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Album
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Album, is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century, first as books of individual 78rpm records, vinyl LPs are still issued, though in the 21st century album sales have mostly focused on compact disc and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used from the late 1970s through to the 1990s alongside vinyl, an album may be recorded in a recording studio, in a concert venue, at home, in the field, or a mix of places. Recording may take a few hours to years to complete, usually in several takes with different parts recorded separately. Recordings that are done in one take without overdubbing are termed live, the majority of studio recordings contain an abundance of editing, sound effects, voice adjustments, etc. With modern recording technology, musicians can be recorded in separate rooms or at times while listening to the other parts using headphones. Album covers and liner notes are used, and sometimes additional information is provided, such as analysis of the recording, historically, the term album was applied to a collection of various items housed in a book format. In musical usage the word was used for collections of pieces of printed music from the early nineteenth century. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, the LP record, or 33 1⁄3 rpm microgroove vinyl record, is a gramophone record format introduced by Columbia Records in 1948. It was adopted by the industry as a standard format for the album. Apart from relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound capability, the term album had been carried forward from the early nineteenth century when it had been used for collections of short pieces of music. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, as part of a trend of shifting sales in the music industry, some commenters have declared that the early 21st century experienced the death of the album. Sometimes shorter albums are referred to as mini-albums or EPs, Albums such as Tubular Bells, Amarok, Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield, and Yess Close to the Edge, include fewer than four tracks. There are no rules against artists such as Pinhead Gunpowder referring to their own releases under thirty minutes as albums. These are known as box sets, material is stored on an album in sections termed tracks, normally 11 or 12 tracks. A music track is a song or instrumental recording. The term is associated with popular music where separate tracks are known as album tracks. When vinyl records were the medium for audio recordings a track could be identified visually from the grooves
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Lee Hazlewood
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Hazlewood had a distinctive baritone voice that added a resonance to his music. The son of an oil man, Hazlewood was born in Mannford, Oklahoma and he grew up listening to pop and bluegrass music. Lee spent his years in Port Neches, Texas, where he was exposed to a rich Gulf Coast music tradition. He studied for a degree at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He served with the United States Army during the Korean War, following discharge from the military, Hazlewood worked as a disc jockey in Phoenix while honing his song writing skills. His first hit single as a producer and songwriter was The Fool and he partnered with pioneering rock guitarist Duane Eddy in Phoenix, producing and co-writing a string of hit instrumental records, including Peter Gunn, Boss Guitar, Forty Miles of Bad Road, Shazam. Hazlewood is perhaps best known for having written and produced the 1966 Nancy Sinatra U. S. /UK No.1 hit, These Boots Are Made for Walkin and Summer Wine. He also wrote How Does That Grab Ya, Darlin, Fridays Child, So Long, Babe, Sugar Town, among his most well-known vocal performances is Some Velvet Morning, a 1967 duet with Nancy Sinatra. He performed that song along with Jackson on her 1967 television special Movin With Nancy, early in 1967, Lee also produced the number 1 hit song for Frank & Nancy Sinatra Somethin Stupid. Jimmy Bowen was listed as co-producer but wasnt there at the time, hazelwood just gave him credit as per a previous agreement with Jimmy. Lee also wrote the theme song The Last of the Secret Agents, Nancy Sinatra, who had a role in the film, recorded the song for the soundtrack. For Frank Sinatras 1967 detective movie, Tony Rome, Hazlewood also wrote the song which was performed by Nancy. He wrote Houston, a 1965 US hit recorded by Dean Martin and he also produced several singles for Martins daughter, Deana Martin, including her country hit, Girl of the Month Club, while Deana was still a teenager. Other tunes on that project were When He Remembers Me, “Baby I See You and The Bottom of My Mind, in 1967, Lee formed LHI Records standing for Lee Hazlewood Industries. Though it did not receive attention at the time, he also worked with Gram Parsons. Parsons departure from the band and decision to part of The Byrds created legal problems with Hazlewood. Lee was semi-retired from the business from the late 1970s. However, his own output also achieved a status in the underground rock scene
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
