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Margo Smith (album)
American country music artist Margo Smith has released 18 studio albums, two compilation albums, 37 singles and appeared on three albums. She signed her first recording contract with 20th Century Fox Records in 1975. That year, she had her first major hit with "There I Said It." The song reached the top ten of the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Songs chart and was followed by her self-titled album. The label closed its doors and she signed to Warner Bros. Records in 1976. She had several more hits, including the top ten " Take My Breath Away." She released two more albums, including ''Song Bird'' (1976), which reached the top 40 of the ''Billboard'' Top Country Albums list. In 1978, Smith had her biggest commercial success with the number one hits "Don't Break the Heart That Loves You" and "It Only Hurts for a Little While." The hits were included on a 1977 studio album that reached the top 30. In 1979, Smith made a shift towards a "sexier image" which altered her musical career. She h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margo Smith
Margo Smith (born Betty Lou Miller; April 9, 1942 in Dayton, Ohio) is an American country and Christian music singer–songwriter. She had several years of country success during the 1970s, which included two number one hits on the '' Billboard'' Hot Country Songs chart. In the 1990s, she transitioned towards the Christian market and issued two successful albums. She is also known for her yodeling vocal skills and is often referred to as "The Tennessee Yodeler". Smith was born and raised in Ohio. During her childhood she learned how to sing and yodel. After graduating high school, Smith chose to pursue a career in education. For nearly a decade Smith taught elementary school and started a family with her first husband. In her thirties, she decided to begin a singing career full-time and also started songwriting. In 1971, she released her first album titled '' I'm a Lady'' and developed a following. By 1975, Smith had signed with 20th Century Fox Records and had her first major ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don't Break The Heart That Loves You (album)
''Don't Break the Heart That Loves You'' is a studio album by American country music artist Margo Smith. It was released in May 1978 via Warner Bros. Records and contained ten tracks. The album included a mixture of new recordings and covers of original hits by other artists. It was the fifth studio release of Smith's career and spawned three major hits, including the number one country songs "Don't Break the Heart That Loves You" and "It Only Hurts for a Little While." Background and content Margo Smith had several years of country hits after signing with Warner Bros. Records in 1976 with such songs as " Take My Breath Away." Between November 1977 and January 1978, Smith went into the studio to cut her third studio recording for Warner Bros. The sessions were produced by Norro Wilson, who had also worked with Smith on her two previous studio offerings. The sessions were held at the Columbia Recording Studio in Nashville, Tennessee. ''Don't Break the Heart That Loves You'' contai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Just Margo
''Just Margo'' is a studio album by American country music artist Margo Smith. It was released in October 1979 via Warner Bros. Records and contained 12 tracks. It was the seventh studio release in Smith's music career and spawned two singles: "Baby My Baby" and " The Shuffle Song" (the latter of which became the highest-peaking chart hit). The album itself reached peak positions on national publication charts following its release. Background and content By 1979, Margo Smith had two number one singles on the American country charts with the songs "Don't Break the Heart That Loves You" and "It Only Hurts for a Little While." Following this, she adopted a "sexier" image and had hits that further defined this new persona, such as " Still a Woman." Her new image transitioned into 1979 album release, ''Just Margo'', which featured Smith wearing a satin bathrobe on the cover. ''Just Margo'' was recorded between June and July 1979 at the Columbia Recording Studio, located in Nashville, T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Woman (Margo Smith Album)
''A Woman'' is a studio album by American country music artist Margo Smith. It was released in February 1979 via Warner Bros. Records and contained ten tracks. It was the sixth studio release of Smith's music career and spawned two singles: " Still a Woman" and "If I Give My Heart to You." Both songs became major hits on the country charts in 1979. The album itself also reached charting positions following its release. ''A Woman'' received mixed reviews from music writers and journalists. Background and content By 1979, Margo Smith had several major hits on the ''Billboard'' country chart, including the number one songs "Don't Break the Heart That Loves You" and "It Only Hurts for a Little While." However, she was beginning to feel unsure of musical identity. In a 1979 interview with ''Billboard'' magazine, Smith explained that she had not found a song that set her apart from other female country artists: "Song like 'Little Things Mean a Lot,' 'Don't Break the Heart That Loves You' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Happiness (Margo Smith Album)
''Happiness'' is a studio album by American country music artist Margo Smith. It was released in April 1977 via Warner Bros. Records and was produced by Norro Wilson. The album contained ten tracks that mixed country and pop arrangements, according to one critic. Four singles were released off the record, including the major hits "Take My Breath Away" and " Love's Explosion." The album itself also reached charting positions following its release. Background and content Margo Smith had her first success on with the top ten hit " There I Said It," which was issued on 20th Century Fox Records. The label folded in 1975 and Smith signed with Warner Bros. Records the following year. She soon had another top ten hit with a cover of "Save Your Kisses for Me." Like her previous album effort, Smith worked under the production of Norro Wilson, who produced ''Happiness'' between March 1976 and February 1977. All sessions took place at the Columbia Recording Studio, located in Nashville, Tennes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gramophone Record
