Coordinates	34°03′″N118°15′″N
name	CBS Records
parent	CBS Corporation
founded	2006
founder	Leslie Moonves
distributor	RED Distribution
genre	Various
country	United States
location	Los Angeles, CaliforniaCBS Television City
url	cbsrecords.com }}

CBS Records is a record label founded by CBS Corporation in 2006 to take advantage of music from its entertainment properties owned by CBS Television Studios. The initial label roster consisted of only three artists; rock band Señor Happy and singer/songwriters Will Dailey and P.J. Olsson.

This incarnation of the label relies primarily on digital distribution such as iTunes and on direct sales from its own website. However, it has signed a deal to distribute compact discs through RED Distribution, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment which CBS Inc. formerly owned. The new CBS Records is headquartered at CBS Television City in Los Angeles.

The earlier incarnation originated in the early 1960s: Columbia Records products were released under the CBS Records label outside the US and Canada. This was necessary because EMI owned another record label by the same name, which operated in every market except North America, Spain and Japan. CBS sold the record company in 1988 to Sony Corporation of America. In 1991, the CBS Records label was officially renamed Columbia Records and the CBS Records company was renamed Sony Music Entertainment.

Current roster

Artists

Will Dailey

Keaton Simons

Karmina

Sharon Little

P.J. Olsson

Señor Happy

The Wilshires

You Are I Am

Soundtracks

''NCIS''

See also

List of record labels

References

External links

Official website

News release about the establishment of the new CBS Records

Category:American record labels Category:CBS Corporation subsidiaries Category:Pop record labels Category:Record labels established in 2006 Category:Rock record labels

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Coordinates	34°03′″N118°15′″N
Name	Dave Edmunds
Background	solo_singer
|caption	Edmunds playing his 1960 Gibson ES335
Birth name	David Edmunds
Birth date	April 15, 1944
Origin	Cardiff, Wales
Genre	Rock, Rockabilly, PopPub rock, New Wave
Occupation	Singer, guitarist, producer
Years active	1968–present
Instrument	Guitar
Label	Regal Zonophone RecordsMAM RecordsRockfield/RCA RecordsSwan Song RecordsArista Records (UK)Columbia Records (U.S.)EMI Manhattan Records (U.S.)
Associated acts	Love Sculpture, Rockpile
Website	}}

David 'Dave' Edmunds (born 15 April 1944, Cardiff, Glamorgan, South Wales) is a Welsh singer, guitarist and record producer. Although he is primarily associated with Pub rock and New Wave, and had numerous hits in the 1970s and early 1980s, his natural leaning has always been towards 1950s style rock and roll.

Career

Early bands

As a teenager Edmunds first played with a band called The Edmunds Bros Duo with his older brother Geoff (born in 1940, Cardiff) in 1954, a piano duo. Then the brothers were in The Stompers later called The Heartbeats formed in c 1957 with Geoff on rhythm guitar; Dave on lead guitar; Denny Driscoll on lead vocals; Johnny Stark on drums and Ton Edwards on bass. Then Dave and Geoff were in The 99ers. After that Dave Edmunds was in Crick Feather's Hill-Bill's formed in c 1960, with Feathers (Edmunds) on lead guitar; Zee Dolan on bass; Tennessee Tony on lead vocals; Tony Kees on piano and Hank Two Sticks on drums. The first group that Edmunds fronted was the Cardiff based 1950s style rockabilly trio The Raiders formed in 1961, along with Brian 'Rockhouse' Davies on bass and Ken Collier on drums. Davies was later replaced by bassist Mick Still and other members were Bob 'Congo' Jones on drums and John Williams (stage name John David) on bass, that worked almost exclusively in the South Wales area.

In 1966, after a short spell in Parlophone recording band The Image (1965–1966), with local drummer Tommy Riley, Edmunds shifted to a more blues-rock sound, reuniting with Congo Jones and bassist John Williams and adding second guitarist Mickey Gee to form the short lived Human Beans, a band that played mostly in London and on the UK university circuit. In 1967 the band recorded a cover of "Morning Dew" on the Columbia label, that failed to have any chart impact. After just eighteen months the core of 'Human Beans' formed a new band called Love Sculpture that again reinstated Edmunds, Jones and Williams as a trio. Love Sculpture scored a quasi-novelty Top 5 hit by reworking Khachaturian's classical piece "Sabre Dance" as a speed-crazed rock number, inspired by Keith Emerson's classical rearrangements. "Sabre Dance" became a hit after garnering the enthusiastic attention of British DJ John Peel.

