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Post by razorbacker on Jul 1, 2023 14:22:53 GMT
Charlie Johnson was a bandleader and pianist from Philadelphia. He died in 1959 at the age of 68.
He led a group called the Paradise Ten between the years of 1925–1935. They played at Smalls Paradise in Harlem, and recorded just five times between 1925 and 1929. He was a capable pianist but he rarely soloed on his recordings.
The Paradise Ten ensemble included trumpeters Jabbo Smith, Leonard Davis, Sidney DeParis, and Thomas Morris, trombonists Charlie Irvis and Jimmy Harrison, alto saxophonists Benny Carter and Edgar Sampson, and tenor saxophonist Benny Waters.
There is very little info about this guy, but this song was recorded in 1929. May be one of the oldest songs we have seen around here, it is one of his final recordings.
Harlem Drag by Charlie Johnson
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Post by razorbacker on Jul 1, 2023 15:06:45 GMT
Elyse Weinberg was a Canadian-American singer-songwriter from Chatham, Ontario. She died in 2020, aged 74, from lung cancer.
She began playing in folk clubs, and studied at McGill University, before dropping out in 1963 to pursue a music career in Toronto, where she played regularly in clubs and at the Mariposa Folk Festival. She later commented: "There was quite a scene – Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Ian and Sylvia, Gordon Lightfoot. We all hung out and played together.
One of the songs she wrote, "Band of Thieves", was sung by Cher in the movie Chastity. Originally it was wrongly credited as a Sonny Bono composition and called "Chastity's Theme", it was later that she was finally credited.
She released just 2 albums during her career & seems to have had some bad luck along the way. This song comes from that 2nd album. It was called Greasepaint Smile, it came out in 2015 & was produced by David Briggs. The album included both Neil Young and Nils Lofgren. However, the record label went bankrupt before the record could be released.
She recorded some songs for a 3rd album, but she & her management team had a falling out & those songs & that album never saw the light of day.
City of the Angels by Elyse Weinberg
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Post by razorbacker on Jul 2, 2023 17:17:16 GMT
Peter Doyle was an Australian pop singer from Melbourne. He died of throat cancer on 13 October 2001. He was 52.
He had his 1st success with a number of Top 40 hits in Australia in the 1960s, then success internationally as a member of the New Seekers in the early 1970s, before resuming a solo career in 1973.
From 1965 to 1967, he released ten singles in Australia, 7 of which hit the Top 40.
He released albums as a member of The New Seekers, Grandma’s Tonic, The Virgil Brothers & Jungle Ted. He also released 4 solo albums with this song coming from his 2nd solo album. It was called Skin Deep & came out in 1977.
Harlem Dream by Peter Doyle
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Post by razorbacker on Jul 2, 2023 20:44:02 GMT
Fred Astaire was a dancer, actor, singer, choreographer and presenter from Omaha, Nebraska. His real name was Frederick Austerlitz. He died of pneumonia on June 22, 1987, at the age of 88.
He is widely regarded as the "greatest popular-music dancer of all time".
His list of accolades is one of the longest I have run across, but it includes an Honorary Academy Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, a BAFTA Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Grammy Award. He was honored with the Film Society of Lincoln Center tribute in 1973, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1978, and AFI Life Achievement Award in 1980. He was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960, American Theater Hall of Fame in 1972, and the Television Hall of Fame in 1989.
Fred wrote this song & evidently recorded it in London in 1975. It seems to be one of the few songs he recorded that was not included in either a movie soundtrack or a Stage play.
City of the Angels by Fred Astaire
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Post by razorbacker on Jul 4, 2023 14:27:18 GMT
George "The Fox" Williams was a musician, composer, and an arranger for a number of major big bands, including Jimmie Lunceford, Glenn Miller, Gene Krupa, Sonny Dunham, and Ray Anthony.
He wrote hit songs, including "Whamboogie" and "It Must Be Jelly ('Cause Jam Don't Shake like That)" for Glenn Miller, "Hamp's Boogie" for Lionel Hampton, "Gene's Boogie" for Gene Krupa, as well as Ray Anthony's hit songs "Lackawanna Local", "The Fox", and "The Bunny Hop" and most of Ray's recorded arrangements.
