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I'm Your Woman (album)
''I'm Your Woman'' is the first album released by comedian and singer Sandra Bernhard. It was released on the Mercury label on vinyl and cassette in 1985. It has never had an official release on compact disc, although CD-R copies were once available for sale on Bernhard's own website and at her live shows. The album is a studio recording and contains eight songs interspersed with spoken-word vignettes. Track listing Source: Catalog no. 422-824 826-1 M-1. Credits *Music produced and arranged by Barry Reynolds *Recorded at The Fallout Shelter, London *Mastered by Greg Calbi, Sterling Sound, New York *Keyboards: Rupert Black, Barry Reynolds *Guitars: Robert John Tolchard, Mikey Mao Chung, Barry Reynolds *Bass: Mikey Mao Chung *Drums: Terry Stannard *Background vocals: Adele Bertei, Robert John Tolchard, Barrington Fox Reynolds III *Engineer: Stephen Street *Talk produced by Irene Pinn *Recorded at The Strongroom, London *Engineer: Philip Bodger References External links ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandra Bernhard
Sandra Bernhard (born June 6, 1955) is an American actress, comedian, and singer. She first gained attention in the late 1970s with her stand-up comedy, where she often critiqued celebrity culture and political figures. Bernhard is also well known as the ex-best friend of Madonna. She played Nancy Bartlett Thomas on the ABC sitcom ''Roseanne'' from the fourth season (1991) to the end of the show in 1997. She played Masha in Martin Scorsese’s film '' The King of Comedy'', Nurse Judy Kubrak in the FX drama series '' Pose'', and Nurse Cecily on the Apple TV+ series '' Severance''. She is number 96 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 greatest stand-ups of all time. Early life Bernhard was born June 6, 1955, in Flint, Michigan, the daughter of Jeanette (née LaZebnik; 1921–2014) and proctologist Jerome Bernhard (1922–2025). She was raised Conservative Jewish. She has three older brothers: Dan, David, and Mark. Her family moved to Scottsdale, Arizona when she was 10. She att ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy
Comedy is a genre of dramatic works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. Origins Comedy originated in ancient Greece: in Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by political satire performed by comic poets in Ancient Greek theatre, theaters. The theatrical genre of Greek comedy can be described as a dramatic performance pitting two groups, ages, genders, or societies against each other in an amusing ''agon'' or conflict. Northrop Frye depicted these two opposing sides as a "Society of Youth" and a "Society of the Old". A revised view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions posing obstacles to his hopes. In this struggle, the youth then becomes constrained by his lack of social authority, and is left with little choice but to resort to ruses which e ... [...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.S. Frith, W. Straw, and J. Street, eds, ''iarchive:cambridgecompani00frit, The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), , pp. 95–105. During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. ''Rock music, Rock'' and ''pop'' music remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after which ''pop'' became associated with music that was more commercial, wikt:ephemeral, ephemeral, and accessible. Identifying factors of pop music usually include repeated choruses and Hook (music), hooks, short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse–chorus form, verse–chorus structure), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much of pop music also borrows elements from other styles such as rock, hip hop, urban contemporary, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercury Records
Mercury Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group. It had significant success as an independent operation in the 1940s and 1950s. Smash Records and Fontana Records were sub labels of Mercury. Mercury Records released rock, funk, R&B, doo wop, soul music, blues, pop, rock and roll, and jazz records. In the United States, it is operated through Republic Records; in the United Kingdom and Japan (as Mercury Tokyo in the latter country), it is distributed by EMI Records. Background Mercury Records was started in Chicago in 1945 and over several decades, saw great success. The success of Mercury has been attributed to the use of alternative marketing techniques to promote records. The conventional method of record promotion used by major labels such as RCA Victor, Decca Records, and Capitol Records was dependent on radio airplay, but Mercury Records co-founder Irving Green decided to promote new records using jukeboxes instead. By lowering promotion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Without You I'm Nothing (Sandra Bernhard Album)
Without You I'm Nothing may refer to: Film and television * Without You I'm Nothing (film), ''Without You I'm Nothing'' (film), a 1990 film by Sandra Bernhard * ''Without You I'm Nothing'', an upcoming film written by and starring Robin Bain * "Without You I'm Nothing", an episode of the TV series ''Ferris Bueller (TV series)#Episodes, Ferris Bueller'' Music and theatre * Without You I'm Nothing (Placebo album), ''Without You I'm Nothing'' (Placebo album), 1998 ** Without You I'm Nothing (song), "Without You I'm Nothing" (song), the title track * Without You I'm Nothing (Sandra Bernhard album), ''Without You I'm Nothing'' (Sandra Bernhard album), 1987 * "Without You I'm Nothing", a song by Eric Saade from ''Saade Vol. 2'' * "Without You, I'm Nothing", a song from the 1956 musical ''Mr. Wonderful (musical), Mr Wonderful'' See also * ''Without You I'm Nothing, With You I'm Not Much Better'', a 1988 off-Broadway show by Sandra Bernhard, basis for the album and film above * " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The '80s
File:1980s replacement montage02.PNG, 335px, From left, clockwise: The first Space Shuttle, '' Columbia'', lifts off in 1981; US president Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev ease tensions between the two superpowers, leading to the end of the Cold War; The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 is considered to be one of the most momentous events of the 1980s; In 1981, the IBM Personal Computer is released; In 1985, the Live Aid concert is held in order to fund relief efforts for the famine in Ethiopia during the time Mengistu Haile Mariam ruled the country; Pollution and ecological problems persisted when the Soviet Union and much of the world is filled with radioactive debris from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, and in 1984, when thousands of people perished in Bhopal during a gas leak from a pesticide plant; The Iran–Iraq War leads to over one million dead and $1 trillion spent, while another war between the Soviets and Afghans leaves over 2 million dead. rect 2 3 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
