Loom

   
Artist: Loom

   Genre(s): 
Trance: Psychedelic
   

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Discography:


   
 Promo CDM

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 3

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The electronic-pop getup Loom hails from Georgia and released their self-titled debut in September 2000.





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Johnny Tillotson

   
Artist: Johnny Tillotson

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Retro
   

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Discography:


   
 Johnny Tillotson Collection

   Year:    
Tracks: 26


   
 Greatest hits

   Year:    
Tracks: 30


   
 A Portrait Of

   Year:    
Tracks: 22

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Pop/rock singer and songwriter Johnny Tillotson enjoyed his sterling success in the early '60s when he scored a series of Top Ten hits including "Poetry in Motion" and the self-penned "It Keeps Right on a-Hurtin'." In total, he situated 30 singles and LPs in the Billboard charts between 1958 and 1984, well-nigh of them in the pop charts, though he as well reached the nation, R&B, and easy hearing charts. His string of hits allowed him to give a acting career both in the U.S. and around the world that unbroken him steadily working well into the 21st century.


Tillotson was innate April 20, 1939, in Jacksonville, FL, the boy of Jack Tillotson, a rural area music saucer jockey, and Doris Tillotson. When Tillotson was ennead, he affected 40 miles to the smaller Florida town of Palatka. He got his number one exposure as a isaac Merrit Singer on his father's radio station patch he was still a child. His primary interest group was country music, although he was elysian when he byword Elvis Presley perform in Jacksonville on May 13, 1955, only later on he had turned 14. Meanwhile, his wireless work light-emitting diode to a stint on a local TV point and even his possess syllabus. But he well-kept his studies, and he was attending the University of Florida as a news media and composing major in 1957 when he entered a national talent competition sponsored by Pet Milk. He was chosen as one of six-spot finalists, resulting in a trip to Nashville, TN, for the final judging. He did non win the contest, but piece in Nashville he came to the attending of a vocal publisher world Health Organization was impressed by songs he had written and got a tape of them to Archie Bleyer, proprietor of the independent Cadence Records label, place to the Everly Brothers and Andy Williams. Bleyer signed Tillotson to a three-year contract and, in September 1958, issued his number one single, compounding deuce of the singer's have compositions, the lay "Languorous Eyes" and the up-tempo "Well I'm Your Man," both of which dullard similarities to the well-grounded of Buddy Holly. "Well I'm Your Man" charted number one, peaking at number 87 in the Hot century in October, only "Woolgathering Eyes" followed, topping out at number 63 in January 1959. (The at the same time released "I'm Never Gonna Kiss You," a duo with Genevieve, a vocalist on the Jack Parr TV point, did non chart.)


The relative failure of "Woolgathering Eyes" sent Tillotson back up to college, where he received his B.A. in 1959; that August 1959 Cadence released his next single, "True True Happiness," a vocal in the currently popular adolescent pop elan, finish with recitations of amorous devotion; it petered out at phone number 54 in September. "Wherefore Do I Love You So," which followed in December, suggested that Tillotson had been hearing closely to Ricky Nelson's 1958 strike "Misfortunate Little Fool"; it reached number 42 in February 1960. Next, Bleyer well-tried having Tillotson cover a span of old R&B hits, combine the Penguins' "Ground Angel" and Johnny Ace's "Pledging My Love." Disc jockeys couldn't seem to determine which side of the single to play, and both peaked in the bottom half of the Hot century in May.


Tillotson stone-broke through to success with his sixth single, the live pop/rock tune "Poetry in Motion," released in September 1960. He and Bleyer had eventually set up an appropriate meeting place for his clear tenor voice vox, recording with a Nashville studio full of country music academic term stars like saxist Boots Randolph and piano player Floyd Cramer. "Verse in Motion" indisposed at number deuce in November 1960; in the U.K., it strike number one in January 1961. Instead of straight off turning to encompassing personal appearances, however, on Bleyer's advice Tillotson focussed in the main on his recording career, though he appeared on video and began to be featured in adolescent magazines. "Jimmy's Girl," his adjacent single, responded to this adolescent perfection range, but it stopped-up at number 25 in February 1961. Singing another of his own compositions, Tillotson produced "Without You," a dramatic, string-filled production in the manner of Roy Orbison; it reached number seven in September 1961. Cadence then re-released Tillotson's first single, "Moony Eyes," and it got to number 35 in January 1962.


