It featured backing by his touring band of the time, with keyboardist Augie Meyers added for the sessions.

He assembled a backing band consisting of Tommy Allsup ( guitar ), Waylon Jennings ( bass ) and Carl Bunch ( drums ), and billed them as The Crickets.

Today, the Commodores consist of Walter " Clyde " Orange, Nicholas and King, along with a backing band.

( One original member of Gypsy Fever, backing vocalist Richard Dennison, has remained with Parton's organization through the early 2010s, serving as a supporting vocalist, as well as the vocal arranger for Parton's band.

Characterised by the heavy rock sound of his new backing band, it was a marked departure from the acoustic guitar and folk rock style established by Space Oddity.

Some tracks were composed using Eno and Peter Schmidt's Oblique Strategies cards: " Boys Keep Swinging " entailed band members swapping instruments, " Move On " used the chords from Bowie's early composition " All the Young Dudes " played backwards, and " Red Money " took backing tracks from " Sister Midnight ", a piece previously composed with Iggy Pop.

Bowie's backing band included Peter Frampton on lead guitar.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

Jones sang his signature solo hit " Girl ", with a grunge band providing backing, this time with middle-aged women swooning over him.

It is with this technology that Lee and his bandmates are able to present their arrangements in a live setting with the level of complexity and fidelity that fans have come to expect, and without the need to resort to the use of backing tracks or employing an additional band member.

The backing band included Clarence White, Pete Kleinow, and Chris Etheridge.

The confusion of the band was that for years, the Famous Flames were often mistaken for Brown's backing band ; fellow Famous Flame Byrd was also a member of the backing band at one point.

That year, Brown also launched, under King auspices, Try Me Records, releasing records off singers such as Tammy Montgomery, Johnny & Bill and the Poets, the latter group confirmed to be that of Brown's backing band.

Joplin first rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of the psychedelic-acid rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist with her more soulful and bluesy backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band.

With live band karaoke, singers sing with a live band instead of the prerecorded backing track.

Cliff Richard and his backing band, The Shadows, were the most successful home grown rock and roll based acts of the era.

The band is composed of bassist, keyboardist, and lead vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist and backing vocalist Alex Lifeson, and drummer, percussionist and lyricist Neil Peart.

It is with this technology that the group is able to present their arrangements in a live setting with the level of complexity and fidelity fans have come to expect, and without the need to resort to the use of backing tracks or employing an additional band member.

They performed " Can't Fight This Feeling " and " Roll With the Changes ", which featured members of the Beach Boys, the REO Speedwagon band members ' families, and Paul Shaffer on stage for backing vocals.

He refused to change his approach, and instead he attacked high and low -- the officials for their not backing him, and subordinates for their laxness, stupidity, and stubbornness.

The idea has also some backing in German legend, for example the Gesta Treverorum ( a 12th century German medieval chronicle ) makes Trebeta son of Ninus the founder of Trier.

While Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, an Islamist extremist enjoying the backing of neighboring Pakistan, pushed for continued violent struggle against the Afghan government, Massoud and Rabbani advocated for a peaceful political campaign lobbying officials working for the government and armed forces.

Replacement grips have an adhesive backing, whereas overgrips have only a small patch of adhesive at the start of the tape and must be applied under tension ; overgrips are more convenient for players who change grips frequently, because they may be removed more rapidly without damaging the underlying material.

" The songs were firsts for Holly, not only in the use of orchestral backing players, but also the tracks were his first stereo recordings.

Gold coins were used for large purchases, payment of the military and backing of state activities.

The previously uncached datum fetched from the backing store during miss handling is usually copied into the cache, ready for the next access.

More efficient caches compute use frequency against the size of the stored contents, as well as the latencies and throughputs for both the cache and the backing store.

The album's three new songs, which were released as singles, were " Instinct ", " Not the Girl You Think You Are " and " Everything Is Good for You ", which featured backing vocals from Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder.

With the advent of the World Wide Web and other multimedia technologies, bands such as The Smashing Pumpkins ( with the album Machina / The Machines of God ), Coheed And Cambria ( with the Amory Wars as a backing story for every one of their albums ), and Nine Inch Nails ( with the album Year Zero ) exploited emergent cultural phenomena such as the alternate reality game to provide additional web-based content beyond that on the album itself.

However, Commodore UK lost its financial backing after several larger companies, including Gateway Computers and Dell Inc., became interested, primarily for Commodore's 47 patents relating to the Amiga.

