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Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
"Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" is a song written and performed by British-American singer-songwriter Rupert Holmes taken from his fifth studio album '' Partners in Crime'' (1979). As the lead single for the album, the pop song was recommended by ''Billboard'' for radio broadcasters on September 29, 1979, then added to prominent US radio playlists during October–November. Rising in popularity, the song peaked at the end of December to become the final US number-one song of the 1970s. Content The song follows a three-act narrative with three verses and choruses. It’s told from the perspective of a man bored with his partner. While she sleeps, he reads the personals column and sees an ad from a woman seeking a carefree man who, among other things, enjoys piña coladas. Planning to cheat on his partner, he replies and arranges a secret meeting—only to discover the woman is his current partner, who had also planned to cheat on him. They spend the night together, with a deep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rupert Holmes
Rupert Holmes (born David Goldstein; February 24, 1947) is a British-American composer, singer-songwriter, dramatist and author. He is widely known for the hit singles " Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" (1979) and " Him" (1980). He is also known for his musicals '' The Mystery of Edwin Drood'', which earned him two Tony Awards, and ''Curtains'', his AMC television series ''Remember WENN'', and his novel '' Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide''. Life and career Holmes was born David Goldstein in Northwich, Cheshire, England. His father, Leonard Eliot Goldstein, was a United States Army warrant officer and bandleader. His mother, Gwendolen Mary (''née'' Pynn), was English, and both were musical. Holmes has dual British and American citizenship. The family moved when Holmes was six years old to the northern New York City suburb of Nanuet, New York, where Holmes grew up and attended nearby Nyack High School and then the Manhattan School of Music (majoring in cla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Please Don't Go (KC And The Sunshine Band Song)
"Please Don't Go" is a song written by Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch, then members of KC and the Sunshine Band, and released as the second single from the band's sixth album, '' Do You Wanna Go Party'' (1979). Cover versions of the song that reached the top songs charts were recorded by Double You, by KWS (both 1992), and by Basshunter (2008). Original version Originally written in the key of D flat, the song was the band's first sentimental ballad. In the song, the subject pleads for a second chance. Shortly after the song's one-week run at number one, the group broke up and Harry Wayne Casey began a solo career. The song was part of a double-sided single; the flip slide "I Betcha Didn't Know That" was released to R&B stations and reached number 25 on the R&B chart. Chart performance The song was the first number-one hit of the 1980s on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. It was also an international chart hit—it was a number-one hit on the Australian ARIA Charts, the band's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VRT Top 30
__NOTOC__ The Top 30 (also known previously as the BRT Top 30 and today as both the Radio 2 Top 30 and the VRT Top 30) is a Belgian weekly music record chart compiled by the Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie (VRT) network and broadcast every Saturday on its station Radio 2. It debuted on 2 May 1970, with "Spirit in the Sky" by Norman Greenbaum as its first number-one song. It was the pre-eminent music industry standard chart for Flanders (the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium) until January 1995, when the Ultratop 50 was established. However, the Top 30 continues to be compiled to the present day, and as such has become the longest-running music chart in Belgium. Top 30 records *;Most singles in the Top 30: ** Madonna: 52 ** Will Tura: 47 ** Michael Jackson: 46 ** Queen: 40 ** Prince: 33 ** Cliff Richard: 32 ** Clouseau: 32 ** Rod Stewart: 31 ** Tina Turner: 29 ** Kylie Minogue: 29 ** U2: 28 ** Elton John: 27 ** Whitney Houston: 27 ** ABBA: 26 ** Bee Gees: 25 ** Pa ... [...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 historian 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 albums chart 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 releas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Double Drumming
Double drumming (sometimes referred to as double drums) is a musical technique, used mostly in rock music, where two drummers each play a drum kit at the same time. One may play the rhythm while the other may play another style, or both may play the same rhythm. It is more common to have a main drummer with an auxiliary percussionist who plays Latin American latin percussion, percussion, tom-tom drum, toms, or mallet percussion, but this is not considered "double drumming". Featuring two drummers has been common in jazz music, in particular in free jazz. List of bands including double drumming/additional percussionists * * 38 Special (band), 38 Special (two drummers: 1974–87) * ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead * ABBA (two drummers during their 1977 Australian Tour) * Adam and the Ants 1980–1982.(Also for Adam Ant solo live shows 1982–1984, 1995, 2010, 2011–present) * Add N to (X) * The Albion Band (1976-1978) * The Allman Brothers Band (two drummers 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Jordan (drummer)
Steve Jordan (born January 14, 1957) is an American musical director, producer, songwriter, and musician. Currently, he is the drummer for the Rolling Stones. During the 1970s and 1980s, he was a member of the bands for the television shows ''Saturday Night Live'' and '' Late Night with David Letterman''. In the early 1980s, Jordan was a member of the band Eyewitness, along with bandleader Steve Khan on guitar, Anthony Jackson on bass, and Manolo Badrena on percussion. Since the mid-1980s, Jordan has also been a member of the X-Pensive Winos, the side project of The Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards. Jordan and Richards have been production and songwriting partners on many of Richards's solo works. In 2005, he became a member of the John Mayer Trio. Jordan also formed the band The Verbs, which he fronts, with his wife Meegan Voss. On August 5, 2021, it was reported that Charlie Watts had elected to sit out the resumption of the US No Filter Tour due to a heart pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewiston-Porter Sentinel