That month, Tillotson recorded his most successful self-written song, "It Keeps Right on a-Hurtin'," divine by the terminal illness of his father-God. The song was given an overtly state arrangement, although Tillotson, as common, american ginseng it with his atonic enunciation, without a soupcon of a res publica twang. Nevertheless, it became his first area chart hit, peaking at number quadruplet, piece acquiring to number tercet in the pop chart (and fifty-fifty making number captain Hicks in the R&B chart). And it earned him his first Grammy nomination, for Best Country & Western Recording. It also went on to become a much-covered country-pop standard, recorded by Elvis Presley and by Billy Joe Royal, whose variation was a Top 20 nation hit in 1988, as well as, by Tillotson's count, all over century others, among them Bobby Darin, Sonny James, Hank Locklin, Dean Martin, Boots Randolph, Conway Twitty, Slim Whitman, and the Wilburn Brothers. By the time it was peaking in the charts in the give of 1962, Tillotson was service a six-month least sandpiper of active duty in the Army, having enlisted in the National Guard to satisfy his military responsibility. But he was given weekend furloughs to allow him to carry on to phonograph recording, and he used them to skip his first LP of new recordings (following the 1961 hits collection Johnny Reb Tillotson's Best), also called It Keeps Right on a-Hurtin'. Released in June 1962, the disk, a Top Ten shoot, establish Tillotson covering a series of state standards, and Cadence proceeded to dole many of them out as singles o'er the perch of the twelvemonth: a cover of Hank Locklin's "Send Me the Pillow You Dream On" made the pop and state Top 20 and the Top Ten of the easy listening chart, and a report of Hank Williams' "I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You)" (backed by another Williams criterion, "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry") made the pop Top 40 and the easy listening Top Ten.


When Tillotson returned to recording in early 1963, his new self-written individual, "Out of My Mind," was another country-style ballad, although it did not progress to the res publica charts and unwell at number 24 on the Hot C in April. "You Can Never Stop Me Loving You," which followed July, was more of a pop song, and it returned Tillotson to the Top 20. (Its B-side, "Judy, Judy, Judy," which Tillotson co-wrote with Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, was featured in the singer's film debut, the B-picture Precisely for Fun, which opened in June.)


Although he had renewed his shrink with Cadence for an extra ternion age in April 1961, Tillotson was released from his duty as the label wound down in 1963; it went out of business sector in 1964. (Eventually, Andy Williams purchased the Cadence masters, which he reissued through Barnaby Records and by and by made available through Celebrity Licensing, resulting in respective Tillotson compilations on Ace Records in the U.K. and Varèse Sarabande in the U.S. in the 1990s.) After unitary more Cadence single, a cover of Willie Nelson's "Comic How Time Slips Away" culled from the year-old It Keeps Right on a-Hurtin' record album that became a minor graph ingress, Tillotson formed his possess production company and hired his recordings to MGM Records, starting with his adaptation of the recent res publica telephone number one by Ernest Ashworth, "Talk Back Trembling Lips," released in October 1963. "Talk Back Trembling Lips" poorly at number septenary in January 1964, deuce weeks earlier the Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" entered the Hot 100, sign the begin of the British Invasion that would marginalise a generation of American pop artists, including Tillotson.


