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 ".

The rock band from Pasadena, Ozma plays a balalaika on the song " Flight Of Yuri Gagarin "; it is derived from their partially Russian themed album Double Donkey Disc.

The album was loosely themed around a short story that came printed on the lyric sheet of the blue vinyl release, and as a spoken word track on the CD.

That same year saw the release of PiL's first compilation album The Greatest Hits, So Far, which featured one new song, the environmentally themed single " Don't Ask Me ".

The only single release from the album was the spiritually themed " Glory, Glory " (# 58 U. S., # 40 Canada ), with backing vocals by The Sweet Inspirations.

With an Egyptian / post modernistic themed album cover, All ' N All featured the hit singles " Serpentine Fire " and " Fantasy ", and achieved triple Platinum status.

The Purple Chick label has assembled and digitally fine-tuned many comprehensive themed packages, including individual studio album sessions, the Get Back sessions, and the BBC performances, all distributed free through various fan trading sites online.

The moods and lyrical content of a themed album all follow a specific topic or idea, rather than a story, which are apparent from start to finish.

An album of punk rock band The Vandals, consisting of several Christmas themed songs, is called Oi To The World!

OverClocked ReMix's four disc Final Fantasy VII unofficial tribute album, Voices of the Lifestream, has a disc entitled Advent, a name chosen to coincide with the release of the film, with the music themed after the movie.

Occasionally, MTV Jams will air special, unannounced alphabetical marathons of music videos by artist name, usually around holiday periods, or videos themed around lists such as most popular of the year, nominated for certain awards or that of an artist around the release of a new album.

Also during this time, Honky began using a 50s-styled, themed entrance song performed by Farris ( included on Piledriver-The Wrestling Album 2, the WWF's second album of wrestling themes ).

In 1993, Wendy and Carnie Wilson released the Christmas holiday themed album, Hey Santa !, a collection of classic holiday themes with an original song ( the title track ).

The album was released as Xitintoday on Charisma records in 1978 and the band toured, played festivals including Deeply Vale Festivals ( later released as a CD ), Glastonbury Festival ( part of which was broadcast BBC television ) and his own themed Bohemian Love-In all day festival at the Roundhouse.

Bob Catley, lead singer of the British prog rock band Magnum, released a solo album titled Middle Earth, themed around The Lord of the Rings.

This resulted in an album with 22 of the covers and a video with 25 ( three highly visual covers, including the Castanet Club's " pirate " themed entry, were not included on the album ).

In 2001 the band released The Gunman and Other Stories a concept album themed on the American Wild West.

Sadler recorded an album of similarly themed songs which he titled Ballads of the Green Berets.

Miss Moneypenny ’ s is an internationally recognised house music brand, which host themed events, album release or by simply adding a slice of glitz and glamour to varying types of venue, all to a backdrop of musical excellence by some of the most experienced DJs in the business.

In November 1993, MCA released her fourth solo album, the introspective relationship themed Intimacy.

ABC / Dunhill Records rejected this as too risqué, but liked the idea of a " dog "- themed title for the album, and proposed the title Golden Bisquits instead.

Their ninth studio album and third of 2010, a collection of original Christmas and winter themed songs titled Christmas Child, was released on November 16.

William Shatner released a space-travel themed album in 2011 entitled Seeking Major Tom, which included covers of " Space Oddity ", Peter Schilling's " Major Tom ( Coming Home )", K. I. A's " Mrs. Major Tom ", and Elton John's " Rocket Man ".

The nautically themed album The Mollusk followed in 1997.