Rare Earth Papa Was A Rolling Stone

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From the Album: A Brand New World, Year of Release: 2008 • Lyrics: Papa Was A Rolling Stone • Backing Vocals – Gil Bridges • Bass – John Ivan Greilick, Randy Burghdoff • Drums – Floyd Stokes Jr. • Guitar – John Ivan Greilick • Keyboards – Gil Bridges, John Ivan Greilick, Mike Bruner • Lead Vocals – Floyd Stokes Jr., John Ivan Greilick • Percussion – Floyd Stokes Jr., Gil Bridges • Saxophone – Gil Bridges • You can download the music : • https://www.amazon.com/Brand-New-Worl... • https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/rareearth • Rare Earth is an American rock band affiliated with Motown's Rare Earth record label (which was named after the band) who were particularly famous in the late-1960s and 1970s. • The group formed in 1961 as The Sunliners, and, after changing their name to Rare Earth were signed to Motown in 1969. The band was the first act signed to a new Motown imprint that would be dedicated to white rock acts. The record company didn't have a name for the new label yet, and the band jokingly suggested Motown call the label Rare Earth. To the band's surprise, Motown decided to do just that. • The main personnel in the group included Gil Bridges (saxophone and vocals ), Pete Rivera a.k.a. Peter Hoorelbeke (lead vocals and drums), John Parrish a.k.a. John Persh (bass guitar, trombone and vocals), Rod Richards (born Rod Cox, guitar), Edward Eddie Guzman (congas and assorted percussive instruments) and Kenny James (born Ken Folcik, keyboards). The personnel lineup changed considerably over the years, with three members of the group dying during the 1980s and 1990s, and the only original member currently left in the group is Bridges. • Rare Earth had a number of Top Ten hits in the 1970-1971 period, including covers of The Temptations' (I Know) I'm Losing You (which was used in the documentary video It's Time) and Get Ready . The cover of Get Ready was their biggest hit, peaking at #4 on the US pop charts, a better performance than the original. They did not chart significantly after 1971, although they continued to record into the 1980s. Their 1973 album Ma, written and produced by Norman Whitfield, is considered their best overall work, and features their version of Hum Along and Dance . • When they set out to record their first album, they essentially ran out of material and did a 21-minute rendition of the Temptation's Get Ready to fill out the space. The album was making no headway on the charts for a long period of time. So they took the first three minutes of Get Ready, released it as a single and it made its way into the U.S. Top Ten list, peaking at number four. Pulled along by the success of the single, the album also began to sell, breaking the Top 20, and Rare Earth's career was officially on its way. The second album, Ecology, was released in June of 1970, a couple months short of a year after Get Ready had been put out. Interestingly enough, Ecology was not really the group's second album, but their third. An album entitled Generation was recorded as the soundtrack to the film of the same name. When the film stalled at the box office, the album was shelved. Still, Ecology would yield not one, but two hit singles. The first was (I Know) I'm Losing You (another Temptations cover), which also broke the Top Ten. The second single, Born to Wander, did not fare quite so well, but did make the Top 20. The album was catapulted to number 15. • As fate would have it, though, this was not the end of Rare Earth. Instead, Barney Ales, who had presided over Rare Earth Records, started his own label Prodigal Records. He talked the group into reuniting to record the label debut. The resulting album, Rare Earth, was released in 1977 and made no real waves in the music business. Rare Earth got things together again for a marathon recording session the following year. That session yielded not one, but two albums. The first was Band Together, released in April of 1978, with Grand Slam following in September. Neither of those albums every really took off, either. The group essentially broke up in 1978, although a version of the original lineup was touring all the way into 1983. A different incarnation of the group, with just two original members, still makes the circuits. • VIDEO COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER: Video is made for entertainment purposes only and you can download this track on any authorized website such as, iTunes and Amazon.com... No copyright infringement is intended in the making of this video. All rights to published audio, video, graphic and text materials belong to their respective owners. If you are the author or copyright owner of any of the material I use, and you don't like it to be used by me, please contact: • / petrovic.ilija.92 • / ilijacapko • I recommend you my channel Blues Rock Ilija Capko • Tony Tucker - Sensual Rain

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