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The Ultimate Collection (Renée Geyer Album)
''The Ultimate Collection'' (subtitled ''Celebrating Four Decades of Soul'') is the fourth greatest hits album by Australian musician Renée Geyer. It was released in March 2010 by Warner Music Australia and peaked at number 21 on the RIANZ charts, becoming Geyer's highest charting album in New Zealand. Background and release Geyer's career has spanned four decades and has achieved commercial success, appearing on the Australian charts since the 1970s to 2000s. The 17 tracks were selected by Geyer. She believes that they are fan favourites and are always requested at live shows. In 2005, Geyer was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame. In a 2011 interview with Bendigo Weekly, Geyer said "People like it (the album) because it's the songs that I know are the most yelled out for me. I know these are the ones that people really want to hear. It's a basic sum-up of my career." Reception Julie Taylor from ''The Northern Advocate'' gave the album 3 out of 5 saying; "Her best known h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greatest Hits
A greatest hits album or best-of album is a type of compilation album that collects popular and commercially successful songs by a particular artist or band. While greatest hits albums are typically supported by the artist, they can also be created by record companies without express approval from the original artist as a means to generate sales. They are typically regarded as a good starting point for new fans of an artist, but are sometimes criticized by longtime fans as not inclusive enough or necessary at all. It is also common for greatest hits albums to include new recordings, remixes or unreleased alternate takes of the hit songs, plus other new material as bonus tracks to increase appeal for longtime fans (who might otherwise already own the recordings included). At times, a greatest hits compilation marks the first album appearance of a successful single that was never attached to a previous studio album. Greatest hits albums usually are released after an artist or band ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Say I Love You (song)
"Say I Love You" is a song written by Eddy Grant in 1979. The song was first released on Grant's 1979 album ''Walking on Sunshine (Eddy Grant album), Walking on Sunshine''. Renée Geyer version Australian musician Renée Geyer recorded a version in December 1980. The song was released in May 1981 as the lead single from her seventh studio album, ''So Lucky (Renée Geyer album), So Lucky''. The song peaked at number 5 on the Australian Kent Music Report and at number 1 in New Zealand. Track listing ; Australian 7" Single *Side A "Say I Love You" *Side B "Bad Side of the Blues" ; International 7" Single *Side A "Say I Love You" - 3:30 *Side B "Good Lovin'" - 3:34 Charts Weekly charts Year-end charts Other versions *Lenny Zakatek released the song as a single in 1982. *Groove 21/20 remixed "Say I Love You", featuring Renée Geyer, which was released as the lead single to promote her album, ''The Best of Renee Geyer 1973-1998'' (1998). See also * List of number-one singles f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
So Lucky (Renée Geyer Album)
''So Lucky'' is the seventh studio album by Australian musician Renée Geyer. The album was released in November 1981 and includes Geyer's highest charting single " Say I Love You" which peaked at number 5 in Australia and number 1 in New Zealand. The album was released by Portrait Records in the United States of America in 1982 under the title Reneé Geyer. The songs were re-ordered. It was her second album released in that territory following the Polydor Records' ''Moving Along'' in 1977, which was also titled ''Reneé Geyer''. Track listing ;Vinyl/ cassette (L 37554) Side One # "Do You Know What I Mean" (Lee Michaels) - 3.20 # "Baby I've Been Missing You" (Chuck Jackson, Marvin Yancy) - 3.36 # " Say I Love You" (Eddy Grant) - 3.33 # "Come On" (Chuck Berry) - 2.39 # "You Don't Know Nothing About Love" (Jerry Ragovoy) - 3.56 Side Two # " I Can Feel the Fire" (Ron Wood) - 4.15 # "Good Lovin'" (Renée Geyer, Ricky Fataar, Ian McLaglan, Johnny Lee Schell, Ray O'Hara) - 3.36 # " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moving Along
