Driven by the singles " Lump ", " Peaches ", and " Kitty ", their debut album proved to be a success.

Even though the album went platinum, the song proved to be their last hit.

With the ' New Testament ' Basie band in full swing, and arrangements written by a young Quincy Jones, this album proved a respite from the ' Songbook ' recordings and constant touring that Fitzgerald was engaged in during this period.

Clapton had also fallen under the spell of Bob Dylan's former backing group, now known as The Band, and their debut album, Music from Big Pink, which proved to be a welcome breath of fresh air in comparison to the incense and psychedelia that had informed Cream.

During the beginning of 1985, the band was given $ 8, 000 by Combat Records to record and produce their debut album, but this proved to not be enough and so the band were given a further $ 4, 000.

With the ' New Testament ' Basie band in full swing, and arrangements written by a youthful Quincy Jones, this album proved a swinging respite from her Songbook recordings and constant touring she did during this period.

This proved to be the last album by the " classic " lineup of the group.

Concurrent with the recording of this album, The Beatles were launching their new multimedia business corporation Apple Corps, an enterprise that proved to be a source of significant stress for the band.

The album, Down the Road released in May 2002, received a good critical reception and proved to be his highest charting album in the US since 1972's Saint Dominic's Preview.

Webb's 1971 follow up album, And So: On, proved equally appealing to critics.

The gigs were extremely successful and proved to the group that they still worked well together and soon the original line-up found themselves working together on a compilation album of Senser's back catalogue called Parallel Charge.

The recording hiatus ended in 1999, with the album Strange Times, which proved to be the group's first album in almost two decades to be more than moderately received by UK critics, although Justin Hayward was quoted as saying he was disappointed at the album's chart performance – probably not helped by the long recording hiatus – which was notably less than ' Keys of the Kingdom ' in 1991.

However, four years later, Seven Mary Three proved their resiliency by presenting a seventh album, day & nightdriving, under Bellum Records.

The album proved less successful than its predecessor, but still a hit.

The album itself proved to be a minor success and peaked at Number 14 on the UK Albums Chart, and was later certified gold by the BPI in 1982.

The following months proved to be difficult ones for the band as they struggled to record a follow-up album to Dare under immense pressure from Virgin.

This was in the run up to a new " greatest hits " compilation in 1996, but which proved less successful than their first " Greatest Hits " album from 1988.

In 1988, Queensrÿche released Operation: Mindcrime, a narrative concept album that proved a massive critical and commercial success.

In 1995, after doing " California Love ", which proved to be his best selling single ever, Tupac Shakur would do its remix with Dr. Dre again featured, who originally wanted it for his next album, but relented to let it be on the album All Eyez on Me instead.

His studio experience with Dead or Alive also proved to be invaluable as the band set out to record their first full-length album.

3 ... Life and Times of S. Carter, the album proved to be successful and sold over 3 million records.

Marc also formed a group with Black Silver called Live Black, but while five of their tracks were released on a demo CD sold at concerts, Live Black's first album has yet to be released.

Tales of Mystery and Imagination was first remixed in 1987 for release on CD, and included narration by Orson Welles which had been recorded in 1975, but arrived too late to be included on the original album.

Each year, hundreds of Collegiate a cappella groups submit their strongest songs in a competition to be on The Best of College A Cappella ( BOCA ), an album compilation of tracks from the best college a cappella groups around the world.

A group chosen to be on the BOCA album earns much credibility among the a cappella community.

Age to Age became the first Christian album by a solo artist to be certified gold ( 1983 ) and the first Christian album to be certified platinum ( 1985 ).

Grant followed up this album with the first of her Christmas albums — albums that later would be the basis for her holiday shows.

Years later, Lead Me On would be chosen as the greatest Contemporary Christian album of all time by CCM Magazine.

Grant followed the album with her second Christmas album, Home For Christmas in 1992, which included the song " Breath of Heaven ( Mary's Song )", written by Chris Eaton and Grant, and would later be covered by many artists, including Donna Summer, Jessica Simpson ( who acknowledged Grant as one of her favorite artists ), Vince Gill, Sara Groves, Point of Grace, and Broadway star Barbara Cook.

The duo named themselves Gemini, and a second album with more music by Björn and Benny was released in April 1987, containing the big hit " Mio My Mio "; also to be found on the soundtrack to the film Mio in the Land of Faraway, for which Andersson co-produced the music.

