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Joe South. Producer (s) Joe South. Official audio. "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden" on YouTube. "Rose Garden" (sometimes titled " (I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden") is a song written in 1967 by American singer-songwriter Joe South. It was first recorded by Billy Joe Royal on his 1967 studio album Billy Joe Royal Featuring "Hush".
Label. Decca. Songwriter (s) John Entwistle. Producer (s) The Who. Glyn Johns. " My Wife " is a song by the English rock band the Who, written and sung by bass guitarist John Entwistle. It was originally released in 1971 [2] on Who's Next and later as the B-side of the single "Baba O'Riley" on 6 November 1971 in Europe by Polydor Records.
The lyrics have Yorke "listing off vows like a shopping list", [1] with themes common to OK Computer including loneliness, alienation, paranoia and heartache. [3] O'Brien likened it to Roy Orbison, while Yorke likened it to Joy Division. [2] NME described "I Promise" as "Radiohead at their most direct" before they moved into more experimental ...
It was released in January 1970 as the first single and title track from the album My Woman, My Woman, My Wife. The song was Robbins' 14th number one on the country chart. The single spent a single week at number one and spent a total of 15 weeks on the country charts. [1] The song won the Grammy Award for Best Country Song in 1971 .
The song's lyrics are about a man and his wife and their hard life due to alcoholism. The tone and tune, however, are bright and cheerful, indicating the irony of the singer not knowing his degraded condition. The first verse of the song is: My wife and I live all alone, In a little log hut, we called our own. She loved gin, and I loved rum.
One of the verses, according to John Lomax 's American Ballads and Folk Songs, includes: [ 3] Dat nigger from Shiloh. Kin pick a bale o' cotton. Dat nigger from Shiloh. Kin pick a bale a day. Later versions of the folk song had amended the lyrics to: Gonna jump down, turn around. Pick a bale of cotton. Gonna jump down, turn around.
"New York Mining Disaster 1941" is the debut American single by the Bee Gees, released on 14 April 1967. It was written by Barry and Robin Gibb.Aside from a moderately successful reissue of their Australian single "Spicks and Specks," it was the first single release of the group's international career and their first song to hit the charts in both the UK and the US.
The song "Shenandoah" appears to have originated with American and Canadian voyageurs or fur traders traveling down the Missouri River in canoes and has developed several different sets of lyrics. Some lyrics refer to the Oneida chief Shenandoah and a canoe-going trader who wants to marry his daughter.