Robbie Dupree &other

The Romantics are an American rock band from Detroit, Michigan. The band adopted the name "The Romantics" because they formed on Valentine's Day, 1977. The Romantics achieved moderate popularity in the United States, Canada, parts of Asia, Australia, Europe, and Latin America during the first half of the 1980s on the strength of the band's catchy, energetic songs and stylish, memorable music videos. Influenced by 1960s British Invasion rock (most notably the music of the Kinks, the Who, the Beatles, the Hollies, and the Rolling Stones), 1970s Detroit garage rock and hard rock (as represented by such performers as Iggy Pop, the Stooges, the MC5, and the Rationals), and the punk rock of the Ramones, The Romantics play a more pop-oriented variation of punk rock known as power pop. The band is also commonly classified into the category of "New Wave" (probably due more to the band's image and era than the sound of its music) by pop music historians.

Baltimora was an Italian New Wave dance outfit active in the mid to late 1980s. Jimmy McShane, from Northern Ireland, was the frontman for the project. The vocals, however, were not produced by McShane, instead they were done by Baltimora's producer Maurizio Bassi who sang all of the lead vocals.[1]. Both the music and the lyrics of Baltimora were written mostly by Bassi and Naimy Hackett, although McShane wrote the lyrics to "Survivor In Love." Baltimora is often considered a one-hit wonder due to the success they experienced with their first single "Tarzan Boy" only.

Robbie Dupree (born Robert Dupuis on December 23, 1946 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American singer-songwriter best known for his 1980 top ten pop hit, "Steal Away."



Dupree originally became popular with his breakout hit, "Steal Away", which hit #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in April 1980. Shortly after that, he scored another hit with "Hot Rod Hearts", which rose to #15 in July 1980. Dupree's final single to make the Billboard charts, "Brooklyn Girls", peaked at #54 in May 1981.



In 1987, Dupree contributed the song "Girls in Cars" to Piledriver: The Wrestling Album II, a collection of theme songs for World Wrestling Entertainment (then known as the World Wrestling Federation). The tag team Strike Force (Tito Santana and Rick Martel) used "Girls in Cars" as their entrance music.

Junior Mance

Junior Mance is well-known for his soulful bluesy style, but he is also expert at playing bop standards. He started playing professionally when he was ten. Mance worked with Gene Ammons in Chicago during 1947-1949, played with Lester Young (1950), and was with the Ammons -Sonny Stitt group until he was drafted. He was the house pianist at Chicago's Bee Hive (1953-1954), worked as Dinah Washington's accompanist (1954-1955), was in the first Cannonball Adderley Quintet (1956-1957), and then spent two years touring with Dizzy Gillespie (1958-1960). After a few months with the Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis/Johnny Griffin group, Mance formed his own trio and has mostly been a leader ever since. He has led sessions for Verve, Jazzland, Riverside, Capitol, Atlantic, Milestone, Polydor, Inner City, JSP, Nilva, Sackville, and Bee Hive, among other labels.

Iosif Ivanovici & other

Ion Ivanovici (alternatively, Iosif Ivanovici, Josef Ivanovici, baptised as Jovan Ivanović) (born 1845 in Timişoara , died September 28 , 1902 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian military band leader and composer , remembered today for his waltz The Waves of the Danube . His interest in music began after he learned to play a flute given to him when he was a child.^[1] Later, he enrolled in the 6th Army Regiment, where he also learned to play the clarinet . His talent for music soon led him to become among the best musicians in the regiment, and he continued to study with Emil Lehr , one of the most prominent musicians of the latter half of the nineteenth century. Ivanovici later became a bandmaster , and toured Romania. In 1900, he was appointed Inspector of Military Music, a position that he held until his death.^[1]

Although today Ivanovici is chiefly remembered for his waltz The Waves of the Danube , Donauwellen in German, in his lifetime he composed over 350 dances, and his works were published by over sixty publishing houses throughout the world.^[1] In 1889, Ivanovici won the coveted march prize to mark the World Exhibition in Paris, out of 116 entries.^[1]

Ivanovici's Dabube Waves was first published in the U.S. in 1896, and republished in 1903, by the Theodore Lohr Company in an arrangement for piano by Simon Adler. The published version was called "Waves of the Danube". The composition is most commonly known as "Danube Waves Waltz".

