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Brandeis University
Brandeis University (
/ˈbrændaɪs/) is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles (14 km) west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students. In 2011, it was ranked by the U.S. News and World Report as the number 31 national university in the United States.Forbes listed Brandeis University as number 57 among all national universities and liberal arts colleges combined in 2010.
Brandeis was founded in 1948 as a nonsectarian Jewish-sponsored coeducational institution on the site of the former Middlesex University. The university is named for Louis Brandeis (1856–1941), the first Jewish Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Names associated with the conception of Brandeis include Israel Goldstein, George Alpert, C. Ruggles Smith, Albert Einstein, and Abram L. Sachar.
C. Ruggles Smith was the son of Dr. John Hall Smith, founder of Middlesex University, who had died in 1944. In 1946, the university was on the brink of financial collapse. At the time, it was one of the few medical schools in the U. S. that did not impose a Jewish quota; but it had never been able to secure AMA accreditation—in part, its founder believed, due to institutional antisemitism in the AMA—and, as a result, Massachusetts had all but shut it down.
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Buffalo, New York
Buffalo ( /ˈbʌfəloʊ/) is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area, the largest in Upstate New York. Buffalo itself has a population of 261,310 (2010 Census) and the Buffalo–Niagara–Cattaraugus Combined Statistical Area is home to 1,215,826 residents.
Originating around 1789 as a small trading community near the eponymous Buffalo Creek, Buffalo grew quickly after the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, with the city as its western terminus. By 1900, Buffalo was the 8th largest city in the United States, and went on to become a major railroad hub, and the largest grain-milling center in the country. The latter part of the 20th century saw a reversal of fortunes: Great Lakes shipping was rerouted by the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway, and steel mills and other heavy industry relocated to places such as China. With the start of Amtrak in the 1970s, Buffalo Central Terminal was also abandoned, and trains were rerouted to nearby Depew, New York (Buffalo-Depew) and Exchange Street Station. By 1990 the city had fallen back below its 1900 population levels.
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Denver
Denver ( /ˈdɛnvər/) (Arapaho: Niinéniiniicíihéhe' ) is the largest city and the capital of the U.S. state of Colorado. As Denver County, it is the second most populous county in Colorado after El Paso County, which surpassed Denver County as of the 2010 Census. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. The Denver downtown district is located immediately east of the confluence of Cherry Creek with the South Platte River, approximately 12 miles (19 km) east of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Denver is nicknamed the Mile-High City because its official elevation is exactly one mile (1.6 km) or 5,280 feet (1,609.344 m) above sea level, which is defined by the elevation of the spot of a benchmark on the steps of the State Capital building. The elevation of the entire city ranges from 5,130 to 5,680 feet. The 105th meridian west of Greenwich passes through Union Station and is the temporal reference for the Mountain Time Zone.
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United States
The United States of America (commonly abbreviated to the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west, across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.
At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km2) and with over 312 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest by both land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the world's largest national economy, with an estimated 2011 GDP of $15.1 trillion (22% of nominal global GDP and over 19% of global GDP at purchasing-power parity). Per capita income is the world's sixth-highest.
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Yale University
Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university located in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States.
Incorporated as the "Collegiate School," the institution traces its roots to 17th-century clergymen who sought to establish a college to train clergy and political leaders for the colony. In 1718, the College was renamed "Yale College" to honor a gift from Elihu Yale, a governor of the British East India Company. In 1861, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences became the first U.S. school to award the PhD. Yale became a founding member of the Association of American Universities in 1900. Yale College was transformed, beginning in the 1930s, through the establishment of residential colleges: 12 now exist and two more are planned. Yale employs over 1,100 faculty to teach and advise about 5,300 undergraduate and 6,100 graduate and professional students. Almost all tenured professors teach undergraduate courses, more than 2,000 of which are offered annually.
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Al Kasha
Al Kasha (born 22 January 1937) is a Brooklyn–born composer, songwriter and arranger, as well as businessman. He is most noted for his years of collaboration with songwriter Joel Hirschhorn. The two wrote and collaborated many successful songs for many musical groups such as The Peppermint Rainbow's "Will You Be Staying After Sunday".
The songwriting duo won two Oscars for Best Song, "The Morning After" from The Poseidon Adventure in 1972 and "We May Never Love Like This Again" from The Towering Inferno in 1974.
Along with Hirshhorn, Kasha also received two Tony nominations for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Copperfield, two Grammy nominations and an Emmy, as well as four Golden Globe nominations and a People's Choice award. They also composed the theme song to the short-lived 1990s game show The Challengers.
Al is currently married to Ceil Kasha who handles Donna Summer's business affairs.
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Albhy Galuten
Albhy Galuten is a Grammy Award-winning American record producer, composer, musician, orchestrator and technology executive.
He produced 18 number 1 singles with songs and albums selling over 100,000,000 copies. He has won two Grammies, a Dramalogue award (theatre) and a BMI award (as a songwriter).
His record productions include the soundtracks Saturday Night Fever, the theme song "Grease" and songs or albums for Jellyfish, Olivia Newton-John, Barbra Streisand (Guilty), Dionne Warwick (Heartbreaker), Andy Gibb, Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton ("Islands in the Stream"), Samantha Sang ("Emotion"), Diana Ross ("Chain Reaction"), Eric Clapton ("Knockin' on Heaven's Door"), Titanic Love Affair and Bee Gees (nine number one songs).
Galuten also contributed playing or orchestration skills to recording artists Wishbone Ash, Bill Wyman, Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, Aretha Franklin, Eagles, Kenny Loggins, Petula Clark and No Doubt (director of paradigm).
He is currently a technology executive at Sony and has been an executive at Universal Music Group (Senior Vice President, Advanced Technology) and Ion (Vice President, New Technology). In his various roles as a technology executive Galuten has filed patents, developed corporate technology strategy, negotiated technology deals and worked in the development of standards including the Content Reference Forum (Chairman) and the Coral Consortium (Vice President).
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Arif Mardin
Arif Mardin (March 15, 1932 – June 25, 2006) was a Turkish-American music producer, who worked with hundreds of artists across many different styles of music, including jazz, rock, soul, disco, and country. He worked at Atlantic Records for over 30 years, as both an assistant, producer, arranger, studio manager, and vice president, before moving to EMI and serving as vice president and general manager of Manhattan Records. His collaborations include working with Queen, The Bee Gees, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin, Bette Midler, Laura Branigan, Chaka Khan, Scritti Politti, Phil Collins, Daniel Rodriguez, Norah Jones, Richard Marx, Culture Club and Jewel. Mardin was awarded 11 Grammy Awards.
Arif Mardin was born in Istanbul into a renowned family that included statesmen, diplomats and leaders in the civic, military and business sectors of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic. His father was co-owner in a petroleum gas station chain.
Mardin grew up listening to the likes of Bing Crosby and Glenn Miller. Through his sister he met jazz critic Cuneyt Sermet, who turned him onto this music and eventually became his mentor. After graduating from Istanbul University in Economics and Commerce, Mardin studied at the London School of Economics. Influenced by his sister's music records and jazz, he was also an accomplished orchestrator and arranger, but he never intended to pursue a career in music. However, he made two solo albums: Glass Onion, in 1970, and Journey, in 1975. In Journey, he was the composer and arranger, but he also played electric piano and percussion, and was accompanied by many stars of jazz (Randy and Michael Brecker, Joe Farrell, Gary Burton, Ron Carter, Steve Gadd, Billy Cobham and many others).
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Art Garfunkel
Arthur Ira "Art" Garfunkel (born November 5, 1941) is a Grammy-award winning American singer-songwriter, a poet, and a Golden Globe winning actor. He was also half of the folk duo Simon & Garfunkel, which split in 1970, at the height of their popularity.
Highlights of his solo music career include a top 10 hit, three top 20 hits, six top 40 hits, 14 Adult Contemporary top 30 singles, five Adult Contemporary number ones, two UK number ones and a People's Choice Award. Through his solo and collaborative work, Garfunkel has earned six Grammys, including the Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1990, he and former musical partner Paul Simon were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Art Garfunkel was born in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City, the son of housewife Rose and traveling salesman Jacob "Jack" Garfunkel on November 5, 1941. Art has two siblings; the older one named Jules and the younger one named Jerome, who was an actor in his earlier years in Dayton, Ohio, before becoming a travelling menswear salesman. He is Jewish. His paternal grandparents emigrated from Iași in Romania. His cousin on his mother's side is founder of 'N Sync and the Backstreet Boys, Lou Pearlman. Garfunkel attended the Forest Hills High School. According to the Across America DVD, Garfunkel's love for singing "came in the first grade. When we were lined up in size order, and after everyone else had left, I'd stay behind and enjoy the echo sound of the stairwell tiles and sing 'Unchained Melody' and 'You'll Never Walk Alone', learning to love this goose-bumps song from the tender age of five." Later, Garfunkel's father bought him a wire recorder and from then on, Garfunkel spent his afternoons singing, recording and playing it back, so he could listen for flaws and learn how to improve.
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Barbra Streisand
Barbra Joan Streisand (/ˈstraɪsænd/; born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, writer, film producer and director. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, five Emmy Awards including one Daytime Emmy, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Peabody Award, and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award.
She is one of the most commercially and critically successful entertainers in modern entertainment history, with more than 71.5 million albums shipped in the United States and 140 million albums sold worldwide. She is the best-selling female artist on the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) Top Selling Artists list, the only female recording artist in the top ten, and the only artist outside of the rock and roll genre. Along with Frank Sinatra, Cher, and Shirley Jones, she shares the distinction of being awarded an acting Oscar and also recording a number-one single on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.
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Bee Gees
The Bee Gees were a musical group founded in 1958. The group's line-up consisted of brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio were successful for most of their decades of recording music, but they had two distinct periods of exceptional success: as a pop act in the late 1960s/early 1970s, and as prominent performers of the disco music era in the late 1970s.
The group sang three-part tight harmonies that were instantly recognisable; Robin's clear vibrato lead was a hallmark of their earlier hits, while Barry's R&B falsetto became their signature sound during the late 1970s and 1980s. The brothers wrote all of their own hits, as well as writing and producing several major hits for other artists.
Born in the Isle of Man to English parents, the Gibb brothers lived their first few years in Chorlton, Manchester, England, then moved in the late 1950s to Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia, where they began their musical careers. After achieving their first chart success in Australia with "Spicks and Specks" (their 12th single), they returned to the United Kingdom in January 1967 where producer Robert Stigwood began promoting them to a worldwide audience.
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Billy Preston
William Everett "Billy" Preston (September 2, 1946 – June 6, 2006) was a musician whose work included R&B, rock, soul, funk and gospel. Preston became famous, first as a session musician with such artists as Sam Cooke, Ray Charles and The Beatles, and was later successful as a solo artist with such hit pop singles as "Space Race", "Will It Go Round in Circles" and "Nothing from Nothing", and a string of albums.
Alongside Tony Sheridan, Billy Preston was the only other musician to be credited on a Beatles recording after he was credited on the group's number-one hit, "Get Back", with the record title listed as The Beatles with Billy Preston. Steven Stills asked Preston if he could use Preston's phrase "if you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with" in a song and created the legendary eponymous hit.
William Everett Preston was born on September 2, 1946 in Houston, Texas. At the age of three, the family moved to Los Angeles where Preston began playing piano while sitting on his mother Robbie's lap. Noted as a child prodigy, by the age of ten, Preston was playing organ onstage backing several gospel singers such as Mahalia Jackson, James Cleveland and Andrae Crouch. At twelve, he appeared in the W.C. Handy biopic starring Nat King Cole entitled, St. Louis Blues, playing W.C. Handy at a younger age. A year prior, Preston appeared on Cole's national TV show singing the Fats Domino hit, "Blueberry Hill".
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Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (
/ˈdɪlən/), born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941, is an American singer-songwriter, musician and artist. He has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly reluctant figurehead of social unrest. A number of Dylan's early songs, such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'", became anthems for the US civil rights and anti-war movements. Leaving his initial base in the culture of folk music behind, Dylan's six-minute single "Like a Rolling Stone" has been described as radically altering the parameters of popular music in 1965. However, his recordings employing electric instruments attracted denunciation and criticism from others in the folk movement.
Dylan's lyrics incorporated a variety of political, social, philosophical, and literary influences. They defied existing pop music conventions and appealed hugely to the then burgeoning counterculture. Initially inspired by the songs of Woody Guthrie,Robert Johnson, and Hank Williams, as well as the music and performance styles of Buddy Holly and Little Richard, Dylan has both amplified and personalized musical genres. His recording career, spanning fifty years, has explored numerous distinct traditions in American song—from folk, blues and country to gospel, rock and roll, and rockabilly to English, Scottish, and Irish folk music, embracing even jazz and swing.
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Carole King
Carole King (born February 9, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. King and her former husband Gerry Goffin wrote more than two dozen chart hits for numerous artists during the 1960s, many of which have become standards. As a singer, her Tapestry album topped the U.S. album chart for 15 weeks in 1971, and remained on the charts for more than six years.
She was most successful as a performer in the first half of the 1970s, although she was a successful songwriter long before and long after. She had her first number 1 hit as a songwriter in 1961 at age 18, with "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", which she wrote with Goffin. In 1997, she co-wrote "The Reason" for Aerosmith, but instead it was sung by Celine Dion.
In 2000, Joel Whitburn, a Billboard Magazine pop music researcher, named her the most successful female songwriter of 1955–99, because she wrote or co-wrote 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100.
King has made 25 solo albums, the most successful being Tapestry. Her most recent non-compilation album is Live at the Troubadour, a collaboration with James Taylor, which reached number 4 on the charts in its first week, and has sold over 600,000 copies.
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Christine McVie
Christine McVie (born Christine Anne Perfect, 12 July 1943, in Bouth, near Ulverston, Lancashire, England) is an English rock singer, keyboardist, and songwriter. Her primary fame came as a member of the British/American rock band Fleetwood Mac, though she has also released three solo albums. As a member of Fleetwood Mac, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.
Christine was born in the small village of Bouth in the Lake District of England and grew up in the Bearwood area of Smethwick near Birmingham, where her father, Cyril P.A.Perfect, was a concert violinist and music lecturer at St Peter's College of Education, Saltley, Birmingham. Christine's mother Beatrice E.M.(called Tee) née Reece, was a medium, psychic, and faith healer. Her grandfather had been an organist at Westminster Abbey. Although Christine was introduced to the piano at the age of four, it was not until age eleven that she studied music seriously, when she was re-introduced to the instrument by Philip Fisher, a local musician and school friend of her older brother John.[citation needed] Continuing her classical training until the age of fifteen, her musical focus made a radical shift to rock & roll when John brought home a Fats Domino songbook. Other early influences included The Everly Brothers.
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Christopher Coppola
Christopher Coppola (born January 25, 1962) is a film director and producer.
Coppola was born in Los Angeles County, California. His father, the late August Coppola, was a professor of literature, while his mother, Joy Vogelsang, is a dancer and choreographer; the two divorced in 1976. His mother suffered from chronic depression. Coppola's mother is of German descent and his father is Italian American, with his paternal grandparents being Carmine Coppola and Italia Pennino, an actress. Through his father, Coppola is the nephew of director Francis Ford Coppola and actress Talia Shire, as well as the cousin of director Sofia Coppola, actor and lead singer of his own band Rooney Robert Schwartzman and actor and former Phantom Planet drummer Jason Schwartzman. Coppola's two brothers are Marc Coppola and actor Nicolas Cage. He was featured on a Cats 101 episode on Animal Planet with his pet Burmese cat Otto.
Coppola is the president of Christopher R. Coppola Productions (CRC Productions). In 2006, Coppola launched a digital film festival, PAH-FEST – "Project Accessible Hollywood" or "PAH" in New Mexico. In addition to New Mexico, Coppola has taken PAH-FEST to multiple cities and towns in the US, Germany and Slovenia. Coppola’s CRC Productions is also developing and producing content for alternative distribution and interactive platforms.
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David Clayton-Thomas
David Clayton-Thomas (born David Henry Thomsett; 13 September 1941) is a Canadian musician and singer best known as the lead vocalist for the American band; Blood, Sweat & Tears. Clayton-Thomas has also maintained a busy solo career over the years as well.
Clayton-Thomas was born in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, UK, the son of a decorated Canadian soldier of World War II who met his piano-playing mother when she came to entertain the troops at a London hospital. They were married, and when the war ended, the family moved to Willowdale, a suburb of Toronto, when Clayton-Thomas was not yet school-aged.
Growing up, he was taught music by his mother but had difficulties with his father in what was described as a dysfunctional family. He left home in his early teens, and according to his official biography, spent time in jail as a juvenile delinquent until his release in 1962. He idolized the music of John Lee Hooker and began playing guitar and singing, and by the time he was 21 had his own band, The Shays. David Clayton-Thomas & The Shays recorded for Roman Records of Toronto. Clayton-Thomas released two albums on the record label, "A Go Go" (with The Shays) and "Like It Is" (with The Bossmen).
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David Shire
| name = David Shire | background = non_vocal_instrumentalist | birth_name = David Lee Shire | birth_date = (1937-07-03) July 3, 1937 (age 74) |birth_place =Buffalo, New York | occupation = Composer | instrument = Piano | genre = Film score
musicals
Television score | years_active = 1960s–present
David Lee Shire (born July 3, 1937) is an American songwriter and the composer of stage musicals, film and television scores. The soundtrack to the 1974 movie The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974 film) and parts of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack such as Night on Disco Mountain, an adaptation of Modest Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain, are some of his best known works. His other work includes the score of the 1985 film, Return to Oz, the "sequel-in-part" of The Wizard of Oz (1939 film). Shire is married to actress Didi Conn.
Shire was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Esther Miriam (née Sheinberg) and Buffalo society band leader and piano teacher Irving Daniel Shire. He met his long-time theater collaborator lyricist/director Richard Maltby, Jr. at Yale University, where they wrote two musicals, Cyrano and Grand Tour, which were produced by the Yale Dramatic Association. Shire also co-fronted a jazz group at school, the Shire-Fogg Quintet, and was a Phi Beta Kappa honors student, with a double major in English and music. He was a member of the Pundits and Elihu and he graduated magna cum laude in 1959.
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Dean Pitchford
Dean Pitchford (born July 29, 1951, Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American songwriter, screenwriter, director, actor, and novelist. His work has earned him an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for three additional Oscars, two more Golden Globes, seven Grammy Awards and two Tony Awards.
Pitchford was born in Honolulu, where he attended Star Of The Sea School and graduated (1968) from Saint Louis High School.
Pitchford began his performance career as an actor and singer with the Honolulu Community Theatre (now Diamond Head Theatre), the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra and the Honolulu Theatre for Youth, among others.
While studying at Yale University, Pitchford performed with numerous campus drama groups, but his focus gradually turned off-campus, where he worked with the Wooster Square Revival, an experimental theatre company that offered acting opportunities to recovering addicts and alcoholics. In 1969, Pitchford returned to Honolulu as a writers’ assistant to authors Faye Hammel and Sylvan Levey, updating the popular guidebook Hawai’i on $5 and $10 A Day, and researching TWA’s Budget Guide to Hawai’i, the first of a series of guidebooks that would eventually metamorphose into the popular series TWA Getaway Guides.
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Dick Halligan
Richard (Dick) Halligan (born August 29, 1943 in Troy, New York) is an American musician and composer, best known as a founding member of the jazz-rock band Blood, Sweat & Tears.
Halligan was BS&T's trombonist on their first album, Child Is Father to the Man. When Al Kooper left the band after that first album, Halligan began playing other instruments including piano, organ, and flute. He received a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Performance for "Variations On A Theme By Erik Satie" from the album Blood, Sweat & Tears. Halligan also arranged many of the band's charts during this time period, and he wrote several songs including "Redemption" and "Lisa Listen To Me." Halligan left BS&T in 1971 after recording their fourth album, when the band began to shift to more rock-oriented music.
In the 1970s and 1980s Halligan composed and arranged music for a number of motion pictures, television, and commercials.
As of 2006 he is active as a composer and performer for various types of music, including jazz and chamber music.
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Didi Conn
Didi Conn (born Edith Bernstein on July 13, 1951) is an American film, stage and television actress.
Conn was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of a clinical psychologist. "Didi" was her childhood nickname. She attended Midwood High School; her brother is opera singer Richard Bernstein.
She has been married to composer David Shire since 1982, with whom she has a son, Daniel Shire, who has been diagnosed with autism. Conn is also stepmother to Matthew Shire, a Los Angeles screenwriter.
Conn made her debut as an actress in the 1960s. Her notable roles since the 1970s, when she first became prominent, include:
Conn provided the voice for Raggedy Ann in the 1977 animated feature, Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure, directed by Richard Williams. Conn's "childlike" voice is one of her trademarks. She occasionally appeared as a celebrity guest on game shows like Match Game, The $20,000 $25,000 and $100,000 Pyramids, Chain Reaction and Go.
Conn's son Danny is diagnosed with autism. On November 13, 2008, Conn was named national celebrity spokesperson for Autism Speaks. Before that, Conn was a spokesperson for the National Alliance for Autism Research, now part of Autism Speaks. She has performed at benefits for Foundation for Educating Children with Autism (FECA).
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Earl Young (drummer)
Earl Young (born 1940, Philadelphia) is a Philadelphia-based drummer who rose to prominence in the early 1970s as part of the Philly Soul sound. Young is best known as the founder and leader of The Trammps who had a hit record with "Disco Inferno". Young, along with Ronnie Baker and Norman Harris, was the owner of the Golden Fleece record label.
Young is seen as the inventor of the disco style of rock drumming (in Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes's "The Love I Lost" from 1973), as he was the first to make extensive and distinctive use of the Hi Hat cymbal throughout the playing time of an R & B recording. This is turn led to DJ's favoring his recordings because they could hear the cymbal quite easily in their headphones as they "cued up" records to be mixed.
Young would feature prominently on many Gamble and Huff recordings before moving on to Salsoul Records as part of the house band for the label. He recorded extensively at Philadelphia's Sigma Sound Studios.
In 1989, newcomers Ten City would seek out Young to work on their debut album for the House Music scene, and even commissioned Young for remixing of some of the material as well as session drumming.
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Eleanor Coppola
Eleanor Coppola is a documentary filmmaker, artist, and writer. She is the wife of American director Francis Ford Coppola. She is most known for her 1991 documentary film Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse as well as other documentaries chronicling the films of her husband and children. Coppola currently lives on her family’s winery in Napa Valley, California.
Eleanor Coppola was born Eleanor Jessie Neil on May 4 1936, to an Irish-American family in Los Angeles, California. Her father was a political cartoonist for the Los Angeles Examiner who died when she was 10 years old. She was raised by her mother in the Californian town of Sunset Beach. She graduated from UCLA with a degree in applied design and was a member of the women’s fraternity Alpha Chi Omega (Alpha Psi chapter).
While working on the set of the 1962 horror film Dementia 13, she met her future husband Francis Ford Coppola. Her position was Assistant Art Director, while Coppola was making his directorial debut with the film. The couple had been dating for several months when Eleanor discovered in 1963 that she was pregnant. Initially ,Eleanor considered giving the baby up for adoption, but was convinced otherwise by Francis Ford Coppola. The couple married in Las Vegas that same year and gave birth to their first son Gian-Carlo Coppola. Years later, Eleanor gave birth to Roman and Sofia Coppola.
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Eric Clapton
Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, (born 30 March 1945) is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time. Clapton ranked second in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and fourth in Gibson's Top 50 Guitarists of All Time.
In the mid 1960s, Clapton departed from the Yardbirds to play blues with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. In his one-year stay with Mayall, Clapton gained the nickname "Slowhand". Immediately after leaving Mayall, Clapton formed Cream, a power trio with drummer Ginger Baker and bassist Jack Bruce in which Clapton played sustained blues improvisations and "arty, blues-based psychedelic pop." For most of the 1970s, Clapton's output bore the influence of the mellow style of J.J. Cale and the reggae of Bob Marley. His version of Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff" helped reggae reach a mass market. Two of his most popular recordings were "Layla", recorded by Derek and the Dominos, another band he formed and Robert Johnson's "Crossroads", recorded by Cream. A recipient of seventeen Grammy Awards, in 2004 Clapton was awarded a CBE for services to music. In 1998, Clapton, a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, founded the Crossroads Centre on Antigua, a medical facility for recovering substance abusers.
