Dancing On The Ceiling is Lionel Richie‘s third solo album, recorded beginning in 1985 and released in mid-1986. The album was originally to be titled Say You, Say Me, after the Academy Award-winning track of the same name, but it was renamed after Richie rewrote the album. The album was released to generally positive reviews […]
Headed for the Future is the seventeenth studio album released by Neil Diamond in 1986. The album went to number 20 on the Billboard 200 and also heralded a return to the pop charts, when the uptempo, keyboard-heavy title track, “Headed for the Future” reached #53 (also cracking the top 10 on the Adult Contemporary […]
Wildcats is a 1986 American sports comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie and is also the film debut of Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson. Molly McGrath is the daughter of a famed football coach who is dying to head her own team. When her wish is finally granted, Molly leaves her job coaching girls’ track […]
Tonight is an album by The Four Tops, released in 1981. The Four Tops are an American vocal quartet from Detroit, Michigan who helped to define the city’s Motown sound of the 1960s. The group’s repertoire has included soul music, R&B, disco, adult contemporary, doo-wop, jazz, and show tunes. Tracks 1 When She Was […]
The Heart Of The Matter is the thirteenth studio album by Kenny Rogers, released by RCA Nashville. This album is to date Rogers’ final to reach #1 on the country charts, and peaked at #51 on the Billboard 200. It was produced by George Martin. Tracks 1 I Don’t Want to Have to Worry (Micheal […]
Soul Kiss is the thirteenth studio album by Australian pop, adult contemporary singer, Olivia Newton-John, which was released in October 1985. It made No. 11 on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart and the Top 30 on the United States Billboard 200. The album was produced by long-time associate, John Farrar, who also co-wrote […]
Vox Humana is the fifth solo album released by soft rock singer Kenny Loggins. Released in 1985, it was Loggins’ first album released after his involvement with the hit soundtrack to the motion picture Footloose, the year prior. The title is from a Latin phrase meaning “human voice.” Among those who make cameo appearances are […]
Behind the Sun is the ninth album by English guitarist Eric Clapton, released in 1985. The title of the album comes from a line from Muddy Waters’s “Louisiana Blues”. It is also Clapton’s first collaborative project with Phil Collins. After nearly a decade of Clapton’s guitar playing taking a back seat to his singing/songwriting, this […]
Emotion is the twenty-third studio album released by Barbra Streisand. It was released on October 9, 1984 and went platinum in the United States on December 18 the same year. This album was recorded in eleven L.A. and two N.Y. studios with a multitude of producers and writers. The title track, the third single released […]
The Magazine is an album by Rickie Lee Jones, released in September 1984. It is her third full-length studio album, and was released as the follow-up to Pirates (1981). The album was partly composed in France and was co-produced by Jones and James Newton Howard. After the release of Pirates in July 1981, Jones spent […]