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Too Good To Stop Now (Mickey Gilley Album)
''Too Good to Stop Now'' is a studio album by American country music singer and songwriter Mickey Gilley released in 1984 by Epic Records. The album peaked at #34 in the US country chart. The title track, “Too Good to Stop Now”, reached #4 in the US country chart and #1 in the Canadian country chart. Another single from the album, “I’m the One Mama Warned You About” reached #10 in the country charts of both countries. Track listingOriginal album sleeve notes Side one #" Too Good to Stop Now” (Bob McDill, Rory Michael Bourke) – 3:25 #"Make It Like the First Time" (J. C. Cunningham) – 3:51 #"Shoulder to Cry On” (Donald R. Miller, Ron Birmann) – 3:41 #"When She Runs Out of Fools" (Steve Pippin, George Steven Jobe) – 3:46 #"Right Side of the Wrong Bed" (Fred Knipe, Stephen Chandler, Duncan Stitt) – 2:31 Side two #"Everything I Own" (David Gates) – 3:17 #"Reminders" (Kent Robbins, John Jarrard) – 3:54 #"You Can Lie to Me Tonight" (Tom Campbell, Kerry Chater ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mickey Gilley
Mickey Leroy Gilley (March 9, 1936 – May 7, 2022) was an American country music singer and songwriter. Although he started out singing straight-up country and western material in the 1970s, he moved towards a more pop-friendly sound in the 1980s, bringing him further success on not just the country charts, but the pop charts as well. Among his biggest hits are " Room Full of Roses", " Don't the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time", and the remake of the Soul hit " Stand by Me". Gilley charted 42 singles in the top 40 on the US Country chart. He was a cousin of Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl McVoy, and Jimmy Swaggart. Biography Early life and the rise to fame Gilley was born to Arthur Fillmore Gilley (November 27, 1897 – February 2, 1982) and Irene Gilley ( Lewis; September 11, 1900 – August 14, 1985) in Natchez, Mississippi. For many years, Gilley lived in the shadow of his well-known cousin, Jerry Lee Lewis, a successful rock and roll singer and musician in the 1950s and ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kacey Jones
Gail Zeiler (April 27, 1950 – September 1, 2016), known professionally as Kacey Jones, was an American singer-songwriter, producer and humorist. After co-writing the Mickey Gilley hit " I'm the One Mama Warned You About" (credited as Gayle Zeiler), she found success as a performer through the band Ethel & The Shameless Hussies, with whom she released her first album. Later, in 1997, she released her first solo album, ''Men Are Some of My Favorite People'', through Curb Records, before founding her own label, IGO Records, co-founding the Kinkajou Records label with Kinky Friedman and creating two publishing houses—Zamalama Music and Mamalama Music. Since her first solo album, Jones released eight CDs and produced music for both the theatrical comedy ''Nipples to the Wind'' and the movie (and TV series) ''Sordid Lives''. Career Born Gail Zeiler in Gilroy, California, she won the Northern California edition of the Wrangler Country Starsearch in 1981 and became an Equa recording ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mickey Gilley Albums
Mickey is a given name and nickname, almost always masculine and often a short form (hypocorism) of Michael, and occasionally a surname. Notable people and characters with the name include: People Given name or nickname Men * Mickey Andrews (born 1942), American retired college football coach * Mickey Appleman (born 1945), American poker player and sports bettor and handicapper * Michael Barron (born 1974), English former football player and coach * Mickey Cochrane (1903–1962), American Hall-of-Fame Major League Baseball player, manager and coach * Michael Cochrane (musician) (born 1948), American jazz pianist * Mickey Cohen (1913–1976), American gangster * Mickey Curry (born 1956), American drummer * Michael Devine (hunger striker) (1954–1981), a founding member of the Irish National Liberation Army * Mickey Drexler (born 1944), chairman and CEO of J.Crew Group and former CEO of Gap Inc. * Mickey Fisher (1904/05–1963), American basketball coach * Mickey Gilley (born 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1984 Albums
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Norman Seeff
Norman Seeff (born March 5, 1939, in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a photographer and filmmaker. Since moving to the United States in 1969, his work has been focused on the exploration of human creativity and the inner dynamics of the creative process. Early life and career Seeff graduated with honors in science and art at King Edward VII School in Johannesburg. At the age of 17, he was drafted as the youngest player in the South African national soccer league. Seeff qualified as a medical doctor in 1965. For three years he worked in emergency medicine at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, focusing on the management of traumatic shock. In 1968, he immigrated to the United States to pursue his creative passions and artistic abilities. New York Soon after Seeff arrived in New York City, his photographs of the people he encountered on the streets of Manhattan were discovered by the famed graphic designer Bob Cato. As the former Vice President of Creative Services ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buddy Emmons
Buddy Gene Emmons (January 27, 1937 – July 21, 2015) was an American musician who is widely regarded as the world's foremost pedal steel guitarist of his day. He was inducted into the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame in 1981. Affectionately known by the nickname "Big E", Emmons' primary genre was American country music, but he also performed jazz and Western swing. He recorded with Linda Ronstadt, Gram Parsons, The Everly Brothers, The Carpenters, Jackie DeShannon, Roger Miller, Ernest Tubb, John Hartford, Little Jimmy Dickens, Ray Price (musician), Ray Price, Judy Collins, George Strait, John Sebastian, and Ray Charles and was a widely sought session musician in Nashville and Los Angeles. Emmons made significant innovations to the steel guitar, adding two additional strings and an additional pedal, changes which have been adopted as standard in the modern-day instrument. His name is on a US patent for a mechanism to raise and lower the pitch of a string on a steel guitar and retur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Botts