''Moving Along'' (self-titled in the US) is the fourth studio album by Australian soul/R&B singer Renée Geyer, and her first to be recorded in the US and released internationally. It was produced by famed Motown musician Frank Wilson who assembled the cream of US session players to back Geyer. Some notables were members of Stevie Wonder's band including Nathan Watts, Ray Parker Jr., Motown's most famous bass guitarist and Funk Brother James Jamerson, on backing vocals, Venetta Fields, and Mal and Barry from The Renée Geyer Band at Geyer's insistence. For this album, she re-recorded her Australian hit "Heading in the Right Direction" for the US market. Reception ''Cash Box magazine'' said "Geyer is an Australian songstress with dynamic interpretive qualities in her voice and material that ranged from disco to MOR. Already with an established reputation in her homeland... she seems poised and ready for a listen by the Yanks." Track listing ;Vinyl/ cassette (VPL1-0140 / PD-1- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Wilson (musician)
Frank Edward Wilson (December 5, 1940 – September 27, 2012) was an American songwriter, singer, and record producer for Motown Records. Early life and education Wilson was born on December 5, 1940, in Houston, Texas, to James Wilson and Samanther Gibbs. Wilson attended Southern University in Baton Rouge but only for one year; he had participated in a civil rights protest and lost his scholarship in his sophomore year. While still in his teens, he moved to Los Angeles, California. Career In 1963, Berry Gordy asked the producers Hal Davis and Marc Gordon to set up an office of Motown in Los Angeles. Wilson accepted an offer to join the team. In December 1963, "Stevie" by Patrice Holloway (V.I.P. 25001) was the first single released from the West Coast operation and featured Wilson in the songwriting credits. Asked by Gordy to re-locate to Detroit, Wilson went on to write and produce hit records for Brenda Holloway, Marvin Gaye, the Supremes, the Miracles, the Four Tops ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stares And Whispers (song)
"Stares and Whispers" is a song by the Australian Renée Geyer Band. The song was released in April 1977 as the lead single from Geyer's fourth studio album ''Moving Along'' (1977); her first to be recorded in the US and released internationally. It became Geyer's first Australian top 20 single, peaking at number 17 on the Kent Music Report. In April 1977, Geyer performed the song on the 100th episode of the Australian TV show Countdown, which she also co-hosted. Track listing ; Australian 7" Single *Side A "Stares and Whispers" - 3:33 *Side B "Be There in the Morning" - 4:24 Charts Weekly charts Year-end charts Cover versions * Freda Payne Freda Charcilia Payne (born September 19, 1942Some sources give a birth year of 1945, but this appears to be an error as all sources agree that she is older than her sister Scherrie, born 1944.) is an American singer and actress. Payne is best ... covered the song for her album '' Stares and Whispers'' (1977). * Alton McClain an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweet Life (album)
''Sweet Life'' is the tenth studio album by Australian soul and R&B singer Renée Geyer. The album was released in March 1999 and peaked at number 50 on the ARIA Charts. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1999, the album was nominated for Best Adult Contemporary Album. Track listing # "Best Times" (Renée Geyer, Kenneth Crouch) – 4:47 # "Heaven (The Closest I'll Get)" (Geyer, John Clifforth) – 4:47 # "You Broke a Beautiful Thing" ( Paul Kelly) – 5:17 # "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me (featuring CBD) ( Jerry Ross, Kenneth Gamble Kenneth Gamble (born August 11, 1943, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and Leon A. Huff (born April 8, 1942, Camden, New Jersey) are an American songwriting and production duo credited for developing the Philadelphia soul music genre (also known as P ..., Danny Williams) – 3:22 # "From Now On" (Geyer, John Clifforth, Michael den Elzen) – 4:27 # "Play Me" (featuring Paul Kelly) (Kelly) – 4:13 # "Knowing You Were Loved" ( Peter Milton Walsh) – 4: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Brown
James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, musician, and record producer. The central progenitor of funk music and a major figure of 20th-century music, he is referred to by Honorific nicknames in popular music, various nicknames, among them "Mr. Dynamite", "the Hardest-Working Man in Show Business", "Minister of New Super Heavy Funk", "Godfather of Soul", "King of Soul", and "Soul Brother No. 1". In a career that lasted more than 50 years, he influenced the development of several music genres. Brown was one of the first ten inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on January 23, 1986. His music has been heavily sampled by hip-hop musicians and other artists. Brown began his career as a Gospel music, gospel singer in Toccoa, Georgia. He rose to prominence in the mid-1950s as the lead singer of the Famous Flames, a rhythm and blues vocal group founded by Bobby Byrd. With the hit ballads "Please, Please, Please (James Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New Zealand Herald
