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 ".

It is credited to " Ike & Tina Turner ", but it is now well known that Ike Turner was paid $ 20, 000 to stay away from the sessions ; the backing track was in fact performed by the Wrecking Crew, and the backing vocals were provided by a chorus of 21 singers — Ikettes Janice Singleton and Diane Rutherford and most of the female singers on Spector's roster, including Ronnie Spector, Darlene Love and Cher.

The band had begun to reinforce their concert sound in 1986 with the addition of a second keyboardist ( Bias Boshell was the first, replaced in 1987 by Guy Allison before Boshell returned by 1990 ), as well as female backing singers ( see Personnel below ).

In an event that is now firmly embedded in popular folklore and regularly repeated by the media, Oakey and his then girlfriend went into Sheffield city centre on a Wednesday night with the intention of recruiting a single female backing vocalist.

Originally just wanting a single female singer to replace the high backing vocals originally provided by Martyn Ware, he says that he thought having two female vocalists / dancers would also add potential glamour to the band.

With Becker now mainly playing lead and rhythm guitar, the pair put together a band that included an additional keyboard player and lead guitarist, a bassist, three female backing singers, and a four-piece saxophone section.

Becker and Fagen favor a distinctly soul-influenced style of backing vocals, which after the first few albums were almost always performed by a female chorus ( although Michael McDonald features prominently on several tracks, including the 1975 song " Black Friday " and the 1977 song " Peg ").

The album also featured some soulful female backing vocalists.

Together with a female backing singer named Kay Starr, they released a single, " Dollars ", and performed at several concerts including " Western Consciousness 2004 " on April 28 in Jamaica, of which a live video was released shortly thereafter.

Ike renamed the song's backing female trio to The Ikettes and also gave " Little Ann " the name " Tina Turner " to rhyme with his favorite television character, Sheena the Queen of the Jungle, and also gave her the name to prevent her from running off with it, in case Ann left, he could give another woman the name of Tina Turner.

Marks Mankwane and Joseph Makwela's mbaqanga innovations evolved into the more danceable mgqashiyo sound when the two joined forces with Mahlathini and the new female group Mahotella Queens, in Mankwane's backing group Makhona Tsohle Band ( also featuring Makwela along with saxophonist-turned-producer West Nkosi, rhythm guitarist Vivian Ngubane, and drummer Lucky Monama ).

Lead groaner Mahlathini had already moved to rival label EMI ( in early 1972 ), where he had successful records with backing team Ndlondlo Bashise and new female group the Mahlathini Girls.

High-pitched female vocals are usually used, but the whole band provides backing vocals and occasionally lead vocals.

Part IV ( Waters, Gilmour, Wright ; from 8: 42 – 11: 14 ) Waters is the lead vocalist, with Gilmour, Wright and female backing vocalists on harmonies.

The Coconuts are a glamorous trio of female backing vocalists whose lineup has changed throughout the years.

" A Little Bit of Heaven " was a typical Eurovision anthem performed by Lorraine Craig with aid of a female backing singer and two men strumming guitars.

Everything else was Sedaka's, including his own arrangement and backing vocals, piano-playing, and usual female backup singers.

He introduced his own backing band, including the female backing vocalist trio, Afrodiziak.

In her spare time she performed in a female rap group called Trouble Sisters and she was spotted by Marvin, who asked her to be a backing singer for him.

The female backing vocal in the song ’ s chorus was not the voice of Kirsty MacColl as is sometimes believed, but the voices of the wives of Andrews and Dave Robinson ( the owner of Stiff Records ).

For instance, Ennio Zanini has stated on the SCP Music website that he goes by the name of " Fastway " on songs which are more upbeat and sprinkled with high-pitched female backing vocals, and goes by " Dusty " on his more " serious " tracks.

( In later seasons the female cast got their own version of the song, first just lip-synching the male vocals, but later getting their own feminized version complete with female howls of mourning.

The female-dominant vocals of trip hop may be partially attributable to the influence of genres such as jazz and early R & B in which female vocalists were more common.

Unlike the solo male vocals in the Rammstein original, this cover features both male and female vocals ( supplied by Laibach's Milan Fras and Mina Špiler from the band Melodrom ), and the orchestral sound of the original has been supplemented — and in some sections even replaced — by a more electronic element.

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lang and Jennifer Warnes as female background vocals for Roy Orbison's television special, Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night.

They were noted for their heavy use of vintage electronic keyboards, and their sound often overlays a repetitive " motorik " beat with female vocals sung in English or French.

Stereolab's music combines a droning rock sound with lounge instrumentals, overlaid with sing-song female vocals and pop melodies.

Swooping female vocals and turntable scratching also contributed to the overall sound.

In the eighties few bands had a female members, like all-female band Show-Ya fronted by Keiko Terada, and Terra Rosa with Kazue Akao on vocals.

