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Hollywood Records
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Hollywood Records, Inc. is an American record label of the Disney Music Group. The label focuses in pop, rock, alternative, hip hop, the label also releases Marvel Studioss soundtrack and compilation albums in conjunction with Marvel Music. At the time, the company was limited to the release of soundtracks from Touchstone, lawyer Peter Paterno was the first president of the label, until his resignation in 1993 because of the divisions lackluster sales. In 1997, Disney acquired Mammoth Records, in order to get a record label that could succeed. However, the acquisition of Mammoth was a failure and the label was closed and integrated to Hollywood in 2003. In 1998, the decided to form Buena Vista Music Group, integrating the operations of Walt Disney Records along with Hollywood, Lyric Street, Mammoth. Bob Cavallo, former manager of Earth, Wind & Fire and Prince was appointed as chairman of the group and this movement looked to organize the music operations of the company under a more integrated direction. The launch of Duffs career represents a new model for the record, utilising the synergies around the company, including important outlets like Disney Channel, Radio Disney. Duffs albums released under Hollywood proved to be successful including 2004s Hilary Duff. Their musical careers proved that the label had become a success, the label also continued to release soundtracks from films and TV shows, mainly those derived from Marvel Studios productions. In 2010, Hollywood absorbed the operations of country music label Lyric Street Records. In 2011, Queen left EMI for Universal-owned Island Records, with Hollywood continuing to remain the groups North American music distributor. In January 2012, after 14 years of a successful tenure, Bob Cavallo retired as chairman of the Group, since 2013, Hollywood Records also uses the brand name DMG Nashville to specialize in country music. The genre label was founded to provide music licensing for Bigger Picture Music Group, after Bigger Pictures closure in 2014, DMG Nashville released its first studio album, Lucy Hales Road Between. Hollywood Basic was Hollywood’s short-lived hip-hop subsidiary, run by Dave Funkenklein and it also released Shadows Legitimate Mix on the B-side of a single by the group Zimbabwe Legit in 1992. Although the BASIC Beats Sampler confirmed its release date for April 1992, other notable releases came from Organized Konfusion, its challenging second album, Stress, The Extinction Agenda, was widely acclaimed. The label was home of Charizma and Peanut Butter Wolf, although, following the shooting death of Charizma in 1993. This would later inspire Peanut Butter Wolf to found Stones Throw Records in order to make this music available, acts on Hollywood BASICs roster included Charizma and Peanut Butter Wolf, Lifers Group, Organized Konfusion, Raw Fusion, Hi-C, and Zimbabwe Legit
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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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Rob Cavallo
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Robert Siers Rob Cavallo is an American record producer, musician and chairman of Warner Bros. He is also a multiple Grammy Award winner, Cavallo plays multiple instruments and has professional credits for his bass, keyboard, organ, piano, guitar and percussion work. Cavallo was born in Washington, DC and moved to Los Angeles and his interest in music began at age 11 after listening to his fathers The Beatles collection. He graduated from the University of Southern California, as a member of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity, Cavallo also attended the Dick Grove School of Music. Cavallo worked with George Massenburg at The Complex Recording Studios early in his career and he joined Warner Bros. Records as A&R representative in 1987 and worked with Black Sabbath as one of his first assignments. He also signed both the Goo Goo Dolls and Green Day during his first tenure at Warner Bros, Cavallo became senior vice-president of A&R of Hollywood Records in 1998. He moved to Warner Music Group in 2002 and became chief officer of the company in 2009. Cavallo became chairman of Warner Bros. Records in 2010, Cavallo also co-founded Level 7, a media company, with Broadcom Corporation co-founder Henry T. Nicholas III. Cavallo has produced multiple platinum-selling albums and tracks, Cavallo-produced Fleetwood Mac album Say You Will went gold in the US, Canada and Britain. Dave Matthews Bands Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200 rankings, phil Collins single Cant Stop Loving You, off the Cavallo-produced album Testify, peaked at number one on the Adult Contemporary chart. Two Cavallo-produced Goo Goo Dolls tracks, Iris and Slide, were included in Billboards top 100 pop songs 1992–2012, Iris was the top pop song from 1992–2012 and Slide was ninth-best according to Billboards list. Cavallo played an important role as A&R Representative for Linkin Parks single Burn It Down which reached the 30th position on the Billboard Hot 100 and was certified as Platinum by RIAA, Billboard Magazine ranked Cavallo number 45 in their 2012 Power 100 rankings. Rob Cavallos legendary Taylor Guitar used on 10 number one songs
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Goo Goo Dolls
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The Goo Goo Dolls are an American rock band formed in 1986 in Buffalo, New York, by vocalist and guitarist John Rzeznik, vocalist and bassist Robby Takac, and drummer George Tutuska. Mike Malinin was the drummer from January 1995 until December 27,2013. Although renowned for their commercially successful 1998 single Iris, they have had other notable and popular singles including Name. The Goo Goo Dolls have had 19 top ten singles on various charts, in October 2012, Iris was ranked #1 on Billboards Top 100 Pop Songs 1992–2012 chart, which also featured Goo Goo Dolls hits Slide, ranking at #9, and Name at #24. Their biggest hit, Iris, from the City of Angels soundtrack, spent nearly 12 straight months on the Billboard charts and held the number one position on the Hot 100 Airplay chart for 18 weeks. The first single from their 2010 album, Something for the Rest of Us, Home, the bands tenth album, Magnetic, was released on June 11,2013. On May 6,2016, their studio album, Boxes, was released. The bands original lineup included John Rzeznik, Robby Takac, Takac and Tutuska had been long-time friends in school and met Rzeznik while he was playing in the band The Beaumonts with Takacs cousin, Paul Takac. The trio picked their name from a True Detective ad for a toy called a Goo Goo Doll and we were young and we were a garage band not trying to get a deal. We had a gig that night and needed a name and its the best we came up with, and for some reason it stuck. If I had five minutes, I definitely would have picked a better name. With Takac as their singer, the band released their first album, Goo Goo Dolls in 1987 on Mercenary Records, but was picked up in 1988 by Celluloid Records. They played around Buffalos underground music circuit opening for bands such as SNFU, Dag Nasty, ALL, The Dead Milkmen, Gang Green, Doughboys. The band released its second album Jed in 1989, after being embraced by local college radio and punk scenes, the Goo Goo Dolls third release incorporated elements of heavy metal, pop rock, and punk rock. In 1991, the song Im Awake Now was recorded for the soundtrack of Freddys Dead, superstar Car Wash, released in 1993, received significant media attention. The critical success and encouraging sales of their last album resulted in a budget from Metal Blade Records. The album was recorded at Metalworks Studios in Mississauga, Ontario. We Are the Normal received a push toward play on college and independent radio
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Another Cinderella Story (soundtrack)
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Another Cinderella Story is the soundtrack album from the film of the same name. The album was released as a physical CD and digital download on August 26,2008 by Razor & Tie, the album debuted number eight on the Billboard Top Soundtracks chart and has sold over 1,629,000 copies. The soundtrack is loaded with modern pop and hip hop music, enchanting atmosphere of the film, Gomez performs the lead track and smash single Tell Me Something I Dont Know, as well as three other songs on the album. Co-star and Gomezs film love interest Drew Seeley adds his heart-throb flair to five tracks as well, Another Cinderella Story - EP is a spinoff extended play featuring Selena Gomez, from the film Another Cinderella Story. The EP was released by Razor & Tie
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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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Our Lips Are Sealed
