Uploaded October 2015 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
EVERY NUMBER COUNTS - TODAY = THE NUMBER 5
On the count of 5 = 5 is a number that crops up in music regularly. Musical manuscript is written on a stave that consists out of 5 lines; a perfect fifth is the interval between notes that provide the most pleasing sounding harmony and it is the interval used to tune the strings of a violin = G-D-A-E-A.
ED SULLIVAN SINGERS
The man himself, Ed Sullivan, has "done it all" as far as radio, TV and showbusiness are concerned (his biography reads like an exciting novel). The recording of this record must have been the "gap" in his "CV" and so, .... this probably is the only album that "The Ed Sullivan Singers" ever recorded.
GOING OUT OF MY HEAD
Composer Teddy Randazzo teamed up with famous orchestrator and arranger Don Costa and this "Goin' out of my head" is one of their best known (and most successful ) works.
MHO
Greatt background orchestration here with a surprising but pleasing arrangement of the voices male vs female. Mr Costa clearly had the steering wheel firmly in his hands when arranging this great song, a song that finally ended up as a "standard" (or "evergreen" as they say in the UK). Numerous vocalists recorded their own version of the song. This close harmony presentation ranks amongst the best ever released.
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ps / We are currently experimenting a bit with new slideshow and video presentation software so there might be minor changes and/or minor faults appearing in the videos We know this and are working contineously to improve on the quality of the music videos
Meanwhile, we want to increase our posting frequency of all that great music, so ....... it's a bit "balancing on a small rope" but hope you will still enjoy our presentations
EVERY NUMBER COUNTS - TODAY = THE NUMBER 5
On the count of 5 = 5 is a number that crops up in music regularly. Musical manuscript is written on a stave that consists out of 5 lines; a perfect fifth is the interval between notes that provide the most pleasing sounding harmony and it is the interval used to tune the strings of a violin = G-D-A-E-A.
ED SULLIVAN SINGERS
The man himself, Ed Sullivan, has "done it all" as far as radio, TV and showbusiness are concerned (his biography reads like an exciting novel). The recording of this record must have been the "gap" in his "CV" and so, .... this probably is the only album that "The Ed Sullivan Singers" ever recorded.
GOING OUT OF MY HEAD
Composer Teddy Randazzo teamed up with famous orchestrator and arranger Don Costa and this "Goin' out of my head" is one of their best known (and most successful ) works.
MHO
Greatt background orchestration here with a surprising but pleasing arrangement of the voices male vs female. Mr Costa clearly had the steering wheel firmly in his hands when arranging this great song, a song that finally ended up as a "standard" (or "evergreen" as they say in the UK). Numerous vocalists recorded their own version of the song. This close harmony presentation ranks amongst the best ever released.
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ps / We are currently experimenting a bit with new slideshow and video presentation software so there might be minor changes and/or minor faults appearing in the videos We know this and are working contineously to improve on the quality of the music videos
Meanwhile, we want to increase our posting frequency of all that great music, so ....... it's a bit "balancing on a small rope" but hope you will still enjoy our presentations






![RUDI BOHN AND HIS ORCHESTRA- SNOWBIRD
SNOWBIRD
Snowbird is a song by the Canadian songwriter Gene MacLellan. Though it has been recorded by many performers (including Bing Crosby and Elvis Presley), it is best known through Anne Murrays 1969 recording, which—after appearing as an album track in mid-1969—was eventually released as a single in the summer of 1970. It was a #2 hit on Canadas pop chart and went to #1 on both the Canadian adult contemporary and country charts. The song reached #8 on the U.S. pop singles chart, spent six weeks at #1 on the U.S. adult contemporary chart, and became a surprise Top 10 U.S. country hit as well.
It was certified as a gold single by the RIAA, the first American Gold record ever awarded to a Canadian solo female artist. The song peaked at #23 on the UK Singles Chart. In 2003 it was an inaugural song inductee of the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Anne Murray and Gene MacLellan had met while both were regulars on the CBC television series Singalong Jubilee and Murray recorded two of MacLellans compositions: Snowbird and Biding My Time for her first major label album release, This Way Is My Way recorded in 1969. Murray would recall: Gene told me he wrote [Snowbird] in twenty minutes while walking on a beach in PEI.
The theme and approach broadly resemble that of the earlier hits Message to Michael (a.k.a. Kentucky Bluebird in hit versions by Lou Johnson and Adam Faith) and Yellow Bird in contrasting the narrators being stuck in the place of his/her heartache to the birds ability to just up and fly away. Snowbird sold well over a million copies and was recently picked as 19th on the 50 Tracks: The Canadian Version list, a partially populist approach to defining the most influential songs by Canadians.
Gene MacLellan made his own recording of Snowbird on his 1970 album Street Corner Preacher: MacLellans version features an additional verse to the songs standard two verse format.
In 2007 Anne Murray remade Snowbird for her Anne Murray Duets: Friends & Legends album, the song being rendered as a duet with Sarah Brightman. RUDI BOHN AND HIS ORCHESTRA- SNOWBIRD](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dHepFLgymUQ/mqdefault.jpg)



