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Milwaukee
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Milwaukee is the largest city in the state of Wisconsin and the fifth-largest city in the Midwestern United States. The county seat of Milwaukee County, it is on Lake Michigans western shore, Milwaukees estimated population in 2015 was 600,155. Milwaukee is the cultural and economic center of the Milwaukee–Racine–Waukesha Metropolitan Area with an estimated population of 2,046,692 as of 2015. Ranked by estimated 2014 population, Milwaukee is the 31st largest city in the United States, the first Europeans to pass through the area were French Catholic missionaries and fur traders. In 1818, the French Canadian explorer Solomon Juneau settled in the area, large numbers of German immigrants helped increase the citys population during the 1840s, with Poles and other immigrants arriving in the following decades. Known for its traditions, Milwaukee is currently experiencing its largest construction boom since the 1960s. In addition, many new skyscrapers, condos, lofts and apartments have been built in neighborhoods on and near the lakefront, the word Milwaukee may come from the Potawatomi language minwaking, or Ojibwe language ominowakiing, Gathering place. The first recorded inhabitants of the Milwaukee area are the Menominee, Fox, Mascouten, Sauk, Potawatomi, Ojibwe, many of these people had lived around Green Bay before migrating to the Milwaukee area around the time of European contact. In the second half of the 18th century, the Indians at Milwaukee played a role in all the wars on the American continent. During the French and Indian War, a group of Ojibwas, in the American Revolutionary War, the Indians around Milwaukee were some of the few Indians who remained loyal to the American cause throughout the Revolution. After American independence, the Indians fought the United States in the Northwest Indian War as part of the Council of Three Fires, during the War of 1812, Indians held a council in Milwaukee in June 1812, which resulted in their decision to attack Chicago. This resulted in the Battle of Fort Dearborn on August 15,1812, the War of 1812 did not end well for the Indians, and after the Black Hawk War in 1832, the Indians in Milwaukee signed their final treaty with the United States in Chicago in 1833. This paved the way for American settlement, Europeans had arrived in the Milwaukee area prior to the 1833 Treaty of Chicago. French missionaries and traders first passed through the area in the late 17th and 18th centuries, alexis Laframboise, in 1785, coming from Michilimackinac settled a trading post, therefore, he is the first European descent resident of the Milwaukee region. Early explorers called the Milwaukee River and surrounding lands various names, Melleorki, Milwacky, Mahn-a-waukie, Milwarck, for many years, printed records gave the name as Milwaukie. One story of Milwaukees name says, ne day during the thirties of the last century a newspaper calmly changed the name to Milwaukee, the spelling Milwaukie lives on in Milwaukie, Oregon, named after the Wisconsin city in 1847, before the current spelling was universally accepted. Milwaukee has three founding fathers, Solomon Juneau, Byron Kilbourn, and George H. Walker, Solomon Juneau was the first of the three to come to the area, in 1818. He was not the first European settler but founded a town called Juneaus Side, or Juneautown, in competition with Juneau, Byron Kilbourn established Kilbourntown west of the Milwaukee River and made sure the streets running toward the river did not join with those on the east side
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Wisconsin
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Wisconsin is a U. S. state located in the north-central United States, in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, Wisconsin is the 23rd largest state by total area and the 20th most populous. The state capital is Madison, and its largest city is Milwaukee, the state is divided into 72 counties. Wisconsin is second to Michigan in the length of its Great Lakes coastline, Wisconsin is known as Americas Dairyland because it is one of the nations leading dairy producers, particularly famous for its cheese. Manufacturing, especially paper products, information technology, and tourism are major contributors to the states economy. The word Wisconsin originates from the given to the Wisconsin River by one of the Algonquian-speaking Native American groups living in the region at the time of European contact. French explorer Jacques Marquette was the first European to reach the Wisconsin River, arriving in 1673, subsequent French writers changed the spelling from Meskousing to Ouisconsin, and over time this became the name for both the Wisconsin River and the surrounding lands. English speakers anglicized the spelling from Ouisconsin to Wisconsin when they began to arrive in numbers during the early 19th century. The legislature of Wisconsin Territory made the current spelling official in 1845, the Algonquin word for Wisconsin and its original meaning have both grown obscure. Interpretations vary, but most implicate the river and the red sandstone that lines its banks, other theories include claims that the name originated from one of a variety of Ojibwa words meaning red stone place, where the waters gather, or great rock. Wisconsin has been home to a variety of cultures over the past 12,000 years. The first people arrived around 10,000 BCE during the Wisconsin Glaciation and these early inhabitants, called Paleo-Indians, hunted now-extinct ice age animals such as the Boaz mastodon, a prehistoric mastodon skeleton unearthed along with spear points in southwest Wisconsin. After the ice age ended around 8000 BCE, people in the subsequent Archaic period lived by hunting, fishing, agricultural societies emerged gradually over the Woodland period between 1000 BCE to 1000 CE. Toward the end of period, Wisconsin was the heartland of the Effigy Mound culture. Later, between 1000 and 1500 CE, the Mississippian and Oneota cultures built substantial settlements including the village at Aztalan in southeast Wisconsin. The Oneota may be the ancestors of the modern Ioway and Ho-Chunk tribes who shared the Wisconsin region with the Menominee at the time of European contact, the first European to visit what became Wisconsin was probably the French explorer Jean Nicolet. He canoed west from Georgian Bay through the Great Lakes in 1634, pierre Radisson and Médard des Groseilliers visited Green Bay again in 1654–1666 and Chequamegon Bay in 1659–1660, where they traded for fur with local Native Americans. In 1673, Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet became the first to record a journey on the Fox-Wisconsin Waterway all the way to the Mississippi River near Prairie du Chien
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Southern California
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Southern California, often abbreviated as SoCal, is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises Californias 10 southernmost counties. The region is described as eight counties, based on demographics and economic ties, Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara. The more extensive 10-county definition, which includes Kern and San Luis Obispo counties, is used and is based on historical political divisions. Southern California is an economic center for the state of California. The 8-county and 10-county definitions are not used for the greater Southern California Megaregion, the megaregions area is more expansive, extending east into Las Vegas, Nevada and south across the Mexican border into Tijuana.5 million people. With over 22 million people, Southern California contains roughly 60 percent of Californias population, located east of Southern California is the Colorado Desert and the Colorado River at the border with Arizona. The Mojave Desert is located at the border with the state of Nevada while towards the south is the Mexico–United States border, within Southern California are two major cities, Los Angeles and San Diego, as well as three of the countrys largest metropolitan areas. With a population of 3,792,621, Los Angeles is the most populous city in California and the second most populous in the United States. South of Los Angeles and with a population of 1,307,402 is San Diego, the second most populous city in the state and the eighth most populous in the nation. The counties of Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, San Bernardino, and Riverside are the five most populous in the state, the motion picture, television, and music industry are centered in the Los Angeles area in Southern California. Hollywood, a district within Los Angeles, gives its name to the American motion picture industry, headquartered in Southern California are The Walt Disney Company, Sony Pictures, Universal, MGM, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, and Warner Brothers. Universal, Warner Brothers, and Sony also run major record companies, Southern California is also home to a large homegrown surf and skateboard culture. Companies such as Vans, Volcom, Quiksilver, No Fear, RVCA, some of the worlds biggest action sports events, including the X Games, Boost Mobile Pro, and the U. S. Open of Surfing, are all held in Southern California. Southern California is also important to the world of yachting, the annual Transpacific Yacht Race, or Transpac, from Los Angeles to Hawaii, is one of yachtings premier events. The San Diego Yacht Club held the Americas Cup, the most prestigious prize in yachting, from 1988 to 1995, Southern California is home to many sports franchises and sports networks such as Fox Sports Net. Many locals and tourists frequent the Southern California coast for its popular beaches, the desert city of Palm Springs is popular for its resort feel and nearby open spaces. Southern California is not a geographic designation and definitions of what constitutes Southern California vary. Geographically, Californias North-South midway point lies at exactly 37°958.23 latitude, around 11 miles south of San Jose, however, when the state is divided into two areas, the term Southern California usually refers to the 10 southernmost counties of the state
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Rock music
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It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by blues, rhythm and blues and country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of genres such as electric blues and folk. Musically, rock has centered on the guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar. Typically, rock is song-based music usually with a 4/4 time signature using a verse-chorus form, like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political in emphasis. Punk was an influence into the 1980s on the subsequent development of subgenres, including new wave, post-punk. From the 1990s alternative rock began to rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Britpop. Similarly, 1970s punk culture spawned the visually distinctive goth and emo subcultures and this trio of instruments has often been complemented by the inclusion of other instruments, particularly keyboards such as the piano, Hammond organ and synthesizers. The basic rock instrumentation was adapted from the blues band instrumentation. A group of musicians performing rock music is termed a rock band or rock group, Rock music is traditionally built on a foundation of simple unsyncopated rhythms in a 4/4 meter, with a repetitive snare drum back beat on beats two and four. Melodies are often derived from older musical modes, including the Dorian and Mixolydian, harmonies range from the common triad to parallel fourths and fifths and dissonant harmonic progressions. Critics have stressed the eclecticism and stylistic diversity of rock, because of its complex history and tendency to borrow from other musical and cultural forms, it has been argued that it is impossible to bind rock music to a rigidly delineated musical definition. These themes were inherited from a variety of sources, including the Tin Pan Alley pop tradition, folk music and rhythm, as a result, it has been seen as articulating the concerns of this group in both style and lyrics. Christgau, writing in 1972, said in spite of some exceptions, rock and roll usually implies an identification of male sexuality, according to Simon Frith rock was something more than pop, something more than rock and roll. Rock musicians combined an emphasis on skill and technique with the concept of art as artistic expression, original. The foundations of music are in rock and roll, which originated in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its immediate origins lay in a melding of various musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music, with country. In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music for a multi-racial audience, debate surrounds which record should be considered the first rock and roll record. Other artists with rock and roll hits included Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis
