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The Ultimate Collection (Oleta Adams Album)
''The Ultimate Collection'' is a compilation album by the American vocalist, pianist and songwriter Oleta Adams, released in 2004. Track listing Disc 1 #"Rhythm Of Life" - 4:18 #"Circle Of One" - 3:52 #"Get Here" - 4:35 #"I've Got To Sing My Song" - 4:02 #"You've Got To Give Me Room" - 5:15 #"Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me" - 5:54 #"I Just Had To Hear Your Voice" - 3:39 #"Hold Me For A While" - 5:09 #"The Day I Stop Loving You" - 5:02 #"My Heart Won't Lie" - 4:41 #"When Love Comes To The Rescue" - 5:14 #"Window Of Hope" - 4:21 #"Oh Me, Oh My (I'm A Fool For You Baby)" - 4:40 #"I Believe You" - 4:14 Disc 2 #"Blessed With You" - 3:25 #"No Secrets" - 4:08 #"You Won't Get Away" - 5:56 #"Never Knew Love" - 3:21 #"I Knew You When" - 4:19 #"We Will Meet Again" - 4:46 #"New Star" - 4:17 #"Once In A Lifetime" - 5:21 #"You Need To Be Loved" - 4:39 #"Between Hello And Goodbye" - 6:11 #"Come And Walk With Me" - 6:07 #"I Will Love You" - 5:30 #"When You Walked Into My Life" - 4:16 #"Learni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleta Adams
Oleta Adams (born May 4, 1953) is an American singer and pianist. She found limited success during the early 1980s, before gaining fame via her contributions to Tears for Fears's international chart-topping album ''The Seeds of Love'' (1989). Her albums '' Circle of One'' (1991) and ''Evolution'' (1993) were top 10 hits in the UK; the former yielded a Grammy-nominated cover of Brenda Russell's " Get Here", which was a top 5 hit in both the UK and the US. Adams has been nominated for four total Grammy Awards, as well as two Soul Train Music Awards. Biography Adams was born the daughter of a preacher and was raised listening to gospel music. In her youth, her family moved to Yakima, Washington, which is sometimes shown as her place of birth. She got her musical start in the church. Before gaining her opportunity to perform, Adams faced a great deal of rejection. In the 1970s, she moved to Los Angeles, California, where she recorded a demo tape. However, many music executives were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soul Music
Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community throughout the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It has its roots in African-American gospel music and rhythm and blues. Soul music became popular for dancing and listening, where U.S. record labels such as Motown, Atlantic and Stax were influential during the Civil Rights Movement. Soul also became popular around the world, directly influencing rock music and the music of Africa. It also had a resurgence with artists like Erykah Badu under the genre neo-soul. Catchy rhythms, stressed by handclaps and extemporaneous body moves, are an important feature of soul music. Other characteristics are a call and response between the lead vocalist and the chorus and an especially tense vocal sound. The style also occasionally uses improvisational additions, twirls, and auxiliary sounds. Soul music reflects the African-American identity, and it stresses the importance of an Afric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adult Contemporary
Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quiet storm and rock influence. Adult contemporary is generally a continuation of the easy listening and soft rock style that became popular in the 1960s and 1970s with some adjustments that reflect the evolution of pop/rock music. Adult contemporary tends to have lush, soothing and highly polished qualities where emphasis on melody and harmonies is accentuated. It is usually melodic enough to get a listener's attention, and is inoffensive and pleasurable enough to work well as background music. Like most of pop music, its songs tend to be written in a basic format employing a verse–chorus structure. The format is heavy on romantic sentimental ballads which mostly use acoustic instruments (though bass guitar is usually used) such as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gospel Music
Gospel music is a traditional genre of Christian music, and a cornerstone of Christian media. The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of gospel music varies according to culture and social context. Gospel music is composed and performed for many purposes, including aesthetic pleasure, religious or ceremonial purposes, and as an entertainment product for the marketplace. Gospel music is characterized by dominant vocals and strong use of harmony with Christian lyrics. Gospel music can be traced to the early 17th century. Hymns and sacred songs were often repeated in a call and response fashion, heavily influenced by ancestral African music. Most of the churches relied on hand-clapping and foot-stomping as rhythmic accompaniment. Most of the singing was done a cappella.Jackson, Joyce Marie. "The changing nature of gospel music: A southern case study." ''African American Review'' 29.2 (1995): 185. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. October 5, 2010. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All The Love (Oleta Adams Album)
''All The Love'' is the seventh album by the American vocalist, pianist and songwriter Oleta Adams and was released in 2001. Track listing Personnel * Oleta Adams – vocals, acoustic piano (9, 12) * Peter Wolf – keyboards (1, 11), programming (1, 4, 11) * Ricky Peterson – keyboards (2, 3, 5-8, 10), programming (2, 3, 5-8, 10), arrangements (2, 3, 5-8, 10), backing vocals (3, 5) * Paul Peterson – programming (3, 5-10), bass (6, 10), guitars (7) * Paul Jackson Jr. – guitars (1, 11) * Michael Landau – guitars (2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10) * Stevan Pasero – guitars (2) * Geoff Bouchier – acoustic guitar (6) * Larry Kimpel – bass (1, 4) * John Cushon – drums (1, 11), percussion (1, 11) * Gerald Albright – saxophone (1) * Kenny Holeman – flute (6) * Bridgette Bryant – backing vocals (1, 11) * Sue Ann Carwell – backing vocals (1) * Michelle Wolf – backing vocals (1, 11) * Fred White – backing vocals (1) * Patty Peterson – backing vocals (3, 5, 10) * Joey Digg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christmas Time With Oleta
