In 2010, the Australian a cappella Quartet The Idea of North was nominated for an ARIA for their seventh studio album, " Feels Like Spring ", bringing a cappella music back into pop culture.

Like his father, Downey pursued a career in music, recording in both pop and country styles.

It became a kind of new pop formula and, within a short while, " Smells Like Teen Spirit " was charging up the charts and even the members of Nirvana said later that it sounded for all the world like a Pixies song.

Nat King Cole, a former jazz pianist who had had # 1 and # 2 hits on the pop charts in the early 1950s (" Mona Lisa " at # 2 in 1950 and " Too Young " at # 1 in 1951 ), had a record in the top 5 in the R & B charts in 1958, " Looking Back "/" Do I Like It ".

American electronic pop duo, Microfilm, did a tribute song to Billy Mackenzie in 2009 titled " I'll Sing Like Billy Mackenzie in Heaven " which featured guitar and additional vocals by Scissor Sisters ' member Del Marquis.

In 2002, UK pop trio Sugababes scored a No. 1 with " Freak Like Me " – a mashup of Adina Howard's " Freak Like Me " and " Are Friends Electric?

In the UK in the early 1960s, Joe Meek was the first British pop producer to make records with studio-created groups, and he had major hits with singles like " Telstar " and Heinz's " Just Like Eddy ".

Like other styles of jazz, free jazz also adopted elements of contemporary rock, funk and pop music: Ornette Coleman was a leader in this vein, embracing electric music with his 1970s band Prime Time, and a number of other players including James Blood Ulmer, Sonny Sharrock, and Ronald Shannon Jackson forged styles combining elements of free jazz and fusion.

The pop band Smash Mouth mentioned his name in the song " Heave-Ho " ( from their album Fush Yu Mang ), and covered " I Wanna Be Like You " for the soundtrack album of The Jungle Book.

In 2010, the popular pop band Boys Like Girls came to perform at the high school prom after BHS senior Alicia Cauffman won a contest sponsored by Seventeen Magazine and others.

Like most R & B artists of his time, Cooke focused on singles ; in all he had twenty-nine top-40 hits on the pop charts, and more on the R & B charts.

Kenny Vance, a member of the pop group Jay and the Americans, who had a production office in the building, took an interest in their material that led to work on the soundtrack of the low-budget Richard Pryor film You've Got to Walk It Like You Talk It or You'll Lose That Beat in 1971.

Like so much of the greatest work turned out by popular artists of the 1970s, true power pop is quintessential second-generation stuff.

Like their punk brethren, late – 1970s power pop groups favored a leaner and punchier sound than their early – 1970s predecessors.

The Romantics had a minor hit with " What I Like About You " in early 1980, but, by then, power pop was seen as a passing fad by many critics.

Like many contemporary electronic genres, Microhouse has many influences, most notably techno and the " click and pop " garage house that has emerged from Yorkshire Bleeps and Bass ( or " Bleep "), glitch and minimal techno.

Like Come On Pilgrim, Surfer Rosa displays a mix of musical styles ; pop guitar songs such as " Broken Face ", " Break My Body ", and " Brick Is Red " are featured alongside slower, more melodic tracks exemplified by " Where Is My Mind ?".

He was a backing dancer for numerous pop artists, most notably appearing with Diana Ross at Wembley Stadium, and fronting the pop act REEL2REAL (" I Like To Move It Move It ") on the Smash Hits Tour alongside other major British and international pop acts.

The headline-making divorce inspired French writer Françoise Mallet-Joris to write a hit pop song, Je veux pleurer comme Soraya ( I Want to Cry Like Soraya ).

" Swinger's Night Club " shows shades of Latin jazz influence while tracks like " Something Like a Romance " and " Angel Fish " give off a vibe of the percussion-driven pop funk made popular by Jaco Pastorius and other fusion artists in the seventies.

Like other pop artists, Rosenquist adapted the visual language of advertising and pop culture ( often funny, vulgar, and outrageous ) to the context of fine art.

Like much of his mature work, it employs an idiosyncratic adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique that enables the composer to produce passages openly evoking tonality, including quotations from historical tonal music, such as a Bach chorale and a Carinthian folk song.