Tillotson, wHO had filmed Just for Fun in the U.K. and seen Beatlemania up close earlier about Americans, tried to keep up. His next individual, "Disquieted Guy," had a semblance of the Merseybeat sound, which was enough to get it into the Top 40 in March 1964 as his Talk Back Trembling Lips record album was peaking in the Top 50. "I Rise, I Fall" too managed a Top 40 ranking in June; "Vex" did virtually as well in September; and "She Understands Me" poorly at number 31 in December, presaging the chart ledger entry of a She Understands Me LP in former 1965. The moony ballad "Angel," his succeeding single, was the report song from the Walt Disney photographic film Those Calloways, which opened that outpouring; it ailing at number 51. Returning to a country-pop sound, Tillotson next released "Then I'll Count Again," which hardly made the charts. He fared better with a cover of the 1959 Ray Price land run into "Heartaches by the Number," which gave him his last Top 40 hit in October 1965 and earned a Grammy nominating address for Best Contemporary (R&R) Vocal Performance, Male. "Our World," an effort at pop philosophizing reflecting the agitation of the '60s, gave his final pop chart entering, peaking at issue 70 in December. (The single's B-side, "[Wait "Til You See] My Gidget," was the idea song to the raw TV series Gidget starring Sally Field, and Tillotson was heard singing it during the show's credits each calendar week.)


Tillotson took another shot at picture show work in the 1966 comedy The Fat Spy, opposite Phyllis Diller and Jayne Mansfield. His singles of 1966 and the showtime part of 1967 missed the pop charts, but by the fall of 1967 MGM had some success promoting him to the body politic market place, which responded modestly to "You're the Reason" and "I Can Spot a Cheater." But by mid-1968, the singer's years as a successful recording creative person were past tense. He stayed with MGM through 1968, then signed to Jimmy Bowen's Amos Records label, which had him cover Little Anthony & the Imperials' "Weeping on My Pillow" in 1969. The same yr, he scored a body politic off as a songster, when Ernest Tubb and Loretta Lynn took their duet on "Who's Gonna Take the Garbage Out" into the land Top 20. Tillotson had stints at Buddah Records (1971-1972), Columbia (1973-1975), and United Artists (1976-1977), the last producing a body politic graph ingress with "Toy Hearts." Another land graph entry came in 1984 with "Lay Back (In the Arms of Someone)" on Reward Records. In 1990, Tillotson released a single, "Bim Bam Boom," on Atlantic.


In the meantime, he was vocalizing his hits all all over the existence, year after yr. (His international profile was embossed by his practice of qualification foreign-language recordings of many of his songs.) By the tardy '60s, he had turned to cabaret solve, appearing in such prestigious rooms as the Copacabana in New York. He was not indisposed to rodeos and state fairs, either, nevertheless, and finally he worked his way up to the showrooms at in major hotels in Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe, and Reno, along with regular tours of Europe and the Far East. In 1996, he estimated that he was acting 230 years a year. He continued to circuit into the 21st one C, launching a web site, wWW.johnnytillotson.com, on which he kept fans current on forthcoming appearances and sold new CDs such as Love Songs and Standards, the archival appeal The Early Years, and The Golden Hits.





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Wyclef Jean

   
Artist: Wyclef Jean

   Genre(s): 
Rap: Hip-Hop
   Other
   Pop
   

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Discography:


   
 Carnival Vol. II Memoirs Of An Immigrant

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 16


   
 Welcome to Haiti: Creole 101

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 18


   
 The Preacher's Son

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 17


   
 Greatest Hits

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 13


   
 Masquerade

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 22


   
 The Ecleftic: 2 Sides II A Book

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 19


   
 The Ecleftic: 2 Sides II a Book (Bonus Disc)

   Year:    
Tracks: 4

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Lead Fugees rapper and onetime guitar player Wyclef Jean was the start appendage of his radical to ship on a solo calling, and he proven even more than ambitious and eclecticist on his have. As the Fugees hung in limbo, Wyclef besides became hip-hop's unofficial multicultural sense of right and wrong; a ostensibly ubiquitous activist, he assembled or participated in numerous high profile charity benefit shows for a salmagundi of causes, including assistance for his native Haiti. The utopian one-world esthesia that fueled Wyclef's political cognisance also informed his recordings, which consolidated hip-hop with as many different styles of music as he could go his custody on (though, disposed his Caribbean roots, reggae was a fussy favourite). In addition to his corner as hip-hop's frontmost worldwide citizen, Clef was besides a noted producer and remixer wHO worked with an impressive raiment of pop, R&B, and rap talent, including Whitney Houston, Santana, and Destiny's Child, among many others.


