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Album
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Album, is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century, first as books of individual 78rpm records, vinyl LPs are still issued, though in the 21st century album sales have mostly focused on compact disc and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used from the late 1970s through to the 1990s alongside vinyl, an album may be recorded in a recording studio, in a concert venue, at home, in the field, or a mix of places. Recording may take a few hours to years to complete, usually in several takes with different parts recorded separately. Recordings that are done in one take without overdubbing are termed live, the majority of studio recordings contain an abundance of editing, sound effects, voice adjustments, etc. With modern recording technology, musicians can be recorded in separate rooms or at times while listening to the other parts using headphones. Album covers and liner notes are used, and sometimes additional information is provided, such as analysis of the recording, historically, the term album was applied to a collection of various items housed in a book format. In musical usage the word was used for collections of pieces of printed music from the early nineteenth century. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, the LP record, or 33 1⁄3 rpm microgroove vinyl record, is a gramophone record format introduced by Columbia Records in 1948. It was adopted by the industry as a standard format for the album. Apart from relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound capability, the term album had been carried forward from the early nineteenth century when it had been used for collections of short pieces of music. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, as part of a trend of shifting sales in the music industry, some commenters have declared that the early 21st century experienced the death of the album. Sometimes shorter albums are referred to as mini-albums or EPs, Albums such as Tubular Bells, Amarok, Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield, and Yess Close to the Edge, include fewer than four tracks. There are no rules against artists such as Pinhead Gunpowder referring to their own releases under thirty minutes as albums. These are known as box sets, material is stored on an album in sections termed tracks, normally 11 or 12 tracks. A music track is a song or instrumental recording. The term is associated with popular music where separate tracks are known as album tracks. When vinyl records were the medium for audio recordings a track could be identified visually from the grooves
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Olivia Newton-John
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Olivia Newton-John, AO, OBE is a British-Australian singer, songwriter and actress. She is a four-time Grammy award winner who has amassed five number-one and ten other Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 singles, eleven of her singles and fourteen of her albums have been certified gold by the RIAA. She has sold an estimated 100 million records worldwide, making her one of the worlds best-selling artists of all time and she starred in Grease, which featured one of the most successful soundtracks in Hollywood history. Newton-John has been a long-time activist for environmental and animal rights issues, since surviving breast cancer in 1992, she has been an advocate for health awareness becoming involved with various charities, health products and fundraising efforts. Her business interests have included launching several product lines for Koala Blue and she is the mother of one daughter, Chloe Rose Lattanzi, with her first husband, actor Matt Lattanzi. Her second husband is John Easterling, Newton-John was born in Cambridge, England, to Irene Helene, the eldest child of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Max Born and Welsh father, Brinley Bryn Newton-John. Her mothers family had left Germany before World War II to avoid the Nazi regime and she is a third cousin of comedian Ben Elton. Her maternal great-grandfather was jurist Victor Ehrenberg and her matrilineal great-grandmothers father was jurist Rudolf von Jhering. Newton-John is the youngest of three children, following brother Hugh, a doctor, and sister Rona, an actress who was married to Grease co-star Jeff Conaway from 1980 until their divorce in 1985. Newton-Johns father was an MI5 officer on the Enigma project at Bletchley Park who took Rudolf Hess into custody during the Second World War. In 1954, when she was six, Newton-Johns family emigrated to Melbourne, Australia and she attended Christ Church Grammar School, and then University High School, adjacent to Ormond College. At fourteen, Newton-John formed a short-lived all-girl group, Sol Four and she became a regular on local Australian radio and television shows including HSV-7s The Happy Show where she performed as Lovely Livvy. She also appeared on the Go Show where she met future partner, Pat Carroll. Newton-John was initially reluctant to use the prize she had won, a trip to Britain, Newton-John recorded her first single, Till You Say Youll Be Mine Forever, in Britain for Decca Records in 1966. While in Britain, Newton-John missed her then-boyfriend, Ian Turpie, with whom she had co-starred in the Australian telefilm, Newton-John repeatedly booked trips back to Australia that her mother subsequently cancelled. Newton-Johns outlook changed when Pat Carroll also moved to the UK, the two formed a duo called Pat and Olivia and toured nightclubs in Europe. After Carrolls visa expired forcing her to return to Australia, Newton-John remained in Britain to pursue solo work until 1975 and she became engaged to The Shadows guitarist Bruce Welch, but they never married. Newton-John was recruited for the group Toomorrow formed by American producer Don Kirshner, in 1970, the group starred in a science fiction musical film and recorded an accompanying soundtrack album both named after the group
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Country pop
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Country pop is a subgenre of country music and pop music that was developed by members of the Country genre out of a desire to reach a larger, mainstream audience. It is a continuation of efforts that began in the late 1950s originally known as Nashville sound. By the mid-1970s, many artists were transitioning to the pop-country sound which led to some records charting high on mainstream top 40 as well as country Billboard charts. According to Bill Ivey, this genre originated in Nashville, Tennessee. He believes that the Nashville Sound often produced records that sounded more pop than country, after the removal of the fiddle, Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves, and Eddy Arnold were among the most popular artists during this time. This was intended to have country singers gain more success in pop music, the first male artists to come out of this new genre were Jim Reeves and Eddy Arnold, who both grew to have widespread acceptance among both country and pop music listeners. Both Jim Reeves and Eddy Arnold had major influence on their RCA labelmate Elvis Presley, apparent not only in secular songs, the first female country singer to emerge from this new genre was Patsy Cline in the early 1960s. The example she created was followed by female country artists, such as Lynn Anderson, Crystal Gayle and Shania Twain. Country pop found its first widespread acceptance during the 1970s and it started when pop music singers, like Glen Campbell, John Denver, Olivia Newton-John and Anne Murray, began having hits on the country charts. Songs like Campbells Rhinestone