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Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s
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Brenda Lee
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Brenda Lee is an American performer and the top-charting solo female vocalist of the 1960s. She sang rockabilly, pop and country music, and had 47 US chart hits during the 1960s, and is ranked fourth in that decade surpassed only by Elvis Presley, the Beatles and Ray Charles. She is perhaps best known in the United States for her 1960 hit Im Sorry, and 1958s Rockin Around the Christmas Tree and she is a member of the Rock and Roll, Country Music and Rockabilly Halls of Fame. She is also a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, Brenda currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Brenda Lee was born Brenda Mae Tarpley on December 11,1944, to parents Annie Grace, Lee was born in the charity ward of Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. She weighed 4 pounds 11 ounces at birth, Lee attended grade schools wherever her father found work, primarily between Atlanta and Augusta. Her family was poor, often living hand-to-mouth, as a child, she shared a bed with her brother and sister in a series of three-room houses without running water. Life centered around her parents finding work, their family, and the Baptist church, Lees father was a farmers son in Georgias red-clay belt. Standing 5 ft 7 inches, he was an excellent left-handed pitcher and her mother came from an under-educated working class family in Greene County, Georgia. Though her family did not have indoor plumbing until after her fathers death, by the time she was two, she could whistle the melody of songs she heard on the radio. Both her mother and sister remembered taking her repeatedly to a candy store before she turned three, one of them would stand her on the counter and she would earn candy or coins for singing. Lees voice, pretty face and stage presence won her wider attention from the time she was five years old, at age six, she won a local singing contest sponsored by local elementary schools. The reward was an appearance on an Atlanta radio show, Starmakers Revue. Her father died in 1953, and by the time she turned ten, she was the breadwinner of her family through singing at events and on local radio. In 1955, Grayce Tarpley was remarried to Buell Jay Rainwater, who moved the family to Cincinnati, Ohio, Lee performed with Skinner at the record shop on two Saturday programs broadcast over Newport, Kentucky radio station WNOP. The family soon returned to Georgia, however, this time to Augusta, an Augusta disc jockey persuaded Foley to hear her sing before the show. Foley was as transfixed as everyone else who heard the voice coming from the tiny girl and immediately agreed to let her perform Jambalaya on stage that night. Foley later recounted the moments following her introduction, The audience erupted in applause, on March 31,1955, the 10-year-old made her network debut on Ozark Jubilee in Springfield, Missouri
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..."Let Me Sing"
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. Let Me Sing is the ninth studio album by American pop and country artist Brenda Lee. The album was released September 12,1963, on Decca Records and was produced by Owen Bradley. The album remakes included Night and Day by Cole Porter, Bobby Darins Youre the Reason Im Leaving, At Last which was covered by Etta James. Unlike Lees previous release of 1963. Let Me Sing contained more recent cover versions of pop songs, mainly from the late 1950s, greg Adams of Allmusic called the albums use of Pop standards to sound fresh unlike her prior releases. Adams reviewed the album and gave it three out of five stars, Adams stated. Let Me Sing manages to sound vital where very similar albums failed later in her career. Not surprisingly, Let Me Sing was also Lees second-to-last Top 40 album, the album was originally released on a 33⅓ rpm LP record upon its initial release, containing six songs on the A-side of the record and six songs on the B-side of the record. The album has since been reissued on a disc in both Paraguay and Japan. Let Me Sing released its first single over a year before its initial release. The first single Break It to Me Gently was released in January 1962, peaking at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and its second single Losing You was released one year later in April 1963. The single peaked at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100, #2 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart and it became Lees last single to chart on the R&B chart during her recording career. The single would also reach #10 on the UK Singles Chart, the album was officially released on September 12,1963, on Decca Records, later peaking at #39 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Side one Night and Day –2,33 End of the World –3,05 Our Day Will Come –2,32 Youre the Reason Im Living –2,24 Break It to Me Gently –2,35 Where Are You
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A-side and B-side
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The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78,45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, whether singles, extended plays, or long-playing records. Creedence Clearwater Revival had hits with both A-side and B-side releases, others took the opposite approach, producer Phil Spector was in the habit of filling B-sides with on-the-spot instrumentals that no one would confuse with the A-side. With this practice, Spector was assured that airplay was focused on the side he wanted to be the hit side, the earliest 10-inch,78 rpm, shellac records were single sided. Double-sided recordings, with one song on side, were introduced in Europe by Columbia Records. There were no record charts until the 1930s, and radio stations did not play recorded music until the 1950s, in this time, A-sides and B-sides existed, but neither side was considered more important, the side did not convey anything about the content of the record. The term single came into use with the advent of vinyl records in the early 1950s. At first, most record labels would randomly assign which song would be an A-side, under this random system, many artists had so-called double-sided hits, where both songs on a record made one of the national sales charts, or would be featured on jukeboxes in public places. As time wore on, however, the convention for assigning songs to sides of the record changed. By the early sixties, the song on the A-side was the song that the company wanted radio stations to play. It was not until 1968, for instance, that the production of albums on a unit basis finally surpassed that of singles in the United Kingdom. In the late 1960s stereo versions of pop and rock songs began to appear on 45s. The majority of the 45s were played on AM radio stations, by the early 1970s, double-sided hits had become rare. Album sales had increased, and B-sides had become the side of the record where non-album, non-radio-friendly, with the advent of cassette and compact disc singles in the late 1980s, the A-side/B-side differentiation became much less meaningful. With the decline of cassette singles in the 1990s, the A-side/B-side dichotomy became virtually extinct, as the dominant medium. However, the term B-side is still used to refer to the tracks or coupling tracks on a CD single. With the advent of downloading music via the Internet, sales of CD singles and other media have declined. B-side songs may be released on the record as a single to provide extra value for money. There are several types of material released in this way, including a different version, or, in a concept record
