The Weight

"The Weight" is a 1968 song by the Canadian-American rock group The Band.



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[hide] *the number 1  ==The number[ Edit] == At the original studio recording of The Weight gold this lineup:
 * 2 Movies
 * 3 Covers
 * 4 Trivia
 * 5 Radio 2 Top 2000
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Hudson (the organist of The Band) and Manuel (the pianist) had exchanged by instrument. At subsequent performances were organ and/or synthesizers played by Garth Hudson and Richard Manuel, who also often the piano by a share of the lead vocals of accounted for The Weight .
 * Levon Helm - drums, 1st lead singer
 * Rick Danko - bass guitar, 2nd lead singer
 * Garth Hudson - piano
 * Richard Manuel -backing vocals, Hammond organ
 * Robbie Robertson -vocals, background vocals, acoustic guitar and electric guitar

The House "Big Pink", where The Weight came into being.It is one of the songs from their debutalbum Music From Big Pink (1968). The album's title is taken from the House "Big Pink" in Woodstock, New York where The Band lived and with Bob Dylan, among others, the legendary Basement Tapes had taken up. The Weight of the credits are in the hands of songwriter Robbie Robertson, but the song came about thanks to close cooperation of all five members of The Band.

The Weight was also released as a single, with the b-side written by Dylan I Shall Be Released. The picture took out only a # 63 in the UK charts and # 21 in.Although The Weight so not high on the poplijsten came, it got called the # 41 place on the list of 500 greatest songs of all time according to Rolling Stonemagazine. The Band hit this number rarely over during their concerts and also in the solo careers of the group members remained a standard part of their repertoire. It is many times by other artists included and is considered a classic in the rock music.

The Weight is a slightly surreal (or, as Robertson said, "Buñuelish") travel story about a person who arrives in the town of Nazareth in Pennsylvania. Once the traveler meets different people. About this song: a man who recounts encounters him not the path can point to a hotel, "Carmen" and "the Devil" that together add up, "Crazy Chester" who offers a bed in Exchange for him his dog, and "Luke" that is going to wait for the Apocalypse without any concern for his young bride.

This most popular song by The Band became famous for the movie Easy Rider by Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda in 1969, in which it was carried out by the group for contractual reasons Smith. In the concert film The Last Waltz 1978 Martin Scorsese 's comes a studiorecording for The Weight with The Band's and the American gospelgroup The Staple Singers, with solos by Levon Helm, Roebuck Staples, Mavis Staples and Rick Danko. ==Movies[ Edit] == The Weight is found on the vast majority of the (official or not) concert DVDs from The Band (and also of the individual ex-Band members) and further in the following films:

==Covers<span class="mw-editsection" len="323" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:inherit;">Of The Weight are cover versions made by numerous artists. The best known of which are those of
 * Easy Rider (1969)
 * The Last Waltz (1978)
 * Berkeley in the Sixties (1990)
 * Woodstock: The Lost Performances (1990) (video film)
 * Patch Adams (1998)
 * Sports Night (1998) (TV, episode The Quality of Mercy at 29 k)
 * The ' 60s (1999) (TV)
 * Girl, Interrupted (1999)
 * The Boys of 2nd Street Park (2003) (TV)
 * Breakfast with Hunter (2003)
 * Festival Express (2003)
 * Starsky & Hutch (2004)
 * Wanderlust (2006) (TV)
 * 1408 (2007)

==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="323" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Radio 2 Top 2000<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Jackie DeShannon
 * Van Morrison
 * Little Feat
 * The Staple Singers
 * Grateful Dead
 * The New Riders of the Purple Sage
 * Rooney
 * The Black Crowes
 * Spooky Tooth
 * Hanson
 * Panic at the Disco
 * Aretha Franklin
 * Joan Osborne
 * John Denver
 * Mike Bloomfield & Al Kooper
 * Dionne Warwick
 * Lee Ann Womack
 * The Supremes & The Temptations
 * The Allman Brothers Band
 * Joe Cocker
 * Jeff Healey
 * Michelle Shocked
 * Weezer
 * Cassandra Wilson
 * In a broadcast of the VARAtelevision show De Wereld Draait Door sang Nico Dijkshoorn, accompanying himself on the guitar, the refrain of The Weight.