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Our Lips Are Sealed is a song written by The Go-Gos guitarist Jane Wiedlin and The Specials and Fun Boy Three singer Terry Hall. It was first recorded by The Go-Gos as the track on their 1981 album Beauty. The single eventually reached top 5 in Australia and Canada, although originally written and performed with three verses, an abbreviated version of the song appears on Beauty and the Beat. In 1983, Halls band, Fun Boy Three, released their version of Our Lips Are Sealed. Issued as a single, the became a top ten hit in the UK. In 2000, Rolling Stone named Our Lips Are Sealed one of the 100 Greatest Pop Songs of all time, the Go-Gos were supporting The Specials on the latters 1980 United States tour. According to Wiedlin she and Hall had an affair despite his having a girlfriend back in England. The Go-Gos version is more upbeat than Fun Boy Threes. The official music video for the song sequences of the band members in carefree tableaux interspersed with footage of the band playing a club booking. Jane Wiedlin says the band was initially unenthusiastic about doing the video when Miles Copeland, president of their label, records, told them they would be doing it. We were totally bratty, she recalls, the video was financed with unused funds from The Polices video budget. The concept was for the band to drive around and be followed by a camera, Belinda Carlisle would sing, and the other members would do cute things. They wanted an older-style convertible and found a 1960 Buick at Rent-a-Wreck and it was, says Wiedlin, the bands idea to end the video by jumping into the Electric Fountain on the corner of Wilshire and Santa Monica Boulevards in Beverly Hills. I thought, at any minute the cops are gonna come and this is gonna be so cool. Wiedlin looks back on the experience fondly. I have horrible 80s poodle hair in, she recalled in a 2011 history of MTV, but theres a simplicity and innocence to the video that appeals to me. In one sequence, Belinda Carlisle can be trying to hide, she later admitted this was deliberate, as she thought the whole idea of music video was ridiculous. The original version peaked at number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, on the dance chart, the song peaked at number 10
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A Cinderella Story
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A Cinderella Story is a 2004 American romantic comedy film directed by Mark Rosman, written by Leigh Dunlap and stars Hilary Duff, Chad Michael Murray, Jennifer Coolidge and Regina King. A modernization of the classic Cinderella folk lore, the plot revolves around two Internet pen pals who plan meet in person at their high schools Halloween dance. The film was released in July 16,2004, while it received negative reviews from critics, the film was a box office success, grossing $70 million against its $19 million budget. Sam Montgomery lives in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles, with her widowed father Hal, Hal soon marries an exceedingly vain, and selfish woman named Fiona, who has socially-awkward fraternal twin daughters, Brianna and Gabriella. During the 1994 Northridge earthquake, Hal is killed when he runs to save Fiona, having supposedly left no will, Fiona receives all of his belongings, including the house, the diner, and to her dismay, Sam. Sam struggles to cope socially at North Valley High School, where queen bee, cheerleader Shelby Cummings, also torments her, Sam confides in her online pen pal Nomad about her dream to attend Princeton, a dream which he also shares. The reason why he is unhappy is because Austins father planned for him to go to the University of Southern California with a football scholarship, Nomad proposes that they meet in person at the schools Halloween themed homecoming dance. On the night of the dance, Fiona orders Sam to work the night shift at the diner, then leaves to drive Brianna, initially reluctant, Sam is convinced by her best friend, Carter Ferrell, to go to the dance and meet her mysterious online friend. Rhonda, Sams other best friend, and the rest of the staff also convince her to disobey Fiona. Sam, wearing a mask and a white dress, meets Nomad at the dance, and is surprised to learn that he is Austin. The two decide to leave the party to walk alone and get to each other a little better. While sharing a dance, Sam and Austin begin to fall in love. But just as Austin is about to unmask her, Sams cell phone goes off. She leaves without revealing her identity to Austin, and drops her phone on the way out, Austin picks up her phone and begins a desperate search to figure out who his Cinderella really is, but every girl at school claims to be the mysterious owner of the phone. Sam is reluctant to reveal her identity to Austin, feeling that he will not accept her due to her being ordinary and Austin being popular. When Austin comes into the one day, Sam is forced to help him and, after a talk, she attempts to reveal her identity to him. Sams stepsisters discover Sam and Austins email relationship, and convince Shelby that Sam tried to steal Austin from her, during a pep rally, they and the other cheerleaders humiliate Sam in front of the entire school and expose her identity as well as naming her an impostor. Austin, hurt by Sams secrecy, does not step up to defend her, like Austin, Sam had been accepted to Princeton, only to be duped by Fiona into believing she was rejected, by having a fake rejection letter made
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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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Hilary Duff (album)
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Hilary Duff is the self-titled third studio album by American singer Hilary Duff. It was released on September 29,2004, shortly after her seventeenth birthday, Duff cited the album as being more mature than her previous albums, stating Basically, Im not Lizzie McGuire anymore. The seventeen-track album saw Duff collaborating with the producers she did on Metamorphosis. Recording sessions for the album took place during May to August 2004 and it received generally negative reviews from music critics, many of whom compared the album to the music of Avril Lavigne and Ashlee Simpson. The album debuted at two on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 192,000 copies in its first week. To date, Hilary Duff has sold 1,800,000 copies in the US and it became her second consecutive number one debut in Canada and produced two singles that were not major hits. It was eventually certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, Hilary Duff was number sixty-five on Billboard magazines year-end top albums chart in November 2005. The lead single from Hilary Duff, Fly premiered on August 26,2004 on MTVs Total Request Live. The song was released as a single on October 19,2004, it peaked outside the top twenty on the Billboard Top 40 Mainstream chart. Fly was the single released in the United States. According to Duff, the album chronicles her experiences over the year before its release, some of its good, and some of its bad, and a lot of its, like, a big learning experience, she explained. She expressed an interest in recording lyrically more aggressive material than the songs on Metamorphosis and wanted the album to reflect that, according to her, Basically, Im not Lizzie McGuire anymore, she said. Its US release date, October 4,2004, was a week after Duffs seventeenth birthday, Duff has described Fly as an uplifting song about how people are scared to open up and show who they are inside because theyre afraid of what others are going to say. Her character performs Someones Watching over Me at the climax and Jericho during the end credits. The albums release in Japan includes three tracks, an acoustic version of Whos That Girl. Duff began performing it in concert after a suggestion from her manager, Duff herself co-wrote three tracks on the album, Mr. James Dean, Haters and Rock This World, the first two of which, along with The Last Song, Haylie co-wrote. Hilary said she refrained from co-writing the entire album because I dont know if Im secure enough with myself to do that. The Scoop, a section of the website MSNBC, quoted an insider who had said
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Hilary Duff
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Hilary Erhard Duff is an American actress and singer. Duff began her career at a young age, and quickly became labeled a teen idol as the title character of the Disney Channel comedy series Lizzie McGuire. The series proved to be a hit, leading to an adaptation of the series to be released. Duff began working on projects with the Disney Channel, including the film Cadet Kelly. She later began work on an album, releasing the Christmas themed Santa Claus Lane through Walt Disney Records, upon signing with Hollywood Records, Duff began working on her second studio album, Metamorphosis. The album achieved critical and commercial success, topping the Billboard 200, the album also found success in both Canada and Japan. Duffs success in acting and music led to her becoming a household name, with merchandise such as dolls, clothing. Duff began to expand her career into theatrical films, with leading roles in such as Agent Cody Banks, Cheaper by the Dozen, A Cinderella Story. She continued to have success in music, with her albums Hilary Duff, following the release of her fourth studio album, Dignity, Duff released a greatest hits album and parted ways with Hollywood Records. During this time, she began appearing in independent films such as War and she later released the novel Elixir, which became a New York Times best seller. The book was followed by the sequels Devoted and True and she currently stars in the comedy-drama series Younger as Kelsey Peters. She returned to music in 2014, and signed with RCA Records for her studio album Breathe In. Duff has worked with charities and organizations throughout her career. Duff has received media attention since the beginning of her career, most notably for her romantic relationships, friendships. Her romances with Aaron Carter and Joel Madden were often reported in the media, in 2010, she married former professional hockey player Mike Comrie, with whom she has a son. The two of them finalized their divorce six years later and she has been described by later Disney actresses as an inspiration, with artists such as Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez claiming they looked up to Duff and emulated her career. Duff has sold an estimated 15 million records since her debut in 2002, Duff was born on September 28,1987, in Houston, Texas. Her parents are Robert Erhard Duff, a partner in a chain of stores, and Susan Colleen
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Haylie Duff
