Which song ,written by Mitchell Torok , catapulted "Gentleman Jim" to stardom?
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Mitchell Torok Mitchell Torok (born October 28, 1929, in Houston) is an American country music singer, songwriter, artist, author and guitarist, best known for his 1953 hit "Caribbean". He also wrote "Mexican Joe", which catapulted Jim Reeves to stardom. They began to write together and charted many top 20 hits.
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Jim Reeves James Travis Reeves (August 20, 1923July 31, 1964) was an American country and popular music singer-songwriter. With records charting from the 1950s to the 1980s, he became well known as a practitioner of the Nashville sound (a mixture of older country-style music with elements of popular music). Known as "Gentleman Jim", his songs continued to chart for years after his death. Reeves died in the crash of his private airplane. He is a member of both the Country Music and Texas Country Music Halls of Fame.
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Starman (song) "Starman" is a song by David Bowie, recorded on 4 February 1972 and released as a single that April. The song was a late addition to "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars", included at the insistence of RCA’s Dennis Katz, who heard a demo and loved the track, believing it would make a great single. It replaced the Chuck Berry cover "Round and Round" on the album.
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Transistor Radio (song) "Transistor Radio" is a comic song written by Benny Hill and Mark Anthony (a pseudonym of producer Tony Hatch), and performed by Hill. The song revolves around the story of a man whose attempts at intimacy with his girlfriend are constantly thwarted by music played from the girl's transistor radio. The song spoofs the Chipmunks, Elvis Presley's "Wooden Heart", the BBC Shipping Forecast and Jimmy Jones' "Handy Man".
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Lady (Styx song) "Lady" is a 1973 rock ballad written and performed by the rock band Styx. It was first released on "Styx II" and was a local hit in the band's native Chicago, but initially failed to chart nationally. The song gained success shortly after Styx left Wooden Nickel Records to move to A&M Records in 1974 as it began picking up airplay nationwide, eventually peaking at #6 on the "Billboard" Top 40 in March 1975. The track was later re-recorded for the 1995 Styx compilation "Greatest Hits" due to a contractual dispute between A&M and Wooden Nickel.
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Runaway (Del Shannon song) "Runaway" is a number-one "Billboard" Hot 100 song made famous by Del Shannon in 1961. It was written by Shannon and keyboardist Max Crook, and became a major international hit. It is No. 472 on "Rolling Stone"' s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, compiled in 2010.
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Good Timin' (Jimmy Jones song) "Good Timin" was a number-one single in the UK Singles Chart during 1960, by Jimmy Jones. In the U.S., the follow-up to "Handy Man" went to number three on "Billboard" Hot 100 chart and number eight on the R&B chart. The song extrapolates the historical encounters between David and Goliath and between Columbus and Isabella as reason enough for a boy to meet a girl.
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Hooray for Hollywood "Hooray for Hollywood" is a song first featured in the 1937 movie "Hollywood Hotel", and which has since become (together with "That's Entertainment" and "Another Op'nin', Another Show") the staple soundtrack element of any Academy Awards ceremony. It is even frequently played during non-American movie ceremonies, e.g. the French César Awards. The popularity of the song is notably due to the lyrics by Johnny Mercer, which reference the American movie industry and satirize the illusory desire of many people to become famous as actors.
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Jim Robinson (trombonist) Jim Robinson, also known as Big Jim Robinson (December 25, 1892 – May 4, 1976) was an American jazz musician, based in New Orleans, renowned for his deep, wide-toned, robust "tailgate" style of trombone playing, using the slide to achieve a wide swoop between two notes (a technique that classical musicians call "glissando") and rhythmic effects.
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Jimmy Dean Jimmy Ray Dean (August 10, 1928 – June 13, 2010) was an American country music singer, television host, actor, and businessman, best known today as the creator of the Jimmy Dean sausage brand. He became a national television personality starting on CBS in 1957. He rose to fame for his 1961 country crossover hit "Big Bad John" and his 1963 ABC television series, "The Jimmy Dean Show", which also gave puppeteer Jim Henson his first national media exposure. His acting career included a supporting role as Willard Whyte in the James Bond movie, "Diamonds Are Forever" (1971). He lived near Richmond, Virginia, and was nominated for the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2010, although he was formally inducted posthumously.
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Let's Stay Together (song) "Let's Stay Together" is a song by American singer Al Green from his 1972 album of the same name. It was produced and recorded by Willie Mitchell, and mixed by Mitchell and Terry Manning. Released as a single in 1971, "Let's Stay Together" reached number one on the "Billboard" Hot 100, and remained on the chart for 16 weeks and also topped "Billboard"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s R&B chart for nine weeks. "Billboard" ranked it as the number 11 song of 1972.
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Changes (David Bowie song) "Changes" is a song by David Bowie, originally released on the album "Hunky Dory" in December 1971 and as a single in January 1972. Despite missing the Billboard top 40, "Changes" became one of Bowie's best-known songs. The lyrics are often seen as a manifesto for his chameleonic personality, the frequent change of the world today, and frequent reinventions of his musical style throughout the 1970s. This single is cited as David Bowie's official North American debut, despite the fact that the song "The Man Who Sold the World" was released in North America two years prior. This was the last song Bowie performed live on stage before his retirement from live performances at the end of 2006.
