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Phonograph record
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The groove usually starts near the periphery and ends near the center of the disc. The phonograph disc record was the medium used for music reproduction until late in the 20th century. It had co-existed with the cylinder from the late 1880s. Records retained the largest market share even when new formats such as compact cassette were mass-marketed, by the late 1980s, digital media, in the form of the compact disc, had gained a larger market share, and the vinyl record left the mainstream in 1991. The phonograph record has made a resurgence in the early 21st century –9.2 million records were sold in the U. S. in 2014. Likewise, in the UK sales have increased five-fold from 2009 to 2014, as of 2017,48 record pressing facilities remain worldwide,18 in the United States and 30 in other countries. The increased popularity of vinyl has led to the investment in new, only two producers of lacquers remains, Apollo Masters in California, USA, and MDC in Japan. Vinyl records may be scratched or warped if stored incorrectly but if they are not exposed to heat or broken. The large cover are valued by collectors and artists for the space given for visual expression, in the 2000s, these tracings were first scanned by audio engineers and digitally converted into audible sound. Phonautograms of singing and speech made by Scott in 1860 were played back as sound for the first time in 2008, along with a tuning fork tone and unintelligible snippets recorded as early as 1857, these are the earliest known recordings of sound. In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, unlike the phonautograph, it was capable of both recording and reproducing sound. Despite the similarity of name, there is no evidence that Edisons phonograph was based on Scotts phonautograph. Edison first tried recording sound on a paper tape, with the idea of creating a telephone repeater analogous to the telegraph repeater he had been working on. The tinfoil was wrapped around a metal cylinder and a sound-vibrated stylus indented the tinfoil while the cylinder was rotated. The recording could be played back immediately, Edison also invented variations of the phonograph that used tape and disc formats. A decade later, Edison developed a greatly improved phonograph that used a wax cylinder instead of a foil sheet. This proved to be both a better-sounding and far more useful and durable device, the wax phonograph cylinder created the recorded sound market at the end of the 1880s and dominated it through the early years of the 20th century. Berliners earliest discs, first marketed in 1889, but only in Europe, were 12.5 cm in diameter, both the records and the machine were adequate only for use as a toy or curiosity, due to the limited sound quality
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Big in Japan (Alphaville song)
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Big in Japan is the debut single of the German band Alphaville. It is from their 1984 album Forever Young, the single was a great success in many countries, including Switzerland, Germany and Sweden. It was also the groups only UK hit, getting to No.8 on the UK Singles chart, the song also reached number one on the Hot Dance Club Play in December 1984. The title comes from the phrase Big in Japan, which was used to describe Western bands who are popular with Japanese audiences while garnering little attention in their home country. In 1986, Marian Gold recalled that he bought an album of an unknown British band named Big in Japan, as you know, theres a considerable musical market in Japan. If you wanted to become famous, what you should do was to form a rock group and then release an album over there. The statement fitted well to my storyline about a couple of drug addicted lovers, the video was directed by Yellos Dieter Meier. The 7 version is a different studio recording from the one released later on the album, a new remix of Seeds also appears on Dreamscapes. The original version of the song appears on So80s presents Alphaville. Alphaville re-released the song, with new remixes, in 1992 to coincide with the release of their compilation album First Harvest 1984–92, EU CD single Big in Japan 1992 A. D. Freedom Mix –3,14 Big in Japan The Mix –4,14 Big in Japan 1992 A. D, freedom Mix –4,51 Big in Japan The Mix –6,05 The Mix is the same as the Culture Mix from First Harvest 1984–92. EU CD single Big in Japan Swemix Remix Big in Japan –3,57 Big in Japan –8,27 Big in Japan –6,44 EU12 vinyl single Big in Japan 1992 A. D. Freedom Mix –4,51 Big in Japan 1992 A. D, in 2000, Guano Apes released a cover version as their lead single for their second album Dont Give Me Names on 12 April 2000. The music video shows the band performing in an empty arena and she sang the song in German, as Japan ist weit. The song was produced by her future husband Michael Cretu and was Sandras first try as a solo artist after she separated from the trio Arabesque, the song was not successful, as only 125 copies were sold. Swedish melodic black metal band Embraced did a cover of Big in Japan on their 1998 album Amorous Anathema, Spanish singer José Galisteo, a contestant in the fifth season of the Spanish reality television series Operación Triunfo, covered the song for his 2007 debut album Remember. In 2008, Norwegian singer Ane Brun did her own version of Big in Japan. The song was recorded to be part of the soundtrack for the Swedish TV-documentary Stor i Japan on TV6 and it has been released on Ane Bruns albums Live at Stocholm Concert Hall, Songs 2003-2013, Song Tour 2013, and as a bonus track on Changing of the Seasons
