Because they managed to dip their toes into so many different genres, The Beatles covered Tony Orlando’s doo-wop version of an old song. That was part of a long history of Orlando finding his way into classic rock history. After several decades, The Beatles’ song eventually appeared on one of their albums.
The Beatles covered a Tony Orlando song based on the work of a classic writer
The Beatles covered Orlando’s “Beautiful Dreamer.” Orlando’s song was a doo-wop version of an old standard. During a 2016 interview with the Vancouver Sun, Orlando discussed his song. “It was an extension of a Stephen Foster song, ‘Beautiful Dreamer.’ The Beatles did cover it.” Foster was the famous writer behind tunes such as “My Old Kentucky Home,” “Oh! Susanna,” and “Camptown Ladies.”
Orlando shared an interesting Fab Four anecdote. “What’s interesting about that, if you read The Beatles’ liner notes,...
The Beatles covered a Tony Orlando song based on the work of a classic writer
The Beatles covered Orlando’s “Beautiful Dreamer.” Orlando’s song was a doo-wop version of an old standard. During a 2016 interview with the Vancouver Sun, Orlando discussed his song. “It was an extension of a Stephen Foster song, ‘Beautiful Dreamer.’ The Beatles did cover it.” Foster was the famous writer behind tunes such as “My Old Kentucky Home,” “Oh! Susanna,” and “Camptown Ladies.”
Orlando shared an interesting Fab Four anecdote. “What’s interesting about that, if you read The Beatles’ liner notes,...
- 12/18/2023
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
The Monkees bassist Peter Tork spent most of his time as a band member singing backup for Davy Jones, Mike Nesmith, and Micky Dolenz. But, when given a chance to sing lead on songs such as “Your Auntie Grizelda” and “Come on In,” Peter’s vocal abilities shone through. However, there was one song on the band’s third album, Headquarters, that Peter regretted not singing lead on. He later admitted, “I should’ve fought to do it.”
Mike Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, and Peter Tork | Getty Images/Bettmann Peter Tork once joked he ‘forgot’ to sing songs outside Monkees tunes
Peter played the role of the clown on The Monkees television show. However, behind the scenes, he was the most accomplished musician with the most natural abilities in the group, and that was no joke.
The Monkees musical director Don Kirshner and producers Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart...
Mike Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, and Peter Tork | Getty Images/Bettmann Peter Tork once joked he ‘forgot’ to sing songs outside Monkees tunes
Peter played the role of the clown on The Monkees television show. However, behind the scenes, he was the most accomplished musician with the most natural abilities in the group, and that was no joke.
The Monkees musical director Don Kirshner and producers Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart...
- 2/7/2023
- by Lucille Barilla
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
While on tour in 1967, the Monkees stopped at a store in Cleveland and were shocked to find that a new album was for sale with their name on it. Overseen by music supervisor Don Kirshner, More of the Monkees was rush-released amid the chaos of Monkeemania, a mere three months after the release of their first record.
Decked out in Sixties avocado green, the front cover featured a shot of the group from a JCPenney photoshoot. “The record was timed to come out specifically to go with a fashion thing...
Decked out in Sixties avocado green, the front cover featured a shot of the group from a JCPenney photoshoot. “The record was timed to come out specifically to go with a fashion thing...
- 2/21/2019
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Six journalists have been slapped with felony charges related to the waves of anti-Trump protests during the presidential inauguration on Friday, The New York Times reported Wednesday. If convicted, the media members — named Evan Engel, Alexander Rubinstein, Jack Keller, Matthew Hopard, Shay Horse and Aaron Cantu — could be sentenced up to 10 years in prison and receive $25,000 fines. All six have denied participating in the violence. They were covering the demonstration. Having gotten involved in the police action against demonstrators, they have been charged with the most serious level of offense under Washington DC’s law against rioting, according to the Times.
- 1/26/2017
- by Debbie Emery
- The Wrap
Jeffrey Wilson knows a thing or two about warfare, having served two tours in Iraq as a trauma and combat surgeon, so we were definitely intrigued when we heard about his war novel/supernatural thriller mash-up Fade to Black. Here are a few more details about the new book published by JournalStone.
