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Ada, Oklahoma
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Ada is a city in and the county seat of Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 16,810 at the 2010 census, an increase of 7.1 percent from 15,691 at the 2000 census, the city was named for Ada Reed, the daughter of an early settler, and was incorporated in 1901. Ada is home to East Central University, and is the headquarters of the Chickasaw Nation, Ada is an Oklahoma Main Street City, an Oklahoma Certified City, and a Tree City USA member. In the late 1880s, the Daggs family became the first white family to settle what is now known as Ada, in April 1889, Jeff Reed was appointed to carry the mail from Stonewall to Center, two small communities in then Indian Territory. With his family and his stock, he sought a place for a home on a prairie midway between the two points, where he constructed a log house and started Reeds Store, other settlers soon built homes nearby. In 1891, a post office was established and named after Reeds oldest daughter, Ada incorporated as a city in 1901 and grew rapidly with the arrival of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway line. Within a decade the Santa Fe Railroad and the Oklahoma Central Railway also served the town, in 1909, the women of Ada organized an effort to build a normal school in their city. It resulted in the founding of East Central College, on April 19,1909, an organized mob hanged four men set to be tried for the murder of a former U. S. marshal and member of the local freemason lodge. The town had a population of about 5,000 at the time, the first manufacturing company in Ada, the Portland Cement Company, installed the first cement clinker in Oklahoma in 1910. American Glass Casket Company began manufacturing glass caskets in 1916, hazel Atlas Glass bought the plant in 1928 and produced glass products until 1991. Ada is located in the hills of southeastern Oklahoma. Ada is 88 miles from Oklahoma City,122 mi from Tulsa, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 15.8 square miles, of which 15.7 square miles is land and 0.1 square miles is water. As of the 2010 census, Adas 16,810 residents consisted of 6,697 households and 3,803 families, the population density was 999.3 people per square mile. The 7,862 housing units were dispersed at a density of 475.9 per square mile. Adas 2006 racial makeup was 73. 81% White,3. 54% African American,15. 10% Native American,0. 83% Asian,0. 01% Pacific Islander,0. 89% from other races, and 5. 81% from two or more races. Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 2. 89% of the population, the 15. 8% of those 65 years or older living alone made up a substantial portion of the 37. 1% single-person households. Average household size was 2.20 persons, average size was 2.91. The age breakdown in 2006 was 22. 3% under the age of 18,17. 5% from 18 to 24,24. 4% from 25 to 44,18. 9% from 45 to 64, the median age was 33 years
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Pontotoc County Courthouse in Ada
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Chickasaw language stop sign, with Chickasaw word "Hika" ("stop"), in Ada, Oklahoma.
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Picture taken on Broadway of the former Stout family residence with one of the city's water towers behind it.
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Language offerings for audio tours at the Chickasaw Cultural Center, including Chickasaw,
English, and
Spanish.
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Nashville, Tennessee
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Nashville is the capital of the U. S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in the central part of the state. The city is a center for the music, healthcare, publishing, banking and transportation industries and it is known as a center of the country music industry, earning it the nickname Music City, U. S. A. Since 1963, Nashville has had a consolidated city-county government which includes six municipalities in a two-tier system. Nashville is governed by a mayor, vice-mayor, and 40-member Metropolitan Council, thirty-five of the members are elected from single-member districts, five are elected at-large. Reflecting the citys position in government, Nashville is home to the Tennessee Supreme Courts courthouse for Middle Tennessee. According to 2015 estimates from the U. S. Census Bureau, the balance population, which excludes semi-independent municipalities within Nashville, was 654,610. The 2015 population of the entire 13-county Nashville metropolitan area was 1,830,345, the 2015 population of the Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Columbia combined statistical area, a larger trade area, was 1,951,644. The town of Nashville was founded by James Robertson, John Donelson, and it was named for Francis Nash, the American Revolutionary War hero. Nashville quickly grew because of its location, accessibility as a port on the Cumberland River, a tributary of the Ohio River. By 1800, the city had 345 residents, including 136 African American slaves and 14 free blacks, in 1806, Nashville was incorporated as a city and became the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. In 1843, the city was named the permanent capital of the state of Tennessee, by 1860, when the first rumblings of secession began to be heard across the South, antebellum Nashville was a prosperous city. The citys significance as a port made it a desirable prize as a means of controlling important river. In February 1862, Nashville became the first state capital to fall to Union troops, the state was occupied by Union troops for the duration of the war. Within a few years after the Civil War, the Nashville chapter of the Ku Klux Klan was founded by Confederate veteran John W. Morton, meanwhile, the city had reclaimed its important shipping and trading position and developed a solid manufacturing base. The post–Civil War years of the late 19th century brought new prosperity to Nashville and these healthy economic times left the city with a legacy of grand classical-style buildings, which can still be seen around the downtown area. Circa 1950 the state approved a new city charter that provided for the election of city council members from single-member districts. This change was supported because at-large voting diluted the minority populations political power in the city and they could seldom gain a majority of the population to support a candidate of their choice
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From top left: 2nd Avenue, Kirkland Hall at
Vanderbilt University, the
Parthenon, the Nashville skyline,
Nissan Stadium,
Dolly Parton performing at the
Grand Ole Opry, and
Ryman Auditorium
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Nashville riverfront shortly after the
Civil War
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A satellite image of Nashville
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Downtown Nashville
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Country music
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Country music is a genre of United States popular music that originated in the southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from the genre of United States, such as folk music. Blues modes have been used throughout its recorded history. The term country music is used today to many styles and subgenres. In 2009 country music was the most listened to rush hour radio genre during the evening commute, immigrants to the Southern Appalachian Mountains of North America brought the music and instruments of Europe and Africa along with them for nearly 300 years. Country music was introduced to the world as a Southern phenomenon, Bristol, Tennessee, has been formally recognized by the U. S. Congress as the Birthplace of Country Music, based on the historic Bristol recording sessions of 1927. Since 2014, the city has been home to the Birthplace of Country Music Museum, historians have also noted the influence of the less-known Johnson City sessions of 1928 and 1929, and the Knoxville sessions of 1929 and 1930. Prior to these, pioneer settlers, in the Great Smoky Mountains region, had developed a musical heritage. The first generation emerged in the early 1920s, with Atlantas music scene playing a role in launching countrys earliest recording artists. Okeh Records began issuing hillbilly music records by Fiddlin John Carson as early as 1923, followed by Columbia Records in 1924, many hillbilly musicians, such as Cliff Carlisle, recorded blues songs throughout the 1920s. The most important was the Grand Ole Opry, aired starting in 1925 by WSM in Nashville, during the 1930s and 1940s, cowboy songs, or Western music, which had been recorded since the 1920s, were popularized by films made in Hollywood. Bob Wills was another musician from the Lower Great Plains who had become very popular as the leader of a hot string band. His mix of country and jazz, which started out as dance hall music, Wills was one of the first country musicians known to have added an electric guitar to his band, in 1938. Country musicians began recording boogie in 1939, shortly after it had played at Carnegie Hall. Gospel music remained a component of country music. It became known as honky tonk, and had its roots in Western swing and the music of Mexico. By the early 1950s a blend of Western swing, country boogie, rockabilly was most popular with country fans in the 1950s, and 1956 could be called the year of rockabilly in country music. Beginning in the mid-1950s, and reaching its peak during the early 1960s, the late 1960s in American music produced a unique blend as a result of traditionalist backlash within separate genres
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Jimmie Rodgers
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Vernon Dalhart
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Publicity photo of Roy Rogers and Gail Davis, 1948
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Giant Records (Warner)
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Giant Records was launched in 1990 as a joint venture between Warner Bros. Records and record executive Irving Azoff. In 1990 Giant became a label for Warner Music Group. Its first release, in early 1991, was the Gulf War all-star tribute song Voices That Care and that spring, Hold You Tight by Tara Kemp was released and went on to become a top-five single. In the months that followed, Giant Records released the album for the film New Jack City. The label signed such acts as MC Hammer, Jade, Lord Finesse, Giant also signed established acts such as Big Car, Miles Zuniga, Steely Dan, Warren Zevon, Oingo Boingo, Chicago, Deep Purple, Morbid Angel, Brian Wilson, and Kenny Rogers. The label operated a music division in Nashville, the first act signed was Dennis Robbins. In 1993 Giant became dissatisfied with the way Warner Music Group was handling its international affairs, by the mid- to late 90s, the company had replaced most of its staff and launched a subsidiary label called Revolution Records, Brian Wilson signed with the new label in 1997. The company later reverted to its name and distributed Paladin Records. In 2001 Warner Music Group ended its joint venture with Giant Records, in February 2015 Warner Music Sweden announced that it would reactivate Giants name, the first single released under the new Giant Records banner was Simon Ericss Waiting for the Sun. Artists on Giant Records were primarily distributed by Warner Bros, Giant recording artists marked with were distributed by Reprise Records. List of record labels Warner Music Looks to Complete Giant Records Deal
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Warner Bros. Records
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Warner Bros. Records was established on March 19,1958, as the recorded-music division of the American film studio Warner Bros. For most of its existence it was one of a group of labels owned and operated by larger parent corporations. The sequence of companies that controlled Warner Bros. and its allied labels evolved through a series of corporate mergers. Over this period, Warner Bros. Records grew from a minor player in the music industry to become one of the top recording labels in the world. In 2003, these assets were divested by their then owner Time Warner. This independent company traded as the Warner Music Group before being bought by Access Industries in 2011, WMG is the smallest of the three major international music conglomerates and the worlds last publicly traded major music company. Cameron Strang serves as CEO of the company, artists currently signed to Warner Bros. At the end of the silent movie period, Warner Bros, pictures decided to expand into publishing and recording so that it could access low-cost music content for its films. This new group controlled valuable copyrights on standards by George and Ira Gershwin and Jerome Kern, the label signed rising radio and recording stars Bing Crosby, Mills Brothers, and Boswell Sisters. In December 1931, Warner Bros. offloaded Brunswick to the American Record Corporation for a fraction of its former value, in a lease arrangement which did not include Brunswicks pressing plants. Warner Bros. sold Brunswick a second time, this time along with the old Brunswick pressing plants Warner owned, to Decca Records in exchange for a financial interest in Decca. The studio stayed out of the business for more than 25 years. Warner Bros. reëntered the record business in 1958 with the establishment of its own recording division, by this time, the established Hollywood studios were reeling from multiple challenges to their former dominance - the most notable being the introduction of television in the late 1940s. Legal changes also had a impact on their business—lawsuits brought by major stars had effectively overthrown the old studio contract system by the late 1940s. Pictures sold off much of its library in 1948 and, beginning in 1949. Semenenko in particular had a professional interest in the entertainment business. With the record business booming - sales had topped US$500 million by 1958 - Semnenko argued that it was foolish for Warner Bros, another impetus for the labels creation was the brief music career of Warner Bros. actor Tab Hunter. In 1958, the studio signed Hunter as its first artist to its newly formed record division, to establish the label, the company hired former Columbia Records president James B
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The gold, black and red label design used for Warner Bros. stereo albums from 1958 to 1968 and mono albums from 1964 to 1968.