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YouTube
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YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—in February 2005, Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, YouTube now operates as one of Googles subsidiaries. Unregistered users can watch videos on the site, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos deemed potentially offensive are available only to registered users affirming themselves to be at least 18 years old, YouTube earns advertising revenue from Google AdSense, a program which targets ads according to site content and audience. YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, Hurley had studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Karim could not easily find video clips of either event online, Hurley and Chen said that the original idea for YouTube was a video version of an online dating service, and had been influenced by the website Hot or Not. YouTube began as a venture capital-funded technology startup, primarily from an $11.5 million investment by Sequoia Capital between November 2005 and April 2006, YouTubes early headquarters were situated above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California. The domain name www. youtube. com was activated on February 14,2005, the first YouTube video, titled Me at the zoo, shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. The video was uploaded on April 23,2005, and can still be viewed on the site, YouTube offered the public a beta test of the site in May 2005. The first video to reach one million views was a Nike advertisement featuring Ronaldinho in November 2005. Following a $3.5 million investment from Sequoia Capital in November, the site grew rapidly, and in July 2006 the company announced that more than 65,000 new videos were being uploaded every day, and that the site was receiving 100 million video views per day. The site has 800 million unique users a month and it is estimated that in 2007 YouTube consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000. The choice of the name www. youtube. com led to problems for a similarly named website, the sites owner, Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment, filed a lawsuit against YouTube in November 2006 after being regularly overloaded by people looking for YouTube. Universal Tube has since changed the name of its website to www. utubeonline. com, in October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion in Google stock, and the deal was finalized on November 13,2006. In March 2010, YouTube began free streaming of certain content, according to YouTube, this was the first worldwide free online broadcast of a major sporting event. On March 31,2010, the YouTube website launched a new design, with the aim of simplifying the interface, Google product manager Shiva Rajaraman commented, We really felt like we needed to step back and remove the clutter. In May 2010, YouTube videos were watched more than two times per day. This increased to three billion in May 2011, and four billion in January 2012, in February 2017, one billion hours of YouTube was watched every day
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Disco
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Disco is a genre of dance music containing elements of funk, soul, pop, and salsa. It achieved popularity during the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, Disco can be seen as a reaction against both the domination of rock music and the stigmatization of dance music by the counterculture during this period. It was popular with men and women, from many different backgrounds. The disco sound often has several components, a beat, an eighth note or 16th note hi-hat pattern with an open hi-hat on the off-beat. In most disco tracks, string sections, horns, electric piano, Orchestral instruments such as the flute are often used for solo melodies, and lead guitar is less frequently used in disco than in rock. Many disco songs use electronic synthesizers, particularly in the late 1970s, well-known 1970s disco performers included Donna Summer, the Bee Gees, Boney M. KC and the Sunshine Band, The Trammps, Sylvester, Village People, Gloria Gaynor and Chic. While performers and singers garnered much attention, record producers working behind the scenes played an important role in developing the disco sound. Many non-disco artists recorded songs at the height of discos popularity. Disco was the last mass popular movement that was driven by the baby boom generation. Disco was a phenomenon, but its popularity drastically declined in the United States in 1980. Disco Demolition Night, an anti-disco protest held in Chicago on 12 July 1979, is thought of as a factor in discos fast. By the late 1970s most major U. S. cities had thriving disco club scenes, Studio 54, a venue popular amongst celebrities, is a well-known example of a disco club. Popular dances included the Hustle, a suggestive dance. Discotheque-goers often wore expensive, extravagant and sexy fashions, Disco clubs were also associated with promiscuity. Disco was a key influence on the 1980s electronic dance style called house. The term is derived from discothèque, by the early 1940s, the terms disc jockey and DJ were in use to describe radio presenters. During WWII, because of restrictions set in place by the Nazi occupiers, eventually more than one of these jazz venues had the proper name discothèque. By 1959, the term was used in Paris to describe any of these type of nightclubs and that year a young reporter named Klaus Quirini started to select and introduce records at the Scotch-Club in Aachen, West Germany
