It's the Same Old Song
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Penny Lancaster & Rod Stewart's shape-up secrets...Lancaster and Rod Stewart have a combined age of over 100 after watching them perform on Strictly Come Dancing. Rod crooned 'It's The Same Old Song', while his wife and former contestant Penny returned to the dancefloor to perform a... In this article: Penny Lancaster, Rod Stewart, Potato, Chicken, Soy sauce, Mashed potato, Chicken salad, and Sausage |
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Ft. Worth Star-Telegram | November 11, 2009
Stewart’s 'Soulbook’ has hits and misses, but lives up to its soul intentions
...sounds of Philadelphia, Memphis and Motown. Stewart kicks things off with a dramatic rendition of the Four Tops classic It's the Same Old Song, and between that and the last song, he honors soul music's greats, including the O'Jays, the...
In this article: Rod Stewart, Al Schmitt, Stevie Wonder, Sam Cooke, Smokey Robinson, R&B, Rainy Night in Georgia, and My Cherie Amour
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Telegraph.co.uk - All news | November 07, 2009
Strictly Come Dancing: Craig Kelly latest to leave
...2004. Penny Lancaster, the model, also a previous contestant, performed another routine as her husband Rod Stewart sang "It's the Same Old Song". As well as the competition, the BBC staged mass dance events in Blackpool's Winter Gardens...
In this article: Craig Kelly, Strictly Come Dancing, Jill Halfpenny, Blackpool, Jade Johnson, Penny Lancaster, Len Goodman, Bruce Forsyth, and Alesha Dixon
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Entertainment Weekly | November 03, 2009
'Dancing With the Stars' recap: The Same Old Song
...did not see any closed hold during this dance, I'm afraid. DANCMSTR does not approve. Rod Stewart shuffled in to sing ''It's the Same Old Song,'' which it wasn't because I can still remember when he graced Planet Mirrorballus with ''Hot...
In this article: Dancing with the Stars, Michael Irvin, Mark Dacascos, Aaron Carter, Rod Stewart, Joey Fatone, Hot Legs, and Derek Hough
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Zap2it | November 03, 2009
'Dancing With the Stars' Results: Michael Irvin, Mark Dacascos double eliminated
...would've been reversed if not for the Team dances. Rod Stewart takes the floor to sing his cover of the Four Tops classic "It's The Same Old Song." Two pairs of nameless female and male dancers join him. They look familiar, especially the...
In this article: Tom Bergeron, Michael Irvin, Lacey Schwimmer, Dancing with the Stars, Mark Dacascos, Rod Stewart, and Mark Ballas
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Reality TV Magazine | November 03, 2009
Dancing With The Stars 11/03/09: Two More Dancers Down Tonight
...Karina were in the bottom three tonight. Rod Stewart took to the Dancing With The Stars stage for a special performance of It's the Same Old Song from his just released album, Soulbook, a collection of classic Sixties/Seventies-era soul...
In this article: Dancing with the Stars, Mark Ballas, Derek Hough, Tom Bergeron, Jason Mesnick, and Bubbly
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The Baltimore Sun | November 03, 2009
'Dancing With the Stars' results: Who goes home?
Rod Stewart performs the, as Samantha Harris calls it, "all-time classic," "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" Just kidding. He sings "It's the Same Old Song." Now for the BIG results. Michael and Anna are out. Lacey is surprised; she and Mark will...
In this article: Lacey Schwimmer, Aaron Carter, Mark Ballas, Dancing with the Stars, Karina Smirnoff, Bruno Tonioli, Carrie Ann Inaba, Michael Irvin, Len Goodman, and Derek Hough
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TVGuide.com | November 03, 2009
News: Dancing with the Stars Episode Recap: Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009
...yet. Next, we learn the rules of Dancing: Rule 1: Don't talk about the trophy After a hip-grinding rendition of "It's the Same Old Song" by Rod Stewart - who looks more alive than he did at the American Idol finale - we get down to...
In this article: Mark Dacascos, Dancing with the Stars, Aaron Carter, Rod Stewart, Colbie Caillat, and Karina Smirnoff
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Reality TV Fans | November 02, 2009
Rod Stewart Performs Tonight on Dancing With the Stars
...Brown, Jesse McCartney and Rihanna. Rod Stewart takes to the "Dancing with the Stars" stage for a special performance of "It's the Same Old Song" from his just released album, "Soulbook," a collection of classic Sixties/Seventies-era...
In this article: Dancing with the Stars, Rod Stewart, Derek Hough, Kara DioGuardi, Mark Ballas, Colbie Caillat, Billboard, Bubbly, and My Cherie Amour
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"It's the Same Old Song" is a 1965 hit single recorded by The Four Tops for the Motown label. Written and produced by Motown's main production team Holland-Dozier-Holland, the song is today one of The Tops' signature songs, and was notably created--from initial concept to commercial release--in exactly 24 hours.
After "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)" hit #1 in June of 1965, The Four Tops' former label, Columbia Records, wanting to cash in on the group's success, re-released the Tops' 1960 Columbia single "Ain't That Love". A perturbed Berry Gordy ordered that a new Four Tops single had to be released within a day's time.
At 3 o' clock that afternoon, the Holland brothers and Lamont Dozier penned "It's the Same Old Song"; Duke Fakir recalled: Lamont Dozier and I were both a little tipsy and he was changing the channels on the radio. He said, 'It sounds like the same old song.' And then he said, 'Wait a minute.' So he took 'I Can't Help Myself' and reversed it using the same chord changes. By 5 P.M., The Tops had recorded the song and mixing began.
The engineering team worked around the clock perfecting the single's mix and making hand-cut vinyl records so that Berry Gordy's sister Esther in the Artist Development department could critique them and select the best ones for single release. By 3 P.M. the next day, 1500 copies of "It's the Same Song" had been delivered to radio DJs across the country, and the song eventually made it to #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. "It's the Same Old Song" is very similar in melody and chord progressions to "I Can't Help Myself", which in turn is even more similar in melody and chord progressions to "Where Did Our Love Go" by the Supremes, who also covered "It's The Same Old Song" in 1967.
In the mid-1990s, The Four Tops appeared in a Velveeta commercial, where they spoofed "It's the Same Old Song" with a song called "It's Not the Same Old Side" (as in side dish).
- Name:
- It's the Same Old Song
- Genre:
- Soul/pop
- Release Date:
- July 09, 1965
- Preceded By:
- "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)"
- Produced by:
- Written By:
- Holland-Dozier-Holland
- Recorded By:
- Four Tops
- Length:
- 2:46
- Record Label:
- Motown
- Recording Dates:
- Hitsville USA (Studio A); July 8, 1965
- Audio Format:
- 7" single
- From Album:
- The Four Tops' Second Album
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