Cowboy were among the biggest crossover hits in country music history and these pop-oriented singers thought that they could gain higher record sales and a larger audience if they crossed over into the country world. One of the artists who did this was Olivia Newton-John, who emerged from Australia in the mid-1970s, a group of artists, troubled by this trend, formed the Association of Country Entertainers in 1974. The debate raged into 1975, and reached its apex at that years Country Music Association Awards when reigning Entertainer of the Year Charlie Rich presented the award to his successor, as he read Denvers name, Rich set fire to the envelope with a cigarette lighter. The action was taken in some quarters as a protest against the pop style in country music. However, the ACE would only last two years, its two biggest backers, firm traditionalists George Jones and Tammy Wynette, faced a bitter divorce. In 1979 Barbara Mandrell had her highest crossover hit with her number 1 song I Dont Want to Be Right It charted number 31 on the Billboard Top 40, several of her other hits charted well on the adult contemporary charts and the Bubbling under 100 charts. Mandrell also did countrypolitan style music on her Barbara Mandrell & the Mandrell Sisters show and she had R & B artists, pop artists and country artists featured every week. It was the last successful musical variety show on TV and she is also known for her Blue-Eyed Soul sound. She was given the nickname The Princess of Steel, for her ability at the steel guitar and she was one of country musics most successful crossover artists during the 1970s and 1980s
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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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EMI Music Japan
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EMI Music Japan Inc. was one of Japans leading music companies. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of British music company EMI Group Ltd. in June 30,2007 after Toshiba sold off its previous 45% stake and its CEO and president was Kazuhiko Koike. When EMI Music Japan was trading as Toshiba-EMI, it was involved with the production of anime, on April 1,2013, the company became defunct, following its absorption into Universal Music Japan as a sublabel under the name EMI Records Japan. The company was founded on October 1,1960, as Toshiba Musical Industries, from 1962, it licensed Columbia titles for release in Japan. After an injection of capital by Capitol EMI, EMI acquired 50% of the company in October 1973, on October 3,1994, the equity ratio of the company was changed, in which EMI obtained 55% with Toshiba owning the remaining 45%. On June 30,2007, Toshiba Corporation sold the remaining 45% stake in the company to EMI, the name was then changed to EMI Music Japan, reflecting Toshibas divestiture from the business. On April 1,2013, EMI Music Japan was officially absorbed into Universal Music Japan, the label continued to use the TOCT catalog code until October 2013, when it started to use the TYCT catalog code. The official website has shut down as of October 23,2013. After the dissolution and absorption, some of the former EMI staffs, then-executive producer San-e Ichii has been the managing director of Japan Content Expansion Department. Kazuhiko Koike has stepped down from his position as CEO by the end of 2013, nine months after the merger and he was replaced by Naoshi Fujikura. EMI Music Japans present slogan is Music for all, All for music, TM Factory Unlimited Records List of record labels Youmex Official website— 50th Anniversary of EMI Music Japan website—
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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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Xanadu (soundtrack)
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Xanadu is the soundtrack of the 1980 musical film of the same name, featuring the Australian singer Olivia Newton-John and the British group Electric Light Orchestra. The original LP release featured on one the songs of Newton-John. In 2008 the soundtrack album was remastered as a bonus CD as part of the films DVD release entitled Xanadu - Magical Musical Edition. Although the film was a critical and commercial disappointment, the soundtrack was a success and received positive reviews from music critics going double platinum in the US. The hit singles Magic and Xanadu, peaked at one in the United States and United Kingdom. Both singles also went to one in the Netherlands and Italy, respectively. It was the 5th most popular US soundtrack in 1981, the soundtrack featured songs on side one by the films star, Olivia Newton-John, written by her long-time producer, John Farrar. The songs on side two were written and performed by ELO, the title track which closed side two featured Newton-John as lead vocalist. The Newton-John side also featured Cliff Richard, The Tubes and Gene Kelly, at the time of the albums release, Olivia Newton-John was signed to MCA Records, while ELO were signed to Jet Records. A compromise was worked out between the two companies in that the album was released on MCA in the US and Canada, side one All songs on side one written by John Farrar. Im Alive –3,46 The Fall –3,34 Dont Walk Away –4,48 All Over the World –4,04 Xanadu –3,28 Duet with Olivia Newton-John
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Physical (album)
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Physical is the ninth full-length studio album by British-Australian singer-songwriter Olivia Newton-John, released on 13 October 1981 by MCA Records. The album was produced and partly written by her record producer John Farrar. Recorded and mixed at David J. Holmans studio in Hollywood, California, Physical became one of Newton-Johns most controversial and sexual records, musically, the album features considerable use of synthesizers and explores lyrical themes such as love and relationships, sex, kinesthetics and environmental protection. Upon its release, the album received positive reviews from music critics. The album charted high in several countries, including the United States, Japan and Newton-Johns native Australia and it also ranks among the best-selling albums by Australian solo artists, selling more than ten million copies worldwide. The albums title track was a phenomenon, staying ten weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100, at the time. The song and its video were controversial, having been banned or edited by several radio stations. The single was followed by Make a Move on Me, another top worldwide hit, Landslide, which failed to enter the majority of musical charts, had a music video featuring Newton-Johns boyfriend Matt Lattanzi, to whom she had dedicated the album. A video compilation, Olivia Physical, was produced, featuring videos of all songs from the album. The material was a commercial and critical success, and earned Newton-John a Grammy Award for Video of the Year, the album was promoted with Newton-Johns 1982 North American Physical Tour, performances from which a home video entitled Olivia in Concert was produced. The Physical era marked the height of Newton-Johns solo career, gaining her wide acclaim as one of the most successful artists of the early 1980s. In 1978, Newton-John starred as the lead, Sandy, in the musical film Grease. Before the film, Newton-John was known for pop and adult contemporary songs. Later that same year, Newton-John released the studio album Totally Hot, Physical was recorded and released in 1981, marking the longest gap between Newton-John studio albums at the time, from 1971 to 1978, she recorded at least one studio album per year. Newton-John feared that she could be overexposed with many works released in a short period, Physical followed Newton-Johns new image, perceived as a more sexualized and mature record. It also marked her first studio album without any country tracks, the new music style generated some criticism from the country-music community and Newton-Johns old fans, in a Billboard article, she said, You might lose a few fans but you gain others. You have to do whats comfortable, ive gotten the confidence to be more adventurous whereas in the past I didnt think it was the time. The lead single Physical was written by Terry Shaddick and Newton-Johns longtime friend Steve Kipner, when Newton-Johns then-manager Lee Kramer accidentally heard the demo, he immediately sent the song to her, but initially she didnt want to release the song because it was too cheeky
