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Quantico, Virginia
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Quantico is a town in Prince William County, Virginia, United States. The population was 480 at the 2010 census, Quantico is bordered by the U. S. military installation of Marine Corps Base Quantico on three sides and the Potomac River on the fourth. Quantico is located south of the mouth of Quantico Creek on the Potomac, the word Quantico is a derivation of the name of a Doeg village recorded by English colonists as Pamacocack. Quantico is the site of one of the largest U. S. Marine Corps bases, the base is the site of the Marine Corps Combat Development Command and HMX-1, Officer Candidate School, and The Basic School. A replica of the USMC War Memorial stands in the entrance to the base, as of 2013, the mayor is Kevin P. Brown. Quantico is at 38°3119 North, 77°1723 West, according to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.1 square miles, of which,0.1 square miles of it is land and none of the area is covered with water. Quantico has a subtropical climate. As of the census of 2000, there were 561 people,295 households, the population density was 7,811.2 inhabitants per square mile. There were 359 housing units at a density of 4,998.6 per square mile. The racial makeup was 61. 32% White,20. 32% African American,10. 16% Asian,0. 36% Native American,2. 32% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 5. 53% of the population. 53. 2% of all households were made up of individuals and 9. 2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 1.90 and the average family size was 3.02. In the town the population was out with 20. 9% under the age of 18,11. 6% from 18 to 24,39. 8% from 25 to 44,19. 4% from 45 to 64. The median age was 35 years, for every 100 females there were 122.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 130.1 males, the median income for a household in the town was $26,250, and the median income for a family was $27,596. Males had an income of $29,615 versus $23,125 for females. The per capita income for the town was $19,087, about 22. 4% of families and 21. 4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 39. 4% of those under the age of 18 and none of those ages 65 or older. Criminal Minds is based out of Quantico, the CBS drama CSI, Cyber is also set in Quantico. A new thriller series, Quantico, set at the FBI Academy premiered in 2015 on the ABC network, lee Childs character Major Jack Reacher makes numerous references to Quantico, especially in the novel The Visitor
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Fiddle
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Fiddle is another name for the bowed string musical instrument more often called a violin. It is also a term for the instrument used by players in all genres. Fiddle playing, or fiddling, refers to various styles of music, Fiddle is also a common term among musicians who play folk music on the violin. The fiddle is part of traditional styles of music which are aural traditions. There are few distinctions between violins and fiddles, though more primitively constructed and smaller violins are more likely to be considered fiddles. In order to produce a tone, compared to the deeper tones of gut or synthetic core strings. Among musical styles, fiddling tends to produce rhythms focused on dancing, with associated quick note changes, whereas classical music tends to contain more vibrato and it is less common for a classically trained violinist to play folk music, but today, many fiddlers have classical training. The medieval fiddle emerged in 10th-century Europe, deriving from the Byzantine lira, lira spread widely westward to Europe, in the 11th and 12th centuries European writers use the terms fiddle and lira interchangeably when referring to bowed instruments. During the Renaissance the gambas were important and elegant instruments, they eventually lost ground to the viola da braccio family. The etymology of fiddle is uncertain, the Germanic fiddle may derive from the same early Romance word as does violin, the name seems however to be related to Icelandic Fiðla and also Old English fiðele. A native Germanic ancestor of fiddle may even be the ancestor of the early Romance form of violin, historically, fiddle also referred to a predecessor of todays violin. Like the violin, it tended to have four strings, another family of instruments that contributed to the development of the modern fiddle are the viols, which are held between the legs and played vertically, and have fretted fingerboards. Violins, on the hand, are commonly grouped in sections. The difference was likely compounded by the different sounds expected of violin music, historically, the majority of fiddle music was dance music, while violin music had either grown out of dance music or was something else entirely. Violin music came to value a smoothness that fiddling, with its dance-driven clear beat, in situations that required greater volume, a fiddler could push their instrument harder than could a violinist. In the very late 20th century, a few artists have attempted a reconstruction of the Scottish tradition of violin and big fiddle. Notable recorded examples include Iain Fraser and Christine Hanson, Amelia Kaminski and Christine Hansons Bonnie Lasses and Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas Fire and Grace. In Hungary, a three stringed viola variant with a bridge, called the kontra or háromhúros brácsa makes up part of a traditional rhythm section in Hungarian folk music
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Mandolin
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A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or pick. It commonly has four courses of doubled metal strings tuned in unison, although five, the courses are normally tuned in a succession of perfect fifths. It is the member of a family that includes the mandola, octave mandolin, mandocello. There are many styles of mandolin, but three are common, the Neapolitan or round-backed mandolin, the mandolin and the flat-backed mandolin. The round-back has a bottom, constructed of strips of wood. The carved-top or arch-top mandolin has a shallower, arched back. The flat-backed mandolin uses thin sheets of wood for the body, each style of instrument has its own sound quality and is associated with particular forms of music. Neapolitan mandolins feature prominently in European classical music and traditional music, carved-top instruments are common in American folk music and bluegrass music. Flat-backed instruments are used in Irish, British and Brazilian folk music. Some modern Brazilian instruments feature a fifth course tuned a fifth lower than the standard fourth course. There has also been a type and an instrument with sixteen-strings. Much of mandolin development revolved around the soundboard, pre-mandolin instruments were quiet instruments, strung with as many as six courses of gut strings, and were plucked with the fingers or with a quill. However, modern instruments are louder—using four courses of metal strings, the modern soundboard is designed to withstand the pressure of metal strings that would break earlier instruments. The soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections, there is usually one or more sound holes in the soundboard, either round, oval, or shaped like a calligraphic f. A round or oval sound hole may be covered or bordered with decorative rosettes or purfling, Mandolins evolved from the lute family in Italy during the 17th and 18th centuries, and the deep bowled mandolin, produced particularly in Naples, became common in the 19th century. Dating to around c.13,000 BC, a painting in the Trois Frères cave in France depicts what some believe is a musical bow. From the musical bow, families of stringed instruments developed, since each string played a note, adding strings added new notes, creating bow harps, harps. In turn, this led to being able to play dyads and chords, another innovation occurred when the bow harp was straightened out and a bridge used to lift the strings off the stick-neck, creating the lute
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Banjo
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The banjo is a four-, five- or six-stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity as a resonator, called the head. The membrane, or head, is made of plastic, although animal skin is still occasionally but rarely used. Early forms of the instrument were fashioned by Africans in America, the banjo is frequently associated with country, folk, Irish traditional and bluegrass music. Historically, the banjo occupied a place in African American traditional music. The banjo, with the fiddle, is a mainstay of American old-time music and it is also very frequently used in Traditional Jazz. The modern banjo derives from instruments that had used in the Caribbean since the 17th century by enslaved people taken from West Africa. Written references to the banjo in North America appear in the 18th century, the etymology of the name banjo is uncertain. The word could have come from the Yoruba word Bami jo and it may derive from the Kimbundu word mbanza. A Banza, a five double string courses Portuguese viuhela with two short strings, mbanza is a string African instrument that has been built after the Portuguese Banza. Banza is quite similar to Banjo, various instruments in Africa, chief among them the kora, feature a skin head and gourd body. Banjos with fingerboards and tuning pegs are known from the Caribbean as early as the 17th century, 18th- and early 19th-century writers transcribed the name of these instruments variously as bangie, banza, bonjaw, banjer and banjar. Instruments similar to the banjo have been played in many countries, another likely relative of the banjo is the akonting, a spike folk lute played by the Jola tribe of Senegambia, and the ubaw-akwala of the Igbo. Early, African-influenced banjos were built around a body and a wooden stick neck. These instruments had varying numbers of strings, though often including some form of drone, the five-string banjo was popularized by Joel Walker Sweeney, an American minstrel performer from Appomattox Court House, Virginia. In the 1830s Sweeney became the first white performer to play the banjo on stage and his version of the instrument replaced the gourd with a drum-like sound box and included four full-length strings alongside a short fifth string. This new banjo was at first tuned dGdf♯a, though by the 1890s this had been transposed up to gcgbd, Banjos were introduced in Britain by Sweeneys group, the American Virginia Minstrels, in the 1840s, and became very popular in music halls. In the Antebellum South, many black slaves played the banjo, two techniques closely associated with the five-string banjo are rolls and drones. Rolls are right hand fingering pattern that consist of eight notes that subdivide each measure
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Guitar
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The guitar is a musical instrument classified as a fretted string instrument with anywhere from four to 18 strings, usually having six. The sound is projected either acoustically, using a wooden or plastic and wood box, or through electrical amplifier. It is typically played by strumming or plucking the strings with the fingers, the guitar is a type of chordophone, traditionally constructed from wood and strung with either gut, nylon or steel strings and distinguished from other chordophones by its construction and tuning. There are three types of modern acoustic guitar, the classical guitar, the steel-string acoustic guitar, and the archtop guitar. The tone of a guitar is produced by the strings vibration, amplified by the hollow body of the guitar. The term finger-picking can also refer to a tradition of folk, blues, bluegrass. The acoustic bass guitar is an instrument that is one octave below a regular guitar. Early amplified guitars employed a body, but a solid wood body was eventually found more suitable during the 1960s and 1970s. As with acoustic guitars, there are a number of types of guitars, including hollowbody guitars, archtop guitars and solid-body guitars. The electric guitar has had a influence on popular culture. The guitar is used in a variety of musical genres worldwide. It is recognized as an instrument in genres such as blues, bluegrass, country, flamenco, folk, jazz, jota, mariachi, metal, punk, reggae, rock, soul. The term is used to refer to a number of chordophones that were developed and used across Europe, beginning in the 12th century and, later, in the Americas. The modern word guitar, and its antecedents, has applied to a wide variety of chordophones since classical times. Many influences are cited as antecedents to the modern guitar, at least two instruments called guitars were in use in Spain by 1200, the guitarra latina and the so-called guitarra morisca. The guitarra morisca had a back, wide fingerboard. The guitarra Latina had a sound hole and a narrower neck. By the 14th century the qualifiers moresca or morisca and latina had been dropped, and it had six courses, lute-like tuning in fourths and a guitar-like body, although early representations reveal an instrument with a sharply cut waist
