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Todd Rundgren's Utopia (album)
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Todd Rundgrens Utopia is the debut album by the band Todd Rundgrens Utopia. Rundgren had decided to delve into progressive rock, putting together several musicians, including three keyboardists, the album covers a variety of styles including funk, jazz, classical and even avant-garde music. Like a few of Rundgrens solo albums, the sheer length pushed the limits of vinyl. At nearly an hour, the sound needed to be compressed in order to fit it onto one vinyl record, the CD version avoids this issue. The title track of the album was simply called Utopia on the first edition vinyl, cassette and 8-track editions of the album. On the first reissue of the album the title of Utopia was changed to Utopia Theme and this may have happened as in 1976 Tony Sales sued Rundgren for appropriation of the song, suing for royalties of $100,000 or more. Todd Rundgren – guitar Mark Moogy Klingman – keyboards Ralph Schuckett – keyboards Jean Yves M
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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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New York (state)
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New York is a state in the northeastern United States, and is the 27th-most extensive, fourth-most populous, and seventh-most densely populated U. S. state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south and Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east. With an estimated population of 8.55 million in 2015, New York City is the most populous city in the United States, the New York Metropolitan Area is one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. New York City makes up over 40% of the population of New York State, two-thirds of the states population lives in the New York City Metropolitan Area, and nearly 40% lives on Long Island. Both the state and New York City were named for the 17th-century Duke of York, the next four most populous cities in the state are Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers, and Syracuse, while the state capital is Albany. New York has a diverse geography and these more mountainous regions are bisected by two major river valleys—the north-south Hudson River Valley and the east-west Mohawk River Valley, which forms the core of the Erie Canal. Western New York is considered part of the Great Lakes Region and straddles Lake Ontario, between the two lakes lies Niagara Falls. The central part of the state is dominated by the Finger Lakes, New York had been inhabited by tribes of Algonquian and Iroquoian-speaking Native Americans for several hundred years by the time the earliest Europeans came to New York. The first Europeans to arrive were French colonists and Jesuit missionaries who arrived southward from settlements at Montreal for trade, the British annexed the colony from the Dutch in 1664. The borders of the British colony, the Province of New York, were similar to those of the present-day state, New York is home to the Statue of Liberty, a symbol of the United States and its ideals of freedom, democracy, and opportunity. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. On April 17,1524 Verrazanno entered New York Bay, by way of the now called the Narrows into the northern bay which he named Santa Margherita. Verrazzano described it as a vast coastline with a delta in which every kind of ship could pass and he adds. This vast sheet of water swarmed with native boats and he landed on the tip of Manhattan and possibly on the furthest point of Long Island. Verrazannos stay was interrupted by a storm which pushed him north towards Marthas Vineyard, in 1540 French traders from New France built a chateau on Castle Island, within present-day Albany, due to flooding, it was abandoned the next year. In 1614, the Dutch under the command of Hendrick Corstiaensen, rebuilt the French chateau, Fort Nassau was the first Dutch settlement in North America, and was located along the Hudson River, also within present-day Albany. The small fort served as a trading post and warehouse, located on the Hudson River flood plain, the rudimentary fort was washed away by flooding in 1617, and abandoned for good after Fort Orange was built nearby in 1623. Henry Hudsons 1609 voyage marked the beginning of European involvement with the area, sailing for the Dutch East India Company and looking for a passage to Asia, he entered the Upper New York Bay on September 11 of that year
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Rock music
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It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by blues, rhythm and blues and country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of genres such as electric blues and folk. Musically, rock has centered on the guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar. Typically, rock is song-based music usually with a 4/4 time signature using a verse-chorus form, like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political in emphasis. Punk was an influence into the 1980s on the subsequent development of subgenres, including new wave, post-punk. From the 1990s alternative rock began to rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Britpop. Similarly, 1970s punk culture spawned the visually distinctive goth and emo subcultures and this trio of instruments has often been complemented by the inclusion of other instruments, particularly keyboards such as the piano, Hammond organ and synthesizers. The basic rock instrumentation was adapted from the blues band instrumentation. A group of musicians performing rock music is termed a rock band or rock group, Rock music is traditionally built on a foundation of simple unsyncopated rhythms in a 4/4 meter, with a repetitive snare drum back beat on beats two and four. Melodies are often derived from older musical modes, including the Dorian and Mixolydian, harmonies range from the common triad to parallel fourths and fifths and dissonant harmonic progressions. Critics have stressed the eclecticism and stylistic diversity of rock, because of its complex history and tendency to borrow from other musical and cultural forms, it has been argued that it is impossible to bind rock music to a rigidly delineated musical definition. These themes were inherited from a variety of sources, including the Tin Pan Alley pop tradition, folk music and rhythm, as a result, it has been seen as articulating the concerns of this group in both style and lyrics. Christgau, writing in 1972, said in spite of some exceptions, rock and roll usually implies an identification of male sexuality, according to Simon Frith rock was something more than pop, something more than rock and roll. Rock musicians combined an emphasis on skill and technique with the concept of art as artistic expression, original. The foundations of music are in rock and roll, which originated in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its immediate origins lay in a melding of various musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music, with country. In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music for a multi-racial audience, debate surrounds which record should be considered the first rock and roll record. Other artists with rock and roll hits included Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis
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Pop music
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Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid 1950s. The terms popular music and pop music are used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular. Pop and rock were synonymous terms until the late 1960s, when they were used in opposition from each other. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music. Pop music is eclectic, and often borrows elements from other such as urban, dance, rock, Latin. Identifying factors include generally short to medium-length songs written in a format, as well as the common use of repeated choruses, melodic tunes. David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop music as a body of music which is distinguishable from popular, jazz, according to Pete Seeger, pop music is professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music, the music charts contain songs from a variety of sources, including classical, jazz, rock, and novelty songs. Pop music, as a genre, is seen as existing and developing separately, pop music continuously evolves along with the terms definition. The term pop song was first recorded as being used in 1926, Hatch and Millward indicate that many events in the history of recording in the 1920s can be seen as the birth of the modern pop music industry, including in country, blues and hillbilly music. The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that while pops earlier meaning meant concerts appealing to a wide audience. Since the late 1950s, however, pop has had the meaning of non-classical mus, usually in the form of songs, performed by such artists as the Beatles. Grove Music Online also states that, in the early 1960s pop music competed terminologically with beat music, while in the USA its coverage overlapped with that of rock and roll. From about 1967, the term was used in opposition to the term rock music. Whereas rock aspired to authenticity and an expansion of the possibilities of music, pop was more commercial, ephemeral. It is not driven by any significant ambition except profit and commercial reward, and, in musical terms, it is essentially conservative. It is, provided from on high rather than being made from below, pop is not a do-it-yourself music but is professionally produced and packaged. The beat and the melodies tend to be simple, with limited harmonic accompaniment, the lyrics of modern pop songs typically focus on simple themes – often love and romantic relationships – although there are notable exceptions
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Progressive rock
