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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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Nina Simone
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Nina Simone was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and activist in the Civil Rights Movement. Simone employed a range of musical styles including classical, jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel. Born in North Carolina, the child of a preacher. With the help of the few supporters in her hometown of Tryon, North Carolina, Waymon then applied for a scholarship to study at the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she was denied despite a well-received audition. Waymon became fully convinced this rejection had been due to her race. Years later, two days before her death, the Curtis Institute of Music bestowed on her an honorary degree, to make a living, Eunice Waymon changed her name to Nina Simone. The change related to her need to disguise herself from family members and she was told in the nightclub that she would have to sing to her own accompaniment, and this effectively launched her career as a jazz vocalist. Simone recorded more than forty albums, mostly between 1958, when she made her debut with Little Girl Blue, and 1974, and had a hit in the United States in 1958 with I Loves You, Porgy. Simones musical style fused gospel and pop with music, in particular Johann Sebastian Bach. Simone was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in North Carolina and raised in Tryon, the sixth of eight children in a poor family, she began playing piano at age three, the first song she learned was God Be With You, Till We Meet Again. Demonstrating a talent with the instrument, she performed at her local church, but her concert debut, a classical recital, was given when she was 12. Simone later said that during this performance, her parents, who had taken seats in the front row, were forced to move to the back of the hall to make way for white people. She said that she refused to play until her parents were moved back to the front, Simones mother, Mary Kate Waymon, was a Methodist minister and a housemaid. Simones father, John Divine Waymon, was a handyman who at one time owned a dry cleaning business, Simones music teacher helped establish a special fund to pay for her education. Subsequently, a fund was set up to assist her continued education. With the help of this scholarship money she was able to attend Allen High School for Girls in Asheville, North Carolina. After her graduation, Simone spent the summer of 1950 at the Juilliard School, as a student of Carl Friedberg, discouraged, she took private piano lessons with Vladimir Sokoloff, a professor at Curtis, but never re-applied to the institution. She took a job as an assistant, but also found work as an accompanist at Arlene Smiths vocal studio
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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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Blues
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Blues is a genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century. The genre developed from roots in African musical traditions, African-American work songs, spirituals, Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads. Blue notes, usually thirds or fifths flattened in pitch, are also a part of the sound. Blues shuffles or walking bass reinforce the trance-like rhythm and form a repetitive effect known as the groove, Blues as a genre is also characterized by its lyrics, bass lines, and instrumentation. Early traditional blues verses consisted of a single line repeated four times, Early blues frequently took the form of a loose narrative, often relating the troubles experienced in African-American society. Many elements, such as the format and the use of blue notes. The origins of the blues are closely related to the religious music of the Afro-American community. The first appearance of the blues is often dated to after the ending of slavery and, later and it is associated with the newly acquired freedom of the former slaves. Chroniclers began to report about blues music at the dawn of the 20th century, the first publication of blues sheet music was in 1908. Blues has since evolved from unaccompanied vocal music and oral traditions of slaves into a variety of styles and subgenres. Blues subgenres include country blues, such as Delta blues and Piedmont blues, as well as urban blues styles such as Chicago blues, World War II marked the transition from acoustic to electric blues and the progressive opening of blues music to a wider audience, especially white listeners. In the 1960s and 1970s, a form called blues rock evolved. The term blues may have come from blue devils, meaning melancholy and sadness, the phrase blue devils may also have been derived from Britain in the 1600s, when the term referred to the intense visual hallucinations that can accompany severe alcohol withdrawal. As time went on, the phrase lost the reference to devils, by the 1800s in the United States, the term blues was associated with drinking alcohol, a meaning which survives in the phrase blue law, which prohibits the sale of alcohol on Sunday. Though the use of the phrase in African-American music may be older, it has been attested to in print since 1912, in lyrics the phrase is often used to describe a depressed mood. The lyrics of traditional blues verses probably often consisted of a single line repeated four times. Two of the first published songs, Dallas Blues and Saint Louis Blues, were 12-bar blues with the AAB lyric structure. Handy wrote that he adopted this convention to avoid the monotony of lines repeated three times, the lines are often sung following a pattern closer to rhythmic talk than to a melody
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Folk music
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Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival. The term originated in the 19th century, but is applied to music older than that. Some types of music are also called world music. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways, as music transmitted orally, music with unknown composers and it has been contrasted with commercial and classical styles. Starting in the century, a new form of popular folk music evolved from traditional folk music. This process and period is called the revival and reached a zenith in the 1960s. This form of music is called contemporary folk music or folk revival music to distinguish it from earlier folk forms. Smaller, similar revivals have occurred elsewhere in the world at other times and this type of folk music also includes fusion genres such as folk rock, folk metal, electric folk, and others. Even individual songs may be a blend of the two, a consistent definition of traditional folk music is elusive. The terms folk music, folk song, and folk dance are comparatively recent expressions and they are extensions of the term folklore, which was coined in 1846 by the English antiquarian William Thoms to describe the traditions, customs, and superstitions of the uncultured classes. Traditional folk music also includes most indigenous music, however, despite the assembly of an enormous body of work over some two centuries, there is still no certain definition of what folk music is. Some do not even agree that the term Folk Music should be used, Folk music may tend to have certain characteristics but it cannot clearly be differentiated in purely musical terms. One meaning often given is that of old songs, with no known composers, the fashioning and re-fashioning of the music by the community that give it its folk character. Such definitions depend upon processes rather than abstract musical types, one widely used definition is simply Folk music is what the people sing. For Scholes, as well as for Cecil Sharp and Béla Bartók, Folk music was already. seen as the authentic expression of a way of life now past or about to disappear, particularly in a community uninfluenced by art music and by commercial and printed song. In these terms folk music may be seen as part of a schema comprising four types, primitive or tribal, elite or art, folk. Music in this genre is often called traditional music. Although the term is only descriptive, in some cases people use it as the name of a genre
