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Dianne Quander is an American songwriter, best known for writing the song "Caught Up In The Rapture," with her writing partner Garry Glenn which was recorded by Anita Baker. She also collaborated on songs of various artists including "Take You To Heaven" by Earth, Wind and Fire, "Why Not Me" by Phyllis Hyman, "Flame of Love" by Jean Carne and "Sweet Control" by Jon Lucien.
Dianne Quander is a native of Washington, D.C. She graduated from Howard University with a BA degree in Journalism and Television and Film. She worked at Radio Station WHUR-FM in DC as a news reporter and then as an on-air personality (DJ). After WHUR, she moved to St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where she worked at WSTA playing a mix of R&B, jazz, pop and rock music. After a year in St. Thomas, Dianne moved back to Washington, D.C. and worked at the Pacific radio station WPFW, playing music on the late night to early morning shift. She soon moved to Los Angeles to pursue a writing career as a lyricist. Dianne met her musical soul mate Garry Glenn and they signed a publishing deal with Warner Brothers Music/Warner Chappell and collaborated on songs for several artists. Dianne and Garry both branched out on their own and she collaborated with writer-producers such as Maurice White, George Duke, Hiroshima, David Cochran, Jermaine Jackson, John Barnes, Jeff Lorber and Stephanie Spruill and more. Dianne was with Warner Chappell for 8 years.
Selected songwriting credits: "Cross Your Mind" (George Howard), "Steppin into the Night" (movie Armed and Dangerous), "Stay with Love" (The Jackson's mini-series), "Mind Blowin'" (The Whispers), "Just Another Lonely Night" (Johnny Gill), "Crazy Bout Your Lovin'" (Robert Brookins), "Finding My Way Back to You" (Chante Moore).
| Song | Co-Writer(s) | Performer(s) |
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| "Caught Up In The Rapture" | Garry Glenn | Anita Baker |
| "Cross Your Mind" | David Cochrane | Evelyn Champagne King, George Howard |
| "Feels Good To Feel Good" | Garry Glenn | Garry Glenn |
| "Flame of Love" | Garry Glenn | Jean Carne [1] |
| "Heaven In Your Arms" | Garry Glenn | R. J.'s Latest Arrival |
| "I Can't Let You Go" | Garry Glenn | Freddie Jackson |
| "Love Of My Life" | Garry Glenn | Pieces of a Dream |
| "Sweet Control" | Jeff Lorber and Stephanie Spruill | Jon Lucien |
Kim Carnes is an American singer and songwriter born and raised in Los Angeles. She began her career as a songwriter in the 1960s, writing for other artists while performing in local clubs and working as a session background singer with the famed Water Sisters. After she signed her first publishing deal with Jimmy Bowen, she released her debut album Rest on Me in 1971. Carnes' self-titled second album primarily contained self-penned songs, including her first charting single "You're a Part of Me", which reached No. 35 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart in 1975. In the following year, Carnes released Sailin', which featured "Love Comes from Unexpected Places". The song won the American Song Festival and the award for Best Composition at the Tokyo Song Festival in 1976.
Flex is the second studio album by English-American singer-songwriter Lene Lovich, released in January 1980 by Stiff Records. The album is produced by Lovich and Les Chappell with additional production by Roger Bechirian and Alan Winstanley. It was recorded at the Wisseloord Studios in Hilversum, Netherlands. She worked with Chappell and Judge Smith on writing the songs.
"Just a Little While" is a song by American singer-songwriter Janet Jackson, from her eighth studio album, Damita Jo (2004). Written by Jackson and Dallas Austin and produced by the latter, the track is a reflection of Jackson's new-found happiness during the album's recording. It was released to radio stations as the lead single from Damita Jo in the United States on February 2, 2004, by Virgin Records, following a leak ahead of its scheduled release which caused Jackson's record company to rush with a music video and promotion. "Just a Little While" is a pop, dance, and new wave song which lyrically showcases Jackson's "signature fashion" of writing sexual lyrics which are "innocent on the surface", expressing the singer's desire to have sexual intercourse with a lover.
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More of the Night is the fifteenth studio album by American R&B/Soul group The Whispers. It was released on February 6, 1990 as the follow-up to their massively successful 1987 album, Just Gets Better with Time. While it did not sell quite as well as its predecessor, More of the Night did include several hits, including three R&B top 10 tunes: "My Heart Your Heart," "Innocent," and "Is it Good to You." The album went Gold.
The McCrarys are an American family gospel and R&B group best known for the songs "You", "Lost in Loving You," "Love on a Summer Night" and "Any Ol' Sunday". In 2014, they founded The McCrary Foundation, a nonprofit to help those in need through the healing powers of music.
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"Love Ballad" is a song by Swedish singer Tove Lo. It was co-written by Lo, Ludvig Söderberg and Jakob Jerlström, and was produced by her co-writers under their production name The Struts. In 2012, after signing a publishing deal with Warner/Chappell Music and co-writing songs for artists including Girls Aloud and Icona Pop, Lo decided to become an independent singer to keep her most personal songs for herself.
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"Why Did You Do That?" is a song recorded by American singer Lady Gaga for the 2018 film A Star Is Born and released on the soundtrack of the same name. It was written by Gaga with Diane Warren, Mark Nilan Jr., Nick Monson and Paul "DJWS" Blair, and produced by all but Warren. The song appears in the film during a sequence when Gaga's character, Ally, performs on Saturday Night Live, watched by her husband Jackson. Later Jackson berates Ally for selling out with the song's trite lyrics, but she defends it. "Why Did You Do That?" was written to evoke both a retro and a modern feel, and was recorded while Gaga was on her Joanne World Tour.
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