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 album is a culmination of the band's previous work.

" After the culmination of the promotional tour for their first album, Sherman was fired and Slovak rejoined the band.

His greatest success came with the 1994 album " Johnny Damas & Me " described as " a culmination of years of poetic work, and an example of a process of fusing traditional sounds, values, and sensibilities with thought-provoking lyrics, this time with urgent rock and roll.

The album was a culmination of over 5 years of work for Ross, who produced and compiled the project.

Sense Field disbanded in January 2004 at the culmination of a world tour in support of their fifth and final album.

The album is the culmination of the band's 80s period and is a balance between the experimental sounds of the " Red " album, Discipline, and the accessibility of the " Blue " album, Beat.

was Petra's heaviest album yet, the culmination of the transition begun with Back to the Street.

Darnielle considers this album to be the culmination of his lo-fi recording style.

Some fans and critics consider the album to be a culmination of Ween's penchant for satire, deconstruction, and their appreciative mastery of genres, including 1960's Brit-pop, sea shanties, Broadway show tunes, and especially progressive rock.

The 11 song full length album ( short listed from over 25 songs ) was the culmination of more than two years of song writing, dedication and hard work.

While there is a discernible rock and funk influence in the timbres of the instruments employed, from a musical standpoint the album was a culmination of sorts of the musique concrète approach that Davis and producer Teo Macero ( who had studied with Otto Luening at Columbia University's Computer Music Center ) had begun to explore in the late 1960s.

He subsequently recorded an album as a duet with Pauline Scanlon-previously of the Sharon Shannon band-the culmination of a project entitled ' Deora De ', an album comprising tunes and songs.

" However, the current Rolling Stone biography of Morrison hails the album as " the culmination of everything Van was doing up to that point, all celtic mystic tumult in the vocals and pastoral beauty in the music " and ranks it among " his most majestic music ".

Ayesa's newly released album is a culmination of years of determination and heralds the coming of age of this recording artist.

Vocalist aLfie vera mella released a 4-CD epic package in December 2006, in conjunction with the culmination of his debut album as haLf man haLf eLf.

" Cruachan's debut album Tuatha Na Gael was released in 1995 and the band has since been acclaimed as having " gone the greatest lengths of anyone in their attempts to expand " the genre of folk metal.

Their debut album Tuatha Na Gael was released in 1995 and the band has since been acclaimed as having " gone the greatest lengths of anyone in their attempts to expand " the genre of folk metal.

He entitled the album as a rebuttal to media attempts to place him in various creeds.

There were multiple attempts to record Hole's third album, and one such attempt was in New Orleans in winter 1995.

The album was recorded in Conway Recording Studios in Los Angeles throughout 1997, after many " fruitless attempts " in Miami, London and New York.

Black Flag had made at least two aborted attempts to record a full-length album since the release of its first extended play Nervous Breakdown, with singers Keith Morris, Ron Reyes, and Dez Cadena ; some of the Reyes sessions became the Jealous Again EP, while selections from two of many Cadena sessions became the Six Pack EP and the " Louie Louie "/" Damaged I " single ; other session outtakes would later comprise the Everything Went Black double album.

Townshend's 1993 concept album Psychoderelict offers a scathing commentary on journalists in the character of Ruth Streeting, who attempts to scandalise the main character, Ray High.

Johns later made two " official " attempts at compiling the Get Back album, with both versions widely bootlegged.

In 1996, they stopped touring and made sporadic attempts to record his second album in New York with Tom Verlaine as producer.

This opened up the way for later attempts most notable of which is the Filipino jazz supergroup Johnny Alegre Affinity releasing its eponymous debut album in 2005 under London-based Candid Records.

She contributed to the song " Checkmate " on Dusty Springfield's, It Begins Again album ( the first of Springfield's comeback attempts ) in 1978.

The album was shelved by A & M CEO Herb Alpert, in spite of Quincy Jones ' attempts to talk Alpert into releasing the record after some tracks had been remixed.

Several RBR songs are featured on the double album Stranger than Fiction (" Don't Quit Your Day Job " Records ), also featuring other noted authors ' comic attempts at song.

According to Spiner, the album was released in Europe against his wishes after he had rejected attempts by the record company to renegotiate his contract.

Like " Subdivisions ," from the album Signals, " Middletown Dreams " explores suburban monotony and the average person's attempts to temporarily escape it.

Excessive drug use plus continued infighting undermined the band, and a final lineup of Cope, Dwyer and Balfe split apart in 1982 after failed attempts to record a third album and a final disastrous tour.

In 1986, Jon & Vangelis made a few attempts at writing a new album, but much of this work was never officially released under the Jon and Vangelis name.

Although he did make the trip ( after three separate attempts to get on the plane ), Wilson contributed little to the album, concentrating his musical efforts on " Mount Vernon and Fairway ", a ten-minute long " musical fairy tale " which was later included with the album as a bonus EP.

The production of this album was poor, though it was an improvement on previous attempts.

In 1987, Michael Brook saw O ' Hara in performance and was captivated by her unique style, and soon took on the job of producing O ' Hara's attempts at an album.

Allmusic's John Bush praised the album, writing " Despite all attempts to sabotage his songwriting and production with innumerable experimental tidbits, songs within a song, and ( seemingly ) tossed-off arrangements, Damon Gough has to face the fact that he wrote and produced over a dozen excellent songs of baroque folk-pop for his album debut, and the many gems can't help but shine through all the self-indulgence.