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Philips Records
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Not to be confused with Phillips International Records. Philips Records is a label that was founded by the Dutch electronics company Philips. In 1946 Philips acquired the company which pressed records for British Deccas Dutch outlet in Amsterdam, the record label was started by Philips Phonographische Industrie in June 1950 when it began issuing classical recordings. Recordings were also made with artists of various nationalities and with classical artists from Germany, France. Launched under the slogan Records of the Century, the first releases in Britain appeared at the beginning of January 1953 on 1078 rpm discs, Philips also distributed recordings made by the Columbia Records in the UK and on the European continent. After the separation of the English Columbia label and American Columbia, the first single on the label to chart was Frankie Laines I Believe, which reached the No.1 chart position in the UK that April. Many of the first British recordings on the label were produced by Norman Newell until John Franz was appointed artists, in 1958 Philips created a subsidiary label, Fontana Records, which meant that American-Columbia recordings were being issued on both the Philips and Fontana labels. This arrangement lasted until April 1962 when, under pressure from Columbia in America, Philips then created a label for them. In late 1964, under the stewardship of U. S. President of Columbia Records Goddard Lieberson, CBS Records formed its own international operations, CBS Records set up their UK operation in Theobalds Road in Holborn. Singles and albums on the Philips and Fontana labels by Columbia-owned product were subsequently withdrawn, in 1962, Philips Records and Deutsche Grammophon formed the Grammophon-Philips Group joint venture, which later became PolyGram in 1972. UK pressings were manufactured at the large factory based at Walthamstow in N. E. In 1961, after Philips lost its North American distribution deal with Columbia Records, a year later, Philips US affiliate Consolidated Electronics Industries Corp. bought Mercury and its subsidiary labels, such as Smash. Philips classical, jazz and pop records were marketed by Mercury in the US under the Philips label, the Mercury Living Presence team also made classical recordings for Philips, in July 1961. 69 for cello and piano by Richter and Rostropovich, classical groups that Philips heavily recorded included the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Beaux Arts Trio, and the Quartetto Italiano. Violinist Arthur Grumiaux and the pianist Claudio Arrau were under contract to Philips, symphony orchestras under contract, including the LSO, were under the command of prestigious young conductors such as Colin Davis and Bernard Haitink. From 1961 until the late 1980s, Philips Records issued many classical titles in US-specific packaging, the records were pressed at Mercurys plant in Richmond, Indiana, and mastered in New York by George Piros at Fine Recording, using 2-track and mono master tapes provided by Philips. These releases were the PHS900 xxx series for stereo and the 500 xxx series for mono, clair Van Ausdal in Mercurys New York office oversaw the Philips classical US releases through the mid-1960s. These records were made through Mercurys existing jazz operations and produced by Jack Tracy, in addition to jazz and classical music, Philips also became a major player in the world of rock and pop music in the late 1950s till late 1970s
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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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I Put a Spell on You (album)
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I Put a Spell on You is a 1965 album by jazz singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone for Philips Records. Described by AllMusic reviewer Richie Unterberger as One of her most pop-oriented albums, but also one of her best and most consistent, I Put a Spell on You, a song originally by Screamin Jay Hawkins. The original version gave the song a theme, but Simone transformed it into a thrilling love song, complete with horns. It had become one of her most well known songs and she used the title for her autobiography I Put A Spell On You. The Beatles drew inspiration from the song for their song Michelle, tomorrow Is My Turn, an English translation of a French song by Charles Aznavour. Ne me quitte pas, a rendition of the song by Jacques Brel and it became one of her live repertoire standards. Feeling Good, Simones version of this Broadway song, which has covered by many artists including Muse. A sample of the song is featured on Mary J. Bliges song About You on the album The Breakthrough, kanye West and Jay-Z also sample Feeling Good for the song New Day on their album Watch The Throne. Take Care of Business was featured in the 2015 film adaptation of the 60s television series The Man from U. N. C. L. E
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Let It All Out
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Let It All Out is an album by Jazz singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone. Released in 1966, it was her album with Philips Records. Some of the tracks are live recordings, yet it is unclear which, images, sung a cappella by Simone, based on a poem by Waring Cuney. It was a recording sung a cappella during the same performance of songs that featured on Nina Simone In Concert. Love Me or Leave Me and Mood Indigo were also featured on Simones debut album Little Girl Blue, these are new performances and different arrangements
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AllMusic
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AllMusic is an online music guide service website. It was launched in 1991 by All Media Guide which later became All Media Network, AllMusic was launched in 1991 by Michael Erlewine of All Media Guide. The aim was to discographic information on every artist whos made a record since Enrico Caruso gave the industry its first big boost and its first reference book was published the following year. When first released onto the Internet, AMG predated the World Wide Web and was first available as a Gopher site, the AMG consumer web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com and AllGame. com were sold by Rovi in July 2013 to All Media Network, LLC. All Media Network, LLC. was formed by the founders of SideReel. com. The following are contributors to AllMusic, as of this date, All Media Network also produced the AllMusic guide series that includes the AllMusic Guide to Rock, the All Music Guide to Jazz and the All Music Guide to the Blues. Vladimir Bogdanov is the president of the series, in August 2007, PC Magazine included AllMusic in its Top 100 Classic Websites list. All Media Network AllGame AllMovie SideReel All Music Guide to the Blues All Music Guide to Jazz Stephen Thomas Erlewine Official website
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Pitchfork (website)
