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If You Ever Leave Me
"If You Ever Leave Me" is a vocal duet between American singers Barbra Streisand and Vince Gill. The song was written by Richard Marx, and produced by Marx and David Foster. It first appeared as a song on Streisand's twenty-eighth studio album, ''A Love Like Ours'' (1999), and was released as an international CD single that included three additional tracks, two of which were recorded during the ''A Love Like Ours'' sessions but were not included on the album. The song later was included on Streisand's ''Duets'' album, released in 2002. Critical reception The song was well received among music critics. J.D. Considine from ''The Baltimore Sun'' described it as "pop-oriented fare", that "offers an impressive emotional depth." Chuck Taylor from ''Billboard'' declared it as a "luscious power ballad", noting that "it's hard to imagine a better combination of mature voices than that on this tantalizing song about needing to spend every minute with the one you love". He also felt that "t ...
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Barbra Streisand
Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand (; born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress and director. With a career spanning over six decades, she has achieved success in multiple fields of entertainment, and is among the few performers List of people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards, awarded an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT). Streisand began her career by performing in nightclubs and Broadway theaters in the early 1960s. Following her guest appearances on various television shows, she signed to Columbia Records, insisting that she retain full artistic control, and accepting lower pay in exchange, an arrangement that continued throughout her career, and released her debut ''The Barbra Streisand Album'' (1963), which won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Throughout her recording career, Streisand has topped the US Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200 chart with 11 albums—a record for a woman—including ''People (Barbra Streisand album), People'' (1 ...
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Let's Start Right Now
"Let's Start Right Now" is a song recorded by Barbra Streisand set to the music of the Brazilian song "Raios de Luz" written by Brazilian songwriters Cristovão Bastos and Abel Silva released in 1991 by Simone. Its English lyrics were written by Roxanne Seeman and are unrelated to the original Portuguese-language song. The song was recorded with a 72-piece orchestra arranged and conducted by Jorge Calandrelli at the Sony Pictures Studio Scoring Stage in 1999, produced by Barbra Streisand during the "A Love Like Ours" album sessions. Humberto Gatica was the recording engineer. Barbra Streisand and Jay Landers are the executive producers of the track. "Let's Start Right Now" was included as a promotional bonus CD single (Columbia #CSK 43719) in a limited edition of Barbra Streisand's "A Love Like Ours" album (Columbia #CK 63981) sold exclusively at Sam Goody and all U.S. Musicland Group stores. "Let's Start Right Now" appears as a bonus track on the international CD single rel ...
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Mervyn Warren
Mervyn Edwin Warren (born February 29, 1964) is an American film composer, record producer, conductor, arranger, lyricist, songwriter, pianist, and vocalist. Warren is a five-time Grammy Award winner and a 10-time Grammy Award nominee. Warren has written the underscore and songs for many feature and television films and has written countless arrangements in a variety of musical styles for producers Quincy Jones, David Foster, Arif Mardin, and dozens of popular recording artists, including extensive work on Jones' '' Back on the Block,'' ''Q's Jook Joint,'' and '' Q: Soul Bossa Nostra.'' Warren has also produced numerous jazz, pop, R&B, contemporary Christian, and gospel artists, typically arranging those recordings and often performing on them (on piano, keyboards, or vocals), and often writing or co-writing the melodies and lyrics. Warren is best known as an original member of the a cappella vocal group Take 6, for having composed the underscore to the number-1 film ''The ...
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Sony Music Studios
Sony Music Studios was an American music recording and mastering facility in New York City. The five-story building was a music and broadcasting complex located at 460 W. 54th Street, at 10th Avenue, in the Hell's Kitchen section of Manhattan. It opened in 1993 and closed in August 2007. In addition to being the production facility for new popular, classical, and other albums, it was also used as space for soundtrack recording and mixing, post-production, and rehearsals. Sony Music Studios also had facilities for live and taped television broadcasts. Prior to its acquisition by Sony in 1993, the industrial red-brick barn was owned by Camera Mart for 20 years and leased the space to movie and television producers. History Movietone Studio William Fox, President of the Fox Film Corporation, had worked with inventor Theodore W. Case to develop a method for capturing sound on film eventually becoming the Movietone sound system. In August 1926 the Fox-Case Corporation was created ...
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Vlado Meller
Vlado Meller is a Slovak audio mastering engineer, currently with Vlado Meller Mastering in Charleston, South Carolina. Meller works across many genres of music, with credits on rock, hip-hop, pop, jazz, metal, dance, opera, Broadway, and classical albums over 50+ year career. Albums that he engineered have won two Grammy Awards. Biography Meller was born in the former Czechoslovakia and received violin lessons at an early age. He graduated from high school in Košice, Slovakia and studied electrical engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague. After the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, Meller was a refugee in Austria and Italy before emigrating to the United States. In December 1969 he obtained an entry-level job at CBS Records in New York, and later received training in audio mastering. He worked with Sony/CBS for 38 years, and then joined Universal Mastering Studios in 2007 as senior mastering engineer. He later spent a short time at Masterdisk, then ...