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Something in the Air "Something in the Air" is a song recorded by Thunderclap Newman, written by Speedy Keen who also sang the song. It was a number 1 single for three weeks in the UK Singles Chart in July 1969. The song has been used for films, television and adverts, and has been covered by several artists. The track was also included on Thunderclap Newman's only album release "Hollywood Dream" over a year later.
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This Flight Tonight "This Flight Tonight" is a song by Joni Mitchell, from her 1971 album "Blue". It tells of the singer's regrets as she leaves her lover on a flight and wishes to return. The track was released as the B-side of "Carey".
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Pennies from Heaven (song) "Pennies from Heaven" is a 1936 American popular song with music by Arthur Johnston and words by Johnny Burke. It was introduced by Bing Crosby in the 1936 film of the same name. It was recorded in the same year by Billie Holiday and afterwards performed by Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra, Louis Armstrong, Tony Bennett, Dinah Washington, Clark Terry, Frances Langford, Arthur Tracy, Big Joe Turner, Frank Sinatra, Lester Young, Stan Getz, Dean Martin, Gene Ammons, The Skyliners (a major hit in 1960), Louis Prima, Legion of Mary, Guy Mitchell, Rose Murphy, Harry James, and many other jazz and popular singers.
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Taxi (song) "Taxi" is a song written and performed by Harry Chapin from his 1972 album "Heads & Tales". Chapin debuted the song on NBC's "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" in 1972, which was followed by many calls and telegrams sent from viewers to NBC demanding that Chapin return to the show. It was the first time in the show's history that host Johnny Carson brought a performer back the very next night for an encore performance. "Taxi" thus front-lined his defining work. The single helped establish Chapin's musical style and fame, and as a result, many Chapin items featured taxi-related imagery. WMEX DJ Jim Connors is credited with discovering Chapin and pushing "Taxi" to #24 on the "Billboard" charts, where it would last 16 weeks on the Hot 100, in the United States. "Billboard" ranked it as the #85 song for 1972. In Canada, the song reached #3.
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Gentleman Jim Robinson James Robinson (October 6, 1799 – October 15, 1875), known as Gentleman Jim, was born on the Pittsylvania Plantation of Landon Carter, Jr. to a freewoman by the name of Susan aka "Annah". He first rose to prominence as one of the wealthiest African Americans in the Manassas area, but is also known because his homestead was located between the lines of the Confederate and Union armies during two major battles of the Civil War.
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Jim Savarino (musician) Jim Savarino (born 1954 in Wheeling, West Virginia) is an American musician and singer-songwriter born in Wheeling, West Virginia, currently living in Morgantown, West Virginia. He is known for writing contemporary songs that draw from his Appalachian roots, nature and the human condition, often with a humorous point of view. His music connects with environmental groups such as the Sierra Club. Jim's song "Where Have The Mountains Gone" (aka "Appalachian Fall") appears in a documentary film regarding the practice of mountaintop removal mining (MTR). Jim's song "Avoca By Night" appears on the 1993 Fast Folk Los Angeles recording. The Fast Folk recordings are now being maintained by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
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Mr. Piano Man, Please! "Mr. Piano Man, Please" is a ragtime style song written for former Disney Mouseketeer, Annette Funicello by songwriters, Bob and Dick Sherman for the Golden Horseshoe Revue. This song follows in a long line of popular songs written by the Sherman Brothers for Annette. Other "top ten" songs include "Tall Paul" and "Pineapple Princess". As Annette went on to make films for other film companies besides Disney, the Sherman Brothers continued to work for the family friendly conglomerate eventually winning two Oscars for "Mary Poppins" in 1965.
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Bertie Higgins Elbert Joseph Higgins (born December 8, 1944), known as Bertie Higgins, is an American singer-songwriter. In 1982, Higgins had a Top 40 album with "Just Another Day in Paradise". It spawned the #1 Billboard romantic classic ballad "Key Largo", which referenced the Humphrey Bogart movie of the same name and reached #8 in the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100 record chart and #1 in the Billboard adult contemporary charts and #50 in the Billboard Country Music charts. In 2009, the song "Key Largo" was #75 on VH1's Greatest One-Hit Wonders of the 80s.
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Jerry Reed Jerry Reed Hubbard (March 20, 1937 – September 1, 2008), known professionally as Jerry Reed, was an American country music singer, guitarist, and songwriter, as well as an actor who appeared in more than a dozen films. His signature songs included "Guitar Man", "U.S. Male", "A Thing Called Love", "Alabama Wild Man", "Amos Moses", "When You're Hot, You're Hot" (which garnered a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance), "Ko-Ko Joe", "Lord, Mr. Ford", "East Bound and Down" (the theme song for the 1977 blockbuster "Smokey and the Bandit", in which Reed co-starred), "The Bird", and "She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)".
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Tommy Rettig Thomas Noel Rettig, known as Tommy Rettig (December 10, 1941 – February 15, 1996), was an American child actor, computer software engineer, and author. Rettig is remembered for portraying the character "Jeff Miller" in the first three seasons of CBS's "Lassie" television series, from 1954 to 1957, later seen in syndicated re-runs as "Jeff's Collie". He also co-starred with another former child actor, Tony Dow, in the mid-1960s television teen soap opera "Never Too Young" and recorded the song by that title with the group The TR-4.