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- Winchester Cathedral est une chanson écrite en 1966 par (en) et à l'origine de son groupe New Vaudeville Band. Titre éponyme de leur premier album, il se vend à plus de 3 millions d'exemplaires dans le monde et obtient un Grammy Award en 1967. (fr)
- "Winchester Cathedral" is a song by the New Vaudeville Band, a British novelty group established by the song's composer, Geoff Stephens, and was released in late 1966 by Fontana Records. It reached number 1 in Canada on the RPM 100 chart, co-charting with the Dana Rollin version, and shortly thereafter in the U.S. on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Stephens was a big fan of tunes from the British music hall era (or what Americans would call "vaudeville"), so he wrote "Winchester Cathedral" in that vein, complete with a Rudy Vallée soundalike(John Carter) singing through his hands to imitate a megaphone sound. Although the song was recorded entirely by session musicians, when it became an international hit, an actual band had to be assembled, with Fontana trying unsuccessfully to recruit the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. The recording is one of the few charting songs to feature a bassoon. The band toured extensively under the tutelage of Peter Grant, who later went on to manage The Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin. The song won the 1967 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary (R&R) Recording, despite not being a rock and roll song. An initial long-playing album including the song was issued in late 1966 by Fontana Records, also titled Winchester Cathedral. Stephens received the 1966 Ivor Novello Award for "Best Song Musically and Lyrically". In 2016, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the song's release, a new version by Geoff Stephens was released on CD by Signum Classics, sung by members of the Winchester Cathedral Choir. The premier performance of this version was to take place during a Gala Concert in Winchester Cathedral on March 12, 2016 to help raise funds for the Cathedral's Appeal. (en)
- "Winchester Cathedral" è un singolo realizzato nel tardo 1966 e pubblicato dalla Fontana Records. Esso raggiunse il n. 1 in Canada nella classifica RPM 100 della rivista RPM e di lì a poco il Billboard Hot 100 negli Stati Uniti. Era stato inciso dalla The New Vaudeville Band, un nuovo gruppo musicale messo insieme dal compositore britannico di canzoni Geoff Stephens. Stephens era un appassionato di music hall britannico (ciò che gli statunitensi chiamano "Vaudeville"), e così compose "Winchester Cathedral". La canzone fu registrata utilizzando un Rudy Vallée (sorta di megafono che trasforma la voce umana in maniera simile a quanto fa la sordina con le trombe) e John Carter cantò con questo apparecchio imitando il suono di un megafono. Poiché fu registrata da un gruppo di session-man, quando la canzone divenne un successo internazionale, si dovette creare, in tutta fretta, un gruppo musicale che fece una lunga tournée sotto la guida di Peter Grant, che successivamente diresse i The Yardbirds ed i Led Zeppelin. La canzone balzò al n. 4 nella Official Singles Chart. Giunse al n. 1 negli USA sopravanzando "You Keep Me Hangin' On" dovuta a The Supremes il 3 dicembre 1966. Dopo una settimana al n. 1 "Winchester Cathedral" venne superata dai Beach Boys con "Good Vibrations", ma ritornò subito in testa e vi rimase per altre due settimane venendo poi scalzata da "I'm a Believer" dei The Monkees. "Winchester Cathedral" andò al primo posto della Billboard "Easy Listening" e vi rimase per quattro settimane ed all'ottavo posto in Austria. Una cover di Dana Rollin con i The New Happiness non andò oltre il n. 70. La canzone vinse il Grammy Award per la migliore canzone contemporanea, nonostante non fosse un rock and roll. Un LP, che comprendeva la canzone, venne pubblicato dalla Fontana Records, nel tardo 1966, anch'esso intitolato Winchester Cathedral. (it)
- Winchester Cathedral is een single van The New Vaudeville Band. Dit is in feite niet juist, het lied was er eerder dan de muziekgroep. Het nummer is gecomponeerd door , die toen het klaar was nog op zoek moest gaan naar mensen die het moesten uitvoeren. Later zou uit dat gezelschap een band ontstaan, die buiten dit nummer weinig succes had. Ze hadden wel een management dat stond. Peter Grant gaf leiding aan het geheel; hij ondersteunde ook The Yardbirds en Led Zeppelin. Naar aanleiding van het succes noemde Stephens hun eerste elpee ook Winchester Cathedral. In de jaren volgend op 1966 nam een flink aantal artiesten het nummer ook op. Onder meer Frank Sinatra, Nancy Wilson, Ray Conniff, James Last, Petula Clark, en The Shadows (apart van elkaar) verzorgden covers van dit nummer. Graham Nash zou later voor CSN (Crosby, Stills & Nash) Cathedral schrijven, ook over Winchester Cathedral. (nl)
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- Winchester Cathedral est une chanson écrite en 1966 par (en) et à l'origine de son groupe New Vaudeville Band. Titre éponyme de leur premier album, il se vend à plus de 3 millions d'exemplaires dans le monde et obtient un Grammy Award en 1967. (fr)
- "Winchester Cathedral" is a song by the New Vaudeville Band, a British novelty group established by the song's composer, Geoff Stephens, and was released in late 1966 by Fontana Records. It reached number 1 in Canada on the RPM 100 chart, co-charting with the Dana Rollin version, and shortly thereafter in the U.S. on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Stephens was a big fan of tunes from the British music hall era (or what Americans would call "vaudeville"), so he wrote "Winchester Cathedral" in that vein, complete with a Rudy Vallée soundalike(John Carter) singing through his hands to imitate a megaphone sound. Although the song was recorded entirely by session musicians, when it became an international hit, an actual band had to be assembled, with Fontana trying unsuccessfully to recruit the B (en)
- "Winchester Cathedral" è un singolo realizzato nel tardo 1966 e pubblicato dalla Fontana Records. Esso raggiunse il n. 1 in Canada nella classifica RPM 100 della rivista RPM e di lì a poco il Billboard Hot 100 negli Stati Uniti. Era stato inciso dalla The New Vaudeville Band, un nuovo gruppo musicale messo insieme dal compositore britannico di canzoni Geoff Stephens. Stephens era un appassionato di music hall britannico (ciò che gli statunitensi chiamano "Vaudeville"), e così compose "Winchester Cathedral". La canzone fu registrata utilizzando un Rudy Vallée (sorta di megafono che trasforma la voce umana in maniera simile a quanto fa la sordina con le trombe) e John Carter cantò con questo apparecchio imitando il suono di un megafono. Poiché fu registrata da un gruppo di session-man, quand (it)
- Winchester Cathedral is een single van The New Vaudeville Band. Dit is in feite niet juist, het lied was er eerder dan de muziekgroep. Het nummer is gecomponeerd door , die toen het klaar was nog op zoek moest gaan naar mensen die het moesten uitvoeren. Later zou uit dat gezelschap een band ontstaan, die buiten dit nummer weinig succes had. Ze hadden wel een management dat stond. Peter Grant gaf leiding aan het geheel; hij ondersteunde ook The Yardbirds en Led Zeppelin. Naar aanleiding van het succes noemde Stephens hun eerste elpee ook Winchester Cathedral. (nl)
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