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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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Pitchfork (website)
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Pitchfork is an American online magazine launched in 1995 by Ryan Schreiber, based in Chicago, Illinois and owned by Condé Nast. The site generally concentrates on new music, but Pitchfork journalists have also reviewed reissues, in late 1995, Ryan Schreiber, a recent high school graduate, created the magazine in Minneapolis. Influenced by local fanzines and KUOM, Schreiber, who had no writing experience. At first being Turntable, the site was updated monthly with interviews and reviews, in May 1996, the site began publishing daily and was renamed Pitchfork, alluding to Tony Montanas tattoo in Scarface. In early 1999, Schreiber relocated Pitchfork to Chicago, Illinois, by then, the site had expanded to four full-length album reviews daily, as well as sporadic interviews, features, and columns. It had also begun garnering a following for its coverage of underground music and its writing style. In October, the added a daily music news section. Pitchfork has launched a variety of subsidiary websites, Pitchfork. tv, a website displaying videos related to many independent music acts, launched in April 2008. It features bands that are found on Pitchfork. In July 2010, Pitchfork announced Altered Zones, a blog devoted to underground. On 21 May 2011, Pitchfork announced a partnership with Kill Screen, Altered Zones was closed on November 30. On December 26,2012, Pitchfork launched Nothing Major, a website that covered visual arts such as fine art, Nothing Major closed in October 2013. On October 13,2015, Condé Nast announced that it had acquired Pitchfork, following the sale, Schreiber remained as editor-in-chief. On March 13,2016, Pitchfork was redesigned, some publications have cited Pitchfork in having played a part in breaking artists such as Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Interpol, The Go. Conversely, Pitchfork has also seen as being a negative influence on some indie artists. A dismissive 0.0 review of former Dismemberment Plan frontman Travis Morrisons Travistan album led to a sales drop. On the other hand, an endorsement from Pitchfork – which dispenses its approval one-tenth of a point at a time, up to a maximum of 10 points – is very valuable, indeed. Examples of Pitchforks impact include, Arcade Fire is among the bands most commonly cited to have benefited from a Pitchfork review
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Germany
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Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a federal parliamentary republic in central-western Europe. It includes 16 constituent states, covers an area of 357,021 square kilometres, with about 82 million inhabitants, Germany is the most populous member state of the European Union. After the United States, it is the second most popular destination in the world. Germanys capital and largest metropolis is Berlin, while its largest conurbation is the Ruhr, other major cities include Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf and Leipzig. Various Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical antiquity, a region named Germania was documented before 100 AD. During the Migration Period the Germanic tribes expanded southward, beginning in the 10th century, German territories formed a central part of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th century, northern German regions became the centre of the Protestant Reformation, in 1871, Germany became a nation state when most of the German states unified into the Prussian-dominated German Empire. After World War I and the German Revolution of 1918–1919, the Empire was replaced by the parliamentary Weimar Republic, the establishment of the national socialist dictatorship in 1933 led to World War II and the Holocaust. After a period of Allied occupation, two German states were founded, the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, in 1990, the country was reunified. In the 21st century, Germany is a power and has the worlds fourth-largest economy by nominal GDP. As a global leader in industrial and technological sectors, it is both the worlds third-largest exporter and importer of goods. Germany is a country with a very high standard of living sustained by a skilled. It upholds a social security and universal health system, environmental protection. Germany was a member of the European Economic Community in 1957. It is part of the Schengen Area, and became a co-founder of the Eurozone in 1999, Germany is a member of the United Nations, NATO, the G8, the G20, and the OECD. The national military expenditure is the 9th highest in the world, the English word Germany derives from the Latin Germania, which came into use after Julius Caesar adopted it for the peoples east of the Rhine. This in turn descends from Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz popular, derived from *þeudō, descended from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂- people, the discovery of the Mauer 1 mandible shows that ancient humans were present in Germany at least 600,000 years ago. The oldest complete hunting weapons found anywhere in the world were discovered in a mine in Schöningen where three 380, 000-year-old wooden javelins were unearthed
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Bela B.