Solo career

After Love Sculpture split, Edmunds had a UK Christmas Number 1 single in 1970 with "I Hear You Knocking", a Smiley Lewis cover, which he came across while producing Shakin' Stevens and the Sunsets' first album entitled ''A Legend''. The recording was the first release on Edmunds's manager's MAM Records label. This single also reached #4 in the U.S., making it Edmunds's biggest hit by far on either side of the Pond. It sold over three million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. Edmunds had intended to record Wilbert Harrison's "Let's Work Together", but when he was beaten to that song by Canned Heat, he adapted the arrangement he intended to use for it to "I Hear You Knocking", producing a highly original remake. Unfortunately, the success of the single caused EMI's Regal Zonophone Records to use an option that it had to claim Edmunds's album, 1972's ''Rockpile'', and the momentum from the single's success on a different label went away.

Edmunds's only acting role followed, as a band member in the David Essex movie, ''Stardust''. After learning the trade of producer, culminating in a couple of singles in the style of Phil Spector, "Baby I Love You" and "Born to Be with You", he became linked with the pub rock movement of the early 1970s, producing Brinsley Schwarz, Ducks Deluxe, and also The Flamin' Groovies, using a stripped down, grittier sound. Edmunds had bought a house in Rockfield, Monmouth a few miles away from Charles and Kingsley Ward's Rockfield Studios where he became an almost permanent fixture for the next twenty years. His working regime involved arriving at the studio in the early evening and working through till well after dawn, usually locked in the building alone. Applying the layered Spector sound to his own productions it was not unusual for Edmunds to multilayer up to forty separately recorded guitar tracks into the mix.

Rockpile and other collaborations

His own solo LP from 1975, ''Subtle as a Flying Mallet'', was similar in style. The Brinsley Schwarz connection brought about a collaboration with Nick Lowe starting with this album, and in 1976 they formed the group Rockpile, with Billy Bremner and Terry Williams. Because Edmunds and Lowe signed to different record labels that year, they could not record as Rockpile until 1980, but many of their solo LPs (such as Nick Lowe's ''Labour of Lust'' and Edmunds's own ''Repeat When Necessary'') were group recordings. Edmunds had more UK hits during this time, including Elvis Costello's "Girls Talk", Nick Lowe's "I Knew The Bride", Hank DeVito's "Queen of Hearts" (written for Edmunds and later a U.S. hit for Juice Newton), Graham Parker's "Crawling from the Wreckage", and Melvin Endsley's "Singing the Blues" (originally a hit for Marty Robbins).

Unexpectedly, after Rockpile released their first LP under their own name, ''Seconds of Pleasure'' (1980), the band split, generally attributed to tensions not between Edmunds and Lowe but their respective managers. Edmunds and the band, including Nick Lowe, performed in a music video for the track, ""Girls Talk" directed by Martin Pitts, and produced by Derek Burbidge and Helen Pollack. For the video the band set up on the roof of the Warner Brothers Records building in Mid-Town Manhattan in the early afternoon causing a stir in offices in Rockefeller Center. Edmunds spent the 1980s collaborating with and producing an assortment of artists, from Paul McCartney to King Kurt, and from Stray Cats and Fabulous Thunderbirds to Status Quo. He recorded the soundtrack for ''Porky's Revenge!'', supplying the main theme, "High School Nights," and was the musical director for a television special starring Carl Perkins, with assorted guests including George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and Rosanne Cash.

On his 1983 release, ''Information'', Edmunds collaborated on two songs with Jeff Lynne, the leader of Electric Light Orchestra. One of these songs, a Lynne composition, "Slipping Away", became Edmunds's only other U.S. Top 40 hit, albeit just barely, spending a single week at #39 while having a video clip in heavy rotation on MTV. It was not a hit in the UK. In 1984, Lynne produced six tracks on Edmunds's following album, ''Riff Raff''.

In 1986, Dave Edmunds participated in ''Carl Perkins's Rockabilly Session'' television special to pay tribute to his hero. Other musicians involved in the project include George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and Eric Clapton.

Recent events

Edmunds recorded less frequently after the mid 1980s, living in Wales in semi-retirement, but occasionally touring. He joined up with Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band for tours in 1992 and 2000. However, 2007 marked a return to touring for Edmunds, alongside Joe Brown, on a lengthy tour around the UK. He made an appearance on stage alongside Stray Cats, at the Brixton Academy in London, on 10 September 2008, playing "The Race Is On" and "Tear It Up" with the band.

In 1993 Edmunds unexpectedly found himself in Cardiff Crown Court as a co-defendant along with Shakin' Stevens facing charges of non-payment of playing royalties from former Sunsets' band members Robert Llewellyn, Carl Petersen, Steve Percy and Paul Dolan. The prosecution asserted that the former band members were due a share of those additional royalties that Stevens and Edmunds had received from the successful reissue of the album ''A Legend'' during the early eighties. The judge agreed and, while the unpaid royalties only amounted to around £70,000 to be divided between the four musicians, the associated court costs to be paid by Stevens and Edmunds amounted to £500,000. .

