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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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Olivia Newton-John
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Olivia Newton-John, AO, OBE is a British-Australian singer, songwriter and actress. She is a four-time Grammy award winner who has amassed five number-one and ten other Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 singles, eleven of her singles and fourteen of her albums have been certified gold by the RIAA. She has sold an estimated 100 million records worldwide, making her one of the worlds best-selling artists of all time and she starred in Grease, which featured one of the most successful soundtracks in Hollywood history. Newton-John has been a long-time activist for environmental and animal rights issues, since surviving breast cancer in 1992, she has been an advocate for health awareness becoming involved with various charities, health products and fundraising efforts. Her business interests have included launching several product lines for Koala Blue and she is the mother of one daughter, Chloe Rose Lattanzi, with her first husband, actor Matt Lattanzi. Her second husband is John Easterling, Newton-John was born in Cambridge, England, to Irene Helene, the eldest child of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Max Born and Welsh father, Brinley Bryn Newton-John. Her mothers family had left Germany before World War II to avoid the Nazi regime and she is a third cousin of comedian Ben Elton. Her maternal great-grandfather was jurist Victor Ehrenberg and her matrilineal great-grandmothers father was jurist Rudolf von Jhering. Newton-John is the youngest of three children, following brother Hugh, a doctor, and sister Rona, an actress who was married to Grease co-star Jeff Conaway from 1980 until their divorce in 1985. Newton-Johns father was an MI5 officer on the Enigma project at Bletchley Park who took Rudolf Hess into custody during the Second World War. In 1954, when she was six, Newton-Johns family emigrated to Melbourne, Australia and she attended Christ Church Grammar School, and then University High School, adjacent to Ormond College. At fourteen, Newton-John formed a short-lived all-girl group, Sol Four and she became a regular on local Australian radio and television shows including HSV-7s The Happy Show where she performed as Lovely Livvy. She also appeared on the Go Show where she met future partner, Pat Carroll. Newton-John was initially reluctant to use the prize she had won, a trip to Britain, Newton-John recorded her first single, Till You Say Youll Be Mine Forever, in Britain for Decca Records in 1966. While in Britain, Newton-John missed her then-boyfriend, Ian Turpie, with whom she had co-starred in the Australian telefilm, Newton-John repeatedly booked trips back to Australia that her mother subsequently cancelled. Newton-Johns outlook changed when Pat Carroll also moved to the UK, the two formed a duo called Pat and Olivia and toured nightclubs in Europe. After Carrolls visa expired forcing her to return to Australia, Newton-John remained in Britain to pursue solo work until 1975 and she became engaged to The Shadows guitarist Bruce Welch, but they never married. Newton-John was recruited for the group Toomorrow formed by American producer Don Kirshner, in 1970, the group starred in a science fiction musical film and recorded an accompanying soundtrack album both named after the group
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Jupiter, Florida
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Jupiter is the northernmost town in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. According to the 2015 Census Bureau estimate, the town had a population of 62,707. It is one of the northernmost communities of the Miami metropolitan area and it was rated as the 9th Happiest Seaside Town in America by Coastal Living in 2012. The area where the town now sits was named for the Hobe Indian tribe which lived at the mouth of the Loxahatchee River. A mapmaker misunderstood the Spanish spelling Jobe of the Indian name Hobe, subsequent mapmakers further misunderstood this to be the Latin translation of the god Jupiter, and they anglicized the name from Jove to Jupiter. The Roman god Jupiter is the chief Roman god, and god of light, of the sky and weather, jupiters consort was Juno, inspiring a neighboring town to name itself Juno Beach. The most notable landmark is the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse, completed in 1860, made of brick, it was painted red in 1910 to cover discoloration caused by humidity. Hurricane Jeanne in 2004 sandblasted the paint from the portion of the tower. The lighthouse is used as the symbol for Jupiter. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 21.1 square miles. Jupiter has a Tropical savanna climate, much of the year is warm to hot in Jupiter, and frost is very rare. As is typical in Florida, there are two seasons in Jupiter, a mild and dry winter, and a hot and wet summer. Daily thundershowers are common in the hot season, though they are brief, the city of Jupiter is home to many tropical and subtropical plants and trees, and the city is known for its lush landscaping around private homes and public parks. As of 2010, there were 29,825 households out of which 19. 8% were vacant. In 2000,26. 6% had children under the age of 18 living with them,55. 8% are married couples living together,8. 4% have a householder with no husband present. 25. 8% of all households are made up of individuals and 10. 4% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older, the median age is 42 years. For every 100 females there are 97.2 males, for every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 94.2 males. In 2000, the income for a household in the town is $54,945
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New-age music
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New Age music is a genre of music intended to create artistic inspiration, relaxation, and optimism. There is no definition of New Age music. An article in Billboard magazine in 1987 commented that New Age music may be the most startling successful non-defined music ever to hit the public consciousness. Many consider it to be a term for marketing rather than a musical category. New Age music was influenced by a range of artists from a variety of genres. Tony Scotts Music for Zen Meditation is considered to be the first New Age recording, paul Horn was one of the important pioneers. Irv Teibels Environments series featured natural soundscapes, tintinnabulation, and Om chants and were some of the first publicly available psychoacoustic recordings, Steven Halperns 1975 Spectrum Suite was a key work that began the New Age music movement. New Age music is defined more by the use and effect or feeling it produces rather than the instruments and genre used in its creation, it may be acoustic, electronic, or a mixture of both. There is also a significant overlap of sectors of New Age music with ambient music, classical music, jazz, electronica, world music, chillout, space music, pop music, the proponents of this definition are almost always musicians who create their music expressly for these purposes. To be useful for meditation music needs to have repetitive dynamic and texture, without sudden loud chords and it is minimalist in conception, and thus are mostly instrumentalist rather than vocalist musicians. Subliminal messages are used in New Age music, and the use of music instruments along the natural sounds of the animals. Music which is found in the New Age sections of record stores, stephen Hill, founder of the Hearts of Space in 1973, considers that many of the artists are very sincerely and fully committed to New Age ideas and ways of life. Some composers like Kitarō consider their music to be part of their growth, as well expressing values. However, it is noted that New Age music is a mere popular designation which successfully sells records. J. Gordon Melton argued it does not refer to a genre of music. Kay Gardner considered that the label New Age is considered an inauthentic commercial intention of the so-called New Age music. She commented that a lot of New Age music is schlock and how due to records sales everyone with a home studio put in some sounds of crickets, oceans, or rivers, as a guarantee of sales. Thus under the term, some consider that the Mike Oldfields progressive rock album Tubular Bells became one of the first albums to be referred to under the genre description of New Age
