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38-608: The Mighty Quinn can refer to: " Quinn the Eskimo (Mighty Quinn) ", a 1967 song by Bob Dylan, covered by Manfred Mann The Mighty Quinn (album) , the North American title of Manfred Mann's album Mighty Garvey! The Mighty Quinn (film) , a 1989 film starring Denzel Washington The Mighty Quinn , the 2001 album by rapper San Quinn See also [ edit ] "Mighty" John Quinn (wrestler) Topics referred to by

76-522: A 1989 cold case . Kevin Hughes was a small-town boy from southeastern Illinois who spent his childhood focused on music and creating his own country music charts. As a young man of 22, Hughes thought he had landed his dream job in Nashville as the chart director for Cashbox ' s country music chart for up-and-coming artists. He compiled data from jukebox plays, record sales, and radio play to determine

114-433: A Risen Savior)" that opens his album Leon Live . Phish has played "Quinn the Eskimo" in concert a total of 38 times throughout their career, having first performed in 1985, two years after their formation. The band performed the song at two of their festivals : Camp Oswego in 1999 and Superball IX in 2011. Covers of "Quinn the Eskimo" appear on two Phish live releases: the 1999 live box set Hampton Comes Alive and

152-425: A dramatically different version of the song live. A live recording of part of the instrumental midsection was released on the 1975 Earth Band album Nightingales & Bombers under the title "As Above So Below". The band finally released a live version of the entire song on their 1978 album Watch . The single edit, released to commemorate ten years since the release of the 1968 Manfred Mann hit version, omitted

190-614: A favorite encore among the Grateful Dead's fans, and remained so to the end of their career. In 1969, the Hollies put their own spin on "The Mighty Quinn", adding a prominent banjo accompaniment, a horn section, and a flute part in reference to Manfred Mann's version. This version was featured as the last song on the Hollies Sing Dylan album, and the group performed the song in concert in 1969 alongside " Blowin' in

228-429: A great success. It has been recorded by a number of performers, often under the "Mighty Quinn" title. The subject of the song is the arrival of Quinn (an Eskimo ), who prefers a more relaxed lifestyle [" jumping queues, and making haste just ain't my cup of meat"] and refuses hard work ["Just tell me where to put 'em and I'll tell you who to call"], but brings joy to the people. Dylan is widely believed to have derived

266-459: A hard rock rendition on his 2019 album Heavy Rock Radio II: Executing the Classics . A 1989 film, The Mighty Quinn , takes its name from the song; Dylan makes reference to the movie in his 2004 autobiography Chronicles: Volume One : The Adult Swim show Joe Pera Talks with You uses "Mighty Quinn" as a season 2 opener in the episode "Joe Pera Talks with You About Beans". This

304-608: A live recording from 1969's Isle of Wight Festival . The live version (titled "The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo)") was also selected in 1971 for the second compilation of Dylan's career, Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II . When Columbia finally released The Basement Tapes in 1975, the song was not among the double album's 24 songs (although an Inuk was represented on the album cover, alongside Dylan, The Band , and several other people meant to represent certain characters from some of Dylan's songs). However, ten years later in 1985,

342-414: A partnership was formed. As a result, Wilds & Associates became the publisher for Cashbox. While the digital/online edition remains intact, Cashbox returned to a printed edition as a bi-monthly publication beginning with their November/December 2018 issue, featuring country music artist Blake Shelton on the cover. In addition to being the publisher for Cashbox, Wilds & Associates also serves as

380-462: A time on his National Music Survey , beginning in 1981. However, by that time, the trend was set. Perhaps the final straw for Cashbox came on December 12, 1992, when the Top 100 chart reported the number one song as " The Letter " by Wayne Newton . The song did not even make the bottom of any Billboard chart, nor was it reported to be in the top ten by local radio charts or sales reports. This called

418-594: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Quinn the Eskimo (Mighty Quinn) " Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn) " is a folk-rock song written and first recorded by Bob Dylan in 1967 during the Basement Tapes sessions. The song's first release was in January 1968 as " Mighty Quinn " in a version by the British band Manfred Mann , which became

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456-698: Is provided by Digital Radio Tracker. Sandy Graham is the owner, editor in chief and CEO of Cashbox Canada , an independent music trade in Toronto , Canada. Shane and Robert Bartosh control the Roots data. Bruce Elrod is the owner and remains the registered agent for Cashbox , which is now operated from Ridgeway, South Carolina . The current owners of Cashbox met with Wilds & Associates co-founder and CEO Randall Wilds in 2018 to discuss business relations. Wilds acquired interest in Cashbox Magazine and

