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Album
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Album, is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century, first as books of individual 78rpm records, vinyl LPs are still issued, though in the 21st century album sales have mostly focused on compact disc and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used from the late 1970s through to the 1990s alongside vinyl, an album may be recorded in a recording studio, in a concert venue, at home, in the field, or a mix of places. Recording may take a few hours to years to complete, usually in several takes with different parts recorded separately. Recordings that are done in one take without overdubbing are termed live, the majority of studio recordings contain an abundance of editing, sound effects, voice adjustments, etc. With modern recording technology, musicians can be recorded in separate rooms or at times while listening to the other parts using headphones. Album covers and liner notes are used, and sometimes additional information is provided, such as analysis of the recording, historically, the term album was applied to a collection of various items housed in a book format. In musical usage the word was used for collections of pieces of printed music from the early nineteenth century. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, the LP record, or 33 1⁄3 rpm microgroove vinyl record, is a gramophone record format introduced by Columbia Records in 1948. It was adopted by the industry as a standard format for the album. Apart from relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound capability, the term album had been carried forward from the early nineteenth century when it had been used for collections of short pieces of music. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, as part of a trend of shifting sales in the music industry, some commenters have declared that the early 21st century experienced the death of the album. Sometimes shorter albums are referred to as mini-albums or EPs, Albums such as Tubular Bells, Amarok, Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield, and Yess Close to the Edge, include fewer than four tracks. There are no rules against artists such as Pinhead Gunpowder referring to their own releases under thirty minutes as albums. These are known as box sets, material is stored on an album in sections termed tracks, normally 11 or 12 tracks. A music track is a song or instrumental recording. The term is associated with popular music where separate tracks are known as album tracks. When vinyl records were the medium for audio recordings a track could be identified visually from the grooves
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Julio Iglesias
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Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva, better known as Julio Iglesias, is a Spanish singer and songwriter who has been awarded with the Guinness Record thrice. In 1983, he was the most recorded artist in more languages in the world and he is recognized as the most successful European commercial singer in the world. He is one of the top ten record sellers in music history, more than 2600 certified gold and platinum albums. It is estimated that during his career he has offered more than 5000 concerts, in April 2013 the singer was awarded in Beijing as the first and most popular international artist in China. He is also the largest foreign record seller in Brazil, France, Romania and Italy, in his country, Spain, he is the artist who has sold the most, with 23 million records. He has been awarded the Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts of Spain and he was named Special Ambassador for the Performing Arts of UNICEF in 1989. He has also institutionalized September 8 as Julio Iglesias Day in Miami since 1997 and has been a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame since 1985, April 2013, entered the Hall of Fame of the Latin Composers. Iglesias was born on 23 September 1943 in Madrid and he is the son of Julio Iglesias, Sr. a medical doctor from Ourense who became one of the youngest gynecologists in the country, and María del Rosario de la Cueva y Perignat. Iglesiass paternal ancestry comes from Galicia, his grandparents were named Manuela Puga Noguerol. His maternal grandparents were José de la Cueva y Orejuela, and Dolores de Perignat y Ruiz de Benavides and he alternated playing professional football with studying law at the CEU San Pablo University in Madrid. In the earliest years of his adulthood, he was a goalkeeper for Real Madrid Castilla. His professional football career was ruined when he was involved in an automobile accident. Afterwards, he said of those years, I had more courage and these were sorely tested when he was involved in that car crash—it smashed his lower spine, his legs were permanently weakened as a direct result, and they still required therapy several years later. During his hospitalization after the accident, a nurse gave him a guitar so that he could have something to do with his hands, in learning to play, he discovered his musical talent. After his rehabilitation, Iglesias studied for three months at Bell Educational Trusts Language School in Cambridge, UK, after that, he went back to obtain his law degree at Complutense University of Madrid. In 1968 he won the Benidorm International Song Festival, an event in Spain, with the song La vida sigue igual which was used in the film La vida sigue igual. After this event he signed a deal with Discos Columbia, the Spanish branch of the Columbia Records company, the album spent 15 weeks in the Spanish charts, and peaked at #3. He represented Spain in the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest, finishing in place behind Irelands winning entry
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Pop music
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Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid 1950s. The terms popular music and pop music are used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular. Pop and rock were synonymous terms until the late 1960s, when they were used in opposition from each other. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music. Pop music is eclectic, and often borrows elements from other such as urban, dance, rock, Latin. Identifying factors include generally short to medium-length songs written in a format, as well as the common use of repeated choruses, melodic tunes. David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop music as a body of music which is distinguishable from popular, jazz, according to Pete Seeger, pop music is professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music, the music charts contain songs from a variety of sources, including classical, jazz, rock, and novelty songs. Pop music, as a genre, is seen as existing and developing separately, pop music continuously evolves along with the terms definition. The term pop song was first recorded as being used in 1926, Hatch and Millward indicate that many events in the history of recording in the 1920s can be seen as the birth of the modern pop music industry, including in country, blues and hillbilly music. The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that while pops earlier meaning meant concerts appealing to a wide audience. Since the late 1950s, however, pop has had the meaning of non-classical mus, usually in the form of songs, performed by such artists as the Beatles. Grove Music Online also states that, in the early 1960s pop music competed terminologically with beat music, while in the USA its coverage overlapped with that of rock and roll. From about 1967, the term was used in opposition to the term rock music. Whereas rock aspired to authenticity and an expansion of the possibilities of music, pop was more commercial, ephemeral. It is not driven by any significant ambition except profit and commercial reward, and, in musical terms, it is essentially conservative. It is, provided from on high rather than being made from below, pop is not a do-it-yourself music but is professionally produced and packaged. The beat and the melodies tend to be simple, with limited harmonic accompaniment, the lyrics of modern pop songs typically focus on simple themes – often love and romantic relationships – although there are notable exceptions
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Columbia Records
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Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc. the United States division of Sony Corporation. It was founded in 1887, evolving from an enterprise named the American Graphophone Company. Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in the sound business. Columbia Records went on to release records by an array of singers, instrumentalists. It is one of Sony Musics three flagship record labels alongside RCA Records and Epic Records, rather, as above, it was connected to CBS, a broadcasting media company which had purchased the company in 1938, and had been co-founded in 1927 by Columbia Records itself. Though Arista Records was sold to Bertelsmann Music Group, it would become a sister label of Columbia Records through its mutual connection to Sony Music. The Columbia Phonograph Company was founded in 1887 by stenographer, lawyer and New Jersey native Edward Easton and it derived its name from the District of Columbia, where it was headquartered. At first it had a monopoly on sales and service of Edison phonographs and phonograph cylinders in Washington. As was the custom of some of the regional companies, Columbia produced many commercial cylinder recordings of its own. Columbias ties to Edison and the North American Phonograph Company were severed in 1894 with the North American Phonograph Companys breakup, thereafter it sold only records and phonographs of its own manufacture. In 1902, Columbia introduced the XP record, a brown wax record. According to Gracyk, the molded brown waxes may have sold to Sears for distribution. Columbia began selling records and phonographs in addition to the cylinder system in 1901, preceded only by their Toy Graphophone of 1899. For a decade, Columbia competed with both the Edison Phonograph Company cylinders and the Victor Talking Machine Company disc records as one of the top three names in American recorded sound. In order to add prestige to its catalog of artists. The firm also introduced the internal-horn Grafonola to compete with the extremely popular Victrola sold by the rival Victor Talking Machine Company, during this era, Columbia used the famous Magic Notes logo—a pair of sixteenth notes in a circle—both in the United States and overseas. Columbia was split into two companies, one to make records and one to make players, Columbia Phonograph was moved to Connecticut, and Ed Easton went with it. Eventually it was renamed the Dictaphone Corporation, in late 1923, Columbia went into receivership