Synopsis:
A young man is caught between two terrifying worlds. In one, he is Marine Sergeant Casey Stillman. Locked in combat in the streets of Fallujah, Iraq, he is lying next to his dead and dying friends, bleeding in the street—until he wakes up at home, in bed with his wife. In this other world, he is Jack Keller, a high school science teacher, husband, and devoted father to his little girl. But the nightmares of war continue to haunt him—and they’re vivid, they’re horrifying, and they’re way too real.
When news of killed Marines in Fallujah surfaces,...
Synopsis:
A young man is caught between two terrifying worlds. In one, he is Marine Sergeant Casey Stillman. Locked in combat in the streets of Fallujah, Iraq, he is lying next to his dead and dying friends, bleeding in the street—until he wakes up at home, in bed with his wife. In this other world, he is Jack Keller, a high school science teacher, husband, and devoted father to his little girl. But the nightmares of war continue to haunt him—and they’re vivid, they’re horrifying, and they’re way too real.
When news of killed Marines in Fallujah surfaces,...
- 6/17/2013
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Sinatra was in a slump when he met the beautiful Ava Gardner at a party. Soon they were driving through the night guns blazing, says James Kaplan in an excerpt from his new biography, Frank.
In January 1949, MGM celebrated its Silver Jubilee by gathering 57 of its biggest stars, including Lassie, for a historic group photograph. There they sat (except for Lassie, who stood in front), in chairs arranged on bleachers on a soundstage, row on row of them, Tracy and Hepburn and Gable and Astaire and Garland and Durante and Errol Flynn, living proof that the great studio had, if not quite more stars than in the heavens, then at least more than anyone else. Wearing an unflattering light-gray suit and looking oddly pallid (and distinctly balding), Sinatra sat at the far right in the second-to-last row, in between Ginger Rogers and Red Skelton (who had broken everyone up when he walked in,...
In January 1949, MGM celebrated its Silver Jubilee by gathering 57 of its biggest stars, including Lassie, for a historic group photograph. There they sat (except for Lassie, who stood in front), in chairs arranged on bleachers on a soundstage, row on row of them, Tracy and Hepburn and Gable and Astaire and Garland and Durante and Errol Flynn, living proof that the great studio had, if not quite more stars than in the heavens, then at least more than anyone else. Wearing an unflattering light-gray suit and looking oddly pallid (and distinctly balding), Sinatra sat at the far right in the second-to-last row, in between Ginger Rogers and Red Skelton (who had broken everyone up when he walked in,...
- 11/13/2010
- by James Kaplan
- The Daily Beast
(Tanna Frederick in Henry Jaglom's "Just 45 Minutes From Broadway," above, with David Garver.)
By Terry Keefe
The manner in which Iowa native Tanna Frederick received her break as an actress has sort of become a independent filmmaking legend, but it bears repeating, as a lesson in the type of chutzpah required to get anywhere in the film business. After a few years of struggling in the audition trenches of Hollywood, Frederick was told by a fellow actor that filmmaker Henry Jaglom often responded to fan letters. Frederick proceeded to write a copious letter to Jaglom, praising the merits of his 1997 film Deja Vu…which she had never actually seen. Nonetheless, a correspondence between Frederick and Jaglom began, and eventually, Jaglom gave the actress permission to do a stage production of his 1971 film debut, A Safe Place, the cinematic version of which starred Jack Nicholson, Orson Welles, and Tuesday Weld.
By Terry Keefe
The manner in which Iowa native Tanna Frederick received her break as an actress has sort of become a independent filmmaking legend, but it bears repeating, as a lesson in the type of chutzpah required to get anywhere in the film business. After a few years of struggling in the audition trenches of Hollywood, Frederick was told by a fellow actor that filmmaker Henry Jaglom often responded to fan letters. Frederick proceeded to write a copious letter to Jaglom, praising the merits of his 1997 film Deja Vu…which she had never actually seen. Nonetheless, a correspondence between Frederick and Jaglom began, and eventually, Jaglom gave the actress permission to do a stage production of his 1971 film debut, A Safe Place, the cinematic version of which starred Jack Nicholson, Orson Welles, and Tuesday Weld.
- 3/18/2010
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
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