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Check Out The Groove
''Check Out the Groove'' is the debut album by British dance group Undercover, released in 1992. Single releases A cover version of " Baker Street", originally performed by Gerry Rafferty, was the first single released from the album. This reached number 2 in the UK Singles Chart and the top 10 of many other countries around Europe. "Never Let Her Slip Away", originally by Andrew Gold, was the second single, reaching number 5 in the UK as well as the top 10 of several other European charts. " I Wanna Stay with You", originally by Gallagher and Lyle, was the third single released from the album, reaching number 28 in the UK as well as charting in several other European countries. Track listing Personnel Adapted from the album's liner notes. Musicians Undercover *John Matthews – vocals, backing vocals * Steve Mac – keyboards, backing vocals *Jon Jules – bass guitar Additional musicians *Tracy Ackerman – backing vocals *Guy Barker – trumpet *Joe Becket – percussion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Undercover (dance Group)
Undercover are an English dance music group which formed in 1991 and had three UK top-30 hits, two of them top-five hits, in 1992. The group's vocalist, John Matthews, continues to perform solo as Undercover across the UK/Europe and South America. Keyboardist Steve Mac went on to become a successful songwriter and music producer for many other artists. Bassist Jon Jules went on to success in the UK soul music scene as a DJ, radio presenter and event organiser. He achieved many accolades, including best radio programme (Soul Survivors Awards), and is a seasoned presenter on DAB soul internet radio station Mi-Soul Radio. Overview The group's first single, a cover version of Gerry Rafferty's 1978 UK/US chart success "Baker Street", became their biggest hit, reaching No. 2 in the UK Singles Chart in September 1992, held off from the top by another dance track, " Rhythm Is a Dancer" by Snap!. It was the 11th-biggest-selling single of 1992 in the United Kingdom, and also attained ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
How Long (Ace Song)
"How Long" is the debut single by the English band Ace, from their 1974 debut album ''Five-A-Side''. It reached No. 3 in the US and Canadian charts, and No. 20 on the UK Singles Chart. In a 1981 issue of ''Smash Hits'', Phil Collins named the song as one of his top 10 favourites, describing it as a "classic single". Background Although widely interpreted as being about adultery, the song was in fact composed by lead singer Paul Carrack upon discovering that bassist Terry ("Tex") Comer had been secretly working with the Sutherland Brothers and Quiver. The ‘friends with their fancy persuasions’ cited in the lyrics are said to be in reference to the Sutherland Brothers and Quiver's management. The guitar solo is by lead guitarist Phil Harris. Alan 'Bam' King was the band's rhythm guitarist, formerly with the Action. The band had originally tried to record the song as a "Motown"-type single for Anchor Records, but gave up in favour of recording their first album at Rockfield ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Barker
Guy Jeffrey Barker, (born 26 December 1957) is an English jazz trumpeter and composer. Early life Barker was born in Chiswick, London, the son of an actress and a stuntman. He started playing the trumpet at the age of twelve, and within a year had joined the National Youth Jazz Orchestra. At the age of 15 he was playing with the Crouch End Allstars along with Wally Fawkes and Bob Nadkarni. Later life and career After lessons from Clark Terry in 1975, Barker went on in the 1980s to play with John Dankworth, Gil Evans (with whose orchestra he toured and recorded in 1983), Lena Horne, and Bobby Watson. Barker was a member of Clark Tracey's quintet from 1984 to 1992. As a sideman he has played with Ornette Coleman, Carla Bley, Georgie Fame, James Carter, Mike Westbrook, Frank Sinatra, Colin Towns, Natalie Merchant, ABC, The The, Haircut One Hundred, Erasure, Chris Botti, Wham!, Kajagoogoo, The Housemartins, Matt Bianco, Alphaville, The Style Council, Swing Out Sister, The Mood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracy Ackerman