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Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola ( /ˈkoʊpələ/ KOH-pə-lə; born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors. He epitomized the group of filmmakers known as the New Hollywood, that includes Martin Scorsese, Terrence Malick, Robert Altman, Woody Allen, William Friedkin, Philip Kaufman, and George Lucas who emerged in the early 1970s with unconventional ideas that challenged contemporary film-making.
He co-wrote the script for Patton (1970), which won an Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay). His directorial fame escalated with the release of The Godfather (1972), a film which revolutionized movie-making in the gangster genre, earning praise from critics and public alike. It won three Academy Awards, including his second, for Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay), and was instrumental in cementing his position as a prominent American film director.
Coppola followed it with a critically successful sequel, The Godfather Part II (1974), which became the first sequel to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. The film was highly praised and won him three Academy Awards—for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture. The Conversation, which Coppola directed, produced and wrote, was released that same year, winning the Palme d'Or at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival. He next directed Apocalypse Now (1979); notorious for its overlong and strenuous production, but critically acclaimed for its vivid and stark depiction of the Vietnam War, winning the Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival. To this day, Coppola is one of only seven filmmakers to win two Palme d'Or awards, and is the only filmmaker to win both in the same decade.
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Fred Lipsius
Fred Lipsius (born 19 November 1943, The Bronx, New York, U.S.) was the original saxophonist and arranger for the jazz-rock band Blood, Sweat & Tears, for which he played alto saxophone and piano. He was with the band from 1967 to 1971.
Before Blood, Sweat & Tears, Lipsius played with the Ronn Metcalfe Orchestra.
Lipsius has performed with Simon & Garfunkel, Janis Joplin, and jazz greats Cannonball Adderley, Thelonious Monk, Zoot Sims, Eddie Gomez, Al Foster, George Mraz, Larry Willis, Randy Brecker, Rodney Jones and many others. He has written music for and performed on over 30 CDs as both a leader and sideman. He has authored six books/CDs on jazz improvisation and jazz reading.
Lipsius now teaches at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Born in the Bronx, New York City on November 19, 1943, Lipsius began playing the clarinet at age 9, alto and tenor saxophones in Junior High School, and the piano at Music and Art High School in Manhattan. He continued his studies at Berklee School of Music (1961–62).
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Freddie Perren
Frederick "Freddie" Perren (May 15, 1943 – December 16, 2004) was an American songwriter, record producer, arranger, and orchestra conductor best known as co-songwriter and co-producer of such mega-hits as "Boogie Fever" by the Sylvers, "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor, and "Shake Your Groove Thing" by Peaches & Herb.
Perren was born on May 15, 1943, in Englewood, New Jersey, and graduated from Englewood's Dwight Morrow High School in 1961. Perren attended Howard University in Washington, D.C. graduating in 1966. It was here he would meet future songwriting partner Fonce Mizell as well as Larkin Arnold. He met Christine Yarian in 1967, and they married in 1970.
Shortly after moving to California from Washington, D.C., in 1968, Perren and bassist Mizell met guitarist Deke Richards. They started writing songs together. In 1969 Motown president Berry Gordy invited them to be part of his collective The Corporation, a collection of songwriters and record producers for The Jackson 5. "I Want You Back" was the first hit from this new collaboration, going to number one on the Hot 100 in early 1970. They would go on to write and produce more Jackson 5 hits such as "ABC", "The Love You Save", "Mama's Pearl", and "Maybe Tomorrow", among others. Perren and The Corporation continued their work for Motown on soundtracks such as Hell Up in Harlem and Cooley High, which featured "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" (later a hit for Boyz II Men).
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Gene Hackman
Eugene Allen "Gene" Hackman (born January 30, 1930) is a retired American actor and novelist.
Nominated for five Academy Awards, winning two, Hackman has also won three Golden Globes and two BAFTAs in a career that spanned five decades. He first came to fame in 1967 with his performance as Buck Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde. His major subsequent films include The French Connection (1971), in which he played Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle; The Poseidon Adventure (1972); The Conversation (1974); Superman (1978), in which he played arch-villain Lex Luthor; Hoosiers (1986); Mississippi Burning (1987); Unforgiven (1992); The Firm (1993); Crimson Tide (1995); Get Shorty (1995); The Birdcage (1996); Enemy of the State (1998); and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001).
Hackman was born in San Bernardino, California, the son of Lyda (née Gray) and Eugene Ezra Hackman. He has a brother, Richard. His family moved frequently, finally settling in Danville, Illinois, where they lived in the house of his English-born maternal grandmother, Beatrice. Hackman's father operated the printing press for the Commercial-News, a local paper. Hackman's parents divorced in 1943 and his father subsequently left the family.
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George Harrison
George Harrison,MBE (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who achieved international fame as lead guitarist of The Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison became over time an admirer of Indian culture and mysticism, and introduced it to the other Beatles, as well as their Western audience. Following the band's break-up he was a successful solo artist, and later a founding member of the Traveling Wilburys. Harrison was also a session musician and a film and record producer. He is listed at number 11 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
Although most of The Beatles' songs were written by Lennon and McCartney, Beatle albums generally included one or two of Harrison's own songs, from With The Beatles onwards. His later compositions with The Beatles include "Here Comes the Sun", "Something" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". By the time of the band's break-up, Harrison had accumulated a backlog of material, which he then released as the triple album All Things Must Pass in 1970, from which two hit singles originated: a double A-side single, "My Sweet Lord" backed with "Isn't It a Pity", and "What Is Life". In addition to his solo work, Harrison co-wrote two hits for former Beatle Ringo Starr, as well as songs for the Traveling Wilburys—the supergroup he formed in 1988 with Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Roy Orbison.
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Gian-Carlo Coppola
Gian-Carlo Coppola (September 17, 1963 - May 26, 1986) was an American film producer.
Coppola was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of set decorator/artist Eleanor Coppola (née Neil) and famed film director Francis Ford Coppola. As the eldest Coppola sibling, he was older brother to Roman and Sofia.
Like his brother and sister, Gian-Carlo—known to his family and friends as Gio—often featured in his father's movies as background characters (The Godfather, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now Redux and Rumble Fish), later acting as associate producer for Rumble Fish and The Outsiders, and second unit director on The Cotton Club.
In The Godfather, he appeared with his brother Roman as the two sons of Robert Duvall's Tom Hagen character, and they can be seen during the streetfight and Vito Corleone's funeral right behind Duvall and Al Pacino.
Coppola was killed in a speedboating accident in May 1986 at the age of 22 in Annapolis, Maryland. Griffin O'Neal, who was piloting the boat, had attempted to pass between two slow-moving boats, failing to realize in his haste that both boats were connected by a towline. While O'Neal barely had time to duck, Coppola was struck and killed. At the time of the incident, O'Neal was being directed by Francis Ford Coppola in Gardens of Stone and was subsequently replaced. O'Neal was later charged with manslaughter over the accident. He ultimately pled guilty to the lesser charge of "negligent operation of a boat", was fined $200 and sentenced to 18 months probation in 1987. He eventually received an 18-day jail sentence for not performing 400 hours of community service as ordered.
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Harry Wayne Casey
Harry Wayne "K.C." Casey (born January 31, 1951) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and producer. He is most famous for his group, KC and the Sunshine Band, and as a producer of several hits for other artists.
Born in Opa-Locka, Florida, to an Irish-American father and an Italian-American mother, Casey became interested in music at an early age. As a teenager he played and sang with several local bands and played piano at the Pentecostal church his family attended. He also attended Hialeah High School in Hialeah, Florida, that is where Casey further developed his music talent. He studied music at Miami-Dade Community College and worked part-time in a record store. KC noticed that often customers would come in not remembering the titles of the records they wanted, and the store would lose the sale — this is the reason so many of his songs repeat their titles over and over.
While working at the record store, Casey often made deliveries to the headquarters of TK Records in Hialeah, and spent so much time visiting the studio that he was eventually hired to work in the warehouse. On August 12, 1973, Casey signed a contract with TK and formed KC and the Sunshine Junkanoo Band, using other recording artists at the studio for backgrounds and instrumentation. The Miami Junkanoo Band was a local group brought in to perform on the record. Casey played electric piano and sang lead with the group. As the second single, "Sound Your Funky Horn", was released, the group's name was finalized as KC and the Sunshine Band. Casey brought in Richard Finch's musical talents and their production team (also the only white members of the group) was initiated. In 1974, they had their first Number One hit as songwriters with George McCrae's "Rock Your Baby." Casey and Finch also wrote and produced songs for Betty Wright and Jimmy "Bo" Horne.
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Italia Coppola
Italia Pennino Coppola (December 12, 1912 – January 21, 2004) is most famous as the matriarch of the Coppola family.
Born in New York City, she was one of six children of Anna (née Giaquinto) and composer Francesco Pennino, both of Naples, Italy. Her father was a composer of Italian songs, an importer of Italian films and a movie theater owner. She was born in an apartment over the family's Empire Theater in Brooklyn. She was the wife of Carmine Coppola and the mother of academic August Coppola, filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola and actress Talia Shire, as well as the maternal grandmother of actors Jason Schwartzman, Robert Carmine and writer Matthew Shire, and paternal grandmother of actors Nicolas Cage, Marc Coppola and directors Roman Coppola, Christopher Coppola and Sofia Coppola. Italia appeared in two non-speaking roles in her son's movies, One from the Heart and The Godfather Part II. She was known for her Italian cooking and published a cookbook called Mama Coppola's Pasta Book. She is buried in San Fernando Mission Cemetery, alongside her husband. Her image has also appeared on the "Mammarella" pasta and sauce line, made by her son.
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Jack Schwartzman
Jack Schwartzman (July 22, 1932 – June 15, 1994) was an American producer and husband of actress Talia Shire. Among the films he produced was the 1983 unofficial James Bond film Never Say Never Again, starring Sean Connery, and the 1986 cult favorite Rad, starring Bill Allen.
Schwartzman was born Jacob Schwartzman in New York City, New York, and was the father of John Schwartzman, Stephanie Schwartzman, Jason Schwartzman, and Robert Carmine. Schwartzman died in Los Angeles, California of pancreatic cancer on June 15, 1994. His brother Leonard Schwartzman, MD is a retired physician who writes on the nature of life and death.
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Jennifer Warnes
Jennifer Jean Warnes (born March 3, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, arranger, and record producer. She is known for her interpretations of compositions written by herself and many others as well as an extensive playlist as a vocalist on movie soundtracks. She is a close friend of and collaborator with Canadian singer-songwriter and poet, Leonard Cohen.
Between 1979 and 1987, Warnes surpassed Frank Sinatra as the vocalist performing the most songs to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song (four times) and to win an Academy Award for Best Original Song (three times). Her biggest hits include "Up Where We Belong" (a duet with Joe Cocker from the 1982 film, An Officer and a Gentleman) and "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" (a duet with Bill Medley from the 1987 film, Dirty Dancing).
Warnes was born in Seattle, Washington, and raised in Anaheim, California. Her desire and ability to sing came early; at age seven she was offered her first recording contract, which her father turned down. She sang in church and local pageants until age 17 when Warnes was offered an opera scholarship to Immaculate Heart College. She chose to sing folk music as it became popularized by Joan Baez in the mid-1960s. In 1968, after a few years with musical theatre and clubs, she signed with Parrot Records (a London Records subsidiary) and recorded her first LP. That year, she joined the cast of the television show The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.
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Jerry Fielding
Jerry Fielding (June 17, 1922 – February 17, 1980) was an American radio, record, film and television composer, conductor, and musical director.
Jerry Fielding was born as Joshua Itzhak Feldman in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Hiram Harris Feldman and Esther Feldman. After trying the trombone, he took up the clarinet and joined the school band. He was offered a scholarship to the Carnegie Institute for Instrumentalists. After a short attendance, because of ill health he was bedridden for two years with an undiagnosed ailment. While housebound, he listened to the radio, and became a fan of the big band sound and Bernard Herrmann’s music for Orson Welles’s radio dramas.
Somewhat recuperated, he worked at Pittsburgh’s Stanley Theater. He worked with Max Atkins (the pit orchestra conductor at the Stanley) who taught him composition and arranging. At the age of seventeen, he left Pittsburgh to work for Alvino Rey’s swing band. His arrangement of Picnic in Purgatory in 1940 became highly popular.
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Joel Hirschhorn
Joel Hirschhorn, (December 18, 1937 – September 17, 2005), was an American songwriter. He won the Academy Award for Best Song on two occasions. He also wrote songs for a number of musicians, including Elvis Presley and Roy Orbison. Hirschhorn was born in the Bronx and attended the High School of Performing Arts in Manhattan. After graduating, Hirschhorn became a regular performer on New York’s nightclub circuit, both as a solo singer and as a member of the rock & roll band, The Highlighters.
During the mid-1960s, Hirschhorn branched out into writing film soundtracks. The first score he wrote was for Who Killed Teddy Bear? (1965), which was directed by his friend Joseph Cates. He worked with Cates again the following year in The Fat Spy. However, the film was received so badly that Hirschhorn struggled to find work in Hollywood for a number of years afterwards.[citation needed]
Hirschhorn, along with songwriting partner Al Kasha, did not work on another film until 1970’s The Cheyenne Social Club, which was directed by Gene Kelly. It was the pair’s next effort, for The Poseidon Adventure (1972), that really made their name. "The Morning After", a song they wrote in a single evening, won them their first Oscar and also topped the Billboard chart.
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John McVie
John Graham McVie (born 26 November 1945) is a British bass guitarist best known as a member of rock groups John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers and Fleetwood Mac. His surname, combined with that of Mick Fleetwood, was the inspiration for the band's name. He joined Fleetwood Mac shortly after its formation by guitarist Peter Green in 1967, replacing temporary bassist Bob Brunning.
In 1968 he married blues pianist and singer Christine Perfect, who became a member of Fleetwood Mac two years later. John and Christine McVie divorced, however, in 1977. Around this time the band recorded the album Rumours, a major artistic and commercial success that borrowed its title from the turmoils in McVie's and other band members' marriages and relationships. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 for his work in Fleetwood Mac.
John Graham McVie was born in Ealing, west London, to Reg and Dorothy McVie and attended Walpole Grammar School. At age 14 he began playing the guitar in local bands, covering songs by The Shadows. He soon realised that his friends were learning lead guitar so he decided to play the bass guitar instead. Initially he just removed the top two (E and B) strings from his guitar to play the bass parts until his father bought him a pink Fender bass guitar, the same as that used by McVie's major early musical influence Jet Harris, The Shadows' bass player. John was in 3J class with Roger Warwick, a baritone sax player who had studied under Don Rendell and was to emerge in the London rock-jazz scene. Their teacher, Mr Howell (a pianist), although not really appreciating this "funny" music, was intelligent and open-minded enough to give pupils space and time to use school facilities to practise and listen to the new wave.[citation needed]
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John Schwartzman
John Schwartzman A.S.C. (born October 18, 1960) is an American cinematographer for numerous films.
He is the son of Jack Schwartzman and stepson of Talia Shire. He is best known for his collaborations with director Michael Bay. Schwartzman graduated from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts in 1985.
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Keith Carradine
Keith Ian Carradine (born August 8, 1949) is an American actor who has had success on stage, film and television. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Wild Bill Hickok in the HBO series Deadwood and FBI agent Frank Lundy in Dexter. In addition, he is a Golden Globe and Academy Award winning songwriter. As a member of the Carradine family, he is part of an acting "dynasty" that began with his father, John Carradine.
Keith Carradine was born in San Mateo, California. He is the son of actress and artist Sonia Sorel (née Henius) and actor John Carradine. His paternal half-brothers are Bruce and David Carradine. His maternal half-brother is Michael Bowen, and his full brothers are Christopher and Robert Carradine. His maternal great-grandfather was biochemist Max Henius, and his maternal great-grandmother was the sister of historian Johan Ludvig Heiberg.
Carradine's childhood was difficult. He said that his father drank and his mother “was a manic depressive paranoid schizophrenic catatonic — she had it all.” His parents were divorced in 1957, when he was eight years old. A bitter custody battle led to his father gaining custody of him and his brothers, Christopher and Robert, after the children had spent three months in a home for abused children as wards of the court. Keith said of the experience, "It was like being in jail. There were bars on the windows, and we were only allowed to see our parents through glass doors. It was very sad. We would stand there on either side of the glass door crying." He was raised primarily by his maternal grandmother, and he rarely saw either of his parents. His mother was not permitted to see him for eight years following the custody settlement.
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Ken Caillat
Kenneth Douglas "Ken" Caillat ( /kæˈleɪ/ kal-LEI; born August 12, 1946) is an American record producer. He is best known for producing the Fleetwood Mac albums Rumours, Tusk, Mirage, Live, and The Chain Box Set.
Caillat was the president of 5.1 Entertainment Group Digital Production Services, which has worked on albums for Billy Idol, Frank Sinatra, Pat Benatar, Wilson Phillips, the Beach Boys, Herbie Hancock, David Becker Tribune and Alice Cooper as well as Christine McVie on her solo album In the Meantime, in addition to Fleetwood Mac, remastering in 5.1 DVD audio format. He won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year for Rumours.
In addition to production, he has been a director, studio engineer, author and musician. In 2012 he released his memoir on his experiences co-producing and engineering the 1977 Rumours album, called Making Rumours (http://www.makingrumours.com)
He is the father of singer-songwriter Colbie Caillat and produced her albums Coco (2007), Breakthrough (2009), and All of You (2011).
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Leon Russell
Claude Russell Bridges (born April 2, 1942), known professionally as Leon Russell, is an American musician and songwriter, who has recorded as a session musician, sideman, and maintained a solo career in music.
Born in Lawton, Oklahoma, he began playing piano at the age of four. Russell attended Will Rogers High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. At this time he was already performing at Tulsa nightclubs. After moving to Los Angeles, he became a session musician, working as a pianist on the recordings of many notable musical artists since the 1960s. By the late 1960s, Russell diversified, becoming successful as an arranger and wrote/co-wrote songs. As a musician, he worked his way from gigs as a sideman to well known performers. By 1970 he had graduated to solo recording artist, although he never ended all his previous roles within the music industry.
Russell was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Monday, March 14, 2011, at a black-tie dinner at The Waldorf-Astoria hotel in Manhattan.
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Lindsey Buckingham
Lindsey Adams Buckingham (born October 3, 1949) is an American guitarist, singer, composer and producer, most notable for being the guitarist and male lead singer of the musical group Fleetwood Mac from 1975 to 1987, and 1997 to present day. Aside from his tenure with Fleetwood Mac, Buckingham has also released six solo albums and two live albums. As a member of Fleetwood Mac, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. In 2011, Buckingham was ranked 100th in Rolling Stone magazine's 2011 list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". In Fleetwood Mac's heyday, Buckingham was known for his finger picking guitar style and wide vocal range as well as the famous (sometimes tense) chemistry between himself and former girlfriend and fellow bandmate Stevie Nicks.
Born in Palo Alto, California, Buckingham was the third and youngest child of Rutheda (née Elliott) and Morris Buckingham. He had two older brothers, Jeff and Greg. Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area community of Atherton, Buckingham and his brothers were encouraged to swim competitively. Though Buckingham dropped out of athletics to pursue music, his brother Greg went on to win a silver medal at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.
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Lou Adler
Lou Adler (born December 13, 1933) is an American record producer, manager, director, and an owner of famous The Roxy Theatre.
Adler was born in Chicago, Illinois in December 1933, and raised in East Los Angeles. In 1964, Adler founded and co-owned Dunhill Records. He was President of the label as well as the chief record producer from 1964 to 1967. That summer he sold Dunhill for three million dollars to ABC Records. Later in 1967, he founded Ode Records. In June 1967, Adler helped to produce the Monterey International Pop Festival, as well as the film version, Monterey Pop.
He formerly managed Jan & Dean and produced Sam Cooke, The Mamas & the Papas, Johnny Rivers, Barry McGuire, Scott McKenzie, The Grass Roots, Spirit, Carole King, The Weaver Temptations, and Cheech and Chong.
He won two Grammy Awards in 1972 in the Record of the Year category for producing It's Too Late by Carole King and in the Album of the Year category for Tapestry (also by King).
In 1975, Adler produced the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and in 1981, its follow-up, Shock Treatment.
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Marc Coppola (actor)
Marc "The Cope" Coppola (born April 29, 1958) is an American actor and DJ working for KGB-FM in San Diego, California & WAXQ/WLTW in New York City.
Coppola's father, August Coppola, was a professor of literature, while his mother, Joy Vogelsang, is a dancer and choreographer; the two divorced in 1976. His mother suffered from chronic depression. Coppola's mother is of German descent and his father is Italian American, with his paternal grandparents being Carmine Coppola and Italia Pennino, an actress. Through his father, Coppola is the nephew of director Francis Ford Coppola and actress Talia Shire, the cousin of director Sofia Coppola, Robert Schwartzman, actor and lead singer of the band Rooney and actor and former Phantom Planet drummer Jason Schwartzman. Coppola's two brothers are Christopher Coppola, a director, and actor Nicolas Cage.
Coppola is married to actress Elizabeth Seton Brindak and has two daughters, Natasha and Cayley.
Coppola entered the film industry at a young age thanks to his family. He first appeared in Apocalypse Now (1979) where he was also in the casting department. Coppola acted in 11 other films and two episodes of Law & Order. He worked as a DJ at KLOS 95.5 FM in Los Angeles, California, WYXE/WMAD FM in Madison, Wisconsin in the late 1970s, WBAB 102.3 FM in Babylon, New York, WRCN 103.9 FM in Riverhead, New York and WPLJ 95.5 FM in New York City in the 1980s as well as New York's K-ROCK WXRK 92.3 FM in the late '80s and early '90s.
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Marvin Hamlisch
Marvin Frederick Hamlisch (born June 2, 1944) is an American composer. He is one of only eleven people to have been awarded Emmys, Grammys, Oscars, and a Tony. He is also one of only two people to have won those four prizes and also a Pulitzer Prize (the other is Richard Rodgers). Hamlisch has also won two Golden Globes.
Hamlisch was born in New York City to Viennese Jewish parents: Lilly Schachter and Max Hamlisch. His father was an accordionist and bandleader. Hamlisch was a child prodigy, and by age five he began mimicking music he heard on the radio on the piano. A few months before he turned seven, in 1951, he was accepted into what is now the Juilliard School Pre-College Division. His first job was as a rehearsal pianist for Funny Girl with Barbra Streisand. Shortly after that, he was hired by producer Sam Spiegel to play piano at Spiegel's parties. This connection led to his first film score, The Swimmer. His favorite musicals growing up were My Fair Lady, Gypsy, West Side Story, and Bye Bye Birdie.
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Maureen McGovern
Maureen Therese McGovern (born July 27, 1949) is an American singer and Broadway actress, well known for her premier renditions of the Oscar-winning songs "The Morning After" from the 1972 film The Poseidon Adventure, and "We May Never Love Like This Again" from The Towering Inferno in 1974.
McGovern was born in Youngstown, Ohio, the daughter of James Terrence McGovern and Mary Rita (née Welsh). She has Irish ancestry. As a child, McGovern would listen to her father's singing quartet rehearse in their home. She was told by her elders that she began singing at the age of three, and would sometimes sing herself to sleep with things she heard on the radio. She decided at age eight that she wanted to be a professional singer. Her influences include Barbra Streisand and Dionne Warwick.
After graduating from Boardman High School in 1967, she worked as a secretary and performed part-time as a singer for a local folk band called Sweet Rain. Her singing caught the attention of Russ Regan (then head of 20th Century Records) in 1972 when he heard a demonstration she had recorded. At the time, Regan was searching for a singer to record "The Morning After" (the theme from The Poseidon Adventure) for release as a record. He hired McGovern sight unseen to record the song, which resulted in her contracting with 20th Century Records. After it won an Oscar for Best Original Song, "The Morning After" scored well on the popular music charts, reaching #1 during 1973. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. in August 1973. Following the success of "The Morning After," she received a Grammy Award nomination in 1974 for Best New Artist.
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Melissa Manchester
Melissa Manchester (born February 15, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. Beginning in the 1970s, she has recorded generally in the adult contemporary genre. She has also appeared as an actress on television, in films, and on stage.
