So Excited! is the ninth studio album by The Pointer Sisters, released in 1982 on the Planet label. So Excited! spawned a major hit with “American Music” and included a cover of a Prince tune, “I Feel for You,” which was again covered by Chaka Khan two years later. The title track reached #30 on […]
Right Here And Now is the ninth album by Bill Medley, released in 1982 on Planet Records. Tracks 1 Right Here And Now (Barry Mann; Cynthia Weill) 3:35 2 I’m No Angel (Phil Palmer; Tony Colton) 3:38 3 For You (Joe Russo) 3:42 4 Heart And Soul (Michael McDonald) 4:01 5 If You Remember […]
Time is the first solo album by American musician Richard Carpenter. Dionne Warwick, Dusty Springfield and Scott Grimes sang on the album, on the songs “In Love Alone”, “Something in Your Eyes”, and “That’s What I Believe”, respectively. The song “When Time Was All We Had” is dedicated to Richard’s sister, Karen. It was later […]
Rescue Me is an album by Tom Jones, released in 1979. Sir Thomas John Woodward OBE (born 7 June 1940), also known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer. His career has spanned six decades, from his emergence as a vocalist in the mid-1960s with a string of top hits, regular touring, […]
Double Or Nothing is the fourth album by Lani Hall. Tracks 1 Nobody Gets This Close To Me (Steve Diamond) 4:13 2 Shot In The Dark (Bill Quateman) 3:32 3 Meni Devol (Hugo Fattoruso, Ruben Rada) 4:57 4 To The Morning (Dan Fogelberg) 3:50 5 Sailing Without A Sail (Bill LaBounty, Roy Freeland) 3:10 6 […]
Stand Up! was The Archers fifth studio album and fourth Light Records release. It was co-produced by Elvis Presley’s TCB Band keyboardist Larry Muhoberac and studio engineer John Guess. Stand Up! was the first album in which former female vocalist Nancye Short-Tsapralis did not participate. Although Tsapralis sang background vocals on the prior Fresh Surrender […]
Rise is a 1979 album by Herb Alpert. The Rise album was conceived in 1979 after the worldwide success of both the 7″ & 12″ versions of the single “Rise”, a song written by Andy Armer and Randy Badazz Alpert which became a #1 million selling hit song on sales charts, radio, and in dance […]
Lovelines is an album by Carpenters, released in 1989. That same year, Richard Carpenter decided to release an album of unreleased Carpenters tracks along with selected solo tracks by his sister, Karen (from her then-unreleased solo album). The Carpenters’ songs were mainly from their television specials. “When I Fall in Love” was originally recorded in […]
Special Things is the seventh studio album by the Pointer Sisters, released in 1980 on the Planet label. The album marked their third venture with producer Richard Perry and featured a more stylized R&B/pop production, launching the group into its most successful period. The album spawned their second top three gold-certified single, “He’s So Shy”. […]
I Wanna Make A Hit Wit-Choo is an album by Junko Yagami, released in 1983. Tracks 1 I Just Wanna Make A Hit Wit-choo (Frank Musker, Louis St Louis) 4:00 2 He’s My Kind (Franne Golde, Peter Ivers) 3:34 3 Manhattan (Louis St Louis, Tony Walsh) 3:34 4 Hey Kid (Franne Golde, Roger Bruno) […]