producer Jimmy Page would often catch drummer John Bonham jamming in the studio, recorded parts"
"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"
"Among its many cover versions, a 1974 recording by Elton John, with a guest appearance by Lennon, was a number 1 hit in the US and Canada. Most of the song is in simple triple metre ( time), but the chorus is in time. The song modulates between musical keys, using the key of A major for verses, B major for the pre-chorus, and G major for the chorus. It is sung by Lennon over an increasingly complicated underlying arrangement which features a tambura, played by George Harrison, lead electric guitar put through a Leslie speaker, played by Harrison, and"
"War. In a 2006 review of ""The Graduate"", John Nesbit said that although the duo's songs ""blend in quite well"", he called the track ""a silly flop that no self-respecting young person played even back in the 1960s"". The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine ""The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine"" is a 1966 song originally by Simon & Garfunkel released on their album ""Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme"". Written by Paul Simon, it is a commentary on advertising. It was also released as a B-side of ""The Dangling Conversation"", which charted at number 25 on ""Billboard""s Hot 100. ""The Big"
"November 1962 and as a single in February 1964. It reached No. 97 on both the R&B singles and Billboard Hot 100 charts. Sonny Boy Williamson's 1963 recording ""Help Me"" was based on ""Green Onions"" and features Willie Dixon performing an upright bass riff very similar to the riff in ""Green Onions"" performed by Lewie Steinberg. ""Green Onions"" was ranked No. 181 on ""Rolling Stone""'s list of the 500 greatest songs of all time; it is the only instrumental on the list. The track is currently ranked as the 137th greatest track of all time, as well as the best"
"Green Onions ""Green Onions"" is an instrumental composition recorded in 1962 by Booker T. & the M.G.'s. Described as ""one of the most popular instrumental rock and soul songs ever"", the tune is a twelve-bar blues with a rippling Hammond M3 organ line by Booker T. Jones that he wrote when he was just 17, although the actual recording was largely improvised while the band was waiting to record a session with another artist who was late to the studio. The guitarist Steve Cropper used a Fender Telecaster on ""Green Onions"", as he did on all of the M.G.'s instrumentals."
"Bowling Green (song) ""Bowling Green"" is a 1967 single by The Everly Brothers. The song peaked at #40 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 on July 8, 1967; it reached #1 on the Canadian charts. It would be the last time The Everly Brothers would crack the Hot 100, until 1984. The song is about Bowling Green, Kentucky, a city approximately from the Everly Brothers' hometown of Brownie, now part of Central City, Kentucky. The song was written by Terry Slater and Jacqueline Ertel; Slater was their bass player. The song has also been recorded by Glen Campbell, the Gosdin Brothers,"
"Greene also played live on BBC radio and provided background music for ""The Magic Box"" (1951), although this was largely edited out in the final release, and ""Captain Horatio Hornblower"" (1951) in which a little more of his music can be heard. Inspired by his admiration for Sir Charles Wheatstone, Herbert Green went on invent the ""Concordeon"" (a unique musical instrument constructed from part concertina and part accordion) and later an electronic organ that was connected to the keys of his concertina and able to produce many different sounds and effects. He also wrote detailed memoirs about his life and"
"is apparently derived from its sound. The ""mandolin zither"" (or mandolin harp) has doubled strings in unison courses producing a more mandolin-like sound. Guitar zither The guitar zither (also chord zither, fretless zither, mandolin zither or harp zither) is a musical instrument consisting of a sound-box with two sets of unstopped strings. One set of strings is tuned to the diatonic, chromatic, or partially chromatic scale and the other set is tuned to make the various chords in the principal key of the melody strings. First patented May 29, 1894 by Friederich Menzenhauer (1858-1937), the guitar zither came into use"
