Captain and Tennille

   
Artist: Captain and Tennille

   Genre(s): 
Vocal
   Pop
   Dance
   

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Discography:


   
 Love Will Keep Us Together

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 11


   
 Keeping Our Love Warm

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 9


   
 Dream

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 11


   
 Come in from the Rain

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 11


   
 More Than Dancing and Much More

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 21


   
 The bery best plus caratulas

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 19


   
 Make Your Move

   Year:    
Tracks: 8

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Keyboardist/arranger "Captain" Daryl Dragon and his wife, singer/pianist Toni Tennille, scored a series of pop/rock hits in a scant, romanticistic vein in the second base half of the seventies, the virtually successful of which was the first gear, "Love Will Keep Us Together." The pair met in the summer of 1971, when Dragon was intermeshed as the keyboard participant for a musical revue, Mother Earth, composed by Tennille. Dragon, born August 27, 1942, in Los Angeles, was the son of conductor Carmen Dragon; his mother was a singer. He studied piano patch ontogeny up and briefly attended California State University at Northridge earlier dropping out to shape an instrumental idle words trey with his brothers called the Dragons. The group released the single "Elephant Stomp"/"Troll" on Capitol Records in 1964, but its trend was out of step with labelmates the Beatles, world Health Organization dominated pop music at the time. In 1967, Dragon became a touring backup musician for the Beach Boys. He was dubbed "Captain Keyboard" by lead singer Mike Love because he always appeared onstage in a yachting cap. In gain to touring with the Beach Boys, Dragon appeared on their albums of the period, including Sunflower and Kingdom of The Netherlands, and he was billed as Rumbo on a British individual released in 1970, "Good of Free"/"Lady," credited to the Beach Boys' Dennis Wilson & Rumbo.


Tennille, born Cathryn Antoinette Tennille on May 8, 1943, in Montgomery, AL, was the daughter of Frank Tennille, a big band singer (below the appoint Clark Randall) world Health Organization had tending up music to carry his family's article of furniture computer storage, and Cathryn Tennille, world Health Organization became a local video talk show host. Tennille as well studied pianissimo and occasionally appeared on her mother's prove as a baby. She accompanied Auburn University, perusal music. In 1965, she moved to California, where she married and divorced drummer Kenneth Shearer and became involved in the South Coast Repertory theater group, which lED to her writing the music for an ecologically minded revue, Mother Earth. The show was performed in San Francisco and Los Angeles, where Dragon joined the banding. After it closed, Dragon returned to the Beach Boys and arranged to get Tennille hired as a pianist and backup singer. (Mother Earth finally earned a Broadway production that open on October 19, 1972, and closed after 12 performances. Tennille was no yearner involved with it at that microscope stage, just she was credited for its music under her married diagnose, Toni Shearer.)


Draco and Tennille toured with the Beach Boys for a year, meantime becoming a romanticist couple (they married in 1975), then left and began acting in Los Angeles clubs as a couple called Captain & Tennille. (Draco insists that the appoint is non "The Captain & Tennille," although it is ofttimes printed that way.) In September 1973, they financed their possess debut single, Tennille's wild-eyed ballad composing "The Way I Want to Touch You," pressing up 500 copies on their possess Butterscotch Castle Records label and earning airplay in Los Angeles. "The Way I Want to Touch You" was purchased by the prominent autonomous A&M Records, which re-released it and signed Captain & Tennille to a contract, obviously viewing them right as a more or less harder rocking, slightly sexier reading of the Carpenters, world Health Organization as well recorded for the label. For their succeeding single, Captain & Tennille covered Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield's "Love Will Keep Us Together," a song that had appeared latterly on Sedaka's American riposte album, Sedaka's Back, regular tattle "Sedaka is back" at the oddment of the cut. The disk became a number peerless, gold-selling hit, launching Captain & Tennille's life history.


For the adjacent two eld, they could do no wrong commercially. (Rock critics, predictably, pink-slipped their centrist pop style.) The Love Will Keep Us Together album fatigued two eld in the charts and went gold. "The Way I Want to Touch You," released a third time, gave them their arcsecond atomic number 79 single. "Lonely Night (Holy man Face)," written by Sedaka and released in January 1976 in advance of their second album, Vocal of Joy, made that trey gold singles. In February, "Love Will Keep Us Together" won the 1975 Grammy Award for Record of the Year. Call of Joy was a gold album upon release and later on went atomic number 78, spawning deuce more gold singles, a get across of the Miracles' "Shop at Around" and Willis Alan Ramsey's "Muskrat Love."


