Help for school (songs)

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I need to find out if Earth Angel (Penguins) and Drift Away (IDK who origionally did it) were written before 1968. Also, any suggestions (directed to those that play guitar) of easy songs that I may know?


Guitar is probably the only class I'll get an A from this quarter, so uhhhhh, I WANT IT! :D

On another note, I think I may pass English(this quarter). I did good on some big memorization/recital thingie today I think I may be passing! :)



Edit: I think Drift Away might have been 1973, damn. Earth Angel is old enough, S*** I need another song...
 
Didn't have the Penguins in Joel Whitburn's tome so had to go global.....

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Around 1954, the Penguins signed with the local Los Angeles independent label Dootone Records. The group's first single was going to be the up-tempo "Hey Sinorita," and the ballad "Earth Angel" was going to be the B-side.

Upon the release of the single in the latter half of 1954, Los Angeles radio stations were receiving more requests for "Earth Angel" than "Hey Sinorita," and the song soon became the record's A-side. By the beginning of 1955, the single had scaled the national charts, spending three weeks at the top of the R&B charts and peaking at number eight on the pop charts.
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and a bit about The Penguins history and Earth Angel authorship from an excellent article in The Doo-Wop Society's archives

According to Penguins singer Cleve Duncan, "Curtis Williams had a song called 'Earth Angel.' Jesse Belvin is credited with helping to write it, but Jesse had nothing to do with it after Curtis and I got together. We worked on it together, Curtis concentrating on words and me on the music. I changed the melody to fit my style." Cleve says that Williams also wrote the flipside, "Hey, Senorita," which was originally called "Esa Chiquita." [The song was later credited on the label to Carl Green, who had been the original Johnny in Marvin & Johnny.] It was this second song, Cleve Duncan recalls, that they considered the A-side.
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BTW: Smokey Robinson (The Miracles) wrote "My Girl" in 1964. The Temptations redid it on their The Temptations Sing Smokey album in 1965. I don't have the tablature but it is fairly easy pick (and a great song) that might work.


Knock em dead, musicman. :)

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Lean on Me" might be an easy one.
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Also, (really easy, I think)
Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay
 
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