![]() Or maybe people have just run out of weed and started to be more productive”.Īn accident involving Glass Animals’ drummer, Joe Seaward, almost threatened to derail the band and set them back. ![]() ![]() “Maybe the stress and the anxiety of all this, plus the isolation, could be quite healthy for people’s creativity in a weird way. “I think everyone’s in an interesting headspace,” he continues. At the other end of the creative spectrum, the band have just begun selling two types of toilet roll in their online merch store, one dotted with the four Oxford school friends’ faces, the other printed with the words “Ass Glanimals”. They include, as of next week, filling their website with downloadable music samples and images so that fans can make their own versions of Glass Animals songs and artwork. “Between me and the guys, we have a lot of ideas for how to keep things ticking - almost too many ideas,” he tells me. “ Sitting in his home studio in Hackney, just out of two weeks’ quarantine and still a long way from his music life getting back to normal, Dave Bayley of Glass Animals is feeling optimistic. Glass Animals’ lead, Dave Bayley, was interviewed by The Standard in April, where he talked about lockdown and creativity: One of the things that impresses me is that, during lockdown, so many artists have been creating music and putting some fantastic stuff out there. They have a new album out, Dreamland, and it is one of their best! It has been a hard time for the band, and I will discuss a terrible incident that affected Glass Animals and impacted their career. In this review, I am tackling Glass Animals. Retrieved January 20, 2017.And we are in lockdown, music is providing a sense of relief and stability. Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research. Skylark: The Life and Times of Johnny Mercer. Johnny Mercer: Southern Songwriter for the World. ^ a b "Pop Chronicles 1940s Program #7".The tune later became the jingle for Pillsbury's Figurines, a diet aid, during the 1970s.The opening line "Tangerine, she is all they say" was replaced by "There she goes, she's a Sego girl." The Pet Milk company used the melody for a 1960s liquid diet product called Sego.In 1976, All In the Family gave a nod to the song in the episode "Archie's Operation", when Archie Bunker burst into it repeatedly to interrupt son-in-law Mike's efforts to help pay for Archie's surgery.The tune was featured as background music in the films Double Indemnity (1944), Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984).More than 100 acts have recorded "Tangerine", including such notable artists as: It also reached #11 on the US, Easy Listening chart.Ĭhart performance The Salsoul Orchestra Chart (1976) In the movie at that point, the line is "And I've seen times when Tangerine / Had the bourgeoisie believing she were queen."Ī disco instrumental version by the Salsoul Orchestra brought the song back into the U.S. On the record, Eberly sings "And I've seen toasts to Tangerine / Raised in every bar across the Argentine," the lyric that became standard. The lyrics in this version differ slightly from those in the movie. The record first reached the Billboard charts on April 10, 1942, and lasted 15 weeks on the chart, including six weeks at #1. The recording was released in January 1942 by Decca Records as catalog number 4123. The most popular recorded version of the song was made by the performers who introduced it in the film: the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra with vocalists Helen O'Connell and Bob Eberly. The song portrays a fictitious South American woman with universally recognized allure: "When she dances by, / Señoritas stare / And caballeros sigh." As one of Mercer's biographers explained the initial popularity: "Latin America, the one part of the world not engulfed in World War II, became a favorite topic for songs and films for Americans who wanted momentarily to forget about the conflagration." Charted recordings ![]() "Tangerine" was introduced to a broad audience in the 1942 movie, The Fleet's In, produced by Paramount Pictures, directed by Schertzinger just before his death, and starring Dorothy Lamour, William Holden, Eddie Bracken, singer Cass Daley, and Betty Hutton in her feature film debut. The song was published in 1941 and soon became a jazz standard.Ģ: 57 (single version) 4:46 (album version) The music was written by Victor Schertzinger, the lyrics by Johnny Mercer. Vocals by Helen O'Connell and Bob Eberly singles chronology 1941 song by Victor Schertzinger and Johnny Mercer "Tangerine"
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