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Bad Habits (Billy Field Album)
''Bad Habits'' is the debut album released by Australian artist Billy Field in 1981. It spent 2 weeks at the top of the Australian album charts in 1981. David Lee Roth recorded a version of Field's "Baby I'm Easy" for his 1986 debut solo album ''Eat 'Em and Smile'' and later also the album's title track for his 2003 album '' "Diamond Dave".'' Track listing Side one # " Bad Habits" - 3:26 # "Good Golly Me" - 2:58 # "You Weren't in Love with Me "You Weren't in Love with Me" is a song by Australian singer-songwriter Billy Field. It was released in July 1981 as the second and final single from his debut studio album, '' Bad Habits''. The song peaked at number one on the Australian Kent M ..." - 3:24 # "Baby I'm Easy" - 2:16 # "Never Be Blue" - 2:41 Side two # "Since I Found Out" - 3:42 # "You'll Call It Love" - 4:25 # "Celebrity Lane" - 2:41 # "Single Man" - 2:37 # "If I Was a Millionaire" - 3:04 Charts Weekly charts Year-end charts References External links Bad Hab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Field (singer)
William Bruce Field (born 20 January 1953) is an Australian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has run his own recording studio and has worked as a producer. His solo first album, '' Bad Habits'' (June 1981), reached No. 1 on the Kent Music Report. His top 20 hit singles are " Bad Habits" (April 1981, No. 4), "You Weren't in Love with Me" (July 1981, No. 1) and "True Love" (1982, No. 17). Early life and career Billy Field was born in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia, on 20 January 1953. He grew up on Widgiewa Station, a large sheep and cattle property near the small Riverina town of Urana, and he worked there for various periods until his mid-20s. For secondary education he attended Cranbrook School in Sydney. Field replaced Chris Pokorny on bass guitar in a pop band, King Fox, which was formed in Sydney in 1967. He also provided vocals and guitar with Dave King on lead vocals, guitar and harmonica, Paul Radcliffe on flute, vocals, guita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. But jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz (a hard-swinging, bluesy, improvisationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pop (music)
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom. The terms ''popular music'' and ''pop music'' are often used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular and includes many disparate styles. During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. ''Rock'' and ''pop'' music remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after which ''pop'' became associated with music that was more commercial, ephemeral, and accessible. Although much of the music that appears on record charts is considered to be pop music, the genre is distinguished from chart music. Identifying factors usually include repeated choruses and hooks, short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse-chorus structure), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much pop music also borrows elements from other styles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as " rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles in the mid-1960s and later, particularly in the United States and United Kingdom.W. E. Studwell and D. F. Lonergan, ''The Classic Rock and Roll Reader: Rock Music from its Beginnings to the mid-1970s'' (Abingdon: Routledge, 1999), p.xi It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style that drew directly from the blues and rhythm and blues genres of African-American music and from country music. Rock also drew strongly from a number of other genres such as electric blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical, and other musical styles. For instrumentation, rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music with a time signature using a verse–chorus form, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Habits (Billy Field Song)
"Bad Habits" is a song by Australian singer-songwriter Billy Field. It was released in April 1981 as his debut single and as the lead single from his first studio album of the same name. The song peaked at number four in Australia and number one in New Zealand. Track listing 7-inch single :A. "Bad Habits" – 3:26 :B. "You'll Call It Love" – 4:25 Charts Weekly charts Year-end charts References 1981 debut singles 1981 songs Number-one singles in New Zealand Warner Music Group singles {{1980s-single-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You Weren't In Love With Me
"You Weren't in Love with Me" is a song by Australian singer-songwriter Billy Field. It was released in July 1981 as the second and final single from his debut studio album, '' Bad Habits''. The song peaked at number one on the Australian Kent Music Report and entered the top 30 in New Zealand. At the APRA Music Awards of 1982, the song won Most Performed Australasian Popular Work. Track listings Australian 7-inch single :A. "You Weren't in Love with Me" – 3:24 :B. "Celebrity Lane" – 2:41 UK 7-inch single :A. "You Weren't in Love with Me" – 3:24 :B. "Baby I'm Easy" – 2:16 Charts Weekly charts Year-end charts See also * List of number-one singles in Australia during the 1980s The following lists the number one singles on the Australian Singles Chart, along with other substantial hits, during the 1980s. The source for this decade is the Kent Music Report (retitled as Australian Music Report in 1987), and the ARIA Char ... * List of top 25 singles for 1981 in Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Number-one Albums Of 1981 (Australia)
