Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p "Last Night" is an instrumental recorded by The Mar-Keys. Released in 1961, it charted #3 Pop and #2 R&B in the United States. It also appeared on Last Night!, the first LP released by the Stax label.Written by Charles Axton, Floyd Newman, Gilbert C. Caple, Jerry Lee Smith, and Chips Moman. The tune was covered by Georgie Fame on his 1966 Sweet Things album. It was also covered by the jazz ensemble The Bum Notes for the closing credits of BBC sitcom Bottom in the early 1990s, and was used as the backing music to "Viaduct", a game played on the Chris Moyles radio show.According to Steve Cropper, in an interview with Paul Nassari of the Sunday Mail newspaper (Adelaide, Australia), "Jerry Lee ‘Smoochy’ Smith came up with the piano riff that was played on organ. Since [producer Chips] Moman didn’t want a guitar on it for whatever reason, I wound up playing the hold-down on the organ on the root note. "It hurts me in the Mar-Keys history when people say I wasn’t in the Mar-Keys because there’s no guitar on Last Night but I have to differ with them."[citation needed]. }
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- Last_Night_(Mar-Keys_composition) abstract ""Last Night" is an instrumental recorded by The Mar-Keys. Released in 1961, it charted #3 Pop and #2 R&B in the United States. It also appeared on Last Night!, the first LP released by the Stax label.Written by Charles Axton, Floyd Newman, Gilbert C. Caple, Jerry Lee Smith, and Chips Moman. The tune was covered by Georgie Fame on his 1966 Sweet Things album. It was also covered by the jazz ensemble The Bum Notes for the closing credits of BBC sitcom Bottom in the early 1990s, and was used as the backing music to "Viaduct", a game played on the Chris Moyles radio show.According to Steve Cropper, in an interview with Paul Nassari of the Sunday Mail newspaper (Adelaide, Australia), "Jerry Lee ‘Smoochy’ Smith came up with the piano riff that was played on organ. Since [producer Chips] Moman didn’t want a guitar on it for whatever reason, I wound up playing the hold-down on the organ on the root note. "It hurts me in the Mar-Keys history when people say I wasn’t in the Mar-Keys because there’s no guitar on Last Night but I have to differ with them."[citation needed]".