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Tony Bennett: Duets II, a presentation of THIRTEEN’s Great Performances, features the singer’s greatest hits, performed by Bennett and today’s biggest stars, including John Mayer, Michael Bublé, k.d. lang, Sheryl Crow, Willie Nelson, Queen Latifah, Norah Jones, Josh Groban, Faith Hill, Alejandro Sanz, Carrie Underwood and more.
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"Antonio Newton, super genius, will go down in history as one of the most vital path-forgers of our era" …Music critic Randali of Mean Street Magazine.
History notes that a fallen apple was the inspiration for Sir Isaac Newton's Theories of universal gravitation. But legendary fusion master-musician-composer Antonio (Tony) Newton, founder of Los Angeles-based world-rock-fusion orchestra vanguard, -- never had much time for apple orchards. Recording studios and concert stages were his classrooms. http://www.novastarinteractive.com/TonyNewton_Photos.htm John Lee Hooker, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Gary Moore and Allan Holdsworth were his classmates. Drawing from this wealth of experience and professional relationships, Newton has emerged as a multifaceted composer/producer and musician (vocals, electric bass, and keyboards) http://www.novastarinteractive.com/TonyNewton_Skills.htm and applied his pioneering concepts in harmony theory and composition to successfully integrate a variety of musical genres. Strap yourself in for some heart stopping, spirit moving, mind-bending musical expression. http://www.wix.com/tonynewton777/tff-1#!__page-3
Profusely creative, high energy, innovative, sensitive yet dynamic would be a few terms that could describe the artistry of music prophet Antonio (Tony) Newton, who stands as one of the most progressive, creative and influential music artists of this contemporary music era! Chances are you've heard Newton, a performer on over 25 million selling Gold recordings. http://www.novastarinteractive.com/TonyNewton_Music.htm
Born and raised in Detroit Mi., Newton began his career first on piano at age seven, beginning professionally at the tender age of thirteen, playing bass guitar with blues legends John Lee Hooker, T-Bone Walker, Little Walter and other classic artists on the urban blues circuit.
This was not without receiving initial recognition as an accomplished saxophone and woodwinds player in various orchestras and ensembles. Newton gained swift acclaim as one of the Midwest's most prominent bassists through his association with Motown records. Newton was discovered by Motown executive Hank Cosby while playing in Detroit Blues clubs at the age of 18. He was chosen to replace James Jamerson as touring bassist with Smokey Robinson and the Miracles so that Jamerson could concentrate on studio recording exclusively. Within two years Newton became Music Director. He also toured with all of the Motown artists such as: Diana Ross and the Supremes, Martha and the Vandellas, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Four Tops, Temptations, Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5, Spinners, and others. While at Motown from time to time, playing with the "Funk Brothers" he left his trademark of solid, hard driving, and deftly clever grooves on such timeless hits as "Where Did Our Love Go", "Baby Love", "Stop In The Name Of Love", "Nowhere to Run" on the east coast, and on the west coast, "ABC', "Never Can Say Goodbye", "Don't Leave Me This Way", and many others. Also a little unknown fact is that Newton and James Jamerson played together as 2 basses on the above Motown Hits. Newton was also the bassist for the famed 1965 European Motown Review tour, mentioned in the film, "Standing in the Shadows of Motown". Check out the Video!