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Progressive rock is a broad subgenre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States throughout the mid to late 1960s. Prog is based on fusions of styles, approaches and genres, Prog saw a high level of popularity in the early-to-mid 1970s, but faded soon after. Conventional wisdom holds that the rise of rock caused this. Music critics, who labelled the concepts as pretentious and the sounds as pompous and overblown. Early groups who exhibited progressive features are described as proto-prog. In 1967, progressive rock constituted a diversity of loosely associated style codes, the Canterbury scene, originating in the late 1960s, denoted a subset of prog bands who emphasised the use of wind instruments, complex chord changes and long improvisations. Rock in Opposition, from the late 1970s, was more avant-garde, in the 1980s, a new subgenre, neo-progressive rock, enjoyed some commercial success, although it was also accused of being derivative and lacking in innovation. Post-progressive draws upon newer developments in music and the avant-garde since the mid 1970s. The term progressive rock is synonymous with art rock, classical rock, historically, art rock has been used to describe at least two related, but distinct, types of rock music. Similarities between the two terms are that they describe a mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility. However, art rock is likely to have experimental or avant-garde influences. Prog was devised in the 1990s as a term, but later became a transferable adjective. Although a unidirectional English progressive style emerged in the late 1960s, by 1967, critics of the genre often limit its scope to a stereotype of long solos, overlong albums, fantasy lyrics, grandiose stage sets and costumes, and an obsessive dedication to technical skill. Author Kevin Holm-Hudson believes that rock is a style far more diverse than what is heard from its mainstream groups. They each do so largely unconsciously, academic John S. Cotner contests Macans view that progressive rock cannot exist without the continuous and overt assimilation of classical music into rock. Debate about the criteria and scope of the genre continues in the 2010s. In early references to the music, progressive was partly related to progressive politics, Cotner also says that progressive rock incorporates both formal and eclectic elements, It consists of a combination of factors – some of them intramusical, others extramusical or social. One way of conceptualising rock and roll in relation to music is that progressive music pushed the genre into greater complexity while retracing the roots of romantic
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Epic Records
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Epic Records is an American record company owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc. Epic was founded predominantly as a jazz and classical music label in 1953 and it later expanded its scope to include a more diverse range of musical genres, including pop, R&B, rock and hip hop. Historically, the label has housed popular acts such as Boston, ABBA, Michael Jackson, Celine Dion, Dave Clark Five, Gloria Estefan, Pearl Jam, Shakira, Anastacia, and Sly & the Family Stone. Along with Columbia and RCA Records, Epic is one of Sony Music Entertainments three main record labels, L. A. Reid has served as chairman and CEO of Epic since July 2011. Sylvia Rhone was appointed president in March 2014, Epic Records was launched in 1953 by Columbia Records for the purpose of marketing jazz, pop and classical music that did not fit the theme of its more mainstream Columbia Records label. Initial classical music releases were from Philips Records which distributed Columbia product in Europe, pop talent on co-owned Okeh Records were transferred to Epic which made Okeh a rhythm and blues label. Epics bright-yellow, black, and blue became a familiar trademark for many jazz. By 1960, the musical base had been expanded to include all genres. This was done in part to prevent the roster of Columbia Records from being overstuffed with newer artists, subsequently, Epic became better known for its signing of newer, fledgling acts. By the end of the 1960s, Epic earned its first gold records and had evolved into a formidable hit-making force in rock and roll, R&B and country music. Among its many acts, it included Roy Hamilton, Bobby Vinton, The Dave Clark Five, The Hollies, Tammy Wynette, Donovan, The Yardbirds, Lulu, July, Helen Shapiro and Jeff Beck. Also during the 1960s, Epic oversaw the smaller subsidiary CBS labels including Okeh Records, in 1968, Epic recordings began being distributed in the UK by CBS after the distribution deal with EMI expired that year, Epic itself launched in England around 1971. Epic was involved in a trade of artists. Graham Nash was signed to Epic because of his membership in The Hollies, when the newly formed Crosby, Stills & Nash wanted to sign with Atlantic Records, Ahmet Ertegün worked out a deal with Clive Davis whereby Richie Furays new band Poco would sign with Epic. Also contributing to the success was its distribution of Philadelphia International Records. Sony bought CBS Records in 1987, and the company was renamed Sony Music in 1991. In 2004, Sony merged with another powerhouse music distributor, BMG, bringing labels such as RCA, Arista, Columbia, Epic, Jive, in February 2009, singer and songwriter Amanda Ghost was appointed president of Epic Records. Later in the year, Sony BMG Music merged Epic and Columbias operations, Sony BMGs Legacy Recordings reissues the companys classic and catalog titles
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Rhino Entertainment Company
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Rhino Entertainment Company is an American specialty record label and production company founded in 1978. It is currently the division for the Warner Music Group. Founded in 1978, Rhino was originally a novelty and reissue label during the 1970s and 1980s, one of Rhinos early artists was The Twisters, whose Los Angeles popularity far exceeded their album sales. The labels on early Rhino records featured the mascot character. Some of the labels earliest successes with reissues were achieved by acquiring the rights to the White Whale Records catalog that included the Turtles, by the mid-1980s, most of Rhinos releases were reissues of previously released recordings licensed from other companies. Rhino was quick to get into the disc market, releasing dozens of oldies CDs at the dawn of the CD age in 1984. Their retrospective compact disc releases, such as those in the Billboard Top Hits series, are often remastered to restore or improve upon the original analog audio quality. Through the 1980s and 1990s, the company continued to sign artists and release new music, on the main Rhino label and on subsidiary labels such as RNA. In 1985, Rhino signed a distribution agreement with Capitol Records. During 1989 Rhino and Capitol’s parent EMI made a deal to jointly acquire Roulette Records, Rhino received the US rights to Roulettes catalog, excluding jazz. When the distribution deal with Capitol ended in 1992, Rhino signed a new deal with Atlantic Records. In 1998, Time Warner bought the other half of Rhino, the Rhino Records retail store, which was not part of the sale, closed in 2005. Periods, in addition to WBs own post-1949 period, Rhinos soundtrack releases include Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Easter Parade, North by Northwest, Casablanca, King Kong, Doctor Zhivago, Superman, and Finians Rainbow. The Turner Entertainment and Warner Bros. film soundtrack libraries are managed by Warner Bros. in-house label subsidiary. In 1999, Rhino started the Rhino Handmade division of limited-edition releases available primarily from their website, all Handmade deluxe editions were limited to about 3,000 copies or less, and once sold out were not re-pressed. In 2003, co-founders and longtime executives Richard Foos and Harold Bronson left Rhino, soon after, Foos inaugurated a new label, Shout. Factory, which began releasing dozens of CDs and videos mirroring the original early-1990s Rhino philosophy, in 2004, Time Warner spun off its music divisions and today Rhino is part of the newly organized Warner Music Group. In June 2006, Warner Strategic Marketing in the U. K. was dissolved, the division has two main factions, TV-advertised compilations and catalog material from the Warner vaults
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Todd Rundgren
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Todd Harry Rundgren is an American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and record producer. Rundgren has often been at the forefront as a promoter of cutting edge recording technologies, although lesser known, Couldnt I Just Tell You has had a major influence on artists in the power pop musical genre. Rundgren was born in Upper Darby, at the city limits of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father was of half Swedish and half Austrian descent and he began his career in Woodys Truck Stop, a Philadelphia-based group in the style of Paul Butterfield Blues Band. The group gained recognition with the Rundgren-penned songs Open My Eyes. Nazz released three albums during this time – Nazz, Nazz Nazz, and Nazz III, Open My Eyes gained belated recognition thanks to its inclusion in Nuggets, the genre-defining anthology of American 1960s garage punk and psychedelia compiled by musician Lenny Kaye. The groups second LP was originally intended as double album, Rundgren and Van Osten left the band shortly after. Particularly during the years of his career, Rundgrens songwriting was heavily influenced by the music of singer-songwriter Laura Nyro. I met her right after Eli and the Thirteenth Confession, I actually had arranged a meeting, just because I was so infatuated with her and I wanted to meet the person who had produced all this music. We got along, and we were kind of friendly, and actually, after I met her the first time, but the Nazz had just signed a record contract and I couldnt skip out on the band, even though it was incredibly tempting. Rundgrens debut solo album Runt includes the strongly Nyro-influenced Baby Lets Swing, Nazz manager Michael Friedman, who had joined Albert Grossman management brought Rundgren to the firm where he became both a solo artist and producer for many artists in the Grossman stable. He also apparently considered working as a computer programmer, subsequently, he became one of the first artists signed to Grossmans Bearsville Records label. D. Smart, with whom Rundgren worked on later projects. Rothchild, the result was Joplins swansong LP Pearl, which Rothchild pieced together from the session tapes. This was followed by an album for the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. One of these was attended by a budding New York writer called Patti Smith and his work for The Band was followed by a second album for Winchester and the album Taking Care of Business by the James Cotton Blues Band. Rundgren himself wrote, produced, sang and played guitars, keyboards, Smart on the rest of the album. Furthermore, only Rundgren is pictured on the covers of albums, and both albums have been subsequently reissued with the same titles and cover art, but bearing the artist credit Todd Rundgren