Manchester was born in the Bronx, a borough of New York City, to a musical family. Her father was a bassoonist for the New York Metropolitan Opera. Her mother was one of the first women to design and found her own clothing firm, Ruth Manchester Ltd. Manchester started a singing career at an early age, learning the piano and harpsichord at the Manhattan School of Music and Arts, singing commercial jingles at age 15, and becoming a staff writer for Chappell Music while attending Manhattan's High School of Performing Arts.
She studied songwriting at New York University with Paul Simon. Manchester then appeared on the Manhattan club scene, where she was discovered by Barry Manilow and Bette Midler, who took her on as one of her backup singers, the Harlettes in 1971.
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Michael Gore
Michael Gore (born March 5, 1951) is an American composer. He, along with lyricist Dean Pitchford, won the Oscar in 1980 for best original song for "Fame" from the film of the same title. He also won the award that year for best original score. Gore is the younger brother of singer/songwriter Lesley Gore.
Gore wrote the music for the notorious Broadway flop Carrie - The Musical. Two of his songs, with lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, were featured in the 2003 movie Camp.
He also composed the theme and score for the 1983 hit film Terms of Endearment starring Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger, notching a hit on the Adult Contemporary chart (and briefly the pop charts) under his own name with the "Theme" from this film.
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Mick Fleetwood
Michael John Kells "Mick" Fleetwood (born 24 June 1947) is a British musician and actor best known for his role as the drummer and namesake of the blues/rock and roll band Fleetwood Mac. His surname, combined with that of John McVie, was the inspiration for the name of the originally Peter Green-led Fleetwood Mac. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 for his work in Fleetwood Mac.
Aside from his work as a drummer, he also helped form the different incarnations of his band Fleetwood Mac, and is the sole member to stay with the band through its ever-changing lineup. In 1974, he met and invited Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks to join Fleetwood Mac. Buckingham and Nicks contributed to much of Fleetwood Mac's later commercial success, while Fleetwood's determination to keep the band together was essential to the group's longevity.[citation needed]
Fleetwood was born in Redruth, Cornwall, to John Joseph Kells and Bridget Maureen (née Brereton) Fleetwood. His sister, Susan Fleetwood, was an actress. In early childhood he and his family followed his father, a Royal Air Force fighter pilot, to Egypt. After about six years they moved to Norway where his father was posted. He attended school there and acquired fluency in the Norwegian language. According to his autobiography, Fleetwood had an extremely difficult and trying time academically at the English boarding schools he attended, including the Kings School, Sherbone Park, Glos. He performed poorly on exams which he attributes to his persistent inability to commit facts to memory. He dropped out of school aged 15, and, in 1963, moved to London to pursue a career as a drummer.
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Modest Mussorgsky
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (Russian: Моде́ст Петро́вич Мýсoргский; IPA: [mɐˈdʲest ˈmusərkskʲɪj]; 21 March [O.S. 9 March] 1839 – 28 March [O.S. 16 March] 1881) was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five". He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period. He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music.
Many of his works were inspired by Russian history, Russian folklore, and other nationalist themes. Such works include the opera Boris Godunov, the orchestral tone poem Night on Bald Mountain, and the piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition.
For many years Mussorgsky's works were mainly known in versions revised or completed by other composers. Many of his most important compositions have recently come into their own in their original forms, and some of the original scores are now also available.
The spelling and pronunciation of the composer's name has been a matter of some controversy.
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Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Cage (born Nicolas Kim Coppola; January 7, 1964) is an Academy Award–winning American actor, producer and director, having appeared in over 60 films including Raising Arizona (1987), The Rock (1996), Face/Off (1997), Gone in 60 Seconds (2000), Adaptation (2002), National Treasure (2004), Lord of War (2005), Ghost Rider (2007), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009), Kick-Ass (2010), and Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2012).
Cage was born Nicolas Kim Coppola on January 7, 1964 in Long Beach, California. His father, August Coppola, a professor of literature, and his mother, Joy Vogelsang, a dancer and choreographer, divorced in 1976. He was raised in a Catholic family. Cage's mother is of German descent and his father was of Italian descent. His paternal grandparents were composer Carmine Coppola and actress Italia Pennino, and his paternal great-grandparents were immigrants from Bernalda, Basilicata. Through his father, Cage is the nephew of director Francis Ford Coppola and actress Talia Shire, and the cousin of directors Roman Coppola and Sofia Coppola, film producer Gian-Carlo Coppola, and actors Robert Carmine and Jason Schwartzman. Cage's two brothers are New York radio personality Marc "The Cope" Coppola and director Christopher Coppola. He attended Beverly Hills High School, which is known for its many alumni who became entertainers. He aspired to act from an early age and also attended UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television. His first non-cinematic acting experience was in a school production of Golden Boy.
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Norman Gimbel
Norman Gimbel is an American lyricist of popular songs, television and movie themes whose writing career includes such titles as "Sway", "Canadian Sunset", "Summer Samba", "The Girl from Ipanema", "Killing Me Softly With His Song", "Meditation" and "I Will Wait for You", along with an Oscar for "It Goes Like It Goes" - from the film Norma Rae. During 1984 he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
A native of Brooklyn, Norman Gimbel was self-taught in music and following initial employment with music publisher David Blum, progressed to become a contract songwriter with Edwin H. Morris Music. Small successes and moderate fame came as a result of lively novelty songs "Ricochet", which was popularized in a 1953 recording by Teresa Brewer from which was developed the 1954 Judy Canova film Ricochet Romance, and "A Whale of a Tale", sung by Kirk Douglas in another 1954 production, Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Greater success was earned with Dean Martin's recording of "Sway", which reached #6 on the UK Singles Chart, followed by his first big success, Andy Williams' rendition of "Canadian Sunset", which scored to #1 in 1956.
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Paul Jabara
Paul Jabara (January 31, 1948 – September 29, 1992) was an American actor, singer, and songwriter of Lebanese ancestry. He wrote Donna Summer's "Last Dance" from Thank God It's Friday (1978) and Barbra Streisand's song "The Main Event/Fight" from The Main Event (1979). He cowrote the Weather Girls hit, "It's Raining Men" with Paul Shaffer. Jabara's cousin and close friend Jad Azkoul is also a Lebanese-American musician specialising in classical guitar.
Jabara was in the original cast of the stage musicals Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar. He took over the role of Frank-N-Furter in the Los Angeles Production of The Rocky Horror Show when Tim Curry left the production to film the movie version in England. He appeared in John Schlesinger's 1975 film, "The Day of the Locust", where he sang the production number "Hot Voo-Doo". In Thank God It's Friday he played the role of Carl, the lovelorn and nearsighted disco goer, and he also contributed as a singer on two tracks on the original soundtrack album.
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Paul Simon
Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is a grammy award winning American singer-songwriter, poet and guitarist.
Simon's international fame and success began as part of the duo Simon & Garfunkel, launched in 1964 with musical partner Art Garfunkel. Simon wrote most of the pair's songs, including three that reached No. 1 on the U.S. singles charts: "The Sound of Silence", "Mrs. Robinson", and "Bridge Over Troubled Water". The duo split up in 1970 at the height of their popularity, and Simon began a successful solo career, recording three highly acclaimed albums over the next five years. In 1986, he released Graceland, an album inspired by South African township music. Simon also wrote and starred in the film One-Trick Pony in 1980 and co-wrote the Broadway musical The Capeman in 1998.
Simon has earned 12 Grammys for his solo and collaborative work, including the Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2001, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 2006 was selected as one of the "100 People Who Shaped the World" by Time magazine. Among many other honors, Simon was the first recipient of the Library of Congress' Gershwin Prize for Popular Song in 2007. In 1986 Simon was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Music degree from Berklee College of Music where he currently serves on the Board of Trustees.
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Pearl Bailey
Pearl Mae Bailey (March 29, 1918 – August 17, 1990) was an American actress and singer. After appearing in vaudeville, she made her Broadway debut in St. Louis Woman in 1946. She won a Tony Award for the title role in the all-black production of Hello, Dolly! in 1968. In 1986, she won a Daytime Emmy award for her performance as a fairy godmother in the ABC Afterschool Special, Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale.
Her rendition of "Takes Two to Tango" hit the top ten in 1952.
Bailey was born in Southampton County in southeastern Virginia, to the Reverend Joseph and Ella Mae Ricks Bailey. She was reared in the Bloodfields neighborhood of Newport News, Virginia.
She made her stage-singing debut when she was 15 years old. Her brother Bill Bailey was beginning his own career as a tap dancer, and suggested she enter an amateur contest at Philadelphia’s Pearl Theater. She entered, won first prize, later won a similar contest at Harlem’s famous Apollo Theater, and decided to pursue a career in entertainment.
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Phil Spector
Phillip Harvey "Phil" Spector (born Harvey Phillip Spector on December 26, 1939) is an American record producer and songwriter.
The originator of the "Wall of Sound" production technique, Spector was a pioneer of the 1960s girl-group sound and produced over 25 Top 40 hits in 1960–1965. Some of his famous girl groups are The Ronettes and The Crystals. After this initial success, Spector later worked with artists including Ike and Tina Turner, John Lennon, George Harrison, and the Ramones with similar acclaim. He produced The Beatles' Academy Award winning album Let It Be, and the Grammy Award–winning Concert for Bangladesh by former Beatle George Harrison. In 1989, Spector was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a non-performer. The 1965 song "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'", produced and co-written by Spector for The Righteous Brothers, is listed by BMI as the song with the most U.S. airplay in the 20th century.
In 2009 Spector was convicted of second-degree murder in the 2003 shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson in his Alhambra, California home. He is serving a prison sentence of 19 years to life.
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Ralph MacDonald
Ralph MacDonald (March 15, 1944 – December 18, 2011) was a Trinbagonian-American percussionist, song-writer, musical arranger, record producer, steelpan virtuoso and philanthropist.
Growing up in Harlem, U.S.A. under the close mentorship of his Trinbagonian father, Patrick MacDonald (a calypsonian and bandleader originally from Trinidad and Tobago who went by the stage name "Macbeth the Great"), MacDonald began showing his musical talent, particularly with the steelpan, and when he was seventeen he landed a job playing pan for the Harry Belafonte show.
He remained with the Belafonte outfit for a decade before deciding to strike out on his own. In 1967, together with Bill Eaton and William Salter, he formed the Antisia Music Incorporated. Anisitia is based in Stamford, Connecticut.
In 1971, Roberta Flack recorded Where Is the Love, which MacDonald and Salter had written. The duet with Donny Hathaway won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. The single was awarded gold status and sold more than one million copies. MacDonald played on the session for the song.
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Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar (Bengali: রবি শংকর; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury on 7 April 1920), often referred to with the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the most known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.
Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent his youth touring Europe and India with the dance group of his brother Uday Shankar. He gave up dancing in 1938 to study sitar playing under court musician Allauddin Khan. After finishing his studies in 1944, Shankar worked as a composer, creating the music for the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, and was music director of All India Radio, New Delhi, from 1949 to 1956.
In 1956, he began to tour Europe and America playing Indian classical music and increased its popularity there in the 1960s through teaching, performance, and his association with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and George Harrison of The Beatles. Shankar engaged Western music by writing concerti for sitar and orchestra and toured the world in the 1970s and 1980s. From 1986 to 1992 he served as a nominated member of the upper chamber of the Parliament of India. Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999, and received three Grammy Awards. He continues to perform in the 2000s, often with his daughter Anoushka.
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Richard Dashut
Richard Charles Dashut (born September 19, 1951) is a record producer who produced several Fleetwood Mac albums including Rumours and Tusk, and later an album by Matthew Sweet, Altered Beast. Dashut also co-wrote several songs with Lindsey Buckingham during his time with Fleetwood Mac. Dashut was born in West Hollywood, California, and started his career sweeping floors in a recording studio.
Richard is currently producing Kalsey Kulyk: together, their sound is unique and is a mix between Country, Rock and pop.
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Richard Maltby, Jr.
Richard Eldridge Maltby, Jr. (born October 6, 1937) is an American theatre director and producer, lyricist, and screenwriter. He is also well known as a constructor of cryptic crossword puzzles. He has done this for Harper's Magazine, sometimes in collaboration with E. R. Galli (prior to 1995), since the January 1976 issue.
Maltby was born in Ripon, Wisconsin, the son of Virginia (née Hosegood) and Richard Maltby, Sr., a well-known orchestra leader. He has conceived and directed the only two musical revues to ever win the Tony Award for Best Musical: Ain't Misbehavin' (1978: Tony, N.Y. Drama Critics, Outer Critics, Drama Desk Awards, also Tony Award for Best Director) and Fosse (1999: Tony, Outer Critics, Drama Desk Awards).
He was director/co-lyricist for the American version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Song and Dance, (1986) starring Bernadette Peters. He was co-lyricist for Miss Saigon (Evening Standard Award 1990; Tony nomination: Best Score, 1991).
Maltby and David Shire started working together as students at Yale University (where he was a member of Manuscript Society; their first Broadway credit was in 1968, when their song "The Girl of the Minute" was used in the revue New Faces of 1968. In 1977 the Manhattan Theatre Club produced a review of their earlier songs, written for other works, finally titled Starting Here, Starting Now. With composer Shire, Maltby was the director and lyricist for Baby, (1983, book by Sybille Pearson) and the lyricist for Big, (1996, book by John Weidman). Also with Shire, he conceived and wrote the lyrics for Take Flight (book by John Weidman), which had its world premiere in July 2007 at the Menier Chocolate Factory in London.
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Ringo Starr
Richard Starkey, MBE (born 7 July 1940), better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for the Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He joined the Beatles in August 1962, taking the place of Pete Best. In addition to his drumming, Starr is featured on lead vocals on a number of successful Beatles songs (in particular, "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Yellow Submarine", and the Beatles version of "Act Naturally"). He is credited as a co-writer of the songs "What Goes On" and "Flying", and as the writer of "Don't Pass Me By" and "Octopus's Garden".
As drummer for the Beatles, Starr was musically creative, and his contribution to the band's music has received high praise from notable drummers in more recent times. Starr described himself as "your basic offbeat drummer with funny fills". Drummer Steve Smith said that Starr's popularity "brought forth a new paradigm" where "we started to see the drummer as an equal participant in the compositional aspect" and that Starr "composed unique, stylistic drum parts for The Beatles songs". In 2011, Starr was picked as the fifth-best drummer of all-time by Rolling Stone readers.
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Robin Gibb
Robin Hugh Gibb, CBE (22 December 1949 – 20 May 2012) was a singer and songwriter, best known as a member of the Bee Gees, co-founded with his fraternal twin brother Maurice and older brother Barry. Their younger brother Andy was also a singer.
Born in the Isle of Man to English parents, the family later moved to Manchester before settling in Brisbane, Australia. Gibb began his career as part of the family trio and when the group found their first success they returned to the United Kingdom where they achieved worldwide fame. In 2004, the Bee Gees received their CBEs from the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace for their "contribution to music". With record sales estimated in excess of 200 million units, the Bee Gees became one of the most successful pop groups of all time. Music historian Paul Gambaccini described Gibb as "one of the major figures in the history of British music" and "one of the best white soul voices ever".
After a career spanning six decades, Gibb last performed on stage in February 2012 supporting injured British servicemen and women at a charity concert at the London Palladium. On 20 May 2012, Gibb died at the age of 62 from liver and kidney failure.
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Roman Coppola
Roman Coppola (born April 22, 1965) is an American film director and music video director.
Coppola was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, the son of set decorator/artist Eleanor Coppola (née Neil) and Francis Ford Coppola. Coppola was born in the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine while his father was in Paris writing the screenplay of Is Paris Burning?. He attended New York University's film school, the Tisch School of the Arts.
Coppola had a small role as one of the sons of Tom Hagen during the funeral scene in The Godfather. He also played Santino Corleone as a young boy in the 1974 film The Godfather Part II. He oversaw the in-camera visual effects for his father's 1992 film Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Coppola's feature-film debut, CQ premiered at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. He founded the production company The Directors Bureau and directed all the music videos for songs of The Strokes' albums Is This It and "12:51" for Room on Fire. Coppola has directed clips for artists including Daft Punk, Moby, The Presidents of the United States of America, Ween, Green Day, and Fatboy Slim. He has also been a huge supporter of cousin Jason Schwartzman's musical side project, Coconut Records. His music video for Phoenix's "Funky Squaredance" was invited into permanent collection at the New York Museum of Modern Art. He is an accomplished television commercial director as well. Coppola is now the co-owner of American Zoetrope with his sister Sofia Coppola.
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Roy Halee
Roy Halee is an American record producer and engineer, best known for working with Simon and Garfunkel.
Halee grew up on Long Island, New York. His father, also named Roy Halee, provided the singing voice for Mighty Mouse in late 1940s Terrytoons cartoons, as well as the voices of Heckle and Jeckle from 1951 through 1961.
He was best known for producing several albums with Simon and Garfunkel, including the Grammy-winning Bridge Over Troubled Water. He is mentioned in their 1965 song "A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert McNamara'd into Submission)", written by Paul Simon. He has also worked with other groups such as The Byrds, Journey (on their first album Journey), Willie Nile, Laura Nyro, Blood, Sweat & Tears, and Blue Angel.
Halee was named to the TEC Awards Hall of Fame in 2001.
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Sheldon Harnick
Sheldon Harnick (born April 30, 1924) is an American lyricist best known for his collaborations with composer Jerry Bock on hit musicals such as Fiddler on the Roof.
Harnick began his career writing words and music to comic songs in musical revues. One of these, "The Merry Minuet", was popularized by the Kingston Trio. It is in the caustic style usually associated with Tom Lehrer and is sometimes incorrectly attributed to him.
Harnick began writing music while still in Carl Schurz High School. After his Army service, he graduated from the Northwestern University School of Music (1946-1949) with a Bachelor of Music Degree, and worked with various orchestras in the Chicago area. He then moved to New York City and wrote for many musicals and revues.
Around 1956, Harnick met Jerry Bock, forming "what is arguably the most important musical partnership of the '60s." Their first musical was The Body Beautiful, running for only 60 performances in 1958, but Fiorello! (1959) ran for 795 performances and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Fiddler on the Roof (1964) "became one of the most cherished of all Broadway musicals."
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Simon & Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel were an American music duo consisting of singer-songwriters Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. They formed the group Tom & Jerry in 1957 and had their first success with the minor hit "Hey, Schoolgirl". As Simon & Garfunkel, the duo rose to fame in 1965, largely on the strength of the hit single "The Sound of Silence". Their music was featured in the landmark film The Graduate (1967), propelling them further into the public consciousness.
They are well known for their vocal close harmonies and were among the most popular recording artists of the 1960s. Their biggest hits – including "The Sound of Silence" (1964), "I Am a Rock" (1965), "Homeward Bound" (1965), "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" (1966), "A Hazy Shade of Winter" (1966), "Mrs. Robinson" (1968), "Bridge over Troubled Water" (1969), "The Boxer" (1969), and "Cecilia" (1969) – peaked at number one in several charts. They have received several Grammys and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990 and the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2007.
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Sofia Coppola
Sofia Carmina Coppola ( /ˈkoʊpələ/ KOH-pə-lə; born May 14, 1971) is an American screenwriter, film director, producer and actress. In 2003, she received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Lost in Translation, and became the third woman (and first American woman) to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing. In 2010, with Somewhere, she became the first American woman (and fourth American filmmaker) to win the Golden Lion, the top prize at the Venice Film Festival.
Coppola was born in New York City, New York, the youngest child and only daughter of set decorator/artist Eleanor Coppola (née Neil) and director Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather and Apocalypse Now), granddaughter of the composer Carmine Coppola, sister of Roman Coppola and Gian-Carlo Coppola, niece of her father's siblings August Coppola and Talia Shire, and a cousin of Nicolas Cage, Jason Schwartzman and Robert Carmine. When she was just 14 years old, her brother Gian-Carlo was killed in a boating accident. She attended high school at St. Helena High School and graduated class of 1990. She later went to Mills College and the California Institute of the Arts, and interned with Chanel when she was fifteen years old. After dropping out, Coppola started a clothing line called Milkfed that is now sold exclusively in Japan.
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Stevie Nicks
Stephanie Lynn "Stevie" Nicks (born May 26, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac and an extensive solo career, which collectively have produced over forty Top 50 hits and sold over 140 million albums. She has been noted for her ethereal visual style and symbolic lyrics. Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac on December 31, 1974, along with her then-boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham. Fleetwood Mac's second album after the incorporation of Nicks and Buckingham, 1977's Rumours, produced four US Top 10 singles (including Nicks's song "Dreams", which was the band's first and only US number one) and remained at No.1 on the American albums chart for 31 weeks, as well as reaching the top spot in various countries around the world. To date the album has sold over 40 million copies worldwide, making it the eighth best-selling album of all time.
Nicks began her solo career in 1981 with the 8 million selling album Bella Donna, and she has produced six more solo studio albums to date. Her seventh solo studio album entitled In Your Dreams, and her first in ten years, was produced largely by Dave Stewart of Eurythmics fame and Glen Ballard and was released on May 3, 2011. After the release of her first solo album, Rolling Stone deemed her "The Reigning Queen of Rock and Roll". Having overcome cocaine addiction, and dependency on tranquilizers, Nicks remains a popular solo performer. As a solo artist, she has garnered eight Grammy Award nominations and, with Fleetwood Mac, a further five, of which one was the 1978 award for Album of the Year for Rumours, which they won. As a member of Fleetwood Mac, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. Nicks is known for her distintive voice, mystical visual style and symbolic lyrics as well as the famous (sometimes tense) chemistry between herself and former boyfriend and guitarist/vocalist in Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham.
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Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Morris (born May 13, 1950 as Stevland Hardaway Judkins), known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, a child prodigy who developed into one of the most creative musical figures of the late 20th century. Blind since shortly after birth, Wonder signed with Motown's Tamla label at the age of eleven, and continues to perform and record for Motown to this day.
Among Wonder's best known works are singles such as "Superstition", "Sir Duke", "I Wish" and "I Just Called to Say I Love You". Well known albums also include Talking Book, Innervisions and Songs in the Key of Life. He has recorded more than thirty U.S. top ten hits and received twenty-two Grammy Awards, the most ever awarded to a male solo artist. Wonder is also noted for his work as an activist for political causes, including his 1980 campaign to make Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a holiday in the United States. In 2009, Wonder was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace. In 2008, Billboard magazine released a list of the Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists to celebrate the US singles chart's fiftieth anniversary, with Wonder at number five.
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Syreeta Wright
Syreeta Wright (August 3, 1946 – July 6, 2004), who recorded professionally under the single name Syreeta, was a Grammy-nominated American singer-songwriter most notably known for her work with Stevie Wonder and Billy Preston.
Syreeta was born Syreeta Wright in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1946, and started singing at age four. Her father died while serving in the Korean War and Wright and her two sisters, Yvonne (later a songwriter in her own right) and Kim, were raised by their mother Essie and their grandmother. The Wrights moved back and forth from Detroit to South Carolina before finally settling in Detroit just as Wright entered high school. Money problems kept Wright from pursuing a career in ballet so Wright focused her attention on a music career joining several singing groups before landing a job as a receptionist for Motown in 1965. Within a year, she became a secretary for Mickey Stevenson, just as Martha Reeves had done before her.
A year later, Edward Holland of the famous Holland-Dozier-Holland songwriting team noticed Wright's singing and decided to try her out for demos of Supremes songs. Motown CEO Berry Gordy shortened her birth name to "Rita," and Wright released her first solo single, "I Can't Give Back the Love I Feel for You", in January,1968. The song was initially written for the Supremes (by then billed as "Diana Ross & the Supremes"). They later recorded the song in 1968 and Diana Ross re-recorded the song for her solo album, Surrender. Wright's version became a hit for Northern soul audiences in the United Kingdom, a country where Wright would enjoy success.
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Talia Shire
Talia Shire (born April 25, 1946) is an American actress most known for her roles as Connie Corleone in The Godfather films and Adrianna Balboa (née Pennino) in the Rocky series.