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1963 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1963. January 3 – The Beatles begin their first tour of 1963 with a tour in Scotland to support the release of their new single, Love Me Do. January 4 – At Cortina dAmpezzo in Italy, Dalida receives a Juke Box Global Oscar for the years most-played artist on jukeboxes, bonds files a $100,000 lawsuit against Chubby Checker, claiming that Checker stole Quarter to Three and turned it into Dancin Party. The lawsuit is settled out of court. January 11 – Please Please Me is released in the United Kingdom by the Beatles, january 12 – Bob Dylan portrays a folk singer in The Madhouse of Castle Street, a radio play for the BBC in London. February 16 The Beatles achieve their first No.1 hit single, February 22 – The Beatles form Northern Songs Publishing Company. March 5 – Patsy Cline is killed in plane crash near Camden, Tennessee, while on her way to Nashville, Tennessee, from Kansas City, Missouri. March 22 – The Beatles release their first album, Please Please Me, March 23 – The 8th Eurovision Song Contest is held in two studios at the BBC Television Centre, London. After much confusion regarding the results of the Norwegian jury, Denmark snatches victory from Switzerland after a close run, the Danish husband-and-wife duo Grethe and Jørgen Ingmann take the prize with Dansevise. April 29 – 19-year-old Andrew Loog Oldham signs a contract with the Rolling Stones, Oldham had seen the band in concert the previous day at the Crawdaddy Club in London. May 2 – The Beatles reach number one in the UK singles chart for the time with From Me To You. May 11 – The Beatles album Please Please Me goes to the top of the UK Albums Chart, may 15 – Opening of the National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Mongolia. May 27 – The Freewheelin Bob Dylan, singer-songwriter Bob Dylans second, the lead song, Blowin in the Wind, is released as a single by Peter, Paul and Mary in June and by Dylan himself in August. June 7 – The Rolling Stones first single, a version of the Chuck Berry song Come On, is released in the UK. August 3 – The Beatles perform at The Cavern Club in Liverpool for the final time, August 28 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Musical performers include Mahalia Jackson, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Peter, Paul and Mary, september 6 – Nippon Crown record label is established as Crown Records, a subsidiary of Columbia Music Entertainment. September 12 – The Beatles reach the UK number one for the time with the single She Loves You. November 30 – After an unbroken 30-week spell at the top of the UK Albums Chart, December 12 – The Beatles reach number one in the UK for the fourth time with I Want To Hold Your Hand
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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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Decca Records
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Decca Records began as a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U. S. label was established in late 1934 by Lewis along with American Deccas first president Jack Kapp and later American Decca president Milton Rackmil. In 1937, as a result of anticipating Nazi aggression leading to World War II, Lewis sold American Decca, the British label was renowned for its development of recording methods, while the American company developed the concept of cast albums in the musical genre. Both wings are now part of the Universal Music Group, which is owned by Vivendi, the US Decca label was the foundation company that evolved into UMG. The name Decca was coined by Wilfred S. Samuel by merging the word Mecca with the initial D of their logo Dulcet or their trademark Dulcephone, Samuel, a linguist, chose Decca as a brand name as it was easy to pronounce in most languages. The name dates back to a gramophone called the Decca Dulcephone patented in 1914 by musical instrument makers Barnett Samuel. That company was renamed the Decca Gramophone Co. Ltd. Within years, Decca Records Ltd. was the second largest record label in the world, Decca bought the UK branch of Brunswick Records and continued to run it under that name. In the 1950s the American Decca studios were located in the Pythian Temple in New York City, in classical music, Decca had a long way to go from its modest beginnings to catch up with the established HMV and Columbia labels. The pre-war classical repertoire on Decca was not extensive, but was select, heinrich Schlusnus made important pre-war lieder recordings for Decca. John Culshaw, who joined Decca in 1946 in a junior post and he revolutionised recording – of opera, in particular. Hitherto, the practice had been to put microphones in front of the performers, Culshaw was determined to make recordings that would be a theatre of the mind, making the listeners experience at home not second best to being in the opera house, but a wholly different experience. To that end he got the singers to move about in the studio as they would onstage, used sound effects and different acoustics. His skill, coupled with Decca engineering, took Decca into the first flight of recording companies and his pioneering recording of Wagners Der Ring des Nibelungen conducted by Georg Solti was a huge artistic and commercial success. In the wake of Deccas lead, artists such as Herbert von Karajan, Joan Sutherland, however, Culshaw was, strictly speaking, not the first to do this. Far from being a mere rendering of the score, the 3-LP album set used sound effects to recreate the production as if the listener were watching a stage performance of the work. Until 1947, American Decca issued British Decca classical music recordings, afterwards, British Decca took over distribution through its new American subsidiary London Records. American Decca actively re-entered the classical music field in 1950 with distribution deals from Deutsche Grammophon, American Decca began issuing its own classical music recordings in 1956 when Israel Horowitz joined Decca to head its classical music operations
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Songwriter
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A songwriter is an individual who writes the lyrics, melodies and chord progressions for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music. A songwriter can also be called a composer, although the term tends to be used mainly for individuals from the classical music genre. The pressure from the industry to produce popular hits means that songwriting is often an activity for which the tasks are distributed between a number of people. For example, a songwriter who excels at writing lyrics might be paired with a songwriter with a gift for creating original melodies, pop songs may be written by group members from the band or by staff writers – songwriters directly employed by music publishers. Some songwriters serve as their own publishers, while others have outside publishers. The old-style apprenticeship approach to learning how to write songs is being supplemented by university degrees and college diplomas, a knowledge of modern music technology, songwriting elements and business skills are necessary requirements to make a songwriting career in the 2010s. Several music colleges offer songwriting diplomas and degrees with music business modules, the legal power to grant these permissions may be bought, sold or transferred. This is governed by international copyright law, song pitching can be done on a songwriters behalf by their publisher or independently using tip sheets like RowFax, the MusicRow publication and SongQuarters. Skills associated with song-writing include entrepreneurism and creativity, songwriters who sign an exclusive songwriting agreement with a publisher are called staff writers. In the Nashville country music scene, there is a staff writer culture where contracted writers work normal 9-to-5 hours at the publishing office and are paid a regular salary. This salary is in effect the writers draw, an advance on future earnings, the publisher owns the copyright of songs written during the term of the agreement for a designated period, after which the songwriter can reclaim the copyright. In an interview with HitQuarters, songwriter Dave Berg extolled the benefits of the set-up, unlike contracted writers, some staff writers operate as employees for their respective publishers. Under the terms of work for hire agreements, the compositions created are fully owned by the publisher. In Nashville, young writers are often encouraged to avoid these types of contracts. Staff writers are common across the industry, but without the more office-like working arrangements favored in Nashville. All the major publishers employ writers under contract, songwriter Allan Eshuijs described his staff writer contract at Universal Music Publishing as a starter deal. His success under the arrangement eventually allowed him to found his own publishing company, so that he could. keep as much as possible, songwriters are also often skilled musicians. In addition to selling their songs and musical concepts for other artists to sing, songwriters need to create a number of elements for a song
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
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Owen Bradley