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Legacy Recordings
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Legacy Recordings is a division of Sony Music. It also handles the catalog of recordings produced by Phil Spector and this is not to be confused with the defunct British independent label Legacy Records. The Essential series are one-to-two disc compilations of an extensive catalog. On occasion, albums in series would have a limited edition third disc. As of 2015, several volumes in the Essential series are available on Vinyl LP. A spinoff series, Setlist, features compilations of live performances. The first several albums come in a special Eco-packet and to save paper, a PDF file is included on the disc, containing photographs, credits and this was met with criticism as the discs were easily scratched. Thus, in recent years, Playlist albums came packaged in standard, reception on the Playlist series varies between editions. See individual pages for more information, list of record labels Lawrence Cohn, previous head of Legacy Recordings This Is Jazz Official Site US Official Site UK Company Blog Podcast Site
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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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Willie Nelson
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Willie Hugh Nelson is an American musician, singer, songwriter, author, poet, actor, and activist. He was one of the figures of outlaw country, a subgenre of country music that developed in the late 1960s as a reaction to the conservative restrictions of the Nashville sound. Nelson has acted in over 30 films, co-authored several books, and has involved in activism for the use of biofuels. Born during the Great Depression, and raised by his grandparents, Nelson wrote his first song at age seven, during high school, he toured locally with the Bohemian Polka as their lead singer and guitar player. After graduating from school in 1950, he joined the Air Force but was later discharged due to back problems. After his return, Nelson attended Baylor University for two years but dropped out because he was succeeding in music, during this time, he worked as a disc jockey in Texas radio stations and a singer in Honky-tonks. Nelson moved to Vancouver, Washington, where he wrote Family Bible, in 1958, he moved to Houston, Texas after signing a contract with D Records. He sang at the Esquire Ballroom weekly and he worked as a disk jockey, during that time, he wrote songs that would become country standards, including Funny How Time Slips Away, Hello Walls, Pretty Paper, and Crazy. In 1960 he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, and later signed a contract with Pamper Music which allowed him to join Ray Prices band as a bassist. In 1962, he recorded his first album. And Then I Wrote, due to this success, Nelson signed in 1964 with RCA Victor and joined the Grand Ole Opry the following year. After mid-chart hits in the late 1960s and the early 1970s, Nelson retired in 1972 and moved to Austin, the ongoing music scene of Austin motivated Nelson to return from retirement, performing frequently at the Armadillo World Headquarters. In 1973, after signing with Atlantic Records, Nelson turned to country, including albums such as Shotgun Willie. In 1975, he switched to Columbia Records, where he recorded the acclaimed album. The same year, he recorded another outlaw country album, Wanted, the Outlaws, along with Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter, and Tompall Glaser. In 1990, Nelsons assets were seized by the Internal Revenue Service, the difficulty of paying his outstanding debt was aggravated by weak investments he had made during the 1980s. In 1992, Nelson released The IRS Tapes, Wholl Buy My Memories, the profits of the double album—destined to the IRS—and the auction of Nelsons assets cleared his debt. During the 1990s and 2000s, Nelson continued touring extensively, reviews ranged from positive to mixed. He explored genres such as reggae, blues, jazz, Nelson made his first movie appearance in the 1979 film The Electric Horseman, followed by other appearances in movies and on television
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To All the Girls I've Loved Before
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To All the Girls Ive Loved Before is a song written by Hal David and Albert Hammond. A breakthrough for Iglesias in the English language market, the peaked at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100. To All the Girls Ive Loved Before went to one on the country chart. David and Hammond created the song in 1975 and registered it with the office on April 28 of that year. Following Vintons recording released on October 9,1980, the song was registered as published and it was Iglesias biggest hit in the United States and Canada, and Nelsons biggest European hit. The record also appeared on Australian, New Zealand and South African charts, the song has become Iglesiass signature English-language tune, prominently performed at his concerts since the singles release. Thanks to this song,1100 Bel Air Place became Iglesias world-wide best selling album. In 1984, Nelson and Iglesias were also named Duo of the year by the Country Music Association, in English, Julio Iglesias Merle Haggard, Engelbert Humperdinck Alanis Morissette. Nelson played rhythm guitar on the recording, in French Didier Barbelivien and Félix Gray recorded A toutes les filles in 1990. In Polish Krzysztof Krawczyk and Bohdan Smoleń recorded Dziewczyny, które mam na myśli in 1985, in Czech Už mi lásko není dvacet let by Jiří Zmožek from 1990
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AllMusic
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AllMusic is an online music guide service website. It was launched in 1991 by All Media Guide which later became All Media Network, AllMusic was launched in 1991 by Michael Erlewine of All Media Guide. The aim was to discographic information on every artist whos made a record since Enrico Caruso gave the industry its first big boost and its first reference book was published the following year. When first released onto the Internet, AMG predated the World Wide Web and was first available as a Gopher site, the AMG consumer web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com and AllGame. com were sold by Rovi in July 2013 to All Media Network, LLC. All Media Network, LLC. was formed by the founders of SideReel. com. The following are contributors to AllMusic, as of this date, All Media Network also produced the AllMusic guide series that includes the AllMusic Guide to Rock, the All Music Guide to Jazz and the All Music Guide to the Blues. Vladimir Bogdanov is the president of the series, in August 2007, PC Magazine included AllMusic in its Top 100 Classic Websites list. All Media Network AllGame AllMovie SideReel All Music Guide to the Blues All Music Guide to Jazz Stephen Thomas Erlewine Official website
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All of You (Julio Iglesias and Diana Ross song)
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Richard Perry, the albums music producer, suggested the idea of Iglesias having Diana Ross as yet another duet partner, and Iglesias agreed. That would soon change as Ross reportedly ended up spending the Christmas holiday season at Iglesiass Miami estate and they there celebrated the success of their global duet that hit #1 in Spain, #3 in Italy, and #8 in Canada for example. In the United States, it reached #12 in Cash Box, additionally, All of You reached #2 on Adult Contemporary radio. Because it was the single from 1100 Bel Air Place. It also boasted a popular and sensual music video. Though her debut album for the label, Why Do Fools Fall In Love, had been three years before, her most recently released album, Ross, was not performing as well. Richard Perry served as music producer
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Diana Ross
