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 ".

With Domani smetto, Articolo 31 left the world of hip hop and moved to rap with many influences ; even more so than previously, this album found them rapping and singing to rock and pop tracks.

* The song " Felicia " on the Straight On Till Morning album by Blues Traveler includes the line " I wouldn't feel so much like Casey who never got to bat.

Following the recording sessions with Tim, Neil began writing and recording a third Crowded House album with Hester and Seymour, but these tracks were rejected by the record company, so Neil asked Tim if Crowded House could use the Finn songs.

From 1975 to 1979, a Canadian progressive power trio, Rush, released three albums containing sidelong epics, regarded by some as concept albums ( though not actually concept albums by strict definition of the term ; that is, none of the other songs on the album have anything to do with each other or the 20-minute sidelong epic, so there is no pervasive concept or story ).

With 1993's Counterparts, Rush reduced most keyboard-and synthesizer-derived sounds in their compositions, and they continued to do so with each successive album.

The album also contains the posse rap track, " The Syndicate ", which took aim at LL's lyrical ability, claiming that rapping about oneself so frequently was a " first grade topic ".

Meanwhile, the drum break from the second version of the original 1969 hit " Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose " ( the recording included on the compilation album In the Jungle Groove ) became so popular at hip hop dance parties ( especially for breakdance ) during the late 1970s and early 1980s that hip hop founding father Kurtis Blow called the song " the national anthem of hip hop ".

By their fifth album, A Funk Odyssey ( 2001 ), they had evolved so drastically, that some critics and listeners would remark they lost the ' Jamiroquai sound '.

" When I did that album ," commented Arthur Lee, " I thought I was going to die at that particular time, so those were my last words.

The album is a bittersweet song cycle of alienation, paranoia and lysergic hokum, but nothing else from the so-called summer of love sounded quite so ambitious.

The fate of the erotic album I Modi some years later shows why this was so.

Since 2005, Francis has at various times stated that the Pixies recording a new studio album was either a possibility, or an unlikelihood, the main obstacle being Deal's reluctance to do so.

It's an album, but it's maybe not the normal length, so I can go back to the studio again and release these songs while they're actually fresh, and go back to the studio and work on more stuff while touring.

No middle ground was reached, so the album was released with only eleven songs.

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.

He failed to turn up for the opening dates of their 1988 tour of America, and prevented the band from promoting their next album, Hell's Ditch, so in 1991 the band sacked him.

Almost every Associates album has been re-issued so far, including a 25-Anniversary edition of The Affectionate Punch in 2005.

In 1977, The Band recorded their seventh studio album Islands, which fulfilled their record contract with Capitol so that a planned Last Waltz film and album could be released on the Warner Bros. label.

The members enjoyed working together so much that they decided to create a full album together.

The album debuted in the top 10 of the Billboard 200, making it the Amos's seventh album to do so.

Jesperson chose an eight-track home studio in Minneapolis called Blackberry Way ; however, as the band had no clout at the studio, time spent in the studio was intermittent, and so it took about six months to record the album.

Westerberg wrote songs in stops and starts, so it took several sessions of recording to finish the album.