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Haylie Katherine Duff is an American actress, television host, author, singer, songwriter and businesswoman. She is the sister of former Lizzie McGuire actress Hilary Duff. Duff was born in Houston, Texas and her father, Robert Erhard Bob Duff, is a partner and owner in a chain of convenience stores with his father John B. Duff and resides at the family home in Houston to maintain the familys business. She began her career as an offshoot of her early dance training. Growing up in Texas, Duff began ballet at an early age, by the age of eight, Duff landed a role in the Houston Metropolitan Dance Companys production of The Nutcracker Suite. Duffs early career started by making guest appearances on made-for-television films such as True Women, in 2004, Duff made a guest appearances on Thats So Raven as Katina Jones. After making guest appearances on television, Duff received her first role in a film when she was cast as Summer Wheatley in Napoleon Dynamite. The film earned her first Teen Choice Award win and she continued making guest appearances, which include Joan of Arcadia and American Dreams. She also lent her talent to the Christmas animation film In Search of Santa which again. In 2005, Duff joined the cast of the television series 7th Heaven, playing Sandy Jameson, in June 2006, Duff joined the Broadway cast of Hairspray, portraying mean girl Amber Von Tussle, and left the role in early October 2006. Duff has also starred in Material Girls with sister Hilary, where she is credited as co-producer, between 2008 and 2015, Duff appeared in various films and TV roles, including, Fear Island, Tug and Slightly Single in L. A. She lent her voice to the animated film Foodfight, but due to distribution issues, the film was delayed for years until it finally saw a release in 2012. She was also listed as a producer of the series. Duffs most recent project was the film Badge of Honor in 2015, Duff has recorded numerous singles for various soundtracks with her sister, with most of them appearing on the Disneymania discs. Notable soundtracks include, In Search of Santa, The Lizzie McGuire Movie, A Cinderella Story and she was featured on rapper Kool G Raps album Half a Klip, providing the background vocals on the track On the Rise Again produced by DJ Premier. Duff also sang A Whatever Life for the Stuck in the Suburbs soundtrack and she is also featured on song Babysitting Is a Bum Deal on the album Family Guy, Live in Las Vegas, singing a duet with Seth MacFarlane as his character Stewie. In addition to singing, Duff has also written and co-written several songs for her sister Hilarys first two albums, Metamorphosis. In 2012 she started her own blog called Real Girls Kitchen, in 2013, Duff released her first book called The Real Girls Kitchen
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Jane Wiedlin
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Jane Marie Genevieve Wiedlin is an American musician, singer-songwriter and actress best known as the rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist of the all-female new wave band, The Go-Gos. Wiedlin has also had a musical career. Jane Wiedlin was born in Oconomowoc, Waukesha County, Wisconsin and her father, Robert Wiedlin, Sr. an oral surgeon, was born in Chicago, Illinois, of German and German-Swiss ancestry. Her mother, Betty Jane, was of Lebanese heritage, from Oconomowoc, wiedlins parents met while students at Marquette University and later, married. Jane spent her childhood growing up in West Allis, another suburb of Milwaukee. She is one of five children, with a sister and three brothers, growing up in a Catholic family. When Wiedlin was six, her father took a job with the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, at a VA Hospital in Los Angeles, as a child, Wiedlin liked to listen to 1960s pop music especially, songs by The Beatles and The Monkees. By the time she was a teenager, Wiedlin was a fan of Sparks, years later, she would record Cool Places with them. Wiedlin stated, I remember my childhood as extremely idyllic, Wiedlin also mentioned her teenage adolescence with angst and hope by saying, I would definitely be a less-depressed teenager. I thought life was completely pointless when I was in high school, Wiedlin attended William Howard Taft High School in Los Angeles from 1972 until 1976. As Wiedlin describes it, she was present pretty much from the beginning of the Los Angeles punk scene. While attending college in the Los Angeles area, for design, Wiedlin worked at a fashion design house where she created song lyrics. Jane Drano, as she came to be known, would later design punk-style clothing that she sold at Granny Takes a Trip and she became part of the scene that spawned bands like X, the Germs, and The Weirdos. Wiedlin and Belinda Carlisle formed The Go-Gos as a band in 1978, with Margot Olaverra on bass. The Go-Gos pop punk sound did not emerge until after Charlotte Caffey joined on guitar and keyboards. After a 1980 tour of England, the band added Kathy Valentine on bass and they signed with IRS Records in April 1981. In 1981, Wiedlin and Terry Hall of Fun Boy Three, the song peaked on the Billboard charts at No.20 and remained on the charts until 1982. Hall also recorded the song with Fun Boy Three and the song was popular, Wiedlin remained part of The Go-Gos until October 1984, when she left to pursue a solo career
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Terry Hall (singer)
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Terence Edward Terry Hall is an English musician and the lead singer of The Specials, and formerly of Fun Boy Three, The Colourfield, Terry, Blair & Anouchka and Vegas. Born and raised in Coventry, England, Hall left school before his birthday, taking various short-term jobs – bricklayer, quantity surveyor. He became a member of the burgeoning Coventry music scene of the late 1970s, playing in a local punk band called Squad. Hall has stated one of his grandfathers was a Jewish watchmaker from Germany. The band then went on to release their album, The Specials, which also contained the hits A Message to You, Rudy. In October 1980, The Specials released their album, More Specials. The single Ghost Town, released in June 1981, spent three weeks at one and ten weeks in the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart. The double a-side song, Friday Night Saturday Morning, penned by Terry Hall, described a night out at the Coventry Locarno. After The Specials last single, Ghost Town, was released, the Fun Boy Threes first hit single, The Lunatics, was released in 1981 and was followed-up in 1982 with It Aint What You Do, a duet with Bananarama. Fun Boy Three then provided guest vocals for Bananaramas single, Really Saying Something. That same year, Hall and his bandmates appeared in the video for Driving in My Car by Madness and released their debut album, Fun Boy Three. In February 1983, Fun Boy Three released their album, Waiting. The latter was a song Hall had written with Jane Wiedlin, in 1984, Hall formed The Colourfield, releasing the album Virgins & Philistines in 1985, which included the hit single Thinking of You. The album spent seven weeks in the UK chart, peaking at No.12 and this new musical direction would culminate in collaborations with Ian Broudie and Hall contributing a number of songs to Broudies albums as The Lightning Seeds. Hall also co-wrote the song Smoke Ring for Broudies debut solo album Tales Told, a second Colourfield album, Deception, was released in 1987, reaching No.95 in the UK Albums Chart. In 1989, Hall teamed up with American actress Blair Booth and jeweller Anouchka Groce and began recording under the moniker of Terry, Blair & Anouchka. After two singles which both scraped into the Top 80 of the UK Singles Chart, the released the Ultra Modern Nursery Rhymes album. In 1992, Terry joined forces with Dave Stewart, most famous for his role as one half of Eurythmics, the duo took on the name Vegas and released Vegas, a slick electronic pop album that was heavily promoted by their label BMG
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Jesse McCartney
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Jesse McCartney is an American actor, singer and songwriter. McCartney achieved fame in the late 1990s on the daytime drama All My Children as JR Chandler and he later joined boy band Dream Street, and eventually branched out into a solo musical career. Additionally, McCartney has appeared on such as Law & Order, SVU, Summerland. McCartney was born on April 9,1987, in Ardsley, Westchester, New York, the son of Ginger and Scott McCartney. He began performing in local community musicals at the age of seven, before joining the tour of The King. There he played the character of Louis, in 1998, he sang with the group Sugar Beats and can be heard on their 1998,1999, and 2000 CD releases. In 1999, McCartney joined the American pop boy band Dream Street and he has described the experience as a good stepping stone for his solo career. The group earned a record with their debut CD. McCartney released his first solo EP in July 2003, the album featured three songs, Beautiful Soul, Dont You, Why Dont You Kiss Her. In 2004, he performed a duet with Anne Hathaway, Dont Go Breaking My Heart, which is featured on the Ella Enchanted soundtrack. McCartneys debut solo album, Beautiful Soul, which was two years in the making, was released on September 28,2004, in the United States and he categorized it as a pop record with twists of urban. The album featured four songs that he co-wrote, Beautiful Soul reached number 15 on the Billboard 200. By mid-2006, the album had more than 1.5 million copies. The albums lead single of the same reached number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100. McCartney was one of the artists to win awards at the 2005 Teen Choice Awards, including Choice Crossover Artist, Choice Male Artist and Choice Breakout. The following year, he won Favorite Male Singer at the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards and his first headlining tour, also named Beautiful Soul, began on May 2,2005 at the Crest Theatre in Sacramento, California. The United States portion of the tour spanned 56 stops, ending on September 10,2005 at the Madera District County Fair in Madera, in the fall of 2005, McCartney toured Australia, and opened for the Backstreet Boys in Europe in the summer of 2005. His July 9 performance at Californias Great America in Santa Clara, California was recorded, released as Live, after the filming of Keith wrapped, McCartney began working on his second album, Right Where You Want Me, co-writing all but one of the songs featured in it
