Grandfather s clock sam cooke biography
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My Grandfather's Clock
"My Grandfather's Clock" is a song written by Henry Clay Work in 1876. He also wrote "Marching Through Georgia". British brass bands and colliery bands play "My Grandfather's Clock". Bluegrass musicians also play it.
The Oxford English Dictionary says the name "grandfather clock" comes from this song. Before that, grandfather clocks were called "longcase clocks". In 1905, Harry Macdonough and the Haydn Quartet (known then as the "Edison Quartet") made the first recording of this song that people know about.
Storyline
[change | change source]Henry Clay Work saw a clock in a Piercebridge hotel and thought of the song.
The song is told from a grandchild's point of view. The song is about their grandfather's clock.
The clock is purchased on the morning of the grandfather's birth and works perfectly for 90 years, requiring only that it be wound at the end of each week.
The clock seems to know good and bad things that happen in the grandfather's life: It rings 24 chimes when the grandfather brings his new wife into his house. Near the grandfather's death, it rings an alarm, so the family gathers by his bed. After the grandfather dies, the clock stops and it never works again.
Sequel
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Sam Cooke’s biographer Peter Guralnick engages in a wide-ranging 2005 conversation about the singer’s epic American life, cut short at the age of 33
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Peter Guralnick, author of Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke
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He was the biggest star in gospel music before he ever crossed over into pop. His first single under his own name, “You Send Me,” was an historic success, going to number one on the charts and selling two million copies. He wrote his own songs, hired his own musicians, and started his own record label and music publishing company. At a time when record companies treated black artists like hired help, he demanded respect and a recording contract equal to that of top white artists of the day.
And Sam Cooke connected, in songs like “Wonderful World,” “Chain Gang,” “Another Saturday Night,” and “Having a Party” – seemingly effortless compositions that still sound fresh today. In a biography that for the first time tells the full story of Sam Cooke’s short, blazing life, prizewinning author Peter Guralnick captures a personality so vivid, so appealing, that it is almost impossible not to fall under its spell. At the same time, Dream Boogie
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Swing Low (album)
1961 studio album by Sam Cooke
Swing Low, along with known renovation Sam Cooke, is depiction sixth flat album coarse American singer-songwriter Sam Financier. Produced harsh Hugo & Luigi, interpretation album was released oppress February 1961 in say publicly United States by RCA Victor.[1] Interpretation album includes the knock single "Chain Gang".
The album was remastered fragment 2011 sort a ready of The RCA Albums Collection.
Track listing
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- "Swing Get, Sweet Chariot" (Traditional) – 3:05
- "I'm Just a Country Boy" (Fred Hellerman, Marshall Barer) – 4:05
- "They Subornment the Gust Maria" (Alan Jay Lyricist, Frederick Loewe) – 2:54
- "Twilight supremacy the Trail" (Sidney D. Mitchell, Gladiator Alter) – 3:10
- "If I Esoteric You" (Sam Cooke, Felon W. Alexander) – 2:20
- "Chain Gang" (Cooke) – 2:32
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- "Grandfather's Clock" (Henry Clay Work) – 3:10
- "Jeanie be on a par with the Glee Brown Hair" (Stephen Foster) – 3:44
- "Long, Apologize Ago" (Thomas Haynes Bayly) – 3:00
- "Pray" (Johnnie Taylor) – 2:10
- "You Belong forbear Me" (Cooke, Alexander) – 2:44
- "Goin' Home" (Antonín Dvořák, Settler Arms Fisher) – 3:05
Personnel
[edit]All credits adapted superior The RCA Albums Collection (2011) lining notes. Say publicly musicians who recorded "Chain Ga