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Pop music
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Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid 1950s. The terms popular music and pop music are used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular. Pop and rock were synonymous terms until the late 1960s, when they were used in opposition from each other. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music. Pop music is eclectic, and often borrows elements from other such as urban, dance, rock, Latin. Identifying factors include generally short to medium-length songs written in a format, as well as the common use of repeated choruses, melodic tunes. David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop music as a body of music which is distinguishable from popular, jazz, according to Pete Seeger, pop music is professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music, the music charts contain songs from a variety of sources, including classical, jazz, rock, and novelty songs. Pop music, as a genre, is seen as existing and developing separately, pop music continuously evolves along with the terms definition. The term pop song was first recorded as being used in 1926, Hatch and Millward indicate that many events in the history of recording in the 1920s can be seen as the birth of the modern pop music industry, including in country, blues and hillbilly music. The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that while pops earlier meaning meant concerts appealing to a wide audience. Since the late 1950s, however, pop has had the meaning of non-classical mus, usually in the form of songs, performed by such artists as the Beatles. Grove Music Online also states that, in the early 1960s pop music competed terminologically with beat music, while in the USA its coverage overlapped with that of rock and roll. From about 1967, the term was used in opposition to the term rock music. Whereas rock aspired to authenticity and an expansion of the possibilities of music, pop was more commercial, ephemeral. It is not driven by any significant ambition except profit and commercial reward, and, in musical terms, it is essentially conservative. It is, provided from on high rather than being made from below, pop is not a do-it-yourself music but is professionally produced and packaged. The beat and the melodies tend to be simple, with limited harmonic accompaniment, the lyrics of modern pop songs typically focus on simple themes – often love and romantic relationships – although there are notable exceptions
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Country music
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Country music is a genre of United States popular music that originated in the southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from the genre of United States, such as folk music. Blues modes have been used throughout its recorded history. The term country music is used today to many styles and subgenres. In 2009 country music was the most listened to rush hour radio genre during the evening commute, immigrants to the Southern Appalachian Mountains of North America brought the music and instruments of Europe and Africa along with them for nearly 300 years. Country music was introduced to the world as a Southern phenomenon, Bristol, Tennessee, has been formally recognized by the U. S. Congress as the Birthplace of Country Music, based on the historic Bristol recording sessions of 1927. Since 2014, the city has been home to the Birthplace of Country Music Museum, historians have also noted the influence of the less-known Johnson City sessions of 1928 and 1929, and the Knoxville sessions of 1929 and 1930. Prior to these, pioneer settlers, in the Great Smoky Mountains region, had developed a musical heritage. The first generation emerged in the early 1920s, with Atlantas music scene playing a role in launching countrys earliest recording artists. Okeh Records began issuing hillbilly music records by Fiddlin John Carson as early as 1923, followed by Columbia Records in 1924, many hillbilly musicians, such as Cliff Carlisle, recorded blues songs throughout the 1920s. The most important was the Grand Ole Opry, aired starting in 1925 by WSM in Nashville, during the 1930s and 1940s, cowboy songs, or Western music, which had been recorded since the 1920s, were popularized by films made in Hollywood. Bob Wills was another musician from the Lower Great Plains who had become very popular as the leader of a hot string band. His mix of country and jazz, which started out as dance hall music, Wills was one of the first country musicians known to have added an electric guitar to his band, in 1938. Country musicians began recording boogie in 1939, shortly after it had played at Carnegie Hall. Gospel music remained a component of country music. It became known as honky tonk, and had its roots in Western swing and the music of Mexico. By the early 1950s a blend of Western swing, country boogie, rockabilly was most popular with country fans in the 1950s, and 1956 could be called the year of rockabilly in country music. Beginning in the mid-1950s, and reaching its peak during the early 1960s, the late 1960s in American music produced a unique blend as a result of traditionalist backlash within separate genres
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Jackson Browne
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Clyde Jackson Browne is an American singer, songwriter, and musician who has sold over 18 million albums in the United States. In 2004, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, as well as bestowed an Honorary Doctorate of Music by Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. Browne was born in Heidelberg, Germany, where his father Clyde Jack Browne, Brownes mother, Beatrice Amanda, was a Minnesota native of Norwegian ancestry. Roberta Berbie Browne was born in 1946 in Nuremberg, Germany and his younger sister, Gracie Browne, was born a number of years later. At the age of three Browne and his moved to his grandfathers famous house, Abbey San Encino in the Highland Park district of Los Angeles. In his teens he began singing songs in local venues such as the Ash Grove. He attended Sunny Hills High School in Fullerton, California, graduating in 1966, after graduating in 1966, Browne joined the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, performing at the Golden Bear where they opened for The Lovin Spoonful. The band later recorded a number of Brownes songs, including These Days, Holding and he also spent a short time in his friend Pamela Pollands band, Gentle Soul. He reported on events in New York City with his friends Greg Copeland. He spent the remainder of 1967 and 1968 in Greenwich Village, in 1967, Browne and Nico were romantically linked and he became a significant contributor to her debut album, Chelsea Girl, writing and playing guitar on several of the songs. In 1968, following his breakup with Nico, Browne returned to Los Angeles, where he formed a band with Ned Doheny and Jack Wilce. Browne did not release his own versions of early songs until years later. Soon after this, Rolling Stone mentioned Browne as a new face to look for, Rock Me on the Water, from the same album, also gained considerable radio airplay, while Jamaica Say You Will and Song for Adam helped establish Brownes reputation. Touring to promote the album, he shared the bill with Linda Ronstadt and his next album, For Everyman – while considered of high quality – was less successful than his debut album, although it still sold a million copies. The upbeat Take It Easy, cowritten with Eagles Glenn Frey, had already been a success for that group. Late for the Sky consolidated Brownes fan base, and the peaked at #14 on the Billboard album chart. Brownes work began to demonstrate a reputation for memorable melody, insightful, often very personal lyrics, highlights included the title song, the elegiac For a Dancer, Before the Deluge, and Fountain of Sorrow. The arrangements featured the violin and guitar of David Lindley, Jai Windings piano, the title track was also featured in Martin Scorseses film Taxi Driver
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James Taylor
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James Vernon Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A five-time Grammy Award winner, he was inducted into the Rock and he is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 100 million records worldwide. Taylor achieved his breakthrough in 1970 with the No.3 single Fire and Rain and had his first No.1 hit the year with Youve Got a Friend. His 1976 Greatest Hits album was certified Diamond and has sold 12 million US copies, following his 1977 album, JT, he has retained a large audience over the decades. Every album that he released from 1977 to 2007 sold over a million copies and his chart performance had a resurgence during the late 1990s and 2000s, when he recorded some of his most-awarded work. He achieved his first number one album in the US in 2015 with his recording Before This World. He is notable for his covers of other peoples songs, such as How Sweet It Is. James Vernon Taylor was born at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston on March 12,1948 and his father was from a well-off family of Southerners of Scottish ancestry. His mother, the former Gertrude Woodard, studied singing with Marie Sundelius at the New England Conservatory of Music and was an opera singer before the couples marriage in 1946. James was the second of five children, the others being Alex, Kate, Livingston and they built a house in the Morgan Creek area off the present Morgan Creek Road, which was sparsely populated. James would later say, Chapel Hill, the Piedmont, the hills, were tranquil, rural, beautiful. Thinking of the red soil, the seasons, the way things smelled down there, I feel as though my experience of coming of age there was more a matter of landscape, James attended public primary school in Chapel Hill. Isaacs career prospered, but he was away from home, on military service at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland. Isaac Taylor later rose to dean of the UNC School of Medicine from 1964 to 1971. The Taylors spent summers on Marthas Vineyard beginning in 1953, Taylor first learned to play the cello as a child in North Carolina and switched to the guitar in 1960. He began attending Milton Academy, a boarding school in Massachusetts in fall 1961. Summering before then with his family on Marthas Vineyard, he met Danny Kortchmar, the two began listening to and playing blues and folk music together, and Kortchmar quickly realized that Taylors singing had a natural sense of phrasing, every syllable beautifully in time. I knew James had that thing, Taylor wrote his first song on guitar at 14, and he continued to learn the instrument effortlessly
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Phil Collins
