Category: 1970s
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Timmy Thomas
About Timothy Earle Thomas was an American R&B singer, keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer, best known for the hit song, “Why Can’t We Live Together”. Albums/Songs: Why Can’t We Live Together Gotta Give A Little Love (Ten Years After) R&B Hits & More Why Can’t We Live Together: The Best Of The TK Years 1972-81…
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Weather Report
About Weather Report was an American jazz fusion band active from 1970 to 1986. The band was founded in 1970 by Austrian keyboardist Joe Zawinul, American saxophonist Wayne Shorter, Czech bassist Miroslav Vitouš, American drummer Alphonse Mouzon as well as American percussionists Don Alias and Barbara Burton. The band was initially co-led by Zawinul and…
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Thin Lizzy
About Thin Lizzy are an Irish rock band formed in Dublin in 1969. Thin Lizzy initially consisted of bass guitarist, lead vocalist and principal songwriter Phil Lynott, drummer Brian Downey, guitarist Eric Bell and organist Eric Wrixon, although Wrixon left after a few months. Bell left at the end of 1973 and was briefly replaced…
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Glenn Frey
About Glenn Lewis Frey was an American musician. He was a founding member of the rock band Eagles. Frey was the co-lead singer and frontman for Eagles, roles he came to share with fellow member Don Henley, with whom he wrote most of Eagles’ material. Frey played guitar and keyboards as well as singing lead…
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Brian Connolly
About Brian Francis Connolly was a Scottish singer-songwriter, musician and actor, best known as the lead singer of glam rock band the Sweet between 1968 and 1979 and known for his charismatic stage presence and distinctive voice. Albums/Songs: Take Away The Music Call to Action: What’s your favorite Brian Connolly song? Share your thoughts in…
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The Manhattan Transfer
About The Manhattan Transfer was an American vocal group founded in 1969 in New York City, performing music genres like A cappella, Brazilian jazz, swing, vocalese, rhythm and blues, pop, and standards. They have won eleven Grammy Awards. Albums/Songs: Four Brothers Pastiche The Best of The Manhattan Transfer The Spirit of St. Louis Coming Out…
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Paolo Conte
About Paolo Conte is an Italian singer, pianist, songwriter and lawyer, known for his distinctly grainy, resonant voice. His compositions fuse Italian and Mediterranean sounds with jazz, boogie and elements of the French chanson and Latin-American rhythms. Albums/Songs: Aguaplano Paolo Conte Back to Jazz Paris milonga Impressioni di jazz Elegia Suonare, danzare… amare Snob Paolo…
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Randy Crawford
About Veronica “Randy” Crawford is a retired American jazz and R&B singer. She has been more successful in Europe than in the United States, where she has not entered the Billboard Hot 100 as a solo artist. However, she has appeared on the Hot 100 singles chart twice. The first time was in 1979 as…
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Candi Staton
About Canzetta Maria “Candi” Staton is an American singer–songwriter, best known in the United States for her 1970 cover of Tammy Wynette’s “Stand by Your Man” and her 1976 disco chart-topper “Young Hearts Run Free”. In Europe, Staton’s biggest selling record is the anthemic “You Got the Love” from 1986, released in collaboration with The…
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Isaac Hayes
About Isaac Lee Hayes Jr. was an American singer, songwriter, composer, and actor. He was one of the creative forces behind the Southern soul music label Stax Records, serving as both an in-house songwriter and as a session musician and record producer, teaming with his partner David Porter during the mid-1960s. Hayes and Porter were…