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Pitchfork is an American online magazine launched in 1995 by Ryan Schreiber, based in Chicago, Illinois and owned by Condé Nast. The site generally concentrates on new music, but Pitchfork journalists have also reviewed reissues, in late 1995, Ryan Schreiber, a recent high school graduate, created the magazine in Minneapolis. Influenced by local fanzines and KUOM, Schreiber, who had no writing experience. At first being Turntable, the site was updated monthly with interviews and reviews, in May 1996, the site began publishing daily and was renamed Pitchfork, alluding to Tony Montanas tattoo in Scarface. In early 1999, Schreiber relocated Pitchfork to Chicago, Illinois, by then, the site had expanded to four full-length album reviews daily, as well as sporadic interviews, features, and columns. It had also begun garnering a following for its coverage of underground music and its writing style. In October, the added a daily music news section. Pitchfork has launched a variety of subsidiary websites, Pitchfork. tv, a website displaying videos related to many independent music acts, launched in April 2008. It features bands that are found on Pitchfork. In July 2010, Pitchfork announced Altered Zones, a blog devoted to underground. On 21 May 2011, Pitchfork announced a partnership with Kill Screen, Altered Zones was closed on November 30. On December 26,2012, Pitchfork launched Nothing Major, a website that covered visual arts such as fine art, Nothing Major closed in October 2013. On October 13,2015, Condé Nast announced that it had acquired Pitchfork, following the sale, Schreiber remained as editor-in-chief. On March 13,2016, Pitchfork was redesigned, some publications have cited Pitchfork in having played a part in breaking artists such as Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Interpol, The Go. Conversely, Pitchfork has also seen as being a negative influence on some indie artists. A dismissive 0.0 review of former Dismemberment Plan frontman Travis Morrisons Travistan album led to a sales drop. On the other hand, an endorsement from Pitchfork – which dispenses its approval one-tenth of a point at a time, up to a maximum of 10 points – is very valuable, indeed. Examples of Pitchforks impact include, Arcade Fire is among the bands most commonly cited to have benefited from a Pitchfork review
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Billboard 200
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The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists, often, a recording act will be remembered by its number ones, those of their albums that outperformed all others during at least one week. The chart is based mostly on sales of albums in the United States, the weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but since July 2015, tracking week begins on Friday and ends on Thursday. A new chart is published the following Tuesday with an issue post-dated to the Saturday of the following week, the charts streaming schedule is also tracked from Friday to Thursday. Example, Friday January 1 – sales tracking week begins Thursday January 7 – sales tracking week ends Tuesday January 12 – new chart published, New product is released to the American market on Fridays. Digital downloads of albums are included in Billboard 200 tabulation. Albums that are not licensed for sale in the United States are not eligible to chart. As of the issue dated April 15,2017, the album on the Billboard 200 is More Life by Drake. Billboard began an album chart in 1945, initially only five positions long, the album chart was not published on a weekly basis, sometimes three to seven weeks passing before it was updated. A biweekly, 15-position Best-Selling Popular Albums chart appeared in 1955, the position count varied anywhere from 10 to 30 albums. The first number-one album on the new weekly list was Belafonte by Harry Belafonte, the chart was renamed to Best-Selling Pop Albums later in 1956, and then to Best-Selling Pop LPs in 1957. Beginning on May 25,1959, Billboard split the ranking into two charts Best-Selling Stereophonic LPs for stereo albums and Best-Selling Monophonic LPs for mono albums and these were renamed to Stereo Action Charts and Mono Action Charts in 1960. In January 1961, they became Action Albums—Stereophonic and Action Albums—Monophonic, three months later, they became Top LPs—Stereo and Top LPs—Monaural. On August 17,1963 the stereo and mono charts were combined into a 150-position chart called Top LPs, on April 1,1967, the chart was expanded to 175 positions, then finally to 200 positions on May 13,1967. In 1960, Billboard began concurrently publishing album charts which ranked sales of older or mid-priced titles and these Essential Inventory charts were divided by stereo and mono albums, and featured titles that had already appeared on the main stereo and mono album charts. In January 1961, the Action Charts became Action Albums—Monophonic, Albums appeared on either chart for up to nine weeks, then were moved to an Essential Inventory list of approximately 200 titles, with no numerical ranking. This list continued to be published until the consolidated Top LPs chart debuted in 1963, in 1982, Billboard began publishing a Midline Albums chart which ranked older or mid-priced titles. The chart held 50 positions and was published on a bi-weekly basis, on May 25,1991, Billboard premiered the Top Pop Catalog Albums chart
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Vice (magazine)
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Vice is a print magazine and website focused on arts, culture, and news topics. As of February 2015, the magazines Chief Creative Officer was Eddy Moretti, Andrew Creighton is President, as of October 2014, there were 29 Vice offices on every continent except Africa and Antarctica. The monthly publication is frequently focused on a single theme, when the editors later sought to dissolve their commitments with the original publisher Alix Laurent, they bought him out and changed the name to Vice in 1996. Richard Szalwinski, a Canadian software millionaire, acquired the magazine and relocated the operation to New York City, following the relocation, the magazine quickly developed a reputation for provocative and politically incorrect content. Under Szalwinskis ownership, a few stores were opened in New York City. However, due to the end of the bubble, the three founders eventually regained ownership of the Vice brand, followed by the closure of the stores. The British edition of Vice was launched in 2002 and Andy Capper was its first editor. The media company was based in New York City, but the magazine began featuring articles on topics that were considered more serious, such as armed conflict in Iraq. Alvi explained to The New York Times in November 2007, The world is bigger than the Lower East Side. McInnes left the publication in 2008, citing creative differences as the primary issue, in an email communication dated 23 January, McInnes explained, I no longer have anything to do with Vice or VBS or DOs & DONTs or any of that. Its a long story but weve all agreed to leave it at creative differences, at the commencement of 2012, an article in Forbes magazine referred to the Vice company as Vice Media, but the precise time when this title development occurred is not public knowledge. Vice acquired the fashion magazine i-D in December 2012 and, by February 2013, Vice produced 24 global editions of the magazine, by this stage, Alex Miller had replaced Capper as the editor-in-chief of the UK edition. Furthermore, Vice consisted of 800 worldwide employees, including 100 in London, Vice magazine includes the work of journalists, columnists, fiction writers, graphic artists and cartoonists, and photographers. Both Vices online and magazine content has shifted from dealing mostly with independent arts, articles on the site feature a range of subjects, often things not covered as by mainstream media. Entire issues of the magazine have also dedicated to the concerns of Iraqi people, Native Americans, Russian people, people with mental disorders. Vice also publishes a guide for students in the United Kingdom. In 2007, a Vice announcement was published on the Internet, After umpteen years of putting out what amounted to a book every month. Besides, too many other magazines have ripped it and started doing their own take on themes