He wrote arrangements for Harry James, Vaughan Monroe, Charlie Ventura, and his recording band, for which he produced two LPs and an EP in the late 1950s as a leader.
In addition, he arranged and conducted the music for Barbra Streisand's first commercial single, "Happy Days Are Here Again". He was also a ghostwriter for the arrangements on Jackie Gleason's television show and arranged Gleason's albums in the 1950s and 1960s.
This song was on an album called Rhythm Was His Business. It was originally released 1957.
Harlem Express by George Williams
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Post by razorbacker on Jul 4, 2023 17:41:20 GMT
Journey is a rock band formed in San Francisco in 1973 by former members of Santana, Steve Miller Band, and Frumious Bandersnatch.
They have sold 48 million albums in the US with worldwide sales over 100 million records globally, making them one of the world's best-selling bands of all time.
They have been awarded 25 gold and platinum albums, in addition to the 15-time platinum Diamond Certified, 1988's Greatest Hits album. They have had 19 top-40 singles in the US (the second-most without ever hitting number-one, behind Electric Light Orchestra with 20). Six of their singles have hit the top 10.
This song comes from their 5th studio album. It was called Evolution & was released in 1979. It is the band's first album with drummer Steve Smith.
It was their most successful album at the time, reaching No. 20 on the US Billboard 200 chart, and has sold three million copies in the US. The album included the hit single Lovin , Touchin, Squeezin which got to #16 on the Hot 100, it was their 1st top 40 hit.
The band is still around & released their 15th album in 2022.
City of the Angels by Journey
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Post by razorbacker on Jul 6, 2023 13:53:48 GMT
It seems like New York City has so much more of this style of music written about it than anywhere else. I guess it’s a good thing I like it.
Dike was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha and was a Freemason associated with Prince Hall Freemasonry. He lived out his final years in Manhattan, in a townhouse at 333 Riverside Drive near West 106th Street. His sister Ruth, who managed his publishing company, also lived there, and his son Mercer lived next door. After his death, West 106th Street was officially renamed Duke Ellington Boulevard.
A large memorial to him, was dedicated in 1997 in New York's Central Park, near Fifth Avenue and 110th Street, an intersection named Duke Ellington Circle.
This song 1st appeared on an album called Duke Ellington And His Orchestra – "Hot In Harlem". It was originally recorded in 1928 but was eventually released as the “B” side to a single called Paducah in 1935.
Harlem Flat Blues by Duke Ellington
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Post by razorbacker on Jul 6, 2023 17:30:45 GMT
Lawrence Gowan is a Scottish born Canadian singer and keyboardist. He was born in Glasgow and raised in the Toronto suburb of Scarborough, Ontario.
He has been both a solo artist and lead vocalist and keyboardist of the band Styx since May 1999.
In 1997, during Styx's tour, he was a supporting act for Styx at Montreal's Molson Centre and Quebec City's Colisée. Tommy Shaw admired his talent and stage charisma, and called him in May 1999 asking him to tour with them for 53 dates, temporarily replacing their lead singer Dennis DeYoung who was ill. Eventually Gowan permanently replaced the lead singer. Since then, Gowan's classic hit, "A Criminal Mind", is often played by the band.
During his career he has released 4 albums as a member of Styx, & 5 solo albums. He has also released multiple singles to much success in Canada, but the US market has never opened up to him. This song comes from his 1985 album "Strange Animal". It was his 2nd solo album & just like his singles, it did very well in Canada charting at #5. It was nominated for Album Of The Year & he was nominated for Male Vocalist Of The Year for his single Strange Animal.
City of the Angels by Lawrence Gowan
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Post by razorbacker on Jul 7, 2023 12:54:44 GMT
Stan Kenton was a jazz artist, pianist, composer, arranger and band leader, from Wichita, Kansas. He suffered a stroke in 1979 & died at the age of 67.
He led an innovative and influential jazz orchestra for almost four decades. Though he had several pop hits from the early 1940s into the 1960s, his music was always forward-looking. Stan was also a pioneer in the field of jazz education, creating the Stan Kenton Jazz Camp in 1959 at Indiana University.
His band won the Band Of The Year award every year between 1946 & 1955 with the only exception coming in 1949. He was nominated for 7 Grammy Awards & won 2, winning for Best Jazz Performance in 1962 & 1963.
