Time Flies... The Best Of

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Time Flies... The Best of
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Greatest hits album by
Huey Lewis and the News
ReleasedOctober 29, 1996
Recorded1981–1996
Genre Rock
Label Elektra
Producer Bob Brown
Huey Lewis and the News chronology
Four Chords & Several Years Ago
(1994)		Time Flies... The Best of
(1996)		 Plan B
(2001)
Singles from Time Flies... The Best of
  1. "100 Years from Now"
    Released: 1996
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Time Flies is a greatest hits album by American rock band Huey Lewis and the News, released in 1996 (see 1996 in music). The album also features four previously unreleased tracks. This marks the first time "The Power of Love" was available on an International Huey Lewis and the News album (it had previously been available on the UK release of the Fore! album). The song "So Little Kindness" was later included on the 2001 album Plan B as Lewis felt it needed a second chance. The song "100 Years From Now" was originally conceived for a planned Huey Lewis solo album that was later cancelled. [2]

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style which drew heavily from the genres of blues, rhythm and blues, and from country music. Rock music also drew strongly from a number of other genres such as electric blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical and other musical styles. Musically, rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music usually with a 4/4 time signature using a verse–chorus form, but the genre has become extremely diverse. Like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political.

Huey Lewis and the News American pop rock band

Huey Lewis and the News is an American rock band based in San Francisco, California. They had a run of hit singles during the 1980s and early 1990s, eventually achieving 19 top ten singles across the Billboard Hot 100, Adult Contemporary, and Mainstream Rock charts.

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1996.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "The Heart of Rock & Roll" (Johnny Colla, Huey Lewis) – 5:04
  2. "Heart and Soul" (Mike Chapman, Nicky Chinn) – 4:12
  3. "Doing It All for My Baby" (Mike Duke, Phil Cody) – 3:37
  4. "Do You Believe in Love" (Robert John Lange) – 3:28
  5. "Trouble in Paradise" (Colla, Bill Gibson, Chris Hayes, Sean Hopper, Lewis, Mario Cipollina) – 4:32
  6. "The Power of Love" (Hayes, Lewis, Colla) – 3:54
  7. "If This Is It" (Colla, Lewis) – 3:52
  8. "Bad Is Bad" (Alex Call, John Ciambotti, Hopper, Lewis, John McFee, Michael Schreiner) – 3:47
  9. "Workin' for a Livin'" (Hayes, Lewis) – 2:39
  10. "It's Alright" (Curtis Mayfield) – 3:04
  11. "Stuck with You" (Hayes, Lewis) – 4:26
  12. "I Want a New Drug" (Hayes, Lewis) – 4:45
  13. "100 Years from Now" (Marcel East, Nathan East, Lewis) – 3:46
  14. "So Little Kindness" (Hayes, Lewis, Rob Sudduth) – 4:14
  15. "'Til the Day After" (Joe White, Steve Carter, Hopper) – 3:27
  16. "When the Time Has Come" (Hayes, Lewis) – 4:26
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Personnel

Huey Lewis and the News

Harmonica free reed wind instrument

The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, rock. There are many types of harmonica, including diatonic, chromatic, tremolo, octave, orchestral, and bass versions. A harmonica is played by using the mouth to direct air into or out of one or more holes along a mouthpiece. Behind each hole is a chamber containing at least one reed. A harmonica reed is a flat elongated spring typically made of brass, stainless steel, or bronze, which is secured at one end over a slot that serves as an airway. When the free end is made to vibrate by the player's air, it alternately blocks and unblocks the airway to produce sound.

Singing act of producing musical sounds with the voice

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir of singers or a band of instrumentalists. Singers may perform as soloists or accompanied by anything from a single instrument up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Different singing styles include art music such as opera and Chinese opera, Indian music and religious music styles such as gospel, traditional music styles, world music, jazz, blues, ghazal and popular music styles such as pop, rock, electronic dance music and filmi.

