Twelve Songs (Enda Kenny Album)
Twelve Songs or 12 Songs may refer to: *Twelve Songs, Op. 21, by Sergei Rachmaninoff * ''12 Songs'' (Randy Newman album), a 1970 album by Randy Newman * ''12 Songs'' (Neil Diamond album), a 2005 album by Neil Diamond *''12 Songs'', a 2006 album by Cory Branan Cory Branan (born December 15, 1974) is an American singer-songwriter from Mississippi. Early life Branan was born in Memphis, Tennessee, to parents Dallas Lee Branan, a jet mechanic at FedEx, and Peggy Branan (née Rhodes). He grew up in ...

Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff; in Russian pre-revolutionary script. (28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music. Early influences of Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and other Russian composers gave way to a thoroughly personal idiom notable for its song-like melodicism, expressiveness and rich orchestral colours. The piano is featured prominently in Rachmaninoff's compositional output and he made a point of using his skills as a performer to fully explore the expressive and technical possibilities of the instrument. Born into a musical family, Rachmaninoff took up the piano at the age of four. He studied with Anton Arensky and Sergei Taneyev at the Moscow Conservatory and graduated in 1892, having already composed several piano and orchestral pieces. In 1897, following the d ...
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12 Songs (Randy Newman Album)
''12 Songs'' is the second album by American singer-songwriter Randy Newman, released in April 1970 by Reprise Records. It features a swampy style of roots music with introspective, satirical songwriting. "Have You Seen My Baby?", the album's only single, was released in May. When ''12 Songs'' was first released, it was well received and has since garnered retrospective acclaim from critics such as Robert Christgau and ''Rolling Stone'', both of whom cite it as one of the best albums of all time. Music and lyrics According to '' Q'' magazine, ''12 Songs'' demonstrated Newman's eccentric mix of traditional pop song structures and his sardonic, satirical humor. AllMusic's Mark Deming said although his sense of humor seemed more caustic than on his self-titled debut album, Newman's "most mordant character studies" on ''12 Songs'' "boast a recognizable humanity, which often make his subjects both pitiable and all the more loathsome." In the opinion of Robert Christgau, American s ...
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12 Songs (Neil Diamond Album)
''12 Songs'' is the twenty-sixth studio album by Neil Diamond, released in 2005. It was his first studio album since 2001's '' Three Chord Opera''. It was produced by Rick Rubin. The working title for the album was self-titled. The original pressing of the album was copy-protected using Sony's controversial XCP technology. Album history Initial work on the album began after Diamond had concluded his tour behind ''Three Chord Opera'' in 2002. Retreating to his Colorado cabin, Diamond found himself temporarily snowed in, and started to pass the time away by working on new material. Not long afterward, Diamond met Rick Rubin. Rubin expressed interest in working with Diamond, and the two got together several times at each other's homes before ever going into the recording studio. Rubin, using the artist's Bang and early Uni albums as a springboard, encouraged Diamond to keep writing material over the course of a year. Once the two collaborators had plenty of material at their di ...
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