The list of his recordings goes on & on as does the list of the players in his orchestra. This song was released as a “B” side to a single called Eager Beaver in 1948.
Harlem Folk Dance by Stan Kenton
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Post by razorbacker on Jul 7, 2023 17:38:20 GMT
Michael Johnson was a pop, country, and folk singer-songwriter and guitarist from Alamosa, Colorado. He died in 2017, two weeks before his 73rd birthday.
During his career he released 19 albums. This song comes from the Lifetime Guarantee album released in 1984, it was his 8th. He is one of those artists that during his career, he hit almost every chart there was, but most of his bigger hits came in the Country genre. He had #1 hits on the Country Chart, The Adult Contemporary Chart & the Canadian charts.
This song is most definitely not country, I’d call it R&B, but what do I know. The album did not chart & there were no charting singles released.
City of the Angels by Michael Johnson
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Post by razorbacker on Jul 8, 2023 16:13:38 GMT
David McWilliams was a singer, songwriter, and guitarist from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He died of a heart attack in 2002, at the age of 56.
He began playing guitar and writing songs in his early teens. But, music was not in the cards early on. He attended Ballymena Technical College in 1963 & when he left he started an apprenticeship at the Shorts missile factory in Antrim. He was also a well-respected football player, and had a trial with Linfield as a goalkeeper.
During his career he released 14 albums with this song coming from his 2nd one. It was called Days Of Pearly Spencer & was released in 1967. The song was released as a single with the title track as a “B” side. The “B” side turned out to be the hit single charting in multiple countries but he is another one that success just didn’t happen for him here in the states.
Harlem Lady by David McWilliams
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Post by razorbacker on Jul 8, 2023 18:54:54 GMT
Wang Chung is an English new wave band, formed in London in 1980 by Nick Feldman, Jack Hues and Darren Costin. The name Wang Chung is Chinese meaning "yellow bell" in English, and is the first note in the Chinese classical music scale.
In 1983 they were billed under the band name "Huang Chung" but they changed the spelling of their name to Wang Chung, at David Geffen's suggestion, to make the pronunciation easier for English-speakers.
This song comes from the soundtrack to the 1985 movie From "To Live And Die In L.A." It was the 3rd album for the band & it landed at #85 on the charts & included the title song which just missed out on the top 40 by losing steam at #41.
According to William Friedkin, director of the film, the main reason he chose Wang Chung to compose the soundtrack was because the band "stands out from the rest of contemporary music... What they finally recorded has not only enhanced the film, it has given it a deeper, more powerful dimension."
City of the Angels by Wang Chung
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Post by razorbacker on Jul 9, 2023 14:15:15 GMT
Earl Hines, also known as Earl "Fatha" Hines was a jazz pianist and bandleader from Dusquesne, Pennsylvania. He died of a heart attack in 1983, at the age of 79.
He was one of the most influential figures in the development of jazz piano. In 1942, he provided the saxophonist Charlie Parker with his big break, although Parker was subsequently fired soon after for his "time-keeping" – by which Hines meant his inability to show up on time – despite Parker resorting to sleeping under the band stage in his attempts to be punctual. Dizzie Gillespie joined the band that same year.
He played solo at Duke Ellington's funeral, played solo twice at the White House, for the President of France and for the Pope. Of this acclaim, Earl said, "Usually they give people credit when they're dead. I got my flowers while I was living".
This song was released as a single on 78 rpm back in 1934 with the other side being a song called Some Of These Days by The Washboard Kings.
Harlem Lament by Earl Hines
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Post by razorbacker on Jul 9, 2023 18:11:15 GMT
These folks are two of the brighter stars in the Hollywood orbit, so I suspect everyone knows them & I can dispense with the introductions.
The song comes from the 2016 movie LaLa Land. At the 89th Academy Awards, the movie won a leading six awards. It won for Best Director, Best Actress (for Emma Stone), Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, Best Original Song ("City of Stars"), and Best Production Design. It was nominated for 8 other awards that it didn’t win.
