Music That We Adore

Take a trip through the 60s, 70's and 80's Music, and relive all the songs and artists that marked an Era.

Best-Selling Artists

The Beatles - Elvis Presley - Michael Jackson - Frank Sinatra - Bing Crosby - ABBA - Julio Iglesias - Led Zepplin - Nana Mouskouri - Queen

Best-Selling Singles [Millions Sold]

White Christmas 50m- Candle in the Wind 33m- Silent Night 30m- Rock Around the Clock 25m- Diana 20m - We Are the World 20m- If I Didn't Care 19m- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer 18m- Yes Sir, I Can Boogie 18m

Great Song Lists

You will enjoy more discographies of artists on this blog than most other blogs.

Great Artists - Great Albums

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Friday, December 29, 2023

Jon English [R.I.P.] - Discography - [Australian Artist]

Jon English - Discography

Jonathan James English
Born: 26 March 1949 - Died: 9 March 2016
R.I.P.

Jonathan James "Jon" English (26 March 1949 – 9 March 2016) was an English-born Australian singer, songwriter, musician and actor. He emigrated from England to Australia with his parents in 1961. He was an early vocalist and rhythm guitarist for Sebastian Hardie but left to take on the role of Judas Iscariot in the Australian version of the stage musical Jesus Christ Superstar from May 1972, which was broadcast on television.[2] English was also a noted solo singer; his Australian top twenty hit singles include "Turn the Page", "Hollywood Seven", "Words are Not Enough", "Six Ribbons" and "Hot Town".

English was acclaimed for his starring role in the 1978 Australian TV series Against the Wind – he won the TV Week Logie Award for 'Best New Talent in Australia'. He also co-wrote and performed the score with Mario Millo (ex-Sebastian Hardie). The series had international release, known as Mot alla vindar (1980) in Swedish, where "Six Ribbons" was released as a single, both single and the soundtrack album peaked at No.1 on the Norwegian charts; the first single, "Six Ribbons" and the album, peaked at No.4 on the Swedish charts.

Sunday, December 24, 2023

Merry Christmas

 Merry Christmas to all you wonderful people and thank you to all of you that have messaged me.

I truly appreciate all of you.


Friday, December 22, 2023

Sonny Boy Williamson II [R.I.P.] - Discography

Sonny Boy Williamson II - Discography 


Born: December 5, 1912  -  Died: May 24, 1965 (aged 52)
R.I.P.

Sonny Boy Williamson, was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter.[2] He was an early and influential blues harp stylist who recorded successfully in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Monday, December 18, 2023

Waylon Jennings [R.I.P.] - Discography

Waylon Jennings - Discography


Born: 15 June 1937  -  Died: 13 February 2002
R.I.P.

 Waylon Arnold Jennings was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. He is considered one of the pioneers of the outlaw movement in country music. Jennings started playing guitar at the age of eight and performed at age fourteen on KVOW radio, after which he formed his first band, the Texas Longhorns.

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Sunday, December 17, 2023

Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs - Discography

Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs - Discography

Best known for their 1965 smash "Wooly Bully," which helped introduce Tex-Mex rhythms to mainstream rock & roll, Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs were formed in Dallas by lead singer Domingo Samudio, who took the name Sam the Sham from a joke about his inability as a vocalist. The Pharaohs consisted of guitarist Ray Stinnet, bassist David Martin, saxophonist Butch Gibson, and drummer Jerry Patterson. Before hitting it big with "Wooly Bully," a song about Samudio's cat, they recorded the independent single "Haunted House," which helped the band get a deal with MGM. Following "Wooly Bully," the group recorded a series of largely novelty singles, but only "Li'l Red Riding Hood" approached the success of its predecessor. Frustrated at being perceived as a talentless novelty act, Samudio broke up the Pharaohs in 1967 and recorded as the Sam the Sham Revue, and adopted the name Sam Domingo in 1970. His lone solo LP, Sam, Hard & Heavy, featured slide guitarist Duane Allman, but failed to establish him as a major talent. Samudio contributed two songs to the 1982 film The Border and later moved to Memphis and became a street preacher. "Wooly Bully," of course, remains a bar band staple.

