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Through The Eyes Of Love (Randy Crawford Album)
''Through the Eyes of Love'' is the tenth studio album by American jazz and R&B singer Randy Crawford, released in 1992 on Warner Bros. Records. Critical reception In a review for AllMusic, Ron Wynn gave ''Through the Eyes of Love'' three out of five stars, describing it as a "Nice, highly stylized album", and that it was "expressively sung, if at times overproduced". Track listing Personnel * Randy Crawford – lead vocals * Vernon Fails – keyboards (1-10), rhythm arrangements (1-10) * Eddie Howard – acoustic piano (1), keyboard solo (6) * Joe Sample – acoustic piano solo (1) * David Ward – keyboard programming (1, 3, 6-9), programming (2, 4, 5, 10), drum programming (6, 7), percussion programming (6, 8, 9) * Earl J. Wright – Hammond B3 organ (10) * Soichi Noriki – keyboards (11), arrangements (11) * Michael J. Powell – guitars (1, 3-8, 10), percussion (1-10), rhythm arrangements (1-10), acoustic guitar solo (2), BGV arrangements (3) * Donnie Lyles – g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randy Crawford
Veronica "Randy" Crawford (born February 18, 1952) is an American jazz and R&B singer. She has been more successful in Europe than in the United States, where she has not entered the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 as a solo artist. However, she has appeared on the Hot 100 singles chart twice. The first time was in 1979 as a guest vocalist on The Crusaders' top-40 hit " Street Life". She also dueted with Rick Springfield on the song "Taxi Dancing", which hit number 59 as the B-side of Springfield's hit "Bop Til You Drop". She has had five top-20 hits in the UK, including her 1980 number-two hit, "One Day I'll Fly Away", as well as six UK top-10 albums. Despite her American nationality, she won Best British Female Solo Artist in recognition of her popularity in the UK at the 1982 Brit Awards. In the late 2000s, she received her first two Grammy Award nominations. Career Crawford first performed at club gigs from Cincinnati to Saint-Tropez, but made her name in the mid-1970s in New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Feldman (songwriter)
Richard Feldman is a Grammy Award-winning American songwriter and producer, raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He worked at Leon Russell's The Church Studio in Tulsa before moving to Los Angeles in 1978, where he worked at Shelter Records. That year he co-wrote "Promises" for Eric Clapton with Roger Linn. The demo was recorded using an early version of the Linndrum. He also wrote songs for the Pointer Sisters, Atlantic Starr, Don Williams, Joe Cocker, The Wailing Souls and many others as well as writing and producing music for Belinda Carlisle, Shakespears Sister and Midge Ure. Feldman won a Grammy for best reggae album in 2004 for Toots and the Maytals The Maytals, known from 1972 to 2020 as Toots and the Maytals, are a Jamaican musical group, one of the best known ska and rocksteady vocal groups. The Maytals were formed in the early 1960s and were key figures in popularizing reggae music. ... ''True Love''. He is currently president of the Association of Independent Music Publishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco De Gregori
Francesco De Gregori OMRI (born 4 April 1951) is an Italian singer-songwriter. In Italy, he is popularly known as "Il Principe dei cantautori" ("The Prince of the singer-songwriters"), a nickname referring to the elegance of his lyrics. He is often referred as singer-songwriter and poet, although he prefers to be identified simply as "artist". Biography 1970s De Gregori was born in Rome to a middle-class family, to Giorgio and Rita Grechi, and he spent some of his youth in Pescara before returning to the capital. His elder brother, Luigi, was a musician and had a personal career with the name of Luigi Grechi (the mother's surname), chosen later to avoid confusion with the more famous Francesco. Influenced by Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and the Italian singer-songwriter Fabrizio de André, De Gregori started to perform his songs (mainly personal translations of American folk songs) at the Folkstudio, in Rome, which was already frequented by his brother. On one occasion De André h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Musker
