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America's Greatest Hero
''America's Greatest Hero'' is the only studio album by Joey Scarbury, released by Elektra Records in 1981 on vinyl LP and cassette. This album features the hit theme from the TV series '' The Greatest American Hero'', from which the album takes its name. The album was reissued on CD by Collectables Records in 2005. Track listing #" Theme from The Greatest American Hero (Believe It or Not)" ( Mike Post, Stephen Geyer) - 3:13 #"Love Me Like the Last Time" ( Dan Seals, Rafe Van Hoy) - 3:31 #"Stolen Night" (Randy Handley) - 4:18 #"There Is a River" (Stephen Geyer) - 3:31 #"Everything But Love" (Stephen Geyer, Joey Scarbury) - 3:24 #"Take This Heart of Mine" (Bruce Hornsby) - 2:59 #"When She Dances" (Brian Blugerman) - 3:22 #"That Little Bit of Us" (Stephen Geyer) - 3:41 #"Some of My Old Friends" (Stephen Geyer) - 3:01 #" Down the Backstairs (Of My Life)" - ( William Smith, Eric Mercury) 3:26 Personnel *Mike Baird - drums * Neil Stubenhaus, Leland Sklar L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joey Scarbury
Joey Scarbury (born June 7, 1955) is an American singer and songwriter known for his 1981 hit song, " Theme from ''The Greatest American Hero'' (Believe It or Not)". Childhood and early music career Scarbury was born in Ontario, California, United States. Growing up in Thousand Oaks, he was continually encouraged in his ambition to sing by his mother. At the age of 14, after being spotted by songwriter Jimmy Webb's father, he was signed to a recording contract with Dunhill Records. Scarbury's first single, "She Never Smiles Anymore," flopped, and he was soon without a record label. 1970s Citing Dan Seals of England Dan & John Ford Coley as an influence, he stayed around the music business throughout the 1970s, first as a backup for artists including country artist Loretta Lynn, and occasionally recording his own material. Although he had a minor chart single with "Mixed Up Guy" in 1971 (#52 CAN), real chart success eluded him for the rest of the decade. He also covered Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Down The Backstairs Of My Life
Eric Alexander Mercury (28 June 1944 – 14 March 2022) was a Canadian singer who was a member of the soul group The Soul Searchers during the 1960s. He later made waves in 1969 with his '' Electric Black Man'' album. He had two hits: the first on the Canadian charts in 1972 with " I Can Smell That Funky Music", and the second in the United States in 1983, singing a duet with Roberta Flack with " Our Love Will Stop the World". He also co-wrote the song " Down the Backstairs of My Life". Background Family Born into a musical family and the youngest of seven children, he was raised in Toronto, Ontario. His father, Methodist minister George Luther Mercury, was from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. His mother, Gladys Viola Mercury (née Smith), came from Jamaica. They were community leaders who worked just west of the core of Toronto, out of the British Methodist Episcopal Church. Musical etc. The two groups he performed in during the 1960s were The Pharaohs and later Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joey Scarbury Albums
Joey may refer to: People *Joey (name) Animals * Joey (marsupial), an infant marsupial * Joey, a blue-fronted Amazon parrot who was one of the Blue Peter pets Film and television * ''Joey'' (1977 film), an American film directed by Horace Jackson * ''Joey'' (1985 film), a German horror film directed by Roland Emmerich * ''Joey'' (1986 film), an American film directed by Joseph Ellison * ''Joey'' (1997 film), an Australian film directed by Ian Barry * ''Joey'' (TV series), a spin-off of the ''Friends'' television series Music * ''Joey'' (album), 2014 album by Danish singer Joey Moe * "Joey" (Bob Dylan song), from the 1976 album ''Desire'' * "Joey" (Concrete Blonde song), a song by Concrete Blonde from their 1990 album ''Bloodletting'' * "Joey" (Sugarland song), by Sugarland from their 2008 album ''Love on the Inside'' * "Joey", a 1954 song by Betty Madigan * "Joey", a song by Bon Jovi from their 2002 album '' Bounce'' Sports * Joey, a type of return in pickleball * Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1981 Debut Albums
