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"I Could Not Ask for More" is a song by American singer-songwriter #EdwinMcCain for the soundtrack of the 1999 #romantic #drama film #MessageInABottle. It was also included in his third studio album #Messenger (1999), on which it would be released on May 25, 1999, via #AtlanticRecords to #contemporaryHitRadio, as the #leadSingle. Despite being a songwriter, this is one of two tracks featured on Messenger not written by McCain; instead.
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"Good Times" is a #disco #soul song by American R&B band #Chic, released in June 1979 by #AtlanticRecords as the first single from their third album, #Risqué (1979). It was both written and produced by #BernardEdwards and #NileRodgers, and peaked at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 on August 18, 1979. In Europe, the song peaked at number five on the #UKSinglesChart and was a top-20 hit in Belgium, the Netherlands and Sweden.
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One more pick for this week's #JukeboxFridayNight theme, #Birds.
Joe Turner and His Blues Kings: The Chicken and the Hawk (Up, Up And Away) (1955)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbkudafYyUc#JoeTurner #BigJoeTurner #rhythmandblues #rockandroll #JerryLeiber #MikeStoller #AtlanticRecords
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"My Eyes Adored You" is a 1974 song written by #BobCrewe and #KennyNolan. It was originally recorded by #TheFourSeasons in early 1974. After the #Motown label balked at the idea of releasing it, the recording was sold to lead singer #FrankieValli for $4000. After rejections by #Capitol and #AtlanticRecords, Valli succeeded in getting the recording released on #PrivateStockRecords, but the owner/founder of the label, #LarryUttal, wanted only Valli's name on the label.
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"Son of a Preacher Man" is a song written and composed by American songwriters #JohnHurleyAndRonnieWilkins and recorded by British singer #DustySpringfield in September 1968 for the album #DustyInMemphis. Springfield's version was produced by #JerryWexler, #TomDowd, and #ArifMardin for her first album for the #AtlanticRecords label. The single, released in late 1968 and credited as "Son-of-a Preacher Man" on UK, US and other releases, became an international hit.
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"Eyes Closed" is a song by English singer-songwriter #EdSheeran. It was released on 24 March 2023 through #Asylum and #AtlanticRecords as the lead single from his fifth studio album, −. The song was produced by #MaxMartin, #Shellback, #FredAgain, and #AaronDessner, and the former three producers wrote it with Sheeran. "Eyes Closed" debuted and peaked at the top of the #UKSinglesChart.
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"Son of a Preacher Man" is a song written and composed by American songwriters #JohnHurleyAndRonnieWilkins and recorded by British singer #DustySpringfield in September 1968 for the album #DustyInMemphis. Springfield's version was produced by #JerryWexler, #TomDowd, and #ArifMardin for her first album for the #AtlanticRecords label. The single, released in late 1968 and credited as "Son-of-a Preacher Man" on UK, US and other releases, became an international hit.
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"Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" is a song written by #BertBerns, #SolomonBurke, and #JerryWexler, and originally recorded by Burke under the production of Berns at #AtlanticRecords in 1964. Burke's version charted in 1964, but missed the US top 40, peaking at number 58. The song is ranked number 429 on the #RollingStone magazine's list of #The500GreatestSongsOfAllTime.
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Joe Turner was the father figure for all of the 1940s and 1950s rhythm & blues shouters. He honed his craft in the bars and night clubs of Kansas City during the late 1920s and early 1930s, and by the time he appeared in the 1938 "From Spirituals to Swing" concert at Carnegie Hall and made his first records with pianist Pete Johnson, he was already at the peak of his powers.
Turner achieved his greatest commercial success in the 1950s when he joined the roster of Atlantic Records and recorded a lot of contemporary material penned by writers like Jesse Stone, Doc Pomus and Leiber & Stoller. Although he was already in his forties, he became an unlikely rock'n'roll star and recorded a a few teen-oriented songs. But like just about all of his Atlantic releases, even these were excellent records.
Turner's wife, Lou Willie Turner (real name: Luella Brown) was credited as the writer of "Oke-She-Moke-She-Pop" (1953). As the song was released on the flip side of "TV Mama", one of Turner's major hits, it did not make the R&B charts on its own, but it is still a very entertaining record, with Turner fully in charge even in this live video version from 1954:
Joe Turner: "Oke-She-Moke-She-Pop" (1954)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnytNEuw3VE#music #rhythmblues #joeturner #bigjoeturner #atlanticrecords #soundies #bluesshouters #bluesmusic #1950s
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Modern audiences may remember Ruth Brown as Motormouth Maybelle in the original John Waters' version of "Hairspray" (1988). But she was also one of the biggest rhythm & blues stars of the 1950s, and the first major artist in the roster of the fledgling Atlantic Records, founded by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson in 1947.
By the time Brown recorded her #1 R&B hit "(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean" in 1952, Atlantic had become one of the leading record labels in the R&B market, to a large extent thanks to her record sales. In the UK, the future soul music guru Dave Godin found a bar which had a jukebox stocked with current American R&B singles (I wonder if they were still 78s?), and he later cited this Ruth Brown classic as the record that changed his life.
Amazingly enough, there is a great live video recorded in 1954, which captures Ruth Brown in her prime, performing this song.
Ruth Brown: "(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean" (1954)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqmGZRGvKC8#music #rhythmblues #ruthbrown #atlanticrecords #femaleartists #davegodin #1950s
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Jackie Farry, ’90s Music Figure and Francis Bean Cobain’s First Nanny, Dies at 58
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"Son of a Preacher Man" is a song written and composed by American songwriters #JohnHurleyAndRonnieWilkins and recorded by British singer #DustySpringfield in September 1968 for the album #DustyInMemphis. Springfield's version was produced by #JerryWexler, #TomDowd, and #ArifMardin for her first album for the #AtlanticRecords label. The single, released in late 1968 and credited as "Son-of-a Preacher Man" on UK, US and other releases, became an international hit.
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"Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" is a song written by #BertBerns, #SolomonBurke, and #JerryWexler, and originally recorded by Burke under the production of Berns at #AtlanticRecords in 1964. Burke's version charted in 1964, but missed the US top 40, peaking at number 58. The song is ranked number 429 on the #RollingStone magazine's list of #The500GreatestSongsOfAllTime.
https://youtu.be/a0_4zeMzbxk