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Little Things (Toby Lightman Album)
''Little Things'' is the first studio album by the American pop rock recording artist Toby Lightman, released on March 30, 2004, by Lava Records. The album peaked at #200 on the ''Billboard'' 200, and is Lightman's only album to appear on the chart. Two singles were released from the original album: " Devils and Angels" and "Everyday". The album was re-released on July 20, 2004, with the addition of a cover version of Mary J. Blige's " Real Love", which was the album's third single. Track listing Production credits *Rob Mounsey – string arrangements *David Mann – saxophone *Nile Rodgers – electric guitar *Tom Lord-Alge – mixing *Tom Barney – bass guitar, upright bass *Bashiri Johnson – percussion *Joe Bonadio – percussion *Matt Brown – engineer *Jimmy Douglass – mixing *Chris Gehringer – mastering *Jesse Levy – cello *Rob Mathes – conductor, horn arrangements *Ozzie Melendez – trombone *Sandra Park – violin *Leon Pendarvis – conductor, string arra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toby Lightman
Toby Lightman is an American singer-songwriter. Her first album, '' Little Things'', was released in 2004 on Lava/Atlantic. Her second album, '' Bird on a Wire'' was released in 2006. During her career, she has toured and performed with bands such as OAR, Rob Thomas, Jewel, Gavin DeGraw, Train, Prince, Marc Broussard, and Carbon Leaf. Lightman released record " Every Kind of People" October 2014. It is distributed by RED. Toby is managed by All Parts Move. Biography Raised in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, Lightman began playing the violin as a child. She was a member of the orchestra at Cherry Hill High School East and started singing when a friend urged her to join a vocal workshop class. The audience response to a solo performance in which Lightman sang a gospel version of Simon and Garfunkel's '' Bridge Over Troubled Water'' led her to pursue her talents as a singer after she graduated from high school in 1996.Strauss, Robert"In Person; More Than Getting By With Help of F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FS (musician)
FS (real name Fred Sargolini) is an American dubstep producer and Disc jockey, DJ from New York City.Kmag.co.uk He is the founding owner of Patriarch Recordings, a record label and creative agency, for which he produces independent artists and scores music for TV and film. In 2011 he released the ''Touch O Klass EP'' on Play Me Records,Digil0ve /ref> and both "Yup" and "Touch O Klass" reached #1 on the Beatport Top 100 Dubstep Chart.Vinyl Penetration /ref> As part of Ming (D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Debut Albums
4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. In mathematics Four is the smallest composite number, its proper divisors being and . Four is the sum and product of two with itself: 2 + 2 = 4 = 2 x 2, the only number b such that a + a = b = a x a, which also makes four the smallest squared prime number p^. In Knuth's up-arrow notation, , and so forth, for any number of up arrows. By consequence, four is the only square one more than a prime number, specifically three. The sum of the first four prime numbers two + three + five + seven is the only sum of four consecutive prime numbers that yields an odd prime number, seventeen, which is the fourth super-prime. Four lies between the first proper pair of twin primes, three and five, which are the first two Fermat primes, like seventeen, which is the third. On the other hand, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard (magazine)
''Billboard'' (stylized as ''billboard'') is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation. The magazine provides music charts, news, video, opinion, reviews, events, and style related to the music industry. Its music charts include the Hot 100, the 200, and the Global 200, tracking the most popular albums and songs in different genres of music. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows. ''Billboard'' was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegan's interest in 1900 for $500. In the early years of the 20th century, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs, and burlesque shows, and also created a mail service for travelling entertainers. ''Billboard'' began focusing more on the music industry as the jukebox, phonograph, and radio became commonplace. Many topics it covered were spun-off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Top Heatseekers
Top Heatseekers are "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine. The Heatseekers Albums and the Heatseekers Songs charts were introduced by ''Billboard'' in 1991 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical recording artists. Albums and songs appearing on Top Heatseekers may also concurrently appear on the ''Billboard'' 200 or ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Albums chart The Heatseekers Albums chart contains 25 positions that are ranked by Nielsen SoundScan sales data, and charts album titles from "new or developing acts" as determined by the acts' historical chart performance. Once an artist/act has had an album place in the top 100 of the ''Billboard'' Top 200, or in the top 10 of any of the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, Country Albums, Latin Albums, Christian Albums, or Gospel Albums charts, the album and later works no longer qualify for tracking on Heatseeker Albums. This definition means that some artists can still qualify as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerry Leonard
Gerry Leonard is an Irish lead guitarist and solo artist, known for his harmonic and ambient guitar style and for his work with David Bowie. He has lived and worked in Dublin, Copenhagen, and Manhattan. Hinterland From Clontarf in Dublin, Leonard played in bands as a teen, influenced by a mixture of Led Zeppelin, punk and post punk and whatever was playing on Top of the Pops. Early on, he worked as a tape operator in Lombard Sound studios in Dublin, where one job was recording a demo tape by a sixteen-year-old Sinéad O'Connor, and he got to see U2 and Phil Lynott at work. He then studied classical guitar for five years at the Municipal College of Music in Dublin, particularly interested in exploring the instrument's harmonic possibilities. In 1989 he moved to Copenhagen, where he formed the band Hinterland with Donal Coughlan. Leonard handled guitars and production and Coughlan sang and played bass and keyboards, with writing duties shared by both. The band released an albu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leon Pendarvis
