Kenneth Eric Church (born May 3, 1977), known professionally as Eric Church, is an American country music singer-songwriter. Signed to Capitol Records since 2005, he has since released a total of four studio albums for that label. His debut album, 2006’s Sinners Like Me, produced four singles on the Billboard country charts including the Top 20 hits “How ‘Bout You”, “Two Pink Lines”, and “Guys Like Me”. – Wikipedia
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Malinda Gayle “Mindy” McCready (November 30, 1975 – February 17, 2013) was an American country music singer. Active from 1995 until her death in 2013, she recorded a total of five studio albums. Her debut album, 1996’s Ten Thousand Angels, was released on BNA Records and was certified 2× Platinum by the RIAA, while 1997’s If I Don’t Stay the Night was certified Gold. 1999’s I’m Not So Tough, her final album for BNA, was less successful, and she left the label. A self-titled fourth album followed in 2002 on Capitol Records. McCready’s fifth and final studio album, I’m Still Here, was released in March 2010 on Iconic Records.
McCready’s first four studio albums accounted for twelve singles on the Billboard country singles charts. This figure includes the Number One hit “Guys Do It All the Time,” as well as the Top Ten hits “Ten Thousand Angels” and “A Girl’s Gotta Do (What a Girl’s Gotta Do).”
Although she had not charted a single since 2002, McCready received significant media coverage regarding her troubled personal life and suicide.
On February 17, 2013, neighbors called the Sheriff’s Office of Cleburne County, Arkansas, reporting gunshots. McCready was found dead on her front porch, the same place where David Wilson, her former boyfriend and the father of her younger son, had killed himself one month prior. She was 37 years old. Her death was from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. She also fatally shot the pet dog that had belonged to Wilson. Her two children remain in foster care and were not home at the time of her death. McCready is interred at Alva Cemetery in Alva, Florida. (Source: Wikipedia)
| 1 | Guys Do It All the Time |
| 2 | A Girl’s Gotta Do (What a Girl’s Gotta Do) |
| 3 | Maybe He’ll Notice Her Now (with Richie McDonald) |
| 4 | You’ll Never Know |
| 5 | Ten Thousand Angels |
| 6 | What If I Do |
| 7 | The Other Side of This Kiss |
| 8 | All I Want Is Everything |
| 9 | Oh Romeo |
| 10 | Scream |
| 11 | Maybe, Maybe Not |
| 12 | One in a Million |
| 13 | Let’s Talk About Love |
| 14 | Lips Like Yours |
| 15 | I’m Still Here |
| 16 | I Want a Man |
| 17 | Sweeter (with Billy McKnight) |
| 18 | The Dance |
| 19 | Have A Nice Day |
| 20 | Breakin’ It |
Keith Lionel Urban (born 26 October 1967) is a New Zealand-born and Australian-raised country music musician, songwriter, guitarist, and television music competition judge. When he was 2 years old, his parents moved the family to Australia, where his career eventually began. In 1991, he released a self-titled debut album, and charted four singles in Australia before moving to the United States in 1992. Eventually, he found work as a session guitarist before starting a band known as The Ranch, which recorded one studio album on Capitol Records and charted two singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.
Still signed to Capitol, he made his solo American debut in 1999 with the album Keith Urban. Certified platinum in the U.S., it produced his first Number One on Hot Country Songs with “But for the Grace of God“. “Somebody Like You”, the first single from his second Capitol album, Golden Road (2002), was named by Billboard as the biggest country hit of the 2000–2010 decade. The album’s fourth single, “You’ll Think of Me”, earned him his first Grammy. 2004’s Be Here, his third American album, produced three more number 1 singles, and became his highest-selling album, earning 4× Platinum certification. Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing was released in 2006, containing “Once in a Lifetime”, as well as his second Grammy song, “Stupid Boy“. A greatest hits package entitled Greatest Hits: 18 Kids followed in late 2007. Defying Gravity and Get Closer were released on 31 March 2009 and 16 November 2010, respectively.