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Kasim Sulton
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Kasim Sulton is an American bass guitarist, keyboardist and vocalist. Best known for his work with Utopia, Sulton sang lead on 1980s Set Me Free, as a solo artist, Sulton hit the Canadian top 40 in 1982 with Dont Break My Heart. Sulton has been a frequent collaborator, bassist and singer on many of Todd Rundgrens projects, Sulton attended and graduated in 1973 from Susan E. Wagner High School in Staten Island, New York. He married his school sweetheart, and had three children with her. Sultons wife, Laurie Rampulla, died of cancer in 2011, Sulton started his musical career playing piano and vocals for Cherry Vanilla before gaining a place in Utopia in 1976. During his time with Utopia, they recorded nine albums and toured extensively until disbanding in 1986 and he has toured with Blue Öyster Cult, Meat Loaf, Hall & Oates, Cheap Trick, Patty Smyth, Akiko Yano and Richie Sambora, amongst many other artists. As a studio musician, he has played on albums by Patti Smith, Indigo Girls and Steve Stevens, Sulton was the bassist and sang background vocals on the breakout Meat Loaf album Bat Out of Hell. He and Thommy Price collaborated on an album, Lights On, no Phone was featured in the comedy film The Allnighter, starring Susanna Hoffs. Sulton recorded an album on September 4,2002 entitled Quid Pro Quo. The album was released on Sphere Sound Records, and Sulton played all, Sulton sang background vocals on Meat Loafs album Bat Out of Hell II, Back into Hell, joining his backing band, Neverland Express, touring for three years on the Everything Louder Tour. He also recorded on Meat Loaf’s album Welcome to the Neighborhood and he went on to become Music director for Meat Loaf, rehearsing Meat Loafs band, Neverland Express, in preparation for touring. He also toured on Meat Loafs Couldnt Have Said It Better tour where he played a solo acoustic set to open the concert at most venues. One of Meat Loafs shows on tour was filmed for the DVD Bat Out of Hell. Kasim also toured on the 2005 Hair of the Dog Tour and the 2006-2007 Bat Out of Hell III tour, in summer 2008, he rejoined Meat Loaf for The Casa de Carne Tour. Sulton played bass in the pit orchestra for the Twyla Tharp-choreographed musical based on Billy Joel music called Movin Out on Broadway. After a brief stint with the reunited band Scandal in 2004, Sulton joined The New Cars in 2005, replacing original Cars bassist and co-lead vocalist Benjamin Orr, who died of cancer in 2000. The band also included original Cars band members Elliot Easton and Greg Hawkes as well as Todd Rundgren and Prairie Prince from Journey, an album, Its Alive. was followed by a tour in 2006, with Sulton singing lead on The Cars hit Drive. He was in the band for the six show Todd/Healing Albums Live tour that began Labor Day Weekend of 2010 in Akron, Ohio and he also played in the second run of Todd/Healing Albums Live, a five-show tour that began on March 25,2011 in Hartford, Connecticut
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Hunt Sales
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Hunt Sales is an American rock drummer, who has played with Todd Rundgren, his brother Tony Sales, Iggy Pop and Tin Machine. Hunt Sales is a son of the television comedian Soupy Sales and he has two daughters, Cali Sales, born in 1990, and Sugar Sales, born in 2007. Hunt Sales first group was with brother Tony in Tony and the Tigers and they appeared on Hullabaloo in 1966 and also on the local Detroit/Windsor dance show, Swingin Time with Robin Seymour. In 1976, he played drums with the rock power trio Paris. This trio was short lived, releasing two albums for Capitol Records, Hunt played and sang backup vocals on the second Paris album, Big Towne,2061. In 1977 Hunt, along with brother Tony, provided the rhythm section for the Iggy Pop album Lust for Life, david Bowies memories of the Sales contribution to the recording led him to invite the pair to join Tin Machine in the late 1980s. He performed on several soundtracks,1992 Dr. Retrieved, 7/5/20122013 Audio Interview with Hunt Sales from the podcast Id Hit That
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Moogy Klingman
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Mark Moogy Klingman was an American musician and songwriter. He was a member of Todd Rundgrens band, Todd Rundgrens Utopia. He released two recordings, and his songs have been covered by artists as wide ranging as Johnny Winter, Carly Simon, James Cotton, Thelma Houston, Eric Clapton, Barry Manilow. He played on stage with Jimi Hendrix, Chuck Berry, Luther Vandross, Lou Reed, Jeff Beck and Allan Woody & Warren Haynes of the Allman Brothers, Moogy Klingmans nickname was not from the musical instrument, but from his baby sisters pronunciation of Marky as Moo-Gee. He did later play Moog synthesizers, but his nickname was already well established, Klingman grew up in the Long Island suburb of Great Neck, New York. By age 10 he was collecting books and gramophone records. Through his older sister, he got a pass to attend the 1965 Newport Folk Festival performance where Bob Dylan went electric, meeting Dylan before. Back home, his band The Living Few was signed to a deal by producer Dick Glass and recorded a demo of Dylan songs. At 16, he joined Jimmy James and the Blue Flames with Jimi Hendrix, by then, his band Glitterhouse had made records with the star producer Bob Crewe, as well as Crewes soundtrack to the 1968 Roger Vadim film Barbarella with Jane Fonda. Klingmans association with Todd Rundgren commenced in 1968 when they met outside the Cafe Au Go Go in Greenwich Village, in Klingmans Manhattan loft, he and Rundgren constructed the Secret Sound recording studio where Rundgren produced his A Wizard, A True Star, Todd, and other albums. Moogy was the original keyboardist for Todd Rundgrens Utopia, and Klingmans band Moogy & the Rhythm Kings formed the core of the original Utopia and he played on ten Todd Rundgren solo albums, as well as several Utopia albums. With barely a weeks notice, Klingman came up with a new backing band. The band consisted of Tom Cosgrove on lead guitar, Ralph Schuckett on rhythm guitar, Buffalo Bill Gelber on bass, Klingman played keyboards and produced Bette Midlers duet with Bob Dylan Buckets of Rain – which appeared on Midlers 1976 album, Songs for the New Depression. He became her musical director, taking over from Barry Manilow, Klingman collaborated with William Buzzy Linhart in co-writing Friends, which became Bette Midlers de facto theme song. Klingman had solo albums out on Capitol and EMI records, as well as on his own label, Songs from his solo albums were covered by Johnny Winter, Eric Clapton, Barry Manilow, Bette Midler, Todd Rundgren and others. His song Dust in the Wind was covered by Todd Rundgren on his album Something/Anything. and has performed live in concert by Guns N Roses. The sessions featured the participation of Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Keith Emerson, Mitch Mitchell, Harvey Mandel and he was the co-founder of the band The Peaceniks, along with Barry Gruber. Klingman also played in the Moogy/Woody Band with Allman Brothers alumni Allan Woody, in 1979 he had a show on Manhattan Cable Channel J called Manhattan Alley
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Roger Powell (musician)
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Roger Powell is a musician, programmer, and magazine columnist best known for his membership with the rock band Utopia. Powells musical career started in the late 1960s, programming analog synthesizers for commercials, Powell was the protégé of Robert Moog, as well as Moogs competitor ARP, contributing designs and demonstrating systems. He produced several solo albums, and was a touring musician with David Bowie. In October 2006, after an absence from music recording, Roger released Fossil Poets with musicians Gary Tanin. The music is described as electronic / prog rock retro-futuristic, in March 2009, Roger released Blue Note Ridge with producer Gary Tanin. The music is described as piano improvisations. He occasionally performs with Bay Area folk musician and friend David Elias, plus other local, informal live performances have been hosted and recorded at the San Gregorio General Store. On September 7,2009 Powell once again shared the stage with Rundgren as part of a re-constituted Utopia, the band played an opening set for an album-length concert of Rundgrens A Wizard/A True Star. Powell was able to participate in the tour after leaving Apple Computer, where he worked as a programmer. In 2011, Powell made brief appearances on an album by Nashville artist Joe Guido Welsh entitled Nothing Left To Say and he played two signature Minimoog solos on the recording which also featured former Utopia members John Siegler and Kevin Ellman. A talented computer programmer, Powell developed one of the first PC MIDI sequencers, originally developed for the Apple II, Texture allowed the user to manipulate patterns of notes and store them on disk. Soon after the MIDI protocol was introduced, Texture was ported to the IBM PC and its celebrity users included Stevie Wonder and Bob James. Much of Powells computer work pre-dated MIDI and he gave the first performance on an all digital synthesizer while working with Hal Alles, Douglas Bayer, and Gregory Sims at Bell Laboratories. Powells talents led eventually to positions with WaveFrame, Silicon Graphics, from 1997 to May 2009, he worked for Apple Computer as a senior programmer and technical lead for audio within Apple Professional Applications. He currently works at Electronic Arts as a Senior Producer on emerging music technologies
