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Van Morrison and "Them" issued "Gloria" as the B side of the Joe Williams classic and Bert Berns production "Baby, Please Don't Go" in 1964. The Shadows of Knight (Jim Sohns, Warren Rogers, Norm Gotsch, David Wolinski and Tom Schiffour), released

"When Will I Be Loved" was written by Phil Everly of the Everly Brothers (Don and Phil), who had a number eight hit with it in the summer of1960. Chet Atkins is on guitar and Floyd Cramer on piano. On the "Heart Like a Wheel" album Linda Maria

"Easy to be hard" was sung by Jill O'Hara as Sheila in the off-Broadway performance of Hair. This tribal-rock musical was a definite award winner: 1968 Best Musical Tony, 1969 Grammy for best score for an original cast show album and in 2009 the revival

According to wikipedia "American Woman" (Bachman, Cummings, Kale, Peterson) originated with a live jam at a curling rink concert in Waterloo, Ontario. Winnipeg group The Guess Who (Randy Bachman, Burton Cummings, Garry Peterson, Donnie McDougall and

When Connie Francis signed for the movie "Where the Boys Are" she contacted Neil Sedaka for a suitable song as they had composed her hit "Stupid Cupid". The original recording of "where the Boys Are" (Sedaka - Greenfield) was recorded July 12, 1960 in

John Denver (Deutschendorf) wrote "Leaving on a Jet Plane" in 1966. The original title of the song was "Babe, I Hate to Go" but Denver's then producer Milt Okun convinced him to change the title. That same year, Denver chose this song along with others