Those 70s Music (last in - first out)

Little Sister was an American all-female vocal harmony group, which served primarily as the background vocalists for the influential rock/funk band Sly the Family Stone in concert and on record. br / br / Originally a gospel music group called The Heavenly Tones, Little Sister was composed of Vet Stone (Family Stone frontman Sly Stone's little sister ), Mary McCreary, and Elva Mouton, and became a recording act of its own for a brief period in 1970-1971. br / br / Stanga / Somebody's Watching You made it to #44 R B but did not chart again on the pop chart (2/19/72). br / br / Little Sister was dissolved when the Family Stone did, in 1975, after the band's fortunes slowly fell due to Sly Stone's drug abuse problems. After the group's dissolution, Mary McCreary married singer/songwriter Leon Russell.

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The Concert for New York (911)

In 1992, Cooper made a famous cameo in the movie Wayne's World, in which he discusses the history of Milwaukee in some depth, after a performance of the song Feed My Frankenstein. The movie's main characters Wayne and Garth, who held Cooper in extremely high regard, knelt and bowed reverently before Cooper while chanting We're not worthy!

A l'instar de Piano man , Just the way you are et Honesty entre autres , un des titres les plus c l bre de ce compositeur de talent de la Pop Music ... Tir de l'album 52 nd Street , sortit en 1978 , un morceau g nial que tout le monde a en tete , et reconnaitras d s les premieres notes de musique apr s la petite intro ... Tr s bon souvenir donc avec ce tube de billy joel qui a ma grande surprise n'as jamais t post ici , et qui est aussi ma 500 eme vid o envoy sur mon espace ... 500 vid os depuis plus de 1 ans et demi , et autants de souvenirs diverses et appr ci par beaucoup de monde ici , en t moignent les tr s nombreux commentaires amicaux de votre part depuis la premiere En vous remerciant encore pour tout ces petits mots gentils , un membre heureux d'avoir rappel de bon souvenirs a vous tous ....

Joel faced high expectations on his next album. 52nd Street was conceived as a day in Manhattan, and was named after the famous street of same name which hosted many of the world's premier jazz venues and performers throughout the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. Fans purchased over seven million copies on the strength of the hits My Life (# 3), Big Shot (# 14), and Honesty (# 24). This helped 52nd Street become Joel's first # 1 album. My Life eventually became the theme song for a new US television sitcom, Bosom Buddies, which featured actor Tom Hanks in one of his earliest roles. 52nd Street was the first album to be released on Compact Disc in Japan (1982). br / br / The album won Grammys for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male Album of the Year. Despite all the cover art for the album showing Joel holding a trumpet, he does not play the instrument on the album, though two tracks on the album do feature trumpets. Freddie Hubbard plays two solos in Zanzibar and joins Jon Faddis in the horn section for Half A Mile Away.

Instant Karma! (We All Shine On) was recorded for and is John Lennon's third solo single on Apple Records. The song is one of three Lennon solo songs, along with Imagine and Give Peace a Chance , in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. br / br / It ranks as one of the fastest-released songs in pop music history, recorded (at London's Abbey Road Studios) the same day it was written, and coming out only ten days later. Lennon remarked to the press, he wrote it for breakfast, recorded it for lunch, and we're putting it out for dinner. br / br / The song was produced by music producer Phil Spector, the first of many solo recordings by The Beatles that Spector worked on through 1970; Lennon may have been trying out Spector for work on the then-dormant Let It Be / Get Back project, which Spector would controversially rework for release that May. br / br / Featuring a version of the ever-changing Plastic Ono Band €” Lennon on lead vocal, acoustic guitar and electric piano, Billy Preston on grand piano, Klaus Voorman on bass and electric piano, Alan White on drums, George Harrison on electric guitar, Yoko Ono on backing vocal, Beatles assistant Mal Evans on chimes, grand piano and handclaps, as well as the whole lot of them, Beatles then-manager Allen Klein and a dozen or so late-night pub revellers from Hatchetts Pub on overdubbed backing vocals €” it was released on February 10, 1970. Backed by Ono's Who Has Seen the Wind? (which Lennon produced), it peaked at number three on the US charts and number five on the UK charts. br / br / The pair appeared on Top of the Pops, to perform the song live. br / br / The single was released with a standard green Apple label, with the words Play Loud printed above and beneath the spindle. (The B-side label, by contrast, carried the words Play Soft. )

After a minor hit single with Party Party , their cover of I Can't Stand the Rain from their first album (December 1977) was a big hit, reaching number five in the UK Singles Chart, and number 18 in U.S. Billboard Hot 100. br / br / It was followed by the second album Leave a Light towards the end of 1978 but the first single Leave a Light (I'll Keep a Light in My Window) was a surprising flop. Fortunately, the second single, One Way Ticket , restored them at the top of the charts (a UK #9 hit). The song is often mistaken for a Boney M. record. br / br / Precious Wilson, the group's second singer left in 1979 to pursue a solo career.

Precious Wilson!!!

Bjorn and Benny from ABBA teamed up with Tim Rice and Murray Head (Jesus Christ Superstar) to record the hit single One Night in Bangkok for their musical, Chess. br / br / This is the rare version featuring both Bj rn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson in the video as backing singers. Not just any old backing singers! Also appearing are Anders and Karin Glenmark, known as Swedish pop group Gemimi - who are quite famous in Sweden, and in Abba fan circles, as their 2 albums from the 80's were written and produced by Benny and Bjorn!

The Longest Time is a doo-wop hit single by musician Billy Joel. Released in 1984 off of the album An Innocent Man, it reached 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, 1 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, and 25 on the UK singles chart. br / br / The song required Joel to record 14 background tracks which were mixed into the song at the studio. br / br / The music video starts with a man presumably in his 40s (played by Joel) in a gym after his 25th high school reunion party. Looking around at posters of several class awards (Most Likely..., Best...), he breaks into song as several other men -- apparently his high school friends -- enter the gym. As they sing, they change between their high school and current selves.

The song's theme is of the resolve of those coping with the demise of the American manufacturing industry in the latter part of the 20th century. More specifically, it depicts the depressed, blue-collar livelihood of Allentown and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania's residents in the wake of Bethlehem Steel's decline and eventual closure. Joel witnessed this first-hand while performing at the Lehigh Valley's numerous music venues at the start of his career in the late 1960s and early 1970s. br / br / In Allentown , he sings: No they never taught us what was real; / Iron and coke, /chromium steel; / And we're waiting here in Allentown. br / br / The introductory rhythm of the song is reminiscent of the sound of a rolling mill converting steel ingots into I-beams or other shapes. Such a sound was commonly heard throughout South Bethlehem when the Bethlehem Steel plant was in operation.