In the following years, Newton gained swift acclaim as a prominent bassist in the music industry through his fat bass sound, deftly clever lines, and solid grooves on many hit recordings for Motown, Holland-Dozier-Holland, Warner Bros, CBS, Atlantic and others, continuing in the tradition and inheriting the musical bass torch of his mentor and friend, Motown staff bass legend, the late, great funk brother, James Jamerson. Newton (known as the baby funk brother, being the youngest at 16) went on to establish himself as one of the most versatile musician-composers-producers in his field. He recorded and toured with rock, pop and r & b's most celebrated figures -- Michael Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Smokey Robinson (whom he served as bassist and music director,) Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight, Little Richard and many others. Newton was staff bassist for the talented songwriting-producing team Holland-Dozier-Holland and their Invictus-Hotwax label playing on several hits for artists, Freda Payne, 100 Proof, 8th Day, and others. Tony played on other Detroit recording studio-labels classic hits ie: Stax "The Dramatics, What You See is What You Get", "Johnny Taylor's, Part Time Lover", and more… http://www.novastarinteractive.com/TonyNewton_Historic.htm
Tony also gained recognition as one of the founding fathers of fusion, as bassist-composer-vocalist in the acclaimed jazz-rock fusion group: "The Tony WiIIiams Lifetime" penning the fusion classics, "Snake Oil", and "Red Alert", sweeping the globe with their intense, high-energy, complex style, cited historically in the "Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll." He was also an integral member of British hard rock group "G-Force" with veteran guitarist Gary Moore. The multi-talented Newton fondly remembers these times as "special" when reflecting back as this is when he met and worked with Sharon Arden-Osborne, his then manager, and Ozzie Osborne showing up at some of G-Force's English concert tour gigs (The Osborne's beginnings). Newton's prolific talents include writing and producing classic rock songs and instrumentals. These include, "You Kissed Me Sweetly", and " I Trust your Loving, "Dancing".
Newton, degreed in classical composition and piano from LACC and Mt. St. Mary's College, of Los Angeles, his formidable keyboard artistry featured in the Novaphonic series music catalog, are used in many film and video soundtracks, i.e.: "The Martin Luther King Awards," and "Fields of Wrath", The Cesar Chavez plight of farm workers story. Newton is also a former touring music director, keyboardist, and producer-writer ("Hold On") for Grammy Award winning vocalist, Thelma Huston. Performing professionally for over 3 legendary decades, from rock, funk, soul, fusion and new age jazz, from soundtracks to a Summit Symphony in seven movements, from inspiring solo piano and keyboard performances to masterly, heart thumping, power packed, high energy bass grooves.
Continuing in the commercial rock tradition of his former group, Interscope recording artists "Newton's Law," however now using the addition of expanded orchestrations and arrangements, as well as a new level of high-energy intensity, hip-hop rhythms and complex instrumental compositions along with masterful hit crafted songs of romance, love, and personal challenges in life complete this powerful music formula. Today Newton's time is spent with his WHITE DOVE ORCHESTRA project, which represents, the culmination of his compositional influences and interests. Being a true creative recluse, in his spare time (Check him out here), Newton, a prolific composer-songwriter of a massive body of musical works including the landmark "NOVAPHONIC SOUND" theory series, an innovative scientific music harmony discovery by Newton, is also an avid computer enthusiast and author-writer of over fifteen books on music, computer tech, philosophy and self-help. Additionally, he lectures, conducts workshops as well as teaches privately and at local schools and community colleges occasionally.
For all you music lovers worldwide who desires to hear and see what versatile master of funk grooves is up to right now, just click http://www.groovemonstermovie.com/
To purchase Tony’s music, books or movies click on the following link: http://www.groovemonstermovie.com/order_tonynewton_bundle.htm
Music with vision - NA Music Guide,
* Antonio Newton, a monumental master - MS Magazine, Los Angele
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Jerry Ragovoy dies at 80; songwriter had hits with Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin
Jerry Ragovoy wrote or co-wrote hits including 'Time Is On My Side,' 'Piece of My Heart,' 'Cry Baby,' 'Get It While You Can' and 'Stay With Me.'
By Valerie J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times
July 19, 2011
Soul songwriter Jerry Ragovoy wrote one of his more famous tunes – "Time Is On My Side," which turned into a massive hit for the Rolling Stones — under the pseudonym of Norman Meade.
He was saving his own name for the works he planned to write one day for Broadway.
Instead, Ragovoy found his metier in the 1960s as a pop music producer and writer or co-writer of now-classic records that also included "Cry Baby" and "Piece of My Heart." Both were covered by Janis Joplin, who heavily relied on him to forge her style.
Ragovoy died Wednesday at a New York City hospital of complications from a stroke, said his wife, Bev. He was 80.
"Jerry was a giant of soul, R&B and rock songwriting and record production," Jim Steinblatt, a spokesman for the performance rights group ASCAP, told The Times in an email. "His songs were far better known than he was."
