Sunday, August 12, 2012

Lifehouse - I'm Falling Even More In Love With You

Lifehouse is an American rock band from Los Angeles comprising Jason Wade (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Rick Woolstenhulme, Jr. (drums, percussion), Bryce Soderberg (bass guitar, back-up vocals) and Ben Carey (lead guitar).
The band came to mainstream prominent in 2001 with the hit single "Hanging by a Moment" from their début studio album, No Name Face. Although the song peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, the single won a Billboard Music Award for Hot 100 Single of the Year, having spent twenty weeks in the top 10 and more than a year on the charts.
In 2002, Lifehouse released their follow-up album Stanley Climbfall. Since then, they have released three more albums: the eponymous Lifehouse in 2005, Who We Are in 2007, and Smoke & Mirrors in 2010. These albums have spawned the singles "You and Me", "First Time", and "Whatever It Takes", which have all been top 40 hits in the US.[citation needed]
To date, Lifehouse has sold over 15 million singles and albums worldwide, approximately 5 million of which are albums

         

History

               1996–2000: Blyss and formation of Lifehouse
                                                      
After having moved to Los Angeles in 1995, 15-year-old Jason Wade, who had been writing songs since his parents' divorce as a coping mechanism, met bassist Sergio Andrade, his next-door neighbour and future bandmate and founding member of Lifehouse.

 In 1996, Wade, Andrande, and Jon "Diff" Palmer formed "Blyss", the forerunner of Lifehouse, and began to play live shows at high schools and colleges to build up a reputation. Later, Collin Hayden and Aaron Lord were added to the band.

 Soon thereafter, word-of-mouth reached producer Ron Aniello, who introduced the band to Jude Cole, who in turn introduce them to DreamWorks Records principal Michael Ostin.

  In 1998, DreamWorks Records financially backed the recording of Blyss's first demos, which were produced by Aniello. Some of these recordings would form the 1999 EP Diff's Lucky Day, which would be sold at live concerts or distributed among friends and music industry contacts.

 In 2000, Blyss changed its name to "Lifehouse". Frontman Jason Wade said on their choosing the band name, "It's about what we do as a band and for me personally. Most of this record is about my life and about life's circumstances. Not only my life, but other peoples' lives. We thought Lifehouse was a good name for it."

 2000: No Name Face
  In 2000, Lifehouse entered the recording studio to record their debut major label release, with twelve of the fifteen Diff's Lucky Day session demos being re-recorded, remixed, and released as No Name Face; five of the twelve tracks from Diff's Lucky Day would be re-released on No Name Face.
By the release date of Lifehouse's début album, October 31, 2000, Palmer had left the band, and Wade and Andrade were the only remaining founding members.

  Soon after recording No Name Face, Wade and Andrade met Rick Woolstenhulme, who joined as the band's full-time drummer after an audition after having learnt that Lifehouse needed a drummer. At the time, Woolstenhulme would rehearse in an adjacent room to Lifehouse and frequently he and Wade would pass each other without meeting the other.

 No Name Face met significant commercial success and established the band, and eventually would sell in excess of 4 million copies worldwide. This was in part due to the success of "Hanging by a Moment", Lifehouse's first commercial single and a song that Wade had written on the spur of the moment, and the charisma and talent of Wade;

   DreamWork Record's focus was, as such, primarily on frontman Jason Wade. "Hanging by a Moment" was the third song in chart history to be named the "No. 1 Song of the Year" on the Billboard Hot 100 despite not having reached No. 1 on any weekly Billboard Hot 100 survey (after Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs' "Wooly Bully" in 1965 and Faith Hill's "Breathe" in 2000). The second single from the album, "Sick Cycle Carousel", was not as commercially successful as "Hanging by a Moment", and peaked at No. 35 on the Billboard Modern Rock chart; and, the third and final single was "Breathing", a reworking of a song that was featured on Diff's Lucky Day.

 The song "Everything" was the first of many songs by Lifehouse that would be featured in the future hit WB drama Smallville, in the series pilot and first-season finale episodes, and would be featured on the series' first soundtrack, Smallville: The Talon Mix. Seven of the band's songs would be featured in episodes of the series' first four seasons, and the band itself would perform live at the Smallville prom at the end of the fourth-season episode "Spirit". One song, "You and Me" would be released on the series' second soundtrack, Smallville: The Metropolis Mix, in an extended form, subtitled the "Wedding Version" ("You and Me (Wedding Version). The song "Everything" was also used in the series' 200th episode, titled "Homecoming", in the show's 10th and final season, as an homage to the series pilot and first-season finale episodes.

The song "Somewhere in Between" also from No Name Face featured in the first-season episode of Falcon Beach, titled "The Blame Game".

 2002–05: Stanley Climbfall
Main article: Stanley Climbfall
Shortly after a long tour for No Name Face, Lifehouse reentered the studio to cut their second album, Stanley Climbfall. The album's initial success was short-lived and its singles, "Spin" and "Take Me Away", were vastly overshadowed by the success of the first album. Shortly after the album debuted, Rick's brother Sean Woolstenhulme (of The Calling) officially became the fourth member of the band in June 2002. He had previously toured with Lifehouse.
In April 2004, Sergio Andrade confirmed that he had decided to leave the band to pursue individual projects. Shortly after his departure, Sean also left the band to pursue other musical projects such as Abandoned Pools and The Jimmy Chamberlin Complex.
[edit]2005–07: Lifehouse
Main article: Lifehouse (album)

 Jason Wade and Rick Woolstenhulme remained the active members of Lifehouse. In late 2004, Bryce Soderberg (previously of AM Radio) signed on as Lifehouse's new bassist. On July 6, 2004, they went to Maryland to begin work on their eponymous third album. Lifehouse was released on March 22, 2005 and was produced by John Alagia.