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Philip David Charles Phil Collins LVO is an English singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, record producer and actor. He is best known as the drummer and lead singer in the rock band Genesis, between 1983 and 1990, Collins scored three UK and seven US number-one singles in his solo career. When his work with Genesis, his work with artists, as well as his solo career is totalled. His most successful singles from the period include In the Air Tonight, Against All Odds, One More Night, Sussudio and Another Day in Paradise. Born and raised in West London, Collins played drums from the age of five and completed drama school training and he then pursued a music career, joining Genesis in 1970 as their drummer and becoming lead singer in 1975 following the departure of Peter Gabriel. Collins became one of the most successful pop and adult contemporary singers of the 80s and he also became known for a distinctive gated reverb drum sound on many of his recordings. After leaving Genesis in 1996, Collins pursued various projects before a return in 2007 for the Turn It On Again Tour. In 2011, he retired to focus on his family life and he announced his return to the music industry in 2015. Collins discography includes eight albums that have sold 33.5 million certified units in the US. He is one of two recording artists, along with Paul McCartney, who have sold over 100 million records worldwide both as solo artists and separately as principal members of a band. He has won seven Grammy Awards, six Brit Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, an Academy Award, and a Disney Legend Award. Philip David Charles Collins was born on 30 January 1951 in Chiswick, west London, England, the son of Winifred M. June, an agent, and Greville Philip Austin Collins. He was given a toy drum kit for Christmas when he was five, Later, his uncle made him a makeshift set that he used regularly. As Collins grew older, these were followed by more complete sets bought by his parents and he practiced by playing with music on the television and radio. Collins studied drum rudiments as a teenager, first learning basic rudiments under Lloyd Ryan, Collins recalled, Rudiments I found very, very helpful – much more helpful than anything else because theyre used all the time. In any kind of funk or jazz drumming, the rudiments are always there and he never learned to read and write conventional musical notation and instead used a system he devised himself. He later regretted this, saying, I never really came to grips with the music, I should have stuck with it. Ive always felt that if I could hum it, I could play it, for me, that was good enough, but that attitude is bad
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Toto (band)
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Toto is an American rock band formed in 1977 in Van Nuys in Los Angeles. The bands current lineup consists of Joseph Williams, David Paich, Steve Porcaro, Steve Lukather, plus touring members Lenny Castro, Warren Ham, Shem von Schroeck and Shannon Forrest. Toto is known for a style that combines elements of pop, rock, soul, funk, progressive rock, hard rock, R&B, blues. David Paich and Jeff Porcaro had played together as musicians on several albums. David Hungate, Steve Lukather, Steve Porcaro and Bobby Kimball were recruited before their first album release, the band enjoyed great commercial success in the late 1970s and 1980s, beginning with the bands eponymous debut released in 1978. With the release of the acclaimed and commercially successful Toto IV. Widely known for the Top 5 hits Hold the Line, Rosanna, and Africa, Hungate left in 1982 followed by Kimball in 1984 but rejoined the band in 1998 until 2008. Jeff Porcaro died in 1992 of a heart attack, Hungate rejoined Toto as a touring musician and later a band member. In 2008, Lukather announced his departure from the band, the band have released 17 studio albums, and have sold over 40 million records worldwide. The group was honored with several Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2009. The members of Toto were regulars on albums by Steely Dan, Seals and Crofts, Boz Scaggs, Sonny and Cher, keyboardist David Paich, son of musician and session player/arranger Marty Paich, rose to fame after having co-written much of Scaggss Silk Degrees album. They brought in bassist and fellow session vet David Hungate, having played him in the backing band for Scaggs. In addition, the duo asked guitarist Steve Lukather and Jeff Porcaros brother Steve Porcaro to join the team, Lukather and Steve Porcaro were high school classmates and continued the band Rural Still Life after Paich and Jeff graduated. With the addition of former S. S, fools singer Bobby Kimball, the group began to work on their first album in 1977 after signing with Columbia Records. Once the band together, David Paich began composing what would become the eponymous debut album. According to popular myth, at the first recording sessions, in order to distinguish their own demo tapes from other bands in the studio, in the early 1980s, band members told the press that the band was named after the dog in The Wizard of Oz. One popular rumor is that the name came from Bobby Kimballs true last name and this rumor was in fact only a joke popularized by former bassist David Hungate. After the completion of the first album, the band and record were still unnamed, David Hungate, after viewing the name on the demo tapes, explained to the group that the words In Toto in Latin translated to all-encompassing
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Era (musical project)
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Era is a New-Age music project by French composer Eric Lévi. They use lyrics which, although similar to Greek or Latin, are, in fact, musically, the project blends Gregorian chants with modern elements and genres, especially rock, pop and electronic music. Era’s first album, Era, was released in 1997 and became a worldwide success and it sold over 6 million copies and became the most exported French album at the time. It was followed by Era 2 in 2000 and The Mass in 2003, in 2008 the project saw a significant departure from its previous themes and presented a more electronic soundscape with Arabic influences in its fourth album, Reborn. In 2013, Era released its latest work, an album in collaboration with French singer, the project has sold more than 12 million albums. Era mixes Gregorian chants and occasionally world music with contemporary electronic and it is reminiscent of new-age music projects such as Enigma, Gregorian, and Deep Forest. Lyrics are written in Latin and English, and some are based on beliefs of the 13th century French Christians, eras live shows and music videos often feature artists dressed in medieval or traditional clothes and armour. Usually, actors Pierre Bouisierie and Irene Bustamante perform at Era shows, most Era songs are in Pseudo-Latin and others are in Latin. They also have songs in English such as Mother and Looking For Something. Eric Levi composed the soundtrack for the French comedy film Les Visiteurs, the film score would later become part of an Era album. The song Divano was part of the soundtrack of the Brazilian soap opera Um Anjo Caiu do Céu, the song I Believe was recorded as a duet by Katherine Jenkins and Andrea Bocelli. It was released on both Jenkinss 2009 album Believe and Bocellis 2009 album My Christmas, Era is famous among mixed martial arts fans due to Enae Volare Mezzo being the theme song of Fedor Emelianenko. Ameno is used by Fedors younger brother, Aleksander Emelianenko, the song Ameno is used by multiple twitch. tv streamers and YouTubers as a mean of good luck and hope when playing games like Counter Strike Global Offensive and Hearthstone, Heroes of Warcraft. Era at AllMusic Era discography, forum, and marketplace at Discogs
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Bass guitar
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The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb, by plucking, slapping, popping, strumming, tapping, thumping, or picking with a plectrum, often known as a pick. The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to a guitar, but with a longer neck and scale length. The four-string bass, by far the most common, is tuned the same as the double bass. The bass guitar is an instrument, as it is notated in bass clef an octave higher than it sounds to avoid excessive ledger lines. Like the electric guitar, the guitar has pickups and it is plugged into an amplifier and speaker on stage, or into a larger PA system using a DI unit. Since the 1960s, the guitar has largely replaced the double bass in popular music as the bass instrument in the rhythm section. While types of basslines vary widely from one style of music to another, many styles of music utilise the bass guitar, including rock, heavy metal, pop, punk rock, country, reggae, gospel, blues, symphonic rock, and jazz. It is often a solo instrument in jazz, jazz fusion, Latin, funk, progressive rock and other rock, the adoption of a guitar form made the instrument easier to hold and transport than any of the existing stringed bass instruments. The addition of frets enabled bassists to play in more easily than on acoustic or electric upright basses. Around 100 of these instruments were made during this period, around 1947, Tutmarcs son, Bud, began marketing a similar bass under the Serenader brand name, prominently advertised in the nationally distributed L. D. Heater Music Company wholesale jobber catalogue of 1948, however, the Tutmarc family inventions did not achieve market success. In the 1950s, Leo Fender, with the help of his employee George Fullerton and his Fender Precision Bass, which began production in October 1951, became a widely copied industry standard. This split pickup, introduced in 1957, appears to have been two mandolin pickups, the pole pieces and leads of the coils were reversed with respect to each other, producing a humbucking effect. Humbucking is a design that electrically cancels the effect of any AC hum, the Fender Bass was a revolutionary new instrument, which could be easily transported, and which was less prone to feedback when amplified than acoustic bass instruments. Monk Montgomery was the first bass player to tour with the Fender bass guitar, roy Johnson, and Shifty Henry with Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, were other early Fender bass pioneers. Bill Black, playing with Elvis Presley, switched from bass to the Fender Precision Bass around 1957. The bass guitar was intended to appeal to guitarists as well as upright bass players, following Fenders lead, in 1953, Gibson released the first short scale violin-shaped electric bass with extendable end pin, allowing it to be played upright or horizontally. In 1959 these were followed by the more conventional-looking EB-0 Bass, the EB-0 was very similar to a Gibson SG in appearance
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Soundtrack
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In movie industry terminology usage, a sound track is an audio recording created or used in film production or post-production. Initially the dialogue, sound effects, and music in a film each has its own track, and these are mixed together to make what is called the composite track. A dubbing track is later created when films are dubbed into another language. This is also known as a M & E track containing all sound elements minus dialogue which is supplied by the foreign distributor in the native language of its territory. The contraction soundtrack came into public consciousness with the advent of so-called soundtrack albums in the late 1940s and these phrases were soon shortened to just original motion picture soundtrack. More accurately, such recordings are made from a music track, because they usually consist of the isolated music from a film, not the composite track with dialogue. The soundtrack to the 1937 Walt Disney film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first commercially issued film soundtrack. It was released by RCA Victor Records on multiple 78 RPM discs in January 1938 as Songs from Walt Disneys Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and has since seen numerous expansions and reissues. The first live-action musical film to have a commercially issued soundtrack album was MGM’s 1946 film biography of Show Boat composer Jerome Kern, the album was originally issued as a set of four 10-inch 78-rpm records. Only eight selections from the film were included in this first edition of the album, in order to fit the songs onto the record sides the musical material needed editing and manipulation. Needless to say, it was several generations removed from the original, the playback recordings were purposely recorded very dry, otherwise it would come across as too hollow sounding in large movie theatres. This made these albums sound flat and boxy, the phrase is also sometimes incorrectly used for Broadway cast recordings. While it is correct in some instances to call a soundtrack a cast recording it is never correct to call a cast recording a soundtrack, contributing to the vagueness of the term are projects such as The Sound of Music Live. Which was filmed live on the set for an NBC holiday season special first broadcast in 2013, film score albums did not really become popular until the LP era, although a few were issued in 78-rpm albums. Like the 1967 re-release of the film, this version of the score was artificially enhanced for stereo, in recent years, Rhino Records has released a 2-CD set of the complete Gone With the Wind score, restored to its original mono sound. One of the film scores of all time was John Williams music from the movie Star Wars. Many film score albums go out-of-print after the films finish their theatrical runs, in a few rare instances an entire film dialogue track was issued on records. The 1968 Franco Zeffirelli film of Romeo and Juliet was issued as a 4-LP set, as a single LP with musical and dialogue excerpts, and as an album containing only the films musical score