"Cry Baby" is considered by some to be "the first true soul song, marking the place where black church first bleeds over into pop music," Robert Meyerowitz wrote in the Phoenix New Times in 1997 when a Ragovoy-heavy Joplin collection was released.
The song was originally penned by Ragovoy and one of his writing partners, Bert Berns, for Garnet Mimms, who had the biggest hit of his career with "Cry Baby," which topped the R&B charts in 1963.
The Ragovoy-Berns team also wrote "Piece of My Heart" for Erma Franklin, Aretha Franklin's older sister. Erma broke into the top 10 R&B charts with it in 1967 before Joplin made it one of her signature songs. (Berns died in late 1967 of a heart attack at 38.)
Self-taught as a composer, Ragovoy once said he came up with "Time Is On My Side" in an hour after an arranger friend inquired if he had written any songs that jazz trombonist Kai Winding might record.
After New Orleans singer Irma Thomas' version charted, Ragovoy fielded a call from a representative for the Rolling Stones, a band he said he'd never heard of.
"Next thing I know, it's out and it's their first hit in this country," he told New Times in 1997. "I was amazed 'cause … I listened to it and thought, 'What on Earth is this?"
Other notable songs that Ragovoy co-wrote include "Get It While You Can," one of many he composed for singer Howard Tate; and the ballad "Stay With Me" for Lorraine Ellison. She also originally recorded "Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)," which he wrote with Chip Taylor. Joplin covered all three.
"Stay With Me" was a classic example of his style, according to the All Music online database, "a slow, emotionally wrenching number which could almost be a gospel song but for the symphonic orchestral production, vocalized passionately and played with faint echoes of Broadway and opera."
He was born Jordan Ragovoy on Sept. 4, 1930, in Philadelphia but since childhood had preferred to be called Jerry. His father was an optometrist who also practiced alternative medicine.
Growing up, Ragovoy was steeped in classical music, but after graduating from high school he was exposed to — and became transfixed by — gospel and rhythm and blues while working in an appliance store in an African American neighborhood in Philadelphia.
Outside the store in 1953, he heard a group of kids singing and decided to produce a record with them. The resulting "My Girl Awaits Me" by the Castelles sold more than 100,000 copies, and Ragovoy realized he had discovered a career.
In 1969, he founded the Hit Factory, a recording studio in New York City that he sold in 1975. He was considered a first-class producer and arranger, with a roster that included Bonnie Raitt and Dionne Warwick.
"Jerry was humble and self-effacing," said Jeff Jampol, who manages the estate of Joplin, who died in 1970. "Once he said, 'I used to talk to Janis Joplin a lot. I was working on a couple of songs for her, but then she passed away and I never got a chance to record them.'"
Soon after the new musical "One Night With Janis Joplin" premiered in May in Portland, Ore., Ragovoy was in the audience. The show closes with one of the previously unproduced songs he wrote for her. It is called "I'm Gonna Rock My Way to Heaven."
Ragovoy had lived in Stamford, Conn., with his wife, Bev. He is also survived by twin daughters, Melissa Ragovoy of Houston and Gillian Ragovoy Ferguson of New York City; a sister, Loretta Margulies of Philadelphia; and a granddaughter.Jerry Ragovoy dies at 80; songwriter had hits with Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin
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Cornell Dupree, Famed Session Guitarist, Dead at 69
Posted on May 10th 2011 11:00AM by Cameron Matthews
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Cornell Dupree, a famed guitarist who played alongside Aretha Franklin, King Curtis, Jimi Hendrix and Joe Cocker, died on May 8 in Fort Worth, Texas. According to Variety, Dupree was 69 years old and suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Also known as "Uncle Funky" and "Mr. 2500" -– a name derived from his involvement in that number of studio sessions –- Dupree was a seasoned blues musician that detoured into R&B and soul after joining King Curtis and the Kingpins, a band that also featured a young Hendrix.
The guitarist was known as one of the best session musicians that Atlantic records had to offer, playing alongside drummer Bernard "Pretty" Purdie and keyboard player Richard Tee. He was a member of Aretha Franklin's touring band from 1967-1976 and can be heard playing the opening riff on the singer's 'Respect,' as well as on Joe Cocker's 'Stingray' and 'Luxury You Can Afford.'