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Bluegrass music
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Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and a related genre of country music. Settlers from Britain and Ireland arrived in Appalachia during the 18th century and these traditions consisted primarily of English and Scottish ballads—which were essentially unaccompanied narrative—and dance music, such as Irish reels, which were accompanied by a fiddle. Many older bluegrass songs come directly from the British Isles, several Appalachian bluegrass ballads, such as Pretty Saro, Barbara Allen, Cuckoo Bird and House Carpenter, come from England and preserve the English ballad tradition both melodically and lyrically. Others, such as The Two Sisters, also come from England, however, some bluegrass fiddle songs popular in Appalachia, such as Leather Britches, and Pretty Polly, have Scottish roots. The dance tune Cumberland Gap may be derived from the tune that accompanies the Scottish ballad Bonnie George Campbell and this is in contrast to old-time music, in which all instruments play the melody together or one instrument carries the lead throughout while the others provide accompaniment. Breakdowns are often characterized by rapid tempos and unusual instrumental dexterity, there are three major subgenres of bluegrass and one unofficial subgenre. Traditional bluegrass has musicians playing folk songs, tunes with traditional chord progressions, progressive bluegrass groups may use electric instruments and import songs from other genres, particularly rock & roll. Examples include Cadillac Sky and Bearfoot, another subgenre, Bluegrass gospel uses Christian lyrics, soulful three- or four-part harmony singing, and sometimes the playing of instrumentals. Bluegrass music has attracted a following worldwide. Bluegrass pioneer Bill Monroe characterized the genre as, Scottish bagpipes and its Methodist and Holiness and Baptist. Its blues and jazz, and it has a high lonesome sound, unlike mainstream country music, bluegrass is traditionally played on acoustic stringed instruments. The fiddle, five-string banjo, guitar, mandolin, and upright bass are often joined by the resonator guitar and this instrumentation originated in rural dance bands and is the basis on which the earliest bluegrass bands were formed. The guitar is now most commonly played with a style referred to as flatpicking, unlike the style of bluegrass guitarists such as Lester Flatt. Banjo players often use the three-finger picking style made popular by such as Don Reno. Fiddlers frequently play in thirds and fifths, producing a sound that is characteristic to the bluegrass style, bassists almost always play pizzicato, occasionally adopting the slap-style to accentuate the beat. A bluegrass bass line is generally a rhythmic alternation between the tonic and dominant of each chord, with walking bass excursions. Instrumentation has been a topic of debate. Traditional bluegrass performers believe the correct instrumentation is used by Bill Monroes band
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Santa Paula, California
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Santa Paula is a city in Ventura County, California, United States. Situated amidst the orchards of the fertile Santa Clara River Valley, Santa Paula was one of the early centers of Californias petroleum industry. The Union Oil Company Building, the headquarters of the Union Oil Company of California in 1890. The population was 29,321 at the 2010 census, up from 28,598 at the 2000 census, the area of what today is Santa Paula was originally inhabited by the Chumash, a Native American people. Fray Juan Crespi, a Franciscan missionary travelling with the expedition, had named the valley Cañada de Santa Clara. He noted that the party traveled about 9 to 10 miles that day and camped near a native village. The site of the expeditions arrival has been designated California Historical Landmark No.727, Santa Paula is located on the 1843 Rancho Santa Paula y Saticoy Mexican land grant. In 1872 Nathan Weston Blanchard purchased 2,700 acres and laid out the townsite, considered the founder of the community, he planted seedling orange trees in 1874. Several small oil companies owned by Wallace Hardison, Lyman Stewart and Thomas R. Bard were combined, in April 1911, Gaston Méliès moved his Star Film Company from San Antonio, Texas to a site just north of Santa Paula. While the field peaked in production in the 1950s, Occidental Petroleum continues to extract oil through its Vintage Production subsidiary, a 500-acre master-planned community of 1,500 homes is expected to expand the town significantly when it begins construction in 2016. The town has been devastated twice by floods and was affected by a truck explosion that resulted in an industrial disaster. The first, known as the Great Flood of 1862, began on December 24,1861 and it rained for almost four weeks, reaching a total of 35 inches at Los Angeles. The second was caused by the failure and near collapse of the St. Francis Dam. The dam was holding a reservoir of 12.4 billion gallons of water that with the dam collapsed, began surging down San Francisquito Canyon. The town was first hit by the waters at approximately 3,00 a. m, though hundreds of homes and structures were destroyed, the loss of life would have been greater if it were not for two motorcycle police officers that noisily warned as many people as possible. A sculpture called The Watchers in downtown Santa Paula depicts this act of heroism, a vacuum truck exploded at the Santa Clara Waste Water plant in the early morning hours of November 18,2014. The driver was transporting waste from a temporary storage drum to a processing center when he stopped to take a meal break. The tires of the first fire truck on the scene and the boots of three firefighters sparked small explosions when they drove and walked over the substance as they went to help the injured workers
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George Strait
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George Harvey Strait is an American country music singer, songwriter, actor, and music producer. He is known as the King of Country and is considered one of the most influential, Straits success began when his first single Unwound was a hit in 1981. During the 1980s, seven of his albums reached number one on the country charts. In the 2000s, Strait was named Artist of the Decade by the Academy of Country Music, was elected into the Country Music Hall of Fame, and won his first Grammy award for the album Troubadour. Strait was named CMA Entertainer of the Year in 1989,1990 and 2013 and he has been nominated for more CMA and ACM awards and has more wins in both categories than any other artist. In 2009, he broke Conway Twittys previous record for the most number-one hits on Billboards Hot Country Songs chart when his 45 number one singles surpassed Twittys 40, Strait is also known for his touring career when he designed a 360- degree configuration and introduced festival style tours. For example, the Strait Tours earned $99 million in three years and his concert at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TX in June 2014 drew 104,793 people, marking a new record for largest indoor concert in North America. Strait was successful innovating country music and in aspects of being a part of popular music. Strait has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the music artists of all time. His certifications from the RIAA include 13 multi-platinum,33 platinum and his best-selling album is Pure Country, which sold 6 million. His highest certified album is Strait Out of the Box, which sold 2 million copies, according to the RIAA, Strait is the 12th best-selling album recording artist in the United States overall. George Harvey Strait was born on May 18,1952, in Poteet, Texas, to John Byron Strait, Sr. and Doris Jean Couser. He grew up in nearby Pearsall, in Frio County, where his father was a high school mathematics teacher. The family worked at the ranch on the weekends and in the summers, when George was in the fourth grade, his father and mother were divorced, and his mother moved away with his sister, Pency. George and his brother John, Jr. or Buddy, were raised by their father, Strait began his musical interest while attending Pearsall High School, where he played in a rock and roll garage band. The Beatles were popular when Strait was in high school, the Beatles were big, Strait confirmed. I listened to them a lot and that bunch of groups that were popular then. His musical preference soon turned to country with singers Hank Thompson, Lefty Frizzell, Merle Haggard, George Jones, Bob Wills, Hank Williams, Strait did not tune to the country music radio often as a youth, usually listening to the news and the farmers report
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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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Guy Clark
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Guy Charles Clark was an American Texas country and folk singer, musician, songwriter, recording artist, and performer. He released more than twenty albums, and his songs have been recorded by artists including Jerry Jeff Walker, Jimmy Buffett, Lyle Lovett, Ricky Skaggs, Steve Wariner. He won the 2014 Grammy Award for Best Folk Album, My Favorite Picture of You, Clark was born in Monahans, Texas, and eventually settled in Nashville, where he helped create the progressive country and outlaw country genres. His songs L. A. Freeway and Desperados Waiting for a Train that helped launch his career were covered by numerous performers and he was an accomplished luthier and often played his own guitars. He achieved success as a songwriter with Jerry Jeff Walkers recordings of L. A. Freeway, emmylou Harris has accompanied him on several recordings, particularly his own version of Desperados Waiting for a Train on his first album, Old No. Clark had been a mentor to other singers as Steve Earle. He organized Earles first job as a writer in Nashville, numerous artists have charted with Clark-penned tunes. In 1982, Bobby Bare made it to the Country Top Twenty with Clarks New Cut Road and that same year, bluegrass leader Ricky Skaggs hit No.1 with Clarks Heartbroke, a song that permanently established his reputation as an ingenious songwriter. Clark is frequently referred to as The Fifth Highwayman, Steve Wariner took his cover of Clarks Baby Im Yours to No.1 in 1988, Asleep at the Wheel charted with Clarks Blowin Like a Bandit the same year. Crowell was Clarks co-writer on Shes Crazy for Leavin, which in 1989 became the third of five straight #l hits for Crowell, brad Paisley and Alan Jackson cover Clarks Out in the Parkin Lot, co-written with Darrell Scott, on Paisleys Time Well Wasted CD. Jimmy Buffett obviously influenced by Jerry Jeff Walkers earlier quality cover of Boats to Build on 1997s Cowboy Boots & Bathin Suits, then covered Clarks Boats to Build, Clark credits Townes Van Zandt as being a major influence on his songwriting. One of the most famous photos in Country Music history was taken on Clarks porch in 1972 of Clark, wife Susanna, Van Zandt, and Daniel Antopolsky. Clark and Van Zandt were best friends for years until Van Zandts death in 1997. In 1995, he recorded an album with Van Zandt and Steve Earle, Together at the Bluebird Cafe. Other live material can be found on his album Keepers, in 2006, Clark released Workbench Songs. The album was nominated for Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album at the Grammy Awards and he also toured with Lyle Lovett, Joe Ely, and John Hiatt in 2004,2005 and 2007. In May 2008, Clark canceled four concerts after breaking his leg, after two months on crutches, he began to perform again on July 4 at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, DC, where he appeared with Verlon Thompson. On June 20,2009, Clark announced a new album entitled Somedays the Song Writes You which was released on September 22,2009 and it features originals along with a Townes Van Zandt song entitled If I Needed You
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Reba McEntire