Friday, December 15, 2023

Tex Ritter [R.I.P.] - Discography

Tex Ritter - Discography

Born: January 12, 1905  -  Died January 2, 1974 (aged 68)
R.I.P.
Singing cowboy Tex Ritter stood as one of the biggest names in country music throughout the postwar era, thanks to a diverse career that led him everywhere from the Broadway stage to the political arena. He was born Maurice Woodward Ritter in Marvaul, TX, on January 12, 1907, and grew up on a ranch in Beaumont. After graduating at the top of his high school class, he majored in law at the University of Texas. During college, however, he was bitten by the acting bug and moved to New York in 1928 to join a theatrical troupe. After a few years of struggle, he briefly returned to school, only to leave again to pursue stardom.
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Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Ray Stevens - Discography

Ray Stevens - Discography

Born: January 24, 1939
Harold Ray Ragsdale, known professionally as Ray Stevens, is an American country and pop singer-songwriter and comedian, known for his Grammy-winning recordings "Everything Is Beautiful" and "Misty", as well as novelty hits such as "Gitarzan" and "The Streak". Stevens has received gold albums for his music sales and has worked as a producer, music arranger, and television host.

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Monday, December 11, 2023

Gene Autry [R.I.P.] - Discography

 Gene Autry  - Discography


Born: 1907 - Died: 1998
R.I.P.
Gene Autry was an American singer, songwriter, actor, musician, and rodeo performer who gained fame as the "Singing Cowboy" in a series of films released between 1934 and 1953. He was one of the most popular and financially successful stars of his era. 

Saturday, December 9, 2023

Ray Price [R.I.P.] - Discography

Ray Price - Discography

Born: January 12, 1926 - Died: December 16, 2013
R.I.P.
Ray Price was an American country music singer, songwriter and guitarist. His wide-ranging baritone has often been praised as among the best male voices of country music.

Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Hank Snow [R.I.P.] - Discography

 Hank Snow - Discography

Born: 1914  –  Died: 1999
R.I.P.

Hank  was a Canadian-American country music guitarist, singer and songwriter.  And absolutely a wonderful musician.

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Monday, December 4, 2023

The 5th Dimension - Discography

The 5th Dimension


The Fifth Dimension's unique sound lay somewhere between smooth, elegant soul and straightforward, adult-oriented pop, often with a distinct flower-power vibe. Although they appealed more to mainstream listeners than to a hip, hardcore R&B audience, they had a definite ear for contemporary trends; their selection of material helped kickstart the notable songwriting careers of Jimmy Webb and Laura Nyro, and their biggest hit was a medley from the hippie musical Hair, "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In." The group's soaring, seamless harmonies were given appropriately sweeping, orchestrated period production by Bones Howe, which often placed their records closer to California-style sunshine pop. That's actually part of the reason why the best singles from the Fifth Dimension's heyday of the late '60s and early '70s still evoke their era with uncanny precision.

Sunday, December 3, 2023

Rob E.G. [RIP] [Australian Artist] - Discography - 320kbps Bitrate

Robie Porter

Rob E.G.


Robie Porter, also known as Rob E. G.
Born 4 July 1942 - Died 16 December 2021
R.I.P.

Robert George Porter OAM (born 4 June 1942) is an Australian country, pop-rock musician, producer, and record label owner.
Beginning in 1959 he performed under the stage name Rob E.G. and recorded lap steel guitar instrumentals or covers of country-style vocals. On the local Sydney music charts, he provided four top ten hits including two No. 1 hits with "Si Senor" and "55 Days at Peking". From 1970 Porter ran an independent record label, Sparmac, and produced three LPs for Daddy Cool.

Friday, November 24, 2023

The Archies - Discography

The Archies

The Archies is a fictional American rock band that features in media produced by, and related to, Archie Comics. They are best remembered for their appearance in the animated TV series The Archie Show.

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Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Bruce Guthro [RIP] - Discography

Bruce Guthro - Discography 

Born: August 31, 1961 - Died: September 5, 2023
R.I.P.

Bruce Guthro was a Canadian singer-songwriter from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.
Bruce recorded as a solo artist, and was lead vocalist for the Scottish Celtic rock band Runrig from 1998.
Please enjoy the lovely music.

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Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Sharon Shannon - Discography

Sharon Shannon - Discography

Born: 8 June 1968
Sharon Shannon is an Irish musician, best known for her work with the button accordion and for her fiddle technique. And such a wonderful artist.

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Sunday, November 19, 2023

Johnny Horton [RIP] - Discography - 320kbps

Johnny Horton - Discography

Born: April 30, 1925 - Died: November 5, 1960
R.I.P.
Although he is better-remembered for his historical songs, Johnny Horton was one of the best and most popular honky tonk singers of the late '50s. Horton managed to infuse honky tonk with an urgent rockabilly underpinning. His career may have been cut short by a fatal car crash in 1960, but his music reverberated throughout the next three decades.

