Kisses Sweeter than Wine, the Glossary
"Kisses Sweeter Than Wine" is a popular song, with lyrics written and music adapted in 1950 by Pete Seeger and Lee Hays of The Weavers, and recorded by Jimmie Rodgers.[1]
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52 relations: Aisling, Alan Arkin, Alex Harvey (musician), Andy Williams, Anita Bryant, Ann Magnuson, Bent (band), Billboard (magazine), Bongwater (band), Bonnie Raitt, Cashbox (magazine), CHUM Chart, Decca Records, Eddy Arnold, Folk music, Frankie Vaughan, Goodnight, Irene, Greenwich Village, HIV/AIDS, Howie Richmond, Irish language, Irish traditional music, J Dilla, Jackson Browne, Jefferson Starship, Jimmie Rodgers (pop singer), Jussi Lehtisalo, Kate Smith, Lead Belly, Lee Hays, Marlene Dietrich, Music recording certification, Nana Mouskouri, New York City, Ozarks, Pete Seeger, Peter, Paul and Mary, Pop music, Prince Edward Island, Ray Conniff, Robert De Cormier, Rough Guides, Sing Out!, The New Christy Minstrels, The Peter, Paul and Mary Album, The Power of Pussy, The Weavers, Traditional pop, UK singles chart, Walking in the Sunshine, ... Expand index (2 more) »
- Jimmie Rodgers (pop singer) songs
- The Weavers songs
Aisling
The paren,, approximately), or vision poem, is a mythopoeic poetic genre that developed during the late 17th and 18th centuries in Irish language poetry. The word may have a number of variations in pronunciation, but the is of the first syllable is always realised as a ("sh") sound. Many aisling poems are often still sung as traditional sean-nós songs.
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Alan Arkin
Alan Wolf Arkin (March 26, 1934 – June 29, 2023) was an American actor and filmmaker.
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Alex Harvey (musician)
Alexander James Harvey (5 February 1935 – 4 February 1982) was a Scottish rock and blues musician.
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Andy Williams
Howard Andrew Williams (December 3, 1927 – September 25, 2012) was an American singer.
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Anita Bryant
Anita Jane Bryant (born March 25, 1940) is an American singer and anti-gay activist.
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Ann Magnuson
Ann Magnuson is an American actress, performance artist, and nightclub performer.
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Bent (band)
Bent are an electronica act from Nottingham in England, consisting of Neil "Nail" Tolliday and Simon Mills.
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Billboard (magazine)
Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.
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Bongwater (band)
Bongwater was an American psychedelic rock band, which formed in 1987 and dissolved in 1992.
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Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Lynn Raitt (born November 8, 1949) is an American blues rock singer, guitarist, and songwriter.
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Cashbox (magazine)
Cashbox, also known as Cash Box, is an American music industry trade magazine, originally published weekly from July 1942 to November 1996.
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CHUM Chart
The CHUM Chart was a Canadian hit parade that consisted of 50 top tunes from May 1957 to July 1968, but in August 1968, the top 50 song list was reduced to 30 top songs until the final hit parade was issued in June 1986.
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Decca Records
Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis.
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Eddy Arnold
Richard Edward Arnold (May 15, 1918 – May 8, 2008) was an American country music singer.
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Folk music
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.
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Frankie Vaughan
Frankie Vaughan (born Frank Fruim Abelson; 3 February 1928 – 17 September 1999) was an English singer and actor who recorded more than 80 easy listening and traditional pop singles in his lifetime.
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Goodnight, Irene
"Goodnight, Irene" or "Irene, Goodnight," is a 20th-century American folk standard, written in time, first recorded by American blues musician Huddie 'Lead Belly' Ledbetter in 1933. Kisses Sweeter than Wine and Goodnight, Irene are 1950 singles, American folk songs and the Weavers songs.
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Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village, or simply the Village, is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City, bounded by 14th Street to the north, Broadway to the east, Houston Street to the south, and the Hudson River to the west.
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HIV/AIDS
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that attacks the immune system.
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Howie Richmond
Howard Spencer Richmond (18 January 1918 — 20 May 2012) was an American music publisher and music industry executive.
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Irish language
Irish (Standard Irish: Gaeilge), also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language group, which is a part of the Indo-European language family.
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Irish traditional music
Irish traditional music (also known as Irish trad, Irish folk music, and other variants) is a genre of folk music that developed in Ireland.
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J Dilla
James Dewitt Yancey (February 7, 1974 – February 10, 2006), better known by the stage names J Dilla and Jay Dee, was an American record producer and rapper.
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Jackson Browne
Clyde Jackson Browne (born October 9, 1948) is an American rock musician, singer, songwriter, and political activist who has sold over 18 million albums in the United States.
