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Gina G
Gina G (born Gina Mary Gardiner, 3 August 1970) is an Australian singer who represented the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1996, with the song " Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit", which reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart. The song also reached the US top 20 in 1997 and earned her a 1998 Grammy Award nomination for Best Dance Recording. Her other UK Top 30 hits are " I Belong to You" #6 (1996), "Fresh" #6 (1997), "Ti Amo" #11 (1997) and " Gimme Some Love" #25 (1997). Career Early 1990s Gina G was a DJ in Melbourne and a singer in the Australian dance music group Bass Culture. She appeared under the name Geena for a track she co-wrote with the group, " Love the Life", which was released in Australia in May 1992. Mid to late 1990s By 1995, she had moved to the UK, where she entered the ''A Song for Europe'' competition. She won, becoming the UK's entry in the 1996 Eurovision Song Contest, with the song " Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit". The song finished in ei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gimme Some Love (Gina G Song)
"Gimme Some Love" is a song recorded by Australian singer Gina G from her debut album, ''Fresh!'' (1997). Released in August 1997, it was the fifth single release by Gina G (though the catalogue number indicates it may have been planned to be released ahead of "Ti Amo") and the second single to be released in the US. She wrote it with Bob Wainwright, John Collins, Mark Taylor and Richard Burton. The second UK CD release contained remixes of "Higher Than Love", a Motiv8-produced song from the ''Fresh!'' album, which had previously been released on promotional vinyl. In the UK, "Gimme Some Love" peaked at number 25 (her last top 40 hit), spending just two weeks in the UK top 75 and a further three weeks in the top 200. Critical reception Patrick McDonald from '' The Advertiser'' noted that the singer "dances on the edge of a techno beat" with "Gimme Some Love". J.D. Considine from ''The Baltimore Sun'' remarked the song's "pumping house beats". Larry Flick from ''Billboard'' wrote, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ti Amo (Gina G Song)
"Ti Amo" is a song recorded by Australian singer Gina G, released in May 1997 as the fourth single from her debut album, ''Fresh!'' (1997). Written by her with Mark Taylor and Paul Barry, it is a flamenco-flavoured story of a holiday romance. It was a number-one hit in Romania and a top 10 hit in Finland, Scotland and Israel. In the UK, it peaked at number 11 and was the first single by her to not reach the UK top 10. Gina G performed the song in the British music chart television programme ''Top of the Pops''. Composition The song moved away from Gina G.'s previous, fast-paced Eurodance songs and has a sultry, sensual mid-tempo that allows the singer to fully immerse herself into character and tell the tale of a torrid summer romance. It arrived well ahead of the Latin-pop phenomenon that swept the charts in the late ‘90s and features influences like a Flamenco guitar. The song runs 2 minutes and 53 seconds long with a F# Minor key and 100bpm. Critical reception Larry Flick fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fresh! (Gina G Song)
"Fresh!" is a song by Australian singer Gina G from her debut album, ''Fresh!'' (1997). Written by her with John Collins, Mark Taylor and Paul Barry, it was released in March 1997 as the third single by Gina G and shortly before the parent album. One of the CD releases contained an album teaser narrated by Mark Goodier. It was Gina's third and last top 10 hit, entering the UK charts at number six. The single spent seven weeks in the top 75 and a further six weeks in the top 200. Outside Europe, it charted in Australia and Israel, peaking at number 23 and 16. Critical reception Patrick McDonald from '' The Advertiser'' wrote that Gina G is "remaining in a joyous pop vein" with the "cheeky" song. J.D. Considine from ''The Baltimore Sun'' compared "Fresh!" to the songs that the Stock Aitken Waterman team devised for Rick Astley and Bananarama. Richard Paton from '' The Blade'' described it as a "peppy, R&B-influenced" song. Can't Stop the Pop deemed it a "retro-inspired bop", and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Belong To You (Gina G Song)
"I Belong to You" is a song recorded by Australian singer Gina G from her debut album, ''Fresh!'' (1997). It was released on 28 October 1996 as the follow-up to " Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit" and was her first release to be produced by Metro, who would produce the majority of her singles. Written by her with Bill Colbourne, it spent two weeks in the UK top 10, peaking at number six and spending a further 9 weeks in the top 75 (and a further 9 weeks in the top 200). The single also was a top 20 hit in Denmark, Finland, Ireland and Mexico. Gina G performed "I Belong to You" in various TV-shows, like ''Top of the Pops'' and ''WOW!''. Critical reception British magazine ''Music Week'' rated "I Belong to You" four out of five, complimenting it as "hugely catchy dance pop." The reviewer added, "It is unlikely to get as much exposure as her Eurovision contender, but deserves to be a smash." Pop Rescue stated that the song followed " Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit" "perfectly as it is fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allen & Unwin
George Allen & Unwin was a British publishing company formed in 1911 when Sir Stanley Unwin purchased a controlling interest in George Allen & Co. It went on to become one of the leading publishers of the twentieth century and to establish an Australian subsidiary in 1976. In 1990, Allen & Unwin was sold to HarperCollins and the Australian branch was the subject of a management buy-out. George Allen & Unwin in the UK George Allen & Sons was established in 1871 by George Allen, with the backing of John Ruskin, becoming George Allen & Co. Ltd. in 1911 and then George Allen & Unwin in 1914 as a result of Stanley Unwin's purchase of a controlling interest. Unwin's son Rayner S. Unwin and nephew Philip helped run the company, which published the works of Bertrand Russell, Arthur Waley, Roald Dahl, Lancelot Hogben, and Thor Heyerdahl. It became well known as J. R. R. Tolkien's publisher, some time after publishing the popular children's fantasy novel ''The Hobbit'' in 1937, and its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Song For Europe