John Victor "Johnny" Colla is an American musician, singer and songwriter. He is a founding member of the American rock band Huey Lewis and the News. He has been heavily involved in the San Francisco Bay Area music scene for decades, having been in several other bands, including Rubicon, Sly and the Family Stone, Van Morrison, Sound Hole, and Johnny Colla & The Lucky Devils.

Additional personnel

Trumpet musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group contains the instruments with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpet-like instruments have historically been used as signaling devices in battle or hunting, with examples dating back to at least 1500 BC; they began to be used as musical instruments only in the late 14th or early 15th century. Trumpets are used in art music styles, for instance in orchestras, concert bands, and jazz ensembles, as well as in popular music. They are played by blowing air through nearly-closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound that starts a standing wave vibration in the air column inside the instrument. Since the late 15th century they have primarily been constructed of brass tubing, usually bent twice into a rounded rectangular shape.

Tenor saxophone type of saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B♭ (while the alto is pitched in the key of E♭), and written as a transposing instrument in the treble clef, sounding an octave and a major second lower than the written pitch. Modern tenor saxophones which have a high F♯ key have a range from A♭2 to E5 (concert) and are therefore pitched one octave below the soprano saxophone. People who play the tenor saxophone are known as "tenor saxophonists", "tenor sax players", or "saxophonists".

Baritone saxophone member of the saxophone family, smaller than the bass, contrabass and subcontrabass saxophones. It is the lowest-pitched saxophone in common use, and uses a mouthpiece, reed, and ligature that are larger than the tenor, alto and soprano saxophones.

The baritone saxophone or "bari sax" is one of the larger members of the saxophone family, only being smaller than the bass, contrabass and subcontrabass saxophones. It is the lowest-pitched saxophone in common use. The baritone saxophone uses a mouthpiece, reed, and ligature in order to produce sound. It is larger than the tenor, alto and soprano saxophones, which are the other commonly found members of the family. The baritone saxophone is commonly used in concert bands, chamber music, military bands, jazz. It also is occasionally employed in marching bands, though less frequently than other saxophones due to its size and weight.

Production

Bob Clearmountain American record producer

Bob Clearmountain is an American music engineer, mixer and producer. He has worked with many prominent names in music including Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones as well as their Tattoo You album, Bryan Adams, Robbie Williams, Toto, Bon Jovi, Altered State, Simple Minds, and 235 other artists. He has been nominated for four Grammy Awards and won a Latin Grammy Award in 2007 for Best Male Pop Vocal Album for his work with engineering Ricky Martin's "MTV Unplugged". He has also won an Emmy and he has won seven TEC Awards for "Best Recording Engineer", two others for "Best Broadcast Engineer", one special "Les Paul Award" and a Monitor Award for the Rolling Stone's Voodoo Lounge pay-per-view show. He is married to Apogee Electronics CEO, Betty Bennett.

Ted Jensen American sound engineer

Ted Jensen is an American mastering engineer, known for having mastered many recordings including the Eagles' Hotel California, Green Day's American Idiot and Norah Jones' Come Away with Me.

Bob Ludwig American audio mastering engineer

Robert C. Ludwig is an American mastering engineer. He has mastered recordings on all the major recording formats for all the major record labels, and on projects by more than 1,300 artists including Led Zeppelin, Queen, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Ocean, Bryan Ferry, Paul McCartney, Nirvana, Bruce Springsteen and Daft Punk resulting in over 3,000 credits. He is the recipient of numerous Grammy and TEC Awards.

Charts

Chart (1996)Peak
position
Danish Albums (Tracklisten) [3] 4
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [4] 3
US Billboard 200 [5] 185

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References

  1. ↑ Time Flies... The Best Of at AllMusic
  2. ↑ "Question of the Week - Huey Lewis and the News".
  3. ↑ "Danish Top 20 Albums". Archived from the original on March 17, 2014. Retrieved April 9, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Charts.nz – Huey Lewis and the News – Time Flies... The Best Of Huey Lewis & The News". Hung Medien. Retrieved April 8, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Huey Lewis and the News US Chart History". Billboard . Retrieved April 8, 2017.
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