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Be Here Then
Earl Stephen Bishop (born November 14, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter, actor, and guitarist. His biggest hits include " On and On", "It Might Be You", and " Save It for a Rainy Day". He contributed musically and appeared in many motion pictures including ''National Lampoon's Animal House''. Early life, family and education Earl Stephen Bishop was born and raised in San Diego, California. Originally a clarinetist, he persuaded his brother to buy him a guitar after seeing the Beatles perform on ''The Ed Sullivan Show''. He attended Will C. Crawford High School in San Diego. Personal life Bishop is married to Liz Kamlet who is also his manager. Career Music In 1967, he formed his first group, the Weeds, a British Invasion-style band. Larkin, Colin (1999). '' The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Concise 3rd Edition'', p. 134. Virgin Books, London. After the Weeds folded, Bishop moved to Los Angeles in search of a solo recording contract. During a lean eight-year per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middle Of The Road (music)
Middle of the road (also known by its acronym MOR) is a commercial radio format. Music associated with this term is strongly melodic and uses techniques of vocal harmony and light orchestral arrangements. The format was similar to soft adult contemporary. In the mid-late 2000s the term "middle of the road" became used by journalists as a way to describe musicians and bands such as Train and Westlife who calibrated their musical appeal to commercial, popular music taste and avoided more innovative material. Etymology and usage According to music academic Norman Abjorensen, "middle of the road" has referred to a commercial radio format more often than a music genre, although "it has been used to describe a broad type of music" of numerous styles, usually characterized by vocal harmony techniques, prominent melodies, and subtle orchestral arrangements. Radio stations that played adult standards during the 1960s and 1970s were marketed as "MOR radio" in order to differentiate them fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Invasion
The British Invasion was a cultural phenomenon of the mid-1960s, when Rock music, rock and pop music acts from the United Kingdom and other aspects of Culture of the United Kingdom, British culture became popular in the United States with significant influence on the rising "counterculture of the 1960s, counterculture" on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. British pop and rock groups such as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bee Gees, Gerry and the Pacemakers, the Who, the Kinks, the Zombies, Small Faces, the Dave Clark Five, the Spencer Davis Group, the Yardbirds, Them (band), Them, Manfred Mann, The Searchers (band), the Searchers, Billy J. Kramer, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, Freddie and the Dreamers, the Hollies, Herman's Hermits, Chad and Jeremy, Peter and Gordon, the Animals, the Moody Blues, the Mindbenders, the Troggs, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Cream (band), Cream, Traffic (band), Traffic, the Pretty Things, Pink Floyd, and Procol Harum, as well as solo singer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalie Cole
Natalie Maria Cole (February 6, 1950 – December 31, 2015) was an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She was the daughter of singer and jazz pianist Nat King Cole. She rose to prominence in the mid-1970s, with the release of her debut album Inseparable (album), ''Inseparable'' (1975), along with the song "This Will Be, This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)", and the album's Inseparable (song), title track. Its success led to her receiving the Grammy Award for Best New Artist at the 18th Annual Grammy Awards, for which she became the first African-American recipient as well as the first R&B act to win the award. The singles "Sophisticated Lady (She's a Different Lady), Sophisticated Lady" (1976), "I've Got Love on My Mind", and "Our Love (Natalie Cole song), Our Love" (1977) followed. After releasing several albums, she departed from her R&B sound and returned as a Pop music, pop singer on the 1987 album Everlasting (Natalie Cole album), ''Everlasting'', along with her cove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bish (album)
''Bish'' is the second album by singer/songwriter Stephen Bishop. The lead single, " Everybody Needs Love", peaked at No. 32 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 singles chart. and number five on the U.S. Adult Contemporary chart. It did better in Canada, reaching No. 29 and peaking at number two on the Canadian Adult Contemporary chart. The album itself rose to No. 35 on the ''Billboard'' pop albums chart. Notable contributors to the album include Art Garfunkel, Chaka Khan, Natalie Cole and Michael McDonald. At the end of the track "Vagabond from Heaven", a large group, ''"The Whistling Bishettes"'', is heard. The group includes several famous non-musicians: actress Carrie Fisher, film director John Landis and then-''Rolling Stone'' writer Cameron Crowe. "Looking for the Right One" "Looking for the Right One" was the second single from ''Bish''. It was released in both Canada and the UK but it did not chart. Three years earlier, Art Garfunkel had recorded the song. His original ren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaka Khan
Yvette Marie Stevens (born March 23, 1953), better known by her stage name Chaka Khan ( ), is an American singer. Known as the " Queen of Funk", her career has spanned more than five decades beginning in the early 1970s as the lead vocalist of the funk band Rufus. With the band she recorded the notable hits " Tell Me Something Good," " Sweet Thing," " Do You Love What You Feel," and the platinum-certified " Ain't Nobody." Her debut solo album featured the number-one R&B hit " I'm Every Woman" (which became a pop hit for Whitney Houston). Khan scored another R&B charts hit with " What Cha' Gonna Do for Me" before becoming the first R&B artist to have a crossover hit featuring a rapper, with her 1984 cover of Prince's " I Feel for You." More of Khan's hits include " Through the Fire" and a 1986 collaboration with Steve Winwood that produced a number-one hit on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, " Higher Love." Khan has won ten Grammy Awards. With Rufus, she achieved three gold single ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Clapton