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Herb Pedersen
Herbert Joseph Pedersen (born April 27, 1944, in Berkeley, California) is an American musician, guitarist, banjo player, singer-songwriter, and actor who has played a variety of musical styles over the past fifty years including country, bluegrass, progressive bluegrass, folk, folk rock, country rock, and has worked with numerous musicians in many different bands. Biography Pedersen often performs with Chris Hillman, and both were once members of the Desert Rose Band. Pedersen also fronted his own band called the Laurel Canyon Ramblers which included bluegrass bassman Bill Bryson, writer and performer of the Crossroads Cafe song penned while a member of the Bluegrass Cardinals. Other musicians and groups with whom Pedersen has worked include John Fogerty; Mudcrutch; Pine Valley Boys; Michael Martin Murphey; Earl Scruggs; The Dillards, Smokey Grass Boys; The New Kentucky Colonels; Old & In the Way; David Grisman; Peter Rowan; Vassar Clements; Gram Parsons; Emmylou Harri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Todd Cochran
Todd Cochran (born September 3, 1951) is an American pianist, composer, keyboardist, essayist, and conceptual artist. Early in his career he was also professionally known as Bayeté. Cochran started his career as a teenager with saxophonist John Handy. Two years later he joined vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson’s Quartet, and made his jazz recording debut composing and performing on a benchmark album for Hutcherson, "Head On" (on Blue Note Records) that featured a nineteen-piece ensemble. The recording was critically hailed as cross-pollinating the evolving contemporary modal jazz, avant-garde sound of the 1970s. Cochran’s first solo project "Worlds Around the Sun" became a #1 jazz album and marked his entree into the jazz discussion. From the mid-1970s forward Todd has experimented with and incorporated synthesizers, electronic and mixed-media concepts in his creative projects while collaborating with a wide range of artists in the genres of jazz, art rock, pop, R&B, and twenty-fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Muhoberac
Lawrence Gordon Muhoberac, Jr. (February 12, 1937 – December 4, 2016) was an American musician, record producer, and composer who was also known under pseudonyms "Larry Owens" and "Larry Gordon". Career in America Muhoberac is widely known as the original keyboardist in Elvis Presley's TCB Band. He first appeared live with the group at Presley's Hotel International debut in Las Vegas on July 31, 1969. After one tour in Las Vegas, Glen Hardin replaced him on piano in January 1970. Other members from the TCB era were James Burton (lead guitar), Jerry Scheff (bass), John Wilkinson (rhythm guitar), and Ronnie Tutt (drums). Muhoberac was born and raised in Louisiana and began playing accordion and piano at age five. He went on the road with Woody Herman at 20 and moved to Memphis in 1959. In 1961, using the pseudonym "Larry Owens", he and his band played two of Presley's Memphis charity concerts. He moved to the West Coast in the early sixties to work as a studio musician. Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Carlton
Larry Eugene Carlton (born March 2, 1948) is an American guitarist who built his career as a studio musician in the 1970s and 1980s for acts including Steely Dan and Joni Mitchell. One of the most sought after guitarists of his era, Carlton has participated in thousands of recording sessions, recorded on hundreds of albums in many genres including more than 100 gold records, in addition to music for television and movies. He has been a member of the jazz fusion group the Crusaders and the smooth jazz band Fourplay maintaining a long solo career. Music career Session work Carlton was born in Torrance, California in the South Bay Area of L.A., and, at the age of six, began guitar lessons. In the early 1960s, while he was still in high school, he debuted his talent playing surf guitar with Eddie and the Showmen, who became the house band at the Retail Clerks Union Hall in Buena Park, California west of Orange. His interest in jazz came from hearing guitarist Joe Pass on the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leland Sklar
