"Band did not like the unusual slow abrupt ending with Fred intoning the final line, ""I guess I'll just take your glasses."" In January 1968, the song reached #1 in the U.S. and became a gold record. It also hit #1 in Germany, and Switzerland, and #3 in Canada, United Kingdom, and Ireland. Judy in Disguise (With Glasses) ""Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)"" is a song that was a hit for the Louisiana-based John Fred & His Playboy Band in late 1967. The song was jointly written and composed by Fred and bandmate Andrew Bernard. The song features strings, brass,"
"John Fred John Fred Gourrier (May 8, 1941 – April 14, 2005), known by his stage name John Fred, was an American blue-eyed soul, swamp pop, rock and roll, and R&B performer from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, best known for the 1968 hit song ""Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)"". John Fred was born on May 8, 1941 in Baton Rouge, the son of John Fred Gourrier Sr. and Miriam Chaisson. He had one sister; Ann. His group, John Fred and the Playboys, was formed in 1956 when Fred was 15; their first charting single was March 1959's ""Shirley"". He appeared on"
"Kevin, his wife Jodi, and a grandson, Jon Sterling Gourrier in Miami. In April 2007, Fred was inducted into The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame. He has been inducted into the Delta Music Museum in Ferriday, Louisiana. John Fred John Fred Gourrier (May 8, 1941 – April 14, 2005), known by his stage name John Fred, was an American blue-eyed soul, swamp pop, rock and roll, and R&B performer from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, best known for the 1968 hit song ""Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)"". John Fred was born on May 8, 1941 in Baton Rouge, the son of John"
"Willie Morganfield, Dorothy Norwood, Bobby Patterson, Bobby Rush, Soul Stirrers, Joe Stampley and the Uniques, Nat Stuckey, Little Johnny Taylor, Ted Taylor, Traveling Echoes, Big Joe Turner, Ike & Tina Turner, Violinaries, Justin Wilson, and Young-Holt Unlimited. The most successful release was in 1968 with ""Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)"" by John Fred and His Playboy Band from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. By 1973, Lewis's business had grown so large that ""Billboard"" music magazine cited it as the largest freight user, largest telephone user, and greatest customer of the Post Office Department in this part of the nation. The work was"
"1968 with lead singer Janis Joplin. The song was taken from the group's album ""Cheap Thrills"", recorded in 1968 and released on Columbia Records. This 2 minutes 43 seconds rendition made it to number twelve on the U.S. pop chart. The album release was the culmination of a hugely successful year for Joplin with acclaimed performances at the Monterey Pop Festival, Anderson Theater in New York, Wake For Martin Luther King Jr. (with Jimi Hendrix) in New York and on TV's prime-time ""The Dick Cavett Show"". The song's instrumentation was arranged by Sam Andrew, who also performed three distorted, loud"
"Alan Freed's show, but when Dick Clark asked him to sing on ""American Bandstand"", Fred had to turn him down because he had to play in a basketball game. Fred played basketball and baseball at Louisiana State University and Southeastern Louisiana University. By 1967, the band was renamed John Fred & His Playboy Band (to avoid confusion with Gary Lewis & The Playboys) and Fred and band member Andrew Bernard co-wrote ""Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)"", whose name is a parodic play on the title of The Beatles' song ""Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"". The song, issued by Louisiana-based"
"through 2012. In 1968, a version by Julie Driscoll with Brian Auger and The Trinity became a hit in the United Kingdom, peaking at #5 on the UK Singles Chart (""see"" 1968 in music) and also reaching #106 on the U.S. Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart. With its use of distortion, phasing, the evocative imagery of the song's title and the group's flamboyant dress, this version is closely associated with the psychedelic era in British music. The arrangement featured prominent use of both Hammond organ and mellotron. Driscoll recorded the song again in the early 1990s with Adrian Edmondson"
"much better in Canada and the UK – in those countries, the single was a top 40 hit, peaking at #35 in Canada and #21 in the UK in 1968. The song's popularity was greatly enhanced by three cover releases in 1968 and 1969 with arrangements that appealed to a diversity of music audiences. Aretha Franklin's 1969 soul music arrangement was included in her ""This Girl's in Love with You"" album, which peaked in the U.S. at #19 and #3 on the soul chart, and peaked in Canada at #12. Jackie DeShannon's 1968 pop music arrangement, debuting on the Hot"
"Incredible (Gary Puckett & The Union Gap album) Incredible is the third studio album by Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, released in 1968. In contrast to their first two albums, which used cover versions of hit songs for about half their content, ""Incredible"" consists entirely of new songs written by the band members themselves and/or their producer, Jerry Fuller. The album landed on the ""Billboard"" 200 chart, reaching No. 20, being the group's top charting album. The song ""Lady Willpower"" was released in June 1968 and hit No. 2 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, No. 26 on the adult"
"somewhat from the attention. The ever-present sunglasses led some people to assume that the stationary performer was blind. His black clothes and the desperation in his songs emanated the image of mystery and introversion. His dark and brooding persona, combined with his tremulous voice in lovelorn ballads marketed to teenagers, made Orbison a star in the early 1960s. His string of top-40 hits continued with ""In Dreams"" (US number seven, UK number six), ""Falling"" (US number 22, UK number 9), and ""Mean Woman Blues"" (US number five, UK number three) coupled with ""Blue Bayou"" (US number 29, UK number three)."