The album's first single, "You and Me", was released for airplay on January 18, 2005. It was written several years prior and was originally performed by Jason Wade in the 2000 independent film All Over Again. The song was a success and stayed on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for 62 weeks (the fifth longest-charted in history), peaking at No. 5. The song also appears on the soundtrack to Smallville. One episode, "Spirit", featured the band actually performing it and three other songs from the album ("Come Back Down", "Blind", and "Undone") on the show. The song has also appeared on Cold Case, Boston Legal, Gavin & Stacey, Everwood, Grey's Anatomy, The 4400 and Medium. The song "All In All" was featured in Scrubs.
The music video for the album's second single, "Blind", was released October 19, 2005. It stars Tina Majorino and features several other up-and-coming young actors such as Sarch McClain, Stephen Cheung, Christopher Thien Duc Van and Andy Walters.
In 2006, the song 'Good Enough' was featured in the Disney film 'The Wild' and was repeated over the end credits.

 2007–09: Who We Are
Main article: Who We Are (Lifehouse album)
Their fourth album, entitled Who We Are, was released on June 19, 2007. The album features Wade, Woolstenhulme and Soderberg as its lineup, and "rocks a little harder" than their previous album, according to the band The album was recorded in Kiefer Sutherland and Jude Cole's recording studio, Ironworks Studios, in Los Angeles. The album's release was followed by a tour with The Goo Goo Dolls and Colbie Caillat, which began June 15 at the Dodge Theatre in Phoenix, AZ, after which the band embarked on a "worldwide headlining tour".

  The album's first single was "First Time", released on April 24, 2007. The song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 48 in May and peaked at No. 3 on the Hot Adult Top 40 Charts.
The album's second single, "Whatever It Takes", was released to radio stations on October 29, 2007. The song's music video premiered on Yahoo Music on November 16, 2007.

  "Broken", the album's third single, has appeared on several TV series, including Grey's Anatomy ("Lay Your Hands On Me"), Criminal Minds ("In Name and Blood"), One Tree Hill, One Life To Live and The Hills. Most recently, it was featured in the motion picture soundtrack The Time Traveler's Wife. So far, it has peaked at No. 83 on the Billboard Hot 100. The music video for "Broken" officially debuted on VH1's Top 20 Countdown on September 20, 2008.
The song "Who We Are" was used in an advertisement on A&E to promote their original programming.[citation needed]
Lifehouse held a contest to make a video for the song "Make Me Over".[21] The band gave 60 USC School of Cinematic Arts graduate students a chance to shoot the video for their new single. The winning video premiered at a gala event on December 5, 2008 at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills, CA.
As of October 2008, the album had been certified gold
On April 11, 2009, the band announced that Ben Carey was an official member of the band. They said that they had been "a four piece for some time" and that Ben is "family to us". Ben had been touring with the band since 2004.

 2009–2010: Smoke & Mirrors
Main article: Smoke & Mirrors (Lifehouse album)
Lifehouse announced in August 2008 that they would be starting on their fifth album, which was tentatively scheduled for a late 2009 release. The band entered the studio on November 12, 2008 to begin working on the project. They stated in an interview at ESPN Magazine's NEXT Party during Super Bowl XLIII that the album should be released in late 2009. Lifehouse revealed during their 2009 tour that the album would also include the band's previously released single "From Where You Are." It was announced on October 15 that the new album would be called Smoke & Mirrors and would be released on December 8, 2009. However, on November 13, 2009, the band stated on its web page that it would now be released on February 2, 2010.

   The first single was "Halfway Gone," which was released on October 27, 2009. The music video premiered on the VH1 Top 20 on VH1.com at the end of November The album was released in a standard, deluxe, and two-disc deluxe edition. On December 22, Tommy2.net reported that the album had been pushed back once again, this time to February 23, 2010. The album was then delayed again, but was released on March 2, 2010.
The album debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 with 54,203 sold. This marked the highest chart debut of their ten year career, beating out first week chart position for their 2002 sophomore set Stanley Climbfall, which debuted at No. 7.

 2011–present
In August 2011, Lifehouse announced on their official Facebook page that they were working on their sixth studio album.
Posted by at No comments:

Thursday, May 31, 2012

The Outfield - Your Love

I want to thank YOUTUBE and http://en.wikipedia.org/ making this happen for me I love connecting the two together this way you can find out about the song and the person as you listen to the music,.Also if you do not see a band that you would like to read about stroll down to the bottom and where it says just ask john post your request thank you



                           



The Outfield                                  

Tony Lewis Of "The Outfield" 1986 - The Stone Balloon - Newark, DE - Photo By Sam Cali

Background information

Origin London, England, UK
Genres Pop rock, power pop
Years active 1984–present
Labels Columbia, MCA, Sidewinder
Website www.theoutfield.com
Members
Tony Lewis
John Spinks
Alan Jackman
Past members
Simon Dawson

