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Wall and Voodoo
In popular culture, the American New Wave group Wall of Voodoo performed a medley of Ennio Morricone's movie themes, including the theme for this movie.
The single " Don't Box Me In ( theme From Rumble Fish )", a collaboration between Copeland and singer / songwriter Stan Ridgway ( of the band Wall of Voodoo ) received significant airplay upon release of the film that year.
* Stan Ridgway, musician, founder of Wall of Voodoo
# Some artists, including Livin ' Joy, Wall of Voodoo, Crossfade, Head East, Yello, Modern English, and The Weather Girls, never had a top-40 pop hit, but did have a song that received considerable airplay, even long after its day of release.
The band, recording for A & M Records, released albums in 1982 ( Nothing to Fear ) and 1983 ( Good for Your Soul ) that drew comparisons to Devo and later, Wall of Voodoo.
* Wall of Voodoo
Hinton novel also had a song released to radio on A & M Records " Don't Box Me In " ( UK Singles Chart n. 91 ) — a collaboration between Copeland and singer / songwriter Stan Ridgway, leader of the band Wall of Voodoo, that received significant airplay upon release of the film that year.
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* Wall of Voodoo-Stan Ridgway's last appearance with Wall of Voodoo
* The 1982 song " Call of the West " by the Los Angeles new wave band Wall of Voodoo — which " follows some Middle American sad sack as he chases a vague and hopeless dream in California "— has been described as being " as close as pop music has gotten to capturing the bitter chaos of the final chapter of Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust ".
During the mid 1980s, the band was on the verge of breaking up when members of Wall of Voodoo Bruce Moreland, Marc Moreland and Chas Grey, who were fans, stepped in and offered to collaborate with them.
The Los Angeles-based New Wave band Wall of Voodoo offered their own quirky, ominous interpretation of the " Wall of Sound " ( the band's name is itself a take-off on the phrase ) with their 1982 album Call of the West ( produced by Richard Mazda ), and its hit single " Mexican Radio ".
Wall of Voodoo drummer Joe Nanini would commonly use pots and pans instead of conventional drums.
*" Mexican Radio " ( originally by Wall of Voodoo ) on the Planned Parenthood benefit CD Tannis Root Presents: Freedom of Choice ( Tannis Root, 1992 )
*" Mexican Radio " by Wall of Voodoo ( 1983 )
The Fibonaccis were formed out of the Los Angeles art punk scene which included bands such as Wall of Voodoo, Oingo Boingo and Sparks.
By the mid-1980s, The Fibonaccis had emerged as a prominent presence in the Los Angeles art rock scene, acting as touring support for the likes of Sparks, Oingo Boingo and Wall of Voodoo and performing as part of the 1985 New Music America festival.
Wall of Voodoo was an American New Wave group from Los Angeles best known for the 1983 hit " Mexican Radio ".
Wall of Voodoo had its roots in Acme Soundtracks, a film score business started by Stan Ridgway, later the vocalist and harmonica player for Wall of Voodoo.

Wall and organ
* Richard Wright – piano, organ, synthesizer, vocals, accordion on " Outside the Wall "
* Dan Wall — Hammond organ
The quiet melody of " Outside the Wall " is interrupted in mid-phrase, as the main body of the song starts loudly, with a succession of power chords on organ and distorted guitars.

Wall and recordings
Spector's Wall of Sound production technique also persisted after that time with his select recordings of the Beatles, the Ramones, Leonard Cohen, George Harrison, Dion and Ike and Tina Turner.
The double live album Behind the Iron Curtain was recorded during a tour of Eastern Europe, before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and made from recordings of concerts in Warsaw, Prague, Budapest and other cities, and was released before her death in 1988.
These include " The Sky Is Crying " ( credited to Elmo James and His Broomdusters ), " My Bleeding Heart ", " Stranger Blues ", " Look on Yonder Wall ", " Done Somebody Wrong ", and " Shake Your Moneymaker ", all of which are among the most famous of blues recordings.
A posthumous album, The Autumn Stone, was released later in 1969, and included the major Immediate recordings, a rare live concert performance, and a number of previously unreleased tracks recorded for their intended fourth LP, 1862, including the classic Swinging Sixties instrumental " Wide Eyed Girl on the Wall " and " Donkey Rides, A Penny, A Glass ", co-written by Ian McLagan.
The Wall of Sound is a music production technique for pop and rock music recordings developed by record producer Phil Spector at Gold Star Studios in Los Angeles, California, during the early 1960s.
The Wall of Sound forms the foundation of Phil Spector's recordings, in general.
In the 1980s, Trevor Horn's hugely popular productions for ABC's The Lexicon of Love, Yes ' 90125, Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Welcome to the Pleasuredome, and Grace Jones ' Slave to the Rhythm are decidedly slicker and more sophisticated examples of the opulent " Wall of Sound " approach in British New Wave / Hi-NRG dance music — all of these recordings utilize a large string orchestra and dozens of synthesizer and guitar overdubs with featured sound effects and treatments.
The performing band became a standardized unit while the early recordings remained more of a collaboration of Jay Beckenstein, co-producer Richard Calandra and Jeremy Wall accompanied by some of the biggest names in the NYC jazz world.
In the Soviet Union before the fall of the Berlin Wall, possession of American-style blue jeans or rock music recordings ( even pirated or bootlegged copies ) was an important status symbol among rebellious teenagers.
His major recordings included " Dance of the Octopus ", " Bughouse ", " Knockin ' on Wood ", " Congo Blues ", and " Hole in the Wall ".
When Ridgway jokingly compared the multiple-drum-machine-and Farfisa-organ-laden recordings to Phil Spector's Wall of Sound, Berardi commented it sounded more like a " wall of voodoo " and the name stuck.
The figures most often associated with the Wrecking Crew are, producer Phil Spector ( who used the Crew to create his trademark " Wall of Sound "), and Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson, who used the Crew's talents on many of his mid-1960s productions including the songs " Good Vibrations ", " California Girls ", the acclaimed album Pet Sounds, and the original recordings for Smile.
Unfortunately, Boyd stated, " It was released at the same time as Phil Spector's first amazing " Wall of Sound " recordings.
While listening to some of the music that created in the studio, Ridgway jokingly compared the multiple-drum-machine-and Farfisa-organ-laden recordings to Phil Spector's Wall of Sound, whereupon the friend commented it sounded more like a " wall of voodoo " and the name stuck.
In addition to singing and playing on the Jacksons ' recordings, he worked with Michael on his Off the Wall album.
In 1995, The vinyl LP tracks from " An Evening With David Peel " were combined with two new multi-tracked studio recordings: " Junk Rock " and " I Hate You " ( recorded at Right Track Studios, NYC ) for a CD release: " Up Against The Wall ".
She was known for her recordings of " The Big Hurt ", " West of the Wall ", " Maybe ( He'll Think Of Me )," and " Why Can't The Dark Leave Me Alone ".
Numerous versions have been recorded since, including two different recordings by Ike and Tina Turner that do not feature Spector's " Wall of Sound " production style, as well as some by Tina Turner herself without Ike Turner.