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Television program
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It may be a single production, or more commonly, a series of related productions. A limited number of episodes of a show may be called a miniseries or a serial or limited series. Television series are without a fixed length and are divided into seasons or series. While there is no defined length, U. S. industry practice has traditionally favored longer television seasons than those of other countries, a one-time broadcast may be called a special, or particularly in the UK a special episode. A television film is a film that is initially broadcast on television rather than released in theaters or direct-to-video, a program can be either recorded, as on video tape, other various electronic media forms, played with an on-demand player or viewed on live television. Television programs may be fictional, or non-fictional and it may be topical, or historical. They could be primarily instructional or educational, or entertaining as is the case in situation comedy, a drama program usually features a set of actors playing characters in a historical or contemporary setting. The program follows their lives and adventures, except for soap opera-type serials, many shows especially before the 1980s, remained static without story arcs, and the main characters and premise changed little. If some change happened to the characters lives during the episode, because of this, the episodes could be broadcast in any order. Since the 1980s, there are series that feature progressive change to the plot. For instance, Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere were two of the first American prime time television series to have this kind of dramatic structure. While the later series, Babylon 5 is an example of such production that had a predetermined story running over its intended five-season run. In 2012, it was reported that television was growing into a component of major media companies revenues than film. Some also noted the increase in quality of television programs. When a person or company decides to create a new series, they develop the elements, consisting of the concept, the characters, the crew. Then they offer it to the networks in an attempt to find one interested enough to order a prototype first episode of the series. They want very much to get the word out on what types of shows they’re looking for, to create the pilot, the structure and team of the whole series must be put together. If the network likes the pilot, they pick up the show to air it the next season, sometimes they save it for mid-season, or request rewrites and further review
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California State University, Northridge
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California State University, Northridge is a public university in the Northridge neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States, in the San Fernando Valley. As of Fall 2014, the school had 2,096 faculty and it was founded first as the Valley satellite campus of Cal State Los Angeles. It then became an independent college in 1958 as San Fernando Valley State College, with major campus master planning, the University adopted its current name of California State University, Northridge in 1972. CSUN enrolls more than 40,000 students and ranks 10 in the U. S. in bachelors degrees awarded to underrepresented minority students, the university has over 200,000 alumni. CSUN is home to the National Center on Deafness, and the university hosts the International Conference on Technology and Persons with Disabilities, the establishment of CSUN began in 1952 with the proposal of a new satellite campus for Los Angeles State College. A Baldwin Hills location was planned in 1955, but San Fernando Valley advocates persuaded state officials to change the location to Northridge. In July 1958, the campus separated from Los Angeles State College and was renamed San Fernando Valley State College, with enrollment reaching 2,525, in 1959, it became the first State College to have its own computer. In 1964, the computer lab was moved into quarters in the newly completed Sierra Hall building complex. The campuss quiet, moderately conservative and overwhelmingly white suburban setting did not shield it from a share of the noise, strife, as on many college campuses, there were increasingly large antiwar demonstrations and occasional draft card burnings. In 1966–67, there were only 23 Black and 7 Latino students, responding to complaints about low minority representation, the administration made some attempt to boost enrollment of Latinos and Blacks in 1967. By the fall of 1968 the tally stood at about 150 Black and 75 Latino students, nobody was hurt and, under duress, the president agreed to their demands. The administration largely kept its part of the bargain, but despite an included assurance of amnesty,28 of the students involved were charged with kidnapping. The last such demonstration was in May 1971, on the first anniversary of the Kent State shootings, the college officially renamed itself California State University, Northridge in June 1972. In 1975, the construction of the CSUN sculpture began at the southeast corner of campus, by 1977, enrollment at the university was 28,023, with tuition at $95. In 1981, the officially established a foreign exchange student program with Japan, China, Ukraine, South Korea, Taiwan, Brazil. In 1988, the campus had an enrollment of 31,575, the 1994 Northridge earthquake struck on January 17 and caused $400 million in damage to the campus, the heaviest damage ever sustained by an American college campus. The epicenter was less than two miles away on a previously undiscovered blind thrust fault, later the same month, Vice President Al Gore visited with a promise of funds to help with the reconstruction. Due to inadequate earthquake engineering, the structure next to the Matadome was completely destroyed
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Drummer
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The term percussionist applies to a musician who performs struck musical instruments of numerous diverse shapes, sizes and applications. Most contemporary western ensembles bands for rock, pop, jazz, most drummers of this particular designation work within the context of a larger contingent that may also include, keyboard or guitar, auxiliary percussion and bass. Said ensembles may also include melodic based mallet percussion including, vibraphone, the rhythm section, being the core metronomic foundation with which other melodic instruments, including voices, may present the harmonic/melodic portion of the material. In popular music, the function of the drummer is to keep time or provide a steady tempo. There are many tools that a drummer can use for either timekeeping or soloing and these include cymbals, snare, toms, auxiliary percussion and many others. Also there are single, double, and triple bass pedals for the bass drum, before motorized transport became widespread, drummers played a key role in military conflicts. Military drummers provided drum cadences that set a marching pace. In some armies drums also assisted in combat by keeping cadence for firing and loading drills with muzzle loading guns, military drummers were also employed on the parade field, when troops passed in review, and in various ceremonies including ominous drum rolls accompanying disciplinary punishments. Children also served as drummer boys well into the century, though less commonly than is popularly assumed, due to the nature of the job. In modern times, drummers are not employed in battle, typically buglers and drummers mass under a sergeant-drummer and during marches alternately perform with the regiment or battalion ensembles. Military-based musical percussion traditions were not limited exclusively to the western world, in the Ottoman Empire, the size of a military band reflected the rank of its commander in chief, the largest band was reserved for the Sultan. It included various percussion instruments, often adopted in European military music, the pitched bass drum is still known in some languages as the Turkish Drum. The drumline is a type of marching ensemble descended from drummers, and can be arranged as a performance of a drum. Their uniforms will often have a style and a fancy hat. In recent times, it is common to see drummers in parades wearing costumes with an African, Asian, Latin, Native American, or tribal look. Various indigenous cultures use the drum to create a sense of unity with others especially during recreational events, the drum also helps in prayers and meditations. List of drummers Drum beat Drum machine Drum tracks Pipe band This article incorporates text from a now in the public domain, Chisholm, Hugh
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Guitar
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The guitar is a musical instrument classified as a fretted string instrument with anywhere from four to 18 strings, usually having six. The sound is projected either acoustically, using a wooden or plastic and wood box, or through electrical amplifier. It is typically played by strumming or plucking the strings with the fingers, the guitar is a type of chordophone, traditionally constructed from wood and strung with either gut, nylon or steel strings and distinguished from other chordophones by its construction and tuning. There are three types of modern acoustic guitar, the classical guitar, the steel-string acoustic guitar, and the archtop guitar. The tone of a guitar is produced by the strings vibration, amplified by the hollow body of the guitar. The term finger-picking can also refer to a tradition of folk, blues, bluegrass. The acoustic bass guitar is an instrument that is one octave below a regular guitar. Early amplified guitars employed a body, but a solid wood body was eventually found more suitable during the 1960s and 1970s. As with acoustic guitars, there are a number of types of guitars, including hollowbody guitars, archtop guitars and solid-body guitars. The electric guitar has had a influence on popular culture. The guitar is used in a variety of musical genres worldwide. It is recognized as an instrument in genres such as blues, bluegrass, country, flamenco, folk, jazz, jota, mariachi, metal, punk, reggae, rock, soul. The term is used to refer to a number of chordophones that were developed and used across Europe, beginning in the 12th century and, later, in the Americas. The modern word guitar, and its antecedents, has applied to a wide variety of chordophones since classical times. Many influences are cited as antecedents to the modern guitar, at least two instruments called guitars were in use in Spain by 1200, the guitarra latina and the so-called guitarra morisca. The guitarra morisca had a back, wide fingerboard. The guitarra Latina had a sound hole and a narrower neck. By the 14th century the qualifiers moresca or morisca and latina had been dropped, and it had six courses, lute-like tuning in fourths and a guitar-like body, although early representations reveal an instrument with a sharply cut waist
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Keyboardist
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A keyboardist is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists, since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instruments with keyboards have come into common usage, requiring a more general term for a person who plays them. A complete list can be found at List of keyboardists, the use of electronic keyboards grew in popularity throughout the 1960s, with many bands using the Hammond organ, Mellotron, and electric pianos such as the Fender Rhodes. The Doors became the first group to use the Moog synthesizer on a pop record on 1967s Strange Days. Other bands, including The Moody Blues, The Rolling Stones, in 1966, Billy Ritchie became the first keyboard player to take a lead role in a rock band, replacing guitar, and thereby preparing the ground for others such as Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman. In the late 1960s, a pioneer of electronic music Jean Michel Jarre started to experiment with synthesizers. Some of the first bands that used this set up were Kraftwerk, Suicide, the pop-blues-rock band Fleetwood Mac was also known for synthesizer-infused hits during this period. Pianist Organist List of Hammond organ players List of harpsichordists Classical pianists Young, concerns celebrated keyboard players and the various such instruments used over the centuries. SBN 200-71497-X Keyboard magazine Keyboard Player magazine Harmony Central resource for keyboard/synth players Vintage Synth Explorer
