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 ".

While the group only recorded one album together as the Analog Brothers, a few bootlegs of its live concert performances, including freestyles with original lyrics, have occasionally surfaced online.

* Hip-hop artist MF DOOM recorded a 2004 album called MM .. FOOD.

Johnny Cash recorded it on his 1975 album Sings Precious Memories, dedicating it to his older brother Jack, who had been killed in a mill accident when they were boys in Dyess, Arkansas.

Christian rock group Relient K recorded the song " Plead the Fifth " a cappella on its album Five Score and Seven Years Ago.

In 1977, she recorded her first album titled Amy Grant, produced by Brown Bannister ( who would also produce her next 11 albums ).

That year, she also recorded a duet with singer Randy Stonehill for his Love Beyond Reason album, entitled " I Could Never Say Goodbye ", and recorded The Animals ' Christmas with Art Garfunkel.

The 2009 Broadway revival with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury recorded a cast album on January 4, 2010 which was released on April 6.

In 1959, Capp recorded and released an album for Folkways Records ( now owned by the Smithsonian ) on which he identified and described " The Mechanics of the Comic Strip.

A limited edition release included two bonus tracks on a separate disc recorded in the early 1960s, and two years later, on September 16, 2003, this album was one of fifteen Dylan titles reissued and remastered for SACD hybrid playback.

This album has been incorrectly cited as being recorded digitally into Pro Tools.

This album was recorded to a Studer A800 mkIII @ 30ips on BASF / Emtec 900 tape at + 6 / 250 nanowebers per meter.

Bar Kokhba is a double album by John Zorn, recorded between 1994 and 1996.

In addition, John Lennon recorded a cover version of " Peggy Sue " on his 1975 album Rock ' n ' Roll.

In summer 2008 in the Arena of Bayonne was recorded live album Baionarena of Manu Chao

After moving from his home in Chicago to Washington, D. C., he set up one of the first home recording studios where he not only recorded the album Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger but he recorded his valet, Marvin Gaye.

In 1978 Runrig recorded an album in Scottish Gaelic.

Hole recorded their second album, Live Through This, in late 1993 in Atlanta and released it in April 1994, just four days after Love's husband, Kurt Cobain, was found dead of a self-inflicted shotgun wound in their home.

Nobody's Daughter featured a great deal of material written and recorded for Love's aborted solo album, How Dirty Girls Get Clean, including " Pacific Coast Highway ", " Letter to God ", " Samantha ", and " Never Go Hungry ", although they were re-produced with Larkin.

They have re-recorded Commodores hits and have recorded a live album and a Christmas album.

Patti Smith recorded a song called " Beneath The Southern Cross " on her 1996 album Gone Again.

* Cradle of Filth, a popular British extreme metal band, has produced an album called Dusk ... and Her Embrace inspired by " Carmilla ", and have also recorded an instrumental track titled " Carmilla's Masque ".

Electric Light Orchestra ( ELO ) were a British rock group from Birmingham who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001.

Harris ' songs " Boulder to Birmingham ", from her 1975 album Pieces of the Sky, and " The Road ", from her 2011 album Hard Bargain, are tributes to Parsons.

* " Birmingham " ( 1974 ), a song by Randy Newman from the album Good Old Boys

* " Birmingham " ( 2001 ), a song by Drive-By Truckers from the album Southern Rock Opera

* " Birmingham, Alabama " ( 1969 ), recorded by R. B. Greaves on the eponymous album

* " Birmingham Blues ", a song from ELO's 1977 album Out of the Blue

* " Birmingham ( We Are Safe )", a song by the David Crowder * Band from the album Church Music

De Meyer also took over as vocalist for Birmingham 6 for their 1996 album Error of Judgment.

The central theme of Rhapsody in Blue is used as a riff in The Electric Light Orchestra's " Birmingham Blues " off their 1977 hit album Out of the Blue.

Later in his career, Bonham drummed for his Birmingham friend, Roy Wood, on his 1979 album, On the Road Again, and on Wings ' album Back to the Egg on the tracks " Rockestra Theme " and " So Glad to See You Here ".

A lavishly packaged ( an eight-page booklet plus ) double album Uriah Heep Live followed, recorded at the Birmingham Townhall in January 1973.

Their second and final album, Rhythm and Stealth ( 1999 ) maintained a similar style, and featured Roots Manuva, Afrika Bambaataa, and MC Cheshire Cat from Birmingham.

Spacemen 3 were sent to record their first album, Sound of Confusion, at the studios of Bob Lamb in the King ’ s Heath area of Birmingham.

October 2008 saw the new album entitled and another thing ..., launched via live gigs in Newcastle, Birmingham and London, and an appearance on Jools Holland's BBC Radio 2 show.

In 1999, Le Bon was reported to be involved in Napalm Death's new album, a collaboration brought about through their shared love of hometown Birmingham.

To plug the gap between studio albums, Hadley also released Obsession ( later re-released as Obsession Live ), a live album recorded, in just one night, in 1995, at the club Ronnie Scott's, in Birmingham.

* The song " Ronnie and Neil " on the Drive-By Truckers ' album Southern Rock Opera includes the line " church blows up in Birmingham, four little black girls killed, for no goddamn good reason ".

* The song " Birmingham Jail " by Chatham County Line on the album IV.

Work continued throughout the year on the Idle Race's debut album, the group commuting in from Birmingham to London on Sundays, when they were granted free studio time at Advision.

UB40 ( a reggae group from Birmingham, whose first album was released in 1980 ) was named after the form issued by the DHSS to those claiming unemployment benefit, the full name of which was Unemployment Benefit form 40.

* Wayne Perkins-Guitarist, singer, songwriter, Muscle Shoals studio musician, played on Rolling Stones album, from Birmingham

Drummer Everett Morton and Saxa formed The International Beat along with the Birmingham based singer, Tony Beet, and the band released an album titled The Hitting Line on Blue Beat Records in 1990 ( BBSLP 009 ).

From the beginning of the 1990s Julian Bream continued his recording career with EMI Classics, featuring music by J. S. Bach, a Concerto album ( with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle ), and discs devoted to contemporary works and guitar sonatas.