11/13/2022 0 Comments Unchained melody zippyshare![]() ![]() Like Berns, Ragovoy was also a successful producer. However, musical trends changed, and the pop-soul style that both Berns and Ragovoy excelled in lost favor in the early 1970s. However, Berns and Ragovoy wrote a relatively obscure tune called "32 Miles Out of Waycross," and "Twenty-Five Miles" was so similar to that song that Berns and Ragovoy were added to the composer credits. It turns out neither Berns nor Ragovoy ever wrote for Motown. "Twenty-Five Miles" seems like the odd one out on this album, because that was a big hit for Motown artist Edwin Starr, and Motown almost always had hits with their own songwriters. I have no idea why it remains officially unreleased. I included that still-unreleased medley version on a Led Zeppelin stray tracks album I've posted here already:įor the version I included here, I edited it to remove the other songs in the medley, so it's purely a version of "As Long as I Have You." I think it's an excellent version that's totally Led Zeppelin and very different from the Mimms version. Their version was vastly different, and part of a much longer medley. Then Led Zeppelin played the song in concert in 1969. However, I included one song here that I also included in the first volume: "As Long as I Have You." The original version was a minor hit by Garnet Mimms in 1964. For instance, the Strangeloves had a hit with Berns' song "I Want Candy" in 1965, and then Bow Wow Wow had a hit with that song in 1982, but I forced myself to pick one. Generally speaking, I have a rule not to include more than one version of the same song. But I chose a 1967 by Wilson Pickett, because it's a faster version that most later artists imitated, such as the version by the Blues Brothers in 1980. For instance, "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" was a hit for Solomon Burke in 1963. But there still are some Berns songs, especially in the 1967 to 1968 time frame. ![]() ![]() As a result, more of the songs in this album were written by Ragovoy. ![]() I said most everything I needed to say with the first volume. As with the first, you probably don't know who these people are, but trust me, they were very talented songwriters, and these albums are full of great music. Here's the second of two albums in my "Covered" series, focusing on the songwriting of Bert Berns and/or Jerry Ragovoy. ![]()
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