Dupree's impressive resume also includes work with jazz-funk stalwarts Stuff and drummer Steve Gadd. Besides cutting 10 solo albums from 1974's 'Teasin'' to a yet unreleased record for Dialtone Records, Dupree also published an instructional guitar book called 'Rhythm & Blues Guitar' in 2000. Dupree is survived by his wife Erma.Spinner...
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Aretha Franklin Cancer: Florence and The Machine Lyrics, Half of my discussion a some days ago, Clive Davis, a veteran tag director, ability scout and record manufacturer, has presented a very welcome news for a while 'by Aretha Franklin, who has gone through many serious surgery final fall, agreeing bound the diagnosis of cancer. It has since been widely distributed on its reputation which has pancreatic cancerAretha Franklin Cancer: Florence and The Machine Lyrics, Half of my discussion a some... more
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Yolanda Adams:Florence And the Machine, Christina Aguilera almost pulled off her show at the Grammys with no troubles. Yolanda Adams “born Yolanda Yvette Adams August 27, 1961” is a Grammy and Dove prize winning Gospel music singer and radio appearance. Oldest of 6 siblings, Adams rose to Houston, Texas. He graduated from Sterling High School in Houston in 1979.Yolanda Adams:Florence And the Machine, Christina Aguilera almost pulled off her show... more
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Breaking News Updates At that time a family insider came forward and disclosed that the singer had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. After a powerful Ms. Aretha Franklin tribute opened the 53rd Grammy Awards 2011 on Sunday night, the Queen of Soul herself appeared in a taped video segment, thanking the divas who paid tribute to her and the fans supporting her through recent health troubles.Breaking News Updates At that time a family insider came forward and disclosed that... more
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Latest Complete Entertainment News Updates Martina McBride, Florence Welch and Ms. Yolanda Adams also grab solos before a special message from the Queen of Soul. At the 2011 Grammy Awards, sisters were doing it for each other. While the legendary Aretha Franklin may not have been able to attend (the 68-year-old singer underwent surgery in late 2010), some of today's fiercest female vocalists came together to pay tribute to the Queen of Soul.Latest Complete Entertainment News Updates Martina McBride, Florence Welch and Ms.... more
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Latest Sad News Updates Twitter Mrs.Aretha Franklin died is the latest Twitter hoax driving the internet wild tonight. Ailing soul singer Mrs. Aretha Franklin, she of the satellite-sized hat, has been treated recently for the notoriously rough pancreatic cancer.Latest Sad News Updates Twitter Mrs.Aretha Franklin died is the latest Twitter hoax... more
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Recently Complete News Updates Today Use this page to find out if Mrs. Aretha Franklin is dead or alive. The Queen of Soul who you most likely know is suffering from pancreatic cancer has less than one year to live.Recently Complete News Updates Today Use this page to find out if Mrs. Aretha Franklin... more
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Breaking News Updates Today Mrs. Aretha Franklin was shot in the head by someone who broke into his home in 1979 and remained in a coma for five years until his death.Breaking News Updates Today Mrs. Aretha Franklin was shot in the head by someone who... more
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Latest News Updates Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church will be dispatching members of its congregation to protest the funeral of Ms Elizabeth Edwards this Saturday, CNN reports.Latest News Updates Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church will be dispatching members... more
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News Updates Westboro Baptist Church announced Thursday plans to picket Saturday's funeral for Ms Elizabeth Edwards in Raleigh, North Carolina. The deceased wife of a North Carolina senator is being criticized...News Updates Westboro Baptist Church announced Thursday plans to picket... more
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Latest News Updates Ms Aretha Franklin is battling cancer, a family friend has announced to FOX 2 News in Detroit. Soul singer Ms Aretha Franklin, who underwent surgery for an unspecified illnes...Latest News Updates Ms Aretha Franklin is battling cancer, a family friend has... more
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Recently Today News Updates News in Detroit confirms that Ms Aretha Franklin has cancer. Legendary superstar Ms Aretha Franklin has been fighting a secret battle with pancreatic cancer, according to reports.Recently Today News Updates News in Detroit confirms that Ms Aretha Franklin has... more
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