Tag Archives: Shel Silverstein

A Canadian fingerpicking guitarist who was blessed in Scotland, Eddie Douglas became thinking about writing materials for kids after becoming an elementary-school instructor. Setting his preferred children’s poems to his very own music, Douglas released his initial album, Alligator Glaciers Cream — Jelly Joy!, in 2002. He spent some time …

Composer and lyricist Gene Allan offers two landmarks in his profession, one of that was co-writing vocalist Bobby Vinton’s favourite song “Mr. Lonesome,” popular many times over. He was also area of the band of songwriters earned to concoct materials for the Archies, leading to “Sugars and Spice,” a very …

A quirky folk group who defy a straightforward positioning in genre, Ed’s Redeeming Characteristics’ instrumentation — guitar, violin, ukulele, bongos, accordion, cardboard bass, and drum — suggests folk music as well as the songs have huge variations of affects from rock, nation, calypso, and klezmer. A reviewer explained them as …

The pseudonym of Cleveland, Ohio-born actor and songwriter Richard “Dick” Monda, Daddy Dewdrop is most beneficial known for his 1971 bubblegum novelty hit “Chick-A-Boom (Don’t Ya Jes’ THINK IT?S GREAT).” A previous child acting professional, Monda was a prolific songwriter and maker through the 1960s and ’70s, documenting and liberating …

The folk duo of Bud Dashiell and Travis Edmonson performed a huge selection of shows and recorded ten albums between 1958 and 1965, all without ever securing popular single. Bud & Travis performed a key function within the folk revival. Their outstanding guitar playing, easy harmonizing, and boundless catalog of …

David Allan Coe is among the most famous and controversial performers to emerge from the outlaw nation motion; a gifted songwriter along with a charismatic performer, Coe can be a man that has implemented his own route even though it meant journeying the hard method, and his lifestyle continues to …

Fingerstyle acoustic guitarist Al Petteway continues to be playing in rings because the early ’70s. By enough time he released his own single recording career within the ’90s, Petteway got created a genuine playing style merging Celtic tunings and phrases with American designs. Petteway was bitten with the music insect …

Tom T. Hall is actually a storyteller, a songwriter with an enthusiastic eye for fine detail along with a knack for narrative. Many music artists have protected his tunes — especially Jeannie C. Riley’s 1968 strike “Harper Valley P.T.A.” — and he also offers racked up several solo strikes, including …

Probably one of the most popular novelty performers ever, Ray Stevens enjoyed an amazingly long career, having a stretch out of charting singles — a few of them main strikes — that spanned four years. Unlike parody ruler Strange Al Yankovic, Stevens produced probably the most of his effect with …

Within the tradition of Homer and Jethro came the riotous barnyard humor and song parodies of Sandy Pinkard and Richard Bowden. Unlike their forebears, Pinkard and Bowden’s laughter was frequently coarse, and their vocabulary was sometimes tough plenty of to warrant explicit vocabulary warnings on the records; actually, they were …