Saturday, November 18, 2023

Tony Joe White [R.I.P.] - Discography

Tony Joe White  - Discography 


Born: July 23, 1943  -  Died: October 24, 2018
R.I.P.

Tony Joe White was a songwriter, guitarist, and singer whose gritty, soulful music wove together elements of blues, country, and rock into a unique and powerful reflection of his Southern roots. As a songwriter, White wrote "Rainy Night in Georgia," which was a hit for Brook Benton and was recorded by dozens of artists, and "Polk Salad Annie," which Elvis Presley made a staple of his Vegas-era live shows, among many others. 

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Thursday, November 16, 2023

Rick Springfield [Aust / U.S.] - Discography

Rick Springfield [Aust / U.S.] - Discography 


Born: August 23, 1949
New South Wales, Australia
Rick is an Australian-American musician and actor.


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Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Eric Burdon & The Animals - Discography

Eric Burdon & The Animals - Discography


The Animals are an English rhythm and blues and rock band, formed in Newcastle upon Tyne in the early 1960s. The band moved to London upon finding fame in 1964. The Animals were known for their gritty, bluesy sound and deep-voiced frontman Eric Burdon, as exemplified by their signature song and transatlantic No. 1 hit single, "House of the Rising Sun", as well as by hits such as "We Gotta Get Out of This Place", "It's My Life", "I'm Crying" and "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood". The band balanced tough, rock-edged pop singles against rhythm and blues-orientated album material and were part of the British Invasion of the US.

The Animals underwent numerous personnel changes in the mid-1960s and suffered from poor business management. Under the name Eric Burdon and the Animals, the much-changed act moved to California and achieved commercial success as a psychedelic and hard rock band with hits like "San Franciscan Nights", "When I Was Young" and "Sky Pilot", before disbanding at the end of the decade.[1] Altogether, the group had ten Top Twenty hits in both the UK Singles Chart and the US Billboard Hot 100.

The original lineup of Burdon, Alan Price, Chas Chandler, Hilton Valentine and John Steel reunited for a one off benefit concert in their home city of Newcastle in 1968. They later had brief comebacks in 1975 and 1983. There have been several partial re-groupings of the original era members since then under various names. The Animals were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.

Sunday, November 12, 2023

Ben E. King [R.I.P.] - Discography

 Ben E. King [R.I.P.] - Discography


Born: 28 September 1938 - Died: 30 April 2015
R.I.P.

Benjamin Earl King was an American soul and R&B singer and record producer. He rose to prominence as one of the principal lead singers of the R&B vocal group The Drifters

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Friday, November 10, 2023

Jenny Morris [N.Z.] - Discography

 Jenny Morris [N.Z.] - Discography

Jennifer Patricia Morris is a New Zealand-Australian singer-songwriter.

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Thursday, November 9, 2023

Hillsong Worship - Discography

 Hillsong Worship - Discography



A popular and prolific praise & worship group, Hillsong Worship spun out of Australia's Hillsong Church, a Pentecostal ministry based in northwest Sydney. Emerging in the early 1980s, the ensemble was called Hillsong Live until 2014. During that time, they released over two dozen albums and helped launch notable CCM artists like Darlene Zschech, Marty Sampson, Brooke Fraser, Reuben Morgan, and Joel Houston. They began operating under the Hillsong Worship moniker with the release of 2014's No Other Name and have maintained a consistent presence on the Billboard Christian Albums charts with lauded efforts like The Peace Project (2017), Awake (2019), and Take Heart (Again) (2020).

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Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Brook Benton [R.I.P.] - Discography

Brook Benton Discography

Born: September 19, 1931 - Died April 9, 1988
R.I.P.
Brook Benton, was an American singer and songwriter who was popular with rock and roll, rhythm and blues, and pop music audiences during the late 1950s and early 1960s,
Brook died at the tragically young age of 56 from spinal meningitis in New York City on April 9, 1988

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Monday, November 6, 2023

Roger Whittaker [R.I.P.] - Discography

 Roger Whittaker [R.I.P.] - Discography

Born: 22 March 1936 – Died: 13 September 2023 
R.I.P.
Roger was a British singer-songwriter and musician.
He is best known for his baritone singing voice and trademark whistling ability as well as his guitar skills.

(Personally I have always enjoyed his music.)

