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No Relations
''No Relations'' is the seventh studio album by American singer La Toya Jackson. The album was released in 1991 shortly after La Toya's autobiography, '' La Toya: Growing Up in the Jackson Family'', was published. The album was only released in Spain, Colombia, Germany and the Netherlands, but was imported throughout Europe and the rest of the world. Album information The song "Sexbox" was released as a single in Europe, peaking at #25 in the Netherlands, her second biggest hit there. " Let's Rock the House" was subsequently released to no success, and "Wild Side" also saw a release as a promotional single in the Philippines. "Be My Playboy", a song already recorded for Jackson's '' Bad Girl'' album, is included here in one of its original demos. A proper remix produced by Menace, a European production team who produced most of this album, was originally intended to be included on the album and released as a single; for unknown reasons, the remix was replaced by one of the orig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Toya Jackson
La Toya Yvonne Jackson (born May 29, 1956) is an American singer and television personality. The fifth child and middle daughter of the Jackson family, Jackson first gained recognition on the family's variety television series, ''The Jacksons (TV series), The Jacksons'', on CBS between 1976 and 1977. Thereafter, she saw success as a solo recording artist under multiple record labels in the 1980s and 1990s, including Polydor Records, Polydor, Sony Music and RCA Records, RCA, where she released nine studio albums over the course of 15 years. Her most successful releases in the United States were her La Toya Jackson (album), self-titled debut album (1980) and the 1984 single "Heart Don't Lie (song), Heart Don't Lie". Jackson's other songs include "If You Feel the Funk", "Bet'cha Gonna Need My Lovin'", "Hot Potato (song), Hot Potato", "You're Gonna Get Rocked! (song), You're Gonna Get Rocked!", and "Sexbox". Another one of Jackson's songs, "Just Say No" from her La Toya (album), fifth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Growing Up In The Jackson Family
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Growing may refer to: * Growth (other) * Growing (band), an American noise band * ''Growing'' (Rina Chinen album), 1998 * ''Growing'' (Sleeping People album), 2007 * ''Growing'', a 1961 autobiographical book by Leonard Woolf See also * * * Grow (other) Grow or GROW may refer to: * Growth (other), an increase in some quantity over time or a measure of some principal * GROW model, a technique for problem solving or goal setting * Graphical ROMable Object Windows, a windowing system that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1991 Albums
It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent States, CIS in its place. In July 1991, India abandoned its policies of dirigism, license raj and autarky and began extensive Economic liberalisation in India, liberalisation to its economy. This increased Economy of India, GDP but also increased income inequality in India, income inequality over the next two decades. A United Nations, UN-authorized coalition of the Gulf War, coalition force from 34 nations fought against Ba'athist Iraq, Iraq, which had Invasion of Kuwait, invaded and Kuwait Governorate, annexed Kuwait in the previous year, 1990. The conflict would be called the Gulf War and would mark the beginning of a since-constant American military presence in the Middle East. The clash between Republic of Serbia (1990–2006), Serbia and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Monn
Anthony Monn (also known as Tony Monn, born March 17, 1944) is a German singer, composer, and record producer. During the 1970s he was one half of the duo Marion & Antony. Background Monn started his career as a singer in the German schlager genre in the early 1970s. Among his best-known songs from that period are 1975's "Du Gehst Fort", a duet with singer and actress Marion Maerz, "Lucky" (1978), and " Johnny und Mary" (a German-language cover version of Robert Palmer's 1981 hit), although these met limited commercial success in Germany. Monn instead achieved his greatest international success with French disco queen Amanda Lear, for whom he produced albums '' I Am a Photograph'' (1977), '' Sweet Revenge'' (1978), '' Never Trust a Pretty Face'' (1979) — recorded in Giorgio Moroder's Musicland Studios in Munich — '' Diamonds for Breakfast'' (1980), and ''Incognito'' (1981). Monn also composed most of Lear's hit singles during this period, including classics like "Bloo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Cliff
James Chambers, Jamaican Order of Merit, OM (born 30 July 1944), known professionally as Jimmy Cliff, is a Jamaican ska, rocksteady, reggae and soul musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer, and actor. He is the only living reggae musician to hold the Jamaican Order of Merit, Order of Merit, the highest honour that can be granted by the Jamaican government for achievements in the arts and sciences. Cliff is best known among mainstream audiences for songs such as "Many Rivers to Cross", "You Can Get It If You Really Want", "The Harder They Come (song), The Harder They Come", "Reggae Night", and "Hakuna Matata (song), Hakuna Matata", and his cover version, covers of Cat Stevens's "Wild World (song), Wild World" and Johnny Nash's "I Can See Clearly Now" from the film ''Cool Runnings''. He starred in the film ''The Harder They Come'', which helped popularize reggae around the world, and ''Club Paradise''. Cliff was one of five performers inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reggae