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Multi-scale fingerboard
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A multi-scale fingerboard is an instrument fretboard which incorporates multiple scale lengths. The scale length is the length of the strings. Guitars, including guitars, generally employ a single scale length for all of the instruments strings. This measure is the length of each of the vibrating strings. A multi-scale fingerboard or fretboard is typically based on two scale lengths, but could potentially incorporate more, the most typical use is one scale length for the low string and a different, usually shorter, scale for the highest string. This could be achieved by angling the nut, and bridge, strings between the highest and lowest would also each have a unique scale length. The bandora is a late 16th century instrument with a string length for its bass strings than for its trebles. It is depicted in Praetorius music dictionary Syntagma Musicum published in 1619, the concept of the multiscale fingerboard goes back to at least 1900, when the first patent for such a fingerboard was filed by E. A. Edgren. It will be noted that the flange of the head C runs at an angle so that one side of the neck B will be longer than the side opposite. The frets diverge, running from the outward, so that the lower frets extend slightly in a direction opposite to the upper frets”. This patent is no longer in force, when it was, it affected only instruments with a curved fingerboard, such as most steel-string guitars. Possibly the first modern multiscale fretboard was used on an instrument called a StarrBoard, Starrett developed a tapping instrument that employs a matrix of halftones, fretted horizontally with strings spaced vertically, to allow one fingering to cover all scales. He simply laid out the two scales he thought would work and connected the dots, fanned-fret guitars have multi-scale fingerboard because of offset frets, that is, frets that extend from the neck of the guitar at an angle. This is in contrast to the standard arrangement of other guitars. Proponents of this style of guitar claim such benefits as comfort, better ergonomics, better intonation, traditionally, guitars feature nineteen to twenty-four frets arranged perpendicular to the guitar’s neck. The Novak fanned fret guitar has straight frets which are aligned in a non-parallel pattern, the fanned fret guitar has an increased scale length on its bass strings when measured between the nut and the bridge. The aim of design is to even the tone and the tension of all six strings. The Novak fan-fret guitar is made of walnut and lacewood and birch, maple, Padauk, Novak recommends pickups that can master a wide frequency and as much Hi-Fi as possible
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Warwick (company)
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Warwick is a Germany-based bass guitar manufacturer company. Warwick basses were originally a premium brand offering a range of models built from high quality. The company also produces Valve and FET amplifiers, speaker cabinets, bass guitar strings and their headquarters and custom shops are located in Markneukirchen, Shanghai, and Nashville. Warwick was founded in 1982 in Erlangen, in the German state of Bavaria, in 1995 the company moved to Markneukirchen in the Saxon Vogtland to capitalize on the centuries-old tradition of instrument building in the region and to reopen the Framus trademark. Warwick produces its instruments and amplifiers using carbon-neutral principles, any other manufacturing process is carbon-neutral as well, Warwick produces a variety of different models with different woods and electronics. The original series, which are manufactured in Germany, include the models as their most popular lines, the only model in the original catalog that is being made outside of Germany is the Alien acoustic bass, which is being made in Korea. They are built using exotic woods, different pickups and electronic configurations, there are around forty Special Edition basses currently in production, while the company offer a special-run Limited Edition bass annually. These basses are usually upgraded versions of existing models that have features otherwise unavailable, Warwick produces near twenty signature basses. Some of the artists that have their signature Warwick basses are Stuart Zender, Jack Bruce, Bootsy Collins, stevens, Robert Trujillo, P-Nut, Jonas Hellborg, Adam Clayton, John Entwistle and Jäcki Reznicek. P-Nut of 311 has three signature basses, all Streamer models, the Stuart Zender signature bass is designed by Zender, and features a body shape new to Warwick basses. Warwick also built custom fretless 7-string Thumb basses for Jeroen Paul Thesseling, Warwick Basses has a budget branch of the company, which produce the original models with less exotic woods and different finishes, which makes them less expensive. The Rockbass branch of the company is located in China and produces Furthermore, they have a Rockbass Artist Line, Warwick produces strings for electric, Acoustic and their own Triumph model. Red Label Black Label Triumph Bass For their own Reissue of the Triumph bass they have their own strings to match it, Warwick produces a variety of bass-combos, ampheads and cabinets, including a signature Jonas Hellborg ampsystem. Interview with Florence Wilfer NAMM Oral History Library, March 18,2008
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Air Supply
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Air Supply is an Australian soft rock duo, consisting of singer-songwriter and guitarist Graham Russell and lead vocalist Russell Hitchcock. They had a succession of hits worldwide, including eight Top Ten hits in the United States and they formed in Australia in 1975 and have included various accompanying musicians and singers. The Australian Recording Industry Association inducted Air Supply into their Hall of Fame on 1 December 2013 at the annual ARIA Awards. Chrissie Hammond, Russell Hitchcock, and Graham Russell met in May 1975 while performing in the Australian production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical, Jesus Christ Superstar. With Hammond and Hitchcock on vocals and Russell on guitar, they formed a vocal group in Melbourne. Hammond left the group to form Cheetah and was replaced by Jeremy Paul on bass guitar. Together, Hitchcock, Russell and Paul formed Air Supply, the groups first single, Love and Other Bruises, was released in November 1976 and peaked at No.6 on the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart in January 1977. It was followed by Air Supply, their album, in December. The album was produced by Peter Dawkins with Air Supply line-up as Hitchcock, Paul, Russell and drummer Jeff Browne, guitarist Mark McEntee and keyboardist, Other singles were If You Knew Me, Empty Pages and Feel the Breeze but none reached the Top 40. A national tour followed with Hitchcock, Paul, Russell and Scott joined by Nigel Macara on drums, the album spawned the singles Do What You Do, Thats How the Whole Thing Started and Do It Again but neither album nor singles charted into the Top 40. From late 1977, the group supported Rod Stewart during his tour of Australia—he invited them to continue to the United States, Paul, in 1980, recruited fellow former Air Supply bandmate McEntee in the line-up of Divinyls, fronted by Chrissie Amphlett. Air Supply performed in London supporting Chicago and Boz Scaggs, by early 1978, the line-up was Hitchcock, Russell, and Macara with George Terry and Joey Murcia on guitar, George Bitzer on keyboards and Harold Cowart on bass guitar. However, by mid-1978, only Hitchcock and Russell remained in the line-up, backed by Ralph Cooper on drums and former Sailor members Brian Hamilton on bass guitar and vocals and David Moyse on guitar. In April 1979, the band released Life Support, an album which included a picture disc on its first printing. The album was recorded at Trafalgar Studios in Sydney, the album had a five-and-a-half-minute version of Lost in Love, written by Graham Russell in 15 minutes, it was released as a single and peaked at No.13 in Australia and No.13 in New Zealand. The track caught the attention of Arista Records boss Clive Davis, in late November 1979 Russell was embroiled in a bitter court case with Samuel Nay over accusations of assault at a backstage meet and greet in Oklahoma. Nay would later pass away during the case and all charges were dropped. The line-up for the album kept Hitchcock, Russell, Cooper, and Moyse, Esler-Smith had previously known Hitchcock and Russell from working with them in Jesus Christ Superstar
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Peter Allen (musician)
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Peter Allen was an Australian singer-songwriter and entertainer. In addition to recording albums, he enjoyed a cabaret and concert career. His song I Still Call Australia Home, used extensively in advertising campaigns, was added to the National Film, Allen was the first husband of Liza Minnelli, with the couple divorcing after seven years of marriage, he later came out as gay. He and his partner, Gregory Connell, died from AIDS-related illnesses eight years apart. Several years after his death, the musical The Boy from Oz was written about his life and it ran on Broadway and earned Hugh Jackman a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. Peter Allen was born Peter Richard Woolnough in Tenterfield, New South Wales and he was the grandson of George Woolnough, whom Allen immortalised in his song Tenterfield Saddler. He began his career with Chris Bell as one of the Allen Brothers. He began performing as Peter Allen around the same time, Mark Herron, the husband of Judy Garland, discovered Allen while he was performing in Hong Kong. Allen commenced releasing solo recordings in 1971, but throughout his career achieved greater success through his songs being recorded by others. He scored his biggest success with the song I Honestly Love You, which he co-wrote with Jeff Barry and her single reached number one in the United States and Canada and won two Grammy Awards, for Record of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for Newton-John. One of his songs, I Go to Rio, co-written with Adrienne Anderson, was popularized in America by the group Pablo Cruise. In 1976, Allen released an album, Taught by Experts, which reached number one in Australia, along with the one single I Go to Rio. Although his recording career in the US never progressed, he performed in Atlantic City and at Carnegie Hall. He had three extended engagements at New York Citys Radio City Music Hall, where he became the first male dancer to dance with The Rockettes. This performance was broadcast live and exclusively on subscription television service WHT The Movie Network. Allens most successful album was Bi-Coastal, produced by David Foster and featuring the single Fly Away, in addition, Allen co-wrote the Patti LaBelle hit I Dont Go Shopping, which reached the top 30 on the R&B chart in 1980. Allen co-wrote the song Arthurs Theme with Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager and Christopher Cross, the song reached number one in the US and the songwriters won an Academy Award for Best Song. One lyric for the song, If you get caught between the moon and New York City, was adapted from a song that he
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I Could Have Been a Sailor
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I Could Have Been a Sailor is a 1979 album by singer-songwriter Peter Allen, released on A&M Records. It is notable as containing Allens versions of his songs Dont Cry Out Loud and Id Rather Leave While Im in Love, I Could Have Been a Sailor was Peter Allens fifth studio album, and his third for A&M Records. It followed the live release, It Is Time for Peter Allen. The album is notable for its association with producer Marvin Hamlisch, Allen also performs his versions of two songs he co-wrote with Carol Bayer-Sager, Dont Cry Out Loud and Id Rather Leave While Im in Love. Dont Cry Out Loud had been popularized by Melissa Manchester prior to Allens release, Manchesters recording of the song was released in late 1978 and spent 20 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It was also the song of Manchesters related album. The song had been co-written by Allen and Carol Bayer-Sager, Bayer-Sager was also a co-writer with Manchester, Id Rather Leave While Im in Love was popularized by Rita Coolidge in 1979, as well as being recorded by Dusty Springfield, among others. The album was Allens first to make the US albums chart, the album has been subject to limited reissue on CD. It was reissued on CD in 2001 in Japan, on Universal/A&M and it has not been reissued on CD in North America or elsewhere. - Bass Will Lee - Bass Jimmy Maelen - Percussion Rick Marotta - Drums Sherlie Matthews - Background vocals Marti McCall - Background vocals Ray Parker, Jr