On New Year's Eve 2008 he appeared on Jools Holland's annual ''Hootenanny'', performing "Girls Talk" and "I Hear You Knocking". He was Holland's guest again at Borde Hill Garden on 20 June 2009, on 28 August at open air concert at Carrickfergus Castle., 31 October at Ipswich Regent, 7 November at Stoke Victoria Hall and 14 November at Nottingham Concert Hall. Edmunds also played a five song set, including "I Hear You Knocking," "I Knew the Bride" and "Sabre Dance" with the Holland Big Band at the Royal Albert Hall on 27 November 2009.

He returned and performed Sabre Dance on Hootenanny on the 2009/10 edition.

Selected discography

1968 Wang Dang Doodle With Love Sculpture (side b) The Stumble

Singles

Release date	Title	Chart Positions	Notes
UK Singles Chart>UK	! Australia	! Canada	Billboard Hot 100>U.S.
1968	with Love Sculpture:"Sabre Dance"
1970	"I Hear You Knocking"
1971	"I'm Comin' Home"
1971	"Blue Monday"
1972	"The Promised Land"
1973
1973
1976	"Here Comes the Weekend"
1976	"Where or When"
1977	"JuJu Man"
1977	"I Knew the Bride"
1978	"Deborah"
1978	"Television"
1979	"A1 on the Jukebox"
1979	"Girls Talk"
1979
1979	"Crawling from the Wreckage"
1980	Rockpile:"Teacher Teacher"					Lead vocal by Nick Lowe
1980	"Singing the Blues"
1981	"Almost Saturday Night"
1981	"The Race Is On" (with Stray Cats)
1982	"Run Rudolph Run"					Party Party (film) Soundtrack
1983	"Slipping Away"
1983	"Information"
1985	"High School Nights"					Porky's Revenge Soundtrack
1990	"Closer to the Flame"
1990	"King of Love"

Studio albums

with Love Sculpture:

''Blues Helping'' (December 1968)

''Forms and Feelings'' (January 1970)

with Brewers Droop:

''The Booze Brothers'' (recorded 1973, released 1989)

as Dave Edmunds:

''Rockpile'' (June 1972) (U.S. #212)

''Subtle as a Flying Mallet'' (April 1975)

''Get It'' (April 1977) (U.S. #209)

''Tracks on Wax 4'' (September 1978) (U.S. #202)

''Repeat When Necessary'' (June 1979) (UK #39, U.S. #54)

with Rockpile:

''Seconds of Pleasure'' (October 1980) (UK #34, U.S. #27)

as Dave Edmunds:

''Twangin... '' (April 1981) (UK #37)

''D.E. 7th'' (March 1982) (UK #60, U.S. #46)

''Information'' (April 1983) (UK #92, U.S. #51)

''Riff Raff'' (September 1984) (U.S. #140)

''Closer to the Flame'' (April 1990) (U.S. #146)

''Plugged In'' (August 1994)

''Hand Picked: Musical Fantasies'' (January 2000)

Live albums

''I Hear You Rockin''' (June 1987) (U.S. #106)

''Live on the King Biscuit Flower Hour" (May 1999)

''A Pile of Rock: Live'' (September 2001)

"C'Mon Everybody Live" (Same Source of King Biscuit Flower Hour - May 1999)(January 2004)

''Alive & Pickin''' (Canadian Mail Order Only)(February 2005)

Compilations

with Love Sculpture:

''The Dave Edmunds & Love Sculpture Singles A's & B's'' - Harvest Heritage - EMI U.K. - 1980

as Dave Edmunds:

''The Best of Dave Edmunds'' (January 1982) (U.S. #163)

''The Dave Edmunds Anthology (1968-1990)'' (April 1993)

''From Small Things: The Best of Dave Edmunds'' (April 2004)

''The Many Sides of Dave Edmunds: The Greatest Hits and More'' (September 2008)

References

External links

Dave Edmunds official website (outdated)

Dave Edmunds biography from BBC Wales

Listen to Dave Edmunds Live at The Capitol Theatre on 6 June 1982

Listen to Dave Edmunds Live at Roseland Ballroom on 18 June 1983

Listen to Dave Edmunds Live at Roseland Ballroom on 19 June 1983

Category:1944 births Category:Living people Category:People from Cardiff Category:Welsh guitarists Category:Welsh male singers Category:Welsh record producers

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:''For other people with a similar name, see William Daley''

Coordinates	34°03′″N118°15′″N
name	Will Dailey
background	group_or_band
origin	Boston, Massachusetts
genre	Rock, Roots, Acoustic
years active	2003–present
label	CBS Records
associated acts	Mappari
website	http://www.willdailey.com }}

Will Dailey is a Boston-based recording and performing artist. He is notable as being the winner of the 2006 Boston Music Award for Best Male Singer-Songwriter, an award he received again on December 2, 2009. He is also a CBS Recording artist and has recorded albums with Wheelkick Records and JS Music Group. Dailey has released three full-length albums since 2004, and his most recent project, ''Torrent'', involves the artist digitally releasing a burst of new music approximately every 3 months, and then compiling that material, along with bonus material, as a physical and digital audio package twice a year.