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EMI
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EMI was a British multinational conglomerate founded in March 1931 and was based in London. At the time of its break-up in 2012, it was the fourth-largest business group and its EMI Records Ltd. group of record labels included EMI Records, Parlophone, Virgin Records and Capitol Records. EMI also had a publishing arm, EMI Music Publishing—also based in London with offices globally. The company was once a constituent of the FTSE100 Index, other members of the Sony consortium include the Estate of Michael Jackson, The Blackstone Group, and Abu Dhabi–owned investment fund Mubadala Development Company. The new vertically integrated company produced sound recordings as well as recording, the companys gramophone manufacturing led to forty years of success with larger-scale electronics and electrical engineering. He was killed in 1942 whilst conducting flight trials on an experimental H2S radar set, post-war, the company resumed its involvement in making broadcasting equipment, notably providing the BBCs second television transmitter at Sutton Coldfield. It also manufactured broadcast television cameras for British television production companies as well as for the BBC, the commercial television ITV companies also used them alongside cameras made by Pye and Marconi. Exports of this piece of equipment were low, however, the company was also for many years an internationally respected manufacturer of photomultipliers. This part of the business was transferred to Thorn as part of Thorn-EMI, in 1958 the EMIDEC1100, the UKs first commercially available all-transistor computer, was developed at Hayes under the leadership of Godfrey Hounsfield, an electrical engineer at EMI. In 1973 EMI was awarded a prestigious Queens Award for Technological Innovation for what was called the EMI scanner. After brief, but brilliant, success in the imaging field, EMIs manufacturing activities were sold off to other companies. Subsequently, development and manufacturing activities were sold off to companies and work moved to other towns such as Crawley. Emihus Electronics, based in Glenrothes, Scotland, was owned 51% by Hughes Aircraft, of California, US and it manufactured integrated circuits electrolytic capacitors and, for a short period in the mid-1970s, hand-held calculators under the Gemini name. Early in its life, the Gramophone Company established subsidiary operations in a number of countries in the British Commonwealth, including India, Australia. Over 150,000 78-rpm recordings from around the world are held in EMIs temperature-controlled archive in Hayes, in 1931, the year the company was formed, it opened the legendary recording studios at Abbey Road, London. During the 1930s and 1940s, its roster of artists included Arturo Toscanini, Sir Edward Elgar, during this time EMI appointed its first A&R managers. These included George Martin, who brought the Beatles into the EMI fold. When the Gramophone Company merged with the Columbia Graphophone Company in 1931, at this point RCA had a majority shareholding in the new company, giving RCA chair David Sarnoff a seat on the EMI board
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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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Amy Sky
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Amy Sky is a Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, theatre actress, and television host. Sky started classical music lessons at the age of five, and plays piano, guitar, cello and she has a degree from the University of Toronto in music theory and composition. In 1983, Amy was signed as a songwriter to MCA Music Nashville, and then subsequently to Warner-Chappell Music in Los Angeles, EMI Music Los Angeles. In 1996, Amy Sky released her album as a recording artist, Cool Rain. After being nominated for two Juno Awards, including best songwriter and best new artist, she released Burnt by the Sun in 1998, the string of radio hits these albums produced garnered her three SOCAN awards. 2001 saw the release of Phenomenal Woman, which was followed in 2003 by Skys fourth album, With This Kiss, in 2007, EMI released Life Lessons, The Best of Amy Sky. In 2008, Sky released an album, The Lights of December. Between 2005 and 2012, Sky focused on her songwriting and producing for other artists, since 2005, Sky has renewed her collaboration with Olivia Newton-John, writing and producing songs for Newton-Johns albums Stronger Than Before, Grace and Gratitude and Christmas Wish. In 2008, Sky executive produced the fund raising album Celebration and Song, Olivia Newton-John, in 2009, Green Hill Records released Grace and Gratitude Renewed, which included two new songs. In 2012, Sky made her return to her records with the release of Alive & Awake. As a companion to the CD, there is a website and she is the first recipient ever of the CRIA Applause award, recognizing her work on behalf of artist rights. Sky speaks about and advocates for health issues. In 2006, Sky was honoured for her work as a spokesperson in this area, with the CAMH Courage to Come Back award, and the Mood Disorders Association of Ontario Hero Inspiration Award. She continues to advocate for mental hygiene, and in 2008 was featured on the covers of two magazines, Canadian Health and Lifestyle and the issue of Anchor, speaking about this topic. Sky has hosted three seasons of parenting shows on Rogers TV, currently Enfagrow, The Toddler Years with Amy Sky, Sky currently resides in Toronto, Ontario. She is married to musician Marc Jordan and they have two children together, a son, Ezra and a daughter, Zoe, Zoe also composes music and performs with her own band, Petty Victories. Amy Sky at the Internet Movie Database Official site
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Christmas Wish (Olivia Newton-John album)
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Christmas Wish is an album by Olivia Newton-John, released in 2007. It is the original album of Christmas Music recorded by Newton-John after Tis the Season with Vince Gill. It is her album produced by Amy Sky. It featuring versions of classic Christmas songs, the collection features guest appearances from Barry Manilow, Jon Secada, Michael McDonald and others. In 2008, the album was re-released as a Target exclusive and included the bonus track In the Bleak Midwinter