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Diane Ernestine Earle Ross, known professionally as Diana Ross, is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer. As part of the Supremes, her success made it possible for future African-American R&B, Dianas high-pitched and bright lyric-soprano voice has been enjoyed and still is by fans around the world. The group released a record-setting twelve number-one hit singles on the US Billboard Hot 100, including the hits Where Did Our Love Go, Baby Love, Come See About Me, Stop. In the Name of Love, You Cant Hurry Love, You Keep Me Hangin On, Love Child and she later released the album Touch Me in the Morning in 1973, its title track reached number 1, as her second solo hit. That same year, her album Lady Sings The Blues, which was the soundtrack of her film based on the life of jazz singer Billie Holiday. By 1975, the Mahogany soundtrack included her third number-one hit and her eponymous 1976 album included her fourth number-one hit, Love Hangover. In 1979, Ross released the album The Boss and her 1980 semi-eponymous album Diana reached number 2 on the US Billboard albums chart, and spawned the number-one hit Upside Down, and the international hit Im Coming Out. After leaving Motown, Ross achieved her sixth and final US number-one hit, Ross has also ventured into acting, with a Golden Globe Award and Academy Award-nominated performance for her performance in the film Lady Sings the Blues. She also starred in two films, Mahogany and The Wiz, later acting in the television films Out of Darkness, for which she also was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Ross was named the Female Entertainer of the Century by Billboard magazine, Ross has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, when her releases with the Supremes and as a solo artist are tallied. In 1988, Ross was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as member of the Supremes, alongside Mary Wilson and she was the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 2007, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016. She is a 12-time Grammy nominee, never earning a competitive honor, in December 2016, Billboard magazine named her the 50th most successful dance artist of all time. Diane Ross was born at Hutzel Womens Hospital in Detroit on March 26,1944 and she was the second eldest child of Ernestine, a schoolteacher, and Fred Ross, Sr. a former Army soldier. Much has been made of whether her first name ends in an a or an e, according to Ross, her mother actually named her Diane but a clerical error resulted in her name being recorded as Diana on her birth certificate. She was listed as Diane during the first Supremes records, she introduced herself as Diane until early in the groups heyday and her friends and family still call her Diane. Rosss grandfather John E. Ross, a native of Gloucester County, Virginia, was born to Washington Ross, Virginia Baytops mother Francis Frankey Baytop was a former slave who had become a midwife after the Civil War. Ross and her family lived at Belmont Road in the North End section of Detroit, near Highland Park, MI. When Ross was seven, her mother contracted tuberculosis, causing her to seriously ill
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The Beach Boys
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The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California in 1961. The groups original lineup consisted of brothers Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, distinguished by their vocal harmonies and early surf songs, they are one of the most influential acts of the rock era. The Beach Boys began as a band managed by the Wilsons father Murry. Emerging at the vanguard of the California Sound, they performed material that reflected a southern California youth culture of surfing, cars. After 1964, they abandoned the surfing aesthetic for more personal lyrics, in 1966, the Pet Sounds album and Good Vibrations single vaulted the group to the top level of rock innovators and established the band as symbols of the nascent counterculture era. Following Smiles dissolution, Brian gradually ceded production and songwriting duties to the rest of the band, reducing his input because of mental health and substance abuse issues. The continued success of their greatest hits albums during the mid 1970s precipitated the transition into an oldies act. Since the 1980s, much-publicized legal wrangling over royalties, songwriting credits, Dennis drowned in 1983 and Carl died of lung cancer in 1998. After Carls death, many live configurations of the band fronted by Mike Love, Even though Wilson and Jardine have not performed with Love and Johnstons band since their one-off 2012 reunion tour, they remain a part of the Beach Boys corporation, Brother Records Inc. The Beach Boys are one of the most critically acclaimed, commercially successful, the group had over eighty songs chart worldwide, thirty-six of them US Top 40 hits, four reaching number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. They received their only Grammy Award for The Smile Sessions, the core quintet of the three Wilsons, Love and Jardine were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. At the time of his birthday on June 20,1958, Brian Wilson shared a bedroom with his brothers, Dennis and Carl – aged thirteen and eleven. He had watched his father, Murry Wilson, play piano, after dissecting songs such as Ivory Tower and Good News, Brian would teach family members how to sing the background harmonies. For his birthday that year, Brian received a tape recorder. He learned how to overdub, using his vocals and those of Carl, Brian played piano with Carl and David Marks, an eleven-year-old longtime neighbor, playing guitars they had each received as Christmas presents. Soon Brian and Carl were avidly listening to Johnny Otis KFOX radio show, inspired by the simple structure and vocals of the rhythm and blues songs he heard, Brian changed his piano-playing style and started writing songs. His enthusiasm interfered with his studies at school. Family gatherings brought the Wilsons in contact with cousin Mike Love, Brian taught Loves sister Maureen and a friend harmonies
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The Air That I Breathe
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The Air That I Breathe is a ballad written by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood, initially recorded by Albert Hammond on his 1972 album It Never Rains in Southern California. This song was a hit for The Hollies in early 1974. In the summer of 1974, the reached number six in the United States on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In Canada, the peaked at number five on the RPM Magazine charts. The audio engineering for The Air That I Breathe was done by Alan Parsons and it proved to be the Hollies final charting hit in both the US and UK. The 1992 Radiohead song Creep uses a chord progression and shares some melodic content with The Air That I Breathe. As a result, Hammond and Hazlewood sued Radiohead for plagiarism, the song was first covered by Phil Everly of the Everly Brothers for his 1973 album Star Spangled Springer. Also covered by Cilla Black in 1974 on the album In Your Life, also covered by Olivia Newton-John in 1975 on the album Have You Never Been Mellow. Also recorded by The Shadows in 1975 for their album Specs Appeal, the title appeared on the CD, as bonus track, on Tasty Plus as well on the Magic Records CD Specs Appeal / Tasty. Hank Williams Jr. covered this song on his 1983 album, rex Allen, Jr. recorded a cover version in 1983, releasing his version for the country music market. Allens version peaked at number 37 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in December 1983, julio Iglesias offered his version of the song on 1984s 1100 Bel Air Place. The Beach Boys sang the harmonies on this version. Swedish band Alien covered their arrangement of the song on their eponymous 1988 debut album, judy Collins recorded a cover version in her 1990 album Fires of Eden Portrayed by Bug Hall, Carl Alfalfa Switzer sang the song in The Little Rascals movie. Hollywood glam rock band Spiders and Snakes cover the song on their album Oddities, barry Manilow covered the song on his 1996 album, Summer of 78 Steven Houghton covered the song on his 1997 self-titled album. K. d. lang covered the track on her 1997 album Drag, the song was also covered by Simply Red in 1998 on the album Blue. Jorge González, former leader of the Chilean band Los Prisioneros, the Mavericks covered the song on their self-titled 2003 album. Their version peaked at number 59 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and this song was covered by the group Semisonic and appears on the CD single for Singing in My Sleep. It appears as Air That I Breathe, steve Wynn covers the song on his 1999 album Pick of the Litter
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Albert Hammond
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Albert Louis Hammond, Jr. OBE is a Gibraltarian singer, songwriter, and record producer who grew up in the British Mediterranean territory of Gibraltar. Hammond was born in London, England, which is where his family had evacuated to from Gibraltar during World War II. Shortly after his birth, they returned to Gibraltar, and it is there he grew up, in 1960, he started in music with Gibraltarian band The Diamond Boys, which had no real commercial success, but played a part in Spains introduction to pop and rock music. The Diamond Boys performed at the first nightclubs in Madrid to stage modern bands, alongside Spanish rock, in 1966 Hammond co-founded the British vocal group the Family Dogg, scoring a UK Top 10 hit with A Way of Life in 1969. He also wrote songs for others with frequent collaborator Mike Hazlewood, Hammond also sang on Michael Chapmans fourth album, Wrecked Again, and worked briefly with the Magic Lanterns on recordings of his and Hazlewoods songs and other material. He then moved to the United States, where he continued his career as a musician. However, he enjoyed his greatest commercial success in mainland Europe and he is known for his hits of the 1970s, released on Columbia subsidiary Mums Records, Down by the River – US No.91 It Never Rains in Southern California – US No. No.2 The Free Electric Band – UK No, No.44 Half a Million Miles from Home – US No.87 If You Gotta Break Another Heart – US No.63 The Peacemaker – US No. 80, South Africa No.1 Down by the River – US No.91 I Dont Wanna Die in an Air Disaster – Im a Train – US No, No.3799 Miles from L. A. – US No.91 Written with Carole Bayer Sager, When I Need You was first recorded by Hammond on his 1976 album When I Need You. Produced by Richard Perry, Leo Sayers version made No.1 on the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in February 1977, after three of his singles had stalled at No.2. A hit worldwide, it reached No.1 In Canada, leapy Lee released a version of When I Need You on his first recording since 1970. Hammond had success as a singer-songwriter with his Spanish recordings and his releases on Epic Records allowed him to tour every region of Latin America. It was during this period that he met Manuel Montoya, a CBS Mexico executive, Hammond also scored two hits in the Philippines during 1981. His songs When Im Gone and Your World and My World were popular in the country, with Hal David Hammond co-wrote To All The Girls Ive Loved Before, a hit in 1984 for Julio Iglesias and Willie Nelson. With lyricist John Bettis, Hammond also co-wrote One Moment in Time, in 1991, Hammond co-wrote When You Tell Me That You Love Me, which was recorded by Diana Ross, which reached No.2 in the UK Singles Chart. In 2005, Diana Ross recorded the song again, this time as a duet with Westlife, Again the song reached No.2 in the UK Singles Chart. He wrote several hits for Tina Turner, including I Dont Wanna Lose You, Be Tender With Me Baby, Way of the World, and Love Thing