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The grey, black, white and yellow label design used for Warner Bros. mono albums from 1958 to 1964 when it switched to the same gold label as the stereo version.
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"Cream Puff War" (1967), the first Warner Bros. single by
The Grateful Dead, showing the orange label with chevron border used on WBR's American 45s for much of the 1960s.
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Beginning in 1968, Warner LP and single label designs became identical. From 1968 to 1970, the label was called Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Records. The basic design and colour scheme of the W7 label were retained after the company name reverted to Warner Bros. Records and the "WB" shield in 1970 and remained in use until 1973.
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Reprise Records
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Reprise Records /rəˈpriz/ is an American major record label, founded in 1960 by Frank Sinatra. It was mostly inactive from 1976 to 1987 and it is owned by Warner Music Group, and operates through Warner Bros. Reprise Records was formed in 1960 by Frank Sinatra in order to more artistic freedom for his own recordings. Hence, he garnered the nickname The Chairman of the Board, having left Capitol/EMI, and after trying to buy Norman Granzs Verve Records, the first album Sinatra released on Reprise was Ring-a-Ding-Ding. As CEO of Reprise, Sinatra recruited several artists for the label, such as fellow Rat Pack members Dean Martin and Sammy Davis. The original roster from 1961 to 1963 included Bing Crosby, Jo Stafford, Rosemary Clooney, Nancy Sinatra, Esquivel, the label still issues any Sinatra work recorded while on the label and, after his death in 1998, it had great success with his greatest hits collections. One of the founding principles under Sinatras leadership was that each artist would have full creative freedom. This is the reason why recordings of early Reprise artists are distributed through other labels. In Martins case, his Reprise recordings were out of print for nearly 20 years before a deal was struck with Capitol Records, in 1963, as part of a film deal, Warner Bros. purchased Reprise from Sinatra, who nonetheless retained a 20% interest in the label. Many of the artists on the label were dropped by Warner Bros. Reprise president Mo Ostin was retained as the head of the label, warner-Reprise executives began targeting younger acts, beginning by securing the American distribution rights to the Pye Records recordings by the Kinks in 1964. Reprise would soon add teen-oriented pop acts like Dino, Desi & Billy to the roster, as well, Franks own daughter Nancy Sinatra would be retained by Ostin, becoming a major pop star starting in late 1965. The label moved almost exclusively to rock-oriented music in the late 1960s, rex, the Meters, John Cale, Gordon Lightfoot, Michael Franks, Richard Pryor, Al Jarreau, Fleetwood Mac, Fanny, and the Beach Boys. In 1976, the Reprise label was deactivated by Warner Bros. an unconfirmed explanation for this move is that Sinatra wanted to be the only artist on Reprise, and Young is said to have been the only Reprise act who refused to agree to a change in labels. In late 1985, some copies of the Dream Academys hit single Life in a Northern Town were pressed with Warner Bros. labels bearing a Reprise logo,1986 saw releases bearing Reprise labels from the Dream Academy as well as Dwight Yoakam. Vice President of Promotion Rich Fitzgerald was appointed as label Vice-President and it was formerly home to the Jimi Hendrix and the Barenaked Ladies catalogs in the U. S. When the Bee Gees back catalog was remastered by Rhino Records in the 2000s, neil Young stated in a documentary about his life that Marilyn Manson was turned down by Reprise. In September 2011, several took place at Reprise Records
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"Tricolor" label, used by Reprise until 1968. (Label to
The Kinks '
Something Else.)
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"Two-tone orange" label used by Reprise during the Warner Bros.-Seven Arts merger from 1968 to 1969. (Label to
Jimi Hendrix 's
Smash Hits.) After the Kinney National Company took over Warner Bros. in 1969, the orange tone at the top of the label was changed to the same tone as on the rest of the label, the W7 box logo was removed and the circled:r logo became a boxed logo without the "Reprise" designation.
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Red label, used by Reprise throughout the late 1970s. (Label to
Neil Young 's
Decade.)
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Austin (song)
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Austin is the title of a debut song written by David Kent and Kirsti Manna, and performed by American country music artist Blake Shelton. It was released in April 2001 as his single, and was served as the first single from the album Blake Shelton. Austin was not only Blakes debut single, but also his first number-one single, spending five weeks atop the U. S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. It was also a pop hit, peaking at number 18 on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, Austin tied a record set by Billy Ray Cyrus in 1992. Cyrus Achy Breaky Heart stayed atop the chart for five weeks, BDS began monitoring radio play for the chart in January 1991. The song tells the story of a woman from Austin attempts to contact with a former lover. She calls numerous times and is greeted by a machine that explains where he could be. At the end of the answering machine message, the man says and P. S. if this is Austin, Austin debuted at number 58 on the U. S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for the week of April 28,2001. It reached the spot on August 11,2001, and stayed there for five weeks until September 15,2001. The song was certified Gold on February 25,2015, and Platinum on June 9,2015, the song has sold 929,000 copies in the U. S. as of January 2016. This was Blake Sheltons first music video, and was directed by Deaton-Flanigen Productions, the music video debuted on CMT on July 17,2001. It depicts Shelton standing in front of a red 1968 first generation Ford Mustang, the woman attempts to call the narrator and it eventually shows her driving to where the narrator is and walking up to Shelton. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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"Austin"
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Blake Shelton (album)
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Blake Shelton is the debut studio album by American country music artist Blake Shelton. It was released in 2001 on Warner Bros, Records, although the single Austin was released by Warner subsidiary Giant. The album features his debut single Austin, as well as the singles All Over Me and it has been certified platinum by the RIAA. Shelton co-wrote four of the ten tracks, Austin was the lead-off single from the album. This song reached Number One on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts that year, although Shelton has since charted five more Number Ones, Austin is his longest-lasting Number One hit, at five weeks. Following this song was All Over Me, which reached number 18 on the charts, and Ol Red. The latter was recorded by George Jones on his 1990 album You Oughta Be Here with Me. Due to the closure of Giant Records in 2001, Shelton was transferred to the Nashville division of Giants parent label, Records, which promoted and distributed the second and third singles
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Platinum album
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Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies. The threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory, almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories, which are named after precious materials. The number of sales or shipments required for these awards depends upon the population of the territory in which the recording is released, typically, they are awarded only to international releases and are awarded individually for each country in which the album is sold. Different sales levels, some perhaps 10 times lower than others, the original gold record awards were presented to artists by their own record companies to publicize their sales achievements. The first of these was awarded by RCA Victor to Glenn Miller and His Orchestra in February 1942, another example of a company award is the gold record awarded to Elvis Presley in 1956 for one million units sold of his single Dont Be Cruel. The first gold record for an LP was awarded by RCA Victor to Harry Belafonte in 1957 for the album Calypso and these sales were restricted to U. S. -based record companies and did not include exports to other countries. For albums in 1968, this would mean shipping approximately 250,000 units, the platinum certification was introduced in 1976 for the sale of one million units, album or single, with the gold certification redefined to mean sales of 500,000 units, album or single. No album was certified platinum prior to this year, for instance, the recording by Van Cliburn of the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto from 1958 would eventually be awarded a platinum citation, but this would not happen until two decades after its release. In 1999, the certification was introduced for sales of ten million units. On 14 March 1958, the RIAA certified its first gold record, soundtrack was certified as the first gold album four months later. In 1976, RIAA introduced the platinum certification, first awarded to Johnnie Taylors single, Disco Lady, as music sales increased with the introduction of compact discs, the RIAA created the Multi-Platinum award in 1984. Diamond awards, honoring those artists whose sales of singles or albums reached 10,000,000 copies, were introduced in 1999 and this became much less common once the majority of retail sales became paid digital downloads and digital streaming. In most countries certifications no longer apply solely to physical media, in June 2006, the RIAA also certified the ringtone downloads of songs. Streaming from on-demand services such as Rhapsody and Spotify has been included into existing digital certification in the U. S since 2013, in the U. S. and Germany video streaming services like YouTube, VEVO, and Yahoo. Music also began to be counted towards the certification, in both cases using the formula of 100 streams being equivalent to one download, other countries, such as Denmark and Spain, maintain separate awards for digital download singles and streaming. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry was founded in 1996, and grants the IFPI Platinum Europe Award for album sales over one million within Europe, multi-platinum Europe Awards are presented for sales in subsequent multiples of one million. Eligibility is unaffected by time, and is not restricted to European-based artists, IMPALA sales awards were launched in 2005 as the first sales awards recognising that success on a pan-European basis begins well before sales reach one million. The award levels are Silver, Double Silver, Gold, Double Gold, Diamond, Platinum, below are certification thresholds for the United States and United Kingdom
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A gold record for
The Beatles '
Hey Jude
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Gold record presented to
Artie Schroeck for his arrangement on "
Can't Take My Eyes Off You ", 1967
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Boy band
Plus One displaying their gold records.