Keith Urban has released a total of nine studio albums (one of which was released only in the United Kingdom), as well as one album with The Ranch. He has charted 29 singles on the U.S. country charts, of which 15 have reached Number One. He plays acoustic and electric guitar, as well as banjo, bass guitar, mandolin, piano, sitar, bouzouki, and drums. He is also known for his roles as a coach on the Australian version of the singing competition The Voice, and as a judge on American Idol. Since 2006, he has been married to actress Nicole Kidman. (Source: Wikipedia)
| 1 | You’ll Think of Me |
| 2 | Kiss a Girl |
| 3 | Little Bit of Everything |
| 4 | Making Memories of Us |
| 5 | Once in a Lifetime |
| 6 | Somebody Like You |
| 7 | We Were Us (with Miranda Lambert) |
| 8 | It’s a Love Thing |
| 9 | Without You |
| 10 | Long Hot Summer |
| 11 | You’re My Better Half |
| 12 | Sweet Thing |
| 13 | Only You Can Love Me This Way |
| 14 | Days Go By |
| 15 | Put You in a Song |
| 16 | Tonight I Wanna Cry |
| 17 | Raining on Sunday |
| 18 | You Gonna Fly |
| 19 | Who Wouldn’t Wanna Be Me |
| 20 | ‘Til Summer Comes Around |
| 21 | But for the Grace of God |
| 22 | Where the Blacktop Ends |
| 23 | Better Life |
| 24 | For You |
| 25 | Stupid Boy |
| 26 | I Told You So |
| 27 | Your Everything |
| 28 | These Are the Days |
| 29 | Shame |
| 30 | Used to the Pain |
Prism (stylized as PRISM) is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Katy Perry, released on October 18, 2013 by Capitol Records. Recording for the album began in 2012, following the March 2012 re-release of her August 2010 album Teenage Dream, subtitled The Complete Confection, and continued into the following year. The album’s composition was largely inspired by Swedish dance music artists such as Robyn. In order to create her desired sound, Perry worked heavily with Swedish producer Max Martin, while also enlisting past collaborators Dr. Luke, Cirkut, Greg Wells, Benny Blanco, and StarGate, as well as new collaborators Klas Åhlund, Bloodshy, and Greg Kurstin.
“Roar” was released on August 10, 2013 to American radio stations as the album’s lead single and it has since topped the US Billboard Hot 100, while peaking at the top 10 of twenty-five countries. “Dark Horse” featuring rapper Juicy J was released on September 17, 2013 on iTunes as the album’s first promotional single. “Walking on Air” was released on September 30, 2013 as the album’s second promotional single. “Unconditionally” was released as the album’s second single on October 16, 2013. (Source: Wikipedia)
Capitol Records is proud to announce the release of Elton John’s The Diving Board, the artist’s first solo studio album in seven years, on Tuesday, September 24. Produced by T Bone Burnett, the album features 12 new songs written by Elton and his longtime lyricist Bernie Taupin, as well as three piano interludes composed by the artist. Beginning today, fans who pre-order The Diving Board on iTunes (http://smarturl.it/TheDivingBoard) and EltonJohn.com, will receive an instant download of the album’s premiere single, “Home Again.” The album is also available for pre-order beginning today on Amazon.com (http://smarturl.it/TDBamzn). A video trailer for The Diving Board featuring “Home Again” can be viewed at (http://smarturl.it/TDBtrailer).
The Diving Board will be available in multiple formats: Standard, Deluxe, Super-Deluxe and a 180-gram 2-Disc Vinyl set. The Deluxe physical and digital packages will feature a bonus track from the album sessions, as well as three live tracks recorded by Elton and The Diving Board’s musicians during a special evening of music and conversation that took place at the famed Capitol Studios in April. The Super-Deluxe package will arrive in a specially-designed and embossed box and will include the Deluxe CD and 180-gram Vinyl versions of the album, a DVD of the Capitol Records Studios performances and behind-the-scenes, a case-bound photo book and exclusive art print.