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Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s
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Walgreens
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The Walgreen Company is an American company which operates as the second-largest pharmacy store chain in the United States behind CVS Health. It specializes in filling prescriptions, health and wellness products, health information, as of August 31,2016, the company operated 8,175 stores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U. S. Virgin Islands. It was founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1901, the Walgreens headquarters office is in the Chicago suburb of Deerfield, Illinois. In 2014, the agreed to purchase the remaining 55% of Switzerland-based Alliance Boots that it did not already own to form a global business. Under the terms of the purchase, the two merged to form a new holding company, Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. on December 31,2014. Walgreens became a subsidiary of the new company, which retains its Deerfield headquarters, Walgreens began in 1901, with a drug store on the corner of Bowen Ave and Cottage Grove in Chicago, owned by Galesburg native Charles R. Walgreen, Sr. By 1913, Walgreens had grown to four stores on Chicagos South Side and it opened its fifth in 1915, and four more in 1916. By 1919, there were 20 stores in the chain, as a result of alcohol prohibition, the 1920s was a successful time for Walgreens. Although alcohol was illegal, prescription whiskey was available and sold by Walgreens, in 1922, the company introduced a malted milkshake, which led to its establishing ice cream manufacturing plants. The next year, Walgreen began opening stores away from residential areas, in the mid-1920s, there were 44 stores with annual sales of $1,200,000. Walgreens had expanded into Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin, by 1930, it had 397 stores with annual sales of US$4,000,000. This expansion partly was attributed to selling alcohol, mainly whiskey, the stock market crash in October 1929 and the subsequent Great Depression did not greatly affect the company. In 1934, Walgreens was operating in 30 states with 601 stores, after Charles Walgreen, Sr. died in 1939, his son Charles R. Walgreen took over the chain until his retirement. The Charles R. Walgreen years were prosperous, but lacked the massive expansion seen in the early part of the century. Charles Cork R. Walgreen III took over after Walgreen Jr. s retirement in the early 1950s, the Walgreen family was not involved in senior management of the company for a short time following Walgreen IIIs retirement. In 1986, it acquired the MediMart chain from Stop & Shop, in 1995, Kevin P. Walgreen was made a vice-president and promoted to Senior Vice President - Store Operations in 2006. On July 12,2006, David Bernauer stepped down as CEO of Walgreens, greg Wasson, former President of Walgreens Health Services, was named President and Chief Operations Officer. On October 10,2008, Rein abruptly quit as CEO, replaced by Alan G. McNally as Chairman, on January 26,2009, Gregory Wasson was named CEO, effective February 1,2009
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Grace and Gratitude Tour
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The Grace and Gratitude Tour is the fourteenth concert tour by English-born Australian pop singer Olivia Newton-John. The tour, which became the United States and Canada, gave support to her studio album, Grace. The album, which led a tour of the name, is considered a spiritual work, involving messages of peace. Newton-John is the hype with simple clothes and little makeup, the songs from the new album replace the usual hits of the singer and focus on the beginning and end of the show
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Olivia Newton-John 2010 World Tour
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The 2010 World Tour was the sixteenth concert tour by Australian singer Olivia Newton-John, to support the re-release of her album, Grace and Gratitude Renewed. The tour went by Chile and Japan, two dates were announced in South Korea, but canceled due the bombardment of Yeonpyeong. The tour also supports the release of the Japanese compilation 40/40, The Best Selection, in October 2010, Olivia made a special appearance at Yamano music store in Tokyo to promote the releases. She also performed for a group of fans in attendance, with the classical guitarist Kaori Muraji and her daughter Chloe Lattanzi, edson Peña, a survivor from 2010 Copiapó mining accident joined to Newton-John in the Chilean concert to perform Summer Nights. This is the very first time that Newton-John performs his 1985 single, Soul Kiss, the new single from Grace and Gratitude Renewed, Help Me to Heal, was also performed. This is also the first tour that she performed the original version Physical in all dates, instead the bossa nova version of, since 30 Musical Years Tour, in 2001. I Honestly Love You Have You Never Been Mellow A Little More Love Sam Xanadu Magic Suddenly Country Medley, If Not for You Let Me Be There Please Mr
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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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Billboard (magazine)
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Billboard is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries. It publishes pieces involving news, video, opinion, reviews, events and it is also known for its music charts, including the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200, tracking the most popular singles and albums in different genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows, Billboard was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegens interest in 1900 for $500, in the 1900s, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows. It also created a service for travelling entertainers. Billboard began focusing more on the industry as the jukebox, phonograph. Many topics it covered were spun-off into different magazines, including Amusement Business in 1961 to cover outdoor entertainment so that it could focus on music. After Donaldson died in 1925, Billboard was passed down to his children and Hennegans children, until it was sold to investors in 1985. The first issue of Billboard was published in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 1,1894 by William Donaldson, initially, it covered the advertising and bill posting industry and was called Billboard Advertising. At the time, billboards, posters and paper advertisements placed in public spaces were the means of advertising. Donaldson handled editorial and advertising, while Hennegan, who owned Hennegan Printing Co. managed magazine production, the first issues were just eight pages long. The paper had columns like The Bill Room Gossip and The Indefatigable, a department for agricultural fairs was established in 1896. The title was changed to The Billboard in 1897, after a brief departure over editorial differences, Donaldson purchased Hennegans interest in the business in 1900 for $500, to save it from bankruptcy. That May, Donaldson changed it from a monthly to a paper with a greater emphasis on breaking news. He improved editorial quality and opened new offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London and he also re-focused the magazine on outdoor entertainment like fairs, carnivals, circuses, vaudeville and burlesque shows. A section devoted to circuses was introduced in 1900, followed by more prominent coverage of events in 1901. Billboard also covered topics including regulation, a lack of professionalism, economics and it had a stage gossip column covering the private lives of entertainers, a tent show section covering traveling shows and a sub-section called Freaks to order. According to The Seattle Times, Donaldson also published articles attacking censorship, praising productions exhibiting good taste