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Reba Nell McEntire is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer. She began her career in the industry as a high school student singing in the Kiowa High School band, on local radio shows with her siblings. While a sophomore in college, she performed the National Anthem at the National Rodeo in Oklahoma City and caught the attention of country artist Red Steagall who brought her to Nashville and she signed a contract with Mercury Records a year later in 1975. She released her first solo album in 1977 and released five studio albums under the label until 1983. The album brought her success, bringing her a series of successful albums. She has sometimes referred to as The Queen of Country. And she is one of the artists of all time. In the early 1990s, McEntire branched into film starting with 1990s Tremors, Reba Nell McEntire was born March 28,1955, in McAlester, Oklahoma, to Jacqueline and Clark Vincent McEntire. She was named for her maternal grandmother Reba Estelle Smith, Reba Smith was the daughter of Byron Williams B. W. Her father, and her grandfather, John Wesley McEntire, were both champion steer ropers and her father was a World Champion Steer Roper three times, John McEntire was the son of Clark Stephen McEntire and Helen Florida McEntire. Her mother had wanted to be a country-music artist but eventually decided to become a schoolteacher. Reba reportedly taught herself how to play the guitar, Reba played guitar in the group and wrote all the songs. The group sang at rodeos and recorded The Ballad of John McEntire together, released on the indie label Boss, the song pressed one thousand copies. In 1974, McEntire attended Southeastern Oklahoma State University planning to be a school teacher. While not attending school, she continued to sing locally. That same year she was hired to perform the anthem at the National Rodeo in Oklahoma City. Country artist Red Steagall, who was performing that day, was impressed by her vocal ability and agreed to help her launch a country-music career in Nashville. After recording a tape, she signed a recording contract with Mercury Records in 1975
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Barbra Streisand
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Barbara Joan Barbra Streisand is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker. She is among a group of entertainers who have been honored with an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award. Streisand is one of the music artists of all time, with more than 68.5 million albums in the United States. She starred in the critically acclaimed Funny Girl, for which she won the Academy Award, with the release of Yentl in 1983, Streisand became the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major studio film. The film won an Oscar for Best Score and a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Musical, Streisand received the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, the first woman to win that award. The RIAA and Billboard recognize Streisand as holding the record for the most top 10 albums of any recording artist. According to Billboard, Streisand holds the record for the female with the most number one albums, Billboard also recognizes Streisand as the greatest female of all time on its Billboard 200 chart and one of the greatest artists of all time on its Hot 100 chart. Barbara Joan Streisand was born on April 24,1942, in Brooklyn, New York and her mother had been a soprano singer in her youth and considered a career in music, but later became a school secretary. Her father was a school teacher at the same school. Streisands family was Jewish, her grandparents emigrated from Galicia and her maternal grandparents from the Russian Empire. Her father earned a degree from City College of New York in 1928 and was considered athletic. As a student, he spent his summers outdoors, once working as a lifeguard, hed try anything, his sister Molly said. He married Ida in 1930, two years after graduating, and became a respected educator with a focus on helping underprivileged. In August 1943, a few months after Streisands first birthday, her father died suddenly at age 34 from complications from an epileptic seizure, the family fell into near-poverty, with her mother working as a low-paid bookkeeper. As an adult, Streisand remembered those early years as always feeling like an outcast, explaining and her mother tried to pay their bills but could not give her daughter the attention she craved, When I wanted love from my mother, she gave me food, Streisand says. Streisand recalls that her mother had a voice and sang semi-professionally on occasion. During a visit to the Catskills when Streisand was thirteen, she told Rosie ODonnell, she and that session was the first time Streisand ever asserted herself as an artist, which also became her first moment of inspiration as an artist. She has a brother, Sheldon, and a half-sister
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Mark Knopfler
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Mark Freuder Knopfler, OBE is a British singer, songwriter, guitarist, record producer and film score composer. He is best known as the lead guitarist, lead singer and songwriter for the rock band Dire Straits, since Dire Straits disbanded in 1995, Knopfler has recorded and produced eight solo albums and, as with his previous band, produced many hit songs. He has composed and produced film scores for nine films, including Local Hero, Cal, The Princess Bride, Wag the Dog and Altamira. In addition to his work with Dire Straits and as a solo artist and composer, Knopfler has recorded and performed with prominent musicians. He has produced albums for Tina Turner, Bob Dylan, Knopfler is a fingerstyle guitarist and was ranked 27th on Rolling Stones list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. Knopfler and Dire Straits have sold in excess of 120 million records to date, Mark Freuder Knopfler was born on 12 August 1949 in Glasgow, Scotland, to an English mother, Louisa Mary, and a Hungarian-Jewish father, Erwin Knopfler. His mother was a teacher and his father was an architect, Knopfler later described his father as a Marxist agnostic. The Knopflers originally lived in the Glasgow area and Mark Knopflers younger brother David was also born there, the family re-settled in Knopflers mothers home town of Blyth, Northumberland, in North East England when he was seven years old. Mark had attended Bearsden Primary school in Scotland for two years, but both brothers attended Gosforth Grammar School, originally inspired by his uncle Kingsleys harmonica and boogie-woogie piano playing, Mark soon became familiar with many different styles of music. During the 1960s, he formed and joined bands and listened to singers like Elvis Presley and guitarists Chet Atkins, Scotty Moore, B. B King, Django Reinhardt, Hank Marvin. At 16, he made a television appearance as part of a harmony duo. In 1968, after studying journalism for a year at Harlow College, two years later, he decided to further his studies, and went on to graduate with a degree in English at the University of Leeds. In April 1970, while living in Leeds, Knopfler recorded a demo disk of a song he had written. The recording included Knopfler, Steve Phillips, Dave Johnson, Johnson, Granger, and vocalist Mick Dewhirst played with Knopfler in a band called Silverheels. On graduation in 1973, Knopfler moved to London and joined a High Wycombe-based band called Brewers Droop, appearing on the album The Booze Brothers. One night, while spending time with friends, the only guitar available was an old acoustic with a badly warped neck that had been strung with extra-light strings to make it playable, even so, he found it impossible to play unless he finger-picked it. He said in an interview, That was where I found my voice on guitar. After a brief stint with Brewers Droop, Knopfler took a job as a lecturer at Loughton College in Essex — a position he held for three years, throughout this time, he continued performing with local pub bands, including the Café Racers
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Emmylou Harris
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Emmylou Harris is an American singer and songwriter. She has released many albums and singles over the course of her career. Her work and recordings include work as a solo artist, a bandleader, an interpreter of other works, a singer-songwriter. Harris is from a military family. Her father, Walter Harris, was a Marine Corps officer and her father was reported missing in action in Korea in 1952 and spent ten months as a prisoner of war. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Harris spent her childhood in North Carolina and Woodbridge, Virginia and she married fellow songwriter Tom Slocum in 1969 and recorded her first album, Gliding Bird. Instead, Hillman recommended her to Parsons, who was looking for a female vocalist to collaborate with on his first solo album, Harris toured as a member of Parsonss band, the Fallen Angels, in 1973, and the pair shone during vocal harmonies and duets. Later that year, Parsons and Harris worked on a studio album, Parsons died in his motel room near what is now Joshua Tree National Park on September 19,1973, from an accidental overdose of drugs and alcohol. Parsonss Grievous Angel was released posthumously in 1974, and three tracks from his sessions with Harris were included on another posthumous Parsons album, Sleepless Nights. One more album of recorded material from that period was packaged as Live 1973, Warner Brothers A&R representative Mary Martin introduced Harris to Canadian producer Brian Ahern, who produced her major label debut album, Pieces of the Sky, released in 1975 on Reprise Records. It also featured Bluebird Wine, a composition by a young Texas songwriter, Rodney Crowell, two singles were released, Too Far Gone, which initially charted at No. 73, and Harriss first big hit, If I Could Only Win Your Love, a duet with Herb Pedersen, executives of Warner Bros. Records told Harris they would agree to record her if she would get a hot band. Harris did so, enlisting guitarist James Burton and pianist Glen Hardin, Burton was a renowned guitarist, starting in Ricky Nelsons band in the 1950s, and Hardin had been a member of the Crickets. Other Hot Band members were drummer John Ware, pedal steel guitarist Hank DeVito, singer-songwriter Crowell was enlisted as a rhythm guitarist and duet partner. Harriss first tour schedule originally dovetailed around Presleys, owing to Burton, the Hot Band lived up to its name, with most of the members moving on with fresh talent replacing them as they continued on to solo careers of their own. Elite Hotel, released in December 1975, established that the created by Pieces of the Sky was well-founded. Unusual for country albums at the time, which revolved around a hit single. Elite Hotel was a No.1 country album and also did well as a crossover success with the rock audience
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All the Roadrunning
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The album received favorable reviews, and reached the number one position on album charts in Denmark, Norway, and Switzerland. The album peaked at eight in the United Kingdom. This Is Us was released as the first single, followed by Beachcombing, the album was the result of a longtime collaboration between the two artists. Over the course of seven years, the songs were recorded by the pair with minimal information released about the project, a follow-up live album, Real Live Roadrunning, was released following All the Roadrunning Tour. Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris have had histories of collaborating with. King, Kris Kristofferson, Sonny Landreth, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Cliff Richard, Sting, Tina Turner, Steely Dan, both shared a love of country music and an admiration for one of country musics guitar masters, Chet Atkins. In 1990, Atkins and Knopfler recorded a collaborative album Neck and Neck, Knopfler and Harris first met while appearing on a Chet Atkins television special in 1987. They stayed in touch, and about ten years later in Nashville, Mark played a few of his songs for Harris, All the Roadrunning was recorded sporadically over a seven-year period. Two of its tracks, the Cajun-style Red Staggerwing and the acoustic ballad Donkey Town, were planned to be included in Knopflers 2000 solo album Sailing to Philadelphia. On Thanksgiving evening in 1998, at a session in Nashville, Knopfler. The session sparked the idea for an album of duets. Harris later recalled, When you combine two unique voices it creates a third, phantom voice, I love the third voice that Mark and I create. We noticed right away that our voices blended pretty effortlessly, further recording sessions took place in 2002 and 2004, with the pair recording songs from the ground up, supported by some of the best Nashville session players. Their duets album was interrupted by their individual solo projects—Harriss Stumble into Grace in 2003 and Knopflers Shangri-La in 2004—and their supporting tours, if This Is Goodbye is based on the last telephone call of a woman trapped in the World Trade Center on 9/11. The tour lineup included Mark Knopfler, Emmylou Harris, Guy Fletcher, Richard Bennett, Stuart Duncan, Matt Rollings, Glenn Worf, and Danny Cummings. In his review for the Winnipeg Sun, Darryl Sterdan gave the four out of five stars. Sterdan continued, At first blush, youd think Mark Knopflers Dylanesque croak, but we are glad to report this decidedly odd couple make some seriously beautiful music together on All the Roadrunning. Granted, this is nothing new for Emmylou, who has partnered with virtually every important roots and country artist of the last 30 years, but the bulk of the credit really here has to go to Knopfler
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Robert Plant