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It Never Rains in Southern California (album)
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It Never Rains in Southern California is an album by Albert Hammond released by Mums Records. The album landed on the Billboard 200 chart, reaching #77, the single title song hit #2 on the Adult Contemporary chart, #5 on the Billboard Hot 100, and #51 on the UK Singles Chart in 1972. The single Down By The River hit #38 on the Adult Contemporary chart, the single If You Gotta Break Another Heart hit #63 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1973. The album was produced by Albert Hammond and Don Altfeld and was arranged by Michael Omartian, all tracks by Albert Hammond & Mike Hazlewood Listen to the World If You Gotta Break Another Heart From Great Britain to L. A
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The Hollies
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The Hollies are an English pop/rock group, best known for their pioneering and distinctive three-part vocal harmony style. The Hollies became one of the leading British groups of the 1960s and it was formed by Allan Clarke and Graham Nash in 1962 as a Merseybeat type music group in Manchester, although some of the band members came from towns north of there. Graham Nash left the group in 1968 to form the supergroup Crosby and they enjoyed considerable popularity in many countries, although they did not achieve major US chart success until 1966 with Bus Stop. They are one of the few British pop groups of the early 1960s, along with The Rolling Stones and The Who, in recognition of their achievements, The Hollies were inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010. The Hollies originated as a duo formed by Allan Clarke and Graham Nash, eventually Clarke and Nash became a vocal and guitar duo modelled on The Everly Brothers under the names Ricky and Dane Young. Under this name, they teamed up with a band, the Fourtones, consisting of Pete Bocking, John Butch Mepham, Keith Bates. The Deltas first called themselves The Hollies for a December 1962 gig at the Oasis Club in Manchester, in 2009, Nash wrote, We called ourselves The Hollies, after Buddy and Christmas. Richards offered them an audition with Parlophone, but Steele did not want to be a professional musician and their second single, another cover of The Coasters, this time 1957s Searchin, hit No.12. They then scored their first British Top 10 hit in early 1964 with a cover of Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs Stay, which reached No.8 in the UK. It was lifted from the bands Parlophone debut album, Stay with the Hollies, released on 1 January 1964, a version of the album was released in the US as Here I Go Again, on the Hollies US label of the time, Imperial. The Hollies became known for doing cover versions, and they followed up with Just One Look, the hits continued with Here I Go Again. Like their Parlophone labelmates the Beatles, the Hollies albums released in North America would remain very different from their UK counterparts and this was followed by two more cover versions, Yes I Will, and finally the Clint Ballard, Jr. -penned Im Alive. Their second album, In The Hollies Style, did not chart and none of its tracks were released in the US, finally, The Hollies broke through in North America with an original song that they requested from Manchesters Graham Gouldman. Look Through Any Window broke the Hollies into the US Top 40 and into the Canadian top 10 and their third album, simply called Hollies, hit No.8 in the UK in 1965, but failed to chart in the US under the name Hear. Despite its inclusion of Look Through Any Window and Im Alive, the Hollies then returned to the UK Top 10 with I Cant Let Go, their fourth album, Would You Believe. Which included the hit, made it to No.16 in 1966, released in the US as Beat Group. It also failed to crack the US top 100, at this point, a dispute between The Hollies and their management broke out over what bass guitarist Eric Haydock contended were excessive fees being charged to the group by management. As a result, Haydock decided to take a leave of absence from the group, Calvert also played a tour of Yugoslavia with the band in May 1966
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Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L. A. is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. With a census-estimated 2015 population of 3,971,883, it is the second-most populous city in the United States, Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated county in the United States. The citys inhabitants are referred to as Angelenos, historically home to the Chumash and Tongva, Los Angeles was claimed by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo for Spain in 1542 along with the rest of what would become Alta California. The city was founded on September 4,1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve. It became a part of Mexico in 1821 following the Mexican War of Independence, in 1848, at the end of the Mexican–American War, Los Angeles and the rest of California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thereby becoming part of the United States. Los Angeles was incorporated as a municipality on April 4,1850, the discovery of oil in the 1890s brought rapid growth to the city. The completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, delivering water from Eastern California, nicknamed the City of Angels, Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, and sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles also has an economy in culture, media, fashion, science, sports, technology, education, medicine. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index, the city is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields, and is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States. The Los Angeles combined statistical area has a gross metropolitan product of $831 billion, making it the third-largest in the world, after the Greater Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. The city has hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 and 1984 and is bidding to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and thus become the second city after London to have hosted the Games three times. The Los Angeles area also hosted the 1994 FIFA mens World Cup final match as well as the 1999 FIFA womens World Cup final match, the mens event was watched on television by over 700 million people worldwide. The Los Angeles coastal area was first settled by the Tongva, a Gabrielino settlement in the area was called iyáangẚ, meaning poison oak place. Gaspar de Portolà and Franciscan missionary Juan Crespí, reached the present site of Los Angeles on August 2,1769, in 1771, Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the area. The Queen of the Angels is an honorific of the Virgin Mary, two-thirds of the settlers were mestizo or mulatto with a mixture of African, indigenous and European ancestry. The settlement remained a small town for decades, but by 1820. Today, the pueblo is commemorated in the district of Los Angeles Pueblo Plaza and Olvera Street. New Spain achieved its independence from the Spanish Empire in 1821, during Mexican rule, Governor Pío Pico made Los Angeles Alta Californias regional capital
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Quincy Jones
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His career spans six decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, and 28 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991. He is best known for the role of himself in Yakety Yak, Take it Back, Trash Talk, Jones came to prominence in the 1950s as a jazz arranger and conductor, before moving on to work prolifically in pop music and film scores. In 1971, Jones was the first African American to be named as the director and conductor of the Academy Awards ceremony. In 1995, he was the first African American to receive the Academys Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and he is tied with sound designer Willie D. Burton as the African American who has been nominated for the most Oscars, each has received seven nominations. In 2013, Jones was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as the winner, alongside Lou Adler, among his awards, Jones was named by Time Magazine as one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century. Jones was born in 1933, on the South Side of Chicago, to Sarah Frances and Quincy Delight Jones and his father was a semi-professional baseball player and carpenter from Kentucky, his paternal grandmother was an ex-slave in Louisville. They had gone to Chicago as part of the Great Migration out of the South, Sarah was a bank officer and apartment complex manager. Jones later discovered that his paternal grandfather Caesar Jones was the son of a white American man of Welsh descent, Quincy had a younger brother, Lloyd, later an engineer for the Seattle station, KOMO-TV, Lloyd died in 1998. Quincy was introduced to music by his mother, who sang religious songs. When Jones was five or six, Jackson played stride piano next door, Lucy Jackson recalled that after he heard her that one day, she could not get him off her piano if she tried. When the boys were young, their mother suffered from a breakdown and was committed to a mental institution. His father obtained a divorce and remarried, Joness stepmother, Elvera, had three children of her own, Waymond, who became a friend of the young Quincy, Theresa, and Katherine. In 1943, when Jones was ten, his family moved to Bremerton, Washington, after the war, the Jones family moved to Seattle, the major regional city, where Jones attended Garfield High School near his home. He had discovered music when he was 12 and became deeply involved in high school. Classmates included Charles Taylor, who played saxophone and whose mother, the youths began playing with a band. At the age of 14, they were playing with a National Reserve band, Jones has said he got much more experience with music growing up in a smaller city, otherwise, he would have faced too much competition. At the age of 14, Jones introduced himself to a 16-year-old musician from Florida, Ray Charles, Jones cites Ray Charles as an early inspiration for his own music career. He noted that Charles overcame a disability to achieve his musical goals and he has credited his fathers sturdy work ethic with giving him the means to proceed, and his loving strength with holding the family together
