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R&B stations quickly added the song to their playlists, which had been saturated with Redding's previous hits. The song shot to #1 on the R&B charts in early 1968 and, starting in March, topped the pop charts for four weeks. [35] The album, which shared the song's title, became his largest-selling to date, peaking at #4 on the pop album chart ...
The series consists of recordings of natural sounds such as a seashore with crashing waves or a thunderstorm with falling rain, without musical accompaniment. The series helped ignite a worldwide interest in field recordings which resulted in many imitations being released throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s both with, and without, music. [2] [3]
The song exemplifies "synth-pop's spaced-out loneliness" and yearning for imagined, absent lovers, [3] and is noted for its Wall of Sound-styled layer of synthesizer padding – a "multi-layered, hypnotic song", according to AllMusic. [2] According to lead singer Mike Score, "Wishing" was based on a real person. When recalling the experience ...
Song to a Seagull (also known as Joni Mitchell) is the debut studio album by the Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. Produced by David Crosby , the album was recorded in early 1968 at Sunset Sound and released in March 1968 by Reprise Records .
The song contains recurring seagulls-and-surf sound effects. [5] He used the Shangri-Las on the demo, which he produced. (A not-yet-famous Billy Joel is said by Morton to have played the piano chords that open the song.) [6] Jeff Barry was impressed and Red Bird Records picked up the song for release and signed Morton and the Shangri-Las to ...
The first is instrumental surf, distinguished by reverb-heavy electric guitars played to evoke the sound of crashing waves, largely pioneered by Dick Dale and the Del-Tones. The second is vocal surf, which took elements of the original surf sound and added vocal harmonies, a movement led by the Beach Boys. [8] [9]
Notable features: Brightness variable from 0%-100% | Sunset simulation | 13 preloaded alarm sounds | Numerous relaxation sounds | Night-light setting The Hatch Restore 2 is a full-featured sunrise ...
The song was recorded largely as Goldsboro had envisioned apart from the piano riff that started the song and repeated throughout the song as well as the ending descending scale, which were written by his pianist conductor Timmy Tappan. The song was preceded by the sounds of ocean waves and seagulls, taken from a sound effect library.