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Japan
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Japan is a sovereign island nation in Eastern Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies off the eastern coast of the Asia Mainland and stretches from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea, the kanji that make up Japans name mean sun origin. 日 can be read as ni and means sun while 本 can be read as hon, or pon, Japan is often referred to by the famous epithet Land of the Rising Sun in reference to its Japanese name. Japan is an archipelago consisting of about 6,852 islands. The four largest are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku, the country is divided into 47 prefectures in eight regions. Hokkaido being the northernmost prefecture and Okinawa being the southernmost one, the population of 127 million is the worlds tenth largest. Japanese people make up 98. 5% of Japans total population, approximately 9.1 million people live in the city of Tokyo, the capital of Japan. Archaeological research indicates that Japan was inhabited as early as the Upper Paleolithic period, the first written mention of Japan is in Chinese history texts from the 1st century AD. Influence from other regions, mainly China, followed by periods of isolation, from the 12th century until 1868, Japan was ruled by successive feudal military shoguns who ruled in the name of the Emperor. Japan entered into a period of isolation in the early 17th century. The Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937 expanded into part of World War II in 1941, which came to an end in 1945 following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan is a member of the UN, the OECD, the G7, the G8, the country has the worlds third-largest economy by nominal GDP and the worlds fourth-largest economy by purchasing power parity. It is also the worlds fourth-largest exporter and fourth-largest importer, although Japan has officially renounced its right to declare war, it maintains a modern military with the worlds eighth-largest military budget, used for self-defense and peacekeeping roles. Japan is a country with a very high standard of living. Its population enjoys the highest life expectancy and the third lowest infant mortality rate in the world, in ancient China, Japan was called Wo 倭. It was mentioned in the third century Chinese historical text Records of the Three Kingdoms in the section for the Wei kingdom, Wa became disliked because it has the connotation of the character 矮, meaning dwarf. The 倭 kanji has been replaced with the homophone Wa, meaning harmony, the Japanese word for Japan is 日本, which is pronounced Nippon or Nihon and literally means the origin of the sun. The earliest record of the name Nihon appears in the Chinese historical records of the Tang dynasty, at the start of the seventh century, a delegation from Japan introduced their country as Nihon
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Phonograph record
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The groove usually starts near the periphery and ends near the center of the disc. The phonograph disc record was the medium used for music reproduction until late in the 20th century. It had co-existed with the cylinder from the late 1880s. Records retained the largest market share even when new formats such as compact cassette were mass-marketed, by the late 1980s, digital media, in the form of the compact disc, had gained a larger market share, and the vinyl record left the mainstream in 1991. The phonograph record has made a resurgence in the early 21st century –9.2 million records were sold in the U. S. in 2014. Likewise, in the UK sales have increased five-fold from 2009 to 2014, as of 2017,48 record pressing facilities remain worldwide,18 in the United States and 30 in other countries. The increased popularity of vinyl has led to the investment in new, only two producers of lacquers remains, Apollo Masters in California, USA, and MDC in Japan. Vinyl records may be scratched or warped if stored incorrectly but if they are not exposed to heat or broken. The large cover are valued by collectors and artists for the space given for visual expression, in the 2000s, these tracings were first scanned by audio engineers and digitally converted into audible sound. Phonautograms of singing and speech made by Scott in 1860 were played back as sound for the first time in 2008, along with a tuning fork tone and unintelligible snippets recorded as early as 1857, these are the earliest known recordings of sound. In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, unlike the phonautograph, it was capable of both recording and reproducing sound. Despite the similarity of name, there is no evidence that Edisons phonograph was based on Scotts phonautograph. Edison first tried recording sound on a paper tape, with the idea of creating a telephone repeater analogous to the telegraph repeater he had been working on. The tinfoil was wrapped around a metal cylinder and a sound-vibrated stylus indented the tinfoil while the cylinder was rotated. The recording could be played back immediately, Edison also invented variations of the phonograph that used tape and disc formats. A decade later, Edison developed a greatly improved phonograph that used a wax cylinder instead of a foil sheet. This proved to be both a better-sounding and far more useful and durable device, the wax phonograph cylinder created the recorded sound market at the end of the 1880s and dominated it through the early years of the 20th century. Berliners earliest discs, first marketed in 1889, but only in Europe, were 12.5 cm in diameter, both the records and the machine were adequate only for use as a toy or curiosity, due to the limited sound quality
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Take Me Home, Country Roads