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Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation
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Cynthia Weil
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Cynthia Weil is a prominent American songwriter. She is famous for having written songs together with her husband Barry Mann. Weil was born in New York City, and was raised in a Conservative Jewish family. Her father was Morris Weil, a store owner and the son of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants, and her mother was Dorothy Mendez. Weil trained as an actress and dancer, but soon demonstrated an ability that led to her collaboration with Barry Mann. The couple has one daughter, Dr Jenn Mann, AKA Dr. Jenn, Weil became one of the Brill Building songwriters of the 1960s, and one of the most important writers during the emergence of rock and roll. She and her went on to create songs for many contemporary artists. As their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame biography put it, in part, Mann, epic ballads to outright rockers placed an emphasis on meaningful lyrics in their songwriting. Tackled segregation and racism, making it too controversial for the Drifters. We Gotta Get Out of This Place, became an anthem for Vietnam soldier, antiwar protesters, and young people who viewed it as an anthem of greater opportunities. In 1987, she was inducted with her husband, Mann, in 2004, Mann and Weils They Wrote That. A musical revue based on their songs, opened in New York, in it, Mann sang and Weil related stories about the songs and their personal history. Weil and Mann were named among the 2010 recipients of Ahmet Ertegun Award from the Rock, from the bottom of my heart and with the greatest humility, Ms. Weil said in her acceptance, I thought you guys would never ask. Eric Burdon of the Animals and Ronnie Spector of the Ronettes performed at the ceremony, in 2011 Mann and Weil received the Johnny Mercer Award—the highest honor from the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2015, Weil published her first novel, Im Glad I Did It, sweet Survivor - Peter, Paul, and Mary - written with Peter Yarrow, from the LP Reunion,1978. As of 2010, the Righteous Brothers rendition was radios most-played song of all time, audio interview with Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann on the Sodajerker on Songwriting podcast Cynthia Weil biography at Allmusic website Cynthia Weil at the Internet Movie Database
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Tony Renis
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Tony Renis, stage name of Elio Cesari, is an Italian singer, composer, songwriter, music producer and film actor. Born in Milan, he debuted in the mid-1950s, paired with Adriano Celentano, performing an impression of Dean Martin, in 1958, he signed to the label Combo Record as a singer and started releasing covers of Italian and American songs. In 1961, Renis debuted at the Sanremo Music Festival with the song Pozzanghere, in 1962, Renis gained international success with the song Quando, quando, quando, written with Alberto Testa and performed at the Sanremo Music Festival. One year later, he won the same Festival with the song Una per tutte, in 1972, he composed the song Grande grande grande with Alberto Testa, successfully performed by Mina, and later by Shirley Bassey under the English translation title Never Never Never. In 1974, he won the Nastro dArgento for the Best Score for the score of Brothers Blue, in the 1980s, Tony Renis mainly worked as music producer and, in 1981, he launched the career of Nikka Costa. In 1999, Renis received a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Oscar for the song The Prayer, performed by Céline Dion and Andrea Bocelli, in 2005, he won a David di Donatello for the song Merry Christmas in Love from the film Christmas in Love. The song was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Original Song at the 63rd Golden Globe Awards. He received the America Award of the Italy-USA Foundation in 2016, directed by Duccio Tessari Totò Ye Ye, directed by Daniele DAnza Tony Renis at the Internet Movie Database
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Paul Jabara
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Paul Jabara, also known as Paul Frederick Jabara, was an American actor, singer, and songwriter of Lebanese ancestry, born in Brooklyn, New York City. He wrote Donna Summers Last Dance from Thank God Its Friday and he cowrote The Weather Girls hit Its Raining Men with Paul Shaffer. Jabaras cousin and close friend Jad Azkoul is also a Lebanese-American musician specialising in classical guitar, Jabara was in the original cast of the stage musicals Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar. He took over the role of Frank-N-Furter in the Los Angeles Production of The Rocky Horror Show when Tim Curry left the production to film the movie version in England. In the 1978 film Thank God Its Friday he played the role of Carl, the lovelorn and nearsighted disco goer, and he also contributed as a singer on two tracks on the original soundtrack album. In 1981 Jabara starred in yet another John Schlesinger film, the comedy Honky Tonk Freeway, as truck driver/songwriter T. J. Tupus, hauling lions and a rhino. Jabara wrote the book, music, lyrics and starred in an abortive Broadway musical and it closed in previews prior to its official opening and was never reviewed by the press. No recording was made of the score, which featured both Jabaras trademark disco music as well as more traditional Broadway-style numbers, Jabara released his first album, Shut Out, in 1977. Jabaras solo albums on the disco label Casablanca Records include three duets with Donna Summer, Shut Out, Somethings Missing and Never Lose Your Sense Of Humor. In 1979, Jabara won both Grammy Award for Best R&B Song and the Academy Award for Best Original Song for the performed by Donna Summer. Jabaras album Paul Jabara & Friends, released in 1983, features guest vocals by a then 20-year-old Whitney Houston and it also includes the song Its Raining Men. That song was later re-recorded several years later by drag supermodel RuPaul, Wash sang on the original recording as part of the group The Weather Girls. Some other songs Jabara wrote for others to include, No More Tears. In 2005, a workshop of a musical entitled Last Dance played New York City and it was a musical assembled from Jabaras well known disco songs and told the story of a modern-day teenager who goes back in time to spend one night at Studio 54. Jabara received many awards for his work throughout his lifetime, Paul Jabara died from AIDS complications after a long illness in Los Angeles, California at the age of 44 on September 29,1992. He is buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, on June 14,2014, Mr. Jabara was featured in the first gay-themed tour of Green-Wood Cemetery, a National Historic Landmark
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Jay Asher
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Jay Asher is an American writer of contemporary novels for teens. He has one publication in the genre of young adult literature. Jay Asher was born in Arcadia, California on September 30,1975 and he grew up with a family that encouraged him to pursue all of his interests, from playing the guitar to his writing. He attended Cuesta Community College right after graduating from San Luis Obispo High School and it was here where he wrote his first two children’s books for a class called Children’s Literature Appreciation. After high school, he decided he wanted to become a school teacher. He then transferred to California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo where he left his senior year in order to pursue his career as a serious writer and he married Joan Marie on September 7,2002. Throughout his life he worked in various establishments, including working as a salesman in a shoe store, many of his work experiences influenced some aspect of his writing. He has published two books to date, Thirteen Reasons Why, a 2007 New York Times best-selling young-adult fiction novel and he has written several picture books and middle school humor novels. Thirteen Reasons Why has won awards and has received five stars from Teen Book Review. It also has received praise from fellow authors such as Ellen Hopkins, Sherman Alexie, and Chris Crutcher. Asher is a fan of the TV series My So-Called Life and he cites it as a major influence on his work. It was announced that Netflix will create a miniseries based on Ashers novel Thirteen Reasons Why with Selena Gomez as the executive producer, Thirteen Reasons Why This is the story of Hannah Baker, a girl who dies by suicide. She reveals her thirteen reasons for her decision in a series of seven audio tapes mailed to a classmate with instructions to them from one student to another. Through Hannahs recorded voice, her classmates learn the reasons why Hannah decides to take her own life, besides Hannah, the reader also sees the story through the eyes of Clay Jensen, one of the recipients of the tapes. Asher was inspired to write due to incidents that happened in his high school, the Future of Us This was co-written with Carolyn Mackler. This is the story of Josh and Emma, two teenagers who used to be best friends until a huge misunderstanding, in 1996, Josh helps Emma set up her internet, only to find Facebook - before it has been invented. There, they can see themselves 15 years in the future - status updates, information, friends, using Facebook, they are able to change their destinies. So Sierra lives two lives, her life in Oregon and her life at Christmas, and leaving one always means missing the other