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Robert Palmer (singer)
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Robert Allen Palmer was an English singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. He was known for his distinctive, soulful voice, eclectic mix of styles on his albums, combining soul, jazz, rock, pop, reggae, blues. He found success both in his career and with the Power Station, and had Top 10 songs in both the UK and the US. Palmers involvement in the music industry commenced in the 1960s, covered four decades, Palmers father was a British naval intelligence officer stationed in Malta. Palmer moved with his family from Batley to Scarborough, North Yorkshire in 1949. Influenced as a child by blues, soul and jazz music on American Forces Radio, Robert Palmer joined his first band, The Mandrakes, at the age of 15 while still at Scarborough Boys High School. His first major break came with the departure of singer Jess Roden from the band The Alan Bown Set in 1969, the vocals for the album The Alan Bown Set. Originally recorded by Roden, were re-recorded by Palmer after the success of the single, according to music journalist Paul Lester, Palmer rose from northern clubs in England to become elegant and sophisticated and the master of several styles. In 1970 Palmer joined the 12-piece jazz-rock fusion band Dada, which featured singer Elkie Brooks, the band lasted a year, after which Brooks and Palmer formed the critically acclaimed, but commercially unsuccessful, rhythm and blues group, Vinegar Joe, Palmer sang and played rhythm guitar. Signed to the Island Records label, they released three albums, Vinegar Joe, Rock n Roll Gypsies and Six Star General, before disbanding in March 1974, Island Records signed Palmer to a solo deal in 1974. Although unsuccessful in the UK, both the album and single reached the Top 100 in the US. Notably, Sailin Shoes, Palmers own Hey Julia and the Allen Toussaint–penned title track carry virtually the same rhythm, and were packaged on the album as a trilogy without a pause between them. After relocating with his wife to New York City, Palmer released Pressure Drop, named for the version of the reggae hit by Toots & the Maytals. An album infused with his interests in reggae and rock music, it was noted for its cover art of a woman on the threshold of a balcony. He toured with Little Feat to promote the album, however, with the failure of follow-up album Some People Can Do What They Like, Palmer decided to move to Nassau, Bahamas, directly across the street from Compass Point Studios. In 1978, he released Double Fun, a collection of Caribbean-influenced rock, the album reached the Top 50 on the US Billboard chart and scored a Top 20 single with the Andy Fraser–penned Every Kinda People. The song has been covered by artists including Chaka Demus and Pliers, Randy Crawford. It reached No.16 on the Billboard Hot 100, Palmers next album was an artistic departure, concentrating on pure rock
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Kara DioGuardi
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Kara Elizabeth DioGuardi is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, music publisher, A&R executive, composer and TV personality. She writes music primarily in the pop rock genre, DioGuardi has worked with many popular artists, sales of albums on which her songs appear exceed 160 million worldwide. DioGuardi is a Grammy and Emmy-nominated writer, DioGuardi served as a judge on American Idol for its eighth and ninth seasons. In 2008, she was appointed to the position of vice president of talent development at Warner Bros. Records, and has signed such as Jason Derülo and Iyaz. In 2011, she was a judge on the Bravo singer-songwriter competition series Platinum Hit. DioGuardi was born in Ossining, New York and she is descended from Roman Catholic Arbëreshë/Albanian from Italy. Her father is former Republican Congressman and 2010 US Senate candidate Joseph J. DioGuardi and she is a 7th cousin, once-removed, of veteran TV personality Regis Philbin. Her mother Carol died in 1997 after a 7-year battle with ovarian cancer, after graduating from college, she worked for Billboard magazine as an assistant to Timothy White and Howard Lander and later as an advertising sales representative. DioGuardi has a catalog of several hundred songs, of which over 300 have been released on major labels worldwide. She has had 50 international charting singles over the course of her career and her songs have been featured in major motion pictures, television shows, film soundtracks, and radio spots, as well as national and international commercial campaigns. She wrote with Ashlee Simpson for her first and second albums and she collaborated with Thalía in 2003 for her self-titled album Thalía. In 2004, DioGuardi co-wrote on six of the tracks off Kelly Clarksons sophomore album Breakaway including Clarksons hit Walk Away. In the same year, she collaborated with Jesse McCartney on his album Right Where You Want Me, co-writing four songs called Anybody, Invincible, Running Away, in 2007, DioGuardi worked with many notable artists, one of whom was Britney Spears. DioGuardi wrote and produced Ooh Ooh Baby and co-produced Heaven on Earth on Spears album Blackout, DioGuardi also contributed a majority of songs on Hilary Duffs fourth studio album, Dignity. Among DioGuardis projects is the song Not Meant to Be, which appears on Theory of a Deadmans 2008 album, DioGuardi co-wrote the song with lead singer Tyler Connolly, and is also featured as the love interest in the music video which was released on March 10,2009. This was her debut in the video industry. In 2009, DioGuardi wrote If I Cant Have You for Meat Loafs 2010 album, Hang Cool Teddy Bear and she is also one of the writers for Ghost, which was released as a single from Fefe Dobsons album Joy
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Diane Warren
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Diane Eve Warren is an American songwriter. She rose to prominence in 1983 and has written songs for and with multiple music artists. Warren has had nine songs and 32 Top 10 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Additionally, two of the top 13 hits in the Hot 100s 57-year history were written by her, Warren is the first songwriter in the history of Billboard magazine to have seven hits, all by different artists, on the singles chart at the same time. Her success in the US has been paralleled in the UK, Warren has won a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, three consecutive Billboard Music Awards for Songwriter of the Year and several other accolades. She has been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Warren owns a publishing company, Realsongs, which gives her control over her compositions. Her familys surname Warren was originally Wolfberg, but her father changed the name because it sounded too Jewish, Warren says she was rebellious as a child and told NPRs Scott Simon that she got into trouble and ran away as a teen but returned because she missed her cat. As a child, Warren loved listening to the radio and dreamed of performing on the radio herself and she was also influenced by music through her parents and her two older sisters who would play music. She began writing music when she was 11 but took a serious approach at 14. Warren has said that her mother asked her to give up her dream of a songwriting career, however, her father continued to believe in her and encouraged her. In addition, he bought her a 12-string guitar and a shed for her to practice. She wrote the song Because You Loved Me as a tribute to her father for his encouragement and she briefly attended college at Los Angeles Pierce College and California State University, Northridge but considered it a waste and spent more of her time writing songs while attending. Warrens first hit was Solitaire, which Laura Branigan took to No.7 in the US pop charts in 1983, shes actually more like the Emily Dickinson of Pop. As in the case of the great nineteenth-century reclusive New England poet known for her simple yet eloquent verses, the original name for her publishing company, Realsongs, was Warren Piece because War and Peace was already taken. In 1998, Realsongs and its partner, EMI Music Publishing, distributed A Passion For Music. EMI Musics London office assisted in distributing 1,200 copies of the box set primarily to the film and television industry for consideration in soundtracks and it was not marketed to consumers. As of 2011, Warrens music has appeared in the soundtracks of over 60 films and she was awarded a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2001. The Diane Warren Foundation, in conjunction with the ASCAP Foundation, the initiative provides sheet music, band arrangements, folios, and method books to each of the schools that are already recipients of musical instruments from the VH1 Save the Music Foundation
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Andreas Carlsson