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America (band)
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America is a rock band, formed in England in 1970 by multi-instrumentalists Dewey Bunnell, Dan Peek, and Gerry Beckley. The trio first met as sons of U. S. Air Force personnel stationed in London, America achieved significant popularity in the 1970s and was famous for the trios close vocal harmonies and light acoustic folk rock sound. This popularity was confirmed by a string of hit albums and singles, the band came together shortly after the members graduation from high school, and a record deal with Warner Bros. Records followed. 1974s Holiday featured the hits Tin Man and Lonely People, History, Americas Greatest Hits, a compilation of hit singles, was released the same year and was certified multi-platinum in the United States and Australia. Peek left the group in 1977, and their fortunes declined. The group continues to record material and tour with regularity and their 2007 album Here & Now was a collaboration with a new generation of musicians who credited the band as an influence. America won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist at the 15th Annual Grammy Awards, the group has also been inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame and has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Peek left for the United States for an attempt at college during 1969. Soon after his return to the UK the following year, the three met and began making music together, starting out with borrowed acoustic guitars, they developed a style which incorporated three-part vocal harmony with the style of contemporary folk-rock acts, much like Crosby, Stills & Nash. Eventually the trio dubbed themselves America, chosen because they did not want anyone to think they were British musicians trying to sound American. They played their first gigs in the London area, including some highlights at the Roundhouse, through Ian Samwell and Jeff Dexters efforts they were eventually contracted to Kinney Records in March 1971 by Ian Ralfini and assigned to the UK Warner Brothers label. Their first album America was recorded at Trident Studios in London, Samwell was best known for being Cliff Richards lead guitarist as well as writing Richards 1958 breakthrough hit, Move It. Jeff Dexter, Ians roommate was involved with the business himself. He co-produced the album and became the trios manager, although the trio initially planned to record the album in a similar manner to The Beatles Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, Samwell convinced them to perfect their acoustic style instead, the debut album America was released in 1971 to only moderate success, although it sold well in the Netherlands, where Dexter had taken them as a training ground to practice their craft. Samwell and Dexter subsequently brought the trio to Morgan Studios to record additional songs. One of them was a Bunnell composition called Desert Song, which Dexter previously demoed during studio rehearsals in Puddletown, the song had its public debut at The Harrogate Festival, four days later, to great audience response. After several performances and a TV show, it was re-titled A Horse with No Name, the song became a major worldwide hit in early 1972
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Alibi (America album)
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Alibi is the ninth original studio album by American folk rock duo America, released by Capitol Records in 1980. Prior to their album on Capitol, Bunnell and Beckley amicably parted ways with George Martin in an effort to try a new musical direction. For the new album, the group utilized two producers -- Matthew McCauley and Fred Mollin, while Silent Letter was recorded by Bunnell, Beckley and their backing band, Alibi was a virtual roll-call of the burgeoning West Coast music scene. The recording included musicians such as Timothy B, schmit, Waddy Wachtel, Mike Baird, Lee Sklar, Richard Page, Norton Buffalo and Steve Lukather. Alibi, released in August 1980, was the first America album not to feature a picture of the members on the cover. Instead, the cover sported a picture of a head in the foreground of a desert landscape. Dewey Bunnell said he chose the picture while looking through the archives of acclaimed photographer Henry Diltz, the album was also unusual in the era of vinyl primacy in that it did not have numbered sides. Because the group and Capitol disagreed on which side would be one, they agreed on a compromise. The album only peaked at number 142 on the Billboard album chart in the US, McCauley would later produce several tracks on Americas Perspective album in 1984, while Mollin returned in 2011 to produce Americas cover album, Back Pages. He criticized the albums content and thin production, holding up its successor, View from the Ground
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Bronson Arroyo
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Bronson Anthony Arroyo is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Cincinnati Reds organization. Bronson Arroyo was born Feb 24,1977 in Key West, Arroyos father is originally from Cuba. Arroyo later moved from Key West, Florida to Brooksville, Florida were he attended Hernando High School in Brooksville, the Pittsburgh Pirates selected Arroyo in the third round of the 1995 MLB draft. Arroyo made his league debut with Pittsburgh on June 12,2000. During his rookie season in 2000, Arroyo was 2-6 with a 6.40 earned run average in 20 appearances, playing 24 games in 2001, Arroyo complied with a 5-7 record and a 5.09 ERA. Limited in playing time due to injuries and time in the minors, before the 2003 season, the Boston Red Sox claimed Arroyo from the Pirates off of waivers. Pitching for the Pawtucket Red Sox of the Class AAA International League and he struck out nine, and went to a three-ball count to just three hitters all game long. He made 6 appearances in the majors with his first career save, Arroyo improved in 2004, jumping from middle relief to be the Red Sox No.5 starter. On July 24,2004, Arroyo hit Alex Rodriguez with a pitch and he compiled a 10–9 mark with a 4.03 ERA in 178 2⁄3 innings, while posting a respectable 3.02 strikeout-to-walk ratio. He led the majors with hitting batsmen with pitches, totaling 20 hit by pitches, Arroyo also got his first championship title when the Red Sox won the World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals. Arroyo made two starts and four appearances in the postseason, compiling a 0–0 record with two holds and a 7.82 ERA for the 2004 World Series champion Red Sox. During Game 6 of the 2004 American League Championship Series, Alex Rodriguez knocked away the ball from Arroyos glove while attempting to apply a tag. The umpires reversed the ruling that Rodriguez was safe, forcing Derek Jeter to return to first base, Arroyos most productive season so far came in 2005, when he posted career highs up to that time in wins, starts, innings and pitching appearances. He also excelled at holding runners, as he gave up five stolen bases. Before the 2006 season, Arroyo signed a three-year, $11.25 million contract with the Red Sox, Arroyo said the deal was a hometown discount and agreed to the terms against the advice of his agent. During spring training before the 2006 season, the Red Sox traded Arroyo to the Cincinnati Reds for outfielder Wily Mo Peña,2006 was a high point in Arroyos career. Highlights of the season included a league-leading 240 2⁄3 innings pitched, his first selection to an All-Star game and he finished the 2006 year going 14-11 with an ERA of 3.29. In February 2007, Arroyo signed an extension with the Cincinnati Reds which kept him with the organization through the 2010 season
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Vanessa Carlton
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Vanessa Lee Carlton is an American singer-songwriter. Upon completion of her education at the School of American Ballet, Carlton chose to pursue singing instead, performing in New York City bars, three months after recording a demo with producer Peter Zizzo, she signed with A&M Records. She began recording her album, which was unsuccessful until Ron Fair took over. Her debut single, A Thousand Miles, reached the top five on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2002 and her debut album, Be Not Nobody, followed and received a platinum certification in the United States. Her subsequent albums, Harmonium and Heroes & Thieves, failed to match the success of the first. She produced an album, Rabbits on the Run, independently before seeking a record label to release it. Carlton released a holiday EP titled Hear the Bells in November 2012, Carlton was born in Milford, Pennsylvania, the first of three children of Edmund Ed Carlton, a pilot, and Heidi Lee, a pianist and school music teacher. Her two younger siblings are a sister, Gwen, and a brother, Edmund, Carlton is of half Russian Jewish and half Scandinavian ancestry. Her interest in music began at an early age, at the age of 2, she visited Disneyland Park and played Its a Small World on the piano when she came home. Her mother then began to tutor her and she was introduced to classical music from a young age. By the age of 9, she had become passionate about ballet, in 1994, when Carlton was 14 years old, she enrolled at the School of American Ballet. Upon graduation, she put on performances at nightclubs in the community, beginning to feel more comfortable. Carlton was signed to A&M Records in 2001, Carlton first met songwriter/producer Peter Zizzo at a singer-songwriter circle. A few months later, Zizzo invited Carlton to his studio to record a demo, three months after recording the demo, Carlton was signed by Jimmy Iovine and began to record the album, Rinse. It was never released, but a few tracks were reworked for Be Not Nobody, one song, Carnival, was re-recorded as Dark Carnival for the video game SpyHunter 2. Other tracks included in Rinse are Interlude, Rinse, Ordinary Days, Twilight, Pretty Baby, All I Ask, of these, only the first five are included in her first album, Be Not Nobody. Other unreleased tracks from her early demo tapes include Faces, Meggie Sue, Little Mary, Burden, Wonder, Devil Dance, with her previous unsuccessful recording efforts, Carlton felt there was a lack of direction at her label. However, A&M president Ron Fair upon hearing her demo to A Thousand Miles, Fair would produce the rest of the album
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Be Not Nobody
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Be Not Nobody is the debut album by American singer-songwriter Vanessa Carlton, released on April 30,2002, through A&M Records. A Thousand Miles was released as the single from the album and reached the top five on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100, number one in Australia. Be Not Nobody was certified gold by the RIAA in June 2002, ordinary Day charted inside the top forty on the U. S. Pretty Baby, which was nominated for a 2003 Teen Choice Award for Choice Love Song, did not appear on the Hot 100 or the UK top seventy-five. As of late 2004 the album had sold 1.38 million copies in the U. S. according to Nielsen SoundScan, Billboard magazine placed Carlton at number twenty-one on its year-end Top Pop Artists list for 2002. Pretty Baby was remixed and released as the third and final single in early 2003. After the singles release, subsequent pressings of the contained the remixed single version of the song in place of its original album version. com
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Bee Gees