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Doug Howard (musician)
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Doug Howard is an American bassist, vocalist and songwriter. He is best known for his work as a musician and occasional co-writer with groups. He also played the role as the singing narrator Songster in the 1987 live production of the Masters of the Universe Power Tour based upon the Mattel He-Man series action figures. Howard is also the partner of Lodestar Entertainment, LLC, a music and video licensing. He is the grandson of the American songwriter Joseph E. Howard. Ma Baby, I Wonder Whos Kissing Her Now and Good-bye My Lady Love, among other titles. Born in Englewood, New Jersey, he is the child of actor Patience Jarvis and opera singer Joseph E. Howard, Jr. Howard. He also quickly discovered his high school classes increasingly impossible to juggle against his performing schedule and he resigned from school in favor of playing full-time when he was offered the bass slot backing the Phil Spector girl group, The Crystals. Howard later resumed his studies at Berklee College of Music in Boston, upon the albums completion, Doug resigned from Touch and briefly replaced Kasim Sulton in Todd Rundgrens Utopia during Kasims support tour for his then upcoming solo effort. During this time, Doug scored another hit in the US as co-writer of Feet Dont Fail Me Now with Todd. In 1989, Doug was invited to join a project titled Stun Leer as its lead vocalist which was being produced in Boston by Bob St. John. Doug is also the Founder and Managing Partner of Lodestar Entertainment, aside from his performing credits, he has worked as a session musician, singer and producer on various side projects, sound tracks and commercial jingles. /UK Krayola- “Krayola” Summer 1982 Luminary - U. S. /UK Todd Rundgrens Utopia - Utopia Fall 1983 Network - Worldwide Oswald & The Herringbones - OATH Spring 1984 Buckeye - U. S
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Traffic (band)
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Traffic was an English rock band, formed in Birmingham. The group formed in April 1967 by Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and their first three singles were Paper Sun, Hole in My Shoe, and Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush. After disbanding in 1969, during which time Winwood joined Blind Faith, the bands line-up varied from this point until they disbanded again in 1975. A partial reunion, with Winwood and Capaldi, took place in 1994, Traffic was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004. Traffics singer, keyboardist, and sometimes guitarist Steve Winwood was the singer for the Spencer Davis Group at age 15. The Spencer Davis Group released four Top Ten singles and three Top Ten albums in the United Kingdom, as well as two Top Ten singles in the United States. Drummer/vocalist/lyricist Jim Capaldi and guitarist Dave Mason had both been in the Hellions and Deep Feeling, while woodwinds player Chris Wood came out of Locomotive, Winwood, Capaldi, Mason, and Wood met when they jammed together at The Elbow Room, a club in Aston, Birmingham. After Winwood left the Spencer Davis Group in April 1967, the quartet formed Traffic, Capaldi came up with the name of the group while the four of them were waiting to cross the street in Dorchester. Soon thereafter, they rented a cottage near the village of Aston Tirrold, Berkshire to write. The use of this cottage would prove to be important in the development of the band, Traffic signed to Chris Blackwells Island Records label, and their debut single Paper Sun became a UK hit in mid-1967. Their second single, Masons psych-pop Hole in My Shoe, was a bigger hit. The bands third single, Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush, was made for the soundtrack of the 1967 British feature film of the same name. Their debut album was Mr. Fantasy, produced by Jimmy Miller, released in 1968, it included the original version of Masons Feelin Alright, which was later recorded with great success by Joe Cocker and Three Dog Night. Mason also cited discomfort with the Traffic lifestyle, the band toured the US as a trio in late 1968, which led to the following years release of Traffics next album, Last Exit, one side of which was recorded live. During 1968 Winwood and Wood often played with Jimi Hendrix, the band was dissolved by Winwoods leaving in early 1969. His departure went unexplained at the time, even to Capaldi and Wood and it seemed to me a normal thing to do. Winwood then formed the supergroup Blind Faith, which lasted less than a year, recording one album, Traffic went on to expand its lineup late in 1970, adding Winwoods former Blind Faith bandmate Ric Grech on bass. The group further expanded in 1971 with drummer Jim Gordon of Derek, the live album Welcome to the Canteen was released in September and marked the bands break with United Artists Records
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Another Live
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Another Live is the second album by the pop rock band Utopia. It was released in 1975 on Bearsville, the record was their first fully live album. Side one contains three songs that were never before released, side two is a mix of live cover versions of songs by band members and other artists. With no singles released to push it higher, the peaked at #66 on the Billboard 200 charts
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Multi-instrumentalist
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A multi-instrumentalist is a musician who plays two or more musical instruments at a professional level. Multi-instrumentalists who play closely related instruments, a known as doubling are common in orchestra, in jazz, in music theatre pit orchestras. Popular music composers and songwriters are often multi-instrumentalists, some musicians unions or associations specify a higher rate of pay for musicians who double on two or more instruments for a performance or recording. The European Piffari, Stadtpfeifer and Waits were multi-instrumentalists, who played trumpet, sackbut, shawm, cornett, recorder, musicians with an education of a Stadtpfeifer were Gottfried Reiche, Johann Joachim Quantz, Johann Christof Pezel and Sigmund Theophil Staden. Also many European church musicians of the 17th and 18th centuries were multi-instrumentalists, georg Philipp Telemann for example played violin, viola da gamba, recorder, flauto traverso, oboe, shawm, sackbut and double bass. Some famous classical composer-performers could play multiple instruments at a level, such as Mozart. Music written for symphony orchestra usually calls for a section featuring a number of musicians who might each play a variety of different instruments during a performance. Orchestras will also often, but not always, call for members of the woodwind section to be multi-instrumentalists. This is sometimes referred to as doubling, typically, for example, one flute player in the orchestra will switch to playing the piccolo or alto flute when called to by the score. Similarly, clarinet players may double on clarinet, oboe players on cor anglais. Trumpet players may switch to piccolo trumpet for certain Baroque literature, organ players are also commonly expected to master the harpsichord as well. Doubling elsewhere in the orchestra is rare, with musical theatre pit orchestras, woodwind players are expected to play a large number of woodwind instruments. Many professional jazz musicians have become multi-instrumentalists, in the swing big band era, woodwind players were expected to be able to play multiple woodwind instruments. Some jazz saxophonists are offered gigs where they are required to play clarinet. So they spend time learning the differences and then continue to develop their ability over the rest of musical careers, dolphy was also frequently recorded on bass clarinet. In the early years of jazz, when the genre was linked to the marching band genre. From the 1950s onwards and particularly since the development of fusion in the late 1960s. Notable examples of bassists who are virtuosi on both instruments include Stanley Clarke and John Patitucci, many jazz instrumentalists whose main instrument is a horn or bass also play jazz piano, because piano is an excellent instrument for composing, arranging, and developing greater harmonic knowledge
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Runt (album)
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Runt is the self-titled debut album of the band Runt, first released in 1970 on the Ampex Records label. Many regarded the album as Todd Rundgrens debut solo album, at the initial time of release, however, Runt was identified as a trio consisting of Rundgren, Hunt Sales, and Tony Fox Sales. The entire album was written and produced by Rundgren, the album features the single We Gotta Get You a Woman, which reached number 20 on Billboards Hot 100 in 1971. Upon its release in June 1970 the album was issued with 10 tracks, after We Gotta Get You a Woman became a hit single, Ampex decided to press more copies of the LP in November 1970 to keep up with demand. A rejected 12-track master of the LP was accidentally sent to the plant resulting in approximately 5,000 mis-presses. Instead of throwing out the LPs, Ampex decided to sell them anyway, unmarked and this album as well as Runt, The Ballad of Todd Rundgren were issued in 1971 on the Bearsville label, being distributed by Ampex at the time. In mid-1971 Bearsville was purchased by Warner Bros. distribution, and plans were made to each album as Runt with catalog number BV2046. Later in 1973 Warner Bros wanted Bearsville to re-release both albums as a pack entitled Todd Rundgrens Rack Job. The album got as far as test presses and album art but was shelved, the first issue was the 1970 Ampex release which reverses Sides One and Two of the LP, in order to sequence the longer side first
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Something/Anything?