In September 1976, The Captain & Tennille, a weekly hourlong musical miscellany serial publication, debuted on the ABC telecasting network, which obviously viewed them incorrectly as an answer to CBS' Sonny & Cher. The show proved to be Captain & Tennille's first false step, weakness to bring in heights ratings and, in Dragon's legal opinion, overexposing the duet and thusly hurting their record gross revenue. Although ABC was uncoerced to strain the series, the couple demurred, and the designate went off the gentle wind after only one season in March 1977. "Can't Stop Dancin'," their disco-oriented new single, made the Top 20, only skint their drawing string of Top Ten, gold-selling singles, and Add up In from the Rain, their third album, as well pronounced a set down in gross revenue, although it went gold. The duet embarked on a four-month national turn in May 1977, playing 90 cities through September. In November, A&M released the profit-taking Chieftain & Tennille's Greatest Hits, suggesting that the label felt their topper years were already behind them.


Pipe dream, their fourth record album, released in July 1978, never reached the Top century, although it stayed in the charts doubly as long as Come In from the Rain, buoyed by the Top Ten success of the Neil Sedaka composing "You Never Done It Like That." Captain & Tennille left A&M for Casablanca Records, a move that off out to be unwise, since the erst voguish label (known for Donna Summer and Kiss) was ingress a decline. Nevertheless, their label debut, Make Your Move, released in the fall of 1979, returned them to gold phonograph recording position, featuring the chart-topping stumble "Do That to Me One More Time," written by Tennille. By 1980, however, Casablanca was closely moribund and was non able to promote Captain & Tennille's sixth album, Keeping Our Love Warm, which failed to regular pass the charts.


Maitre d' & Tennille in brief stirred to CBS, only the deal concluded without whatsoever records existence released. In 1982, they recorded an album called More Than Dancing for the midget Australian label Wizard Records, which released it in Australia only in 1984. (It was reissued in Australia by Raven in 2002 with incentive tracks as More Than Dancing...Much More). Thereafter, they basically retired as a transcription represent spell still playing episodic shows. Tennille went on to a solo calling as a isaac Merrit Singer of traditional pop, acting with handsome bands and releasing the albums More Than You Know (1984), All of Me (1987), Do It Again (1990), Never Let Me Go (1992), Things Are Swingin' (1994), Tennille Sings Big Band (1998), and Incurably Romantic (2001), spell Dragon produced her records and ran Rumbo Recorders, a recording studio he had built in Los Angeles in 1979 that hosted major acts, including Guns N' Roses. (Dragon sold the studio apartment in 2003.) In 1995, the iI re-recorded some of their hits along with standards like "Unchained Melody" for the Captain & Tennille reunion record album XX Years of Romance.


In the second base half of the nineties, Tennille became progressively mired in stagecoach musicals, stellar, for exercise, in a touring company of Victor/Victoria in 1998, spell Dragon joined ex-Beach Boy Al Jardine's "Beach Boys Family and Friends" company in 1999. Increasingly, nevertheless, the mates preferable to remain at their home in northern Nevada rather than execute on the road. In November 2003, Tennille gave a concert benefiting the Reno Chamber Orchestra. Dragon was her limited invitee, and the two performed half a twelve songs in concert, including several Captain & Tennille hits. The render was recorded, resulting in the double-CD An Intimate Evening with Toni Tennille, the first record album to feature of speech Captain & Tennille live performances, released alone by the Reno Chamber Orchestra through its website, hypertext transfer protocol://renochamberorchestra.org.





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Sandi Thom - The Pink and the Lily

Rating: * *
A quick flick through the cover insert of Sandi Thom's new album The Pink and the Lily sums up everything you need to know about the record. Pictures of Thom
in a straw stetson reveal the album's strong country...

Irish director remaking Capricorn One

Irish director John Moore is to remake the classic 1978 space conspiracy thriller 'Capricorn One'.
The original film told the story of three astronauts who become embroiled in a Mars mission hoax.
Variety says the new film is described as a reimagined and updated version of the original.
Moore's other credits include 'The Omen', 'Flight of the Phoenix' and 'Behind Enemy Lines'.

Solomon Burke

   
Artist: Solomon Burke

   Genre(s): 
R&B: Soul
   

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Discography:


   
 The Chess Collection

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 20


   
 Don't Give Up On Me

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 11


   
 The Best Of

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 20


   
 The Definition Of Soul

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 11


   
 Music To Make Love By

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 11

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While Solomon Burke never made a major impact upon the pop audience -- he ne'er, in fact, had a Top 20 strike -- he was an significant other person pioneer. On his '60s singles for Atlantic, he brought a rural area influence into R&B with emotional wording and intricately constructed, melodic ballads and midtempo songs. At the same fourth dimension, he was encircled with sophisticated "uptown" arrangements and was provided with much of his material by his producers, particularly Bert Berns. The combination of gospel, pop, nation, and production polish was basic to the recipe of early person. While Burke wasn't the only nonpareil pursuing this way of life, not many others did so as successfully. And he, wish Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett, was an important influence upon the Rolling Stones, world Health Organization covered Burke's "Exclaim to Me" and "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" on their early albums.