The Outfield are an English pop rock/power pop power trio based in London, England. The Outfield are unusual for a British band in that they enjoyed commercial success in the U.S., but never enjoyed a similar success in their homeland. They began recording during the mid-1980s, and they released their first album, Play Deep, in 1985 through Columbia Records. The album reached #9 on the Billboard 200 list and then reached triple platinum in America. Their single "Your Love" reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 as well as #7 on the Mainstream Rock chart, and it became their signature song. It went on to be featured in a number of 80s-themed compilation albums, and over 1,000 covers and remixes by other artists have been released physically and/or online. The other singles "Say It Isn't So" and "Everytime You Cry" also made it into the top 20 on the Mainstream Rock chart.
The band continued to record and tour through the 1980s and then into the early 1990s. While their second album, Bangin', hit the top 20 on the Billboard 200 list had both singles hit the Top 40 Mainstream Rock chart, the group began losing their popular audience by their third album, Voices of Babylon, in 1989. Drummer Alan Jackman left and, now as a duo, they recorded Diamond Days in 1991. After the disappointing response to their 1992 album Rockeye, which represented a shift towards progressive rock and arena rock, the group essentially disbanded in the 90s. They resumed touring in 1998, and thereafter released two live albums via their website including a new studio album, Any Time Now, released by Sidewinder Records in March 2006. In 2009, original drummer Alan Jackman announced he was returning to The Outfield and the band would be recording a new album. The band's latest album, Replay, was released on June 28, 2011 and constituted a comeback to their traditional pop rock sound which has produced two #1 regional chart hits in "California Sun" and "A Long, Long Time Ago".

  Beginnings and Columbia era
Bassist/singer Tony Lewis, guitarist/keyboardist and songwriter John Spinks, and drummer Alan Jackman played together in the late-70s in a straightforward power pop band called Sirius B. Although rehearsing for about six months and playing several gigs, their style did not match the punk rock that was surging in popularity in England and they broke up. Several years afterward, they gathered back together in London's East End under the name The Baseball Boys. They performed in and around London until a demo got them signed to Columbia/CBS Records in 1984.
Spinks adopted the name 'Baseball Boys' from a teen gang called "The Baseball Furies" in the cult film The Warriors, a movie that he had just seen. Although he used the name as a joke and "[j]ust to be outrageous", record company people responded favourably. The band got a reputation as a very "American-sounding" group and signed in the U.S. after playing for just a few months in England. Their manager, an American living in England, recommended a new band name with a similar attitude since 'Baseball Boys' seemed too "tacky" and "tongue-in-cheek". Spinks has said, "the Outfield was the most left-wing kind of thing we liked."
Spinks expressed a strong love for the American sport of baseball, while also being a devoted fan of association football, saying:
The thing about American sports — baseball and football — is that they're far more show business, far more a spectacle, than British sports. In England, it's just sort of everyday soccer matches. You get 30,000 people in the freezing cold in the middle of winter watching guys chase around in mud. In America, you have the sunny days, and the baseball diamond is really nicely laid out. In England, you'd see these guys covered in mud within 10 minutes. It's not such a nice spectacle to watch.
Their debut album, Play Deep, produced by William Wittman, was issued in 1985, and was a success. The album would go on to reach triple platinum sales status and the Top 10 in the US album charts; it also featured a Top 10 single entry with "Your Love", which peaked at #6. The band toured extensively, opening for Journey and Starship.
Spinks made a point of mentioning that band was "totally into not smoking or doing drugs" in interviews.
1987 saw the release of their second album, Bangin'. This album did not achieve the acclaim of Play Deep, but it did spawn a Top 40 single "Since You've Been Gone" (not to be confused with the 1970s Rainbow and Head East hit of the same name) and the minor radio/MTV hit "No Surrender", and the album was certified Gold in the U.S.. A US summer tour opening for Night Ranger followed.
For the group's third album, 1989's Voices of Babylon, a new producer (David Kahne) and sound was evident. The title track was a Top 25 single and "My Paradise" was a mid-sized album-rock hit, but overall the group's popularity continued to decline.
After the Babylon LP, Alan Jackman parted ways with the band and was replaced for a concert tour by Paul Read.
       MCA era
Spinks and Lewis continued as a duo, switched labels and began recording Diamond Days for MCA. Playing drums on the disc was session drummer Simon Dawson. The LP, released in 1990, produced a Top 30 US hit, "For You".
Quick to follow was "One Hot Country", included on the soundtrack for the 1991 action film If Looks Could Kill.
The Outfield returned with 1992's Rockeye. Its leadoff single, "Closer to Me", was a near Top 40 hit, and a second release, "Winning It All", gained some notice due to extensive play during NBC's NBA Finals coverage, NBA Superstars series featuring Larry Bird, the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics and the film The Mighty Ducks. Simon Dawson, who played on Rockeye, would eventually become the band's official third member.
        1990s and 2000s
The band took an extended hiatus during the mid-1990s as changing musical fashions, especially the popularity of edgier bands such as Nirvana and Pearl Jam, made life difficult for older bands with a less fashionable aesthetic.
The Outfield returned to their East End roots, and often played low-key gigs at a local pub, where much of the clientele were unaware that the group had sold millions of records in the US. Unfortunately, this situation was typical of the problems The Outfield had faced in their homeland: little recognition and a much smaller following than they had experienced in the US.
Nevertheless, the band would reappear with a fan club-only release, entitled It Ain't Over..., and resume touring. Soon thereafter, in 1999, they released Extra Innings, an odds-and-ends compilation of new and older, unreleased songs.
In the early 2000s, the band issued two live collections via their official website: Live in Brazil and The Outfield Live. In March 2006, the band released Any Time Now, a new studio album.
In 2009, the original line up of John Spinks, Tony Lewis and Alan Jackman returned to a London recording studio to record their first album together since Voices of Babylon was recorded in 1988. In addition, The Outfield announced Brent Bitner had taken over the band's management and launched their official Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and MySpace pages in November 2009. On March 22, 2011, the Outfield announced that their upcoming album will be called Replay. Replay was recorded in various studios in the south of England that included production work at the legendary Abbey Road Studios. Replay was produced by The Outfield and Brent Bitner with executive production by John Spinks. On June 28, 2011, Replay was released to rave reviews. The lead single, "California Sun", was a regional number one AOR chart hit and has subsequently been the second most added song on AC radio as of August 15, 2011. A limited advanced release of the band's possible second single, "A Long, Long Time Ago", reached number one on Worldwide FM ClassX Radio's AOR chart in the second week of August 2011.