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
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Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s
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The Long Play
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The Long Play is the debut studio album by German pop singer Sandra, released on 9 December 1985. The album was a commercial success. The lead single Maria Magdalena was released in March 1985 and went on to top the charts in 21 countries worldwide and it stayed in the German top 20 for 16 weeks, remaining her Sandras only chart-topper in her home country, and is now considered her signature song. In the Heat of the Night was chosen as the single to the very successful Maria Magdalena in late 1985. The song was another triumph, peaking within top 5 in a number of European countries. The single version would become available on CD on The Platinum Collection in 2009. The third and final single taken from The Long Play was Little Girl. The songs music video was filmed entirely on location in Venice, Little Girl met with modest success in international music market. Sisters and Brothers was released in 1988 as a single in Japan only. The song, dedicated to Sandras brother Gaston, is a version of Michael Cretus song Zeitlose Reise from his 1983 solo album Legionäre
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A-side and B-side
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The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78,45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, whether singles, extended plays, or long-playing records. Creedence Clearwater Revival had hits with both A-side and B-side releases, others took the opposite approach, producer Phil Spector was in the habit of filling B-sides with on-the-spot instrumentals that no one would confuse with the A-side. With this practice, Spector was assured that airplay was focused on the side he wanted to be the hit side, the earliest 10-inch,78 rpm, shellac records were single sided. Double-sided recordings, with one song on side, were introduced in Europe by Columbia Records. There were no record charts until the 1930s, and radio stations did not play recorded music until the 1950s, in this time, A-sides and B-sides existed, but neither side was considered more important, the side did not convey anything about the content of the record. The term single came into use with the advent of vinyl records in the early 1950s. At first, most record labels would randomly assign which song would be an A-side, under this random system, many artists had so-called double-sided hits, where both songs on a record made one of the national sales charts, or would be featured on jukeboxes in public places. As time wore on, however, the convention for assigning songs to sides of the record changed. By the early sixties, the song on the A-side was the song that the company wanted radio stations to play. It was not until 1968, for instance, that the production of albums on a unit basis finally surpassed that of singles in the United Kingdom. In the late 1960s stereo versions of pop and rock songs began to appear on 45s. The majority of the 45s were played on AM radio stations, by the early 1970s, double-sided hits had become rare. Album sales had increased, and B-sides had become the side of the record where non-album, non-radio-friendly, with the advent of cassette and compact disc singles in the late 1980s, the A-side/B-side differentiation became much less meaningful. With the decline of cassette singles in the 1990s, the A-side/B-side dichotomy became virtually extinct, as the dominant medium. However, the term B-side is still used to refer to the tracks or coupling tracks on a CD single. With the advent of downloading music via the Internet, sales of CD singles and other media have declined. B-side songs may be released on the record as a single to provide extra value for money. There are several types of material released in this way, including a different version, or, in a concept record
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In the Heat of the Night (Sandra song)
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In the Heat of the Night is a Disco song by German singer Sandra. The song was released in November 1985 as the single from the album The Long Play, where it charted at #1 in Switzerland and Israel, #2 in Germany. Also in 1999, a version of the song by Sandra was released as a promo single only in France. In 2007 Virgin Music France decided to release a version of Reflections. In the Heat of the Night was planned to be released as a single in France containing four new versions of the song, a few promotional copies were sent to the media, however, the commercial release was cancelled and it was only released online as a digital single. In 2006, Sandra recorded a new mix of this song and this mix appeared on her compilation Reflections - Reproduced Hits. In Sandras first proper video, the singer was featured in a steaming sauna filled with bare-chested men