"year were Elvis Presley, ""Heartbreak Hotel;"" Johnny Cash, ""I Walk the Line;"" and Carl Perkins, ""Blue Suede Shoes"". Cash and Presley placed songs in the top 5 in 1958 with No. 3 ""Guess Things Happen That Way/Come In, Stranger"" by Cash, and No. 5 by Presley ""Don't/I Beg Of You"". Presley acknowledged the influence of rhythm and blues artists and his style, saying ""The coloured folk been singin' and playin' it just the way I'm doin' it now, man for more years than I know."" By 1958, many rockabilly musicians returned to a more mainstream style or had defined their"
"Jesamine Goes"" (published under the pseudonyms of Frere Manston and Jack Gellar) (1968) were issued as singles, but all failed. The Casuals covered the last song and issued it simply as ""Jesamine"", which reached #2 in the UK Singles Chart in late 1968. Scott and Wilde songs were used by a wide range of musicians including Status Quo: ""Ice in the Sun"" ""Elizabeth Dreams"" and ""Paradise Flat"" (all on their first album ""Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo""); Lulu ""I'm a Tiger"" (1968) and Wilde himself with ""Abergavenny"" (1968) (also credited to Manston and Gellar, and reissued by Wilde"
"3 R&B, number 13 pop). Both of the preceding Atlantic singles were certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. At the end of 1968, he had a seasonal pop hit with the raunchy and funky ""Back Door Santa"" (number 4 Christmas pop), and toured nationally. His backing singers included Candi Staton; they married in 1970 and produced a son, Clarence Carter Jr., before divorcing in 1973. Carter continued to have hits in 1969 and 1970, with ""Snatching It Back"", ""The Feeling Is Right"", ""Doin' Our Thing"", and ""I Can't Leave Your Love Alone"" all reaching both the US"
"(You're the) Devil in Disguise ""(You're the) Devil in Disguise"" is a 1963 single by Elvis Presley which was written by the songwriters Bill Giant, Bernie Baum and Florence Kaye. It was published by Elvis Presley Music in June 1963. This song peaked at number three in the US on the ""Billboard"" singles chart on August 10, 1963 and number nine on the ""Billboard"" Rhythm and Blues singles chart, becoming his last top ten single on the Rhythm and Blues charts. The single was certified ""Gold"" by the RIAA for sales in excess of 500,000 units in the US. The"
"It reached number one on the U.S. R&B chart, staying there for four weeks. ""Chain of Fools"" also peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100,behind Judy in Disguise (With Glasses) by John Fred & His Playboy Band. It won the Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, and later a Grammy Hall of Fame Award. In 2004, this song was ranked #249 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The trademark tremolo guitar licks at the introduction were played by Joe South. The song was edited for LP & 45; the original"
"Elliot Lurie Elliot Lurie (born August 19, 1948) is an American singer/musician who was the lead guitarist and songwriter (and frequently, lead vocalist) for the band Looking Glass from 1969 to 1974. He wrote and sang lead on their 1972 #1 hit single ""Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)"" and their 1973 top-forty single ""Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne."" After leaving the band in the mid-1970s, Lurie released a self-titled album and a single, ""Disco (Where You Gonna Go)"", both on Epic Records. Neither reached the Billboard Top 100. He later signed with Arista Records, and also worked writing songs for Chappell Music"
"in 1968 (behind ""Grazing in the Grass"" by Hugh Masekela). It also reached #5 on the UK Singles Chart during the year. It reached #26 U.S. Easy Listening. The single was awarded a million-selling Gold disc from the RIAA. It ranked among Cash Box magazine's Top 100 singles of 1968, where it hit the #1 position the week ending August 3, 1968. The song was the #34 song on the ""Billboard"" Year-End Hot 100 singles in 1968. Lady Willpower ""Lady Willpower"" is a song written by Jerry Fuller and recorded by Gary Puckett & The Union Gap for their 1968"
