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Patti Drew (born December 29, 1944, Charleston, South Carolina) is an American pop singer who achieved brief success in the late 1960s. Drew was raised in Nashville, Tennessee and Evanston, Illinois , where she sang in church with her sisters, Lorraine and Erma.
"Tell Him" became a hit in Chicago and reached number 90 on both the Billboard and Cashbox pop charts. It entered the Billboard Hot 100 on February 8, 1964. [1]In 1967, after Patti Drew went solo, she recorded the song again and it reached number 22 on the Billboard R&B singles chart, [2] as well as #85 on the Hot 100.
The implementation of chords using particular tunings is a defining part of the literature on guitar chords, which is omitted in the abstract musical-theory of chords for all instruments. For example, in the guitar (like other stringed instruments but unlike the piano ), open-string notes are not fretted and so require less hand-motion.
Alternative variants are easy from this tuning, but because several chords inherently omit the lowest string, it may leave some chords relatively thin or incomplete with the top string missing (the D chord, for instance, must be fretted 5-4-3-2-3 to include F#, the tone a major third above D). Baroque guitar standard tuning – a–D–g–b–e
The song was first recorded in 1962 as "Tell Her", by Gil Hamilton, aka Johnny Thunder, with Berns producing. "Tell Her" was also a single for Ed Townsend in 1962, before Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller produced the version by the Exciters, released as "Tell Him" in October 1962. "Tell Him" reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 dated 26 January ...
"Tell Him" is a song written by Linda Thompson and producers Walter Afanasieff and David Foster. It was recorded as a duet between American singer Barbra Streisand and Canadian singer Celine Dion for their respective 1997 albums, Higher Ground and Let's Talk About Love, and released as the lead single from these albums on November 3, 1997.
Seeing an opportunity to capitalize on the Lewis name, [10] Garrett put the band into the studio to develop, [6] still financed by Gary's mother. [10] Garrett pushed Lewis to improve his drumming skill, even getting Buddy Rich to tutor him, [6] and, more importantly, made Lewis the singer and therefore the focal point of the group. [10]
Stafford's first chart hit was "Swamp Witch", produced by Lobo, [6] which cracked the U.S. top 40 in July 1973. On March 2, 1974, his biggest hit, "Spiders & Snakes", peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 14 in the BBC Top 50 in the UK, selling over two million copies, earning a gold disc by the RIAA that month. [6]