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The song was written as a tribute to his father Lawrence Fogelberg, a musician and leader of a band who was still alive when the song was released. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Before Lawrence's death in August 1982, he granted many media interviews because of the song.
Dan Fogelberg was born in Peoria, Illinois.He was the youngest of three sons born to Margaret (née Irvine), (1920–2015), a classically trained pianist, and Lawrence Peter Fogelberg, (1911–1982), a band director at Woodruff High School in Peoria, at Pekin Community High School in Pekin, Illinois, [2] and at Bradley University in Peoria. [3]
The song "I'm the Leader of the Gang (I Am)" was a top hit for Gary Glitter; it reached number-one in the UK Singles Chart in July and August 1973. [1] It was written by Gary Glitter and Mike Leander and produced by Mike Leander. [1] As a result of its popularity, Glitter's nickname became "The Leader", and his 1991 autobiography was titled Leader.
The group's specialty was parody songs, as with their first and best-known single, "Leader of the Laundromat". A spoof of the then-current hit song "Leader of the Pack", "Leader of the Laundromat" became a hit in its own right, reaching the top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in early 1965.
Guitarist-songwriter-singer Robbie Robertson, who led the Canadian-American group the Band to rock prominence in the 1970s and worked extensively with Bob Dylan and Martin Scorsese, has died. He ...
"McNamara's Band" (originally "MacNamara's Band") is a popular song composed in 1889 by Shamus O'Connor (music) and John J. Stamford (lyrics). The song was performed as a music hall routine by William J. "Billy" Ashcroft. It has been recorded by a number of artists, most notably Bing Crosby.
The Shangri-Las' music echoed throughout the years, in a mainstream that acknowledged "Leader of the Pack" as a classic — in 2019, the song was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame — as ...
Album included some songs written by members of the band as well as cover versions of some well known tracks originally recorded by The Ronettes ("Be My Baby"), Fats Domino ("I’m Ready"), Marvin Gaye ("I'll Be Doggone") or Ian and Sylvia ("Four Strong Winds"). The title track, written by P. F. Sloan, was the last Top 20 hit for the band in ...