"""Billboard"" Hot 100, reaching No. 94, while reaching No. 28 on ""Billboard""s Easy Listening chart, No. 87 on the ""Cash Box"" Top 100, and No. 92 on ""Record World""s ""The Singles Chart"". In 1968, Jerry Vale released a version of the song as a single and on the album ""This Guy's In Love With You"". Vale's version reached No. 30 on ""Billboard""s Easy Listening chart and No. 23 on ""Record World""s ""Top Non-Rock"" chart. Conway Twitty released the song on the album ""Next in Line"" in 1968. In 1977, Dorothy Moore released a version of the song as a single"
"twice, peaking at number 49 in 1970 and then reaching number five in August 1973. Andy Williams released a version in 1967 on his album, ""Born Free"". In 1968, ""Moon Over Naples"" earned Kaempfert one of five BMI Awards that year; the other awards were for his compositions ""Lady"", ""Sweet Maria"", ""Strangers in the Night"" and ""The World We Knew (Over and Over)"" with a posthumous BMI Award given September 16, 2003. As ""Spanish Eyes"", the song would go on to be performed by the likes of Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, Engelbert Humperdinck, Wayne Newton and Faith No More; it"
"known recording, though it was also rejected by Gordy as a single, and would also later go onto an album, ""In the Groove"". The third recording was in 1967 with Gladys Knight and the Pips in a new, faster arrangement. Gordy accepted the new arrangement and the Gladys Knight version was released as a single in September 1967, reaching number 2 in the charts. When Gaye's album with his version of Grapevine was released in August 1968, radio disc jockeys were playing the song, so Gordy had it released as a single in October, and it went to number one"
"(originally ""Bubbled Under"" at No. 106 on February 10–17, 1968, more successful as a cover by The Raiders that peaked on the Hot 100 at No. 23 on October 23–30, 1971) and two other soul-searchers, the back-to-nature ""Don't It Make You Want to Go Home"" (also covered eight months later by Brook Benton With The Dixie Flyers) and the socially provocative ""Walk a Mile in My Shoes"" (also covered by Elvis Presley in a Las Vegas era version, Bryan Ferry, and Coldcut). South's most commercially successful composition was Lynn Anderson's 1971 country/pop monster hit ""Rose Garden"", which was a hit"
"Jockeys"" chart and four weeks on the ""Most Played in Jukeboxes""). In reaching number-one, it would be almost six years before another British artist would top the U.S. pop chart; that song was Laurie London's ""He's Got the Whole World in His Hands,"" in April 1958. Additionally, the song's nine-week run at number one on the U.S. pop charts by a British act was a record that stood for 16 years, until The Beatles matched the longevity record (of nine weeks) in 1968 with ""Hey Jude."" Currently, ""Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart"" is tied with ""Hey Jude"" for third amongst longest-running number-one"
"became a top 20 hit single in the UK. Then, with the Banshees (including guitarist Robert Smith of the Cure), she covered the Beatles' ""Dear Prudence"", which reached number 3 on the UK Singles Chart. Two albums followed with Smith: ""Nocturne"", recorded live in London in 1983, and 1984's ""Hyæna"". In 1985, the single ""Cities in Dust"" was recorded with sequencers; it climbed to number 21 in the UK charts. ""Entertainment Weekly"" noted that it was the first of a handful of alt-rock radio hits in the U.S. 1986's ""Tinderbox"" and the 1987 covers album ""Through the Looking Glass"" both"
"It made its way onto the Hot 100 at number 79 on May 11, 1968, peaking at number 2 on June 22, 1968 behind Herb Alpert's ""This Guy's in Love with You"". It peaked at number 10 on ""Billboard's"" Easy Listening survey and was number 8 on WABC's overall 1968 chart. It topped the music charts in Europe and Australia and also won the 1969 Grammy Award for Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s). In 1992, ""Miami Herald"" journalist Dave Barry conducted a poll among his readers, and they selected Harris's recording as the worst song of all time, both in terms"
"in New Zealand. The backing vocals were by The Yandall Sisters. He later included the song on his album ""Very Best of Bunny Walters"". In 1974, Barry Manilow recorded the song under the title name of ""Mandy"". The song was Manilow's first #1 hit on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and Easy Listening charts, and his first gold single. In the three years between English's and Manilow's recordings, Looking Glass's ""Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)"" had hit #1 in 1972. When Clive Davis suggested that Manilow record the selection, the singer changed the title to ""Mandy"" to avoid confusion. Joe Renzetti"
