“Motorcycle Mama” is a song written by John Wyker and performed by Sailcat. It reached # 12 on both the U.S. pop chart and the U.S. adult contemporary chart in 1972 and was featured on their 1972 album Motorcycle Mama. The song ranked # 89 on Billboard magazine’s Top 100 singles of 1972. It is categorized as Country Rock.
Shakedown Street is the tenth studio album (fifteenth overall) by rock band the Grateful Dead, released November 15, 1978, on Arista Records. The album came just over a year after previous studio album Terrapin Station. It was the final album for Keith and Donna Jean Godchaux, who left the band a few months after its release. The record was produced by Lowell George (of Little Feat) and John Kahn.
Deja Vu All Over Again is the sixth solo studio album by John Fogerty. It was released in 2004, seven years after his previous studio album Blue Moon Swamp. Originally issued by DreamWorks Records, it was reissued by Geffen Records after it absorbed DreamWorks. Bikernet ran the happy news recently of John Fogerty, aged 77 years, finally regaining rights to his music after decades of struggle.
John Fogerty Finally Acquires Rights to His Creedence Clearwater Revival Songs
Capping one of the longest and nastiest legal battles in music business history, John Fogerty has gained worldwide control of the publishing rights to his Creedence Clearwater Revival songs, more than 50 years after the songs were first released.
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Janis Joplin’s Greatest Hits is a 1973 collection of hit songs by American singer-songwriter Janis Joplin, who died in 1970. It features live versions of Down On Me and Ball and Chain which were included on the In Concert album the previous year.
The cover photo was taken in 1970 at Summerfair in Eden Park, Cincinnati OH.
“Make It Funky” is a jam session recorded by James Brown with The J.B.’s. It was released as a two-part single in 1971, which reached No. 1 on the U.S. R&B chart and No. 22 on the U.S. Pop chart.
Also launched as a music video, this French song is by Brigitte Bardot. It is a song about a woman who loves her Harley Davidson.
Canned Heat is an American blues and rock band that was formed in Los Angeles in 1965. The group has been noted for its efforts to promote interest in blues music and its original artists. It was launched by two blues enthusiasts Alan Wilson and Bob Hite, who took the name from Tommy Johnson’s 1928 “Canned Heat Blues”.
John Hammond’s 1963 self-titled debut album was one of the first blues albums by a white artist. Big City Blues (1964, Vanguard) – includes the first blues-rock cover of Willie Dixon’s “Back Door Man”, later made famous by the Doors.
Although critically acclaimed, Hammond has received only moderate commercial success. Nonetheless, he enjoys a strong fan base and has earned respect from John Lee Hooker, Roosevelt Sykes, Duane Allman, Rory Gallagher, Willy Deville, Robbie Robertson, Mike Bloomfield and Charlie Musselwhite, all of whom have contributed their musical talents to his records.
In addition, he is the only person who ever had both Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix in his band at the same time, if only for five days in the 1960s, when Hammond played The Gaslight Cafe in New York City. In 2011, Hammond was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame of the Blues Foundation.
Bat Out of Hell is the 1977 debut album by American rock singer Meat Loaf and composer Jim Steinman. The album was developed from a musical, Neverland, a futuristic rock version of Peter Pan, which Steinman wrote for a workshop in 1974. Bat Out of Hell has sold over 43 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling albums of all time. It is certified 14× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
Painkiller is the twelfth studio album by English heavy metal band Judas Priest, released on 14 September 1990. It was the last Judas Priest album to feature long-time lead singer Rob Halford until his return for the 2005 album Angel of Retribution and the first to feature drummer Scott Travis (who replaced long-time drummer Dave Holland).
Despite the album being finished in March 1990, the album’s release was delayed due to the pending, much-publicized subliminal message trial that began on 16 July 1990.
The band was the subject of a civil lawsuit alleging their recording was responsible for the suicide attempts of two young men in Reno, Nevada on 23 December 1985. The case was eventually dismissed on 24 August 1990. With the trial behind them, the band finally released the album on 14 September 1990 on LP, cassette and CD.
Here Comes Trouble is the 10th studio album by the English hard rock band Bad Company. The cover is an image by Mark Vincent of his young brother in front of a chopper. The title track received some airplay on classic rock radio, although “How About That” was the biggest single from the album, spending six weeks at the top of the Album Rock Tracks chart in the US.
Ross also performed cover of the Gloria Gaynor song, “I Will Survive”, during a “Take Me Higher” megamix at her acclaimed Super Bowl XXX Half-Time show as she was whisked away in a helicopter.
The music video for the album’s lead single “When Doves Cry” sparked controversy among network executives, who thought its sexual nature was too explicit for television.
The risqué lyrics of “Darling Nikki” raised complaints from Tipper Gore and the Parents Music Resource Center and contributed to the implementation of Parental Advisory stickers and imprints on album covers.”
