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Chris Knox - Not Given Lightly
Chris Knox (b. September 2, 1952) is a New Zealand rock and roll musician who emerged during the punk rock era with his bands The Enemy and Toy Love. After Toy Love disbanded in the early 1980s, he formed the group Tall Dwarfs with guitarist Alec Bathgate, much loved for their honest, unpolished sound and intense live shows. His 4-track machine was used to record most of the early Flying Nun singles.
He has also released a number of solo, self-produced albums which feature his trademark vocals and catchy hooks and loops generated by his trusty Casiotone. Chris Knox has also released an album under the pseudonym 'Friend'.
At the 2001 New Zealand Music Awards Knox's song "Not Given Lightly" (1990) was announced as New Zealand's ninth best song of all time as voted by APRA members[citation needed]. A love song written for his wife Barbara, this track never scaled commercial heights though it has belately generated some income for the songwriter through its use in TV advertising.
Live appearances throughout the years all over the country, including an annual slot in Wellington's infamous Bar bodega, are very popular with audiences of all ages and backgrounds. In these solo gigs Knox shines as a musician, performer and entertainer. His trademark in these performances is the use of a headset-microphone, which enables him to order a beer at the bar while continuing his song. On those occasions, the guitar might well have been passed on to a keen fan.
Knox currently resides in Auckland, where he continues to make music and earn a living as a newspaper columnist and film reviewer (Real Groove). His cartoon strip goes under the name Max Media. He is also an occasional television film reviewer, and was recently host of a Television New Zealand series of classic movies, entitled The Vault.
Knox launched his own label 'A Major Records' in 2006 to release his album Chris Knox and the Nothing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Knox
http://www.myspace.com/chrisknoxandthenothing
http://www.flyingnun.co.nz/archive_site/bands/chrisknox/knox_bio.html
http://www.listener.co.nz/issue/3352/features/2389/not_given_lightly.html
http://www.amplifier.co.nz/artist/15387/chris_knox.html?play=21658
Length: 308
Rating: 4.80 (46 ratings)
Tags: NZ Kiwi New Zealand Music Chris Knox Not Given Lightly
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Buddy Knox - Party Doll
Buddy Wayne Knox (July 20, 1933 - February 14, 1999) was an American singer and songwriter best known for his 1957 rockabilly hit song, "Party Doll".
Knox was born in the tiny farming community of Happy, Texas and as a boy learned to play the guitar. In his teens, he and some high school friends formed a band called the "Rhythm Orchids." After performing on the same 1956 radio show as fellow Texan Roy Orbison and his "Teen Kings" band, Orbison suggested Knox go see record producer Norman Petty at his studio in Clovis, New Mexico.
Knox recorded three songs at Petty's studio, most notably "Party Doll" that later was released on the Roulette label and went to No.1 on the Cash Box magazine music chart in 1957. This success was followed by "Rock Your Little Baby To Sleep", a top 20 hit, and "Hula Love", a top 10 hit. While he never achieved the same level of artistic success, Buddy Knox enjoyed a long career in music. For his pioneering contribution, Knox was elected to the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. "Party Doll" was voted one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.
In the early 1960s Buddy signed with Liberty Records and released a number of more mainstream pop records, featuring string arrangements and vocal backup singers. "Lovey Dovey" and "Ling-Ting-Tong" were the most notable recordings from this era. The sound captured on these recordings was a distinct departure from his earlier rockabilly work for Roulette Records. Liberty Records, and principle producer Tommy "Snuff" Garrett, successfully employed the same production techniques for their other mainstream pop artists of the time which included Johnny Burnette and Bobby Vee.