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Mick Guzauski
Nathan "Mick" Guzauski is an American multi-platinum mixing engineer and sound engineer. His work spans a wide range of styles, including jazz, R&B, Latin, rock, pop, easy listening, funk and hip hop. He won a 2002 Latin Grammy for Thalía's "Arrasando", four 2004 Latin Grammys for Alejandro Sanz's " No Es Lo Mismo" (including Best Engineered Album), and the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, for Eric Clapton's " Back Home." As of 2001, he had mixed 27 # 1 singles. He also won multiple awards for the engineering and mixing of the Daft Punk album Random Access Memories. Biography While living in Rochester, New York, Guzauski began his engineer career during the 1960s. In the 1970s, Guzauski was hired by Chuck Mangione. Throughout the 1980s, he primarily worked at Conway Studios. He remained in California before going to Sony Music Studios during the mid 1990s. In 2001, Guzauski worked with Michael Jackson to create 5.1-channel surround sound remixes of ...
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Humberto Gatica
Humberto Gatica is a Chilean-born American recording engineer, mixing engineer and record producer, best known for his work with Celine Dion, Chicago, Michael Jackson, Barbra Streisand, Andrea Bocelli, Josh Groban and Michael Bublé. Gatica's international collaborations include producing artists singing in over six languages. Gatica's career is highlighted by humanitarian projects including We Are the World, We Are The World 25 for Haiti, Hands Across America and Voces Unidas Por Chile. He has received 17 Grammy Awards and 24 nominations. Early life and career Gatica was born in Rancagua, Chile in a musical family. His grandparents owned a bar in Rancagua where they played the piano and the harp. His uncles Arturo, Orlando, María and Lucho Gatica were singers. Lucho Gatica is widely known in Latin America as the “King of Bolero”. At age 9, Gatica's father died of an illness and his mother had to travel to the United States to look for employment. He moved in with his grandmo ...
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William Ross (composer)
William Ross (born July 20, 1948) is an American composer, orchestrator, arranger, conductor and music director. Ross is the recipient of three Primetime Emmy Awards (in 2007 and 2009), one Daytime Emmy Award (in 1991), and has been nominated for one Annie Award (in 2008). He has been nominated twice for the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s). Ross is the arranger for Andrea Bocelli's version of Amazing Grace performed during his concert "Andrea Bocelli: Music For Hope - Live From Duomo di Milano", broadcast live on YouTube to over 25 million viewers on April 12, 2020. Ross has worked with artists and musicians ranging from Hollywood composers John Williams, Alan Silvestri, John Powell, Michael Giacchino, Klaus Badelt, and Michael Kamen, to pop music artists including Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion, Andrea Bocelli, Josh Groban, Laura Pausini, Whitney Houston, Kenny G, Michael Jackson, David Foster, Quincy Jones, Babyface and Sting. He ...
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CMT (U
CMT may refer to: Television * Canal Maximo Televisión, a defunct Venezuelan regional network * Castilla–La Mancha TV, a Spanish regional channel * CMT (American TV channel) * CMT (Canadian TV channel) * CMT (Australian TV channel) Science and technology * Cadmium mercury telluride * Cold Metal Transfer, a welding technique Computing * Clustered multi-thread, AMD CPU technology * Chip-level multithreading, a Sun Microsystems technique * Composable Memory Transactions * Container managed transactions in Enterprise JavaBeans Medicine * California mastitis test * Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease of the peripheral nervous system * Chemically modified tetracyclines, a type of tetracycline antibiotics * Certified massage therapist * Combat medical technician Organizations * Confédération Mondiale du Travail (World Confederation of Labour) * Transitional Military Council (Chad) (French: french: Conseil militaire de transition) Education and training * Connecticut Mastery Te ...
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Music Video
A music video is a video of variable duration, that integrates a music song or a music album with imagery that is produced for promotion (marketing), promotional or musical artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a music marketing device intended to promote the sale of Music Recording, music recordings. Although the origins of music videos date back to musical short, musical short films that first appeared, they again came into prominence when Paramount Global's MTV based its format around the medium. These kinds of videos were described by various terms including "illustrated song", "filmed insert", "promotional (promo) film", "promotional clip", "promotional video", "song video", "song clip", "film clip" or simply "video". Music videos use a wide range of styles and contemporary video-making techniques, including animation, live action, live-action, documentary film, documentary, and non-narrative approaches such as Non-narrative film, abstract fi ...
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Hot Country Singles & Tracks
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine in the United States. This 50-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly by collecting airplay data from Nielsen BDS along with digital sales and streaming. The current number-one song, as of the chart dated December 24, 2022, is "You Proof" by Morgan Wallen. History ''Billboard'' began compiling the popularity of country songs with its January 8, 1944, issue. Only the genre's most popular jukebox selections were tabulated, with the chart titled "Most Played Juke Box Folk Records". For approximately ten years, from 1948 to 1958, ''Billboard'' used three charts to measure the popularity of a given song. In addition to the jukebox chart, these charts included: * The "best sellers" chart – started May 15, 1948, as "Best Selling Retail Folk Records". * An airplay chart – started December 10, 1949, as "Country & Western Records Most Played By Folk Disk Jockeys". The juk ...
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