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Shangri-Las and were
None of Nilsson's Tower releases charted or gained much critical attention, although his songs were being recorded by Glen Campbell, Fred Astaire, The Shangri-Las, The Yardbirds, and others.
The Shangri-Las were an American pop girl group of the 1960s.
Soul and R & B became a major influence on surf, as well as the chart-topping girl groups like The Angels and The Shangri-Las, only some of whom were white.
Of Red Bird's first 20 releases, 15 hit the charts ; all were written and / or produced by the Barry-Greenwich team, including " Chapel of Love ", " People Say ", and " Iko Iko " by The Dixie Cups, and " Remember ( Walkin ' In The Sand )" and " Leader of the Pack " by The Shangri-Las.

Shangri-Las and by
The CD " Private World: The Complete Early Studio Demos 1972 / 3 " includes their versions of songs by Otis Redding, Gary US Bonds, Chuck Berry, The Shangri-Las and Muddy Waters.
It marked a shift in girl group thematic material, where the singer loves a " bad boy ", a theme that would be amplified by later groups ( especially The Shangri-Las ' " Leader of the Pack ").
The 13 track album contains four songs co-written by Faithfull ; the rest are covers of mainly well known songs such as Dusty Springfield's " Goin ' Back " and the Shangri-Las ' " Past, Present, Future ".
* Out In The Streets, The Story of The Shangri-Las, an extensive article by John J. Grecco
In 1984, Redd Kross returned with drummer Dave Peterson to record Teen Babes from Monsanto, an album featuring songs originally by such artists as Kiss, David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, and The Shangri-Las.
* " Remember ( Walking in the Sand )", a 1964 single by the Shangri-Las
With Jay Traynor singing lead, they first hit the Billboard charts in 1962 with the tune " She Cried ," which reached # 5 ( later covered by The Shangri-Las, Aerosmith, and others ).
It featured guest appearances by stars such as Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis, Jerry Lewis, Judy Garland and Sammy Davis, Jr., as well as musical groups like the Shangri-Las, The Supremes and The Temptations.
* Ringo is the inspiration for the historically inaccurate, but highly popular song " Ringo " sung by then-Bonanza TV-cowboy Lorne Greene, which topped the pop charts at # 1 in late 1964 ( replacing The Shangri-Las ' " Leader of the Pack ").
The label's first release was " Chapel of Love " by The Dixie Cups, which quickly reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, a feat matched later that year by The Shangri-Las ' " Leader of the Pack ".
The last song played on WINS before it became a news station was " Out in the Streets ", by The Shangri-Las, on April 18, 1965, at around 8 PM.
After an abortive attempt to merge Red Bird with Atlantic Records, Leiber and Stoller sold their interest in Red Bird Records to Goldner in 1966 for $ 1, by which time Goldner's uncontrollable gambling habit had placed the label under the control of the Mafia The Red Bird catalogue ( except for releases by The Shangri-Las whose contract was sold to Mercury Records ) was sold to Morris Levy's Roulette Records.
The recording " Remember ( Walking In The Sand )" by the Shangri-Las reached # 3 on the US pop charts in 1964, and was a worldwide teen recording hit that launched the Shangri-Las as a chart-topping recording group.
He was a key architect in creating the girl group sound of the mid-1960s, by continuing to write and produce hit teen melodramas for the Shangri-Las, including " Leader of the Pack ", " I Can Never Go Home Anymore ", and " Give Him A Great Big Kiss ".

Shangri-Las and who
Those shows featured the top performers of the era and introduced new acts, such as Dionne Warwick, The Shirelles, Chuck Jackson, The Zombies, Little Anthony & The Imperials, the Ronettes, the Shangri-Las, Gene Pitney, Ben E. King, the Tymes, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Bobby Vinton ( who was the leader of the house band when he asked for a chance to perform as a singer ), The Lovin ' Spoonful, Cream, and The Who, among many others.
Also in 1977 Stein, who had worked with the group in the 1960s, convinced the Shangri-Las to reform and return to the studio.
Entitled " Remember ( Walking In The Sand )", Morton then ' rolled the dice ' and recorded a demo of his song with a long-shot, unknown girl-group local club act that he admired, The Shangri-Las ( according to Morton, with the then-unknown Billy Joel on piano in the demo recording ) and offered the demo recording to established industry guru Jerry Leiber who was then setting up Red Bird Records.

Shangri-Las and had
For their next album, Too Much Too Soon, the quintet hired producer George " Shadow " Morton, whose productions for the Shangri-Las and other girl-groups in the mid-1960s had been among the band's favorites.
The Detergents had hits with " Leader of the Laundromat " and " I Can Never Eat Home Any More ", both of which parodied The Shangri-Las.

Shangri-Las and hit
A version of The Shangri-Las ' 1965 hit " Out in the Streets " was also included on this album.