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Something/Anything. is a double album by Todd Rundgren, released in February 1972. It was Rundgrens third solo release, and was recorded in late 1971 in Los Angeles, New York City and Bearsville Studios, three quarters of the album was recorded in the studio with Rundgren playing all instruments and singing all vocals, as well as being the producer. The final quarter contained a number of recorded live in the studio without any overdubs. After he had created significantly more material than would fit on a standard LP and he decided to head back to New York for some live sessions, with the help of Moogy Klingman, to lighten the mood. The final sessions were in Bearsville, where the remainder of the recording and mixing place. The album peaked at number 29 on the Billboard 200 and was certified gold three years after its release and it remains the singer-songwriters best-selling album. A single taken from the album, Hello Its Me, was a hit in the US in late 1972. In 2003, the album was ranked number 173 on Rolling Stone magazines list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. By the time Rundgren started recording the album, he had achieved commercial success as a solo artist, and a producer. He had also become dissatisfied with other musicians playing on his recordings, recalling, Id never played drums or bass before and this led him to decide to record the entire album by himself using multi-tracking. Rundgren wrote the material for the album at a prolific rate and he attributed his productivity to Ritalin and cannabis, stating that the drugs caused me to crank out songs at an incredible pace. I Saw the Light took me all of 20 minutes and he found some of the other songs quick to write, too, noting they were all basically starting out with C Major 7th, and Id start moving my hand around in predictable patterns until a song came out. The majority of backing tracks on the first three sides of the album were recorded at I. D, sound Studios, Los Angeles, engineered by James Lowe with assistance from John Lee. Rundgren played every instrument in turn, starting with the drums, noting it was the place to start. In retrospect, Rundgren felt he might have performed better with a track, being a novice drummer at the time. He didnt think his lack of proficiency on the instrument was a particular handicap, saying that people comprehend what youre playing. I was never sure exactly where the song was going until wed put down about four or five tracks, in addition to recording at I. D. Sound, Rundgren took an 8-track recorder and some equipment, installing it at his rented home on Astral Drive
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A Wizard, a True Star
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A Wizard, a True Star is the fourth solo album by Todd Rundgren, released in 1973. The album peaked on the Billboard 200 album chart at number 86, the first side of the album consists of an extended suite called The International Feel, the component songs segue into one another, and the lyrics are frequently humorous or hallucinatory. The albums especially long playing time pushed the limits of how music could fit on a LP record. Each side is longer than the typical 17 to 20 minutes of a typical album. Therefore, the spacing is narrower, causing a significant drop in volume. Rundgren acknowledged this issue on the inner sleeve. He advised listeners to turn up the volume on their speakers to compensate, the first vinyl release was mastered by noted audio engineer Robert Bob Ludwig at Sterling Sound and is identifiable by the notation STERLING RL written in the run-out grooves. Four of the featured on the album – Klingman, Labat, Shuckett. Arthur Wood made the painting that is featured on the cover, Arthur included cryptic symbols in his cover art that, when deciphered, spell out the following messages, I, Arthur Wood, painted this. Be true to your words, and your words will be true to you, be true to yourself and your work. I will be as true to you as I can, tenderness is the secret to love, as far as I can see. -- Todd Rundgren First issues of the vinyl LP included a postcard encouraging purchasers to send in their names to be included on a poster in Todds next album, also included was a band aid poem written by Patti Smith which was a bio about the album. Reissues of the vinyl LP did not include extras. In late 2009 and early 2010, Rundgren began touring the album after hearing it had a new audience of young fans. One the other hand, side twos restraint, its brimming good humor and its ambience of innocence is irresistible, writing in Creem, Robert Christgau deemed Rundgren a minor songwriter with major woman problems whos good with the board and has a sense of humor. Patti Smith was more enthusiastic in her review for the magazine, Rock and roll for the skull. Past present and tomorrow in one glance, Todd Rundgren is preparing us for a generation of frenzied children who will dream in animation. In MusicHound Rock, Christopher Scapelliti called the record a fascinating sonic collage that skews his pop-star image 180 degrees, all songs written by Todd Rundgren except where noted
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Todd (album)
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Todd is the fifth album and second double album by Todd Rundgren, released in February 1974. It was an expansion of his experimentation on his previous album, A Wizard and it showed his growing interest in the synthesizer, and its ability to expand the textures of rock music. Much of the album is intensely experimental, however, it is not without its share of pop songs. Todd also tinkers with the progressive sound he would take further with his later band Utopia. Release of the album, originally conceived as a disc, was delayed by a vinyl shortage caused by the 1973 oil crisis. This was further compounded by reluctance from the label, Bearsville. Remained strong on the singles charts, other lore from Todd is the battle with Rundgren over the labels desire to release the song Izzat Love. as a single. The artist insisted the song was indicative of a style he no longer wished to pursue. The closing track Sons of 1984 was recorded live in Central Park, Rundgren also overdubbed another audience in San Francisco singing the chorus, humorously crediting the combined vocal group as First United Church of the Cosmic Smorgasbord. Lord Chancellors Nightmare is a cover of a Gilbert & Sullivan song from their 1882 opera Iolanthe, a large LED display and lasers were on display throughout the shows with Rundgren and the band dressed in extravagant costumes. Rundgrens band consisted of Jesse Gress, Greg Hawkes, Prairie Prince, Bobby Strickland, the shows have been released on DVD. All songs by Todd Rundgren except where noted,1 Lowest Common Denominator Useless Begging Sidewalk Cafe Izzat Love. Heavy Metal Kids In and Out the Chakras We Go Dont You Ever Learn
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Initiation
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Initiation is a rite of passage marking entrance or acceptance into a group or society. It could also be an admission to adulthood in a community or one of its formal components. In an extended sense it can signify a transformation in which the initiate is reborn into a new role. A person taking the initiation ceremony in traditional rites, such as depicted in these pictures, is called an initiate. Mircea Eliade discussed initiation as a religious act by classical or traditional societies. He defined initiation as a change in existential condition, which liberates man from profane time. Initiation recapitulates the history of the world. And through this recapitulation, the world is sanctified anew. Can perceive the world as a work, a creation of the Gods. Eliade differentiates between types of initiations in two ways, types and functions and this real valuation of ritual death finally led to conquest of the fear of real death. Function is to reveal the meaning of existence to the new generations and to help them assume the responsibility of being truly men. It reveals an open to the trans-human, a world that, in our philosophical terminology. Puberty Rites- collective rituals whose function is to effect the transition from childhood or adolescence to adulthood and they represent above all the revelation of the sacred. Entering into a Secret Society- Mystical Vocation- the vocation of a man or a shaman. This is limited to the few who are destined to participate in an intense religious experience than is accessible to the rest of the community. These can be broken into two types, puberty rites, by virtue of which adolescents gain access to the sacred, to knowledge, specialized initiations, which certain individuals undergo in order to transcend their human condition and become protégés of the Supernatural Beings or even their equals. Dissonance is then thought to produce feelings of group attraction among initiates after the experience. Rewards during initiations have important consequences in that initiates who feel more rewarded express stronger group identity, as well as group attraction, initiations can also produce conformity among new members
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Moog synthesizer
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The Moog company pioneered the commercial manufacture of modular voltage-controlled analog synthesizer systems in the mid 1960s. The Moog synthesizer gained wider attention in the industry after it was demonstrated at the Monterey International Pop Festival in 1967. The commercial breakthrough of a Moog recording was made by Wendy Carlos in the 1968 record Switched-On Bach, the success of Switched-On Bach sparked a slew of other synthesizer records in the late 1960s to mid-1970s. Later Moog modular systems featured various improvements, such as a scaled-down, the Moog company pioneered the commercial manufacture of modular voltage-controlled analog synthesizer systems. Moog became interested in the design and construction of electronic music systems in the mid-1960s while completing a Ph. D. in Engineering Physics at Cornell University. The burgeoning interest in his designs enabled him to establish a company to manufacture. Pioneering electronic music experimenters like Leon Theremin, Louis and Bebe Barron, Electronic music studios typically had many oscillators, filters and other devices to generate and manipulate electronic sound. Early electronic music performance devices like the Theremin were also limited in function. In the period from 1950 to the mid-1960s, studio musicians, Moog began to develop his synthesizer systems after he met educator and composer Herbert Deutsch at a conference in late 1963. Over the next year, with encouragement from Myron Hoffman of the University of Toronto, Moog and this specific definition means that adding or subtracting control voltage simply transposes pitch, a very valuable feature. At a time when digital circuits were still relatively costly and in a stage of development. In the Moog topology, each module has one or more inputs that accept a voltage of typically 10 V or less. Thus, frequency determines pitch, attenuation determines instantaneous loudness, for instance, control voltages can be added or subtracted in a circuit almost identical to an adder in such a computer. Inside a synthesizer VCO, an exponential function provides the 1 volt per octave control of an oscillator that basically runs on a volts/kHz basis. Positive voltage polarity raises pitch, and negative lowers it, the result is that, for example, a standard keyboard can have its output scaled to that of a quarter-tone keyboard by changing its output to one-half volt per octave, with no other technical changes. The central component was the oscillator, which generated the primary sound signal, capable of producing a variety of waveforms including sawtooth, square. The inputs and outputs of any module could be cross-linked with patch cords and, together with the control knobs and switches, could create a nearly infinite variety of sounds. As a result, ownership and use was at first mainly limited to such as educational institutions and major recording studios