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Thursday, November 2, 2023

Peter and Gordon - Discography

Peter and Gordon


In June 1964, Peter & Gordon became the very first British Invasion act after the Beatles to take the number one spot on the American charts with "A World Without Love." That hit, and their subsequent successes, were due as much or more to their important connections as to their talent. Peter Asher was the older brother of Jane Asher, Paul McCartney's girlfriend for much of the '60s. This no doubt gave Asher and Gordon Waller access to Lennon-McCartney compositions that were unrecorded by the Beatles, such as "A World Without Love" and three of their other biggest hits, "Nobody I Know," "I Don't Want to See You Again," and "Woman" (the last of which was written by McCartney under a pseudonym). But Peter & Gordon were significant talents in their own right, a sort of Everly Brothers-styled duo for the British Invasion that faintly prefigured the folk-rock of the mid-'60s. In fact, when Gene Clark first approached Jim McGuinn in 1964 about working together in a group that would eventually evolve into the Byrds, he suggested that they could form a Peter & Gordon-styled act.

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Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Rhonda Vincent - Discography

 Rhonda Vincent - Discography

Born July 13, 1962

Rhonda Lea Vincent  is an American bluegrass singer, songwriter, 
and multi-instrumentalist.
And a marvelous musician.

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Monday, October 30, 2023

Hayley Westenra [NZ] - Discography

Hayley Westenra [NZ] - Discography 

Born: April 10, 1987, Christchurch, New Zealand

Hayley Dee Westenra is a New Zealand classical singer. 

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Sunday, October 29, 2023

Sinéad O'Connor [R.I.P.] - Discography

 Sinéad O'Connor  - Discography

Born: 8 December 1966 - Died: 26 July 2023
R.I.P.
Sinéad was a wonderful Irish Singer and Songwriter.

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Saturday, October 28, 2023

Katie Noonan [Aust] - Discography

 Katie Noonan [Aust] - Discography

Born 2 May, 1977
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Katie Anne Noonan is an Australian singer and songwriter. In addition to a successful solo career encompassing opera, jazz, pop, rock and dance, she was the singer in the band George and remains the singer in the band Elixir; performs with her mother Maggie Noonan; and plays with her band The Captains. Noonan was the musical director of and performed at the 2018 Commonwealth Games' opening and closing ceremonies.

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Friday, October 27, 2023

Crystal Gayle - Discography

 Crystal Gayle - Discography

Born: January 09, 1951

Crystal Gayle (born Brenda Gail Webb, January 9, 1951 in Paintsville, Kentucky) is an American country singer. She had twenty one country hits in the 1970s and 1980s. She is the younger sister of singer Loretta Lynn. 

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Thursday, October 26, 2023

Tina Arena [Aust] - Discography

 Tina Arena [Aust] - Discography


Filippina Lydia Arena (born 1 November 1967), commonly known as Tina Arena, is an Italian-Australian singer-songwriter, musician, musical theatre actress, and record producer. She is one of Australia's highest selling female artists who has sold over 10 million records worldwide. 

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Tuesday, October 24, 2023

The Coasters - Discography

The Coasters - Discography

The Coasters were one of the few artists in rock history to successfully straddle the line between music and comedy. Their undeniably funny lyrics and on-stage antics might have suggested a simple troupe of clowns, but Coasters records were no mere novelties -- their material, supplied by the legendary team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, was too witty, their arrangements too well-crafted, and the group itself too musically proficient. That engaging and infectious combination made them one of the most popular early R&B/rock & roll acts, as well as one of the most consistently entertaining doo wop/vocal groups of all time.

The Coasters grew out of a successful Los Angeles doo wop group called the Robins, which had been recording since 1949 and working with Leiber & Stoller since 1953. Atlantic Records acquired the Robins in 1955, when the Leiber & Stoller composition "Smokey Joe's Cafe" was becoming too big a hit for their small Spark label to handle; its success scored the duo an independent contract with Atlantic as producers and composers. 
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Monday, October 23, 2023

Mariah Carey - Discography

 Mariah Carey - Discography

Mariah Carey is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. One of the best-selling female performers of all time . Referred to as the "Songbird Supreme" by Guinness World Records, she is noted for her songwriting, five-octave vocal range, melismatic singing style and signature use of the whistle register. 

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Sunday, October 22, 2023

Gerry Rafferty [R.I.P.] - Discography

Gerry Rafferty

Born:April 16, 1947 - Died: January 4, 2011
R.I.P.

