A version with Alicia Keys was included in Charles ' 2005 duets album Genius & Friends.

Woolfson, a songwriter and composer, was working as a session pianist ; he had also composed material for a concept album idea based on the work of Edgar Allan Poe.

Their first album, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, including major contributions by all members of Pilot and Ambrosia, was a success, reaching the Top 40 in the US Billboard 200 chart.

The song " The Raven " featured lead vocals by the actor Leonard Whiting, and, according to the 2007 remastered album liner notes, was the first rock song to use a digital vocoder, with Alan Parsons speaking lyrics through it.

1987's Gaudi was the Project's last release, though they planned to record an album called Freudiana next.

Although the studio version of Freudiana was produced by Parsons ( and featured the regular Project backing musicians, making it an ' unofficial ' Project album ), it was primarily Woolfson's idea to turn it into a musical.

Arista's refusal to release the album had two known effects: the negotiations led to a renewed contract and the album was never 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.

The opening instrumental was largely done away with by 1980 ; no later Project album except Eye in the Sky featured one ( although every album includes at least one instrumental somewhere in the running order ).

* The New Wave band Missing Persons ' best-selling album was called Spring Session M.

Her producer was present and suggested she include a version of it on her 1970 album Whales & Nightingales.

DiFranco was one of the first independent artists to own her own label, which has allowed her a considerable degree of creative freedom over the years, including, for example, providing all instrumentals and vocals and recording the album herself at her home on an analog 8-track reel to reel, and handling much of the artwork and packaging design for her 2004 album Educated Guess.

ABC is Jin's fourth overall album, which was released on February 20, 2007

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.

When Heart in Motion was released in 1991, many fans were surprised that the album was so clearly one of contemporary pop music.

The album was a multi-platinum success and produced the pop hit " Lucky One " ( No. 18 pop and No. 2 AC ; No. 1 on Radio & Records ) as well as the title track ( a duet with country music star and future husband Vince Gill ) ( No. 37 pop ) and a cover of Joni Mitchell's frequently covered " Big Yellow Taxi " ( No. 67 pop ) ( in which she changed the line " And they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see em " to " And then they charged the people 25 bucks just to see em ").

Although " Takes A Little Time " was a moderate hit single, the album failed to sell like the previous two albums, which had both gone multi-platinum.

The album was certified Gold in 2000.

He was awarded the World Music Award for Best Selling Middle Eastern Artist three times: 1998 for album " Nour El Ain ", 2002 for album " Aktrr Wahed Byhbak 2001 " and 2007 for album " El Lillady ".

However, later in 1966, Brian Wilson began work on the Smile album, which was intended as a narrative.

Sessions for the planned album Toy, intended to feature new versions of some of Bowie's earliest pieces as well as three new songs, commenced in 2000, but the album was never released.

The group's name is an intended pun based not only on electric light ( as in a light bulb as seen on early album covers ) but also using " electric " rock instruments combined with a " light orchestra " ( orchestras with only a few cellos and violins that were popular in Britain during the 1960s ).

According to the band's official website, this was intended as part of a tongue-in-cheek album called Nirvana Sings Nirvana that was aborted when Cobain died.

" Spinning Around " was a dance-pop track intended to be the lead single on Abdul's follow-up album to Head over Heels.

The title of the fourth Roxy album, Country Life, was intended as a parody of the well-known British rural magazine of the same name, and the visually punning front cover photo featured two models ( two German fans, Constanze Karoli — sister of Can's Michael Karoli — and Eveline Grunwald ) clad only in semi-transparent lingerie standing in a forest.

Sessions in October and November yielded just one usable single (" Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window "), and two days of recording in January 1966 for what was intended to be Dylan's next album, Blonde on Blonde resulted in " One of Us Must Know ( Sooner or Later )", which was released as a single a few weeks later and was subsequently selected for the album.

Although it was a full-length album, it was not intended to be the follow-up to Skylarking.

Ono's final album of the 1980s was Starpeace, a concept album that she intended as an antidote to Ronald Reagan's " Star Wars " missile defense system.

On 15 July 2010, it was announced he had rejoined Take That and that the group intended to release a new album in November 2010 which became the second fastest-selling album in UK chart history and the fastest-selling record of the century so far.

In Japan, such examples of music inspired by a work and not intended to soundtrack an radio play or motion picture adaptation of it are known as an " image album " or " image song ," though this definition also includes such things as film score demos inspired by concept art and songs inspired by a TV series which do not feature in it.

The band's album covers often incorporate complex and intricate art intended to reflect the themes explored in the music.

The Long Live Love album was released in the United States as If You Love Me, Let Me Know with the six Eurovision songs dropped for four different, more country-oriented tracks intended to capitalize on the success of " Let Me Be There ".

The latter was actually intended for a tribute album for Gene Eugene, who had died recently.

Wetton resurfaced with a 1987 album with guitarist Phil Manzanera, Wetton-Manzanera, based on material that had been originally intended for Asia.