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Beefsteak Charlie's
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Charles W. Chessar was a New York City restaurateur who was nicknamed Beefsteak Charlie by Howard Williams, a sports editor for the New York Morning Telegraph. Chessar opened his first restaurant around 1910, and moved to 50th Street between Broadway and Eighth Avenue in 1914, which he operated until 1934, the restaurant was filled with horse racing photographs and frequented by sports enthusiasts, and the specialty of the house was a steak sandwich. A fire in March 1933 destroyed many of the pictures, though some still remain in the family of the subsequent owner. After Chessar left, his restaurant was owned and operated by William Soshnick. Soshnick was one of five immigrant brothers that owned and operated small markets. William Soshnick sold Beefsteak Charlies upon his retirement in the late 1960s and moved to Tucson, during Soshnicks ownership the restaurant became a popular hangout for jazz musicians in the 1950s and 1960s. Beefsteak Charlies marketing concept emphasized an all-you-can-eat salad bar, as well as unlimited beer, wine, early 1980s advertising featured an actor in early 20th century dress playing the role of Beefsteak Charlie, later joined by his nephew Beefsteak Chuck. Two of the chains famous indulgent slogans were Ill feed you like theres no tomorrow, as of 1984, the chain had over 60 locations, located primarily on the East Coast. Corporate owner Beefsteak Charlies, Inc. changed its name in 1985 to Lifestyle Restaurants, in August 1987, the chain was acquired by Bombay Palace Restaurants, via a merger with Lifestyle Restaurants for a reported $8.4 million in stock. At the time of the 1987 merger, the chain had 48 locations, when Bombay filed for bankruptcy two years later, the chain had only 35 outlets. In 1992, the chain was advertising its two remaining locations in Manhattan—at 51st Street and Broadway, and at 45th Street and Eighth Avenue, in 2000, franchise restaurant operator Riese Organization converted its 45th Street location into Joe Franklins Memory Lane Restaurant. A Manhattan location on Eighth Avenue at the Howard Johnsons Plaza hotel closed shortly after September 11,2001, several locations remained until the early 2000s. In 2009, a new Beefsteak Charlies opened in the Westfield Sunrise Mall in Nassau County, New York, the name may possibly have originated from a story by O. Henry. The restaurant was parodied in a 1980 Saturday Night Live skit as Pre-Chew Charlies, in a 1998 episode of the sitcom Friends, Chandler becomes intoxicated at the restaurant after thinking his girlfriend cheated on him. He drunkenly calls the restaurant Beefsteak Chulies, prompting Rachel to correct him, in a 2002 episode of the sitcom Will & Grace, Will takes a group poll which decides to dine at the restaurant, despite one holdout voting for T. G. I. A2005 episode of television series Entourage mentions Beefsteak Charlies. In the 2017 season premiere of the program Real Time with Bill Maher, Mr. Maher compares President Donald Trumps leather-bound executive orders to the menus at Beefsteak Charlies
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Hall & Oates
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Daryl Hall and John Oates, often referred to as Hall & Oates, are an American musical duo from Philadelphia. Daryl Hall is generally the lead vocalist of the pairing, John Oates primarily plays electric guitar and provides backing vocals. The two write most of the songs they perform, either separately or in collaboration and they achieved their greatest fame from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s with a fusion of rock and roll and rhythm and blues. Hall and Oates have sold an estimated 40 million records throughout their career, in total, they had 34 chart hits on the US Billboard Hot 100, seven RIAA platinum albums, and six RIAA gold albums. Because of that success, Billboard magazine named them the most successful duo of the rock era. In 2003, Hall and Oates were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2014. On September 2,2016 they received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Daryl Franklin Hohl and John William Oates first met each other at the Adelphi Ballroom in Philadelphia in 1967. At the time they met, each was heading his own musical group and they were there for a band competition when gunfire rang out between two rival gangs, and in trying to escape, they ran to the same service elevator. One of the apartments they shared had Hall & Oates on the mailbox and it would take them another two years to form a musical duo, and three years after that, they signed to Atlantic Records and released their debut album. The two didnt start working together seriously until 1970 after Oates got back from a stay in Europe. Early in their careers, Hall & Oates had trouble clearly defining their sound, alternating among folk, soul, rock. None of their early albums - Whole Oats, Abandoned Luncheonette, despite being produced by such big-name producers such as Arif Mardin and Todd Rundgren, they had no hit singles during this time period, though Abandoned Luncheonette contained Shes Gone. This song would be covered by Lou Rawls and Tavares before Atlantic Records re-released the Hall & Oates version in 1976, Shes Gone, as covered by Tavares, did go to Number One on the R&B charts in 1974. It was originally written for Halls first wife, Bryna Lublin, another Abandoned Luncheonette single, Las Vegas Turnaround, was written about Halls girlfriend, flight attendant and future songwriting collaborator Sara Allen. Despite the fact none of the Atlantic albums were huge national hits. Paul, a number of tracks on Abandoned Luncheonette received significant airplay on local FM station KQRS resulting in the album being quite a big hit locally and this was enough to push the album into the charts, reaching #33 and staying on the charts for 38 weeks. Hall & Oates left their first record company, Atlantic Records, after the release of War Babies to join their second label and their first album for the new label Daryl Hall & John Oates was their first legitimate success. It contained the ballad Sara Smile, a song Hall wrote for his aforementioned girlfriend Sara Allen and it also featured an album cover in which Hall and Oates are overly made up with cosmetic blush to the point where they looked like women, especially the long-haired Hall
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War Babies (Hall & Oates album)
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War Babies is the third studio album by Hall & Oates, released in 1974, and their last of three albums for Atlantic Records before moving to RCA Records. The album was produced by Todd Rundgren, Rundgren and other members of Utopia, his then-recently-formed prog-rock band, perform on the record. The album was a departure from the previous two albums, alienating fans of the blue-eyed soul material that dominated the albums. War Babies is a more rock-oriented LP with heavy keyboard work, war Babies would be their first charting album, reaching #86 on the Billboard 200. On February 24,2017 Friday Music released a version of the album along with their first studio album, Whole Oats
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Broadway theatre
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Along with Londons West End theatres, Broadway theatres are widely considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world. The Theater District is a popular tourist attraction in New York City, the great majority of Broadway shows are musicals. They presented Shakespeare plays and ballad operas such as The Beggars Opera, in 1752, William Hallam sent a company of twelve actors from Britain to the colonies with his brother Lewis as their manager. They established a theatre in Williamsburg, Virginia and opened with The Merchant of Venice, the company moved to New York in the summer of 1753, performing ballad operas and ballad-farces like Damon and Phillida. The Revolutionary War suspended theatre in New York, but thereafter theatre resumed in 1798, the Bowery Theatre opened in 1826, followed by others. Blackface minstrel shows, a distinctly American form of entertainment, became popular in the 1830s, by the 1840s, P. T. Barnum was operating an entertainment complex in lower Manhattan. In 1829, at Broadway and Prince Street, Niblos Garden opened, the 3, 000-seat theatre presented all sorts of musical and non-musical entertainments. In 1844, Palmos Opera House opened and presented opera for four seasons before bankruptcy led to its rebranding as a venue for plays under the name Burtons Theatre. The Astor Opera House opened in 1847, booth played the role for a famous 100 consecutive performances at the Winter Garden Theatre in 1865, and would later revive the role at his own Booths Theatre. Other renowned Shakespeareans who appeared in New York in this era were Henry Irving, Tommaso Salvini, Fanny Davenport, lydia Thompson came to America in 1868 heading a small theatrical troupe, adapting popular English burlesques for middle-class New York audiences. Thompsons troupe called the British Blondes, was the most popular entertainment in New York during the 1868–1869 theatrical season, the six-month tour ran for almost six extremely profitable years. Theatre in New York moved from downtown gradually to midtown beginning around 1850, in 1870, the heart of Broadway was in Union Square, and by the end of the century, many theatres were near Madison Square. Broadways first long-run musical was a 50-performance hit called The Elves in 1857, New York runs continued to lag far behind those in London, but Laura Keenes musical burletta The Seven Sisters shattered previous New York records with a run of 253 performances. It was at a performance by Keenes troupe of Our American Cousin in Washington, the production was a staggering five-and-a-half hours long, but despite its length, it ran for a record-breaking 474 performances. The same year, The Black Domino/Between You, Me and the Post was the first show to call itself a musical comedy, Tony Pastor opened the first vaudeville theatre one block east of Union Square in 1881, where Lillian Russell performed. Comedians Edward Harrigan and Tony Hart produced and starred in musicals on Broadway between 1878 and 1890, with book and lyrics by Harrigan and music by his father-in-law David Braham. They starred high quality singers, instead of the women of repute who had starred in earlier musical forms. Plays could run longer and still draw in the audiences, leading to better profits, as in England, during the latter half of the century, the theatre began to be cleaned up, with less prostitution hindering the attendance of the theatre by women