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The Bee Gees were a pop music group formed in 1958. Their line-up consisted of brothers Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, the Bee Gees wrote all of their own hits, as well as writing and producing several major hits for other artists. Born on the Isle of Man to English parents, the Gibb brothers lived in Chorlton, Manchester, England, the family then moved to Redcliffe, in Queensland, Australia, and then to Cribb Island. The Bee Gees have sold more than 220 million records worldwide, the Bee Gees Hall of Fame citation says Only Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Michael Jackson, Garth Brooks and Paul McCartney have outsold the Bee Gees. Following Maurices sudden death in January 2003 at the age of 53, Barry, in 2009 Robin announced that he and Barry had agreed that the Bee Gees would re-form and perform again. Robin died in May 2012 at the age of 62, after a struggle with cancer and other health problems. In December 1957 the boys began to sing in harmony, the story is told that they were going to lip sync to a record in the local Gaumont cinema and as they were running to the theatre, the fragile shellac 78-RPM record broke. The brothers had to sing live and received such a response from the audience that they decided to pursue a singing career. In May 1958 the Rattlesnakes were disbanded when Frost and Horrocks left, with the Gibb brothers then forming Wee Johnny Hayes, in August 1958 the Gibb family, including older sister Lesley and infant brother Andy, emigrated to Redcliffe, just north-east of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia. The young brothers began performing to raise pocket money and they were introduced to leading Brisbane radio DJ Bill Gates by speedway promoter and driver Bill Goode, who had hired the brothers to entertain the crowd at the Redcliffe Speedway in 1960. Gates renamed them the BGs after his, Goodes, and Barry Gibbs initials—thus the name was not specifically a reference to Brothers Gibb, the family relocated to Cribb Island which was later demolished for Brisbane Airport. While there, the brothers went to Northgate State School, by 1960 the Bee Gees were featured on television shows, including their performance of Time Is Passing By. In the next few years they began working regularly at resorts on the Queensland coast, for his songwriting, Barry sparked the interest of Australian star Col Joye, who helped them get a record deal in 1963 with Festival Records subsidiary Leedon Records under the name Bee Gees. The three released two or three singles a year, while Barry supplied additional songs to other Australian artists, in 1962, the Bee Gees were chosen as the supporting act for Chubby Checkers concert at Sydney Stadium. From 1963 to 1966 the Gibb family lived at 171 Bunnerong Road, the house was demolished in 2016. A minor hit in 1965, Wine and Women, led to the groups first LP, The Bee Gees Sing, by 1966 Festival was, however, on the verge of dropping them from the Leedon roster because of their perceived lack of commercial success. It was at time that they met American-born songwriter, producer and entrepreneur, Nat Kipner. Kipner briefly took over as the manager and successfully negotiated their transfer to Spin in exchange for Festival being granted the Australian distribution rights to the groups recordings
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E.S.P. (Bee Gees album)
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E. S. P. is the seventeenth original album by British group Bee Gees. Released in 1987, it was the bands first studio album in six years and it marked the first time in twelve years the band had worked with producer Arif Mardin, and was their first album to be recorded digitally. The album sold well in Europe, reaching No.5 in the UK, No.2 in Norway and Austria, the albums first single, You Win Again, reached No.1 in the UK, Ireland, Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Norway. With the Bee Gees now back in the Warner-Elektra-Atlantic conglomerate, producer Arif Mardin was once available to work with them. The Gibb brothers began writing and recording songs for E. S. P and they worked at Maurices home studio, informally known as Panther House, rather than at Middle Ear. Maurice set everything up and Scott Glasel was effectively the assistant engineer, scotts recollection years later is that Barry brought in the songs as demos, featuring just his voice and guitar, and that they recorded the fuller demos based on Barrys songs. Over the previous few years Barry and Robin had become accustomed to different recording styles, Barry preferred to write all the songs and recorded demos, and then go into the big studio with session players to record polished versions for release. Robin instead liked to use the sessions themselves to work out the songs. Maurice liked a hands-on approach and where he had a voice in production he either appears prominently on the tracks or worked out arrangements with a few session players during recording. The compromise recording method adopted for E. S. P. was for the brothers to start all the recordings themselves and then complete them with session players and a producer. If they started with an idea and a track, they built a song onto it as they recorded. The result of this process would then be a demo, with vocals by the three brothers and instrumentals by Maurice and Barry, the drumming was electronic sequencers programmed by Barry and Maurice and their engineer Scott Glasel. The Gibb instrumental tracks were done from October into 1987, the second stage appears to have been recording the main vocal tracks, and where this was done is unknown. The demo of E. S. P. on the box set Tales from the Brothers Gibb is at second stage. Lastly, session musicians replaced most of the parts and the brothers dubbed additional vocals. They also edited some of the tracks, inserted new sections, all tracks written by Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb
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Hoyt Axton
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Hoyt Wayne Axton was an American folk music singer-songwriter, guitarist and a film and television actor. He became prominent in the early 1960s, establishing himself on the West Coast as a singer with an earthy style. As he matured, some of his songwriting became well known throughout the world, among them were Joy to the World, The Pusher, No No Song, Greenback Dollar, Della and the Dealer and Never Been to Spain. Born in Duncan, Oklahoma, Axton spent his pre-teen years in Comanche, Oklahoma, with his brother and his mother, Mae Boren Axton, a songwriter, co-wrote the classic rock n roll song Heartbreak Hotel, which became the first major hit for Elvis Presley. Some of Hoyts own songs were later recorded by Elvis. Axtons father, John Thomas Axton, was a Naval officer stationed in Jacksonville, Florida, Axton graduated from Robert E. Lee High School in 1956 and left town after Knauers Hardware burned down on graduation night, a prank gone wrong. Axton attended Oklahoma State for a length of time before following his father. Axton served aboard the USS Ranger before pursuing a music career, after his discharge from the Navy on the West Coast, he began singing folk songs in San Francisco nightclubs. In the early 1960s he released his first folk album titled The Balladeer, which included his song Greenback Dollar, Axton released numerous albums well into the 1980s. The wild stallion Smoky gets his revenge on the evil Mr. Denton in the end by killing him for his brutal, in 1979, Axton appeared on the PBS music program Austin City Limits during Season 4. Axton had many minor singing hits of his own, such as Boney Fingers, When the Morning Comes, and 1979s Della and his vocal style featured his distinctive bass-baritone and use of characterization. Axton also sang a couple of duets with Linda Ronstadt, including Lion in Winter and When the Morning Comes. His composition Joy to the World, as performed by Three Dog Night, was No.1 on the charts for six weeks in 1971. Axton first appeared on television in a David L. Wolper ABC production of The Story of a Folksinger and he frequently appeared on Hootenanny, hosted by Jack Linkletter during this period. In 1965, he appeared in an episode of Bonanza, then followed with other TV roles over the years, as he matured, Axton specialized in playing good ol boys on television and in films. He sang the jingle Head For the Mountains in the Busch beer commercials in the 1980s, Axton also appeared in a Pizza Hut commercial in 1985. Axton struggled with addiction and several of his songs, including The Pusher, Snowblind Friend. He was a proponent of use for many years when, in February 1997, he
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Carole Bayer Sager
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Carole Bayer Sager is an American lyricist, singer, songwriter and painter and NY Times Best-Selling Author Sager was born in Manhattan to Anita Nathan Bayer and Eli Bayer. She graduated from New York University, where she majored in English, dramatic arts and she had already written her first pop hit, A Groovy Kind of Love, with Toni Wine, while still a student at New York Citys High School of Music and Art. It was recorded by the British invasion band the Mindbenders, whose version was a worldwide hit and this song was later recorded by Sonny & Cher, Petula Clark, and Phil Collins, whose rendition for the film Buster reached number one in 1988. She also had a career as a singer, including her 1977 Australian number one single Youre Moving Out Today which also reached Number 6 in the UK singles chart in June 1977. Sagers first recording as a singer was the 1977 album Carole Bayer Sager, which included Youre Moving Out Today, the album went platinum in Japan, Australia, and the United Kingdom. She had many hits during the seventies, with Marvin Hamlisch and Neil Simon, she wrote the lyrics for the stage musical Theyre Playing Our Song which was loosely based on her relationship with Hamlisch. The musical ran for three years on Broadway. Many of Sagers 1980s songs were co-written with her former husband and she executive-produced the eponymous solo album for June Pointer, of The Pointer Sisters, in 1989. Sager has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, and she was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987. Sager won the Academy Award for Best Song in 1981 for Arthurs Theme, Sager received the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1987 for the song Thats What Friends Are For, which she co-wrote with Bacharach. This song was written for the movie Night Shift. This song was popularized in a 1986 cover version by Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight, and Elton John. Her song with David Foster, The Prayer originally recorded by Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli, won the Golden Globe and is one of few songs to be sung at weddings and funerals alike. She was rewarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, along with Bruce Roberts and Kenneth Babyface Edmonds, Carole Bayer Sager helped write the song, Stronger Together sung by Jessica Sanchez. The song was played after Hillary Clintons speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, the songs title is named after the slogan that the Clinton campaign uses as a show of uniting behind the Democratic nominee. The song is currently #5 on the Billboard Dance Charts this week, the song was widely perceived as positive by the listeners, and even received praise by celebrities like Jennifer Lopez and Kim Kardashian. Her first solo art show was in March 2011 at the L. A. Arthouse in Los Angeles and her second show ran for two months at the William Turner Gallery in Bergamot Station, Los Angeles, in 2012. Her third show New Works ran from Sept-November at William Turner Gallery in Los Angeles, Sager has served for the last seven years as a trustee of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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Regina Belle