Sarah Martin later stated in the Q & A section of their website that it would be a 14 track album.

In a news update to the official website on 11 August 2010, it was revealed that their eighth studio album would be titled Belle & Sebastian Write About Love.

In 2006, Love started recording what was going to be her second solo album, How Dirty Girls Get Clean, collaborating with again with Perry and Billy Corgan in the writing and recording.

The first album to be released on CD was Billy Joel's 52nd Street, that reached the market alongside Sony's CD player CDP-101 on October 1, 1982 in Japan.

As the recording sessions progressed it was decided that the album would be issued under the Crowded House band name, rather than as a Neil Finn solo album.

In music, a concept album is an album that is " unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical.

Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl Ballads ( 1940 ) is considered to be the first concept album.

The album was scrapped before completion, only to be revived in November 2011.

In the early 2000s Beck released what is considered to be his Magnum opus, his eighth studio album Sea Change.

The band continued to write and perform new material during this time, which would appear on their next album ( some of these early performances can be seen in the Live at DMPO's on Broadway video, originally released by Dirk Dirksen and later reissued on Rhino ).

More recently, the horn section of Antibalas have been guest musicians on TV On The Radio's highly acclaimed 2008 album Dear Science, as well as on British band Foals ' 2008 album, Antidotes.

Despite the fact that Parsons only contributed two new songs to the album (" In My Hour of Darkness ", " Return of the Grievous Angel "), Parsons was highly enthused with his new sound and seemed to have finally adopted a serious, diligent mindset to his musical career, eschewing most drugs and alcohol during the sessions.

The album further developed ideas established on their debut album, creating a work with a direct sound that was " heavy and hard, brutal and direct " and which would be highly influential and frequently imitated.

The resulting album has proven to be both highly popular and enormously influential.

With the aid of Danniels and the newly enlisted engineer Terry Brown, the band released their self-titled debut album in 1974, which was considered highly derivative of Led Zeppelin.

The highly anticipated album entitled " KU: PALM " is set for release through Parkes ' own imprint ' Photek Productions '.

Yes, starting with their third album The Yes Album ( 1971 ), produced a highly successful blend of classical, psychedelic and progressive ensemble rock.

Levon Helm regards this album highly in his book, This Wheel's on Fire: " It was the best album we had done since The Band.

After he left The Band, Robbie Robertson became a music producer and wrote film soundtracks ( including acting as music supervisor for several of Scorsese's films ) before a highly praised comeback with a Daniel Lanois produced, eponymous solo album in 1987.

After a brief tour from June to September 2010, Amos released the highly exclusive live album From Russia With Love in December the same year, recorded live in Moscow on 3 September 2010.

" The album received highly favorable reviews and reflected the public's mood after Lennon's assassination.

Oasis ' third album Be Here Now ( 1997 ) was highly anticipated.

This album is also out-of-print, was never re-released in any other formats and is also highly prized among collectors.

The album is generally highly regarded ( allmusic. com giving it 3 out of a possible 5 stars ), but has been out of print for many years.

This album features Dolphy's fully developed avant-garde yet highly structured compositional style rooted in tradition.

Frank Zappa, a highly influential composer who drew his inspiration from a variety of musical styles and idioms, paid tribute to Dolphy in the instrumental " The Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue " ( on the 1970 album Weasels Ripped My Flesh ) and listed Dolphy as an influence on the liner notes for the Mothers ' first LP, Freak Out !.

Their greatest success was in the 1980s with the number-one album, Sports, coupled with a series of highly successful MTV videos.

He also made highly original use of feedback, a technique demonstrated on the album String Theory ( Paratactile, 2000 ).

Baltimore album quilts originated in the region around Baltimore, Maryland in the 1840s, where a unique and highly developed applique style of quilting briefly flourished.

The band's album art ( most often done by Vincent Locke ) and its lyrics, which draw heavily on horror fiction and horror films, are highly controversial.

Evisceration Plague, Cannibal Corpse's eleventh studio album was released February 3, 2009, to a highly positive response from fans.

In 2002, the band released the highly acclaimed double-CD concept album Snow, which tells a story of an albino psychic who acquires a messianic following, who spiritually falls and loses the direction of his calling, then to be rescued with new chance to live in harmony.