Shangri-Las and with
She later came back to New York and occasionally gave shows with the Shangri-Las during the 1970s which led to a comeback attempt with Sire Records in 1977.
He worked, amongst others, with The Crows, The Flamingos, The Cleftones, The Shangri-Las, The Teenagers, The Chantels, Little Richard and Lou Christie.
As a musician and record producer, Amels has worked with Ben E. King, Lenny Kravitz, Mary Weiss of 1960s girl group The Shangri-Las, and Dennis Diken of The Smithereens.
* Documentary on Shangri-Las including interview with Morton

Shangri-Las and which
In the 1960s, Leiber and Stoller founded and briefly owned Red Bird Records, which issued The Shangri-Las ' " Leader of the Pack " and The Dixie Cups ' " Chapel of Love ".
After several unsuccessful releases in a style similar to the Shangri-Las, including Jeff Barry ’ s " I ’ m Nobody ’ s Baby Now ," and " I Can Hear the Rain " which featured the then-unknown Melba Moore, the group moved again to Mala Records.

Shangri-Las and was
Although there was an unrelated Scottish female group called Sophisticated Boom Boom in the early 1980s, the title of the album derives from a Shangri-Las song of the same name, and alludes the Sixties pop influences that crop up in the band's body of work — most explicitly here on the track " You Make Me Wanna ".
" Chico's Girl " was included on the 2009 compilation album, The Shangri-Las & The ' 60s Girl Group Garage Sound.

Shangri-Las and recorded
In 1982 at Abbey Road Studios, they recorded a cover of the Shangri-Las ' song " Past, Present and Future ".

were and imitated
Some distinctive accents can be found on the East Coast ( for example, in eastern New England and New York City ) partly because these areas were in close contact with England and imitated prestigious varieties of British English at a time when these were undergoing changes.
Classicizing architectonic structure and decor all ' antica, in the " ancient mode ", became a fashionable way to frame a painted or bas-relief portrait, or protect an expensive and precious mirror during the High Renaissance ; Italian precedents were imitated in France, then in Spain, England and Germany during the later 16th century.
The Chronicles, on the other hand, were written much later, after the restoration of the Jewish community in Palestine, at a time when the kingdoms were beginning to be regarded as the nostalgic past, something to be at least partially imitated, not something to be avoided.
Its city walls were much imitated ( for example, see Caernarfon Castle ) and its urban infrastructure was moreover a marvel throughout the Middle Ages, keeping alive the art, skill and technical expertise of the Roman Empire.
The verse innovations of the Augustan writers were carefully imitated by their successors in the Silver Age of Latin Literature.
Deviations were generally regarded as idiosyncrasies or hallmarks of personal style, and were not imitated by later poets.
The notes were widely imitated, which made ( what is now called ) Gaussian elimination a standard lesson in algebra textbooks by the end of the 18th century.
Her style of dressing in simple, boyish caps contrasting with gowns that were richly embroidered with plunging décolletage that revealed the nipples, was imitated throughout Italy and at the French court.
This life he led for many months, saying that he had taken up an art that was without muscles, foreshortening or perspective and, better still, without faultfinding, and that the art that he had given up imitated flesh and blood, but this one created flesh and blood ; in this if you had good wine you heard yourself praised, but in that every day you were blamed.
Sounds of different musical instruments and animals were often imitated.
Petrarch's sonnets were admired and imitated throughout Europe during the Renaissance and became a model for lyrical poetry.
Nevertheless, variants of the sestina were imitated and developed by Daniel's contemporaries – such as Guilhem Peire Cazals de Caortz – and by subsequent troubadours.
Michael Jackson was the definitive icon of the 1980s and his leather jacket, glove and Moonwalk dance were often imitated.
His imitations were imitated by other female impersonators, and his roles included Bette Davis, Mae West, Tallulah Bankhead, Gloria Swanson, Carol Channing, Katharine Hepburn, and Joan Crawford, which became the drag queen canon.
It has been surmised that many of them were imitated from the sounds of Native American languages, as well as from the songs of African slaves, especially in the southernmost of the Shaker communities, but in fact the melodic material is derived from European scales and modes.
Many of the practices of Orthodox Christian hermits and desert-dwellers were imitated in Sufism's growth in the center of the former-Christian lands of the Middle East.
Their idols were the Everly Brothers, whom they imitated in their use of close two-part harmony.
In contemporary times, Egyptian novelists and poets were among the first to experiment with modern styles of Arabic-language literature, and the forms they developed have been widely imitated.
Clarinetist Larry Shields is perhaps the most interesting player, showing a good fluid tone, and if his melodic variations and breaks now seem overly familiar, this is because they were imitated widely by musicians who followed in the band's footsteps.
He recorded her telling folk stories in her native language, and then used the recordings as a basis for sounds that became the Ewok language and were performed by voice actors who imitated the old woman's voice in different styles.
His observation of the models executed by different sculptors of eminence, which were sent to be fired at an adjoining pottery, determined the direction of his genius ; he imitated them with so much success that in 1758 a small figure of Peace sent by him to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts received a prize, and the highest premiums given by that society were adjudged to him nine times between the years 1763 and 1776.

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