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Unplugged (The Korgis Album)
''Unplugged'' is a live album by English pop band, The Korgis. It was released in 2006. The unplugged concert was originally only recorded for inclusion on the ''Kollection'' DVD in the summer of 2005, but was released as a proper album the following year. The album contains acoustic versions of all of the band's best known songs such as "Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime", "Young 'n' Russian", "If It's Alright With You Baby" and "If I Had You" as well as tracks from their albums ''The Korgis'', ''Dumb Waiters'', ''Sticky George'', '' Burning Questions'' and '' This World's For Everyone'' Track listing #"Cold Tea" (Warren) – 4:31 #"Dumb Waiters" (Warren) – 2:40 #"If I Had You" (Davis, Rachmaninoff) – 3:31 #"I Wonder What's Become of You" (Baker, Warren) – 3:35 #"That's What Friends Are For" (Davis, Ferguson) – 3:28 #"If It's Alright with You Baby" (Warren) – 3:29 #"Perfect Hostess" (Davis) – 3:17 #"Young 'n' Russian" (Davis, Ridlington, Warren) – 3:24 #" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pop Music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom. The terms ''popular music'' and ''pop music'' are often used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular and includes many disparate styles. During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. ''Rock'' and ''pop'' music remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after which ''pop'' became associated with music that was more commercial, ephemeral, and accessible. Although much of the music that appears on record charts is considered to be pop music, the genre is distinguished from chart music. Identifying factors usually include repeated choruses and hooks, short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse-chorus structure), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much pop music also borrows elements from other styles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dumb Waiters
''Dumb Waiters'' is the second studio album by English pop band the Korgis. It was released on Rialto Records in the UK in 1980. The album peaked #40 at UK chart and includes the singles "Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime", UK #5, U.S. #18, Australia #18; "If It's Alright With You Baby" UK #56; "Dumb Waiters" and "Rover's Return". ''Dumb Waiters'' was re-issued on CD by Edsel Records in 1999 but is currently out of print. Track listing Side A: #"Silent Running" (Warren) - 3:05 #"Love Ain't Too Far Away" (Davis) - 3:29 #"Perfect Hostess" (Davis) - 3:21 #"Drawn and Quartered" (Warren) - 3:20 #"Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime" (Warren) - 4:24 (N.B. 1999 CD edition includes alternate version) Side B: #"Intimate" (Davis) - 3:08 #"It's No Good Unless You Love Me" (Warren) - 3:24 #"Dumb Waiters" (Warren) - 2:42 #"If It's Alright with You Baby" (Warren) - 4:06 #"Rover's Return" (Davis) - 3:34 Charts Personnel * James Warren - lead vocals, background vocals, bass guita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Record Producer
A record producer is a recording project's creative and technical leader, commanding studio time and coaching artists, and in popular genres typically creates the song's very sound and structure.Virgil Moorefield"Introduction" ''The Producer as Composer: Shaping the Sounds of Popular Music'' (Cambridge, MA & London, UK: MIT Press, 2005).Richard James Burgess, ''The History of Music Production'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014)pp 12–13Allan Watson, ''Cultural Production in and Beyond the Recording Studio'' (New York: Routledge, 2015)pp 25–27 The record producer, or simply the producer, is likened to film director and art director. The executive producer, on the other hand, enables the recording project through entrepreneurship, and an audio engineer operates the technology. Varying by project, the producer may or may not choose all of the artists. If employing only synthesized or sampled instrumentation, the producer may be the sole artist. Conversely, some artists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lead Vocals
The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer sets their voice against the accompaniment parts of the ensemble as the dominant sound. In vocal group performances, notably in soul and gospel music, and early rock and roll, the lead singer takes the main vocal melody, with a chorus or harmony vocals provided by other band members as backing vocalists. Lead vocalists typically incorporate some movement or gestures into their performance, and some may participate in dance routines during the show, particularly in pop music. Some lead vocalists also play an instrument during the show, either in an accompaniment role (such as strumming a guitar part), or playing a lead instrument/instrumental solo role when they are not singing (as in the case of lead singer-guitar virtuoso Jimi Hendrix). The lead singer also typically guides the vocal ensem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Backing Vocals
