Pirates is the second album by Chicago-born singer, songwriter, and musician Rickie Lee Jones, released in July 1981, two years after her eponymous debut Rickie Lee Jones. The album is partially an account of her break-up with fellow musician Tom Waits after the success of her debut album. Initial recording for Pirates began in January […]
The Dude is a 1981 studio album by American musician and producer Quincy Jones. The album featured the debut of vocalist James Ingram on the singles “Just Once” and “One Hundred Ways,” which reached no. 17 and 14, respectively, on the Billboard Hot 100. It also contained “Razzamatazz”, which reached no. 11 in the UK […]
Breakin’ Away is an album by Al Jarreau, released on June 30, 1981, through the Warner Bros. Records label. The album was certified Platinum by the RIAA. Breakin’ Away was the best performance Al Jarreau had on the charts. It stayed on the Billboard 200 for 103 weeks and peaked at #9.The album also hit […]
Be-bop The Future is the eighth album from English singer/songwriter David Essex. It was released in 1981 (Mercury). Tracks 1 Totally Secure (David Essex) 3:23 2 Sunday Papers (David Essex) 3:54 3 The Magician (David Essex) 3:33 4 The Politician (David Essex) 5:20 5 Sunshine Girl (Jerry Riopelle, Murray MacLeod, Allen Roberds) 2:58 6 Be […]
Close Enough is the third solo album from singer Sarah Dash, released in 1981 on CBS. Tracks 1 Only You Can Fill The Need (Patrick Henderson) 3:33 2 Close Enough (David Lasley, Willie Wilcox) 4:39 3 Leaving Again (Barry Fasman, Steve Sperry) 3:30 4 P.S. I Love You (Gordon Jenkins, Johnny Mercer) 3:16 5 Paradise […]
Peter Cetera, released in September 1981, is the self-titled first solo release by American musician Peter Cetera, released while he was the bassist and lead vocalist of the band Chicago. A much more rock-oriented album than the disco-influenced music Chicago had been producing at the time, Cetera released the album in September 1981 while still […]
Shōgo Hamada (浜田 省吾 Hamada Shōg, born December 29, 1952) is a Japanese singer-songwriter and former member of the group Aido. He is a part of Sony Music Japan’s SME Records division. He was born in Takehara City in Hiroshima Prefecture, and graduated from Kuremitsuta High School (where he was a member of the baseball […]
Bernard Grimaldi is a composer of music for film and television and also a singer-songwriter. He began his career by signing several documentary music including Les Gitans de la mer by Raymond Adam and Jean Pierre Janssen and Le Vent des amoureux by Albert Lamorisse. After composing a large number of commercials, including the series of […]
Middle Man is the ninth album by Boz Scaggs, released on Columbia Records in 1980. Scaggs re-hired the members of the band Toto as session musicians, and shared song-writing credits with them. He re-embraced the commercial rock appeal of Silk Degrees. The album reached #8 in the Billboard 200 album chart, and two singles reached […]
Hydra is the second studio album by American rock band Toto, released in 1979. It reached #37 on the Billboard Pop Albums. While most of the album’s singles failed to make any impact in the charts, “99”, a song inspired by the 1971 science fiction movie THX 1138, reached #26 on the Billboard Hot 100. […]