Career

As of August 24, 2007, it was noted in the biography section of WillDailey.com that he started his professional career early. At age 12, he used his own savings to buy a small guitar and amp. By age 16, he had completed his first public performance on stage at a pub.

Will Dailey performed at the annual Farm Aid benefit concert on September 20, 2008 at the Comcast Center in Mansfield, Massachusetts to raise money for family farmers. Others on the bill included Farm Aid principals Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young and Dave Matthews along with Kenny Chesney, The Pretenders, Jakob Dylan and The Gold Mountain Rebels and others.

His songs have appeared in a variety of venues, including numerous television shows (see a partial list of Will Dailey's songs featured in television programs).

On May 22, 2009, Dan Aquilante of ''The New York Post'' favorably contrasted Will Dailey with the performers on American Idol, writing “''Forget the last five months of force-fed artificial pop music on TV that just crowned a king (who I'm betting will be forgotten as quickly as he was created) – Will Dailey is the real deal.''"

Will made his second appearance at Farm Aid on October 4, 2009, along with his band The Rivals, at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in St. Louis, Missouri, joining headliners Nelson, Young, Mellencamp, and Matthews, as well as Wilco, Jason Mraz and others on the bill. They performed a set that included "Down The Drain," "How Can I Make You Happy" and "Undone."

''GoodbyeRedBullet''

In 2004, Dailey sold his car to pay for the release of his first full-length solo album, ''GoodbyeRedBullet''. Although the proceeds of the sale were enough to fund the release of his CD, there was not enough surplus to finance a tour. Dailey instead relied upon his family and friends to generate publicity, a tactic which eventually gained him a mailing list of more than 25,000 worldwide. ''GoodByeRedBullet'' was released April 20, 2004 and eventually sold more than 10,000 copies.

Following the success of this first album, Dailey began an intensive tour of the West Coast. Stricken with appendicitis and lacking health insurance, he was faced with nearly insurmountable debt. For health and financial reasons, he reluctantly abandoned the tour temporarily, squashing his hopes for a second album and compounding his financial woes. Thereafter, Dailey was able to proceed with his tour for a short while as a means of paying his staggering medical bills.

This situation soon changed when he achieved a record deal from an independent label in Los Angeles, providing him with the financial means to begin recording his second full-length album.

''Back Flipping Forward''

''Back Flipping Forward'' was released on April 18, 2006.

{{externalvideo | align = right | width = 320px | video1 = Will Dailey performs rise on CSI:NY | }}

In late 2006, Will Dailey was among the first artists signed to the newly-reformed CBS Records. A large part of the focus for the label will be the promotion of artists who gain notoriety through the media company's own TV programs, whether aired on CBS channels, or made by CBS Paramount Television for broadcast on other networks. The New York Post underscored this agenda, citing appearances of other musicians in CBS progamming as a means of promoting upcoming releases and television programs, such as the Grammy Awards.

September 4, 2007 marked the release of a deluxe package of the song ''Rise'' exclusively to the Internet music and video download service iTunes. The deluxe edition featured the album version of the track, an acoustic version, and a live in-studio video.

''Back Flipping Forward'' was remixed and re-released October 2, 2007 through CBS Records. Dailey's cover recording of Tears For Fears' "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" was made available as a bonus track to anyone purchasing the re-release of ''Back Flipping Forward'' on iTunes. Dailey's version was also used extensively by CBS for on-air promotion of the series, ''Kid Nation''. Dailey appeared in an episode of ''CSI: NY'' on October 17, 2007. He was seen and heard performing "Rise" in a club, while Gary Sinise's character Mac Taylor played bass alongside him.

''Torrent''

As of 2009, Dailey began releasing a new EP every few months as part of his year-long musical project called ''Torrent''. According to Billboard Magazine, ''Torrent, Volume 1: Fashion of Distraction'', which was inspired by The Byrds and features contributions from Roger McGuinn was released digitally on January 20, 2009.

''Torrent, Volume 2: By the Blue Hills'', which is dedicated to his hometown Boston and features guests like Elliot Easton of The Cars, Tanya Donelly of Throwing Muses and Belly, Kay Hanley of Letters To Cleo and Tim Brennan of Dropkick Murphys was released digitally on March 17, 2009. Dailey's song, "Tomorrow Still Comes" was also featured on ''NCIS: The Official TV Soundtrack'', which was released February 10, 2009 and used prominently in the NCIS episode "South By Southwest" on February 24, 2009. Additionally, "Peace Of Mind" from the first ''Torrent'' volume was featured in the NCIS episode "Semper Fidelis" on May 12, 2009. ''Torrent: Volumes 1 & 2'' was released on June 9, 2009, combining the previous two EPs into a physical package, along with two bonus tracks.