Shire was born Talia Rose Coppola in Lake Success, New York, the daughter of Italia (née Pennino) and arranger/composer Carmine Coppola. Talia is the sister of director and producer Francis Ford Coppola and academic August Coppola, the aunt of actor Nicolas Cage and director Sofia Coppola, and the niece of composer and conductor Anton Coppola. She was married to composer David Shire, with whom she had a son, Matthew Orlando Shire. She has two other sons, actors/musicians Robert Schwartzman and Jason Schwartzman, from her second marriage to the late producer Jack Schwartzman.
Shire first became famous for her role of Connie Corleone in The Godfather and its sequels. Later, she portrayed Adrianna Pennino Balboa, the girlfriend (and later wife) of Rocky Balboa in the Rocky movies. She also starred in such films as I ♥ Huckabees, Kiss the Bride and 2007's Homo Erectus.
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Yvonne Elliman
Yvonne Marianne Elliman (born December 29, 1951) is an American singer who performed for four years in the first cast of Jesus Christ Superstar. She scored a number of hits in the 1970s and achieved a #1 hit with "If I Can't Have You." After a long hiatus in the 80s and 90s, during which time she dedicated herself to her family, she made a comeback album as a singer-songwriter in 2004.
Elliman's father was of Irish descent, and her mother shared Japanese and Chinese ancestries. She was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, and graduated from President Theodore Roosevelt High School in 1970. Her father taught her how to play the piano. She played in the high-school band, and after graduation she moved to London.
Elliman's singing career began in 1969 in London where she performed as a singer at various bars and clubs. At the time she did not like what she was singing and was singing for the money. She was doing drugs and liked the music of the Jefferson Airplane. An unknown, she was discovered by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, who asked her to sing Mary Magdalene's part in Jesus Christ Superstar, and later invited her to join the traveling cast, which she did for four years. This performance led to a 1974 Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy for the film version of "Jesus Christ Superstar". She had her first hit single in 1971 with the ballad "I Don't Know How to Love Him", from Jesus Christ Superstar. The song was her first entry on the U.S. charts, peaking at #28 pop in 1971, although a cover version by Helen Reddy was a bigger hit. In the end, she sang Jesus Christ Superstar on the 1970 concept album, in the original Broadway cast (1971), and starred and sang it in the 1973 film by the same title.
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Shire, David Filmography
- Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (2009)
- My Dog: An Unconditional Love Story (2009)
- Zodiac Deciphered (2008)
- Lights! Action! Music! (2007)
- This Is Zodiac (2007)
- Saturday Night Fever: A 30 Year Legacy (2007)
- Making Soundtrack History (2007)
- Zodiac (2007)
- The Tollbooth (2004)
- Ash Wednesday (2002)
- Two Against Time (2002)
- Thin Air (2000)
- Spenser: Small Vices (1999)
- Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End (1999)
- Double Platinum (1999)
- I Married a Monster (1998)
- Rear Window (1998)
- Alone (1997)
- Last Stand at Saber River (1997)
- Ms. Scrooge (1997)
- Jake's Women (1996)
- Streets of Laredo (1995)
- One Night Stand (1995)
- A Father for Charlie (1995)
- Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story (1995)
- The Heidi Chronicles (1995)
- Tecumseh: The Last Warrior (1995)
- Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995)
- Murderous Intent (1995)
- My Antonia (1995)
- My Brother's Keeper (1995)
- Lily in Winter (1994)
- Texan (1994)
- Reunion (1994)
- Jane's House (1994)
- Once in a Lifetime (1994)
- The Journey Inside (1994)
- The Man Who Wouldn't Die (1994)
- Kathie Lee Gifford's Celebration of Motherhood (1993)
- Skylark (1993)
- Heartbeat (1993)
- Bloodlines: Murder in the Family (1993)
- Kathie Lee Gifford's Celebration of Motherhood (1993)
- Remember (1993)
- Last Wish (1992)
- Four Eyes and Six-Guns (1992)
- Bed of Lies (1992)
- Nightmare in the Daylight (1992)
- The Habitation of Dragons (1992)
- Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story (1992)
- Broadway Bound (1992)
- Bed & Breakfast (1991)
- Paris Trout (1991)
- Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991)
- The Boys (1991)
- A Promise to Keep (1990)
- The Kennedys of Massachusetts (1990)
- Always Remember I Love You (1990)
- Common Ground (1990)
- The Big One: The Great Los Angeles Earthquake (1990)
- The Women of Brewster Place (1989)
- I Know My First Name Is Steven (1989)
- Backfire (1988)
- God Bless the Child (1988)
- Jesse (1988)
- Monkey Shines (1988)
- Vice Versa (1988)
- Echoes in the Darkness (1987)
- Mayflower Madam (1987)
- Short Circuit (1986)
- Promise (1986)
- 'night, Mother (1986)
- Return to Oz (1985)
- Do You Remember Love (1985)
- The Walt Disney Comedy and Magic Revue (1985)
- The Blue Yonder (1985)
- 2010 (1984)
- Oh, God! You Devil (1984)
- Max Dugan Returns (1983)
- Only When I Laugh (1981)
- The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia (1981)
- Norma Rae (1981)
- Paternity (1981)
- Old Boyfriends (1979)
- Norma Rae (1979)
- The Promise (1979)
- Fast Break (1979)
- Straight Time (1978)
- The Defection of Simas Kudirka (1978)
- Daddy, I Don't Like It Like This (1978)
- Something for Joey (1977)
- The Storyteller (1977)
- The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened (1977)
- Amelia Earhart (1976)
- Raid on Entebbe (1976)
- McNaughton's Daughter (1976)
- The Big Bus (1976)
- Harry and Walter Go to New York (1976)
- Harry and Walter Go to New York (1976)
- All the President's Men (1976)
- The Practice (1976)
- Winner Take All (1975)
- Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
- The Hindenburg (1975)
- The Fortune (1975)
- Joe and Sons (1975)
- The Healers (1974)
- Tell Me Where It Hurts (1974)
- Killer Bees (1974)
- The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
- Doctor Dan (1974)
- Virginia Hill (1974)
- Sidekicks (1974)
- The Godchild (1974)
- The Conversation (1974)
- Class of '44 (1973)
- Showdown (1973)
- Two People (1973)
- Isn't It Shocking? (1973)
- Steelyard Blues (1973)
- To Find a Man (1972)
- The Sixth Sense (1972)
- Marriage: Year One (1971)
- Skin Game (1971)
- See the Man Run (1971)
- The Impatient Heart (1971)
- Harpy (1971)
- Summertree (1971)
- Getting Together (1971)
- Drive, He Said (1971)
David
Herman Klaerhout is the CEO of a Belgian pharmaceutical company. His son Tim starts studying chemistry, which earns him new friends and enemies. Robby, the firm's young ICT specialist, acts as Tim's motivating father-substitute or gentle big brother and has a gay crush on him. Tim's sister Sofie, the firm's research star, returns from a Caribean holiday with her fiancé Pieter Wellens, also researcher an pharmaceutics heir, with an island-stranded young man who only gradually starts remembering his past as Belgian David Verbeecke. The rustic Klaerhout estate in managed by Maarten, a frustrated former finance whiz. Herman's deputy Andrea's idealistic son Sander gets in trouble with activists and his lover, spoiled gallery owner Lotte.
Cast
- Jeroen Van Dyck
- Bram Van Outryve
- Kurt Rogiers
- Steve Aernouts
- Pieter Bamps
- Warre Borgmans
- Ides Meire
- Mark van den Bos
- Nathalie Meskens
- Barbara Dzikanowice
- Kristine Van Pellicom
- Sandrine André
- Flor Decleir
- Senne Dehandschutter
- Daisy Van Praet
- Katelijne Verbeke
- Natali Broods
- Joyce Beullens
- Stan Van Samang
- Season 1
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Episode 1: Pilot
David, a twelve year old boy, falls overboard during an exotic boat trip. He strands at one of the m...
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Episode 2: (#1.2)
Maarten and Sofie enjoy grooming childishly naive David, and discover his healthy taste for life has...
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Episode 3: (#1.3)
Frolicking outside, David bumped into Sofie's car, but isn't hurt and keeps playing in and on it. Ma...
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Episode 4: (#1.4)
As Delfine won't even be near David (which backfires hysterically in both senses), it's left to pa H...
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Episode 5: (#1.5)
Tim is initially denied a student-room, then allowed as long as he gets all passing grades. Sander b...
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Episode 6: (#1.6)
Pieter sees David as a unique memory research opportunity, Sofie wants to nurture him. Maarten's ide...
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Episode 7: (#1.7)
Painter Lotte puts Sander on hold purely on account of their age difference. Robbie helps Tim decora...
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Episode 8: (#1.8)
Pieter's blood test reveals David has hepatitis B, so he must have a social past before age ten. Tim...
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Episode 9: (#1.9)
Tim volunteers to mind David a while and show him how to play with his toys for 10 year-olds, as a m...
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Episode 10: (#1.10)
Tim is pleased with his penthouse. Robbie decides to throw a surprise housewarming party. Pieter dis...
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Episode 11: (#1.11)
Now his mother has fallen for Maarten's ploy, Pieter has to leave David with him and keeps drug-test...
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Episode 12: (#1.12)
Pieter recruits Hannelore Torfs, his experienced, ambitious ex, as new marketing manager at Klaerhou...
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Episode 13: (#1.13)
Tim tells Robbie he's meeting his new college friends, feeling 'dumped for Delfine'. Robbie explains...
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Episode 14: (#1.14)
Tim enjoys his surprise penthouse warming party. There he and Robbie quickly come to terms with bein...
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Episode 15: (#1.15)
Because David spontaneously made a sailor's knot, Pieter and Sofie take him on a yacht, where he pro...
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Episode 16: (#1.16)
Tim is worried that Robbie may be fired or resign after the row with his father, but Herman apologiz...
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Episode 17: (#1.17)
Tim takes Sofie's dumb advice to answer Robbie's goodbye-gift with perfume, then dumps it realizing ...
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Episode 18: (#1.18)
Sofie is torn between Maarten's claim Pieter abuses David somehow, and Pieter's that the mysteriousl...
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Episode 19: (#1.19)
After somewhat jealous Sander reproaches Lotte to sell out her dream to Steven, she explains her dad...
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Episode 20: (#1.20)
Tim's new mates Stijn and Quinten push 'teacher's pet' Laura away, even from him. She over-reacts, d...
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Episode 21: (#1.21)
Robbie visits Tim on campus and questions if rebel Quentin is a good influence. To David's delight, ...
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Episode 22: (#1.22)
Tim is getting tired of his party-friends and asks Robby's chat-advice to warn Laura they're about t...
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Episode 23: (#1.23)
David has escaped to the coast. He's unaware beach toys aren't free, nor entrance to the maritime mu...
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Episode 24: (#1.24)
David is arrested by two local cops, but doesn't even understand why and can't explain who he is or ...
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Episode 25: (#1.25)
The procurator releases David from police jail to nun Rita, who routinely minds illegal refugees. Th...
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Episode 26: (#1.26)
Tim follows Robbie's advice to find excuses not to take party in Stijn's bunch's prank. Nevertheless...
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Episode 27: (#1.27)
Klaerhout family lawyer Hugo hears the whole story how David was found, fell and was smuggled in on ...
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Episode 28: (#1.28)
Justice decides not to press charges for David's illegal arrival. Tim visits Laura, in hospital afte...
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Episode 29: (#1.29)
Tim wakes up besides Laura, innocently. Social Services rules David is smart enough to choose where ...
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Episode 30: (#1.30)
Loveable Tim manages to convince Stijn to leave Laura alone, and her to return to classes. David is ...
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Episode 31: (#1.31)
Tim encourages Laura not only to attend classes, but overcome her hesitation to seem like the teache...
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Episode 32: (#1.32)
Tim manages to keep friends with both Stijn's bunch and Laura by keeping them apart. Maarten and Sof...
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Episode 33: (#1.33)
Tim openly discredits Stijn's nasty pranks, which gets him excluded from the surfing bunch. Maarten ...
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Episode 34: (#1.34)
Sander is enthusiastic about David's willingness to help the ecologist group, for which Maarten is r...
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Episode 35: (#1.35)
Tim now firmly puts college 'mate' Stijn in his place when his date Laura is bothered. Now both answ...
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Episode 36: (#1.36)
Now the bunch treats Tim as teacher's pet too, he gets into a bar fistfight with Quentin. Pieter enj...
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Episode 37: (#1.37)
Tim tells Robbie, who hints to be in love with him, he's getting tired of the unruly student bunch a...
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Episode 38: (#1.38)
Visiting Tim at home, Robbie is amused by still hard to understand David's progress. The boys accept...
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Episode 39: (#1.39)
Now David naively believed a lonely passerby posing as his (would-be) ma, Tim and Robbie agree with ...
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Episode 40: (#1.40)
At Maarten's suggestion, Robbie makes a computer-aided rejuvenated version of David's face. Tim enjo...
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Episode 41: (#1.41)
Tim laughs at Stijn's insulting messages, even publicly ridicules his childishly phrased threats. He...
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Episode 42: (#1.42)
Hearing Laura's attitude and image problem stems from her family, he asks Robbie to check the Intern...
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Episode 43: (#1.43)
Robbie makes Tim reconsider to ask Quenten at his birthday surprise party for Laura as a loyalty tes...
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Episode 44: (#1.44)
Tim and Robbie believe Quenten, who claims he wants to break with rude Stijn. He helps organize Laur...
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Episode 45: (#1.45)
Stijn advises Quenten to attend Tim's birthday party for Laura. Reporter Karel Boutens interviews Da...
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Episode 46: (#1.46)
Herman regains conscience fast enough to host the dinner. Pieter has himself accepted as liaison bet...
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Episode 47: (#1.47)
Quinten wins Tim and Robbie's confidence by reporting Stijn wants him to sabotage the party by organ...
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Episode 48: (#1.48)
Sofie stops David at the last moment before they make love all the way. He doesn't get why, she feel...
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Episode 49: (#1.49)
Sofie accepts Pieter's marriage proposal, despite her 'forbidden love' for David, whom she gives a c...
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Episode 50: (#1.50)
Tim and Lotte agree to take their affair slowly. As Pieter predicts, David enjoys Hannelore's bio-pr...
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Episode 51: (#1.51)
Belgium...
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Episode 52: (#1.52)
Sander brings his homeopathic 'physician', Dr. Franky Goudeseune, to treat Lotte's cold. Steven visi...
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Episode 53: (#1.53)
David enthusiastically learns from Maarten about the cycle of life. Tim visits and accepts to teach ...
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Episode 54: (#1.54)
Stijn discovers Tim is a Klaerhout 'silver spoon boy' and uses his friend Tessa to lure David and po...
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Episode 55: (#1.55)
Just before David's first real date, actress Mieke, arrives, Maarten teaches him about safe sex. Pie...
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Episode 56: (#1.56)
The anti-globalists stage an 'everyone like David' protest on the Klaerhout estate. Sander is credit...
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Episode 57: (#1.57)
The DNA results arrive: no potential parents match David. Sofie tries exposing him to the diving gog...
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Episode 58: (#1.58)
After the Klaerhouts report David missing, probably at sea, where a lifeguard boat was stolen, a res...
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Episode 59: (#1.59)
Tim and Laura agree to attend Stijn's rave, as Quenten proposed, and to sleep together, just sleep f...
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Episode 60: (#1.60)
Sander can't accept Steven's financial support for Lotte, who calls him childish, so he returns home...
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Episode 61: (#1.61)
Tim does a great job as stand-in DJ at Stijn's party, but the fiend 'treats' him and Laura to a buck...
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Episode 62: (#1.62)
Belgium...
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Episode 63: (#1.63)
David glows at the Klaerhout bio pills presentation. Laura acts all distant afterward just because T...
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Episode 64: (#1.64)
Tim gives Laura a key of his apartment and shows her Stijn's mail to prove already posted shit incid...
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Episode 65: (#1.65)
Robbie learns Tim isn't about to start cramming long before the exams as Laura does. Robbie has a Fa...
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Episode 66: (#1.66)
Robbie's date disappointed, so he's early at Tim's. They update his Facebook pictures, and decide to...
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Episode 67: (#1.67)
Tim and Laura make love but postpone the deed as neither has 'protection' yet. David is confused by ...
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Episode 68: (#1.68)
Tim has bought condoms. Sander buys an engagement ring. Pieter's jealous anger she doesn't share his...
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Episode 69: (#1.69)
The Klaerhouts panic now Sofie is missing. Maarten calls Robbie, who accepts to drive him and David ...
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Episode 70: (#1.70)
Desperate, drunk, down and high, Herman lands on Andrea's couch after more scolding then support. Pi...
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Episode 71: (#1.71)
Tim and Laura try out his condoms supply, but their first time is a physical miss. They decide to gi...
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Episode 72: (#1.72)
Robbie rations his visits to Tim in an attempt to force him to study for exams in a week, but that o...
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Episode 73: (#1.73)
Tim rejects Laura's attempt to make him accept Quinten again. Maarten tries to make David understand...
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Episode 74: (#1.74)
Tim is bore now neither Laura nor Robbie can spare time for him, so he plays with Robbie's naughty p...
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Episode 75: (#1.75)
Finding Tim exchanged bloody nose-punches with Quinten, Robbie convinces him to do the right thing. ...
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Episode 76: (#1.76)
Lovesick Sander and Lotte make up in bed. After winning 5,000 Euro in the lottery, they agree not to...
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Episode 77: (#1.77)
Tim makes love again and tells Quinten about the royal visit the next day. Maarten and Sofie nurse D...
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Episode 78: (#1.78)
Stijn plots with the animal rights-activists who phoned the fake bomb-alert to set up Tim as 'accomp...
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Episode 79: (#1.79)
David suddenly remembers his full name: David Verbeecke. But he tells Sofie not to do another search...
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Episode 80: (#1.80)
Since he planted evidence at Tim's, Stijn also has access to his and Laura's text messages. Tim, Rob...
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Episode 81: (#1.81)
Robbie helps Tim work out someone, as they rightly guess Stijn, planted messages on his cellphone an...
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Episode 82: (#1.82)
Robbie leaves Tim alone with Laura, so the lovers can make up and confer who Fien is and why fake me...
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Episode 83: (#1.83)
Tim is furious about Fien's blackmail-attempt. Only Robbie can convince him to inform the police him...
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Episode 84: (#1.84)
Tim makes a full statement, which clearly impresses the police detective, and suggest to question St...
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Episode 85: (#1.85)
Ludo is confused by an unfriendly call from Herman after Bea sneakily met him. Sander returns to Lot...
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Episode 86: (#1.86)
Except for Bea, the Wellens fear the merger suspension means its end. Pieter reports his problems wi...
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Episode 87: (#1.87)
Tim worries about Stijn's revenge threat, Laura promises to help fight off anyone for him, but also ...
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Episode 88: (#1.88)
Tim desperately tries to stay neutral when Lauren meanly forces Robbie to admit he loves Tim and wan...
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Episode 89: (#1.89)
Robbie is heartbroken when Laura haughtily tells him 'from Tim' to leave them alone for a while. But...
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Episode 90: (#1.90)
Tim firmly refuses to let pig-headed, paranoiac Laura selfishly sabotage his friendship with Robbie....
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Episode 91: (#1.91)
Laura wants to move in with Tim. Andrea moves to the Klaerhout estate to help Herman with his cold-t...
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Episode 92: (#1.92)
Belgium...
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Episode 93: (#1.93)
Tim visits home, worried about dad's pills rehabilitation. Thus he happens to overhear him and Bea a...
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Episode 94: (#1.94)
Tim invites Quinten and Laura to Sofie's birthday party, also for David's journey back home. Robbie ...
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Episode 95: (#1.95)
Tim warns Delfine not to date his mate Quinten 'as a taste of commoners'. Sofie is touched, not cons...
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Episode 96: (#1.96)
After encouraging dad Herman's detox progress, Tim and Sofie helps David packing. Quinten firmly reb...
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Episode 97: (#1.97)
Tim and Robbie say goodbye to David. He decides last moment, after a memory flash, to leave all keep...
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Episode 98: (#1.98)
Tim generously lets Laura redecorate his penthouse, albeit tasteless girlishly. He soon finds out, d...
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Episode 99: (#1.99)
Now Laura has finally accepted Robbie again, Tim and she want fourth musketeer Quinten back too. In ...
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Episode 100: (#1.100)
Robbie finds the claim against Klaerhout's trusted painkiller plausible, but keeps snooping inventiv...
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Episode 101: (#1.101)
To Tim's disappointment, 'musketeer' Quinten seems lost to Delfine's party-life. Robbie has got hold...
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Episode 102: (#1.102)
Tim and Robbie celebrate his snooping all night. Silly Laura is angry to find them sleeping in Tim's...
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Episode 103: (#1.103)
Tim's irritation at Laura's childish wining about Robbie is cut short by Quinten's return, having bo...
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Episode 104: (#1.104)
Tim chats with Robbie how little he enjoys living together with Laura, who starts to sense her naggi...
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Episode 105: (#1.105)
Tim doesn't say so, but really gets tired of nagging winer Laura's absurd mothering his every move. ...
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Episode 106: (#1.106)
Tim tells Robbie he wants to break up with wining lover Laura without hurting her, so he wants to ap...
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Episode 107: (#1.107)
Tim continues his plan to make Laura leave him, yet considers Robbie's doubts. Pieter rages to sooth...
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Episode 108: (#1.108)
Tim is succeeding in making Laura feeling smothered by him for a change. Seeing Sofie instantly conv...
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Episode 109: (#1.109)
Tim's ploy only makes Laura admit they shouldn't cohabit constantly. Robbie gets angry at Tim for la...
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Episode 110: (#1.110)
Tim is now stuck with Laura pushing him and visiting only to study together. Sander and Lotte explai...
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Episode 111: (#1.111)
Belgium...
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Episode 112: (#1.112)
After Delfine admits to Casper she's jealous of a hospital volunteer whom the sick kids love to hear...
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Episode 113: (#1.113)
After Delfine admits to Casper she's jealous of a hospital volunteer whom the sick kids love to hear...
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Episode 114: (#1.114)
David realizes he can learn to be happy without Sofie since others do. Tom receives him and Lotte we...
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Episode 115: (#1.115)
Tessa pretends to make up with Laura, only so she can spike her drink. Tim finds her unconscious, as...
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Episode 116: (#1.116)
Caring for Laure rekindled Tim's love for her. After trying to coach her for the chemistry exam, he ...
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Episode 117: (#1.117)
Tim finds studying with Laura somehow even intellectually rewarding, she livens a break by 'dancing'...
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Episode 118: (#1.118)
Tim finds cramming all night too exhausting and grudgingly makes up with Quinten on Laura's insistin...
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Episode 119: (#1.119)
After celebrating Tim's A-exam with Quinten, Laura meanly pumps Robbie for Tim's discrete bone with ...
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Episode 120: (#1.120)
Tim finds bitterly Laura returned to her flat. Pieter makes Sofie explain to David only a fiancé's r...
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Episode 121: (#1.121)
Belgium...
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Episode 122: (#1.122)
David thanks Robbie affluently for his driving lessons, but pleads he should as generously make up w...
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Episode 123: (#1.123)
Tim has to handle Laura getting drunk as a skunk at the engagement party. Herman scolds him for spec...
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Episode 124: (#1.124)
Tim nearly tells Quinten what bugs him and Laura, who behaves childishly with her hang-over, but rus...
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Episode 125: (#1.125)
Robbie's arrival for another free driving lesson finally chases siren Delfine away from David. Seein...
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Episode 126: (#1.126)
Tim nearly tells his dad, but only swears Quinten to silence to admit he 'probably' is gay but doesn...
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Episode 127: (#1.127)
Tim feels tortured by having to keep his secret, which Quinten finds hard to keep from suspicious na...
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Episode 128: (#1.128)
After agonizing about coming clean to Robbie, Tim wrecks his laptop. Robbie sweetly comes measure up...
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Episode 129: (#1.129)
Tim gets his study group, and Laura promises to stop preying for his secret. Thanks to Robbie's coac...
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Episode 130: (#1.130)
Tim is rid of Laura, who makes him admit the study group was an excuse to avoid being alone with her...
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Episode 131: (#1.131)
Tim still gathers his nerve to come out. Robbie learns from Laura about her break-up with Tim but do...
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Episode 132: (#1.132)
Robbie visits Tim to talk trough their relationship, but like all Klaerhouts he's now concerned with...