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Alicia Keys
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Alicia Augello Cook, known professionally as Alicia Keys, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, pianist and actress. Keys released her album with J Records, having had previous record deals first with Columbia. Keys debut album, Songs in A Minor was released in 2001, producing her first Billboard Hot 100 number-one single Fallin, the album earned Keys five Grammy Awards in 2002. Her sophomore album, The Diary of Alicia Keys, was released in 2003, spawning successful singles You Dont Know My Name, If I Aint Got You and Diary, the duet song My Boo with Usher scored her a second number-one single in 2004. The album garnered her an additional four Grammy Awards in 2005, later that year, she released her first live album, Unplugged, becoming the first woman to have an MTV Unplugged album debut at number one. As I Am was released in 2007, producing the Hot 100 number-one single No One, selling 5 million copies worldwide, the Element of Freedom was released in 2009, becoming her first chart-topping album in the UK, and selling 4 million copies worldwide. Keys additionally collaborated with Jay Z on Empire State of Mind as her fourth number-one single, Girl on Fire was released in 2012 as her fifth Billboard 200 topping album, spawning the successful title track. Her second live album, VH1 Storytellers was released in 2013, Here was released in 2016, becoming her seventh R&B/Hip-Hop chart topping album. Keys made her first television appearance on The Cosby Show in 1985 as a four year old child and she made her film debut in Smokin Aces and later in The Nanny Diaries in 2007. Keys then had a NAACP Image Award nominated appearance in The Secret Life of Bees in 2008, Keys also made an appearance on season 2 of Empire in 2015. She is currently a coach on The Voice as of 2016, Keys has won numerous awards such as 15 Grammy Awards and 17 NAACP Image Awards. She has sold over 35 million albums and 30 million singles worldwide, considered a pop icon, Billboard magazine named her the top R&B artist of the 2000s decade and placed her number 10 on their list of Top 50 R&B/Hip-Hop Artists of the Past 25 Years. Time named her in their 100 list of most influential people in 2005, Keys was born Alicia Augello Cook on January 25,1981, in the Hells Kitchen area of Manhattan, New York City. She is the child of Teresa, a paralegal and part-time actress, and Craig Cook. Keys father is African American and her mother is of Italian, Scottish, Keys has expressed that she was comfortable with her multiracial heritage because she felt she was able to relate to different cultures. Her parents separated when she was two and she was raised by her mother during her formative years in Hells Kitchen. Keys has 2 younger half brothers, Clay Cook and Cole Cook, in 1985, Keys made an appearance on The Cosby Show at the age of four, where she and a group of girls played the parts of Rudy Huxtables sleepover guests in the episode Slumber Party. Throughout her childhood, Keys was sent to music and dance classes by her mother and she graduated in four years as valedictorian at the age of 16
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Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
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Nobody Knows You When Youre Down and Out is a blues standard written by Jimmy Cox in 1923. Its lyric, told from the point of view of a one-time millionaire during the Prohibition era, reflects on the nature of material wealth. As a vaudeville-style blues, it was popularized by Bessie Smith, since her 1929 recording, it has been interpreted by numerous musicians in a variety of styles. When Nobody Knows You When Youre Down and Out was composed in 1923 by Jimmy Cox, after the post-World War I recession, a new era of prosperity was experienced in the U. S. and elsewhere. His version, recorded in New York around June 1927, was titled Nobody Needs You When Youre Down and Out, on January 15,1929, influential boogie-woogie pianist Pinetop Smith recorded Nobody Knows You When Youre Down and Out in Chicago. In it the lyrics are rather than sung to Smiths piano accompaniment. The song is one of 11 known recordings by Smith, who died two months after he recorded it, Bessie Smith recorded the song on May 15,1929, in New York. Unlike the earlier versions, Bessie Smith recorded the song with instrumental accompaniment, when Smiths record was released on September 13,1929, the lyrics turned out to be oddly prophetic. Bessie Smiths Nobody Knows You When Youre Down and Out became one of her biggest hits, today, it more than any other, is the song that most people associate with Bessie Smith. Due to the popularity of Bessie Smiths recording, numerous musicians began interpreting the song in recordings of their own, in 1960, a version by Nina Simone reached number 23 in the Billboard R&B chart as well as number 93 in the Hot 100 pop chart. When he was an art student in the early 1960s, Eric Clapton was attracted to Londons folk-music scene, along with Key to the Highway, Nobody Knows You When Youre Down and Out was one of the first songs that Clapton learned to play in this style. In 1970, he recorded a version with his band, Derek. The recording took place at the Criteria Studios in Miami, Florida, with Jim Gordon, Carl Radle, Bobby Whitlock, as Whitlock recalled, Sam Samudio, who was also recording at Criteria, suggested that they record the song. This was Duane Allmans first song with us, I believe that it was a song that he and Eric both had in common. This song was recorded live, vocals and all, with no overdubs and it was the first take, but of course it was all worked out before we went into it. Allman had recorded Nobody Knows You When Youre Down and Out earlier with his brother Gregg and used similar lines for the Derek. Whitlock also noted that Clapton played through a Fender Champ guitar amplifier, shortly after the studio recording, the song became part of the Dominos live set. Although it did not appear on their 1973 In Concert album, for this version, Clapton played all the guitar parts and Whitlock performed on piano
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Trouble in Mind (song)
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Trouble in Mind is a slow eight-bar blues song written by jazz pianist Richard M. Jones. The first known recording of the song was in 1924 by singer Thelma La Vizzo with Jones providing the piano accompaniment, the song became an early blues standard, with numerous renditions by a variety of musicians. In many versions, new lyrics are added, however, most usually include the opening verse, Early recordings of Trouble in Mind include those by Bertha Chippie Hill, Georgia White, Victoria Spivey, and Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys. Later, Trouble in Mind was a Billboard R&B chart hit for Dinah Washington,1965 – Aretha Franklin on Yeah. 1965 – Nina Simone on Pastel Blues 1967 - Sam Lightnin Hopkins on Ash Grove 1970 – Led Zeppelin on the expanded Led Zeppelin III1973 – Jerry Lee Lewis on The Session. On Sojourner 2009 - Jorma Kaukonen on River of Time 2009 – John Gorka on So Dark You See 2015 – Lee Ann Womack on Trouble in Mind