Leroy Leon Pendarvis (born 1945) is an American session musician. He plays keyboards and is a background vocalist. He is also an occasional guitarist. The artists he has worked with over the years include Bonnie Raitt on her ''Streetlights'' album which was released in 1974, Van McCoy on his '' Disco Baby'' album which was released in 1975, Barbra Streisand on her ''Songbird'' album which was released in 1978, Eric Clapton on his ''August'' album which was released in 1986, Don Johnson on his '' Let It Roll'' album which was released in 1989, Avril Lavigne on her '' Keep Holding On'' album which was released on 2007, and many more. He was at one time a member of the group Passion. He is also the musical director and conductor for NBC's ''Saturday Night Live'' (SNL) Band. Since 1986 he has been a member of The Blues Brothers band. He was the husband of singer and chorist Janice Pendarvis (born Janice Gadsden), who sang for Roberta Flack, Sting, Philip Glass, David Bowie, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ozzie Melendez
Osvaldo Melendez Jr, known professionally as Ozzie Melendez, has been a highly regarded studio musician and touring artist in various genres of the music industry since the mid- 1980’s. He has performed with some of the biggest names in the industry including: Aretha Franklin, Billy Joel, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Bruce Springsteen, Celia Cruz, Celine Dion, Diana Ross, Gloria Estefan & the Miami Sound Machine, Jennifer Lopez,Lionel Richie, Marc Anthony, Paul Simon, Ray Charles,Richard Bona, Ruben Blades, Saturday Night Live Band, Spyro Gyra, Willie Colon to name a few. Ozzie has performed all over the world as a trombonist, clinician, composer and music director as well as playing on Broadway shows, movie soundtracks, commercials and television shows. He has worked on numerous Grammy award winning projects as well as gold and platinum recordings. For a full discography listing, please visit: www.ozziemelendez.com Ozzie is currently on tour with Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Mathes
Rob or ROB may refer to: Places * Rob, Velike Lašče, a settlement in Slovenia * Roberts International Airport (IATA code ROB), in Monrovia, Liberia People * Rob (given name), a given name or nickname, e.g., for Robert(o), Robin/Robyn * Rob (surname) * ''Rob.'', taxonomic author abbreviation for William Robinson (gardener) (1838–1935), Irish practical gardener and journalist Fictional characters * Rob, a character from the Cartoon Network series ''The Amazing World of Gumball'' * ROB 64, a character in the ''Star Fox'' video game series Arts, entertainment, and media Gaming * '' Castlevania: Rondo of Blood'', a 1993 video game nicknamed ''Castlevania: ROB'' * R.O.B., an accessory for the Nintendo Entertainment System Reports * '' ISM Report On Business'' (informally, "The R.O.B."), an economic report issued by the Institute for Supply Management * '' Report on Business'', or "ROB", a section of the ''Globe and Mail'' newspaper Other uses in arts, entertainment, and me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Douglass
Jimmy Douglass, also known as "The Senator", is an American recording engineer and record producer. His career has spanned more than four decades. Career In the early 1970s at Atlantic Records studios in New York City, he started his studio career as a part-time tape duplicator while still attending high school. There he learned how to operate the studio's custom made 16-channel console and observed, was trained by, as well as worked with some of the greatest engineers, producers and record moguls including Tom Dowd, Arif Mardin, Jerry Wexler and Ahmet Ertegun. For his first time behind the faders, he was encouraged by Wexler to engineer the session recording for a demo of a new band. He went on to work with Atlantic Recording artists such as Aretha Franklin, Hall & Oates, Roberta Flack, Donny Hathaway, Foreigner, Led Zeppelin and AC/DC. During the 1980s, Douglass continued to hone his engineering skills while also taking on the role as producer. He engineered and produced est ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Lord-Alge
Tom Lord-Alge (born January 17, 1963) is an American music engineer and mixer. He began his career at The Hit Factory in New York. Subsequently, he was the resident mixer at what used to be known as "South Beach Studios", located on the ground floor of the Marlin Hotel. Lord-Alge received two Grammy Awards for his work on Steve Winwood's ''Back in the High Life'' (1986), and '' Roll with It'' (1988), both winning in the 'Best Engineered Recording – Non-Classical' category. His third Grammy was for Santana's ''Supernatural'' (1999), which won Album of the Year. Lord-Alge has mixed records for U2, Simple Minds, The Rolling Stones, Pink, Peter Gabriel, OMD, Sarah McLachlan, Dave Matthews Band, Blink-182, Avril Lavigne, Hanson, Sum 41, Live, Manic Street Preachers, New Found Glory, Story of the Year and Marilyn Manson, among others. Career After doing live sound engineering for some time, Lord-Alge joined his older brother Chris at Unique Recording in New York City in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nile Rodgers
Nile Gregory Rodgers Jr. (born September 19, 1952) is an American musician, record producer and composer. The co-founder of Chic, Rodgers has written, produced, and performed on records that have sold more than 500 million albums and 75 million singles worldwide. He is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, a three-time Grammy Award–winner, and the chairman of the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Known for his " chucking" guitar style, ''Rolling Stone'' wrote in 2014 that "the full scope of Nile Rodgers' career is still hard to fathom". Formed as the Big Apple Band in 1972 with bassist Bernard Edwards, Chic released their self-titled debut album in 1977, including the hit singles "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" and " Everybody Dance". The 1978 album '' C'est Chic'' produced the hits " I Want Your Love" and "Le Freak", with the latter selling more than seven million singles worldwide. The song " Good Times" from the 1979 album '' Risqué'' was a number one single on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
