Author: mystro2b

You Can’t Always Get What You Want by The Rolling Stones

The chorus of children is the London Bach Choir. Their 60 voices were double-tracked to make it sound like there were even more of them.
The London Bach Choir tried to have their name removed from the album when they found out it was called Let It Bleed and contained “Midnight Rambler,” a song about a serial killer.

https://www.songfacts.com/facts/the-rolling-stones/you-cant-always-get-what-you-want

Symphonic Songs for Band- Serenade by Robert Russel Bennett performed by Eastman Wind Ensemble

Band Nerd: “Hey, want to come to my Wind Ensemble Concert?”
Normal Person: “Ummm, what’s a Wind Ensemble?”
Band Nerd: “It’s like a band, but there is only one person playing each part.”
Normal Person: “Uh, Okay. What?”
Band Nerd: “Trust me. You’ll like it. We are playing music by a Hollywood composer named…
Normal Person: “Say no more! I’ll be there!”

This song is played at the concert and Normal Person becomes a Band Nerd. The End.

Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey by Wings

McCartney combined pieces of various unfinished songs to create this; in the later years of The Beatles, they did this a lot as a way to put unfinished songs to good use. As a result, “Uncle Albert – Admiral Halsey” contains 12 different sections over the course of its 4:50 running time. This jumble of musical textures, comic character voices, sound effects and changing tempos turned off a lot of listeners, but many others thought it was brilliant. The song wasn’t released as a single in the UK, but in America it became McCartney’s first #1 hit as a solo artist.

https://www.songfacts.com/facts/paul-mccartney/uncle-albert-admiral-halsey

New Kid In Town by The Eagles

Adult Contemporary. Sorry.

She’s a Beauty by The Tubes

This is by far the biggest hit for The Tubes, propelled by a high-quality video that got lots of airplay on MTV, which launched just two years earlier. The Tubes started at A&M Records in 1975, where they created some rather intriguing conceptual albums (including Remote Control in 1979, with a theme of television-induced idiocy) that never met sales expectations. When A&M dropped them in 1981, Capitol welcomed them with open arms. The label teamed them with producer David Foster, who helped them craft the hit ballad “Don’t Want To Wait Anymore” and brought in Steve Lukather of Toto for “Talk To Ya Later,” their first song to make an impact on MTV.

https://www.songfacts.com/facts/the-tubes/shes-a-beauty

Cousin Dupree by Steely Dan

American Women by Lenny Kravitz

Asked during a Reddit AMA how his cover came about, Kravitz replied: “I was called by the people making Austin Powers and they simple asked me to cover ‘American Woman,’ which I thought was odd but I accepted thinking it was an interesting challenge and did my best to change it as much as possible while still respecting the original. I was pleased when Burton Cummings called me to tell me how much he loved it.”

https://www.songfacts.com/facts/lenny-kravitz/american-woman

What a Shame About Me by Steely Dan

And then, on Feb. 29, 2000, they subverted expectations again, releasing their first new album in 20 years. Titled Two Against Nature, it managed the seemingly impossible feat of picking up pretty much exactly where Becker and Fagen left off with Gaucho: Hunched over the mixing board, exerting exacting control over airtight grooves and arrangements, still thoroughly out-of-step with prevailing trends.

“We have been fortunate enough to do something that has always been out of the mainstream and yet have an audience for what we do,” Becker told Paul Zollo during the weeks leading up to the release of Two Against Nature. “I don’t think what we are doing fits neatly into the context of what’s happening now any more than it did in the early ’70s when we started doing it. We were fortunate at that time that radio was as wide open as it was and that people doing something like what we were doing could sneak in there.”

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/steely-dan-two-against-nature/

Walking on the Moon by The Police

At your next high school class reunion, walk up to a group of guys and say, “I hope my legs don’t break…” and if they don’t give the proper response, just walk away and shake your head.

Words by Missing Persons

Mini LP with that Blade Runner cover.