Gerry Rafferty was a popular music giant at the end of the '70s, thanks to the song "Baker Street" and the album City to City. His career long predated that fixture of Top 40 radio, however; indeed, by the time he cut "Baker Street" Rafferty had already been a member of two successful groups, the Humblebums and Stealers Wheel.
Gerry was born in Paisley, Scotland in 1947, the son of a Scottish mother and an Irish father. His father was deaf but still enjoyed singing, mostly Irish rebel songs, and his early experience of music was a combination of Catholic hymns, traditional folk music, and '50s pop music. By 1968, at age 21, Rafferty was a singer/guitarist and had started trying to write songs professionally, and was looking for a gig of his own. Enter Billy Connolly, late of Scottish bands like the Skillet Lickers and the Acme Brush Company. Connolly was a musician and comedian who'd found that telling jokes from the stage was as appealing an activity to him -- and the audience -- as making music.

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Friday, October 20, 2023

Lady Gaga - Discography

Lady Gaga Discography


Born: March 28, 1986, New York City, US

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, known professionally as Lady Gaga, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She is known for her image reinventions and versatility in the entertainment industry. Gaga began performing as a teenager, singing at open mic nights and acting in school plays.

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Fourplay - Discography

 Fourplay - Discography

Fourplay is a contemporary American smooth jazz quartet. The original members of the group were Bob James, Lee Ritenour, Nathan East, and Harvey Mason. In 1997, Lee Ritenour left the group and Fourplay chose Larry Carlton as his replacement.

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Thursday, October 19, 2023

Dorothy Moore - [Discography]

Dorothy Moore - Discography

 
Dorothy Moore (born 13 October 1946, Jackson, Mississippi) is an American pop, R&B, and soul singer. 

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Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Bob James - Discography

Bob James - Discography

Robert McElhiney James (born December 25, 1939) is an American jazz keyboardist, arranger, and record producer.  Also, He founded the band Fourplay.

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Tuesday, October 17, 2023

My Australian & New Zealand Artists Albums Collection

Australian Music



Music Of Australia


The music of Australia has played a major role in the development of our nation.

Australians have a great love of music. From our earliest years as a convict nation through to today.

Jimmy Barnes [Aust] - Discography

Jimmy Barnes - Discography 

Born: April 28, 1956
Jimmy Barnes is a popular Australian rock singer. He was born James Dixon Swan on 28 April 1956 in Glasgow, Scotland. His father Jim Swan was a prizefighter and his older brother John Swan is also a rock singer. His career as both a solo performer and as the lead vocalist with the rock band Cold Chisel has made him one of the most popular and best-selling Australian music artists of all time. 

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Monday, October 16, 2023

Jeff Beck [R.I.P.] - Discography

Jeff Beck  - Discography 

Born: June 24, 1944 - Died: January 10, 2023
R.I.P.

One of the essential guitarists of the British Invasion, Jeff Beck possessed a mercurial, lyrical style that sounded equally at home in thunderous blues-rock and soft-focus fusion. Beck played both styles in his long, unpredictable career, pioneering psychedelia, heavy metal, and jazz-rock as he did so. His prodigious talent was evident from the moment he joined the Yardbirds.

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Sunday, October 15, 2023

Burl Ives [R.I.P.] - Discography

Burl Ives - Discography 

Born: June 14, 1909  -  Died: April 14, 1995
R.I.P.

Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives was an American musician, singer and actor with a career that spanned more than six decades.
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The Chills [N.Z.] - Discography

The Chills [N.Z.] - Discography

The Chills are a New Zealand rock band that formed in Dunedin in 1980. The band is essentially the continuing project of singer/songwriter Martin Phillipps, who is the group's sole constant member. For a time in the 1990s, the act was billed as Martin Phillipps & The Chills.

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Saturday, October 14, 2023

The Bats [NZ] - Discography

The Bats [NZ] - Discography



The Bats are an influential New Zealand rock band formed in 1982 in Christchurch by Paul Kean (bass), Malcolm Grant (drums), Robert Scott (lead vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards) and Kaye Woodward (lead guitar, vocals). Though primarily a Christchurch band, The Bats have strong links to Dunedin and are usually grouped in with the Dunedin sound musicians that emerged in the early 1980s. The band has retained the same four members from 1982 to the present day.