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Billie Holiday
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Eleanora Fagan, professionally known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz musician and singer-songwriter with a career spanning nearly thirty years. Nicknamed Lady Day by her friend and music partner Lester Young, Holiday had a influence on jazz music. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and she was known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills, which made up for her limited range and lack of formal music education. There were other singers with equal talent, but Holiday had a voice that captured the attention of her audience. After a turbulent childhood, Holiday began singing in nightclubs in Harlem, where she was heard by the producer John Hammond and she signed a recording contract with Brunswick Records in 1935. Collaborations with Teddy Wilson yielded the hit What a Little Moonlight Can Do, Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Holiday had mainstream success on labels such as Columbia Records and Decca Records. By the late 1940s, however, she was beset with legal troubles, after a short prison sentence, she performed a sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall, but her reputation deteriorated because of her drug and alcohol problems. Her final recordings were met with mixed reaction to her voice but were mild commercial successes. Her final album, Lady in Satin, was released in 1958, Holiday died of cirrhosis of the liver in 1959. A posthumous album, Last Recording, was released following her death, much of Holidays material has been rereleased since her death. She is considered a performer with an ongoing influence on American music. She is the recipient of four Grammy awards, all of them posthumous awards for Best Historical Album, Holiday herself was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1973. Lady Sings the Blues, a film about her life, starring Diana Ross, was released in 1972, Eleanora Fagan was born on April 7,1915, in Philadelphia, the daughter of Sarah Julia Sadie Fagan and Clarence Holiday, an unmarried teenaged couple. Her father did not live with her mother, not long after Eleanora was born, Clarence abandoned his family to pursue a career as a jazz banjo player and guitarist. Sarah moved to Philadelphia at age 19, after she was evicted from her parents home in the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, for becoming pregnant. With no support from her parents, she made arrangements with her older, married half-sister, Eva Miller, the child was of African-American ancestry and was also said to have had Irish ancestors through her mothers mixed heritage. Her mother often took what were known as transportation jobs. Holidays autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues, first published in 1956, is sketchy on details of her early life, some historians have disputed Holidays paternity, as a copy of her birth certificate in the Baltimore archives lists the father as a man named Frank DeViese
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William Lovelock
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William Lovelock was an English classical composer and pedagogue who spent many years in Australia. He was the first Director of the Queensland Conservatorium of Music in Brisbane and he is not to be confused with the Australian-born songwriter Bill Lovelock. Though William Lovelock was born in London, his family were originally of Berkshire extraction and he was educated at Emanuel School, Wandsworth, and started piano lessons at the age of six and organ lessons at twelve. At the age of sixteen, he won a scholarship to the Trinity College of Music. After service as an artilleryman in World War I, he returned to Trinity College and he then joined the teaching staff and later obtained a doctorate in composition in 1932. As an organist, he served at St. Clements in Eastcheap from 1919 to 1923 and he was also organist at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Carshalton from 1928 to 1930. During the 1930s Lovelock wrote the first of his numerous popular textbooks for college music students. Later, as an examiner for the College, he spent a six-year stint in Asia, ending up in the Indian Army Ordnance Corps during the Second World War. While stationed in Varanasi in 1945 he sketched the beginning of a concerto for piano, on his return to London in 1946, Lovelock rejoined the faculty at Trinity College and eventually became Dean of the Faculty of Music at the University of London in 1954. He was appointed as the first Director of the Queensland Conservatorium of Music in Brisbane, Australia, however, he chose to stay on since, for the first time, he found that he had the time and freedom to compose seriously. Meanwhile, he supported himself as a teacher, adjudicator. In 1926, he had married Winifred Irene Littlejohn, by whom he had a son, after the death of his wife in 1981, Lovelock returned to England. He died in 1986 in Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, some of his works were intended especially for Australian performers, such as his Trumpet Concerto for John Robertson, which remains his most performed piece. A number of others filled gaps in the repertoire of instruments, such as tuba, double bass. Of his many textbooks on theory, history and composition
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Strange Fruit
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Strange Fruit is a song performed most famously by Billie Holiday, who first sang and recorded it in 1939. Written by teacher Abel Meeropol as a poem and published in 1937, it protested American racism, such lynchings had reached a peak in the South at the turn of the century, but continued there and in other regions of the United States. According to the Tuskegee Institute,1,953 Americans were murdered by lynching, the lyrics are an extended metaphor linking a tree’s fruit with lynching victims. Meeropol set it to music and, with his wife and the singer Laura Duncan, performed it as a protest song in New York City venues in the late 1930s, including Madison Square Garden. The song continues to be covered by artists, including Nina Simone, UB40 and Annie Lennox and has inspired novels, other poems. In 1978, Holidays version of the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and it was also included in the list of Songs of the Century, by the Recording Industry of America and the National Endowment for the Arts. Lyricist E. Y. Harburg referred to the song as a historical document and it was also dubbed, a declaration of war. The beginning of the civil rights movement, Strange Fruit was originated as a poem written by American writer, teacher and songwriter Abel Meeropol, under his pseudonym Lewis Allan, as a protest against lynchings. In the poem, Meeropol expressed his horror at lynchings, inspired by Lawrence Beitlers photograph of the 1930 lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion and he published the poem under the title Bitter Fruit in 1937 in The New York Teacher, a union magazine. Though Meeropol had asked others to set his poems to music and his protest song gained a certain success in and around New York. Meeropol, his wife, and black vocalist Laura Duncan performed it at Madison Square Garden, the lyrics are under copyright but have been republished in full in an academic journal, with permission. Barney Josephson, the founder of Cafe Society in Greenwich Village, New Yorks first integrated nightclub, heard the song, other reports say that Robert Gordon, who was directing Billie Holidays show at Cafe Society, heard the song at Madison Square Garden and introduced it to her. Holiday first performed the song at Cafe Society in 1939 and she said that singing it made her fearful of retaliation but, because its imagery reminded her of her father, she continued to sing the piece, making it a regular part of her live performances. During the musical introduction, Holiday stood with her eyes closed, when Holidays producer John Hammond also refused to record it, she turned to her friend Milt Gabler, whose Commodore label produced alternative jazz. Holiday sang Strange Fruit for him a cappella, and moved him to tears, columbia gave Holiday a one-session release from her contract so she could record it, Frankie Newtons eight-piece Cafe Society Band was used for the session. Because Gabler worried the song was too short, he asked pianist Sonny White to improvise an introduction, on the recording, Holiday starts singing after 70 seconds. Gabler worked out an arrangement with Vocalion Records to record. Holiday recorded two sessions of the song at Commodore, one in 1939 and one in 1944
