I learned today that #GeorgeHarrison’s Got My Mind Set On You was a cover of a song from 1962 written by Rudy Clark.
Clark was a black songwriter from New York who wrote songs whilst working as a mailman. He also wrote The Shoop Shoop Song, which similarly charted both in the sixties and with #Cher’s cover roughly 25 years later.
Here’s the original version by James Ray, who Clark discovered singing in a small nightclub.
Cher has filed for temporary conservatorship of her 47-year-old son, Elijah Blue Allman, petitioning Los Angeles Superior Court to put her in charge of her son’s finances. AP has more, including why the Oscar- and Grammy-winning singer believes her son’s life is at risk. https://flip.it/.IDXa2#Culture#Entertainment#Film#Music#Cher
The MBTA's new Green Line Extension's problems are worse than originally reported; nearly half the tracks on the line will need to be repaired. #transit
The Biden administration announced $3.5B will go to projects designed to make the energy grid more resilient and greener.
5 years ago today, Warner Bros. Records releases American singer Cher's 26th solo studio album "Dancing Queen"; album contains cover versions of 11 songs of Swedish pop group ABBA, and lands in top 10 of charts in 19 countries #Cher
She got older could no longer dance for 'the money they threw'. It was 2016, so she rewrote the song, now called 'Patsies, Shits and Thieves', was adopted by Randy Rainbow and became a TikTok Sensation
On this day in 1975, #Cher married #GreggAllman four days after divorcing #SonnyBono. The couple broke up ten days later and then endured an on again off again three and a half year marriage before they too divorced.
"So let them say your hair's too long
'Cause I don't care, with you I can't go wrong"