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 ".

She promoted the album on morning news shows and performed some songs live.

Lennon promoted the album with music videos for the two hits made by movie director Sam Peckinpah and producer Martin Lewis.

It was promoted in cursory fashion: the group, while well liked, had a reputation for being wayward and ill-disciplined, and no one expected much of them or their album.

Abdul promoted the album through the " Under My Spell Tour ", which was named by an MTV contest for fans.

Oldham promoted the Rolling Stones as the nasty opposites of the Beatles by having the band pose unsmiling on the cover of the first UK album.

In the middle, Simon embarked on the successful Born at the Right Time Tour and promoted the album with further singles, including " Proof " – accompanied with a humorous video featuring, again, Chevy Chase.

The album was promoted by an HBO special, Olivia Down Under, and its first single, the title track, was written and produced by Elton John.

In Europe, however, it performed well and Prince promoted the album overseas with a lengthy tour.

The group promoted the album in the USA wit and eighteen-date tour, as well as a German tour.

In the late 1980s, Willis enjoyed moderate success as a recording artist, recording an album of pop-blues titled The Return of Bruno, which included the hit single " Respect Yourself ", promoted by a Spinal Tap – like rockumentary parody featuring scenes of him performing at famous events including Woodstock.

She promoted her debut album in shopping malls of the US.

In 2002, Feldman released a solo album, Former Child Actor, and promoted it with a second US tour.

Home At Last, Norman's first album on a major US CCM label, was a double album that was promoted by its distributor, Benson Records, as Norman's " comeback album ", announcing " Larry Norman's Back ".

In August 1995 ForeFront Records released One Way: Songs of Larry Norman, a tribute album that included covers of 14 Norman's classic songs by ForeFront artists, including dc Talk ; Audio Adrenaline, Grammatrain ; and Rebecca St. James, whose father, David Smallbone, booked and promoted Norman's first concerts and distributed Norman's early records in Australia, including his eponymous 1977 album, ( which is also known as Starstorm ).

They also promoted the release of the single " Go " and the UK release of the album.

In the meantime, Frost was being " promoted " as a permanent member and had recorded drums for the aforementioned album.

The album was poorly promoted, and sales were worse than ever, but High Time was the best-reviewed of the band's original records upon its initial release.

Following on from his contributions as keyboardist on the ' Keys Of The Kingdom ' album, Paul Bliss has played keyboards for the band live since 1991, being promoted to first keyboardist in 2001 ( but has since been replaced in March 2010 after 19 years continuous service with the band ).

In around 1999, Cadena toured as part of ex-Guns N ' Roses bassist Duff McKagan's solo band to promote McKagan's latest album " Beautiful Disease " which was never actually released because of the merger between Universal and PolyGram, but promoted on tour.

" Other singles from the album included " Come Get to This ", which recalled Gaye's early Motown soul sound of the previous decade, while the suggestive " You Sure Love to Ball " reached modest success but was kept from being promoted by Motown due to its sexually explicit nature.

The shorter version of the single was promoted to radio stations while clubs regularly played the 17 minute version ( the longer version would also appear on the album ).

As a result, the Spend the Night album was promoted by Ron Isley on his own following its release in 1989 and the group's moniker changed to " The Isley Brothers featuring Ronald Isley ".