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Redbone picked songs that he thought would appeal to listeners who didn't usually enjoy Christmas music. [12] He duetted with Dr. John on "Frosty the Snowman". [6] "Winter Wonderland" contains a dobro solo. [13] "Christmas Ball Blues" is a version of the song made popular by Bessie Smith. [14]
The sessions for the Gris-Gris album took place in the Gold Star Studios in Los Angeles, California. The album aimed to combine various strains of New Orleans music. It centered on a character named "Dr. John" who was based on a 19th-century healer called Dr. John Montaine, who claimed to be an African potentate. [4]
The Globe and Mail wrote that Dr. John's "honky-tonk piano sounds especially fine and strange against the lushness of strings - the title song virtually drips with sweet decadence." [7] Entertainment Weekly wrote that the album "established Dr. John as a skilled songwriter."
The song was nominated for Best Original Song at the 82nd Academy Awards, but lost to "The Weary Kind" from Crazy Heart. [2] The full version of the song appears at the title sequence in the film, performed by Dr. John. The song introduces the city of New Orleans and foreshadows
Rickie Lee Jones (born November 8, 1954) is an American singer, musician, and songwriter. Over the course of a career that spans five decades and 15 studio albums, she has recorded in various musical styles including rock, R&B, pop, soul, and jazz. [1]
Barret Eugene Hansen (born April 2, 1941), [1] known professionally as Dr. Demento, is an American radio broadcaster and record collector specializing in novelty songs, comedy, and strange or unusual recordings dating from the early days of phonograph records to the present.
John was born in Bastrop, Louisiana, on November 3, 1930, [1] the eldest of at least nine siblings. [1] [2] At a very young age, she and her parents, Mertis and Lillie (Robinson) John, [3] moved north into Arkansas, where her father got a job in a paper mill near Cullendale, where four of her brothers (including R&B singer Little Willie John) and two sisters were born.
Robert John (born Robert John Pedrick, Jr., January 3, 1946) [1] is an American singer perhaps best known for his 1979 hit single, "Sad Eyes", which reached number 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Biography