BIOGRAPHY

The Early Years

The band basically evolved out of a place named ‘Scarf Studios’ in the East End of London. In the early days ‘Scarf’ was just a rehearsal studio with very little recording going on.

The first ever ‘official’ recording session (at Scarf 1980) involved John Spinks, Tony Lewis, Alan Jackman and a singer named Jimmy Boswell. It was called ‘Sirus B’. Tony wasn’t really singing out front then. Jimmy was the vocalist in the band at the time, especially as he had a big, brand new van. “Sirus B” only did two gigs and it all fell apart. It was a case of more van than content

Somewhere during 1981 / 1982 a guy named Allan Alderson took over co-ownership of Scarf Studios. At that time John was in a local hard rock band named ‘Running Blind’ Tony was in an indie-style group called ‘Precious Pups’ Alan was playing with various cover bands working the London pub circuit.


After a while, Scarf started to adopt a more ‘Recording Studio’ approach and became a social gathering point for local musicians. Other East End faces like Paul Dianno from Iron Maiden and some of the lesser known punk bands often rehearsed and recorded at Scarf. The guys (still pre-Outfield), also helped with various sessions, albeit as a backing band, one of which was with Louise Goffin (Carol Kings daughter).


Around the same time Allan suggested that John should hook up with Mark Lewis (a studio engineer at Scarf) as a musical team mate. Being a bit of an entrepreneur, Alan offered John and Mark some free downtime studio hours in hope of getting them a publishing deal (of some description), consequently, Allan basically started acting in somewhat of an early management role.

John and Mark experimented with lots of styles of music together. Feeling encouraged bywhat he was hearing, Allan Alderson started playing the demo's to various people in the music biz who subsequently asked if they could see the band play live…a band that didn’t really exist.


The Baseball Boys
John wrote the words 'Baseball Boys' on the spine of one of their demo cassettes, albeit it was a similar name to one of the street gangs from the movie, 'The Warriors'. It marked the first time ‘they’ (John and Mark) were thought of as a band.

One of the ‘varied’ demos that John and Mark had recorded together got the attention of a young production company. Within weeks John and Mark were offered a production deal. Basically it was just allowing the production company access to some of the songs. Mark would not commit to any production deal with John, leaving him to go it alone thus putting a bit of a strain on their relationship. The deal with the production company, nor the songs, went anywhere.

Realizing that things had not gone as planned with the production company, Allan Alderson once again stepped in and took over the reins in John’s song writing career. Although a band of some description had continued to operate during that short production period (mainly based around John, Alan Jackman and a couple of various bass players), Allan Alderson still continued to encourage and push John in the direction of his song writing. Allan Alderson suggested that John should resume his working association with Mark Lewis. John and Mark rebuilt their friendship and the songs started to roll off (usually about one per week).

At that time, John and Mark had started to incorporate various other musicians who frequented the studio to help on the demos. Alan Jackman was almost always involved (although another drummer 'Ted Butler' from the Precious Pups auditioned and played on a couple of tracks along the way). By then another friend ‘Nigel Palmer’ had started to rotate with Mark as the house / band’s studio engineer at Scarf.

Things moved along and John, Mark, Alan Jackman, and a school teacher friend named Ian McNaughton (on bass and lead vocals) did a couple of gigs retaining the name Baseball Boys. That particular permutation of The Baseball Boys also fell apart, seemingly due to Ian's lack of commitment to the project.

Late 1982 / Early 1983
About that same time, John and Mark went to see Tony play in his band named ‘Precious Pups’ at the Bridge House pub in the East End of London. Although the PP’s played an original set of songs with Tony on vocals, John was a bit confused as to why Tony was singing (as John thought) in the wrong vocal register. John had previously seen Tony sing a cover version of The Police's 'Message in a Bottle' with Johnny Wick's covers band, Freeway.
Soon after, John asked Tony (as a long-standing friend), to come and sing on some newly written Baseball Boy’s demo's, (albeit in his higher register). Tony agreed and chose to join the Baseball Boys on a permanent basis. Everybody went through a 'getting to know you again' period and it was around that time that the Baseball Boys recorded their first self funded single, 'Never Told Lies'.

The newer demo's with Mark now serving mainly as the engineer (although again 'back in the band’ so to speak) started to get some feedback from people inside the music industry. The band then set out on an 18 month-long stint of gigs in pubs and clubs around the UK.

On the day of the third show (at the 'Mitre' pub in south London), Mark Lewis's mum called the venue during sound check (6pm) to say that Mark couldn't make the gig. Everybody was a bit upset at being let down at the last moment but John, Tony and Alan carried on regardless and played their first show as a three piece band.

The following day, Allan Alderson called a meeting at John’s house with just Alan, Tony and John present (not Mark). Allan Alderson 'in a moment of leadership' suggested that Alan, Tony and John should carry on without Mark. Allen then went on to inform Mark that he was no longer a band member.