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Robert Anthony Plant, CBE is an English singer, songwriter, and musician, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band Led Zeppelin. A powerful and wide range has given him a successful solo career spanning over 30 years. Plant is regarded as one of the greatest singers in the history of rock and roll, he has influenced fellow rock singer-songwriters such as Freddie Mercury, Axl Rose, in 2006, Heavy Metal magazine Hit Parader named Plant the Greatest Metal Vocalist of All Time. In 2009, Plant was voted the greatest voice in rock in a poll conducted by Planet Rock, in 2008, Rolling Stone editors ranked him number 15 on their list of the 100 best singers of all time. In 2011, Rolling Stone readers ranked Plant the greatest of all lead singers, Robert Anthony Plant was born in the Black Country town of West Bromwich, Staffordshire to Robert C. Plant, a civil engineer who worked in the Royal Air Force during World War II, and Annie Celia Plant. He grew up in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, Plant gained an interest in singing and rock and roll music at an early age. When I was a kid I used to hide behind the curtains at home at Christmas and I used to try, there was a certain ambience between the curtains and the French windows, there was a certain sound there for a ten-year-old. That was all the ambience I got at ten years old, and I always wanted to be a curtain, a bit similar to that. I suppose I was quite interested in my collection and Romano-British history. I was a grammar school boy and I could hear this kind of calling through the airwaves. He abandoned training as an accountant after only two weeks to attend college in an effort to gain more GCE passes and to become part of the English Midlands blues scene. I left home at 16, he said, and I started my real education musically, moving from group to group, furthering my knowledge of the blues, Plants early blues influences included Johnson, Bukka White, Skip James, Jerry Miller, and Sleepy John Estes. Plant had various jobs while pursuing his career, one of which was working for the major British construction company Wimpey in Birmingham in 1967 laying tarmac on roads. He also worked at Woolworths in Halesowen town for a period of time. He cut three singles on CBS Records and sang with a variety of bands, including the Crawling King Snakes. They both went on to play in the Band of Joy, merging blues with newer psychedelic trends, a version of Somebody to Love by Jefferson Airplane was sung by Plant in front of Page, leading Page to the end of his search. As recalled by Plant and Page, Plant, I was appearing at this college when Peter and Jimmy turned up and asked me if Id like to join the Yardbirds
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Alison Krauss
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Alison Maria Krauss is an American bluegrass-country singer and musician. She entered the industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in 1987 and she was invited to join the band with which she still performs, Alison Krauss and Union Station, and later released her first album with them as a group in 1989. She has released fourteen albums, appeared on soundtracks. She is the most awarded singer and the most awarded female artist in Grammy history, at the time of her first, the 1991 Grammy Awards, she was the second-youngest winner. Alison Maria Krauss was born in Decatur, Illinois, to Fred and her father was a German immigrant who came to the United States in 1952 and taught his native language. Her mother, of German and Italian descent, is the daughter of artists, Krauss grew up in the college town of Champaign, home to the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. She began studying violin at age five but soon switched to bluegrass. Krauss said she first became involved with music because mother tried to find interesting things for me to do and wanted to get me involved in music, in addition to art and sports. At the age of eight she started entering talent contests. At 13 she won the Walnut Valley Festival Fiddle Championship, and she was also called Virtuoso by Vanity Fair Magazine. Krauss first met Dan Tyminski around 1984 at a festival held by the Society, Every current member of her band, Union Station, first met her at these festivals. Krauss made her debut in 1985 on the independent album, Different Strokes, featuring her brother Viktor Krauss, Swamp Weiss. From the age of 12 she performed with bassist and songwriter John Pennell in a band called Silver Rail, Pennell later changed the bands name to Union Station after another band was discovered with the name Silver Rail. Pennell remains one of her favorite songwriters and wrote some of her work including the popular Every Time You Say Goodbye. Later that year, she signed to Rounder Records, and in 1987, at 16, Krauss debut solo album was quickly followed by her first group album with Union Station in 1989, Two Highways. The album includes the traditional tunes Wild Bill Jones and Beaumont Rag, Krauss contract with Rounder required her to alternate between releasing a solo album and an album with Union Station, and she released the solo album Ive Got That Old Feeling in 1990. It was her first album to rise onto the Billboard charts, Krauss second Union Station album Every Time You Say Goodbye was released in 1992, and she went on to win her second Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album of the year
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Raising Sand
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Raising Sand is a Grammy-award winning collaboration album by rock singer Robert Plant and bluegrass-country singer Alison Krauss. It was released on October 23,2007 by Rounder Records, Raising Sand won Album of the Year at the 2008 Americana Music Honors & Awards and at the 2009 Grammy Awards. The two songs written by Gene Clark—Polly and Through the Morning, Through the Night—were originally recorded by Dillard & Clark for their 1969 album, Through the Morning, in fact the Gene Clark & Carla Olson album So Rebellious A Lover was the blueprint for Raising Sand. Rich Woman was first recorded by McKinley Millet and his Creoles in 1955, please Read the Letter was first recorded for the Page and Plant album, Walking into Clarksdale, in 1998. Gone, Gone, Gone was originally written and recorded by the Everly Brothers for Warner Music in 1964 and they also recorded Stick With me Baby in 1960, for A Date with The Everly Brothers. Trampled Rose was originally written and recorded by Tom Waits, and was featured on Real Gone in 2004, apart from the influence of Plant and Krauss vocal styles and talent, the albums producer, T Bone Burnett, is credited with giving the album its skeletal musical style. The album was met with acclaim, earning an averaged score of 87 from compiled reviews on Metacritic. This album was #24 on Rolling Stones list of the Top 50 Albums of 2007, the Top 50 Albums of 2007. Raising Sand received positive reviews from music critics. Being There called it one of the very best, and Allmusic called it one of the most effortless-sounding pairings in modern popular music. JamBase called the album subtle, focused and full of life, village Voice commented on the album, saying it was powerfully evocative and utterly foreign, oddly familiar, and deeply gratifying. The compilation of songs on Raising Sand were hand-picked by the producer, the instrumental quality of the album was also praised, BBC described Krausss fiddle as coruscating and raw, and Music Box said that Krauss exceeds all expectations. Critics praised Krauss and Plants vocal harmonization, with one saying that the key to the magic is the delicious harmony vocals of the unlikely duo. Various music critics described Alison Krausss vocals as being spellbinding, honey-sweet, weepy, saccharine, on the other hand, Robert Plants sometimes wailing vocals were described as orgasmic, and slithering, in regard to his lead roles. Gone, Gone, Gone was released as a single and won the Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals at the 50th Grammy Awards and was nominated for the Americana Award for Song of the Year. The song Killing the Blues was #51 on Rolling Stones list of the 100 Best Songs of 2007, Raising Sand was the second of three country albums to win Album of the Year, after Dixie Chickss Taking the Long Way and followed by Taylor Swifts Fearless. The album was nominated for the 2008 Mercury Prize in the UK, in December 2009, Rhapsody ranked the album #2 on its Country’s Best Albums of the Decade list. The online music service also called it one of their favorite albums of all time
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Transatlantic Sessions
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Transatlantic Sessions is the collective title for a series of musical productions by Glasgow-based Pelicula Films Ltd, funded by- and produced for BBC Scotland, BBC Four and RTÉ of Ireland. The Television director is Mike Alexander and the producer is Douglas Eadie, the first Transatlantic Sessions episode was produced in 1995 - a project conceived at that time by Douglas Eadie, Mike Alexander and Aly Bain. Subsequent sessions were produced in 1995,1998,2007,2009,2011 and 2013, to date, the series comprises the six sessions shown below in the History. For each session, the producer and directors select a special setting - typically a country manor, lodge or hotel in Scotland where the musicians perform and stay while the session is recorded. Each session was filmed in a different location with the exception of Series 4 and 5 which were filmed in the same house, the hunting lodge at Glen Lyon near Aberfeldy in Perthshire. Series 6 was filmed and recorded at a location on the banks of Loch Lomond, House Band, Aly Bain, Jerry Douglas, Russ Barenberg, John Doyle, John McCusker, Matheu Watson, Michael McGoldrick, Donald Shaw, Danny Thompson and James Mackintosh. For each track, the performers name is shown in brackets. Recorded at a lodge at Glen Lyon near Aberfeldy in the Perthshire Highlands of Scotland. House Band, Aly Bain, Jerry Douglas, Russ Barenberg, John Doyle, Nollaig Casey, John McCusker, Michael McGoldrick, Donald Shaw, Danny Thompson, for each track, the main performers name is shown in brackets. Recorded at Raemoir House Hotel, Banchory, Aberdeenshire, House Band, Aly Bain, Jerry Douglas, Russ Barenberg, Michael Doucet, Breda Smyth, Danny Thompson and Tommy Hayes. Recorded at Montgreenan Mansion House Hotel in Ayrshire House Band, Aly Bain, Jay Ungar, Russ Barenberg, Jerry Douglas, Molly Mason, Danny Thompson, main performers in brackets. com BBC4 - Transatlantic Sessions Whirlie Records
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Yo-Yo Ma
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Yo-Yo Ma is a Chinese American cellist. Born in Paris, he spent his years in New York City and was a child prodigy, performing from the age of four. He graduated from the Juilliard School and Harvard University and has enjoyed a career as both a soloist performing with orchestras around the world and a recording artist. He has recorded more than 90 albums and received 18 Grammy Awards and he also collaborated with Grammy Award-winning jazz singer Bobby McFerrin. Mas primary performance instrument is a Montagnana cello crafted in 1733 valued at US$2.5 million and he has been a United Nations Messenger of Peace since 2006. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2001, Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011, Yo-Yo Ma was born in Paris on October 7,1955, to Chinese parents and had a musical upbringing. His mother, Marina Lu, was a singer and his father, Hiao-Tsiun Ma, was a violinist, the family moved to New York when Ma was seven years old. At a young age, Ma began studying violin and piano and later viola, according to Ma, his first choice was the double bass due to its large size, but he compromised and took up cello instead. The child prodigy began performing before audiences at age five and performed for Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, at age eight, he appeared on American television with his sister, Yeou-Cheng Ma, in a concert conducted by Leonard Bernstein. In 1964, Isaac Stern introduced them on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and he attended Trinity School in New York but transferred to the Professional Childrens School, from which he graduated at age 15. He appeared as a soloist with the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra in a performance of the Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations, Ma studied at The Juilliard School at age 19 with Leonard Rose and attended Columbia University but dropped out. He later enrolled at Harvard College, prior to entering Harvard, Ma played in the Marlboro Festival Orchestra under the direction of cellist and conductor Pablo Casals. However, even before that time, Ma had steadily gained fame and had performed many of the worlds major orchestras. He has also played music, often with the pianist Emanuel Ax. Ma received his bachelors degree from Harvard in 1976, in 1991, he received an honorary doctorate from Harvard. In 1997, he was featured on John Williams soundtrack to the Hollywood film Seven Years in Tibet. In 2000, he was heard on the soundtrack of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and, in 2003, on that of Master and Commander and he collaborated with Williams again on the original score for the 2005 film Memoirs of a Geisha. He also has over 90 albums,18 of which are Grammy Award winners, Ma is a recipient of the International Center in New Yorks Award of Excellence