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A native of Westmoreland, Tennessee, Bradley learned piano at an early age, and began playing in local nightclubs and roadhouses when he was a teenager. At 20, he got a job at WSM-AM radio, where he worked as an arranger and that same year he co-wrote Roy Acuff’s hit “Night Train to Memphis. He kept the band up until 1964, although in the intervening decades, in 1947, Bradley took a position as a music arranger and songwriter at Decca Records. He worked for Paul Cohen on recordings by some of the biggest talents of the day, including Ernest Tubb, Burl Ives, Red Foley, learning from Cohen, he eventually began to produce records on his own. When his mentor left the label in 1958, Bradley became vice president of Deccas Nashville division, Country music had long been looked on as unsophisticated and folksy, and was largely confined to listeners in the less affluent small towns of the American South and Appalachia. In the late 1950s, Bradleys home base of Nashville was positioning itself to be a center of the recording industry, in fact, the Nashville sound began in a Quonset hut attached to a house Bradley owned with his brother Harold at 804 16th Avenue South in Nashville. The Quonset Hut is commonly recognized as the birthplace of a commercial country music that often crossed over into pop. This distinct genre of American music was developed primarily by Owen Bradleys crew of hand picked musicians, Grady Martin, Bob Moore, Hank Garland, the success of Bradleys Quonset Hut Studio spurred RCA Victor to build its famous RCA Studio B. A handful of other labels soon followed setting up shop on what would become known as Music Row. Bradley and his contemporaries infused hokey melodies with more refined lyrics and blended them with a pop music sensibility to create the Nashville sound. Light, easy listening piano replaced the clinky honky-tonk piano, lush string sections took the place of the mountain fiddle sound, steel guitars and smooth backing vocals rounded out the mix. Regarding the Nashville sound, Bradley stated, Now weve cut out the fiddle and steel guitar and it always has to keep developing to keep fresh. The singers Bradley produced made unprecedented headway into radio, and artists such as Patsy Cline, Brenda Lee, Loretta Lynn, Lenny Dee, pop singers like Buddy Holly and Gene Vincent also recorded with Bradley in his Nashville studio. Also, he produced Bill Monroe in both bluegrass and decidedly non-bluegrass settings, many older artists recognized they needed to change as they saw former pure honky tonk singer Jim Reeves blend his own style with the newer styles with great success. However, not everyone was as successful as Reeves or Patsy Cline in these transformations, in addition to his production, Bradley released a handful of instrumentals under his own name, including the minor 1958 hit Big Guitar. In the late 1950s, Bradley produced a radio and TV series with his brother Harold, Country Style, USA, for distribution to local radio and TV stations as a recruiting tool for the US Army. Bradley sold The Quonset Hut to Columbia and bought a farm outside of Nashville in 1961, within a few years, the new Bradleys Barn became a legendary recording venue in country music circles. The Beau Brummels paid tribute to the studio, through titling their 1968 album Bradleys Barn, the studio burned to the ground in 1980, but Bradley rebuilt it within a few years in the same location
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Billboard Hot 100
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The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for singles, published weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on sales, radio play and online streaming, the weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday, when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but was changed to Friday to Thursday in July 2015. Radio airplay, which, unlike sales figures and streaming data, is available on a real-time basis. A new chart is compiled and officially released to the public by Billboard on Tuesdays, as of the issue for the week ending on April 15,2017, the Hot 100 has had 1,061 different number one hits. The current number one song is Shape of You by Ed Sheeran, prior to 1955, Billboard did not have a unified, all-encompassing popularity chart, instead measuring songs by individual metrics. At the start of the era in 1955, three such charts existed, Best Sellers in Stores was the first Billboard chart, established in 1936. This chart ranked the biggest selling singles in retail stores, as reported by merchants surveyed throughout the country, Most Played by Jockeys was Billboards original airplay chart. It ranked the most played songs on United States radio stations, as reported by radio disc jockeys, Most Played in Jukeboxes ranked the most played songs in jukeboxes across the United States. On the week ending November 12,1955, Billboard published The Top 100 for the first time, the Top 100 combined all aspects of a singles performance, based on a point system that typically gave sales more weight than radio airplay. The Best Sellers In Stores, Most Played by Jockeys and Most Played in Jukeboxes charts continued to be published concurrently with the new Top 100 chart. The week ending July 28,1958 was the publication of the Most Played By Jockeys and Top 100 charts. On August 4,1958, Billboard premiered one main all-genre singles chart, the Hot 100 quickly became the industry standard and Billboard discontinued the Best Sellers In Stores chart on October 13,1958. The Billboard Hot 100 is still the standard by which a songs popularity is measured in the United States, the Hot 100 is ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen BDS, sales data compiled by Nielsen Soundscan and streaming activity provided by online music sources. There are several component charts that contribute to the calculation of the Hot 100. Charts are ranked by number of gross audience impressions, computed by cross-referencing exact times of radio airplay with Arbitron listener data. Hot Singles Sales, the top selling singles compiled from a sample of retail store, mass merchant and internet sales reports collected, compiled. The chart is released weekly and measures sales of commercial singles. With the decline in sales of singles in the US
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Billboard (magazine)
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Billboard is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries. It publishes pieces involving news, video, opinion, reviews, events and it is also known for its music charts, including the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200, tracking the most popular singles and albums in different genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows, Billboard was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegens interest in 1900 for $500, in the 1900s, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows. It also created a service for travelling entertainers. Billboard began focusing more on the industry as the jukebox, phonograph. Many topics it covered were spun-off into different magazines, including Amusement Business in 1961 to cover outdoor entertainment so that it could focus on music. After Donaldson died in 1925, Billboard was passed down to his children and Hennegans children, until it was sold to investors in 1985. The first issue of Billboard was published in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 1,1894 by William Donaldson, initially, it covered the advertising and bill posting industry and was called Billboard Advertising. At the time, billboards, posters and paper advertisements placed in public spaces were the means of advertising. Donaldson handled editorial and advertising, while Hennegan, who owned Hennegan Printing Co. managed magazine production, the first issues were just eight pages long. The paper had columns like The Bill Room Gossip and The Indefatigable, a department for agricultural fairs was established in 1896. The title was changed to The Billboard in 1897, after a brief departure over editorial differences, Donaldson purchased Hennegans interest in the business in 1900 for $500, to save it from bankruptcy. That May, Donaldson changed it from a monthly to a paper with a greater emphasis on breaking news. He improved editorial quality and opened new offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London and he also re-focused the magazine on outdoor entertainment like fairs, carnivals, circuses, vaudeville and burlesque shows. A section devoted to circuses was introduced in 1900, followed by more prominent coverage of events in 1901. Billboard also covered topics including regulation, a lack of professionalism, economics and it had a stage gossip column covering the private lives of entertainers, a tent show section covering traveling shows and a sub-section called Freaks to order. According to The Seattle Times, Donaldson also published articles attacking censorship, praising productions exhibiting good taste
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Doris Day
