The Great Pretender

...of 1955, it became the group's first Top Ten hit on the pop charts, and topped the R&B charts for seven weeks. The follow-up, The Great Pretender, with lyrics written in the washroom of the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas by Buck Ram, exceeded...

In this article: The Platters, Buck Ram, Tony Williams, and Zola Taylor

...''Metropolis '') (1984) UK #10 ''I Was Born to Love You '' (1985) UK #11, US #76 Love Me Like There's No Tomorrow (1985) UK #76 The Great Pretender (1987, re-released 1993) UK #4, France #16 Barcelona (with Montserrat Caballe) (1987)...

In this article: Freddie Mercury, Montserrat Caballe, Billy Squier, UK, Queen, Barcelona, France, I Can Hear Music, and Heaven for Everyone

The Great Pretender is the U.S. version of Freddie Mercury's posthumous solo project, to observe the anniversary of his death. There were numerous producers who had permission from Jim Beach to use the original master tapes. Reinhold Mack,...

In this article: Freddie Mercury, The Great Pretender, Reinhold Mack, Hollywood Records, Barcelona, Mr. Bad Guy, UK, and U.S.

...won acclaim as being far better than the original artists who performed them. These included songs like 'Party Doll', 'Earth Angel' and 'The Great Pretender'. Frank rose to fame as the lead singer of the Sammy Kaye Orchestra. Although his...

In this article: Party Doll, Earth Angel, and If I Give My Heart to You

The Great Pretender is a Dolly Parton album, released in January 1984, composed of covers of hits from the 1950s and 1960s. The first single, a remake of The Drifters' 1960 hit "Save the Last Dance for Me" was a top ten country single for...

In this article: Dolly Parton, The Great Pretender, Downtown, The Platters, Save the Last Dance for Me, Petula Clark, and The Drifters

...from their signing with Mercury Records until his death, and wrote their biggest hits including "Only You (And You Alone)", "The Great Pretender". "Magic Touch", and "Twilight Time ". When Mercury announced that they would release "Only...

In this article: Buck Ram, I'll Be Home for Christmas, The Platters, Walter Kent, Freddie Mercury, Only You, Bing Crosby, Tony Williams, and Twilight Time

...without having to attend the daytime events. The Platters are known for such hits as "Only You," "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and "The Great Pretender." The Coasters are linked to such classics as "Yakety-Yak" and "Charlie Brown"; and The...

In this article: Hawaii, Honolulu Hale, and Charlie Brown

...be felt in daylight. It's the kiss of night herself, brushing your lips like a black rose. Words by Buck Ram (who also wrote the lyrics to 'The Great Pretender' while in the washroom of the Flamingo Hotel) and music by The Three Suns (Morty...

In this article: The Handsome Family, Hoagy Carmichael, Stardust, Silver, Fred Fisher, Buck Ram, Nina Simone, and Dimitri Tiomkin

...follow-up was "Happy Birthday Blues", which hit #30 on the Hot 100 in 1961. Later singles, such as "Magic Is the Night" and "The Great Pretender", missed the Top 40. In July 1961, Young joined Brenda Lee, The Shirelles, Bobby Vee, Etta...

In this article: Kathy Young, Chris Montez, The Innocents, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Walker Brothers, The Rivileers, Clarence "Frogman" Henry, and Etta James

..."Someday My Prince Will Come," from the Disney repertoire, but in practice it sounds more like Bowie's "Howdy Doody Time" (from The Great Pretender, ECM, 1982). Speaking of Davis, Rossum and company cheekily cover "If I Were A Bell,"...

In this article: Miles Davis, Pure Imagination, Lester Bowie, and Minneapolis