In 1946, Al Jolson and Saul Chaplin adapted Ivanovici's music to Danube Waves for the pop song Anniversary Song ("Oh, how we danced on the night we were wed"), credited to Jolson, Chaplin, and Ivanovici, which was featured in Jolson's biographical Columbia movie The Jolson Story and also appeared in the movies A Guy Thing in 2003, Payback with Mel Gibson in 1999, Avalon in 1990, Falling in Love Again in 1980, and Blondie's Anniversary in 1947. In 1947, Chaim Tauber copyrighted a Yiddish version known as Anniversary Waltz with music by Ivanovici.

Al Jolson introduced Ivanovici's music to mainstream American pop in 1946 when he released The Anniversary Song, with music by Ivanovici, on Decca. Dinah Shore released a version of the song on Columbia. Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller Orchestra featuring Garry Stevens and the Mello Larks on vocals released a version of the song in 1947 on RCA Victor. Artie Shaw and His New Music Orchestra released a version the same year. Joni James released a version of the song on her 1958 MGM album Among My Souvenirs. Andy Russell and Paul Weston released a version on Capitol Records with vocals. Guitarist Django Reinhardt and the Quintette Du Hot Club De France released a version in 1947 on Blue Star as a 78, Blue Star 33.

Frank Sinatra performed The Anniversary Song with music by Ivanovici for radio broadcast. The recording is available on the Frank Sinatra collection The Radio Years. Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Eva Cassidy, Mitch Miller, Andy Williams, and Guy Lombardo also performed and recorded the song.

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of violinist John Georgiadis has performed Iosif Ivanovici's Erzherzog Carl Ludwig March, Op. 129, at the Barbican Centre in London in the UK during the Viennese New Year's Eve Gala held on December 31, 2008.

Iosif Ivanovici's most famous composition is Waves of the Danube Waltz or Danube Waves Waltz (1880) and he is remembered as the "Waltz King of Romania". Ivanovici's other works include:

Radiohead are an English alternative rock band from Abingdon , Oxfordshire . The band is composed of Thom Yorke (lead vocals, rhythm guitar, piano, beats), Jonny Greenwood (lead guitar, keyboard, other instruments), Ed O'Brien (guitar, backing vocals), Colin Greenwood (bass guitar) and Phil Selway (drums, percussion).

Radiohead released their first single , "Creep ", in 1992. The song was initially unsuccessful, but it became a worldwide hit several months after the release of their 1993 debut album, Pablo Honey . Radiohead's popularity rose in the United Kingdom with the release of their 1995 second album, The Bends . The band's textured guitar parts and Yorke's falsetto singing were warmly received by critics and fans. Radiohead's third album, 1997's OK Computer , propelled them to greater international fame. Featuring an expansive sound and themes of modern alienation , OK Computer has often been acclaimed as a landmark record of the 1990s.

Kid A in 2000, and the following year's Amnesiac , marked a change in Radiohead's musical style. They incorporated experimental electronic music , Krautrock , post-punk and jazz influences into their songs, dividing fans and critics, but they remained popular. Hail to the Thief (2003), a mix of guitar-driven rock, electronics and lyrics inspired by headlines, was the band's final album for their major record label, EMI . Radiohead independently released their seventh album, In Rainbows (2007), originally as a digital download for which each customer could set their own price, later in stores, to critical and chart success. Radiohead have sold approximately 30 million albums as of 2008.^{[1] [2]}

Radiohead's work has appeared in a large number of listener polls and critics' lists.^{[3] [4]} For example, in 2005, Radiohead were ranked number 73 in Rolling Stone 's list of "the greatest artists of all time".^[5] While the band's later albums brought them a wide audience,^[6] their earlier sound on The Bends and OK Computer remained influential on British rock music.

