Ring Ring is the debut studio album by the Swedish pop group ABBA. It was released in Scandinavia and a limited number of other territories, including West Germany, Australia, South Africa and Mexico, on March 26, 1973 through Polar Music. The album was a chart-topping album in Belgium, and a big success in Holland, Norway and South Africa.

The album was re-released in Australasia in 1975, but was not released in the United Kingdom until 1992, and the United States until three years later. The re-release artwork for the album (see below) uses the name "ABBA", although at the time of the album's original release, the name ABBA had not yet been coined, and instead was awkwardly credited to "Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Frida". Ring Ring was first released on CD in Sweden in 1988; a West German CD release followed in 1990 (later released internationally). The album has been reissued in digitally remastered form three times; first in 1997, then in 2001 and again in 2005 as part of the The Complete Studio Recordings box set.

When the first song "People Need Love" was recorded in the spring of 1972, the group was just one of many projects the four members were involved in. Only after the title track, "Ring Ring" became a hit, did the four decide to go on working together as a permanent group.

Cool Jerk" is a popular song written by Donald Storball and originally performed by The Capitols. Released in 1966, it reached the #2 position on the American R&B chart and #7 on the pop chart.^[1] The backing track for this song was actually recorded (secretly) by the Motown house band The Funk Brothers.  The Go-Go's, Todd Rundgren, Big Trouble, Human Sexual Response, The La De Da's, The Creation, and The Coasters have covered the song. Todd Rundgren did his version in an odd time signature (7/4), giving an obviously jerky feel to the song. The Go-Go's covered the song for their 1982 album Vacation and later re-recorded it for their 1990 album Greatest.  

Vacation is the second album by rock band The Go-Go's, released in 1982 on the I.R.S. Records label. The album got to #8 in the U.S. Billboard 200, and was certified gold. The "Vacation" title track was a U.S. summer smash, reaching #8 on the Billboard pop singles chart. The Go-Go's were riding high at the time of the album's first release, their future to all outward appearances looking bright. Future problems were beginning to take shape, as the members' drug use and internal fighting began to escalate.

Besides the title track, two more singles were pulled from the album at the time: "Get Up and Go" and "He's So Strange," which were minor hits in the United States. A fourth song featured on the album, the cover version of the 1960s hit "Cool Jerk," appeared as a single in 1991 to promote the band's first compilation album, Greatest. The single "Vacation" was also issued as what was perhaps the first cassette single ever

Jerrald King "Jerry" Goldsmith (February 10, 1929 – July 21, 2004) was an American composer and conductor most known for his work in film and television scoring.

His soundtrack to Planet Of The Apes received an Academy Awards nomination for best soundtrack music from a non-musical in 1968.   Planet of the Apes is a 1968 American science fiction film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, based on the 1963 French novel La Planète des singes by Pierre Boulle. The film stars Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowall. It was the first in a series of five films made between 1968 and 1973, all produced by Arthur P. Jacobs and released by 20th Century Fox

He composed scores for such noteworthy films as The Sand Pebbles, Planet of the Apes, Patton, Chinatown, The Wind and the Lion, The Omen, The Boys from Brazil, Alien, Poltergeist, Gremlins, Hoosiers, Total Recall, Basic Instinct, Rudy, Air Force One, L.A. Confidential, Mulan, The Mummy, three Rambo films, and five Star Trek films. He was nominated for six Grammy Awards, nine Golden Globes, four BAFTAs, and seventeen Academy Awards. In 1977 he was awarded an Oscar for The Omen.

Leave Me Alone" is a single by American songwriter and recording artist Michael Jackson. The song was featured on Jackson's seventh studio album, Bad in 1987, and was as the eighth single from the album in February 1989, but was released outside of the United States and Canada. "Leave Me Alone" only appeared on all CD versions of the Bad album as a bonus track, as well as on the 2001 cassette edition. The song was written and composed by Jackson and produced by Quincy Jones (with Jackson serving as co-producer).

Internationally, the song was a success, peaking at number one and two in Spain and the United Kingdom respectively and charting at top ten in New Zealand and Italy. "Leave Me Alone" was generally well received by contemporary music critics. A short film was released for the song. In the film, Jackson pokes fun at the false rumors about him such as the stories about him purchasing the bones of "The Elephant Man" and his cosmetic surgeries. The short film was the recipient of a Grammy Award in 1990 for Best Short Form Music Video. Despite the success of the single, the song never appeared on any of Jackson's world concert tours

You Can't Always Get What You Want" is a song by the Rolling Stones released on their 1969 album Let It Bleed. Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, it was named as the 100th greatest song of all time by Rolling Stone magazine in its 2004 list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time."

"You Can't Always Get What You Want" was recorded on 16 and 17 November 1968 at Olympic Sound Studios in London. It features the London Bach Choir opening the song, highlighting throughout, and bringing it to its conclusion. Jimmy Miller, the Rolling Stones' producer at the time, plays drums on this song instead of Charlie Watts. Al Kooper plays piano and organ and also played the French horn intro, while Rocky Dijon plays congas and maracas. Nanette Workman sings backup vocals, but she is credited as "Nanette Newman

Red Rose Speedway is the second album by Paul McCartney & Wings, released in 1973 after the relatively weak commercial performance of the band's debut Wild Life, which had been credited only to the then-unknown Wings. The album reached number 1 on the Billboard 200. As of 2012, the album is currently available on the iTunes store but out of print in the compact disc format.