''The New Zealand Herald'' is a daily newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand, owned by New Zealand Media and Entertainment, and considered a newspaper of record for New Zealand. It has the largest newspaper circulation in New Zealand, peaking at over 200,000 copies in 2006, although circulation of the daily ''Herald'' had declined to 100,073 copies on average by September 2019. The ''Herald''s publications include a daily paper; the ''Weekend Herald'', a weekly Saturday paper; and the ''Herald on Sunday'', which has 365,000 readers nationwide. The ''Herald on Sunday'' is the most widely read Sunday paper in New Zealand. The paper's website, nzherald.co.nz, is viewed 2.2 million times a week and was named Voyager Media Awards' News Website of the Year in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. In 2023, the ''Weekend Herald'' was awarded Weekly Newspaper of the Year and the publication's mobile application was the News App of the Year. Its main circulation area is the Auckland R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thieves In The Temple
"Thieves in the Temple" is a song by American musician Prince from the 1990 soundtrack album '' Graffiti Bridge''. Added at the last minute, it was the final song recorded for the album. "Thieves in the Temple" topped the US R&B chart and became a number six hit in the US, and a number seven hit in the UK. The single also peaked at number nine on the dance chart. The track has a unique sound, starting quietly with echoed keyboards and vocals before the main section of the song booms in with a pulsating synth bass, syncopated drum machines, Middle Eastern melodies and opera-like layered vocals. Prince also samples a harmonica solo from a recording by The Chambers Brothers. The vocals are emotional, and accuse the subject of rejecting Prince and lying to him. The "temple" in the title recalls the ever-present spirituality in many of Prince's songs. The maxi single contains extended lyrics that continue the theme before diverging into more dance-oriented material. The maxi single al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince (musician)
Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958April 21, 2016) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation, Prince was known for his flamboyant, androgynous persona, wide vocal range, which included a far-reaching falsetto and high-pitched screams, as well as his skill as a multi-instrumentalist, often preferring to play all or most of the instruments on his recordings. His music incorporated a wide variety of styles, including funk, disco, Rhythm and blues, R&B, Rock music, rock, New wave music, new wave, soul music, soul, synth-pop, Pop music, pop, jazz, blues, and hip hop music, hip hop. Prince produced his albums himself, pioneering the Minneapolis sound. Born and raised in Minneapolis, Prince signed a record deal with Warner Bros. Records at the age of 18, soon releasing the studio albums ''For You (Prince album), For You'' (1978) and ''Prince (album), Prince'' (1979). He went on to achieve critical succe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaky Ground
Shaky Ground is an American sitcom, created by Bob Keyes, Chip Keyes, and Doug Keyes, which starred Matt Frewer as Bob Moody, a hapless but supportive and caring father. Robin Riker played his wife and Matthew Brooks, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and Bradley Pierce played their children. The show aired on Fox from December 27, 1992 to May 23, 1993. Theme Bob Moody was mid-life, mid-career, middle-management and middle-class. He worked as a quality-control inspector for United General Technologies. He loved his family and worked hard to support them, but in ways was struggling with adulthood as well. Episodes often focused on Bob's thwarted ambitions at work, or the fact that he was not a traditional husband and father at home. Bob managed to get by as a result of finding the confidence to accept himself. Some episodes were surrealistic in nature, such as Bob trying an experimental hair-restoration product that slowly turned him into a werewolf. In another episode he takes up "Dance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
