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In 1979 Motown released a compilation album on both sides of the Atlantic ; " From the Vaults ", US Natural Resources label NR 4014 & in the UK on Tamla Motown STMR 9001, on this Album was The Spinners ; " What More Could a Boy Ask For " ( Fuqua & Bristol ) circa 1965, this Northern Soul track, only commercially available in this form, reignited existing Motown and Spinners fans.
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Although much of the earlier Undertones material drew influence from punk rock and new wave, the Undertones also incorporated elements of rock, glam rock and post-punk into material released after 1979, before citing soul and Motown as the influence for the material released upon their final album.
Served as a label for Motown, Tamla, and Gordy reissues and Motown compilation albums in 1978 and 1979.
In 1979, Wilson became involved in a protracted legal battle with Motown over their management of the Supremes.
Motown decided to officially retire The Supremes so Payne and Greene recorded an album together on the Motown label, Partners, under the name " Scherrie and Susaye " in 1979.
Motown stopped promoting Here, My Dear in early 1979, by which point Gaye had gone into self-imposed exile.
Active as a professional recording group from 1979 and 1989, the group was one of the few recording acts to bring success to the Motown label during the 1980s.
Its productions during the late 1970s and early 1980s included TV movies such as Amateur Night at the Dixie Bar and Grill, ( 1979 ) and Callie & Son ( 1981 ) and TV specials such as the popular and successful Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, and Forever ( 1983 ).
Gordy left Motown in 1979 and retired from the music business.
Medina started his career with the group Apollo, who released their self titled debut on Gordy / Motown in 1979.
Initially signing with Motown Records in 1975, he later moved to ABC Records in 1977 ( which was then purchased by MCA Records in 1979 ).
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Asteroids is a video arcade game released in November 1979 by Atari Inc.
Asteroids Hyper 64 is an update to the 1979 arcade shooter Asteroids released for the Nintendo 64 on December 14, 1999.
There is very little information available regarding Iran's use of its 79 F-14A Tomcats ( delivered prior to 1979 ) in most western outlets ; the exception being a book released by Osprey Publishing titled " Iranian F-14 Tomcats in Combat " by Tom Cooper and Farzad Bishop.
From 1977 to 1980, he released three more albums in Turkey, partly consisting of compilations of older singles, namely Sakla Samanı Gelir Zamanı ( 1977 ), Yeni Bir Gün ( 1979 ) and 20.
Some time in 1979, Zircon International bought the rights to the Channel F and released the re-designed console as the Channel F System II to compete with the Atari's VCS.
From 1975 to 1979, a Canadian progressive power trio, Rush, released three albums containing sidelong epics, regarded by some as concept albums ( though not actually concept albums by strict definition of the term ; that is, none of the other songs on the album have anything to do with each other or the 20-minute sidelong epic, so there is no pervasive concept or story ).
In 1979, HP released the first alphanumeric, programmable, expandable calculator, the HP-41C.
The band has released two live albums of archival performances on Manifesto Records: Mutiny on the Bay, compiled from various live shows including a recording from their last show with Biafra in 1986, and Live at the Deaf Club, a recording of a 1979 performance at the Deaf Club in San Francisco which was greeted with more enthusiasm.
The rich orchestral accompaniment that became identified with the disco era conjured up the memories of the big band era — which brought out several artists that recorded and disco-ized some big band arrangements including Perry Como, who re-recorded his 1929 and 1939 hit, " Temptation ", in 1975, as well as Ethel Merman, who released an album of disco songs entitled The Ethel Merman Disco Album in 1979.
In 1974, Technics released the first SL-1200 turntable, which evolved into the SL-1200 MK2 in 1979 — which, as of the early-2010s, remains an industry standard for DJing.
In 1979, the Sugar Hill Gang released " Rapper's Delight ", the first hip-hop record to become a hit.
Also in 1979 Rhino Records released Devotees, a tribute album, containing a set of covers of the band's songs interspersed with renditions of popular songs in Devo's style.
* 1979 – Convicted bank robber Patty Hearst is released from prison after her sentence is commuted by President Jimmy Carter.
Yet in the paperback edition released in 1979, Bradbury wrote a new coda for the book containing multiple comments on censorship and its relation to the novel.
In late 1979, she released the album I Have a Right which contained her next disco hit, " Let Me Know ( I Have a Right )", which featured Doc Severinsen of The Tonight Show fame, on trumpet solo.
In 1980 and again in 1981, Gaynor released two disco albums which were virtually ignored in the United States due to the backlash against disco, which began late in 1979.
Some people credit the band Bauhaus ' first single " Bela Lugosi's Dead ", released August 1979, with the start of the goth subculture, though many prior art house movements influenced gothic fashion and style, the illustrations and paintings of Swiss artist, H. R. Giger being one of the earliest.
