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White Shoes
''White Shoes'' is the tenth studio album by Emmylou Harris, released in 1983. The album includes a rockish version of "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend", a country remake of the Donna Summer hit "On the Radio", and a version of Sandy Denny's "Like an Old Fashioned Waltz". Both " In My Dreams" and "Pledging My Love" hit the #9 position on the ''Billboard'' country music singles chart in 1984. " In My Dreams" won for Emmylou Harris her third Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance at the 27th Annual Grammy Awards. The song was written by Paul Kennerley, who would become Emmylou Harris' third husband in 1985. Production ''White Shoes'' was produced by Brian Ahern, and would be the last album that Harris would record with him until her Grammy-nominated album ''All I Intended to Be'' in 2008. They would divorce the year after this album was released. Critical reception ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'' wrote that "there's a hoarse, quavery quality in Harris' voice tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track cartridge, 8-track or Cassette tape, cassette), or digital distribution, digital. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78 rpm records (78s) collected in a bound book resembling a photo album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the ''album era''. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983, being gradually supplanted by the cassette tape throughout the 1970s and early 1980s; the popul ... [...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] |
Giorgio Moroder
Giovanni Giorgio Moroder (, ; born 26 April 1940) is an Italian composer and music producer. Dubbed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Father of Disco", Moroder is credited with pioneering Euro disco and electronic dance music. His work with synthesizers had a significant influence on several music genres such as hi-NRG, Italo disco, synth-pop, new wave, house, and techno music. While in Munich in the 1970s, Moroder started Oasis Records, later a subdivision of Casablanca Records. He is the founder of the former Musicland Studios in Munich, a recording studio used by many artists including the Rolling Stones, Electric Light Orchestra, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Queen (band), Queen, and Elton John. He produced singles for Donna Summer during the mid-to-late 1970s disco era, including "Love to Love You Baby (song), Love to Love You Baby", "I Feel Love", "Last Dance (Donna Summer song), Last Dance", "MacArthur Park (song)#Donna Summer version, MacArthur Park", "Hot Stuff (D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On The Radio (Donna Summer Song)
"On the Radio" is a song by American singer-songwriter Donna Summer, produced by Italian musician Giorgio Moroder, and released in late 1979 on the Casablanca Records, Casablanca record label. It was written for the Foxes (soundtrack), soundtrack to the film ''Foxes (film), Foxes'' and included on Summer's first international compilation album ''On the Radio: Greatest Hits Volumes I & II''. History The song was released in three formats: the radio 45rpm single; the 5+ minute version included on Summer's ''Greatest Hits'' double album package, and a DJ Promo 7+ minute version released on 12" single (and included on the Foxes (soundtrack), ''Foxes'' film soundtrack album). This last version was later released on the ''Bad Girls (Donna Summer album), Bad Girls'' CD digipack double CD release. The ''Foxes'' soundtrack also includes an instrumental version of the song in a ballad tempo and crediting Moroder as a solo artist. In the film, the ballad tempo and the disco version are both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Tempchin
Jack Tempchin is an American musician and singer-songwriter who wrote the Eagles song " Peaceful Easy Feeling" and co-wrote " Already Gone", "The Girl from Yesterday", "Somebody" and "It's Your World Now". Career During the Eagles' breakup period (1980–1994) he co-wrote with Glenn Frey producing "You Belong to the City", " Smuggler's Blues", " The One You Love", "I Found Somebody", "Sexy Girl" and " True Love". Tempchin wrote "Slow Dancing". The song was first recorded in 1976 by the short-lived group Funky Kings, of which Tempchin and Jules Shear were members at the time. In 1977, the song became a top-10 pop hit for Johnny Rivers titled as " Swayin' to the Music (Slow Dancing)", and in 1979 it was a top-10 country hit for Johnny Duncan. Tempchin has also toured extensively as a solo artist over the years, opening for Ringo Starr, Jackson Browne, Dave Mason, Poco, Dolly Parton, Karla Bonoff, Chicago, Christopher Cross, Kenny Loggins, Timothy B. Schmit, Barry McGuire, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Robey
Don Deadric Robey (November 1, 1903 – June 16, 1975) was an American record label executive, songwriter, and record producer. As the founder of Peacock Records and the eventual owner of Duke Records, he was responsible for developing the careers of many rhythm and blues artists in the 1950s and 1960s. He was the first African American record mogul, 10 years prior to Berry Gordy's Motown label (though the first Black-owned label, Black Swan Records, belonged to Harry Pace in the 1920s). Robey was notorious for his controversial business practices; he reputedly used criminal means, including violence and intimidation, as part of his business model, though he was held in high regard by some of the musicians who worked for him. He was credited with writing or co-writing many of the songs recorded by Duke/Peacock artists, either under his real name, or under the pseudonym of Deadric Malone. However, in many cases, he was merely a publisher and was not involved in the writing. M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Swan