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Somali singer
Saado Ali Warsame receiving a gold record Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Giant Records (Warner Bros. subsidiary label)
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Giant Records was launched in 1990 as a joint venture between Warner Bros. Records and record executive Irving Azoff. In 1990 Giant became a label for Warner Music Group. Its first release, in early 1991, was the Gulf War all-star tribute song Voices That Care and that spring, Hold You Tight by Tara Kemp was released and went on to become a top-five single. In the months that followed, Giant Records released the album for the film New Jack City. The label signed such acts as MC Hammer, Jade, Lord Finesse, Giant also signed established acts such as Big Car, Miles Zuniga, Steely Dan, Warren Zevon, Oingo Boingo, Chicago, Deep Purple, Morbid Angel, Brian Wilson, and Kenny Rogers. The label operated a music division in Nashville, the first act signed was Dennis Robbins. In 1993 Giant became dissatisfied with the way Warner Music Group was handling its international affairs, by the mid- to late 90s, the company had replaced most of its staff and launched a subsidiary label called Revolution Records, Brian Wilson signed with the new label in 1997. The company later reverted to its name and distributed Paladin Records. In 2001 Warner Music Group ended its joint venture with Giant Records, in February 2015 Warner Music Sweden announced that it would reactivate Giants name, the first single released under the new Giant Records banner was Simon Ericss Waiting for the Sun. Artists on Giant Records were primarily distributed by Warner Bros, Giant recording artists marked with were distributed by Reprise Records. List of record labels Warner Music Looks to Complete Giant Records Deal
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The Dreamer (Blake Shelton album)
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The Dreamer is the second studio album released by American country music artist Blake Shelton. Released in 2003 on Warner Bros. Records Nashville, it features the Number One single The Baby, as well as the singles Heavy Liftin, the Dreamer is certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America and features staff writers on all but one track. The Baby was the first single from the album and this song spent three weeks at Number One on the Billboard country charts in early 2003, becoming Sheltons second Number One hit. Unlike with his album, the second and third singles from The Dreamer did not peak as highly, Heavy Liftin peaked at number 32. Georgia in a Jug was previously recorded by Johnny Paycheck on his 1978 album Take This Job and Shove It, in My Heaven was previously recorded by Mark Wills on his 2001 album Loving Every Minute
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Pure BS
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Pure BS is the fourth studio album by American country music artist Blake Shelton, released in 2007 on Warner Bros. Records Nashville. It produced the singles Dont Make Me and The More I Drink, the album was re-released in 2008 with three bonus tracks, one of which — a cover of Michael Bublés Home — was released as a single, becoming Sheltons fourth Number One country hit. Of the eleven tracks, Shelton co-wrote three, the album has been certified Gold by RIAA. Unlike Sheltons first three albums, which were all produced by Bobby Braddock, Pure BS features three different producers, Braddock, as well as Brent Rowan and Paul Worley. The albums first single was Dont Make Me, which peaked at number 12 on the Billboard country charts in 2007, following this was the David Lee Murphy co-write The More I Drink which peaked at number 19. Pure BS was re-released in May 2008 as Pure BS Deluxe Edition and this re-issue included his cover of Michael Bublés hit single Home and two additional tracks which Shelton wrote. The cover featured backing vocals from Miranda Lambert, whom Shelton would later marry and it was issued as a single in early 2008, and in July it became Sheltons fourth Number One single on the country charts. She Dont Love Me was previously recorded by Trent Willmon on his debut album. I Dont Care was later included on Sheltons 2008 album Startin Fires. T
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Hillbilly Bone
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Hillbilly Bone is the first extended play, and seventh studio release overall, by American country music singer/songwriter Blake Shelton and the first recording by Chris Thomas. It was released on March 2,2010 via Warner Music Group Nashville, the only single released was the title track, a duet with Trace Adkins which was released to radio in November 2009. This song reached number one on the U. S. Billboard country singles charts in April 2010, the albums title track, which features a guest vocal from Trace Adkins, was released on October 24,2009 as the lead-off single. One month prior to the EPs release, this reached the country Top 10. The track Kiss My Country Ass was co-written and previously released by Rhett Akins on his 2007 album People Like Me, Shelton wrote the song Delilah about a dog owned by Miranda Lambert, his then-girlfriend, later-wife and now-ex-wife. Shelton told Country Weekly magazine that this project is part of an experiment to three extended plays a year, so that he can offer his fans more material per year for a bargain price. Jessica Phillips of Country Weekly, Thom Jurek of Allmusic and Jonathan Keefe of Slant Magazine all gave the EP three stars out of five, Phillips wrote that it finds Blake Shelton coming into his own when it comes to song selection. She also called Delilah the strongest-written track on it, Jurek called its material formula contemporary country and said that the labels decision to release multiple EPs instead of an album was risky. Jonathan Keefe criticized the production and the lyrics of Hillbilly Bone and Kiss My Country Ass. The album debuted at two on the U. S. Billboard Top Country Albums, and number three on the U. S. Billboard 200 chart, selling 71,000 copies in its first week of release
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All About Tonight (EP)
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All About Tonight is the second extended play, and eighth studio release by American country music artist Blake Shelton. It was released on August 10,2010, via Warner Music Group Nashville, the first single, All About Tonight, was released to radio in April 2010 and has become his seventh Number One hit on the U. S. Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. The albums second single, Who Are You When Im Not Looking, was released to radio in August 2010, All About Tonight is Sheltons second Six Pak, a concept that he and his record label decided to experiment with in 2010 starting with Hillbilly Bone. Shelton said, Were looking for ways to remind people that we still make albums, so we decided to do a six-song album, and its really cheap. Its like five dollars and change and its a good, fun party song about where the night is going to go. After we wrote it, we thought it sounds just like a Blake Shelton song, upon its release, All About Tonight received generally positive reviews from most music critics. Jon Caramanica with The New York Times said that the release is a variety-pack of country styles and said he sounded flirty and convincing on the release. Gary Graff with Billboard gave it a review, saying the singers latest set, All About Tonight, is a satisfying sprint without fat or filler. Bill Friskics-Warren with The Washington Post gave it a review, saying Sheltons latest six pak harks back to a time when Nashville rebels could be rowdy. The album debuted at six on the U. S. Billboard 200. The number one debut on the Top Country Albums chart gave Shelton his first number one album of his career, as of the chart dated January 8,2011, the album has sold 149,385 copies in the US
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Red River Blue
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Red River Blue is the sixth studio album by American country music artist Blake Shelton. It was released on July 12,2011, via Warner Bros, records, and is Sheltons inaugural No.1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, debuting at the top spot on July 30,2011. Its first single, Honey Bee, peaked at number 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, the albums second single is God Gave Me You, written and originally recorded by Christian rock singer Dave Barnes. The title track is a duet with Sheltons former wife and fellow country singer Miranda Lambert, the album debuted on the Billboard 200 at number one with 116,000 sold in the US in its debut week. It is Blake Sheltons highest charting album and his first album to number one on this chart. As of March 2015, the album has sold 1,240,000 copies in the US, in 2016, it was certified double-platinum with sales of 2,000,000 units. Red River Blue received mostly positive reviews music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics. The positive reviews came in from About. com, American Songwriter Entertainment Weekly, Nashville Country Club, Roughstock, Taste of Country, Urban Country News and the USA Today. Critic Scott Sexton of About. com rated the album a four out of five stars, critic Allen Morrison of American Songwriter rated the album a three and a half out of five stars, and evoked how Red River Blue should do nothing to slow his momentum. Critic Melissa Maerz of Entertainment Weekly graded the album a B, with heart warming love songs and the occasional feel good song, Red River Blue has great balance. Full of honest and raw emotion, Blake wins the hearts of all women, Roughstock critic Matt Bjorke rated the album a four out of five stars, and called the album. a collection of songs that may be the most satisfying album of Blake Shelton’s career. Liv Carter music critic for Urban Christian News wrote Red River Blue shows Shelton has reached the point in his career where he does exactly what he wants. Well put-together, greatly executed and well-written. Red River Blue is a confident, however, the album had some mixed reviews come in from AllMusic, The A. V. Club, PopMatters, Rolling Stone and Slant Magazine, critic Thom Jurek of AllMusic rated the album a three out of five stars, and called the album uncharacteristically tender. Club critic Steven Hyden gave the album a C grade, and commented that Hes in the creamy, mushy middle, critic Dave Heaton of PopMatters gave the album a five out of ten stars, and noted that Red River Blues songs generally feel both cynical and overly familiar. Rolling Stone music critic Will Hermes rated the album a two and an out of five stars, and wrote that Red River Blue is unlikely to offend anyone. Likewise, critic Jonathan Keefe of Slant Magazine gave it the same rating, and criticized the album because it. proves that hes a capable singer who chooses to sing some lackluster songs
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Based on a True Story...
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Based on a True Story… is the eighth studio album by American country music artist Blake Shelton. It was released on March 26,2013 via Warner Bros. Records, the album became the ninth best-selling album of 2013 in the US, earning Shelton a Platinum certification by the RIAA on September 30,2013. In 2016, Based on a True Story… was certified double-platinum by the RIAA, lewiss version was released as a single to country radio in 2013 and peaked at number 46 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart. Based on a True Story… received mixed to positive reviews from critics, at Metacritic, a website which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 from reviews by mainstream critics, it currently holds a rating of 64 based on 5 reviews. Sarah Rodman of The Boston Globe gave a review to the album. All of it is executed competently, yet Rodman called the highlight the dusty story song of Granddaddys Gun. In addition, Rodman noted that the album doesnt offer enough personal touches to distinguish it from a lot of other tales coming out of Nashville, roughstocks Matt Bjorke praised the album as a strong, current record with a couple of moments that demand repeated attention. Shelton, kudos…, and affirmed that Shelton has done all of these songwriters quite proud, wood concluded with noting that with respect to Sheltons music its not the journey that matters, but the destination. The album debuted at No.1 on the Top Country Albums chart and No.3 on the Billboard 200, the album became the ninth best-selling album of 2013 in the United States, with 1,109,000 copies sold for the year. As of March 2015, the album has sold a total of 1.46 million copies in the United States, in 2016, it was certified double-platinum with sales of 2,000,000 units
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Bringing Back the Sunshine
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Bringing Back the Sunshine is the ninth studio album by American country music singer Blake Shelton. The album was released on September 30,2014, by Warner Bros, the album was produced by Sheltons longtime producer Scott Hendricks. Neon Light, the albums single, was released on August 18,2014. Bringing Back the Sunshine debuted at No.1 on Billboards all genre Top 200, the album was certified Gold by the RIAA on January 7,2015. The album has sold 448,000 copies in the U. S. as of May 2016, in October 2016, Bringing Back the Sunshine was certified platinum. In Canada, the album debuted at No.4 on the Canadian Albums Chart, selling 7,700 copies in its first week
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Grammy Award
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A Grammy Award, or Grammy, is an honor awarded by The Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievement in the mainly English-language music industry. The annual presentation ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and the presentation of awards that have a more popular interest. It shares recognition of the industry as that of the other performance awards such as the Emmy Awards, the Tony Awards. The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held on May 4,1959, to honor, following the 2011 ceremony, The Academy overhauled many Grammy Award categories for 2012. The 59th Grammy Awards, honoring the best achievements from October 2015 to September 2016, was held on February 12,2017, the Grammys had their origin in the Hollywood Walk of Fame project in the 1950s. The music executives decided to rectify this by creating a given by their industry similar to the Oscars. This was the beginning of the National Academy of Recording Arts, after it was decided to create such an award, there was still a question of what to call it, one working title was the Eddie, to honor the inventor of the phonograph, Thomas Edison. They finally settled on using the name of the invention of Emile Berliner, the gramophone, for the awards, the number of awards given grew and fluctuated over the years with categories added and removed, at one time reaching over 100. The second Grammy Awards, also held in 1959, was the first ceremony to be televised, the gold-plated trophies, each depicting a gilded gramophone, are made and assembled by hand by Billings Artworks in Ridgway, Colorado. In 1990 the original Grammy design was revamped, changing the traditional soft lead for a stronger alloy less prone to damage, Billings developed a zinc alloy named grammium, which is trademarked. The trophies with the name engraved on them are not available until after the award announcements. By February 2009,7,578 Grammy trophies had been awarded, the General Field are four awards which are not restricted by genre. Album of the Year is awarded to the performer and the team of a full album if other than the performer. Record of the Year is awarded to the performer and the team of a single song if other than the performer. Song of the Year is awarded to the writer/composer of a single song, Best New Artist is awarded to a promising breakthrough performer who releases, during the Eligibility Year, the first recording that establishes the public identity of that artist. The only two artists to win all four of these awards are Christopher Cross, who won all four in 1980, and Adele, who won the Best New Artist award in 2009 and the other three in 2012 and 2017. Other awards are given for performance and production in specific genres, as well as for other such as artwork. Special awards are given for longer-lasting contributions to the music industry, the many other Grammy trophies are presented in a pre-telecast Premiere Ceremony earlier in the afternoon before the Grammy Awards telecast
