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Pinkard & Bowden are an American country music duo composed of singer-songwriters James "Sandy" Pinkard and Richard Bowden (/ ˈ b aʊ d ə n /), who also play guitar and bass guitar. The duo's music comprises a mix of musical parody and original comedy songs. Pinkard has also written hit singles for Mel Tillis, Anne Murray, and Vern Gosdin ...
Pinkerton is the second studio album by the American rock band Weezer, released on September 24, 1996, by DGC Records.The guitarist and vocalist Rivers Cuomo wrote most of Pinkerton while studying at Harvard University, after abandoning plans for a rock opera, Songs from the Black Hole.
Two Songs from the Black Hole tracks, "I Just Threw Out the Love of My Dreams" and "Devotion", were released as Pinkerton B-sides. Demos, lyrics and sheet music were released on Cuomo's compilations Alone (2007), Alone II (2008), Alone III (2011), and on the 2010 Pinkerton reissue. The songs received positive reviews.
Formed in Rugby, Warwickshire as 'The Liberators', they became The Wild Ones 1962 - 1965,then changed the band name again to Pinkerton's Assorted Colours in 1965, and scored a Top 10 hit with their first single release, "Mirror, Mirror" Co written with Terry Stevenson and sung by bandmember Tony Newman. [2]
"El Scorcho" is a song by the American rock band Weezer. It is the first single from the band's second album, Pinkerton, released in 1996.The music video features the band playing in an old ballroom in Los Angeles (as revealed by Weezer's Video Capture Device DVD), surrounded by light fixtures of diverse origin, flashing in time to the music.
Cuomo's original concept for the album was a space-themed rock opera, Songs from the Black Hole. [6] Ultimately, the Songs from the Black Hole album concept was dropped; the band, however, continued to utilize songs from these sessions into work for their second studio album. [7] Pinkerton was released as the band's second studio album in ...
The song is based on a real person that Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo encountered while a student at Harvard, whom he fantasized a life with until he saw a pink triangle—a symbol used by the Nazis to label someone as gay, on her sleeve. According to Cuomo, a year and a half after the album was released he discovered that the woman was actually ...
In addition to that record, The Pinkerton Thugs released two full albums ("The Pain and The Pinkerton Thugs" on V.M.L. Records in 1997 and "End Of an Era" on Go Kart Records in 2000) a split 7-inch record with the Ducky Boys on Police Records, and a 7-inch on Go Kart Records titled "The Times." The band's later recordings saw Paul Russo playing ...