According to the liner notes found in ''Torrent, Volumes 1 & 2'', there is a reason that the release is being presented on DVD as well as on CD. That reason is ΧΟΔΕ (CODE). As written in the package, ''"Developed by T Bone Burnett and his longtime team of engineers, ΧΟΔΕ is a patent-pending system for creating high-definition sound that is virtually indistinguishable from the master recordings an artist creates in the studio. The result is music exactly as it's meant to be heard, but that does not require the audience to purchase any new or special equipment to play. Anyone with a standard DVD player or one built into their computer system, can play a ΧΟΔΕ DVD and experience recorded music with the resonance, depth, warmth and presence that has only recently become possible in the digital reproduction of sound."''

The ΧΟΔΕ DVD also contains all of the ''Torrent'' songs in .wav, .aac and .mp3 formats, ''"to give the listener the ultimate flexibility demanded by today's audio environment''". The package also contains a standard CD. According to Billboard, the double-disc will be sold at a single-CD price.

{{externalvideo | align = right | width = 320px | video1 = Will Dailey's "Mood Rock" video parody of the Peter Lemongello "Love '76" commercial | }} In May 2009, Dailey released a video that parodied the famous ''Love '76'' commercial from crooner Peter Lemongello, who sold millions of records through late-night television commercials in the mid- to late-1970s . This video captures the scene of two stereotypical show business managers coercing Dailey to appear in a TV advertisement for his new album, ''Torrent'', so that he can achieve the same level of success as Peter Lemongello, Zamfir and Slim Whitman. The commercial itself is a scene-by-scene recreation of the original Lemongello spot that first aired on television in 1976.

Partial list of Will Dailey's songs featured in television programs & Film

!Song Title ! "Tell-All" The Green RoomNumb3rsNumb3rsNCIS Los AngelesGhost Whisperer ''The Good Wife (TV series) ''Accidentally on Purpose (TV series) ''The Cleaner (TV series) ''The Late Late Show (CBS TV series) ''Middle of Nowhere (film) ''The Early Show'' ''NCIS (TV series) ''90210 (TV series) ''Harper's Island'' ''Numb3rs'' ''NCIS (TV series) ''90210 (TV series) ''90210 (TV series) ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ''As The World Turns'' ''As The World Turns'' ''Numb3rs'' ''Eli Stone'' ''Life Is Wild'' ''Gossip Girl'' ''Life Is Wild'' ''Cane (TV series) ''Viva Laughlin'' ''The Early Show'' ''CSI: NY'' ''NCIS (TV series) ''The Hills'' ''Kid Nation'' ''Army Wives'' ''CSI: Miami'' ''NCIS (TV series) ''What About Brian'' ''Ghost Whisperer'' ''Jericho (TV series)

Show !! Episode Title !! Original U.S. Airdate !! Notes
"Big Bright Sun"	NCIS (TV series)>NCIS	|	March 29, 2011
"How Can I Make You Happy"	|	"Showtime Promo Trailer"	May 14, 2010	Multi-week promotional campaign
"Tomorrow Still Comes"	|	"Devil Girl"	January 29, 2010
"Eliza"	|	"7 Men out"	October 9, 2009
"How Can I Make You Happy"	|	"Predator"	October 6, 2009
"Never Be Your Baby"	|	"See No Evil"	October 2, 2009
"Down The Drain"	The Good Wife'' ||	Premiere Episode	September 22, 2009
"Love Is On The Way"	Accidentally on Purpose'' ||		Fall 2009	Multi-week promotional campaign
"Hallelujah"	The Cleaner'' ||	"The Things We Didn't Plan"	July 28, 2009
"How Can I Make You Happy"	The Late Late Show'' ||		July 14, 2009	Live performance
"Undone"	Middle of Nowhere'' ||	2008	Film
"How Can I Make You Happy"	|		June 16, 2009	Live performance
"Peace Of Mind"	NCIS'' ||	"Semper Fidelis"	May 12, 2009
"Keep You A Mystery"	90210'' ||	"The Party's Over"	May 5, 2009
"Never Be Your Baby"	|	"Bang"	May 2, 2009
"The Right One"	|	"Animal Rites"	April 10, 2009
"Tomorrow Still Comes"	NCIS'' ||	"South By Southwest"	February 24, 2009
"Never Be Your Baby"	90210'' ||	"Games People Play"	November 11, 2008
"Peace Of Mind"	90210'' ||	"Games People Play"	November 11, 2008
"Rise"	CSI'' ||		October 2008	Promotional campaign
"Boom Boom"	|		October 3, 2008	On-camera performance
"Rise"	|		October 3, 2008	On-camera performance
"Rise"	|	"End Game"	April 25, 2008
"Rise"	|	"Patience"	April 10, 2008
"Grand Opening"	|	"The Code"	December 9, 2007
"Grand Opening"	|	"Blair Waldorf Must Pie!"	November 28, 2007
"Grand Opening"	|	"The Heart Wants What It Wants"	November 18, 2007
"Grand Opening"	Cane'' ||	"One Man Is An Island"	November 6, 2007
"Good To Me"	|		October 21, 2007
"Rise"	|		October 17, 2007	Live performance
"Rise"	|	"Time's Up"	October 17, 2007	On-camera performance
"Undone"	NCIS'' ||	"Ex-File"	October 9, 2007
"Hollywood Hills"	|	"They Meet Again"	September 17, 2007
"Everybody Wants To Rule The World"	|		August 2007	Multi-week promotional campaign
"Undone"	|	"Who We Are"	July 8, 2007
"Eliza"	|	"Born To Kill"	May 14, 2007
"Rise"	NCIS'' ||	"Cover Story"	April 10, 2007
"Hollywood Hills"	|	"What About Finding Your Place…"	February 12, 2007
"Bi-Polar Baby"	|	"Cat's Claw"	December 15, 2006
"Grand Opening"	Jericho'' ||	"Vox Populi"	November 29, 2006