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Nashville Star
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Nashville Star is an American reality television program. It was last produced and transmitted during mid-2008 on NBC, following five seasons on USA Network and it premiered on March 8,2003, and its five seasons on USA made it the longest-running competition series on cable television. In Canada, the show aired on CMT through season 5, CMT in the United States reaired each episode in season 6. It was similar to American Idol, in that performers had to sing to impress both celebrity judges and the public via call-in and/or internet votes, unlike American Idol, however, the performers were limited to country music. This restriction was relaxed for Season 6, allowing for the finalists to choose from many genres of music, on March 13,2009, it was confirmed that the series had been canceled by NBC and would not be returning for a seventh season. In a format nearly identical to the round of American Idol, finalists performed one song per week individually. At the end of the show, voting opened to the viewing public, the performer with the fewest number of votes was eliminated. However, because Nashville Star aired only once per week, eliminations were not announced until the following week, the finalists who have not been eliminated are called in random order to the stage one-by-one to perform until there are only two remaining. At that point, one was called to perform and the other was eliminated for receiving the lowest amount of votes from the previous week. The finalists did not know the order in which they will perform, No votes are tallied on the season finale. Much like American Idol, the judges were present to offer criticism to the finalists in an attempt to sway the voting public, unlike Idol, however, Nashville Stars judges did not participate in the preliminary auditions, but they did act as mentors to the finalists. The audition process was not seen on-air on USA Network versions, except for the first season, beginning with the 2008 move to NBC, the judges did assist producers in narrowing the field from 50 to 12. Each season, the judges eliminated finalists based on consensus on the episode without sending the vote to the public. Past finalists have included musicians, background singers, and independent artists. Finalists were usually songwriters, in addition to being singers, in each season, one episode was dedicated to songs written by the finalists. Nashville Star did not have the age limits as American Idol. Nashville Star always featured a band, led by John Bohlinger. In 2006, several musicians appeared on both American Idol and Nashville Star, Kenny Rogers made appearances as a guest performer live on both shows within two weeks of each other
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Clash of the Choirs
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Clash of the Choirs is a reality talent contest miniseries that debuted on NBC in the United States on December 17,2007. There were four episodes scheduled in the “quick competition”, maria Menounos is the host of the program, which was performed live from Stage One at Steiner Studios in Brooklyn, New York. The format was developed by Friday TV from an idea from the Swedish singer, the format was a multi-city “bragging rights” competition between 20-person choirs assembled in the hometowns of the recording artists that support them. In the 2007 competition, the choirs competed for a prize of $250,000, backed in part by Sony Pictures in support of its upcoming movie release. The film, about petty criminals using a choir in a church as part of their scheme, was released 11 January 2008, in the United States and Canada. The prize was in the form of a contribution to a charity active in the artists hometown, the choir led by former 98° singer Nick Lachey won the 2007 competition, which was decided by public vote after four nights of live performances. Patti LaBelles choir finished second, followed by Blake Sheltons, Michael Boltons, the remaining teams received $50,000 each of donations, courtesy of General Electric, parent company of network owner NBC Universal. The miniseries aired right as most US primetime broadcast television series had run out of new episodes mainly due to the Writers Guild of America strike. NBC announced its 2008-2009 schedule on April 2,2008, a similar group a cappella competition, The Sing-Off, took place in December 2009 with Nick Lachey hosting. Choir members were selected in open auditions held in city with the celebrity officiating. After the top twenty singers from each city were selected, they were sent to New York for rehearsals before the live performances began on 17 December 2007, I was only interested when they explained that we were going to inspire young, unestablished singers. Each choir performs, under the direction of their celebrity, the series has been criticized for not having any real tension or the reality show bite of actual judges. The elimination decision is a vote by phone and online. The choir with the lowest vote total is eliminated the following night, as noted, the top prize was a $250,000 donation to the hometown charity. Each choir performed as part of a medley format as well as songs for the finale night of the show. Of the songs listed below only those performed the first three nights were considered towards the final vote. The title sequence created by Framework Studio won a Telly Award Clash of the Choirs was produced by BBC Worldwide America, the format is distributed by Friday TV, which is owned by the Scandinavian production company Metronome Film & Television. The first and third episodes were two hours in length, the second was one hour long, and the finale was also initially scheduled to be an hour
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The Voice (U.S. TV series)
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The Voice is an American reality television singing competition broadcast on NBC. Based on the original The Voice of Holland, the concept of the series is to find currently unsigned singing talent contested by aspiring singers, age 13 or over, drawn from public auditions. The winner is determined by viewers voting by telephone, Internet, SMS text. They receive US$100,000 and a deal with Universal Music Group for winning the competition. The series employs a panel of four coaches who critique the artists performances and they also compete to ensure that their act wins the competition, thus making them the winning coach. Members of the panel include Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, Christina Aguilera, CeeLo Green, Shakira, Usher, Gwen Stefani, Pharrell Williams, Miley Cyrus. The Voice began airing on April 26,2011, as a spring TV season program, the show proved to be a hit for NBC and was subsequently expanded into the fall cycle when season three premiered on September 10,2012. The series premiered its twelfth season on February 27,2017, on October 18,2016, NBC renewed the series through its thirteenth season. An adaptation of the Dutch show The Voice of Holland, NBC announced the show under the name The Voice of America in December 2010, in each season, the winner receives $100,000 and a record deal with Universal Republic Records, Universal Music Group. Each season begins with the Blind Auditions, where coaches form their team of artists whom they mentor through the remainder of the season. At the conclusion of the performance, an artist either defaults to the coach who turned around. In the Battle Rounds, each coach pairs two of his or her team members to perform together, then one to advance in the competition. In each season, coaches are assisted by celebrity mentors that are different each season, a new element was added in season three, coaches were given two steals, allowing each coach to select two individuals who were eliminated during a battle round by another coach. The Knockout Rounds were also introduced in season three, a pair of artists within a team are selected to sing individual performances in succession. They are not told until a few prior to their performances who their partner is. The artists get to choose their own songs in round, although they continue to get help. At the conclusion of the performances, coaches would decide which one of each pair gets to advance to the next round, just like in the battle rounds, the coaches can steal one eliminated artist from another coach starting with season five. The Battles, Round 2 were introduced to replace the Knockout Rounds in season six, similar to the Knockout Rounds, each singer is paired randomly within their team
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Miranda Lambert
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Miranda Leigh Lambert is an American singer and songwriter. Outside of her career, she is a member of the Pistol Annies alongside Ashley Monroe. Lambert has been honored by the Grammy Awards, the Academy of Country Music Awards, Lamberts debut album Kerosene was certified Platinum in the United States, and produced the singles Me and Charlie Talking, Bring Me Down, Kerosene, and New Strings. All four singles reached the top 40 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs and her second album, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, was released in early 2007. Her third album, Revolution, was released in September 2009, two of its songs–The House That Built Me and Heart Like Mine–topped the Hot Country Songs chart. 2011s Four the Record, included the singles Baggage Claim, Over You, Fastest Girl in Town, Mamas Broken Heart, Lambert released her fifth album, Platinum, in 2014. The record won the Grammy Award for Best Country Album, and her sixth studio album, The Weight of These Wings, was released on November 18,2016. From 2011 to 2015, Lambert was married to country singer Blake Shelton. Miranda Leigh Lambert was born November 10,1983, in Longview, Texas and she was named after her great-grandmother, Lucy Miranda. Her father, Rick Lambert, was an officer who played in a country-rock group called Contraband in the 1970s. He later became an investigator in partnership with Mirandas mother. She has English, Irish and Native American ancestry, while still in high school, Lambert made her professional singing debut with The Texas Pride Band. At 16, Lambert appeared on the Johnnie High Country Music Revue in Arlington, Texas, Lambert then acquired a recording session in Nashville, Tennessee, but left the studio after she became frustrated with the pop type of music presented to her. She went back to Texas in 2000 and asked her dad to teach her how to play guitar, in 2002, Dusty Meador hired Miranda to perform at Tye Phelps country music restaurant and venue Love And War in Texas. Miranda continued to perform around the Texas Music Scene opening for Cooder Graw, Kevin Fowler, in 2003 she auditioned for the talent competition Nashville Star, where she earned a third-place finish behind Buddy Jewell and John Arthur Martinez. During her 9 week stay on Nashville Star Miranda caught the attention of the judge and Sony Record executive, Tracy Gershon. On September 15,2003, she signed with Epic Records and her debut single, Me and Charlie Talking, co-written by her father and Heather Little, was released in summer of 2004 as the lead single to her debut album. Titled Kerosene, Lamberts first album comprised 12 songs,11 of which she wrote or co-wrote, overall, the album produced four Top 40 singles on the Billboard country charts, including the title track which was a Top 20 hit
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Sony Music
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Sony Music Entertainment is an American music company owned by Sony. It is incorporated as a partnership of Sony Music Holdings Inc. through Sony Entertainment. The company was first founded in 1929 as American Record Corporation and renamed Columbia Recording Corporation in 1938, in 1966, the company was reorganized to become CBS Records. Sony Corporation bought the company in 1987 and renamed it Sony Music Entertainment in 1991, the buyout led to the dissolution of BMG, which relaunched as BMG Rights Management. Sony Music Entertainment is one of the Big Three record companies, being the second largest after Universal Music Group, in 1929, ARC was founded through a merger of several record companies. In 1934, in the midst of Great Depression, the Columbia Phonograph Company, ARC was acquired in 1938 by the Columbia Broadcasting System, which, in turn, had been formed by the Columbia Phonograph Company, but then sold off. ARC was renamed Columbia Recording Corporation, RCA Victor Records executive Ted Wallerstein convinced CBS head William S. Paley to buy ARC and Paley made Wallerstein head of the newly acquired record company. The renamed company made Columbia its flagship label and Okeh its subsidiary label and this allowed ARCs leased labels Brunswick Records and Vocalion Records to revert to their former owner Warner Bros. which sold them to Decca Records. Columbia kept the Brunswick catalogue recorded from December 1931 onward on the Columbia label and he was succeeded by James Conkling as head of Columbia Records. In 1951, Columbia severed its ties with the EMI-owned record label of the same name, Okeh Records continued to be distributed by EMI on the Columbia label. Columbia founded Epic Records in 1953 and in 1956, Conkling left Columbia and he would help establish the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences before eventually becoming the first president of the newly launched Warner Bros. His successor, Goddard Lieberson began the first of two stints as head of the record company, and in 1958, Columbia founded another label, Date Records, which initially issued rockabilly music. In 1960, Columbia/CBS began negotiations with its international distributor Philips Records with the goal of starting its own global record company. Philips acquisition of US-based Mercury Records in 1961 paved the way for this, elsewhere, CBSs Mexican record company, Discos Columbia, was renamed Discos CBS by 1963. In 1964, Columbia set out acquiring record companies in countries for its CBS Records International Unit. EMI continued to distribute Epic and Okeh label material on the Columbia label in the UK until the deal with EMI expired in 1968 when CBS took over distribution. In late 1965, the Date subsidiary label was revived and this label released the first string of hits for Peaches & Herb and scored a few minor hits from various other artists. Dates biggest success was Time of the Season by the Zombies, the label was discontinued in 1970
