Jo Elizabeth Stafford was an American traditional pop singer, whose career spanned five decades from the late 1930s to the early 1980s. Admired for the purity of her voice, she originally underwent classical training to become an opera singer before following a career in popular music, and by 1955 had achieved more worldwide record sales than any other female artist. Her 1952 song "You Belong to Me" topped the charts in the United States and United Kingdom, becoming the second single to top the UK Singles Chart, and the first by a female artist to do so.
The Jethro Tull Christmas Album is the 21st studio album released by Jethro Tull, on 30 September 2003. This was the band's last studio album for 19 years, as well as the last album to feature the lineup of Ian Anderson, guitarist Martin Barre, bassist Jonathan Noyce, keyboardist Andrew Giddings, and drummer Doane Perry.
Kolejowy Klub Sportowy Lech Poznań S.A., commonly referred to as KKS Lech Poznań or simply Lech Poznań, is a Polish professional football club based in Poznań and currently competing in the Ekstraklasa, the nation's highest division.
Rabbitt is a South African pop rock band formed in Johannesburg in 1972, evolving from a band called The Conglomeration, consisting of members Trevor Rabin, Ronnie Robot, and Neil Cloud. Their successes included making it to the top of the South African charts with the hit "Charlie" in 1976.
Posłuchaj to do Ciebie is the second album by Polish punk rock band Kult.
The Analogs are a Polish street punk band. Originating in Szczecin, they have been successful on the local and international punk rock scene with hundreds of concerts played across Europe as well as musical releases in Poland, Russia, and the USA. The Analogs have seen coverage in major Polish news outlets as well as many alternative music publications and punk zines.
Z rozmyślań przy śniadaniu is the third album by Polish alternative rock band Myslovitz. The album displays a tendency towards a more "polished" sound and more introspective lyrics.
Blackwater is the fifth studio album by Altan, released in April 1996 on the Virgin Records label. Three of the songs are sung in Irish. "Ar Bhruach Na Carraige Baine" is sung partly in English and in Irish. "Blackwaterside" is sung in English. It was the first album released by the band since the death of founding member Frankie Kennedy two years earlier. The final track on the album is a tribute to Kennedy and was written by Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh herself.
Elán is a Slovak pop rock band founded in 1968 by elementary school classmates Jožo Ráž, Vašo Patejdl, Juraj Farkaš, and Zdeno Baláž. They became one of the most popular Czechoslovak bands during the 1980s, releasing ten successful albums between 1981 and 1991. In 1993, the group represented Slovakia in the preliminary round of the Eurovision Song Contest but having finished in fourth place, failed to qualify for the finals in Ireland. Elán performed at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec, Czech Republic, as part of the championship's entertainment festivities. The band has toured internationally throughout their career. They have produced many well-known hits and won several awards, such as the Slávik Awards, Slávik, and Zlatý slavík, which they won four years in a row.
Go to Nassau is a two-CD live album by the rock group the Grateful Dead. It was recorded on May 15 and 16, 1980, at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York. The album, released in 2002, presents half of the songs played on the final two nights of a three-day run at the venue. It is sequenced to represent a prototypical single Dead concert, similarly to Without a Net. The shows were recorded for the King Biscuit Flower Hour and selections were originally broadcast on FM radio stations, on June 22, 1980. The album's title is a syllepsis, referring figuratively to the band's then-current album, Go to Heaven, and literally to the band going to Nassau County to perform.
Ewa Chobot is a Polish-Czech pop-rock singer. She released five Polish-language and four Czech-language studio albums, and received platinum and gold certifications for them, both in Poland and the Czech Republic. Farna is the youngest commercially successful singer in the Czech Republic. She was a judge on the Česko Slovenská SuperStar in 2013, the Polish X Factor in 2014, and the Polish Idol in 2017.
Kabát is a Czech hard rock band from Teplice formed in 1983. The members of the group are Josef Vojtek, Milan Špalek, Tomáš Krulich (guitar), Ota Váňa (guitar), and Radek Hurčík (drums). Kabát has enjoyed major popularity in their home country since 1989, and they are the holders of multiple Anděl Awards. The band represented the Czech Republic as the country's first entry in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2007 in Helsinki, Finland. Between 2003 and 2017, they won the Český slavík award twelve times. In 2014, they were inducted into the Beatová síň slávy, the Czech equivalent of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They are considered one of the most successful rock acts in Czech history.
Greatest Hits Volume II, also known as Greatest Hits Volume II... and Some Other Stuff is the third compilation album by American country music artist Alan Jackson. The original version of this album was only available through December, 2003 and contained two discs: the first disc has 16 hits and two new cuts, while the second disc has eight album tracks. Subsequent releases contained only the first disc.
