The anonymous sleeve notes accompanying the 1956 Decca album " Rock Around The Clock " describe Haley's early life and career thus: " Bill got his first professional job at the age of 13, playing and entertaining at an auction for the fee of $ 1 a night.

* The song " Felicia " on the Straight On Till Morning album by Blues Traveler includes the line " I wouldn't feel so much like Casey who never got to bat.

Botnick recalls that the use of session musicians " sparked " the band, and they " realized they had blown it, got their act together and recorded the rest of the album.

The album got a new boost in 2006 when the second single was announced as " Always on Your Side ," re-recorded with British musician Sting and sent off to radio, where it was quickly embraced at Adult Top 40.

Finally, a white label got him a contract with Island Records and he started to record his first solo album.

The band got their name from the folk tale featured in Billy Bragg's " The World Turned Upside Down ", on his 1987 album, Back to Basics.

This album got the band some attention from the press ( namely NME, Sounds and Melody Maker ), and dropped most of their reliance upon the Theory of Obscurity.

Maybe The Traveling Wilburys ... it's this new group I got: it's called the Traveling Wilburys, I'd like to do an album with them and later we can all do our own albums again.

As with Geen Ballade the album got limited promotion ; a few television appearances both live and playback ( Countdown ), and one acoustic solo gig the Vondelpark in Amsterdam.

In early 1964, Simon and Garfunkel got an audition with Columbia Records, whose executive Clive Davis was impressed enough to sign the duo to a contract to produce an album.

In 1981, they got together again for the famous concert in Central Park, followed by a world tour and an aborted reunion album, to have been entitled Think Too Much, which was eventually released ( without Garfunkel ) as Hearts and Bones.

In 1973 he and his friends got together to record a live album for his fans called Lucky Day, named after a song he wrote in the truck on his way up to live in Nova Scotia.

In 1992, Selena ’ s stardom got a big boost with the song, " Como La Flor " off a new album, Entre a Mi Mundo.

Davidge and Del Naja got back together in 2009 with Daddy G to finish the fifth album, incorporating bits of the Albarn material.

Webb's solo career got off to a rough start with the 1968 " counterfeit " solo album Jimmy Webb sings Jimmy Webb ( Epic ), which was produced, according to Webb, " by a bunch of ruffians from some old demos of mine and tarted up to sound like ' MacArthur Park '.

Martin got his start at age twelve with the all-boy pop group Menudo ; after five years with the group, he released his Spanish-language solo album, Ricky Martin, in 1991.

In 2004, the band got together with longtime friend Steve Hindalong to produce a special album for their summer tour.

And with ... producers and an engineer that didn't care about Jesus, I was surprised that out of 15 songs, one of the ten that got on the album was ' The Answer.

It has been seen as a transitional work, with Brown commenting in 2005 that " a lot of people have cited it as a classic Autechre album because it bridges the gap between the guys who liked our old stuff and the guys who got propelled on to our new stuff.

The first album Iona concentrated mostly on the history of the island of Iona, from which the band got its name.

" I can sit at my piano and write brilliant observational pop songs all day long but you've got to move on ", he said, and decided to let Coxon have more creative control over their new album.

Commenting on the fact that the title of this album is now in the plural, Otway said that he was very proud of it, having " finally got it ( the's ') on the right side of Hit ".

Following the release of their album " A Crow Left of the Murder ," he got an elaborate back tattoo featuring the common image of the All Seeing-Eye embedded in a pyramid.

While it got strong, but not fantastic, music reviews it failed to live up to the commercial success of any of the previous albums, peaking at # 20 in the UK album charts and the best selling single from the album only reached # 61.

In 2002, Love began composing an album with Linda Perry ; the record, America's Sweetheart, was released on Virgin Records in February 2004, was embraced by critics with mixed reviews.

The album received mixed reviews.

Devo released their sixth album, Shout, in 1984 to mixed reviews.

In 2003 Jamiroquai compiled and mixed a DJ mix album for the Late Night Tales series for Azuli Records.

The album was recorded and mixed in nine days, and Page himself covered the costs.

The resulting album, In Through the Out Door, exhibited sonic experimentation that again drew mixed reactions from critics.

Although the album debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard charts, it received mixed reviews and was not as commercially successful as her previous albums.

Although Waits ' albums have met with mixed commercial success in his native United States, they have occasionally achieved gold album sales status in other countries.

The album contained ten original garage rock tracks, it was recorded in Perth early in 2007 at the analogue and vintage recording compound KingDom Studios and later mixed at Ultrasuede in Cincinnati by producer John Curley ( White Stripes, Afghan Wigs, Greenhornes and Ronnie Spector ).

There was no tour in support of the album, which garnered mixed reviews.

The album garnered mixed reviews upon its release, with some critics praising its intensity and uniqueness while others bemoaned its comparative impenetrability.

In 1972, the student riots of 1968 provided the inspiration for an album titled Fais que ton rêve soit plus long que la nuit ( Make Your Dream Last Longer Than the Night ), comprising musical passages mixed with news snippets and protest songs ; some lyrics were based on graffiti daubed on walls during the riots.

Billy Gibbons stated in an interview in August 2011 that the new album had been recorded, with initial recording taking place in Malibu, California, before moving to Houston, but was still unnamed and had yet to be mixed and mastered.

In 2010, the band released the album Circle the Wagons, which again mixed crust punk along with speed metal and traditional heavy metal.

The album continued the direction of A Kind of Magic, using a pop-rock sound mixed with a few heavy numbers.

Blur, a group that formerly mixed elements of shoegazing and baggy, took on an Anglocentric aesthetic with their second album Modern Life Is Rubbish ( 1993 ).

Although the resulting album Leisure ( 1991 ) peaked at number seven on the UK Albums Chart, it received mixed reviews, and according to journalist John Harris, " could not shake off the odour of anti-climax ".

Their debut album mixed metal, rock, hip-hop, groove, and dissonance.

It was received with very mixed reviews, though many critics praised the combination of doo-wop, rockabilly and Caribbean music that the album reflected.

The album mixed in a ballad by Greg Lake ( The Sage ), a Blues Variation section by Emerson and many instances of heavily electronic and synthesised interpretations of Mussorgsky's work ( although the opening promenade was played faithfully on a Hammond organ ).

The band's tenth album Radiation saw the band taking a different approach and was received by fans with mixed reactions.

Subsequently, the album was mixed in Los Angeles and released in on April 7, 1978.

The album peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, and critics ' opinions were mixed to positive.

This decision resulted in mixed reviews for both the band and the album ; a good portion did not favor the new sound and image, while others praised the band for attempting something different and experimenting rather than sticking to their roots.

The album was met with mixed, but mostly positive, reviews.