Off the Wall is the fifth studio album by American recording artist Michael Jackson. It was released on August 10, 1979 by Epic Records following Jackson’s critically well-received film performance in the The Wiz. While working on that project, Jackson and Quincy Jones had become friends, and Jones agreed to work with Jackson on his […]
Light Up the Night is the fourth album by the Los Angeles, California-based duo The Brothers Johnson, released in 1980. The album topped the U.S. R&B albums chart and reached number five on the pop albums chart. The single, “Stomp!”, became a dance hit, reaching number one on both the R&B singles and disco charts […]
Discipline is the only solo album recorded by American songwriter and producer Desmond Child. It was released on Elektra in 1991 and features his longer take on “Love on a Rooftop”, a song he wrote for Cher on her 1989 album Heart of Stone. Child’s version reached number 40 on the US Billboard Hot 100. […]
Past to Present 1977–1990 is the first compilation album by Toto, released in 1990. It contains nine hit songs from the band’s first seven albums, and four new songs recorded with singer Jean-Michel Byron. Tracks 1 Love Has The Power (Jean-Michel Byron, John Capek) 6:39 2 Africa (David Paich, Jeffrey Porcaro) 4:57 3 Hold The […]
Ear Candy is the ninth studio album by Australian-American pop singer Helen Reddy, released on May 1977 by Capitol Records. The album included a modern take on the doo-wop genre (“Long Distance Love”), a Cajun number that gave the Melbourne native her first and only appearance on Billboard magazine’s Country chart (“Laissez les Bontemps Rouler”), […]
Music, Music is the eighth studio album by Australian-American pop singer Helen Reddy that was released in the summer of 1976 by Capitol Records and later described by J. Scott McClintock for AllMusic: “There are breezy, Bacharach-ian excursions (‘Gladiola,’ ‘You Make It So Easy’), bluesy numbers (‘Get Off Me Baby,’ ‘Ladychain’), light country (‘Mama’), jazzy […]
Beautiful Noise is the third album by Neil Diamond on Columbia Records (tenth studio album overall), released in 1976. “Dry Your Eyes” was performed with The Band at their farewell show and is featured in Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz. Beautiful Noise marked a radical departure in production, style, arrangements and compositional diversity for Diamond. […]
Oh Yes I Can is the second solo album by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young member David Crosby. It was released in 1989 (see 1989 in music), 18 years on from his previous solo release If I Could Only Remember My Name. “Drive My Car”, which was released as a single from this album, was […]
The Seventh One is Toto‘s seventh studio album. It was released in 1988, and became the best-received Toto album since Toto IV. The Seventh One is the second and last album until 2015’s Toto XIV to feature Joseph Williams on lead vocals. The single “Pamela” reached number 22 in the Billboard charts. The title track, […]
Other Roads is an album by Boz Scaggs, released in 1988. After an eight-year hiatus from recording, Boz Scaggs returned in 1988 with the album Other Roads, a record aimed primarily at the adult contemporary market. The album reached #47 on the Billboard pop album chart, while the lead single “Heart of Mine” was a […]