May 5, 1973: Paul Simon released the album There Goes Rhymin' Simon on Columbia Records.
Retaining the buoyant musical feel of Paul Simon, but employing a more produced sound, There Goes Rhymin' Simon found Paul Simon writing and performing with assurance and venturing into soulful and R&B-oriented music.
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For several tracks, Simon traveled to the Muscle Shoals Sound Studios to play with its house band, getting a variety of styles, from the gospel of "Love Me Like a Rock" to the Dixieland of "Mardi Gras."
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May 5, 1962: The Shirelles hit Number 1 in America with "Soldier Boy."
Record executive Florence Greenberg, founder of Scepter Records (the Shirelles' record label), wrote the song and was originally titled "I'll Be True To You". The main frame of the song's lyrics make no mention of a soldier.
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It was only in the studio that the Shirelles gave the song a much better title to reflect its narrative, the profession of someone's love for the titular soldier boy in which she promises to remain true to him while he's away.
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May 5, 1973: Donny Osmond was stuck at the peak position on the US music chart, Number 8, with "The Twelfth Of Never."
"The Twelfth of Never" is a popular song written in 1956 and first recorded by Johnny Mathis the following year.
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Mathis initially disliked the song, which was released as the flip side to his number 1 hit single "Chances Are". Donny Osmond's version, produced by Mike Curb and Don Costa, was his second number 1 single in the UK. In the U.S. it peaked at number 8.
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May 5, 1973: Clint Holmes' "Playground In My Mind" cracked the Billboard Top 40, reaching Number 2 during a 15-week run.
“Playground in My Mind” is by Clint Holmes, an Englishman who was on the verge of giving up professional singing when he met songwriter Paul Vance. Vance had written a handful of hit songs with his partner, Lee Pockriss, most famously “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini,” and he thought “Playground in My Mind” was perfect for Holmes.
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May 5, 1979: Peaches and Herb's "Reunited" hit Number 1 in America.
Peaches & Herb weren’t really reunited. The duo had been a pretty successful soul act in the ’60s, and then they’d disappeared for years before returning with their two biggest hits ever. But the Peaches & Herb of the late ’70s weren’t the same as the Peaches & Herb of the late ’60s.
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