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"Girls Just Want to Have Fun" is a single made famous in 1983–1984 by the American singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper, written by Robert Hazard in 1979, with some of the lyrics changed by Lauper. [6] It was released by Portrait Records as Lauper's debut single from her first solo album, She's So Unusual (1983).
The song was written by Sam Theard, a New Orleans-born blues singer and songwriter, [4] and was co-credited to Fleecie Moore, Jordan's wife. [5] Theard first showed Jordan the song in 1942, while playing in Chicago clubs. The tune developed over the years until Jordan recorded it in New York City in June 1946. [4]
Are You Havin' Any Fun?" is a song with lyrics by Jack Yellen and music by Sammy Fain. It featured in the Broadway revue series George White's Scandals in 1939. [ 1 ] A popular recording in 1939 was by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra with vocals by Edythe Wright .
In a fractious America, there’s still one thing that people can agree on: Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy).” The Virginian’s country flip of an old J-Kwon hit rang out from bars ...
Five decades after it debuted, Minnie Riperton's 1969 song "Les Fleurs" is featured prominently in 'Back to Black' and 'The Idea of You.'
"Just Because" is the theme song of the Peninsula Banjo Band of San Jose, California. They have opened with the song at every performance since roughly 1966. Jorma Kaukonen included a version on his 2002 album release Blue Country Heart. The song is also included on Brian Setzer's 2005-release Rockabilly Riot Vol. 1: A Tribute to Sun Records.
It’s not for me to say that I’m relevant, but the reality is that I have as good a time talking to 23-year-old kids or 19-year-old kids as I do 50-year-old people. It’s because, for me, the ...
They are best known for songs including "Fatal Flower Garden" (which was included on Harry Everett Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music), "Just Because", and "You'll Never Find a Daddy Like Me". In 1948, the duo sued Leeds Music and Columbia Records for unauthorized use of their song Just Because.