Stoiber is known for backing Vladimir Putin and there have been comparisons to Gerhard Schröder.

A resin backing was used on the film, which rendered the film too opaque to allow focusing through the back of the film, a common technique for many cameras of that era.

Foreign backing for different factions contribute to conflict, e. g., with the United States generally seen as supportive of Abbas's overall leadership and of Dahlan's security influence, and Syria alleged to promote Faruq al-Qaddumi's challenge to the present leadership.

Correctly guessing that this was Hudson Bay, they sought French backing for a plan to set up a trading post on the Bay, thus reducing the cost of moving furs overland.

In the past, backing for such groups had been discreet, but in early 1992 the Saudis invited several Iraqi opposition leaders to Riyadh to attend a well-publicised conference.

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.

* 2008 – The City That Care Forgot – Contributed backing vocals to the title track of Dr. John's 2008 album.

Bowie contributed backing vocals to Lou Reed's 1972 solo breakthrough Transformer, co-producing the album with Mick Ronson.

Enya played the keyboard and provided backing vocals on their album Crann Úll ( 1980 ), although she was not officially a member of the group until the 1981 release Fuaim, when she appeared on the cover.

In early 1991, Yvette Marine, backing vocalist on Forever Your Girl, claimed that she sang " co-lead vocals " on the album and sued Paula and Virgin Records for compensation.

In 1998, the group appeared on the album Happy Hour by Japanese female rockers Shonen Knife ( also a three piece ); they did backing vocals on the song " Sushi Bar ".

Campbell happened to be making an album by Canadian musician ( and present-day CKTB radio personality ) Tim Denis at the time and Twain was featured on the backing vocals of the song Heavy on the Sunshine.

In the fall of 1985, Bailey took Twain down to Nashville to stay with a friend, record producer Tony Migliore, who at the time was producing an album for fellow Canadian singer Kelita Haverland and Twain was featured on the backing vocals to the song Too Hot to Handle.

In 2003, Twain participated in the Dolly Parton tribute album Just Because I'm a Woman, covering Parton's classic " Coat of Many Colors ", with backing vocals by Alison Krauss.

In 1988, while recording his album Full Moon Fever, Tom Petty and his lead guitarist Mike Campbell called on the group to provide backing vocals for the song " Waiting for Tonight ".

Martha Ladly, of Martha and the Muffins, contributed backing vocals and keyboards to this album.

MacKenzie wrote the lyrics of the song " The Rhythm Divine " performed by Shirley Bassey on the album One Second, with MacKenzie singing backing vocals.

That year, he also contributed backing vocals to Bonnie Raitt's " Your Sweet and Shiny Eyes ", from her album Home Plate.

The same year, Waits contributed backing vocals to the track " Go Tell It on the Mountain " on the Grammy Award ( Best Traditional Gospel Album )- winning album of the same name by The Blind Boys of Alabama.

According to Stewart the band were supposed to go to Muscle Shoals as the backing band for Mayhan's Atlantic Records solo album Moments ( 1970 ) but they were ultimately replaced.

With his former backing band, Chris John Payne ( Keyboards, Viola ) Russell Bell ( Guitar ) and Ced Sharpley ( Drums ) now reformed as Dramatis, Numan contributed vocals to the minor hit " Love Needs No Disguise " from the album For Future Reference.

Clapton had also fallen under the spell of Bob Dylan's former backing group, now known as The Band, and their debut album, Music from Big Pink, which proved to be a welcome breath of fresh air in comparison to the incense and psychedelia that had informed Cream.

* 1994 ; " Lady Let It Lie ", backing vocals by Knox Academy Junior Choir on the album, Suits.

Jill Jones, a backing singer, was also part of The Revolution line up for the 1999 album and tour.

In 2006, Minnelli appeared on My Chemical Romance's album The Black Parade, providing backing vocals and singing a solo part with Gerard Way on the track " Mama.

Nico sang lead vocals on three songs (" Femme Fatale ", " All Tomorrow's Parties ", " I'll Be Your Mirror ") and backing vocal on " Sunday Morning ", on the band's debut album, The Velvet Underground & Nico ( 1967 ).

Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora co-wrote and sang backing vocals on Cher ’ s single " We All Sleep Alone " and also produced several other tracks on the album, later going on to co-produce Cher ’ s multi-platinum album Heart of Stone in 1989 and co-wrote the song Does Anybody Really Fall In Love Anymore ?.