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“You Got It” is a song from Roy Orbison’s twenty-second studio album, Mystery Girl (1989). The song was released in January 1989 with “The Only One” as the B-side,and according to the Official Roy Orbison Discography by Orbison researcher Marcel Riesco, released again with “Crying” (version with k. d. lang) shortly thereafter. The A-side reached […]
Read More Roy Orbison “You Got It”“Bad Girl” is a 1959 doo-wop single by The Miracles. Issued locally on the Motown Records label, it was licensed to and issued nationally by Chess Records because the fledgling Motown Record Corporation did not, at that time, have national distribution. It was the first single released (and the only one released by this group) […]
Read More “SMOKEY ROBINSON – BAD GIRL”The Barberettes (Korean: 바버렛츠) is a South Korean retro, doo-wop female group that debuted in 2014 as a trio, and is based in Seoul. With their covers and original music, they reproduce the sound of the 50s-60s music, and are referred to as a time slip girl group who travel back to the times of barbershop […]
Read More 바버렛츠 The Barberettes “Be My Baby” (Cover of The Ronettes)Originally posted on MissBackInTheDayUSA Carla Venita Thomas is an American singer, who is often referred to as the Queen of Memphis Soul. She is the daughter of Rufus Thomas. Thomas was born and raised in the Foote Homes Projects. Along with her siblings, Marvell and Vaneese, she was one of three musical children of Rufus […]
Read More “CARLA THOMAS – GEE WHIZ (LOOK AT HIS EYES)”Featured image credit is distractify Richard Steven Valenzuela, known professionally as Ritchie Valens, was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. A rock and roll pioneer and a forefather of the Chicano rock movement, Valens was killed in a plane crash eight months into his music career. On February 3, 1959, on what has become known […]
Read More DONNA by Ritchie Valens“Will You Love Me Tomorrow“, sometimes known as “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow“, is a song with words written by Gerry Goffinand music composed by Carole King. It was originally recorded in 1960 by the Shirelles, who took their single to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song is also notable […]
Read More THE SHIRELLES “WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME TOMORROW”I’m on the Outside Looking In was a Billboard Top 20 Pop hit, peaking at number 15. Written by Teddy Randazzo and Bobby Weinstein, this was the group’s comeback single, ending a long period of inactivity. After the group’s first hit-making period, with such hits as “Tears on My Pillow“, “Little Anthony” Gourdine left the […]
Read More I’m on the Outside Looking In – Little Anthony and the Imperials“Twistin’ the Night Away” is a song written and recorded by Sam Cooke. It was released as a single in 1962 and became very popular, charting in the top ten of both the Billboard Hot 100 (#9) and Billboard’s R&B chart (#1). ‘Twistin’ the Night Away” was successful overseas as well, peaking at #6 on […]
Read More Sam Cooke “Twistin’ The Night Away”“I Want a Love I Can See” is a 1963 single by The Temptations for the Gordy (Motown) label. The single was the group’s first A-side to be written and produced by Miracles lead singer Smokey Robinson. Robinson had previously written the B-side “Slow Down Heart”, but for over the past year Berry Gordy, Jr. […]
Read More Pepe Marquez “I Want A Love I Can See”It was Henry’s biggest U.S. hit, reaching #4 in early 1961. The B-side on the single release was “Just My Baby and Me”. The U.S. release on the Argo record label was titled “I Don’t Know Why”. The U.K. release on the Pye Records label and the Australian release on the Coronet Records label were […]
Read More Clarence “Frogman” Henry (I Don’t Know Why I Love You) But I Do
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