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It was first recorded by John Denver and included on his 1971 breakout album, Poems, Prayers & Promises. The song was a success on its release and was certified Gold by the RIAA on August 18,1971. The song became one of John Denvers most popular and beloved songs and it has continued to sell, with over a million digital copies sold in the United States. It is considered to be Denvers signature song, the song also has a prominent status as an iconic symbol of West Virginia, which it describes as almost Heaven, for example, it was played at the funeral memorial for U. S. Senator Robert Byrd in July 2010, in March 2014, it became the official state anthem of West Virginia. Danoff and his then-wife, Mary Nivert, wrote I Guess Hed Rather Be in Colorado and Take Me Home, Country Roads, Danoff has stated he had never been to West Virginia before co-writing the song. Inspiration for the song had come while driving to a reunion of Niverts relatives in nearby Maryland. To pass the time en route, Danoff had made up a ballad about the winding roads they were taking. Later, he changed the story to fit that of an artist friend and he had even briefly considered using Massachusetts rather than West Virginia, as both four-syllable state names would have fitted the songs meter. Starting December 22,1970, John Denver was heading the bill at The Cellar Door, Danoff and Nivert opened for him as a duo named Fat City. After the Tuesday post-Christmas re-opening night, the three headed back to their place for an impromptu jam, on the way, Denvers left thumb was broken in an automobile accident. He was taken to the hospital, where a splint was applied, by the time they got back to the house, he was, in his own words, wired, you know. Danoff and Nivert then told him about the song that they had working on for about a month. They sang the song for Denver and as he recalled, I flipped, the three stayed up until 6,00 a. m. changing words and moving lines around. When they finished, John announced that the song had to go on his next album, the song was premiered December 30,1970, during an encore of Denvers set, with the singers reading the words from a folded piece of paper. This resulted in an ovation, one of the longest in Cellar Door history. They recorded it in New York City in January 1971, Take Me Home, Country Roads appeared on the LP Poems, Prayers & Promises and was released as a 45 in the spring of 1971. Original pressings credited the single to John Denver with Fat City and it broke nationally in mid-April, but moved up the charts very slowly
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The Air That I Breathe
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The Air That I Breathe is a ballad written by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood, initially recorded by Albert Hammond on his 1972 album It Never Rains in Southern California. This song was a hit for The Hollies in early 1974. In the summer of 1974, the reached number six in the United States on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In Canada, the peaked at number five on the RPM Magazine charts. The audio engineering for The Air That I Breathe was done by Alan Parsons and it proved to be the Hollies final charting hit in both the US and UK. The 1992 Radiohead song Creep uses a chord progression and shares some melodic content with The Air That I Breathe. As a result, Hammond and Hazlewood sued Radiohead for plagiarism, the song was first covered by Phil Everly of the Everly Brothers for his 1973 album Star Spangled Springer. Also covered by Cilla Black in 1974 on the album In Your Life, also covered by Olivia Newton-John in 1975 on the album Have You Never Been Mellow. Also recorded by The Shadows in 1975 for their album Specs Appeal, the title appeared on the CD, as bonus track, on Tasty Plus as well on the Magic Records CD Specs Appeal / Tasty. Hank Williams Jr. covered this song on his 1983 album, rex Allen, Jr. recorded a cover version in 1983, releasing his version for the country music market. Allens version peaked at number 37 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in December 1983, julio Iglesias offered his version of the song on 1984s 1100 Bel Air Place. The Beach Boys sang the harmonies on this version. Swedish band Alien covered their arrangement of the song on their eponymous 1988 debut album, judy Collins recorded a cover version in her 1990 album Fires of Eden Portrayed by Bug Hall, Carl Alfalfa Switzer sang the song in The Little Rascals movie. Hollywood glam rock band Spiders and Snakes cover the song on their album Oddities, barry Manilow covered the song on his 1996 album, Summer of 78 Steven Houghton covered the song on his 1997 self-titled album. K. d. lang covered the track on her 1997 album Drag, the song was also covered by Simply Red in 1998 on the album Blue. Jorge González, former leader of the Chilean band Los Prisioneros, the Mavericks covered the song on their self-titled 2003 album. Their version peaked at number 59 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and this song was covered by the group Semisonic and appears on the CD single for Singing in My Sleep. It appears as Air That I Breathe, steve Wynn covers the song on his 1999 album Pick of the Litter
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Love Is Alive (Gary Wright song)
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Love Is Alive is a 1976 song by Gary Wright that was a hit single in the US, reaching No.2 in the Billboard charts. Taken from the album The Dream Weaver, released the year, it features Wright on vocals. The albums title cut and Love is Alive both peaked at No.2 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, Love is Alive spent 27 weeks on the chart, seven weeks longer than Dream Weaver. Billboard ranked Love is Alive as the No.9 song of 1976, in Canada, the song reached No.6. Chaka Khan covered the song as My Love Is Alive on her 1984 album I Feel For You, the track was edited, mixed and co-produced by John Robie. In 1989, New York rap group 3rd Bass sampled Love Is Alive for their song Wordz of Wisdom off their debut full-length album The Cactus Album, a remastered version was released as part of The Best of Joe Cocker Live DVD in 2006. In 1997, dance act 3rd Party recorded the song for their debut album Alive, survivor covered this track on their 1999 album Empires Anastacia included Love Is Alive on her 2000 album Not That Kind. Joan Osborne recorded the song for her album Righteous Love released in 2000 and her version was also used in promotion and on the soundtrack for the film One Night at McCools in 2001. Also in 2001, Vonda Shepard and Anastacia recorded a duet of the track for For Once in My Life, the song is heard briefly in Mr. Deeds, when Babe Bennett enters the pizzeria looking for Deeds. In 2013, Susan Ashton recorded the track for her EP Thief, american folk singer Richie Havens included his own version of Love Is Alive on Wishing Well, a 2002 recording for Evangeline Records. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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John Denver
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He was one of the most popular acoustic artists of the decade and one of its best selling artists. By 1974, he was established as Americas best selling performer. After traveling and living in numerous locations while growing up in his military family, Denver recorded and released approximately 300 songs, about 200 of which he composed, with total record sales of over 33 million. He recorded and performed primarily with a guitar and sang about his joy in nature, his disdain for city life, his enthusiasm for music. Denver starred in films and several television specials in the 1970s and 1980s. He continued to record in the 1990s, also focusing on issues by lending vocal support to space exploration. He lived in Aspen, Colorado for much of his life and was known for his love of Colorado which he sang about numerous times, in 1974 Denver was named poet laureate of the state. The Colorado state legislature also adopted Rocky Mountain High as one of its two songs in 2007. Denver was a pilot and died at the age of 53 in a single-fatality crash of his personal experimental aircraft. Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. was born in Roswell, New Mexico, to Lt. Col. Henry John Deutschendorf, Sr. an Air Force officer, Henry Sr. was of German ancestry, and met and married his Oklahoma Sweetheart. Denvers Irish Catholic and German maternal grandmother was the one who imbued Denver with his love of music. In his autobiography, Take Me Home, Denver described his life as the eldest son of a family shaped by a father who could not show his love for his children. He is also the nephew of singer Dave Deutschendorf of The New Christy Minstrels, because Denvers father was in the military and his family moved often, it was difficult for him to make friends and fit in with other children of his own age. Constantly being the new kid was troubling for the introverted Denver, and he grew up feeling like he should be somewhere else. While living in Tucson, Arizona, Denver was a member of the Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus for two years, Denver was happy living in Tucson, but his father was transferred to Montgomery, Alabama, then in the midst of the Montgomery boycotts. The family later moved to Fort Worth, Texas, where Denver graduated from Arlington Heights High School, attending high school in Fort Worth was a distressing experience for the disenfranchised Denver. In his third year of school, he borrowed his fathers car and ran away to California to visit family friends. His father flew to California in a jet plane to retrieve him