Lorin Varencove MaaIssaquah, WA, indie rock trio

Lorin Varencove Maazel was born in Neuilly, France, of American parents, on March 6, 1930 and the family returned to Los Angeles when Lorin was still an infant. He exhibited a remarkable ear and musical memory when very young; he had perfect pitch and sang back what he heard. He was taken at age five to study violin with Karl Moldrem. At age seven he started studying piano with Fanchon Armitage. When he became fascinated with conducting, his parents took him to symphony concerts, then arranged for him to have lessons with Vladimir Bakaleinikov, then assistant conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic . At the age of eight, the University of Idaho orchestra visited Los Angeles. Bakaleinikov arranged for his eight-year-old pupil to conduct them in Schubert 's "Unfinished" b minor symphony. (Maazel was quick with languages as well; he learned to speak Russian from studying with Bakaleinikov.) In 1938 Bakaleinikov obtained a position as assistant conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra . The Maazel family followed him east so that Lorin could continue his studies with him. Lorin went to the National Music Camp at Interlochen, Michigan in the summer. On August 18, 1939, the National Music Camp Orchestral appeared at the New York World's Fair, and Lorin conducted it in a work. His appearance created a sensation, although some critics were negative, comparing the feat to the performance of a trained seal.

However, by 1941 Maazel had shown that he was a real conductor. He led an entire concert by the NBC Symphony Orchestra, earning a commendation from its music director, Arturo Toscanini . The next year, he conducted a complete program with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted a few other orchestras, including the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra . At that point a halt was called to such displays, and Maazel concentrated on rounding out his education. He concentrated on the violin and gave his first recital on the instrument in Pittsburgh in 1945. In the same year he became first violinist of the Fine Arts Quartet. In 1948 he joined the orchestra as a member of the violin section. He was appointed "apprentice conductor" of the orchestra in 1949 and occupied that position until 1951. In that year he went to Italy on a Fulbright Scholarship for research in Baroque music. There, his first conducting appearance as a adult took place on December 21, 1952, in Catania. He began conducting elsewhere in Italy, then in Austria and Germany. He conducted at the Florence May Festival in 1955, at the Vienna Festival in 1957, and made his London debut in 1960 in a BBC Symphony Orchestra concert, making the then-rare choice of a Maler Symphony, being praised for the performance's power and for his control over the structure of the work. In the same year he conducted Wagner 's "Lohengrin" at the Bayreuth Festival, being the first American to conduct at the annual Wagner Festival there.

In 1962 he led the National Orchestra of France on an American tour; On November 1 of the same year he made a debut at the Metropolitan Opera leading Mozart 's "Don Giovanni." He then began touring widely as a guest conductor. He visited Japan and the USSR in 1963. In 1965 he both conducted and produced a performance of Tchaikovsky 's opera "Eugene Onegin." In the same year he was appointed artistic director of the Deutshe Oper in West Berlin (1965-1971) and the (West) Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (1965-1975). As head of the opera company he conducted mostly standard repertory, and premiered Luigi Dallapiccola 's opera "Ulisse" in 1968. While he ended his opera association in 1971, he retained the orchestral post, as well as taking on the positions of associate principal conductor of the New Philharmonic Orchestra of London (1970-1972) and music director of the Cleveland Orchestra (1972-1982), accepting the very difficult job of filling the shoes of the just-deceased conductor George Szell . Maazel filled that position with excellent results. The orchestra stayed at the same level of discipline and took on a rather more colorful surface to essentially the same "Cleveland sound" that Szell had instilled in them. He led the orchestra on ten major international tours and produced fine recordings with several record companies, including making some of the earliest and best-sounding recordings in the new digital technology with Telarc Records of Cleveland. He expanded the scope of the orchestra's repertory, bringing in new European works in styles that had not been to Szell 's liking. He began producing staged operas within the regular concert season of the orchestra.

A very hard worker, Maazel also guest conducted considerably and in 1976 added another orchestra when he was appointed principal guest conductor of the New Philharmonic Orchestra (until 1980), and yet another in 1977 as chief conductor of the French National Orchestra (until 1982, when he became principal guest conductor (until 1988 when he became Music director (until 1991))). In the midst of this he became the regular conductor of the famous Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Day Concerts, which he retained through the 1986 concert. He resigned from his Cleveland position and was named music director emeritus in 1982. In that year he began a four-year contract as artistic director and general manager of the Vienna State Opera, the first American to hold that position. However, a change of leadership in Austria's Ministry of Culture resulted in political squabbles over artistic policies, and Maazel felt compelled to resign in 1984 He became "music consultant" to the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in 1984, was named its music adviser and principal guest conductor in 1986, and in the same year was made its music director.