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Sinnerman
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Sinner Man or Sinnerman is an African American traditional spiritual song that has been recorded by a number of performers and has been incorporated in many other of the media and arts. The lyrics describe a sinner attempting to hide from divine justice on Judgement Day and it was recorded in the 1950s by Les Baxter, the Swan Silvertones, the Weavers and others, before Nina Simone recorded an extended version in 1965. The earliest recording of the song to bear the title Sinner Man was by the Les Baxter Orchestra in 1956, the lead vocal was by folk singer Will Holt, who shared the credit for writing the song with Baxter. The writing of the Sensational Nightingales song was credited to two of the singers, Julius Cheeks and Ernest James. Some of the lyrics in Sinner Man, including The rock cried out, No hiding place, appear to derive from those in the spiritual, No Hiding Place Down Here, recorded in 1928 by the Old South Quartette. A version of Sinner Man released in 1956, by Swedish-American folk singer William Clauson, credited Baxter, Holt, Cheeks and James as co-writers. Another gospel group, the Swan Silvertones, released their version of the song in 1957 on the Vee-Jay label, Carawan wrote that he had learned the song in 1956 from Bob Gibson. Most modern recorded versions derive from the 1956 recording by Les Baxter, further changes and additions were codified in 1959 by the folk music group the Weavers. The Weavers performance of the song appears on their compilation albums Gospel, Sinnerman is one of Nina Simones most famous songs and she recorded her definitive 10-minute-plus version on her 1965 album Pastel Blues. Simone learned the lyrics of this English song in her childhood when it was used at meetings by her mother. In the early days of her career during the early sixties, an earlier version of the song exists, recorded live at The Village Gate, but was not used on the 1962 Colpix album Nina at the Village Gate. Simones version of Sinnerman has been sampled by Kanye West for the Talib Kweli song Get By, by Timbaland for the song Oh Timbaland and it has also been covered by 16 Horsepower on their album Folklore, and by Zegota on their self-titled 7. French rapper Abd al-Malik sampled Simones version for the track of his 2006 album Gibraltar. He also sampled Simones version of See Line Woman for the track Le grand frère from the same album, Sinner Man has also been recorded as ska and reggae versions several times by the Wailers. It was first recorded by the group at Studio One in Kingston, Jamaica in early 1966, Peter Tosh, a different version entitled Downpressor was recorded by Peter Tosh & The Wailers in 1970. The song featured Tosh on lead vocals and Bunny Wailer on background, an instrumental version was also released. Songwriting credit for this version is given to Tosh. Another version was recorded in 1971 as Oppressor Man and this version was billed as a Peter Tosh solo single, and the B Side of the single featured an instrumental version
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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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Complex (magazine)
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Complex is a New York–based media platform for youth culture which was founded as a bi-monthly magazine by fashion designer Marc Eckō. Complex reports on trends in style, pop culture, music, sports and sneakers with a focus on streetwear, sneaker culture, hip-hop, Complex currently reaches over 120 million unique users per month across its owned and operated and partner sites, socials and YouTube channels. The magazine ceased publication with the December 2016/January 2017 issue, in 2016 December, Complex acquired the website Trillera. com. In 2016, it became a subsidiary of Verizon and Hearst. Complex was established in 2002 by the founder of the Eckō Unltd, Brand, Marc Eckō, as a print magazine aimed at providing young males a report of the latest in hip-hop, fashion and pop culture without regard to race. The name Complex evolved from a slogan developed to promote the Eckō Unltd, the idea was to create a mens magazine that combined Eckōs streetwear and hip-hop attitude along with the style of Japanese mens magazines by providing consumer guides. This was achieved by creating a magazine in two sections, one magazine, and the other a shopping guide. In 2005, Complex was joined by the senior editor of Vibe magazine. He became editor-in-chief and chief content officer a year later, a position he retains as of February 2014. By 2006, Complex had begun to turn a profit which allowed the magazine to consider an expansion of their online presence, in April 2007, Complex soft-launched a media network with four websites, NahRight, Nice Kicks, SlamxHype and MoeJackson. In September 2007, Complex launched Complex Media in order to capitalize on the trend toward digital content. In 2010, ad sales grew 154%, according to comScore, Complex got 12 million unique hits in March 2012. This encouraged large brands such as Coors, AT&T, Ford, McDonalds, Nike, Adidas, Complex now includes over 100 sites. In 2011, Complex acquired Pigeons and Planes, a music and rap blog. In 2013, Complex launched the music site Do Androids Dance and Green Label. That year, Complex also acquired the sneakerhead culture magazine and website Sole Collector, on November 4,2013, Complex premiered a new logo and cover design on Instagram that would appear online, as well as on the December 2013 Eminem cover issue. In 2013, Complex partnered with Mountain Dew to launch Green Label an entertainment, in 2014, Complex launched an NBA-themed website called Triangle Offense in a partnership with Bacardi rum. In August 2014, Complex ranked #3 in the United States in a ComScore survey of visitors between the ages of 18 and 34 with 20.3 million in that demographic per month
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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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Little Girl Blue (album)