Eric Patrick Clapton (born 1945) is an English Rock music, rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is regarded as one of the most successful and influential guitarists in rock music. Clapton ranked second in ''Rolling Stone''s list of the "Top 100 Greatest Guitar Players of all Time, 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and fourth in Gibson (guitar company), Gibsons "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time". He was named number five in ''Time (magazine), Time'' magazine's list of "The 10 Best Electric Guitar Players" in 2009. After playing in a number of different local bands, Clapton joined the Yardbirds from 1963 to 1965, and John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers from 1965 to 1966. After leaving Mayall, he formed the power trio Cream (band), Cream with drummer Ginger Baker and bassist/vocalist Jack Bruce, in which Clapton played sustained blues improvisations and "arty, blues-based psychedelic pop". After four successful albums, Cream broke up in November 1968. Clapton then fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard Hot 100
The ''Billboard'' Hot 100, also known as simply the Hot 100, is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by '' Billboard'' magazine. Chart rankings are based on sales (physical and digital), online streaming, and radio airplay in the U.S. A new chart is compiled and released online to the public by ''Billboard''s website on Tuesdays but post-dated to the following Saturday, when the printed magazine first reaches newsstands. The weekly tracking period for sales is currently Friday–Thursday, after being changed in July 2015. It was initially Monday–Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991. This tracking period also applies to compiling online streaming data. Radio airplay is readily available on a real-time basis, unlike sales figures and streaming, but is also tracked on the same Friday–Thursday cycle, effective with the chart dated July 17, 2021. Previously, radio was tracked Monday–Sunday and, before Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard (magazine)
''Billboard'' (stylized in letter case, lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation. The magazine provides music charts, news, video, opinion, reviews, events and styles related to the music industry. Its Billboard charts, music charts include the Billboard Hot 100, Hot 100, the Billboard 200, 200, and the Billboard Global 200, Global 200, tracking the most popular albums and songs in various music genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm and operates several television shows. ''Billboard'' was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson acquired Hennegan's interest in 1900 for $500. In the early years of the 20th century, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows, and also created a mail service for travelling entertainers. ''Billboard'' began focusing more on the music industry as the jukebox ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Careless (album)
''Careless'' is the debut album by singer/songwriter Stephen Bishop. It includes two hit singles: " On and On", which peaked at No. 11 on the ''Billboard'' singles chart, and " Save It for a Rainy Day" which made No. 22. The album itself rose to No. 34 on the ''Billboard'' albums chart.Whitburn, Joel (1995). ''The Billboard Book of Top 40 Albums, 3rd Edition'', p. 35. Billboard Books, New York. Notable contributors to the album include Eric Clapton, Art Garfunkel and Chaka Khan. Track listing All songs written by Stephen Bishop. Personnel Musicians * Stephen Bishop – lead vocals (1–8, 10–12), backing vocals (1, 3, 6, 11), acoustic guitar, trombone (3) * John Barlow Jarvis – electric piano (1, 10), acoustic piano (2–4, 6, 8, 10) * Alan Lindgren – synthesizers (4, 8) * Steve Paietta – accordion (7) * Larry Knechtel – electric piano (11), organ (11) * Andrew Gold – electric guitar (1, 6) * Michael Staton – steel guitar (1), backing vocals (1) * Lee Riten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breakaway (Art Garfunkel Album)
''Breakaway'' is the second solo studio album by Art Garfunkel. It was released in 1975 on Columbia Records. It was produced by Richard Perry who has produced albums for other artists such as Carly Simon and Ringo Starr. It includes three Top 40 singles: "I Only Have Eyes for You" (US #18, UK #1), " Break Away" (US #39) and the Simon & Garfunkel reunion duet, " My Little Town" which peaked at #9. "I Only Have Eyes For You" is noted also for being Garfunkel's first #1 single in the UK. ''Breakaway'' has proven to be Garfunkel's most successful solo album; although peaking at number 7 in the United States, which was lower than his first album ''Angel Clare'' (US #5), it has been certified platinum by RIAA. Album cover The cover consists of a Norman Seeff photograph taken at a staged photo shoot at Dan Tana’s Restaurant at 9071 Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood. On the left is Helena Kallianiotes, Garfunkel in the middle, and on the right Laurie Bird. There has been speculat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Garfunkel
Arthur Ira Garfunkel (born November 5, 1941) is an American singer, actor and poet who is best known for his partnership with Paul Simon in the folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel. Born in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, Garfunkel became acquainted with Simon through an elementary school play, a production of ''Alice in Wonderland''. Their combined presence in music began in the 1950s, and throughout the 1960s the duo of Simon & Garfunkel achieved great chart success with tracks such as "The Sound of Silence", "Mrs. Robinson" (written for the 1967 film ''The Graduate''), "Scarborough Fair (ballad)#Simon & Garfunkel version, Scarborough Fair", "The Boxer" and "Bridge over Troubled Water (song), Bridge over Troubled Water". The last song's title also served as the name of Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge over Troubled Water, final album in 1970. Simon & Garfunkel split for personal reasons, but the pair has occasionally reunited in the years since. Both men experienced success in solo caree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leah Kunkel
Leah Kunkel (née Cohen; June 15, 1948 – November 26, 2024) was an American singer and attorney. She was the younger sister of acclaimed artist, Cass Elliot of The Mamas and The Papas. Music career Leah Cohen was born on June 15, 1948. She was the younger sister of Cass Elliot, best known as a member of the folk rock vocal group the Mamas & the Papas. After being signed to Dunhill Records, Kunkel recorded her first record, ''Billy'', under the name Cotton Candy. She performed with a few bands and continued growing as a singer and songwriter. In 1972, she sang the counter-melody for "From Silver Lake" on Jackson Browne's eponymous debut album. Following additional session work with Stephen Bishop, Carly Simon, and Arlo Guthrie in the early 1970s, Kunkel appeared on James Taylor's 1977 album '' JT''. That same year, she appeared on Art Garfunkel's album '' Watermark''. Garfunkel relied on her vocal harmonies for his subsequent albums '' Fate for Breakfast'' (1979), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