The Diving Board returns Elton John to the piano, bass and drums lineup that marked the artist’s introduction to worldwide audiences more than 40 years ago. As Elton explains, “In many ways, I feel like I’m starting again, making records. Several years ago when beginning to work with T Bone and being in the studio with Leon Russell for The Union, I had to ask myself, ‘What kind of music do I really want to make?’, and I realized that I had to go back to go forward again. I needed to strip away the excesses and get back to the core of what I do as an artist. That’s what The Diving Board represents. I’m incredibly excited about every aspect of this album: The performances, T Bone’s production, Bernie’s lyrics and the songs we’ve created. The Diving Board is the album I’ve been waiting to make for decades.”
According to T Bone Burnett, The Diving Board also evokes memories of the producer’s first exposure to Elton John as a live performer, “I saw Elton at the Troubadour in 1970, in a legendary week of shows. Those shows never left me. A three piece band – piano, bass, and drums, like one enormous instrument – just killing it. So we started from there. I wanted to be able to superimpose this recording over my memory of the sound and the wild intelligence of those shows. From that perspective, forty years down the road, The Diving Board is an album of music by a master at the peak of his artistic powers.”
Capitol Music Group Chairman & CEO Steve Barnett commented, “The Diving Board is simply a masterpiece. It is rare for an artist of Elton’s stature — one who has experienced decades of success and has sold literally hundreds of millions of records – to re-evaluate his artistic ambitions, to push himself and dig so deeply to create one of the strongest albums of his storied career. Yet, Elton has done exactly that. All of us at the company are incredibly proud to be presenting The Diving Board to the public, and we couldn’t be more thrilled that Capitol Records is now home to Elton John.”
The complete track listing for The Diving Board is as follows:
01. Oceans Away
02. Oscar Wilde Gets Out
03. A Town Called Jubilee
04. The Ballad of Blind Tom
05. Dream #1
06. My Quicksand
07. Can’t Stay Alone Tonight
08. Voyeur
09. Home Again
10. Take This Dirty Water
11. Dream #2
12. The New Fever Waltz
13. Mexican Vacation (Kids In The Candlelight)
14. Dream #3
15. The Diving Board
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16. Candlelit Bedroom [Deluxe & Super-Deluxe Versions]
17. Home Again (live from Capitol Studios) [Deluxe & Super-Deluxe Versions]
18. Mexican Vacation (Kids In The Candlelight) (live from Capitol Studios) [Deluxe & Super-Deluxe Versions]
19. The New Fever Waltz (live from Capitol Studios) [Deluxe & Super-Deluxe Versions]
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The Beach Boys are an American rock band, formed in Hawthorne, California in 1961. The group’s best known lineup consisted of Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine. Initially managed by the Wilsons’ father Murry, the Beach Boys signed to Capitol Records in 1962. The band’s early music gained popularity across the United States for its close vocal harmonies and lyrics reflecting a Southern California youth culture of surfing, cars, and romance. By the mid-1960s, Brian Wilson’s growing creative ambition and songwriting ability would dominate the group’s musical direction. The primarily Wilson-composed Pet Sounds album and “Good Vibrations” single (both released in 1966) featured a complex, intricate and multi-layered sound that represented a departure from the simple surf rock of the Beach Boys’ early years.
Starting in 1967, Wilson gradually abdicated control to the rest of the band, assuming a reduced level of input due to mental health and substance abuse issues. Though the more democratic incarnation of the Beach Boys recorded a string of albums in various musical styles that garnered international critical and commercial success, the group struggled to reclaim their commercial momentum in America despite once being seen as the primary competitors to the Beatles. Since the 1980s, there has been much legal-wrangling among the group members over royalties, songwriting credits, and use of the band’s name. Dennis Wilson drowned in December 1983, and Carl died of lung cancer in February 1998. After Carl’s death, a number of versions of the band, each fronted by a surviving member of the original quintet, continued to tour into the 2000s. In 2012, the surviving Beach Boys put aside their differences, recorded a new album, and embarked on a full-scale reunion tour.