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West Side Story (musical)
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West Side Story is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and conception and choreography by Jerome Robbins. It was inspired by William Shakespeares play Romeo and Juliet, the story is set in the Upper West Side neighborhood in New York City in the mid-1950s, an ethnic, blue-collar neighborhood. The musical explores the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds, the members of the Sharks, from Puerto Rico, are taunted by the Jets, a white gang. The young protagonist, Tony, a member of the Jets and best friend of the gang leader, Riff, falls in love with Maria, the sister of Bernardo. The dark theme, sophisticated music, extended scenes. Bernsteins score for the musical includes Somethings Coming, Maria, America, Somewhere, Tonight, Jet Song, I Feel Pretty, A Boy Like That, One Hand, One Heart, Gee, Officer Krupke, and Cool. The original 1957 Broadway production, directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins and produced by Robert E. Griffith and Harold Prince and it ran for 732 performances before going on tour. The production was nominated for six Tony Awards including Best Musical in 1957, Robbins won the Tony Award for his choreography and Oliver Smith won for his scenic designs. The show had an even longer-running London production, a number of revivals, a 1961 musical film of the same name, directed by Robert Wise and Robbins, starred Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris and Russ Tamblyn. The film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards and won ten, including George Chakiris for Supporting Actor, Rita Moreno for Supporting Actress, in 1947, Jerome Robbins approached Leonard Bernstein and Arthur Laurents about collaborating on a contemporary musical adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. He proposed that the focus on the conflict between an Irish Catholic family and a Jewish family living on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The girl has survived the Holocaust and emigrated from Israel, the conflict was to be centered around anti-Semitism of the Catholic Jets towards the Jewish Emeralds, eager to write his first musical, Laurents immediately agreed. Bernstein wanted to present the material in operatic form, but Robbins and they described the project as lyric theater, and Laurents wrote a first draft he called East Side Story. Only after he completed it did the group realize it was more than a musicalization of themes that had already been covered in plays like Abies Irish Rose. When he opted to drop out, the three men went their ways, and the piece was shelved for almost five years. Laurents accepted and suggested Bernstein and Robbins join the creative team, Robbins felt if the three were going to join forces, they should return to East Side Story, and Bernstein agreed. Laurents, however, was committed to Gabel, who introduced him to the young composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim, Sondheim auditioned by playing the score for Saturday Night, his musical that was scheduled to open in the fall. Laurents liked the lyrics but was not impressed with the music, Sondheim did not care for Laurents opinion
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Jeff Lynne
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In 1988, under the pseudonyms Otis Wilbury and Clayton Wilbury, he co-founded the supergroup Traveling Wilburys with George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty. After ELOs original disbandment in 1986, Lynne released two albums, Armchair Theatre and Long Wave. Lynne will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on 7 April,2017 as a member of Electric Light Orchestra, Lynne grew up in Shard End, Birmingham, where he attended Alderlea Boys Secondary School. His first guitar, an instrument, was bought for him by his father. He was still playing it in 2012, in 1963 he formed a group with Robert Reader and David Walsh using little more than Spanish guitars and cheap electrical instruments. They were originally named the Rockin Hellcats, then the Handicaps and they practised at Shard End Community Centre and performed weekly. However, in 1964, Robert Reader and David Walsh left the band, at the end of 1964, Lynne decided to leave the band to replace Mick Adkins of the local band the Chads. He says it taught me how to be a producer, in 1966, Lynne joined the line-up of the Nightriders as guitarist. The band would change their name to the Idle Race. Despite recording two acclaimed albums with the band and producing the second, success eluded him. In 1970, Lynne accepted an offer from friend Roy Wood to join the line-up of the successful band the Move. This project would become the highly successful Electric Light Orchestra. Problems led to Woods departure in 1972, after the eponymous first album. Thereafter followed a succession of personnel changes and increasingly popular albums, 1973s ELO2 and On the Third Day, 1974s Eldorado. By 1976s A New World Record, Lynne had almost developed the roots of the group into a complex and unique pop-rock sound mixed with studio strings, layered vocals. Lynnes now almost complete creative dominance as producer, songwriter, arranger, lead singer, kelly Groucutts distinctive voice mixed with Lynnes to produce the classic ELO harmonic vocal sound. The pinnacle of ELOs chart success and worldwide popularity was the expansive 1977 double album Out of the Blue, the bands 1978 world tour featured an elaborate space ship set and laser light show. In order to recreate the complex textures of their albums
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The Move
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The Move, from Birmingham, England, are a British rock band of the late 1960s and the early 1970s. They scored nine Top 20 UK singles in five years, but were among the most popular British bands not to any real success in the United States. Although bassist-vocalist Chris Ace Kefford was the leader, for most of their career the Move was led by guitarist. He wrote all the groups UK singles and, from 1968, also sang vocals on many songs. Initially, the band had 4 main vocalists who split the vocals on a number of their earlier songs. The Move evolved from several mid-1960s Birmingham based groups, including Carl Wayne & the Vikings, the Nightriders and their name referred to the move various members of these bands made to form the group. Besides Wood, the Moves original five-piece roster in 1965 was drummer Bev Bevan, bassist Kefford, vocalist Carl Wayne, the final line-up of 1972 was the trio of Wood, Bevan and Jeff Lynne, together, they rode the groups transition into the Electric Light Orchestra. Between 2007 and 2014, Burton and Bevan performed intermittently as The Move featuring Bev Bevan, the Move were formed in December 1965, and played their debut show at the Belfry, Wishaw on 23 January 1966. The original intentions of Burton, Kefford, and Wood were to start a group from among Birminghams best musicians — along similar lines to the Who, the three played together at jam sessions at Birminghams Cedar Club, and invited Wayne and Bevan to join their new group. After a debut at the Bell Hotel in Stourbridge and further bookings around the Birmingham area, at the time, the Move mainly played covers of American west coast groups such as the Byrds together with Motown and rock n roll songs. Although Carl Wayne handled most of the vocals, all the band members shared harmonies. Secunda got them a residency at Londons Marquee Club in 1966. Their early career was marked by a series of publicity stunts, high-profile media events and outrageous stage antics masterminded by Secunda, eventually, Secunda also managed to persuade Wood to begin writing songs for the band in his time off. Wood wrote their first single, Night of Fear, a No.2 hit in the UK Singles Chart in January 1967 and their second single, I Can Hear the Grass Grow, was another major hit, reaching No.5 in the UK. In April 1967, NME reported that the Move had offered a reward for the recovery of the master tapes of ten songs intended for their debut album. The tapes were stolen from their agents car when it was parked in Denmark Street, the tapes were found in a skip shortly after, but the damage caused to them meant new masters would have to be made, delaying the albums release. Their third single Flowers in the Rain was the first chart single played on BBC Radio 1 when it began broadcasting at 7am on 30 September 1967, introduced by Tony Blackburn. The single, which reached No.2 in the UK, was less guitar-orientated than their previous two singles, and featured a woodwind and string arrangement by Cordells assistant Tony Visconti, the track was released on the re-launched Regal Zonophone label
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Hammersmith Apollo