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Doris Day is a retired American actress and singer, and continuing animal welfare activist. After she began her career as a big band singer in 1939, her popularity increased with her first hit recording Sentimental Journey, in 1948, Day was given a key part in the film Romance on the High Seas, despite not having any acting experience. Its director, Michael Curtiz, gave her the part since she looked like the All-American Girl and it led to a 20-year career in film, including a string of musicals and romantic comedies beginning in the 1950s. She starred with leading men such as Clark Gable in Teachers Pet, Rock Hudson in Pillow Talk and Send Me No Flowers, Cary Grant in That Touch of Mink and she was usually one of the top 10 singers between 1951 and 1966. As an actress, she became the biggest female star in the early 1960s. In 2011 – well into her late 80s – she released her 29th studio album, My Heart, among her awards, Day has received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and a Legend Award from the Society of Singers. She has been Oscar nominated six times, and in 1989 was given the Cecil B, deMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures. In 2004, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom followed in 2011 by the Los Angeles Film Critics Associations Career Achievement Award. Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff was born on April 3,1922, in Cincinnati, Ohio, the daughter of Alma Sophia, a housewife, and William Joseph Kappelhoff, All of her grandparents were German immigrants. The youngest of three siblings, she had two brothers, Richard and Paul, several years older. Due to her fathers alleged infidelity, her parents separated and she developed an early interest in dance, and in the mid-1930s formed a dance duo with Jerry Doherty that performed locally in Cincinnati. A car accident on October 13,1937, injured her legs, while recovering, Day started to sing along with the radio and discovered a talent she did not know she had. But the one radio voice I listened to above others belonged to Ella Fitzgerald. There was a quality to her voice that fascinated me, and Id sing along with her, trying to catch the subtle ways she shaded her voice, observing her daughter rekindled Almas interest in show business, and she decided to give Doris singing lessons. She engaged a teacher, Grace Raine, after three lessons, Raine told Alma that young Doris had tremendous potential, which led Alma to give her daughter three lessons a week for the price of one. Years later, Day said that Raine had the biggest effect on her singing style, during her radio performances, Day first caught the attention of Barney Rapp, who was looking for a girl vocalist and asked if Day would like to audition for the job. According to Rapp, he had auditioned about 200 singers when Day got the job, while working for Rapp in 1939, she adopted the stage surname Day, at Rapps suggestion. Rapp felt that Kappelhoff was too long for marquees, and he admired her rendition of the song Day After Day, after working with Rapp, Day worked with bandleaders Jimmy James, Bob Crosby, and Les Brown
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Lale Andersen
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Lale Andersen was a German chanson singer-songwriter born in Bremerhaven, Germany. She is best known for her interpretation of the song Lili Marleen in 1939 and she was born in Lehe, now part of Bremerhaven and baptized Elisabeth Carlotta Helena Berta Bunnenberg. In 1922, aged 17, she married Paul Ernst Wilke and they had three children, Björn, Carmen-Litta, and Michael. Shortly after the birth of their last child, the broke up. Leaving the children in the care of her siblings Thekla and Helmut, Lale went to Berlin in October 1929, in 1931, her marriage ended in divorce. Around this time, she began appearing on stage in various cabarets in Berlin, from 1933–1937, she performed at the Schauspielhaus in Zürich, where she also met Rolf Liebermann, who would remain a close friend for the rest of her life. In 1938, she was in Munich at the cabaret Simpl, while at the Kabarett der Komiker, she met Norbert Schultze, who had composed the music for Lili Marleen. Lale recorded the song in 1939, but it would become a hit when the Soldatensender Belgrad. Lili Marleen quickly became popular with German soldiers at the front. The transmitter of the station at Belgrade, was powerful enough to be received all over Europe and the Mediterranean. Andersen was awarded a gold disc for one million sales of Lili Marleen. It is thought that she was awarded her copy after the end of World War II, however, the disc was recovered and is now in a private collection. Nazi officials did not approve the song and Joseph Goebbels prohibited it from being played on the radio. Andersen was not allowed to perform in public for nine months, not just because of the song but because of her friendship with Rolf Liebermann, in desperation, she reportedly attempted suicide. Andersen was so popular, however, that the Nazi government allowed her to again, albeit subject to several conditions. Goebbels did order her to make a new version of the song which was recorded in June 1942. In the remaining war years, Andersen had one appearance in a propaganda movie and was made to sing several propaganda songs in English. Shortly before the end of the war, Lale retired to Langeoog, after the war, Andersen all but disappeared as a singer
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Extended play
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An extended play is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single, but is usually unqualified as an album or LP. EPs generally do not contain as many tracks as albums, and are considered less expensive, an EP originally referred to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play and LP, but it is now applied to mid-length CDs and downloads as well. Ricardo Baca of The Denver Post said, EPs—originally extended-play single releases that are shorter than traditional albums—have long been popular with punk, in the United Kingdom, the Official Chart Company defines a boundary between EP and album classification at 25 minutes of length or four tracks. EPs were released in various sizes in different eras, the earliest multi-track records, issued around 1919 by Grey Gull Records, were vertically cut 78 rpm discs known as 2-in-1 records. These had finer than usual grooves, like Edison Disc Records, by 1949, when the 45 rpm single and 33 1⁄3 rpm LP were competing formats, seven-inch 45 rpm singles had a maximum playing time of only about four minutes per side. Partly as an attempt to compete with the LP introduced in 1948 by rival Columbia, RCA Victor introduced Extended Play 45s during 1952. Their narrower grooves, achieved by lowering the levels and sound compression optionally. These were usually 10-inch LPs split onto two seven-inch EPs or 12-inch LPs split onto three seven-inch EPs, either separately or together in gatefold covers. This practice became less common with the advent of triple-speed-available phonographs. Some classical music albums released at the beginning of the LP era were distributed as EP albums—notably the seven operas that Arturo Toscanini conducted on radio between 1944 and 1954. These opera EPs, originally broadcast on the NBC Radio network and manufactured by RCA, in the 1990s, they began appearing on compact discs. During the 1950s, RCA published several EP albums of Walt Disney movies and these usually featured the original casts of actors and actresses. Each album contained two seven-inch records, plus an illustrated booklet containing the text of the recording, so that children could follow along by reading. Some of the titles included Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, and what was then a recent release, because of the popularity of 7 and other formats, SP records became less popular and the production of SPs in Japan was suspended in 1963. In the 1950s and 1960s, EPs were usually compilations of singles or album samplers and were played at 45 rpm on seven-inch discs. Record Retailer printed the first EP chart in 1960, the New Musical Express, Melody Maker, Disc and Music Echo and the Record Mirror continued to list EPs on their respective singles charts. The Beatles Twist and Shout outsold most singles for some weeks in 1963, when the BBC and Record Retailer commissioned the British Market Research Bureau to compile a chart it was restricted to singles and EPs disappeared from the listings. In the Philippines, seven-inch EPs marketed as mini-LPs were introduced in 1970, with tracks selected from an album and this mini-LP format also became popular in America in the early 1970s for promotional releases, and also for use in jukeboxes