The movie was also a part of one of the bigger gaffes in Oscar history as Faye Dunaway incorrectly announced that La La Land had won Best Picture, reading from the card Warren Beatty opened, which was actually a duplicate of the Best Actress card for Emma Stone. After the cast and crew of La La Land took the stage, it took the show's producers more than two minutes (during which nearly three speeches were made) to fix the mistake. The actual winner was Moonlight.
As can be seen above, the song won the award for Best Original Song. The music of the song was composed by Justin Hurwitz while the lyrics were provided by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. It also won the award for Best Original Song at the 74th Golden Globes.
City of Stars by Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone
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Post by razorbacker on Jul 13, 2023 19:07:03 GMT
You may or may not be aware that I sold my house on June 16 & moved to the other side of the state. The new place was not available for me to move into until Tuesday so I have been between places & am just now getting back on my feet. Everything is moved in but there are boxes to be unpacked. But, much to everyone's disappointment, I am ready to resume music on a normal schedule in the morning. Stay tuned....or don't as you please. HA!
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Post by razorbacker on Jul 14, 2023 11:09:03 GMT
Fletcher Henderson was a pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer, from Cuthbert Georgia. He died in 1952 at the age of 55.
He was important in the development of big band jazz and swing music, & along with Duke Ellington, is considered one of the most influential arrangers and bandleaders in jazz history. He was the arranger for a lot of Benny Goodman's music including the great Sing, Sing, Sing.
A museum was established in his memory in his native Cuthbert, Georgia.
This song was recorded & released as a single in 1934. He co – wrote the song with a guy named Ned Williams.
Harlem Madness by Fletcher Henderson
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Post by razorbacker on Jul 14, 2023 17:54:56 GMT
Stan Ridgway is a singer-songwriter, film and television composer from Barstow, California.
He is known for his distinctive voice, dramatic lyrical narratives, and eclectic solo albums. He was the original lead singer and a founding member of the band Wall of Voodoo. He began his solo career in 1983, shortly after Wall of Voodoo's appearance at the US Festival that year.
He has worked on multiple film scores including Rumblefish & Pump Up The Volume. As a solo artist he has released 9 studio albums, 6 Live albums & 16 singles.
This song comes from his 8th solo album. It was called Snakebite Blacktop Ballads & Fugitive Songs & was released in 2004. Stan is a multi - instrumentalist & on this album alone he plays Banjo, Bells, Celeste, Guitar, Guitar (Nylon String), Hammer Dulcimer, Harmonica, Harp, Mandolin, Melodica, Slide Guitar, Sound Effects, Vocals, & then he lends his assistance in production, engineering, & mixing the album.
Classic Hollywood Ending by Stan Ridgway
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Post by razorbacker on Jul 15, 2023 9:57:55 GMT
Dave Barbour was a jazz guitarist from Long Island, NY. He died in 1965 of a hemorrhaged ulcer at the age of 53.
He was married to singer Peggy Lee and was her co-writer, accompanist, and bandleader.
When he was 12, he played banjo at Carnegie Hall, then he started his career as a banjoist with Adrian Rollini in 1933 and then Wingy Manone in 1934. He switched to guitar in the middle of the decade and played with Red Norvo from 1935 to 1936.
This song was released as a single in 1950 with a “B” side called Guitar Mambo. Dave wrote both sides of the single. Evidently he was in a Mambo mood.
Harlem Mambo by Dave Barbour
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Post by razorbacker on Jul 15, 2023 18:12:20 GMT
Blackhawk is a country group founded in 1992 by Henry Paul (lead vocals, mandolin, acoustic guitar), Van Stephenson (background vocals, electric guitar),& Dave Robbins (background vocals, keyboards).
Prior to the group's formation, Henry Paul had been a member of the Southern rock band Outlaws, while Stephenson was a solo rock artist.
The band won Vocal Group Of The Year from both the CMA & ACM in 1995 & 96 & New Vocal Group from the ACM in 1993.
During their career they released 9 studio albums, with the most recent one coming in 2022, & 24 singles. Their 1st two albums have been certified as Platinum sellers. Of their 17 charting singles, 7 of them hit the top 10 on the country chart. This song comes from their 6th album. It was called Down From The Mountain & it came out in 2011, it was their 1st non charting album.
