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"Don't Cry Joni" is Twitty's duet with his then 16-year-old daughter, Joni Lee Jenkins.According to country music writer Tom Roland, Joni Lee had wanted — after years of resistance — to become a singer, and her father decided that allowing her to duet with him on the song (which he had written years earlier) might provide some encouragement.
"The Ballad of Dorothy Parker" is a song written and performed by Prince. It is the fourth track on his 1987 double album Sign o' the Times, [2] and features a reference to one of Prince's favorite artists, Joni Mitchell. The track was planned to be the album's fifth and final single, but this never came to fruition and remains unreleased in ...
A ballad that became one of his 41 Billboard magazine No. 1 songs (all but one of them on the Hot Country Singles charts), the song represented one half of a double-sided hit for Twitty in 1975. The other side was "Don't Cry Joni." Initially, Twitty claimed to have written Touch the Hand.
Joni Mitchell. VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images Joni Mitchell made a major comeback at the 2024 Grammy Awards on Sunday, February 4. The singer, 80, performed “Both Sides Now” during the ...
The Prince song "The Ballad of Dorothy Parker", from his 1987 album Sign o' the Times, mentions the song in the lyrics: "..and it was Joni singing: ‘Help me, I think I'm falling’." Prince was a huge fan of Joni Mitchell's work. [8] A sample can also be heard in "Looking Through Patient Eyes" by P.M. Dawn.
Jay Lee Webb's 1967 song, "I Come Home A-Drinkin' (To a Worn-Out Wife Like You)", was written as an "answer song" to his older sister Loretta Lynn's No. 1 1967 country hit "Don't Come Home A Drinkin ' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)". "Clothes Line Saga" (1967) by Bob Dylan and the Band is seen as a response to "Ode to Billie Joe" (1967) by Bobbie ...
Jack Jones, the Grammy-winning crooner who sang the theme song for the classic series The Love Boat, has died.He was 86 years old. The musician died on Wednesday, Oct. 23 at Eisenhower Medical in ...
"Carey" is a song from the 1971 Joni Mitchell album Blue. It was inspired by her time spent with Cary Raditz, living with a cave-dwelling hippie community at Matala , on the Greek island of Crete .