John, Tony and Alan did carry on, although there were many times where they were near to calling it a day feeling that it was almost impossible to break into the music business. That said, the band still continued to record at Scarf Studios, with Nigel Palmer now as their permanent engineer. The guys seemed to be in the studio night and day (literally). (John……) I remember one night (during winter) when it was so cold we all needed to play in our coats and scarf’s on. Alan (Plug by then) was playing 'percussion' overdubs kneeling on the studio floor at about 2am. It was absolutely freezing cold and his hands were almost blue, so much so, he could barely hold the sticks.

Another memory (John recalls) was watching Tony scream 'Don't turn your back on me baby' whilst recording the demo for 'Taking My Chances', albeit in the middle of the night when all concerned were trying hard not to fall asleep through tiredness. We then started looking for some weird noises to put in the drop down section and found a German DJ talking on some pirate radio station. It was all hit and miss but we seemed to make it work. Towards the end of 1983 things had started to slow down and it began to feel like the band was going around in circles playing the same venues. There was a certain point in the development where Allan Alderson called John to one side and explained, quote, “ I’m hitting a brick wall with the industry. I feel as though I’ve taken the band as far as I can”, (albeit with him being a studio manager). Allan then suggested that he intended approaching some established major management companies on the band’s behalf.

Allan Alderson eventually made contact with Kip Krones and took John to meet Kip at MAM management in London. Allan by then had also found the band a publicist who started to get them some reviews in the British music press. One of his [the publicist’s] contacts turned out to be a guy named Derek Oliver from Kerrang (rock magazine) who wrote the band an amazing review (almost as if one of their mum's had written it).

Kip (after hearing the demo’s) started working alongside Allan Alderson in developing the bands future. Allan was now dealing solely with the musical / studio development and Kip more with the business end of things. It was during the summer of 1984 that John wrote most of Play Deep. Although the band already had a lot of songs in the bag (i.e. Nervous Alibi, I Don't Need Her, Taking My Chances, 61 seconds and Mystery Man) there were no obvious sounding hits. Allan Alderson made it clear to John how important it was to have those ‘hits.’ The next three songs that John wrote were ‘Your Love’, ‘Every Time You Cry’ and ‘All The Love’ (originally with Piano). After that John wrote Say It Isn't So and, later on, Talk to Me.

As time went by, and with endless gigs under their belt, the band’s first real big show (to an audience of thirty thousand) was at Knebworth, playing as Andy Peircy’s backing band. (Andy was previously the front man for the group ‘After the Fire’ who had a Top 5 hit in the States with Der Kommissar).

Summer 1984
By this point EMI in England had started to show interest in the band. Kip’s contact at EMI (London) had put him in touch with his counter part in the states, a guy named Steve Ralbovski. During the second half of 1984 the band seemed to move up a gear in concert / gig appearances, ending up as the support band on the Grand Slam’s final tour (featuring Phil Lynott from Thin Lizzy). John, Tony and Alan were now all taking time off from work to do the shows, driving long distances from the East End and back again in the middle of the night after the shows were over. (John…….) “I still remember Tony playing the first song of the Grand Slam tour ‘totally out of tune’. He had just been given his new status bass which had no head stock and he couldn't see the dots on his fret board, thus he played every note of the song (Tiny Lights) a semi tone sharp”, I think the audience thought we were ‘avant garde.

In November of 1984 Kip Krones took John off to New York to meet Steve Ralbovsky (by then at Columbia Records) and Bill Whittman (the band’s first producer). That trip was multi-purpose, one of which was an exercise to get the songs finished. To that end, John was left (encouraged by Kip) to walk the streets of NY for the first time ‘soaking up the atmosphere’ and listening to American Radio on a ghetto blaster that Kip had bought (haggled) off a street tramp for $5 dollars.

In early 1985, (whilst Johns mum was seriously ill) all three members of the band went back to New York to do pre-production for ‘Play Deep’ at Top Cat studios (albeit some of the songs were still somewhat incomplete). At the band’s request they were given studio time at the Record Plant at which the middle 8 for Every Time You Cry was demo’d for the first time (by luck). That whole experience was a bittersweet time for John, the band was getting ready to record 'Play Deep' whilst knowing his mum only had a short time to live.

The band went into Air Studios on February 12th, 1985 to make their 1st album. The first track recorded was 'Taking My Chances'. On the second day at Air, just after John had finished recording the guide guitar for 'Your Love', Allan Alderson came to the studio and accompanied John to the hospital whereupon his mum died later that same day February13th.
To be continued……………………

Posted by at No comments:
Labels: , , , , , , ,

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Takin' Care of Business (Live)

I want to thank YOUTUBE and http://en.wikipedia.org/ making this happen for me I love connecting the two together this way you can find out about the song and the person as you listen to the music,.Also if you do not see a band that you would like to read about stroll down to the bottom and where it says just ask john post your request thank you Bachman–Turner Overdrive is a Canadian rock group from Winnipeg, Manitoba, that had a series of hit albums and singles in the 1970s, selling over 7 million albums in that decade alone. Their 1970s catalog included five Top 40 albums and six Top 40 singles. The band has sold nearly 30 million albums worldwide, and has fans affectionately known as "gearheads" (derived from the band's gear-shaped logo). Many of their songs, including "Let It Ride", "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet", "Takin' Care of Business", "Hey You" and "Roll On Down the Highway", still receive play on FM classic rock stations.
After the band went into a hiatus in 2005, Randy Bachman and Fred Turner reunited in 2010 for a tour and collaboration on new songs. In 2010, they played the halftime show at the Grey Cup in Edmonton, Read the full artical CLICK HERE
Posted by at No comments:

Friday, July 15, 2011

Alice Cooper - Poison

I want to thank UTUBE and http://en.wikipedia.org/ making this happen for me I love connecting the two together this way you can find out about the song and the person as you listen to the music.
Also if you do not see a band that you would like to read about stroll down to the bottom and where it says just ask john post your request thank you.


