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Lead Me On (Maxine Nightingale Album)
''Lead Me On'' is the third studio album by British singer Maxine Nightingale. It peaked at number 45 on the ''Billboard'' Top LPs & Tape chart and at number 35 on the R&B albums chart. In the UK, the album had a different track listing and was titled ''Love Lines''. Track listing Side one #"Hideaway" (R. Ellison, P. Brown) – 5:55 #"(Bringing Out) The Girl in Me" ( Ray Parker Jr.) – 3:30 #"Darlin' Dear" ( Pam Sawyer, Marilyn McLeod) – 3:06 #"Love Me Like You Mean It" (Parker Jr.) – 3:02 Side two #" Lead Me On" ( Allee Willis, David Lasley) – 2:45 #"You Got to Me" (Len Boone Len Boone (a.k.a. Leonard Boone C Coleman II) is an American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was a singer/songwriter for Chrysalis Records and Love- Zager Productions and many of his songs charted on ''Billboard''. While still an in ...) – 3:08 #"Ask Billy (They Tell Me)" ( Leroy Bell, Casey James) – 2:59 #"You Are the Most Important Person in Your Life" (Sawyer, McLeod) – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxine Nightingale
Maxine Nightingale (born 2 November 1952) is a British Rhythm and blues, R&B and soul music singing, singer. She is best known for her hit single, hits in the 1970s, with the million seller "Right Back Where We Started From" (1975, UK #8 & 1976, U.S. #2), "Love Hit Me" (1977), and "Lead Me On (Maxine Nightingale song), Lead Me On" (1979). Early life/career One of the three children of Guyana, Guyanese-born comedian Benny Nightingale and his wife Iris (they also had daughter Rosalind and son Glenn), Maxine Nightingale first sang with her school band: she attended Bryon Primary (in Gillingham, Kent), The Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls, Ealing Grammar School, and Guildhall School of Music and Drama. At age thirteen, she and a friend visited a neighbourhood house where the band Unisound was rehearsing. They asked her to sing with them and she joined them in performing extensively on the British cabaret circuit. The manager of one of the clubs where they performed asked Nightingal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Windsong International Records
Windsong International Records was an independent record label in the United Kingdom active in the early 1990s. It specialised in releasing recordings made for or by BBC Radio One for broadcast on the ''In Concert'' radio programme. BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert is a series of albums licensed to Windsong International. BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert series *WINCD001 – Family *WINCD002 – The Sensational Alex Harvey Band *WINCD003 – Caravan *WINCD004 – Wishbone Ash – Paris Theatre, 25 May 1972 *WINCD005 – Nazareth *WINCD006 – Echo & the Bunnymen – Empire Theatre, Liverpool 11 January 1988 *WINCD007 – Hawkwind – Paris Theatre, 28 September 1972 *WINCD008 – The Skids *WINCD009 – The Ruts, Penetration – Paris Theatre, 7 July 1979 *WINCD010 – Q-Tips *WINCD011 – New Order *WINCD012 – John Martyn *WINCD013 – Robin Trower *WINCD014 – Steve Hillage *WINCD015 – Racing Cars *WINCD016 – UFO *WINCD017 – Pat Travers *WINCD018 – Kevin Ayers *WINCD01 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denny Diante
Denny Diante is an American music producer, arranger, and engineer. On March 28, 2012, Diante was announced as the president of eMax Media Group. Diante is listed in Billboard Magazine's Encyclopedia of 100 Most Successful Record Producers. Diante has produced numerous notable artists including B. B. King, Barbra Streisand, Bill Withers, Bobby Brown, Boston, Deneice Williams, Elton John, Glenn Frey, Grateful Dead, Jerry Lee Lewis, John Denver, Johnny Mathis, Julio Iglesias, Maxine Nightingale, Merle Haggard, Neil Diamond, Paul Anka, Sheena Easton, The Oak Ridge Boys, and Tina Turner Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939) is an American-born Swiss retired singer and actress. Widely referred to as the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Queen of Rock 'n' Roll", she rose to prominence as the lead singer o .... References External links *https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1205631/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 *http://www.dennydiante.com/denny_diante_biography.html Living ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Parker Jr