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Episode 133: (#1.133)
Just when Robbie nearly walked out loosing patience, Tim finally admits he's in love with him but st...
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Episode 134: (#1.134)
Tim confronts Quentin with Laura to make her accept only Tessa shows an interest in their friend. Af...
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Episode 135: (#1.135)
Tim finally asks Robbie to sleep over in his penthouse. Lotte abuses the press to force Steven to al...
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Episode 136: (#1.136)
Tim and Robbie happy after their heavenly first night in bed. Tim still hesitates about outing himse...
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Episode 137: (#1.137)
Maarten is excited to hear Liesbeth is interested in him again, to Hennelore's fury. Sander and Lott...
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Episode 138: (#1.138)
Robbie is deeply hurt when Tim avoids his friends rather then be seen together with his gay lover. S...
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Episode 139: (#1.139)
Seeing how deep Robbie is hired by being hidden, Tim promises to make an effort. Being caught kissin...
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Episode 140: (#1.140)
Belgium...
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Episode 141: (#1.141)
Tim learns Robbie fears for his job, and searching for another would probably mean moving abroad, se...
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Episode 142: (#1.142)
The police informs the Klaerhout home Davis is arrested and will be charged for assault, maybe even ...
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Episode 143: (#1.143)
Belgium...
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Episode 144: (#1.144)
Tim fails to talk Quinten and Laura (who still hide their affair from him) out of systematically mee...
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Episode 145: (#1.145)
Tim still keeps his relationship with Robbie inconspicuous for his college friends, failing to get Q...
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Episode 146: (#1.146)
Tim attends a family meeting, where all children give Herman a free hand to bid on the Alzheimer pro...
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Episode 147: (#1.147)
Herman overbidding Bea for the Alzheimer project means a 'state of war' between the Klaerhout and We...
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Episode 148: (#1.148)
Robbie is scolded 'disloyal' by Herman for applying elsewhere and reproaches Tim spilling his secret...
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Episode 149: (#1.149)
Now Tim's secret is out, study mates Quiten and Laura confess their love too, but neither is really ...
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Episode 150: (#1.150)
Herman must accept he can't win the bio-line bid, hears Wellens tried to buy Andrea Maarten as R&D; c...
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Episode 151: (#1.151)
Tim worries that Robbie's job interview went so well they may have to move to Luxemburg soon. David ...
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Episode 152: (#1.152)
Tim cheerfully invites Sven to drop by, but Robbie reacts rather surprised then pleased to have his ...
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Episode 153: (#1.153)
Tim accepts another meeting with Sven, just them two, where they agree Robbie doesn't understand how...
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Episode 154: (#1.154)
Tim and Robbie are now happy as a gay couple, except Sven's flirting with Tim makes Robbie somewhat ...
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Episode 155: (#1.155)
Tim and Robbie are happy their outing was taken well at the exhibition. Tim ignores phone-calls from...
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Episode 156: (#1.156)
Tim is so furious his professor refuses to believe Stijn and Tessa don't do their part of the chemis...
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Episode 157: (#1.157)
Tim cooked dinner for Robbie, but is shattered by the news he accepted the Luxemburg job offer. Now ...
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Episode 158: (#1.158)
Tim can't accept having to miss Robbie most of the week, Robbie won't give up his own life. Tim invi...
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Episode 159: (#1.159)
Robbie returned early to apologize again for his jealousy and spend more time with Tim. Finding him ...
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Episode 160: (#1.160)
Tim feels so guilty about his infidelity that he can't even bare to let Sven in again. Sander fierce...
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Episode 161: (#1.161)
Robbie is furious to see Sven applying for his Klaerhout job, manages to sabotage that by outing out...
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Episode 162: (#1.162)
Robbie tells Sofie he's determined to leave Klaerhout now it's over with Tim, who gets his key back ...
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Episode 163: (#1.163)
Tim finds Robbie, who forgives his infidelity but concludes Tim still needs to experiment, so the br...
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Episode 164: (#1.164)
Tim finds some comfort with Quinten and Laura. Pieter learns the police may well be about to discove...
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Episode 165: (#1.165)
Tim admits to Quinten he can't yet cope with witnessing his happiness with Laura and helps David usi...
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Episode 166: (#1.166)
Tim tells Quinten he no longer acres whether the group assignment is turned in or not to make Stijn ...
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Episode 167: (#1.167)
Tim accepts to study again now Quinten won't turn in the group assignment, so Stijn and Tessa will f...
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Episode 168: (#1.168)
Sander and Jan get along, albeit tensely, while trying to help Lotte prepare the charity exhibition....
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Episode 169: (#1.169)
After the article on David meeting prostitutes, nearly everybody turns against him. Herman wants him...
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Episode 170: (#1.170)
Tim, still grieving for Robbie and objects to his chemistry professor's announcing the two chapters ...
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Episode 171: (#1.171)
Tim is cramming again with Quinten and Laura. Maarten enjoys growing in fatherhood but still fails t...
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Episode 172: (#1.172)
While Tim is cramming, Stijn gets Tessa to steal a drug from the college lab to stage drug-dealing '...
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Episode 173: (#1.173)
Tim studies for his life now he must get 12/12 on the exam questions he won't boycott. Stijn pays eq...
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Episode 174: (#1.174)
Despite Tim's bleak predicament, he over the moon when Robbie returns to help him. The boys make lov...
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Episode 175: (#1.175)
Tim and Robbie passionately celebrate being united as true lovers all the way, after Tim makes clear...
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Episode 176: (#1.176)
Robbie can barely convince Tim to interrupt their passion to attend classes. As if being taunted by ...
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Episode 177: (#1.177)
Robbie delights Tim by cooking a pasta dinner and announcing he he found the way to download the ori...
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Episode 178: (#1.178)
Tim and Robbie's happiness is cut short when they discover the original videos are deleted from Stij...
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Episode 179: (#1.179)
Robbie is warmly welcomed back by Herman as Tim's steady lover, and for offering help to identify th...
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Told about the 'dealer video', Herman asks Tim to explain the truth and follows Robbie's suggestion ...
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Only Tim accepts to help Delfine prepare for her new TV show. Ludo's ex-secretary hates Bea, so she ...
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Episode 182: (#1.182)
After the talk show prepping, Tim misses Robbie badly, but follows his advice by receiving police de...
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Episode 183: (#1.183)
Stijn promises to return the original recordings if Tim drops his complaint, but it's a ruse to intr...
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Episode 184: (#1.184)
Tim gets a visit from police detective Kevin and accepts to file a formal complaint against Stijn, s...
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Tim accepts to lure Sofie to his penthouse so David can urge her to admit being i love with him and ...
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Episode 186: (#1.186)
Tim and Robbie celebrate their victory over Stijn, although Tim sort of pities the fiend being order...
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To Tim's delight, Robbie asks and gets his Klaerhout job back, so he can return from Luxemburg for g...
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Tim asks his dad for help to find Robbie's estranged parents, but there are no data in his personnel...
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Tim's request to help find Robbie's parents is rudely ignored by their ex Sven. David's Sofie-obsess...
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Tim sneaks into Herman's office to peek into Robbie's file, searching for his lover's parents, witho...
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Tim breaks in to dad's office to peek at Robbie's secret personnel file. After reading his lover has...
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Tim rages his dad should have warned him for Robbie's vice-past, only to be told his own breaking ac...
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Although Robbie is still bitter about his latest stunt, Tim pleads and begs till Sven sort of forgiv...
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Tim meets Robbie's parents over an oysters dinner, rather too fancy for them. They tell him that Rob...
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Pieter has escaped with the research results and evidence, but is arrested at the Wellens home. Tim ...
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Police detective De Smet compares Pieter's, David's and Sofie's stories, which adds up to lending le...
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Hugo manages to keep Sofie free pending the police investigation, unlike Pieter. Ludo finds himself ...
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While Tim prepares dinner for Robbie's parents, he tries to calm Quinten and Laura, who fear she is ...
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Tim grudgingly abandons the dinner with Robbie and his parents to attend a Klaerhout family council,...
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Tim and Robbie are happy now his parents ask them for a return dinner, until Quinten arrives to tell...
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Tim, Robbie, Quinten and Laura worry about the effects of her pregnancy, but the doctor concludes fa...
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Casper admits to Janos that Delfine intrigues him. Tim and Robbie visit Sofie for support, like Maar...
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Robbie helps Sofie trace David's dad after all, in Antwerp, about to sail to sail to Miami for good....
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- Main Title
- The Quickening / Off the Bridge
- Discovering Number 5 / Sunrise
- Grasshopper / Joy(less) Ride
- The Attack / Coming To
- Road Block / Bathtub / Robot Battle
- Getaway / Hello, Bozos
- Night Scene / Joke Triumph
- Danger, Nova / Escape Attempt / Aftermath
- Finale / End Title: "Come and Follow Me"
- Rock
- Bar #2
- The Three Stooges
- Aftermaths
- Graysmith
- Law & Disorder
- Trailer Park
- Dare to Dream
- Avery & Graysmith, Toschi & Armstrong
- Graysmith Obsessed
- Are You Done?
- Closer & Closer
- Confrontation
- Graysmith's Theme
- Toschi's Theme
- Graysmith's Theme (Piano version)
- Main Title
- The Taking
- Dolowitz Takes a Look / Dolowitz Gets Killed
- Blue and Green Talk
- Money Montage
- Fifty Seconds / The Money Express
- Conductor Killed / The Money Bag
- The Pelham's-Moving-Again Blues
- I'm a Police Officer / Renewing Disguises / Goodbye Green, Hellogarber, Goodbye Hippie / Smoking More, Enjoying It Less
- Mini-Manhunt
- End Title
- Main Title / Cassies Toccata
- Claire Remembers Blake
- After-Dinner Concert / Amos, Roth & Lobsters
- Renovations Montage
- What Cassie Knows / Renovation Montage II
- Chalk Talk / Beach Walk
- Summer Solstice
- Rowboat Scene
- Heart to Heart
- Wheres Adam / Attic Scene / Decision Montage
- Claire Sailing
- End Credits
- Doors
- She Loves Me Not
- You Want to Be My Friend?
- What Am I Doin'?
- The Bear, the Tiger, the Hamster and the Mole
- Like a Baby
- Miss Byrd
- The Sound of Muzak
- One of the Good Guys
- There's Nothing Like It
- Life Story
- Next Time, I Wouldn't Go Back
- Dorothy Remembers / Home / The Ride to Dr. Worley's
- Ozma / The Flight in the Storm
- Oz / The Ruined House
- The Deserted City / The Wheelers / Tik Tok
- Mombi's Hall of Heads
- Jack Pumpkinhead
- The Flight of the Gump
- Dorothy and the Nome King
- The Defeat of the Nome King / The Restoration
- The Mirror
- Finale and End Credits (Theme from "Return to Oz")
- The "Return to Oz" Rag March
- '2010'
- Earth / Space
- Probe
- Bowman
- Reactivating Discovery
- Space Linkup / Earth Fallout
- Visitation / Countdown
- Nova / New Worlds / Also sprach Zarathustra
- New Worlds Theme From '2010'
- The Word Is Love / Starting Here, Starting Now / A Little Bit Off
- I Think I May Want to Remember Today
- We Can Talk to Each Other
- Just Across the River
- Crossword Puzzle
- Autumn
- I Don't Remember Christmas
- I Don't Believe It
- Barbara
- Pleased With Myself
- Flair
- Travel
- Watching the Big Parade Go By
- I Hear Bells
- What About Today?
- One Step
- Song of Me / Today Is the First Day of the Rest of My Life / A New Life Coming
- Finale: Reprise of Flair
- Swing With It
- Brand New Family
- Woman's Love
- Make the Headlines
- Georgia Blues
- My Bag (The Oysters)
- Common Ground
- Being Different
- I've Been Searching
- Do I Care
- Lonesome Star Blues
- Here I Come (There She Goes)
- If You Cared
- Theme From Steelyard Blues (Drive Again)
- Theme From the Conversation
- The End of the Day
- No More Questions
- Blues for Harry
- To the Office/The Elevator
- Whatever Was Arranged
- The Confessional
- Amy's Theme
- Dream Sequence
- Plumbing Problem
- Harry Carried
- The Girl in the Limo
- Finale and End Credits
- Theme From the Conversation (Ensemble)
- Go for It
- Welcome to Cadwallader
- More Than Just a Friend
- With You I'm Born Again
- He Didn't Stay
- With You I'm Born Again
- Books and Basketball
- Half-Time
- Big Game
- Go Fo It
- Opening
- We Start Today
- What Could Be Better?
- Plaza Song
- Baby, Baby, Baby
- I Want It All
- At Night She Comes Home to Me
- Fatherhood Blues
- Romance, Part 1
- I Chose Right
- Story Goes On
- Ladies Singing Their Song
- Patterns
- Romance, Part 2
- Easy to Love
- Romance, Part 3
- Two People in Love
- With You
- And What If We Had Loved Like That?
- The Birth / Finale
- Overture / Can't Wait
- Talk to Her / Carnival / Zoltar Speaks
- This Isn't Me
- I Want to Go Home
- The Time of Your Life / Fun
- Josh's Welcome / Here We Go Again
- Do You Want to Play Games? / Stars, Stars, Stars
- Cross the Line
- It's Time
- Stop, Time
- The Nightmare
- Dancing All the Time / I Want to Know
- Coffee, Black
- The Real Thing
- One Special Man
- When You're Big / Skateboard Ballet
- I Want to Go Home / Stars, Stars, Stars (reprise) / Finale
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The Conversation Soundtrack
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- Duration: 3:38
- Updated: 18 Nov 2012
Composed by David Shire for the film The Conversation,Starring Gene Hackman and directed by Francis Ford Coppola
http://wn.com/The_Conversation_Soundtrack
David Shire - Taking Of Pelham 123 Score Video
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- Duration: 3:05
- Updated: 15 Nov 2012
New improved version of this vid here www.youtube.com Super groovy score by David Shire for 70's Masterpiece " The Taking of Pelham 123" Best viewed in HQ.
http://wn.com/David_Shire_Taking_Of_Pelham_123_Score_Video
David Shire - Manhattan Skyline
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- Duration: 4:45
- Updated: 21 Nov 2012
David Lee Shire (born July 3, 1937) is an American songwriter and the composer of stage musicals, film and television scores. The soundtrack to the movie The Taking of Pelham 123 and parts of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack such as Night on Disco Mountain, an adaptation of Modest Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain, are some of his best known works. Shire is married to actress Didi Conn.
http://wn.com/David_Shire_Manhattan_Skyline
David Shire - Nova/New Worlds (Includes Strauss's "Thus Spake Zarathustra")
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- Duration: 8:08
- Updated: 25 Oct 2012
This is a track by film composer and songwriter David Shire, from the soundtrack to the 1984 film "2010: The Year We Make Contact", Peter Hyams's underrated sequel to Stan Kubrick's classic sci-fi film, "2001: A Space Odyssey", both based on the novels by Arthur C. Clarke. It also includes part of Richard Strauss's "Thus Spake Zarathustra", which, as in "2001", is used as the film's main theme. The film stars Roy Scheider as Dr. Heywood Floyd (taking on the role from William Sylvester), an ex-NASA scientist who is sent on a joint Russian-American expedition, onboard the spacecraft Leonov, to Jupiter in order to investigate the disappearance of the spacecraft Discovery 1 nine years earlier (as Floyd was partially in charge of Discovery 1's mission), and John Lithgow as Walter Kurnow, the NASA engineer who designed the Discovery 1 spacecraft. Although the film is generally not as well-recieved as the original, it is nevertheless a very interesting film. The special effects are very well done, as in the first film, and the cast (which, in addition to Scheider and Lithgow, also includes Bob Balaban, Dame Helen Mirren, and several Russian actors in the role of the Leonov crew members) are all fairly good in their roles (although the casting of the Russian-American Balaban is quite strange given that the character in the original novel was stated to be Sri Lankan.) Shire's soundtrack departs from that of the original film, which mostly used stock cues (albeit very effectively ...
http://wn.com/David_Shire_Nova_New_Worlds_Includes_Strauss's_Thus_Spake_Zarathustra
David Shire - Straight Time (1978)
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- Duration: 3:49
- Updated: 18 Nov 2012
David Shire's brilliant & catchy tune for Ulu Grosbard's 1978 film "Straight Time" with Dustin Hoffman. Best viewed in HQ.
http://wn.com/David_Shire_Straight_Time_1978
David Shire - The Taking Of Pelham 123 Theme
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- Duration: 2:20
- Updated: 14 Nov 2012
http://wn.com/David_Shire_The_Taking_Of_Pelham_123_Theme
David Shire - Marlowe's Theme
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- Duration: 2:40
- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
http://wn.com/David_Shire_Marlowe's_Theme
David Shire - Night on Disco Mountain
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- Duration: 5:12
- Updated: 19 Nov 2012
This instrumental is a disco version of classical music composer Modest Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain. The 'Bald' word was replaced with the word Disco - a comical play on words. Modern music artist Walter Murphy did a similar thing with his hit 'A Fifth of Beethoven', by turning a classical composer's composition into a disco instrumental. David Shire information: David Lee Shire (born July 3, 1937) is an American songwriter and the composer of stage musicals, film and television scores. The soundtrack to the movie The Taking of Pelham 123 and parts of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack such as Night on Disco Mountain, an adaptation of Modest Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain, are some of his best known works. Shire is married to actress Didi Conn.
http://wn.com/David_Shire_Night_on_Disco_Mountain
Zodiac - David Shire - Toschi's Theme
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- Duration: 2:16
- Updated: 10 Nov 2012
Music from Zodiac Composed by David Shire Song name: Toschi's Theme Directed by David Fincher Written by James Vanderbilt Cast Jake Gyllenhaal ... Robert Graysmith Mark Ruffalo ... David Toschi Robert Downey Jr. ... Paul Avery Chloë Sevigny ... Melanie Graysmith www.imdb.com
http://wn.com/Zodiac_David_Shire_Toschi's_Theme
David Shire - Whatever Was Arranged
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- Duration: 2:06
- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
from the film: The Conversation (1974)
http://wn.com/David_Shire_Whatever_Was_Arranged
MANHATTAN SKYLINE - DAVID SHIRE ( DISCO DANCING 70's )
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- Duration: 5:05
- Updated: 21 Nov 2012
MANHATTAN SKYLINE - DAVID SHIRE ( DISCO DANCING ) 70's .- laverne and shirley (penny marshal/cindy williams) doing the introduction
http://wn.com/MANHATTAN_SKYLINE_DAVID_SHIRE_DISCO_DANCING_70's_
Mini Man Hunt by David Shire
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- Duration: 2:20
- Updated: 03 Sep 2012
Pulsating urbanized sublimity from David Shire for the film The Taking Of Pelham 1-2-3. David Shire Walter Matthau Robert Shaw funk soundtrack
http://wn.com/Mini_Man_Hunt_by_David_Shire
David Shire - Finale - End Credits
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- Duration: 3:47
- Updated: 05 Nov 2012
from the film: The Conversation (1974)
http://wn.com/David_Shire_Finale_End_Credits
David Shire scores "Monkey Shines"
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- Duration: 9:12
- Updated: 09 Jun 2012
Here's a suite from David Shire's 1988 horror score, for the silly and ill-fated "Monkey Shines". Shire rarely did horror (to the best of my knowledge this is the only horror film on his resume) and it shows, because much of the score is extremely melodic and enjoyable. A really lovely work int he vein of something Pino Donaggio might have composed during this time period. Enjoy. I don't own any of this music, it has been uploaded purely for your listening pleasure.
http://wn.com/David_Shire_scores_Monkey_Shines
David Shire "New Worlds" (2010: The Year We Make Contact)
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- Duration: 2:35
- Updated: 11 Jul 2012
Shires beautiful end title music for 2010
http://wn.com/David_Shire_New_Worlds_2010_The_Year_We_Make_Contact
David Shire - Salsation.wmv
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- Duration: 3:57
- Updated: 18 Nov 2012
David Shire - Salsation Saturday night fever
http://wn.com/David_Shire_Salsationwmv
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER Soundtrack-Night on Disco Mountain-DAVID SHIRE
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- Duration: 5:13
- Updated: 11 Nov 2012
www.facebook.com
http://wn.com/SATURDAY_NIGHT_FEVER_Soundtrack-Night_on_Disco_Mountain-DAVID_SHIRE
Richard Maltby Jr. & David Shire speak about HOW DO YOU DO, I LOVE YOU
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- Duration: 9:27
- Updated: 03 Aug 2012
Richard Maltby Jr. & David Shire speak about HOW DO YOU DO, I LOVE YOU, written by Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire. From IF IT ONLY EVEN RUNS A MINUTE, created by Jennifer Ashley Tepper, Kevin Michael Murphy, and Caleb Hoyer. Performed at IF IT ONLY EVEN RUNS A MINUTE Volume 9 on March 26th at Joe's Pub. Paino: Caleb Hoyer Drums: Jesse Brickel Assistant Director: Max Friedman Filmed by Shoshana Feinstein - famousiny.com If It Only Even Runs A Minute is an award-winning concert series celebrating rare songs, behind-the-scenes tales, and inspiring photos from underappreciated Broadway musicals. Created by Jennifer Ashley Tepper, Kevin Michael Murphy, and Caleb Hoyer. Visit http for more information.
http://wn.com/Richard_Maltby_Jr_David_Shire_speak_about_HOW_DO_YOU_DO,_I_LOVE_YOU
Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire - on Closer Than Ever
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- Duration: 3:36
- Updated: 17 Oct 2012
Music video by Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire performing on Closer Than Ever. (C) 2012 Sony Music Entertainment
http://wn.com/Richard_Maltby_Jr_and_David_Shire_on_Closer_Than_Ever
David Shire - The Conversation (1974)
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- Duration: 5:37
- Updated: 21 Nov 2012
Portrait of lonely and self-conscious private surveillance expert Harry Caul. Music Notes: This montage contains three tracks ("To the Office/The Elevator", "Plumbing Problems", "Blues For Harry") from David Shire's "The Conversation".
http://wn.com/David_Shire_The_Conversation_1974
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER Soundtrack-Manhattan Skyline-DAVID SHIRE
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- Duration: 4:45
- Updated: 20 Nov 2012
www.facebook.com
http://wn.com/SATURDAY_NIGHT_FEVER_Soundtrack-Manhattan_Skyline-DAVID_SHIRE
Night On Disco Mountain...David Shire...Twilight Zone Pictures 1950's
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- Duration: 5:08
- Updated: 29 Oct 2012
Twilight Zone....Please Enter At Your Own Risk....Proceed Forward... No Turning Back...One Way Ticket to the Outer Limits.... Refreshments served at Devil's Cafe... Bloody Mary's....with Chicken livers wrapped with water chestnuts and bacon....Or was it that Rattlesnake I saw in the courtyard????
http://wn.com/Night_On_Disco_MountainDavid_ShireTwilight_Zone_Pictures_1950's
david shire - mini-manhunt
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- Duration: 1:59
- Updated: 26 Jul 2012
David shire
http://wn.com/david_shire_mini-manhunt
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Sally Mayes & Lynne Winterstellar - "Closer Than Ever" - Sirius XM Live on Broadway
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- Duration: 6:03
- Updated: 22 Oct 2012
March 31, 2010: Sally Mayes and Lynne Winterstellar sing "It's Never That Easy" and "I've Been Here Before" from the musical revue "Closer Than Ever" (words by Richard Maltby, Jr. and music by David Shire) at thetaping of SIRIUS XM LIVE ON BROADWAY! Hosted by Seth Rudetsky, SIRIUS XM LIVE ON BROADWAY is recorded live every Wednesday at 12:00 PM ET (noon) at the Broadway Concierge & Ticket Center, located inside the Times Square Information Center. It's 45 fun-filled minutes of interviews, trivia & live performances. Plus, stick around after the show to meet your favorite Broadway stars! It's free to the public, so don't miss out on being part of the live studio audience! SIRIUS XM LIVE ON BROADWAY airs exclusively on SIRIUS 77 and XM 75: Fridays at 7:00 PM ET Sundays at 11:00 PM ET Tuesdays at 7:00 AM ET Wednesdays at 12:00 PM ET The Times Square Information Center is located at 1560 Broadway (really 7th Avenue), between 46th & 47th Streets, next door to McDonalds and The Palace Theatre.