Tracy Ackerman is a British singer and songwriter. She works with several other British songwriters including Andy Watkins and Paul Wilson of Absolute and Mark Taylor. Ackerman has written for artists including Geri Halliwell, Cher, Boyzone, Tina Turner and Will Young. Early life and education Ackerman attended Gordano School. Career In the 1980s she was used as a vocalist by record producer Nigel Wright on many of his megamix-styled medley projects. Originally projects like Enigma and This Year's Blonde were set up as rivals to the success of Jaap Eggermont's Starsound/Stars on 45, though in the late 1980s Wright increasingly targeted the house scene with 'Jack Mix' act Mirage (with Mirage including a co-credit for Ackerman on their pre-house 1985 medley "Into the Groove"). Other 1980s work included touring with Dead or Alive, singing lead on "Ice" from Rick Wakeman's 1988 solo album ''Time Machine'', backing vocals on some of Shakatak's albums and performing backing vocals d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liner Notes
Liner notes (also sleeve notes or album notes) are the writings found on the sleeves of LP record albums and in booklets that come inserted into the compact disc jewel case or the equivalent packaging for cassettes. Origin Liner notes are descended from the program notes for musical concerts, and developed into notes that were printed on the inner sleeve used to protect a traditional 12-inch vinyl record, i.e., long playing or gramophone record album. The term descends from the name "record liner" or "album liner". Album liner notes survived format changes from vinyl LP to cassette to CD. These notes can be sources of information about the contents of the recording as well as broader cultural topics. Contents Common material Such notes often contained a mix of factual and anecdotal material, and occasionally a discography for the artist or the issuing record label. Liner notes were also an occasion for thoughtful signed essays on the artist by another party, often a sympathetic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luther Vandross
Luther Ronzoni Vandross Jr. (April 20, 1951 – July 1, 2005) was an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. Known for his sweet and soulful vocals, Vandross has sold over 40 million records worldwide. He achieved eleven consecutive Platinum albums and eight Grammy Awards, including Best Male R&B Vocal Performance four different times. In 2004, Vandross won a total of four Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Award for Song of the Year for a song recorded not long before his death, " Dance with My Father". Vandross worked as a backing vocalist in the 1970s, and appeared on albums by artists such as Roberta Flack, Donny Hathaway, Todd Rundgren, Judy Collins, Chaka Khan, Bette Midler, Diana Ross, David Bowie, Ben E. King, Stevie Wonder, and Donna Summer. He later became a lead singer of the group Change, which released its Gold-certified debut album, ''The Glow of Love'', in 1980 on Warner/RFC Records. After Vandross left the group, he was signed to Epic Records as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Never Too Much (song)
"Never Too Much" is the debut song written, composed, produced, and performed by Luther Vandross. The R&B song was released in 1981, as the lead single from Vandross's debut album of the same name. The title track hit number one on the US ''Billboard'' Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, reached number four on the US ''Billboard'' Dance Club Songs chart, and peaked at number 33 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100. The album (Vandross' first as a solo artist) was very popular, especially with Black Radio and R&B Charts. It received several accolades, including two Grammy Award nominations in 1982—"Best New Artist" and "Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male" A remixed version of the song reached number 13 on the UK singles chart in November 1989. The single is also included on his later album ''The Ultimate Luther Vandross'', which was released in 2001. The single was released alongside a music video in which he is shown singing in a recording studio. Vandross received a nomination for "Never ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Lyle
Graham Hamilton Lyle (born 11 March 1944, in Bellshill, Lanarkshire, Scotland) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer. Between 1970 and 1997, he co-wrote 18 British Top 40 hits, 9 Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100 entries, 4 US Hot Country Songs, Country No.1s and 1 US Adult Contemporary (chart), Adult Contemporary No.1, as well as 3 Australian chart-toppers. His songwriting collaborators have included Terry Britten, Albert Hammond, Troy Seals, Jim Diamond (singer), Jim Diamond and his long-time performing partner, Benny Gallagher. His most famous composition is Tina Turner's 1984 US chart-topper and international smash, "What's Love Got to Do with It (song), What's Love Got to Do with It?", which reached No.1 in the US, Canada and Australia and won him the Grammy Award for Song of the Year, Song of the Year Grammy. He is also well known in Britain, Continental Europe and the Commonwealth as a member of Gallagher and Lyle, McGuinness Flint and Ronnie Lane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benny Gallagher