In early 1972, McCartney decided to expand Wings to a five-piece band, by adding an additional guitarist, and to begin touring with the group. The group spent many months on the road across Europe, beginning with a tour of British universities, and continuing in the summer in bigger European venues - where Paul and wife Linda McCartney would encounter their first of several marijuana busts over the ensuing years. Both tours were bookended by Red Rose Speedway's long string of studio sessions, which started that March in Los Angeles and finished in London that October.

Despite not releasing an album in 1972, the first year of his professional career that McCartney had failed to do so, Wings managed to release three singles: "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" which was banned by the BBC for political reasons; an updated rendition of the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb;" and "Hi, Hi, Hi" which was banned by the BBC for drug references (McCartney explains this on the commentary portion of the video on the "McCartney Years" DVD)and backed with "C Moon" on the b-side. Consistent with the practice of the early Beatles, none of those songs were included on the album.

More and More" is the title of a song recorded by German eurodance act Captain Hollywood Project. The lead vocal on the track is sung by Nina Gerhard. The first single from his debut album Love Is Not Sex, this dance song was a hit in several countries, particularly in Germany, where it reached number-one for eight weeks. The single was released in July 1992, and was also a crossover pop hit in the U.S., where it reached number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 in June of 1993. The song remained in the Top 40 for 12 weeks and, to date, it is Captain Hollywood Project's only pop hit in the U.S. The song is currently the 99th best-selling single of all time in Germany.

A remix of this track is included in Offer Nissim's Happy People Album (2008).

The track was the theme song for the first sketch featuring The Roxbury Guys on Saturday Night Live. All subsequent editions of the sketch used Haddaway's "What Is Love."

 

I Won't Give Up" is a song by American singer Jason Mraz. It was released as the first official single from his seventh studio album, Love Is a Four Letter Word on January 3, 2012 via iTunes.

While the song debuted at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100, it immediately hit the top spot on the Hot Digital Songs chart selling 229,000 downloads for its first week. On Adult Pop Songs it began at No. 36. The song is first top ten hit on Billboard Hot 100 since 2008's "I'm Yours"

Woman is the Nigger of the World" is a song written by John Lennon & Yoko Ono and recorded by John Lennon. It was released as a single on Apple Records in the United States (Apple 1848) and in New Zealand and Japan, but was withdrawn from release in Britain. It peaked at number 57 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it Lennon's lowest charting single released in his lifetime. It features on the album Some Time in New York City.

The phrase was originally coined by Yoko Ono during a magazine interview in 1969. Lennon was proud that it was the first women's rights song before "I am Woman". The song describes women's subservience to men and male chauvinism across all cultures. It was banned from radio and BBC airplay because of the word 'nigger'. Many prominent black people, including comedian Dick Gregory (whose own autobiography was titled Nigger) spoke out in defence of the song. Another supporter, Congressman Ron Dellums, stated: "If you define 'nigger' as someone whose lifestyle is defined by others, whose opportunities are defined by others, whose role in society is defined by others, the good news is that you don't have to be black to be a nigger in this society. Most of the people in America are niggers."

In a 1972 interview on The Dick Cavett Show, John Lennon stated that Irish revolutionary James Connolly was an inspiration for the song. Lennon quoted Connolly's 'the female is the slave of the slave' in explaining the pro-feminist inspiration behind the song

Your Loving Flame" is a love song by Paul McCartney, written for his future fiancée Heather Mills. It appeared on his 2001 album Driving Rain and was also said to have been the albums's lead single. Other reliable sources such as AllMusic.com and the now-defunct Discographynet.com also do not list 'Your Loving Flame' as ever having been released as a single. However, the site RateYourMusic.com not only lists it as existing (in remix form), but even shows a picture of it as a vinyl 45rpm record. RateYourMusic also lists the release date as 2002, which would put it as having been released after the album's other two singles "From a Lover to a Friend" and "Freedom".

A live version appeared on the albums Back in the U.S. (2002) and Back in the World (2003), as well as the accompanying DVD. The song was also performed live at the Nobel Peace Prize awards in 2001.

The music video for "Your Loving Flame" did not appear on McCartney's 2007 DVD The McCartney Years

A Broken Wing" is a song recorded by American country music singer Martina McBride, written by Phil Barnhart, Sam Hogin and James House. It appears on McBride's 1997 album Evolution, from which it was released as the second single. In January 1998, "A Broken Wing" became McBride's second Number One single.

"A Broken Wing" is set at a moderate tempo, in the key of B major and a 12/8 time signature. The verses use a chord pattern of B-C♯m7-E-B three times, followed by B-C♯m7-E-F♯-B; the refrain uses G♯m-D♯m7-C♯m7-B followed by B-C♯m7-E-F♯-B. McBride's vocal ranges two octaves, from F♯3 to F♯5.