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1964 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1964. January 1 – Top of the Pops is broadcast for the first time, January 3 – Footage of the Beatles performing a concert in Bournemouth, England is shown on The Jack Paar Show. January 13 – Bob Dylans The Times They Are a-Changin is released on Columbia Records, January 15 – Vee Jay Records files a lawsuit against Capitol Records and Swan Records over manufacturing and distribution rights to Beatles albums. On April 9, Capitol Records is granted an injunction restraining Vee Jay Records from further manufacturing, distributing or advertising recordings by the Beatles, January 18 – The Beatles appear on the Billboard magazine charts for the first time. January 25 - The late John F. Kennedy becomes the first President credited with a Top 10 album after Dickie Goodman released John F. Kennedy, The Presidential Years 1960-1963. The following week a second album, credited to the late President, February 1 – Indiana Governor Matthew E. Welsh declares the song Louie Louie by The Kingsmen pornographic. He requests that the Indiana Broadcasters Association ban the record, Governor Welsh claimed that hearing the song made his ears tingle. Publisher Max Firetag offers $1,000 to anyone that can find anything suggestive in the songs lyrics, February 7 – The Beatles arrive in the United States and are greeted by thousands of screaming fans at New Yorks Kennedy Airport. February 9 – The Beatles perform on The Ed Sullivan Show, February 12 – Anna Moffo collapses onstage at Covent Garden in the first act of Rigoletto, and her part is taken over, after a delay of 45 minutes, by Welsh soprano Elizabeth Vaughan. February 16 – The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, February 22 – Plácido Domingo makes his international breakthrough at the première of Ginasteras Don Rodrigo in New York City. February 23 The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, march 6 – Elvis Presleys 14th motion picture, Kissin Cousins is released to theaters. March 14 – Billboard Magazine reports that sales of Beatles records make up 60% of the singles market. March 16 – Disc jockey Alan Freed is charged with tax evasion, march 21 – Italy wins the 9th Eurovision Song Contest, held in the Tivoli Concert Hall, Copenhagen, with the song Non ho letà, sung by 16-year-old Gigliola Cinquetti. March 24 – John Lennons first book, In His Own Write is published, march 27 – The Beatles occupy the top six spots on the Australian pop chart. March 28 – Wax likenesses of The Beatles are put on display in Londons Madame Tussauds Wax Museum, the Beatles are the first pop stars to be displayed at the museum. April – Drummer Keith Moon joins The Who, April 4 – The Beatles occupy all five top positions on Billboards Hot 100 with their singles Cant Buy Me Love, Twist and Shout, She Loves You, I Want to Hold Your Hand, and Please Please Me. April 11 – The Beatles hold 14 positions on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, previously, the highest number of concurrent singles by one artist on the Hot 100 was nine by Elvis Presley, December 19,1956. April 16 – The Rolling Stones release their eponymous début album, may 2 – In the United States, The Beatles Second Album climbs to the #1 spot on the LP charts in only its second week of release
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Al Martino
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Al Martino was an American singer and actor. Jasper Al Cini was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the name Jasper was an anglicisation of his fathers name, Gasparino. His parents were immigrants from Abruzzo, Italy, who ran a construction business, and while growing up, he worked alongside his brothers as a bricklayer. He was inspired to become a singer by emulating artists such as Al Jolson and Perry Como, and by the success of a friend, Alfredo Cocozza. After serving with the United States Navy in World War II, during which he was part of, and injured in, the Iwo Jima invasion, Cini began his singing career. Encouraged by Lanza, he adopted the stage name Al Martino—based on the name of his good friend Lorraine Cianfranis husband Alfred Martin Cianfrani—and began singing in local nightclubs. In 1948, he moved to New York City, recorded some sides for the Jubilee label, as a result, he won a recording contract with the Philadelphia-based independent record label BBS, where he recorded Here in My Heart. Lanzas label RCA Victor had asked him to record the song, the song spent three weeks at No.1 on the US pop charts in June 1952, earning Martino a gold disc, and later in the year, also reached the top of the UK charts. It was number one in the first UK Singles chart, published by the New Musical Express on November 14,1952, putting him into the Guinness Book of World Records. Here in My Heart remained in the top position for nine weeks in the UK, a record for the longest consecutive run at number one, that has only since been beaten by five other songs. The records success led to a deal with Capitol Records, and he released three singles, Take My Heart, Rachel, and When Youre Mine through 1953. However, his success also attracted the attention of the Mafia, after making a down-payment to appease them, he moved to Britain. However, his work received no exposure back in the US, in 1959, Martino signed with 20th Fox Records, his deal scored him two albums, and four singles released, none of which was a major hit. He also made several television appearances, helping to re-establish his visibility. In 1963, he had his biggest U. S. chart success with I Love You Because, arranged by Belford Hendricks, Martinos version went to number three on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, and number one on the Easy Listening chart. The album of the name went top 10 in the Billboard 200. Martino had four other U. S. top 10 hits in 1963 and 1964 - Painted, Tainted Rose, I Love You More and More Every Day, Tears and Roses and he also sang the title song for the 1964 film, Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte. One of his biggest hits was Spanish Eyes, achieving several gold, recorded in 1965, the song reached number five on the UK Singles chart when reissued in 1973
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Nora Aunor
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Nora Aunor is a Filipino actress, recording artist, and film producer. Aunor has also appeared in stage plays, television shows. She is known as Philippine cinemas Superstar and is regarded as the Peoples National Artist, the Hollywood reporter magazine, called her The Grand Dame of Philippine Cinema for her brilliant performance in the movie Taklub. Aunor started her career in the Philippine entertainment industry as a singer after she won a singing contest. She made her debut with All Over the World and also guested in youth-oriented films produced by Vera-Perez Pictures. Aunor received 17 FAMAS Award nominations and was elevated to the Hall of Fame after winning five Best Actress Awards and she is the most nominated actress of Gawad Urian Awards with 20 nominations, winning seven. She has more nominations as Best Actress than any other Filipino actor in both FAMAS and Gawad Urian award giving bodies, in 1983, Aunor was recognized as one of the The Outstanding Women in the Nation’s Service in the Field of the Arts. In 1999, Aunor received the Centennial Honor for the Arts awarded by the Cultural Center of the Philippines and she was the only film actress included in the list of awardees. In 2010, she was hailed by the Green Planet Movie Awards as one of the 10 Asian Best Actresses of the Decade and she received the Ani ng Dangal Award. From the National Commission for Culture and the Arts in 2013,2014 and 2016, in 2014, Aunor is the recipient of University of the Philippines College of Mass Communications, Gawad Plaridel. On September 17,2015, Aunor was conferred the Gawad CPP para sa Sining for Film and Broadcast Arts, Aunor was born in Baryo San Francisco, Iriga, Camarines Sur to Antonia Cabaltera and Eustacio Villamayor. She has nine siblings, including Eddie Villamayor, a former actor, when Nora was growing up, her grandmother taught her to sing, the first song she learned was The Way of a Clown. An aunt taught her diction, interpretation and expression while singing and took her under their custody, Nora became a champion at the Darigold Jamboree singing contest singing her winning piece You and the Night and the Music. After that she won another singing contest, The Liberty Big Show, Nora entered the national singing contest, Tawag ng Tanghalan, where she was defeated on her first try and became a champion on her second. The Grand National Finals of Tawag ng Tanghalan was on May 29,1967, Nora went to Mabini Memorial College when she was in grade I and transferred to Nichols Air Base Elementary School when she reached grade II. Aunor was married to award-winning actor Christopher de Leon on Jan,25,1975, in a civil ceremony. She and De León have one child, actor Ian de León in 1975, they also have adopted children Lotlot De Leon Matet de Leon, Kiko and she and her husband renewed their vows on January 27,1976, in a religious service officiated by Rev Alleysius Rodríguez. The couple separated, and their marriage was dissolved in 1996, Aunor became a permanent resident of the United States in 2008, but retains her Philippine citizenship
