With a smooth voice that often drew comparisons to legendary vocalists like Frank Sinatra, Bublé stepped up his game with similarly chart-topping albums like It's Time (2005), which showcased him reinterpreting pop classics like the Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love" or venturing into R&B ...
Dig Deeper What Freddie Mercury's Relationship With His Bandmates Was Really Like Also ranks #1 on The Greatest Live Bands of All Time 6 Led Zeppelin 28,518 votes Formed in London in 1968, this pioneering rock band is renowned for their innovative fusion of blues, folk, and hard ro...
Phrasing melodies like a jazz horn player, Sinatra cemented his fame as a solo artist at Capitol Records in the 1950s where his themed concept albums In The Wee Small Hours and Frank Sinatra Sings For Only The Lonely showed him to be a pop innovator. Essential Album: Come Fly With Me (...
John Coltrane’s music often feels like a quest for spiritual transcendence, and this is due to Coltrane’s strong sense of spirituality. Albums like “A Love Supreme” are not just jazz recordings but profound spiritual statements, reflecting his deep belief in the power of music to connect w...
• 1971 ~Melanie (Safka)received a gold record for the single,Brand New Key, about roller skates and love and stuff like that. This one made it to #1 on Christmas Day, 1971. • 1971 ~ Don McLean’s eight-minute-plus (8:32) version ofAmerican Piewas released. It became one of...
Rather, they exploded Hollywood’s weird construct whereby singers like Elvis and Frank Sinatra could have lengthy, successful mainstream film careers: in the light of the-Beatles-as-the-Beatles’ antics, it suddenly seemed silly to see Elvis on screen playing somebody who wasn’t Elvis, or at...
The various iterations of his band included future jazz legends likeLester Young, guitarist Freddie Green, drummer Jo Jones and vocalists Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald. Count Basie’s work in the 1950s utilised charts provided by arrangers like Neal Hefti, Sammy Nestico and Quincy Jones – ...
the influence of rap music and gang culture has even created certain zones of rebellious teens and agitated hormones like Compton, California. While rap music is supposed to be a medium for expressing emotions and dispelling prejudice, its culture drove a group of lost youths into the infinite ...
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,” I know what it’s supposed to sound like, because he and his production team went to an awful lot of trouble to record it to sound a certain way. That included parodying the show-tune style of Paul Anka and Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” and featuring keyboardist Rick Wakeman of ...