Heart (Don’t Change My Mind)” is the eighth single from Diana Ross‘ album The Force Behind The Power, it was released in 1993 and hit #31 in the UK. Muscians Bass Freddie Washington Drums Carlos Vega Guitar Mike Landau Keyboards Robbie Buchanan Sax John Helliwell Percussion Mike Fisher Background Vocals Kate Markowitz Background Vocals Valerie […]
“The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss)“ is a song written and composed by Rudy Clark. It was first released as a single in 1963 by Merry Clayton that did not chart. The song was made a hit a year later when recorded by Betty Everett, who hit No. 1 on the Cashbox magazine […]
Olympia is a 1984 single from Sérgio Mendes featuring lead vocals by Joe Pizzulo as a theme for the Los Angeles 1984 Summer Olympics. It was released the same year on the album Confetti. The song is also used as the theme song for Olympia Sports Camp in Ontario, Canada, and for the World’s Strongest […]
Alibis was the first single from Sergio Mendes’ album Confetti. In 1984 he recorded the “Confetti” album, which had the hit songs “Olympia”, which was also used as a theme song for the Olympic games that year and “Alibis”. The ’80s also found Sergio Mendes working with singer Lani Hall again on the song “No Place […]
Confetti is an album from 1984 by Sérgio Mendes. Most of the songs of the album were written by established US pop composers and lyricists such as Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Don Freeman, and Tom Snow. Among the notable singers on the album are Joe Pizzulo and Gracinha Leporace. The song […]
“Just to See Her” is a 1987 song written by Jimmy George and Lou Pardini and recorded by American R&B recording artist Smokey Robinson from his studio album One Heartbeat (1986). “Just to See Her” peaked at #7 in Cash Box and #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in June 1987. It also reached […]
One Heartbeat is a million-selling 1987 album by R&B singer/songwriter Smokey Robinson. It hit number one on the Billboard R&B albums chart. The album contains the Billboard top ten singles “Just to See Her” (which won Robinson a Grammy Award in the category of Best Male R&B Vocal performance) and “One Heartbeat”. “What’s Too Much” […]
Walls Of Glass is the debut solo album by former Imperials lead singer Russ Taff, released in 1983 on Myrrh Records. After he left the Imperials in 1981, Taff started work on his first solo album featuring songs that he co-wrote with his wife Tori and his guitarist and songwriter James Hollihan, Jr. “We Will […]
Sergio Mendes is the 1983 studio album by Sergio Mendes under the A&M Records label. It includes “Never Gonna Let You Go”, a song written by Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil that reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. Another single of that album was Rainbow’s End, written by Don Freeman and David Batteau. […]
“Never Gonna Let You Go“ is a popular song from 1983 credited to Brazilian musician and bandleader Sérgio Mendes and sung by Joe Pizzulo and Leza Miller. Songwriters Cynthia Weil (lyrics) and Barry Mann (music) composed the song, which appears on Mendes’ 1983 self-titled album. Weil and Mann originally submitted “Never Gonna Let You Go” […]