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1971 in music
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List of notable events in music that took place in the year 1971. February 1 – After months of feuding in the press, Ginger Baker, february 3 - Davy Jones announces he is leaving the Monkees. February 8 – Bob Dylans hour-long documentary film, Eat the Document, is premièred at New Yorks Academy of Music, the film includes footage from Dylans 1966 UK tour. March 1 – The line-up for Queen is completed when bassist John Deacon joins the band, march 4 – The Rolling Stones open their UK tour in Newcastle upon Tyne, intended as a farewell to the UK prior to the bands relocation to France as tax exiles. March 5 – Ulster Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland, sees the first live performance of Led Zeppelins iconic song Stairway to Heaven, march 6 - The Soul to Soul concert takes place in Accra, Ghana, headlined by Wilson Pickett. March 12-13 – The Allman Brothers Band records its live album, march 16 – The 13th Grammy Awards, honoring musical accomplishments of 1970, are presented. The ceremonies are broadcast on television for the first time. April 3 – The 16th Eurovision Song Contest, held in the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, is won by Monaco with the song Un Banc, Un Arbre, Une Rue sung by Séverine. April 6 – The Rolling Stones hold a party in Cannes to officially announce their new contract with Atlantic, may 12 – Mick Jagger marries Bianca de Macías in Saint-Tropez, France, in a Roman Catholic ceremony. Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and their wives are among the wedding guests, june - Rafael Kubelík becomes music director of the Metropolitan Opera, New York, at the invitation of Göran Gentele, the new general manager. June 6 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono join Frank Zappa on stage at the Fillmore East for an encore jam, the performance would be released the following year on the Some Time in New York City album. June 8 - Carole King gives her first live concert, at Carnegie Hall, june 20-24 – The first Glastonbury Festival to take place at the summer solstice is held in South West England. Performers include David Bowie, Traffic, Fairport Convention, Quintessence, june 27 – Promoter Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East in New York City with a final concert featuring The Allman Brothers Band, The Beach Boys and Mountain. July 3 – Jim Morrison is found dead in a tub in Paris, France. Alain Ronay would claim, years later, that he assisted Morrisons lover, Pamela Courson, july 4 – The Fillmore West is closed in San Francisco with a final show featuring Santana, Creedence Clearwater Revival and The Grateful Dead. July 9 – Grand Funk Railroad becomes only the band to perform a sold-out concert at Shea Stadium breaking The Beatles record of selling out the venue. The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour premieres on CBS, august 14 - The Who release their fifth studio album Whos Next, reaching No.1 in the UK and No.1 in the US. September 11 – The Jackson 5ive, a Saturday morning cartoon based on the popular Motown group The Jackson 5
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Alison Krauss
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Alison Maria Krauss is an American bluegrass-country singer and musician. She entered the industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in 1987 and she was invited to join the band with which she still performs, Alison Krauss and Union Station, and later released her first album with them as a group in 1989. She has released fourteen albums, appeared on soundtracks. She is the most awarded singer and the most awarded female artist in Grammy history, at the time of her first, the 1991 Grammy Awards, she was the second-youngest winner. Alison Maria Krauss was born in Decatur, Illinois, to Fred and her father was a German immigrant who came to the United States in 1952 and taught his native language. Her mother, of German and Italian descent, is the daughter of artists, Krauss grew up in the college town of Champaign, home to the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. She began studying violin at age five but soon switched to bluegrass. Krauss said she first became involved with music because mother tried to find interesting things for me to do and wanted to get me involved in music, in addition to art and sports. At the age of eight she started entering talent contests. At 13 she won the Walnut Valley Festival Fiddle Championship, and she was also called Virtuoso by Vanity Fair Magazine. Krauss first met Dan Tyminski around 1984 at a festival held by the Society, Every current member of her band, Union Station, first met her at these festivals. Krauss made her debut in 1985 on the independent album, Different Strokes, featuring her brother Viktor Krauss, Swamp Weiss. From the age of 12 she performed with bassist and songwriter John Pennell in a band called Silver Rail, Pennell later changed the bands name to Union Station after another band was discovered with the name Silver Rail. Pennell remains one of her favorite songwriters and wrote some of her work including the popular Every Time You Say Goodbye. Later that year, she signed to Rounder Records, and in 1987, at 16, Krauss debut solo album was quickly followed by her first group album with Union Station in 1989, Two Highways. The album includes the traditional tunes Wild Bill Jones and Beaumont Rag, Krauss contract with Rounder required her to alternate between releasing a solo album and an album with Union Station, and she released the solo album Ive Got That Old Feeling in 1990. It was her first album to rise onto the Billboard charts, Krauss second Union Station album Every Time You Say Goodbye was released in 1992, and she went on to win her second Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album of the year
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Official Charts Company
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The OCC is operated jointly by the British Phonographic Industry and the Entertainment Retailers Association. Since 1 July 1997, CIN and then the OCC have compiled the official charts, prior to this date, the charts were produced by a succession of market research companies, beginning with the British Market Research Bureau in 1969, and later by Gallup. All of the OCCs charts are published weekly on Friday nights, from 3 August 1969 until 5 July 2015, the chart week ran from Sunday to Saturday. Genre-specific charts include UK Dance Chart, UK Indie Chart, UK R&B Chart, UK Rock Chart, the Scottish Singles and Albums Charts ― and the former Welsh Singles and Albums Chart ― appears in listings within the Official Charts Company. It is a regional listing reflecting how sales towards the UK Singles Chart, the Welsh Singles and Album Chart served the same purpose in Wales. It also charts the UK DVD Chart and UK Budget Album Chart, while their music charts are now Friday to Thursday, their video charts remain Sunday to Saturday. On 5 September 2008, the Official UK Charts Company rebranded itself as the Official Charts Company and it later dropped the word Company and became just Official Charts. From May 2012, a new chart was launched – the Official Streaming Chart and this counts audio streams from streaming services Spotify, Deezer, Blinkbox Music, Napster, amongst others. In April 2015, the UKs first vinyl record chart was launched by the Official Charts Company due to the surge of interest in the sector. The chart was launched following the growth of the sector in the UK for the year in a row. Beginning in 2017 the Official Charts Company changed its methodology for calculating the Top 40, prior to January 2017,100 streams counted as one sale of a song. From January onward, the ratio became 150,1, UK Albums Chart UK Singles Chart UK Video Charts UK Singles Downloads Chart UK Album Downloads Chart British Phonographic Industry Official Charts Company website
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Grandma, What Great Songs You Sang!