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Edgar Meyer
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Edgar Meyer is an American bassist, multi-instrumentalist and composer. His styles include classical, bluegrass, newgrass, and jazz, Meyer has worked as a session musician in Nashville, part of various chamber groups, a composer, and an arranger. Meyer participates yearly in a super group in Telluride, Colorado. The band also consists of Meyers contemporaries Sam Bush, Béla Fleck, Jerry Douglas, Meyer grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He learned to play the bass from his father, the late Edgar Meyer. Meyer later went on to Indiana University to study with Stuart Sankey, Meyer is noted for achieving virtuosity on an instrument of unusual technical difficulty. Following in the footsteps of other players like Gary Karr and Mark Bernat before him, he has performed music originally composed for other instruments. In 2000, he won the Avery Fisher Prize, given once every few years to classical instrumentalists for outstanding achievement, in 2002, he was named a MacArthur Fellow. Meyers collaboration with Yo-Yo Ma and Mark OConnor on the widely acclaimed Sony Classical disc Appalachia Waltz reached the top of the U. S. pop charts for 16 weeks when it was released. Meyer collaborated again with Yo-Yo Ma and Mark OConnor on Appalachian Journey, Meyer is Adjunct Associate Professor of Double Bass at Vanderbilt Universitys Blair School of Music, as well as at the Curtis Institute. He is also an artist-faculty member of the Aspen Music Festival and School
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Chris Thile
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He is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow. On October 15,2016, he became the host of the variety show A Prairie Home Companion. The three members of Nickel Creek met in 1989 at Carlsbad, Californias That Pizza Place, listening to weekly shows with their parents. Their first album, Little Cowpoke, was released on December 31,1993, later albums included Nickel Creek and This Side, which went platinum and won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album. In 2005, Nickel Creek released Why Should the Fire Die. which received critical acclaim, in 2003, Thile married fashion designer Jesse Meighan. The couple divorced in 2004, after 18 months of marriage, Thile has also released solo albums, including Not All Who Wander Are Lost and 2004s Deceiver, on which he wrote, composed, sang, and played every part. In 2008, Thile released an album with bassist Edgar Meyer. Thile married actress Claire Coffee on December 23,2013, Coffee and Thile have a son named Calvin Eugene Thile, born on May 15,2015. Thiles great-great-great-great-uncle is Baseball Hall of Fame member Sam Thompson, Thile was born in Oceanside, California, in 1981. His earliest memories of music are listening to Stan Getzs recording of The Girl from Ipanema before he turned one year old. When he was two, his family started going to That Pizza Place, where he listened to John Moores band Bluegrass Etc, when Thile was four, his family moved to Idyllwild, California. Thile began playing the mandolin at the age of five, taking lessons from John Moore. At age eight, Thiles family and the Watkins family formed Nickel Creek, the band performed at many California bluegrass festivals, and as a result Chris had to be home-schooled. At age twelve, he won the championship at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield. That same year,1993, Thile made a tape and sent it to the Sugar Hill. Both labels showed interest, but the Thiles went with Sugar Hill, the next year, Chris Thile released his first solo album, Leading Off, featuring mostly original compositions. In 1995, the Thile family moved to Murray, Kentucky, in 1997, Chris released Stealing Second and Nickel Creek released Here to There. Chris went on to attend Murray State University for a few semesters, following the major success and platinum accreditation of the album Nickel Creek, Thile released Not All Who Wander Are Lost in 2001
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The Goat Rodeo Sessions
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The Goat Rodeo Sessions is a 2011 collaborative album by Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile. Meyer previously collaborated with Ma on Appalachia Waltz and Appalachian Journey, in 2008, Meyer and Thile played on Mas Songs of Joy and Peace and the three discussed a future collaboration. Along with Duncan, they held their first rehearsal at Mas house, the compositions are credited to Meyer, Thile, and Duncan—with Here and Heaven co-written with Aoife ODonovan. The term goat rodeo refers to an event where many things must go right for the situation to work. Yo-Yo Ma described a goat rodeo, saying, If there were forks in the road and each time there was a fork, the right decision was made, then you get to a goat rodeo. On January 31,2012, Ma, Meyer, Thile, Duncan, the show was streamed in real time to movie theaters in the United States. In addition to songs from the album, they played Johann Sebastian Bachs Gamba Sonata Number 1 Movement 4, Fiddle Medley and they released part of the concert as an EP, The Goat Rodeo Sessions Live from the House of Blues, on February 7,2012. A DVD of the concert, The Goat Rodeo Sessions Live, was released on May 29,2012, according to Stuart Duncan, the piece 13,8 isnt a reference to time signature, but rather to the bible verse Hebrews 13,8. At a concert at Tanglewood on August 15,2013, Duncan told a story about a pilot who, every time he was given his dinner by the flight attendant, said. She finally looked it up and learned that the Bible verse read, Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and he said that that was the basis for the title, and that music students are wasting their time looking for that time signature within the piece. Two bonus tracks, Mostly Six Eight and Parallax, were released as a single, More from the Goat Rodeo Sessions, on February 29,2012. The album debuted at No.23 on the Billboard 200 chart, No.1 on the Classical as well as the Classical Crossover charts and it has sold 160,000 copies in the United States. On February 10,2013, the won the Grammy Award for Best Folk Album. All tracks written by Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile except where noted
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Diana Krall
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Diana Jean Krall, OC, OBC is a Canadian jazz pianist and singer, known for her contralto vocals. She has sold more than 6 million albums in the US, on December 11,2009, Billboard magazine named her the second Jazz artist of the 2000–09 decade, establishing her as one of the best-selling artists of her time. Krall is the jazz singer to have eight albums debuting at the top of the Billboard Jazz Albums. To date, she has won five Grammy Awards and eight Juno Awards and she has also earned nine gold, three platinum, and seven multi-platinum albums. Krall was born on November 16,1964, in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, the daughter of Adella A. an elementary teacher, and Stephen James Jim Krall. Her father played piano at home and her mother sang in a community choir and she was playing piano herself at the age of four and playing jazz in a local restaurant at 15. She went to the Berklee College of Music in Boston on a scholarship before going to Los Angeles to play jazz and she returned to Canada to release her first album in 1993. Kralls mother died of myeloma in 2002, within months of the pianists mentors Ray Brown. Dianas only sibling, Michelle, is a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Krall and British musician Elvis Costello were married on December 6,2003 and their twin sons, Dexter Henry Lorcan and Frank Harlan James, were born December 6,2006, in New York City. In 1993, Krall released her first album, Stepping Out and it caught the attention of producer Tommy LiPuma, who produced her second album, Only Trust Your Heart. Her third album, All for You, A Dedication to the Nat King Cole Trio, was nominated for a Grammy, Love Scenes quickly became a hit record with the trio of Krall, Russell Malone and Christian McBride. In August 2000, Krall was paired on a 20-city tour with Tony Bennett and they were paired again for a song on the TV series Spectacle, Elvis Costello with. Orchestral arrangements by Johnny Mandel provided the background on When I Look In Your Eyes, the band mix was kept, following arrangements on The Look of Love created by Claus Ogerman, this record achieved platinum status and reached the top 10 of the Billboard 200. The title track from the album, a cover of the Casino Royale standard popularized in the late 1960s by Dusty Springfield and Sérgio Mendes, in September 2001, Krall began a world tour. Her concert at the Paris Olympia was recorded and released as her first live record, the album included covers of Billy Joels Just The Way You Are and Joni Mitchells A Case Of You. The 2001 movie The Score starring Robert De Niro and Marlon Brando, features a recording of Krall entitled and this song accompanies the films ending Credits and was composed by a fellow Canadian, David Foster. After marrying Costello, she worked with him as a lyricist and started to compose her own songs, the album, released in April 2004, quickly rose to the top five in the United Kingdom and made the Australian top 40 album charts
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Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album
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Originally called the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Recording, the award was first presented to Bill Monroe in 1989. In 1990 and 1991 the category was renamed Best Bluegrass Recording, since 1992, the award has been presented under the category Best Bluegrass Album. Beginning in 1993, award recipients included the producers, engineers. In 1995 and 1997, producers of compilation albums were the only award recipients, as of 2012, Alison Krauss holds the record for the most wins in this category, having won six times. The group consisting of Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder has been presented five awards, two-time recipients include Jim Lauderdale as well as the Nashville Bluegrass Band. The award has been presented to artists or groups originating from the United States each year to date, the Seldom Scene and Rhonda Vincent share the record for the most nominations without a win, with five each. International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame List of Grammy Award categories Official site of the Grammy Awards
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Academy of Country Music
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The Academy of Country Music was founded in 1964 in Los Angeles, California as the Country & Western Music Academy. Among those involved in the founding was Eddie Miller and Tommy Wiggins and they wanted to promote country music in the western 13 states with the support of artist based on the West Coast. Artist such as Johnny Bond, Glen Campbell, Merle Haggard, Roger Miller, the ball finally started rolling in 1965 when a board of directors was formed to govern the Academy. The Country & Western Music Academy was founded in 1964, the Academy sought to promote country/western music in the western states, this was in contrast to the Country Music Association, based in Nashville, Tennessee. Being based in the West, its membership was largely composed of those country performers based there. This is evidenced by the awards shows being dominated by Bakersfield artists Buck and Bonnie Owens. At the first ceremony held in 1966, honoring the industry and this ceremony was the first awards ceremony in country music. Winners from the first ceremony included Kay Adams, Merle Haggard, Bonnie Owens, fran Boyd, the first paid employee, created the signature “hat” trophy which is still around today. During this time, they expanded the efforts by sponsoring “Country Music Caravan” in Los Angeles, the awards are “dedicated to honoring and showcasing the biggest names and emerging talent in the country music industry. ”Every year, the ceremony is televised live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Typically, the ACM Awards are presented in April or May, the most prestigious awards are for Artist of the Decade and Entertainer of the Year. There are a number of awards to recognize male and female vocalists, albums, videos, songs. The awards are presented in April or May and recognize achievement for the previous year. Country Music Association Country Music Hall of Fame Grand Ole Opry Official website Official Broadcast
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The Music from Peter Gunn