Discography

Albums

''GoodbyeRedBullet'' 2004

''Back Flipping Forward'' 2006

''Torrent, Volume 1: Fashion of Distraction'' 2009

''Torrent, Volume 2: By The Blue Hills'' 2009

''Torrent, Volumes 1 & 2'' 2009

Compilations & Other Recordings

"NCIS Soundtrack Vol. 1" 2009

"90210 Soundtrack" 2009

"Music Hits Home" 2010

"Subterranean Homesick Blues" 2010

"The Right Track: Tunes to target Cancer" 2010

References

External links

willdailey.com The Official Will Dailey Website

Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Living people Category:American singer-songwriters

Coordinates	34°03′″N118°15′″N
name	Keaton Simons
background	solo_singer
origin	Los Angeles, California
genre	Rock, Acoustic, Singer/Songwriter
label	CBS Records
website	http://www.keatonsimons.com }}

Keaton Simons (born 20 July 1978) is a Los Angeles recording and performing artist. He is signed to CBS Records and his music has been featured on shows such as ''NCIS: Los Angeles'', ''Crash'', ''American Dad!'', ''Harper's Island'', and ''The Cleaner'' to name a few. Recent performances have included performing for Desmond Tutu at a United Nations event with members of Toto, Paul Simon, and John Mayer's band.

Keaton's multifaceted talents are not just in music, they have landed him appearances on television and film. He has made guest appearances on shows such as ''The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson'', ''Malcolm in the Middle'', and ''American Dreams''. Keaton also appeared in the feature film ''Hollywood Dreams''.

Keaton has shared the stage with many independent singer/songwriters including Tony Lucca, Curtis Peoples, Joe Firstman and Tyrone Wells. In the summer of 2010, Keaton was the opening act on a national tour for REO Speedwagon and Pat Benatar. In 2009 and 2010, Keaton performed at Hotel Carolina, an annual two-day singer-songwriter festival held in South Carolina.

The music video of his song "Good Things Get Better" parodies the documentary ''An Inconvenient Truth'', featured on ''Strictly Global'' VII.

He is the stepson of Eric Roberts.

References

Category:Living people Category:American performance artists Category:1978 births

Coordinates	34°03′″N118°15′″N
Name	Kenny Loggins
Landscape	Yes
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Kenneth Clark Loggins
Born	January 07, 1948 Everett, Washington, United States
Years active	1966–present
Label	Columbia, Mercury
Associated acts	Loggins and MessinaUSA for AfricaMichael McDonaldBlue Sky Riders
Website	Kenny Loggins.com
Notable instruments	Taylor Guitars }}

Kenneth Clark "Kenny" Loggins (born January 7, 1948) is an American singer and songwriter known best for soft rock and adult contemporary music beginning during the 1970s. Originally a part of the duo Loggins and Messina, he became a solo artist and has written songs for other artists.

Early life

Loggins was born in Everett, Washington, the youngest of three brothers. His mother was Lina (Massie), a stay-at-home mom, and his father, Robert George Loggins, was a salesman. They lived in Detroit and Seattle before settling in Alhambra, California. Loggins attended San Gabriel Mission High School, graduating in 1966. He formed a band called the ''Second Helping'', that released three singles during 1968 and 1969 on Viva Records. Greg Shaw described the efforts as "excellent punky folk-pop records" that were written by Loggins who was likely to be the bandleader and singer as well; Shaw included "Let Me In" on both ''Highs in the Mid-Sixties, Volume 2'' and the ''Pebbles, Volume 9'' CD. Loggins had a short gig playing guitar for the "The New Improved" Electric Prunes in 1969 before writing four songs for the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, which were included in their Uncle Charlie & His Dog Teddy album. During his early twenties, he was part of the band ''Gator Creek'' with Mike Deasy. An early version of "Danny's Song" (later recorded by Loggins and Messina) was included in a record on Mercury Records.