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Marc Jordan
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Marc Wallace Jordan, is an American-born Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, session musician, and actor. Covering a wide variety of genres, he has songs for a number of well-known artists, including Diana Ross, Rod Stewart, Cher, Bette Midler, Chicago. He was named best producer with Steven MacKinnon at the Juno Awards in 1994 for Waiting for a Miracle from Reckless Valentine. In early 2014, Marc Jordan was named Chair of Slaight Family Music Lab at Norman Jewisons Canadian Film Centre, and will continue in that role into 2016. Born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Canadian singer Charles Jordan and he studied film at Brock University, but soon turned to music, first coming to public attention as a guitarist for Bobby Vee. With the Canadian division of CBS Records, Jordan released some singles in 1974 and they were not very successful themselves, but they impressed American music producer Gary Katz, and in 1977 Jordan reached a U. S. deal with Warner Bros. In the 1980s, Jordan was signed to RCA for two records, paul De Villiers produced the first, Talking Through Pictures, and Kim Bullard the second, called C. O. W. In 1988, Jordan sang and co-wrote the theme song to the hit Australian movie Boulevard of Broken Dreams which was nominated for an AFI Award for Best Film. In 1994, Jordan won a Juno Award for Producer of the Year for Waiting for a Miracle from his Reckless Valentine album. During the summer of 2016, Jordan was performing with singers Murray McLauchlan, Cindy Church and Ian Thomas in the group Lunch At Allens, in a number of towns and small cities in Ontario and he is married to fellow singer-songwriter Amy Sky. They live in Toronto and have a cottage in Muskoka with their two children, Ezra and Zoe. Jordan and Sky are both national UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors for Canada. There are an additional three covers, Willie Nelsons Crazy, Elvis Costellos Almost Blue, and Mann Curtiss Let it be Me, the lead track, This is How Men Cry, is a poem about how men communicate, or more often how they dont. Marc Jordan is married to Amy Sky and they have two children together, a son, Ezra and a daughter, Zoe, a list of artists who have performed songs written by Jordan include the following, Official site Lunch at Allens Official Site Marc Jordan – JAM. Pop Encyclopedia bio Featured Member page
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Magic (Olivia Newton-John song)
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Magic is a 1980 song performed by Olivia Newton-John, from the soundtrack to the film Xanadu. The song was number 1 on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks beginning on August 2,1980, on August 30, it was displaced from the top by Sailing by Christopher Cross. It was her 25th American chart hit, and her 10th of 12 records which went Gold or higher, Magic was also her biggest pop hit until Physical ruled the Hot 100 for ten weeks beginning in November 1981. Billboard magazine ranked Magic as the third most popular single of 1980, behind only Call Me by Blondie and Another Brick in the Wall, in Canada, the song spent two weeks at number one. It also reached number 4 in Australia and number 32 in the UK, the song became Newton-Johns biggest Adult Contemporary hit to date, spending five weeks at the top of the American chart, and also topped the Canadian AC chart for a week. John Lennon commented about Magic shortly before his death in the complete Newsweek interview from September 1980, the only 2 songs he specifically mentions that he likes are Magic and All Over the World both on the album Xanadu. The B-sides vary, depending on the label, Fool Country is the B-side of the MCA release, Whenever Youre Away from Me is the B-side of the Jet release. MCA vinyl single Magic –4,25 Fool Country –2,29 Jet vinyl single Magic –4,25 Whenever Youre Away From Me –4,22 Magic is a remix of the 1980 song. In May 2011, the song was remixed by two Australians, DJ Dan Murphy and Steve Peach, to create a dance version, Olivia went back to the studio to re-sing the vocals. The version was sponsored by WACCI, a humanitarian group, everybody who worked on the project volunteered their time, with all proceeds being donated to Olivias charity, the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre. Olivia was presented the premiere of the song on Australian Dancing with the Stars on Sunday May 22,2011. The song was released exclusively on Australian iTunes, also on Sunday May 22, a video was shot for the new remix in Sydney in an attempt to break the Guinness Book World Record for largest cast in a music video by featuring 350 people. Newton-John does not appear in the video, which was directed by DJ Dan Murphy, the song is included in the film Xanadu and also the Xanadu musical. A version of the song by Stimulator was used in commercials for Macys and this cover was also used in the film Ella Enchanted and appeared on the films soundtrack. Another updated version of the song was performed by Meaghan Martin for the Disney Channel Original Movie Wizards of Waverly Place and it was subsequently included on the television series and the films soundtrack album. In 2015 Newton-John teamed up with her daughter Chloe Lattanzi and Dave Aude to rework the songs chorus into a new recording, the song went to number one on the US Dance Club Songs chart. List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1980 List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 1980 Cashbox Top 100 number-one singles of 1980 Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Physical (Olivia Newton-John song)
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Physical is a song by the British-born Australian musician Olivia Newton-John for her twelfth studio album Physical. It was released in September 1981, by MCA Records as the single from the project. The song was written by Steve Kipner and Terry Shaddick, who intended to offer it to British singer-songwriter Rod Stewart. The song reached number 7 on the UK chart in November, the song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and won the Billboard Award for Top Pop Single. Recorded in early 1981, it first rose to one on the Billboard Hot 100 in America in November 1981 and stayed there for 10 weeks. It reached #2 on the Radio & Records CHR/Pop Airplay chart on November 27,1981, in terms of chart placement, it was the most popular single of her career in the U. S. as well as her final number-one. Billboard ranked it as the number one pop single of 1982, the guitar solo was performed by Steve Lukather. Physical was both preceded and followed in the #1 chart position by recordings of the duo Hall & Oates, private Eyes yielded its top spot to Physical in November 1981, and Physical yielded to I Cant Go for That the following January. Physical held Waiting for a Girl Like You by Foreigner at #2, off the top of the Hot 100 for nine weeks, and I Cant Go For That held