Category: Movies

Tavares (also known as The Tavares Brothers) is an American R&B, funk and soul music group composed of five Cape Verdean-American brothers. They started performing in 1959 as Chubby and the Turnpikes when the youngest brother was nine years old. Future Aerosmoth drummer Joey Kramer appeared as the drummer with the group in a later […]

“Boum!” (similar to “boom” in English) is a popular 1938 song by the French singer/songwriter Charles Trenet which won him the Grand Prix Du Disque. It was one of several songs that Trenet wrote for the film La Route enchantée, for which he also wrote the screenplay and played the leading role. The film was […]

“Life on Mars?” is a song by the English singer-songwriter David Bowie, first released on his 1971 album Hunky Dory. Bowie wrote the song as a parody of Frank Sinatra’s “My Way”. “Life on Mars?” was recorded in August 1971 at Trident Studios in London, and was co-produced by Bowie and Ken Scott. Bowie’s backing […]

“Fascinating Rhythm” is a popular song written by George Gershwin in 1924 with lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It was first introduced by Cliff Edwards, Fred Astaire and Adele Astaire in the Broadway musical ‘Lady Be Good’. The Astaires also recorded the song in April 1926, in London with George Gershwin on the piano. The song […]

Alice Phoebe Lou is a South African singer-songwriter based in Berlin. Lou spent her childhood in Kommetjie on west coast of the Cape Penninsula in South Africa. She took piano and guitar lessons as a child. When she was 14 years old she was fond of trance music and started to take photographs from concerts, […]

“Kashmir” is a song by the English band Led Zeppelin. Included on their sixth album Physical Graffiti (1975), it was written by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant with contributions from John Bonham over a period of three years with lyrics dating to 1973. The song became a concert staple, performed by the band at almost […]

“Le vent nous portera” (translated as “The wind will carry us”) is a song by French band Noir Desir from their 2001 album des Visages des Figures. It was released as the first single from the album and reached number one for four weeks in a row in the Italian Singles Charts, as well as […]

Delia Derbyshire was an English musician and composer of electronic music. She carried out notable work with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop during the 1960s. She approached the careers office at the university and told them she was interested in “sound, music and acoustics, to which they recommended a career in either deaf aids or depth […]

“Cheek to Cheek” is a song written by Irving Berlin in 1934–35, specifically for the star of his new musical, Fred Astaire. The movie was Top Hat, co-starring Ginger Rogers. In the movie, Astaire sings the song to Rogers as they dance. The song was nominated for the Best Song Oscar for 1936, which it […]

“(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend” is a cowboy-styled country/western song written in 1948 by American songwriter, film and television actor Stan Jones. A number of versions were crossover hits on the pop charts in 1949. The ASCAP database lists the song as “Riders in the Sky“, but the title has been written […]