''Songs That Made Me'' is a collaborative
studio album
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by
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singer songwriter
Katie Noonan
Katie Anne Noonan (born 2 May 1977) is an Australian singer and songwriter. In addition to a successful solo career encompassing opera, jazz, pop, rock and dance, she was the singer in the bands George and Elixir; she has also performed with he ...
and various female artists.
The album features Katie and some of her favourite female artists interpreting the songs that influenced their lives with 100% of profits from the album go to Cancer Council's Pink Ribbon.
The album grew from a successful tour in 2013, into a full-length album followed by an extensive national tour throughout October and November 2014.
Background and release
"The initial idea for Songs That Made Me came from the desire to share the stage with other women and, to make it an exclusively female thing, because it's very rare, it doesn't happen often," Noonan says.
Noonan lead the way for the album's eclectic song choices which include covering Radiohead, The Pretenders and Fleetwood Mac. The only guide Noonan gave the musicians was to choose a song that "made them". "It could be a song you saw at your first gig or sang at your first gig, or the track you practised your routines to in your bedroom," Noonan says.
Noonan envisages more of these groups, tours and albums and has even drawn up a wishlist of about 80 more female artists she wants to include in the next one.
Ultimately, for Noonan, it's about creating that support and fostering female relationships - as musicians and in the industry.
Track listing
# "
Let It Die"
( Feist) performed by
Ainslie Wills
Ainslie Wills is an Australian singer-songwriter.
Career 2005–2011: Early EPs
After graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2005, Wills recorded and produced her debut recording. She collaborated with fellow VCA graduate Lawren ...
– 3:49
# "
Hymn to Her"
(The Pretenders
The Pretenders are a British rock band formed in March 1978. The original band consisted of founder and main songwriter Chrissie Hynde (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), James Honeyman-Scott (lead guitar, backing vocals, keyboards), Pete Farndon (ba ...
) performed by
Kylie Auldist
Kylie Auldist (born 18 September 1968) is an Australian singer, best known as the singer of the Bamboos and Cookin' on 3 Burners. She has also released five solo albums.
Career
Auldist recorded her first song at the age of six. She is half S ...
,
Deborah Conway
Deborah Ann Conway (born 8 August 1959) is an Australian rock singer-songwriter and guitarist, and had a career as a model and actress. She was a founding member of the 1980s rock band Do-Ré-Mi with their top-5 hit "Man Overboard".
Conway pe ...
,
Angie Hart
Angela Ruth Hart, billed as Angie Hart, is an Australian singer best known for her role as lead vocalist in the alternative pop rock band Frente! and the indie pop duo Splendid (musical duo), Splendid with her then-husband Jesse Tobias. Hart's s ...
, Katie Noonan and Ainslie Wills – 4:15
# "
River
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(Joni Mitchell
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) performed by
Melody Pool
Melody Pool is an Australian country-folk musician from Kurri Kurri, New South Wales.
She first stepped on stage with her father, country musician Alby Pool, when she was 8 years old, and was performing solo aged 9.
During her teens Pool playe ...
– 3:50
# "
When You Were Mine"
(Cyndi Lauper
Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper ( ; born June 22, 1953) is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Known for her distinctive image, featuring a variety of hair colors and eccentric clothing, and for her powerful four-octave vocal range;Jerome, ...
) performed by Angie Hart - 4:04
# "Fruits Of My Labor"
(Lucinda Williams
Lucinda Gayl Williams (born January 26, 1953) is an American singer-songwriter and a solo guitarist. She recorded her first two albums, ''Ramblin' on My Mind (Lucinda Williams album), Ramblin' on My Mind'' (1979) and ''Happy Woman Blues'' (198 ...
) performed by
Mia Dyson
Mia Celeste Dyson (born 1981) is an Australian singer, songwriter and guitarist. She has released six studio albums. Her second, ''Parking Lots'', won the ARIA Award for Best Blues and Roots Album at the ARIA Music Awards of 2005. Since 2013, D ...
– 3:40
# "
Another Day in Paradise
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(Phil Collins
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) performed by Sam Buckingham – 3:56
# "
Mr. Sandman"
(The Chordettes
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Career
The group organized i ...
) performed by
Sahara Beck – 2:09
# "
Ooh Child"
(Nina Simone
Nina Simone ( ; born Eunice Kathleen Waymon; February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003) was an American singer, pianist, songwriter, and civil rights activist. Her music spanned styles including classical, folk, gospel, blues, jazz, R&B, and po ...
) performed by Kylie Auldist – 3:32
# "
Last Goodbye"
(Jeff Buckley
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) by Katie Noonan – 4:23
# "
Street Spirit
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"
(Radiohead
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) performed by Maples – 3:55
# "
Court and Spark
''Court and Spark'' is the sixth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. Released by A&M in January 1974, it infuses the folk rock style of her previous albums with jazz elements.
It was an immediate commercial and critical su ...
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(Joni Mitchell) performed by Deborah Conway – 2:35
# "
The Chain
"The Chain" is a song by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released on their 1977 album '' Rumours''. It is the only song from the album with writing credits for all five members (Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie, John ...
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(Fleetwood Mac
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) by
Stonefield – 4:16
# "
Sign Your Name
"Sign Your Name" is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Terence Trent D'Arby (now known as Sananda Maitreya), released as the fourth single (third in the US) from his debut album, ''Introducing the Hardline According to ...
"
(Terence Trent D'Arby
Sananda Francesco Maitreya (born Terence Trent Howard; March 15, 1962), who started his career with the stage name Terence Trent D'Arby, is an American singer and songwriter who came to fame with his debut studio album, '' Introducing the Hard ...
) by
Anna Coddington
Anna Coddington (born 14 June 1981) is a New Zealand singer-songwriter. She has released four albums. Her previous band 'Duchess', for whom Coddington was songwriter, singer and guitarist, also released a 6 track EP in 2005. In 2015, Coddington ...
and Katie Noonan – 4:20
# "
Still Crazy After All These Years
''Still Crazy After All These Years'' is the fourth solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Paul Simon, released on October 17, 1975, by Columbia Records. Recorded and released in 1975, the album produced four U.S. Top 40 hits: " 50 Way ...
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(Paul Simon
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) by Jo Lawry – 2:55
# "
It's a Man's Man's Man's World
"It's a Man's Man's Man's World" is a song written by James Brown and Betty Jean Newsome. Brown recorded it on February 16, 1966, in a New York City studio and released it as a single later that year. It reached No. 1 on the ''Billboard'' R&B c ...
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(James Brown
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) by
Renée Geyer
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She released 15 studio albums with '' Moving Along'' (1977) and ...
– 5:00
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Release history
References
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2014 albums
Katie Noonan albums