The Hot Rock is a 1972 American comedy-drama caper film directed by Peter Yates from a screenplay by William Goldman, based on Donald E. Westlake’s novel of the same name, which introduced his long-running John Dortmunder character. The film stars Robert Redford, George Segal, Ron Leibman, Paul Sand, Moses Gunn and Zero Mostel. It was […]
Song For My Lady is the fourth album by Jon Lucien, released in 1975 on Columbia. Jon Lucien (January 8, 1942 – August 18, 2007) was a vocalist and musician, born Lucien Harrigan on the island of Tortola, the main island of the British Virgin Islands, and raised in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands by […]
The Second Coming was Little Richard‘s third album for Reprise Records, and saw him reunited with Robert “Bumps” Blackwell from his Specialty days, with them co-writing the majority of the album together. The concept was to unite the best rock studio musicians of the ’50s with the best rock studio musicians of the ’70s. Many […]
“Woody and Dutch on the Slow Train to Peking” is the second single by Rick Lee Jones from her album Pirates. It reached #76 at the UK Charts. Album Video Musicians Bass Chuck Rainey Drums Steve Gadd Guitar David Kalish Keyboards Neil Larsen Keyboards Russell Ferrante Keyboards Rickie Lee Jones Sax David Sanborn Sax Tom […]
“A Lucky Guy” is the third single by Rickie Lee Jones from her album Pirates. It was released in 1981 and was the only single from that album that hit the US Billboard Charts, it peaked at #64. Album Video Musicians Bass Chuck Rainey Drums Art Rodriguez Guitar Buzzy Feiten Guitar Dean Parks Guitar Steve […]
Last Bolero In Berkeley is an album by Cal Tjader, released in 1973. Callen Radcliffe Tjader, Jr (July 16, 1925 – May 5, 1982) was an American Latin jazz musician. He explored other jazz idioms, even as he continued to perform the music of Cuba, the Caribbean, Mexico and Latin America. Tracks 1 Gary’s Theme […]
Let Me In Your Life is the twentieth studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin, Released on February 25, 1974 by Atlantic Records. This was one of Aretha’s top-selling Atlantic Records albums. The album hit #1 on Billboard’s R&B albums chart and reached #14 on Billboard’s main album chart, missing the Gold standard by a […]
“Until You Come Back To Me (That’s What I’m Gonna Do)” is a song written by Morris Broadnax, Clarence Paul, and Stevie Wonder. The song was originally recorded by Stevie Wonder in 1967, but his version was not released as a single and did not appear on an album until 1977’s anthology Looking Back. The […]
Astral Signal is a soul/funk influenced jazz album recorded in 1975 by the jazz keyboard player Gene Harris. Harris covered the Chicago tune “Beginnings” on this album, one of the very few times that Harris can be heard as lead vocalist. Tracks 1 Prelude () 01:40 2 Summer (The First Time) (Bobby Goldsboro) 03:21 3 […]
Late At Night is the thirteenth studio album by Billy Preston, released in 1979, and his debut for Motown Records. It includes his hit duet with Syreeta Wright, “With You I’m Born Again”, from the film Fast Break. Tracks 1 Give It Up, Hot (Billy Preston; Bruce Fisher; Ronnie Vann) 05:47 2 Late At Night […]