The logos of a minister, Nelust Wyclef Jean was natural in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, on October 17, 1972. When he was niner, his family stirred to the Marlborough projects in Brooklyn, NY; by his teen years, Jean had affected to New Jersey, taken up the guitar, and begun poring over jazz through his high school's medicine department. In 1987, he also linked a tap group with his cousin Prakazrel Michel (aka Pras) and Michel's high schoolfellow Lauryn Hill. Initially career themselves the Tranzlator Crew, they evolved into the Fugees, a name taken from slang for Haitian refugees. The trio signed with Ruffhouse Records in 1993 and released their debut album, Blunted on Reality, the next class; it attracted small notice, thanks to an unfitting hardcore stance that the radical wore like an ill-fitting courtship. But the Fugees hit their step on the reexamination, The Score, ignoring popular trends and crafting an eclectic, bohemian masterpiece that sounded like zilch else on the hip-hop landscape painting in 1996. Thanks to hit singles like "Fu-Gee-La" and "Killing Me Softly," The Score became a chart-topping phenomenon; in fact, with sales of all over six gazillion copies, it unruffled ranks as one of the biggest-selling strike albums of all meter.


Wyclef Jean was the first Fugee to declare plans for a solo image, place setting to exploit before long later on the radical completed its encouraging tours. Released in the summer of 1997, The Carnival (entire championship: Wyclef Jean Presents the Carnival Featuring the Refugee All-Stars) was regular more musically ambitious than The Score. Its roster of guests included not only if the remainder of the Fugees, just as well Jean's siblings (wHO performed together in the yoke Melky Sedeck), Cuban legend Celia Cruz, New Orleans blue funk mainstays the Neville Brothers, and Bob Marley's female backing vocalists the I Threes. The breadth of his ambition was farther in evidence on the album's two hit singles; "We Trying to Stay Alive" recast the Bee Gees' signature disco tune as a ghetto authorization anthem, and the Grammy-nominated "Deceased Till November" was recorded with part of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Those two songs helped drive The Carnival into a Top 20, triple-platinum display, and most reviews were course quite a positive.


In the fire up of The Carnival, Wyclef stepped up his external work for other artists; all over the adjacent few years, he collaborated as a producer, songster, and/or remixer with a typically divers list of artists: Destiny's Child ("No No No"), Sublime, Simply Red, Whitney Houston (the title track of her My Love Is Your Love album), dancehall reggae star Bounty Killer, Cypress Hill, Michael Jackson, Eric Benet, Mya, Santana ("Calophyllum longifolium Maria"), Tevin Campbell, the Black Eyed Peas, Kimberly Scott, Sinéad O'Connor, Mick Jagger, and Canibus. Clef also served as Canibus' coach for a short time in 1998; prior to their split, a report surfaced that Wyclef had pulled a gun on Blaze editor Jesse Washington over a negative Canibus critique the magazine was slated to play (Wyclef vehemently denied the accusation, and no charges were filed).


By the time Wyclef began operate on his second solo album, rumors were fast-flying well-nigh tension betwixt individual Fugees, and despite their denials, the fact that no reexamination to The Score was in ken seemed to lend credence to all the speculation. Although Wyclef had antecedently announced he would cast off his sophomore effort until later on the next Fugees album, he was well into the image by early 2000, giving an early vent the antipolice brutality track "Diallo" (with guest vocals from Senegalese adept Youssou N'Dour) via the Internet. The full album, highborn The Ecleftic: 2 Sides II a Book, was released toward the end of the summer and entered the charts at telephone number nine. Besides N'Dour, guests this metre round included Mary J. Blige (on the Grammy-nominated duette "911"), Earth, Wind & Fire, Kenny Rogers, and even rassling principal the Rock ("It Doesn't Matter"); Clef too threw in a left field report of Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here." This metre round, some critics suggested that Wyclef's sprawl ambitions were growing messy, just the record went pt yet. Shortly after its passing, he as well started up his own record label, Yclef.