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Close to Seven
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Close to Seven is the fifth studio album by German singer Sandra, released in 1992. The albums title symbolized the upcoming seventh anniversary of Sandras career, the male vocals were sung by Andy Jonas, also known as Andy Angel Hart. Close to Seven was a success and remains Sandras second highest-charting album in Germany. Dont Be Aggressive served as the first single in January 1992, I Need Love was then released as the second and final regular single in April 1992, however, it failed to chart. Steady Me was released in June 1992 as a single in Germany only while Seal It Forever was a promotional single in Brazil
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Nights in White Satin
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Nights in White Satin is a 1967 single by The Moody Blues, written and composed by Justin Hayward and first featured as the segment The Night on the album Days of Future Passed. When first released in 1967, the song reached #19 on the UK Singles Chart and it was the first significant chart entry by the team since Go Now and its recent lineup change, in which Denny Laine had resigned and both Hayward and John Lodge had joined. Upon its 1972 reissue, the single hit #2 – for two weeks – on the Billboard Hot 100 and hit #1 on the Cash Box Top 100 in the United States and it earned a Gold certification for sales of over a million U. S. copies. It also hit #1 in Canada, in the wake of its American success, the song re-charted in the U. K. in late 1972 and climbed to #9. The song was re-released yet again in 1979, and charted for a time in the U. K. – peaking at #14. Band member Justin Hayward wrote and composed the song at age 19 in Swindon, the song itself was a tale of a yearning love from afar, which leads many aficionados to term it as a tale of unrequited love endured by Hayward. It was just another song I was writing and I thought it was very powerful and it was a very personal song and every note, every word in it means something to me and I found that a lot of other people have felt that very same way about it. The orchestral sounds in the body of the song were actually produced by Mike Pinders Mellotron keyboard device. The song is written in the key of E minor and features the Neapolitan chord, there are two single versions of the song, both stripped of the orchestral and Late Lament poetry sections of the LP version. The first edited version, with the songwriters credit shown as Redwave, was a hasty sounding 3,06 version of the LP recording with very noticeable chopped parts. However, there are versions of the single that are listed on the labels at 3,06. Some versions, instead of ending cold as most do, segue briefly into the second half and, in fact. For the second edited version, the parts of the song were kept intact. Most single versions were backed with a non-LP B-side, Cities, although it only had limited commercial success on its first release, the song has since garnered much critical acclaim, ranking #36 in BBC Radio 2s Sold on Song Top 100 list. The spoken-word poem heard near the mark of the album version of the song is called Late Lament. Drummer Graeme Edge wrote the verses, which were recited by keyboardist Mike Pinder, on Days of Future Passed, the poems last five lines bracket the album and also appear at the end of track 1. Both compilations feature the track in a different form than on Days of Future Passed. The orchestral ending is kept intact, but recording engineers have completely edited out the gong that closes the track on the original LP, from 1992 through the early 2000s, the Moody Blues toured with shows backed by live orchestras
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Fading Shades
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Fading Shades is the sixth studio album by German singer Sandra, released in 1995. In 1995, while pregnant with twins, Sandra recorded and released Fading Shades, the album saw a new writer/producer Jens Gad working alongside Michael Cretu. The album featured a cover version of Nights in White Satin by The Moody Blues. The music video showed only close-ups of Sandras face as she was pregnant at the time. She even had to sit during the sessions of the album. Again, Andy Angel Hart performed all the vocals on the album. Note that the cover was taken from the music video of Nights in White Satin. The album become one of her least successful releases, reaching number forty-two in Germany, the song went to number one in Israel and entered the top twenty in Finland and Australia. However, in Germany it performed weakly on the chart. Wont Run Away Wont Run Away was released in July 1995 as the second, unfortunately, the song was not successful, as it did not enter on any of the charts. It was her third single failed to chart and first since 1985s Maria Magdalena not to receive a music video. CD single Wont Run Away —4,18 Wont Run Away —7,34 Wont Run Away —5,00 Wont Run Away —6,26 Lead vocals by Sandra, male vocals by Andy Angel Hart. Lyrics by Jens Gad, Klaus Hirschburger, Michael Cretu, music by Jens Gad, Michael Cretu. Produced by Jens Gad, Michael Cretu, programmed and arranged by - Jens Gad
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