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Stephen Friedland (born September 29, 1940), known as Brute Force ® , is an American singer and songwriter. He wrote and performed with The Tokens in the 1960s and wrote songs for Peggy March, Del Shannon, The Chiffons and The Cyrkle, and others.> He wrote and recorded the LP ''I, Brute Force – Confections of Love'' for Columbia Records in 1967. One song on the album, "No Olympian Height", was covered by The Other Voices (produced by Ellie Greenwich and Mike Rashkow) and released on Atlantic Records in 1968. He also recorded and released the album ''Extemporaneous'' on BT Puppy Records in 1970. Original copies of this album are scarce and it is now a very collectible disc. In July 1968 he and friend, Ben Schlossberg Jr., participated in an expedition to swim from Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska to Siberia, 50 miles across the Bering Strait. They made it halfway, stopping between Big Diomede and Little Diomede Islands.( ''Life Magazine'', September 1968. The Scene/Wales, Alaska, ''Cold Swim From Here to Tuesday'', by John Frook) In 2010, Bar None Records reissued and released Brute Force's first solo album ''I, Brute Force – Confections of Love'' with bonus tracks not contained on the original 1967 vinyl edition. Brute Force's mind-busting single "The King of Fuh" was also included among songs by James Taylor, Badfinger, Mary Hopkin and others on ''Come and Get It: The Best of Apple Records'', released in October 2010. Razor Films/Andrew Fuller producer has been in production of a documentary ''BRUTE FORCE'' about Friedland since 2010,( Ben Steinbauer, dir., ''Winnebago Man'') with various screenings in the US and Europe. =="The King of Fuh"== Brute Force may be best known for a song that barely saw a release. "The King of Fuh", a song written by Friedland, produced by The Tokens, prominently including a double entendre, referring repeatedly to the Fuh King, a King in the Land of Fuh, The record was admired by Beatles George Harrison and John Lennon. Harrison acquired the track, produced by The Tokens in New York City, and overdubed 11 strings of the London Phiharmonic Orchestra, arranged by John Barham. After learning that partner EMI and Capitol in the USA would never distribute the single, Apple Records pressed and distributed 1,000 copies in 1969 (catalogue number Apple 08). John Lennon and Yoko visited Ken Mansfield, US manager of Apple Records, advocating its release in the USA, and called him a "tight a * *ed censor..." for not agreeing to distribute the single, (pg 212, ''The Beatles, The Bible and Bodega Bay,'' by Mansfield). In the early 70s after the initial Apple pressing and release to friends and media, and no radio play, Friedland teamed up with Jeff Cheen and issued the record on Brute Force Records with an alternate B Side, "''Tapeworm Of Love''", in its original doo-wop version, which received airplay on the Dr. Demento radio show. More recently (2005), the Revola label issued both "King of Fuh" and its original B side ("Nobody Knows") as bonus tracks on the CD reissue of the BT Puppy Records ''Extemporaneous''.There is a piano/voice rendition on ''Extemporaneous''. In 2010, ''King of Fuh'' was released by Apple Records on their first "best of" compilation album, ''Come and Get It: The Best of Apple Records.'' In 2012 the first cover of ''King of Fuh'' by the group Felonius Bosch was released on Omnium Records on the album ''Phenomena.'' The song also is on The Bar-None Records reissue of Columbia/Sony ''I, Brute Force, Confections of Love''. and on RPM Records, ''Lovers From The Sky''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brute Force (musician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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