Edmund Burke came by his gospel roots level more deeply than most soul stars. He was sermon at his family's Philadelphia church and hosting his have gospel wireless show, even before he'd reached his teens. He began transcription gospel truth and R&B sides for Apollo in the mid to late '50s. Like several former gospel singers (Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett), he was molded into a more than lay way when he gestural with Atlantic in the 1960s. Burke had a wealthiness of high-charting R&B hits in the early half of the '60s, which crossed over to the pop listings in a mild fashion as well. "Scarcely Out of Reach," "Cry to Me," "If You Need Me," "Got to Get You Off My Mind," "Tonight's the Night," and "Cheerio Baby (Baby Goodbye)" were the most successful of these, although, unlike Franklin or Pickett, he wasn't able to spread out his R&B radix into a brobdingnagian pop undermentioned as well. He left hand Atlantic in the recent '60s and spent the next decade hopping between various labels, getting his biggest hit with a overcompensate of Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Proud Mary" in 1969, and transcription an record album in the late '70s with cult soulster Swamp Dogg as producer.


In the 1980s and nineties, Burke became one of the most visible living exponents of authoritative psyche medicine, continuing to spell and record albums in a rootsy, at times gospel-ish style. Although these were critically comfortably received, their stylistic purity besides ensured that their market was chiefly confined to roots euphony enthusiasts rather than a pop interview. His live and later recorded work, however, is a favorite of those wHO need to go through a soul fable with his talents and stylistic honour relatively intact. Burke's 2002 dismission Don't Give Up on Me was hailed as a major replication for the fabled soul human beings. Great songwriters like Elvis Costello, Dan Penn, Nick Lowe, and Tom Waits contributed songs and Joe Henry produced the record album, which has been compared to Johnny Cash's landmark American English Recordings. After the critical success of Don't Give Up on Me reaffirmed Burke's position as ane of the sterling living exponents of authoritative psyche, the isaac M. Singer teamed up with producer Don Was for Create Do with What You Got, a updated variation on his classic expressive style that was released in springtime 2005. A twelvemonth later, Burke released an interesting country and soul loanblend, Nashville, on Shout! Factory.





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Grayson Capps

   
Artist: Grayson Capps

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Wail and Ride

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 12


   
 If You Knew My Mind

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 12

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A literate and ardent songster whose vocal characters ar ofttimes caught scarcely hanging on at the edges of American aliveness, Grayson Capps is a bit like a New Orleans-version of Tom Waits, albeit more of a roots rocker in real musical execution. Capps was innate April 17, 1967 in Opelika, AL the logos of a Baptist sermoniser and an Auburn University student. After his birth, both of his parents concluded up existence teachers in Brewton, AL. They touched to Fairhope, AL when Capps was in the 7th grad, and it was at that place that he developed a womb-to-tomb fascination with theater, finally earning a fond learnedness to Tulane University in New Orleans to study acting, graduating with a BFA in 1989. But performing wasn't the only thing Capps studied at Tulane. He likewise erudite to play guitar and joined a band called the House Levellers, wHO specialized in what the striation called "flail folk." The grouping signed with Tipitina Records in 1990 when Capps was barely 21-years-old, and following a whirlwind and musically quite successful year, Capps left the dance band, choosing to remain and do his nursing home in New Orleans. He started a new dance band with John Lawrence called Stavin Chain and they sign-language with Thomas Ruf's Germany-based Ruf Records in 1998, cathartic a single album, simply called Stavin Chain, in 1999, earlier disbanding. Capps met Shainee Gabel, a young music director world Health Organization was filming a documental called Anthem, and she terminated up using several of his songs in the finished celluloid. Capps had told Gabel about an unpublished novel his father, Everett Capps, had written and once Gabel read it, she knew she had to plastic film it. She wrote a screenplay and the end termination was the 2004 film A Love Song for Bobby Long, which featured Capps in a piece part and as well used quaternity of his songs as constituent of the soundtrack. The regionally released Grayson Capps album appeared in 2005 on Hyena Records followed by a solo debut proper, If You Knew My Mind, by and by that same year. During this time Capps continued to make his base in New Orleans just the Katrina disaster at summer's fill up in 2005 forced him to leave the city, at least temporarily. A second solo project, Howl & Ride, also on Hyena, came out in 2006. Ruf Records re-released Stavin' Chain in 2007.





