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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] |
Chrysalis Records
Chrysalis Records () is a British record label that was founded in 1968. The name is both a reference to the pupal stage of a butterfly and a combination of its founders' names, Chris Wright and Terry Ellis. It started as the Ellis-Wright Agency. History Early years In an interview for Jethro Tull's video ''20 Years of Jethro Tull'', released in 1988, Wright states "''Chrysalis Records'' might have come into being anyway, you never know what might have happened, but ''Chrysalis Records'' really came into being because Jethro Tull couldn't get a record deal and MGM couldn't even get their name right on the record". This was after the single " Sunshine Day/Aeroplane" was incorrectly credited to 'Jethro Toe'. Chrysalis entered into a licensing deal with Chris Blackwell's Island Records for distribution, based on the success of bands like Jethro Tull, Ten Years After and Procol Harum, which were promoted by the label. Jethro Tull signed with Reprise Records in the United Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franklin High School (New Jersey)
Franklin High School (FHS) is a comprehensive four-year public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades, located in the Somerset section of Franklin Township in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Franklin Township Public Schools. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,176 students and 185.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.7:1. There were 762 students (35.0% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 177 (8.1% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.School data for Franklin High School |
Sharing Your Love
''Sharing Your Love'' is the third studio album by the Italian/U.S. ensemble Change. It was released in 1982 and reached number sixty-six on the US ''Billboard'' Album Chart and fourteen on the US ''Billboard'' Black Albums chart. ''Sharing Your Love'' includes the singles "The Very Best in You", " Oh What a Night", "Sharing Your Love", "Hard Times (It's Gonna Be Alright)" and "Keep On It" (in Italy only). The band recorded the songs for album at Mediasound Studios, New York City. The sessions were then mastered at Sterling Sound Studios. Receiving mixed to positive reviews the album was originally released as an LP in April 1982. The artwork was designed by Greg Porto. Reception ''Sharing Your Love'' received mixed to positive reviews by the majority of critics. Track listing Personnel * Jacques Fred Petrus - Producer * Mauro Malavasi - Producer * Jack Skinner - Engineering Recorded at Mediasound Studios, NY. Mastered at Sterling Sound, NY. ;Change * James "Crab" Robins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Change (band)
Change is an Italian-American post-disco group formed in Bologna, Italy, in 1979 by businessman and executive producer Jacques Fred Petrus (1948–1987) and Mauro Malavasi (born 1957). They were heavily influenced by the disco band Chic. The current incarnation of the group formed in 2018. Career Concept Change was initially formed in early 1979 as a studio band with a revolving stable of musicians, led by businessman and executive producer Jacques Fred Petrus, with the majority of songwriting and production carried out by Mauro Malavasi and Davide Romani. The band's dual Italian and American identity was a result of a production system in which the music, excepting the vocals, were written and recorded by Italian collaborators in studios such as Fonoprint Studios, Bologna, Italy. These backing tracks were then sent to the USA where vocals were added by American performers, before being mixed into finalised versions in major studios such as the Power Station in New York City. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elusion
Elusion was a female R&B group that consisted of two separate sets of identical twin sisters, Tamica and Tanya Johnson, and Michelle and Marie Harris. They only released one album as a group, ''Think About It'' in 1998. Michelle and Marie were born in San Diego, California while Tamica and Tanya are from Selma, Alabama. They teamed up to form the group, Elusion. Their debut album included their mildly received single, "Reality". The song has since achieved cult status. The album is notable for also including production by Missy Elliott Melissa Arnette Elliott (born July 1, 1971), better known as Missy Elliott or Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliot, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer. She embarked on her music career with R&B girl group Sista in the earl ... before she became famous, on the track titled "Good and Plenty". Tanya and Tamica formed a group called Nubreed. Discography ;Albums *1998: ''Think About It'' (RCA) ;Singles *1997: "Reality" Refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amii Stewart