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Andreas Carlsson is a Swedish music producer, composer, and pop songwriter. Carlsson was part of the Cheiron Studios team until the studio was closed down in 2000, in January 2001, former Cheiron-members Andreas Carlsson, Kristian Lundin and Jake Schulze assumed the lease of the legendary Cheiron studios. Two years later, they launched production-company The Location and publishing-company Location Songs, in 2009, Carlsson wrote his autobiography Live to win - låtarna som skrev mitt liv, about his career and journey to where he is today. Carlsson frequently collaborates with writers Desmond Child and Chris Braide, together they have written many recent American hit songs, including Invisible for the American Idol contestant Clay Aiken. The song became one of the most performed on American radio in 2004, a more recent collaboration is Katy Perrys Waking Up In Vegas, featured on her album One of the Boys. Andreas also made the song Strange, Alice in Wonderlands soundtrack and his son with ex-girlfriend Hannah Graaf, named William, was born in 2001. In 2012, he was one of the judges in X Factor, Carlsson was part of the jury for the Swedish edition of Idol from 2008 - its fifth season. The latest season, season seven, began its run on 7 September on the Swedish television channel TV4, on 14 March 2011 Carlsson announced his departure from the jury, citing his desire to go back to songwriting. He is not related to 2005 winner Agnes Carlsson, Andreas Carlsson official website Interview, HitQuarters Jul 2009
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Make You Feel My Love
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Make You Feel My Love is a song written by Bob Dylan that appeared on his 1997 album Time Out of Mind. It was first released commercially by Billy Joel, under the title To Make You Feel My Love, before Dylans version appeared later that same year. It has since covered by numerous performers and has proved to be a commercial success for recording artists such as Adele, Garth Brooks, Bryan Ferry, Kelly Clarkson. Two covers of the song were featured on the soundtrack of the 1998 film Hope Floats, Dylan eventually released the song as a single. It was released as the first single from the album and reached number 50 on the US Billboard Hot 100, joels single pre-dated Dylans release of the song by one month. Garth Brooks covered the song as To Make You Feel My Love in 1998 and it appeared on the soundtrack of the 1998 film Hope Floats, along with a cover version by Trisha Yearwood as the first and last tracks. It was included first as the track on Fresh Horses for Garths first Limited Series box set. Brooks version resulted in a nomination at 41st Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance, in 2008, British singer Adele recorded Make You Feel My Love for her debut studio album 19. It was released as the fourth and final single on October 27,2008. The largest sales of her recording, however, came during 2010–11 when it peaked at number 4, after the song was performed on the seventh series of The X Factor, it re-entered the UK Singles Chart at number 24. The song then surged to number four after a second performance, following a third X Factor performance and heavy use in the Comic Relief 2010 television, it spent three more non-consecutive weeks in the top 10. In early 2011 the song returned to the top 40 again, at number 34, in all the cover spent a total of 55 weeks in the top 75, making it the joint 16th longest runner of all time. Adeles version features in the soundtrack of the 2010 romantic comedy film When in Rome and her cover version was also featured in the compilation album for the benefit of those affected by Supertyphoon Haiyan in the Philippines entitled Songs for the Philippines. In October 2013 the song was used in the week of Strictly Come Dancing as part of the Love Week theme. In January 2013, Heart Radio listed Adeles recording as the UKs number one song of all time in its Hall of Fame Top 500. At a concert at Londons O2 Arena on March 22,2016, according to Alex Fletcher of Digital Spy, the version expresses Adeles affection for the song, with just piano as backing, her dreamy, passionate vocals are allowed to shine. According to The Guardians Dave Simpson, with her hushed delivery, the songs music video features Adele singing the song in her apartment. In addition, Adeles video of the song, directed by Mat Kirby, was released on music channels in late September 2008, the song was also covered by Lea Michele on the third episode of Glees fifth season, The Quarterback, in honor to Cory Monteith
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Josh Kelley
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Joshua Bishop Josh Kelley Sr. is an American singer-songwriter and actor. Kelley has recorded for Hollywood Records, Threshold Records and DNK Records as a pop rock artist and his songs Amazing and Only You made top ten on that chart. In 2010, Kelley signed to MCA Nashville and began a music career. His debut single on the format, Georgia Clay, became a Top 20 hit on the Hot Country Songs charts, Kelley is married to actress and model Katherine Heigl. Kelley was born in Augusta, Georgia, the son of Gayle and Dr. John W. Kelley, Kelley began his musical career at the age of 11. His younger brother, Charles Kelley, is also a musician, Kelley started at 11 with his guitar. While he was a teenager, he and his brother Charles formed a band called Inside Blue, by the time he was 14, the band released a CD with five songs on it, which led to a meeting with James Brown. Kelley played the guitar in the school jazz band alongside his brother Charles. Kelley attended the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi, and is a member of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity, Kelley released his independent album, Changing Faces, in 2001 and signed with Hollywood Records in 2002. Working with John Alagia as his producer, Kelley released the album, For the Ride Home, the album featured his hit song Amazing, which most people know him by. He also made an appearance at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in 2003, almost Honest was released on August 23,2005, and featured the hit single, Only You. After asking to be released from his contract with Hollywood Records, Kelley released his third album, the digital version of the album was released through iTunes on June 6,2006, while the physical album was released in stores in the United States on July 25,2006. The Pop Game was the first single from his album and was accompanied by a cartoon video. Kelleys next album, Special Company, was released in the United States on January 14,2008 and his label, Threshold, was renamed DNK Records so as to avoid confusion with another record label by the same name. Kelley also released an album that summer titled Backwoods on July 7. Later that year, Kelley released his latest album, To Remember, the title track was also included on the AT&T Team USA Soundtrack. Kelley has toured with artists including Rod Stewart, Third Eye Blind, Toby Lightman, Counting Crows. Kelley remains a supporter of file sharing applications for independent artists who have a difficult time receiving an audience
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Bob Dylan
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Bob Dylan is an American songwriter, singer, painter, and writer. He has been influential in music and culture for more than five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when his songs chronicled social unrest, early songs such as Blowin in the Wind and The Times They Are a-Changin became anthems for the Civil Rights Movement and anti-war movement. Leaving behind his initial base in the American folk music revival, his six-minute single Like a Rolling Stone, recorded in 1965, Dylans lyrics incorporate a wide range of political, social, philosophical, and literary influences. They defied existing pop music conventions and appealed to the burgeoning counterculture, initially inspired by the performances of Little Richard and the songwriting of Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, and Hank Williams, Dylan has amplified and personalized musical genres. Dylan performs with guitar, keyboards, and harmonica, backed by a changing lineup of musicians, he has toured steadily since the late 1980s on what has been dubbed the Never Ending Tour. His accomplishments as a recording artist and performer have been central to his career, since 1994, Dylan has published seven books of drawings and paintings, and his work has been exhibited in major art galleries. As a musician, Dylan has sold more than 100 million records and he has also received numerous awards including eleven Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and an Academy Award. Dylan has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Minnesota Music Hall of Fame, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, and Songwriters Hall of Fame. The Pulitzer Prize jury in 2008 awarded him a citation for his profound impact on popular music and American culture. In May 2012, Dylan received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama, in 2016, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition. Bob Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman in St. Marys Hospital on May 24,1941, in Duluth, Minnesota and he has a younger brother, David. Dylans paternal grandparents, Zigman and Anna Zimmerman, emigrated from Odessa, in the Russian Empire and his maternal grandparents, Ben and Florence Stone, were Lithuanian Jews who arrived in the United States in 1902. Dylans father, Abram Zimmerman – an electric-appliance shop owner – and mother, Beatrice Beatty Stone, were part of a small, close-knit Jewish community. They lived in Duluth until Robert was six, when his father had polio and the returned to his mothers hometown, Hibbing. In his early years he listened to the radio—first to blues and country stations from Shreveport, Louisiana, and later and he formed several bands while attending Hibbing High School. In the Golden Chords, he performed covers of songs by Little Richard and their performance of Danny & the Juniors Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay at their high school talent show was so loud that the principal cut the microphone. In 1959, his high school yearbook carried the caption Robert Zimmerman, the same year, as Elston Gunnn, he performed two dates with Bobby Vee, playing piano and clapping