494-659: Is the anthem of the London Premiership rugby club Harlequin F.C. Cash Box Cashbox was one of several magazines that published record charts in the United States. Its most prominent competitors were Billboard and Record World (known as Music Vendor prior to April 1964). Unlike Billboard , Cashbox combined all currently available recordings of a song into one chart position with artist and label information shown for each version, alphabetized by label. Originally, no indication of which version

532-472: The Cashbox chart positions of various country music records. He reportedly was looking to introduce more scientific and transparent methods of determining chart positions, when a year into his job, he was gunned down in the street late one night on Nashville's famous Music Row . After years of investigation, police arrested his former Cashbox coworker, Richard D'Antonio, for the murder. Prosecutors maintained

570-643: The UK Singles Chart for the week of 14 February 1968, and remained there the following week. It also charted on the American Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at No. 10, and reached No. 4 in Cash Box . Cash Box called it a "funky-rock track" with "a trace of calypso [to] add zest to a tremendous effort." Later groups to feature the eponymous keyboardist , Manfred Mann Chapter Three and Manfred Mann's Earth Band , played

608-460: The prog middle part and included a few new guitar solos. Since that time, the song has appeared on numerous live recordings, the middle part often including long solos and/or snippets of other songs. On the album Mann Alive , the "As Above So Below" middle part has been replaced with a riff from " Oh Well " and in recent years, the band often quoted " Smoke on the Water " as well before returning to

646-408: The "Bible" for official historic chart positions. In addition, the syndicated radio series American Top 40 with Casey Kasem used Billboard chart statistics, cementing Billboard as the dominant chart data for current and historic reference. Magazine publisher George Albert compiled Cashbox chart data for a reference book more than a decade later, and Dick Clark used Cashbox information for

684-459: The 1967 Basement Tapes recordings, including the first of two takes of "Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)", was produced in 1968, but was not intended for release. Recordings taken from the demos began appearing on bootlegs , starting with Great White Wonder , a double-album bootleg that came out in July 1969. The first official release of the song was in 1970 on Dylan's Self Portrait album,

722-650: The 2010 live DVD Alpine Valley . Noel Gallagher performed a live version on Thursday 10 June 2021 for the TV show Out of the Now on Sky Arts. The song closed a 12-song set performed at the Duke of York's Theatre in London's West End. Following that performance, the track was included twice on his 2022 tour of the U.K, before having it as a staple throughout his 2023 North American tour, and eventually keeping it within his setlists for

760-579: The Document . Dylan first recorded the song in 1967 during the Basement Tapes sessions , but did not release a version for another three years. Meanwhile, the song was picked up and recorded in December 1967 by the British band Manfred Mann , who released it as a single in the US on 8 January 1968 under the title "Mighty Quinn". A UK single followed within a week. The Manfred Mann version reached No. 1 on

798-539: The March 5 issue; it was reinstated in the December 17 issue due to popular demand. The chart was originally dropped because it became dominated by pop records. Cashbox was a competitor to Billboard through the 1950s and 1960s, but two factors spelled its decline in the 1970s. Archivist and record historian Joel Whitburn published his first research book based on the Billboard Hot 100 , which made that data

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836-414: The U.K and Europe legs of his 2023 ' Council Skies ' tour. Cornershop released a version of the song on their 2009 album Judy Sucks a Lemon for Breakfast , retitled The Mighty Quinn . Kris Kristofferson covered the song in 2012 for Chimes of Freedom, in honor of 50 years of Amnesty International . It has also been covered by Swiss rock groups Gotthard and Krokus . Jorn Lande covered this song as

874-612: The UK charts in February 1968, was released as "Mighty Quinn". When Dylan released a live version of this song on his album Self Portrait , in June 1970, the song was titled "The Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo)". This title was repeated when the same live recording was released on the album Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 in November 1971. When Dylan's original " basement tapes " recording of

912-527: The Wind ". In 1969, Julie London sang a version of "The Mighty Quinn" on her final album Yummy, Yummy, Yummy . The album featured multiple covers of contemporary pop and rock songs with full orchestral arrangements, including "Louie Louie", "Light My Fire", and "The Mighty Quinn". Leon Russell included a version in a medley with "I'll Take You There", "Idol With the Golden Head" and "He Lives (I Serve

950-458: The distributor of the publication. Since returning to a print edition, a new website was unveiled in late 2021. The new site offers readers a preview of each issue, music news, and subscription information. In 2014, Whitburn's Record Research Inc. published a history of the Cash Box singles chart data covering October 1952 through the 1996 demise of the original magazine. Randy Price maintains

