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Closer (Melba Moore Album)
''Closer'' is the tenth album by singer Melba Moore, released in 1980. It was also her final album on Epic Records before moving to EMI EMI Group Limited (originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records Ltd. or simply EMI) was a British Transnational corporation, transnational Conglomerate (company), conglomerate founded in March 1 ... in 1981.Billboard - 6 Sep 1980 THE CLOSER YOU GET THE MOORE YOU LIKE IT! Everyone who heard her last album, "Burn," remembers how hot it can get when you're near Melba. Well, her new album is hotter than that! Featured a McFadden and Whitehead tune, and the single "Everything So Good About You.'Vsows ^ That single is already 73* in Billboard, 91 in ^ Cash Box and 65 in Record World, and it's just warming up. Which means Melba's getting "Closer" and "Closer." To the top! ^ % £^ Melba Moore's ... Track listing All tracks composed by Bruce Hawes, Melba Moore and Victor Carstarphen; except where indi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melba Moore
Beatrice Melba Hill or Beatrice Melba Smith (sources differ) (born October 29, 1945), known by her stage name Melba Moore, is an American singer and actress. Biography Early life and education Moore was born Beatrice Melba Hill or Beatrice Melba Smith (sources differ) in New York City to Gertrude Melba Smith (1920–1976), who was a singer professionally known as Bonnie Davis and Teddy Hill (1909–1978), a big band leader. Moore grew up in the Harlem section of New York until age 9 when her mother remarried jazz pianist Clement Leroy Moorman and the family relocated to Newark, New Jersey. For high school, Moore attended Newark Arts High School , graduating in 1958. In 1970, she graduated from Montclair State College with a BA in music. Early career Moore began her recording career in 1967, cutting the track "Magic Touch" which was left unreleased until 1986. In later years it became an enormous track on the Northern Soul Scene, eventually leading to Moore performing it live in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epic Records
Epic Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America Sony Corporation of America (SONAM, also known as SCA), is the American arm of the Japanese conglomerate Sony Group Corporation SONAM, headquartered in New York City, manages the company's US-based businesses. Sony's principal U.S. business ..., the North American division of Japanese Conglomerate (company), conglomerate Sony. The label was founded predominantly as a jazz and classical music label in 1953, but later expanded its scope to include a more diverse range of genres, including pop music, pop, Rhythm and blues, R&B, rock music, rock, and hip hop music, hip hop. History Beginnings Epic Records was launched in 1953 by the Columbia Records unit of CBS, for the purpose of marketing jazz, pop music, pop, and European classical music, classical music that did not fit the theme of its more mainstream Columbia Records label. Initial classical music r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burn (Melba Moore Album)
''Burn'' is the ninth album by singer Melba Moore, released in 1979.Bruce A. Hawes - GROWING UP IN THE SOUND OF PHILADELPHIA 0615689469 2013 There was also an album of songs that Melba Moore and I co-wrote with Pete Billotti who produced the (Burn) album for Melba. Pete Billotti also produced music for. Critical reception The ''Bay State Banner'' wrote that "Moore still doesn't comprehend that in disco, a singer takes a crowd to peak by building up passion rather than changing constantly (as in a conversation) from soft to loud." Track listing #"Burn" (Melba Moore, Pete Bellotte Peter John Bellotte (born 28 August 1943)Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Birth Index: 1916–2005 atabase on-line Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008. Original data: General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Index ...) #"Hot and Tasty" (Bruce Hawes, Melba Moore, Mikki Farrow) #"If You Believe in Love" (Melba Moore, Pete Bellotte) #"Night People" (Bruce Hawes, Melba M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What A Woman Needs
''What a Woman Needs'' is the eleventh studio album by American singer Melba Moore. It was released by EMI America Records on October 12, 1981. Her debut project with the label, it reached number 46 US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a music chart published weekly by '' Billboard'' magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales in the United States and is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The chart debuted as Hot R&B LPs in the issue dated J ... chart. Moore wrote six of the eight songs.Jet - 3 Jan 1983 - Page 64: Melba Moore Stakes Claim To Fame As Recording Star - It's hard to imagine that being immensely successful on Broadway would prove to be a stumbling block for someone venturing into the recording industry. But that was the case for Melba Moore who starred in such Broadway productions as Hair, Purlie and Timbuktu. "Finding myself as a recording star was a little hard at first, ... album and six of eight on What A Woman Needs." Track listing C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Could Never Miss You (More Than I Do)
"I Could Never Miss You (More Than I Do)" was the fourth and final US Top 40 hit for Lulu. History "I Could Never Miss You (More Than I Do)" was introduced on Lulu's 1978 album '' Don't Take Love For Granted'', a Rocket Records release co-produced by Mark London the co-writer of Lulu's signature song "To Sir, With Love" and also the husband of Lulu's longtime manager Marion Massey. The album's other co-producer was Lem Lubin onetime bassist with Unit 4 + 2 and Christie and from 1977 a&r head for Rocket Records. According to Lulu, Mark London had discovered Neil Harrison and asked Lulu to record demos of Harrison's compositions to pitch to another singer: (quote Lulu:) "as soon as we did the demos it was very obvious that they weren't going to be demos. They were obviously going to be for me."The Palm Beach Post 27 November 1981 p. 28 A total of four Harrison compositions would appear on the ''Don't Take Love For Granted'' including the title cut and "Love is the Sweetest Mist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980 Albums
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Melba Moore Albums
Melba may refer to: * Dame Nellie Melba (1861–1931), Australian soprano opera singer ** ''Melba'' (film), a 1953 musical biopic drama film about Nellie Melba ** ''Melba'' (miniseries), a 1988 Australian mini series about Nellie Melba * Melba Montgomery (born 1938), country music singer * Melba Moore (born 1945), American R&B singer and actress ** ''Melba'' (1976 album) ** ''Melba'' (1978 album) ** ''Melba'' (TV series), a short-lived television series that starred Melba Moore * Melba Roy Mouton (died 1990), American NASA scientist * Melba (apple) * ''Melba'' (beetle), a genus of insects in the family Staphylinidae Things named after Nellie Melba * Peach Melba, a dessert * Melba toast, a dry, thin, crisp toast often served with soup * Melba, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb of Canberra, Australia * Melba Gully State Park, an environmentally significant area of the Otway Ranges * Melba Conservatorium Victoria, a music school associated with Victoria University Other u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |