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"Tight Rope" is the debut 1972 hit single by singer-songwriter #LeonRussell. It was the lead track on his LP, #Carney. The song reached number 11 on the U.S. #BillboardHot100 and number 10 on the #CashBox Top 100. In Canada, it reached number five. This song is a circus metaphor about clinging to life while being on a high wire. In the instrumental section, this song quotes a couple of times, a slow version of the "#EntranceOfTheGladiators" March.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qih8M8O1Vk

1972 HITS ARCHIVE: Tight Rope - Leon Russell (stereo 45)

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BornToBeBlueUnderABadSign May 10

“Feelin' Alright”
Tedeschi Trucks Band & Leon Russell
con Dave Mason (RIP)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFFi56h_4ew&list=RDTFFi56h_4ew&start_radio=1

#rock #blues #DaveMason #TTB #TedeschiTrucksBand #LeonRussell

Tedeschi Trucks Band & Leon Russell – “Feelin' Alright” [Feat. Dave Mason, Anders Osborne]

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Ted Tocks Covers May 5

Ted Tocks Covers

Heartbreak Hotel

Originally posted on January 8, 2022

On this day 70 years ago, Elvis Presley hit #1 for the first time with ‘Heartbreak Hotel’.

“Just take a walk down Lonely Street to Heartbreak Hotel”

#ElvisPresley #TommyDurden #MaeBorenAxton #HoytAxton #GlennReeves #AnnMargret #PaulMcCartney #RogerMiller #JamesGang #BruceSpringsteen #TanyaTucker #WillieNelson #LeonRussell #NeilDiamond #KimCarnes #TomPetty #AxlRose

https://tedtockscovers.wordpress.com/2022/01/08/heartbreak-hotel-a-trip-through-the-past-with-the-king-musicislife-tedtockscovers-elvispresley-tommydurden-maeborenaxton-hoytaxton-glennreeves-annmargret-paulmccartney-rogermiller-jamesg/

Heartbreak Hotel – A trip through the past with the King. #MusicisLife #TedTocksCovers #ElvisPresley #TommyDurden #MaeBorenAxton #HoytAxton #GlennReeves #AnnMargret #PaulMcCartney #RogerMiller #JamesGang #BruceSpringsteen #TanyaTucker #WillieNelson #LeonRussell #NeilDiamond #KimCarnes #TomPetty #AxlRose

Today’s feature is all about the covers. Let’s celebrate Elvis’s birthday with a host of tributes to ‘Heartbreak Hotel’. This song truly needs no introduction, but it must be noted that…

Ted Tocks Covers

50+ Music Apr 8

"Superstar" is a 1969 song written by #BonnieBramlett and #LeonRussell that has been a hit for many artists in different genres in the years since. The best-known versions are by #theCarpenters in 1971, #LutherVandross in 1983, and #SonicYouth in 1994.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJmmaIGiGBg

Carpenters - Superstar

Learn more about the history of "Superstar" here: https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/carpenters-superstar-song?utm_campaign=uDYT&utm_medium=youtube&utm_s...

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Andi Chorley Apr 6

John Simon's Album by John Simon, released on Warner Bros Records in 1971.

Review by Bruce Eder

..John Simon's Album (1970) ... was two years in the making and featuring many of the musicians with whom he'd been working over that period, including Cyrus Faryar, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel, Rick Danko, Delaney Bramlett, Leon Russell, Jim Gordon, Carl Radle, Jim Price, and Rita Coolidge, Bobby Whitlock, and Jean Millington. Perhaps not surprisingly, John Simon's Album mostly resembles the first two Band albums, with a clear, sharp, brittle sound rooted in a multitude of popular music strains. The strangest song here is the first, "Song of the Elves," a surreal, psychedelic song derived from an R&B source and beat (with a strong '50s New Orleans feel) that calls to mind both Randy Newman and Brian Wilson..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSV6jymIT4Y&list=PL7cXtwRYYSEHl9F6678tb2lvIR3PqhYBd&index=1

#JohnSimon #TheBand #GarthHudson #RichardManuel #RickDanko #DelaneyBramlett #LeonRussell #Music

50+ Music Apr 2

On April 2, 1942: #LeonRussell [Claude Russell Bridges], American musician and singer-songwriter ("Tight Rope"; "Delta Lady"; "Carney"), born in Lawton, Oklahoma (d. 2016).
#HappyBirthday #RIP 🥀

50+ Music Mar 26

"Tight Rope" is the debut 1972 hit single by singer-songwriter #LeonRussell. It was the lead track on his LP, #Carney. The song reached number 11 on the U.S. #BillboardHot100 and number 10 on the #CashBox Top 100. In Canada, it reached number five. This song is a circus metaphor about clinging to life while being on a high wire. In the instrumental section, this song quotes a couple of times, a slow version of the "#EntranceOfTheGladiators" March.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvep3Vsv_uQ

Leon Russell - Tight Rope [Official Lyric Video]

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Andi Chorley Jan 19

Feelin' Groovy is the debut album by the American sunshine pop band Harper's Bizarre, released in 1967.

Feelin' Groovy Review by Matthew Greenwald

...Enter producer Lenny Waronker and session musician/arranger/songwriter/general musical architect Van Dyke Parks. The two of them brought then-drummer Ted Templeman up to the front as co-lead vocalist, along with Dick Scoppettone, and created a soft rock identity for the group, renaming them Harpers Bizarre...songs by Van Dyke Parks ("Come to the Sunshine"), Randy Newman ("Debutante's Ball"), and others. An excellent and definitive slice of California soft pop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfPhxPvCVx8&list=OLAK5uy_mNIbemcxGpkoXEreKBtQXih6OHfpFQmhg

#HarpersBizarre #VanDykeParks #WreckingCrew #LeonRussell #Music #SunshinePop #60spop #RandyNewman