Ray Erskine Parker Jr. (born May 1, 1954) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. As a solo performer, he wrote and performed the theme song to the 1984 film ''Ghostbusters''. Previously, Parker achieved a US top-10 hit in 1982 with " The Other Woman". He also performed with his band, Raydio, and with Barry White. Early life Parker was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Venolia Parker and Ray Parker Sr. He has two siblings: his brother Opelton and his sister Barbara. Parker attended Angel Elementary School where his music teacher, Afred T Kirby, inspired him to be a musician at age six playing the clarinet. Parker attended Cass Technical High School in the 10th grade. Parker is a 1971 graduate of Detroit's Northwestern High School. He was raised in the Dexter-Grand Boulevard neighborhood on its West Side. Parker attended college at Lawrence Institute of Technology. Music career Early work Parker gained recognition during the late 1960s as a member o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Life (Maxine Nightingale Album)
''Night Life'' is the second album by British R&B and soul music singer Maxine Nightingale. She is best known for her hits in the 1970s, with the million-seller "Right Back Where We Started From" (1975, U.K. & 1976, U.S.), "Love Hit Me" (Track 3 of this album), and "Lead Me On" (1979). Track listing Side One #"Will You Be My Lover" (Steve Fields) - 3:00 #"You Are Everything" (Thom Bell, Linda Creed) - 2:47 #"Love Hit Me"† (J. Vincent Edwards) - 2:46 #"You" (Christopher Bond) - 3:50 #"Get It Up for Love" (Ned Doheny) - 4:07 Side Two #"Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)" (William Hart, Thom Bell) - 3:22 #"Love or Let Me Be Lonely"‡ (Anita Poree, Jerry Peters, Skip Scarborough) - 3:34 #"I Wonder Who's Waiting Up for You Tonight" (Ed Welch, Graham Dee) - 3:18 #"How Much Love (Leo Sayer song), How Much Love" (Barry Mann, Leo Sayer) - 3:19 #"Right Now"¶ (Dennis Belfield) - 4:33 *†Arranged by Jimmie Haskell and Michel Colombier *¶Arranged by Larry Carlton - strings arranged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lead Me On (Maxine Nightingale Song)
"Lead Me On" is a popular song which was a hit single for Maxine Nightingale in 1979. Overview The song was written by Allee Willis and David Lasley: (Allee Willis quote:) "David and I were just writing all the time, and there was a song out called 'Emotion' by Samantha Sang that we both really loved. So we said: 'Let’s write something in that spirit.' I was going through a huge breakup at the time, so for me Lead Me On'was just a completely autobiographical song." "Lead Me On" was introduced on ''Love Lines'' which was Nightingale's third album for United Artists Records. ''Love Lines'' was issued in 1978 in the UK and Europe and "Lead Me On" was the second of two non-charting singles from the album, the first being "(Bringing Out) The Girl in Me"). Although United Artists did not release "Lead Me On" or its parent album in the US, Al Teller, who had been president of United Artists when Nightingale recorded her breakout hit "Right Back Where We Started From", made the US re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard 200
The ''Billboard'' 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States. It is published weekly by '' Billboard'' magazine and is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists. Often, a recording act will be remembered by its " number ones", those of their albums that outperformed all others during at least one week. The chart grew from a weekly top 10 list in 1956 to become a top 200 list in May 1967, and acquired its current name in March 1992. Its previous names include the ''Billboard'' Top LPs (1961–1972), ''Billboard'' Top LPs & Tape (1972–1984), ''Billboard'' Top 200 Albums (1984–1985) and ''Billboard'' Top Pop Albums (1985–1992). The chart is based mostly on sales – both at retail and digital – of albums in the United States. The weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but since July 2015, tracking week begins on Friday (to coinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pam Sawyer
