Jules Shear

Though he’s under no circumstances had the opportunity to record popular of his own, singer/songwriter Jules Shear has recorded several albums of highly accessible, hit-worthy materials, so when a testament to his abilities, he’s penned hits for others, including “THROUGH the night time” for Cyndi Lauper and “If She Knew What She Wants” for the Bangles. Created in Pittsburgh, Shear started writing tracks as an adolescent. He relocated to LA in the middle-’70s, becoming a member of his first music group, a typically laid-back combo known as the Funky Kings. The music group released one recording for Arista in 1976. While “Sluggish Dancing” through the recording (compiled by Jack port Tempchin) would afterwards be a strike for Johnny Streams, the three Shear music were obviously the highlights from the record. Shear left the next year to create his very own group, Jules & the Polar Bears, who released two critically acclaimed, though commercially overlooked, albums for Columbia. Whenever a third record was rejected with the label, Shear forged on being a single artist. Signing to EMI-America, he released two single albums, 1983’s View Pup and 1985’s Eternal Come back; both received vital compliment but few product sales. Once more, he was fell by his label and struggling to protected another offer. Shear then produced the Reckless Sleepers using the Vehicles’ Elliot Easton. In 1988, without Easton, the Reckless Sleepers released their exclusive record for IRS, Big Manager Sounds; it didn’t make much effect, though “If We Under no circumstances Meet Once again” through the recording was later included in Roger McGuinn. As opposed to the Reckless Sleepers’ hard rock and roll tendencies, Shear teamed up using the Church’s Marty Willson-Piper for an all-acoustic, Dylanesque recording, THE 3RD Party, in 1989. The recording ultimately resulted in an area on MTV, where he hosted the very first 13 shows of Unplugged — he remaining when the display switched towards the single-artist format. Shear adopted with two critically acclaimed, pretty much pop-oriented albums — 1992’s THE FANTASTIC Puzzle and 1994’s Curing Bone fragments — two of his finest albums up to now. In 1998, he released Between Us, an recording of duets for TRADITIONAL Records. Shear shifted to Rounder Information subsidiary Zoe Information for his Apr 2000 launch, Allow Me, also to Valley in 2004 for Sayin’ Hello to the people. Dreams Don’t Count number was released for the Mad Dragon label in 2006, accompanied by Even more, billed to Jules Tag Shear instead of Jules Shear, on Funzalo Information in 2008.