A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are used in a broad range of popular music, traditional music, and world music styles. Solo artists may employ professional backing vocalists in studio recording sessions as well as during concerts. In many rock and metal bands (e.g., the power trio), the musicians doing backing vocals also play instruments, such as guitar, electric bass, drums or keyboards. In Latin or Afro-Cuban groups, backing singers may play percussion instruments or shakers while singing. In some pop and hip hop groups and in musical theater, they may be required to perform dance routines while singing through headset microphones. Styles of background vocals vary according to the type of song and genre of music. In pop and country songs, backing vocalists may sing harmo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strings against frets with the fingers of the opposite hand. A plectrum or individual finger picks may also be used to strike the strings. The sound of the guitar is projected either acoustically, by means of a resonant chamber on the instrument, or amplified by an electronic pickup and an amplifier. The guitar is classified as a chordophone – meaning the sound is produced by a vibrating string stretched between two fixed points. Historically, a guitar was constructed from wood with its strings made of catgut. Steel guitar strings were introduced near the end of the nineteenth century in the United States; nylon strings came in the 1940s. The guitar's ancestors include the gittern, the vihuela, the four- course Renaissance guitar, and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keyboard Instrument
A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers. The most common of these are the piano, organ, and various electronic keyboards, including synthesizers and digital pianos. Other keyboard instruments include celestas, which are struck idiophones operated by a keyboard, and carillons, which are usually housed in bell towers or belfries of churches or municipal buildings. Today, the term ''keyboard'' often refers to keyboard-style synthesizers. Under the fingers of a sensitive performer, the keyboard may also be used to control dynamics, phrasing, shading, articulation, and other elements of expression—depending on the design and inherent capabilities of the instrument. Another important use of the word ''keyboard'' is in historical musicology, where it means an instrument whose identity cannot be firmly established. Particularly in the 18th century, the harpsichord, the clavichord, and the early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burning Questions (James Warren Album)
''Burning Questions'' is a studio album by English singer and composer James Warren, former member of groups Stackridge and The Korgis. It was released on Sonet Records in 1986. The album includes the singles "Burning Questions" (released as 'The Korgis', 1985), "True Life Confessions" ('The Korgis', 1985), "They Don't Believe In Magic" ('James Warren & The Korgis', 1986) and "It Won't Be The Same Old Place" (James Warren, 1986). ''Burning Questions'' was re-issued on compact disc by Angel Air Records in 2007. Track listing Side A #"Burning Questions" (Davis/Warren) - 4:41 #"Climate of Treason" (Warren) - 3:51 #"They Don't Believe in Magic" (Warren) - 4:10 #"Possessed" (Warren) - 4:11 #"I Know Something" (Warren) - 3:10 Side B #"True Life Confessions" (Davis/Warren) - 4:17 #"It Won't Be the Same Old Place" (Davis/Warren) - 4:59 #"Loneliness" (Warren) - 4:10 #"Can You Hear the Spirit Dying" (Warren) - 3:27 #"I Want To Remember" (Warren) - 5:46 2007 CD bonus tracks # You Made Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sticky George
''Sticky George'' is the third studio album by English pop band, The Korgis. It was released on Rialto Records in the UK in 1981. The album includes the singles "That Was My Big Mistake", "All the Love in the World", "Don't Say That It's Over" and "Sticky George" - some released as The Korgis and others James Warren & The Korgis. ''Sticky George'' was re-issued on CD by Edsel Records in 1999. The album was followed by the non-album single "Don't Look Back" (produced by Trevor Horn)/"Xenophobia", released on London Records in June 1982. Both tracks are included on the 2003 compilation '' Don't Look Back - The Very Best of The Korgis''. Track listing Side A: #"Sticky George" (Harrison, Warren) - 3:36 #"Can't We Be Friends Now" (Warren) - 4:01 #"Foolishness of Love" (Harrison) - 3:31 #"Domestic Bliss" (Gordon, Harrison, Warren) - 3:15 #"That Was My Big Mistake" (Davis, Warren) - 4:37 Side B: #"Nowhere to Run" (Davis, Warren) - 4:15 #* N.B. 1999 CD: Alternate version - 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Korgis (debut Album)
''The Korgis'' is the debut studio album by English pop band, the Korgis. It was released in 1979 on Rialto Records in the UK, and on Warner Bros. Records in the US. The album includes the singles "Young and Russian" and "If I Had You" (#13, UK Singles Chart), the latter being notable for the keyboard contributions of Alan Wilder, who in 1982 would join Depeche Mode for thirteen years. ''The Korgis'' was re-issued on compact disc by Edsel Records in 1999. Track listing Side A: #"Young 'n' Russian" (Davis, Jakki Ridlington, Warren) - 3:12 #"I Just Can't Help It" (Davis) - 3:43 #"Chinese Girl" (Davis) - 2:19 #"Art School Annexe" (Davis) - 3:37 #"Boots and Shoes" (Davis, Warren) - 4:32 Side B: #"Dirty Postcards" (Warren) - 4:45 #"O Maxine" (Warren) - 2:39 #"Mount Everest Sings the Blues" (Warren) - 2:32 #"Cold Tea" (Warren) - 4:26 #"If I Had You" (Davis, Sergei Rachmaninoff) - 3:55 #* Album version Personnel * James Warren - vocals, bass guitar * Andy Davis - vocals, d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
