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Michael McDonald Discography
Following is a discography for the major solo works of United States, American singer Michael McDonald (singer), Michael McDonald. Albums Studio albums Compilation albums Live albums Singles Guest singles Music videos References Further reading Michael McDonald interview by Pete Lewis, 'Blues & Soul' April 2008 {{DEFAULTSORT:Macdonald, Michael Discographies of American artists Pop music discographies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country Continental United States, primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 U.S. state, states, a Washington, D.C., federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine United States Minor Outlying Islands, Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in Compact of Free Association, free association with three Oceania, Pacific Island Sovereign state, sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Palau, Republic of Palau. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders Canada–United States border, with Canada to its north and Mexico–United States border, with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Recording Industry Association Of America
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the music recording industry in the United States. Its members consist of record labels and distributors that the RIAA says "create, manufacture, and/or distribute approximately 85% of all legally sold recorded music in the United States". RIAA is headquartered in Washington, D.C. RIAA was formed in 1952. Its original mission was to administer recording copyright fees and problems, work with trade unions, and do research relating to the record industry and government regulations. Early RIAA standards included the RIAA equalization curve, the format of the stereophonic record groove and the dimensions of 33 1/3, 45, and 78 rpm records. RIAA says its current mission includes: #to protect intellectual property rights and the First Amendment rights of artists #to perform research about the music industry #to monitor and review relevant laws, regulations, and policies Between 2001 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soul Speak
''Soul Speak'' is the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter Michael McDonald. The album was released on March 4, 2008, by Universal Music International and Motown. Track listing Personnel * Michael McDonald – lead vocals, acoustic piano (1, 8), backing vocals (3, 4), keyboards (4-7, 9-12), guitar (7) * Toby Baker – keyboards (1, 2, 3, 5-8, 10-14), synthesizers (3), synthesizer programming (4) * Tim Carmon – organ, acoustic piano (10) * Tim Lauer – accordion (7) * Doyle Bramhall II – guitar (1, 7-10, 12) * Michael Thompson – guitar (1-7, 10-14), sitar (5) * Nathan East – bass * Nicky Shaw – drum and percussion programming (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9-14), arrangements (4, 11) * Abe Laboriel Jr. – drums (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14) * Vinnie Colaiuta – drums (7, 9) * Stevie Wonder – harmonica (6) * Simon Climie – arrangements * Nick Ingman – string arrangements and conductor (3, 6) * Isobel Griffiths – orchestra contractor (3, 6) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hallmark Cards
Hallmark Cards, Inc. is a private, family-owned American company based in Kansas City, Missouri. Founded in 1910 by Joyce Hall, Hallmark is the oldest and largest manufacturer of greeting cards in the United States. In 1985, the company was awarded the National Medal of Arts. In addition to greeting cards, Hallmark also manufactures such products as party goods, gift wrap, and stationery. Hallmark acquired Binney & Smith in 1987, and would later change its name to Crayola, LLC after its well-known Crayola brand of crayons, markers and colored pencils. The company is also involved in television, having produced the long-running ''Hallmark Hall of Fame'' series since 1951, and launching the Hallmark Channel 50 years later (replacing an earlier joint venture with The Jim Henson Company, Odyssey Network). History Driven by an early 20th-century postcard craze, Joyce Clyde Hall and his older brothers, William and Rollie, began the Norfolk Post Card Company in 1907, initially head ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Through The Many Winters, A Christmas Album
''Through the Many Winters, A Christmas Album'' is a 2005 Christmas album by Michael McDonald. It was one of the first in the longstanding series of annual seasonal albums commissioned and retailed by Hallmark Cards to have reliable sales figures published, despite being sold through Hallmark's 4,000 card franchise shops, rather than through normal record shops in the ''Billboard'' chart system. The album was released three weeks before Thanksgiving, and reached Gold status (500,000 copies sold) two weeks after its release. At the time of its release, the album was priced at $7.95 with a purchase of three Hallmark cards. Track listing #"Silent Night" - 4:47 #"O Holy Night" - 5:06 #"Come, O Come Emanuel/What Month Was Jesus Born" - 4:10 #"Deck The Halls/Jingle Bells" - 2:50 #"O Tannenbaum" - 1:55 #" Wexford Carol" - 5:01 #"God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" - 3:35 #"Through The Many Winters" (Amy Holland / Michael McDonald) - 6:51 #"Christmas On The Bayou" (McDonald / Grady Walker / Sha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motown Two
