Keith Rupert Murdoch is an Australian-born American business magnate,investor,and media proprietor. Through his company News Corp,he is the owner of hundreds of local,national,and international publishing outlets around the world,including in the UK,in Australia,in the US,book publisher HarperCollins,and the television broadcasting channels Sky News Australia and Fox News. He was also the owner of Sky,21st Century Fox,and the now-defunct News of the World. With a net worth of US$21.7 billion as of 2 March 2022,Murdoch is the 31st richest person in the United States and the 71st richest in the world according to Forbes magazine.
The Miracles were an American vocal group that was the first successful recording act for Berry Gordy's Motown Records,and one of the most important and most influential groups in pop,rock and roll,soul and R&B music history.
Daryl Franklin Hohl,known professionally as Daryl Hall,is an American rock,R&B,and soul singer and musician. He is best known as the co-founder and principal lead vocalist of Hall &Oates,with guitarist and songwriter John Oates. Outside of his work in Hall &Oates,he has also released five solo albums,including the 1980 progressive rock collaboration with guitarist Robert Fripp titled Sacred Songs and the 1986 album Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine,which provided his best selling single,"Dreamtime",that peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100. He has also collaborated on numerous works by other artists,such as Fripp's 1979 release Exposure,and Dusty Springfield's 1995 album A Very Fine Love,which produced a UK Top 40 hit with "Wherever Would I Be". Since late 2007,he has hosted the streaming television series Live from Daryl's House, in which he performs alongside other artists,doing a mix of songs from each's catalog. The show has been rebroadcast on a number of cable and satellite channels as well.
The Reels was an Australian rock band which formed in Dubbo,New South Wales in 1976. It disbanded in 1991,and reformed in 2007. Its 1981 song "Quasimodo's Dream" was voted one of the top 10 Australian songs of all time by a 100-member panel from Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) in 2001. The Reels had top 10 Australian singles chart successes with covers of Herb Alpert's "This Guy's in Love with You" and Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising". Rock music historian Ian McFarlane described the group as "one of the most original and invigorating pop bands to emerge from the Australian new wave movement of the late 1970s."
TCB is a 1968 television special produced by Motown Productions and George Schlatter–Ed Friendly Productions of Laugh-In fame. The special is a musical revue starring Motown's two most popular groups at the time,Diana Ross &the Supremes and The Temptations. Containing a combination of showtunes,specially prepared numbers,and popular Motown hits,the special was taped before a live studio audience in September 1968 and originally broadcast December 9,1968 on NBC,sponsored by the Timex watch corporation. The title of the program uses a then-popular acronym,"TCB",which stands for "Taking Care of Business".
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band were a Scottish rock band formed in Glasgow in 1972. Fronted by Alex Harvey accompanied by Zal Cleminson on guitar,bassist Chris Glen,keyboard player Hugh McKenna and drummer Ted McKenna,their music was a blend of blues rock and hard rock,with cabaret elements. Their stage performances incorporated theatrical elements. The band were popular in continental Europe,and influential in Australia,most notably on AC/DC and on the young Nick Cave and his first band The Boys Next Door.
Meet the Temptations is the debut studio album by the Temptations for the Gordy (Motown) label released in 1964. It includes most of the group's early singles,excluding only the first,"Oh Mother of Mine",and its b-side,"Romance Without Finance";as well as the single "Mind Over Matter",in which the group is credited as The Pirates. The album consists entirely of previously released singles,including the group's first hit single,"The Way You Do the Things You Do".
Diana Ross &the Supremes Join the Temptations is a collaborative album combining Motown's two best selling groups,Diana Ross &the Supremes and the Temptations. Issued by Motown in late 1968 to coincide with the broadcast of the Supremes/Temptations TCB television special,the album was a success,reaching #2 on the Billboard 200. Diana Ross &the Supremes Join the Temptations spent four weeks at number one on the UK Albums Chart.