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The Music from Peter Gunn is a 1959 album by Henry Mancini, RCA Victor LPM/LSP-1956, the soundtrack of the TV series Peter Gunn. It was the first album ever to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1959 and it was followed by More Music from Peter Gunn RCA Victor LPM/LSP-2040. The opening theme music is notable for its combination of jazz orchestration with a straightforward, in his autobiography Did They Mention the Music. Mancini stated, The Peter Gunn title theme actually derives more from rock, I used guitar and piano in unison, playing what is known in music as an ostinato, which means obstinate. It was sustained throughout the piece, giving it an effect, with some frightened saxophone sounds. The piece has one chord throughout and a top line. Peter Gunn –2,06 Sorta Blue –2,57 The Brothers Go to Mothers –2,56 Dreamsville –3,51 Session at Petes Pad –3,57 Soft Sounds –3,35 Fallout
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Henry Mancini
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Enrico Nicola Henry Mancini was an American composer, conductor and arranger, who is best remembered for his film and television scores. Often cited as one of the greatest composers in the history of film, he won four Academy Awards, a Golden Globe, and twenty Grammy Awards, plus a posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995. His best known include the jazz-idiom theme to The Pink Panther film series, his Moon River to Breakfast at Tiffanys. The Peter Gunn theme won the first Grammy Award for Album of the Year, Mancini also had a long collaboration on film scores with the film director Blake Edwards. Mancini was born in the Little Italy neighborhood of Cleveland, and was raised near Pittsburgh, in the town of West Aliquippa. His parents immigrated from the Abruzzo region of Italy, Mancinis father, Quinto was a steelworker, who made his only child begin piccolo lessons at the age of eight. When Mancini was 12 years old, he began piano lessons, Quinto and Henry played flute together in the Aliquippa Italian immigrant band, Sons of Italy. After graduating from Aliquippa High School in 1942, Mancini attended the renowned Juilliard School of Music in New York, in 1943, after roughly one year at Juilliard, his studies were interrupted when he was drafted into the United States Army. He initially served in the infantry, later transferring to an Army band, in 1945, he participated in the liberation of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Austria. Newly discharged, Mancini entered the music industry, entering 1946, he became a pianist and arranger for the newly re-formed Glenn Miller Orchestra, led by Everyman Tex Beneke. After World War II, Mancini broadened his skills in composition, counterpoint, harmony and orchestration during studies opening with the composers Ernst Krenek, in 1952, Mancini joined the Universal Pictures music department. During this time, he wrote some popular songs. His first hit was a single by Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians titled I Wont Let You Out of My Heart, Mancini left Universal-International to work as an independent composer/arranger in 1958. Soon afterward, he scored the television series Peter Gunn for writer/producer Blake Edwards and this was the genesis of a relationship in which Edwards and Mancini collaborated on 30 films over 35 years. Mancinis scores for Blake Edwards included Breakfast at Tiffanys and Days of Wine and Roses, as well as Experiment in Terror, The Pink Panther, The Great Race, The Party,10, another director with whom Mancini had a longstanding partnership was Stanley Donen. Mancini also composed for Howard Hawks, Martin Ritt, Vittorio de Sica, Norman Jewison, Paul Newman, Stanley Kramer, George Roy Hill, Arthur Hiller, Ted Kotcheff, and others. Mancinis score for the Alfred Hitchcock film Frenzy in Bachian organ andante, for organ, Mancini scored many TV movies, including The Moneychangers, The Thorn Birds and The Shadow Box. He wrote many television themes, including Mr. Lucky, NBC Mystery Movie, tic Tac Dough and Once Is Not Enough
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Come Dance with Me! (album)
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Come Dance with Me. is an album by American vocalist Frank Sinatra, released in 1959. Come Dance with Me. was Sinatras most successful album, spending two and a half years on the Billboard charts. Stereo Review wrote in 1959 that Sinatra swaggers his way with effortless verve through a collection of bouncy standards. At the Grammy Awards of 1960, Come Dance with Me. won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, as well as Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Billy May won the Grammy Award for Best Arrangement. Come Dance With Me stayed on Billboards Pop album chart for 140 weeks, in 1987, Capitol released Come Dance with Me. on compact disc with four extra songs not found on the original LP. The album was remastered in 1998 for the Entertainer of the Century series of Sinatra reissues. This version includes the four bonus tracks found on the 1987 release. –2,25 Frank Sinatra - vocals Keely Smith - vocals Billy May - arranger, conductor Heinie Beau - arranger
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Frank Sinatra
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Francis Albert Sinatra was an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century. He is one of the music artists of all time. Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, to Italian immigrants, Sinatra began his career in the swing era with bandleaders Harry James. Sinatra found success as a solo artist after he signed with Columbia Records in 1943 and he released his debut album, The Voice of Frank Sinatra, in 1946. Sinatras professional career had stalled by the early 1950s, and he turned to Las Vegas and his career was reborn in 1953 with the success of From Here to Eternity, with his performance subsequently winning an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. Sinatra released several critically lauded albums, including In the Wee Small Hours, Come Fly with Me, Only the Lonely and Nice n Easy. Sinatra left Capitol in 1960 to start his own label, Reprise Records. It was followed by 1968s collaboration with Duke Ellington, using his Las Vegas shows as a home base, he toured both within the United States and internationally until a short time before his death in 1998. Sinatra forged a successful career as a film actor. After winning an Academy Award for From Here to Eternity, he starred in The Man with the Golden Arm and he appeared in various musicals such as On the Town, Guys and Dolls, High Society, and Pal Joey, winning another Golden Globe for the latter. Toward the end of his career, he associated with playing detectives. Sinatra would later receive the Golden Globe Cecil B, on television, The Frank Sinatra Show began on ABC in 1950, and he continued to make appearances on television throughout the 1950s and 1960s. While Sinatra never formally learned how to read music, he had a natural, intuitive understanding of it, a perfectionist, renowned for his impeccable dress sense and cleanliness, he always insisted on recording live with his band. His bright blue eyes earned him the popular nickname Ol Blue Eyes, Sinatra led a colorful personal life, and was often involved in turbulent affairs with women, such as with his second wife Ava Gardner. He went on to marry Mia Farrow in 1966 and Barbara Marx in 1976, Sinatra had several violent confrontations, usually with journalists he felt had crossed him, or work bosses with whom he had disagreements. He was honored at the Kennedy Center Honors in 1983, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Ronald Reagan in 1985, Sinatra was also the recipient of eleven Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Trustees Award, Grammy Legend Award and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. After his death, American music critic Robert Christgau called him the greatest singer of the 20th century, Francis Albert Sinatra was born on December 12,1915, in an upstairs tenement at 415 Monroe Street in Hoboken, New Jersey. He was the child of Italian immigrants Antonino Martino Marty Sinatra
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The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart
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The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart is a 1960 live album by comedian Bob Newhart. It was the first comedy album to win Album of the Year, Newhart wanted the title to be The Most Celebrated New Comedian Since Attila the Hun, but Warner Bros. executives created the albums title and Newhart had to settle for his idea as a subtitle. The album was a 2006 entry into the Library of Congress National Recording Registry, according to an NPR interview with Newhart, it is the 20th-best-selling of all time on Billboards charts. In 1993 the San Diego based band Cranial Vacancy used audio portions of Driving Instructor in their song titled Quoting Bob & More, abe Lincoln vs. Madison Avenue –7,31 The Cruise of the U. S. S. Codfish –5,01 Merchandising the Wright Brothers –3,12 The Krushchev Landing Rehearsal –4,47 Driving Instructor –8,03 Nobody Will Ever Play Baseball –3,21
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Bob Newhart
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George Robert Bob Newhart is an American stand-up comedian and actor. The follow-up album, The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back. was also a success. Newhart later went into acting, starring in The Bob Newhart Show during the 1970s and he also had two short-lived sitcoms in the 1990s titled Bob and George and Leo. Newhart also appeared in roles such as Major Major in Catch-22. He provided the voice of Bernard in the Walt Disney animated films The Rescuers, in 2004 he played the library head Judson in The Librarian, a character which continued in 2014 to the TV series The Librarians. In 2013, Newhart made his first of four guest appearances on The Big Bang Theory, on February 20,2015, Newhart was honored with the Publicists of the International Cinematographers Guild Lifetime Achievement Award. Newhart was born on September 5,1929, in Oak Park and his parents were George David Newhart, a part-owner of a plumbing and heating-supply business, and Julia Pauline, a housewife. His mother was of Irish descent and his father was of English, Irish, one of his grandmothers was from St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Newhart has three sisters, Virginia, Mary Joan, and Pauline, Newhart was educated at Roman Catholic schools in the Chicago area, including St. Catherine of Siena grammar school in Oak Park, and attended St. Ignatius College Prep, graduating in 1947. He then enrolled at Loyola University of Chicago from which he graduated in 1952 with a degree in business management. Newhart was drafted into the United States Army and served in the United States during the Korean War as a manager until being discharged in 1954. Newhart briefly attended Loyola University Chicago School of Law but did not complete a degree, in part, he says, after the war, Newhart got a job as an accountant for United States Gypsum. He later said that his motto, Thats close enough, in 1958, Newhart became an advertising copywriter for Fred A. Niles, a major independent film and television producer in Chicago. It was here that he and a co-worker would entertain each other with long telephone calls about absurd scenarios, when his co-worker ended his participation, Newhart continued the recordings alone, developing the shtick which was to serve him well for decades. In addition to his various stand-up bits, he incorporated that shtick into his series at appropriate times. The auditions led to his first recording contract, a disc jockey at a radio station - Dan Sorkin, who later became the announcer-sidekick on his NBC series — introduced Newhart to the head of talent at Warner Bros. Records, which signed him in 1959—only a year after the label was formed—based solely on those recordings and he expanded his material into a stand-up routine which he began to perform at nightclubs. Newhart became famous mostly on the strength of his audio releases, Newharts routine was to portray one end of a conversation, playing the comedic straight man and implying what the other person was saying
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Judy at Carnegie Hall
