What an awesome voice Karen had and what a great pair her and her brother were! I grew up with this music and thought I’d put it here for posterity! 🙂
February 2, 1974, The Carpenters started a four week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with ‘The Singles 1969-73’, featuring 12 hits and the US No.1 ‘Top Of The World’ it went back to the top of the charts on three other occasions.
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11/28/1929, Born on this day, Berry Gordy, founder of Motown Records. In 1957 Jackie Wilson recorded ‘Reet Petite’, a song Gordy had co-written with his sister Gwen and writer-producer Billy Davis. Wilson recorded six more songs co-written by Gordy over the next two years, including ‘Lonely Teardrops’. Gordy reinvested the profits from his songwriting success into producing. In 1957, he discovered the Miracles (originally known as the Matadors) and began building a portfolio of successful artists. Over the next decade, he signed such artists as The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Stevie Wonder and the Jackson 5.
Gordy decided to take total control of his songs, so on January 12, 1959, he borrowed $800 from his family’s loan fund to start his own record label, called Tamla. He had originally wanted to call his label “Tammy,” after a Debbie Reynolds film, but that title was already taken. Tamla Records was located at 1719 Gladstone Street in Detroit, and the first release was Marv Johnson’s “Come to Me” [Tamla 101]. The song was picked up by United Artists and it became a mid-sized hit. United Artists signed Marv Johnson to a recording contract and Berry Gordy continued to produce him for that label. In 1959, Marv Johnson’s “You Got What It Takes” became his first production to break into the pop Top 10.
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Keith Noel Emerson (2 November 1944 – 11 March 2016) was an English musician and composer. He played keyboards in a number of bands before he found his first commercial success with the Nice, formerly P. P. Arnold‘s backing band, in the late 1960s.[1] He became internationally famous for his work with the Nice, which included writing rock arrangements of classical music.[2] After leaving the Nice in 1970, he was a founding member of Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP), one of the early progressive rock supergroups. Emerson, Lake & Palmer were commercially successful through much of the 1970s, becoming one of the best-known progressive rock groups of the era.[1] Emerson wrote and arranged much of ELP’s music on albums such as Tarkus (1971) and Brain Salad Surgery (1973), combining his own original compositions with classical or traditional pieces adapted into a rock format.[3] (wikipedia)
Emerson died on 11 March 2016 in Santa Monica, California, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. He had become “depressed, nervous and anxious” because nerve damage in his hands had hampered his playing.
“FOOTPRINTS IN THE SNOW” from the album “Black Moon”~1992
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Thomas Earl “Tom” Petty (born October 20, 1950) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, multi instrumentalist and record producer. He is best known as the lead singer of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, but is also known as a member and co-founder of the late 1980s supergroup the Traveling Wilburys (under the pseudonyms of Charlie T. Wilbury, Jr. and Muddy Wilbury), and his early band Mudcrutch.
Petty has recorded a number of hit singles with the Heartbreakers and as a solo artist, many of which remain played on adult contemporary and classic rock radio. His music has been classified as rock and roll, heartland rock, and even stoner rock. His music has become popular among younger generations.[2] Throughout his career, Petty has sold more than 80 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time.[3] In 2002, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
(wikipedia)
I was just checking out some underrated Tom Petty songs and found this one. I kinda like it! It’s from his “Damn the Torpedoes” album. Love you and your music, Tom! ❤
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Since today is Lindsey Buckingham’s birthday… and because this is one great album , from 1973! ❤
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Lindsey Adams Buckingham (born October 3, 1949) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and producer, best known as lead guitarist and one of the vocalists of the musical group Fleetwood Mac from 1975 to 1987, and then 1997 to the present day. Aside from his tenure with Fleetwood Mac, Buckingham has also released six solo albums and three live albums. As a member of Fleetwood Mac, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. In 2011, Buckingham was ranked 100th in Rolling Stone Magazine’s 2011 list of “The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time”.[1] Buckingham is known for his fingerpicking guitar style.
Fleetwood Mac, the band that gave Buckingham his greatest exposure, had been around since the late 1960s, beginning as a British blues outfit led by Peter Green. After Green left the group, they experienced several tumultuous years, without a stable frontman. Along with his then-girlfriend Stevie Nicks, Buckingham was invited to join Fleetwood Mac in 1975; the pair were recording in the same studio, and Fleetwood Mac had been without a guitarist or male lead vocal at the time. Buckingham and Nicks became the face of the group during their most commercially successful period, highlighted by the multi-platinum Rumours album, which would sell over 40 million copies worldwide. Though highly successful, the line-up experienced almost constant creative and personal conflict, and Buckingham left the band in 1987 to pursue a solo career.
A one-off reunion at the 1993 inauguration ball for President Bill Clinton would initiate some rapprochement between the former band members, with Buckingham performing some vocals on one track of their 1995 albumTime, and rejoining the band full-time in 1997 for the live tour and album The Dance. Buckingham has remained in the band ever since.
(from Wikipedia)
This should keep you going for a while! Great tunes! Sean
Released as a single in 1977, her cover of the Jackie Wilson classic, became Coolidge’s first major hit in nine years of recording. The track peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. Cash Box ranked it at No. 1. “Higher and Higher” also reached No. 1 in Canada. The song has earned Coolidge a gold record, selling 1 million copies.
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This was released as the first single from their fourth album, One by One. The song won a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance, and spent ten straight weeks at #1 on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart and it peaked at #3 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. It was also a top 5 hit on the UK Singles Chart.
(I was on my way to Jack in the Box, and they were playing this on the radio. I was seriously rockin’ out 😛 )
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This song was released as a single on March 15, 1971, it was quite successful, at first slowly climbing the charts, then more quickly rising to number 4 on the U.S. pop singles chart by May 1971. It fared similarly across the Atlantic, reaching number 4 on the UK pop singles chart as well.
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Friday Night Sessions 