Leland Bruce Sklar (born May 28, 1947) is an American bassist and session musician. He rose to prominence as a member of James Taylor's backing band, which coalesced into a group in its own right, The Section, which supported so many of Asylum Records' artists that they became known as Asylum's ''de facto'' house band, as those artists became iconic singer-songwriters of the 1970s. Sklar has recorded and toured with artists including James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Carole King, Linda Ronstadt, Phil Collins, Toto, The Doors and Lyle Lovett. As a group member, session player, or touring musician, Sklar has appeared on over 2,000 albums, and contributed to many motion picture and television show soundtracks. Since 2018, he has been the bassist for The Immediate Family, a group reuniting lifelong friends and most of his former bandmates from The Section. Early life Leland Bruce Sklar was born May 28, 1947, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His mother's family was from Duluth, Minnesota ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Stubenhaus
Neil Stubenhaus is an American bass guitarist. Career He started his musical training playing drums and switched to bass guitar at the age of 12. In one of his early bands, The Neighbourhood in 1969, he played with future Kiss guitarist Vinnie Vincent, with whom he played again in 1974 in Little Anthony and the Imperials. He studied at the Berklee College of Music where he graduated in 1975. After graduation, he was recommended by Steve Swallow and started teaching while playing in a band with another Berklee student Steve Smith ( Vital Information, Journey). While at Berklee, Neil met session drummers Vinnie Colaiuta (who has worked with famous musicians such as Sting, & Frank Zappa) and John Robinson (who has also worked with superstars, including Barbra Streisand, Quincy Jones, Chaka Khan, Michael Jackson). In 1977 he joined Blood Sweat & Tears and recorded David Clayton-Thomas' first solo album. In 1978, he went on tour with Larry Carlton. That led him to move to the W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Baird (musician)
Michael Baird is an American drummer. He has played drums for Airborne, Vasco Rossi, Billy Idol, Hall and Oates, Pointer Sisters, Donna Summer, Riverdogs, Animotion, Richard Marx, Wang Chung, Michael Bolton, Rick Springfield, Eddie Money, Kenny Loggins, Yumi Matsutoya, Juice Newton, and Prism. He was a touring drummer for Journey on their tour for the '' Raised on Radio'' album. Partial discography With Hall & Oates * '' Daryl Hall & John Oates'' (1975) With Jamie Owens * ''Growing Pains'' (1975) With Paul Anka * ''Headlines'' (1979) * ''Walk a Fine Line'' (1983) With Bob Dylan * '' Down in the Groove'' (1988) With Rodney Crowell * '' Street Language'' (1986) With Airborne * ''Airborne'' (1979) With George Benson * '' Twice the Love'' (1988) With Juice Newton * '' Can't Wait All Night'' (1984) * '' Ain't Gonna Cry'' (1989) With Peabo Bryson * ''Peace on Earth'' (1997) With Natalie Cole * '' Everlasting'' (1987) With Sheena Easton * '' Best Kept Secret'' (1983) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Mercury
Eric Alexander Mercury (28 June 1944 – 14 March 2022) was a Canadian singer who was a member of the soul group The Soul Searchers during the 1960s. He later made waves in 1969 with his '' Electric Black Man'' album. He had two hits: the first on the Canadian charts in 1972 with " I Can Smell That Funky Music", and the second in the United States in 1983, singing a duet with Roberta Flack with " Our Love Will Stop the World". He also co-wrote the song "Down the Backstairs of My Life". Background Family Born into a musical family and the youngest of seven children, he was raised in Toronto, Ontario. His father, Methodist minister George Luther Mercury, was from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. His mother, Gladys Viola Mercury (née Smith), came from Jamaica. They were community leaders who worked just west of the core of Toronto, out of the British Methodist Episcopal Church. Musical etc. The two groups he performed in during the 1960s were The Pharaohs and later The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