The following lists the number one albums on the Australian Albums Chart, during the 1980s. The source for this decade is the Kent Music Report up until 20 June 1988, whereafter the source is the ARIA Charts. 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 See also *List of artists who reached number one on the Australian singles chart *Music of Australia *List of UK Albums Chart number ones of the 1980s ReferencesDavid Kent's Australian Chart Book based on the Kent Music ReportAustralian Record Industry Association (ARIA) official site {{Australian music charts 1980s
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David Lee Roth
David Lee Roth (born October 10, 1954) is an American rock singer. Best known for his wild, energetic stage persona, he was the original lead vocalist of the hard rock band Van Halen across three stints, from 1974 to 1985, in 1996 and again from 2006 to their disbandment in 2020. He was also known as a successful solo artist, releasing numerous RIAA-certified Gold and Platinum albums. After more than two decades apart, Roth re-joined Van Halen in 2006 for a North American tour that became the highest-grossing in the band's history and one of the highest-grossing of that year. In 2012, Roth and Van Halen released the comeback album '' A Different Kind of Truth''. In 2007, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Van Halen. Early life Roth was born in Bloomington, Indiana, to an ophthalmologist, Nathan Lee Roth, and a teacher, Sibyl Roth. He has two sisters, one of whom is Lisa Roth, creator of the Rockabye Baby lullaby music series. The family is of J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eat 'Em And Smile
''Eat 'Em and Smile'' is the debut studio album by former Van Halen singer David Lee Roth, released on July 7, 1986, after his unpredicted successful debut EP '' Crazy from the Heat'' (1985). History After releasing '' Crazy from the Heat'', an EP of lounge standards that became a surprise hit during early 1985, and subsequently parting ways with Van Halen while the band was at its commercial zenith, Roth assembled a new backing band: bassist Billy Sheehan (later of Mr. Big); drummer Gregg Bissonette (later of Ringo Starr and Elton John, among others); and guitarist Steve Vai, who had worked previously with Frank Zappa, PiL and Alcatrazz. Both a critical and commercial success, ''Eat 'Em and Smile'' was praised by ''Rolling Stone'': "No song on the album was as slick as any of the singles from Van Halen's ' 5150' album" (which featured Roth's replacement, Sammy Hagar) and also opined that ''Eat 'Em and Smile'' was much more "trashy fun". Indeed, many of the reviews of ''Eat ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diamond Dave (album)
''Diamond Dave'' is the sixth and most recent studio album by David Lee Roth, former lead vocalist of Van Halen. It was released in 2003 on Magna Carta Records. Background The album was recorded at Henson Recording Studios in Hollywood, California. It consists mostly of covers of classic hard rock and blues songs, and has an overall laid back bluesy sound. Two of the tracks—"Bad Habits" and a remake of the 1978 Van Halen song "Ice Cream Man"—had been recorded in 1996, but were not released at that time. Track listing #"You Got The Blues, Not Me..." (Chris Youlden) - cover of "I'm Tired" by Savoy Brown – 3:17 #"Made Up My Mind" (Savoy Brown) – 3:00 #"Stay While the Night is Young" (Youlden) - cover of Savoy Brown – 3:43 #"Shoo Bop" ( Steve Miller) - cover of "Shu Ba Da Du Ma Ma Ma Ma" by Steve Miller Band – 5:11 #"She's Looking Good" (Rodger Collins) – 2:50 #" Soul Kitchen" (John Densmore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, Jim Morrison) - cover of The Doors – 4:32 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kent Music Report
The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music enthusiast David Kent from May 1974 through to January 1999. The chart was re-branded the Australian Music Report (AMR) in July 1987. From June 1988, the Australian Recording Industry Association, which had been using the top 50 portion of the report under licence since mid-1983, chose to produce their own listing as the ARIA Charts. Before the Kent Report, ''Go-Set'' magazine published weekly Top-40 Singles from 1966, and Album charts from 1970 until the magazine's demise in August 1974. David Kent later published Australian charts from 1940 to 1973 in a retrospective fashion, using state by state chart data obtained from various Australian radio stations. Background Kent had spent a number of years previously working in the music industry at both EMI and Phonogram records and had developed the report initially as a hobby. The Kent Music Report was first release ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Recorded Music New Zealand
Recorded Music NZ (formerly the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ)) is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell recorded music in New Zealand. Membership of Recorded Music NZ is open to any owner of recorded music rights operating in New Zealand, inclusive of major labels (such as Sony, Universal and Warner Music Group), independent labels and self-released artists. Recorded Music NZ has over 2000 rights-holders. Prior to June 2013 the association called itself the "Recording Industry Association of New Zealand" (RIANZ). RIANZ and PPNZ Music Licensing merged and renamed themselves "Recorded Music NZ". Recorded Music NZ functions in three areas: * member services (the New Zealand Music Awards, the Official New Zealand Music Charts, music grants and direct services to artists and labels) * music licensing (undertaken independently or, in most cases, via OneMusic, a joint licensing venture between Recor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