Frank John Musker (born 1951) is a British songwriter and composer. Most prolific in the 1980s and 1990s, he worked with artists such as Sheena Easton, the Babys, Robert Miles, Jennifer Rush, Bucks Fizz, Air Supply, Lucio Battisti, Zucchero, Lisa Stansfield and Brian May (for the Queen song "Too Much Love Will Kill You"). His collaboration with May was awarded Best Song Musically and Lyrically at the 1997 Ivor Novello Awards. One of Musker's earlier successes was the 1977 North American hit "Heaven on the 7th Floor", written with co-writer Dominic Bugatti. It became a hit for Paul Nicholas and The Mighty Pope. Musker and Bugatti then collaborated with John Waite, frontman for the Babys at the time, to compose "Back on My Feet Again", which would become the Babys' last top 40 hit, peaking at No. 33 in 1980. Two years later, Musker and Bugatti recorded their duo album on Atlantic Records, entitled ''The Dukes''. The album was produced by Arif Mardin and recorded and mixed by Gary Sk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diamante (Zucchero Fornaciari Song)
"Diamante " is a 1989 song composed by Francesco De Gregori (lyrics), Zucchero Fornaciari, Mino Vergnaghi and (music) and performed by Zucchero Fornaciari. Background The song, a portrait of the Italian post-war and of the ordinary life in the Po Valley countryside of the time, is dedicated to Diamante Arduini Fornaciari, the grandmother of the singer. Zucchero asked his friend De Gregori to write the lyrics as he feared to be overly involved, and to compose something corny. A track of the 1989 album '' Oro Incenso & Birra'', the song was first released as a single in 1990, and was re-released in 1991 in an English-language duet version with Randy Crawford, which was included on Crawford's 1992 album '' Through the Eyes of Love''. In 1994, Zucchero recorded a Spanish-language version of the song, with lyrics translated and adapted by Fito Páez. Artists who covered the song include Mia Martini, Anna Oxa and Fabio Concato Fabio Concato (born Fabio Piccaluga, 31 May 1953 in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gino Paoli
Gino Paoli (; born 23 September 1934 in Monfalcone) is an Italian singer-songwriter. He is a seminal figure who has written a number of songs widely regarded as classics in Italian popular music, including: " Il cielo in una stanza", "Che cosa c'è", " Senza fine", "Quattro amici al bar" and " Sapore di sale". Biography Paoli was born in Monfalcone, a little town near Trieste, but moved to Genoa at a young age. After several different jobs, he was signed to Ricordi with friends and fellow musicians Luigi Tenco and Bruno Lauzi. His first success was the single "La Gatta", which has been used in Italian language teaching classes in American middle schools and high schools. "Il cielo in una stanza" was composed in 1959. According to Paoli, the lyrics came to him while lying on a brothel bed. Gazing at the purple ceiling, he thought, "Love can grow at any moment at any place". Mina's single release of the song topped the list of annual sales in Italy and reached Billboard Hot 10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zucchero Fornaciari
Adelmo Fornaciari (; born 25 September 1955), more commonly known by his stage name Zucchero Fornaciari or simply Zucchero (), is an Italian singer, musician and songwriter. His stage name is the Italian word for "sugar", as his elementary teacher used to call him. His music is largely inspired by gospel, soul, blues and rock music, and alternates between Italian ballads and more rhythmic R&B-boogie-like pieces. He is credited as the "father of Italian blues", introducing blues to the big stage in Italy. He is one of the few European blues artists who still enjoys great international success. In his career, spanning more than three decades, Fornaciari has sold over 60 million records around the world, and internationally his most successful singles are "Diamante", "Il Volo/My Love", " Baila (Sexy Thing)/Baila morena", and the duet " Senza una donna (Without a Woman)" with Paul Young. He has won numerous awards, including four Festivalbar, nine Wind Music Awards, two World Music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jermaine Jackson
Jermaine La Jaune Jackson (born December 11, 1954) is an American singer-songwriter and bassist. He is best known for being a member of the Jackson family. From 1964 to 1975, Jermaine was second vocalist after his brother Michael of The Jackson 5, and played bass guitar. Since 1983 he rejoined the group, now known as The Jacksons. Jermaine sang the lead on some of The Jackson Five's biggest hits,and featured in " I'll Be There" and "I Want You Back" amongst others. When the four others left and had to reform as The Jacksons, Jermaine, who had just married Motown founder Berry Gordy's daughter Hazel, stayed at Motown and was replaced by his youngest brother, Randy. Jermaine had a solo career concurrent with his brother Michael's and some top-30 hits until the 1980s, produced and recorded duets with Whitney Houston at her debut in 1985, and was a producer for the band Switch (band), Switch. After seven years he rejoined The Jacksons and remained throughout their various breakups a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roxanne Seeman