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Grandma, What Great Songs You Sang. is the debut studio album by American pop and country artist Brenda Lee. The album was released on August 3,1959 on Decca Records and was produced by Owen Bradley, the album was Brenda Lees only studio album released during the 1950s. Grandma, What Great Songs You Sang. was recorded in two sessions in January 1959 at the Bradley Film and Recording Studio. The sessions took place on January 4 and January 26, the album consisted of twelve separate tracks of material, many of which were cover versions of previously recorded songs. The opening track entitled Some of These Days, written by Shelton Brooks, was composed in 1910. The album was released on an LP record, which contained six songs on each side of the record. The album has never reissued on compact disc in the United States. Four decades later, Grandma, What Great Songs You Sang. was reviewed by Allmusic and received three and a half out of five stars, without an official review provided
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Brenda Lee (album)
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Brenda Lee is the second studio album by American pop and country artist Brenda Lee. The album was released August 1,1960 on Decca Records and was produced by Owen Bradley, the albums second single Sweet Nothins became Lees first major hit single on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking within the Top 10. This was followed by the third single Im Sorry released the year that became her first single to top the Billboard Hot 100. Brenda Lee was prepared in four sessions between 1958 and 1960 all at the Bradley Film and Recording Studio. The first session took place October 19,1958, followed by a session on August 13,1959. The final session took one day later on March 28,1960. Like her previous release, the album contained twelve tracks, two tracks were stereo remakes of her earliest singles, her cover of Hank Williamss Jambalaya, which was Lees first single in 1956, and her 1957 single Dynamite. The second track entitled Weep No More Baby was written by John D. Loudermilk, the ninth track Thats All You Gotta Do was written by country artist Jerry Reed, which was released as the B-side to Lees 1960 single Im Sorry. The album was released in the U. S. in monaural and stereo versions on an LP record, containing six songs on the first side of the record. The album has never reissued on a compact disc in the United States, but it has been released in this format in Argentina. The albums first single Lets Jump the Broomstick was released in April 1959, while it did not chart in the United States, the track did chart in the United Kingdom, peaking at #12 on the UK Singles Chart. Sweet Nothins was released as the official second single in September 1959, becoming her first single to reach the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100. In addition, the song reached the same position on the UK Singles Chart. The third and final single released was Im Sorry, which became Lees first song to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, Im Sorrys B-side also gained significant radio airplay in 1960 and the song entitled Thats All You Gotta Do peaked at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100. Both the songs Sweet Nothins and Thats All You Gotta Do also peaked within the Top 10 and 20 on the Billboard R&B music chart in 1960, reaching #12 and #19 respectively. Brenda Lee was officially released on August 1,1960, peaking at #5 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, becoming one of three albums released to peak within the Top 10 on the Billboard 200 list
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This Is...Brenda
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This Is. Brenda is the third studio album by American pop and country artist Brenda Lee. The album was released on October 10,1960 on Decca Records and was produced by Owen Bradley, the release was Brenda Lees second studio album released during 1960 and contained the single I Want to Be Wanted, which became a number one single on the Billboard Hot 100. This Is. Brenda was recorded between March 1960 and September 1960 in six separate sessions that took place at the Bradley Film and Recording Studio in Nashville, Tennessee, the album contained twelve tracks, a series of which were cover versions of previously recorded country and pop songs. The opening track When My Dreamboat Comes Home was a song recorded in 1956, followed by the track Teach Me Tonight. In addition, there is also a version of Ray Charless Hallelujah, I Love Him So and If I Didnt Care. Richie Unterberger of Allmusic called the track I Want to Be Wanted to sound neither country or pop and he also said that the rock and roll side of her was represented by a series of cover versions of previously recorded rock and roll songs. Unterberger gave the four out of five stars, stating. This Is. Brenda was originally released as an LP record, with six songs on the first side of the record, the album has been reissued on a compact disc in both the United Kingdom and Argentina. This Is. Brenda spawned its lead single in September 1960 entitled I Want to Be Wanted, the albums second track. The single became Lees second and final song to number one on the Billboard Hot 100, while also peaking at #7 on the Billboard R&B singles chart. In addition, the singles B-side track entitled Just a Little gained significant radio airplay, the album itself was issued on October 10,1960 and peaked at #4 on the Billboard 200 albums chart upon initial release, becoming Lees highest-charting album on that chart. It would also be one of three albums to place within the Billboard 200 Top 10
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Emotions (Brenda Lee album)
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Emotions is the fourth studio album by American pop and country artist Brenda Lee. The album was released April 3,1961 on Decca Records and was produced by Owen Bradley and it was one of two studio albums released by Lee in 1961 and its title track spawned from the album became a Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 the same year. Emotions was recorded in seven sessions between August 16,1960 and January 19,1961 all at the Bradley Film and Recording Studio located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Like Lees previously released This Is. Brenda, the albums production mixed the sounds of Rockabilly with the Nashville Sound production, seven of the albums twelve tracks were cover versions. The albums eighth track Will You Love Me Tomorrow was a remake of the single by The Shirelles, while Unterberger found that the songs seemed to be on the filler side, he still felt that Lee brought commitment to each and every one of her vocals. Also included on the album was two songs co-written by American country artist Mel Tillis, Emotions and Crazy Talk, Emotions was issued originally as an LP record upon its initial release, with six songs on each side of the record. The album has been reissued and released on a disc in the United Kingdom. While also reaching #45 on the UK Singles Chart, the album was officially released on April 3,1961 on Decca Records and peaked at #24 on the Billboard 200 album chart, becoming Lees first album not to peak in the Billboard 200 Top 10
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All the Way (Brenda Lee album)
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All the Way is the fifth studio album by American pop and country artist Brenda Lee. The album was released August 7,1961 on Decca Records and was produced by Owen Bradley.3 on the UK singles chart. All the Way was recorded in four separate recording sessions at the Bradley Film and Recording Studio, beginning on August 16,1960, the album contained twelve tracks of material, seven of which were cover versions of previously recorded songs. The albums cover versions included Kansas City, first recorded by Little Willie Littlefield and it also included a cover version of Ray Charless Talkin About You and On the Sunny Side of the Street. Songwriter Ronnie Self, who had written other songs by Lee. Allmusics Richie Unterberger praised the production, calling it a pretty good record. And it was appreciated by listeners at the time, the making the Top 20. All the Way was released originally as an LP record, containing six songs on side of the record. The album was reissued on a disc in both the United Kingdom and Russia. All the Way spawned its lead single in June 1961 entitled Dum Dum, the song became Lees seventh consecutive Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #4, while also reaching #22 on the UK Singles Chart. The singles B-side Eventually also gained significant radio airplay and peaked at #56 on the Billboard Hot 100 around the time of the singles release to radio. All the Way was officially released on August 7,1961 on Decca Records and peaked at #17 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, the album also became Lees first album to chart in the United Kingdom, peaking at #20 on the UK Albums Chart
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Sincerely, Brenda Lee
