Motown Records had its first million-selling single in 1960 with The Miracles ' " Shop Around ", and in 1961, Stax Records had its first hit with Carla Thomas ' " Gee Whiz!

The first Stax hit was " Heavy Makes You Happy ( Sha-Na-Boom Boom )".

In 1976, they collaborated with The Band for their film The Last Waltz, performing on the song " The Weight " ( which The Staple Singers had previously covered on their first Stax album ).

When Sam & Dave arrived at Stax, they worked with producer & engineer Jim Stewart and songwriters including the MGs ' guitarist Steve Cropper, who wrote or co-wrote four of their first eight recordings.

While the first two Stax singles failed to chart, the third, the Hayes / Porter composition ( with similarities, including the title, to a gospel standard ) " You Don't Know Like I Know " hit # 7 R & B in 1966.

" The first was a leftover Hayes-Porter recording from Stax ; the second was produced by Wexler and Dowd in New York, and was written by Stax executive Al Bell and Allen Jones.

Green Onions was the first album released on the Stax label proper.

Jones's first entry into professional music came at age sixteen, when he played baritone saxophone on Satellite ( soon to be Stax ) Records ' first hit, " Cause I Love You ", by Rufus Thomas and Carla Thomas.

* House band: Through the first few years of Stax, the ' house band ' varied, although Cropper, bassist Lewie Steinberg, drummer Curtis Green, and horn players Floyd Newman, Gene " Bowlegs " Mille, and Gilbert Caple were relative constants.

Soul music historian Rob Bowman notes that because of the distinctive sound, soul music fans can tell often within the first few notes if a song was recorded at Stax.

's, Redding became the first Stax / Volt artist to consistently hit the charts with each release — in fact, each of Redding's 17 singles issued during his lifetime charted.

Johnnie Taylor gave Stax its first big post-Atlantic hit with " Who's Making Love " in 1968.

For the first time, many of the label's acts began frequently recording at outside studios ( such as Ardent Studios in Memphis and at recording studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama ) and working with outside producers, signaling an end of the signature Stax sound.

This marked the first time an album was issued with both Atlantic-owned and Fantasy-owned Stax material ; it was issued by arrangement with Atlantic Records.

The first acts signed to the new Stax included Isaac Hayes, Angie Stone, and Soulive.

Brown modeled his first band after the " 5 " Royales, and both Eric Clapton and legendary Stax guitarist Steve Cropper cite Pauling as a key influence.

The prime of Rufus ' recording career came in the 1960s and early 1970s, when he was on the roster of Memphis label, Stax, having one of the first hit sides at the historic soul and blues label, " Walking the Dog ", (# 5 R & B, # 10 Pop ) in 1963.

The term was first used in the mid-1960s to describe white artists who performed soul and R & B that was similar to the music of the Motown and Stax record labels.

Her first record, Cause I Love You was a duet with her father, with brother Marvell on keyboards, that was released by Satellite Records, which eventually became Stax Records.

Not only did this song provide a launching pad to Thomas ' first album, but it also gave Stax Records national exposure and label recognition.

As the first house band for the label, their backing music formed the foundation for the early 1960s Stax sound.

Marc also formed a group with Black Silver called Live Black, but while five of their tracks were released on a demo CD sold at concerts, Live Black's first album has yet to be released.

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.

Parsons released titles under his name ( Try Anything Once, On Air, The Time Machine, and A Valid Path ), while Woolfson made concept albums named Freudiana ( about Sigmund Freud's work on psychology ) and Poe: More Tales of Mystery and Imagination ( continuing from the Alan Parsons Project's first album about Edgar Allan Poe's literature ).

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.

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 " ( Jin song ), Jin's first single off his 4th album " ABC " ( American-born Chinese )

* ABCs ( song ), the first official single by rapper K ' naan on his album Troubadour

In 2010, American dance recording artist Kelis released a song called " Acapella " as the first single from her album Flesh Tone.

In 1997, DJ Gruff dissed Articolo 31 in a track titled 1 vs 2 appearing on the first album of the beatmaker Fritz da Cat, but Articolo 31's lawyers obtained a retraction of the record, and its reissue without the song.

Grant has won six Grammy Awards, 25 Gospel Music Association Dove Awards, and had the first Christian album ever to go Platinum.

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

Age to Age became the first Christian album by a solo artist to be certified gold ( 1983 ) and the first Christian album to be certified platinum ( 1985 ).

Grant followed up this album with the first of her Christmas albums — albums that later would be the basis for her holiday shows.

he should recall that Dylan called his first cover album Self Portrait.

In 1987, Andersson released his first solo album Klinga Mina Klockor (" Chime, My Bells ").

") According to the liner notes of his first ( self-titled ) album, musician Bob Dylan dedicated the first song he ever wrote to Bardot.

The first single from the album, as well as the record's title track " Write About Love ", was released in the US on 7 September 2010.

The anonymous sleeve notes accompanying the 1956 Decca album " Rock Around The Clock " describe Haley's early life and career thus: " Bill got his first professional job at the age of 13, playing and entertaining at an auction for the fee of $ 1 a night.

In 1971, his early works were compiled under his first full length album Dünden Bugüne, today commonly referred as Dağlar Dağlar.