988-491: The following music charts: Roots Music, Bluegrass Singles, Bluegrass Gospel Singles, Beach Music Top 40, Roadhouse Blues and Boogie Top 40, Country Christian Top 100 Singles and Southern Gospel Singles. The online magazine also relaunched the Looking Ahead Charts on March 1, 2015, covering all genres of music. The Cashbox Top 100 has been expanded to the Top 200. All chart data for the main Cashbox charts

1026-460: The killing was in connection with a payola scheme where record promoter Chuck Dixon paid Cashbox employees for favorable chart positions and other publicity. A Dixon client was once named Cashbox ' s "Male Vocalist of the Year" without having sold a single record. Hughes was reportedly killed for not going along with the chart-fixing scheme. D'Antonio, a Cashbox employee associated with Dixon,

1064-405: The magazine had 50 positions and maintained that format during the 1960s. During the 1970s, it was in the 20–30 position format until its cessation on February 27, 1982. It recommenced on August 4, 1990, with 15 positions until its final cessation on March 27, 1993. This was a chart that was based on what Cash Box called a "quantitative analysis" of playlist reports. The March 14, 1981, issue of

1102-486: The magazine's integrity into question. Cashbox lost considerable credibility within the industry after this, with accusations of chart fixing. No official findings of the Newton incident were ever revealed. Cashbox would subsequently print its final consecutive chart of this era in November 1996. In 2003, the former Cashbox Magazine became involved in a murder trial after police in Nashville, Tennessee, made an arrest in

1140-487: The main hook. Thus, their live performances of "Mighty Quinn" often run over ten minutes. It's probably the song most often played by Manfred Mann's Earth Band and usually appears as the last song of the regular set or the last encore. The Manfred Mann version is noted for Klaus Voormann 's use of a distinctive flute part. This was replaced in the Earth Band version with Manfred playing it on an organ. A demo of 14 of

1178-694: The original Cash Box data for the online archives. The Swem Library at The College of William and Mary maintains the archive of the original print editions of Cash Box magazine. The print editions were digitized in collaboration with the Internet Archive, via a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources. The Looking Ahead chart was the Cash Box equivalent to the Bubbling Under charts of Billboard . It commenced on October 3, 1959, with 20 positions. By April 29, 1961,

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1216-429: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title The Mighty Quinn . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Mighty_Quinn&oldid=1119292167 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

1254-434: The second of the two 1967 takes appeared on the five-LP Biograph set (this time titled "Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)"). This version was used again on The Essential Bob Dylan , a compilation released in 2000. The first of the two 1967 takes was not officially released until 2014, on The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete . The first release of the song, the #1 hit by Manfred Mann, which topped

1292-543: The song, backed by The Band and recorded in West Saugerties, New York in 1967, was eventually released as part of the compilation album Biograph , in 1985, it was entitled "Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)"; this is the title according to the official Bob Dylan website. Although they never played the song with Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead started playing "The Mighty Quinn" in concert in 1985. It became

1330-454: The title character from actor Anthony Quinn 's role as an Eskimo in the 1960 movie The Savage Innocents . Dylan has also been quoted as saying that the song was nothing more than a "simple nursery rhyme". A 2004 Chicago Tribune article said the song was named after Gordon Quinn , co-founder of Kartemquin Films , who had given Dylan and Howard Alk uncredited editing assistance on Eat

1368-447: Was convicted of first degree murder in 2003 and died in prison in 2014. Dixon had already died a few years prior to D'Antonio's arrest. Cash Box was reinvented as the online-only Cashbox Magazine in 2006, with the consent and cooperation of the family of Albert, the late president and publisher of the original edition. Cashbox has occasionally issued special print editions. As of April 2015 , Cashbox Magazine has added

1406-480: Was not the version performed by Manfred Mann , because in the show an 8th grade choir is singing the track. On the Adult Swim Podcast Joe states that it wasn't as expensive to get rights to the song because the children were singing. The Pittsburgh Penguins NHL hockey team has used a parody version of the song, called "The Mighty 'Guins," as a fight song. The Manfred Mann version of the song

1444-696: Was the biggest seller was given, but from October 25, 1952, a star was placed next to the names of the most important artists. Cashbox also printed shorter jukebox charts that included specific artist data beginning in spring 1950. Separate charts were presented for jukebox popularity, record sales and radio airplay . This was similar to Billboard ' s methodology prior to August 1958, when Billboard debuted its " Hot 100 ", which attempted to combine all measures of popularity into one all-encompassing chart. In addition, Cashbox published chart data for specific genres, such as country music and R&B music. In 1960, Cashbox discontinued its R&B chart after

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