Cold as a Hollywood Kiss by Blackhawk
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Post by razorbacker on Jul 16, 2023 11:30:23 GMT
Alcazar is a Swedish nu-disco group formed in 1998, with three members: Andreas Lundstedt, Tess Merkel, and Annika ‘Annikafiore’ Kjærgaard.
They are one of Sweden's most successful groups both nationally and internationally with a string of hits since their debut single in 1999. Worldwide, they sold over 12 million records between 2001 and 2004. They also had success globally in 2000 with their song "Crying at the Discoteque", having charted in USA, Brazil, Australia, Japan and most countries in Europe.
In the autumn of 2005, the band decided to take a break. Andreas moved on to musicals and played the lead in Saturday Night Fever, Tess became a professional poker player.
The group offically disbanded in August 2011 after a concert at Stockholm Pride. They reunited again in 2013 ahead of Melodifestivalen 2014.
During their career they released 3 studio albums & 23 singles. This song comes from their 3rd and final studio album. It was released in 2009 & was called Disco Defenders. The album got to #4 in their native Sweden, but failed to chart anywhere else.
Harlem Nights by Alcazar
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Post by razorbacker on Jul 16, 2023 18:06:28 GMT
Shawn Mendes is a Canadian pop singer-songwriter from Pickering, Ontario.
The internet seems to have been very good to him until it got to this song.
He learned to play guitar by watching YouTube tutorial videos at the age of 13 in 2012. Less than a year later he started posting cover videos on YouTube. He started attracting viewers after he posted a cover from Justin Bieber's "As Long as You Love Me" on the social video app Vine in 2013 and got 10,000 likes and as many followers the next day. The following year, he caught the attention of artist manager Andrew Gertler and Island Records A&R Ziggy Chareton, which led to him signing a deal with the record label.
He has won 18 Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) awards, 12 Juno Awards, 11 MTV Europe Music Awards (EMA), 8 iHeartRadio Much Music Video Awards (MMVA), 5 BMI Awards, 3 American Music Awards, & 2 MTV Video Music Awards. He has also been nominated ofr 3 Grammy's but has not won yet.
During his career he has released 4 studio albums & 20 singles. All of his albums have been certified Platinum with the 1st 3 of them all going 3X Platinum. His singles have charted all over the world & many of them are also certified as Platinum sellers.
Evidently this song was leaked & he made the decision to never officially release it, see what I mean about that whole internet thing?
Cold in California by Shawn Mendes
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Post by razorbacker on Jul 17, 2023 11:18:36 GMT
Simon Phillips is a US-based English jazz, fusion and rock drummer, songwriter, and record producer, born in London, living in LA.
He worked with rock bands during the 1970s and 1980s and was the drummer for the band Toto from 1992 to 2014. He was the drummer for The Who during the band's American reunion tour in 1989. He became the drummer for Toto in 1992 after the death of Jeff Porcaro. He has also worked with Big Country, Jack Bruce, David Gilmour, Big Jim Sullivan, and Whitesnake.
In 2003, he was inducted into the Modern Drummer magazine Hall of Fame. In 2019 Simon was voted #1 in the Fusion category of the annual Modern Drummer Readers Poll.
During his career he has released albums with many different artists & he has also had the opportunity to record 11 albums as the leader of a group.
This song comes from an album titled Protocol as a part of a 6 album box set. It was released in 2019. I have no idea who the other two guys are, but this is 3 guys cooking with gas!
Harlem Nights by Simon Phillips
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Post by razorbacker on Jul 17, 2023 17:50:44 GMT
Gary Farr is a pianist, composer, producer, arranger and founder of Secret Formula Records and GF Creative Music.
All of this info is from his website, so it may be a bit flowery, but it’s the only thing I could find on him.
From the age of 3, Gary was still in diapers playing a little spinet piano that was meant for his older sister who had severed her finger while playing with an axe. Her finger was reattached and the doctor suggested a piano would be good therapy to keep the finger moving and alive. And it worked! Then baby brother showed up a few years later, took over the piano and never looked back. He studied private classical lessons as a child and continued into his college years majoring in music. One of his professors, Eugene Bosart from the University of Michigan spent his winters teaching at Barry College in Miami and greatly influenced Gary’s classical knowledge and piano technique. During Gary’s third year in college, he was exposed to jazz pianist Herbie Hancock’s LP Maiden Voyage. Gary connected to the sounds of jazz harmonies and freedom of improvisation, and changed his direction. The world of jazz was now part of his life forever. Nearly 50 years later, Gary had the opportunity to meet Herbie in Los Angeles and express how his Blue Note LP changed his life. Herbie was very gracious.