Amy Paulette "Amii" Stewart (born January 29, 1956) is an American disco and soul singer and dancer who found prominence with her 1979 U.S. Billboard number 1 hit cover of Eddie Floyd's song " Knock on Wood", often considered a classic of the disco genre. Stewart scored further international hits including "Light My Fire" (1979) and " Friends" (1985). Stewart is the stepsister of actress-singer Miquel Brown and aunt to Brown's actress-singer daughter Sinitta. Career Amy Stewart, the fifth of six children, was born into "a big, trictly Catholic, butfun loving, country style family... as my mum was one of thirteen children". Her father, Joseph Stewart II, signed her up for singing and dancing lessons in 1960, when she was four years old. An Amy Stewart was already registered with the Actors' Equity Association, so she changed the spelling of her first name to Amii. She briefly enrolled in the Howard University in Washington but soon left for the Classical Repertory Dance Ensembl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cotillion Records
Cotillion Records was a subsidiary of Atlantic Records (from 1971 part of WEA) and was active from 1968 through 1985. The label was formed as an outlet for pop, R&B, and jazz. Its first single, Otis Clay's version of "She's About a Mover", reached the R&B charts. Cotillion's catalog quickly expanded to include progressive rock, folk-rock, gospel, jazz and comedy. In 1976, the label started focusing on disco and R&B. At that point, Cotillion's catalog albums outside those genres were reissued on Atlantic. Among its acts were the post-Curtis Mayfield Impressions; Slave; Brook Benton; Young-Holt Unlimited; Freddie King; Jean Knight; Mass Production; Sister Sledge; The Velvet Underground; Slade; Stacy Lattisaw; Lou Donaldson; Mylon LeFevre; Stevie Woods; Johnny Gill; Emerson, Lake & Palmer; Garland Green; The Dynamics; The Fabulous Counts; Screaming Lord Sutch; and The Fatback Band. Herbie Mann recorded for them, and had his own record label subsidiary there, Embryo Records, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dee Edwards (singer)
Doris Jean Harrell (June 19, 1945 – January 25, 2006), who recorded professionally under the name Dee Edwards, was an American singer. Biography Edwards was married to the arranger Floyd Jones, and they collaborated on some songs that Guido Marasco released on his GM and Bumpshop record labels in 1970, releasing "Say It Again With Feeling". After one RCA single in 1972, Jones followed up with the song for the De-To label, "I Can Deal With That", which was the last of Edwards' Detroit recording sessions. The couple relocated to New York, enjoying ''Billboard'' chart action with a disco hit released on Cotillion in 1979, "Don't Sit Down", taken from the album ''Heavy Love'', which also featured the ballad "No Love, No World" and her cover version of Acker Bilk's " Stranger On The Shore". During the 1980s, Edwards recorded her own version of "It Has Come to My Attention", popular with the UK soul fraternity. A keen painter, Edwards then left the music industry to concentrat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rory Block
Aurora "Rory" Block (born November 6, 1949, in Princeton, New Jersey) is an American blues guitarist and singer, a notable exponent of the country blues style. Career Aurora Block was born in Princeton and grew up in Manhattan. Her father, Allan Block, ran a sandal shop in Greenwich Village in the 1960s, and the Greenwich Village folk music scene, such as Peter Rowan, Maria Muldaur, and John Sebastian influenced Block to study classical guitar. At the age of 14, she met guitarist Stefan Grossman, who introduced her to the music of Mississippi Delta blues guitarists. Block began listening to old albums, transcribing them, and learning to play the songs. At age 15, she left home to seek out the remaining blues giants, such as Mississippi John Hurt, Reverend Gary Davis, and Son House, and hone her craft in the traditional manner of blues musicians; then she traveled to Berkeley, California, where she played in clubs and coffeehouses. After retiring temporarily to raise a family, Bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Artists
United Artists Corporation (UA), currently doing business as United Artists Digital Studios, is an American digital production company. Founded in 1919 by D. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks, the studio was premised on allowing actors to control their own interests, rather than being dependent upon commercial studios. UA was repeatedly bought, sold, and restructured over the ensuing century. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquired the studio in 1981 for a reported $350 million ($ billion today). On September 22, 2014, MGM acquired a controlling interest in entertainment companies One Three Media and Lightworkers Media, then merged them to revive United Artists' television production unit as United Artists Media Group (UAMG). However, on December 14 of the following year, MGM wholly acquired UAMG and folded it into MGM Television. United Artists was again revived in 2018 as United Artists Digital Studios. Mirror, the joint distribution ventur ... [...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] |
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