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Sincerely, Brenda Lee is the sixth studio album by American pop and country artist Brenda Lee. The album was released February 12,1962 on Decca Records and was produced by Owen Bradley and it was the first of two studio albums released by Brenda Lee in 1962 and did not spawn any singles. Sincerely, Brenda Lee was recorded in five sessions at the Bradley Film and Recording Studio in Nashville, Tennessee. The first session began on January 8,1961 and the last session took place on October 28,1961, the album consisted of twelve tracks of material of previously recorded Pop music standards. It includes covers of Lazy River and Fools Rush In and it also includes a cover of Hold Me, which would later become a major Pop hit in 1964 for P. J. Proby. Unlike any of Lees previous releases for the Decca label, the album did not contain any uptempo numbers that resembled that of Rock, richie Unterberger of Allmusic found that the album did not add much versatility because of this missing element. Unterberger reviewed the album and gave it three out of five stars, calling it, one of the more forgettable albums from her prime, of only to big fans. Unterberger also stated, It wasnt unknown for rock singers to make albums dominated by adult-oriented material in an attempt to broaden their appeal, and Lee could sing this kind of stuff well. The problem was that the record featured almost nothing but these kind of songs, most of them taken at a slow tempo, the album did not receive any other reviews. Sincerely, Brenda Lee was originally released as an LP record, containing six songs on the records A-side, the album has since be reissued in the United Kingdom on a compact disc. Sincerely, Brenda Lee was officially released on February 12,1962 on Decca Records, the album did not spawn any singles mainly because all of the albums tracks were cover versions
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Brenda, That's All
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Brenda, Thats All is the seventh studio album by American pop and country artist Brenda Lee. The album was released October 15,1962 on Decca Records and was produced by Owen Bradley and it was the second of two studio albums released in 1962 and spawned two Top 10 hit singles on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1962 and 1963. Brenda, Thats All was recorded in separate recording sessions at the Bradley Film and Recording Studio in Nashville, Tennessee, the sessions began on March 8,1962 and ended on August 9,1962. Like her previous releases, the album contained tracks of material. It included cover versions of Marvin Rainwaters Gonna Find Me a Bluebird, the track that would eventually be released as a single entitled Fool #1 was recorded by Loretta Lynn shortly before Lees recording of the song. The albums tracks consisted of a variety of styles, including pop, R&B. The album received three and a half stars from Allmusic, unterberger stated, The whole album is impressively sung and immaculately produced, in fact, in common with much of what Lee recorded under Owen Bradleys direction. The album was released as an LP record with six songs included on each side of the record. The album was reissued on compact disc in the United Kingdom and was reissued on an extended play in Argentina. The lead single released from the album was the track entitled You Can Depend on Me. Released in April 1961, the became a Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #6. Its B-side also gained significant airplay and reached #1 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, the second track of the album entitled Fool #1 was released as the second and final single from the album. Released in September 1961, the song reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming her eighth Top 10 single, while peaking at #38 on the UK Singles Chart in the United Kingdom
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All Alone Am I (album)
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All Alone Am I is the eighth studio album by American pop and country artist Brenda Lee. The album was released February 18,1963 on Decca Records and was produced by Owen Bradley, the album was the first of two studio albums released in 1963 and the albums title track became a Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. All Alone Am I is a song from 1962 popularized by the American singer Brenda Lee, later, a new version of the song with English lyrics was produced by Owen Bradley and appeared as the title track on one of Lees albums. The song is written in the key of F major, All Alone Am I was recorded in four separate sessions at the Bradley Film and Recording Studio in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. The first session began August 9,1962 and the session took place December 12,1962. All Alone Am I contained twelve tracks and many of which were versions of previously recorded pop music standards. It included cover versions of Tony Bennetts I Left My Heart in San Francisco, Cole Porters Its All Right with Me, unterberger gave the album three out of five stars, calling it one of the less imaginative and interesting of her early albums. The album was released on an LP record, containing six songs on the A-side of the record. The album has never reissued on a compact disc in the United States. In addition, the album is available on extended play in the United States. All Alone Am I spawned its title track as the first single, released in September 1962, the single reached No.3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and became Lees first single to chart on the Billboard Easy Listening chart, reaching No.1 in late-1962. The All Alone Am I album itself was released on February 18,1963 on Decca Records
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Gospel Duets with Treasured Friends
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Gospel Duets with Treasured Friends is an album by American pop and country artist Brenda Lee. The album was released April 10,2007 on Provident Music and it features several duets of Brenda Lee with other known artists. Brenda Lee, who was born in Atlanta, Georgia, thought about recording a Gospel album, since she grew up in the church, according to her, Gospel music is her heritage and roots in music. All of the chosen for the album are songs she grew up with. As she started recording, she decided to invite some artist friends to sing with her, Provident Music liked the idea and they decided to do it. According to Brenda Lee, all the friends she called agreed to appear on the album and it just all came together perfectly. The album was nominated to a Dove Award for Country Album of the Year at the 39th GMA Dove Awards, Gospel Duets with Treasured Friends on Amazon. com Brenda Lee Interview on Country Stars Central
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Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
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Jambalaya is a song written and recorded by American country music singer Hank Williams that was first released in July 1952. Named for a Creole and Cajun dish, jambalaya, it spawned numerous cover versions and has achieved popularity in several different music genres. Williams song resembles Grand Texas in melody only, the narrator leaves to pole a pirogue down the shallow water of the bayou, to attend a party with his girlfriend Yvonne and her family. At the feast they have Cajun cuisine, notably Jambalaya, crawfish pie and filé gumbo, Yvonne is his ma cher amio, which is Cajun French for my good friend or more likely to mean my girlfriend. Technically in Cajun culture ma cher amio means my dear, which refers to Yvonne his sweetest in this song. Interestingly, the recording Williams made differs significantly from Mullicans, since the original melody of the song was from Grand Texas, the song is a staple of Cajun culture. The broader audience related to Jambalaya in a way that it could never relate to a true cajun two-step led by an asthmatic accordian and sung in patois. The song is set in the key of G major, moving between a bass of C, G, and E. Released in July 1952, it reached number one on the U. S. country charts for fourteen non-consecutive weeks. After Williams released his version, Cajuns recorded the song again using Cajun instruments, however, they used Williams lyrics translated into the Cajun French language. Jambalaya remains one of Hank Williams most popular songs today, international, translated or derived versions do exist at least in Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, French, Italian, Polish German, Spanish and Estonian. A demo version of Williams singing Jambalaya with just his guitar, Williams composed a sequel to the song from the female perspective, Im Yvonne, with Jimmy Rule, recorded by Goldie Hill. As with Jambalaya there is speculation that Williams may have purchased this song from Mullican, a version of the song was recorded by Jo Stafford in 1952, reaching #3 on the Billboard pop charts. Mitch Miller had originally intended Jambalaya to be recorded by Jimmy Boyd for Columbia Records, Boyd turned the song down and Miller recorded it with Jo Stafford. Homer and Jethro recorded it for RCA Victor in 1952, a recording by The Tanner Sisters with an orchestra and conductor Don Carlos was made in London on September 25,1952. It was released by EMI on the His Masters Voice label as catalog number B10418, kitty Wells recorded it for Decca in 1960. Jimmy Boyd recorded it for Dot Records, drifting Cowboy steel guitarist Don Helms released his own instrumental version in 1962. Ex-Hong Kong female singer, CHANG Loo, covered this song twice, the first version was covered in Mandarin Chinese entirely, under title name of 小癩痲 in the mid-1950s. The second one was covered, in alternate English and Mandarin Chinese, the song was Brenda Lees first single in 1956