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I Wanna Talk About Me
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I Wanna Talk About Me is a song written by Bobby Braddock and recorded by American country music artist Toby Keith. It was released in August 2001 as the single from Keiths album Pull My Chain. The song was his seventh Number One single on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts, Keith told Billboard magazine that he knew he would get banged a little for cutting the song. Theyre going to call it a rap, there aint nobody doing rap who would call it a rap. Like Keiths 1998 single Getcha Some, I Wanna Talk About Me is cited as an example of country-rap, due to the use of a strong beat, songwriter Bobby Braddock was inspired to write a song in that style after hearing Getcha Some and pitched it to Keith. I Wanna Talk About Me tells of a frustration in his inability to converse with his partner. In the chorus, the singer states I like talking about you, you, you, you, a musical strength of the song is its use of a I-V-vi-IV arpeggio played in a punchy rhythm. Blake Shelton was originally slated to record the song, however, his label turned it down, as they thought it would be too risky of a debut single. Ray Waddell, of Billboard magazine in his review of the album, said that a lot of men will be able to relate to the song, which Keith manages to sell through sheer force of personality. The music video was directed by Michael Salomon and shows Keith following a girl around while she talks about different things that interest her and it was released in August 2001. I Wanna Talk About Me debuted at number 51 on the U. S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of August 25,2001, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Toby Keith
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Toby Keith Covel is an American singer, songwriter, actor and record producer. The song has received three million spins since its release, according to Broadcast Music Incorporated, signed to DreamWorks Records Nashville in 1998, Keith released his breakthrough single How Do You Like Me Now. that year. This song, the track to his 1999 album of the same name, was the number one country song of 2000. His next three albums, Pull My Chain, Unleashed, and Shockn Yall, produced three number ones each, and all of the albums were certified 4x Platinum. A second Greatest Hits package followed in 2004, and after that, when DreamWorks closed in 2005, Keith founded the label Show Dog Nashville, which merged with Universal South Records to become Show Dog-Universal Music in December 2009. Overall, Keith has released seventeen albums, two Christmas albums, and four compilation albums. He has also charted sixty-one singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including twenty number one hits and his longest-lasting number one hits are Beer for My Horses and As Good as I Once Was, at six weeks each. He has sold more than 40 million albums worldwide, Keith was born in Clinton, Oklahoma, the son of Carolyn Joan and Hubert K. Covel, Jr. and is of English ancestry. He has a sister and a brother, the family lived in Fort Smith, Arkansas, for a few years when Keith was in grade school, but moved to Moore, Oklahoma when he was still young. Before the family moved to Moore, he visited his grandmother in Fort Smith during the summers and his grandmother owned Billie Garners Supper Club in Fort Smith, where Keith became interested in the musicians who came there to play. He did odd jobs around the club and started getting up on the bandstand to play with the band. He got his first guitar at the age of eight, after the family moved to Moore, Keith attended Highland West Junior High and Moore High School, where he played defensive end on the football team. Keith graduated from Moore High School and worked as a hand in the oil fields. He worked his way up to become an operation manager, at times, he would have to leave in the middle of a concert if he was paged to work in the oil field. Keith played defensive end for the 1980 Oklahoma Sooners but never saw the field before dropping out to play football in OKC. In 1982, the oil industry in Oklahoma began a rapid decline and he fell back on his football training and played defensive end with the semi-pro Oklahoma City Drillers while continuing to perform with his band. He then returned to once again on music. His family and friends were doubtful he would succeed, but, in 1984, Easy Money began playing the honky tonk circuit in Oklahoma and Texas
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Keith at the 45th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards, April 18, 2010
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All Over Me (Blake Shelton song)
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All Over Me is a song composed by Earl Thomas Conley, Michael Pyle, and Blake Shelton. It was released in October 2001 as the single from Sheltons debut album. Shelton was introduced to Conley by good friend Pyle, who was playing in Conleys band at the time, Shelton has long considered Earl Thomas Conley, his all time musical hero. The three wrote the song at Conleys house in 1999, Shelton sings in a falsetto on the chorus. All Over Me debuted at number 54 on the U. S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of October 20,2001, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Earl Thomas Conley
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Earl Thomas Conley is an American country music singer-songwriter. Between 1980 and 2003, he recorded ten albums, including seven for the RCA Records label. In the 1980s and into the 1990s, Conley also charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, of which eighteen reached Number One. Conleys eighteen Billboard Number One country singles during the 1980s marked the most Number One hits by any artist in any genre during that decade except for Alabama, throughout his career, Conleys music has been referred to as thinking mans country. This is because the narrator looks into the heart and soul of his characters in each song, when Conley was 14, his father lost his job with the railroad, forcing the young boy to move in with his older sister in Jamestown, Ohio. He was offered a scholarship to an art school, but rejected it in favor of joining the U. S. Army, while in the Army, Conley became a member of a Christian-influenced trio, where his musical talent and vocal ability first began. Conley then decided to consider performing as a career option. He shifted more deeply into the classic sounds of artists such as Merle Haggard. During this period he first tried his hand at songwriting, in 1968, after his discharge from the Army, Conley began commuting from Dayton to Nashville. In 1973 while in Nashville, Conley met Dick Heard, who produced country music singer Mel Street and this meeting eventually led to the Conley-Heard collaboration on the song Smokey Mountain Memories, which made the top 10 for Street. After being honorably discharged from the military, he began playing in clubs in Nashville, Tennessee, at night, feeling that he wasnt making any progress in Nashville, Conley moved to Huntsville, Alabama, to work in a steel mill. There, he met record producer Nelson Larkin, who helped him sign with independent record label GRT in 1974, Conley released four singles on that label, none of which became large hits. At the same time, he was selling songs that he had written to other artists, including Conway Twitty and Mel Street, Conley returned to Nashville, now writing for Nelson Larkins publishing house. In 1979, he signed a contract with Warner Bros. Two years later, he had his first Top 40 hit and he left the label in 1979 and joined Sunbird Records, where he again worked with Nelson Larkin. This time, Conley found success, with a Top Ten and he continued to have success over the next few years, and in 1983, he was nominated for multiple Grammy Awards for his song Holding Her and Loving You. He set a record the year as the first artist in any genre to have four Number One singles from the same album. In 1986, Conley was credited with breaking down country music barriers when he dueted with pop/R&B singer Anita Pointer of the Grammy-winning Pointer Sisters and their single, Too Many Times, the title track to Conleys 1986 album, reached #2 on the Country charts
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Concert
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A concert is a live music performance in front of an audience. A recital is a concert by a soloist or small group which follows a program, a recitalist is a musician who gives frequent recitals. The invention of the piano recital has been attributed to Franz Liszt. The performance may be by a musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, choir. Indoor concerts held in the largest venues are sometimes called arena concerts or amphitheatre concerts, informal names for a concert include show and gig. Regardless of the venue, musicians perform on a stage. Concerts often require live event support with professional audio equipment, before recorded music, concerts provided the main opportunity to hear musicians play. The nature of a concert varies by musical genre, individual performers, concerts by a small jazz combo or small bluegrass band may have the same order of program, mood, and volume—but vary in music and dress. In a similar way, a musician, band, or genre of music might attract concert attendees with similar dress, hairstyle. For example, concert goers in the 1960s often had hair, sandals. Regular attendees to a concert venue might also have a style that comprises that venues scene. Other Types of concerts, To plan or arrange by mutual agreement, some performers or groups put on very elaborate and expensive shows. To create a memorable and exciting atmosphere and increase the spectacle, some singers, especially popular music, augment concert sound with pre-recorded accompaniment, back-up dancers, and even broadcast vocal tracks of the singers own voice. Activities during these concerts can include dancing, sing-alongs, and moshing, concerts involving a greater number of artists, especially those that last for multiple days, are known as festivals. Unlike other concerts, which remain in a single genre of music or work of a particular artist, festivals often cover a broad scope of music. Due to their size, festivals are almost exclusively held outdoors, new platforms for festivals are becoming increasingly popular such as Jam Cruise, which is a festival held on a cruise ship, as well as Mayan Holidaze, which is a destination festival held in Tulum. Often concert tours are named, to differentiate different tours by the same artist, different segments of longer concert tours are known as legs. In the largest concert tours it is becoming common for different legs to employ separate touring production crews and equipment
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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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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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Andy Griggs
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Andrew Tyler Andy Griggs is an American country music artist. He has released three albums for RCA Records Nashville and a fourth for Montage Music Group and these four albums have accounted for 13 singles on the Billboard country charts, of which the highest are You Wont Ever Be Lonely and Shes More, both which peaked at number 2. He also charted Grow Young With You, a cut from the soundtrack to the film Where the Heart Is, andrew Tyler Griggs was born August 13,1973, in West Monroe, Louisiana. His father, Darrell, died when Griggs was 10, Andy Griggs attended River Oaks High School. He briefly attended Northeast Louisiana University before returning to his hometown in the early 1990s and he continued to work on his musical skills, however, and by 1999, he signed to a contract with RCA Records Nashville. Griggs has been married twice, first to Stephanie Sullivan in February 1995, in 2005 Griggs married Renee who eventually separated due to an affair he was having with another woman. Griggs debut album, You Wont Ever Be Lonely, was issued in 1999 via RCA Records Nashville, certified gold by the RIAA, the album accounted for five singles on the Billboard country singles charts. The first three singles — the title track, Ill Go Crazy and Shes More — were all Top Ten hits, peaking at number 2, number 10 and number 2 respectively. You Wont Ever Be Lonely also had the sixth-longest chart run on the charts in the 1990s decade. Following Shes More was a song, Grow Young With Me, recorded as a duet with Coley McCabe. Also included on the album was a duet with Griggs idol Waylon Jennings in the track Shine On Me and he released his second album, Freedom, in 2002. Although its lead-off single How Cool Is That peaked at number 22, closing out this album was Practice Life, a number 33 duet with Martina McBride. Mid-2004 saw the release of She Thinks She Needs Me, co-written by Shane Minor, this song was the first single release from Griggs third album, This I Gotta See, also released in 2004. By 2005, he had left RCAs roster, due to differences over his artistic control. In 2007, Griggs signed to his recording contract, this time with Montage Music Group. His first album for the label, The Good Life, produced two low-charting singles in Tattoo Rose and What If Its Me, three years later, he issued Can I Get an Amen
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Montgomery Gentry
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Montgomery Gentry is an American country music duo composed of vocalists Eddie Montgomery and Troy Gentry, both natives of Kentucky. The two began performing in the 1990s as part of two different bands with Montgomerys brother, John Michael Montgomery. Although Gentry won a talent contest in 1994, he reunited with Eddie Montgomery after Gentry was unable to find a record deal. The duo is known for its Southern rock influences, and has collaborated with Charlie Daniels, Toby Keith, Five for Fighting, and members of The Allman Brothers Band. Ten more of their songs have reached top 10 on the charts, including the number 3 hit Gone. Tattoos & Scars, My Town and You Do Your Thing are all certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, in 1999, they were awarded Favorite New Artist—Country at the American Music Awards. Both the Academy of Country Music and Country Music Association named them Duo of the Year in 2000, in 2009, they were inducted into the Grand Ole Opry. Gerald Edward Eddie Montgomery was born September 30,1963, in Danville, Kentucky, when Montgomery was 13, he played drums in his parents band, Harold Montgomery and the Country River Express. In 1990, Montgomery founded the band Early Tymz, which included his brother, John Michael Montgomery. After Early Tymz broke up, the Montgomery brothers and Gentry briefly performed as Young Country, John Michael left for a solo career in the early 1990s. Gentry went solo and won the Jim Beam National Talent Contest in 1994, Gentry initially wanted to pursue a solo career, but after he was unable to find a record deal, he reunited with Eddie Montgomery to form a duo called Deuce, which played at local nightclubs. The duo later changed its name to Montgomery Gentry, and signed with Columbia Records Nashville division in 1999, Montgomery Gentry released its debut single, Hillbilly Shoes, in early 1999. It entered the Billboard country singles charts two weeks before its release date, peaking at number 13 on the country charts and 62 on the Billboard Hot 100. High radio demand for the led to the label advancing the release date of the duos debut album, Tattoos & Scars. Lonely and Gone was the second single, peaking at number 5 on the country charts by years end. After it, Montgomery Gentry charted the number 31 singles Self Made Man, the latter, which featured guest vocals from Charlie Daniels, was previously the b-side to Hillbilly Shoes. It was also Daniels first appearance in the top 40 since Mister DJ in 1990, the duo won the Vocal Duo of the Year award at the Country Music Association Awards in late 2000, the first time in eight years that Brooks & Dunn did not win this award. They also won the Top New Vocal Duo or Group award from the Academy of Country Music, by the end of 2000, Montgomery Gentry charted at number 38 with a cover of Robert Earl Keens Merry Christmas from the Family, itself the b-side to All Night Long