The ''Niagara County Tribune/Sentinel'' is an American weekly newspaper serving Niagara County, New York. It was formed in 2020 through the merger of ''Niagara-Wheatfield Tribune'' and the ''Lewiston-Porter Sentinel.'' It is published by Skip Mazenauer, owner of Niagara Frontier Publications. It considered a paper of record for Niagara County by the Niagara County Clerk's office. History In 1944, Ollie Howard founded the biweekly ''Island Dispatch.'' A few years later Art and Dorothy Mazenauer started the ''Grand Island PennySaver'' in 1950. At some point the couple sold the paper to their son Skip Mazenauer who went on to buy the ''Island Dispatch'' in 1978. At that time the company Niagara Frontier Publications began. Mazenauer created the ''Niagara-Wheatfield Tribune'' in 1985. Two years later Lewiston Business Association accepted proposals from local newspaper company's to create a weekly community newspaper for Lewiston, New York. Niagara Frontier Publications won the bid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tape Recorder
An audio tape recorder, also known as a tape deck, tape player or tape machine or simply a tape recorder, is a sound recording and reproduction device that records and plays back sounds usually using magnetic tape for storage. In its present-day form, it records a fluctuating signal by moving the tape across a tape head that polarizes the magnetic domains in the tape in proportion to the audio signal. Tape-recording devices include the reel-to-reel tape deck and the cassette deck, which uses a cassette tape (format), cassette for storage. The use of magnetic tape for sound recording originated around 1930 in Germany as paper tape with oxide lacquered to it. Prior to the development of magnetic tape, magnetic wire recording, wire recorders had successfully demonstrated the concept of magnetic recording, but they never offered audio quality comparable to the other recording and broadcast standards of the time. This German invention was the start of a long string of innovations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassette Tape
The Compact Cassette, also commonly called a cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog audio, analog magnetic tape recording format for Sound recording and reproduction, audio recording and playback. Invented by Lou Ottens and his team at the Netherlands, Dutch company Philips, the Compact Cassette was released in August 1963. Compact Cassettes come in two forms, either containing content as a prerecorded cassette (''Musicassette''), or as a fully recordable "blank" cassette. Both forms have two sides and are reversible by the user. Although List of magnetic tape cartridges and cassettes, other tape cassette formats have also existed—for example the Microcassette—the generic term ''cassette tape'' is normally used to refer to the Compact Cassette because of its ubiquity. From 1983 to 1991 the cassette tape was the most popular Timeline of audio formats, audio format for new Record sales, music sales in the United States. Compact Cassettes con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam F
Adam Fenton (born 8 February 1972), also known as Adam F, is an English record producer and DJ who has worked across various genres. He is also the co-founder of the drum and bass label Breakbeat Kaos along with DJ Fresh. He found initial success with the 1990s drum and bass singles "Circles", "Metropolis" / "Mother Earth", and "F-Jam", before releasing his debut studio album ''Colours (Adam F album), Colours'' in 1997. In 2001, he transitioned into hip hop music, producing the album ''Kaos: The Anti-Acoustic Warfare'', featuring collaborations with LL Cool J, Redman (rapper), Redman and De La Soul. He later released a remix album, ''Drum and Bass Warfare'', and collaborated with DJ Fresh. Career Adam began his career with his early release, the techstep 12", "Metropolis" / "Mother Earth", released in 1996 on the Metalheadz record label. His other early successes were the tracks "F-Jam" and "Circles" (the latter breaking into the Top 40, Top 20 in the UK Singles Chart). In 1998 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Goldbergs (2013 TV Series)
''The Goldbergs'' is an American sitcom television series that aired on American Broadcasting Company, ABC from September 24, 2013, to May 3, 2023, lasting ten seasons and 229 episodes. The series was created by Adam F. Goldberg and starred Jeff Garlin, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Sean Giambrone, Troy Gentile, and Hayley Orrantia. The show is produced by Adam F. Goldberg, Seth Gordon and Doug Robinson. It is based on Goldberg's childhood and family in the 1980s, with a childhood version of himself. On April 19, 2022, the series was renewed for a tenth season, which premiered on September 21, 2022. On February 23, 2023, it was announced that the tenth season would be its final season. The series finale aired on May 3, 2023. The series received positive reviews from critics. Premise ''The Goldbergs'' is set in an alternate version of the 1980s in the Philadelphia suburb of Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, and shows the reality of the 1980s through a preadolescence, preadolescent's and, later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saul Goodman
James Morgan Jimmy McGill, better known by his business name Saul Goodman, is a fictional character created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould and portrayed by Bob Odenkirk in the television franchise ''Breaking Bad''. He appears as a major character in ''Breaking Bad'' (2009–2013) and as the titular protagonist of its spin-off ''Better Call Saul'' (2015–2022). Saul is an unscrupulous Albuquerque-based lawyer and con artist who becomes involved in the city's criminal underworld. In ''Breaking Bad'', he acts as the '' consigliere'' for the methamphetamine cooks Walter White and Jesse Pinkman and plays a crucial role in the development of their drug empire. ''Better Call Saul'' main storyline depicts Saul's origins as the aspiring lawyer Jimmy McGill and his moral deterioration in the six years before the events of ''Breaking Bad''; it also features a post-''Breaking Bad'' storyline, where Saul is living under the assumed name Gene Takavic (), that explores the consequence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