Bernard Joseph "Benny" Gallagher (born 10 June 1945, in Largs, Ayrshire) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, most famous as half of the popular duo Gallagher and Lyle. Career The son of Irish parents, Gallagher attended St Michael's Academy, Kilwinning and then worked as a marine electrician in the shipyards of Glasgow. During this time, he also played bass guitar in local semi-professional beat group The Bluefrets, which featured Graham Lyle on lead guitar. Gallagher's first published song was "Mr Heartbreak's Here Instead", which he co-wrote with Andrew Galt. This was recorded as a single for EMI-Columbia in 1964 by Dean Ford and the Gaylords, the bulk of which later became chart-topping outfit Marmalade. Galt then made two singles for Pye, "Comes The Dawn" and "With My Baby", under the name James Galt; both were co-written and featured backing vocals by Gallagher and Graham Lyle. In 1966, Gallagher and Lyle – who by now had forged a songwriti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lou Gramm
Lou Gramm (born Louis Andrew Grammatico; 2 May 1950) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for being the lead singer of the rock band Foreigner from 1977 to 1990 and 1992 to 2003 during which time the band had numerous successful albums and singles. Early life Louis Andrew Grammatico was born on 2 May 1950, in Rochester, New York, the son of Nikki (née Masetta), a singer, and Bennie Grammatico, a band leader and trumpeter. He attended Gates-Chili High School in Rochester, graduating with the class of 1968, and majored in education and art at Monroe Community College. Music career 1970s Gramm became front man for the band Black Sheep. Black Sheep was the first American band signed to the Chrysalis label, which released their first single, "Stick Around" (1974). Soon after this initial bit of success, Black Sheep signed with Capitol Records, releasing two albums in succession: ''Black Sheep'' (1975) and ''Encouraging Words'' (late 1975). They were the opening act for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mick Jones (Foreigner Guitarist)
Michael Leslie Jones (born 27 December 1944) is an English musician, songwriter and record producer, best known as the last remaining original member of the British-American rock band Foreigner. Prior to Foreigner, he was in the band Spooky Tooth. Early life Michael Leslie Jones was born on 27 December 1944 in Portsmouth, England. Jones started playing guitar at an early age, and decided to pursue a career in music. Career He began his professional music career in the early 1960s as a member of the band Nero and the Gladiators, who scored two minor British hit singles in 1961. After the demise of Nero and the Gladiators, Jones worked as a songwriter and session musician in France for such artists as Françoise Hardy, Sylvie Vartan, and Johnny Hallyday ("The French Elvis"), for whom he wrote many songs, including "Je suis né dans la rue" and "À tout casser" (which features Jimmy Page on guitar). When The Beatles toured France in 1964, they befriended Jones when Hall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waiting For A Girl Like You
"Waiting for a Girl Like You" is a 1981 power ballad by the British-American rock band Foreigner released as the second single from the album '' 4'' (1981) and was co-written by Lou Gramm and Mick Jones. The opening motif was written by Ian McDonald and the distinctive synthesizer theme was performed by the then-little-known Thomas Dolby. It has become one of the band's most successful songs worldwide, peaking at number 2 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, number 1 on ''Billboards Rock Tracks chart, and number 1 on the ''Radio & Records'' (R&R) Top 40/CHR chart. On both the ''Billboard'' and ''R&R'' Adult Contemporary chart, the song reached number 5. The song peaked at number 8 on the UK Singles Chart. "Waiting for a Girl Like You" achieved a chart distinction by spending its record-setting 10 weeks in the number 2 position of the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart, without ever reaching the top. It debuted on the Hot 100 chart dated October 10, 1981. It reac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