The Beach Boys have often been called “America’s Band”, and Allmusic has stated that their “unerring ability … made them America’s first, best rock band.” The group have had over eighty songs chart worldwide, thirty-six of them United States Top 40 hits (the most by an American rock band), four of those reaching number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The Beach Boys have sold in excess of 100 million records worldwide and are listed at number 12 on Rolling Stone magazine’s 2004 list of the “100 Greatest Artists of All Time”. The core quintet of the three Wilsons, Love and Jardine was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. (Source: Wikipedia)
| 1 | Good Vibrations |
| 2 | Barbara Ann |
| 3 | Sloop John B |
| 4 | Do It Again |
| 5 | Kokomo |
| 6 | Heroes and Villains |
| 7 | I Can Hear Music |
| 8 | Cottonfields |
| 9 | California Girls |
| 10 | Help Me, Rhonda |
| 11 | I Get Around |
| 12 | Surfin’ U.S.A. |
| 13 | Darlin’ |
| 14 | Dance, Dance, Dance |
| 15 | Little Honda |
| 16 | Beach Boys Medley |
| 17 | Wild Honey |
| 18 | Then I Kissed Her |
| 19 | God Only Knows |
| 20 | Still Cruisin’ |
| 21 | When I Grow Up (To Be a Man) |
| 22 | Break Away |
| 23 | Rock and Roll Music |
| 24 | Getcha Back |
| 25 | Bluebirds over the Mountain |
| 26 | Do You Wanna Dance? |
| 27 | Wouldn’t It Be Nice |
| 28 | Surfin’ Safari |
| 29 | Be True to Your School |
| 30 | Wipe Out (with the Fat Boys) |
| 31 | Come Go with Me |
| 32 | Good Timin’ |
| 33 | It’s O.K. |
| 34 | Lady Lynda |
| 35 | California Dreamin’ |
| 36 | Friends |
| 37 | Here Comes the Night |
| 38 | Surfer Girl |
| 39 | Fun, Fun, Fun |
| 40 | Peggy Sue |
| 41 | Little Girl I Once Knew |
| 42 | Sail On, Sailor |
| 43 | Little Deuce Coupe |
| 44 | Ten Little Indians |
| 45 | Hot Fun in the Summertime |
| 46 | California Saga: California |
| 47 | Rock ‘n’ Roll to the Rescue |
| 48 | In My Room |
| 49 | It’s Gettin’ Late |
| 50 | Add Some Music to Your Day |
| 51 | Hawaii |
| 52 | Tears in the Morning |
| 53 | Marcella |
| 54 | She Believes in Love Again |
| 55 | You Need a Mess of Help to Stand Alone |
| 56 | That’s Why God Made the Radio |
| 57 | Problem Child |
| 58 | Long Promised Road |
| 59 | Don’t Worry Baby (with the Everly Brothers) |
| 60 | It’s a Beautiful Day |
| 61 | Long Tall Texan |
| 62 | Surfin’ |
| 63 | Goin’ On |
| 64 | Slip On Through |
| 65 | Happy Endings (with Little Richard) |
| 66 | Isn’t It Time |
| 67 | Crocodile Rock |
| 68 | Tell Me Why |
| 69 | Forever (with John Stamos) |
| 70 | Under The Boardwalk |
Elizabeth Clark “Liz” Phair (born April 17, 1967) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist.