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Sympathy (Goo Goo Dolls song)
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Sympathy is a song by the Goo Goo Dolls. The song was used as a single released from their album Gutterflower. The song appeared on the soundtrack to the film A Cinderella Story and it was shortened to about 2,48 on the soundtrack with some of the lyrics edited for the films target audience. Promotional CD single Sympathy —2,58 Promotional 7 Warner Bros.16663 Sympathy Think About Me The Sympathy music video was shot in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2002 and produced by Tony Bongiovi. The video, mostly taking place in the back of a cab, is described by the band as a guerrilla video. In the video, singer/guitarist John, is supposed to be invisible to the people who come. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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John Rzeznik
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John Joseph Theodore Johnny Rzeznik is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and producer. He is best known as the guitarist and frontman of the band the Goo Goo Dolls, of which he is a founding member. Rzeznik was born in Buffalo, New York, the youngest and only son of five children of Edith and Joseph Rzeznik, both of Rzezniks parents were musicians, playing the clarinet and flute. Rzeznik had a strict Catholic upbringing in Buffalos working-class East Side Polish neighborhood, All four of Rzezniks grandparents were born in Poland, the original pronunciation of his last name is Rzeźnik, Polish for butcher. Rzezniks father died on February 2,1981, from a coma at the age of 55. On October 26,1982, his mother died from a heart attack in the familys living room at the age of 53. Having lost both of his parents, he was brought up by his four sisters, Phyllis, Fran, Gladys and Kate. He paid for his own apartment using Social Security Survivor Benefit checks and it was during this period and while attending McKinley Vocational High School that Rzeznik began playing the guitar. Rzeznik briefly attended Buffalo State College, dropping out after his first year, Rzeznik met former model Laurie Farinacci in 1990, married her in 1993 but got a divorce in 2003, they did not have any children. He started dating Melina Gallo in 2005 and married her in Malibu, California, on December 22,2016, he and Gallo had their first child, a daughter, Liliana. In 1985, he formed the band became the Goo Goo Dolls with Robby Takac. Previously John had been in a band with Takacs cousin, called The Beaumonts and it is thought the band was originally called The Sex Maggots, however Rzeznik admitted this was a joke on stage one night, and he was never actually in a band called The Sex Maggots. They got the name Goo Goo Dolls from an ad in a True Detective magazine when a promoter asked them. In the early days of The Goo Goo Dolls, the performed at gigs relentlessly. They were soon picked up by a record label, Celluloid. Under Celluloid they released their first eponymous album on a $750 budget and this attracted the attention of a larger record label, Metal Blade, who released their next few albums. For the next few years the band toured, produced albums, following the album Gutterflower, John wrote Always Know Where You Are and Im Still Here for the Disney film Treasure Planet, which were also released as a single independently from the band. From October to December 2007, Rzeznik was a judge alongside Sheila E. and Australian Idol judge, on June 19,2008, John Rzeznik was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and was awarded the Hal David Starlight award
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Beautiful Soul (song)
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Beautiful Soul is a song recorded by Jesse McCartney. It was released as his single and the lead single from his debut album, Beautiful Soul at the end of 2004 in North America. The single charted in countries in Europe in 2006, including the UK. It was a one hit in Australia. It was later certified Gold by in the United States and Platinum in Australia, on an episode of Celebrity Duets, he sang the song in a duet with U. S. Olympic Gymnast Carly Patterson. McCartney also sang this song in The Suite Life of Zack & Cody in the episode Rock Star in the House and it was featured on the soundtracks for Thats So Raven, Sydney White, and A Cinderella Story. The music video for Beautiful Soul was directed by Marc Webb, the video is heavily influenced by the film Y Tu Mamá También directed by Alfonso Cuarón. The video features scenes that are lifted from Cuaróns film. The song eventually peaked at number 16 on the chart
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I'll Be (Edwin McCain song)
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Ill Be is a song written and sung by American singer Edwin McCain. The song was released in January 1998 as the first single from his second album, McCain recorded an acoustic version of the song for his follow-up album, Messenger. The radio version of Ill Be, which was released on a CD-single with Grind Me in the Gears as the B-side and its opening melody is played with electric guitar and the vocal and saxophone lines differ. The album is titled Wintertime Blues, The Benefit Concert, at the height of the songs popularity back in 1998 it was featured during a pivotal moment in the first season finale of the hit WB series, Dawsons Creek, titled Decisions. In 2000, the song was featured in an episode of the television show Higher Ground, the song was used in the masquerade ball scene in A Cinderella Story. It was covered by Dean Geyer on his debut album Rush, in the episode of The Office Here Comes Treble, the song is covered by Andy Bernards a cappella group. Blake Jenner performed the song in the finale of The Glee Project, Ill Be ended up being a success for McCain in the United States, peaking at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 after debuting at #7 on the issue dated September 26,1998. While it was only his second single to chart, it became his first and only Top 10 hit and his biggest hit. 7 vinyl/CD single Ill Be -4,25 Grind Me in the Gears -4,19 Digital download Ill Be -4,26 Ill Be -4,37 Ill Be -4,07 In 2014, Ill Be was covered by Irish musician Kian Egan. The song was included on his album, and was released as a single on 12 May 2014 through Rhino Records. In an interview with Digital Spy, Egan said “I chose ‘I’ll Be’ for my second single and this song means a lot to me and being able to record it was an honour. I’m incredibly excited to be able to perform this for all my fans, the footage was shot in Egans hometown of Sligo, in County Sligo, and the singer can be seen strumming a guitar while wandering along the deserted beach. In the visual, Egan also throws pebbles out to sea before meeting up with friends around a campfire, Lyrics to the pop rock ballad include, Ill be your crying shoulder, Ill be loves suicide. Ill be the greatest fan of your life, sharing some cute pictures which showed the trio on the beach in between takes, Jodi told her Instagram followers at the time, #daddyandkoa #beachlife #newvideo. The single cover of the song shows Egan sitting on a red sofa. Promotional CD single Ill Be –3,09 Promotional CD single Ill Be I Run to You Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Edwin McCain
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Edwin McCain, is an American singer-songwriter and musician. He was able to find success with the song Ill Be and his songs Ill Be and I Could Not Ask for More were radio top-40 hits in the U. S. and five of his albums have reached the Billboard 200. McCain graduated from Christ Church Episcopal School in Greenville, South Carolina, longtime touring friends with Hootie and the Blowfish, the Edwin McCain band signed with the same label, Atlantic Records. In 1994, he recorded his first major-label album, Honor Among Thieves under the Lava Records imprint, the record was then released in 1995. His second album, Misguided Roses, spawned Ill Be, a hit single in 1998. This song also is featured on the album, Live in the X Lounge. It was also featured in the 2000 drama television show, Higher Ground, as well as the 2004 teen flick, A Cinderella Story. Summer of 1999 marked the arrival of McCains third album, Messenger, which included a second Top 40 hit, produced by Matt Serletic and Noel Golden, Messenger was recorded at Tree Sound Studios and Southern Tracks in Atlanta as well as Record Plant Studios in Los Angeles. I Could Not Ask For More was also featured on the soundtrack for the 1999 film Message in a Bottle, having fulfilled his four-album contract, McCain split from Lava/Atlantic at the end of 2001. In a May 2003 interview with Billboard, McCain noted, The whole package is sort of saying, about the same time, the musician also hosted Inside Music With Edwin McCain, a syndicated show on the Sirius radio network. Mid-2004 saw the arrival of his first studio album in three years, titled Scream & Whisper, which was released on indie label, DRT Entertainment. Later that year, McCain made time in his schedule to run the 35th annual New York City Marathon. In an interview in the August 2004 issue of Runners World, McCain said of training on the road, one of the things that comes in handy depends on how far away the hotel is from the venue. In late 2004 McCain released his second DVD, Tinsel and Tap Shoes and it was his first live concert DVD, recorded at The House of Blues in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. In 2005, McCain released a single, Hold Out a Hand, co-written and this song, available for a 99-cent download on iTunes, gives all profits to the relief of the hurricane victims that year. McCains next album, Lost in America, was released on April 11,2006, on May 17,2009, McCain performed on board the USS John C. Stennis, while the carrier was on a Western Pacific deployment in the vicinity of Guam, McCain is also a ship restorer, as seen on the current Animal Planet TV series Flipping Ships. On January 22,2017, McCain sang the American National Anthem at Gillette Stadium for the AFC Championship Game between the New England Patriots and Pittsburgh Steelers
