Good Friday morning, dear friend. Welcome to GSOTD. Today I will be adding three songs to today's post and to the GSOTD Playlist. If you haven't noticed that GSOTD Playlist has been updated. Enjoy the music.
80's/ Post- Punk/ New Wave: Once in a Lifetime (2005 Remaster) by Talking Heads.
"Once in a Lifetime" is a song by the American new wave band Talking Heads, produced and co-written by Brian Eno. It was released in January 1981 through Sire Records as the first single from Talking Heads' fourth studio album, Remain in Light (1980). Eno and Talking Heads developed "Once in a Lifetime" through extensive jams, inspired by Afrobeat musicians such as Fela Kuti. David Byrne's vocals were inspired by preachers delivering sermons, with lyrics about existential crisis and the unconscious. In the music video, directed by Byrne and Toni Basil, Byrne dances erratically over footage of religious rituals.
Pop-Rock/ Folk-Rock: Handle With Care by Traveling Wilburys. "Handle with Care" is a song by the British-American supergroup the Traveling Wilburys. It was released in October 1988 as their debut single and as the opening track of their album Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 . The song was the first recording made by the group, although it was originally intended as a bonus track on a European single by George Harrison. When he and Jeff Lynne presented the song to Harrison's record company, the executives insisted it was too good for that purpose, a decision that resulted in the formation of the Wilburys. The song was written primarily by Harrison, although, as with all the tracks on Vol. 1, the writing credit lists all five members of the band: Harrison, Lynne, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty.
"Handle with Care" was the Wilburys' most successful single. It peaked at number 39 on the Cashbox Top 100 and 45 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, number 2 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart, and number 21 on the UK Singles Chart, and was a top-five hit in Australia and New Zealand. Directed by David Leland, the video for the song was an MTV favourite in the late 1980s. Petty and his band, the Heartbreakers, often performed "Handle with Care" in concert. Lynne sang it with them at the Concert for George, a year after Harrison's death in November 2001. Harrison's son, Dhani Harrison, sang lead on the song with Jeff Lynne's ELO during their 2019 US tour.
Pop rock/ Glam rock/ Psychedelic pop: Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long Long Time) (Remastered 2017) by Elton John.
"Rocket Man", also known as "Rocket Man (I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time)", is a song written by British musician Elton John and lyricist Bernie Taupin, and performed by John. It was originally released on 17 April 1972 in the US, as the lead single to John's album Honky Château. The song first charted in the UK on 22 April, rising to No. 2 in the UK singles chart and No. 6 in the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming a major hit single for John. It is considered to be John's signature song. On 5 April 2024, the song was certified triple platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) for sales and streams of 1,800,000 digital downloads and streaming equivalent sales. With sales of five million in the US, the song was certified 5× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Rolling Stone lists it at No. 149 of its 500 greatest songs of all time . On 6 January 2024, Rocket Man surpassed one billion streams on Spotify.
The song has been covered by many artists, most notably by Kate Bush in 1991, and by Portuguese singer David Fonseca in 2007. John himself, alongside producer Pnau and singer Dua Lipa, included the song in his 2021 mashup single "Cold Heart (Pnau remix) ". William Shatner's spoken-word version from 1978 has been widely parodied.
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