Phair began her career in the early 1990s by self-releasing audio cassettes under the moniker Girly Sound, before signing with the independent record label Matador Records. Her 1993 debut studio album Exile in Guyville was released to acclaim: by the turn of the 21st century, it had been ranked by Rolling Stone as one of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Ten years after the release of her debut, Phair’s fourth album, Liz Phair, was released on Capitol Records and her music began to move in a more pop rock-oriented approach. Phair has sold nearly three million records worldwide. Her latest album, Funstyle, was released on July 3, 2010.
| 1 | Why Can’t I? |
| 2 | Supernova |
| 3 | Extraordinary |
| 4 | Everything to Me |
| 5 | Whip-Smart |
| 6 | Carnivore |
| 7 | The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana) |
| 8 | Don’t Have Time |
| 9 | Six Dick Pimp |
| 10 | California |
| 11 | Mother’s Little Helper |
| 12 | Leap of Innocence |
| 13 | And He Slayed Her |
| 14 | Polyester Bride |
| 15 | Jealousy |
| 16 | Wind and The Mountain |
| 17 | Never Said |
| 18 | Stratford-on-Guy |
| 19 | Gunshy |
| 20 | Rocket Boy |
| 21 | You Should Know Me |
| 22 | Red Light Fever |
| 23 | 6 FT 1 |
| 24 | Johnny Sunshine |
| 25 | Good Love Never Dies |
Wanted Dead or Alive is the first album by singer/songwriter Warren Zevon, released by Imperial Records in 1970 under the moniker “Zevon.” The album was a commercial and critical failure.
The track “She Quit Me” was featured in the 1969 film Midnight Cowboy as “He Quit Me.” “Tule’s Blues” was written about his lover, Marilyn “Tule” Livingston, mother of his son Jordan.
Kim Fowley began the project as producer, but he left after disagreements with Zevon and did not take credit for production duties. Fowley later remembered:
[Warren] wanted to play all the instruments himself. He wouldn’t listen to anybody. I wasn’t trying to produce him because you really couldn’t produce Warren, at least not in those days, but I was trying to help him make a record that might sell more than ten copies, all purchased by his friends. But, he didn’t listen to anyone about anything, and one day I just walked in thinking I’d had enough.
Zevon chalked up his disagreement with Fowley to a “sudden attack of taste.”
The album was released “to the sound of one hand clapping,” as Zevon later remarked. Sales were poor, and critics ignored the album. Jackson Browne later commented, “I don’t remember thinking [the album] was as good as he really was.” Attempts to record a follow-up album, called Leaf In The Wind, were abandoned, and Zevon found work as band leader and musical coordinator for the Everly Brothers. His next album, the critically acclaimed classic Warren Zevon, was not released until 1976. Once Zevon reached stardom, Wanted Dead or Alive ended up as an all-but-forgotten relic of his early career.
Wanted Dead or Alive was initially released on the CD format by One Way Records in 1996. Following the announcement that Zevon had terminal lung cancer, Capitol Records put out a remastered version of the album in early 2003.
- “Wanted Dead or Alive” (Kim Fowley, Martin Cerf) – 2:36
- “Hitchhikin’ Woman” – 2:16
- “She Quit Me” – 4:48
- “Calcutta” – 2:19
- “Iko-Iko” (Marilyn Jones, Sharon Jones, Joe Jones, M. Thomas) – 1:54
- “Traveling in the Lightning” – 3:05
- “Tule’s Blues” – 3:32
- “A Bullet for Ramona” (Zevon, Paul Evans) – 3:50
- “Gorilla” – 3:23
- “Fiery Emblems” (instrumental) – 3:15
I hope everyone has a good Memorial Day Weekend.
On “Great Soul Performances” this evening, it will be Part 2 of our salute to Little Willie John. Kevin John; Willie’s son will be back, and we will play all of the tracks from Willie’s last recording session in 1966 for Capitol Records released as, “1966.”
It’s Little Willie John at 7PM Eastern on RadioMaxMusic.Com.
BTW, next week we will pay tribute to Donna Summer and my mentor, Hal Jackson.