Like the USA, Australia has an a cappella association ( Vocal Australia ) who organizes events, education and resources for the vocal music community.

Like the other groups, examples of their music can be found on YouTube.

Almost Like Being in Love featured music by Frederick Loewe, Burton Lane, Andre Previn, Charles Strouse, and Kurt Weill.

Like the adjacent Arabic culture ( in the pre-Islamic period ), the act of marriage appears mainly to have consisted of the groom fetching the bride, although among the Israelites ( unlike the Arabs ) the procession was a festive occasion, accompanied by music, dancing, and lights.

Shortly following their first performance together, the band entered the studio to record the Brown-Byrd composition, " Get Up ( I Feel Like Being a ) Sex Machine ", the song further enhanced Brown's influence in funk music, moving further away from his late 1960s funk origins.

Like " Jennie Lee ", " Gas Money " contained a few elements of what would later become surf music.

In 1947, Styne wrote his first score for a Broadway musical, High Button Shoes with Cahn, and over the next several decades wrote the scores for many Broadway shows, most notably Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Peter Pan ( additional music ), Bells Are Ringing, Gypsy, Do Re Mi, Funny Girl, Sugar ( with a story based on the movie Some Like It Hot, but all new music ), and the Tony-winning Hallelujah, Baby !.

Like the creators of similar products, Kazaa's owners have been taken to court by music publishing bodies to restrict its use in the sharing of copyrighted material.

Like the comparable field of art history, different branches and schools of historical musicology emphasize different types of musical works and different approaches to music.

In January 2008, Abdul returned to the music charts for the first time in nearly 13 years with the single " Dance Like There's No Tomorrow ," the first track on the album Randy Jackson's Music Club Vol 1.

" Monkey Gone to Heaven " was a Top 10 modern rock radio hit in the U. S., and reached the Top 100 in the U. K. Like Surfer Rosa, Doolittle was acclaimed by fans and music critics alike.

Like classical music, and unlike jazz, classical ragtime was and is primarily a written tradition, being distributed in sheet music rather than through recordings or by imitation of live performances.

Like Alan Wilson, Duane Allman played a key role in bringing slide guitar into rock music, through his work with The Allman Brothers Band, specifically on the 1971 live album At Fillmore East and with Derek and the Dominos ' Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs album.

Like Mississippi John Hurt, he was welcomed into the music scene of the 1960s and played at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964, the New York Folk Festival in July 1965, and the October 1967 European tour of the American Folk Festival along with Skip James and Bukka White.

Like the pioneering Bronx crews of DJs Kool Herc, Afrika Bambataa and Grandmaster Flash, the soundsystems provided party music for public spaces, often in the economically deprived council estates from which some of their members originated.

It was released on DVD for the first time on January 9, 2001, and included an audio commentary by Reiner, a 35-minute " Making Of " documentary featuring interviews with Reiner, Ephron, Crystal, and Ryan, seven deleted scenes, and a music video for " It Had To Be You " by Harry Connick, Jr. A Collector's Edition DVD was released on January 15, 2008, including a new audio commentary with Reiner, Ephron, and Crystal, eight deleted scenes, all new featurettes ( It All Started Like This, Stories Of Love, When Rob Met Billy, Billy On Harry, I Love New York, What Harry Meeting Sally Meant, So Can Men And Women Really Be Friends?

* In 1996, RCA Victor released the tribute album The Songs of West Side Story featuring new versions of the songs from the musical sung by popular music stars, including: " The Jet Song " sung by Brian Setzer, " A Boy Like That " sung by Selena, " I feel Pretty " sung by Little Richard, two versions of " Somewhere " performed by Aretha Franklin and Phil Collins, " Tonight " sung by Wynonna Judd and Kenny Loggins, " America " sung by Patti LaBelle, Natalie Cole and Sheila E., " I Have a Love " sung by Trisha Yearwood and " Rumble " performed by Chick Corea Elektric Band and Steve Vai's Monsters.

He also appeared in the Kylie Minogue music video On a Night Like This.

Like him, she was exceptionally talented in music and the couple had nine children.