That was a dandy question. Jimmy Carter loved "Imagine." It was performed at his funeral by Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood.Originally Posted by texasdave
That was a dandy question. Jimmy Carter loved "Imagine." It was performed at his funeral by Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood.
" He wants to dream like a young man, with the wisdom of an old man. " ---Bob Seger
" I did something ten times better than watching this overpaid cabal of maladroit baseball practitioners bumble and stumble their way to yet another predictable L. I don’t even remember what I did, but it was better than watching this dreck. " ---TBL
Jimmy Carter was a great man.
Has anyone driven across the Causeway on Lake Pontchartrain? That is a trip. It is so long that eventually you cannot see land in any direction. It's water as far as the eye can see. It can be very disconcerting. We started off once and the weather was sunny. Before long the sky turned dark and you could see a waterspout off in the distance. My kids freaked out. There's nothing you can do but keep driving. Normally, cars drove in packs. Not intentionally, I'm sure. But, somehow, it was more reassuring that way.
“The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them.” - Turkish Proverb.
No, but that would be something else! I can see where it would be very disconcerting.
" He wants to dream like a young man, with the wisdom of an old man. " ---Bob Seger
" I did something ten times better than watching this overpaid cabal of maladroit baseball practitioners bumble and stumble their way to yet another predictable L. I don’t even remember what I did, but it was better than watching this dreck. " ---TBL
49. Unlike "We Built This City," here's a song that is considered by many to be one of the best rock songs of all time. The song was born from the mind of the band's founder, chief songwriter, and primary guitarist. He is an MIT-trained engineer who spent years perfecting the unique sound that would become his band's signature. This particular song was inspired by the songwriter's emotions after a school love affair ended, and the name of the girl mentioned in the song was the name of a girl he had a childhood crush on---his much older cousin, Marianne.
The songwriter/guitarist took a leave of absence from his job as an engineer at Polaroid to complete work on the songs that would make up his band's debut album . He had been perfecting these songs in his basement studio for five years, prior to getting a record contract. The song in question here was the debut single on their hugely successful debut album(the best debut album ever, imo).
The songwriter has said that The Left Banke's "Walk Away Renée" was a significant inspiration for this song, influencing its "heart-tugging mood" and the song's nostalgic theme of lost love, and that he even incorporated similar musical ideas like descending chords and the dreaminess of the melody. I love "Walk Away Renee." It's a terrific song but I love this song even more. It has every single element that an iconic rock song should have.
This song also features what many consider to be the best vocal performance ever heard on a rock record, with the lead singer reaching, and holding, some insanely high notes. The song peaked at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100. The four songs above it--- "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing"-Leo Sayer; "The Rubberband Man"-The Spinners; "You Don't Have To Be a Star"(To Be In My Show)-Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis, Jr. ; "Tonight's The Night"(Gonna Be Alright)-- Rod Stewart. None of those songs receive anywhere close to the radio play that this song receives on Classic Rock radio. It's still one of the most played songs on retro rock stations.
It is included in the R n' R Hall of Fame's 500 songs that shaped Rock and Roll. In 2008, VH1 rated it the 39th best hard rock song of all time(I rate it much higher than that).
Name this rock classic song and the band that made it an iconic rock record.
" He wants to dream like a young man, with the wisdom of an old man. " ---Bob Seger
" I did something ten times better than watching this overpaid cabal of maladroit baseball practitioners bumble and stumble their way to yet another predictable L. I don’t even remember what I did, but it was better than watching this dreck. " ---TBL
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More Than A Feeling - Boston.
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50. This song held the record for nearly 50 years for being the one having the longest duration(8 minutes, 42 sec) to hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. It's record for longest duration for a #1 song was broken a few years ago by an artist that had a #1 song that lasted 10 minutes, 13 seconds.
Name the song that held the record for nearly 50 years and name the artist who broke the record by more than a minute and a half.
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" He wants to dream like a young man, with the wisdom of an old man. " ---Bob Seger
" I did something ten times better than watching this overpaid cabal of maladroit baseball practitioners bumble and stumble their way to yet another predictable L. I don’t even remember what I did, but it was better than watching this dreck. " ---TBL
51. This song was inspired by a documentary that the singer/songwriter watched on TV with his bandmates at a hotel stop while on tour in the early 80's. The documentary was about Nostradamus and his predictions about the end of the world. The other musicians found the docmentary and its predictions for doom haunting. The song , which the singer had completed by the following day, contrasted with his bandmates' apocalyptic anxieties, and urged people to chill out and party before the end comes. Billboard Magazine wrote: "Apocalypse never sounded so danceable."
The song charted on Billboard's Hot 100 on four separate occasions over three different decades. It was the singer's second top 40 hit and also his 31st(and final ) top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.
What's the song and who wrote and performed it?
" He wants to dream like a young man, with the wisdom of an old man. " ---Bob Seger
" I did something ten times better than watching this overpaid cabal of maladroit baseball practitioners bumble and stumble their way to yet another predictable L. I don’t even remember what I did, but it was better than watching this dreck. " ---TBL
" He wants to dream like a young man, with the wisdom of an old man. " ---Bob Seger
" I did something ten times better than watching this overpaid cabal of maladroit baseball practitioners bumble and stumble their way to yet another predictable L. I don’t even remember what I did, but it was better than watching this dreck. " ---TBL
52. This song became the #1 song in the country the week I started 5th grade. Whenever I hear it today, it always, ALWAYS takes me back to that time. The song is about a fictional barmaid in love with a sailor at sea. The song's title was inspired by the songwriter's girlfriend in high school, a girl by the name of Randy. Yes... Randy. This song is also the reason Barry Manilow's 1975 #1 song is titled "Mandy." You see, Manilow's song originally had the same name as this song but, in order to avoid confusion , Manilow's song got changed to "Mandy," becoming Barry's first chart-topping single.
Can you sift through all of the Randy, Mandy references and tell me the name of this #1 from 1972 and the band who sent it to the top of the charts ?
" He wants to dream like a young man, with the wisdom of an old man. " ---Bob Seger
" I did something ten times better than watching this overpaid cabal of maladroit baseball practitioners bumble and stumble their way to yet another predictable L. I don’t even remember what I did, but it was better than watching this dreck. " ---TBL
Brandy - Looking Glass
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Freebird by Skynyrd
All Too Well by Taylor Swift
“There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.”
- Tom Robbins
Album version of Freebird is over 9 minutes, but the single version is only 4:41. I'm looking for the longest single release that went to #1. You are correct on the Taylor Swift answer.
" He wants to dream like a young man, with the wisdom of an old man. " ---Bob Seger
" I did something ten times better than watching this overpaid cabal of maladroit baseball practitioners bumble and stumble their way to yet another predictable L. I don’t even remember what I did, but it was better than watching this dreck. " ---TBL
" He wants to dream like a young man, with the wisdom of an old man. " ---Bob Seger
" I did something ten times better than watching this overpaid cabal of maladroit baseball practitioners bumble and stumble their way to yet another predictable L. I don’t even remember what I did, but it was better than watching this dreck. " ---TBL
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" He wants to dream like a young man, with the wisdom of an old man. " ---Bob Seger
" I did something ten times better than watching this overpaid cabal of maladroit baseball practitioners bumble and stumble their way to yet another predictable L. I don’t even remember what I did, but it was better than watching this dreck. " ---TBL
1999 - Prince
“There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.”
- Tom Robbins
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