A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English), or simply a record, is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove. The groove usually starts near the periphery and ends near the center of the disc. At first, the discs were commonly made from shellac, with earlier records having a fine abrasive filler mixed in. Starting in the 1940s polyvinyl chloride became common, hence the name vinyl. The phonograph record was the primary medium used for music reproduction throughout the 20th century. It had co-existed with the phonograph cylinder from the late 1880s and had effectively superseded it by around 1912. Records retained the largest market share even when new formats such as the compact cassette were mass-marketed. By the 1980s, digital media, in the form of the compact disc, had gained a larger market share, and the record left the mainstream in 1991. Since the 1990s, records con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I'm A Lady (album)
''I'm a Lady'' is a studio album by Bette Smith, who would later become commercially successful under the name Margo Smith. It was the debut studio recording in her career and was released on Nashville North Records. The album contained 12 tracks of new material, including several songs penned by Smith herself. The title track would also be released as a single in 1971. Background, content and release In 1971, Bette Smith was a elementary school teacher in New Carlisle, Ohio. Musically-inclined, she often created songs for her students to sing while they were in class. Smith eventually began singing at functions outside of school and developed a following. With the assistance of husband Ken Smith, she went to Nashville, Tennessee to record her first studio album titled ''I'm a Lady''. The project was produced by Floyd Whited and engineered by Brian Fisher. The album was a collection of 12 tracks. Nine of the album's songs were written by Smith herself, including "Ode to the Conf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RPM (magazine)
''RPM'' ( and later ) was a Canadian music-industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. ''RPM'' ceased publication in November 2000. ''RPM'' stood for "Records, Promotion, Music". The magazine's title varied over the years, including ''RPM Weekly'' and ''RPM Magazine''. Canadian music charts ''RPM'' maintained several format charts, including Top Singles (all genres), Adult Contemporary, Dance, Urban, Rock/Alternative and Country Tracks (or Top Country Tracks) for country music. On 21 March 1966, ''RPM'' expanded its Top Singles chart from 40 positions to 100. On 6 December 1980, the main chart became a top-50 chart and remained this way until 4 August 1984, whereupon it reverted to a top-100 singles chart. For the first several weeks of its existence, the magazine did not compile a national chart, but simply printed the cur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nothing To Lose (Margo Smith Album)
''Nothing to Lose'' is a studio album by American country artist Margo Smith. It was released on January 5, 2005 via Lamon Records and contained ten tracks. The album was a mixture of country and Christian songs, some of which were composed by Smith herself. It was her first album released in nearly a decade and her first for the Lamon label. Background, content and release In the 1970s, Margo Smith became successful through a series of hits in the country field. Songs like "There I Said It" (1975), "Don't Break the Heart That Loves You" (1978), "Little Things Mean a Lot" (1978) and " Still a Woman" became major hits on the ''Billboard'' country singles chart. In later decades, Smith formed a Christian duo with her daughter and released a series of albums in the same format. Continuing to tour as both a country and Christian artist, she would release ''Nothing to Lose'' in 2005. The album contained a total of ten tracks, six of which were composed by Smith herself. This included t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Music
Christian music is music that has been written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life and faith. Common themes of Christian music include praise, worship, penitence, and lament, and its forms vary widely around the world. Church music, hymnals, gospel and worship music are a part of Christian media, and also include contemporary Christian music which itself supports numerous Christian styles of music, including hip hop, rock, contemporary worship, and urban contemporary gospel. Like other forms of music the creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of Christian music varies according to culture and social context. Christian music is composed and performed for many purposes, ranging from aesthetic pleasure, religious or ceremonial purposes, or with a positive message as an entertainment product for the marketplace. Worship services Among the most prevalent uses of Christian music are in church worship or other gathering ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonnie Lou
Mary Joan Okum (née Kath; October 27, 1924 – December 8, 2015), known by her performing name Bonnie Lou, was an American musical pioneer, recognized as one of the first female rock and roll singers. She is also one of the first artists to gain crossover success from country music to rock and roll. She was the "top name" on the first country music program regularly broadcast on a national TV network. Bonnie Lou was one of the first female co-hosts of a successful syndicated television talk show, and a regular musical performer on popular shows in the 1960s and 1970s. She "was a prime mover in the first days of rockabilly," and is a member of the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. Early life and rise to fame Born in Towanda, Illinois, Kath's parents were Arthur and Eva Kath. "I was named after my grandmother Mary, and my grandfather Joe; and my mother added the -an onto the end of it. In spite of the spelling the family pronounced it as Jo Ann," Bonnie Lou noted in a 2007 interview. When ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Best Of The Tennessee Yodeler
''The Best of the Tennessee Yodeler'' is a studio album by American country music artist Margo Smith. It was first released in 1985 via Moon Shine Records and contained 14 tracks and was re-released in 1987 in conjunction with Bermuda Dunes Records and MCA Records. Dedicated to one of Smith's childhood performing idols, ''The Best of the Tennessee Yodeler'' was the tenth studio album in her recording career. The project was sold on television in addition to being sold in record stores. Background, content and release Margo Smith had several years of commercial country music success during the late 1970s, including the number one hits "Don't Break the Heart That Loves You" and "It Only Hurts for a Little While". In 1982, she chose to leave her recording contract with Warner Bros. Records and began releasing music independently through her own record label, Cammeron Records. ''The Best of the Tennessee Yodeler'' was an album Smith chose to record in dedication to one of musical ido ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