Michael Gene Botts (December 8, 1944 – December 9, 2005) was an American drummer, best known for his work with 1970s soft rock band Bread, and as a session musician. During his career, he recorded with Linda Ronstadt, Karla Bonoff, Andrew Gold, Olivia Newton-John, Peter Cetera, Anne Murray, Warren Zevon and Dan Fogelberg, among many others. He also contributed to several soundtracks for films, and to albums released under the name of The Simpsons. Although known primarily as a drummer, Botts also contributed backing vocals to some Bread songs. Career Born in Oakland, California, Botts grew up in nearby Antioch before moving to Sacramento. While in college, he began playing with a band called The Travellers Three and working as a studio musician. Eventually, the group disbanded, but not before recording some songs with producer David Gates. While working with Bill Medley, Botts was invited to join Gates's band, Bread, for its second album, '' On the Waters''. He acc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Glaub
Bob Glaub (born May 10, 1952)Hageman, William (April 29, 2005)."The aces of bass: Five giants of an overshadowed instrument", Knight Ridder Tribune News Service. is an American bass player and session musician. He has played with such artists and bands as Journey, Steve Miller Band, John Fogerty, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Neil Diamond, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ringo Starr, Dusty Springfield, Aaron Neville, Linda Ronstadt, Stevie Nicks, Jackson Browne, Warren Zevon, Donna Summer, John Lennon, Rod Stewart, Crosby, Stills & Nash Bee Gees and many others. Glaub started his career in 1973 playing for Jesse Ed Davis' record ''Keep me Comin, which led him to work on records of artists such as Arlo Guthrie, Booker T. Jones, Dave Mason, Rod Stewart, Warren Zevon, Jackson Browne, Leo Sayer, Carly Simon, Robby Krieger and Steve Miller Band, before he joined Jackson Browne's band in 1978 and left in 1989. The next years saw him playing on records by Gladys Knight, Katy Moffatt, Dusty Springfi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brent Rowan
Brent Rowan (born May 28, 1956 in Waxahachie, Texas) is an American session musician and record producer who works primarily in country music. Active since the 1970s, Rowan began working with John Conlee through the recommendation of record producer Bud Logan. Rowan first played on Conlee's "Friday Night Blues", and later became the only guitarist for Conlee's recordings. He also played guitar for Alabama, Alan Jackson, Chris LeDoux, Clay Walker, Confederate Railroad, and others. In 1989, Rowan was awarded Guitarist of the Year by Academy of Country Music. Rowan produced Joe Nichols' ''Man with a Memory''. He has also produced for McHayes, Julie Roberts, and Blake Shelton Blake Tollison Shelton (born June 18, 1976) is an American country music singer and television personality. In 2001, he made his debut with the single " Austin". The lead-off single from his self-titled debut album, "Austin" spent five weeks at .... Selected discography References {{DEFAULTSORT:Rowa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Leo
Josh Leo (born 1953 in Des Moines, Iowa) is an American guitarist, songwriter, and record producer active in Nashville, Tennessee. Leo was born in Des Moines, Iowa, but was raised in Kansas City, Missouri. In 1976, he moved to Chicago, Illinois and subsequently became a guitarist of the short-lived Eddie Boy Band. The band then traveled to Los Angeles, California two years later, where they recorded an album for MCA Records (which was the first record Leo had made). The Eddie Boy Band, however, was unsatisfied with the sound quality of the album, and they disbanded shortly afterward. In 1979, four years after the Eddie Boy Band broke up, Leo began touring with J. D. Souther as a guitarist. And over the next few years, he would record and tour with the likes of Kim Carnes, Jimmy Buffett and Glenn Frey. During this time, Leo also began a songwriting career. In 1983, he scored his first hit when Crystal Gayle reached Number One on the ''Billboard'' Country Singles chart with his c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Gold
Andrew Maurice Gold (August 2, 1951 – June 3, 2011) was an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and record producer who influenced much of the Los Angeles-dominated pop rock, pop/soft rock sound in the 1970s. Gold played on scores of records by other artists, most notably Linda Ronstadt, and had his own success with the U.S. top 40 hits "Lonely Boy (Andrew Gold song), Lonely Boy" (1977) and "Thank You for Being a Friend" (1978), as well as the UK Singles Chart, UK top five hit "Never Let Her Slip Away" (1978). In the 1980s, he had further international chart success as one half of Wax (UK band), Wax, a collaboration with 10cc's Graham Gouldman. During the 1990s, Gold produced, composed, performed on and wrote tracks for films, commercials, and television soundtracks, such as "Final Frontier", the theme of the sitcom ''Mad About You''. Some of his older works later experienced newfound popularity: "Thank You for Being a Friend" was used as the opening theme for '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I'm The One Mama Warned You About
"I'm the One Mama Warned You About" is a song written by Mickey James and Gayle Zeiler, and recorded by American country music artist Mickey Gilley. It was released in January 1985 as the second and final single from his album '' Too Good to Stop Now''. The song reached number 10 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles chart Mickey Gilley Billboard Singles/ref> and number 10 on the Canadian ''RPM Revolutions per minute (abbreviated rpm, RPM, rev/min, r/min, or with the notation min−1) is a unit of rotational speed or rotational frequency for rotating machines. Standards ISO 80000-3:2019 defines a unit of rotation as the dimensionl ...'' Country Tracks chart in Canada. Chart performance References 1985 singles 1985 songs Mickey Gilley songs Song recordings produced by John Boylan (record producer) Epic Records singles {{1985-country-song-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