http://wn.com/Sally_Mayes_Lynne_Winterstellar_Closer_Than_Ever_Sirius_XM_Live_on_Broadway
"If I Sing" from Closer Than Ever, Live Performance by Aaron Ray
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- Duration: 4:29
- Updated: 14 Nov 2012
"If I Sing" from the musical review Closer Than Ever. Words by Richard Maltby, Jr. and music by David Shire. No copyright infringement intended. Live performance by Aaron Ray at Berklee College of Music's "Cabaret in the Loft", November 5th, 2012. Accompaniment by Balint Varga. Contact: cabaretintheloft@gmail.com
http://wn.com/If_I_Sing_from_Closer_Than_Ever,_Live_Performance_by_Aaron_Ray
Erin Quill sings Life Story from Closer Than Ever
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- Duration: 5:08
- Updated: 06 Sep 2012
Lodestone's Production of CLOSER THAN EVER by Maltby and Shire Erin Quill sing's Life Story a tribute to RedRunningbear Savage directed by Chil Kong
http://wn.com/Erin_Quill_sings_Life_Story_from_Closer_Than_Ever
Melissa Manchester - "I'll Never Say Goodbye" Theme from The Promise - 1980
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- Duration: 3:57
- Updated: 17 Nov 2012
(D. Shire / Marilyn Bergman, Alan Bergman) Beautiful Live performance by the Original Singer of this song - Melissa Manchester - 1980 Academy Awards
http://wn.com/Melissa_Manchester_I'll_Never_Say_Goodbye_Theme_from_The_Promise_1980
Marya Grandy - "Halfway Home" - "The Earthling" - Sirius XM Live On Broadway
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- Duration: 2:32
- Updated: 30 May 2011
June 24, 2009: Marya Grandy sings "Halfway Home" (written by David Shire and Carol Connors) from the motion picture "The Earthling" at thetaping of SIRIUS XM LIVE ON BROADWAY! Hosted by Seth Rudetsky, SIRIUS XM LIVE ON BROADWAY is recorded live every Wednesday at 12:00 PM ET (noon) at the Broadway Concierge & Ticket Center, located inside the Times Square Information Center. It's 45 fun-filled minutes of interviews, trivia & live performances. Plus, stick around after the show to meet your favorite Broadway stars! It's free to the public, so don't miss out on being part of the live studio audience! SIRIUS XM LIVE ON BROADWAY airs exclusively on SIRIUS 77 and XM 75: Fridays at 7:00 PM ET Sundays at 11:00 PM ET Tuesdays at 7:00 AM ET Wednesdays at 12:00 PM ET The Times Square Information Center is located at 1560 Broadway (really 7th Avenue), between 46th & 47th Streets, next door to McDonalds and The Palace Theatre.
http://wn.com/Marya_Grandy_Halfway_Home_The_Earthling_Sirius_XM_Live_On_Broadway
Dancing All The Time
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- Duration: 2:02
- Updated: 15 Mar 2011
Dancing All The Time from big! the musical by David Shire and Rich Maltby Jr. Based off the movie big! with Tom Hanks. I am accompanied by Fred Cobb.
http://wn.com/Dancing_All_The_Time
"The Story Goes On" from Baby The Musical live at Parr Street Studios (04/03/2012)
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- Duration: 2:48
- Updated: 09 Oct 2012
Listen to some of the cast of 'Baby The Musical' perform 'The Story Goes On' live during An Evening of Musical Theatre, at Parr Street Studios Living Colour Productions presents: "BABY THE MUSICAL" Book by Sybille Pearson Music by David Shire Lyrics by Richard Maltby,Jr. 'Baby' follows the lives of three couples who are all expecting a child. Throughout the show, the characters experience the emotional stresses and triumphs, the desperate lows and the comic highs that couples go through whilst anticipating the arrival of a baby. Wednesday 21st and Thursday 22nd March 2012 7.30pm £8 / £4 discounts The Unity Theatre, 1 Hope Place, Liverpool, L1 9BG Get your tickets online : unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk Follow us on twitter! www.twitter.com Like us on Facebook! www.facebook.com CAST Steph Turbin (Lizzie) James Backway (Danny) Katie Tyler (Pam) Tom Ottersen (Nick) Monica Sik Holm (Arlene) Dave Shute (Alan) With: Emily Beatrice Chesterton, Francesca Goodridge, Cassie Richardson, Lisa Wright, Evie Pickerill, Camille Favre, Jordan Veloso, Sarah Folwell & Kyle Parrott
http://wn.com/The_Story_Goes_On_from_Baby_The_Musical_live_at_Parr_Street_Studios_04_03_2012
Hobbits From The Shire (Prelude) ~ David Arkenstone
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- Duration: 4:09
- Updated: 30 Oct 2012
(HD) Epic music performed by the Elbereth Orchestra and written by David Arkenstone! you can get the music here! (CD and MP3) www.amazon.com if you are wondering why this is in HD its because i upgraded my pc to windows 7 and now i have windows live movie maker witch has HD support!
http://wn.com/Hobbits_From_The_Shire_Prelude_~_David_Arkenstone
The Big Bus(1976) - MainTheme
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- Duration: 3:47
- Updated: 05 Jun 2012
■URL last "&fmt;=18"■ 【Music】 David Shire デイヴィッド・シャイア【director】 James Frawley ジェームズ・フローリー【cast】 Joseph Bologna ジョセフ・ボローニャ （Dan Torrance） Stockard Channing ストッカード・チャニング （Kitty Baxter） John Beck ジョン・ベック （Shoulders） Rene Auberjonois ルネ・オーベルジョノワ （Father Kudos） Ned Beatty ネッド・ビーティ （Shorty Schotty） Bob Dishy ボブ・ディシー （Dr.Kurtz） Jose Ferrer ホセ・フェラー （Ironman） Ruth Gordon ルース・ゴードン （Old Lady） Harold Gould ハロルド・グールド （Professor Baxter） Larry Hagman ラリー・ハグマン （Parking Lot Doctor） Sally Kellerman サリー・ケラーマン （Sybil Grane） Richard Mulligan リチャード・マリガン （Claud Crane） Lynn Redgrave リン・レッドグレーヴ （Camille Levy） en.wikipedia.org 【Title】 A Nagy Busz / Big Bus / Big Bus The / Die Haarsträubende Reise In Einem Verrückten Bus / Fantabus / Fantabus, Il / Haarsträubende Reise In Einem Verrückten Bus, Die / Il Fantabus
http://wn.com/The_Big_Bus1976_MainTheme
Miss Byrd sung by Elisabeth Cernadas
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- Duration: 4:15
- Updated: 16 Nov 2012
Elisabeth sings Miss Byrd from Closer Than Ever by Maltby and Shire at Duplex , NYC with Barbara Anselmi on the piano.
http://wn.com/Miss_Byrd_sung_by_Elisabeth_Cernadas
Supreme Master TV's 4th Anniversary Concert
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- Duration: 3:08
- Updated: 11 Apr 2012
LOS ANGELES - Supreme Master Television celebrates the 4th year of constructive programming with a star-studded concert entitled, "Gifting Peace" to begin airing on the channel on September 7, 2010. Mr. Bob Jimenez, representative of California State Senator Ron Calderon, stated, "State Senate of California commends and salutes your constructive programming, as you and the artistic community commemorate the occasion of your milestone achievement." With enthusiastic participation of esteemed individuals, the concert promises a memorable journey to artistic realms through outstanding poetry, music, and dance. Hosted by passionate vegans NBA champion John Salley and CNN & CBS legal analyst Lisa Bloom, the program features Oscar-nominated actor Eric Roberts as guest speaker; veg and animal-loving celebrity presenters to include Emmy winner Lindsay Wagner, Spice Williams-Crosby, Trina Parks, Patrick Kilpatrick, Yogi Cameron Alborzian, Brandi Williams; and traditional dance ensembles -- truly a gathering of compassion, talent, and beauty! "On behalf of all artists and entertainers involved, I'd like to add that we're so glad to have this chance to be inspired by her poetry and bring it forth for a wider audience to enjoy through this concert. Indeed, Supreme Master Ching Hai is an extraordinary lady who gives and gives with compassion and grace," expressed Eric Roberts (The Expendables, The Dark Knight). New songs adapted from Supreme Master Ching Hai's poetry will be making ...
http://wn.com/Supreme_Master_TV's_4th_Anniversary_Concert
I'll Never Say Goodby (The Promise) - Nancy LaMott
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- Duration: 3:29
- Updated: 22 Oct 2012
by the late Nancy LaMott from her 1996 post-passing album "What's Good About Goodbye" ... the lyrics ... Say goodbye When I can barely say good night When I can hardly take my eyes From yours How far can I go Walk away The though had never crossed my mind I couldn't turn my back on Spring Or fall Your smile least of all When I say always I mean forever I trust tomorrow As much as today I am not afraid to say I love you And I promise you I'll never say goodbye We're dancers on a crowded floor While other dancers live from song to song Our music goes on and on And if I never leave your arms I really would have traveled everywhere For my world is there When I say always I mean forever I trust tomorrow As much as today I am not afraid to say I love you And I promise you I'll never say goodbye ...
http://wn.com/I'll_Never_Say_Goodby_The_Promise_Nancy_LaMott
Manhattan Skyline - Orchestra cover
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- Duration: 3:48
- Updated: 09 Jun 2012
This is me and the orchestra I'm in doing a cover of Manhattan Skyline, by David Shire. I hope you like it!
http://wn.com/Manhattan_Skyline_Orchestra_cover
☆♪Alissa Simmons @SHSU: Life of a musical theater major!: VOCALS: "INTO THE WOODS & "BABY"
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:18
- Updated: 26 Oct 2012
Voice class! Steps of the Palace @ 0:15 & Our Story Goes On @ 3:05. Alissa'a reality video blog--a peek into a day in the life of a musical theater college major! So what does it take to become a triple threat singer, actress dancer--or better yet, a Broadway star? Training and college! Now I live in NYC....Check out more of this college series or my other video blog series: Alissa Simmons in NYC or Alissa's vocals--original songs or covers as well. Official website: alissasimmons.com Voice class in '07 fall semester I'm busy learning and rehearsing here: "On the Steps of the Palace" from INTO THE WOODS--by (difficult) Sondheim @ 0:15 "Our Story Goes On" from BABY by David Shire & Richard Maltby jr @ 3:05
http://wn.com/☆♪Alissa_Simmons_@SHSU_Life_of_a_musical_theater_major!_VOCALS_INTO_THE_WOODS_BABY
❤•´ *`•.❤¸David Pomeranz - Tell Me❤•´ *`•.❤¸
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- Duration: 3:03
- Updated: 11 Nov 2012
David Pomeranz - Tell Me Lyrics every night, and i can't help but cry and i wonder why you have to leave me why did it have to end so soon when you said that you would never leave me ohhh tell me where did i go wrong what did i do to make you change your mind completely when i thought this love would never end if this love was not ours to have i'll let it go with your good bye ohhh why did it have to end so soon when you said that you would never leave me ohhh tell me where did i go wrong what did i do to make you change your mind completely when i thought this love would never end if this love was not ours to have i'll let it go with your good bye David Pomeranz - Biography David Pomeranz is an American singer, composer, lyricist, and writer for musical theatre. Born in New York City and raised on Long Island, Pomeranz expressed interest in music from an early age, singing in the synagogue choir, learning to play the piano, guitar, and drums, and writing and recording songs by the age of fourteen. When he was nineteen, MCA/Decca signed him to a contract that yielded two albums, New Blues and Time To Fly (the latter featuring Chick Corea), and he began touring the country as the opening act for Rod Stewart, Billy Joel, Three Dog Night, and The Doors, among others. In the late 1980s, Pomeranz collaborated with Russian rock star Alexander Malinin on the pre-glasnost \"Faraway Lands,\" which they performed live in Moscow's Gorky Park for an episode of the television sitcom ...
http://wn.com/❤•´_*`•❤¸David_Pomeranz_Tell_Me❤•´_*`•❤¸
The Promise (I'll Never Say Goodbye) - Cover
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- Duration: 3:48
- Updated: 14 Aug 2012
The Promise - I'll Never Say Goodbye by A. & M. Bergman and D. Shire, my version. The background pictures are the places that I've gone to in the Philippines.
http://wn.com/The_Promise_I'll_Never_Say_Goodbye_Cover
Zodiac-It's My Handwriting, Re-score
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- Duration: 3:13
- Updated: 15 Nov 2012
Another amalgamation of live chamber instruments, electronics, this time with added symphonic elements. Fincher's film Zodiac was scored by one of my favorite film composers David Shire, however this scene does not have any music in the released movie.
http://wn.com/Zodiac-It's_My_Handwriting,_Re-score
Loving The Silent Tears Announcement
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- Duration: 1:47
- Updated: 14 Nov 2012
LOVING THE SILENT TEARS: A NEW MUSICAL Red Carpet Premiere October 27, 2012 Los Angeles, California, USA Loving The Silent Tears is a new Broadway-style musical starring 2-time Grammy winner Jon Secada, Gramy winner Jody Watley, Grammy winner Black Uhuru; Tony winners Michael Maguire, Debbie Gravitte, and Kiril Kulish; Grammy nominee Siavash Shams, Katie McMahon, Liel Kolet, Mark Janicello, Camilla Abou-Odah, and more! "May each one find his peace." Award-winning composers set to music world-renowned spiritual teacher, humanitarian, poet and artist Supreme Master Ching Hai's poetry: 5-time Grammy winner & Oscar nominee Jorge Calandrelli ("Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"), 2-time Oscar winner Al Kasha ("Seven Brides for Seven Brothers"), Emmy winner Doug Katsaros ("Footloose"), 2-time Grammy winner & Oscar nominee Henry Krieger ("Dreamgirls"), Tony and Emmy winner Don Pippin ("Oliver!"), Grammy winner Nan Schwartz ("Harry Potter..."), and Oscar and 2-time Grammy winner David Shire. Accompanied by a 30-member ensemble and 30-piece live orchestra, they will present the music and cultures of 16 countries, as six continents unite on a single stage in this unprecedented, one-time only show! For more info, visit www.SilentTearsMusical.com
http://wn.com/Loving_The_Silent_Tears_Announcement
Sonny Rollins & Coleman Hawkins "Lover Man" (1963)
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- Duration: 8:51
- Updated: 18 Nov 2012
Sonny Meets Hawk! is a 1963 album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, with Coleman Hawkins appearing as guest artist. It was recorded at RCA Victor Studio "B" in New York City on July 15 and 18, 1963. en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org The album marks the first time the two saxophonists had entered a recording studio together, although they had appeared on stage together briefly that same year at the Newport Jazz Festival. Personnel Sonny Rollins - Tenor Sax Coleman Hawkins - Tenor Sax Paul Bley - Piano Roy McCurdy - Drums Henry Grimes - Bass Bob Cranshaw - Bass "Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be?)" (often called simply "Lover Man") is a 1941 popular song written by Jimmy Davis, Roger ("Ram") Ramirez, and James Sherman. It is particularly associated with Billie Holiday, for whom it was written, and her version was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1989. Holiday's version reached #5 on the R&B; chart in 1945. Charlie Parker did a rendition of "Lover Man", considered by many to be one of his most passionate recordings, during which he was horribly intoxicated. Parker himself considered it one of his most shameful moments. Barbra Streisand recorded "Lover Man" for her 1967 album, Simply Streisand, with an arrangement by David Shire. She also sang the song live during her 1994 concert tour.
http://wn.com/Sonny_Rollins_Coleman_Hawkins_Lover_Man_1963
I Don't Remember Stonewall
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- Duration: 2:56
- Updated: 27 Aug 2010
Parody of "I Don't Remember Christmas" by Richard Maltby & David Shire. From Lee Lucas' "Big Strappin' Fag Show". Spencer Brown in "Ban This! III: Let Freedom Ring" live at Bar Natasha in Kansas City on July 23, 2007. Piano - Daniel Doss Video by Richie Johnson
http://wn.com/I_Don't_Remember_Stonewall
THE REAL LOVE: A NEW MUSICAL
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- Duration: 2:09
- Updated: 07 Jun 2012
TheRealLoveMusic.com - Join us for a spectacular 2-part extravaganza featuring the world premiere of "THE REAL LOVE," a unique musical, as well as American icon DON MCLEAN in concert. This exciting event is in celebration of Supreme Master Television's 5th anniversary of all-constructive global programming. "THE REAL LOVE" is a poignant Broadway-style musical inspired by an extraordinary, true love story, starring Tony winner Daisy Eagan ("THE SECRET GARDEN"), Tony winner Cady Huffman ("THE PRODUCERS"), Tony nominee Adam Pascal ("RENT" original cast), and Tony nominee Robert Torti ("STARLIGHT EXPRESS"), with guest stars including internationally recognized Tony winner and Broadway legend Betty Buckley ("CATS"), Oscar winner Shirley Jones ("THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY"), and Emmy winner Faith Rivera, leading a vivacious and dazzling 40-member cast. "Something is more intuitively better, naturally better in music to inspire you into going to peace. So I can only imagine over the years that we musicians have learned to speak this language of music which is emotion. When music really works, it works at that level," says Bill Conti (19-time Music Director of the Academy Awards), one of the composers of the new musical. The musical features the heartfelt poetry of Supreme Master Ching Hai, world-renowned spiritual leader, humanitarian, bestselling author, poet and artist, set to music by a constellation of eminent composers Oscar & 5-time Emmy winner Bill Conti ("ROCKY"), 2-time Oscar ...
http://wn.com/THE_REAL_LOVE_A_NEW_MUSICAL
Breakbot Dance On Glass Mix 03 (HQ)
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- Duration: 26:04
- Updated: 22 Nov 2012
Tracklist: 00:00 Kitty Grant -- Glad to know you (looped) 00:01 -- "What's Paris' blues ? -- You'd better get dressed. -- You like music ? -- Honey I live music. Morning, noon and all night. Everything else is just icing on the cake, you dig ? -- I dig. -- And I, I have no time, no serious time for anything else, I laugh it up. -- You don't have to explain." 00:22 The Coach House Rhythm Section -- Time Warp 01:24 Alfonzo Surrett -- Gimme Your Love 02:22 Mr. Oizo -- Cut Dick 02:49 Up Front -- Infatuation (Frankie Rodriquez Infatuated Re-Edit) 03:38 Midfield General -- Disco Sirens (acapella) 03:45 Korja -- My Mind (instrumental) 03:58 Midfield General -- Disco Sirens 04:43 Vaughan Mason And Crew -- Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll (instrumental) 05:00 Superfunk -- Last Dance In Copacabana 05:56 Cut Copy -- Lights & Music (Boys Noize Happy Birthday remix) 06:27 PNAU -- Baby (Breakbot remix) 07:29 Ladyhawke -- Paris Is Burning (Alex Gopher remix) (instrumental) 08:00 Breakbot -- Stereo Provolone 08:47 The Black Kids -- I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You (The Twelves remix) 09:32 Thomas Bangalter -- Colossus 09:40 ZZT -- Lower State of Consciousness (Justice remix) 09:56 Oliver Cheatham -- Get Down Saturday Night 10:25 Stardust -- Music Sounds Better With You 11:35 High Fashion -- Next To You 12:05 ?? (acapella) 12:57 Yuksek -- I Like To Play 13:50 Fred Falke -- Last Wave 14:33 Guns 'N' Bombs -- Riddle Of Steel (Para One remix) (acapella) 15:05 DJ Blaqstarr ...
http://wn.com/Breakbot_Dance_On_Glass_Mix_03_HQ
BARBARA DICKSON - IT GOES LIKE IT GOES (Theme from 'Norma Rae')
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- Duration: 2:44
- Updated: 20 Oct 2012
Barbara Dickson sings the theme from the movie 'Norma Rae', "It Goes Like It Goes". Visit Barbara at www.facebook.com or www.barbaradickson.net
http://wn.com/BARBARA_DICKSON_IT_GOES_LIKE_IT_GOES_Theme_from_'Norma_Rae'
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Sally Mayes & Lynne Winterstellar - "Closer Than Ever" - Sirius XM Live on Broadway
March 31, 2010: Sally Mayes and Lynne Winterstellar sing "It's Never That Easy" and "I've ...
published: 16 Apr 2010
author: BroadwayLeagueVideos
Sally Mayes & Lynne Winterstellar - "Closer Than Ever" - Sirius XM Live on Broadway
March 31, 2010: Sally Mayes and Lynne Winterstellar sing "It's Never That Easy" and "I've Been Here Before" from the musical revue "Closer Than Ever" (words by Richard Maltby, Jr. and music by David Shire) at thetaping of SIRIUS XM LIVE ON BROADWAY! Hosted by Seth Rudetsky, SIRIUS XM LIVE ON BROADWAY is recorded live every Wednesday at 12:00 PM ET (noon) at the Broadway Concierge & Ticket Center, located inside the Times Square Information Center. It's 45 fun-filled minutes of interviews, trivia & live performances. Plus, stick around after the show to meet your favorite Broadway stars! It's free to the public, so don't miss out on being part of the live studio audience! SIRIUS XM LIVE ON BROADWAY airs exclusively on SIRIUS 77 and XM 75: Fridays at 7:00 PM ET Sundays at 11:00 PM ET Tuesdays at 7:00 AM ET Wednesdays at 12:00 PM ET The Times Square Information Center is located at 1560 Broadway (really 7th Avenue), between 46th & 47th Streets, next door to McDonalds and The Palace Theatre.
- published: 16 Apr 2010
- views: 3993
- author: BroadwayLeagueVideos
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"If I Sing" from Closer Than Ever, Live Performance by Aaron Ray
"If I Sing" from the musical review Closer Than Ever. Words by Richard Maltby, Jr. and mus...
published: 13 Nov 2012
author: Cabaretintheloft
"If I Sing" from Closer Than Ever, Live Performance by Aaron Ray
"If I Sing" from the musical review Closer Than Ever. Words by Richard Maltby, Jr. and music by David Shire. No copyright infringement intended. Live performance by Aaron Ray at Berklee College of Music's "Cabaret in the Loft", November 5th, 2012. Accompaniment by Balint Varga. Contact: cabaretintheloft@gmail.com
- published: 13 Nov 2012
- views: 84
- author: Cabaretintheloft
5:08
Erin Quill sings Life Story from Closer Than Ever
Lodestone's Production of CLOSER THAN EVER by Maltby and Shire Erin Quill sing's Life Stor...
published: 28 Aug 2009
author: chil kong
Erin Quill sings Life Story from Closer Than Ever
Lodestone's Production of CLOSER THAN EVER by Maltby and Shire Erin Quill sing's Life Story a tribute to RedRunningbear Savage directed by Chil Kong
- published: 28 Aug 2009
- views: 1947
- author: chil kong
3:57
Melissa Manchester - "I'll Never Say Goodbye" Theme from The Promise - 1980
(D. Shire / Marilyn Bergman, Alan Bergman) Beautiful Live performance by the Original Sing...
published: 06 Jan 2012
author: mioboxes
Melissa Manchester - "I'll Never Say Goodbye" Theme from The Promise - 1980
(D. Shire / Marilyn Bergman, Alan Bergman) Beautiful Live performance by the Original Singer of this song - Melissa Manchester - 1980 Academy Awards
- published: 06 Jan 2012
- views: 8530
- author: mioboxes
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Marya Grandy - "Halfway Home" - "The Earthling" - Sirius XM Live On Broadway
June 24, 2009: Marya Grandy sings "Halfway Home" (written by David Shire and Carol Connors...
published: 04 Aug 2010
author: BroadwayLeagueVideos
Marya Grandy - "Halfway Home" - "The Earthling" - Sirius XM Live On Broadway
June 24, 2009: Marya Grandy sings "Halfway Home" (written by David Shire and Carol Connors) from the motion picture "The Earthling" at thetaping of SIRIUS XM LIVE ON BROADWAY! Hosted by Seth Rudetsky, SIRIUS XM LIVE ON BROADWAY is recorded live every Wednesday at 12:00 PM ET (noon) at the Broadway Concierge & Ticket Center, located inside the Times Square Information Center. It's 45 fun-filled minutes of interviews, trivia & live performances. Plus, stick around after the show to meet your favorite Broadway stars! It's free to the public, so don't miss out on being part of the live studio audience! SIRIUS XM LIVE ON BROADWAY airs exclusively on SIRIUS 77 and XM 75: Fridays at 7:00 PM ET Sundays at 11:00 PM ET Tuesdays at 7:00 AM ET Wednesdays at 12:00 PM ET The Times Square Information Center is located at 1560 Broadway (really 7th Avenue), between 46th & 47th Streets, next door to McDonalds and The Palace Theatre.