"Green (R.E.M. album) Green is the sixth studio album by American rock band R.E.M., released on November 7, 1988 by Warner Bros. Records. Produced by the band and Scott Litt, it continued to explore political issues both in its lyrics and packaging. The band experimented on the album, writing major-key rock songs and incorporating new instruments into their sound including the mandolin, as well as switching their original instruments on other songs. Upon its release, ""Green"" was a critical and commercial success. To promote ""Green"", the band embarked on an 11-month world tour and released four singles from the album:"
"None of the above instruments have the facility for a sustain pedal. A close copy of the Cembalet is the ""Weltmeister Claviset,"" also marketed as the ""Selmer Pianotron."" This has electromagnetic pickups with a battery-powered preamplifier, and later models have multiple tone filters and a sustain pedal. Although not technically pianos, the following are electric harpsichords and clavichords. Baldwin's ""Solid-Body Electric Harpsichord"" or ""Combo Harpsichord"" is an aluminum-framed instrument of fairly traditional form, with no soundboard and with two sets of electromagnetic pickups, one near the plectra and the other at the strings' midpoint. The instrument's sound has something of"
"Green"" involving trombones, cymbals and the closing bars of the signature tune - known as the ""doom music"" to some fan groups. However, this tradition has been dropped more recently, such as the death of Nigel Pargetter when the normal closing music was played despite the gravity of the incident - to the irritation of some followers, who consider the jollity of the normal segment inappropriate in such circumstances. A brief extract from ""The Dream of Gerontius"" was played following the death of Phil Archer. When John Archer died no music was played. There was a nod to ""The Archers"""
"electric piano with 15 bass pedals in 1980. In the 1990s, he converted it for MIDI, controlling a Roland piano module running into a Yamaha 200w p/ch stereo mixer amplifier, with the keyboard panned left and right and the pedals panned center. Of course, nowadays any MIDI controller keyboard and MIDI pedalboard can recreate the effect essentially of the Pedal Piano, without all of the bulk and expense of mechanical instruments. This way, anyone can play the pedal piano repertoire easily. Pedal piano The pedal piano (or piano-pédalier or pédalier,) is a kind of piano that includes a pedalboard, enabling"
"1968, and the band toured the United States for the first time, though Green was reluctant to do so for fear of gun crime. Upon their return, they recorded a second album, ""Mr. Wonderful"" under simply ""Fleetwood Mac"" with Green's name dropped. A guest musician on the album, Christine Perfect, became close with the group and she and McVie were married in 1968. A third guitarist, Danny Kirwan, was also added to the line-up. Despite the success of their third album, ""Then Play On"", and a string of hit singles including ""Albatross"" and ""Man of the World"", Green himself drifted"
"The Pied Piper (song) ""The Pied Piper"" is a pop song written by the duo of Steve Duboff and Artie Kornfeld, who first recorded it in 1965 as The Changin' Times. Their version reached #87 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. British pop singer Crispian St. Peters scored a major hit with his single during the summer of 1966 when it went to #4 in the United States, #5 in the United Kingdom, and #1 in Canada. The song's title came from The Pied Piper of Hamelin. An advertisement for the first-generation Toyota Echo in Australia and New Zealand. An episode"
"a tone very similar to that of the guitar. Blackmore usually plays the main riff using a finger pluck or occasionally a plectrum upstroke (to accentuate the tonic). During an August 1972 show in Tokyo, Japan, Blackmore played the intro as follows: ------8-10_----8-11-10__------8-10_-8----- ---10-8-10_-10-8-11-10__---10-8-10_-8-10__ ---10-------10-------------10---------10__ There are two solos in the song; the first was performed on guitar by Ritchie Blackmore, and the second was performed on an organ by Jon Lord until the song fades out. The lyrics tell a true story: on 4 December 1971, Purple were in Montreux, Switzerland, to record an album using a mobile recording"
"three new Choir stops, a new traditional style console with roll top, three manuals, 4 divisions, 33 stops, 30 registers, 32 ranks, 2045 pipes. Manual compass is 61 notes, pedal compass is 32 notes. Equipped with electro-pneumatic (EP) chests, drawknobs in vertical rows on angled jambs, balanced swell shoes/pedals at standard AGO placement, adjustable combination pistons, AGO Standard (concave radiating) pedalboard, reversible full organ/tutti toe stud, combination action thumb pistons, combination action toe studs, coupler reversible thumb pistons, coupler reversible toe studs. In 1962 further work was undertaken, the Clarion 4' replaced the Vox Humana, the Trompette 8' replaced the"