"No 30. Bobbie Gentry and Glen Campbell sang it as a duet in 1968. Also in 1968, Marie Laforêt released ""Et Si Je T'Aime"", a French version of ""Sunday Mornin'"" with lyrics by . Oliver also released a version of ""Sunday Mornin'"" which reached #35 in the US charts in 1969. ""Sunday Mornin'"" was listed as one of the ""102 most performed songs in the BMI repertoire during 1968"". Carmen McRae and Julie London both released versions of two songs by Guryan: McRae performing ""Can You Tell"" and ""Don't Go Away"" on ""Sounds of Silence"" (1968) and London releasing ""Sunday"
"set gathering together a few recent singles' A-sides, B-sides, and instrumental EP tracks. The following year 1968 brought two albums, the Mann–Hugg soundtrack to the film ""Up the Junction"" in February, from which an edited title track coupled with the rare B-side ""Sleepy Hollow"" was issued as an unsuccessful UK single; and ""Mighty Garvey!"" in July. They had a resounding success with ""Mighty Quinn"", their third UK No. 1 and third hit Dylan song, which also peaked at No. 3 in Canada and No. 10 in the US. In June 1968, the following single, John Simon's ""My Name is Jack"","
"on TV's ""Uptight"" and viewers responded with calls to play the song. Rofe was also a writer for ""Go-Set"", a teen-oriented pop magazine, another writer for the magazine, Ian Meldrum, praised Farnham's efforts. ""Sadie"" hit #1 on the ""Go-Set"" National Singles Charts in January 1968 and remained there for five weeks. Selling 180 000 copies in Australia, ""Sadie (The Cleaning Lady)"" was the highest selling single by an Australian artist of the decade. Farnham's second single, released in March, was the double A-sided ""Underneath The Arches"" (non-album track) / ""Friday Kind Of Monday"", which peaked at #6. The album, ""Sadie"","
"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."
"single made it to No. 3 on the Hot 100 on 10-24 February 1968 in the U.S. and No. 46 in the UK. Drummer Kim Venable (born Clayton Kimbal Venable on May 5, 1944 in Eclectic, Alabama, died June 12, 2016) was brought in so Yost could move freely out front (Dennis St. John (drummer) and Emory Gordy (Bass) were the musicians on their studio recordings). Emory Gordy was also co-writer on the song Traces. Daughtry replaced Wilson. The band changed its name to 'the Classics IV featuring Dennis Yost' and enjoyed two more top-10 hits, ""Stormy"" (1968, Hot 100"
"with Love"" in 1967. Having finished second on three further occasions in the 1970s, with Mary Hopkin in 1970, The New Seekers in 1972 and The Shadows in 1975. The UK achieved their third victory in 1976 with Brotherhood of Man and ""Save Your Kisses for Me"", who won with 164 points, which would remain the highest points total for ten years. In 1977, the UK finished second for the tenth time represented by singer-songwriters Lynsey de Paul and Mike Moran. The UK's fourth victory came in 1981, with Bucks Fizz and ""Making Your Mind Up"". The group was created"
"3 in the United Kingdom. Both singles were in the UK top 5 simultaneously. Bristol first came to local attention in the Detroit area as a member of the soul duo 'Johnny & Jackey' with Jackey Beavers, an associate Bristol met while in the US Air Force. The pair recorded two singles in 1959 for Anna Records, a label owned by Gwen Gordy (Berry Gordy's sister) and Billy Davis and four 45s for Gwen Gordy and Harvey Fuqua's Tri-Phi label, none of which was a success beyond the Midwestern United States. In the mid 1960s, Motown had absorbed Tri-Phi and"
"Lennon glasses"", ""Round Metal"", or, occasionally, ""Granny Glasses"") were a type of psychedelic art wire-rim sunglasses that were often worn, usually for purely aesthetic reasons, by members of the 1960s counterculture. Pop icons such as Mick Jagger, Roger Daltrey, John Lennon, Jerry Garcia, Boy George, Liam Gallagher, Suggs, Ozzy Osbourne, Duckie (Jon Cryer) in ""Pretty in Pink"" and Jodie Foster's character in the film ""Taxi Driver"" all wore teashades. The original teashade design was made up of medium-sized, perfectly round lenses, supported by pads on the bridge of the nose and a thin wire frame. When teashades became popular in"