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Carole Bayer Sager
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Carole Bayer Sager is an American lyricist, singer, songwriter and painter and NY Times Best-Selling Author Sager was born in Manhattan to Anita Nathan Bayer and Eli Bayer. She graduated from New York University, where she majored in English, dramatic arts and she had already written her first pop hit, A Groovy Kind of Love, with Toni Wine, while still a student at New York Citys High School of Music and Art. It was recorded by the British invasion band the Mindbenders, whose version was a worldwide hit and this song was later recorded by Sonny & Cher, Petula Clark, and Phil Collins, whose rendition for the film Buster reached number one in 1988. She also had a career as a singer, including her 1977 Australian number one single Youre Moving Out Today which also reached Number 6 in the UK singles chart in June 1977. Sagers first recording as a singer was the 1977 album Carole Bayer Sager, which included Youre Moving Out Today, the album went platinum in Japan, Australia, and the United Kingdom. She had many hits during the seventies, with Marvin Hamlisch and Neil Simon, she wrote the lyrics for the stage musical Theyre Playing Our Song which was loosely based on her relationship with Hamlisch. The musical ran for three years on Broadway. Many of Sagers 1980s songs were co-written with her former husband and she executive-produced the eponymous solo album for June Pointer, of The Pointer Sisters, in 1989. Sager has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, and she was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987. Sager won the Academy Award for Best Song in 1981 for Arthurs Theme, Sager received the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1987 for the song Thats What Friends Are For, which she co-wrote with Bacharach. This song was written for the movie Night Shift. This song was popularized in a 1986 cover version by Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight, and Elton John. Her song with David Foster, The Prayer originally recorded by Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli, won the Golden Globe and is one of few songs to be sung at weddings and funerals alike. She was rewarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, along with Bruce Roberts and Kenneth Babyface Edmonds, Carole Bayer Sager helped write the song, Stronger Together sung by Jessica Sanchez. The song was played after Hillary Clintons speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, the songs title is named after the slogan that the Clinton campaign uses as a show of uniting behind the Democratic nominee. The song is currently #5 on the Billboard Dance Charts this week, the song was widely perceived as positive by the listeners, and even received praise by celebrities like Jennifer Lopez and Kim Kardashian. Her first solo art show was in March 2011 at the L. A. Arthouse in Los Angeles and her second show ran for two months at the William Turner Gallery in Bergamot Station, Los Angeles, in 2012. Her third show New Works ran from Sept-November at William Turner Gallery in Los Angeles, Sager has served for the last seven years as a trustee of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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When I Fall in Love
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When I Fall in Love is a popular song, written by Victor Young and Edward Heyman. It was introduced in the film One Minute to Zero, jeri Southern sang on the first recording released in April 1952 with the songs composer, Victor Young, handling the arranging and conducting duties. The song has become a standard, with artists recording it. Days recording was made on June 5,1952 and it was released by Columbia Records as catalog number 39786 and issued with the flip side Take Me in Your Arms. The song reached number 20 on the Billboard chart, a version was recorded by Nat King Cole on December 28,1956. It was issued by Capitol Records on an LP album entitled Love Is the Thing, the song was also used in the movie called Istanbul. Cole played in the movie and sang the song, the single was released in the UK in 1957, and reached number 2 on the UK singles chart. This recording was re-released in 1987 and reached number 4 and this version won two awards at the 39th Grammy Awards, Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals and Best Instrumental Arrangement with Accompanying Vocal for arrangers Alan Broadbent and David Foster. Johnny Mathis recorded it on his 1959 album Open Fire, Two Guitars, sandra Dee covered the song in 1960. Blues-lounge singer Etta Jones released a version on the song in 1960, a version by The Lettermen was issued as a single in 1961 and became quite popular, spending 14 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching No. 7, while reaching No.1 on the Billboards Easy Listening chart, veteran drummer Earl Palmer played on this version. Big-band leader Guy Lombardo recorded the song and his version was released in 1962, and appears on his Decca LP By Special Request. Teen idol/TV star Johnny Crawford recorded the song and his version was released in 1963. Donny Osmond covered the song in 1973 for his album, A Time for Us and it spent 13 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching No. 55, while reaching No.4 on the UK Singles Chart, the Carpenters recorded this song for their last television special, Music, Music, Music. Richard Carpenter officially released it on their album Lovelines in 1989, the song appeared on their second compilation, Interpretations, in 1994. Carpenter also released a VHS tape called Interpretations, which held the When I Fall in Love music video, in 1984, Linda Ronstadt released the song as the lead track on her album Lush Life and as a single. Ronstadts version reached No.24 on Billboards Adult Contemporary chart, Little Willie Littlefield recorded a version for his 1990 album Singalong with Little Willie Littlefield
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Victor Young
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Not to be confused with the actor Victor Sen Yung who was sometimes billed as Victor Young Victor Young was an American composer, arranger, violinist and conductor. Young was born in Chicago on August 8,1900, into a very musical Jewish family, his father being a member of one Joseph Sheehan’s touring Opera company. The young Victor began playing violin at the age of six and he studied the piano with Isidor Philipp of the Paris Conservatory. While still a teenager he embarked on a career as a concert violinist with the Warsaw Philharmonic under Juliusz Wertheim, assistant conductor in 1915–16. His future wife, Rita Kinel, who met him in late 1918, used to food to him. He returned to Chicago in 1920 to join the orchestra at Central Park Casino, after turning to popular music, he worked for a while as violinist-arranger for Ted Fio Rito. In 1930 Chicago bandleader and radio-star Isham Jones commissioned Young to write an instrumental of Hoagy Carmichaels Stardust. Young slowed it down and played the melody as a gorgeous romantic violin solo which inspired Mitchell Parish to write lyrics for what became a much performed love song. In the mid-1930s he moved to Hollywood where he concentrated on films, recordings of music and providing backing for popular singers. Young was signed to Brunswick in 1931 where his studio groups recorded scores of dance music, waltzes. His studio groups often contained some of the best jazz musicians in New York, including Bunny Berigan, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey, Joe Venuti, Arthur Schutt, Eddie Lang, and others. He used first-rate vocalists, including Paul Small, Dick Robertson, Harlan Lattimore, Smith Ballew, Helen Rowland, Frank Munn, The Boswell Sisters, Lee Wiley and others. One of his most interesting recordings was the January 22,1932 session containing songs written by Herman Hupfeld, Goopy Geer and Down The Old Back Road, which Hupfeld sang and played piano on. In late 1934, Young signed with Decca and continued recording in New York until mid-1936, on radio, he was the musical director of The Old Gold Don Ameche Show and Harvest of Stars. He was musical director for many of Bing Crosbys recordings for the American branch of Decca Records, for Decca, he also conducted the first album of songs from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, a sort of pre-soundtrack cover version rather than a true soundtrack album. The album featured Judy Garland and the Ken Darby Singers singing songs from the film in Youngs own arrangements and he also composed the music for several Decca spoken word albums. He received 22 Academy Award nominations for his work in film, twice being nominated four times in a single year and he received his only Oscar posthumously for his score of Around the World in Eighty Days. Thus, Victor Young holds the record for most Oscar nominations before winning the first award and his last scores were for the 1957 films Omar Khayyam, Run of the Arrow, and China Gate, which were released after his death
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David Gates