Loggins and Messina

Jim Messina, formerly of Poco and Buffalo Springfield, was working as an independent record producer for Columbia Records in 1970 when he was introduced to Kenny Loggins, then a little-known singer/songwriter who was signed to ABC-Dunhill.

The two recorded a number of Loggins' compositions in Messina's home living room. When Columbia signed Loggins to a six-album contract (with the assistance of Messina), recording began in earnest for Loggins' debut album, with Messina as producer. Messina originally intended to lend his name to the Loggins project only to help introduce the unknown Loggins to Messina's well-established Buffalo Springfield and Poco audiences. But by the time the album was completed, Messina had contributed so much to the album - in terms of songwriting, arrangement, instrumentation, and vocals - that an "accidental" duo was born. Thus, the full name of their first album was Kenny Loggins with Jim Messina Sittin' In.

Although the album went unnoticed by radio upon release, it eventually found success by autumn 1972, particularly on college campuses where the pair toured heavily. Loggins' and Messina's harmonies meshed so well that what was begun as a one-off album became an entity unto itself. Audiences regarded the pair as a genuine duo rather than as a solo act with a well-known producer. Instead of just continuing to produce Loggins as a sole performer, they decided to record as a duo – Loggins & Messina.

"When our first album, 'Sittin' In, ' came out, we started receiving a lot of excitement about the music and good sales," Messina recalled in 2005. "We had a choice. It was either I now go on and continue to produce him and we do the solo career or we stay together and let this work. For me, I did not desire to go back out on the road. I had had enough of that, and I wanted to produce records. But Clive Davis (then president of the record company) intervened and said, 'You know, I think you'd be making a mistake if you guys didn't take this opportunity. Things like this only happen once in a lifetime. It may merit you sleeping on it overnight and making a decision that will be in your best interest.' He was absolutely correct. Kenny made the decision as well. It delayed his solo career, but it gave him an opportunity, I think, to have one."

Over the next four years they produced five more original-material albums, plus one album of covers of other artists' material, and two live albums. They sold 16 million records and were the most successful duo of the early 1970s, surpassed later in the decade only by Hall & Oates. Their work was covered by other artists, such as Lynn Anderson, who recorded "Listen to a Country Song," which was released in 1972 and reaching #3 on the charts, and, perhaps most notably, Anne Murray, who reached the U.S. top ten with "Danny's Song" in early 1973 and again with "A Love Song" the following year. A greatest-hits album, ''The Best of Friends'', would be released a year after the duo had separated. The later studio albums often found both Loggins and Messina more as two solo artists sharing the same record rather than as a genuine partnership. As both Loggins and Messina noted in 2005, their collaboration eventually became more a competition - a frequent, almost-inevitable dynamic of show business duos.

Never really a team of true equals due to the "teacher/apprentice" nature of their music experience levels, the pair had by early 1976 quietly but amicably parted to pursue solo careers, following the release of ''Native Sons''.

Solo career

During 1977, Loggins produced his first solo album, ''Celebrate Me Home'', which included the successful song "I Believe In Love", sung originally by Barbra Streisand in ''A Star Is Born''. ''Nightwatch'', a popular album released during 1978, included the hit song, "Whenever I Call You Friend", a duet with Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac, though co-written with Melissa Manchester. He followed it in 1979 with ''Keep the Fire''.

With Michael McDonald

Loggins also wrote the song "What a Fool Believes" with Michael McDonald. Each man recorded his own version of the song, with McDonald's recording his version as a member of The Doobie Brothers. Loggins' version was released first, but the Doobie Brothers' version achieved greater success, scoring #1 on the popular music charts. During 1980, Loggins and McDonald received a Grammy for Song of the Year for "What a Fool Believes".

During 1979, Loggins and McDonald wrote "This Is It" for Loggins' ailing father, who had to choose between life and death. The song earned Loggins the Na Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal. NBC used the song as theme music for its coverage of the NCAA men's basketball tournament in 1980 and 1981.

Soundtracks

During the next decade, Loggins recorded so many successful songs for film soundtracks that he was referred to as, King of the Movie Soundtrack. He began with "I'm Alright" (#7 in the U.S.), "Mr. Night", and "Lead the Way" from ''Caddyshack''. Hits followed with "Footloose" and "I'm Free (Heaven Helps the Man)" from ''Footloose''; "Meet Me Halfway" from ''Over the Top''; and "Danger Zone" and "Playing With the Boys" from ''Top Gun''. Loggins also performed "Nobody's Fool" from the film ''Caddyshack II''. He also performed as a member of USA for Africa on the famine-relief fundraising single "We Are the World".

During the 1990s, Loggins continued his album career, including the popular 1994 children's album ''Return to Pooh Corner'', which included the title single, a reworking of "House at Pooh Corner", written for his newborn son Luke.

