A Lover's Concerto - Music

There Are At Least Two Artists Named The Toys 1 A American R&B Girl Group From Jamaica Queens New York From The 1960's 2 A Thai Singer. 1 The Toys Were Discovered At A Talent Show By Manager Vince Marc Who Introduced Them To Songwriters Sandy Linzer And Denny Randell. Linzer And Randell Wrote Most Of The Songs Recorded By Them Including Their Number 2 Hit Single "A Lover's Concerto" And Also Produced The Group's 1965-66 Recordings On Bob Crewe's DynoVoice Records Record Label. The Melody Of "A Lover's Concerto" Is Famously Based On The "Minuet In G" By Baroque-Era Composer Christian Petzold. In 1967 The Group Changed Labels And Producers But Charted Only One More Minor Single A Cover Of Brian Hyland's "Sealed With A Kiss" Before Breaking Up. At The Peak Of Their Popularity The Toys Appeared On All Of The Major TV Rock Programs Including Shindig! Hullabaloo And American Bandstand. They Also Had A Cameo Role In The 1967 Beach Movie It's A Bikini World. 2 Thanwa Boonsoongnern Thai ธันวา บุญสูงเนิน Born 1 December 1995 Known Professionally As THE TOYS เดอะทอยส์ Is A Thai Singer Rapper Songwriter Musician And Record Producer. His Song "Na Nao Tee Laew Last Winter Went Viral Getting Him Signed To What The Duck Record Company Soon After. After Winning The 9th Overdrive Guitar Contest When He Was 18 The Toys Added Bass Ukulele Piano Keyboards Synthesiser And Drums. He Writes Arranges And Plays All The Instruments And Does The Mixing And Mastering. The Toys Came From A Music Family. He Is The Only Son Of Nittaya Boonsoongnern A Thai Pop Singer From The 80s-90s And The Nephew Of Transsexual Singer Jern Jern Boonsoongnern. 3 The Toys おもちゃ Is A Japanese Garage Band read less

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"A Lover's Concerto" is a pop song written by American songwriters, Sandy Linzer and Denny Randell, and recorded in 1965 by The Toys. Their version of the song was a major hit in both the United States and the UK during 1965. It peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at number two. Critic Dave Thompson wrote, "Few records are this perfect. Riding across one of the most deceptively hook-laden melodies ever conceived ... 'A Lover’s Concerto' marks the apogee of the Girl Group sound." The song also had an unusual structure that blurred the differences between its verses and choruses. Linzer and Randell based the melody on the familiar "Minuet in G major" (BWV Anh. 114) from J.S. Bach's Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach. One key difference is that the "Minuet in G major" is written in 3/4 time, whereas "A Lover's Concerto" is arranged in 4/4 time. (Although often attributed to Bach himself, the "Minuet in G major" is now believed to have been written by Christian Petzold. The Notebook, a gift from Bach to his second wife Anna, begins with works by Bach but also included many blank pages, onto which members of the family copied works that they liked to play; the famous minuets in G major and G minor are not in Bach's handwriting.) In subsequent years, "A Lover's Concerto" has been recorded by numerous other artists, including The Lennon Sisters, The Delfonics, Sarah Vaughan, The Supremes, Mrs. Miller, Audrey Hall and Kelly Chen. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.