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Albert Hammond
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Albert Louis Hammond, Jr. OBE is a Gibraltarian singer, songwriter, and record producer who grew up in the British Mediterranean territory of Gibraltar. Hammond was born in London, England, which is where his family had evacuated to from Gibraltar during World War II. Shortly after his birth, they returned to Gibraltar, and it is there he grew up, in 1960, he started in music with Gibraltarian band The Diamond Boys, which had no real commercial success, but played a part in Spains introduction to pop and rock music. The Diamond Boys performed at the first nightclubs in Madrid to stage modern bands, alongside Spanish rock, in 1966 Hammond co-founded the British vocal group the Family Dogg, scoring a UK Top 10 hit with A Way of Life in 1969. He also wrote songs for others with frequent collaborator Mike Hazlewood, Hammond also sang on Michael Chapmans fourth album, Wrecked Again, and worked briefly with the Magic Lanterns on recordings of his and Hazlewoods songs and other material. He then moved to the United States, where he continued his career as a musician. However, he enjoyed his greatest commercial success in mainland Europe and he is known for his hits of the 1970s, released on Columbia subsidiary Mums Records, Down by the River – US No.91 It Never Rains in Southern California – US No. No.2 The Free Electric Band – UK No, No.44 Half a Million Miles from Home – US No.87 If You Gotta Break Another Heart – US No.63 The Peacemaker – US No. 80, South Africa No.1 Down by the River – US No.91 I Dont Wanna Die in an Air Disaster – Im a Train – US No, No.3799 Miles from L. A. – US No.91 Written with Carole Bayer Sager, When I Need You was first recorded by Hammond on his 1976 album When I Need You. Produced by Richard Perry, Leo Sayers version made No.1 on the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in February 1977, after three of his singles had stalled at No.2. A hit worldwide, it reached No.1 In Canada, leapy Lee released a version of When I Need You on his first recording since 1970. Hammond had success as a singer-songwriter with his Spanish recordings and his releases on Epic Records allowed him to tour every region of Latin America. It was during this period that he met Manuel Montoya, a CBS Mexico executive, Hammond also scored two hits in the Philippines during 1981. His songs When Im Gone and Your World and My World were popular in the country, with Hal David Hammond co-wrote To All The Girls Ive Loved Before, a hit in 1984 for Julio Iglesias and Willie Nelson. With lyricist John Bettis, Hammond also co-wrote One Moment in Time, in 1991, Hammond co-wrote When You Tell Me That You Love Me, which was recorded by Diana Ross, which reached No.2 in the UK Singles Chart. In 2005, Diana Ross recorded the song again, this time as a duet with Westlife, Again the song reached No.2 in the UK Singles Chart. He wrote several hits for Tina Turner, including I Dont Wanna Lose You, Be Tender With Me Baby, Way of the World, and Love Thing
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Harry Ruby
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Harry Ruby was a Jewish American composer and screenwriter, who was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970. Ruby was born in New York City, Ruby died in Woodland Hills, California and was interred at the Chapel of the Pines in Los Angeles. A good friend of Groucho Marx, Ruby appeared several times on his television program, in his 1972 concert at Carnegie Hall, Marx gave the following introduction before performing a song of Rubys, I have a friend in Hollywood. I think I do, Im not so sure and his name is Harry Ruby and he wrote a lot of songs that Ive sung over the years. 16 men in that orchestra, nine of them are illegitimate children, nine and a half including the director. The tie that you got Didnt cost such a lot And well give you the same tie next year. You tell us it was nice of us to bother But it really was a pleasure to fuss For they say, and you are the one for us. Songs My Mother Never Sang Random House B002B9VFCA The Four Marx Brothers in Monkey Business and Duck Soup Simon & Schuster 978-0671212735 S. J
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Bert Kalmar
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Bert Kalmar was a Jewish American lyricist, who was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970. Kalmar, a native of New York City, left school at an early age and he appeared on stage as a magician, comedian and dancer before switching to songwriting after a knee injury ended his performing career. By this time he had earned enough to start a publishing company, Kalmar and Puck. Together, they wrote the score for the Marx Brothers stage production of Animal Crackers. Their songs were featured in the Marx Brothers films Horse Feathers. Kalmars partnership with Ruby was portrayed in the 1950 MGM musical Three Little Words, starring Fred Astaire, Kalmar did, however, occasionally work with Oscar Hammerstein II, Ted Snyder and other songwriters. Bert Kalmar was married to Jessie Brown, with whom he had two children and he died in Los Angeles, California and was interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California. 1923, Kalmar and Rubys first big hit, I Wanna Be Loved by You 1928, a hit for Helen Kane, known as the Boop-boop-a-doop girl, and sung by Marilyn Monroe in the film Some Like It Hot. I Love You So Much 1928 Three Little Words 1930, their biggest hit, nevertheless 1931, a hit for both Bing Crosby and Rudy Vallee, later done by The Mills Brothers and Frank Sinatra. Im Against It, I Always Get My Man and Everyone Says I Love You from Horsefeathers 1932, Hail, Hail Fredonia from Duck Soup,1933. What A Perfect Combination 1932, lyrics by Kalmar and Irving Caesar, music by Ruby and Harry Akst, a Kiss to Build a Dream On 1935, their last hit
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Gary Wright