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The Hammersmith Apollo is an entertainment venue and a Grade II* listed building located in Hammersmith, London. Designed by Robert Cromie in Art Deco style, it opened in 1932 as the Gaumont Palace and it has had a string of names and owners, most recently AEG Live and Eventim UK. The venue was opened in 1932 as the Gaumont Palace and seated nearly 3,500 people and it was designed by Robert Cromie in the Art Deco style. In 1962, the building was renamed Hammersmith Odeon, a name many people use for the venue along with the abbreviation Hammy-O. It became a Grade II listed building in 1990, the venue was later refurbished and renamed Labatts Apollo following a sponsorship deal with Labatt Brewing Company. In 2002, the venue was renamed, this time to Carling Apollo after Carling brewery struck a deal with the owners. The venues listing was upgraded to Grade II* status in 2005, in 2003, the stalls seats were made removable and now some concerts have full seating whilst others have standing-only in the stalls. In the latter format the venue can accommodate around 5,000 people, the event was marked by rock band AC/DC playing an exclusive one-off concert and only charging £10 per ticket. All 5,000 tickets sold out in 4 minutes, in 2006, the venue reverted to its former name, the Hammersmith Apollo. In 2007, the original 1932 Compton pipe organ, still present from the days as a cinema, was restored. The building then changed hands and was bought by the MAMA Group, as a result, the venue was named HMV Apollo from 2009 until 2012. Other venues purchased include The Forum in Londons Kentish Town, the Birmingham Institute, the venue was sold by HMV Group in May 2012 to AEG Live and CTS Eventim. In 2013, the venue was closed for a refurbishment which was carried out by award-winning architect Foster Wilson. The venue reopened as the Eventim Apollo on 7 September 2013, the original 1932 Compton pipe organ is still present at the Apollo and was fully restored to playing condition in 2007. It has a console which rises through the stage on a new lift. Having fallen into disrepair, the organ was disconnected in the 1990s, however at English Heritage and the councils insistence it has been reinstated and the entire organ restored. A launch party was held on 25 July 2007, at which an invited audience, pipe organs such as this were installed in most cinemas of the pre-war period to provide music for film shows, accompany silent movies and to feature in solo performances. Many were also broadcast on the radio and recorded on 78 rpm records and these organs were based on church-type instruments but had many other sounds including percussion instruments built in
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Luther Vandross
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Luther Ronzoni Vandross, Jr. was an American singer, songwriter and record producer. He later became the singer of the group Change, which released its certified gold debut album, The Glow of Love. After Vandross left the group, he was signed to Epic Records as a solo artist and released his solo album, Never Too Much. His hit songs include Never Too Much, Here and Now, Any Love, Power of Love/Love Power, I Can Make It Better and For You to Love. Many of his songs were covers of music by other artists such as If This World Were Mine, Since I Lost My Baby, Superstar and Always. Duets such as The Closer I Get to You with Beyoncé, Endless Love with Mariah Carey, during his career, Vandross sold over 35 million records worldwide, and received eight Grammy Awards including Best Male R&B Vocal Performance four different times. He won a total of four Grammy Awards in 2004 including the Grammy Award for Song of the Year for a song recorded not long before his death, Luther Ronzoni Vandross, Jr. was born on April 20,1951 at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, New York City. He was the child and second son of Mary Ida Vandross and Luther Vandross. His father was an upholsterer and singer, and his mother was a nurse, Vandross was raised on Manhattans Lower East Side in the NYCHA Alfred E. Smith Houses public housing development. At the age of three, having his own phonograph, he himself to play the piano by ear. Vandrosss father died of diabetes when Vandross was eight years old and his family moved to the Bronx when he was nine. His sisters, Patricia Pat and Ann began taking Vandross to the Apollo Theater and to a theater in Brooklyn to see Dionne Warwick, Patricia sang with the vocal group The Crests, and was featured on the songs 16 Candles and Sweetest One. In high school, Vandross performed in a group, Shades of Jade, during his early years in show business he appeared several times at the Apollos infamous amateur night and was booed by the audience. While a member of a workshop, Listen My Brother, he was invoiced in the singles Only Love Can Make a Better World. He appeared in the first series of Sesame Street during 1969, Vandross graduated from William Howard Taft High School in 1969, and attended Western Michigan University for a year before dropping out to continue pursuing a career in music. He added backing vocals to Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway in 1972, Vandross founded the first Patti LaBelle fan club, of which he was president. Vandross sang on Delores Halls Hall-Mark album and he sang with her on the song Whos Gonna Make It Easier for Me, which he wrote, and he contributed another song, In This Lonely Hour. Having co-written Fascination for David Bowies Young Americans, he went on to tour with him as a back-up vocalist in September 1974, Vandross wrote Everybody Rejoice for the 1975 Broadway musical The Wiz
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Faithful (Todd Rundgren album)
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Faithful is Todd Rundgrens seventh album, released in 1976. Rundgren explained the motivation of the first side as treating rock music like European classical music, the first side is dedicated to faithful re-recordings—near-replications of the originals—of some classic 1960s psychedelic-era songs, while side two comprised original material. Critic Robert Christgau called the second side Rundgrens clearest and most interesting set of songs since Something/Anything, the closing song, Boogies, opens with a reference to Beefsteak Charlies, which former Utopia drummer Kevin Ellman was currently operating along with his family. The album was released in May 1976 with virtually no advertising, bearsville Records president Paul Fiskin believed Rundgren fans would purchase just as many albums as his previous releases based on word of mouth. Only the remake of The Beach Boys Good Vibrations was released as a single and charted briefly but the album itself made it to #54 on the Billboard Album Charts
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Back to the Bars
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Back to the Bars is a live album by rock musician Todd Rundgren, which was released as a double LP in 1978. The album was recorded during week-long stints in New York City, Los Angeles, the music featured the best of Rundgrens most commercial work spanning seven of the eight solo albums released in the 1970s up to, but not including his most recent at the time. This effort was in place of rumors of a re-release of his out-of-print first two LPs, Runt, and Runt, the only offering from those were The Range War, and the bulk of the material came from Something/Anything. A Wizard, a True Star, Todd, Initiation, the finale included past and present members of Rundgrens Utopia, Roger Powell, Kasim Sulton, John Wilcox, John Siegler, Ralph Schuckett, and Moogy Klingman. Also joining in were the Hello People, Norman Smart, Greg Geddes, Bobby Sedita, special guest stars were Rick Derringer, Spencer Davis, Daryl Hall, John Oates, and Stevie Nicks. Despite a hard push to replicate the success of Frampton Comes Alive, back to the Bars did not generate any significant singles or lift for Rundgren. All tracks written by Todd Rundgren, except where indicated, Smart - Drums, Unknown Contributor Role Larry Tasse - Unknown Contributor Role, Vocals Utopia, Roger Powell - Keyboards, Trumpet, Vocals Kasim Sulton - Bass, Vocals John Wilcox - Drums, Vocals Album
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959 film)
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Journey to the Center of the Earth is a 1959 adventure film adapted by Charles Brackett from the novel of the same name by Jules Verne. Journey to the Center of the Earth was directed by Henry Levin and stars James Mason, Pat Boone and Arlene Dahl. In Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1880, Professor Sir Oliver Lindenbrook, deciding that the rock is unusually heavy, Lindenbrook, mostly thanks to the carelessness of his lab assistant, Mr. Paisley, discovers a plumb bob inside bearing a cryptic inscription. After translating the message, Lindenbrook immediately sets off with Alec to follow in the Icelandic pioneers footsteps, Professor Göteborg of Stockholm, upon receiving correspondence from Lindenbrook regarding the nature of the message, opts to try to reach the Earths center first. Lindenbrook and McEwan chase him to Iceland, there, Göteborg and his assistant kidnap and imprison them in a cellar. They are freed by a local Icelander, Hans Bjelke, and they find Göteborg dead in his room at an inn. Lindenbrook finds some potassium cyanide crystals in Göteborgs goatee and concludes that he has been murdered, Göteborgs widow, Carla, who initially believed Lindenbrook was trying to capitalize on the work of her deceased husband, learns the truth from her husbands diary. She provides the equipment and supplies Göteborg had gathered, including much sought after Ruhmkorff lamps, Lindenbrook grudgingly agrees, and the four explorers and the pet duck are soon journeying into the Earth. They are aided by marks left by Arne Saknussemm showing the path he took 300 years before, Göteborgs murderer, Count Saknussemm thinks that, as Arne Saknussemms descendent, only he has the right to be there. He trails the group secretly with his servant, when Alec becomes separated from the others, he almost trips over Saknussemms dead servant. When Alec refuses to be his replacement, Saknussemm shoots Alec in the arm, Lindenbrook locates Saknussemm from the reverberations of the sound of the shot, and sentences him to death. However, no one is willing to execute him, so they take him along. The explorers eventually come upon a subterranean ocean and they construct a raft from the stems of giant mushrooms to cross it but, not before narrowly escaping a family of dimetrodons. Their raft begins circling in a mid-ocean whirlpool, completely exhausted, they reach the opposite shore. While the others are asleep, a hungry Saknussemm catches and eats Gertrud the duck, when Hans finds out, he rushes at the count, but is pulled off by Lindenbrook and McEwan. Reeling back, Saknussemm loosens a column of stones and is buried beneath them, right behind the collapse, the group comes upon the sunken city of Atlantis. They also find the remains of Arne Saknussemm, the hand of his skeleton points toward a passage to the surface. They decide that they will have to break a giant rock blocking their way using gunpowder left by Saknussemm, a giant megalosaurus attacks them, but it is killed by released lava