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Eddie Montgomery (left) and Troy Gentry at the
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The Truth About Men (song)
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The Truth About Men is a song written by Paul Overstreet, Rory Lee Feek and Tim Johnson, and recorded by American country music singer Tracy Byrd. It was released in March 2003 as the first single and title track from his album The Truth About Men, the song peaked at number 13 on the Hot Country Songs charts. The song is in the key of C major with a shuffle beat, in it, the narrator states the truth about men in various situations. Blake Shelton, Andy Griggs, and Montgomery Gentry sing guest vocals on the second verse, ray Waddell of Billboard magazine described the song as hilarious in his review of the album. Reviewing the album for Allmusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine called the song a little too silly, the music video was directed by Thom Oliphant and premiered in early 2003. The Truth About Men debuted on the Hot Country Songs charts for the week ending March 15,2003 and it spent 21 weeks on the charts and peaked at number 13. It also peaked at number 77 on the Billboard Hot 100, before its release, Byrd charted at number 38 on Hot Country Songs with a cut titled Lately, which did not appear on any of his albums
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"The Truth About Men"
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The Christmas Blessing
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The Christmas Blessing is a 2005 American-Canadian made-for-television romantic drama film directed by Karen Arthur which was broadcast on CBS on December 18,2005. It also featured songs by country artist Blake Shelton, including the hit Nobody But Me and it is the second part in a trilogy of films, preceded by The Christmas Shoes and followed by The Christmas Hope. When Nathan, a doctor, loses a patient on the table, he decides that being a doctor isnt meant for him. He decides to take a vacation to his hometown, and stay with his father, while volunteering at the local grade school, he meets Charlie, a young boy who has also lost his mother, and Meghan, Charlies teacher. Charlie and his father have also just arrived in town, to work at estates doing chores, Nathan, searching for the shoes he gave his mother the Christmas she died, learns that Charlie now has them. And Meghan, wanting to buy a house for those in need, soon after his arrival, Nathan learns that Charlie is ailing from an irregular heart defect, and Meghan has cirrhosis of the liver, and will die unless she has a transplant. In the end, it is Charlie who saves her life, as a dying wish, he asks Nathan, whom he calls coach, to give her the shoes. And Robert, Meghans friend, buys the house for her, in honor of Charlie, Meghan names the house after him. Neil Patrick Harris as Nathan Andrews Rebecca Gayheart as Meghan Sullivan Angus T
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VHS cover art
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Neil Patrick Harris
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Neil Patrick Harris is an American actor, comedian, magician, singer, and composer, known primarily for his comedy roles on television and his dramatic and musical stage roles. On television, he is known for playing the character on Doogie Howser. Barney Stinson on How I Met Your Mother, and Count Olaf on A Series of Unfortunate Events. Harris is also known for his role as the character in Joss Whedons musical Dr. Horribles Sing-Along Blog. His other films include Starship Troopers, Beastly, The Smurfs, The Smurfs 2, A Million Ways to Die in the West, and Gone Girl. In 2014, he starred in the role in Hedwig. Harris has hosted the Tony Awards in 2009,2011,2012 and he also hosted the Primetime Emmy Awards in 2009 and 2013, and hosted the 87th Academy Awards in 2015, thus making him the first openly gay man to host the Academy Awards. Harris was named one of Time magazines 100 Most Influential People in 2010 and he is married to David Burtka with whom he has two children. Harris was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and grew up Ruidoso, New Mexico, with his brother and their parents, Sheila Gail. His parents were lawyers and also ran a restaurant and he attended La Cueva High School in Albuquerque, graduating with high honors in 1991. Harris began his career as an actor and was discovered by playwright Mark Medoff at a drama camp in Las Cruces. Medoff later cast him in the 1988 drama film Claras Heart, Claras Heart earned Harris a Golden Globe nomination. The same year, he starred in Purple People Eater, a childrens fantasy, Harris first film role as an adult was 1995s Animal Room, although he portrayed a teenager. His subsequent film work has included supporting roles in The Next Best Thing, Undercover Brother, and Starship Troopers. In 2010, Harris provided voice acting for the role of the adult Dick Grayson in the animated film Batman, Under the Red Hood, the same year, he played the lead in the indie comedy The Best and the Brightest. On March 7,2010, he made an appearance at the 82nd Academy Awards. He starred in the films The Smurfs and The Smurfs 2, in 2014, Harris showed a more serious side in Gone Girl, directed by David Fincher. Harris co-starred in the film as Desi Collings, the wealthy and obsessed ex-boyfriend of Amy Dunne, Harris has said, I was pinching myself at the opportunity to work with Fincher, he received general praise from critics for his performance, as did the film
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Neil Patrick Harris interviewed by Emily Expo at the Calgary Expo 2015.
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Harris at the 2008
Comic Con in
San Diego,
California
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Harris with his husband
David Burtka at his ceremony to receive a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame on September 15, 2011
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Angus T. Jones
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Angus Turner Jones is an American actor. Jones was born in Austin, Texas, the older of two sons, joness first film role was as a five-year-old in the 1999 film Simpatico. From 2001 to 2003, he had supporting roles in films including See Spot Run, The Rookie, Bringing Down the House, George of the Jungle 2, and The Christmas Blessing. In 2003 Jones was cast in the sitcom Two and a Half Men as Jake Harper, the man of the title. The show, though never critically acclaimed, was a success, the final episode of season 9 shows Jake graduating from high school and joining the army. In October 2012, Jones described his path to a religious faith in detail during an interview with Seventh-day Adventist–sponsored Voice of Prophecy radio program. In November 2012, Jones said that he had been baptized and no longer wanted to appear on Two and he also encouraged people to stop watching the show. He said he was a hypocrite because his religious beliefs conflicted with his job as an actor in expressing the shows adult themes. His views gained the attention of the media after Jones appeared in a video posted on the YouTube channel of ForeRunner Chronicles, Jones issued a statement the next day clarifying his position. Producers for the show said he wasnt expected back on the set until 2013, CBS announced in April 2013 that he would be downgraded to recurring status for season 11, but ultimately he did not appear at all during Season 11. He was replaced on the show by Amber Tamblyn, on March 18,2014, Angus T. Jones officially announced his departure from the show, stating he had been a paid hypocrite. However, he returned in a cameo for the finale in Season 12, Of Course Hes Dead. In 2016, Jones joined the management team of Tonite, a multimedia and event production company started by Justin Combs and Kene Orjioke. On June 7,2008, Jones joined other stars including Dakota Fanning, Cuba Gooding Jr. in August 2008, Jones joined other stars such as Madeline Zima, Thom Barry, and Brandon Barash at the annual Rock N Roll Fantasy Camp. In October 2009, Two and a Half Men co-star Jon Cryer presented Jones with the award for the Rising Star of 2009 at the Big Brothers Big Sisters Rising Star Gala, Jones has supported the anti-bullying alliance Be A Star co-founded by The Creative Coalition and WWE. Angus T. Jones at the Internet Movie Database Angus T. Jones at AllMovie Angus T. Jones
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Jones at the
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Rob Lowe
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Robert Hepler Lowe is an American actor. He came to prominence in the 1980s, playing teen and young adult roles in such as The Outsiders, Oxford Blues, St. Elmos Fire. However, he continued acting in less prominent film roles, and went on to roles in television series such as The West Wing, Brothers & Sisters. Lowe was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, the son of Barbara Lynn, a schoolteacher and native of Ohio, and Charles Davis Lowe and his parents divorced when Lowe and his younger brother, actor Chad, were very young. As a result of a virus during infancy, he is deaf in his right ear, Lowe was baptized into the Episcopal church. He is of German, English, Irish, Scottish, on the show Who Do You Think You Are. Lowe found out one of his ancestors, Christopher East, was a Hessian soldier. His ancestor was fighting under the command of Colonel Johann Gottlieb Rall and was captured at the American Victory at Trenton, as an American POW, his ancestor was given a choice, and took the option to stay in the US. Lowe was raised in a traditional setting in Dayton, Ohio, attending Oakwood Junior High School, before moving to the Point Dume area of Malibu, California. Lowe attended Santa Monica High School, as did fellow actors Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Robert Downey, Jr. Sean Penn and his breakthrough role was his big screen debut in 1983, when he and Emilio Estevez were cast in Francis Ford Coppolas The Outsiders. Lowe played the role of Sodapop Curtis, the brother of the main character Ponyboy Curtis, Lowe and Estevez reunited in St. Elmos Fire, making them the two more prominent actors from the group known as the Brat Pack. He then received his second Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role as the mentally disabled Rory in Square Dance, in August,1987 he performed on stage, playing Baron Tusenbach in Chekovs The Three Sisters at The Williamstown Theatre Festival. Lowe is well known for playing Sam Seaborn in the television series The West Wing from 1999 to 2003 and his performance in the show garnered Lowe a Primetime Emmy Award nomination and two Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actor in a Drama Series. Lowe was drawn to the role because of his love of politics, and his longstanding personal relationship with Martin Sheen. When the show premiered, Seaborn was considered the lead, Lowe and series creator Aaron Sorkin soon found themselves at odds over the networks meddling with the show, most notably the network demanding changes in the Sam Seaborn character. Eventually, Lowe left the series, not long before Sorkin, during the final season of The West Wing, Lowe returned to his role of Sam Seaborn, appearing in two of the final four episodes. In 2011, Lowe appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and stated that he left the show because he did not feel he was being respected, after leaving the show, Lowe was the star and executive producer of a failed NBC drama, The Lyons Den. In 2004, he tried again in a series entitled Dr. Vegas, in 2005, he starred as Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee in a London West End production of Sorkins play A Few Good Men, the first time the two had worked together since The West Wing
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Lowe in 2012
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Lowe at the Governor's Ball party after the
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Trace Adkins
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Tracy Darrell Adkins, known as Trace Adkins, is an American country music singer and actor. He made his debut in 1995 with the album Dreamin Out Loud, since then, Adkins has released ten more studio albums and two Greatest Hits compilations. I Left Something Turned on at Home went to No.1 on Canadas country chart, Adkins is widely known for his distinctive bass-baritone singing voice. In addition, Adkins has written an autobiography entitled A Personal Stand, Observations and Opinions from a Free-Thinking Roughneck and he has appeared in numerous films, including The Lincoln Lawyer and Moms Night Out. Adkins was born in Sarepta in Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana and his paternal grandparents were Rayford D. Adkins and the former Mavis Giles, later Mavis Tilley. Adkins has two brothers, Clay Adkins, and Scott Devin Adkins, who died at age twenty-one in a truck accident near Plain Dealing in Bossier Parish. His maternal uncle was the Christian musician James W. Carraway and his musical interest came at an early age when his father taught him to play the guitar. At Sarepta High School, since defunct, Adkins joined a music group called the New Commitments. He was also a member of the FFA, later, Adkins attended Louisiana Tech University in Ruston. A walk-on offensive lineman on the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team, Adkins left the team after his season due to a knee injury. After leaving college, he worked at an oil rig and he also worked as a pharmacy technician before pursuing a career in music. He lost the finger on his left hand in an accident using a knife to open a bucket. Adkins moved to playing in honky tonk bars for the few years in the Ark-La-Tex area and eventually moved to Nashville, Tennessee. In late-1994 Adkins met Rhonda Forlaw, who was an executive at Arista Records Nashville, Forlaw had numerous music industry friends come out to hear Adkins over the next few years. Scott Hendricks of Capitol Nashville signed him on the one night while Adkins was playing at Tillie and Lucys bar in Mt. Juliet. Adkins first single, Theres a Girl in Texas, was released in 1996 and it was followed by the release of his debut album, Dreamin Out Loud, later that year. The latter single was also a Number One hit in Canada and his second album, Big Time, produced a Top 5 in The Rest of Mine, but subsequent singles proved less successful. A change in management delayed the release of Adkins third album, although the albums title track reached Top 10, More