Foreigners hit at #2 for the tenth and final week. On the other hand, in spite of Newton-Johns status as the queen of soft-rock music at the time. The song was a big hit, crossed over to the Billboard R&B chart peaking at #28 there. In the United Kingdom the single was not nearly as massive a success as in America, the music video was directed by Brian Grant. The video features Newton-John, dressed in a leotard, as trying to make several overweight men healthy. She repeatedly tries to make the men lose weight, but they fail comically, when the men work out on their own, they suddenly transform into muscular, attractive men. A stylistic shot shows one muscular man glancing at his overweight self in a mirror, Newton-John is shocked when she returns to this, and starts to flirt with them. Two of the men go out, holding hands, implying they are gay. This surprises Newton-John, as does the sight of two more of the men leaving with their arms around each other, finally, she finds that the last of the overweight men is straight and they go off to play tennis together. The Olivia Physical video won a Grammy Award for Video of the Year in 1983, the video was featured on Pop-Up Video on VH1 and was the first video to air on Beavis and Butt-head, on which they changed the channel to I Wanna Be Sedated by The Ramones
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Mark Masri
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Mark Masri is a Canadian singer, songwriter and producer. He is signed to EMI record label and has released five albums, Mark Masri, La Voce, a Christmas Time with You, and Intimo, as well as a special US release, See My Face. He sings in English and also has a repertoire of interpretations. On his album La Voce he sings a collection of songs in six languages. He started singing in his fathers small church near Antigonish, Nova Scotia, the family returned to Scarborough, Ontario in the 1980s. At twelve he was singing in churches and giving piano recitals. He led in many choirs and worked as a producer for the CTS network. When his job position was eliminated, he decided to all his time to music. In 2000 he released his first album, self-titled Mark Masri, after Masri recorded a demo with Amy Sky, on a song she thought might suit Jim Brickman, he was very interested and invited Masri in 2008 to tour with him. They also collaborated on Brickmans hit Christmas Is. that reached #18 on Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks, Masri also appeared as a guest vocalist on Jim Brickman’s 2009 CD Faith, which was nominated for Best New Age Album at the Grammy Awards. He is married to Angela since 1998 and they have a son together, the album reached US Billboard New Age albums chart at #2, Billboard Christian albums chart at #36 and Billboard Christian/Gospel albums chart at #54. 2010, Waiting on her album Let There Be Peace Official website
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ARIA Charts
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The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia, ARIA became the official Australian music chart in June 1988, succeeding the Kent Music Report which had been Australias national charts since 1974. The Go-Set charts were Australias first national singles and albums charts published from 5 October 1966 until 24 August 1974, succeeding Go-Set, the Kent Music Report began issuing the national top 100 charts in Australia from May 1974. The compiler, David Kent, also published Australias national charts from 1940–1974 in a retrospective fashion using state based data, in mid 1983, the Australian Recording Industry Association commenced licensing the Kent Music Report chart. The first printed national top 50 chart available in record stores, ARIA began compiling its own charts in-house from the chart dated week ending 26 June 1988. Various artists compilation albums were included in the albums chart, as they had been on the Kent Report chart, until 2 July 1989. The ARIA Report, detailing the top 100 singles and albums charts, was first available via subscription in January 1990, the printed top 50 chart ceased publication in June 1998, but resumed publication later in the year. The printed top 50 chart again ceased publication at the end of 2000, the ARIA charts are based on data collected from physical and digital retailers in Australia. Data of physical sales come from such as Sanity and JB Hi-Fi, while data of digital sales come from online retailers such as iTunes, Bandit FM, GetMusic. Since 17 February 1997, all physical sales data contributing towards the chart has been recorded electronically at point of sale. In March 1991, Do the Bartman by The Simpsons was the first single to reach #1 in Australia that was not available on 7 inch vinyl, but cassingle only. Starting from 8 October 2006, due to low physical single sales at the time, in 2006, it was announced that the Brazin retailing group, comprising major retailers HMV, Sanity and Virgin music/DVD stores would no longer contribute sales data to the ARIA charts. However, after an absence, Brazin reportedly re-commenced contributing sales figures to the ARIA Charts on 26 November 2006. The ARIA website publishes the top 50 singles and albums charts, top 40 digital tracks chart, the ARIA Report lists all charts in full and is available via paid e-mail subscription each week. These reports are uploaded to the Pandora Archive periodically, on 5 February 2006, the ARIA Chart Show was a radio program launched on the Nova network and broadcast throughout Australia, playing the official ARIA top 50 singles. The live music program was hosted by Jabba each Sunday afternoon at 3, the show was aired before the top 50 chart, dated for the following Monday, is published on the ARIA website at 6,00 pm. The charts were published online at 6,00 pm each Sunday. The diamond certification was created for albums in November 2015 to mark 500,000 sales/shipments, for music DVDs, a gold accreditation originally represented 7,500 copies shipped, with a platinum accreditation representing 15,000 units shipped. co. uk
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Universal Music Group
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Universal Music Group is an American-French global music corporation that is a subsidiary of the Paris-based French media conglomerate Vivendi. UMGs global corporate headquarters are in Santa Monica, California and it is considered one of the Big Three record labels, along with Warner Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment. Universal Music was once the music attached to film studio Universal Pictures and its origins go back to the formation of the American branch of Decca Records in September 1934. The Decca Record Co. Ltd. of England spun American Decca off in 1939, MCA Inc. merged with American Decca in 1962. The present organization was formed when its parent company Seagram purchased PolyGram in May 1998, however, the name had first appeared in 1996 when MCA Music Entertainment Group was renamed Universal Music Group. The PolyGram acquisition included Deutsche Grammophon which traces its ancestry to Berliner Gramophone making Deutsche Grammophon UMGs oldest unit, UMGs Canadian unit traces its ancestry to a Berliner Gramophone breakaway firm the Compo Company. With the 2004 acquisition of Universal Studios by General Electric and merging with GEs NBC and this is the second time a music company has done so, the first being the separation of Time Warner and Warner Music Group. On June 