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Judy at Carnegie Hall is a two-record live recording of a concert by Judy Garland at Carnegie Hall in New York, complete with backing orchestra led by Mort Lindsey. This concert appearance, on the night of Sunday April 23,1961, has called the greatest night in show business history. Garlands live performances were big successes at the time and her record company wanted to capture that energy onto a recording, the double album became a hit, both critically and commercially. The album won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, Judy Garlands career had moved from movies in the 1940s, to vaudeville and elaborate stage shows in the 1950s. She also suffered from drug and alcohol abuse, and, by 1959, had become overweight and ill, after a long convalescence, weight loss, and vocal rest, she returned in 1960 to the concert stage with a simple program of just Judy. Garlands 1960-1961 tour of Europe and North America was a success, eventually Judy was billed as The Worlds Greatest Entertainer. On the evening of the Carnegie show, after a bombastic overture that built high emotion, Judy appeared looking remarkably healthy, the standing ovation when she took the stage set the tone for the evening that followed. They were on their feet even before the goddess grabbed the microphone, then she walked out, King said. She was magnificent, svelte, beautifully dressed, perfectly made up and she sang When Youre Smiling and when she got to the second chorus. Arlen turned to me and said, I think were in good shape tonight, judith Christ wrote for the New York Herald, And then she sang. And she sang, let it be reported, as she hasnt in years, the New York Times stated, Indeed, what actually was to have been a concert – and was – also turned into something not too remote from a revival meeting. The recorded applause on the album is lengthy and loud and illustrates the connection between Garland and her fans. Ann Miller once characterized Judy as having a field around her onstage. Garlands audience at Carnegie Hall included theatre performers on their usual Sunday night off, even Judys peers were reaching out to touch Judy Garland as Rex Reed would state years later. Photographs on the album show the audience, in evening dress, lining the stage reaching out to touch Garlands hand. Lauren Bacall claimed to have seen composer Leonard Bernstein excitedly jumping up, in the biographical film, Beyond The Rainbow, Adolph Green stated emphatically, That night, there seemed to be no end to her energy. Near the end of the concert, after Judy sang Rock-a-bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody, Garland memorably called out, I know, Ill sing em all and well stay all night. To which the audience roared in thunderous approval, reviews of the show gave high marks, and commented on Garlands exuberance, energy, vocal prowess, and the emotional effects that she had on her audience
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Judy Garland
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Judy Garland was an American singer, actress, and vaudevillian. Garland began performing in vaudeville with her two sisters and was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a teenager. She made more than two films with MGM, including nine with Mickey Rooney. Garlands most famous role was as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz and her other roles at MGM included Meet Me in St. Louis, The Harvey Girls and Easter Parade. After 15 years, she was released from the studio and made record-breaking concert appearances, a recording career. Film appearances became fewer in her years, but included two Academy Award nominated performances in A Star Is Born and Judgment at Nuremberg. Garland received a Golden Globe Award, a Juvenile Academy Award, and a Special Tony Award, deMille Award for lifetime achievement in the film industry. She was the first woman to win a Grammy for Album of the Year for her recording of Judy at Carnegie Hall. In 1997, Garland was posthumously awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, several of her recordings have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In 1999, the American Film Institute placed her among the 10 greatest female stars of classic American cinema, from an early age Garland struggled in her personal life. The pressures of adolescent stardom sent her to a psychiatrist at age eighteen and her self-image was influenced by film executives who said she was unattractive and manipulated her on-screen physical appearance. She was plagued by instability, often owing hundreds of thousands of dollars in back taxes. She married five times, with her first four marriages ending in divorce and she also had a long battle with drugs and alcohol, which ultimately led to her death from a barbiturate overdose at the age of 47. Garland was born Frances Ethel Gumm on June 10,1922, in Grand Rapids and she was the youngest child of Ethel Marion and Francis Avent Frank Gumm. Her parents were vaudevillians who settled in Grand Rapids to run a theater that featured vaudeville acts. She was of English, Scottish, and Irish ancestry, named after both of her parents and baptized at a local Episcopal church, baby shared her familys flair for song and dance. The Gumm Sisters performed there for the few years, accompanied by their mother on piano. The family relocated to Lancaster, California, in June 1926, Frank purchased and operated another theater in Lancaster, and Ethel began managing her daughters and working to get them into motion pictures
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The First Family (album)
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Cadence president Archie Bleyer credited the albums success to radio airplay. By time of the release of The First Family - Volume Two, the First Family starred stand-up comedian and impersonator Vaughn Meader as Kennedy and Naomi Brossart as the First Lady. Brossart was an actress and model making her recording début. The album also featured the talent of Jim Lehner, Bradley Bolke, Chuck McCann, Bob McFadden. It was recorded in front of a studio audience. Meader later revealed, A lot of people dont know this, but we recorded The First Family on the night of October 22,1962, the audience was in the studio and had no idea of the drama that was taking place. But the cast had heard the speech and our throats almost dropped to our toes, because if the audience had heard the Cuban Missile Speech, although the comedy album boom was mushrooming by 1962, production of a record imitating the president met stiff opposition. After other rejections, Cadence Records agreed to take on the project, and within a month the record was appearing on store shelves, within two weeks it had sold more than 1 million copies, pushing past the debut album by Peter, Paul and Mary. Within weeks, many Americans could recite favorite lines from the record, including the rubber schwan is mine, with great vigah, the latter lampooning the Presidents own words. Kennedy himself was said to have copies of the albums as Christmas gifts. At one press conference, Kennedy was asked if the album had produced annoyment or enjoyment and he jokingly responded, I listened to Mr. Meaders record and, frankly, I thought it sounded more like Teddy than it did me. The First Family album won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1963 and that March, most of the same cast recorded a follow-up album, The First Family Volume Two, a combination of spoken-word comedy and songs. The sequel was released in the spring of 1963, Volume Two peaked at #4 on the album chart in June 1963. Both albums remained out of print for years, until they were finally issued on CD together in 1999. In 1962, several albums were released, The Other Family spoofed Nikita Khrushchev and featured Buck Henry, Joan Rivers. The President Strikes Back. was a response of the President to the First Family record. Two other noted impressionists also appeared on the album - John Byner, fryes impression of Richard Nixon would later be featured on the Elektra Records albums I Am the President and Radio Free Nixon, among others. Interestingly, Will Jordans most famous impression - that of TV host, the Ed Sullivan impression heard on the album was done by Byner
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Vaughn Meader
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Abbott Vaughn Meader, known professionally as Vaughn Meader, was an American comedian, impersonator, musician, and film actor. Meader began his career as a musician but later found fame in the early 1960s after the release of the 1962 comedy record The First Family. The album spoofed President John F. Kennedy – who was played by Meader –, at the peak of his popularity, he performed his Kennedy impersonation on variety shows and in nightclubs around the country and was profiled in several magazines. Meaders career came to an end after President Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963. He attempted to take his career in another direction by performing non-Kennedy related comedy and he eventually returned to his native Maine where he resumed playing music and managed a pub. Meader was born in Waterville, Maine during one of the worst floods ever to hit New England and he was the only child of Charles Vaughn Meader, a millworker, and Mary Ellen Abbott. A sometimes unruly and troubled child, Meader was sent to live with his mother in Boston at the age of five but she had become an alcoholic, after shuttling among several schools in Massachusetts and Maine, Meader eventually graduated from Brookline High School in 1953. Meader married the German-born Vera Heller in 1955, Meader began his career in entertainment as a singer and piano player. Upon his return from Germany, he began a comedy act in New York City, with his New England accent naturally close to Kennedys familiar, and often parodied, Harvard accent, he needed to adjust his voice only slightly to sound like the President. Meader also mastered the facial expressions that allowed him to bear a resemblance to Kennedy. On October 22,1962, Meader joined writers Bob Booker and Earle Doud, the First Family became the fastest-selling record in the history of the United States. It sold 1.2 million copies during the first two weeks of its release, and ultimately sold 7.5 million copies. Kennedy himself was said to have copies of the album as Christmas gifts. At one press conference, Kennedy was asked if the album had produced annoyment or enjoyment and he jokingly responded, I listened to Mr. Meaders record and, frankly, I thought it sounded more like Teddy than it did me. Kennedy told Benjamin Bradlee that parts of it were amusing, other sources, such as Thomas C. Still in his 20s, Meader was suddenly famous, rich and he was profiled in Time and Life magazines, appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, and played to packed houses in Las Vegas. The First Family won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1963, the sequel was released in the spring of 1963, and while not as successful as the first volume, still sold hundreds of thousands of copies. On July 1963, Meader left Cadence Records and Booker/Dowd to sign with MGM Records, Meader planned to record general satire and abandon his JFK impersonations
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The Barbra Streisand Album
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The Barbra Streisand Album is the debut album by Barbra Streisand, released February 25,1963, on Columbia Records, catalogue CL2007 in mono and CS8807 in stereo. It peaked at #8 on the Billboard pop albums chart, and has certified a gold album by the RIAA. The album won Grammy awards for Album of the Year and Best Female Vocal Performance, in January 2006, the album was inducted in Grammy Hall of Fame. After exposure to an interview of Streisand by Mike Wallace on PM East/PM West and pressure from associates. Streisand indicated that, The most important thing about that first contract - actually and it was the only thing I really cared about. I still received lots of pressure from the label to include some pop hits on my first album, despite Liebersons early objections, Streisand would go on to spend her entire career to date recording for Columbia. Initially Streisands first album was to be a live recording, Streisand had made a name for herself performing at the Bon Soir nightclub in New York City, which attracted primarily a gay clientele. Her producer Mike Berniker brought a crew to the club to record Streisand accompanied only by the Bon Soir house pianist and these recordings were scrapped, although the cover shot for the album was taken during a performance at the Bon Soir. Material from the Bon Soir sets later appeared on her CD boxed set Just For The Record, Barbra chose the title for the album, rejecting Columbias suggestion of Sweet and Saucy Streisand. Recording studio sessions took place January 23–25,1963, at Columbias Studio A in New York City with a budget of $18,000, material was mostly chosen from Broadway standards, many of which were fairly obscure. Not one of his numbers, Come to the Supermarket appeared in a 1958 television special with music by Cole Porter. Soon Its Gonna Rain and Much More were both introduced in the 1960 off-Broadway musical The Fantasticks, and the 1930 film Chasing Rainbows provided Happy Days Are Here Again. Cry Me A River was a song of Julie London, while A Taste of Honey had coincidentally just been recorded over in England by The Beatles for their 1963 debut album. Happy Days Are Here Again was released as Columbia single 42631 with When the Sun Comes Out on the b-side, the only song recorded but not included on this album was Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered which Streisand and Mike Berniker recorded on two separate dates. The song was included instead on Streisands The Third Album using a Peter Daniels arrangement, Streisand chose Century Italic typeface for the album sleeve of her debut album, which would also be used on 19 other Streisand album covers. The album made its debut on CD in 1987 and was re-released in a remastered CD edition on October 19,1993