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Wrights breakthrough album, The Dream Weaver, came after he had spent seven years in London as, alternately, a member of the British heavy rock band Spooky Tooth and a solo artist on A&M Records. His work since the late 1980s has embraced world music and the new age genre, a former child actor, Wright performed on Broadway in the hit musical Fanny before studying medicine and then psychology in New York and Berlin. After meeting Chris Blackwell of Island Records in Europe, Wright moved to London and he also served as the bands principal songwriter on their recordings – among them, the well-regarded albums Spooky Two and You Broke My Heart So I Busted Your Jaw. His solo album Footprint, recorded with contributions from Harrison, coincided with the formation of Wrights short-lived band Wonderwheel, Wright turned to film soundtrack work in the early 1980s, which led to him re-recording his most popular song, Dream Weaver, for the 1992 comedy Waynes World. Following Spooky Tooths reunion tour in 2004, Wright has performed frequently, either as a member of Starrs All-Starr Band, with his own live band. Wrights most recent solo albums, including Waiting to Catch the Light, in 2014, Penguin Random House published his autobiography, titled Dream Weaver, Music, Meditation, and My Friendship with George Harrison. Gary Wright was born and raised in Cresskill, New Jersey, a child actor, he made his TV debut at the age of seven, on the show Captain Video and His Video Rangers, filmed in New York. Among other acting work, he appeared in TV and radio commercials, Wright played the role of Cesario, the son of Fanny, who was played by future Brady Bunch matriarch Florence Henderson. He spent two years with the production, during which he performed with Henderson on The Ed Sullivan Show, having studied piano and organ, Wright led various local rock bands while attending high school at Tenafly, New Jersey. In 1959, he made his first commercial recording, with Billy Markle at NBC Radios New York studios, credited to Gary & Billy, the single Working After School was released on 20th Century Fox Records in 1960. Having specialized in psychology in New York, he went to West Germany in 1966 to complete his studies at the Free University of Berlin. While in Europe in 1967, Wright abandoned his plans to become a doctor and instead toured locally with a band he had formed, when the latter supported the English group Traffic – at Oslo in Norway, according to Wright – he met Island Records founder Chris Blackwell. Wright recalls that he and Blackwell had a friend in Jimmy Miller. Blackwell invited Wright to London, where he joined English singer and pianist Mike Harrison, the group soon changed its name to Spooky Tooth, with Wright as joint lead vocalist and Hammond organ player. While noting the lack of significant commercial success over its career. Spooky Tooths first album was Its All About, released on Island in June 1968, produced by Miller, it contained the Wright-composed Sunshine Help Me and six songs he co-wrote with either Miller, Harrison or Luther Grosvenor, the bands guitarist. Spooky Two, often considered the bands best work, followed in March 1969, Wright composed or co-composed seven of the albums eight songs, including That Was Only Yesterday and Better By You, Better Than Me. Spooky Two sold well in America but, like Its All About, the third Spooky Tooth album was Ceremony, a Wright-instigated collaboration with French electronic music pioneer Pierre Henry, released in December 1969
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Jolene (song)
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Jolene is a song written and performed by American country music artist Dolly Parton. It was released in October 1973 as the first single and title track from her album of the same name, the song was ranked No.217 on Rolling Stone magazines list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2004. According to Parton, Jolene is the song most-recorded by other artists of all the songs she has written. Jolene tells the tale of a woman confronting Jolene, a beautiful woman. Throughout the song, the woman implores Jolene please dont take him just because you can, according to Parton, the song was inspired by a red-headed bank clerk who flirted with her husband Carl Dean at his local bank branch around the time they were newly married. In an interview, she revealed that Jolenes name and appearance are based on that of a young fan who came on stage for her autograph. The song became Partons second solo single on the country charts after being released as a single in late 1973. It reached the top position in February 1974, it was also a pop hit for her. The song has sold 733,000 digital copies in the US since it became available for digital download. The song was released as a later in the UK. The song also re-entered the chart when Parton performed at the Glastonbury festival in 2014, the song has sold 255,300 digital copies in the UK as of January 2017. Jolene was released as a single by American garage rock band The White Stripes. The single reached No.16 in the UK Singles Chart in November 2004, the White Stripes previously released a studio version of Jolene, as the B-side to their 2000 single of Hello Operator, from the album De Stijl. In Australia, the song was ranked No.10 on Triple Js Hottest 100 of 2004, another live performance of the song is featured on the 2010 live album Under Great White Northern Lights. The White Stripes version was voted one of the greatest live covers by readers of Rolling Stone magazine, track listing Jolene Black Math Do Peter James Band Jolene the 8th track on the Livin For The Summer album released August 2015. This is the version done in a country ballad style. Olivia Newton-John Olivia Newton-Johns version of Jolene is featured on her 1976 album Come on Over, Newton-Johns version was released as a single in Japan. Leila Forouhar Leila Forouhar, the Persian pop star, has covered this song in her album called Do Parande in 1976 and she is one of the first popular singers that has sung Jolene
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Dolly Parton
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After achieving success as a songwriter for others, Dolly Parton made her album debut in 1967, with her album Hello, Im Dolly. However, in the new millennium, Parton achieved commercial success again and has released albums on independent labels since 2000, including albums on her own label, Parton is the most honored female country performer of all time. Achieving 25 RIAA certified Gold, Platinum, and Multi-Platinum awards, she has had 25 songs reach No.1 on the Billboard country music charts, a record for a female artist. She has 41 career top 10 country albums, a record for any artist, all-inclusive sales of singles, albums, hits collections, and digital downloads during her career have topped 100 million worldwide. Parton has received 46 Grammy nominations, in 1999, Parton was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. She has composed over 3,000 songs, notably I Will Always Love You, Jolene, Coat of Many Colors and she is also one of the few to have received at least one nomination from the Academy Awards, Grammy Awards, Tony Awards, and Emmy Awards. As an actress, she starred in such as 9 to 5, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Rhinestone. Parton was born in Sevier County, Tennessee, the fourth of 12 children of Robert Lee Parton, a farmer and construction worker, Partons middle name comes from her maternal great-great grandmother, Rebecca Whitted. She has described her family as being dirt poor, Partons father paid the doctor who helped deliver her with a bag of oatmeal. She outlined her familys poverty in her early songs Coat of Many Colors and they lived in a rustic, one-room cabin in Locust Ridge, just north of the Greenbrier Valley of the Great Smoky Mountains, a predominantly Pentecostal area. Music played an important role in her early life and she was brought up in the Church of God, the church her grandfather, Jake Robert Owens pastored. Her earliest public performances were in the church, beginning at age six, at seven, she started playing a homemade guitar. When she was eight years old, her uncle bought her first real guitar, Parton began performing as a child, singing on local radio and television programs in the East Tennessee area. By ten, she was appearing on The Cas Walker Show on both WIVK Radio and WBIR-TV in Knoxville, Tennessee, the day after she graduated from high school in 1964, she moved to Nashville. Her songs were recorded by other artists during this period, including Kitty Wells. She signed with Monument Records in 1965, at 19, where she was pitched as a bubblegum pop singer. She released a string of singles, but the one that charted, Happy, Happy Birthday Baby. Although she expressed a desire to record country material, Monument resisted, after her composition, Put It Off Until Tomorrow, as recorded by Bill Phillips, went to number six on the country chart in 1966, the label relented and allowed her to record country
