Born in Ukraine composer Alexandre Schwab aka Marc Fontenoy escaped the Russian Revolution with his parents and moved to France in the early nineteen hundreds. A one-time lawyer, Marc’s songs have been recorded in the United States by The Andrews Sis…
Take one of Van Halen’s “Love Walks In” (Michael Anthony – Sammy Hagar – Eddie and Alex Van Halen) with Sammy Hagar using a hand-held microphone. As normal the song was written by the group.…
In May, 1927 Golden Gate Dance Orchestra with singer Ted Wallace were first to release “Just Another Day Wasted” (Roy Turk – Charles Tobias). Personnel variations and contractual obligations had the band using other names including The California Ram…
UPDATE The Jewels (Rudy Jackson on lead, Johnny Torrence, Vernon Knight, Dee Hawkins and James Brown) were first to record "Hearts Of Stone" (Torrence - Ray) in November of 1954.
One week later another release with better promotion and distribution,…
Richard Himber (Imber) and His Ritz-Carlton Orchestra were first to record “Everything’s Been Done Before” (Harold Adamson – Jack King – Edwin H. Knopf) with singer and saxophonist Joey Nash in February, 1935. This is edited to include the vocal.…
LANGUAGE WARNING There’s no mention of “mom’s spaghetti” in the demo of Eminem’s (Marshall Mathers) “Lose Yourself” (Marshall Mathers – Jeff Bass – Luis Resto) but you will find lots of nonsense lyrics. The end product would be Eminem’s first chart t…
This is a snippet of “The Letter Edged In Black” (Hattie Nevada) as recorded on a wax cylinder in 1897 by composer Hattie Nevada (Hicks) for the Kansas City Talking Machine Company. Hattie and husband Frank Woodbury co-owned the recording company.…
Steely Dan (Donald Fagen, Walter Becker and ever-changing studio musicians) took over a year in the studio and collaborated with more than forty musicians to produce the Grammy winning 1980 top ten album "Gaucho". During this time Walter Becker was i…
From the Steely Dan (Walter Becker and Donald Fagen) album “Aja Extras” featuring demos and outtakes from the LP this is the “Deacon Blues” (Becker – Fagen) demo. The majority of the song was written at Donald Fagan’s home in Malibu, California and t…
With the now politically incorrect original lyrics Lee Morse sings “Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall In Love)” from 1928, the year Cole Porter composed the song for the 1929 musical “Paris”. This was Cole’s first Broadway hit.…
The demo for Tyler Hubbard’s “Dancin’ In The Country” (Tyler Hubbard – Ross Copperman - Jon Nite – Keith Urban) features Keith Urban supplying backing vocal, banjo and various guitar parts.
After Florida Georgia Line (Tyler Hubbard a…
LANGUAGE WARNING The musical “Annie” introduced “It’s The Hard-Knock Life” (Charles Strouse – Martin Charnin) as performed by Andrea McArdle and the Original Broadway Cast. Andrea was on the soap opera “Search For Tomorrow” for over two years while “…
UPDATE Based on the "Boys Town" logo Bob Russell (NOT the writer of "Honey", "Little Green Apples", "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia", "Sure Gonna Miss Her", etc) composed "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" (Scott - Russell) along with Bob Sc…
George and Ira Gershwin composed the 1927 musical “Strike Up The Band” but it was anything but a success the first time around expect for the title tune “March From Strike Up The Band’. George Gershwin sat at the upright piano and played this version…
The scene was the Davis House Child Advocacy Center fundraiser “Rock the House Music Jam” at The Franklin Theatre in 2018 where co-writer Bobby Pinson sang “Made In America” (Bobby Pinson – Toby Keith – Gregory Reeves) showing sincere patriotism and…
As they experimented with American roots music U2 (lead singer Paul Hewson aka Bono, Adam Clayton, David Evans aka The Edge, Joey Miskulin and Larry Mullen Jr.) and Bono wrote “Angel Of Harlem” during their Joshua Tree Tour in 1987. Initially the son…
Singer, pianist, vaudeville performer, actor and songwriter Lanny Ross attended Yale University, Columbia Law School and the Juilliard School of Music. Lanny recorded "Shepherd Serenade" (Kermit Goell - Fred Spielman) in August, 1941.…
Franklin D. Roosevelt's favourite song was "A Home On The Range" (Brewster Higley - Daniel Kelley - Clarence Harlan - Eugene Harlan - Virgie Harlan) aka "Oh Give Me A Home Where The Buffalo Roam". The song was based on an 1876 poem title "Western Hom…
The talented singer, songwriter, producer and actor Ester (Esther) Dean with the demo of “Where Have You Been” (Ester Dean – Lukasz Gottwald – Calvin Harris - Geoff Mack – Henry Walter) for Rihanna (Fenty). Ester has been nicknamed “The Song Factory”…
The voice of Snow White, Adriana Caselotti and the voice of the Prince, Harry Stockwell sang “One Song” (Frank Churchill- Larry Morey) in the 1937 Disney classic “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”.
Bandleader, clar…
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