          

Posted by at No comments:

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Grandpa Tell Me Bout The Good Old Days

I want to thank UTUBE and http://en.wikipedia.org/ making this happen for me I love connecting the two together this way you can find out about the song and the person as you listen to the music.
Also if you do not see a band that you would like to read about stroll down to the bottom and where it says just ask john post your request thank you.


                  

             Wynonna Judd

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
Wynonna Judd

Wynonna Judd, May 24, 2004
Background information
Birth name Christina Claire Ciminella[1]
Also known as Wynonna
Born May 30, 1964 (1964-05-30) (age 47)[2]
Origin Ashland, Kentucky, U.S.
Genres Country
Occupations Singer
Instruments Vocals, Guitar
Years active 1992–present
Labels Curb (1992-present)
MCA (1992-1996)
Universal (1997-2001)
Associated acts The Judds
Website Wynonna.com
Wynonna Ellen Judd (born Christina Claire Ciminella; May 30, 1964) is an American country music singer. Her solo albums and singles are all credited to the singular name Wynonna (pronounced /waɪˈnoʊnə/). Wynonna first rose to fame in the 1980s alongside her mother, Naomi, in the country music duo The Judds. The duo released seven albums on Curb Records, in addition to charting 26 singles, of which 14 were number one hits.
After The Judds disbanded in 1991, Wynonna began a solo career, also on Curb. In her solo career, she has released eight studio albums, a live album and a compilation album, in addition to charting more than 20 singles of her own. Her first three singles — "She Is His Only Need", "I Saw the Light" and "No One Else on Earth" — all reached number one on the U.S. country singles charts, as did 1996's "To Be Loved by You". Three of her albums are certified platinum or higher by the RIAA. Her most recent recording, Sing: Chapter 1, was released on February 3, 2009. Wynonna is most recognized for her musical work, although starting in the 2000s, has also pursued other interests, including acting and philanthropy.

Contents

[hide]

Early life

Wynonna was born Christina Claire Ciminella in Ashland, Kentucky, on May 30, 1964.[2] She was given the last name Ciminella after Michael Ciminella, the man her mother quickly married after being abandoned by her boyfriend and Judd's biological father, Charles Jordan. Jordan died in 2000. Her younger half-sister is actress Ashley Judd. Naomi and Ciminella moved, with the girls, to Los Angeles in 1968, but divorced in 1972.[2] By 1976, Wynonna and Naomi were living in Kentucky where Wynonna took inspiration from the country music that her mother listened to and learned to play guitar after receiving one for Christmas. The two of them moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1979 in pursuit of a musical career.

The Judds

Main article: The Judds
Wynonna and Naomi were signed to RCA Records in 1983 as the duo The Judds. Between 1983 and 1991, The Judds charted 23 hit singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles (now Hot Country Songs) charts, including 14 number ones. They also recorded eight studio albums and two Greatest Hits compilations. In their six-year career, The Judds sold more than 20 million records worldwide and had won over 60 industry awards including five Grammy Awards, nine Country Music Association awards ( seven of them consecutive ) and eight Billboard Music Awards.[3] At the time, they were the biggest-selling duo in country music, and would remain so until they were eclipsed by Brooks & Dunn in the 1990s.[2] Although Wynonna sang lead vocals on all of the duo's songs, Naomi ran the duo. The mother/daughter relationship has always been tumultuous, with Wynonna always late and forgetful and Naomi being critical of her daughter.
A chronic bout of hepatitis C forced Naomi into retirement following a 1991 farewell tour. After the duo broke up, Wynonna signed to MCA Records in association with Curb Records as a solo artist.

Solo career

1992 — 1998: Breakthrough success

On April 2, 1992, Wynonna performed solo on television for the first time at the American Music Awards. She unveiled "She Is His Only Need", the first single from her self-titled solo debut album. This album, Wynonna, was released in 1992 via MCA/Curb, under the production of Tony Brown.[4] "She Is His Only Need" went to Number One on the Billboard country singles charts that year, as did the album's next two singles, "I Saw the Light" and "No One Else on Earth",[2] the former of which was also the Number One country song of 1992 according to Billboard Year-End. "She Is His Only Need" and "No One Else on Earth" were also minor Adult Contemporary hits, and the latter peaked at #83 on the Billboard Hot 100. "My Strongest Weakness", the album's final single, was a #4 country hit. The album shipped five million copies in the United States, earning a 5× Multi-Platinum certification from the RIAA.
Her second album, Tell Me Why, was released by MCA/Curb in 1993.[2] Also a platinum-selling album, it accounted for five consecutive Top Ten hits on the country charts: the title track, "Only Love", "Is It Over Yet", "Rock Bottom" and "Girls with Guitars", which was written by Mary Chapin Carpenter. "Tell Me Why" was her third crossover hit, peaking at #77 on the pop charts and #24 on the Adult Contemporary charts. Between "Tell Me Why" and "Only Love", she sang guest vocals on Clint Black's 1993 single "A Bad Goodbye" (from the album No Time to Kill), which became her biggest pop hit at #43. The success of this song led to a tour called the Black & Wy tour, featuring Black and Wynonna as headliners.[5]
In 1994, she also made an appearance on the Lynyrd Skynyrd tribute album Skynyrd Frynds, on which she covered their song "Free Bird". She also sang duet vocals on pop/Christian singer Michael English's debut single "Healing", which peaked at #120 on the pop charts. After "Girls with Guitars" fell from the charts, Wynonna became the subject of negative publicity as she had a child out of wedlock.[2] She was absent from the country charts for all of 1995, and in response to feedback from conservative fans, she married Arch Kelly, the father of her son, in 1996.[2]
Revelations was the title of her third album, released by MCA/Curb in 1996. Also certified platinum, this album was led off by her fourth and final Number One hit, the Mike Reid/Gary Burr co-write "To Be Loved by You". Despite this song's minor Adult Contemporary success, the album's other three singles did not fare as well:[2] "Heaven Help My Heart" peaked at #14, while both "My Angel Is Here" and "Somebody to Love You" missed Top 40 entirely.
Wynonna's fourth and final album for MCA was titled The Other Side. Unlike her previous country pop-oriented albums, this album focused on a more blues and rock sound.[2] It was released in 1997 and it produced four singles. The album did not sell as well as her first three, however, only earning a gold certification. Its singles were not as successful on the charts, either: although "When Love Starts Talkin'" and "Come Some Rainy Day" reached #13 and #14 respectively, "Always Will" fell short of Top 40 and "Love Like That" became the first single of her career not to chart at all. After the release of a greatest hits album called Collection, Wynonna left MCA in favor of Mercury Records.