''Christmas Time with Oleta'' is a holiday album by the American vocalist, pianist and songwriter Oleta Adams and was released in 2006. Track listing Personnel * Oleta Adams – lead vocals, vocal arrangements, backing vocals (1, 2, 4), arrangements (1-5, 7-10), keyboards (1, 2, 4, 7-9), synthesizers (1, 2, 4, 8, 10), acoustic piano (3, 6), bass programming (3, 8), all instruments (5), cello arrangements (7) * Jimmy Dykes – guitars (2, 4) * Al Turner – bass guitar (1, 2, 4, 9) * John Cushon – cymbal A cymbal is a common percussion instrument. Often used in pairs, cymbals consist of thin, normally round plates of various alloys. The majority of cymbals are of indefinite pitch, although small disc-shaped cymbals based on ancient designs soun ...s, drums (1-4, 6, 8, 9), percussion programming (4, 6), keyboards (6), synthesizers (6), arrangements (6) * Ronald McFadden – alto saxophone (2, 8) * Lonnie McFadden – trumpet (2, 8) * Beth McCullom – cello (7) * Greg C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Get Here
"Get Here" is a pop ballad written by American singer and songwriter Brenda Russell. The title track of her fourth studio album, '' Get Here'' (1988), it became a moderate hit on the ''Billboard'' R&B chart on the heels of the album's massive first hit, " Piano in the Dark". American vocalist Oleta Adams covered and released the song in 1990, reaching the top five in both the US and the UK with her version. Adams's version of "Get Here", co-produced by Roland Orzabal from the band Tears for Fears (for whom she had performed the female vocals on the hit single "Woman in Chains" a year earlier), became her signature song. Composition and first release Brenda Russell had written the song while staying at a penthouse in Stockholm: the tune came to her as she viewed some hot air balloons floating over the city, a sight Russell recalls set her "really tripping on how many ways you can get to a person" (the eventual song's lyrics include the line: "You can make it in a big balloon bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me
"Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" is a song written by English musician Elton John and his lyricist Bernie Taupin. It was originally recorded by John for his eighth studio album, ''Caribou'' (1974), and was released as a single that peaked at number two on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart, and reached number 16 on the UK Singles Chart. A version of the song recorded live as a duet between John and George Michael reached number one in the UK in 1991 and in the US in 1992. The pair had performed the song together for the first time at Live Aid at Wembley Stadium in July 1985. Elton John version Background "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" was co-written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin during a ten-day period in January 1974 along with the other songs for John's ''Caribou'' album. The song was released as the first single from the album in May 1974 in the United Kingdom, and on 10 June 1974 in the United States. The chorus of the song is supported with a horn arrangement by De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woman In Chains
"Woman in Chains" is a song by English band Tears for Fears, released as the second single from their third studio album, ''The Seeds of Love'' (1989). It has been described as a " feminist anthem". It was an international success, reaching the top 40 in several countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, France, and the Netherlands. The studio cut features Phil Collins on drums. "Tears for Fears just wanted me to do that big drum thing from 'In the Air Tonight'..." Collins recalled. "'We want you to come in here in a big way.'" The song prominently features vocals by Oleta Adams, who went on to achieve a successful solo career. It was re-released in 1992 – with a different B-side and now credited to "Tears for Fears featuring Oleta Adams" – to capitalise on the singer's solo success and to promote the Tears for Fears compilation '' Tears Roll Down (Greatest Hits 82–92)''. This time, it reached number 57 in the UK. Content "Woman in Chains" was reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tears For Fears
Tears for Fears are an English pop rock band formed in Bath, England, in 1981 by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith. Founded after the dissolution of their first band, the mod-influenced Graduate, Tears for Fears were associated with the new wave synthesizer bands of the early 1980s, and attained international chart success. The band's debut album, ''The Hurting'' (1983), reached number one on the UK Albums Chart, and their first three hit singles – "Mad World", "Change", and "Pale Shelter" – all reached the top five in the UK Singles Chart. Part of the MTV-driven Second British Invasion of the US, their second album, ''Songs from the Big Chair'' (1985), reached number one on the US ''Billboard'' 200, achieving multi-platinum status in both the UK and the US. The album contained two ''Billboard'' Hot 100 number one hits: " Shout" and " Everybody Wants to Rule the World", both of which reached the top five in the UK with the latter winning the Brit Award for Best Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Compilation 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 ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