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Balkan Beat Box, Nu Made

Israeli-born but based in New York, Tamir Muskat and Ori Kaplan are the brains behind Balkan Beat Box, one of an increasing number of Eastern European-influenced bands to have emerged in the U.S over the past few years, but listeners should be wary of pigeonholing them as part of a broader movement.

While the self-styled 'gypsy-punks' Gogol Bordello and the more subtle, restrained Devotchka and Beirut use largely organic textures, Balkan Beat Box combine live instruments with a riot of frantic electronica, hip-hop and dancehall. What's more, their sonic template is much more global than the aforementioned artists, with Middle Eastern and Mediterranean elements almost as prevalent as the more frequently cited Slavic horns and klezmer. Like the UK's Asian Dub Foundation or Belgium's Think Of One, the Brooklyn residents cook up a bewildering and intense mish-mash of styles to create something uniquely alive in its own right.

Last year's excellent New Med album earned Balkan Beat Box widespread attention for the first time, which seems to have encouraged Muskat and Kaplan to further milk their newfound cash cow by releasing Nu-Made, a collection of remixes, some unreleased tracks and two short films, one a live performance of Hermetico, the other a longer piece following the band’s 'homecoming' to Tel Aviv.

As is invariably the case with this kind of project, Nu-Made has the unmistakeable feel of a commercial rather than an artistic venture. Most of the remixes offer few fresh twists to the already musically disparate, one might even say slightly cluttered original tracks, although rookie producer Puzzel (who is included here as one of the winners of a Balkan Beat Box remix competition) gives Digital Monkey an effective, dub-heavy overhaul. New song Ramallah Tel-Aviv, with its politically charged lyrics in both Arabic and Hebrew, is a worthwhile addition to the group's repertoire, as is Red Bula, a radical reworking of Romanian jazz/folk practitioners Mahala Rai Banda.

As for the films, Hermetico does what it says on the tin, while Kind Of Home offers (distinctly unilluminating) interviews with the BBB guys and some interesting insight into how they integrate local musicians into their act while on tour. Overall though, unless you're an obsessive completist there's little reason to buy this album if you already own Nu Med.


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Jolie Is Still Pregnant

Angelina Jolie has spoken out to dismiss a flurry of reports suggesting she has given birth to twins in the south of France. Two false alarms on Friday sent the media into a spin, with one outlet even claiming she had delivered two baby girls and named them Isla Marcheline and Amelie Jane - honouring Jolie's late mother Marcheline and her partner Brad Pitt's mum Jane. The coverage has prompted a spokesperson for the 32-year-old to come forward and confirm the actress is still pregnant. The rep tells People.com, "Angelina has not given birth. She is fine, enjoying her home and her family in France."


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Ant Miles and Red One

   
Artist: Ant Miles and Red One

   Genre(s): 
Drum & Bass
   

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Discography:


   
 RAMM36

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 2


   
 Bring It On / Musica

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 2

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Bruce Bervar

   
Artist: Bruce Bervar

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Rythms of Life

   Year:    
Tracks: 11

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This California guitarist and synthesist writes highly musical, commercially accessible ensemble music. Though he plays most of the instruments himself, his technique on acoustic guitar is to the highest degree admirable. He's besides a well-known luthier -- one of his hand-crafted guitars is on display at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Irish Book Awards shortlist announced

Anne Enright, Joe O'Connor, Roddy Doyle, Julia Kelly, Diarmaid Ferriter and Frank McCourt are among the authors who have been shortlisted for the upcoming Irish Book Awards.
The awards, which are now in their third year, feature nine categories and are the only industry wide event of their kind in the Irish book sector.
'The Gathering' by Anne Enright; 'Zugzwang' by Ronan Bennett; 'Redemption Falls' by Joe O'Connor; and 'The Silver Swan' by Benjamin Black are all in the running for Irish Novel of the Year.
Julia Kelly is nominated in the Irish Newcomer of the Year category for her novel 'With My Lazy Eye', which is up against 'In the Woods' by Tana French;  'There Are Little Kingdoms' by Kevin Barry; and 'Secret Diary of a Demented House Wife' by Niamh Greene.
Diarmaid Ferriter's 'Judging Dev' is nominated in three categories, including Non-Fiction Book of the Year; while Roddy Doyle's 'Wilderness' and Frank McCourt's 'Angela and the Baby Jesus' are up for awards in the children's category.
A gala ceremony to announce the winners will take place in The Round Room at the Mansion House in Dublin on 24 April. 
A Lifetime Achievement award in Irish Literature will also be handed out on the night.