- published: 04 Aug 2010
- views: 571
- author: BroadwayLeagueVideos
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Dancing All The Time
Dancing All The Time from big! the musical by David Shire and Rich Maltby Jr. Based off th...
published: 15 Mar 2011
author: Jessica Seibert
Dancing All The Time
Dancing All The Time from big! the musical by David Shire and Rich Maltby Jr. Based off the movie big! with Tom Hanks. I am accompanied by Fred Cobb.
- published: 15 Mar 2011
- views: 303
- author: Jessica Seibert
2:48
"The Story Goes On" from Baby The Musical live at Parr Street Studios (04/03/2012)
Listen to some of the cast of 'Baby The Musical' perform 'The Story Goes On' live during A...
published: 05 Mar 2012
author: BabyTheMusical
"The Story Goes On" from Baby The Musical live at Parr Street Studios (04/03/2012)
Listen to some of the cast of 'Baby The Musical' perform 'The Story Goes On' live during An Evening of Musical Theatre, at Parr Street Studios Living Colour Productions presents: "BABY THE MUSICAL" Book by Sybille Pearson Music by David Shire Lyrics by Richard Maltby,Jr. 'Baby' follows the lives of three couples who are all expecting a child. Throughout the show, the characters experience the emotional stresses and triumphs, the desperate lows and the comic highs that couples go through whilst anticipating the arrival of a baby. Wednesday 21st and Thursday 22nd March 2012 7.30pm £8 / £4 discounts The Unity Theatre, 1 Hope Place, Liverpool, L1 9BG Get your tickets online : unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk Follow us on twitter! www.twitter.com Like us on Facebook! www.facebook.com CAST Steph Turbin (Lizzie) James Backway (Danny) Katie Tyler (Pam) Tom Ottersen (Nick) Monica Sik Holm (Arlene) Dave Shute (Alan) With: Emily Beatrice Chesterton, Francesca Goodridge, Cassie Richardson, Lisa Wright, Evie Pickerill, Camille Favre, Jordan Veloso, Sarah Folwell & Kyle Parrott
- published: 05 Mar 2012
- views: 284
- author: BabyTheMusical
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Hobbits From The Shire (Prelude) ~ David Arkenstone
(HD) Epic music performed by the Elbereth Orchestra and written by David Arkenstone! you c...
published: 21 Jan 2011
author: fintogive
Hobbits From The Shire (Prelude) ~ David Arkenstone
(HD) Epic music performed by the Elbereth Orchestra and written by David Arkenstone! you can get the music here! (CD and MP3) www.amazon.com if you are wondering why this is in HD its because i upgraded my pc to windows 7 and now i have windows live movie maker witch has HD support!
- published: 21 Jan 2011
- views: 6460
- author: fintogive
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The Big Bus(1976) - MainTheme
■URL last "&fmt;=18"■ 【Music】 David Shire デイヴィッド・シャイア【director】 James Frawley ジェームズ・フローリー【c...
published: 06 Jun 2008
author: ostmusicmix
The Big Bus(1976) - MainTheme
■URL last "&fmt;=18"■ 【Music】 David Shire デイヴィッド・シャイア【director】 James Frawley ジェームズ・フローリー【cast】 Joseph Bologna ジョセフ・ボローニャ （Dan Torrance） Stockard Channing ストッカード・チャニング （Kitty Baxter） John Beck ジョン・ベック （Shoulders） Rene Auberjonois ルネ・オーベルジョノワ （Father Kudos） Ned Beatty ネッド・ビーティ （Shorty Schotty） Bob Dishy ボブ・ディシー （Dr.Kurtz） Jose Ferrer ホセ・フェラー （Ironman） Ruth Gordon ルース・ゴードン （Old Lady） Harold Gould ハロルド・グールド （Professor Baxter） Larry Hagman ラリー・ハグマン （Parking Lot Doctor） Sally Kellerman サリー・ケラーマン （Sybil Grane） Richard Mulligan リチャード・マリガン （Claud Crane） Lynn Redgrave リン・レッドグレーヴ （Camille Levy） en.wikipedia.org 【Title】 A Nagy Busz / Big Bus / Big Bus The / Die Haarsträubende Reise In Einem Verrückten Bus / Fantabus / Fantabus, Il / Haarsträubende Reise In Einem Verrückten Bus, Die / Il Fantabus
- published: 06 Jun 2008
- views: 21558
- author: ostmusicmix
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Miss Byrd sung by Elisabeth Cernadas
Elisabeth sings Miss Byrd from Closer Than Ever by Maltby and Shire at Duplex , NYC with B...
published: 04 Jun 2008
author: lisavetta1
Miss Byrd sung by Elisabeth Cernadas
Elisabeth sings Miss Byrd from Closer Than Ever by Maltby and Shire at Duplex , NYC with Barbara Anselmi on the piano.
- published: 04 Jun 2008
- views: 15457
- author: lisavetta1
3:08
Supreme Master TV's 4th Anniversary Concert
LOS ANGELES - Supreme Master Television celebrates the 4th year of constructive programmin...
published: 04 Sep 2010
author: veganandgreen
Supreme Master TV's 4th Anniversary Concert
LOS ANGELES - Supreme Master Television celebrates the 4th year of constructive programming with a star-studded concert entitled, "Gifting Peace" to begin airing on the channel on September 7, 2010. Mr. Bob Jimenez, representative of California State Senator Ron Calderon, stated, "State Senate of California commends and salutes your constructive programming, as you and the artistic community commemorate the occasion of your milestone achievement." With enthusiastic participation of esteemed individuals, the concert promises a memorable journey to artistic realms through outstanding poetry, music, and dance. Hosted by passionate vegans NBA champion John Salley and CNN & CBS legal analyst Lisa Bloom, the program features Oscar-nominated actor Eric Roberts as guest speaker; veg and animal-loving celebrity presenters to include Emmy winner Lindsay Wagner, Spice Williams-Crosby, Trina Parks, Patrick Kilpatrick, Yogi Cameron Alborzian, Brandi Williams; and traditional dance ensembles -- truly a gathering of compassion, talent, and beauty! "On behalf of all artists and entertainers involved, I'd like to add that we're so glad to have this chance to be inspired by her poetry and bring it forth for a wider audience to enjoy through this concert. Indeed, Supreme Master Ching Hai is an extraordinary lady who gives and gives with compassion and grace," expressed Eric Roberts (The Expendables, The Dark Knight). New songs adapted from Supreme Master Ching Hai's poetry will be making ...
- published: 04 Sep 2010
- views: 5124
- author: veganandgreen
3:29
I'll Never Say Goodby (The Promise) - Nancy LaMott
by the late Nancy LaMott from her 1996 post-passing album "What's Good About Goodbye" ... ...
published: 18 Mar 2009
author: nar5038
I'll Never Say Goodby (The Promise) - Nancy LaMott
by the late Nancy LaMott from her 1996 post-passing album "What's Good About Goodbye" ... the lyrics ... Say goodbye When I can barely say good night When I can hardly take my eyes From yours How far can I go Walk away The though had never crossed my mind I couldn't turn my back on Spring Or fall Your smile least of all When I say always I mean forever I trust tomorrow As much as today I am not afraid to say I love you And I promise you I'll never say goodbye We're dancers on a crowded floor While other dancers live from song to song Our music goes on and on And if I never leave your arms I really would have traveled everywhere For my world is there When I say always I mean forever I trust tomorrow As much as today I am not afraid to say I love you And I promise you I'll never say goodbye ...
- published: 18 Mar 2009
- views: 14842
- author: nar5038
3:48
Manhattan Skyline - Orchestra cover
This is me and the orchestra I'm in doing a cover of Manhattan Skyline, by David Shire. I ...
published: 09 Jun 2012
author: Moviegurl15
Manhattan Skyline - Orchestra cover
This is me and the orchestra I'm in doing a cover of Manhattan Skyline, by David Shire. I hope you like it!
- published: 09 Jun 2012
- views: 309
- author: Moviegurl15
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☆♪Alissa Simmons @SHSU: Life of a musical theater major!: VOCALS: "INTO THE WOODS & "BABY"
Voice class! Steps of the Palace @ 0:15 & Our Story Goes On @ 3:05. Alissa'a reality video...
published: 28 Sep 2007
author: Alissa Simmons
☆♪Alissa Simmons @SHSU: Life of a musical theater major!: VOCALS: "INTO THE WOODS & "BABY"
Voice class! Steps of the Palace @ 0:15 & Our Story Goes On @ 3:05. Alissa'a reality video blog--a peek into a day in the life of a musical theater college major! So what does it take to become a triple threat singer, actress dancer--or better yet, a Broadway star? Training and college! Now I live in NYC....Check out more of this college series or my other video blog series: Alissa Simmons in NYC or Alissa's vocals--original songs or covers as well. Official website: alissasimmons.com Voice class in '07 fall semester I'm busy learning and rehearsing here: "On the Steps of the Palace" from INTO THE WOODS--by (difficult) Sondheim @ 0:15 "Our Story Goes On" from BABY by David Shire & Richard Maltby jr @ 3:05
- published: 28 Sep 2007
- views: 1060
- author: Alissa Simmons
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Room for Storms, David Shire
published: 25 Jun 2010
author: Birgit Rathsmann
Room for Storms, David Shire
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Shire's
Stanners Corp. Video
Videography - Matthew Stanners
Music - Peter Stanners
A good bit of...
published: 15 May 2012
author: Matthew David Stanners
Shire's
Stanners Corp. Video
Videography - Matthew Stanners
Music - Peter Stanners
A good bit of brotherly creative fun.. which was not appreciated at a viewing in 2011.... their loss!
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David Shire - Theme from ''The Conversation''
from ''The conversation'' OST (1974) by Francis Ford Coppola...
published: 29 Apr 2012
author: ...El Exilio...y...El Viaje...
David Shire - Theme from ''The Conversation''
from ''The conversation'' OST (1974) by Francis Ford Coppola
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❤•´ *`•.❤¸David Pomeranz - Tell Me❤•´ *`•.❤¸
David Pomeranz - Tell Me Lyrics every night, and i can't help but cry and i wonder why you...
published: 16 Aug 2010
author: ARTLENGEL
❤•´ *`•.❤¸David Pomeranz - Tell Me❤•´ *`•.❤¸
David Pomeranz - Tell Me Lyrics every night, and i can't help but cry and i wonder why you have to leave me why did it have to end so soon when you said that you would never leave me ohhh tell me where did i go wrong what did i do to make you change your mind completely when i thought this love would never end if this love was not ours to have i'll let it go with your good bye ohhh why did it have to end so soon when you said that you would never leave me ohhh tell me where did i go wrong what did i do to make you change your mind completely when i thought this love would never end if this love was not ours to have i'll let it go with your good bye David Pomeranz - Biography David Pomeranz is an American singer, composer, lyricist, and writer for musical theatre. Born in New York City and raised on Long Island, Pomeranz expressed interest in music from an early age, singing in the synagogue choir, learning to play the piano, guitar, and drums, and writing and recording songs by the age of fourteen. When he was nineteen, MCA/Decca signed him to a contract that yielded two albums, New Blues and Time To Fly (the latter featuring Chick Corea), and he began touring the country as the opening act for Rod Stewart, Billy Joel, Three Dog Night, and The Doors, among others. In the late 1980s, Pomeranz collaborated with Russian rock star Alexander Malinin on the pre-glasnost \"Faraway Lands,\" which they performed live in Moscow's Gorky Park for an episode of the television sitcom ...
- published: 16 Aug 2010
- views: 61159
- author: ARTLENGEL
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The Promise (I'll Never Say Goodbye) - Cover
The Promise - I'll Never Say Goodbye by A. & M. Bergman and D. Shire, my version. The back...
published: 30 Sep 2007
author: Antonio Melejor
The Promise (I'll Never Say Goodbye) - Cover
The Promise - I'll Never Say Goodbye by A. & M. Bergman and D. Shire, my version. The background pictures are the places that I've gone to in the Philippines.
- published: 30 Sep 2007
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- author: Antonio Melejor
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Zodiac-It's My Handwriting, Re-score
Another amalgamation of live chamber instruments, electronics, this time with added sympho...
published: 04 Nov 2012
author: S. Shaman
Zodiac-It's My Handwriting, Re-score
Another amalgamation of live chamber instruments, electronics, this time with added symphonic elements. Fincher's film Zodiac was scored by one of my favorite film composers David Shire, however this scene does not have any music in the released movie.
- published: 04 Nov 2012
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- author: S. Shaman
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Loving The Silent Tears Announcement
LOVING THE SILENT TEARS: A NEW MUSICAL Red Carpet Premiere October 27, 2012 Los Angeles, C...
published: 12 Jul 2012
author: SupremeMasterTV
Loving The Silent Tears Announcement
LOVING THE SILENT TEARS: A NEW MUSICAL Red Carpet Premiere October 27, 2012 Los Angeles, California, USA Loving The Silent Tears is a new Broadway-style musical starring 2-time Grammy winner Jon Secada, Gramy winner Jody Watley, Grammy winner Black Uhuru; Tony winners Michael Maguire, Debbie Gravitte, and Kiril Kulish; Grammy nominee Siavash Shams, Katie McMahon, Liel Kolet, Mark Janicello, Camilla Abou-Odah, and more! "May each one find his peace." Award-winning composers set to music world-renowned spiritual teacher, humanitarian, poet and artist Supreme Master Ching Hai's poetry: 5-time Grammy winner & Oscar nominee Jorge Calandrelli ("Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"), 2-time Oscar winner Al Kasha ("Seven Brides for Seven Brothers"), Emmy winner Doug Katsaros ("Footloose"), 2-time Grammy winner & Oscar nominee Henry Krieger ("Dreamgirls"), Tony and Emmy winner Don Pippin ("Oliver!"), Grammy winner Nan Schwartz ("Harry Potter..."), and Oscar and 2-time Grammy winner David Shire. Accompanied by a 30-member ensemble and 30-piece live orchestra, they will present the music and cultures of 16 countries, as six continents unite on a single stage in this unprecedented, one-time only show! For more info, visit www.SilentTearsMusical.com
- published: 12 Jul 2012
- views: 5928
- author: SupremeMasterTV
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| name = David Shire | background = non_vocal_instrumentalist | birth_name = David Lee Shire | birth_date = (1937-07-03) July 3, 1937 (age 74) |birth_place =Buffalo, New York | occupation = Composer | instrument = Piano | genre = Film score
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Television score | years_active = 1960s–present
David Lee Shire (born July 3, 1937) is an American songwriter and the composer of stage musicals, film and television scores. The soundtrack to the 1974 movie The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974 film) and parts of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack such as Night on Disco Mountain, an adaptation of Modest Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain, are some of his best known works. His other work includes the score of the 1985 film, Return to Oz, the "sequel-in-part" of The Wizard of Oz (1939 film). Shire is married to actress Didi Conn.
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Education and early career[link]
Shire was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Esther Miriam (née Sheinberg) and Buffalo society band leader and piano teacher Irving Daniel Shire.[1] He met his long-time theater collaborator lyricist/director Richard Maltby, Jr. at Yale University, where they wrote two musicals, Cyrano and Grand Tour, which were produced by the Yale Dramatic Association. Shire also co-fronted a jazz group at school, the Shire-Fogg Quintet, and was a Phi Beta Kappa honors student, with a double major in English and music. He was a member of the Pundits and Elihu and he graduated magna cum laude in 1959.
After a semester of graduate work at Brandeis University (where he was the first Eddie Fisher Fellow) and six months in the National Guard infantry, Shire took up residence in New York City, working as a dance class pianist, theater rehearsal and pit pianist, and society band musician while constantly working with Maltby on musicals. Their first off-Broadway show, The Sap of Life, was produced in 1961 at One Sheridan Square Theater in Greenwich Village.
Film and television scoring[link]
Shire began scoring for television in the 1960s and made the leap to scoring feature films in the early 1970s. He was married to actress Talia Shire, for whose brother Francis Ford Coppola he scored The Conversation, perhaps his best known score, in 1974. Additional screen credits include Two People, All the President's Men, The Hindenburg, Farewell My Lovely, The Taking of Pelham One-Two-Three, 2010, Return to Oz, Max Dugan Returns (a Neil Simon write) and Zodiac. He composed original music for Saturday Night Fever (for which he received two Grammy Award nominations), and also worked on several disco adaptations including "Night on Disco Mountain." He won the Academy Award for Best Song for his and Norman Gimble's theme song for Norma Rae, "It Goes Like It Goes". He was also nominated the same year in the same category for "The Promise (I'll Never Say Goodbye)" from the motion picture The Promise, with lyrics by Marilyn and Alan Bergman. In 1981 his song "With You I'm Born Again," recorded by Billy Preston and Syreeta, was a top five international hit and stayed on the pop charts for 26 weeks.[citation needed]
The Conversation featured an austere score for piano. On some cues Shire took the taped sounds of the piano and distorted them in different ways to create alternative sonic textures to round out the score. The music is intended to capture the isolation and paranoia of protagonist Harry Caul (Gene Hackman). The score was released on CD by Intrada Records.
For The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Shire used serial techniques and a funky jazz-rock rhythm section for the main theme.[citation needed] It is intended to evoke the bustle and diversity of New York City, and is an unofficial theme for the 6 subway line (the local Lexington Avenue Line that is depicted in the film).[citation needed] The soundtrack album was the first ever CD release by Film Score Monthly. The end titles contain a more expansive arrangement of the theme. Shire received two Grammy nominations for his work on the film.
Shire's television scores have earned five Emmy nominations.[2] His hundreds of scores for television include: Sarah, Plain and Tall; Raid on Entebbe; The Kennedys of Massachusetts; Serving in Silence; Christopher Reeve's Rear Window; Oprah Winfrey's The Women of Brewster Place; and The Heidi Chronicles. He also composed themes for the television series Alice and McCloud.
His film and television scoring style is often compared to mostly his late counterpart Jerry Fielding.
Musical theatre[link]
As a pit pianist, Shire played for the original productions of both The Fantasticks and Funny Girl, eventually serving as Barbra Streisand’s accompanist for several years. He also intermittently conducted and arranged for her (most notably for her television specials Color Me Barbra and The Belle of Fourteenth Street), and over a period of several years she recorded five of his songs.
Shire's musical theatre work, always in collaboration with lyricist Richard Maltby, Jr. includes the two off-Broadway reviews Starting Here, Starting Now (Grammy nomination for Best Cast Album) and Closer Than Ever (Outer Critic's Circle Award for Best Musical) and the two Broadway shows Baby (Tony nominations for Best Musical and Best Score) and Big (Tony nomination for Best Score). All of these shows have had hundreds of regional and stock productions worldwide. A new musical entitled Take Flight premiered in London at the Menier Chocolate Factory in July 2007, with a separate production in Tokyo in November 2007. Previously concert versions were performed in Australia and Russia.[3][4]
He recently completed A Stream of Voices, a one-act opera, with libretto by Gene Scheer, for the Colorado Children's Chorale, which is scheduled to premiere in June 2008 in Denver.[5][6]
Miscellaneous[link]
Shire's individual songs have been recorded by Barbra Streisand, Melissa Manchester, Maureen McGovern, Johnny Mathis, Billy Preston, Jennifer Warnes, John Pizzarelli and Pearl Bailey, among many others. He co-wrote with David Pomerantz "In Our Hands", the theme song for the United Nations World Summit for Children. He has also written individual songs with lyricists Sheldon Harnick ("Everlasting Light") and Ed Kleban.
Either for his film scores or for pop concerts of his music, he has conducted many orchestras, including The London Symphony Orchestra, The Los Angeles Philharmonic, The San Francisco Opera Orchestra, The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (2007)[7] Irish Film Orchestra, and the Munich Symphony.
He also wrote and composed many songs for the hit PBS children's TV series Shining Time Station, which starred his wife Didi Conn along with actor Brian O'Connor and comedian George Carlin.[citation needed]
He serves on the council of the Dramatists Guild of America[8] and is a Trustee of the Rockland Conservatory of Music and the Palisades (New York) Library.
David Lee Shire was inducted into the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame in 2006.
Personal[link]
Shire has been married to actress Didi Conn since 1982; they have a son named Daniel who has been diagnosed with autism.[9] He also has a son, screenwriter Matthew Shire, with ex-wife Talia Shire.
Theatre credits[link]
- Broadway
- The Unknown Soldier and His Wife - incidental music
- Anyone Can Whistle - rehearsal pianist
- Funny Girl - pit pianist and assistant conductor
- Love Match - composer
- Baby - composer - Tony Award for Best Original Score nomination
- Company - dance music arranger
- Big - composer - Tony Award for Best Original Score nomination; Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music nomination
- Saturday Night Fever - songwriter of "Manhattan Skyline," "Salsation," and "Night on Disco Mountain"
- Off-Broadway (selected)[10]
- Graham Crackers (1963)
- As You Like It (1973)
- Starting Here, Starting Now (1977)
- Urban Blight (1988)
- Closer Than Ever (1989) (Outer Critics Circle Award winner)
- Smulnik's Waltz (1991)
- The Loman Family Picnic (1993)
- Visiting Mr. Green (1997)
Notable songs[link]
- "With You I'm Born Again" - lyrics by Carol Connors - international chart hit by Billy Preston and Syreeta
- "Starting Here, Starting Now;" "Autumn" - lyrics by Richard Maltby - recorded by Barbra Streisand
- "What About Today," "The Morning After" - music and lyrics - recorded by Streisand
- "The Promise (I'll Never Say Goodbye)" (Academy Award nominee) - lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman - recorded by Melissa Manchester
- "It Goes Like It Goes" - lyrics by Norman Gimbel - recorded by Jennifer Warnes - (Academy Award winner)
- "Coffee, Black" - lyrics by Maltby - recorded by John Pizzarelli
- "Washington Square" - words and music (with Bob Goldstein) - recorded by The Village Stompers
See also[link]
References[link]
- ^ David Shire Biography (1937-)
- ^ IMDB awards
- ^ playbill.com article, July 13, 2007
- ^ film score monthly interview, June 2004
- ^ Rocky Mountain News, July 28, 2007
- ^ ticketmaster description of A Stream of Voices
- ^ Buffalo Philharmonic announcement
- ^ Dramatists Guild
- ^ I was the "Queen of Denial" about Autism CNN, April 1, 2009
- ^ Lortel listing
External links[link]
- Personal Website
- David Shire at the Internet Broadway Database
- David Shire at the Internet Movie Database
- Board of Advisors, The Buffalo Film Festival, Buffalo, NY, United States
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This article is about the biblical king. For other uses, see David (disambiguation).
"Daud", "Dawood", and "King David" redirect here. For other uses, see Daud (disambiguation), Dawood (disambiguation), and King David (disambiguation).
| King David | |
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| King of Israel | |
 Statue of David by Nicolas Cordier, in the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome |
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| Reign | over Judah c. 1010–1003 BC; over Judah and Israel c. 1003–970 BC |
| Born | c. 1040 BC |
| Birthplace | Bethlehem |
| Died | c. 970 BC |
| Place of death | Jerusalem |
| Predecessor | Saul (Judah), Ishbaal (Israel) |
| Successor | Solomon |
| Royal House | House of David (new house) |
| Father | Jesse |
| Mother | not named in the Bible; identified by the Talmud as Nitzevet, daughter of Adael |
David (Hebrew: דָּוִד, דָּוִיד, Modern David Tiberian Dāwîḏ; ISO 259-3 Dawid; Strong's Daveed; beloved; Arabic: داوود or داود [a] Dāwūd) was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the second king of the United Kingdom of Israel and, according to the Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Luke, an ancestor of Jesus. David is seen as a major Prophet in Islamic traditions. [1][2] His life is conventionally dated to c. 1040–970 BC, his reign over Judah c. 1010–1003 BC,[citation needed] and his reign over the United Kingdom of Israel c. 1003–970 BC.[citation needed] The Books of Samuel, 1 Kings, and 1 Chronicles are the only sources of information on David, although the Tel Dan stele records "House of David", which some take as confirmation of the existence in the mid-9th century BC of a Judean royal dynasty called the "House of David".