"Pedal harp The pedal harp (also known as the concert harp) is a large and technically modern harp, designed primarily for art music and may be played either solo, as part of a chamber ensemble, or in an orchestra. It typically has a range of six and a half octaves (47 strings), weighs about , is about high, has a depth of , and is wide at the bass end of the soundboard. The notes range from the C three octaves below middle C to three and a half octaves above, usually ending on G. Using octave designations, the range"
"drum kit, with Zildjian, Sabian, and Paiste cymbals, as well as a Korg microKORG synthesizer. As the band's career has progressed, they have incorporated string sections on record, beginning with ""Under the Pipal Tree"", which featured use of cello, continuing with ""One Step More and You Die"" and ""Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined"" which both featured string quartets, and ""You Are There"", which featured a string quintet. On ""Hymn to the Immortal Wind"", the band made use of a 28-piece chamber orchestra. Mono (Japanese band) Mono (stylised as MONO) is a Japanese instrumental"
"was the fifth track on ""Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme"", which was released on October 10, 1966 and peaked at number four on the ""Billboard"" 200. It was then released as a B-side of ""The Dangling Conversation"", reaching number 25 on ""Billboard""s Hot 100. In the February 1968 release of the soundtrack for the movie ""The Graduate"", the song appeared (in a different version) as the eleventh track. ""The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine"" received generally positive reviews. Allmusic's Matthew Greenwald wrote a review of the song, comparing it to Marty Balin's ""Plastic Fantastic Lover"" (recorded by Jefferson Airplane on"
"the Standells' most successful LP, their only nationally charting album. This LP charted on both Billboard and Cash Box magazines' charts, peaking at #52 and #39, respectively, during the summer of 1966. The song is traditionally played by Boston sports teams following victories. The Boston Bruins ice hockey team began playing the song in 1991, and the Boston Red Sox baseball team followed suit after home victories beginning in the 1997 season. The surviving Standells have performed the song at Fenway Park from atop the Green Monster. The song's famous guitar riff was recorded with a Fender Telecaster through a"
"and an organ. The full instrumentation is: piccolo, 3 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets in A, bass clarinet in A, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns in F, 4 trumpets in F, 3 trombones, tuba, 3 contrabass sarrusophones in E, timpani, percussion (triangle, cymbals, tambourine, bass drum, tambour de Basque, tam-tam, glockenspiel, bells, thunder sheet), harp, organ and strings. The finale contains a disguised quotation of the Polish national anthem, ""Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła"" (""Poland Is Not Yet Lost""), in duple meter rather than the original's triple-time mazurka rhythm. In 1915, Edward Elgar wrote an orchestral piece titled ""Polonia"","
"the lead players both hit on 1, 3, and the ""and"" of 4. The B section is a circle of fourths pattern built on dominant seventh chords. The ending of the song contains a vamp on the last two bars of the A section followed by an alteration of the initial pickup measure ending on a minor-major seventh chord. Floyd Cramer performed the song on the organ on his 1962 album ""Floyd Cramer Gets Organized"" in which one half of the album was piano and the other half organ. Lyrics for this song were written by Karrin Allyson with the"
"Open twelfth Treble Principal cornet Treble Vox humana Treble Violine 8' (on the pedals) Kettledrum (on the pedals) Bombarde 16' (on the pedals) Principal 16' Bass Principal 16' Treble Principal I 8' Bass Principal I 8' Treble Principal II 8' Bass Principal II 8' Treble Octave 4' Bass Octave 4' Treble Open twelfth 2⅔' Bass Open twelfth 2⅔' Treble Super octave 2' Octave twelfth 1½' Octave fifteenth 1' Mixture I Mixture II Mixture III Bass viols and octave 16'+8' (on the pedals Bass viols II 16' (on the pedals) Coupler IP Coupler II-I Third hand Other chapels were added to"