"Quasimodo's Dream" is a song by Australian pop/new wave band The Reels and was released as the title single off their second album,Quasimodo's Dream in May 1981. The album peaked at No. 27 on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart but the single did not reach the Top 50 of the related Singles Chart. Rock music historian,Ian McFarlane claimed,"the album's highlight was the sparse,evocative title track". The song,written by lead singer Dave Mason,is now regarded as a classic—in 2001 it was named by Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) at No. 10 of their Top 30 Australian songs of all time. It was covered by fellow Australians Kate Ceberano (1989) and Jimmy Little (1999).
Grave New World is the fourth studio album by English band Strawbs,their fifth overall. It was the first album to be released after the departure of Rick Wakeman,who was replaced by Blue Weaver,late of Amen Corner.
The Motor City Collection is a box set by Australian pop vocal group Human Nature,which was issued on 19 April 2008 and peaked at No. 18 on the ARIA Albums Chart. It comprises three CDs of cover versions by the band of Motown artists' material and a live DVD.
Classic Campbell is a 3 disc compilation album issued by EMI in 2006,consisting of hit singles,album tracks and a few previously unreleased recordings from the sixties and the seventies. One album track makes its CD debut here,the instrumental "Wimoweh ",from The Astounding 12-String Guitar of Glen Campbell (1963).
All the Leaves are Brown:The Golden Era Collection is a 2001 release compiling the first four albums by The Mamas &the Papas in their entirety,with some single-exclusive mono versions and one non-album track. The package includes a brief history of the group and its albums by Matthew Greenwald,author of Creeque Alley:The Oral History of The Mamas &The Papas.
"Whole Lot Of Shakin' In My Heart (Since I Met You)" is a 1966 R&B song by Motown Records group The Miracles,issued on Motown's Tamla Records subsidiary. Written by Motown staff songwriter Frank Wilson,it was one of only two singles the group released in 1966,taken from their album Away We A Go-Go.
Colleen is the third studio album by Australian recording artist Colleen Hewett. The album was released in 1983 by Avenue Records.
"After the News" was a song by The Reels that was released as a single from their second album Quasimodo's Dream in July 1980. The song fared disappointingly on the charts,peaking at number 65 in Australia. The single was accompanied by a colourful video that features a puppet newsreader. The B-side,"Media Themes",consisted of three short songs that were later re-used for the album. A "sequel" for "Media Themes" was released as a B-side to the band's later single "Love Grows ".
"Shout and Deliver" is a song by The Reels,which was released as a single from their second album Quasimodo's Dream in March 1981. The single peaked at number 43 on the Australian charts.
Five Great Gift Ideas from the Reels is an extended play released by Australian band the Reels in November 1980. It was released during the recording sessions for the band's album Quasimodo's Dream. The EP consisted of 5 tracks:4 covers and 1 original. It charted at #12 in Australia and was certified gold. "According to My Heart",a cover of the 1961 Jim Reeves song was also controversially included on their album Quasimodo's Dream.
Jessica Anne Newham,known by her stage name Betty Who,is an Australian-American musician,singer and songwriter. After independently releasing her debut single,"Somebody Loves You" (2012),and her debut extended play,The Movement (2013),she signed with RCA Records and later released her debut studio album,Take Me When You Go (2014). Her second studio album,The Valley (2017),saw the commercial success of her cover of "I Love You Always Forever",which peaked inside the top ten in Australia and reached the top of the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart in the United States.
David Lawrence Mason is an Australian singer-songwriter and record producer originally from Dubbo. He is the founding mainstay of pop,rock group,The Reels. For the group,Mason wrote and sang their hit singles,"Love Will Find a Way","Prefab Heart" (1980),"After the News",and "Shout and Deliver". He also wrote "Quasimodo's Dream",which was a non-charting single from May 1981. However,in May 2001,it was listed by Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) at No. 10 of their Top 30 Australian songs of all time.
