21 at 33 is the fourteenth studio album by British singer/songwriter Elton John, released on 13 May 1980. It was recorded at Super Bear Studios, Nice, France, in August 1979, and Rumbo Recorders and Sunset Sound in Los Angeles, California between January to March 1980. Two of John’s “classic” bandmates, drummer Nigel Olsson and bass […]
Aretha is the twenty eighth studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin, Released on October 25, 1980 by Arista Records. Franklin’s first Arista single release, “United Together”, reached #3 on the Soul chart and crossed over to #56 on Billboard’s Hot 100. The album itself peaked at #47 and spent 30 weeks on Billboard’s main […]
Faces is the tenth studio album, a double-LP by R&B artists Earth, Wind & Fire, released in 1980 on ARC/Columbia Records. The album reached number 2 and number 10 on the Billboard Black and Pop albums charts. It has been certified gold in the US by the RIAA. In a 2007 interview when asked which […]
Knock The Walls Down is an album by Steve Kipner, released 1979 on Elektra. Stephen Alan Kipner (born 1950) is an American-born Australian songwriter and record producer, with hits spanning a 40-year period, including chart-topping songs such as Olivia Newton-John’s “Physical”, Natasha Bedingfield’s “These Words”, and Christina Aguilera’s “Genie in a Bottle”, for which he won […]
Realce is a studio album released by Brazilian singer Gilberto Gil in 1979. It is the last album of Gil’s “Re” trilogy, the others being Refazenda (1975) and Refavela (1977). Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira (born June 26, 1942), better known as Gilberto Gil, is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known for both his musical innovation and political commitment. From 2003 to 2008, […]
I Am is the ninth studio album by the R&B band Earth Wind & Fire, released in June 1979 on CBS Records. The album features the singles “Boogie Wonderland” with The Emotions and “After the Love Has Gone”. I Am has been certified double platinum in the US by the RIAA and platinum in the […]
Angelina (Cerrone V) i s the eighth album by Cerrone, released in 1979 on Atlantic. Cerrone V marked a radical departure for the artist, where he made a full-fledged attempt to become the vocalist. Moving from Cotillion to Atlantic Records in the U.S., “Rock Me” was the first single and, although clubs reacted fairly well, […]
…Too is the second solo album by Carole Bayer Sager , released in 1978 on Elektra. Carole Bayer Sager was born in New York City to parents Anita and Eli Bayer. She graduated from New York University, where she majored in English, dramatic arts and speech. She had already written her first pop hit, “A Groovy Kind […]
Kenji Omura (Omura Kenji, May 5, 1949 – November 18, 1998) was a Japanese guitarist, composer, arranger. Born in Kobe City , Hyogo Prefecture . After graduating from Konan High School , in 1969, won the Yamaha Right Music Contest ‘s rock category. He went to the United States in 1970 and stands on the stage […]
Songbird is a studio album by Barbra Streisand, released in 1978. The album includes Streisand’s solo version of “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers”. She also subsequently recorded this song as a duet with Neil Diamond and this version topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for two non-consecutive weeks in December 1978. The title track reached […]