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At sea aboard the
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Sarepta, Louisiana, honors its home-town celebrity, Trace Adkins
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Grand Ole Opry
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The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country-music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee, which was founded on November 28,1925, by George D. Hay as a one-hour radio barn dance on WSM, currently owned and operated by Opry Entertainment, it is the longest-running radio broadcast in US history, albeit not the longest-running one on a radio network. It attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world and millions of radio, the Oprys current primary slogan is The Show that Made Country Music Famous. Other slogans include Home of American Music and Country’s Most Famous Stage, in the 1930s the show began hiring professionals and expanded to four hours, and WSM, broadcasting by then with 50,000 watts, made the program a Saturday night musical tradition in nearly 30 states. In 1939, it debuted nationally on NBC Radio, the Opry moved to a permanent home, the Ryman Auditorium, in 1943. As it developed in importance, so did the city of Nashville, the Grand Ole Opry holds such significance in Nashville that its name is included on the city/county line signs on all major roadways. The signs read Music City|Metropolitan Nashville Davidson County|Home of the Grand Ole Opry, membership in the Opry remains one of country musics crowning achievements. Such country music legends as Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Marty Robbins, Roy Acuff, since 1974, the show has been broadcast from the Grand Ole Opry House east of downtown Nashville, with an annual three-month winter foray back to the Ryman since 1999. Performances have been televised in addition to the radio programs. The Grand Ole Opry started as the WSM Barn Dance in the new radio studio of the National Life & Accident Insurance Company in downtown Nashville on November 28,1925. On October 18,1925, management began a program featuring Dr. Humphrey Bate, on November 2, WSM hired long-time announcer and program director George D. Hay launched the WSM Barn Dance with 77-year-old fiddler Uncle Jimmy Thompson on November 28,1925, judge Hay, however, liked the Fruit Jar Drinkers and asked them to appear last on each show because he wanted to always close each segment with red hot fiddle playing. They were the band accepted on Barn Dance, with the Crook Brothers being the first. When the Opry began having square dancers on the show, the Fruit Jar Drinkers always played for them, in 1926, Uncle Dave Macon, a Tennessee banjo player who had recorded several songs and toured the vaudeville circuit, became its first real star. The phrase Grand Ole Opry was first uttered on the air on December 10,1927, at the time, Barn Dance followed the NBC Red Networks Music Appreciation Hour, a program of classical music and selections from grand opera presented by classical conductor Walter Damrosch. On that particular night, Damrosch had remarked that there is no place in the classics for realism, in response, Opry presenter George Hay said, Friends, the program which just came to a close was devoted to the classics. Doctor Damrosch told us there is no place in the classics for realism. However, from here on out for the three hours, we will present nothing but realism
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Decorative brickwork at Opryland Hotel depicting Ryman Auditorium with Minnie Pearl and Roy Acuff
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Logo since May 29, 2015
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Signs welcoming motorists to Nashville on all major roadways include the phrase "Home Of The Grand Ole Opry"
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Roy Acuff
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2010 Tennessee floods
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Floods from these rains affected the area for several days afterwards, resulting in a number of deaths and widespread property damage. Two-day rain totals in areas were greater than 19 inches. The Cumberland River crested at 51.86 feet in Nashville, a level not seen since 1937, which was before the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers flood control measures were in place. According to the Memphis Office of the National Weather Service, A significant weather system brought heavy rain and severe thunderstorms from Saturday, May 1 through Sunday morning. A stalled frontal boundary coupled with very moist air streaming northward from the Gulf set the stage for repeated rounds of heavy rainfall. Many locations along the I-40 corridor across western and middle Tennessee reported in excess of 10 to 15 inches, several rainfall records in the Nashville area were broken during the rain event. 13.57 inches fell during the period of May 1–2. On May 2 alone,7.25 inches of rain fell, including 7.20 inches during a 12-hour period and 5.57 inches in a 6-hour period, eclipsing records set on September 13,1979. The event also set a record for wettest May on record, heavy rain also affected large portions of Arkansas, northern Mississippi and southern Kentucky. In Arkansas, over 5 inches fell in the Little Rock area, up to 8 inches in West Memphis, similar amounts were recorded across western and southern Kentucky where over 7 inches fell in the Hopkinsville area and up to 4 inches across the Missouri Bootheel. Twenty-one deaths were recorded in Tennessee, including ten in Davidson County, of the ten dead in Davidson County, four victims were found in their homes, two were in cars and four were outdoors. Floods killed six people in northern Mississippi, and four deaths were reported in Kentucky, Mississippi deaths occurred in the following counties, Alcorn County – one dead Benton County – two dead Lafayette County – one dead Lee County – one dead in hydroplaning accident on U. S. This translates to about 31% of Tennessee being designated a major disaster area, almost all schools in the area were closed including Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, some for a week or more. Many roads were damaged by water erosion, Interstate 40 west of Nashville had numerous spots that had been inundated. Repair work on I-40 continued for several months, the first site of major flooding was along Mill Creek in southeastern Davidson County, which was affected by a flash flood on May 1. The creek quickly spilled over its banks, and completely covered Interstate 24 near Antioch, another person was killed along Mill Creek while attempting to tube the floodwaters. Flooding on the Cumberland River damaged the Grand Ole Opry House, Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, Opry Mills Mall, Bridgestone Arena, Grand Ole Opry performances were moved to other venues in the Nashville area, with the Ryman Auditorium serving as the primary venue when available. Other venues hosting the Opry include the War Memorial Auditorium, TPACs Andrew Jackson Hall, Nashville Municipal Auditorium, Lipscomb Universitys Allen Arena, both the Ryman and War Memorial Auditoriums were previous homes to the Opry
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Nashville, Tennessee, suffered extensive flooding, especially in areas close to the
Cumberland River,
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Flooding at Symphony Place in Nashville
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Footloose (2011 film)
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Footloose is a 2011 American musical dance film directed by Craig Brewer. It is a remake of the 1984 film of the name and stars Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough, Andie MacDowell. The film follows a man who moves from Boston to a small southern town. Filming took place from September to November 2010 in Georgia and it was released in Australia and New Zealand on October 6,2011, and in North America on October 14,2011. It grossed $15.5 million in its opening weekend and $63 million worldwide from a $24 million budget and it was met with generally positive reaction from critics. After a long night of partying, Bobby Moore and four of his friends become drunk and drive over a bridge and crash into a truck, killing all five. Bobbys father Shaw Moore, the Reverend of the Bomont, Georgia church, persuades the city council to pass several draconian laws, including a ban on all unsupervised dancing within the city limits. Three years later, Ren McCormack, a Boston-raised teenager, moves to Bomont to live with his uncle, aunt, soon after arriving, Ren befriends Willard Hewitt, a fellow senior at Bomont High, and from him learns about the ban on dancing. He soon begins to be attracted to Moores rebellious daughter - Bobbys sister Ariel - who is dating dirt-track driver Chuck Cranston, after an insult from Chuck, Ren ends up in a game involving buses, and wins despite his inability to drive one. Reverend Moore distrusts Ren and forbids Ariel from ever seeing him again, Ren and his classmates want to do away with the law and have a senior prom. After a while Ariel begins to fall for Ren and dumps Chuck, Moore asks if Ren McCormack beat up Ariel. When Moore says Im calling the police, Ariel tells him that he cant blame everything on Ren just like he did with Bobby, who was killed in the car crash. But Moore slaps her without warning, which shocks Vi, Moores wife, and prompts Ariel to tearfully and angrily criticize Moore for slapping her, Moore tries to apologize, but Vi stops Moore, telling him, Youve done enough. Vi is supportive of the movement, explaining to Moore he cannot be everyones father. She also says that dancing and music are not the problem, Ren goes before the city council and reads several Bible verses given to him by Ariel, that describe how in ancient times people would dance to rejoice, exercise, celebrate, and/or worship. Ren also teaches Willard how to dance, the city council votes against him. Undaunted, Ren convinces the cotton mill owner to let them have a prom there, Ren goes to see Moore, knowing that Moore still has enough influence to pressure the parents not to let their teenagers come. Ren tells Moore that even though they denied the motion to dismiss the law and he then asks him respectfully if he can take Ariel
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Theatrical release poster
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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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God Gave Me You
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God Gave Me You is a song written and originally recorded by American contemporary Christian music singer Dave Barnes. It was released in January 2010 as the single from the album, What We Want. Barnes wrote the song after the title came to him while he was walking through London and he told Country Weekly that the lyrics just flowed together with the melody when he wrote it. Barnes also said that he was inspired by his wife, Annie, after releasing it, he said that he received mail from fans who said that the songs message saved marriages or became a theme for a couples relationship. Barnes version features a video directed by Joey Boukadakis. In 2011, country music singer Blake Shelton covered the song for his album Red River Blue and it was released in July 2011 as the second single from this album. on November 30, the song received a nomination in 54th Grammy Awards for Best Country Song. Jessica Phillips of Country Weekly called the song the romantic zenith of the album, rolling Stone reviewer Will Hermes said that it was a spirited cover that makes the most of its big, sculpted hooks. Similarly, Melissa Mairz of Entertainment Weekly thought that it was a power ballad. The music video was directed by Trey Fanjoy and premiered in September 2011, on the chart dated October 29,2011, God Gave Me You became Sheltons fifth consecutive Number One single and his tenth overall. It has sold 2,514,000 copies in the United States as of November 2014, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Dave Barnes
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Dave Barnes, is an American musician and singer and Grammy Award nominated songwriter from Nashville, Tennessee. He has released nine albums including two Christmas albums and his most recent full-length album, Carry On, San Vicente, was released March 18,2016. The oldest of three children, Barnes was born in South Carolina in 1978 and he is the son of a pastor who relocated his family to Kosciusko, Mississippi, just as Barnes was turning six years old. The Barnes family then moved to Knoxville, Tennessee the summer before his year in high school. Barnes went to college to further his studies playing the drums and he was initially only interested in writing material for other performers but was later encouraged by his peers to perform his works himself. Barnes took their advice and began performing within the campus at Middle Tennessee State University, after graduating from Middle Tennessee State University, Barnes began touring and in 2002 released his five-song EP Three, Then Four, as purely a guitar-and-vocals release. With this release and the touring performed around it, Barnes fan following expanded, Barnes toured heavily for over a year after that. During this period, Barnes met Ed Cash, a producer who had worked with Bebo Norman. At the suggestion of Cash, Barnes recorded a full-band studio LP. Barnes released Brother and this album was critically acclaimed for Barnes songwriting and overall high-quality presentation for an independent release. Also through its release, Barnes gained notability among singers Amy Grant, Vince Gill, in 2005, Barnes co-produced the five-song EP Today & Tomorrow for his friend Matt Wertz. Barnes also contributed his songwriting to one of its songs, in 2006 Barnes released his second full band studio album Chasing Mississippi. In mid-to-late 2006, Barnes toured with Matt Wertz with songs from albums and some newly written material as well. In early 2007 Barnes began experimenting with comedy and, with support from friends, put together a routine which he performed in Nashville. In June 2007, Barnes re-entered the studio to record his third album, in April 2008, having signed to the record label Razor and Tie, he released his major-label debut, Me and You and the World. In promotion of the album, the song Until You, which was previously on Brother, in late 2008, Barnes was one of the opening acts for the shows from Orlando, Florida through Chicago, Illinois on Hansons The Walk Around the World Tour. Barnes songs were featured on the show What I Like About You, including his song On a Night Like This. They were sung by the characters, Hollys, English boyfriend named Ben. On February 3,2009, Barnes released a Valentines Day EP titled You, the Night, in April 2010, Barnes released his fourth full band studio album What We Want, What We Get after having released his single God Gave Me You from the same album
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Barnes performing in Birmingham, Alabama in 2006.