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The band was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame. Originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma, Gates was surrounded by music from infancy, as the son of a band director and he became proficient in piano, bass and guitar by the time he enrolled in Tulsas Will Rogers High School. Gates joined local bands around Tulsa, during a concert in 1957, his high school band backed Chuck Berry. Later, Gates released his first local hit single, Jo-Baby, a song he had written for his sweetheart, Jo Rita, at Oklahoma he became a member of Delta Tau Delta International Fraternity. In 1961, he and his moved to Los Angeles, where Gates continued writing songs, and he worked as a music copyist, as a studio musician. His composition Popsicles and Icicles hit No.3 on the US Hot 100 for The Murmaids in January 1964, the Monkees recorded another of his songs, Saturdays Child. By the end of the 1960s, he had worked with leading artists, including Elvis Presley, Bobby Darin, Merle Haggard, Duane Eddy. In 1965, Gates arranged the Glenn Yarbrough hit, Baby the Rain Must Fall, in 1966, he produced two singles on A&M Records for Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band which were hits in the Los Angeles area. In the meantime, Gates had been releasing singles of his own on several labels in the early 1960s. On Mala Records, he released Manchester 101, Theres a Heaven/She Dont Cry, Youll Be My Baby/Whats This I Hear, The Happiest Man Alive/A Road That Leads to Love, and Jo Baby/Teardrops in My Heart. On Planetary, he released Little Miss Stuck Up/The Brighter Side, on Del-Fi, he released No One Really Loves a Clown/You Had It Comin to Ya. He also released a single under the name of The Manchesters in 1965 on the Vee-Jay Label, in 1967, Gates produced and arranged the debut album of a band called The Pleasure Fair, of which Robb Royer was a member. A little over a year later, Gates and Royer got together with Jimmy Griffin to form Bread, the group was signed by Elektra, where it would remain for the eight years of its existence. It released its first album, Bread, in 1969, which peaked at No.127 on the Billboard 200, the first single, Dismal Day, written by Gates, was released in June 1969 but did not sell well. Breads second album, On the Waters, with a new drummer, Mike Botts, was released in 1970 and it contained the No.1 single Make It with You and was the first of seven consecutive Bread albums to go Gold in the US. Breads next three albums, Manna, Baby Im-a Want You and Guitar Man were also successful, with chart singles. From 1970 to 1973, Bread charted 11 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, all of which were written and that caused some antagonism between Gates and Griffin, who was also a significant contributor to Breads albums as a singer and songwriter. Bread disbanded in 1973, much to the surprise of fans and their last concert was performed at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City, Utah on May 19,1973
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Hal David
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Harold Lane Hal David was an American lyricist. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York City and he was best known for his collaborations with composer Burt Bacharach and his association with Dionne Warwick. David was born in New York City, a son of Austrian Jewish immigrants Lina and Gedalier David, who owned a delicatessen in Brooklyn and he is credited with popular music lyrics, beginning in the 1940s with material written for bandleader Sammy Kaye and for Guy Lombardo. He worked with Morty Nevins of The Three Suns on four songs for the feature film Two Gals, in 1957, David met composer Burt Bacharach at Famous Music in the Brill Building in New York. The two teamed up and wrote their first hit The Story of My Life, recorded by Marty Robbins in 1957, J. Thomas, Gene Pitney, Tom Jones, Jackie DeShannon and others. In addition, Dont Make Me Over, Close to You and Walk On By have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. A. with Albert Hammond, recorded by Hammond and later Art Garfunkel. With Paul Hampton, David co-wrote the country standard Sea of Heartbreak, David and Bacharach were awarded the 2011 Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, bestowed by the Library of Congress, the first time a songwriting team was given the honor. David was recuperating from a recent illness and was unable to attend the Washington D. C. presentation ceremony in May 2012, David died in the morning hours of September 1,2012, of a stroke. He is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park beside his first wife, Anne, Hal David at Find a Grave Hal David Interview - NAMM Oral History Library
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Michael Landau
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Michael Landau is an American musician, engineer, and record producer. Landau, along with session guitarists Dean Parks, Steve Lukather, Michael Thompson and Dann Huff. He has released music with record labels including Ulftone Music and Tone Center Records. In addition to his work, Landau has also fronted several bands including Raging Honkies. In the early 1980s, he was also in the band Maxus that featured future Los Angeles session musicians Robbie Buchanan, Jay Gruska, and Doane Perry. At age 19, he joined Boz Scaggs for a tour and by the age of 20, he started to do session work on the recommendation of long time friend. Landau cites influences including The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Cream, The Band, Weather Report, Pat Martino, Landau has a signature Single coil guitar pickup with Suhr Guitars called the ML. In 2013, Fender announced that they would be collaborating with Landau on a signature stratocaster, other notable users of such systems were Steve Lukather and Eddie Van Halen among others
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Michael Boddicker
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Michael Lehmann Boddicker, is an American film composer and session musician, specializing in electronic music. Most Valuable Player Synthesizer and MVP Emeritus, he was awarded a Grammy as a songwriter for Imagination from Flashdance in 1984. In recognition of his achievements, contributions and furtherance of electronic music in the industry he was presented with an honorary doctorate of music from Coe College in 1991. He has given seminars at such noticeable entities as FIDM, Coe, The International Computer Music Conference and he was the winner of Keyboard Magazines Readers Poll Award - Best Studio Synthesist 1986 &1987 and Best Session Player 1988. Boddicker grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and his parents operated a music store there. His ancestors emigrated in 1861 from the village of Brilon, Province of Westphalia and he is a distant cousin of the Major League Baseball player, Mike Boddicker, who is also originally from Cedar Rapids. He attended The University of Iowa where he studied music, poetry. He later went on to The University of Wisconsin for jazz improvisation, one of Boddickers earliest soundtrack collaborations of note was a score for a short experimental claymation film made by Gumby creator Art Clokey entitled Mandala. Soon after that he entered the mainstream with work on films as Saturday Night Fever, Battlestar Galactica. Boddicker officially changed his name to Michael Lehmann Boddicker when he married singer/conductor/actress Edie Lehmann in 1995 and they have raised four children together in Los Angeles, CA. As a session musician he played synthesizer on, among others, Michael Jacksons This Is It, HIStory, Thriller, Bad, additionally, Blue Cross - Moses with Don Piestrup. A. Elsewhere - Series Bronx Zoo - Series Our House - Series Simon & Simon - Series Wilton Northrop Report - Series Amerika - Mini Series Space - Mini Series Roots - Mini Series I Saw What You Did - T. V. Movie Murder Of Mary Phagan - T. V, Movie Down Payment On Murder - T. V. Movie Long Journey Home - T. V, Movie NBC Olympics Coverage The Equalizer-Series Annie McGuire-Series Falcon Crest-Series War Story- HBO Special Michael Boddicker at the Internet Movie Database Moviessoundtrack
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David Foster
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David Walter Foster, OC, OBC, is a Canadian musician, record producer, composer, songwriter, and arranger. Foster has won 16 Grammy Awards from 47 nominations and he is the chairman of Verve Records. Foster was born in Victoria, British Columbia, the son of Maurice Foster, a maintenance yard superintendent, and Eleanor May Foster, in 1963, at the age of 13, he enrolled in the University of Washington music program. In 1966, he joined a band for Chuck Berry. In his teens, he moved to England with the Victoria rock band, the Strangers, in 1974, he moved to Los Angeles with his band Skylark. Foster was a keyboardist for the pop group Skylark, discovered by Eirik Wangberg, the bands song, Wildflower, was a top ten hit in 1973. In 1975, he played on George Harrisons album Extra Texture and he followed that up by playing the Fender Rhodes and clavinet on Harrisons album Thirty Three & 1/3 a year later. In 1976 Foster joined Guthrie Thomas on Thomas 2nd Capitol Records album, Lies and Alibis, with Ringo Starr and a host of many other famed performers. Foster was a contributor to the 1979 Earth, Wind and Fire album I Am. The most noteworthy being the song After the Love Has Gone for which Foster, Foster worked as an album producer on albums for The Tubes, 1981s The Completion Backward Principle, and 1983s Outside Inside. Foster cowrote such songs as Talk to Ya Later, the Top 40 hit Dont Want to Wait Anymore, and these four songs were cowritten with the band’s lead vocalist Peter Cetera. Foster also helped Cetera cowrite his US No.1 solo hit Glory of Love in 1986, Foster cowrote Kenny Logginss songs Forever, from the 1985 album Vox Humana, and Heart to Heart, from the 1982 album High Adventure. In 1985, Rolling Stone magazine named Foster the master of and that year, Foster composed the score for the film St. Elmos Fire, including the instrumental Love Theme from St. Elmos Fire, which hit No.15 on the US pop charts. Another song from the film, St. Elmos Fire, recorded by John Parr, in the following years, Foster continued turning out occasional film scores, including for the Michael J. Foster composed Winter Games, the theme song for 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta. Winter Games is also the soundtrack for fountain shows at the Bellagio resort in Las Vegas, in 1995, Foster signed a deal with Warner Brothers that enabled him to set up his own boutique label,143 Records, as a joint venture with Warner. Foster gave the responsibility for running the label to then manager Brian Avnet, One of the labels first signings was a then-little known Irish folk-rock band, The Corrs, for whom he produced their debut album. Foster, along with Kenneth Babyface Edmonds, composed The Power of the Dream, Foster produced major-label debut albums for Josh Groban, Michael Bublé, Renee Olstead, and Charice, which were released under his 143 Records. Foster, with his then-wife Thompson, composed Light the Fire Within, in 2003, Foster won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music and Lyrics for The Concert for World Childrens Day
