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2 unusual facts about The Originals


Just to Keep You Satisfied

Background vocals by Marvin Gaye and The Originals (Freddie Gorman, Walter Gaines, Hank Dixon, C.P. Spencer)

The Originals

The group found modest success in the latter half of the 60s, often working as background singers for recordings by artists such as Jimmy Ruffin's "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted", Stevie Wonder's "For Once In My Life" and "Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday", David Ruffin "My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me)", Marvin Gaye's "Chained" and "Just to Keep You Satisfied", Edwin Starr's "War" and "25 Miles", and many more.


Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday

Background vocals by The Originals (Freddie Gorman, Walter Gaines, Hank Dixon, C.P. Spencer) and The Andantes (Jackie Hicks, Marlene Barrow, and Louvain Demps)


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AlexCab

Eljas (who later worked with ABBA) transcribed big orchestral arrangements on assigned gramophone records for the little cabaret band he had at hand so that the songs sounded as similar as possible to the originals.

Baby, I'm for Real

By the late sixties, male vocal quintet the Originals had been recording mostly background vocals for Motown artists most notably backing up brothers Jimmy Ruffin ("What Becomes of the Brokenhearted") and David Ruffin ("My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me)") respectively.

David Zvi Hoffmann

For example, Hoffmann in The First Mishna sees the present Mishna Avot as having been redacted from three different sources, a Mishna of Rabbi Akiva, a Mishna of Rabbi Meir, and a Mishna of Rabbi Judah Ha-Nasi, the originals of which cannot be completely reconstructed due to their thoroughgoing fusion and subsequent manipulation.

Downings

The dunes that connect the Rosguill peninsula to the mainland are also home to the Rosapenna Links course designed by Old Tom Morris, and although the original hotel and clubhouse that was patronised by the likes of John Wayne and Errol Flynn burnt down in the sixties, the new buildings seek to emulate the charm of the originals.

Eduard Arning

The originals were discovered in 1994 at the Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg.

Fear of the Digital Remix

All the songs on the album were created by Michael Knott using samples from two earlier Deitiphobia albums, Fear of God and Digital Priests - the Remixes, which he digitally edited to produce songs that barely resembled the originals they were taken from.

International Commission on English in the Liturgy

The International Commission on English in the Liturgy is a commission set up by a number of episcopal conferences of English-speaking countries for the purpose of providing English translations of the liturgical books of the Roman Rite, the originals of which are in Latin.

Laura Boulton

The Smithsonian Institution Film Archives contains the originals of her film footage from 1934–1979, including collaborative films with the National Film Board of Canada.

Leverton, Berkshire

The hamlet also retains a set of stocks though the originals were removed to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford in the 1990s and were replaced by a (non-functioning) replica.

Lilit Pipoyan

She is fond of medieval secular songs, for which she creates modern arrangements or new melodies when the originals are lost, with distinctly Armenian character.

Murphy Knives

A cased commemorative copy of the Murphy Combat knife, with an etched blade, was issued by John Ek Knives out of Richmond, Virginia in the early 1990s but due to the etching is distinguishable from the originals.

Stefano di Battista

Di Battista's usual bassist and trumpeter Rosario Bonaccorso and Flavio Boltro are teamed up for this session with the Stateside duo of pianist Kenny Barron and Jazz at Lincoln Center powerhouse drummer Herlin Riley for a collection of Birdsongs that stick pretty closely to the originals.

Thrush Hour: A Study of the Great Ladies of Jazz

All of the arrangements were taken from the originals and prepared by Nakasian and Hod O'Brien.

Woolpit

The tower and spire are by Richard Phipson in the 1850s, replacing the originals lost to lightning in 1852 or 1853.

York Guildhall

A single tree trunk was used for each oak pillar, the originals coming from the royal Forest of Galtres.