Family Tree is a 2007 compilation album of home and demo recordings by English singer/songwriter Nick Drake. The album is notable for the appearance of Nick's sister Gabrielle on one track and the contribution of two original songs performed by Nick's mother, Molly Drake. Recorded before the release of his first album, Five Leaves Left, most of the tracks on the album circulated on bootlegs in the years before the official release from the Drake family. The album reached #35 on Billboard's Top Independent Albums chart, making it Drake's first album to chart in America. The recordings are all from the 1960s, consisting of home recordings by Nick and his father Rodney in Tanworth-in-Arden, England; demos recorded by Nick in Aix en Provence, France; and 1968 demos recorded at Cambridge University by Nick's later frequent collaborator Robert Kirby.
Włodzimierz Kotoński was a Polish composer.
Statek kosmiczny Ścianka released in 1998 was the debut album of Polish rock group Ścianka. The album was recorded in Maciek Cieślak's home studio in Sopot. It received a Fryderyk Award nomination in "Debut of the year" category and was awarded best debut album of the year by Tylko Rock magazine. There were no singles promoting the album, but "Skuter" received the status of Ścianka's biggest hit among their fans. "Skuter" was also chosen by Artur Rojek to be official song for the 2nd Off Festival in 2007.
Miłość was a Polish Yass music band. The band was founded in 1988 by Ryszard Tymon Tymański, double bassist and guitarist, former leader of new wave group Sni Sredstvom Za Uklanianie. Miłość played free jazz with avantgarde influences and gave birth to, among others, the Tricity and Bydgoszcz jazz bands, and to a style called yass. Miłość recorded two albums with the legendary jazzman Lester Bowie: "Not Two" (1995) and "Talkin' About Life and Death" (1999). The band split up after Olter's death in 2002.
Kury is a Polish post rock group. The band was brought to life in April 1992 by Ryszard Tymon Tymański, a former member of the experimental art performing Totart community (1986-1989) and a later co-founder of the so called yass music scene. Kury played experimental rock music and their style evolved in time towards a more electronic direction. Their first album "Kablox - nieslyna histaria" was recorded in 1994 in Polish Radio Szczecin studios. It contained post rock songs inspired by Frank Zappa, King Crimson, Skeleton Crew, Art Bears. In the following years the band toured Poland, sometimes performing as a quintet with the addition of yass clarinet player Jerzy Mazzoll. In the summer of 1996 Tymanski got together with his long time friend Olaf Deriglasoff, a Tricity based singer and songwriter, to cooperate on the production of a new Kury album. The illustrious P.O.L.O.V.I.R.U.S., released in 1998, was a strong compilation of pastiche songs deriding the condition of Polish popular music. The recording sessions lasted throughout the springtime of 1997, with a lot of renowned yass and alternative Tricity luminaries participating. The record was very well reviewed and marked a considerable breakthrough for the band. After phenomenal drummer Jacek Olter's suicide in January 2001, the band continued to record and tour, putting out the third regular record entitled "100 lat undergroundu". The album, more oriented towards rap and electronics, contained previously recorded Olter tracks and featured a guest performance from a Sunderland based DJ and musician DJ Scissorkicks aka Anthony Chapman. Without Jacek Olter, Kury strived to survive as a live act with Jacek Stromski, Rory Walsh and Kuba Staruszkiewicz on drums. The last tour took place in December 2003, after which Tymański disbanded the group. In 2011 and 2012 the band played a couple of concerts and went back into a limbo. In the fall of 2023 the Gdynia based S7 record label reissued remastered P.O.L.O.V.I.R.U.S. on vinyl, CD and cassette which was received with a wave of wide acclaim. Kury once again returned as a touring act, this time announcing its fourth official album to be issued by the end of September 2025. Modern Kury perform as a quintet with Tymon Tymanski and Olaf Deriglasoff handling bass, guitars and vocals altogether, Jerzy Mazzoll playing clarinette, Szymon Burnos on keyboards and vocals and Michal Gos on drums.
Porozumienie ponad podziałami is the second studio album by Polish rapcore band Kazik Na Żywo. It was released on September 24, 1995 in Poland through S.P. Records. The cover art was created by Jan Staszewski. Porozumienie ponad podziałami is considered the best album in whole Kazik Na Żywo carrier.
Live at the BBC is a 2007 compilation album by British folk rock band Fairport Convention. It consists of tracks recorded for the BBC for various radio programmes between 1968 and 1974 and comprises four CDs in a fold-out package with a fifty-page booklet including song lyrics and numerous contemporary photographs.
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