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Nicky Hopkins
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Nicholas Christian Nicky Hopkins was an English pianist and organist. Hopkins recorded and performed on many notable British and American pop, nicholas Christian Hopkins was born in Perivale, Middlesex, England, on 24 February 1944. He began playing piano at age three and he suffered from Crohns disease from his youth. His poor health and repeated surgery would later make it difficult for him to tour, Hopkins played piano on their first single, Davies much-admired theme tune Country Line Special. However he was forced to leave the All Stars in May 1963 for a series of operations that almost cost him his life and was bed-ridden for nineteen months in his teenage years. During his convalescence Davies died of leukaemia and the All Stars disbanded, Hopkins frail health led him to concentrate on working as a session musician instead of joining bands, although he left his mark performing with a wide variety of famous bands. He quickly became one of Londons most in-demand session pianists and performed on many hit recordings from this period. He worked extensively for leading UK independent producers Shel Talmy and Andrew Loog Oldham and performed on albums and singles by the Easybeats, the Kinks, the Pretty Things, the Move and The Who. In 1967 he joined the Jeff Beck Group, formed by former Yardbirds guitarist Jeff Beck with vocalist Rod Stewart, bassist Ronnie Wood and drummer Micky Waller, playing on the LPs Truth and Beck-Ola. The following year, Hopkins recorded Beggars Banquet with the Rolling Stones, having worked for them on their 1967 single We Love You. He also recorded for several San Franciscan groups, playing on albums by Jefferson Airplane, the New Riders of the Purple Sage and he briefly joined Quicksilver Messenger Service and also appeared with the Jerry Garcia Band. Further raising his profile, he contributed to several Harry Nilsson albums in the early 1970s, including Nilsson Schmilsson and Son of Schmilsson, Hopkins played with the Rolling Stones on their studio albums from Between the Buttons in 1967 through Emotional Rescue in 1980 and Tattoo You in 1981. Hopkins work with the Rolling Stones is perhaps most prominent on their 1972 studio album, along with Ry Cooder, Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts, Hopkins released the 1972 album Jamming with Edward. It was recorded in 1969, during the Stones Let It Bleed sessions, the eponymous Edward was an alias of Nicky Hopkins derived from studio banter with Brian Jones. It became the title for an outstanding Hopkins performance – Edward, Hopkins also contributed to the Jamming With Edward. Hopkins was added to the Rolling Stones live line-up for the 1971 Good-Bye Britain Tour, as well as the notorious 1972 North American Tour and he started to form his own band around this time but decided against it after the Stones tour. He had planned on using Prairie Prince on drums and Pete Sears on bass, Hopkins failed to make the Rolling Stones 1973 tour of Europe due to ill health and, aside from a guest appearance in 1978, did not play again with the Stones live on stage. He did manage to go on tour with the Jerry Garcia Band, Hopkins was invited in 1965 by producer Shel Talmy to record with the Kinks
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James Newton Howard
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James Newton Howard is an American composer, conductor, music producer and musician. He has scored over 100 films and is the recipient of a Grammy Award, Emmy Award, and eight Academy Award nominations. He has collaborated with directors M. Night Shyamalan, having scored nine of his films since The Sixth Sense, James Newton Howard was born in Los Angeles. He came from a family, his grandmother was the Pittsburgh Symphonys concertmaster. Howard began studying music as a child, taking piano lessons at the age of four. He went on to attend the Thacher School in Ojai, California, after Howard left college, he joined a short-lived rock band, then worked for a couple of years as a session musician with artists including Diana Ross, Ringo Starr, and Harry Nilsson. In the early 70s, he described himself as being dirt poor and he joined Eltons band and toured with them as keyboardist during the late 70s and early 80s. He was part of the band that played Central Park, New York, in 1982, Howard was featured on Toto IV as the strings conductor and orchestrator for I Wont Hold You Back, Afraid of Love, and Lovers in the Night. A year later, he released the live album James Newton Howard and Friends, which featured Totos David Paich, Steve Porcaro, Jeff Porcaro, in 1983, Howard was co-producer, musician, and orchestrator of Riccardo Cocciantes album Sincerità. After briefly touring with Crosby, Stills and Nash, he took an opportunity brought to him by his manager to write a score for a small-time movie. This career move would lead to his becoming a film music composer. He conducted both his own and Paul Buckmasters arrangements during the half of the set, which focused on orchestrated performances of selected songs from the Elton John catalog. When delving into his history, twenty-five years after the death of his father. He later became a practicing Reconstructionist Jew, Howard scored the surprise blockbuster romantic comedy Pretty Woman and received his first Academy Award nomination for his score for Barbra Streisands drama The Prince of Tides. Night Shyamalans The Village, and Michael Clayton, in addition, Howard scored the Western epic Wyatt Earp, Kevin Costners Waterworld, and Primal Fear. His collaborations on songs for One Fine Day and Junior garnered Oscar nominations for Best Song and he has also scored three Disney animated feature films, Dinosaur, Atlantis, The Lost Empire and Treasure Planet. On October 14,2005 Howard replaced Howard Shore as composer for King Kong, the resultant score earned Howard his first Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Score. His work on Michael Clayton earned him an Oscar nomination and he followed in 2008 with his eighth Oscar nomination for Edward Zwicks Defiance
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Greg Phillinganes
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Gregory Arthur Greg Phillinganes is an American keyboardist, singer, songwriter, and musical director based in Los Angeles, California. A prolific session musician, Phillinganes has contributed tracks to numerous albums representing a broad array of artists. He has toured with artists such as Stevie Wonder, Eric Clapton, and Toto, served as musical director for Michael Jackson. Gregory Arthur Phillinganes was born on May 12,1956, in Detroit and he began playing a neighbors piano by ear at the age of two, beginning lessons a few years later after his mother purchased a piano for him. Phillinganes credits Kotler with showing him proper hand posture and for influencing him to play with a sense of dexterity, Phillinganes was discovered by Stevie Wonder after drummer Ricky Lawson gave him a cassette of instrumental renditions of his own songs done by Phillinganes. Phillinganes auditioned for Wonders band, Wonderlove, and subsequently played with them from 1976 to 1981,1978 began a three-decade-long involvement with Michael Jackson and The Jacksons for Phillinganes. He arranged The Jacksons 1978 album Destiny and played keyboard on the 1980s Triumph album, in the process, he became close with the Jackson family, accompanying them to Walt Disney World and referring to Katherine Jackson as mom. He contributed to one of Michael Jacksons solo albums. In an interview with Atlanta, Phillinganes recalled, I did the bass part. When I listen to it now, I just think about all the fun we had creating all those layers in the studio. Although paid as a musician for his contributions to Thriller, the best-selling album of all time, Phillinganes noted that he. He was the director for Michael Jacksons Bad and Dangerous concert tours, as well as the Michael Jackson. He describes his involvement with the 30th Anniversary Special as particularly emotional considering his history with the family. Phillinganes has spoken at length about how much of his life he had spent with the Jacksons, in 1981, Phillinganes released his first solo album, Significant Gains. The Boston Globe reviewer Richard Cromonic noted that Stevie Wonders influence on the sound is pronounced. He criticized the lyrics as being creative, and said that Significant Gains might be too close to Wonders sound. While the album itself was not very successful, the song Baby, three years later, Phillinganes released his follow-up album Pulse, which featured another minor hit, a cover of Yellow Magic Orchestras song Behind the Mask. This single was successful on the dance music charts
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