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Richard Spero discography and songs: Music profile for Richard Spero.
- Keep Your Distance
- Dad’S Gonna Kill Me
- Wall of Death
- Persuasion
- Shoot Out The Lights
- Turning of The Tide
- 1952 Vincent Black Lightning
- I Feel So Good
- Tear-Stained Letter
- Beeswing
We open our Top 10 Richard Thompson songs list with the fantastic song “Keep Your Distance.” The song was released on Richard Thompson’s sixth solo album, Rumorand Sigh. The album was released in 1991. The album stands as one of the finest records Richard Thompson ever released. The song “Keep Your Distance” delivers a powerful driving chorus backe...
How many times have we all used that phrase? Talk about writing a song based on a somewhat universal theme. However, upon listening closer to the lyrics, the song has an entirely different meaning from what one may think. This is a song about war, and the “Dad” in the title refers to Baghdad. “Dad’s Gonna Kill Me” was released on the album Sweet Wa...
Continuing our Top 10 Richard Thompson songs list, we turn to the Richard & Linda Thompson Shoot Out The Lights album.The album is considered to be the duo’s masterpiece. It also stands as the couple’s last album recorded together. As always, songwriters deliver some of their best work during hard times. As their marriage was ending, the couple tur...
Some songs leave you speechless. This duet between Richard Thompson and his son Teddy will touch your heart. Richard Thompson and Tim Finn of Crowded House fame wrote the song, which was released on Richard Thompson’s 1988 live album Celtschmerz.
One more time on this Richard Thompson songs list, we turn to the great Richard & Linda Thompson album entitled Shoot Out The Lights. At number six, we present the album’s fantastic title cut, “Shoot Out The Lights.” The song’s dark opening guitar lines present a cinematic scene that sets up a brilliant piece of music that stands as one of Richard ...
In 1988, Richard Thompson released a brilliant album entitled Amnesia. The album was produced by Mitchell Froom, one of rock’s greatest producers, having worked with greats such as Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Peter Gabriel, Sheryl Crow, and many more. “Turning Of The Tide” was the album’s opening track. The song’s driving beat and addicting melody d...
This is probably the song that most Richard Thompson fans chose as their favorite Richard Thompson song of all time. The song “1952 Vincent Black Lightning,” was released on Richard Thompson’s Grammy Nominated album Rumor and Sigh. Thompson’s acoustic guitar playing on the song was to die for. This is such a brilliant piece of music that audiences ...
The great Richard Thompson song “I Feel So Good” presents his sense of humor on the dark side just a bit. It’s a place Richard Thompson had visited frequently in his work. How could you not love a song with a chorus featuring a line such as “I Feel So Good, I’m going to break somebody’s heart tonight?” This was another great song from the Rumor and...
As we get closer to the number one spot on our top 10 Richard Thompson songs list. we add one more upbeat tune to the presentation. The great rocking song “Tear Stained Letter,” was released on Richard Thompson’s Hand Of Kindnessalbum. The song’s groove falls somewhere between the genres of rock and zydeco. It an exuberant song released on his firs...
We close out our Top 10 Richard Thompson songs list with a wonderful ballad that stands as one of the most beautiful and romantic folk songs ever written. With a melody that sounds like it stems from his Fairport Convention days and a lyric that sounds like something Harry Chapinwould have written, Richard Thompson delivered a real gem with this on...
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- “Tutti-Frutti” (1955) A-wop-bom-a-loo-mop-a-lomp-bom-bom. Little Richard wrote the greatest (maybe the first) rock & roll lyric to describe a drum fill he wanted.
- “Long Tall Sally (The Thing)” (1956) "Tutti Frutti" specialized in lascivious nonsense but its sequel "Long Tall Sally" barrelled forth on lusty innuendo.
- “Slippin’ and Slidin'” (1956) "Another cat put 'Slippin' and Slidin'' out before I did, Eddie Bo, and it was a hit by him in New Orleans," Richard told Rolling Stone in 1970.
- “Ready Teddy” (1956) "Ready, set, go man go." That opening lyric is a starter pistol and Richard's voice is the blast signaling that the race is on, sending singer and musicians sprinting past one another toward the end of the chorus.
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Richard Spero is known for 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001), All for One: In the Spirit of the Race (2002) and Rhyme & Reason (1997).
May 6, 2024 · Richard Spero, PhD. Chief Executive Officer is a co-founder of Redbud Labs. Since stepping into the CEO role in 2015, Redbud Labs launched its category-defining microfluidic components, MXR and STR.