The Intel 8088, released in 1979, was a slightly modified chip with an external 8-bit data bus ( allowing the use of cheaper and fewer supporting logic chips ), and is notable as the processor used in the original IBM PC.
The Intellivision is a video game console released by Mattel in 1979.
The console was test marketed in Fresno, California, in 1979 with a total of four games available, and was released nationwide in 1980 with a price tag of US $ 299 and a pack-in game: Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack.
In 1979, aged twenty, Kurtis Blow became the first rapper to be signed by a major label, Mercury, which released " Christmas Rappin '".
* Kylyn, a jazz-fusion album of Kazumi Watanabe, released in 1979.
An album was also released by Monty Python in 1979 in conjunction with the film.
He conceived the idea of a novel called Fan-Tan with director Donald Cammell in 1979, which was not released until 2005.
Formally introduced in September 1979, Initial samples were released in February 1980, with production chips available over the counter in November.
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Jones also produced the 1979 film The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Movie which was a compilation of Jones ' best theatrical shorts ; Jones produced new Road Runner shorts for The Electric Company series and Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales ( 1979 ), and even newer shorts were made for Bugs Bunny's Bustin ' Out All Over ( 1980 ).
The Dangerhouse session version of " Los Angeles " was also featured in a Dangerhouse compilation in 1979 called " Yes L. A ." ( a play on the now-famous No Wave compilation No New York ), a picture disc that featured other early-punk-era LA bands like the Weirdos and Black Randy.
The name was shortened in 1979 to Oingo Boingo for the Rhino Records Los Angeles rock and New Wave compilation, L. A.
* 1979: Nova história da Música Popular Brasileira ( compilation )
The series originally consisted of two studio albums ( The Music Band, The Music Band 2, both in 1979 ) and a live album ( The Music Band Live, 1980 ), but after the band left MCA in 1981 and had already made records for other labels, MCA expanded the series with a compilation ( The Best of the Music Band, 1982 ) and a third original album of left-over material ( The Music Band – Jazz, 1983 ).
*" Gary Gilmore's Eyes " featured on the 20 of Another Kind compilation album ( 1979: Polydor Records POLS1006 ) UK No. 45
" Chuck Jones particularly disliked Clampett, and made no mention of his association with him in either his 1979 compilation film The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Movie ( in which Jones lists himself and other Warners directors ) or his 1989 autobiography Chuck Amuck.
In the 1979 compilation feature film The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Movie, Clampett is not mentioned when Bugs Bunny refers to his " several fathers.
In 1979, the Freeway Records label made a 2-L. P. compilation album called " L. A. Radio ".
* Woodhenge is a piece of music on the 1979 album Platinum and the ' b ' side of the single " Blue Peter " by Mike Oldfield, and later appears in the compilation album The Platinum Collection.
A second compilation, titled More American Graffiti ( MCA 8007 ) ( and not to be confused with the 1979 film sequel of that name ) was issued by MCA in early 1975, with George Lucas's approval.
Written by Freddie Mercury in 1979, the track is featured on their 1980 album The Game, and also appears on the band's compilation album, Greatest Hits.
Casablanca countered by releasing more singles off her 1979 Bad Girls album such as the song Walk Away and a similarly named hits compilation to compete, but the then New Wave sound was now dominating the airwaves.
* Bohemio y Poeta ( 1979 )-Rubén Blades ( Fania compilation )
Ure contributed guitar parts to " Things Ain ’ t Working Out " and " Dublin " for the 1979 Thin Lizzy remix compilation The Continuing Saga of the Ageing Orphans.
* 1979 – Americana published in New York by Mayflower Books Inc. A compilation of 64 photographs from throughout Kertész's career.
* 1979 – Birds published in New York by Mayflower Books Inc. A compilation of 64 photographs depicting bird life from throughout Kertész's career.
* 1979 – Landscapes published in New York by Mayflower Books Inc. A compilation of 64 photographs featuring landscapes from throughout Kertész's career.
* 1979 – Portraits published in New York by Mayflower Books Inc. A compilation of 64 portraiture photographs from throughout Kertész's career.
* The compilation committee of Kadokawa Nihon Chimei Daijiten ( 1979 ).
Featuring one side of their hits on the Ariola label between 1978 – 79, and one side of live recordings from their 1979 Royal Albert Hall television special, this would be the trio's second " best of " compilation to make the UK Top 10 in less than two years, after CBS released A Collection of their 20 Greatest Hits in early 1979 ( which featured their pre-Ariola material, and peaked at # 8 in the UK Album Chart ).
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