Pamela Joan Sawyer (born 1938) is a British songwriter/lyricist, who started writing songs in the mid-1960s and whose credits as a co-writer at Motown included " Love Child", " If I Were Your Woman", "My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me)", and "Love Hangover". Songs written by Pam Sawyer, ''MusicVF.com'' Retrieved 17 April 2016 Biography She was born in , England. Wanting to become a songwriter, she contacted in London, who was impressed and introduced her to visiting Am ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marilyn McLeod
Marilyn McLeod (May 27, 1939 – November 24, 2021) was an American songwriter and occasional singer. McLeod began her career as a songwriter for Motown. Together with Pam Sawyer, she wrote the 1976 Diana Ross hit "Love Hangover". Early life McLeod was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1939 into a musical family – her half-brother Ernie Farrow became a noted jazz performer, and her sister Alice married John Coltrane and recorded many albums as a jazz keyboard player and harpist. Marilyn McLeod, ''Geni.com'' Retrieved April 18, 2016 "Marilyn McLeod, Hit Motown Songwriter with A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allee Willis
Alta Sherral "Allee" Willis (November 10, 1947 – December 24, 2019) was an American songwriter, multi-media artist, collector, and art director. Willis co-wrote hit songs including "September" and "Boogie Wonderland" by Earth, Wind & Fire. She also co-wrote the song " What Have I Done to Deserve This?", a number 2 hit in both the UK (in 1987) and U.S. (in 1988) for Pet Shop Boys featuring Dusty Springfield. She won two Grammy Awards for ''Beverly Hills Cop'' and ''The Color Purple'', the latter of which was also nominated for a Tony Award, and was nominated for an Emmy Award for " I'll Be There for You", which was used as the theme song for the sitcom ''Friends''. Her compositions sold over 60 million records and she was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2018 as the only woman to be inducted that year. Early life Willis was born and grew up in Detroit, Michigan, where she attended Mumford High School. Her parents were Jewish. Her father, Nathan, was a scrapyard dea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Lasley
David Eldon Lasley (August 20, 1947 – December 9, 2021) was an American recording artist, singer, musician and songwriter. He was best known as a touring background singer for James Taylor, as a session singer on recordings by artists including James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, Luther Vandross, Chic (band), Chic, Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick, Bette Midler, Dusty Springfield and Boz Scaggs; as a songwriter for artists including Bonnie Raitt, Whitney Houston, Anita Baker, Maxine Nightingale, Rita Coolidge, Crystal Gayle, and Luther Vandross; and for his solo albums, albums with his 1970s vocal group Rosie, and for his early years in Detroit with his vocal group The Utopias. His best known songs include Maxine Nightingale's "Lead Me On (Maxine Nightingale song), Lead Me On" (co-written with Allee Willis), The Manhattan Transfer's "Shaker Song" (co-written with Willis and Jay Beckenstein), and Boz Scaggs' "Jojo (Boz Scaggs song), Jojo" (co-written with Scaggs and David Foster. In 1980, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Len Boone
Len Boone (a.k.a. Leonard Boone C Coleman II) is an American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was a singer/songwriter for Chrysalis Records and Love- Zager Productions and many of his songs charted on ''Billboard''. While still an intern at Chrysalis, he wrote the international hit single “You Made Me Believe in Magic” (Arista Records) for the album '' It’s a Game'' by the Scottish Pop band, the Bay City Rollers. In 1977, the song reached number 10 on the US Hot 100 in ''Billboard'' magazine and number 7 on the ''Cash Box'' Top 100 charts. In Canada, “You Made Me Believe in Magic” peaked at number 5, and still ranks as their 68th greatest hit of 1977. The song also charted in Germany, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. "You Made Me Believe in Magic" also won Boone a plaque from ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers). Early years Boone grew up in Fieldsboro, New Jersey and attended Bordentown Regional High School. He was a standout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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