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The song was specially written as part of the film soundtrack for the movie The Color of Money, which was directed by Martin Scorsese and starred Paul Newman and Tom Cruise as pool sharks. The recording first appeared as part of the film soundtrack, before it was released as a single or on Eric Clapton's 1986 studio album release.
A music video to accompany the release of "Go Gentle" was first released onto YouTube on 16 October 2013 at a total length of three minutes and fifty seconds. [2] The video shows Williams dressed as a sea captain and performing the song on a parade float decorated as a wooden ship, backed by a band dressed as sailors, moving through the streets of downtown Los Angeles.
The song gained traction following more successful covers by Jackie DeShannon (US #55, 1968), Aretha Franklin (US #19, 1969), and the Supremes with the Temptations (US #46, 1969), and the song's inclusion in the movie Easy Rider (1969), which became a runaway success. "The Weight" has since become the Band's best known song.
An outtake from the "Music from Big Pink" sessions, "Yazoo Street Scandal" originally surfaced on "The Basement Tapes," the 1975 double-LP that was the first official release of music Bob Dylan ...
This song was written for the 2020 Disney movie "Onward," which follows two brothers' journey to connect with their late father. These sweet lyrics pay tribute to how fathers are a guiding light ...
The song also was included in the Band's Thanksgiving Day concert in 1976 which was the subject of Martin Scorsese's documentary film The Last Waltz, and on that film's soundtrack released in 1978. The last time the song was performed by Helm was in The Last Waltz. Helm refused to play the song afterwards.
Sebastian Robertson is a Canadian-American non-fiction children's author, musician, composer, and studio engineer.. As a children's author, Robertson has written the book Rock and Roll Highway (2014), a biographical book about his father, The Band co-founder Robbie Robertson. [1]
No longer with us is Don Grady, who played Robbie and entered the music industry after the show ended. He released an original album in 2008. Grady died in 2012 at 68 years old.