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Have You Never Been Mellow (song)
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Have You Never Been Mellow is a popular song written by John Farrar and recorded by Olivia Newton-John as the title track for her album of the same name. In March 1975, the single became Newton-Johns second consecutive number one hit on the US Billboard Hot 100, have You Never Been Mellow continued Newton-Johns success as a crossover artist when it peaked at No.3 on the Hot Country Singles chart. The record also received a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, in the United States, it was Newton-Johns fourth straight single to be certified gold for sales of one million copies. The song was performed as part of the 2007 Broadway musical Xanadu, along with her later single Xanadu, a remixed version by The Olivia Project appears in the Dance Dance Revolution series of video games. The Dutch band Party Animals sampled the song in 1996 on their happy hardcore hit Have You Ever Been Mellow, the song reached number one in the Netherlands. The punk band the Feederz covered the song on their 1984 debut album Ever Feel Like Killing Your Boss, the Nip Drivers was another punk band that covered it. Australian singer James Reyne covered the song on his 2004 release Speedboats for Breakfast and his version is a raucous, punk-influenced take on the song. Belgian liquid drum & bass prodigy Netsky sampled the song on his 2010 debut album Netsky, me First and the Gimme Gimmes covered the song on their all Australian covers 2011 EP, Go Down Under. A French cover was recorded by Nicole Rieu, Ma maison au bord de leau, was released in 1975, in 2001, Japanese singer and voice actress Rie Tanaka recorded the song for her album Garnet. Olivias original version had been a big hit in Japan in 1975, in 2016, Dutch DJ duo Showtek released a hardstyle song entitled Mellow that sampled this songs lyrics with Technoboy and Tuneboy. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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If You Love Me (Let Me Know)
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If You Love Me is a song written by John Rostill that was a 1974 hit single for Olivia Newton-John. It was her second release to hit the top 10 in the United States, reaching number 5 on the pop chart and it also reached number 2 on the Billboard country chart. As with her single Let Me Be There, Mike Sammes sings a bass harmony, brian Collins covered the song for Dot Records in 1977. His version went to number 83 on the country chart, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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I Honestly Love You
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I Honestly Love You was a worldwide pop hit single for Olivia Newton-John in 1974. The song was Newton-Johns first number-one single in the United States, released on the Long Live Love album in the United Kingdom by EMI, it was eventually released on the album If You Love Me, Let Me Know in the United States on MCA. The song was written by Jeff Barry and the Australian composer Peter Allen and it also appears in the musical about Allens life, The Boy from Oz. VH1 placed the song at No.11 on its 40 Most Softsational Soft-Rock Songs list, the song won Newton-John both the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 17th Grammy Awards. Andy Williams released a version in 1974 on his album, You Lay So Easy on My Mind, a snippet of the song plays over Chief Brodys radio in the second shark attack in 1975s Jaws, moments before Alex Kitner and Pippet the dog disappear beneath the waves. The song topped the charts in the US on 5 October 1974 and it also reached number one on the Adult Contemporary chart. And number six on the Country charts, the song won bums Grammy Awards for Female Pop Vocal Performance and Record of the Year. The songs success helped propel its parent album, If You Love Me, Let Me Know. By contrast, the failed to reach the top-twenty in the United Kingdom. The song also re-charted on the Adult Contemporary chart at No.49, the 1998 version also charted on the AC chart at No.18 and in Country Music Sales at No.16. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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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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Discogs
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Discogs, short for discographies, is a website and crowdsourced database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs. com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc. and are located in Portland, Oregon, US. While the site lists releases in all genres and on all formats, it is known as the largest online database of electronic music releases. Discogs currently contains over 8 million releases, by nearly 4 and he was inspired by the success of community-built sites such as Slashdot, eBay, and Open Directory Project, and decided to use this model for a music discography database. The sites original goal was to build the most comprehensive database of music, organized around the artists, labels. In 2003 the Discogs system was rewritten, and in January 2004 it began to support other genres. Since then, it has expanded to include rock and jazz in January 2005 and funk/soul, Latin, in January 2006 blues and non-music were added. On 30 June 2004, Discogs published a report, which included information about the number of its contributors and this report claimed that Discogs had 15,788 contributors and 260,789 releases. On 20 July 2007 a new system for sellers was introduced on the site called Market Price History. However, at the beginning of 2008, the Market Price History was also free of charge for all users. In late 2014, the company released two new beta websites, gearogs lets users add and track music equipment like synths, drum machines, and other electronic music making equipment. At the start of 2015, the company began another beta project — Bibliogs, users can submit information about their books, physical or electronic, different versions and editions, and also connect different credits to these books. 21,000 books were submitted by the end of 2016, the project remains in its beta phase. The license has since changed to a public domain one. Prior to the advent of this license and API, Discogs data was only accessible via the Discogs web sites HTML interface and was intended to be viewed only using web browsers, the HTML interface remains the only authorized way to modify Discogs data. On 7 June 2011 version 2 of the API was released, notable in this release was that a license key was no longer required, the default response was changed from XML to JSON, and the 5000 queries per day limit was removed. On 1 November 2011 a major update to version 2 of the API was released and this new release dropped support for XML, data is always returned in JSON format, however the monthly data dumps of new data are only provided in XML format. Additionally the Premium API service was dropped, on 24 June 2014 Discogs deprecated their XML API in lieu of a JSON-formatted API
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Olivia Newton-John videography