This song comes from his Movin Through LA album released in 2007. Each song is about some aspect of LA, so we may hear a bunch more from him in the future.
The Colors of Malibu by Gary Farr
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Post by razorbacker on Jul 18, 2023 10:44:09 GMT
Earle Hagen was a composer from Chicago. He died of natural causes in 2008 at the age of 88.
He created music for movies and television. His best-known TV themes include The Dick Van Dyke Show, I Spy, That Girl and The Mod Squad. He also co-wrote "The Fishin' Hole", the melody of the main theme to The Andy Griffith Show. Other television theme songs that he composed were the themes for My Sister Eileen, & Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.. He won an Emmy for his work on I Spy. His film work included the scores for Spring Reunion (1956) and The New Interns.
As a boy he moved with his family to Los Angeles where he learned to play the trombone in junior high school, and graduated from Hollywood High School. At age 16, he left home to join traveling big bands, playing with Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman and Ray Noble.
While working with Noble in 1939, he wrote the song linked to here as a tribute to Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges.
Many legions of people have covered this song over all those years. Here is a nice orchestral version, probably recorded after his death.
Harlem Nocturne by Earle Hagen
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Post by razorbacker on Jul 18, 2023 17:50:47 GMT
Chilly was a German Euro disco/rock band from 1978 to 1983. They were created and produced by the producer, composer and book author Bernt Möhrle. The members of the group were Brad Howell: singer, Ute Weber: singer, Werner Suedhoff: dancer, Andrea Linz: dancer, Sofia Ejango: dancer, Oscar Pearson: dancer.
During their career they recorded 5 studio albums. This was the title song from the 2nd one. I have heard this song somewhere before & thought for sure it was a big hit, but I find no evidence that it ever charted here.
Come to L.A. by Chilly
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Post by razorbacker on Jul 19, 2023 11:05:41 GMT
Alex Bugnon is a jazz pianist and composer from Montreux, Switzerland. He is a nephew of Donald Byrd.
As a kid he studied at the Paris Conservatory and the Mozart Academy in Salzburg. At age nineteen, he moved to the U.S. and attended the Berklee School of Music.
During his career he has released 11 albums with the most recent one coming in 2013. This song comes from his 5th album. It was called Tales From The Bright Side & it came out in 1995. The album got to 51 on the R&B albums chart & 6 on the Jazz charts.
Harlem On My Mind by Alex Bugnon
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Post by razorbacker on Jul 19, 2023 17:56:49 GMT
Swamp Dogg is a soul and R&B singer, musician, songwriter and record producer from Portsmouth, Virginia. His real name is Jerry Williams Jr. & is still with us at the age of 81.
He tells his own story: I became Swamp Dogg in 1970 in order to have an alter-ego and someone to occupy the body while the search party was out looking for Jerry Williams, who was mentally missing in action due to certain pressures, mal-treatments and failure to get paid royalties on over fifty single records.... Most all of the tracks included were recorded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and Macon, Georgia, which brings me to how the name Swamp Dogg came about. Jerry Wexler, Atlantic Records v.p. and producer/innovator second to none, was recording in the newly discovered mecca of funk Muscle Shoals, Alabama. He coined the term "Swamp Music" for this awesome funk predominately played by all white musicians accompanying the R'n'B institutions e.g., Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin, King Curtis... I was also using the same "swamp" players. I was tired of being a jukebox, singing all of the hits by Chuck Jackson, Ben E. King, etc., and being an R'n'B second banana. I couldn't dance as good as Joe Tex, wasn't pretty like Tommy Hunt, couldn't compare vocally to Jackie Wilson and I didn't have the sex appeal of Daffy Duck. I wanted to sing about everything and anything and not be pigeonholed by the industry. So, I came up with the name Dogg because a dog can do anything, and anything a dog does never comes as a real surprise; if he sleeps on the sofa, shits on the rug, pisses on the drapes, chews up your slippers, humps your mother-in-law's leg, jumps on your new clothes and licks your face, he's never gotten out of character. You understand what he did, you curse while making allowances for him but your love for him never diminishes. Commencing in 1970, I sung about sex, niggers, love, rednecks, war, peace, dead flies, home wreckers, Sly Stone, my daughters, politics, revolution and blood transfusions (just to name a few), and never got out of character. Recording in Alabama and sincerely singing/writing about items that interested me, gave birth to the name Swamp Dogg.