Reggae () is a music genre that originated in Jamaica during the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its Jamaican diaspora, diaspora. A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, "Do the Reggay", was the first popular song to use the word ''reggae'', effectively naming the genre and introducing it to a global audience. Reggae is rooted in traditional Jamaican Kumina, Pukkumina, Revival Zion, Nyabinghi, and burru drumming. Jamaican reggae music evolved out of the earlier genres mento, ska and rocksteady. Reggae usually relates news, social gossip, and political commentary. It is recognizable from the counterpoint between the bass and drum downbeat and the offbeat rhythm section. The immediate origins of reggae were in ska and rocksteady; from the latter, reggae took over the use of the bass as a percussion instrument. Stylistically, reggae incorporates some of the musical elements of rhythm and blues, jazz, mento (a celebratory, rural folk form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grammy
The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as The Grammys, are awards presented by The Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in music. They are regarded by many as the most prestigious and significant awards in the music industry in the United States, and thus the show is frequently called "music's biggest night". The trophy depicts a gilded gramophone, and the original idea was to call them the "Gramophone Awards". The Grammys are the first of the Big Three networks' major music awards held annually, and are considered one of the four major annual American entertainment awards with the Academy Awards (for films), the Emmy Awards (for television), and the Tony Awards (for theater). The first Grammy Awards ceremony was held on May 4, 1959, to honor the musical accomplishments of performers for the year 1958. After the 2011 ceremony, the Recording Academy overhauled many Grammy Award categories for 2012. The 67th Annua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reggae Night
"Reggae Night" is a 1983 single by reggae artist Jimmy Cliff, from his album ''The Power and the Glory''. It was released by Columbia Records in the US, Canada and Mexico and in most European countries on CBS Records. Written by Amir Bayyan and La Toya Jackson, it became an international hit for Jimmy Cliff. Track listing #"Reggae Night" – 3:58 #"Reggae Night" (instrumental) – 3:58 Charts Weekly charts Year-end charts Cover versions The song has been covered by a number of artists, including La Toya Jackson, who co-wrote the song, on her album '' No Relations''. German Eurodance group Beat System released their version in 1996 which reached the top 40 in Belgium. See also *List of number-one singles from the 1980s (New Zealand) The following lists the number-one singles on the New Zealand Singles Chart during the 1980s. The source for this decade is the Recorded Music NZ chart, the chart history of which can be found on the Recorded Music NZ website or Charts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on Musical artist, musicians and Musical ensemble, bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All-Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar, and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as compact discs (CDs) replaced LP record, LPs and cassette (format), cassettes as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it, he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pop Music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.S. Frith, W. Straw, and J. Street, eds, ''iarchive:cambridgecompani00frit, The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), , pp. 95–105. During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. ''Rock music, Rock'' and ''pop'' music remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after which ''pop'' became associated with music that was more commercial, wikt:ephemeral, ephemeral, and accessible. Identifying factors of pop music usually include repeated choruses and Hook (music), hooks, short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse–chorus form, verse–chorus structure), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much of pop music also borrows elements from other styles such as rock, hip hop, urban contemporary, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Let's Rock The House
"Let's Rock the House" is a song by American singer La Toya Jackson. It is taken from her 1991 album ''No Relations''. It was released as a single on 12" and CD formats with club remixes, and was released on the heels of Jackson's previous single, "Sexbox "Sexbox" is a single by American singer La Toya Jackson. It is taken from her 1991 album '' No Relations''. The single was released on 7", 12" and CD singles in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands. The single was released on Pum ...". Track listing * Album Version * Radio Mix * DigiTrax Mix * Electrochic Mix * J. Jordan Dub References {{DEFAULTSORT:Let's Rock The House 1992 singles La Toya Jackson songs House music songs 1991 songs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sexbox
"Sexbox" is a single by American singer La Toya Jackson. It is taken from her 1991 album '' No Relations''. The single was released on 7", 12" and CD singles in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands. The single was released on Pump Records (a division of Dino Records) and a huge promotion campaign boosted the single in the Netherlands and Germany. The single charted at #23 on Dutch charts, and became Jackson's second biggest Dutch hit of her career. Jackson performed the song on several German and Dutch TV shows accompanied by a group of Dutch dancers, including ''Gottschalk'', ''NDR Talk-Show'' and ''Up'n Swutch''. In Spain, Jackson performed the single on Jesús Hermida's television program along with her song "Playboy". At the same time she promoted the release of her autobiography '' La Toya: Growing up in the Jackson Family'' and her second appearance in ''Playboy'' in November 1991. The track samples James Brown's "Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