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MxPx
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MxPx is an American punk rock band from Bremerton, Washington founded in 1992 as Magnified Plaid. The band has skate punk leanings, with connections to the pop punk scene, current members include Mike Herrera on lead vocals and bass, Tom Wisniewski on guitar and backing vocals, and Yuri Ruley on drums. The bands discography includes nine studio albums, four EPs, four albums, a live album, a VHS tape. A number of the releases have charted on Billboard, including the Billboard 200. MxPx began in July 1992 with the name Magnified Plaid, initially, the band started playing music inspired by Descendents, Black Flag and other punk rock bands. Mike Herrera, Yuri Ruley, and Andy Husted were classmates at Central Kitsap High School in Silverdale, the name was a tribute to the original guitarists fascination with plaid shirts but did not fit on the bands posters. Consequently, the name was abbreviated to M. P, but in Yuri Ruleys handwriting, periods appeared as Xs, and since he made up the show posters for the band, the four-letter moniker stuck. MxPx caught the attention of Tooth & Nail Records when the played a showcase for the label in 1993 in Herreras parents back yard. The bands first major album, Pokinatcha, was released while the members were still in high school. The album, though classified as Christian punk, incorporated the quick styles of hardcore punk, the songs are characterized by their raw punk sound, catchy rhythm, and classic punk three-chord guitar style. Guitarist Andy Husted soon left the band and was replaced by Herreras longtime friend, despite only knowing power chords on guitar, Wisniewski was willing to be in the band. MxPx released two albums with Tooth & Nail, Teenage Politics in 1995, and Life in General in 1996. MxPx received a distribution deal with A&M Records. This deal first saw a re-release of Life in General, MxPx then released two more studio albums jointly distributed by Tooth & Nail and A&M, Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo was the first in 1998. It ranked at No.99 on the Billboard 200 and was certified gold on January 27,2000 by the Recording Industry Association of America, at the Show is a live album recorded by MxPx, released in 1999. At the time of the recording, the band was touring in support of Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo as well as the B-sides collection Let it Happen and this was followed by The Ever Passing Moment in 2000. MxPx gained critical recognition for this album and landed a supporting for The Offspring. Responsibility proved to be a radio hit, peaking at #24 on the Billboard Modern Rock chart
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ARIA Charts
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The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia, ARIA became the official Australian music chart in June 1988, succeeding the Kent Music Report which had been Australias national charts since 1974. The Go-Set charts were Australias first national singles and albums charts published from 5 October 1966 until 24 August 1974, succeeding Go-Set, the Kent Music Report began issuing the national top 100 charts in Australia from May 1974. The compiler, David Kent, also published Australias national charts from 1940–1974 in a retrospective fashion using state based data, in mid 1983, the Australian Recording Industry Association commenced licensing the Kent Music Report chart. The first printed national top 50 chart available in record stores, ARIA began compiling its own charts in-house from the chart dated week ending 26 June 1988. Various artists compilation albums were included in the albums chart, as they had been on the Kent Report chart, until 2 July 1989. The ARIA Report, detailing the top 100 singles and albums charts, was first available via subscription in January 1990, the printed top 50 chart ceased publication in June 1998, but resumed publication later in the year. The printed top 50 chart again ceased publication at the end of 2000, the ARIA charts are based on data collected from physical and digital retailers in Australia. Data of physical sales come from such as Sanity and JB Hi-Fi, while data of digital sales come from online retailers such as iTunes, Bandit FM, GetMusic. Since 17 February 1997, all physical sales data contributing towards the chart has been recorded electronically at point of sale. In March 1991, Do the Bartman by The Simpsons was the first single to reach #1 in Australia that was not available on 7 inch vinyl, but cassingle only. Starting from 8 October 2006, due to low physical single sales at the time, in 2006, it was announced that the Brazin retailing group, comprising major retailers HMV, Sanity and Virgin music/DVD stores would no longer contribute sales data to the ARIA charts. However, after an absence, Brazin reportedly re-commenced contributing sales figures to the ARIA Charts on 26 November 2006. The ARIA website publishes the top 50 singles and albums charts, top 40 digital tracks chart, the ARIA Report lists all charts in full and is available via paid e-mail subscription each week. These reports are uploaded to the Pandora Archive periodically, on 5 February 2006, the ARIA Chart Show was a radio program launched on the Nova network and broadcast throughout Australia, playing the official ARIA top 50 singles. The live music program was hosted by Jabba each Sunday afternoon at 3, the show was aired before the top 50 chart, dated for the following Monday, is published on the ARIA website at 6,00 pm. The charts were published online at 6,00 pm each Sunday. The diamond certification was created for albums in November 2015 to mark 500,000 sales/shipments, for music DVDs, a gold accreditation originally represented 7,500 copies shipped, with a platinum accreditation representing 15,000 units shipped. co. uk
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Billboard (magazine)
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Billboard is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries. It publishes pieces involving news, video, opinion, reviews, events and it is also known for its music charts, including the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200, tracking the most popular singles and albums in different genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows, Billboard was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegens interest in 1900 for $500, in the 1900s, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows. It also created a service for travelling entertainers. Billboard began focusing more on the industry as the jukebox, phonograph. Many topics it covered were spun-off into different magazines, including Amusement Business in 1961 to cover outdoor entertainment so that it could focus on music. After Donaldson died in 1925, Billboard was passed down to his children and Hennegans children, until it was sold to investors in 1985. The first issue of Billboard was published in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 1,1894 by William Donaldson, initially, it covered the advertising and bill posting industry and was called Billboard Advertising. At the time, billboards, posters and paper advertisements placed in public spaces were the means of advertising. Donaldson handled editorial and advertising, while Hennegan, who owned Hennegan Printing Co. managed magazine production, the first issues were just eight pages long. The paper had columns like The Bill Room Gossip and The Indefatigable, a department for agricultural fairs was established in 1896. The title was changed to The Billboard in 1897, after a brief departure over editorial differences, Donaldson purchased Hennegans interest in the business in 1900 for $500, to save it from bankruptcy. That May, Donaldson changed it from a monthly to a paper with a greater emphasis on breaking news. He improved editorial quality and opened new offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London and he also re-focused the magazine on outdoor entertainment like fairs, carnivals, circuses, vaudeville and burlesque shows. A section devoted to circuses was introduced in 1900, followed by more prominent coverage of events in 1901. Billboard also covered topics including regulation, a lack of professionalism, economics and it had a stage gossip column covering the private lives of entertainers, a tent show section covering traveling shows and a sub-section called Freaks to order. According to The Seattle Times, Donaldson also published articles attacking censorship, praising productions exhibiting good taste
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Billboard 200