2000 – 2004: Success in the new millennium

In 2000, Wynonna decided to reunite with her mother for a tour, beginning on New Year's Day. A month later, Wynonna released her fifth solo album, New Day Dawning. This album, the first of her career that Wynonna co-produced, included a four-song bonus disc entitled Big Bang Boogie, composed of four new Judds songs.[2] New Day Dawning produced the minor singles "Can't Nobody Love You (Like I Do)" and "Going Nowhere". "Stuck in Love", one of the songs from Big Bang Boogie, also had minor chart success, peaking at #26.
What the World Needs Now Is Love, released in August 2003, was Wynonna's first album for the Asylum-Curb Records label. Lead-off single "What the World Needs" reached the Top 20 on the country charts, followed by the lesser singles "Heaven Help Me" and "Flies on the Butter (You Can't Go Home Again)", at #37 and #33 respectively. This latter song, originally recorded by Lari White on her album Stepping Stone, featured backing vocals from Naomi, and was credited on the charts as "Wynonna with Naomi Judd" instead of The Judds. Judd had success on the Hot Dance Airplay charts with a cover of Foreigner's "I Want to Know What Love Is". Her rendition peaked at #12 on that chart in 2005.[6] Also included on What the World Needs Now Is Love were two songs from soundtracks: a cover of the Elvis Presley hit "Burning Love", which Wynonna recorded for the animated movie Lilo & Stitch, and "You Are", which was included in the movie Someone Like You, a film starring half-sister Ashley Judd.

2005 – present: New career directions

Her second release for Asylum-Curb was a live CD/DVD package called Her Story: Scenes from a Lifetime, released in 2005. The album included one new studio track, "Attitude". Written by Wynonna and John Rich of Big & Rich, this song was issued as a single, peaking at #40 on the country charts. One year later, she released her autobiography, Coming Home to Myself, followed by a Christmas album called A Classic Christmas.[2] She also sang an overdubbed duet with Elvis Presley on the late 2008 album Christmas Duets.
Sing: Chapter 1, her first studio album in six years, was released on February 3, 2009. This album is largely composed of cover songs, except for the title track, an original composition by Rodney Crowell. It also reunites her with producers Brent Maher and Don Potter, who produced all of The Judds' 1980s albums. This album's lead-off single is "I Hear You Knocking", a blues standard first recorded by Smiley Lewis.
Wynonna and Naomi, also known as the Judds, will reunite in 2010, which will include a new album release and tour. The tours name is "The Last Encore," which will include 18 shows.
On September 14, 2010, The Judds appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show where Wynonna discussed "her recent weight loss, her year of living dangerously and what it's like going back on stage as part of the iconic duo, The Judds."[7] The Judds also performed their new single "I Will Stand By You", released Oct 4, 2010.. "I Will Stand By You" was released as the title track to the Judd's 2011 Greatest Hits collection
A new single, "Love it Out Loud" will lead off Wynonna's first solo album since 2003, which will be released in 2011, as a companion CD with new Judds material.

Television

Judd provided the voice of the rock star Molly Cule in the cartoon The Magic School Bus (Meets Molly Cule). During the fifth season of Touched by an Angel, Judd guest starred as a singer whose son was dying of cystic fibrosis.In the year 2005 Judd was a guest star on the show Hope & Faith in the episode "Wife Swap: Part 1 and Part 2" where she played the mean and rich Cynthia. In 2007, Wynonna starred in a special television event on NBC honoring her 23 year career titled "Wynonna: A Tribute on Ice", which featured skating champions such as Kimmie Meissner and Brian Boitano. Both Wynonna and Naomi performed on this special. Additionally, in 2007, Wynonna hosted the fourth season of USA Network's Nashville Star.[3] She also appeared as herself on the NBC sitcom Kath & Kim. In August 2009, she guest starred as herself on the 10th anniversary of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire with Regis Philbin for Backpack Ministries.[8] In May 2010, she guest starred as herself on Lifetime's Army Wives.

