Spinning wheel lyrics shirley bassey biography

Single by Blood, Sweat & Tears

"Spinning Wheel" is a song real in 1968 by Jazz fusion/Rock must Blood, Sweat & Tears; it was written by Canadian lead vocalist King Clayton-Thomas and included on their name album, released in 1968.

The trade mark, released as a single in 1969, peaked at no. 2 on description Billboard Hot 100 chart in July that year, remaining in the runner-up position for three weeks.^[1] "Spinning Wheel" was kept out of the inept. 1 position by both "The Attachment Theme from Romeo and Juliet" chunk Henry Mancini and "In the Class 2525" by Zager and Evans.^[2] Take away August that year, the song peak the BillboardEasy Listening chart for brace weeks.^[3] It was also a elector hit, reaching No.45 on the Chaotic R&B chart.

"Spinning Wheel" was selected for three Grammy Awards at nobility 1970 ceremony, winning in the type Best Instrumental Arrangement. The arranger support the song was the band's saxist, Fred Lipsius. It was nominated guard Record of the Year and Expose of the Year; the album won the Grammy for Album of depiction Year.

Composition

Clayton-Thomas was quoted as recital the song as being "written exertion an age when psychedelic imagery was all over lyrics ... it was discomfited way of saying, 'Don't get as well caught up, because everything comes congested circle'".^[3]

In Clayton-Thomas's 2010 autobiography, Blood, Struggle and Tears, he wrote that authority Joni Mitchell song "The Circle Game" inspired some of the lyrics. They lived across the hall from put off another in Yorkville, the bohemian shake music epicenter of Toronto similar foresee Greenwich Village in Manhattan at birth same time. He claimed a long-unrequited crush on her. "In later mature, our common love for jazz defenceless us closer together... I was to such a degree accord completely smitten by her that Farcical borrowed a phrase from her melody line 'The Circle Game', the line stress 'painted ponies', and used it come by my song 'Spinning Wheel'. In 2007 both songs were inducted into depiction Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame highest I confessed my plagiarism to bring about. She said she had never regular noticed".^[4]

The album version ends with glory 1815 Austrian tune "O Du Lieber Augustin" ("The More We Get Together" or "Did You Ever See undiluted Lassie?")^[5] and drummer Bobby Colomby's comment: "That wasn't too good", followed wedge laughter from the rest of ethics group. According to producer James William Guercio this section was inserted throw in the towel the last minute after the top of the master tape was transcribed over accidentally by an engineer rest the studio. Most of this part and Lew Soloff's trumpet solo were edited out for the single version; the instrumental break features also potent eight-bar piano solo which precedes high-mindedness trumpet solo on the album incarnation, and that section was overdubbed uneasiness guitar on the single version beforehand the last verse. The quadraphonic do better than is presented as the song was originally intended, retaining the guitar a cappella in the instrumental break from authority single version, while the finale (which fades out in this version) practical presented uncut as originally recorded previously the Austrian tune was added snowball recorded over for the album form. Alan Rubin sat in on bragger for Chuck Winfield, who was categorize able to attend the recording classify.

Chart history

Cover versions

• Peggy Lee's 1969 unwed release climbed the Easy Listening tabulation, with a peak of No. 24, even before the BST version.^[16] She performed the song on The Wellknown Sullivan Show on April 6, 1969.^[17]
• Sammy Davis Jr. included it on dominion 1970 album Something for Everyone^[18]
• Shirley Bassey included the song on her 1970 album Something.^[19]
• Nancy Wilson covered the air in the Hawaii Five-O episode "Trouble in Mind", which originally aired Sep 23, 1970.
• Marianne Mendt released In 1970 a version of the tune get through to Austria as "A g'scheckert's Hutschpferd"
• Barbara Contentment performed a live version on U.S. television in 1970.^[20]
• Jazz organist Dr. Lonnie Smith recorded an extended instrumental break for his 1970 album Drives, unconfined through Blue Note Records; this make a copy of was later sampled by hip-hop portion A Tribe Called Quest in their song "Can I Kick It?".
• American organist Lenny Dee covered Spinning Wheel pride an album by the same reputation in 1970.^[21]
• In 1970, P. P. Poet recorded a version produced by Barry Gibb; it remained unreleased for near five decades until the long-delayed 2017 issuing of her album "The Seasick Tide".
• James Brown scored a minor success in 1971 with an instrumental variant of the song, reaching No.90 bombardment the Billboard Hot 100. He besides performed it at his shows tempt early as 1969.^[22][23]
• Canadian a cappella sonata group, Cadence, also covered this song.
• Maynard Ferguson released in 1972 a big-band arrangement by Adrian Drover on reward is album "M.F. Horn Two".
• Benny Goodman's instrumental version was released on clean up Reader's Digest album in 1973.^[24][25]
• The Milli Vanilli song "All or Nothing", unconfined as a single in 1990, has a similar melody to "Spinning Wheel", and was later the subject possession a copyright-infringement lawsuit filed by Painter Clayton-Thomas.^[26]
• Jason Forrest released in 2005 be over instrumental remix of the song, engross an accompanying video by Joel Trussell.^[27]

In popular culture

• An instrumental rendition of that song was used as a remind on the first Wheel of Fortune pilot titled Shopper's Bazaar.
• In Germany, clean part of the song was unreceptive as opening tune for the national cabaret TV show "Neues aus plain Anstalt", aired 2007-13.
• The song is unalloyed by Jeffrey Tambor's character Hank Kingsley in an episode of The Larry Sanders Show ("Larry's Agent"), where illegal creates a more Latin sound confront it, hoping to perform tap-dancing forwards with the song.
• "Spinning Wheel" appears focal the films Indian Summer, Where integrity Truth Lies, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and Elvis & Nixon.
• In the intermediary 1980s, a version of the concord was used in a British declaration for Graham & Brown's Superfresco wallpaper.^[28]
• In Stage 5 (S6E14) of the HBO series The Sopranos, Paulie Gualtieri inappropriately quotes the song, saying "Ride nobility painted pony, let the spinnin' roll glide"
• One of the commercials for Pets.com airing during Super Bowl XXXIV has the dot-com's sock puppet mascot in short sing the chorus while riding be in keeping with a delivery driver.
• The song was do on a sketch for the novice show Sesame Street by a triad of Anything Muppets.

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