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Friday, October 13, 2023

Frank Ifield - Discography

Frank Ifield - Discography

The most successful recording artist in the U.K. charts during the early '60s, Australian singer/songwriter/yodeler Frank Ifield was one of the more original country artists to come from outside North America. He was born in England, and moved to Australia in 1948. His father was an inventor and engineer famed for creating the Ifield pump, a device used in fuel systems for jet aircraft. While still in his teens, he became a regular on Bonnington's Bunkhouse, a popular radio program, and dropped out of school to pursue a music career full-time. He appeared on other radio shows as well, finally landing on the traveling Ted Quigg Show, where he stayed for many years.

Ifield signed with EMI Australia in 1953 and released two successful singles, including "There's a Loveknot in My Lariat." Soon he was hosting a weekly television show, Campfire Favourites. By 1959, Ifield was appearing on all three of the Sydney television channels. Later that year, he went to London, and had his first British hit in 1960 with "Lucky Devil." He remained in England and in 1962 became a star with his yodeling classic "I Remember You." The song stayed at the top of the British charts for over two months, and when released in the States it hit number five on the pop charts. His most successful year was 1963, when he scored two British number one hits; one of the chart-toppers, "I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)," a cover of a Rudy Vallée hit, made it to the middle reaches of the U.S. pop charts as well.
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Lesley Gore [RIP] - Discography

Lesley Gore Discography


Born: May 2, 1946  -  Died: February 16, 2015
R.I.P.

The most commercially successful solo singer to be identified with the girl group sound, Lesley Gore hit the number one spot with her very first release, "It's My Party," in 1963. Produced by Quincy Jones, who fattened the teenager's sound with double-tracked vocals and intricate backup vocals and horns, she reeled off a few more big hits in 1963 and 1964, including "Judy's Turn to Cry," "She's a Fool," "You Don't Own Me," "That's the Way Boys Are," and "Maybe I Know." She wasn't the most soulful girl group singer by a long shot, but she projected an archetype of female adolescent yearning. Her best songs survive as classics, particularly the irresistibly melodic "Maybe I Know" and "Look of Love" (both written by Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry) and "You Don't Own Me," an anthem of independence with a feminist theme that was considerably advanced for early 1964.

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Julie Andrews - Discography

Julie Andrews - Discography 

Born: October 1 - 1935
Julie Andrews is a multi-award-winning English actress, singer, and author. 

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Tuesday, October 10, 2023

The Carter Family - Discography

The Carter Family - Discography

The most influential group in country music history, the Carter Family switched the emphasis from hillbilly instrumentals to vocals, made scores of their songs part of the standard country music canon, and made a style of guitar playing, "Carter picking," the dominant technique for decades. Along with Jimmie Rodgers, the Carter Family were among the first country music stars. Comprised of a gaunt, shy gospel quartet member named Alvin P. Carter and two reserved country girls -- his wife, Sara, and their sister-in-law, Maybelle -- the Carter Family sang a pure, simple harmony that influenced not only the numerous other family groups of the '30s and the '40s, but folk, bluegrass, and rock musicians like Woody Guthrie, Bill Monroe, the Kingston Trio, Doc Watson, Bob Dylan, and Emmylou Harris, to mention just a few.

It's unlikely that bluegrass music would have existed without the Carter Family. A.P., the family patriarch, collected hundreds of British/Appalachian folk songs and, in arranging these for recording, enhanced the pure beauty of these "facts-of-life tunes" and at the same time saved them for future generations. Those hundreds of songs the trio members found around their Virginia and Tennessee homes, after being sung by A.P., Sara, and Maybelle, became Carter songs, even though these were folk songs and in the public domain. Among the more than 300 sides they recorded are "Worried Man Blues," "Wabash Cannonball," "Will the Circle Be Unbroken," "Wildwood Flower," and "Keep on the Sunny Side."

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Sunday, October 8, 2023

The Judds - Discography

The Judds - Discography

The Judds were an American country music duo composed of lead vocalist Wynonna Judd and her mother, Naomi Judd. 
Such lovely artists. Please enjoy the lovely music.
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Saturday, October 7, 2023

John Coltrane [R.I.P.] - Discography

John Coltrane [R.I.P.] - Discography

John William Coltrane
Born: September 23, 1926  -  Died: July 17, 1967 (aged 40)

John William Coltrane was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music.
R.I.P.

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Saturday, September 30, 2023

Jerry Reed [R.I.P.] - Discography

Jerry Reed [R.I.P.] - Discography 

Born: March 20, 1937  -  Died: September 1, 2008 (aged 71)
R.I.P.
Jerry was an American singer, guitarist, composer, songwriter and actor who appeared in more than a dozen films. His signature songs included "Guitar Man",
He was such a lovely musician


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