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Newton-John first music video was for Follow Me, a promotional single from her 1975 album Have You Never Been Mellow. She released another four music videos before Grease, the singles from Grease had excerpts from the film as music videos, with heavy rotation in television. After Grease, Newton-John image changed from goody-goody Sandy 1 to spandex-clad Sandy 2 and its Olivia first pop studio album, before that, her career was basically focused on country music. Although initially Olivia didnt want to release it, in 1981 Physical came out with a video for the song. The single was a phenomenon, staying for ten weeks on the top of the Billboard Hot 100. The music video was controversial and was banned by several broadcasters. The special was a success and received a video release with two new music videos added, as Olivia Physical. The video won a Grammy Award for Video of the Year, in 1983, another music video collection was released, Twist of Fate. The music videos are from Two of a Kind soundtrack, starring Newton-John, the music video for Twist of Fate was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video. The Soul Kiss video was released in 1985 and features five music videos for the songs of the album of the same name, the last music video collection released by Newton-John, to date, is the musical-style Olivia Down Under. The video premiered in 1988 on HBO and in 1989 on home video, in the video, Olivia travels through Australia, celebrates the country bicentenary and shows more of the Australian culture. In 2011, the video for Magic featured the biggest cast ever for an Australian music video. Beyond the official releases, there are several licensed home video releases by small distributors, with unreleased Newton-John material such as concerts, music videos. Examples of these releases are the DVDs 20th Century Masters, The Best of ONJ, A Million Lights Are Dancing, The Heartstrings Tour, Simply Olivia and Live in Japan 1976
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If Not for You (album)
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If Not for You is the debut studio album by British-Australian singer-songwriter Olivia Newton-John, released in November 1971 by Festival Records. The album was released on the Pye International label in the UK as Olivia Newton-John, as a covers album, If Not for You features mostly songs previously recorded from contemporary artists of the 1960s and early 1970s. She made several performances to promote If Not for You and her album, Olivia. It was her first album released by Festival Records, which would release all her albums in Australia until its dissolution in 2005 and it also has Newton-Johns first works with her long-time musical partner, John Farrar. In 1966, Newton-John released her single, Till You Say Youll Be Mine. Later, she integrated the band Toomorrow, which released a film, after these failed attempts to launch her career, she signed with Festival Records to release an album. If Not for You was titled after its lead single of the same name and was recorded in London. She later stated that she didnt like the song, but praised its production, the majority of musicians who played on If Not for You were linked with the music group Marvin, Welch & Farrar. The group members John Farrar and Bruce Welch produced the album, Farrar would establish a partnership with Newton-John, producing all her studio albums from If Not for You until Soul Kiss, released in 1985. He also composed, played and did vocals on several Newton-John songs. Three additional songs were recorded by Newton-John, but were discarded during the creation process, The Biggest Clown, Its So Hard to Say Goodbye. The album features covers of Roger Miller, Bread, The Band, Lesley Duncan, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan, Brotherhood of Man, Gordon Lightfoot, Banks of the Ohio is a traditional song that had an arrangement made by Farrar and Welch. Newton-John made several appearances on programs across Europe and her homeland Australia between 1971–72. She also made an appearance on The Dean Martin Show, singing If and a medley featuring Just a Little Lovin / True Love with Dean Martin, which became her first performance in the United States. In 1972, she embarked on a tour across Europe and Japan with Cliff Richard to promote If Not for You and Olivia, Olivia performed some songs and also sang backing vocals on Cliffs songs with Pat Carroll. Richard performances were released on the Cliff Richard Live and she also made performances on Richards program Its Cliff Richard and starred with him in the special Getaway with Cliff and the film The Case, all broadcast on BBC. If Not for You, the track, was released as the lead single. The song peaked at six on the UK Singles Charts
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Olivia (Olivia Newton-John album)
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Olivia is the second studio album by the British-Australian singer-songwriter Olivia Newton-John, released in 1972. Two of its songs were released as singles, in its initial release, it was not issued in the United States, though it was sold there as an import. A digitally remastered version was released in 1995, an American release of the album never materialised. Therefore, the label did not want to risk a release of the album in the United States on Uni Records. Newton-Johns subsequent release, Let Me Be There, would reach number 37 on the UK Albums Chart and earn a Gold certification. The cover art, done in blue tint, was used as the cover of the US release of Let Me Be There on MCA Records in 1973. The album was first released on CD in Japan, on 7 November 1990, the Japanese release did not feature any of the original album artwork. The cover photo was a picture taken from a 1977 live appearance in Japan. Packaging included an obi, and a white, folded insert sheet that included the lyrics for all the songs in English on one side, a digitally-remastered reissue of the 1972 album was released on the Festival label in 1998, complete with the original cover art
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Let Me Be There (album)
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Let Me Be There is the third studio album album by Olivia Newton-John, released in 1973. It consisted of her performances of a collection of 11 cover songs, plus Let Me Be There and it was produced by Bruce Welch, John Farrar and Alan Hawkshaw. The American publication of the album by MCA Records used the art from Olivias 1972 LP record Olivia. Some of its songs were taken for the US publication, such as titles from the British publications of the albums If Not for You. Though the title song was a failure in England, it was Olivia Newton-Johns first American top ten hit. She had previously charted in the Billboard Top 40 with the song If Not for You, the album was certified Gold by the RIAA in 1974, and it peaked at No.54 on the US Pop chart and at No.1 on the Country chart
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Long Live Love (album)
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Long Live Love is a studio album by Olivia Newton-John, released in 1974 by EMI Records. It was not released in the US, the song I Honestly Love You was her first number 1 single in the US, released on the album If You Love Me, Let Me Know. The title track was the song Newton-John performed for the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest when she represented the UK, along with the title track, five other tracks from the LP had been the six shortlisted songs for the UK selection for Eurovision. The song that placed second, Angeleyes, was released on the B-side of the Long Live Love single, the Rivers Too Wide was also recorded by Jim Mundy, whose version was a Top 20 hit on Hot Country Songs in 1973