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Dirk Felsenheimer, better known under his stage name Bela B. is a German musician, singer and songwriter. He is best known for being the drummer and one of the singers in the German band Die Ärzte, in 2006, he released his first solo album entitled Bingo. Bela B. is also an actor and has done several voice-overs for television, dirk Albert Felsenheimer was born in Spandau, the westernmost borough of Berlin. He has a sister named Diana and his parents separated when he was five years old. Afterwards he joined the force, partly due to boredom and partly because of the influence of his uncle. However, shortly before joining the force Bela became punk, which seemed at odds with the conformity required of him in the police. Despite his reservations, he began training, as he could think of no other viable option. However, he quit the force soon after joining because he felt that he did not belong there and he then worked in a warehouse for a short time before beginning a 3-year apprenticeship as a window-dresser for the department store Hertie. Felsenheimer took his name from Dracula actor Bela Lugosi, whom he has admired since childhood. The B stands for Barney, as the German name of the fictional The Flintstones character Barney Rubble is Barney Geröllheimer, Felsenheimer is actually registered with the German performing rights society GEMA as Bela Barney Felsenheimer. Bela B. lives with his girlfriend Konstanze Habermann and their son in Hamburg, Bela B. first played in the short-lived Soilent Grün before co-founding Die Ärzte in 1982 with singer/guitarist Farin Urlaub and bassist Hans Runge. The group soon appeared on the 20 Überschäumende Stimmungshits compilation, and after winning a band contest they spent their winnings on their 1983 debut EP. They signed a deal with Columbia Records, which issued the bands debut LP, Debil. After releasing several albums, the broke up in 1988. After Die Ärzte split up, he formed a new band, S. U. M. P, with friend Rodrigo González. Featuring cover versions of popular songs, the band was later renamed Depp Jones, named after a character in the German version of the comic book series Lucky Luke. Their 1990 debut LP, Return to Caramba, failed to capitalise on the popularity of Die Ärzte, and its follow-ups Welcome to Hell and At 2012 A. D. did even worse. Farin Urlaubs new band, King Køng, also struggled, and in 1993 he and Bela B. agreed to reform Die Ärzte, in 2006, Bela released his first solo album Bingo, which was produced by Wayne Jackson and Olsen Involtini
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Bingo (Bela B. album)
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Bingo is the first solo album of the German singer Bela B. released in 2006. The song Lee Hazlewood & das erste Lied des Tages is also featured on the Lee Hazlewood album, B-Vertüre -1,22 Theme from Bingowings - hidden track before B-Vertüre, hearable by rewinding to -1,10. Gitarre runter -3,46 Tag mit Schutzumschlag -3,06 Irgendetwas bleibt -3,30 Traumfrau -3,07 Letzter Tag -4,13 Was ist nur los. -2,341. 2006, Sie hat was vermisst 2007, Gitarre runter Bela B
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Eddie Izzard
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Edward John Eddie Izzard is an English stand-up comedian, actor, writer and political activist. His comedic style takes the form of rambling, whimsical monologue and he has also worked as a voice actor in The Wild, Igor, The Chronicles of Narnia, Prince Caspian, and Cars 2. Izzard has cited his main role model as Monty Python. In 2009, he completed 43 marathons in 51 days for Sport Relief despite having no history of long-distance running. He has won awards including a Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program for his comedy special Dress to Kill. Izzards website won the Yahoo Peoples Choice Award and earned the Webby Award, Izzard was born on 7 February 1962, in the Colony of Aden, the younger son of English parents. His mother, Dorothy Ella, was a midwife and nurse, his father, a year after Izzards birth, the family moved to Bangor, County Down, and lived there until he was five. The family then moved to Skewen, West Glamorgan, where his mother died of cancer when Izzard was six and his brother, Izzard and his brother built a model railway to occupy their time while their mother was ill, it was donated to the Bexhill Museum in 2016. The Izzard family name is of French Huguenot descent, following his mothers death, Izzard attended boarding schools such as St Johns School in Porthcawl, Mid Glamorgan, as well as St Bedes Prep School and Eastbourne College in East Sussex. He said that he knew he was a person at the age of four, after watching another boy being forced to wear a dress by his sisters. Izzard began to toy with comedy at the University of Sheffield, after leaving his accountancy degree course, he and Ballard took their act to the streets, often in Covent Garden. After his split with Ballard, Izzard spent a deal of the early 1980s working as a street performer in Europe. He then moved his act into the stand-up comedy venues of Britain and his first gig was at the Banana Cabaret in Balham, London. In 1987, he made his first stage appearance at the Comedy Store in London and he refined his material throughout the 1980s, and in the early 1990s he finally began earning some measure of recognition through his improvisation, in part at his own club Raging Bull in Soho. Izzard has performed stand-up in French, as well as German, Spanish, Russian and Arabic, in 1994, Izzard made his West End drama debut as the lead in the world premiere of David Mamets The Cryptogram with Lindsay Duncan, in the production at Londons Comedy Theatre. The success of that led to his second starring role in David Beairds black comedy 900 Oneonta. In 1995, he portrayed the character in Christopher Marlowes Edward II. In 1998 Izzard appeared briefly on stage with the Monty Python team in The American Film Institutes Tribute to Monty Python
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These Boots Are Made for Walkin'