In 1968 Knox, who had been living in semi-retirement in Macon, Georgia while running his publishing company, moved to Nashville and signed a new recording contract with United Artists Records. Working with producer Bob Montgomery, Knox honed his traditional rockabilly style more toward the Modern Country sound of the day. His first album on U/A earned him the nickname by which he would be known for the remainder of his life. The title song of the album, "Gypsy Man", written by Sonny Curtis and featuring Curtis' impressive acoustic guitar work, received considerable airplay on Country radio and earned him respect from a new generation of fans. Several singles recorded by Knox between 1968 and 1974 were notable in the fact he experimented with a variety of sounds and styles and, from a creative and critical standpoint, may have been his most productive era. His version of Delaney Bramlett's "God Knows I Love You", along with his self-penned "Salt Lake City", placed Knox firmly in the midst of the new pop music genre being populated by artists such as Delaney & Bonnie, Eric Clapton, and others who were on the leading edge of the developing Southern Rock style such as Black Oak Arkansas and the Allman Brothers Band. His cover version of James Hendricks' "Glory Train" was another impressive stylistic stretch and featured a gospel-like chorus of back-up singers. Although recorded in Nashville, the arrangement and fuzz tone guitar licks on "Glory Train" sounded unlike anything that came from Music City during that time. His gentle remake of the Fleetwoods' 1959 classic "Come Softly to Me" demonstrated a vocal range never heard on his old rockabilly recordings. He also reached out to the new generation of songwriters who would become prominent during Nashville's Outlaw Era of the 1970s, as he was one of the first artists to record Mickey Newberry's "I'm Only Rockin'". Several other major Country Music artists later recorded this song but under the alternate title of "T. Total Tommy". Buddy also recorded songs by edgy writers such as Alex Harvey, John D. Loudermilk and Gary Paxton. On several of these recordings Knox experimented with multi-tracking his voice by singing multiple harmony parts with himself, something very few artists had done at that time. Despite the critically impressive amount of work recorded by Knox during this period he failed to connect with a mass audience as he had done in the late 1950s, and failed to shake his image as a '50s rockabilly artist. Now extremely difficult to find, Buddy's recordings from this period of time are well worth hearing.
During this same time frame, Knox was also involved in several business ventures in Canada. One of these was said to be a partnership with Gordon Lightfoot and involved a chain of Canadian night clubs.
In May 1969, Buddy Knox appeared at Langley Speedway (British Columbia) in Langley, British Columbia, Canada and assisted in handing out trophies to the race winners.
A lifelong user of cigarettes, Buddy Knox died of lung cancer in 1999 in Bremerton, Washington. He is interred in Dreamland Cemetery, in Canyon, Texas.
Length: 136
Rating: 4.90 (22 ratings)
Tags: rockabilly 1957
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Chris Knox It's Love full song from heineken commercial
This is the full version of the Chris Knox song from the heineken commercial "share the good". I also made a slideshow to go with the music.
Length: 158
Rating: 4.90 (254 ratings)
Tags: Chris Knox heineken share the good commercial It's Love It is
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Hula Love by Buddy Knox (Jamboree 1957)
From the movie. Note Jimmy Bowen playing guitar on the far left as a member of the backing group, the Rhythm Orchids.
Length: 117
Rating: 4.80 (50 ratings)
Tags: Hula Love Buddy Knox Jimmy Bowen
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Chris Knox : 'Not Given Lightly' - music video
Chris Knox hails from New Zealand and is also known for his work in th Tall Dwarfs.
This is a live performance of 'Not Given Lightly' on ABC's Recovery in 1997.
Tall Dwarfs, Chris Knox, Alec Bathgate & Toy Love CDs are available from: http://www.smokecds.com/
Length: 399
Rating: 5.00 (14 ratings)
Tags: Chris Knox Not Given Lightly ABC Recovery music video
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Frost over the world - Knox Chitiyo - 12 Sep 08
Knox Chitiyo, an expert from the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), joins Sir David to discuss what this deal means for Zimbabweans and the future of their country.
After 28 years of rule and seven weeks of hard negotiations, President Robert Mugabe agreed on Thursday night to share power with opposition leader and long-time rival, Morgan Tsvangirai.
Under the deal, Mr Tsvangirai will become prime minister and Robert Mugabe will stay on as president.
Length: 865
Rating: 5.00 (3 ratings)
Tags: Sir David Frost over the world Knox Chitiyo RUSI Royal United Services Institute Zimbabwe Mugabe Tsvangira
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Fort Knox, Maine
Fort Knox was built along the Penobscot River in Maine to protect Bangor from an enemy that never came. It was obsolete before it was completed. Government waste is not a new phenomenon.
Length: 203
Rating: 4.10 (10 ratings)
Tags: Fort Knox Penobscot Maine granite ME
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