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Eve Of Destruction - Barry McGuire. Even If It Breaks Your Heart - Eli Young Band. Every Beat of My Heart - Gladys Knight. Everybody Loves Somebody - Dean Martin. Everytime You Go Away - Paul Young. Evil Ways - Santana. Fever - Peggy Lee. Friday Night - Eric Paslay. Galveston - Glen Campbell.
- The Beatles. Let's just get this out of the way: Without the Beatles, most of the artists on this list wouldn't even exist. Even the group's contemporaries adored, worshiped and were influenced by them.
- The Rolling Stones. Next to the Beatles, no group has done more for the history of classic rock than the Rolling Stones. Dirtier, gutsier and bluesier than their '60s rivals, the Stones hit their peak in the late '60s and early '70s, when they released a string of albums -- starting with 1968's 'Beggars Banquet' and running through 1972's 'Exile on Main St.' --
- Led Zeppelin. Led Zeppelin started out as a blues tribute band from the ashes of the Yardbirds, but they quickly catapulted to the top of the rock world with increasingly more sophisticated and powerful albums.
- Jimi Hendrix. Jimi Hendrix did more for the electric guitar than anyone since Chuck Berry, finding new ways to assault, caress and wring noise out of the instrument that nobody knew was in there.
- “White Christmas” from “Holiday Inn” (1942), by Irving Berlin. It always feels strange watching the “Holiday Inn” scene where Bing Crosby, playing a songwriter, teaches this song to Marjorie Reynolds as something that had recently come off the top of his head, because implicit in the scene is the idea that “White Christmas” was written by a human, not God.
- “Over the Rainbow” from “The Wizard of Oz” (1939), by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg. When you think about it, both of these two top-tier Oscar songs are ditties about the weather.
- “When You Wish Upon a Star” from “Pinocchio” (1940), by Leigh Harline and Ned Washington. The great triumvirate of movie “wish” songs is completed by Jiminy Cricket’s opening and closing anthem about wishing to be real… something we could all aspire to.
- “Theme From ‘Shaft’” from “Shaft” (1971), by Isaac Hayes. And now, a different kind of wish fulfillment: that you could be a “private dick that’s a sex machine to all the chicks.”
However, since Oscar nominees for 1970, 1971 and 1972 had all been major hit records by other artists, in 1973 the rule was amended again, and it became standard to first offer either the original artist or artists who performed the song in the film a chance to perform it at the ceremony, followed by the artist or artists who had the hit record ...
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- Talking Heads. By Dave Sitek. When I was a kid, I was really into hardcore punk. Hardcore was very rigid. Talking Heads was the first band I remember telling my punk friends about, saying, "Yo, check this out!
- Carl Perkins. By Tom Petty. Carl Perkins' songs will outlive us all. On tracks like "Blue Suede Shoes" and "Honey Don't!" he took that country-picking thing into the rock world.
- Curtis Mayfield. By Boz Scaggs. If, in the late Fifties and early Sixties, you were drawn to that place on the AM radio dial where the rhythms, the grooves and the beautiful sounds of African-American soul were playing, you would have found Curtis Mayfield.
- R.E.M. By Colin Meloy. I first heard R.E.M. in 1986, a song tacked on to the end of a demos collection of a Eugene, Oregon, band that my uncle, then in school at U of O, sent to me for Christmas.
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Mar 10, 2024 · 39. Irene Cara: “Flashdance…What a Feeling” ( Flashdance, 1983) Unlike “Maniac,” Irene Cara’s theme song from the movie Flashdance holds up beyond measure. She won a Grammy and an ...