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Getz/Gilberto
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Getz/Gilberto is a 1964 jazz-bossa nova album by American saxophonist Stan Getz and Brazilian guitarist João Gilberto, featuring composer and pianist Antônio Carlos Jobim. Its release helped fuel the bossa nova craze in the United States and internationally, becoming the first Grammy Award-winning album from non-American artists. It brought together Stan Getz, who had performed the genre on his LP Jazz Samba, João Gilberto, and Jobim, a celebrated Brazilian composer. It became one of the jazz albums of all time, and turned Astrud Gilberto. The painting on the cover is by Olga Albizu and it won the 1965 Grammy Awards for Best Album of the Year, Best Jazz Instrumental Album – Individual or Group and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. The Girl from Ipanema also won the award for Record of the Year in 1965 and this was the first time a jazz album received Album of the Year. It was the jazz album to win the award until Herbie Hancocks River, The Joni Letters 43 years later. Vibe – Included in Vibes 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century, in 2012, Rolling Stone ranked the album number 447 on its list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. It was listed by Rolling Stone Brazil as one of the 100 best Brazilian albums in history, the album was inducted into the Latin Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001. The album was included in Robert Dimerys 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die
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Stan Getz
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Stanley Stan Getz was an American jazz saxophonist. Playing primarily the tenor saxophone, Getz was known as The Sound because of his warm, lyrical tone, his influence being the wispy, mellow timbre of his idol. Coming to prominence in the late 1940s with Woody Hermans big band, Getz was born on February 2,1927, at St. Vincents Hospital in Philadelphia. In 1913, Harris and Beckie emigrated to the United States with their three sons Al, Phil, and Ben after their son Louis Gayetski in 1912. The Getz family first settled in Philadelphia, but during the depression the family moved to New York City, Getz worked hard in school, receiving straight As, and finished sixth grade close to the top of his class. Getzs major interest was in musical instruments and he played a number of them before his father bought him his first saxophone at the age of 13. Even though his father also got him a clarinet, Getz instantly fell in love with the saxophone and he attended James Monroe High School in the Bronx. In 1941, he was accepted into the All City High School Orchestra of New York City and this gave him a chance to receive private, free tutoring from the New York Philharmonics Simon Kovar, a bassoon player. He also continued playing the saxophone and he eventually dropped out of school in order to pursue his musical career, but was later sent back to the classroom by the school systems truancy officers. In 1943 at the age of 16, he was accepted into Jack Teagardens band, Getz also played along with Nat King Cole and Lionel Hampton. With Herman, he had a hit with Early Autumn and after Getz left The Second Herd he was able to launch his solo career and he was the leader on almost all of his recording sessions after 1950. Getzs reputation was enhanced by his featured status on Johnny Smiths 1952 album Moonlight in Vermont. The single of the tune became a hit that stayed on the charts for months. In the mid to late 1950s working from Scandinavia, Getz became popular playing cool jazz with Horace Silver, Johnny Smith, Oscar Peterson, and many others. His first two quintets were notable for their personnel, including Charlie Parkers rhythm section of drummer Roy Haynes, pianist Al Haig, a 1953 line-up of the Dizzy Gillespie/Stan Getz Sextet featured Gillespie, Getz, Peterson, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown and Max Roach. Returning to the U. S. from Europe in 1961, teaming with guitarist Charlie Byrd, who had just returned from a U. S. State Department tour of Brazil, Getz recorded Jazz Samba in 1962 and it quickly became a hit. Getz won the Grammy for Best Jazz Performance of 1963 for Desafinado and it sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. His second bossa nova album, also recorded in 1962, was Big Band Bossa Nova with composer and arranger Gary McFarland, as a follow-up, Getz recorded the album, Jazz Samba Encore. with one of the originators of bossa nova, Brazilian guitarist Luiz Bonfá
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September of My Years
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September of My Years is a 1965 studio album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released on Reprise Records in September 1965 on LP and October 1986 on CD. The orchestral arrangements are by Gordon Jenkins, their fifth album collaboration and it peaked at #5 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart. Sinatra was to turn 50 years old in December 1965, both September of My Years and A Man and His Music won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. CBS television cameras were rolling the night Sinatra recorded It Was a Very Good Year, the edited result was included in a Walter Cronkite CBS News special about the singers 50th birthday, broadcast on November 16,1965. Sinatras performance of It Was a Very Good Year won the Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Male, arranger Gordon Jenkins was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist for the same song. This was the first album Sinatra and Jenkins had recorded together since 1962s All Alone, Jenkins and Sinatra would next work together on the 1980 album Trilogy, Past Present Future. The album was remastered for compact disc and released on October 10,1986, as part of the Entertainer of the Century series done together by Reprise and that version is currently out of print. Concord Records reissued the album again, newly remastered on compact disc, on August 31,2010. This version includes two tracks, a live performance of This Is All I Ask from Carnegie Hall on June 12,1984. The September of My Years –3,12 How Old Am I. –3,42 Frank Sinatra – vocals Gordon Jenkins – arranger, conductor
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A Man and His Music
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A Man and His Music is a 1965 double album by Frank Sinatra. It provides a retrospective of Sinatras musical career. The album won the 1967 Grammy Award for Album of the Year, three songs were specifically recorded for the project, Ill Never Smile Again, Come Fly With Me and Love and Marriage. There is also a narration from Sinatra that runs throughout the album, approximately 2,000 copies of this album were originally released in a special wooden slipcase containing 3D artwork on the cover in the form of a metal plaque. Each copy was numbered and contained a card signed by Sinatra himself, the packaging also included a booklet highlighting Sinatras career. A majority of these special Man and His Music LPs were given away as prizes by Sinatra at a party in Palm Springs. The party celebrated the singers 50th birthday, as well as the airing of Sinatras 1965 NBC television special of the same name
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
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Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by English rock band the Beatles. Released on 1 June 1967, it was an commercial and critical success. Time magazine declared it a departure in the progress of music. It won four Grammy Awards in 1968, including Album of the Year, in August 1966, the Beatles permanently retired from touring and began a three-month holiday from recording. During a return flight to London in November, Paul McCartney had an idea for a song involving an Edwardian era military band that would form the impetus of the Sgt. In February 1967, after recording the Sgt, Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band song, McCartney suggested that the Beatles should release an entire album that would represent a performance by the fictional Sgt. This alter ego group would give them the freedom to experiment musically, during the recording sessions, the band furthered the technological progression they had made with their 1966 album Revolver. Recording was completed on 21 April 1967, the cover, depicting the Beatles posing in front of a tableau of celebrities and historical figures, was designed by the British pop artists Peter Blake and Jann Haworth. Pepper is regarded by musicologists as a concept album that advanced the use of extended form in popular music while continuing the artistic maturation seen on the Beatles preceding releases. It has been described as one of the first art rock LPs, aiding the development of progressive rock, and credited with marking the beginning of the Album Era. An important work of British psychedelia, the album incorporates a range of influences, including vaudeville, circus, music hall, avant-garde. In 2003, the Library of Congress placed Sgt, Pepper in the National Recording Registry, honouring the work as culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. That same year, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it one in its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. As of 2011, it has more than 32 million copies worldwide. Professor Kevin J. Dettmar, writing in the Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, described it as the most important and influential rock and it is the best selling album worldwide of the 1960s. By 1966, the Beatles had grown weary of live performance, in John Lennons opinion, they could send out four waxworks. and that would satisfy the crowds. Beatles concerts are nothing to do with music anymore, in June that year, two days after finishing the album Revolver, the group set off for a tour that started in Germany. While in Hamburg they received a telegram stating, Do not go to Tokyo
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The Beatles
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The Beatles were an English rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960. With members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, the Beatles built their reputation playing clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg over a three-year period from 1960, with Stuart Sutcliffe initially serving as bass player. The core of Lennon, McCartney and Harrison went through a succession of drummers, including Pete Best, before asking Starr to join them. They acquired the nickname the Fab Four as Beatlemania grew in Britain the next year, from 1965 onwards, the Beatles produced increasingly innovative recordings, including the albums Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles and Abbey Road, after their break-up in 1970, they each enjoyed successful musical careers of varying lengths. McCartney and Starr, the members, remain musically active. Lennon was shot and killed in December 1980, and Harrison died of cancer in November 2001. The Beatles are the band in history, with estimated sales of over 600 million records worldwide. They have had more number-one albums on the British charts and sold more singles in the UK than any other act, according to the RIAA, the Beatles are also the best-selling music artists in the United States, with 178 million certified units. In 2008, the group topped Billboard magazines list of the all-time most successful Hot 100 artists, as of 2016 and they have received ten Grammy Awards, an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score and fifteen Ivor Novello Awards. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 and they were also collectively included in Time magazines compilation of the twentieth centurys 100 most influential people. In March 1957, John Lennon, then aged sixteen, formed a group with several friends from Quarry Bank school. They briefly called themselves the Blackjacks, before changing their name to the Quarrymen after discovering that a local group was already using the other name. Fifteen-year-old Paul McCartney joined as a rhythm guitarist shortly after he, in February 1958, McCartney invited his friend George Harrison to watch the band. The fourteen-year-old auditioned for Lennon, impressing him with his playing, after a month of Harrisons persistence, they enlisted him as their lead guitarist. By January 1959, Lennons Quarry Bank friends had left the group, the three guitarists, billing themselves at least three times as Johnny and the Moondogs, were playing rock and roll whenever they could find a drummer. They used the name until May, when they became the Silver Beetles, before undertaking a tour of Scotland as the backing group for pop singer. By early July, they had changed their name to the Silver Beatles, allan Williams, the Beatles unofficial manager, arranged a residency for them in Hamburg, but lacking a full-time drummer they auditioned and hired Pete Best in mid-August 1960