Roxanne Joy Seeman is an American songwriter and lyricist. She is best known for her songs by Billie Hughes, Philip Bailey, Phil Collins, Earth, Wind & Fire, Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, The Sisters of Mercy, The Jacksons, Jacky Cheung, and in film and television. She has two Emmy nominations. Seeman is a writer and producer of the Japan Grand Prix Gold Disk Award for International Single of the Year "Welcome To The Edge" by Billie Hughes. Seeman has written songs for Chinese artists including Jacky Cheung, Yang Kun, Super Vocal, Rainie Yang and productions by Zhang Yadong and Gao Xiaosong. Seeman is a producer of the Broadway shows To Kill a Mockingbird and The Waverly Gallery. Early life and education Seeman was born in New York to Jewish parents, Murray Seeman, a lawyer and real estate developer, and his wife, Lee (née Sachs). Her father was a scholar, World War II veteran, and former mayor of Great Neck Estates, where they lived. Of Czechoslavakian descent, thirty- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billie Hughes
Billie Keith Hughes (April 4, 1948 – July 3, 1998) was an American recording artist, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He is best known for his successful artist career in Japan, lead vocalist of his band Lazarus and his collaboration with Roxanne Seeman writing songs for Philip Bailey, Phil Collins, Bette Midler, The Jacksons, The Sisters Of Mercy, Wink, and for his songs in film and television. He has two Emmy nominations. Hughes song "Welcome To The Edge", with the Japanese title "Todokanu Omoi"とどかぬ想い (One-Sided Love)" was the theme of the Japanese television drama ''I'll Never Love Anyone Anymore'' (''Mou Daremo Aisanai'') (''もう誰も愛さない''). It became the top-selling international single in Japan in 1991 after selling over 500,000 copies. Hughes was awarded with the No. 1 International Single of the Year in 1992 at the NHK Grand Prix Japanese Gold Disk Awards. ''I'll Never Love Anyone Anymore (Mou Daremo Aisanai) (もう誰も愛さな ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
If You'd Only Believe
"If You'd Only Believe" is an inspirational pop song written by Roxanne Seeman, Billie Hughes, and Jermaine Jackson. It was produced by Michael Omartian, with The Jacksons as co-producer, on their 2300 Jackson Street album. "If You'd Only Believe" was the finale song for The Jackson Family Honors television special. Michael Jackson joined his family and guest artists including Celine Dion, Smokey Robinson, Gladys Knight, Bruce Hornsby and Dionne Warwick on stage to sing it. The show was filmed at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Background Jermaine Jackson and his brothers were making their first Jacksons album since their 1984 “Victory” album. This album was without Michael. The Jacksons had been recording for weeks at Tito Jackson's recording studio at his home in Encino. While CBS focused on Michael's solo career, the label was not giving The Jacksons any attention and did not believe they could keep having commercial success without him. Roxanne Seeman, a songwriter J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix Weber (songwriter)
Felix Weber (born December 1, 1960 in Hassfurt, Bavaria) is a German composer, songwriter and record producer. Early life At the age of six Weber began a professional training as a classical pianist. At 14 he played in his first garage band and when 17 he toured with American cover bands through the US Army clubs in Bavaria performing for soldiers stationed in Germany. During this time he met his longtime songwriting partner Irmgard Klarmann, who he produced his first record with in 1978 at the Galgenberg Studio in Stuttgart, Germany. Early songwriting in Germany Over the next years Weber worked in different German recording studios but mostly at the Rainbow and Paradise Studios in Munich. During his work in Munich he met drummer/producer Todd Canedy whose production skills inspired and motivated Weber to build and eventually work in his own recording studio where he and his partner Klarmann penned many songs under the name Klarmann/Weber. In 1981, Weber became keyboard player ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