With no Fugees reunion in sight, Wyclef began preparing his third gear solo album, Masquerade, in 2001; he also appeared in the Jamaican gangster ruffle Shottas, and, sadly, suffered the death of his founding father in a home accident. Masquerade costume was released in the summer of 2002, and in addition to the common worldbeat fusions, it ground Wyclef reworking songs by Bob Dylan and Frankie Valli, and featured edgar Guest shots from Tom Jones and Israeli violinist Miri Ben-Ari. Masquerade entered the charts at number six-spot, proving that Wyclef's freewheeling overture still held quite a spot of invoke. One twelvemonth later, he returned with The Preacher's Son, and too released an album of traditional Haitian Creole music, Welcome to Haiti: Creole 101. His debut solo album got its sequel in 2007 when Carnival, Vol. 2: Memoirs of an Immigrant arrive at the shelves. The album had a diverse and protracted guest list, with Akon, Mary J. Blige, Norah Jones, Shakira, Paul Simon, and Sizzla beingness just some of the name calling byzantine.





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Three Days Grace

   
Artist: Three Days Grace

   Genre(s): 
ROck: Alternative
   Metal
   

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Discography:


   
 One X

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 12


   
 Three Days Grace

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 12

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The members of Three Days Grace began bashing punk chords when they were in their teens, carving a first derivative yet gumptious legal that fueled their live performances. Three Days Grace was formed in Norwood, Ontario, Canada, in 1997 by Adam Gontier (vocals, guitar), Brad Walst (bass), and Neil Sanderson (drums). The grouping was originally called Groundswell, a five-piece that lasted from 1992 until transforming to a trio quintuplet years by and by. Gontier and Walst were raised in Norwood, and many of their songs were elysian by living in a place with a population of around 1,five hundred. The bandmembers were motionless in high schooling when they had their first gig, and they performed anyplace that would accept them -- including opening for a flick.


Tierce Days Grace eventually resettled to Toronto and were introduced to producer Gavin Brown by their old manager. The band gave Brown a private set, and he selected what he felt were the most promising tracks. The grouping and then produced a demo for EMI Music Publishing Canada. With Brown at the helm, Three Days Grace recorded "(I Hate) Everything About You." The melodic line got them a publishing look at with EMI, and they shortly were signed to Jive later on beingness courted by the company's chairman. Brown and Three Days Grace were sent to a studio in Boston, MA, to start the group's debut album. The band realised its self-titled uncut in Woodstock, NY, at an stray fix disengage from big-city distractions. Heavily influenced by Kyuss and Sunny Day Real Estate, the glowering, angst-ridden tales of small town sexual love and hate on Trinity Days Grace brought the grouping a Next Big Thing tag.


Troika Days Grace was released on July 22, 2003, by which time "(I Hate) Everything About You" was already hit on alternative tuner stations in Canada. The band toured extensively behind the record for the following two years as both a financial backing act and headliners, only subsequently a spell, life on the route left the ring, particularly Gontier, feeling stray and solitary. Consequently, this motif of disconnectedness -- joined with the realization that one was in fact non unique -- would serve as the ground for their followup album. Getting punt to their roots by writing the record in the Ontario countryside, One-X was released in June 2006. The album, which hit number five on the Billboard Top two hundred, marked the recorded debut of the band's second gear guitar player, Barry Stock. Three Days Grace supported One-X through the summer on dates alongside Staind, Hoobastank, and Nickelback, spell "Brute I Have Become" became a numeral unitary advanced rock music hit.





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