This song comes from his 1989 album, I Called For A Rock & They Threw Me A Rope.
Come to L.A. by Swamp Dogg
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Post by razorbacker on Jul 20, 2023 10:42:28 GMT
Gene Krupa was a jazz drummer, bandleader and composer from Chicago. He died in 1973 at the age of 64 & upon his death, The New York Times labeled him a "revolutionary" known for "frenzied, flashy" drumming, with his work having generated a significant musical legacy that started "in jazz and has continued on through the rock era."
Gene was a major force in defining the standard band drummer's kit, he is considered "the founding father of the modern drumset" by Modern Drummer magazine.
In 1978, he was the first drummer inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame. The 1937 recording of Louis Prima's "Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)" & Fats Waller's "Christopher Columbus" by Benny Goodman and His Orchestra featuring Gene on drums were both inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1982.
Anita O'Day, was an American jazz singer and self - proclaimed “song stylist” from Kansas City, Mo. She died in 2006 at the age of 87.
She was admired for her sense of rhythm and dynamics, and her early big band appearances that shattered the traditional image of the "girl singer". Refusing to pander to any female stereotype, Anita presented herself as a "hip" jazz musician, wearing a band jacket and skirt as opposed to an evening gown. She changed her surname from Colton to O'Day, pig Latin for "dough", slang for money.
In 1942, she appeared with the Krupa band in two "soundies" (short musical films originally made for jukeboxes), singing "Thanks for the Boogie Ride" and "Let Me Off Uptown". The same year, Down Beat magazine readers voted her into the top five big band singers, along with Helen O'Connell, Helen Forrest, Billie Holiday & Dinah Shore.
The two artists recorded 34 records together until the band broke up in 1943 when Gene was arrested for possession of marijuana. This one comes from 1942, it was the “B” side to a song called Skylark.
Harlem On Parade by Gene Krupa & Anita O’Day
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Post by razorbacker on Jul 20, 2023 17:57:54 GMT
Arlo Guthrie is a folk singer-songwriter from Brooklyn.
He is known for singing songs of protest against social injustice, and storytelling while performing songs, following the tradition of his father, Woody Guthrie. His best-known work is his debut piece, "Alice's Restaurant Massacree", a satirical talking blues song about 18 minutes in length that has since become a Thanksgiving anthem. His only top-40 hit was a cover of Steve Goodman's "City of New Orleans". His song "Massachusetts" was named the official folk song of the state.
In 2020, he announced via Facebook that he had "reached the difficult decision that touring and stage shows are no longer possible," due to a series of strokes that had impaired his ability to walk and perform. All of his scheduled tour appearances for 2020 were cancelled, and he said he will not accept any new bookings offered. However, he rescinded his retirement announcement and stated that he would begin touring again in April 2023, with his appearances reduced to locations in the Northeast within driving distance of his Massachusetts home, spaced at least one week apart to allow him to return home between shows.
This song was included on Running Down the Road it was his 2nd studio album & it came out in 1969.
Comin' into Los Angeles by Arlo Guthrie
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Post by razorbacker on Jul 21, 2023 11:39:56 GMT
Richie Sambora is a musician, singer, songwriter and producer, from Perth Amboy, New Jersey.
Hi is probably best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Bon Jovi from 1983 to 2013.
He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Bon Jovi in 2018 and reunited with his former bandmates for a performance at the induction ceremony.
As a solo artist he has released 3 studio albums & 14 singles. This song comes from his Undiscovered Soul Album. It was his 2nd solo effort & was released in 1998. The album landed at 174 in the US, but hit the top 40 all around the word including #3 in Canada. There were 4 singles from the album including the song linked to here, which was the 3rd of the 4. But, it did not chart.
Harlem Rain by Richie Sambora
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