Wall and with
Two or three times, C. C. Burlingham came to lunch with us in Weston, that wonderful man who lived to be more than a hundred years old and whose birthplace had been my Wall Street suburb.
As early as 1900 a Wall Street combination acquired detail patents with the intention of exacting heavy tribute from automobile manufacturers.
" Maybe with the giving away of his money ," commented biographer Joseph Wall, " he would justify what he had done to get that money.
( Along with Wall the most detailed scholarly biography )
In 1989, with the end of the Cold War and pressure from the East German population, the Berlin Wall fell on 9 November 1989 and was subsequently mostly demolished, with little of its physical structure remaining today ; the East Side Gallery in Friedrichshain near the Oberbaumbrücke over the Spree preserves a portion of the Wall.
The Battle of the Red Wall was marked with the total defeat of the French forces, with 5, 700 out of 6, 000 men killed.
At the " Wailing Wall " in the Old City of Jerusalem, " the Jews assemble every Friday afternoon to bewail the downfall of the holy city, kissing the stone wall and watering it with their tears.
Cambridge enjoys the highest possible bond credit rating, AAA, with all three Wall Street rating agencies.
* For the Record: From Wall Street to Washington ( 1988, by Donald Regan with Charles McCarry )
Pink Floyd recast itself from its 1960s guise as a psychedelic band into a commercial success with its series of concept albums, most famously with The Dark Side of the Moon ( which, according to the RIAA, is the second best selling album in history ) and later with the double album rock opera The Wall.
Styx began its series of concept albums in 1977 with The Grand Illusion-focused on self-constructed and societal walls ( similar to The Wall by Pink Floyd )-then followed it with Pieces of Eight in 1978.
The quarry and tombs associated with it are north, not west of the main city and west only of the merchant area in the Tyropoeon Valley, which was enclosed by the Second Wall.
The Jacksons ( previously The Jackson 5 ) did many disco songs from 1975 to 1980, including " Shake Your Body ( Down to the Ground )" ( 1978 ), " Blame it on the Boogie " ( 1978 ), and " Can You Feel It " ( 1980 )— all sung by Michael Jackson, whose 1979 solo album, Off the Wall, included several disco hits, including the album's title song, " Rock with You ", " Workin ' Day and Night ", and his second chart-topping solo hit in the disco genre, " Don't Stop ' til You Get Enough ".
He has remained active well into his nineties, with roles in recent films such as Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and The Ghost Writer.
Instruction Judge – First Judge of K. In his trial, he confuses K. with a Wall Painter.
Blair's academic performance reports suggest that he neglected his academic studies, but during his time at Eton he worked with Roger Mynors to produce a College magazine, The Election Times, joined in the production of other publications — College Days and Bubble and Squeak — and participated in the Eton Wall Game.
An alternative choice to commemorate the reunification could have been the day the Berlin Wall came down — November 9, 1989, which coincided with the anniversary of the proclamation of the German Republic in 1918 and the defeat of Hitler's first coup in 1923.
With a booming economy short of unskilled workers, especially after the Berlin Wall cut off the steady flow of East Germans, the FRG negotiated migration agreements with Italy ( 1955 ), Spain ( 1960 ), Greece ( 1960 ), and Turkey ( 1961 ) that brought in hundreds of thousands of temporary guest workers, called Gastarbeiter.

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