''Motown Two'' is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Michael McDonald. The album was released on October 26, 2004, by Universal Music International and Motown. Track listing Personnel * Michael McDonald – lead and backing vocals, acoustic piano, arrangements * Toby Baker – keyboards, programming, arrangements * Tim Carmon – acoustic piano, Wurlitzer electric piano, synthesizers, organ * Tony Swain – clavinet, synthesizers * Billy Preston – Hammond organ * Simon Climie – arrangements, programming, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, backing vocals * Bernie Chiaravalle – nylon guitar * Michael Thompson – guitar * Abraham Laboriel – bass, acoustic guitar * Nathan East – bass * Vinnie Colaiuta – drums * Abe Laboriel Jr. – drums * Nicky Shaw – drums, percussion, programming, beats, arrangements * Lenny Castro – percussion * Stevie Wonder – harmonica (2) * Fred Vigdor – alto saxophone * Nick Ingman – string arrangements * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group N.V. (often abbreviated as UMG and referred to as just Universal Music) is a Dutch–American multinational music corporation under Dutch law. UMG's corporate headquarters are located in Hilversum, Netherlands and its operational headquarters are located in Santa Monica, California. The biggest music company in the world, it is one of the " Big Three" record labels, along with Sony Music and Warner Music Group. Tencent acquired ten percent of Universal Music Group in March 2020 for €3 billion and acquired an additional ten percent stake in January 2021. Pershing Square Holdings later acquired ten percent of UMG prior to its IPO on the Euronext Amsterdam stock exchange. The company went public on September 21, 2021, at a valuation of €46 billion. In 2019, '' Fast Company'' named Universal Music Group the most innovative music company and listed UMG among the Top 50 most innovative companies in the world and "amid the music industry's digital tran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motown Records
Motown Records is an American record label owned by the Universal Music Group. It was founded by Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records on June 7, 1958, and incorporated as Motown Record Corporation on April 14, 1960. Its name, a portmanteau of ''motor'' and ''town'', has become a nickname for Detroit, where the label was originally headquartered. Motown played an important role in the racial integration of popular music as an African American-owned label that achieved crossover success. In the 1960s, Motown and its subsidiary labels (including Tamla Motown, the brand used outside the US) were the most of the Motown sound, a style of soul music with a mainstream pop appeal. Motown was the most successful soul music label, with a net worth of $61 million. During the 1960s, Motown achieved 79 records in the top-ten of the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 between 1960 and 1969. Following the events of the Detroit Riots of 1967, and the loss of key songwriting/production team Holland–Dozier� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motown (album)
''Motown'' is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Michael McDonald (musician), Michael McDonald. The album was released on June 24, 2003, by Universal Music International and Motown. Track listing Personnel * Michael McDonald – lead and backing vocals, acoustic piano, Fender Rhodes, arrangements * Toby Baker – keyboards, synthesizers, programming, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, drum programming, arrangements, backing vocals * Jolley & Swain, Tony Swain – keyboards, synthesizers, Fender Rhodes * Bob James (musician), Bob James – keyboards * Tim Akers – Hammond organ * Tim Carmon – Hammond organ * Simon Climie – arrangements, ProTools, ProTools programming, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, backing vocals * Chris Rodriguez (singer), Chris Rodriguez – electric guitar, electric sitar * Michael Thompson (guitarist), Michael Thompson – guitar * Larry Carlton – guitar * Nathan East – bass * Thunderbugs (band), Nicky Shaw – drums, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universal Music Group Nashville
Universal Music Group Nashville is Universal Music Group's country music subsidiary. Some of the labels in this group include MCA Nashville Records, Mercury Nashville Records, Lost Highway Records, Capitol Records Nashville and EMI Records Nashville. UMG Nashville not only handles these imprints, but also manages the country music catalogues of record labels Universal Music and predecessor companies acquired over the years including ABC Records, Decca Records, Dot Records, DreamWorks Records, Kapp Records, MGM Records and Polydor Records. Capitol Records Nashville Capitol Records Nashville is a major United States-based record label located in Nashville Tennessee operating as part of the Capitol Music Group. Capitol Nashville was formerly known as Liberty Records from 1991 until 1995 when it was changed back to Capitol. In 1993 Liberty opened a sister label, Patriot Records, but it was closed in 1995. In 1999 EMI launched Virgin Records Nashville but by 2001 Capitol abs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Obsession
''Blue Obsession'' is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Michael McDonald. The album was released on March 28, 2000, by Ramp Records. The original album was pulled from release before it got to stores, but a few advance copies did get out. The original has a different track listing and 3 songs from it were removed and replaced by other songs. A cover of "Tell It Like It Is" was pulled and still has never been officially released. Catalog # 2-46508 was the promo on the Reprise label, not Ramp. Track listing Personnel * Michael McDonald – lead vocals, rhythm arrangements (2, 3, 6, 8, 10), synthesizers (2, 4, 8, 10), vocal arrangements (2), organ (3, 7, 9), acoustic piano (4, 5, 11, 12), clavinet (5), backing vocals (11) * Tommy Sims – rhythm arrangements (1, 2, 6-8), keyboards (1, 6, 8), bass (1-3, 6-8, 10), vocal arrangements (1, 2), horn arrangements (1, 2, 7), duet vocals (1), clavinet (2), rhythm guitar (2), drum programming (6), guitars (6, 7), s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blink Of An Eye (Michael McDonald Album)
''Blink of an Eye'' is the fourth solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Michael McDonald, released on August 3, 1993 by Reprise Records, three years after his previous studio album, '' Take It to Heart'' (1990). Track listing Personnel * Michael McDonald – lead vocals, backing vocals (1, 3-6, 10), keyboard programming, keyboards (1, 2, 3, 5-8, 11), synth horns (8), acoustic piano (8), acoustic piano solo (8), Wurlitzer electric piano (9), Fender Rhodes (10), synthesizers (10) * Jeff Bova – keyboard programming, Hammond organ (1, 10), keyboards (2-5, 7, 8), synthesizers (2, 9), clavinet (9), drum programming (10) * David Frank – synth horns (1, 8, 9), horn arrangements (1, 3, 9), synth bell (8) * Benmont Tench – Hammond organ (5, 8, 9) * Randy Kerber – keyboards (7), synth strings (10), synth horns (11) * Greg Phillinganes – acoustic piano (10) * Bernie Chiaravalle – guitars (1, 3) * David Williams – guitars (1, 4) * Mike Campbell – guitars (2) * R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
