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Skeeter Davis recorded the song on June 8, 1962 at the RCA Studios in Nashville, produced by Chet Atkins, and featuring Floyd Cramer on piano. Released by RCA Records in December 1962, “The End of the World” began its historic four-chart, Top Ten accomplishment in March 1963. An album featuring the song, along with other Skeeter Davis tunes ...
In 1967, at the age of 66, jazz master Louis Armstrong recorded a now-famous song titled, “What A Wonderful World.”. Armstrong’s very poignant, gravelly-voiced version of this song – brimming with his ebullient character and optimism – is regarded as a classic, and is dearly loved by listeners and music critics alike. Music Player.
During March 1963, this song — performed by country singer Skeeter Davis — hit No. 2 on both the Billboard country and pop charts. The Davis song also hit No. 4 on the Billboard R&B chart and went to No. 1 for four weeks on the Billboard adult contemporary chart. “The End of the World” — about a lost love or personal bereavement ...
John Lennon, circa 1960s, later recorded the 1980 song, “Watching The Wheels,” about his choice to step back from the “big time” and help raise his son in 1975-1980. Click for digital edition of song. During the years 1975-1980, former Beatle John Lennon was living in New York city with his wife Yoko Ono and their child, Sean.
In the stage production of Cats there is the very poignant song, “Memory,” performed by the aging female feline, Grizabella — a cat who has seen better days. The famous 1981 musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber was originally produced in London. Since then, Cats has become one of the theater’s all-time box office success stories, with ...
People objected, and people didn’t want to fight it…[Gimme Shelter is] a kind of end-of-the-world song, really. It’s apocalypse; the whole record’s like that. In one review some years later in 2019, The Financial Times noted that the song “heralded the arrival of a new brutish era — a winter of discontent to follow the Summer of ...
In 2004, “Adagio for Strings” was voted the world’s “saddest piece of music” in one survey of listeners by BBC radio. The piece was also widely played in connection with events following the terrorist attacks of 9/11. In earlier decades, at the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in April 1945, the song was played extensively.
The first American recording of the song was by Wayne Newton, also in 1965. However, it is the 1966 version by Sinatra that has become the classic. Music Player. Summer Wind – 1966. Frank Sinatra. 00:00. 00:00. Sinatra recorded his version in mid-May 1966 with Nelson Riddle and his orchestra.
“The End of The World” 1963. Skeeter Davis sings a sad song of unbearable loss. College Romance “The Love Story Saga” 1970-1977. Ali MacGraw’s fresh-faced coed, Jenny Cavilleri, swept the nation off its feet. Love & Loyalty “Of Bridges & Lovers” 1992-1995. A best-selling love story comes to the Big Screen starring Meryl Streep ...
The Beatles’ song “Eleanor Rigby,” credited as a Lennon-McCartney creation, was released on the Beatles’ 1966 album Revolver and as also as single. It appears to be one of those songs, fashioned at least partially, by a group process during the give-and-take of songwriting.