William Lance Swan (born May 12, 1942) is an American country singer-songwriter, best known for his 1974 single " I Can Help". Background Swan was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri southeast of St. Louis on the Mississippi River. As a child, he learned drums, piano and guitar, and began writing songs. His first big break was in 1962 when Clyde McPhatter recorded " Lover Please", a song Swan wrote when he was in a local band, Mirt Mirly & the Rhythm Steppers, who had first recorded the song on Bill Black's Louis label. McPhatter's version quickly became a No. 7 pop hit. Swan moved to Memphis, Tennessee, to work with Black, but that was cut short with Black's illness and later death in 1965. It was rumored that Swan worked as a security guard at Graceland. While he was friends with one of the security guards he never worked at Graceland. He then moved to Nashville which enabled him to write hit country songs for numerous artists including Conway Twitty, Waylon Jennings, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
T-Bone Burnett
Joseph Henry "T Bone" Burnett III (born January 14, 1948) is an American record producer, guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He was a guitarist in Bob Dylan's band during the 1970s. Burnett has won several Grammy Awards for his work on film soundtracks, namely '' O Brother, Where Art Thou?'' (2000), '' Cold Mountain'' (2004), '' Walk the Line'' (2005), and '' Crazy Heart'' (2010). He won another Grammy for producing the album '' Raising Sand'' (2007), in which he united the contemporary bluegrass of Alison Krauss with the blues rock of Led Zeppelin lead vocalist Robert Plant. Burnett has been credited with early career mentorship of musical acts such as Counting Crows, Los Lobos, Sam Phillips, and Gillian Welch, and with revitalizing the careers of Gregg Allman and Roy Orbison. He produced for television programs including ''Nashville'' and ''True Detective''. He has released several solo studio albums as a producer, including '' Tooth of Crime'' (2008), which he wrote for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Philadelphia Inquirer
''The Philadelphia Inquirer'', often referred to simply as ''The Inquirer'', is a daily newspaper headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded on June 1, 1829, ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'' is the third-longest continuously operating daily newspaper in the United States. The newspaper has the largest circulation of any newspaper in both Pennsylvania and the Delaware Valley metropolitan region, which includes Philadelphia and its surrounding communities in southeastern Pennsylvania, South Jersey, northern Delaware, and the northern Eastern Shore of Maryland. As of 2020, the newspaper has the 17th-largest circulation of any newspaper in the United States As of 2020, ''The Inquirer'' has won 20 Pulitzer Prizes. Several decades after its 1829 founding, ''The Inquirer'' began emerging as one of the nation's major newspapers during the American Civil War. Its circulation dropped after the Civil War's conclusion, but it rose again by the end of the 19th century. Originally sup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All I Intended To Be
''All I Intended to Be'' is the 25th studio album from Emmylou Harris and her third release on Nonesuch Records. It was released in the United States on June 10, 2008. The album debuted at number 22 on the Billboard 200, and number four on Top Country Albums, which makes the album Harris’ highest charting solo record on the Billboard 200 since ''Evangeline'' was released in 1981. As of 2014, it has sold 153,973 copies in United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Album information Harris stated that “Sailing Round the Room” was inspired by Terri Schiavo and is a celebration of life and death; “How She Could Sing the Wildwood Flower” refers to the relationship between A. P. and Sara Carter and was inspired by a documentary that Harris, together with Kate and Anna McGarrigle, saw on television. The song “Gold” features guest vocals by Dolly Parton and Vince Gill, while “Old Five and Dimers Like Me” and "Beyond the Great Divide" are duets with John Starl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Kennerley
Paul Kennerley (born 1948) is an English singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer working in the American contemporary country music industry. Biography Kennerley was born in Hoylake, Cheshire, England in 1948. In 1976, he was living in London and working in advertising when he first heard country music — particularly, the song "Let's All Help the Cowboys Sing the Blues" by Waylon Jennings. "It really excited me," Kennerley recalls in his artist biography for Universal Music Group. "I immediately hunted down every Waylon record I could find." Kennerley quit his job in advertising and allowed himself three months to develop his talents as a songwriter. Recordings In 1972, Kennerley recorded an album with a rock band called 'Holy Roller' at Virgin Records' newly opened Manor studio, with Tom Newman (Mike Oldfield, ''Tubular Bells'' etc.) and Philip Newell, and Newman subsequently sang all the songs on the demonstration tapes of the ''White Mansions'' album. Kennerley's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
27th Annual Grammy Awards
The 27th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 26, 1985, at Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, and were broadcast live in the United States by CBS. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1984. Performers * Huey Lewis & The News - The Heart of Rock & Roll * Hank Williams Jr. & BB King - All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight * Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time * Amy Grant - Angels * Stevie Wonder - I Just Called To Say I Love You * Debbie Allen, Nia Peeples & The cast of West Side Story - America * Tina Turner - What's Love Got To Do With It * Rev. James Cleveland & the Southern California Community Choir, Andrae Crouch, Pops Staples, Deniece Williams, Clark Sisters - Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus * Chaka Khan & Melle Mel - I Feel For You * Howard Jones, Thomas Dolby, Herbie Hancock, & Stevie Wonder - Synth instrumental * Kenny Loggins - Footloose * Julia Migenes-Johnson * Prince & Sheila E. - Baby I'm A Star * Shel Silverstein - Unknown Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