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Little Girl Blue is the debut album by jazz singer, pianist and songwriter Nina Simone, released by Bethlehem Records. Simone was in her mid-20s at the time, and still aspiring to be a concert pianist. She immediately sold the rights for the songs on this album to Bethlehem for $3,000, Simone was dissatisfied by the lack of effort the record company took in promoting her, and after this album she formed a long business relationship with Colpix Records. The album Nina Simone and Her Friends was released after she had left Bethlehem, without her consent, the session was the only one ever recorded for Bethlehem. The original 1958 album was released in mono, but an issue the following year. The album was reissued by Bethlehem in 1992 on CD, with three tracks from the same session, Hes Got the Whole World in His Hands, For All We Know. This format was released again in 2002, as Jazz as Played in an Exclusive Side Street Club by Charly / Snapper Music, remastered, I Loves You, Porgy, from George Gershwins opera Porgy and Bess. This was the song that started Simones career, the single became her only Billboard top 20 hit in the United States. Mood Indigo, also featured on Let It All Out, love Me or Leave Me featured on the soundtrack of Billys Hollywood Screen Kiss, also features on Let It All Out. Plain Gold Ring was later covered by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, White Magic, Simones version was also incorporated into the song Deadly Species by Alif Tree for their album French Cuisine. My Baby Just Cares for Me was Simones biggest hit and it was one of the last songs she recorded during the session, because the record label wanted an uptempo song to finish with. The fairly obscure song became a hit when it was re-released in 1987 and it helped the almost forgotten Simone back into the limelight. Central Park Blues was created and recorded in a single take, the record company needed another song, so Simone drew inspiration from a photo shoot earlier in the day at Central Park. Little Girl Blue is an example of a quodlibet. In this case Simone combined the Rodgers and Hart melody and lyrics with the melody of the popular carol Good King Wenceslas, dont Smoke in Bed, is a jazz song written and originally recorded by Willard Robison
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Forbidden Fruit (Nina Simone album)
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Forbidden Fruit is an album by the jazz singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone. It was her studio album for Colpix. The rhythm section accompanying her is the trio as on both live albums before and after this release. Gin House Blues, Simone re-recorded this song in a more upbeat way on Nuff Said, work Song, written by Oscar Brown, Jr and Nat Adderley tells the story of a chain gang. This song also appears on Nina’s Choice, Nina Simone with Strings, forbidden Fruit, the title song, one of three on the album by Oscar Brown, Jr Its a humorous up-tempo take on Adam and Eve was part nursery rhyme, part call and response
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Nina Simone Sings Ellington
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Nina Simone Sings Ellington is an album by American singer and pianist Nina Simone. The album contains songs that were composed and recorded by Duke Ellington. Simone is complemented by the Malcolm Dodds Singers, the cover photo features just Nina Simones head in full colour. Nina says about this picture in her autobiography I Put A Spell On You that the picture was originally a full picture of Simones body. However, because Nina was pregnant of her daughter Lisa at that time and he failed in this most probably, and that is why just Simones head was cut out of the full picture. A leftover shot of Nina from this session, featuring a pose from her chest up, was used on her 1966 album
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Broadway-Blues-Ballads
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Broadway-Blues-Ballads is an album by singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone. It was her album for Philips. In contrast to her first Philips album, the live In Concert, which was laden with civil rights motifs. It is not regarded as one of Simones best efforts, though it contains songs that became standards in her repertoire, Dont Let Me Be Misunderstood was written by Bennie Benjamin, Gloria Caldwell and Sol Marcus and is one of Simones most well known songs. Arranger and conductor Horace Ott co-wrote this song, but credited it under his wifes name Gloria Caldwell, I Am Blessed, Dont Take All Night, Of This Im Sure, Our Love were also written by Bennie Benjamin and Sol Marcus. See Line Woman became a standard in Simones live repertoire and it is loosely based on a traditional childrens song, Sea Lion Woman. -2,05 The Last Rose of Summer -3,08 on some CD releases the single A Monster is added as a bonus track
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Nina Simone with Strings
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Nina Simone with Strings is an album by Nina Simone. The album was released without her knowing after she had left Colpix Records, to make the tracks on the album more commercial, strings were added on some of the tracks, occasionally burying Simones vocals under a wall of sound. Despite the post-production efforts the album one of Simones least accomplished works, mainly a collection of different songs in terms of subject, style. On later releases of Simones Colpix years, some of the tracks on album were remastered. The cover photo was used out of a shoot for the earlier album Nina Simone Sings Ellington. See details in the article about that album, chain Gang is Nat Adderleys Work Song, throughout her career Simone did several versions of the soul jazz classic. The Man with a Horn, Simone recorded this song later for Nina Simone and Piano, but it did not make it onto the album
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Wild Is the Wind (album)
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Wild Is the Wind is jazz singer-songwriter and pianist Nina Simones sixth album for Philips Records. The album was compiled from recordings that were left over from sessions for previous Philips albums. The album was a Billboard magazine special merit pick on release, with the reviewer commenting, sets up an exceptional romantic mood that offers top listening delight. The song Four Women was released as a single, and gained attention when banned by the New York jazz focused radio station WLIB due to concern over the lyrics. Simone first recorded Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair in 1955, for the song, Simone only wanted a minimal accompaniment with her playing the piano and a bass drone. Lisle Atkinson what he was asked to do during his time in Nina Simone’s band, “She wanted the least amount of complication as possible—roots and 5’s, I have to give Nina credit for being aware that I could bow, and she utilized it a lot. She had me playing a lot of arco in performances. ”Wild Is The Wind was covered by David Bowie on his 1976 studio recording Station to Station, lilac Wine was covered by Jeff Buckley on his album Grace. The album was included in Robert Dimerys 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, wild Is the Wind at Radio3Net
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High Priestess of Soul
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High Priestess of Soul is a studio album by jazz singer, pianist and songwriter Nina Simone. The songs are accompanied by a large band directed and arranged by Hal Mooney, the album contains popular songs and African American gospel and folk related songs written by Simone herself. However, according to her daughter, Simone, she never hated that moniker, Simone recorded also Another Spring by Badalamenti and Clifford for her album Nina Simone and Piano released 1969. An earlier recording of the soul-jazz hit Work Song by Nat Adderley and Oscar Brown, in 1966 Simone recorded the song once again With Strings. The last track I Love My Baby is a composition by Andy Stroud to whom Simone was married from 1960 until 1970 and his company Stroud Productions also produced many of her albums
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Nina Simone Sings the Blues