25,2007, Vivendi completed its €1.63 billion purchase of BMG Music Publishing, after receiving European Union regulatory approval, doug Morris stepped down from his position as CEO on January 1,2011. Former chairman/CEO of Universal Music International Lucian Grainge was promoted to CEO of the company, Grainge later replaced him as chairman on March 9,2011. Morris became the chairman of Sony Music Entertainment on July 1,2011. With Grainges appointment as CEO at UMG, Max Hole was promoted to COO of UMGI, starting in 2011 UMGs Interscope Geffen A&M Records will be signing contestants from American Idol/Idol series. On January 2011, UMG announced it was donating 200,000 master recordings from the 1920s to 1940s to the Library of Congress for preservation, in March 2011, Barry Weiss became chairman & CEO of The Island Def Jam Music Group & Universal Republic Records. Both companies are restructuring under Weiss, in December 2011, David Foster was named Chairman of Verve Music Group. Among the other companies that had competed for the music business was Warner Music Group which was reported to have made a $2 billion bid. However, IMPALA has said it would fight the merger, coincidentally, UMG sister company StudioCanal has owned the EMI Films library for several years. On September 21,2012, the sale of EMI to UMG was approved in Europe, UMG divested Mute Records, Parlophone, Roxy Recordings, MPS Records, Cooperative Music, Now Thats What I Call Music. Jazzland, Universal Greece, Sanctuary Records, Chrysalis Records, EMI Classics, Virgin Classics, the Beatles recorded music library was allowed to remain with UMG despite being considered part of Parlophone and is now managed by UMGs reorganized Capitol Music Group worldwide. Robbie Williams, who had recorded for Chrysalis, had his transferred to Universals Island Records
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Olivia Newton-John videography
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Newton-John first music video was for Follow Me, a promotional single from her 1975 album Have You Never Been Mellow. She released another four music videos before Grease, the singles from Grease had excerpts from the film as music videos, with heavy rotation in television. After Grease, Newton-John image changed from goody-goody Sandy 1 to spandex-clad Sandy 2 and its Olivia first pop studio album, before that, her career was basically focused on country music. Although initially Olivia didnt want to release it, in 1981 Physical came out with a video for the song. The single was a phenomenon, staying for ten weeks on the top of the Billboard Hot 100. The music video was controversial and was banned by several broadcasters. The special was a success and received a video release with two new music videos added, as Olivia Physical. The video won a Grammy Award for Video of the Year, in 1983, another music video collection was released, Twist of Fate. The music videos are from Two of a Kind soundtrack, starring Newton-John, the music video for Twist of Fate was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video. The Soul Kiss video was released in 1985 and features five music videos for the songs of the album of the same name, the last music video collection released by Newton-John, to date, is the musical-style Olivia Down Under. The video premiered in 1988 on HBO and in 1989 on home video, in the video, Olivia travels through Australia, celebrates the country bicentenary and shows more of the Australian culture. In 2011, the video for Magic featured the biggest cast ever for an Australian music video. Beyond the official releases, there are several licensed home video releases by small distributors, with unreleased Newton-John material such as concerts, music videos. Examples of these releases are the DVDs 20th Century Masters, The Best of ONJ, A Million Lights Are Dancing, The Heartstrings Tour, Simply Olivia and Live in Japan 1976
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If Not for You (album)
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If Not for You is the debut studio album by British-Australian singer-songwriter Olivia Newton-John, released in November 1971 by Festival Records. The album was released on the Pye International label in the UK as Olivia Newton-John, as a covers album, If Not for You features mostly songs previously recorded from contemporary artists of the 1960s and early 1970s. She made several performances to promote If Not for You and her album, Olivia. It was her first album released by Festival Records, which would release all her albums in Australia until its dissolution in 2005 and it also has Newton-Johns first works with her long-time musical partner, John Farrar. In 1966, Newton-John released her single, Till You Say Youll Be Mine. Later, she integrated the band Toomorrow, which released a film, after these failed attempts to launch her career, she signed with Festival Records to release an album. If Not for You was titled after its lead single of the same name and was recorded in London. She later stated that she didnt like the song, but praised its production, the majority of musicians who played on If Not for You were linked with the music group Marvin, Welch & Farrar. The group members John Farrar and Bruce Welch produced the album, Farrar would establish a partnership with Newton-John, producing all her studio albums from If Not for You until Soul Kiss, released in 1985. He also composed, played and did vocals on several Newton-John songs. Three additional songs were recorded by Newton-John, but were discarded during the creation process, The Biggest Clown, Its So Hard to Say Goodbye. The album features covers of Roger Miller, Bread, The Band, Lesley Duncan, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan, Brotherhood of Man, Gordon Lightfoot, Banks of the Ohio is a traditional song that had an arrangement made by Farrar and Welch. Newton-John made several appearances on programs across Europe and her homeland Australia between 1971–72. She also made an appearance on The Dean Martin Show, singing If and a medley featuring Just a Little Lovin / True Love with Dean Martin, which became her first performance in the United States. In 1972, she embarked on a tour across Europe and Japan with Cliff Richard to promote If Not for You and Olivia, Olivia performed some songs and also sang backing vocals on Cliffs songs with Pat Carroll. Richard performances were released on the Cliff Richard Live and she also made performances on Richards program Its Cliff Richard and starred with him in the special Getaway with Cliff and the film The Case, all broadcast on BBC. If Not for You, the track, was released as the lead single. The song peaked at six on the UK Singles Charts
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Olivia (Olivia Newton-John album)
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Olivia is the second studio album by the British-Australian singer-songwriter Olivia Newton-John, released in 1972. Two of its songs were released as singles, in its initial release, it was not issued in the United States, though it was sold there as an import. A digitally remastered version was released in 1995, an American release of the album never materialised. Therefore, the label did not want to risk a release of the album in the United States on Uni Records. Newton-Johns subsequent release, Let Me Be There, would reach number 37 on the UK Albums Chart and earn a Gold certification. The cover art, done in blue tint, was used as the cover of the US release of Let Me Be There on MCA Records in 1973. The album was first released on CD in Japan, on 7 November 1990, the Japanese release did not feature any of the original album artwork. The cover photo was a picture taken from a 1977 live appearance in Japan. Packaging included an obi, and a white, folded insert sheet that included the lyrics for all the songs in English on one side, a digitally-remastered reissue of the 1972 album was released on the Festival label in 1998, complete with the original cover art
