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The snowman mentioned in the song's bridge was changed from Parson Brown to a circus clown, and the promises the couple made in the final verse were replaced with lyrics about frolicking. Singers like Johnny Mathis connected both versions, adding a verse and chorus. [2]
Its most misunderstood lyric, about a couple building a snowman and pretending he is “Parson Brown,” imagines a parson — a now little-used term for minister — who would marry them.
Lacking much-needed new material, Parsons quickly wrote two songs during the sessions ("Return of the Grievous Angel", with lyrics by Boston-based poet and Parsons fan Thomas Brown, and "In My Hour Of Darkness", arranged by Harris) and looked to songs rejected from previous albums and to standard country songs to fill out the LP.
In 1972 Gram Parsons signed a recording contract with Reprise Records.At the time, Parsons saw singer Emmylou Harris performing at a Washington D.C folk club. Parsons hired Harris and the core of Elvis Presley's TCB Band with James Burton (guitar), Ronnie Tutt (drums) and Glenn Hardin (piano) for the recording of his solo debut album, GP.
Brujo is an album by the American country rock band New Riders of the Purple Sage.It is their fifth studio album, and their sixth album overall. It was recorded in 1974 and released that same year by Columbia Records.
The lyrics to the song are notably dark, and feature the line, "I'll be in my basement room, with a needle and a spoon", a reference to injecting heroin. "Dead Flowers" was written during the period when the Stones were stepping into country music territory, when Richards's friendship with Gram Parsons was influencing his songwriting.
The Broadway Melody, also known as The Broadway Melody of 1929, is a 1929 American pre-Code musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture.It was one of the early musicals to feature a Technicolor sequence, which sparked the trend of color being used in a flurry of musicals that would hit the screens in 1929–1930.
Eternally" is a song with music by Charlie Chaplin, and words by the English lyricists Geoff Parsons and John Turner. [1] The music was initially composed for Chaplin's film Limelight (1952) and titled "Terry's Theme"; the film won an Oscar for "Best Original Dramatic Score" at the 45th Academy Awards in 1973.