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Jefferson Starship
Jefferson Starship is an American rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1974 by a group of musicians including former members of Jefferson Airplane.
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Jimmie Rodgers (pop singer)
James Frederick Rodgers (September 18, 1933 – January 18, 2021) was an American pop singer.
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Jussi Lehtisalo
Jussi Lehtisalo (born 1972) is a Finnish musician.
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Kate Smith
Kathryn Elizabeth Smith (May 1, 1907 – June 17, 1986) was an American contralto.
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Lead Belly
Huddie William Ledbetter (January 1888 or 1889 – December 6, 1949), better known by the stage name Lead Belly, was an American folk and blues singer notable for his strong vocals, virtuosity on the twelve-string guitar, and the folk standards he introduced, including his renditions of "In the Pines", "Goodnight, Irene", "Midnight Special", "Cotton Fields", and "Boll Weevil".
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Lee Hays
Lee Elhardt Hays (March 14, 1914 – August 26, 1981) was an American folk singer and songwriter, best known for singing bass with the Weavers.
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Marlene Dietrich
Marie Magdalene "Marlene" DietrichBorn as Maria Magdalena, not Marie Magdalene, according to Dietrich's biography by her daughter, Maria Riva; however, Dietrich's biography by Charlotte Chandler cites "Marie Magdalene" as her birth name.
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Music recording certification
Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.
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Nana Mouskouri
Ioanna "Nana" Mouskouri (Ιωάννα "Νάνα" Μούσχουρη; born 13 October 1934) is a Greek singer and politician.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Ozarks
The Ozarks, also known as the Ozark Mountains, Ozark Highlands or Ozark Plateau, is a physiographic region in the U.S. states of Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma and the extreme southeastern corner of Kansas.
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Pete Seeger
Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist.
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Peter, Paul and Mary
Peter, Paul and Mary were an American folk group formed in New York City in 1961 during the American folk music revival phenomenon.
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Pop music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island (PEI;;; colloquially known as the Island) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.
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Ray Conniff
Joseph Raymond Conniff (November 6, 1916 – October 12, 2002) was an American bandleader and arranger best known for his Ray Conniff Singers during the 1960s.
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Robert De Cormier
Robert Romeo De Cormier Jr. (January 7, 1922 – November 7, 2017), sometimes known as Robert Corman, was an American musical conductor, arranger, and director.
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Rough Guides
Founded in 1982, Rough Guides Ltd is a British publisher of print and digital guide book, phrasebooks and inspirational travel reference books, and a provider of personalised trips.
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Sing Out!
Sing Out! was a quarterly journal of folk music and folk songs that was published from May 1950 through spring 2014.
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The New Christy Minstrels
The New Christy Minstrels are an American large-ensemble folk music group founded by Randy Sparks in 1961.
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The Peter, Paul and Mary Album
The Peter, Paul and Mary Album, also known as Album, is the sixth studio album by the American folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary, released in 1966 (see 1966 in music).
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The Power of Pussy
The Power of Pussy is the third studio album by Bongwater, released in 1990 by Shimmy Disc.
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The Weavers
The Weavers were an American folk music quartet based in the Greenwich Village area of New York City originally consisting of Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert, and Fred Hellerman.
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Traditional pop
Traditional pop (also known as classic pop and pre-rock and roll pop) is Western pop music that generally pre-dates the advent of rock and roll in the mid-1950s.
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UK singles chart
The UK Singles Chart (currently titled the Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.
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Walking in the Sunshine
"Walking in the Sunshine" is a song by British 2-tone/ska band Bad Manners, released in September 1981 as the second single from their third album Gosh It's... Bad Manners.
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Waylon Jennings
Waylon Arnold Jennings (June 15, 1937 – February 13, 2002) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor.
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When the Saints Go Marching In
"When the Saints Go Marching In", often referred to as simply "The Saints", is a traditional black spiritual.
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See also
Jimmie Rodgers (pop singer) songs
- Are You Really Mine?
- Honeycomb (song)
- It's Over (Jimmie Rodgers song)
- Just a Closer Walk with Thee
- Kisses Sweeter than Wine
- Make Me a Miracle
- Oh-Oh, I'm Falling in Love Again
- Secretly
- Their Hearts Were Full of Spring
The Weavers songs
- A-round the Corner (Beneath the Berry Tree)
- Come Away Melinda
- Goodnight, Irene
- Gotta Travel On
- Greenland Whale Fisheries
- If I Had a Hammer
- Kisses Sweeter than Wine
- Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream
- Midnight Special (song)
- On Top of Old Smoky
- The Roving Kind (song)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kisses_Sweeter_than_Wine
Also known as If it Wasn't for Dicky, Kisses Sweeter Than Wine (song).