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Let Me Be There (album)
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Let Me Be There is the third studio album album by Olivia Newton-John, released in 1973. It consisted of her performances of a collection of 11 cover songs, plus Let Me Be There and it was produced by Bruce Welch, John Farrar and Alan Hawkshaw. The American publication of the album by MCA Records used the art from Olivias 1972 LP record Olivia. Some of its songs were taken for the US publication, such as titles from the British publications of the albums If Not for You. Though the title song was a failure in England, it was Olivia Newton-Johns first American top ten hit. She had previously charted in the Billboard Top 40 with the song If Not for You, the album was certified Gold by the RIAA in 1974, and it peaked at No.54 on the US Pop chart and at No.1 on the Country chart
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Long Live Love (album)
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Long Live Love is a studio album by Olivia Newton-John, released in 1974 by EMI Records. It was not released in the US, the song I Honestly Love You was her first number 1 single in the US, released on the album If You Love Me, Let Me Know. The title track was the song Newton-John performed for the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest when she represented the UK, along with the title track, five other tracks from the LP had been the six shortlisted songs for the UK selection for Eurovision. The song that placed second, Angeleyes, was released on the B-side of the Long Live Love single, the Rivers Too Wide was also recorded by Jim Mundy, whose version was a Top 20 hit on Hot Country Songs in 1973
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If You Love Me, Let Me Know
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If You Love Me, Let Me Know is a United States and Canada-only album by singer Olivia Newton-John, released in May 1974. Other than the track, all the material was from her previous albums, Olivia, Music Makes My Day. It is the first of her albums to top the Billboard 200 pop albums chart, two hit singles were issued from the LP in the US, the title song and I Honestly Love You, the latter of which became Newton-Johns first number-one US single. Essentially, this is the second of the two compilation albums released by MCA Records, the other album being the US version of Let Me Be There. The result of MCA picking Newton-Johns stronger tracks plus newer singles in the same vein led to the album earning widespread critical acclaim and strong album sales in North America. It was the first of two Newton-John albums to top the Billboard 200 pop albums chart, the second being Have You Never Been Mellow the following year, the title track ranks as Newton-Johns highest charting single on the country charts, reaching No. 2, although she would have more top 10 hits, the album was certified Gold in the US
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Have You Never Been Mellow
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Have You Never Been Mellow is the sixth studio album by Australian singer-songwriter Olivia Newton-John, released on 12 February 1975 by MCA Records. Both the title single and the rose to the top of their respective US charts. The title song and its follow-up, Please Mr. Please, were both top 10 on three Billboard charts, the Hot 100, Adult Contemporary, and Country. Outside the United States, the album was released with the single If You Love Me, Let Me Know, as the single was only released in the United States on the album of the same name. Unlike in the US, Have You Never Been Mellow was not much of a success in countries, and in many notable cases. However, the song was Newton-Johns first single to chart in Japan, where it reached number 26 on the Oricon singles chart. Newton-John received a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for her work on the song Have You Never Been Mellow, the album was certified Gold in the US. The album was released on vinyl LP and audio cassette on 12 February 1975. MCA released it on CD in the mid-1980s, in 1990, it was released in Japan on EMI as part of their PASTMASTERS series. This was a release in terms of sonic quality over the MCA release. Included was an obi, and a simple, folded paper insert with all the song lyrics in English on one side. Note, Whereas the original US album contained 11 tracks, in Japan it included a 12th song, I Honestly Love You, in 1998, Festival Records in Australia released the album on CD as part of their Digitally Remastered series. This release featured the original artwork, and no lyrics insert. However, as several other Festival releases, there was an error, as the first drum downbeat of track 7. Also note, The CD contains 12 tracks, in case the 12th being If You Love Me. That is because the song If You Love Me was first released in the US only, in 1974, as the only newly issued song on Olivias 1974 US LP of the same name. In the wake of the singles big US success, many non-US territories opted to include the song on the next Newton-John album, which turned out to be Have You Never Been Mellow
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Clearly Love
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Clearly Love is an album by Olivia Newton-John, released in September 1975. Nevertheless, the album did earn a Gold certification, and both of the singles were Top 20 country chart hits, with Something Better to Do reaching number 19. In the United Kingdom it was a different story, as neither the album nor its singles charted at all there, the market in which the album was most successful in terms of chart position was the Netherlands, where it went to number one. Clearly Love also did well in Japan, reaching number 3 on the Oricon Albums Chart and this song became popular on country music stations, hitting the top 10 on the Country chart
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Come On Over (Olivia Newton-John album)
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Come On Over is the eighth studio album by Olivia Newton-John, released on 29 February 1976. It peaked at number 2 on the US Country albums chart, the albums first track, a cover of Dolly Partons Jolene, was only released as a single in Japan, and it became a hit there, peaking at number 11 on the Oricon Singles Chart. The album itself was also a success in the Japanese market, in the US, the only single released from the album was the title song, written by Barry Gibb and Robin Gibb and originally featured on the Bee Gees 1975 album Main Course. It was a pop hit, peaking at number 23 on the US Billboard Hot 100. In New Zealand, the track reached number 3. The album also included versions of the traditional song Greensleeves and The Beatles The Long and Winding Road, originally featured in the 1973 movie Hurry Up, or Ill Be 30. Besides Partons Jolene the album also covers of recent country hits by Willie Nelson. Produced by John Farrar Orchestra arranged and conducted by Steve Grey Steel guitar, B. J
