Hasten Down the Wind is the Grammy Award-winning seventh studio album by singer/songwriter/producer Linda Ronstadt. Released in 1976, it became her third straight million-selling album. Ronstadt was the first female artist in history to accomplish this feat.[6] The album earned her a Grammy Award for ‘Best Pop Vocal Performance – Female’ in 1977, her second […]
Magnetic Heaven is a 1986 album by Wax. The album cover, painted by Jason Bradley, shows the band members. The American version features a longer version of “Ball and Chain”. Wax was a 1980s musical duo formed in Manchester, England which consisted of American singer-songwriter Andrew Gold and 10cc guitarist/bassist Graham Gouldman. In the US, […]
“Right Between the Eyes” is a song by English duo Wax. It appears on the album Magnetic Heaven, and was released as the duo’s third single from the album. A moderate hit in the Netherlands and U.S., the song peaked at #24 and #43, respectively. In the UK, the song only managed a peak charting […]
Foreign Affairs is the fourth studio album by New Zealand singer and songwriter Sharon O’Neill. It was O’Neill’s final studio album release on CBS. The album was certified Gold in New Zealand. Late in 1981, O’Neill moved from New Zealand to Sydney, Australia to pursue her music career, where she wrote “Maxine”, a song that […]
Quiet Lies is a 1982 album by American pop-country star Juice Newton. It reached #20 on the Billboard pop chart and includes three major hits, “Love’s Been a Little Bit Hard on Me”, “Break It to Me Gently” and “Heart of the Night”. Quiet Lies sold more than 900,000 copies in the U.S. (earning Newton […]
“Love’s Been A Little Bit Hard On Me” is a song by the American country-pop singer Juice Newton, written by Gary Burr. It appears on the album Quiet Lies. The single was released in May 1982 and reached #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 that summer. It also charted at #4 on the Billboard Adult […]
Prisoner In Disguise is Linda Ronstadt‘s sixth solo LP release and her second for the label Asylum Records, released in 1975 It followed Ronstadt’s Multi-Platinum breakthrough album, Heart Like a Wheel, which became her first of three #1 albums on the Billboard album chart in early 1975. Linda Ronstadt chose songs from friends and songwriters […]
“Heat Wave” is a 1963 song written by the Holland–Dozier–Holland songwriting team. It was first made popular by the American Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas. Released as a 45 rpm single on July 9, 1963, on the Motown subsidiary Gordy label, it hit number 1 on the Billboard Hot R&B chart—where it stayed […]
“The Tracks of My Tears” is a song written by Smokey Robinson, Pete Moore, and Marv Tarplin. It is a multiple award-winning 1965 hit R&B song originally recorded by their group, The Miracles, on Motown’s Tamla label. In 1967, Johnny Rivers covered the song and his version was a number 10 hit on the Billboard […]
“Love Is a Rose” is a song written and composed by Neil Young. It first became popular in 1975 when Linda Ronstadt had a country hit with her version. “Love Is a Rose” has also been covered by other artists over the years. Neil Young first recorded “Love Is a Rose” in 1974 for the […]