Headlines is an album by Paul Anka, released in 1979 (RCA Victor) Tracks 1 Headlines (Paul Anka, Sammy Cahn) 4:54 2 As Long As We Keep Believing (Paul Anka, Cynthia Weil , Barry Mann) 3:43 3 Andi (Paul Anka) 3:36 4 Never Get To Know You (Paul Anka, David Foster) 6:37 5 Learning To Love […]
Freedom For The Stallion is the debut album by The Hues Corporation. Released in 1973, it includes the #1 Billboard Hot 100 hit “Rock The Boat.” The title track, “Freedom for the Stallion” was also a minor hit on the Billboard charts. This Allen Toussaint song had been recorded earlier by Lee Dorsey in 1971. […]
Tomorrow Is Here is an album by American jazz percussionist Willie Bobo recorded in late 1976 and early 1977 and released on the Blue Note label. Willie Bobo was the stage name of William Correa (February 28, 1934 – September 15, 1983), a Latin and jazz percussionist of Puerto Rican ancestry. William Correa grew up […]
A Very Special Christmas 2 is the second in the A Very Special Christmas series of Christmas-themed compilation albums produced to benefit Special Olympics. The album was released on 20 October 1992, and production was overseen by Jimmy Iovine, Vicki Iovine and Robert Sargent Shriver for A&M Records. Tupac Shakur was supposed to be featured […]
Rodney Franklin is the third album from jazz pianist Rodney Franklin, released in 1980 (CBS). Tracks 1 Windy City (Tom Washington) 6:462 Life Moves On (Rodney Franklin) 5:013 In The Centre (Rodney Franklin) 4:244 Awakening (Rodney Franklin) 3:385 I Like The Music Make It Hot (Bernard Ighner) 5:256 Theme For Jackie (Rodney Franklin) 4:067 On The […]
Mirrors is a 1975 album by Peggy Lee, being an A&M Records album of neo-cabaret “art songs” sung by that same Peggy Lee, written and produced by rock & roll pioneers Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, mostly arranged & conducted by Johnny Mandel. “Is That All There Is?” was recorded in January 1969 and originally […]
Don’t You Love Me Anymore is an album by Engelbert Humperdinck, released in 1981. Engelbert Humperdinck (born Arnold George Dorsey; 2 May 1936) is an English pop singer. He is best known for his songs “Release Me” and “The Last Waltz”, both singles topping the UK music charts in 1967 and selling in large enough […]
Neil Diamond‘s second album for Columbia Records, and his ninth studio album Serenade, was released in 1974. Three singles were lifted from the album: “Longfellow Serenade” (#5), “I’ve Been This Way Before” (#34) and “The Last Picasso”. The album was also issued as a quadraphonic LP with some songs as alternate takes. Tracks 1 I’ve […]
Howdy Moon was the only album by the band Howdy Moon, released in 1974. The band included Valerie Carter, Richard Hovey, and Jon Lind. The trio of friends moved to Los Angeles where they were signed by A&M Records and played at The Troubadour. Many of the musicians from the band Little Feat are featured […]
For the Boys is a 1991 film which traces the life of Dixie Leonard, a 1940s actress/singer who teams up with Eddie Sparks, a famous performer, to entertain American troops. As in The Rose, Bette Midler‘s first starring role and also a blockbuster quasi-biopic, the film is fiction. However, actress/singer Martha Raye believed that Midler’s […]