It did, however, feature prophetic female vocals by guest vocalists Lisa Strike and Katie Kissoon sounding like the yet-to-be-formed future Human League of 1981.

At this stage of his career most of Mayall's music was rather different from electric blues played by rock musicians, incorporating jazz, funk or pop elements and adding even female vocals.

Their style is characterised by female vocals, long, multi-sectioned songs, heavy riffs and jazzy sections.

Other new members joining at this time were Alice Tweed Smith ( credited as " Tweed Smith " and " Alice Tweed Smyth " on various albums ) on percussion and vocals ( giving the band its first female vocalist ), and Ronnie Hammon as a third drummer.

In 1978, Horn and Downes formed The Buggles, in which Horn played bass, guitar and percussion as well as providing vocals, while the female vocalist was Linda Jardim ( now Allan ).

I was then able to fix a few parts I thought were a bit weak and add a few extra parts to it that I thought were important-the guitar and the female vocals in particular.

G-funk ( which uses funk with an artificially altered tempo ) incorporates multi-layered and melodic synthesizers, slow hypnotic grooves, a deep bass, background female vocals, the extensive sampling of P-Funk tunes, and a high-pitched portamento sine wave synthesizer lead.

Both albums feature the same parlor guitar on the cover ( just from slightly different views ) and the contents are remarkably similar, with Jandek delving further into the deep, anarchic blues while putting aside-for now-the female vocals and any instruments besides guitar, vocals and harmonica.

But when some of the squeals had subsided and she had been through one of those sessions that are so indispensable to the young female -- six girls sprawled on one bed, drinking Cokes and giggling -- she came back to the kitchen to talk with me a minute.

In addition, would not the young female public of Washington be afforded a greater degree of protection at night when they are on the streets if they were accompanied by a dog on a leash??

The subject he liked most was the female body, which he painted in every state -- naked, half-dressed, muffled to the ears, sitting primly in a chair, lying tauntingly on a bed or locked in an embrace.

the former figure is based on a somewhat unusual birth of four by a Central American female ( see chapter on Laying, Brooding, Hatching, and Birth ), the latter on a `` normal '' newly born individual.

One female, collected on an island off the coast of Nicaragua, was gravid and measured 4 feet 8 inches from snout to vent ( her tail should be between 6 and 7 inches long ).

The regulations require the inscription of each individual ( male or female, adult or child ) on a separate card ( fiche ).

It was also turned into the female form Ἀχιλλεία ( Achilleía ) attested in Attica in the 4th century BC ( IG II² 1617 ) and, in the form Achillia, on a stele in Halicarnassus as the name of a female gladiator fighting an " Amazon ".

The main vocalisation is the male's loud advertisement call which seeks to both encourage a female to approach and discourage other males from intruding on its territory.

This call is modified to a quieter courtship call on the approach of a female or to a more aggressive version if a male intruder draws near.

The flowers are catkins with elongate male catkins on the same plant as shorter female catkins, often before leaves appear ; they are mainly wind-pollinated, but also visited by bees to a small extent.

Alcaeus was a contemporary and a countryman of Sappho and, since both poets composed for the entertainment of Mytilenean friends, they had many opportunities to associate with each other on a quite regular basis, such as at the Kallisteia, an annual festival celebrating the island's federation under Mytilene, held at the ' Messon ' ( referred to as temenos in fr. s 129 and 130 ), where Sappho performed publicly with female choirs.

The subject of nearly all of Maillol's mature work is the female body, treated with a classical emphasis on stable forms.

A female customer becomes possessed by a demon and starts wreaking havoc on the store, and Ash slays the creature.

The MPAA gave it an NC-17 rating for a shot of a female Deadite being decapitated early on in the film.

She avoided urban and street scenes as well as the nude figure and, like her fellow female Impressionist Mary Cassatt, focused on domestic life and portraits in which she could use family and personal friends as models.

At Monte Bibele not far away one grave contained La Tène weapons and a pot with an Etruscan female name scratched on it.

For a girl in puberty, during thelarche ( the breast-development stage ), the female sex hormones ( principally estrogens ) promote the sprouting, growth, and development of the breasts, in the course of which, as mammary glands, they grow in size and volume, and usually rest on her chest ; these development stages of secondary sex characteristics ( breasts, pubic hair, etc.

The popular adoration of female goddesses decreased significantly during the rise of the Greek city states, a legacy which was passed on to the later Roman Empire.

Gone are the days when the Hoffman House flourished on Madison Square, with its famous nudes by Bouguereau ; when barrooms were palaces, on nearly every corner throughout the city ; when Steve Brodie, jumping from Brooklyn Bridge, splashed the entire country with publicity ; when Bowery concert halls dispensed schooners of beer for a nickel, with a stage show thrown in ; when Theis's Music Hall still resounded on 14th Street with its great mechanical organ, the wonder of its day, a place of beauty, with fine paintings and free company and the frankest of female life.