Breakin’ Away is an album by Al Jarreau, released on June 30, 1981, through the Warner Bros. Records label. The album was certified Platinum by the RIAA. Breakin’ Away was the best performance Al Jarreau had on the charts. It stayed on the Billboard 200 for 103 weeks and peaked at #9.The album also hit […]
Love All The Hurt Away is an Aretha Franklin album, the singer’s sophomore release for Arista Records. Despite strong reviews, it was a sales disappointment, topping off at approximately 250,000 copies. Aretha’s cover version of Sam & Dave’s classic hit “Hold On! I’m Coming” won Franklin her 11th Grammy Award in the Best R&B Vocal […]
Secret Combination is an album by the American R&B singer Randy Crawford, released in 1981 on Warner Bros. Records. The album reached No. 12 in the US Billboard Top R&B Albums chart in July 1981, and No. 2 in the UK Albums Chart in January 1982. The singles “You Might Need Somebody” and “Rainy Night […]
Runaway is an album by Bill Champlin, released on Elektra Records in 1981. It is notable as containing “Tonight Tonight”, Champlin’s major hit as a solo artist, as well as “Sara”, which also achieved a degree of chart success. The album was primarily produced by David Foster, who had also produced Champlin’s previous solo album, […]
The George Benson Collection is a compilation album by George Benson, released on the Warner Bros. record label in 1981. The album was a two-record set, and was compacted into one disc. In addition to old material, the album featured two new songs, including his #1 R&B hit “Turn Your Love Around”, written by Jay […]
Free As A Breeze is the debut album by Michael Clark, released in 1977. Tracks 1 Sweet Gypsy Eyes (Michael Clark) 2:58 2 Little Girl Dances On (Michael Clark) 2:52 3 Drinkin’ Man Blues (Marica Routh) 3:34 4 Hold Tight (David Gates) 2:53 5 Sand Castles (Michael Clark) 4:19 6 Loving Arms (Tom Jans) 3:05 […]
Shōgo Hamada (浜田 省吾 Hamada Shōg, born December 29, 1952) is a Japanese singer-songwriter and former member of the group Aido. He is a part of Sony Music Japan’s SME Records division. He was born in Takehara City in Hiroshima Prefecture, and graduated from Kuremitsuta High School (where he was a member of the baseball […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]