Maazel has had a distinguished recording career. He has won the Grand Prix de Disque of Paris and the Edison Prize from the Netherlands. His recording for Deutsche Grammophon of Ravel 's opera "L'Enfant et les Sortileges" is a classic that has never been out of print and has been counted as the greatest recording of that masterwork since it appeared in the 1960s. He conducted the complete symphonies of Sibelius and Tchaikovsky with the Vienna Philharmonic in the 1960s for Decca (London); the former, in particular, is one of the distinguished recordings of the great Finnish composer's seven symphonies. Maazel also maintained his skills as a violinist; one of his famous recordings was as soloist and conductor in the five Mozart violin concertos with the English Chamber Orchestra . Maazel has been married twice: to Brazilian-American pianist Miriam Sandbank and to Israeli pianist Israela Margolit; both marriages ended in divorce. He has received the Sibelius Prize of Finland, the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit from West Germany, and other honors and honorary degrees




Issaquah, WA, indie rock trio Modest Mouse was formed in 1993 by vocalist/guitarist Isaac Brock , bassist Eric Judy , and drummer Jeremiah Green . After honing their muscular sound in "The Shed" -- a makeshift practice space built by Brock on the land next to his mother's trailer -- Modest Mouse entered Calvin Johnson 's Dub Narcotic Studios to cut their 1994 self-titled debut single, released on Johnson 's K Records label. Following a move to the Up label, the trio issued two 1996 LPs, This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About and Interstate 8 . After returning to K, Modest Mouse released The Fruit That Ate Itself in 1997; its follow-up from later that year, The Lonesome Crowded West , was the band's breakthrough, and in the wake of a major-label bidding war, they signed to Sony. The rarities collection Building Nothing out of Something appeared on Up in early 2000, followed later that year by their long-awaited Epic debut, The Moon & Antarctica . In 2001, the band issued the Everywhere and His Nasty Parlor Tricks EP and K released Sad Sappy Sucker , a "lost album" that was intended to be the group's full-length debut back in 1994. Brock kept busy with his Ugly Casanova side project, which delivered Sharpen Your Teeth in 2002. Modest Mouse finally returned in 2004 with Good News for People Who Love Bad News , their best-received record and a Top 40 hit as well. For their next record, Brock enlisted the help of former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr , who not only added his songwriting and playing skills to We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank -- which was released in early 2007 -- but also toured with the band as a membe

The fact that Sara Ayers has built a fairly successful career as a new age artist after spending most of the late '70s and early '80s in and out of punk-orientated bar bands only speaks to her broad musical vision and far-reaching influences. Perhaps her most successful early effort was with punk-influenced Dial Tones, who provided local support for the Ramones and Joe Jackson. Over the course of the next few years, Ayers paid her dues with an astounding number of projects and collaborations, including the Dialtones and AKA/etc. By 1985, Ayers had moved toward more synth and keyboard-driven ambient music, and in that year, debuted under her own name, releasing the Fluorochrome cassette on Blog Records. From 1985 to 1994 she appeared on only three compilations, (two of which were cassette-only), but in 1997, released her Voices full-length on Dark Wood Recordings. Rich with synth and vocal soundscapes, she started gaining popularity through a strong Internet presence and support within the new age community. The full-length Sylvatica followed in 1999 on Dark Wood Recordings, delving deeper into the very synthetic, ambient new age.Sara Ayers

The long-running goth electronica act+The Britis

The long-running goth electronica act Clan of Xymox (known from 1988 to 1997 simply as Xymox) formed in the Netherlands in 1983, with an original lineup of singer and guitarist Ronny Moorings, keyboardist Pieter Nooten, and bassist and singer Anke Wolbert. Originally signed to the influential British indie 4AD Records, Clan of Xymox's blend of chilly synthesizers, dance beats, and melodramatic vocals first attracted attention with their mid-1980s albums CLAN OF XYMOX and MEDUSA. After their departure from 4AD, Moorings (the band's sole constant member) continued releasing albums to a faithful cult audience, starting with 1989's popular TWIST OF SHADOWS.

The British group Barclay James Harvest purveyed pastoral chamber-prog with surging rock energy and a unique, mellotron-driven sound. Although they reflected all the aesthetics of a proper British band of the early 1970s, and were supported by major labels, they never quite found their audience in either their homeland or the U.S. By the mid '70s, however, their renown was growing in Europe, particularly Germany, and they were able to steadily tour and record according to their muse until well into the '90s. One of the founding members, drummer Mel Pritchard, died in 2004.