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These Boots Are Made for Walkin is a hit song written by Lee Hazlewood and recorded by Nancy Sinatra. It was released on February 22,1966, and hit No.1 in the United States Billboard Hot 100 and in the UK Singles Chart. Subsequently, many versions of the song have been released in a range of styles, metal, pop, rock, punk rock, country, dance. Loretta Lynn, Jessica Simpson, Kon Kan, Geri Halliwell, The Residents, Megadeth, Cold Snap, Jewel, Operation Ivy, Parquet Courts, leningrad Cowboys titled their version These Boots, and released a video of the song, directed by Aki Kaurismäki. Nancy Sinatra was encouraged by Lee Hazlewood to sing the song as if she were a girl who fucks truck drivers. Sinatras recording of the song was made with the help of Los Angeles session musicians known as the Wrecking Crew, according to Carol Kaye, Arranger Billy Strange believed in using the two basses together. Producer Lee Hazlewood asked Chuck to put a run on the front of the tune. Chuck complied by playing notes about three tones apart, but Lee stopped the take, No Chuck, make your sliding notes closer together, and that is what you hear. According to Al Casey, Well, Lee and I had been friends forever, and he said, Ive got this song Im working on, and he showed me, because theres a little bit more than banging on an E-chord, which is what most people do. Theres more to it than that and he said, I want you to do this on the song, and he sang the song and played the rhythm guitar lick, and I went Oh, thats cute. Little suspecting it was gonna be huge, Nancy Sinatra would later record one of Don Laniers songs on her 1969 album Nancy. Nick Bonney was the guitarist for the Nelson Riddle Orchestra, in late February 1966, the song topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart, a move it replicated in similar charts across the world. When the single was first released, some thought it had to do with the strike in New York. In the same year, Sinatra recorded a film, which would later be known as the music video. It was produced by Color-Sonics, and played on Scopitone video jukeboxes, in 1986, for the songs twentieth anniversary, cable station VH1 played the video. Sinatra told Alison Martino that other videos and performances are from TV shows like The Ed Sullivan Show, Hullaballoo, the videos featured Sinatra wearing an iconic pair of boots. In 2006, Pitchfork Media selected it as the 114th best song of the 1960s, critic Tom Breihan described the song as maybe the finest bitchy kiss-off in pop history. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company used portions of the song for its 1960s ad campaign promoting its wide boots tires, Nancy Sinatra unsuccessfully sued Goodyear for using the song, claiming that it had violated her publicity rights
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Some Velvet Morning
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Some Velvet Morning is a song written by Lee Hazlewood and originally recorded by Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra in late 1967. It first appeared on Sinatras album Movin with Nancy, the soundtrack to her 1967 television special of the same name, the single peaked at number 26 on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1968. In 2003, Londons The Daily Telegraph called the song, One of the strangest, druggiest, most darkly sexual songs ever written - ambitious, beautiful, as with many psychedelic songs, its overall meaning is somewhat obscure. The lyrics consist of the part describing a mysterious, powerful woman named Phaedra. The rhythm shifts from 4/4 for the parts to 3/4 for the female parts. The song has been covered many times, usually as a duet, the male part of the song is in 4/4 time signature whereas the female part is in 3/4. Lees voice is recorded with more reverberation than Nancys, making it sound bi-dimensional, in November 2003, music critics working for the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph placed the Sinatra/Hazlewood single at the number 1 spot in their list of the 50 Best Duets Ever. According to Nathan Rabin, These two weirdly complementary sides of Hazlewood’s persona unite on Some Velvet Morning, a track from Nancy & Lee. On that track, Hazlewood and Sinatra sound like they don’t inhabit the same universe, “Some Velvet Morning” sounds like two songs spliced together by a madman, or an avant-garde short film in song form. Also used by Art Bell on Coast to Coast AM as bumper music,1968 Gábor Szabó - guitar instrumental on Bacchanal 1969 Vanilla Fudge on Near the Beginning 1982 Lydia Lunch and Rowland S. In this version there is no singer, the female vocal part is played on guitar 2001 My Dying Bride on Peaceville X & Meisterwerk 22002 Primal Scream. A different version was released as a single in 2003 and included on Primal Screams compilation Dirty Hits 2002 The Webb Brothers Feat, laura Katter on the Lee Hazlewood Tribute Album, Total Lee
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Nancy & Lee
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Nancy & Lee is a collaboration album by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood. It was produced in 1968 by Reprise Records, billy Strange was responsible for the arrangements and conducting. The cover concept and photography was by Ron Joy. was released in 1971 by RCA Records in Britain and it came out in America the following year
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Poet, Fool or Bum
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Poet, Fool or Bum is a 1973 album by musician Lee Hazlewood. The album was not as well received as his previous work, nMEs Charles Shaar Murray answered the question posed by the title in a one-word review with bum. The song Think Im Coming Down was featured in the episode of Season Two of the HBO comedy Eastbound & Down in 2010. Wind, Sky, Sea and Sand was featured in the FX series The Bridge in the episode of season 2. Http, //www. tunefind. com/show/the-bridge-us/season-2/18614 All songs written by Lee Hazlewood except where noted