Awards and nominations

Wynonna won the ACM Female Artist of the Year award in 1994. Not being present at the ceremony, her mother Naomi accepted the award on Wynonna's behalf.
In 2007, Wynonna was presented with a star on the Music City Walk of Fame.[9]
In 2005, she received the USO's Merit Award for service to all divisions of the United States Armed Forces[10] and teamed up with Habitat for Humanity to record "Heart of America", with Michael McDonald and Eric Benet which in turn helped raise over $90 million dollars for victims of natural disasters to the Gulf Coast. She continues to bring attention to the global emergency of AIDS in her fourth year as United States Ambassador for YouthAIDS.[11]

Additional Interests

On June 7, 2008, Wynonna sat down for a live Internet chat for her fans in which she was asked questions submitted during the session. Over 6,000 fans signed up in a 5 minute span causing the server to crash. A total of 18,000 fans eventually logged on to watch Wynonna's chat live via Stickam.com.[12] She also lent her voice to an international music documentary on BBC radio about Stevie Wonder.[13] In 2009, she also became the spokeswoman for alli, the only FDA-approved over-the-counter weight loss product, which features the artist in a national marketing campaign.[14]

Personal life

Wynonna met Arch Kelley III in 1993, and their son Elijah Judd was born on December 23, 1994, in Nashville by C-section. She married Kelley on January 21, 1996, when she was four months pregnant with their second child.[2] Their daughter Grace Pauline was born June 21, 1996. Kelley was an observer rather than a participant in his wife's fame and felt out of place in her world.[citation needed] He settled into the role of househusband on her 500-acre (2.0 km2) farm outside of Nashville. They divorced in 1998.
Wynonna's second husband was her former bodyguard, D. R. Roach, whom she married on November 22, 2003, in Tennessee. On March 22, 2007, Roach was arrested for sexual assault of a child under the age of 13; Judd filed for divorce five days later.[15]
In November 2003, just two weeks before her DUI arrest, Wynonna taped an appearance of an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show discussing what she described as a "severe" dependency on food.[16] The episode aired in February 2004. Judd had been working with the show in an effort to lose a significant amount of weight and get to the root of her dependency. In September 2005, Wynonna made a second appearance on the show, discussing how she had lost some weight, had patched up relationships with her mother and with the man she considered "her dad", Michael Ciminella, from whom she had been estranged for almost a decade.
Wynonna was also a judge for the 6th annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists' careers.[17]
On July 21, 2010, Judd, along with her daughter and tour manager were involved in a head-on collision in Salt Lake City, Utah, on their way to a sushi restaurant. The three of them were taken to a hospital where their injuries were treated, and all three were released at midnight that evening.[18]

Discography

Main article: Wynonna Judd discography
Studio albums
Compilation albums
Holiday albums
Soundtracks

References

  1. ^ "Fast Facts". Wynonna official website. http://www.wynonna.com/?content=fastfacts. Retrieved 2008-04-13. 
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Huey, Steve. "Wynonna Judd biography". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p91986/biography. Retrieved 2008-04-12. 
  3. ^ a b "Wynonna: Bio". Wynonna official website. http://www.wynonna.com/?content=bio. Retrieved 2009-04-06. 
  4. ^ "Wynonna-Review of Wynonna's first self-titled album". About.com. http://countrymusic.about.com/od/cdreviewsal/fr/Wynonna.htm. Retrieved 2009-04-08. 
  5. ^ Buttars, Lon (1993-09-25). ""Black & Wy" give 2 great shows in 1". Salt Lake Tribune. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SLTB&p_theme=sltb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=1011390E32EF660F&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. Retrieved 2009-04-24. 
  6. ^ "Billboard Music Charts". http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=348&cfgn=Singles&cfn=Hot+Dance+Airplay&ci=3056802&cdi=8261401&cid=01%2F15%2F2005. 
  7. ^ See Wynonna's Personal Interview & Judds Performance on Oprah TUES 9/14!
  8. ^ "Wynonna Guest Starring on Kath & Kim". http://www.firstcoastnews.com/life/entertainment/news-article.aspx?storyid=129664&provider=rss. 
  9. ^ "Walk of Fame: Inductees". Music City Walk of Fame. http://www.visitmusiccity.com/walkoffame/inductees.htm. Retrieved 2009-04-06. 
  10. ^ "CNN Transcripts". http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0701/19/lkl.01.html. 
  11. ^ "Youth Aids Ambassadors". http://projects.psi.org/site/PageServer?pagename=YouthAmbassadors_nr. 
  12. ^ "Wynonna: Stickam blog". Stickam Blog. http://blog.stickam.com/index.php/2009/02/10/wynonna-judd-live-exclusive-fan-chat-on-stickamcom/. Retrieved 2009-04-06. 
  13. ^ "Wynonna: Timeline". Wynonna official website. http://www.wynonna.com/?em877=190444_-1__0_~0_-1_3_2009_0_0&content=timeline. Retrieved 2009-04-06. 
  14. ^ "Wynonna Judd: an alli weight loss success story.". http://www.myalli.com/mystorymyalli/MyMusic.aspx. 
  15. ^ "Wynonna Judd's Husband Arrested In Texas". CBS News. March 27, 2007. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/27/entertainment/main2613335.shtml. 
  16. ^ "Wynonna Judd: Oprah". http://www.oprah.com/slideshow/oprahshow/slideshow1_ss_weight_20040211. 
  17. ^ Independent Music Awards - 6th Annual Judges
  18. ^ Horner, Marianne (2010-07-23). "Wynonna surivies head-on collision in Salt Lake City". The Boot. http://www.theboot.com/2010/07/23/wynonna-survives-head-on-collision-salt-lake-city/. Retrieved 2010-07-24. 

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Wynonna Judd
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wynonna_Judd"
Posted by at No comments:
Labels:
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)