In the storyline, a female character escapes from an emotionally abusive relationship. Regarding the second verse, wherein the husband finds "a note by the window / and the curtains blowin' in the breeze," the authors of the book My Country Roots wrote that the song's conclusion could be interpreted to indicate that the woman has committed suicide or that she has escaped.

Paul Worley told Billboard magazine in 1998 that the entirety of the track, except for the backing vocals, was recorded in one day, while other tracks on the album were recorded in pieces over time

Red Rose Speedway is the second album by Paul McCartney & Wings, released in 1973 after the relatively weak commercial performance of the band's debut Wild Life, which had been credited only to the then-unknown Wings. The album reached number 1 on the Billboard 200. As of 2012, the album is currently available on the iTunes store but out of print in the compact disc format.

In early 1972, McCartney decided to expand Wings to a five-piece band, by adding an additional guitarist, and to begin touring with the group. The group spent many months on the road across Europe, beginning with a tour of British universities, and continuing in the summer in bigger European venues - where Paul and wife Linda McCartney would encounter their first of several marijuana busts over the ensuing years. Both tours were bookended by Red Rose Speedway's long string of studio sessions, which started that March in Los Angeles and finished in London that October.

Despite not releasing an album in 1972, the first year of his professional career that McCartney had failed to do so, Wings managed to release three singles: "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" which was banned by the BBC for political reasons; an updated rendition of the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb;" and "Hi, Hi, Hi" which was banned by the BBC for drug references (McCartney explains this on the commentary portion of the video on the "McCartney Years" DVD)and backed with "C Moon" on the b-side. Consistent with the practice of the early Beatles, none of those songs were included on the album.

The Peppermint Trolley Company was an American band of the sunshine pop genre, credited with singing The Brady Bunch theme song in the show's first season. While the instrumental music track was performed by the Peppermint Trolley Company, the vocals were sung by the studio singers Paul Parish, John Beland and Lois Fletcher.

Formed in Redlands, California in 1967, Peppermint Trolley Company released one album and five singles on the Acta label. The original line-up included Jimmy Faragher (vocals, bass, guitar), Danny Faragher (vocals, keyboards), Casey Cunningham (drums) and Patrick McClure (guitar, vocals). McClure was later replaced by Greg Tornquist. In 1969, Jimmy and Danny Faragher, Cunningham and Tornquist left their recording contract with Acta to form the rock/soul group, Bones.

The band's song "Baby You Come Rollin' Across My Mind" peaked on the charts at number 59 in the summer of 1968. They made many notable television appearances, including Mannix, The Beverly Hillbillies, Happening '68 and Upbeat.

Savoy Truffle" is a song written by George Harrison and performed by The Beatles on their album The Beatles, also known as The White Album.

Harrison wrote the song as a tribute to his friend Eric Clapton's chocolate addiction, and indeed he derived the title and many of the lyrics from a box of Mackintosh's Good News chocolates. Supposedly all of the confectionery names used in the song are authentic, except cherry cream and coconut fudge The chorus ("But you'll have to have them all pulled out after the savoy truffle") is a reference to the deterioration of one's teeth after eating too many sweets. The line "We all know Ob-la-di-bla-da" refers to the song "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" which appears earlier on the album, but with the "sinister" overtone (as Everett put it) that "life may not go on" as the latter song insists. It is one of several songs by the Beatles which makes specific reference to other songs recorded by the group (others being "All You Need Is Love" which refers to "She Loves You"; "I Am the Walrus" which refers to "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"; and "Glass Onion" which refers to multiple songs).

Everett notes that the harmonies of the bridge (E-A-G-B) (as was the case in McCartney's "Yesterday") recast those of the verse with some condensation. Early versions of the song notably utilised Harrison's pentatonic electric piano and Telecaster, as well as the boogying saxophones

America is the eponymous debut album released by America in 1971. The album was initially released without "A Horse With No Name," which had not yet been recorded. When "Horse" became a worldwide hit in early 1972, the album was re-released with that track.

The album went to number 1 on the Billboard album chart in the US and stayed there for 5 weeks. It produced two hit singles, "A Horse With No Name" spent three weeks at number 1 on the Billboard singles chart in 1972 (it peaked at number 3 on the Adult Contemporary chart), and "I Need You" hit number 9 on the Billboard singles chart and number 7 on the Adult Contemporary chart Several other songs received radio airplay on FM stations playing album tracks, including "Sandman" (long rumored in the US Navy to be about the VQ-2 air squadron formerly based in Rota, Spain) and "Three Roses". The album was certified platinum by the RIAA for sales in excess of 1 million units in the US.

America is an English-American folk rock band, that originally consisted of Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell and Dan Peek. The three members were barely out of their teens, when they became a musical sensation during 1972, scoring No. 1 hits and winning a Grammy for best new musical artist. Their recording success stretched throughout the 1970s; some of the band's best known songs are "A Horse with No Name", "Sister Golden Hair" (both of which reached No. 1), "Ventura Highway", "Tin Man", "Daisy Jane", and "Lonely People". George Martin produced seven of their albums.