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The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia is the 1973 debut album by Vicki Lawrence, recorded and released on Bell Records. It features the US and Canadian number-one single and title track "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia", written by Bobby Russell. Another song, "He Did with Me", reached number one in Australia. [1]
"The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" is an example of a twist ending in a song. In the 1992 film Reservoir Dogs , the mobster named Nice Guy Eddie, played by Chris Penn , says, "...this is the first time I ever realized that the girl singin' the song is the one who shot Andy."
"Marching Through Georgia" [a] is an American Civil War-era marching song written and composed by Henry Clay Work in 1865. It is sung from the perspective of a Union soldier who had participated in Sherman's March to the Sea; he looks back on the momentous triumph after which Georgia became a "thoroughfare for freedom" and the Confederacy was left on its last legs.
The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia is a 1981 American musical drama film starring Kristy McNichol, Dennis Quaid, Mark Hamill and Don Stroud, directed by Ronald F. Maxwell. It was very loosely inspired by the 1972 Vicki Lawrence song of the same name (it shares almost no plot elements with the original song).
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Christmas spirit was on full display Saturday night as the annual Twinkle Light Parade took over Nob Hill. Over 100 different groups and 4,000 participants helped ...
A highly experimental work, The Gong on the Hook and Ladder famously quotes three different melodies: first, Oh My Darling, Clementine, played by the flute in bar 12 and the violin at the end of the piece in bar 32; then, a Psi Upsilon marching song from Yale entitled Few Days, played by the trumpet in bar 19; finally, Marching through Georgia ...
Bright floats by the dozen and the Budweiser Clydesdales will travel through East Peoria during the Parade of Lights at 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 18. The parade will kick off the 39th annual East ...
The song is about a mild-mannered grocery store employee, Barney Jekyll, who, on Friday nights, puts on leather boots and an "Elvis jacket" and drives a sports car to a honky-tonk, where he goes by the name of "Bubba Hyde". The song is a reference to the 1886 novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.