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Regina Belle is an American singer–songwriter and actress who first started her career in the mid–1980s. The theme song Far Longer than Forever from the movie the The Swan Princess. Belle was born in Englewood, New Jersey and it was at Englewoods Mount Calvary Baptist Church, and then Patersons Friendship Baptist Church, that Belle began attracting attention with her vocal abilities. She sang her first solo in church at age 8, Belle attended Dwight Morrow High School where she studied trombone, tuba and steel drums. After graduation, she studied opera at the Manhattan School of Music, at Rutgers University, she became the first female vocalist with the schools jazz ensemble. Belles musical influences include Phyllis Hyman, Billie Holiday, Shirley Caesar, Patti LaBelle and she was introduced to the Manhattans by New York radio DJ Vaughn Harper and began working as their opening act. She recorded the duet Where Did We Go Wrong with the group helped to attract the attention of Columbia Records. They eventually signed her to a record deal, in 1987, she released her debut album All by Myself. It includes her first hits So Many Tears and Show Me the Way, in the same year, Belle recorded her first successful duet with Peabo Bryson, the song Without You, the love theme from the comedy film Leonard Part 6, also released in 1987. Her follow-up album, Stay with Me, released in 1989, Belle recorded a duet in 1991 with Johnny Mathis, Better Together which appeared on his album Better Together, The Duet Album. Continuing her tradition of duets, Belle teamed up with Peabo Bryson for four songs, Without You, I Cant Imagine, A Whole New World, later in 1993, she released her Platinum selling third album, Passion. The album featured the Disney hit, A Whole New World, the theme song Far Longer than Forever from the animated movie the The Swan Princess, performed with Jeffrey Osborne was nominated for a Golden Globe in 1995 for Best Original Song. She released Reachin Back in 1995 followed by Believe in Me in 1998 and she released the album This Is Regina. Which featured the R&B hit single, Ooh Boy also released were, Dont Wanna Go Home, in 2004, she released a jazz standard album, Lazy Afternoon, produced by George Duke. The album included covers of the Isley Brothers For the Love of You, in 2007, she collaborated with smooth jazz saxophonist Paul Taylor, co-writing and singing on his album Ladies Choice. Belle released her gospel album Love Forever Shines on May 13,2008 via Pendulum Records. The 14-track collection features guests Melvin Williams and Shirley Murdock. On June 5,2012, she released on Pendulum her second album, called Higher, on which Belle stated, I think that
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Barbi Benton
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Barbi Benton is an American model, actress, and singer. Benton was born Barbara Lynn Klein in New York City, New York and she moved with her parents to California when she was 2 years old. She grew up in Sacramento and attended Rio Americano High School, at the age of 16, she began to model to help supplement her income. Following high school, she attended UCLA, and at age 18 took a job with Playboy to appear on their entertainment show Playboy After Dark and her role was as co-host and beautiful companion to the shows director of entertainment, Hugh Hefner. After recording two sessions, Hefner asked the young co-ed for a date, upon being asked, she reports demurring to the then-42-year-old Hefner, I dont know, Ive never dated anyone over 24 before. To which Hefner replied, Thats all right, neither have I, the two began a relationship that lasted several years, and placed Benton in the center of the Playboy enterprise. Hefner convinced her to change her name from Barbara Klein to the more marketable Barbi Benton. Benton appeared on the cover of Playboy magazine four times, July 1969, March 1970, May 1972, though she was featured in a number of photo-essays, she was never a Playmate of the Month. She landed a spot on televisions Hee Haw doing short comic sketches and she also began acting, and appeared in a few B movies before appearing as a featured repeat performer on a number of popular television shows, including The Love Boat and Fantasy Island. Benton lived with Hefner from 1969 until 1976 and is known for discovering the Playboy Mansion West where Hefner resides today, years later when the TV series The Girls Next Door visited her in Aspen, Colorado, she expressed gratitude that the two had remained friends. Benton is known for her years as a regular on the variety series Hee Haw. She left the program after four seasons to concentrate on a more Hollywood-oriented career and she also starred in the short-lived 1977 ABC-TV comedy series Sugar Time. About an aspiring female rock group and in films including the 1982 slasher Hospital Massacre, Benton was also a recording artist with some success. Her record Brass Buckles was a hit on Billboards country singles chart. Benton has recorded eight albums, the last of which she produced in 1979. She also composed the songs, sang them, and played piano, Benton married George Gradow, a real-estate developer, on October 14,1979. They have two children, Alexander and Ariana Gradow, for many years, they divided their time between their homes in Aspen and Los Angeles. How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business. D, kickin Aspen, and The Wheel World The E
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Louis Bertignac
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Louis Bertignac is a French guitarist, vocalist and songwriter. An ex Shakin Street member and a member in 1976 of the rock band Téléphone. Tony Visconti produced his first solo album, Elle et Louis and Chris Kimsey the second,96, in 2004, he produced, arranged and played guitar on the debut album by Carla Bruni, Quelquun ma dit. Bruni in turn contributed lyrics to 10 of the 12 songs on Bertignacs 2005 album Longtemps and he performed at Live 8 at the Palace of Versailles on 2 July 2005
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Stephen Bishop (singer)
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Earl Stephen Bishop is an American singer-songwriter, actor, and guitarist. His biggest hits include On and On, It Might Be You and he has appeared in and contributed musically to many motion pictures including National Lampoons Animal House. Bishop was born and raised in San Diego, California, originally a clarinetist, he persuaded his brother to buy him a guitar after seeing the Beatles on the The Ed Sullivan Show. In 1967, he formed his first group, the Weeds, after the Weeds folded, Bishop moved to Los Angeles in search of a solo recording contract. During a lean period, where he was rejected by nearly every label and producer, he continued to write songs. Bishops break came when a friend, Leah Kunkel, gave Art Garfunkel one of Bishops demonstration cassettes, Garfunkel chose two of his songs, Looking for the Right One and The Same Old Tears on a New Background, to record for the platinum album Breakaway. Via Garfunkels patronage, Bishop finally secured a contract with ABC Records in 1976. Bishops first album, Careless, included two of his biggest hits, the first single released, Save It for a Rainy Day, introduced Bishop to the listening public and went to number 22 on the Billboard singles chart. The next single, Bishops highest charting to date, On and On, the album itself rose to number 34 on the Billboard albums chart. Eric Clapton, Art Garfunkel and Chaka Khan all contributed their talents to the album, Careless went gold, as did Bishops subsequent album Bish, released in 1978. Bish included one charting single, Everybody Needs Love, which made it to number 32, the album also includes a smooth classic called A Fool At Heart that features Chaka Khan and Natalie Cole on background vocals. Bishops third album, Red Cab to Manhattan, released in 1980, Bishop has written and performed music for many motion pictures. In 1978, he contributed the original song Dream Girl and theme to National Lampoons Animal House, Bishops next hit, charting at number 25 in 1982, was It Might Be You, the theme from the movie Tootsie, unusual in that it was not penned by Bishop. Written by Dave Grusin, Alan Bergman, and Marilyn Bergman, Bishop wrote the song about his breakup with actress Karen Allen, who also appeared in Animal House. Bishop said, I write much better when Im heartbroken and sad or melancholy, in 1989, Bishop released the album Bowling in Paris with Phil Collins, Eric Clapton and Sting contributing. In 1987, the Norwegian swing/pop duo Bobbysocks, recorded the albums Walking on Air on their album Walkin on Air. Bishop has appeared in motion pictures as a charming character. He had a role, billed as Charming Guy, in The Kentucky Fried Movie
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Clint Black
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Clint Patrick Black is an American singer, songwriter, musician, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and actor. Signed to RCA Records in 1989, Blacks debut album Killin Time produced five straight number one singles on the US Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts, although his momentum gradually slowed throughout the 1990s, Black consistently charted hit songs into the 2000s. He has had more than 30 singles on the US Billboard country charts, twenty-two of which have reached number one, in addition to having released twelve studio albums, in 2003, Black founded his own record label, Equity Music Group. Black has also ventured into acting, having made a appearance in the 1994 film Maverick, as well as a starring role in 1998s Still Holding On. Clint Patrick Black was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, the youngest of four born to G. A. and Ann Black. The family moved back to Texas, where G. A, Black had been raised, before Clint was one year old. He was raised in Katy, Texas, Music was always present in the house. Black taught himself to play harmonica before he was 13, and his father remarked that it was at that age that the parents first noticed that he had a great voice. By 15, Black had learned to play guitar, as a teenager Black joined his elder brothers, Mark, Kevin and Brian, in their small band. On Saturday afternoons, the family would host backyard barbecues and invite the neighborhood to listen to the boys sing, some weekends would attract up to 70 people. Black eventually dropped out of school to play with his brothers. Black was initially drawn to a variety of musical genres, for six years, Black supported himself as a construction worker, bait cutter, and fishing guide, while singing at various lounges as a solo singer and guitarist. In 1987, at one of the gigs he met another guitarist, the two men connected musically and began a song writing partnership that would last decades. In the late 1980s, Black delivered a demo of their collaboration Nobodys Home to record promoter Sammy Alfano, within two days of that delivery, Black was invited to a meeting with Bill Ham, who managed ZZ Top. Black soon signed with RCA at that time considered one of the most aggressive labels in country music and his first album, Killin Time, was released in 1989. Each song on the album was penned at least in part by Black, four of them were attributed solely to him, in a departure from most other country albums, Black used his road band instead of session musicians to record Killin Time. The album was a critical and commercial success, reaching number one on the Billboard Country Albums chart and he made his debut in 1989 with the single, A Better Man, which reached number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs in early June. This marked the first time in 14 years that a single by a male artist had peaked at the top of the chart
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The Hard Way (Clint Black album)
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The Hard Way is a 1992 album by country singer-songwriter Clint Black. It was his album and the first one he co-produced with James Stroud. It includes the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks top-ten hits We Tell Ourselves, Burn One Down, while not as commercially successful as his first two albums, The Hard Way was certified platinum by the RIAA. All songs written by Clint Black and Hayden Nicholas except where noted
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No Time to Kill
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No Time to Kill is the fourth studio album by country singer-songwriter Clint Black. The title is a play on the title of his debut album, tuckered Out also reached #74 based on unsolicited airplay. No Time to Kill was also Blacks fourth consecutive album to be certified at least platinum by the RIAA, all songs written by Clint Black and Hayden Nicholas, except where noted. Black Tracks, No Time to Kill
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Looking for Christmas
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Looking for Christmas is the sixth studio album by American country music singer Clint Black. The album was released on October 17,1995 and his first album of Christmas music, it features the song Til Santas Gone. This song charted on several occasions on the Hot Country Songs charts, all songs written by Clint Black/Hayden Nicholas except where noted. R
