Tag Archives: Soft Rock

Songwriter Gary Portnoy is most beneficial referred to as the gentleman who penned the memorable theme melody for it present Cheers, titled “Where EVERYONE KNOWS Your Name” (which also became popular when afterwards issued as an individual). Before his lone strike, Portnoy had released an forgotten self-titled solo record on …

Composer, conductor, arranger, lyricist, vocalist, and pianist Jason Robert Dark brown was created in 1970 in Tarrytown, NY. He examined on the Eastman College of Music in Rochester, NY, and started employed in musical movie theater in NEW YORK in the first ’90s, where he focused on merging pop/rock and …

Through the Eagles’ most commercially successful period (the late ’70s), the press appeared transfixed on Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh, and Timothy B. Schmit, as opposed to the strange man in the backdrop, guitarist Don Felder. But additionally towards the group’s brand vocal harmonies, it had been Felder’s acoustic …

Elton John was the largest pop star from the ’70s, grabbing headlines and generating strikes across the world. As it proved, this was simply the initial act in an extraordinary career that held him near the top of the graphs for over 25 years. He charted a high 40 strike …

One of nation music’s state-of-the-art artists through the past due ’70s and early ’80s, Eddie Rabbitt offers made contributions towards the format which have often gone overlooked. Specifically in songs just like the R&B-inflected “Suspicions” as well as the rockin’ “Somebody Could Lose a Center Tonight,” Rabbitt challenged the frequently …

In 1975, five years following the demise of both Beatles as well as the Monkees, the world was even now hoping how the Beatles would patch up their differences and re-form. However the Monkees? Was the globe prepared for Monkeemania yet again? Mickey Dolenz and Davy Jones got no current …

Among rock listeners, Exile is normally appreciated as the one-hit wonder in charge of 1978’s number 1 smash “Kiss You AROUND.” Nevertheless, in the first ’80s, the Kentucky-bred music group reinvented itself being a nation clothing — and a greatly effective one at that. Exile was in fact formed completely …

A Los Angeles-based soft rock-band best known because of their certified silver 1972 hit “Precious and Few,” Climax was founded in 1971 by vocalist Sonny Geraci, who had previously helmed the garage area rock and roll group the Outsiders. Becoming a member of Geraci was previous Outsiders guitarist Walter Nims, …

The duo Eye To Eye shaped in 1979 following keyboardist Julian Marshall (formerly of Marshall-Hain) noticed dancer/singer Deborah Berg sing at an improvisational dance performance in NORTH PARK. Weeks afterwards, Berg flew to London, where she and Marshall started writing jointly at his house. They quickly garnered an archive deal …

Most widely known for co-founding soft rock and roll hitmakers Bread, vocalist/songwriter Wayne Griffin also won an Academy Honor for co-authoring 1970’s smash “FOR EVERYONE WE REALIZE.” Delivered in Cincinnati on August 10, 1943, Griffin grew up in Memphis, developing up in a nearby that housed rock and roll & …