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Sings the Blues is an album by singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone. This was Simones first album for RCA Records after previously recording for Colpix Records, the album was also reissued in 2006 with bonus tracks, and re-packaged in 1991 by RCA/Novus as a 17-track compilation under the title The Blues. My Mans Gone Now, from the opera Porgy & Bess by George Gershwin, backlash Blues, one of Simones civil rights songs. The lyrics were written by her friend and poet Langston Hughes, I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl, based on a song by Simones great example, Bessie Smith, but with somewhat different lyrics. The House of the Rising Sun, previously recorded by Simone in 1962 on Nina At The Village Gate, after its cover by The Animals became a hit she re-recorded it. The fast-paced version on album is completely different from the slow
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Silk & Soul
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Silk & Soul is the thirteenth studio album by American musician Nina Simone released in October 1967 by RCA Victor. It features the cuts Go To Hell and a cover of I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free, in 1968, Simone got a Grammy nomination for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for the song Youll Go to Hell from this album. It Bes That Way Sometime, a written by Ninas brother Sam Waymon. The Look of Love, a song by Burt Bacharach, originally written for the movie Casino Royale, I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free, this song was written by Billy Taylor. It was later recorded by Solomon Burke and Levon Helm, turning Point, which at first seems to be a childs song about making a new friend, later turns into a song questioning the origins of racism. Consummation is a song written by Nina Simone. Nina Simone - piano, vocals Gene Taylor - bass Sammy Lowe - arrangements, conductor Ray Hall - engineer
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To Love Somebody (album)
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To Love Somebody is an album by Jazz singer-songwriter/pianist Nina Simone. It was released as quickly as possible to prolong the success of Nuff Said. The title is taken from the Bee Gees song To Love Somebody, the title track, To Love Somebody, as well as I Cant See Nobody are songs by the Bee Gees. Simone recorded a version of the song that was unreleased. Revolution was Simones third subsequent single released in the UK after Aint Got No-I Got Life, the song was released around the time of the same titled song by The Beatles and, although it has a similar hook and structure, most of the lyrics differ. Interestingly, the song uses a guitar lick similar to Old Brown Shoe. John Lennon commented on the similarities in his 1971 interview with Rolling Stone, I thought it was interesting that Nina Simone did a sort of answer to “Revolution. ”That was very good–it was sort of like “Revolution, ” but not quite. That I sort of enjoyed, somebody who reacted immediately to what I had said and it is actually one song, but because of an unknown reason chopped in two by a two-second silence. Revolution didnt do well in the UK charts, and only had a success in the United States R&B charts. Simone didnt expect this lack of success and said to Sylvia Hampton, author of the biography Break Down and Let It All Out about this and its about a revolution, man, not just colour, but everything. Its about barriers being broken down, and they sure as hell need getting rid of and we need a revolution to sort it all out and get back to God. You know how lost we are, man – its sad, just Like Tom Thumbs Blues, I Shall Be Released, and The Times They Are A-Changin are songs by Bob Dylan. Alias - drums Weldon J. Irvine - organ Al Schackman - guitar Gene A
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Here Comes the Sun (album)
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Here Comes the Sun is an album by jazz singer-pianist Nina Simone, consisting of cover versions of songs by pop and rock musicians. It features songs recorded in the RCA studios with a full orchestra, although Simone covers songs by Bob Dylan and The Beatles, among others, most of the versions feature arrangements substantially different from the original recordings. This is most clearly in the final song My Way, which with its fast pacing rhythm deviates significantly from the usual interpretations, side One Here Comes the Sun -3,37 Just Like a Woman -4,53 O-o-h Child -3,22 Mr. In the last verse Simone changes the third person perspective into first person. O-O-H Child, a song originally by The Five Stairsteps My Way, simones self-arranged version features up-tempo backing instruments and angelic backing vocals. It is different from other interpretations in its rhythm and African influence. Angel of the Morning was included in the album when fellow Juilliard alumnus and she asked Aken to do an arrangement on the song similar to the one he had done for Elvis the year before on Youve Lost That Loving Feeling. The song Tell It Like It Is was also recorded during the sessions but not released till 1998 on the compilation The Very Best of Nina Simone, Sugar in My Bowl 1967–1972
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Baltimore (album)
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Baltimore is the 1978 album by Nina Simone. Simones difficult behavior delayed production, but she would record her vocals for the album in a single hour-long sitting. Simone would later say of the album, The material was not my personal choice, the album failed to do well commercially, although it received substantial press attention. Baltimore was composed by Randy Newman and originally appeared on his 1977 album Little Criminals
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Fodder on My Wings
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Fodder on My Wings is an album by singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone. It is part of her works, and can be regarded alongside Baltimore as one of her better achievements of that period. It is however a rather obscure album and not widely distributed, the album is one of Simones most introspective and personal works, with songs about her fathers death and her stay in Liberia, Trinidad and Switzerland. I Sing Just to Know That Im Alive, with this song Nina Simone closes the year 1981 and welcomes herself in Trinidad, referring to it as her home country. In her later years Nina Simone often performed this live, it also features on the albums Live at Ronnie Scotts. In the live versions of the song she refers to her own fleeing to countries all over the world. This song was covered by Vic Chesnutt on his album North Star Deserter, il y a un baume à Gilead, Simone had already sung this song on Baltimore in an English version There Is a Balm in Gilead. It is in fact, as Simone states on this album and this episode was later further described in Simones autobiography I Put a Spell on You. Le peuple en Suisse, on this track Simone talks about the people in Switzerland and this was not a happy time for her, and Simone found the people in Switzerland very empty and unloving. Alone Again Naturally is an originally written by Gilbert OSullivan. In the additional track Stop, Simone expresses her dislike for the song Send in the Clowns, the album cover shows a painting made by Gabriel Jarnier. All songs written by Nina Simone except where noted, the CDs track order varies from the original LP. Nina Simone - vocals, piano, tambourine, harmony vocals, arrangements, conductor Sylvin Marc - bass, vocals Paco Sery - percussion Sydney Thaim - congas, bells, wood block
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