“P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)” was written by Jones and R&B singer James Ingram and features Jackson’s sisters La Toya and Janet as backup singers. The song reached number 10 on the Hot 100. Music videos Jackson made three videos to accompany the album—for “Billie Jean,”“Beat ...
He was referring to the knockout sound of Franklin's backup singers — her sisters Carolyn and Erma — chanting "Sock it to me" at high speed, which Aretha and Carolyn cooked up for the session. The late Tom Dowd, who engineered the date, credited Carolyn with the saucy breakdown in wh...
“She wanted to bring some of that doo-wop swing essence to the song,” backup singer Lenesha Randolph recalled. Hill and her singers recorded it after dinner one night, channeling a barbershop-quartet style as Hill warns both men and women of being too concerned with sex, power, and ...
Whitney Houston was an American singer who was one of the best-selling musical performers of the 1980s and ’90s. Her remarkable vocal ability and exceptional emotive power became the standard of excellence by which all other female pop singers were judg
27 In the Darkest Place (with Burt Bacharach) You want it darker? This scene-setter for the duo’s classic “Painted From Memory” collaboration finds Costello sitting in the dark, much like we’d expect to find Sinatra brooding over Ava. Backup singers who seem to have momentarily drifted...
“Free Yourself” takes Ware’s blend of ’70s disco and ’80s boogie and shimmies it ecstatically into the ’90s—jacking acid house drum fills, flamboyant male backup singers, gospel piano—without losing an ounce of charm. And when, this fall, she finally sang it live in front of a ...
At the very beginning of the episode "Booty and the Beast", Kaptain Skurvy sings "Pirate's Scorn" aboard his pirate ship, with Green Kroc and Kutlass as backup singers. SKURVY: Arrh, when I was a young lad, my father said to me"Arrh, lend an ear and learn some pirate history!
I'm looking for a song that was a 1980s new wave type track, by a group with a male singer and a female backup singer or singers. I think the male vocals included some rhyming lyrics ending with something like "...on the ground" and "...to be found" interspersed with the female...
s impossible to imagine any of those more famous singers diving into this ridiculous classic with the fearlessness and vocal pyrotechnics of former Sylvester backup singers Izora Armstead and Martha Wash, who take the song over the top in the best possible sense.Even Geri Halliwell’s chart-...
The trick of having the backup singers defiantly repeat the title words over and over doesn’t provide actual energy. Words by Polly Samson, Gilmour’s then-fiancée. 96. “The Gnome,” The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967) The argument against Syd Barrett is that, to use a turn of...