The next album intended for release was to be The Black Album.

" He went on to say that he regretted not having released 4: 13 Dream as a double album as originally intended, but had been " worn down by the fucking idiots around me at the time ".

He still wanted to re-release the album in its intended format, but was hampered by the fact that " the group who made it doesn ’ t exist anymore ".

Originally intended to be a double album called It Comes to You in a Plain Brown Wrapper for the label, it was released later in pieces in 1971 and 1995.

In overview, the works for the double album in this period were intended to be packaged in a plain brown wrapper, with a ' strictly personal ' over-stamp and addressed in a manner that could have connotations of drug content, pornographic or illicit material ; As per the small ads of the time ; " It comes to you in a plain brown wrapper ".

The latter two tracks appear as remixes of the intended album versions and none of " LP5 "' s tracks are expected to resemble the versions that were played on the previous tour, with some songs, such as " Dobro ", dropped altogether.

In early 1967, Pickwick Records, which had a reputation as a low-quality label, decided that it would capitalize on the duo's newfound fame by releasing an album titled The Hit Sounds of Simon and Garfunkel.

Wednesday Morning, 3 A. M. was re-released in January 1966 to capitalize on their newly found radio success with a later re-mixed electric / acoustic version of The Sounds of Silence, and so the album reached # 30 on the Billboard pop charts.

In an attempt to capitalize on his renewed success, WB Records released the album Negotiations and Love Songs in November 1988, a mixture of popular hits and personal favorites that covered Simon's entire career and became an enduring seller in his catalog.

A Simon & Garfunkel reunion took place in 1993, and in another attempt to capitalize on the occasion, Columbia released Paul Simon 1964 / 1993 in September, a three-disc compilation that received a reduced version on the two-disc album The Paul Simon Anthology one month later.

With a string of live dates around the country to capitalize on their breakthrough, Creedence Clearwater Revival was also hard at work on their second album Bayou Country at RCA Studios in Los Angeles.

To capitalize on the success of " Dilemma ", Rowland's solo debut album Simply Deep was brought forward from its early 2003 release to September 2002.

Magic Bus: The Who on Tour was the fourth American album by British rock band The Who, released in the US in September 1968 to capitalize on the success of their single of the same name.

Needing a permanent drummer for the group, George T. Babbitt, Jr. having dropped out because he was not old enough to play night clubs and bars, they hired Howie Johnson and, in the midst of a fast-paced touring schedule, recorded an album to capitalize on the success of the single.

It became a No. 1 dance club hit in the US, and an album entitled In the Name of Love ( consisting mainly of tracks from Set, with two others from A Product Of ... ( Participation )) was released in the US to capitalize on the song's popularity.

Early British pressings of the first Tom Tom Club album featured shorter versions of " Genius of Love " and " Wordy Rappinghood ," but to capitalize on the club success of these songs, Island Records reissued the album with the full 12-inch versions in 1982.

Just prior to its release in 1993, it was decided by Bomer and Epitaph owner / operator Brett Gurewitz it would be released as an RKL album under the title Reactivate to capitalize on the RKL name and built-in fanbase.

CBS Records, who owned the rights to the album, remixed it and planned to release it in late 1976 to capitalize on Kiss's commercial popularity.

In order to capitalize on the success of Played on Pepper and to curb piracy, Michael Learns to Rock released the greatest hits album Paint My Love in October 1996, primarily in Asia, which sold 3. 4 million copies.

In the United States, this was Moby's last album to appear on the Elektra record label, with the exception of Songs 1993-1998, which Elektra hastily released in 2000 to try to capitalize on Moby's newfound success.

It was released in 1997 by the record company in an attempt to capitalize on her newfound success after the album Blurring the Edges.

The album was reissued two years later as The Little Drummer Boy to capitalize on the success of the 1958 version by the Harry Simeone Chorale.

In You've Come A Long Way, Baby: Women, Politics, and Popular Culture ( 1996 ), Lilly J. Goren observed that " 1993 album Janet moved away from politically driven lyrics to songs about love and sex-lyrics that could capitalize on her new sexy, more scantily clad image in MTV music videos.

" To capitalize on the sudden attention, LeDoux signed a contract with Capitol Records subsidiary Liberty Records and released his first national album, Western Underground, in 1991.

One release, a gold-selling album called Watch it, Sucka !, was titled after one of her Aunt Esther character's catchphrases to capitalize on her newfound TV fame.

With this release, the band failed, at least in America, to capitalize on the momentum it had generated with the song " Closing Time " from their previous album, Feeling Strangely Fine.

An accompanying album, Up-Tight, was rushed into production to capitalize on the single's success.

Released in 1976, this LP was originally compiled by United Artists Records as a promotional album for American radio stations, but when copies of the LP started selling to fans " underground " United Artists decided to release it in the US to capitalize on the band's growing popularity.

Although the group had not yet completed work on their album, the song was quickly released as a single to capitalize on O ' Neal's popularity.