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 ".

Shortly afterwards, her 1988 album Watermark propelled her to further international fame and she became known for her distinctive sound, characterised by voice-layering, folk melodies, synthesised backdrops and ethereal reverberations.

The success of this album further propelled the sales of his first two albums, enabling Brooks to become the first country artist with three albums listed in the pop top 20 in one week.

They were successful as live performers, becoming known to fans as " that little ol ' band from Texas ", and their 1973 album Tres Hombres, according to AllMusic, propelled the band to national attention and " made them stars ".

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.

Regarded as the band's seminal work, the album featured three UK Top 5 singles and propelled them to superstar status in their home country.

It climbed to the top of the charts in March 1975 and eventually propelled the album to multi-platinum status.

It was one of the decade's biggest hits and propelled Simon's breakthrough album No Secrets to # 1 on the U. S. album charts, where it stayed for six consecutive weeks.

Strong album sales and large-scale tours propelled the band's increasing fame in the 1990s, while Chamberlin's drug problems escalated until he had to be fired.

The album became AC / DC's first to break the US Top 100, eventually reaching # 17, and it propelled the band into the top ranks of hard rock acts.

U-Roy's success continued throughout the 1970s, perhaps most famously with the album Dread in a Babylon, produced by " Prince " Tony Robinson and propelled by the album's skank smash hit " Runaway Girl ".

Killswitch Engage filmed a music video for the song " My Last Serenade ", which gained heavy rotation on MTV's Headbanger's Ball and propelled the album to number 37 on Billboards Top Heatseekers chart.

The Graceland album not only propelled Mambazo into the spotlight, but paved the way for other South African acts ( including Mahlathini and the Queens, Amaswazi Emvelo, Moses Mchunu, Ray Phiri and Stimela, and others ) to become known worldwide as well.

In late 1973, Joseph produced the breakthrough album that propelled Connolly to British stardom.

His studio career was propelled by the success of the first Black Crowes album, Shake Your Money Maker, on which he played guitar and bass and engineered.

the album version and the track was propelled to number one.

Regurgitator's debut studio album, Tu-Plang earnt the band a significant following, before the release of their second album, Unit in 1997 that propelled the band into mainstream success, winning the ARIA Award for Best Album of 1998 and going three times platinum.

Featuring Genaro on lead vocals, the track saw extensive rotation on MTV and propelled the album to number 101 on Billboard's Top 200.

The singles, "' Round And ' Round ( Merry-Go-Round of Love ), ( US R & B # 24 ); " Groove Me ", ( US R & B # 4 ); " Teddy's Jam ", ( US R & B # 5 ); " I Like ", ( US R & B # 2 ); and " Spend the Night ", ( US R & B # 15 ), propelled the album to double platinum status off the strength of those R & B hits.

A television campaign and a tour propelled the album to Number 3 in the UK and it has since gone platinum.

As well as being a success in the UK, the album also broke the band in the US, shipping over 600, 000 copies and charting at number 72 in the Billboard 200, propelled by the immense popularity of its risqué title track on US student radio.

Their first album for the Philadelphia International label, simply titled The Three Degrees, spawned three hits: " Dirty Ol ' Man " ( which went gold in the Netherlands and Belgium ), " Year Of Decision " ( which made it to # 13 in the UK Singles Chart ), but it was the third single, " When Will I See You Again ", that propelled the trio into the mainstream.

The song's success propelled the album to No. 1 for four weeks.