During 1991, Loggins recorded and produced ''Leap of Faith'', which included the single "Conviction of the Heart". Former vice president Al Gore billed this song as "the unofficial anthem of the environmental movement". On Earth Day 1995, Loggins performed at The National Mall in Washington, D.C. before a live audience of 500,000.

During 1997, Loggins released the album "The Unimaginable Life" based on his book which was co-written by his wife Julia. Tracks include "Now That I Know Love", "The Art of Letting Go", and "One Chance at a Time". The album was produced by Loggins and Randy Jackson with background vocals by Skyler Jett, Lamont VanHook, and Howard Smith.

During 1998, Loggins recorded a version of the popular Sesame Street song "One Small Voice" for the ABC Television special, Elmopalooza.

Recent years

During recent years Loggins has continued to record and produce Adult Contemporary music and scored a #1 single on the ''Billboard'' AC chart during 1997 with "For The First Time" (his Oscar-nominated song from ''One Fine Day''). His last film song was ''The Tigger Movie'' song "Your Heart Will Lead You Home", which he co-wrote with Richard and Robert Sherman. In 1999 he appeared as himself on ''Dharma & Greg'' in the episode "Tye-Dying the Knot", performing at Abby and Larry's wedding.

During 2005, JD Ryznar started web series ''Yacht Rock'', in which Loggins appears played by Hunter Stair and shows Loggins' rise to fame. The show helped with the revival of Loggins' music.

During 2005, Loggins and Messina performed a successful nationwide tour that resulted in the CD and DVD ''Loggins and Messina Sittin' In Again''.

During 2007 Loggins joined the new recording company 180 Music for the release of his ''How About Now'' album. That year he was also inducted into Hollywood’s Sunset Boulevard RockWalk.

On July 31, 2008, Loggins appeared on the TV program ''Don't Forget the Lyrics!'' and performed "I'm Alright" and "Footloose".

In 2009 Loggins issued a new children's album entitled ''All Join In'' but it was delayed due to his summer tour with Jim Messina.

In 2011 Loggins did a short tour in South East Asia including Manila, Philippines and Singapore. Loggins performed Friday, June 3, 2011 at the Arcada Theater in St Charles, IL. He stopped by the Eddie and Jobo Show in Chicago to talk about his music, his personal life and what kind of show you can expect from him.

Blue Sky Riders

Loggins is currently working on songs with the Blue Sky Riders, a country trio also featuring Gary Burr and Georgia Middleman.

Around one year ago, Kenny along with his close confidant Drew, started the Kenny Loggins Tree Company. With revenue amassing over $200MM in their first year, Kenny Loggins Tree Company has quickly become the forerunner for the tree servicing industry. When asked what made the company so successful, Kenny stated.. "I dont really know, Drew said the idea came to him during a ride back from the beach one day so he called me and I decided to go with it. Boy, am I glad he had the vision."

Personal life

Loggins was married first to Eva Ein from 1978 to 1990; they had three children together. The oldest, Crosby Loggins, produced his first CD in 2007 entitled ''We All Go Home.'' During 2008, Crosby Loggins was voted the winner of the MTV reality show ''Rock the Cradle''. Cody was born in 1983 and Isabella in 1988. As of 2009, daughter Bella was a music major in college.

When Loggins experienced health problems in 1982, he was referred to Julia Cooper, a colon therapist. They felt an immediate connection and both were unhappy in their relationships, but each was married to someone else; Loggins had one child and his wife was pregnant with his second. Their relationship was limited to a close friendship for many years. Near the end of the 1980s, Loggins separated from his wife, Eva, at nearly the same time Julia left her husband, and they began a deeper relationship.

Loggin's divorce was final in 1990; he and Cooper married in July, 1992. In 1994, they became involved with Equinox International, a multi-level marketing organization, and created a promotional video for the company, as did Ted Danson and Dave Parker. The couple had two children: Lukas, born in 1994, and Hana, born in 1998. After several years of their marriage, they assembled material from the journals that each kept, which included poems, songs and letters. They authored a 1997 book entitled, ''The Unimaginable Life'' about their relationship. It was not intended to be a "how to" guide for relationships, nor a celebrity autobiography. Its purpose was to offer an alternative to typical relationships where spouses feel that they cannot be completely honest. Later on, they faced possible bankruptcy.

The couple divorced in 2004. Loggins commented in 2009, “I got pretty blindsided by Julia’s decision to leave. She’s a very impulsive woman, and she found herself going through a midlife crisis. And she didn’t know what to make of it, and it changed her life.”

Kenny is a cousin to singer-songwriter Dave Loggins.

Discography

Of the seven albums released by Loggins & Messina from 1971–1976, two were platinum and five were gold.

Since going solo, Loggins has released 13 albums, three of which were certified gold (500,000 shipped), and four became platinum (1 million shipped).

Notes

External links

Kenny Loggins.com

Blue Sky Riders official website

2011 radio interview with Kenny Loggins

2011 radio interview] with Kenny Loggins

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