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The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists, often, a recording act will be remembered by its number ones, those of their albums that outperformed all others during at least one week. The chart is based mostly on sales of albums in the United States, the weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but since July 2015, tracking week begins on Friday and ends on Thursday. A new chart is published the following Tuesday with an issue post-dated to the Saturday of the following week, the charts streaming schedule is also tracked from Friday to Thursday. Example, Friday January 1 – sales tracking week begins Thursday January 7 – sales tracking week ends Tuesday January 12 – new chart published, New product is released to the American market on Fridays. Digital downloads of albums are included in Billboard 200 tabulation. Albums that are not licensed for sale in the United States are not eligible to chart. As of the issue dated April 15,2017, the album on the Billboard 200 is More Life by Drake. Billboard began an album chart in 1945, initially only five positions long, the album chart was not published on a weekly basis, sometimes three to seven weeks passing before it was updated. A biweekly, 15-position Best-Selling Popular Albums chart appeared in 1955, the position count varied anywhere from 10 to 30 albums. The first number-one album on the new weekly list was Belafonte by Harry Belafonte, the chart was renamed to Best-Selling Pop Albums later in 1956, and then to Best-Selling Pop LPs in 1957. Beginning on May 25,1959, Billboard split the ranking into two charts Best-Selling Stereophonic LPs for stereo albums and Best-Selling Monophonic LPs for mono albums and these were renamed to Stereo Action Charts and Mono Action Charts in 1960. In January 1961, they became Action Albums—Stereophonic and Action Albums—Monophonic, three months later, they became Top LPs—Stereo and Top LPs—Monaural. On August 17,1963 the stereo and mono charts were combined into a 150-position chart called Top LPs, on April 1,1967, the chart was expanded to 175 positions, then finally to 200 positions on May 13,1967. In 1960, Billboard began concurrently publishing album charts which ranked sales of older or mid-priced titles and these Essential Inventory charts were divided by stereo and mono albums, and featured titles that had already appeared on the main stereo and mono album charts. In January 1961, the Action Charts became Action Albums—Monophonic, Albums appeared on either chart for up to nine weeks, then were moved to an Essential Inventory list of approximately 200 titles, with no numerical ranking. This list continued to be published until the consolidated Top LPs chart debuted in 1963, in 1982, Billboard began publishing a Midline Albums chart which ranked older or mid-priced titles. The chart held 50 positions and was published on a bi-weekly basis, on May 25,1991, Billboard premiered the Top Pop Catalog Albums chart
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Recording Industry Association of America
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The Recording Industry Association of America is a continental North and South American trade organization that represents the recording industry in the United States. Its members consist of record labels and distributors, which the RIAA says create, the RIAA headquarters is in Washington, D. C. The RIAA was formed in 1952 and its original mission was to administer recording copyright fees and problems, work with trade unions, and do research relating to the record industry and government regulations. Early RIAA standards included the RIAA equalization curve, the format of the record groove and the dimensions of 33 1/3 rpm,45 rpm. Since 2001, the RIAA has spent $2 to $6 million each year on lobbying in the United States, the RIAA also participates in the collective rights management of sound recordings, and it is responsible for certifying Gold and Platinum albums and singles in the United States. Cary Sherman has been the RIAAs chairman and CEO since 2011, Sherman joined the RIAA as its general counsel in 1997 and became president of the board of directors in 2001, serving in that position until being made chairman and CEO. Mitch Glazier has been the RIAAs senior executive vice president since 2011 and he served as executive vice president for public policy and industry relations from 2000 to 2011. The past RIAA chairman and CEO is Mitch Bainwol, who served from 2003 to 2011 and he left in 2011 to become president and CEO of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers. The board of directors consists of 26 members of the board, the RIAA operates an award program for albums that sell a large number of copies. The program originally began in 1958, with a Gold Award for singles, the criterion was changed in 1975 to the number of copies sold, with albums selling 500,000 copies awarded the Gold Award. In 1976, a Platinum Award was added for one million sales, the awards are open to both RIAA members and non-members. Since 2000, the RIAA also operates a program for Latin music sales. Currently, a Disco De Oro is awarded for 30,000 units, the RIAA defines Latin music as a type of release with 51% or more of its content recorded in Spanish. In 2006, digital ringtones were added to branch of certification. In the same year, the RIAA introduced the Latin Digital Award for digital recordings in Spanish and this release format includes DVD and VHS releases, and certain live albums and compilation albums. The certification criteria is different from other styles. Gold,50,000 Platinum,100,000 Multi-Platinum,200,000 copies The RIAA opposes unauthorized sharing of its music, studies conducted since the association began its campaign against peer-to-peer file-sharing have concluded that losses incurred per download range from negligible to moderate. The association has commenced high-profile lawsuits against file sharing service providers and it has also commenced a series of lawsuits against individuals suspected of file sharing, notably college students and parents of file sharing children
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Warner Music Group
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Warner Music Group is an American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate headquartered in New York City. With a multibillion-dollar annual turnover, WMG employs in excess of 3,500 people and has operations in more than 50 countries throughout the world, the company owns and operates some of the largest and most successful record labels in the world, including its flagship labels Warner Bros. WMG also owns Warner/Chappell Music, one of the worlds largest music publishers, the film company had no record label division at the time and one of its contracted actors, Tab Hunter, scored a hit song for Dot Records, which was a division of rival Paramount Pictures. In order to prevent any repetition of its actors recording for rival companies, in 1963, Warner purchased Reprise Records, which had been founded by Frank Sinatra three years earlier so that he could have more creative control over his recordings. With the Reprise acquisition, Warner gained the services of Mo Ostin, the Canadian unit was opened in 1967 as Warner Reprise Canada Ltd, now called Warner Music Canada Co. After Warner Bros. was sold to Seven Arts Productions in 1967, it purchased Atlantic Records, founded in 1947 and WMGs oldest label and this acquisition brought Neil Young into the company fold, initially as a member of Buffalo Springfield. The Geffen catalogue, now owned by Universal Music Group, represents Youngs only major recordings not under WMG ownership, in 1969, two years after being purchased by Seven Arts, the Warner Bros. -Seven Arts company was sold to the Kinney National Company. Kinney combined the operations of all of its labels. An earlier attempt by Warner Bros. Records to create a distribution arm in 1958 didnt materialize. So in 1969, Elektra Records boss Jac Holzman approached Atlantics Jerry Wexler with the idea of setting up a joint distribution network for Warner, Elektra, an experimental branch was established in Southern California as a possible prototype for an expanded operation. Atlantic, its subsidiary Atco Records, and its affiliate Stax Records paved the way for Warners rise to industry prominence, the purchase brought in Atlantics lucrative back-catalogue, which included classic recordings by Ray Charles, the Drifters, the Coasters, and many more. But the sale led to Stax leaving the Atlantic fold because the new Warner owners insisted on keeping the rights to Stax recordings and it was soon apparent in 1969 that Atlantic/Atco president Ahmet Ertegün viewed Warner/Reprise president Mike Maitland as godlike. Maitland believed that, as vice-president in charge of the Warner Bros, in retrospect Ertegün clearly feared that Maitland would ultimately have more power than him and so he moved rapidly to secure his own position and remove Maitland. Following the takeover, Warners music group briefly adopted the umbrella name Kinney Music, erteguns campaign against Maitland began in earnest that summer. Atlantic had agreed to help Warner Bros. in its efforts to establish its labels overseas, Mike Maitland complained bitterly to Kinney executive Ted Ashley, but to no avail – by this time Ertegun was poised to make his move against Maitland. As he had with Hyman, Ertegun urged Steve Ross to extend Mo Ostin and Joe Smiths contracts, in response, Ertegun broadly hinted that Maitlands days were numbered and that he, Ertegun, was about to take over the recording division. Unlike the Warner/Reprise executives, Atlantics execs the Ertegun brothers and Wexler owned stock in Kinney, on Sunday January 25, Ted Ashley went to Maitlands house to tell him he had been dismissed, and Maitland declined the offer of a job at the movie studio. One week later, Mo Ostin was named as the new President of Warner Bros, Records, with Joe Smith as his Executive Vice-President
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Avex Trax
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Avex Trax is a record label owned by Japanese entertainment conglomerate Avex Group. The label was launched in September 1990, and was the first label by the Group and this led to the birth of the Avex Trax label. The first artist to sign for the label was TRF, which became a success, formerly distributed by the Nippon Crown label, in 1997 it became a self-distributed label together with Cutting Edge, which was formerly distributed by Toshiba-EMI by that time. Official website Parent Company website Avex Trax at Anime News Networks encyclopedia Avex Trax at the Internet Movie Database