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Making a Good Thing Better
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Making a Good Thing Better is an album by Olivia Newton-John, released in 1977. The album peaked at No.34 on the US Pop chart and it was Newton-Johns first album not to reach the Country Top 10. The album also ended Olivias streak of six gold albums from 1974s Let Me Be There through 1976s Dont Stop Believin. In the Netherlands, it became her fourth chart-topping album, Newton-John was in a dispute with MCA Records at the time of the recording and was in negotiations to be released from MCA, thus the label did not promote the album. At the time, Newton-John sued for her release from MCA, claiming they had not promoted her music, resulting in diminished chart placement. She attempted to promote the album and single, appearing on the cover of Us Weekly on 23 August 1977 and making a promotional clip of the song that aired on NBCs The Midnight Special. Olivia Newton-John went on to sign on to do the movie Grease, the soul-sounding title track was the album single only reached No.87 on the Pop chart and No.20 on the Adult Contemporary chart. It was Newton-Johns first single not to reach the AC Top 10 since 1972s What Is Life, the cover art is the same as what was re-issued for 2005s Gold CD. The original album featured a cover similar to her greatest hits packages
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Totally Hot
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Totally Hot is Olivia Newton-Johns ninth US and tenth international studio album. Released in November 1978, it became her first solo Top 10 album since 1975s Have You Never Been Mellow, dressed on the album cover all in leather, Newton-Johns transformation was seen to mirror her character Sandys transformation in Grease. The albums singles A Little More Love, Deeper Than the Night, Newton-John filmed promotional videos for all three singles and wrote two of the albums tracks, Borrowed Time and Talk to Me. Although the album de-emphasised Newton-Johns country sound, it still reached No.4 on the Billboard Country Albums chart, Newton-John released the B-side, Dancin Round and Round from the Totally Hot single to Country radio—the first time since her 1975 single, Let It Shine/He Aint Heavy. Hes My Brother, that Newton-John worked both sides of a single to different radio formats, Dancin Round and Round peaked at No.29 on the Country chart and is her last-charted solo Country airplay single to date. The album was certified Platinum in the United States and the single, A Little More Love, was certified gold. The album only reached No.30 in the UK but it was certified Gold and the single A Little More Love reached No.4 on the UK Singles Chart, the album was a Top 10 success in Australia, Canada and Japan. The album was re-released in Japan during 2010 featuring two tracks, an extended version of Totally Hot and Love Is Alive from her 1981 live album
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Physical (album)
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Physical is the ninth full-length studio album by British-Australian singer-songwriter Olivia Newton-John, released on 13 October 1981 by MCA Records. The album was produced and partly written by her record producer John Farrar. Recorded and mixed at David J. Holmans studio in Hollywood, California, Physical became one of Newton-Johns most controversial and sexual records, musically, the album features considerable use of synthesizers and explores lyrical themes such as love and relationships, sex, kinesthetics and environmental protection. Upon its release, the album received positive reviews from music critics. The album charted high in several countries, including the United States, Japan and Newton-Johns native Australia and it also ranks among the best-selling albums by Australian solo artists, selling more than ten million copies worldwide. The albums title track was a phenomenon, staying ten weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100, at the time. The song and its video were controversial, having been banned or edited by several radio stations. The single was followed by Make a Move on Me, another top worldwide hit, Landslide, which failed to enter the majority of musical charts, had a music video featuring Newton-Johns boyfriend Matt Lattanzi, to whom she had dedicated the album. A video compilation, Olivia Physical, was produced, featuring videos of all songs from the album. The material was a commercial and critical success, and earned Newton-John a Grammy Award for Video of the Year, the album was promoted with Newton-Johns 1982 North American Physical Tour, performances from which a home video entitled Olivia in Concert was produced. The Physical era marked the height of Newton-Johns solo career, gaining her wide acclaim as one of the most successful artists of the early 1980s. In 1978, Newton-John starred as the lead, Sandy, in the musical film Grease. Before the film, Newton-John was known for pop and adult contemporary songs. Later that same year, Newton-John released the studio album Totally Hot, Physical was recorded and released in 1981, marking the longest gap between Newton-John studio albums at the time, from 1971 to 1978, she recorded at least one studio album per year. Newton-John feared that she could be overexposed with many works released in a short period, Physical followed Newton-Johns new image, perceived as a more sexualized and mature record. It also marked her first studio album without any country tracks, the new music style generated some criticism from the country-music community and Newton-Johns old fans, in a Billboard article, she said, You might lose a few fans but you gain others. You have to do whats comfortable, ive gotten the confidence to be more adventurous whereas in the past I didnt think it was the time. The lead single Physical was written by Terry Shaddick and Newton-Johns longtime friend Steve Kipner, when Newton-Johns then-manager Lee Kramer accidentally heard the demo, he immediately sent the song to her, but initially she didnt want to release the song because it was too cheeky
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Soul Kiss
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Soul Kiss is the thirteenth studio album by Australian pop, adult contemporary singer, Olivia Newton-John, which was released in October 1985. It made No.11 on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart, the album was produced by long-time associate, John Farrar, who also co-wrote four tracks, the cover art includes photography of Newton-John by Helmut Newton and Herb Ritts. Although the album was not as successful as her previous efforts it made the Top 30 on the United States Billboard 200. It charted at No.5 in Japan, and peaked at No.11 on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart, newton-Johns last US Top 40 Pop single to date, her second-to-last in Canada, and Bubbled Under on the UK singles chart at No.100. It was also remixed into a 12 single mix, which featured a new Carib-influenced percussion overdub, the follow-up single, Toughen Up, failed to chart, except for a top 70 placement in Australia. In the US, Electric was the B side to the first single, matt Lattanzi, her husband at the time, appeared in the Soul Kiss video. Toughen Up Emotional Tangle Culture Shock Soul Kiss The Right Moment
