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Spinning Wheel" was kept out of the no. 1 position by both "The Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet" by Henry Mancini and "In the Year 2525" by Zager and Evans. [2] In August that year, the song topped the Billboard Easy Listening chart for two weeks. [3] It was also a crossover hit, reaching No.45 on the US R&B chart.
Paul Lester from Melody Maker said songs like "Spinning the Wheel" "are snazzily produced late-night smoochathons that'll provide horny shop assistants and bank clerks with shag material for months." [ 7 ] A reviewer from Music Week gave it four out of five, adding that this "balladic" follow-up to two number ones, "could just hit the spot again."
It was originally released as "Wheels"/"Tell the World", but when both sides of the single started to take off, Warwick Record split the single into two: "Wheels"/"Am I Asking Too Much", and "Tell the World"/"For My Angel". [4] The String-A-Longs version sold 7 million copies, while all versions of the song sold 16 million combined. [4]
[1] The lyrics describe how the wheels of fortune keep changing so that sometimes you lose and sometimes you win. Nevada State Journal critic Pat O'Driscoll found "Wheels of Fortune" to be generally in the typical Doobie Brothers' style, with "layers of strumming rhythm guitars", but that it also incorporated jazz elements. [2] J.
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"Wheels," was released in December 1960 and became a hit, peaking at number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. The record was the number 8 single of 1961 according to Billboard. [3] The track reached number 8 in the UK Singles Chart. [4] It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. [5] Warwick Records declared bankruptcy in 1962.
Yet, the song was re-titled as "Love Is Like a Spinning Wheel" [10] [11] Howard's version was released as a single by Decca in December 1971. [11] Cash Box found the lyrics had "a lot to say" and called the arrangement "smooth" [12] while Record World thought it had a "very very likable melody". [10]
" Gretchen am Spinnrade" (Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel), Op. 2, D 118, is a Lied composed by Franz Schubert using the text from Part One, scene 15 of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust. With "Gretchen am Spinnrade" and some 600 other songs for voice and piano, Schubert contributed transformatively to the genre of Lied.