Even more unusually, however, many of the solo songs on Maxinquaye featured little of Tricky's own voice: his then-lover, Martina Topley-Bird, sang them, including her reimagining of Public Enemy's militant 1988 rap " Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos ", while other songs were male-female duets dealing with sex and love in oblique ways, over beds of sometimes dissonant samples.

In her first US network television appearance, O ' Connor sang " Mandinka " on Late Night with David Letterman in 1988.

He recorded the album In the City of Angels and also sang on " Stop Loving You " on the Toto album The Seventh One in 1988, and in 1989 he recorded an album that would later be released as The Lost Tapes of Opio.

For Surfer Rosa ( 1988 ), Deal sang lead vocals on the album's only single " Gigantic " (), which she co-wrote with Black Francis.

In 1987, Simon also sang the theme for the 1988 Democratic National Convention, " The Turn of The Tide ", for a Marlo Thomas television special Free to Be ... A Family.

Hoppus played by himself and sang in the band Pier 69, primarily covering songs by The Cure, and recorded a live demo with a group named The Attic Children in 1988, featuring covers of The Cure songs.

Skillings played bass, sang backing vocals, and co-wrote songs on the history-making, Grammy award-winning 1988 debut album Vivid, the Grammy award-winning 1990 follow up Time's Up, and the 1991 EP Biscuits.

In 1988, Ladysmith Black Mambazo sang an arrangement of " Mbube " during the opening sequence of the movie Coming to America, but the song was not released on the soundtrack.

She next sang at the White House in 1988.

During 1987, Ceberano and Matthews sang together on the soundtrack for ABC-TV series, Stringer, the resultant album, You've Always Got the Blues was released in 1988, and peaked at No. 4 on the albums chart.

The London group sang with French pop star Étienne Daho on his songs " Timide intimité " and " Soudain " from his 1996 album Eden, and with the Style Council on their song " The Story of Someone's Shoe " from the 1988 album Confessions of a Pop Group.

In 1988, she sang The Beatles ' anthem, Across the Universe and was the first Slovene to be featured on MTV.

In 1988, the Beach Boys scored their biggest chart success in more than twenty years with the US Number 1 song " Kokomo ," co-written by Mike Love, on which Carl sang lead in the chorus.

In 1988 she sang a concert performance of Poulenc's one-act opera La Voix Humaine (" The Human Voice "), based on Jean Cocteau's 1930 play of the same name.

Nine of the songs from the series featured on Lougheed's 1988 album Evergreen Nights, though Lougheed only sang some of the songs ( sometimes in duets ), while some were sung by other artists ( Curtis King Jr and Stephen Lunt ).

The role of the Composer has been sung there most often by a mezzo-soprano ( at least 64 times ), including, besides Kerstin Meyer, who sang the role 6 times, Tatiana Troyanos ( 19 appearances from 1976 to 1988 ), Susanne Mentzer ( 20 appearances from 1993 to 2003 ), Susan Graham ( 5 appearances in the fall of 2005 ) and Sarah Connolly ( 5 appearances in the winter of 2010 ).

He also sang on three tracks from Jimmy Page's Death Wish II soundtrack ( 1982 ), as well as the tracks " Hummingbird ", " Prison Blues " and " Blues Anthem " on Page's album Outrider ( 1988 ).

In 1988, Jones married Charm Baker and Alabama lead singer Randy Owen sang at the wedding.

Stacy Lattisaw and Howard Hewett sang " Ain't No Mountain High Enough " on Personal Attention album in 1988.

At age nine in 1988, she sang " I'll Be There " to win the Star Search junior vocalist champion and overall junior champion.

In 1988 Jordan sang and co-wrote the theme song to the hit Australian movie Boulevard of Broken Dreams which was nominated for an AFI Award for Best Film.

On December 5, 1988, they sang at a friend's wedding, calling themselves " Begin " for the first time.

It appeared on the album 1988 Summer Olympics Album: One Moment in Time, produced in conjunction with NBC Sports ' coverage of the Seoul games and which, in addition to Whitney Houston who sang it live at the main ceremony, also featured artists such as: The Four Tops, The Bee Gees, Eric Carmen, Taylor Dayne and the film composer John Williams.

Pebbles also sang background vocals on Paula Abdul's album Forever Your Girl in 1988.

The song was originally written for movie and recording star Divine, who was unable to record the song before his death in 1988.

Enya achieved a breakthrough in her career in 1988 with the album Watermark, which featured the hit song " Orinoco Flow " ( sometimes incorrectly known as " Sail Away ").

It includes most of her hits from 1988 to 2008 including a new version of " Aníron ", a song created for " The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring " in 2001.

* The Kelly Family recorded the song twice: live version is included on their 1988 album Live and a studio version-on 1990 New World.

*" Heavy Metal ", a 1988 song by Judas Priest from Ram It Down

The George and Ira Gershwin Lifetime Musical Achievement Award was established in 1988 by UCLA to honor the brothers for their contribution to music and for their gift to UCLA of the fight song " Strike Up the Band for UCLA ".

Twenty years after his first CD, Kaira ( Hannibal, 1988 )-that was also the first CD ever recorded with solo kora pieces without any song -, Toumani Diabate alternates traditional pieces on a kora with leather rings and his own creations with a special tuning on a kora with wooden pegs.

To mark the club's appearance in the 1988 FA Cup Final, Liverpool released a song known as the " Anfield Rap ", featuring John Barnes and other members of the squad.

Bobby McFerrin's 1988 Grammy Award-winning song " Don't Worry, Be Happy " was inspired by a popular quote of Baba seen in numerous Baba posters and inspirational cards.

The band performed the suite in concert on five occasions: in 1988, 1991, 1993, and twice in 1994 without replicating the song list.

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In 1988, the band Blue Öyster Cult recorded an updated version of their 1974 song " Astronomy ".

* Israeli pop superstar Ofra Haza recorded the song entitled " שיר אהבה " ( Love Song ) on her 1988 album " Shaday ".

* Steve Earle's " Snake Oil ": Singer-songwriter Steve Earle recorded a song critical of the Ronald Reagan administration entitled " Snake Oil " for the album Copperhead Road, released in 1988.

* The song figures prominently in a plotline on the daytime soap opera Ryan's Hope in October 1988 when villain Max Dubujax plants a bomb in a music box that plays the tune.

In 1988, while recording his album Full Moon Fever, Tom Petty and his lead guitarist Mike Campbell called on the group to provide backing vocals for the song " Waiting for Tonight ".

The band remained stable enough to record If I Should Fall from Grace with God in 1988 ( with its Christmas hit duet with Kirsty MacColl " Fairytale of New York ", which was voted " the best Christmas song ever " in VH1 UK polls in 2004 ) and 1989's Peace and Love.

In 1988, for the 80th anniversary of the song and the 100th anniversary of the poem Casey at the Bat, Sports Illustrated writer Frank Deford constructed a fanciful story ( later expanded to book form as Casey on the Loose ) which posited Katie Casey as being the daughter of the famous slugger from the poem.

* Terminator ( 1988 ), song by metal band Powermad

" Also, the song " You Know What You Are " from the 1988 album The Land of Rape and Honey by industrial metal group Ministry repeats the song title ( a portion of Tuco's final epithet at Blondie ) as a background sample.

Live-action footage of an actor portraying Zippy ( Ron Brannan ) and singing a song about the character was included in the 1988 documentary Comic Book Confidential.

", 1988 song by Cacophony from their album Go Off!

Swass, his debut album, was released in 1988, with two other singles: " Square-Dance Rap " and a hip hop cover of the Black Sabbath song " Iron Man " backed by the band Metal Church.