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest 1996 was the 41st edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 18 May 1996 at the in Oslo, Norway. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster (NRK) and presented by Norwegian journalist and television presenter Ingvild Bryn and Norwegian singer Morten Harket, the contest was held in Norway following the country's victory at the with the song "" by Secret Garden. Thirty countries submitted entries to the contest, with a non-public, audio-only qualifying round held two months before the final to reduce the number of participants from 30 to 23. The entries from , , , , , and were subsequently eliminated, which resulted in Germany being absent from the contest for the first time. The winner was with the song "The Voice", written by Brendan Graham and performed by Eimear Quinn. This gave the nation a record-extending seventh contest win, their fourth win in five years, with Graham also recording his second win as a son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Encyclopedia Of Australian Rock And Pop
''The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop'' or ''Rock and Pop'' by Australian music journalist Ian McFarlane is a guide to Australian popular music from the 1950s to the late 1990s. The book has a similar title to the 1978 work by Noel McGrath, ''Australian Encyclopaedia of Rock and Pop'', but is not otherwise related. Publishers, Allen & Unwin described McFarlane's encyclopedia as containing over 870 entries and an "essential reference to the bands and artists who molded the shape of Australian popular music ..in an A-to-Z encyclopedia format complete with biographical and historical details. Each entry also includes listings of original band lineups and subsequent changes, record releases, career highlights, and cross-references with related bands and artists." The first edition is out of print, but was for a time available on the whammo.com.au online record store, and is still in the Internet Archive. In 2017 a second edition was published by Third Stone Press. Reviews ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Leonards, New South Wales
St Leonards is a suburb on the lower North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. St Leonards is located north-west of the Sydney central business district and lies across the local government areas of Municipality of Lane Cove, North Sydney Council and the City of Willoughby. History St Leonards was named after English statesman Viscount Sydney of St Leonards. Originally, St Leonards applied to the whole area from the present suburb of North Sydney to Gore Hill. The township of St Leonards in 1883 is now North Sydney. The oldest railway station on the North Shore line opened in 1890 in St Leonards and originally only ran to Hornsby. The Gore Hill cemetery was established on the Pacific Highway in 1868 and was the main burial site for the area until its closure in 1975. It is still maintained as a heritage site by the Department of Local Government and Lands, Willoughby Municipal Council and the Heritage Council of New South Wales. Heritage list ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love The Life
"Love the Life" is the 1992 debut single by the Australian act Bass Culture, featuring vocalist and songwriter Gina Gardiner, who was credited as Geena before becoming more internationally known as Gina G. The single was taken from the group's debut album ''BC Nation'', which was released in 1993. Although the single peaked outside the top 100 on the ARIA Charts, the song and its video (featuring the act performing in a field of sunflowers) would find renewed interest in the wake of Gina G's global success, prompting Mushroom Records to re-release the song and retitle Geena's billing to Gina G in 1996. Track listing Australian CD (1992): # Love the Life (Radio Edit) 4:12 # Love the Life (Dance Mix) 6:41 # Love the Life (Rave Edit) 3:30 # Love the Life (Rave Remix) 7:36 # Love the Trance Remix 5:54 Australian CD (1996 remixes): # Love the Life (Radio Edit) 4:08 # Love the Life (Club Mix) 5:43 # Love the Life (Pee Wee's Mix) 8:54 # Love the Life (Ivan Gough's M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard Hot 100
The ''Billboard'' Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by '' Billboard'' magazine. Chart rankings are based on sales (physical and digital), radio play, and online streaming in the United States. The weekly tracking period for sales was initially Monday to Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but was changed to Friday to Thursday in July 2015. This tracking period also applies to compiling online streaming data. Radio airplay, which, unlike sales figures and streaming, is readily available on a real-time basis, is also tracked on a Friday to Thursday cycle effective with the chart dated July 17, 2021 (previously Monday to Sunday and before July 2015, Wednesday to Tuesday). A new chart is compiled and officially released to the public by ''Billboard'' on Tuesdays but post-dated to the following Saturday. The first number-one song of the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 was " Poor Little Fool" by Ricky Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hot Dance Club Songs
Dance Club Songs is a chart published weekly by '' Billboard'' magazine in the United States. It is a national look over of club disc jockeys to determine the most popular songs being played in nightclubs across the country. It was launched as the Disco Action Top 30 chart on August 28, 1976, and became the first chart by ''Billboard'' to document the popularity of dance music. The first number-one song on the chart for the issue dated August 28, 1976, was "You Should Be Dancing" by the Bee Gees, spending five weeks atop the chart and the group's only number-one song on the chart. In January 2017, ''Billboard'' proclaimed Madonna as the most successful artist in the history of the chart, ranking her first in their list of the 100 top all-time dance artists. Madonna holds the record for the most number-one songs with 50. Katy Perry holds the record for having eighteen consecutive number-one songs. Perry's third studio album, '' Teenage Dream'' (2010), became the first album in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