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Over (Blake Shelton song)
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Over is a song recorded by American country music artist Blake Shelton. It was released in May 2012 as the fourth and final single from his album Red River Blue, the song was written by Paul Jenkins and David Elliott Johnson. Billy Dukes of Taste of Country gave the three stars out of five, calling it an extraordinary recording of an ordinary song. Ashley Cooke of Roughstock gave the two stars out of five, writing that it doesn’t really fit style or personality. Kevin John Coyne of Country Universe gave the song a D grade, calling it mediocre, the music video was directed by Roman White and premiered on June 15,2012. Terry McDermott covered the song in 3rd season on The Voice, over debuted at number 53 on the U. S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for the week of May 19,2012. On the chart dated September 1,2012, Over became Sheltons seventh consecutive number one single, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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"Over"
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Dia Frampton
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Dia Frampton, is an American singer-songwriter and was the lead singer of the band Meg & Dia. She was the runner-up in the season of The Voice. She also was the singer in her band, ARCHIS before continuing her solo career. Dia Frampton attended Dixie High School in St. George, Utah and Shadow Ridge High School in Las Vegas, Dia graduated early by homeschooling her senior year, and at the same time attending public school. Dia then moved to Salt Lake City with her sister to further their music career. She cites Modest Mouse, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Joni Mitchell, The Avett Brothers, Rocky Votolato, Ben Folds, Etta James, Death Cab for Cutie, The Cranberries, and Cursive as influences. During live performances, Frampton plays percussion instruments, such as the cowbell and tambourine and she almost always performs without shoes on. She also does not like to eat anything within two hours of performing and her father is an American of English and Dutch ancestry and her mother is Korean, originally from Seoul. Frampton often recorded a diary, an impromptu recorded song. It made me better to share my feelings with people who could connect. Dia Frampton was a contestant on the first season of The Voice on NBC, Frampton stated that she had originally joined the show only with the intention of promoting Cocoon and had not expected that she would make it that far in the competition. She was selected to be on the team of coach Blake Shelton, who stated, Frampton advanced through the shows quarter-finals and semi-finales after renditions of Heartless and Losing My Religion. Following the season finale on June 29,2011, Inventing Shadows debuted at No.20 on the Billboard Hot 100 with 137,000 downloads sold, as of July 7,2011 Framptons The Voice digital releases have sold 480,000 downloads. Frampton subsequently won the title of Entertainment Weeklys 2011 Favourite Reality Show Personality over Michael Stagliano from the season of Bachelor Pad. Performances on The Voice Framptons single, The Broken Ones, was released on November 15,2011, Frampton wrote every song on Red. She was the act for her coach, Blake Shelton, on his Well Lit & Amplified tour. Shelton insisted that she had earned her spot on his tour and she later was a supporting act for The Fray in their sold out US tour in the Midwest and the West Coast from April to May 2011. Her own solo US tour took place from February to July 2012 and she covered the Korean song, Lonely by 2NE1, as an acoustic ballad in English for allkpop. com to promote her later concert in Seoul, Korea
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Frampton performing in 2012
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ARCHIS EP Release Show, February 2015
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Red (Dia Frampton album)
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Red is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Dia Frampton, released on December 6,2011 by Universal Republic Records. Dia Frampton was a member of American rock band Meg & Dia along with her sister Meg and additional members Nicholas Price, Jonathan Snyder and Carlo Gimenez. After appearing on the first season of the American reality talent show The Voice, as a contestant in early 2011, the album received positive reviews from music critics who highlighted the production, features and lyrics. They comment on how It’s rare for singing-competition shows like American Idol to turn contestants into actual idols, however they noted Dia Frampton’s Red gets it right. The album debuted at one on the Billboard Top Heatseekers. It also debuted at number 106 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart, the album has also gone Gold in Thailand. Credits for Red adapted from Allmusic
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Red
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Jermaine Paul
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Jermaine Paul is an American R&B/soul artist, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was the winner of the season of The Voice. Prior to his The Voice stint, he was co-nominated at the 48th Grammy Awards for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals, in a collaborative work with Alicia Keys as the featured artist. Jeremiah Jermaine Paul was born on July 26,1978, in Harriman, New York and he is the fifth of 10 children. While in Spring Valley, his dad made sure the kids stayed out of trouble and away from drugs by turning their living room into a performance area. It was loaded with instruments—piano, drums and guitars—and some of the kids, including Jermaine, by the time he was 12 years old, he began to acquire a reputation for singing at local churches and talent shows with his family. At the age of two, Jermaine and his moved to Alabama with their grandfather. There, he was introduced to the guitar and he played his step-grandmothers old Gibson guitar at the local church. With some knowledge of the guitar, and the yearning to go back to New York, at the age of 14, he moved up-state to Harriman, New York. There he attended Monroe-Woodbury High School and was introduced to rock, while taking guitar lessons he was selected to join the all-state, all-county chorus, and the classically trained high school voice ensemble. At 15, Paul joined a group named 1Accord signing to basketball star Shaquille ONeals label. He began writing and producing songs of his own, Paul auditioned for the first season of American Idol but did not receive any callbacks from the producers. He began recording backing vocals for such as Alicia Keys, Mary J. Blige, Joss Stone, Blackstreet. Very notably he was nominated for a Grammy for the category Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals for If This World Were Mine by Alicia Keys featuring Jermaine Paul, the track was from the J Records album So Amazing, An All-Star Tribute to Luther Vandross. In 2012, he auditioned for the season of The Voice singing Complicated from Avril Lavigne. Two of the four judges turned their chairs on with Paul opting to be on Team Blake and he was the eventual winner of the second season with Juliet Simms as runner-up. His winning song, a cover of I Believe I Can Fly made it up to #83 on the US Billboard Hot 100, the follow-up, Soul Man, with his coach Blake Shelton did not break the Hot 100, reaching just #108. His single I Believe in This Life reportedly taken from his forthcoming album premiered on The Voice on November 8,2012, aDid not enter the Hot 100 but charted on Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles
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Jermaine Paul
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Cassadee Pope
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Cassadee Blake Pope is an American singer and songwriter. Pope was the lead vocalist of the rock band Hey Monday, with whom she released one studio album, Pope embarked on a solo career in early 2012, and released Cassadee Pope EP in May 2012. She took part in the season of The Voice and became the first female winner on December 18,2012. Her debut solo album, Frame by Frame, was released on October 8,2013 to a top 10 Billboard 200 charting. It debuted at No.1 on Top Country Albums, with 43,000 copies sold in its first week, while attending Wellington High School in Wellington, Florida, Pope formed the band Blake with good friend Mike Gentile. The project disbanded before being signed and in 2008, she and Gentile along with Alex Lipshaw, Michael Jersey Moriarty, Hey Monday released their first studio album, Hold on Tight, in October 2008. Pope wrote two songs and co-wrote the other nine songs and she appeared in Fall Out Boys video for Americas Suitehearts, from their 2008 album Folie à Deux. James left the band at the end of 2009, Hey Mondays first EP Beneath It All was to be released in August 2010, to promote the album the group toured the US and played on the 2010 Warped Tour. The Christmas EP was released on December 6,2011, in January and February 2012, Pope embarked on her first solo acoustic tour across the east and west coasts. She released her debut self-titled EP on May 22,2012 and she auditioned for season 3 of the singing competition The Voice during the summer and had all four coaches offer her a place on their teams, she ultimately picked country singer Blake Shelton. In the third round, Pope performed Over You, co-written by mentor Shelton. The song reached number one on the chart, knocking Psys Gangnam Style down to number two. She was the female contestant to advance to the Top 4 round where she performed Stupid Boy by country singer-songwriter Sarah Buxton. She advanced to The Voice finals, winning the title on the finale results day in December. Her self-titled EP also re-entered the chart at No, Pope performed Stand on New Years Eve with Carson Daly, and later performed that night with Grammy award-winning group Train at the NIVEA Kiss Stage in Times Square in New York City. In January 2013, Pope signed with music label Republic Nashville. It debuted at number 37 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 7 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and it sold 125,000 copies in first week of release. The album, Frame by Frame, was released in October 2013, Pope spent most of 2014 touring with country artists Tim McGraw and Dierks Bentley
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Pope performing at Southcentre Mall in February 2014
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Pope performing with
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Pope performing with
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