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"California Man" is a song by British rock and roll band The Move. It was written by the band's guitarist/vocalist Roy Wood, who has said he wrote it as a pastiche of Little Richard (Wood's favourite musician of the time) and Jerry Lee Lewis (Move pianist/guitarist/vocalist Jeff Lynne's favourite musician at the time).
The Move's second album, 1970's Shazam, continued The Move's practice of musical quotation, and of elaborately re-arranged versions of other performers' songs. "Hello Susie" (a Wood composition), which was a Top 5 hit for Amen Corner in 1969, quoted Booker T. Jones ' and Eddie Floyd 's "Big Bird".
Written by Jeff Lynne in 1971, it was one of two songs featured on the B-side of the UK hit "California Man" credited to The Move (the other was Roy Wood's "Ella James"). In the United States the B-side proved more popular than the A and so the song became the group's only US hit, albeit a minor one (reaching number 93 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart). [3]
The lyrics to “Hotel California” and other classic Eagles songs should never have ended up at auction, Don Henley told a court Wednesday. On trial are rare-book dealer Glenn Horowitz and rock ...
Title Album details Peak chart positions UK [1]Move: Released: April 1968; Label: Regal Zonophone Formats: LP, MC, reel-to-reel 15 Shazam: Released: 27 February 1970; Label: Regal Zonophone
Don Henley never gave away handwritten pages of draft lyrics to “Hotel California” and other Eagles hits, he said Monday, calling them “very personal" in testimony that also delved into an ...
The first track recorded by the Move intended for an album release was a Wood composition, "Walk Upon the Water" which was taped in January 1967 at Advision Studios, London. [15] During presumably the same session, an additional two tracks were recorded: "Move Intro" and "Move" which acted as an unofficial theme song for the band. [16]
California man loses life savings, owes more than $30K in taxes after falling prey to sophisticated scam — now he fears he may lose his home if he can’t pay his tax bill Joe Cortez September 8 ...