David is very important to Jewish, Christian and Islamic doctrine and culture. In Judaism, David, or David HaMelekh, is the King of Israel, and the Jewish people. Jewish tradition maintains that a direct descendant of David will be the Messiah. In Islam, he is known as Dawud, considered to be a prophet and the king of a nation. He is depicted as a righteous king, though not without faults, as well as an acclaimed warrior, musician, and poet, traditionally credited for composing many of the psalms contained in the Book of Psalms.
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Historicity[link]
Archaeological evidence[link]
Tel Dan Stele and Mesha Stele[link]
Main articles: Tel Dan Stele and Mesha Stele
A fragment of an Aramean victory stele discovered in 1993 at Tel Dan and dated c.850–835 BC contains the phrase ביתדוד (bytdwd). Because the ancient Aramaic script is written without vowels, different readings are possible. Scholars agree that the first part should be read בֵּית (beyt), meaning "house". However, the second part can be read as דּוֹד (dod), which means "uncle" or "beloved" or as דָּוִד (David). The phrase therefore can mean either "House of the beloved", "House of the uncle" or "House of David".[3] Since the stele recounts the victory of an Aramean king over "the king of Israel",[4] the translation of "ביתדוד" as "the House of David" is not illogical.[5][6]
The Mesha Stele from Moab, dating from approximately the same period, may also contain the name David, in two places: in line 12, where the interpretation is uncertain, and בת[ד]וד in line 31, where one destroyed letter must be supplied (here it is bracketed in the middle).[7] Kenneth Kitchen has proposed that an inscription of c. 945 BC by the Egyptian Pharaoh Shoshenq I mentions "the highlands of David."[8] Although a reference to King David in this geographical name is not certain, some scholars suggest it is reasonable.[9]
City of David and Judah, ca. 1000 BC onward[link]
Main article: City of David
The Bronze and Iron Age remains of the City of David, the original urban core of Jerusalem identified with the reigns of David and Solomon, were investigated extensively in the 1970s and 1980s under the direction of Yigal Shiloh of the Hebrew University, but failed to discover significant evidence of occupation during the 10th century BC,[10] In 2005, Eilat Mazar found a Large Stone Structure which she claimed was David's palace, but the archaeology is contaminated and impossible to date accurately.[11][12] Finkelstein and Silberman feel the archaeological evidence from surface surveys indicates that Judah at the time of David was a small tribal kingdom, although both do accept that David and Solomon were likely historical figures in Judah about the 10th century BC. They describe the earliest tales of David as a "classical bandit tale".[13]
The biblical account[link]
The biblical account about David comes from the book of Samuel and the book of Chronicles (each of which are divided into two books in Jewish and Christian traditions). While almost half of the Psalms are headed "A Psalm of David", the headings are later additions, and no psalm can be attributed to David with certainty.[14] Chronicles merely retells Samuel from a different theological vantage point, and contains little if any information not available there, and the biblical evidence for David is therefore dependent almost exclusively on the material contained in the chapters from 1 Samuel 16 to 1 Kings 2.
Since Martin Noth put forward his analysis of the Deuteronomistic History, biblical scholars have accepted that these two books form part of a continuous history of Israel, compiled no earlier than the late 7th century BC, but incorporating earlier works and fragments. Samuel's account of David "seems to have undergone two separate acts of editorial slanting." The original writers show a strong bias against Saul, and in favour of David and Solomon. Many years later the Deuteronomists edited the material in a manner that conveyed their religious message, inserting reports and anecdotes that strengthened their monotheistic doctrine. Some of the materials in Samuel I and II — notably the boundary, allotment and administrative lists — are believed to be very early, since they correspond closely to what we know of the territorial conditions of the late Davidic-early Solomonic period.[15]
Beyond this, the full range of possible interpretations is available. The late John Bright, whose History of Israel, which went through four editions from 1959 to 2000, takes Samuel at face value, but Donald B. Redford thinks all reconstructions from Biblical sources for the United Monarchy period are examples of 'academic wishful thinking',[16] and Thomas L. Thompson measures Samuel against the archaeological evidence and concludes that "an independent history of Judea during the Iron I [i.e., the period of David] and Iron II periods has little room for historicizing readings of the stories of I-II Samuel and I Kings."[17] Some interesting studies of David have been written: Baruch Halpern has pictured David as a lifelong vassal of Achish, the Philistine king of Gath;[18] Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman have identified as the oldest and most reliable section of Samuel those chapters which describe David as the charismatic leader of a band of outlaws who captures Jerusalem and makes it his capital.[19] Steven McKenzie, Associate Professor of the Hebrew Bible at Rhodes College and author of King David: A Biography, states the belief that David actually came from a wealthy family, was "ambitious and ruthless" and a tyrant who murdered his opponents, including his own sons.[14]
Biblical narrative[link]
Chosen by God[link]
God withdraws his favour from Saul, king of Israel, "It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king, for he is turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments."[20] The prophet Samuel seeks a new king from the sons of Jesse of Bethlehem. Seven of Jesse's sons are led before Samuel, but Samuel says, "Yahweh has not chosen these." "And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither. And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he."[21]
At the court of Saul[link]
God sends an evil spirit to torment Saul (1 Samuel 16:14) and his attendants suggest he send for David, a young warrior famed for his bravery and for his skill with the harp. Saul does so and makes David one of his armor-bearers and "whenever the spirit from God came upon Saul, David would take his harp and play. Then relief would come to Saul; he would feel better, and the evil spirit would leave him."
David and Goliath[link]
The Israelites, under King Saul, faced the Philistines in the Valley of Elah. He heard the Philistine giant Goliath challenge the Israelites to send their own champion to decide the outcome in single combat. David told Saul he was prepared to face Goliath and Saul allowed him to make the attempt. He was victorious, striking Goliath in the forehead with a stone from his sling. Goliath fell, and David killed him with his own sword and beheaded him; the Philistines fled in terror. Saul inquired about the name of the young champion, and David told him that he is the son of Jesse.[22]
David and Jonathan[link]
Main article: David and Jonathan
Saul makes David a commander over his armies and offers him his daughter Michal in marriage for bringing more than 200 foreskins of the Philistines to him. David is successful in many battles, and his popularity awakes Saul's fears — "What more can he have but the kingdom?" By various stratagems the jealous king seeks his death, but the plots only endear David the more to the people, and especially to Saul's son Jonathan, who loves David (1 Samuel 18:1, 2 Samuel 1:25–26).[23][24] Warned by Jonathan, David flees into the wilderness, where he gathers a band of followers and becomes the champion of the oppressed while evading the pursuit of Saul. He accepts the town of Ziklag from the Philistine king Achish of Gath, but continues secretly to champion the Israelites. Achish marches against Saul, but David is excused from the war on the accusation of the Philistine nobles that his loyalty to their cause cannot be trusted.
Anointed king[link]
Jonathan and Saul are killed in battle with the Philistines at Mount Gilboa. David mourns their deaths, especially that of Jonathan, his friend. He goes up to Hebron, where he is anointed king over Judah. In the north, Saul's son Ish-Bosheth becomes king of the tribes of Israel. War ensues between Ish-Bosheth and David, until Ish-Bosheth is murdered. The assassins bring the head of Ish-Bosheth to David hoping for a reward, but David executes them for their crime against the Lord's anointed. Yet with the death of the son of Saul, the elders of Israel come to Hebron and David, who is 30 years old, is anointed King over Israel and Judah.[25]
Jerusalem and the Davidic Covenant[link]
David conquers the Jebusite fortress of Jerusalem, and makes it his capital, and "Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, also carpenters and masons who built David a house." David brings the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem, intending to build a temple, but God, speaking to the prophet Nathan, is pleased, saying the temple will be built. God makes a covenant with David, promising that he will establish the house of David : "Your throne shall be established forever."
With God's help, David is victorious over his people's enemies. The Philistines are subdued, the Moabites to the east pay tribute, along with Hadadezer of Zobah, from whom David takes gold shields and bronze vessels.[26]
Bathsheba and Uriah the Hittite[link]
David commits adultery with Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah the Hittite.[27] Bathsheba becomes pregnant. David sends for Uriah, who is with the Israelite army at the siege of Rabbah, so that he may lie with his wife and conceal the identity of the child's father. Uriah refuses to do so while his companions are in the field of battle and David sends him back to Joab, the commander, with a message instructing him to abandon Uriah on the battlefield, "that he may be struck down, and die." David marries Bathsheba and she bears his child, "but the thing that David had done displeased the Lord."[28] The prophet Nathan confronts David, saying: "Why have you despised the word of God, to do what is evil in his sight? You have smitten Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife." Nathan presents three punishments from God for this sin. First, that the "sword shall never depart from your house" (2 Samuel 12:10) second, that "Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you, and he will sleep with your wives in broad daylight. 12 You did it in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel., (2 Samuel 12:12) and finally, that "the son born to you will die."2 Samuel 12:14 David repents, yet God "struck the [David's] child ... and it became sick ... [And] on the seventh day the child died." David leaves his lamentations, dresses himself, goes to the House of the Lord and worships, and then returns home to eat. His servants ask why he wept when the baby was alive, but ends his mourning when the child dies. David replies: "While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept. I thought, 'Who knows? The LORD may be gracious to me and let the child live.' But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me."2 Samuel 12:22–23
David's son Absalom rebels[link]
David's son Absalom rebels against his father, and they come to battle in the Wood of Ephraim. Absalom is caught by his hair in the branches of an oak and David’s general Joab kills him as he hangs there.[29] When the news of the victory is brought to David, he does not rejoice, but is instead shaken with grief: "O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!"[30]
Old age[link]
When David has become old and bedridden, Adonijah, his eldest surviving son and natural heir, declares himself king and worthy to marry Abishag. Bathsheba, David's favorite wife, and Nathan the prophet, fearing that they will be killed by Adonijah, go to David and procure his agreement that Solomon, Bathsheba's son, should sit on the throne. And so the plans of Adonijah collapse, and Solomon becomes king.[31] It is to Solomon that David gives his final instructions, including his promise that the line of Solomon and David will inherit the throne of Judah forever, and his request that Solomon kill his oldest enemies on his behalf.[32] David dies and is buried in the City of David, having ruled forty years over Israel, seven in Hebron and thirty-three in Jerusalem.
Religious view[link]
Judaism[link]
| King David the Prophet | |
|---|---|
 King David in Prayer, by Pieter de Grebber (c. 1640) |
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| Holy Monarch, Prophet, Reformer, Spiritual Poet & Musician, Vicegerent of God, Psalm-Receiver | |
| Born | c. 1040 B.C.E. Bethlehem |
| Died | c. 970 B.C.E. Jerusalem |
| Honored in | Judaism Christianity Islam |
| Attributes | Psalms, Harp, Head of Goliath |
David is an important figure in Judaism. Historically, David's reign represented the formation of a coherent Jewish kingdom centered in Jerusalem. David is an important figure within the context of Jewish messianism. In the Hebrew Bible, it is written that a human descendant of David will occupy the throne of a restored kingdom and usher in a messianic age.
David is also viewed as a tragic figure; his acquisition of Bathsheba, and the loss of his son are viewed as his central tragedies.
Many legends have grown around the figure of David. According to one Rabbinic tradition, David was raised as the son of his father Jesse and spent his early years herding his father's sheep in the wilderness while his brothers were in school. Only at his anointing by Samuel – when the oil from Samuel's flask turned to diamonds and pearls – was his true identity as Jesse's son revealed.
David's adultery with Bathsheba was only an opportunity to demonstrate the power of repentance, and some Talmudic authors stated that it was not adultery at all, quoting a Jewish practice of divorce on the eve of battle. However, in tractate Sanhedrin, David's broken heart pleads and numerous actions for forgiveness are discussed, God ultimately forgives but would not remove his sins from Scripture.[33]
Furthermore, according to David's apologists, the death of Uriah was not to be considered murder, on the basis that Uriah had committed a capital offence by refusing to obey a direct command from the King.[34]
According to midrashim, Adam gave up 70 years of his life for the life of David.[35] Also, according to the Talmud Yerushalmi, David was born and died on the Jewish holiday of Shavuot (Feast of Weeks). His piety was said to be so great that his prayers could bring down things from Heaven.
Christianity[link]
See also: Genealogy of Jesus
The concept of the Messiah is important in Christianity. Originally an earthly king ruling by divine appointment ("the anointed one", as the title Messiah had it), the "son of David" became in the last two pre-Christian centuries the apocalyptic and heavenly one who would deliver Israel and usher in a new kingdom. This was the background to the concept of Messiahship in early Christianity, which interpreted the career of Jesus "by means of the titles and functions assigned to David in the mysticism of the Zion cult, in which he served as priest-king and in which he was the mediator between God and man."[36] The early Church believed that "the life of David [foreshadowed] the life of Christ; Bethlehem is the birthplace of both; the shepherd life of David points out Christ, the Good Shepherd; the five stones chosen to slay Goliath are typical of the five wounds; the betrayal by his trusted counsellor, Achitophel, and the passage over the Cedron remind us of Christ's Sacred Passion. Many of the Davidic Psalms, as we learn from the New Testament, are clearly typical of the future Messiah."[37] In the Middle Ages, "Charlemagne thought of himself, and was viewed by his court scholars, as a 'new David'. [This was] not in itself a new idea, but [one whose] content and significance were greatly enlarged by him."[38] The linking of David to earthly kingship was reflected in later Medieval cathedral windows all over Europe through the device of the Tree of Jesse, its branches demonstrating how divine kingship descended from Jesse, through his son David, to Jesus.
Western Rite churches (Roman Catholic, Lutheran) celebrate his feast day on 29 December, Eastern-rite on 19 December.[39] The Eastern Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholic Churches celebrate the feast day of the "Holy Righteous Prophet and King David" on the Sunday of the Holy Forefathers (two Sundays before the Great Feast of the Nativity of the Lord), when he is commemorated together with other ancestors of Jesus. He is also commemorated on the Sunday after the Nativity, together with Joseph and James, the Brother of the Lord.
Mormonism[link]
The Doctrine and Covenants of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints cites David as one directed by God to practice polygamy, but who sinned in committing adultery with Bathsheba and having Uriah killed.[40]
Islam[link]
Main article Islamic view of David
David (Arabic داود, Dāwūd) is a highly important figure in Islam as one of the major prophets sent by God to guide the Israelites. David is mentioned several times in the Qur'an, often with his son Solomon. In the Qur'an: David killed Goliath (II: 251), Goliath was a powerful king who used to invade random kingdoms and villages. Goliath was spreading evil and corruption. When David killed Goliath, God granted him kingship and wisdom and enforces it (XXXVIII: 20). David is made God's "vicegerent on earth" (XXXVIII: 26) and God further gives David sound judgment (XXI: 78; XXXVII: 21–24, 26) as well as the Psalms, which are regarded as books of divine wisdom (IV: 163; XVII, 55). The birds and mountains unite with David in ushering praise to God (XXI: 79; XXXIV: 10; XXXVIII: 18), while God instructs David in the art of fashioning chain-mail out of iron (XXXIV: 10; XXI: 80). Together with Solomon, David gives judgment in a case of damage to the fields (XXI: 78) and David judges in the matter between two disputants in his prayer chamber (XXXVIII: 21–23). Since there is no mention in the Qur'an of the wrong David did to Uriah nor is there any reference to Bathsheba, Muslims reject this narrative.[41]
Muslim tradition and the hadith stress David's zeal in daily prayer[42] as well as in fasting. Qur'an commentators, historians and compilers of the numerous Stories of the Prophets elaborate upon David's concise Qur'anic narratives and specifically mention David's gift in singing his Psalms as well as his musical and vocal talents. His voice is described as having had a captivating power, weaving its influence not only over man but over all beasts and nature, who would unite with him to praise God.[43]
Baha'i Faith[link]
David is described as a minor prophet who came in the shadow of the dispensation of Moses to develop and consolidate the process he set in motion.[44]
Succession[link]
Genealogy[link]
According to Genesis 46:12 and Ruth 4:18–22, David is the eleventh[45] generation from Judah, the fourth son of the patriarch Jacob (Israel). The genealogical line runs as follows: (1) Judah → (2) Pharez → (3) Hezron → (4) Ram → (5) Amminadab → (6) Nahshon → (7) Salmon → (8) Boaz (the husband of Ruth) → (9) Obed → (10) Jesse → (11) David.[45]
Family[link]
David was born in Bethlehem, in the territory of the Tribe of Judah. His father was named Jesse. His mother is not named in the Bible, but the Talmud identifies her as Nitzevet daughter of Adael.[46] David had seven brothers and was the youngest of them all. He had eight wives: Michal, the second daughter of King Saul; Ahinoam the Jezreelite; Abigail the Carmelite, previously wife of Nabal;[47] Maachah, daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur; Haggith; Abital; Eglah; and Bathsheba, previously the wife of Uriah the Hittite.
The Book of Chronicles lists David's sons by various wives and concubines. In Hebron he had six sons 1 Chronicles 3:1–3: Amnon, by Ahinoam; Daniel, by Abigail; Absalom, by Maachah; Adonijah, by Haggith; Shephatiah, by Abital; and Ithream, by Eglah. By Bathsheba, his sons were: Shammua; Shobab; Nathan; and Solomon. His sons born in Jerusalem by other wives included: Ibhar; Elishua; Eliphelet; Nogah; Nepheg; Japhia; Elishama; and Eliada. 2 Samuel 5:14–16 According to 2 Chronicles 11:18, Jerimoth, who is not mentioned in any of the genealogies, is mentioned as another of David's sons. According to 2 Samuel 9:11, David adopted Jonathan's son Mephibosheth as his own.
David also had at least one daughter, Tamar by Maachah, who was raped by Amnon, her half-brother. Her rape leads to Amnon's death. 2 Samuel 13:1–29 Absalom, Amnon's half-brother and Tamar's full-brother, waits two years, then avenges his sister by sending his servants to kill Amnon at a feast to which he had invited all the king's sons. 2 Samuel 13
Legend and legacy[link]
In European Christian culture of the Middle Ages, David was made a member of the Nine Worthies, a group of heroes encapsulating all the ideal qualities of chivalry. His life was thus proposed as a valuable subject for study by those aspiring to chivalric status. This aspect of David in the Nine Worthies was popularised firstly through literature, and was thereafter adopted as a frequent subject for painters and sculptors.
The musician[link]
See also: History of music in the Biblical period
In various biblical passages, David is referred to as “the favorite of the songs of Israel,”[48] the one who soothed Saul with music,[49] and the founder of Temple singing.[50][51] A Psalms scroll from the Dead Sea Scrolls (11QPsa) attributes 3600 tehilim (songs of praise) plus other compositions to David.[52] Seventy-three of the 150 Psalms in the Bible are attributed to David.[53] The supreme kingship of Yahweh is the most pervasive theological concept in the book of Psalms,[54][55] and many psalms attributed to David are directed to Yahweh by name,[56] whether in praise or petition, suggesting a relationship.[57] According to the Midrash Tehillim, King David was prompted to the Psalms by the Holy Spirit that rested upon him.[58]
In addition to ascribing authorship to David, several Psalms are identified with specific events in David’s life.[59] Psalm 34 is attributed to David on the occasion of his escape from the Abimelech (king) Achish by pretending to be insane.[60] According to the narrative in 1 Samuel 21, instead of killing the man who had exacted so many casualties from him, Abimelech allows David to depart, exclaiming, “Am I so short of madmen that you have to bring this fellow here to carry on like this in front of me? Must this man come into my house?"[61] Psalm 34 is one of seven acrostic Psalms in the original Hebrew; most English translations do not retain the acrostic form.[62] The first part of Psalm 34 is directed toward Yahweh in complete and humble gratitude (David does not even mention his own royal status); the second part confidently directs others to Yahweh.[63]
This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them … Come, O children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
— Psalm 34:6–7,11 (ESV)
In contrast, Psalm 18 is not related to a specific incident but rather to God’s faithful deliverance from “all of his enemies and from the hand of Saul.”[64][65] The text of this Psalm was thought to date to the 10th century BC even before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls[66] and is very similar to that of 2 Samuel 22.[67] In this Psalm, David recalls being in deadly situations: “The cords of death entangled me, the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me.”[68] He cries out to God for help, and God rescues David.
I love you, O LORD, my strength. The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge. He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I call to the LORD, who is worthy of praise, and I am saved from my enemies.
— Psalm 18:1–3 (NIV)
The Scottish theologian Samuel Rutherford (1600–1661) notes that crying out to God is mentioned in many Psalms attributed to David.[69] He comments, “Fervour is a heavenly ingredient in prayer. An arrow drawn with full strength hath a speedier issue.” [70] The Midrash Tehillim teaches from Psalm 4 “that the mere mechanical application to the Throne of Mercy is not efficacious is plainly seen from the words of King David, who says God is nigh to all that call upon Him, and … he adds the important words, 'to those who call upon Him in truth.'”[71]
According to Psalm 40, David’s cries to God were heartfelt though not necessarily impatient; the poignant combination of a cry for help with a confident expression of faith echo today in the song “40” by the rock group U2 and that encapsulates David’s experience with his God:
I waited patiently for the LORD; he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand. He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear and put their trust in the LORD.
— Psalm 40:1–3 (NIV)
Representation in art and literature[link]
Art[link]
Famous sculptures of David include (in chronological order) those by:
- Donatello (c. 1430 – 1440), David (Donatello)
- Andrea del Verrocchio (1476), David (Verrocchio)
- Michelangelo (1504), David (Michelangelo)
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1624), David (Bernini)
- Antonin Mercié (1873)
Literature[link]
- Dryden's long poem Absalom and Achitophel is an allegory that uses the story of the rebellion of Absalom against King David as the basis for his satire of the contemporary political situation, including events such as the Monmouth Rebellion (1685), the Popish Plot (1678) and the Exclusion Crisis.
- Elmer Davis's novel Giant Killer (1928, The John Day company) retells and embellishes the Biblical story of David, casting David as primarily a poet who managed always to find others to do the "dirty work" of heroism and kingship. In the novel, Elhanan in fact killed Goliath but David claimed the credit; and Joab, David's cousin and general, took it upon himself to make many of the difficult decisions of war and statecraft when David vacillated or wrote poetry instead.
- Gladys Schmitt wrote a novel titled "David the King" (1946, Doubleday Books) which proceeds as a richly embellished biography of David's entire life. The book took a risk, especially for its time, in portraying David's relationship with Jonathan as overtly homoerotic, but was ultimately panned by critics as a bland rendition of the title character.
- In Thomas Burnett Swann's Biblical fantasy novel How are the Mighty Fallen (1974, DAW), David and Jonathan are explicitly stated to be lovers. Moreover, Jonathan is a member of a winged semi-human race (possibly nephilim), one of several such races co-existing with humanity but often persecuted by it.
- Joseph Heller wrote a novel based on David, God Knows (1984, Simon & Schuster). Told from the perspective of an aging David, the humanity — rather than the heroism — of various biblical characters is emphasized. The portrayal of David as a man of flaws such as greed, lust, selfishness, and his alienation from God, the falling apart of his family is a distinctly 20th century interpretation of the events told in the Bible.
- Juan Bosch, Dominican political leader and writer, wrote "David: Biography of a King" (1966, Hawthorn, NY) a realistic approach to David's life and political career.
- Allan Massie wrote "King David" (1996, Sceptre), a novel about David's career which portrays the king's relationship to Jonathan and others as openly homosexual.
- Madeleine L'Engle's novel Certain Women (1993, HarperOne) explores family, the Christian faith, and the nature of God through the story of King David's family and an analogous modern family's saga.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle used the story of David and Bathsheba as the main structure for the Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Crooked Man. The betrayal of the Crooked Man is paralleled with David's betrayal of Uriah the Hittite, carried out in order to win Bathsheba.
- Stefan Heym's "The King David Report" (1998, Northwestern University Press) is a fiction depicting the writings of the Bible historian Ethan, upon King Solomon's orders, of a true and authoritative report on the life of David, Son of Jesse.
- Malachi Martin's 1980 factional novel King of Kings: A Novel of the Life of David relates the life of David, Adonai's champion in his battle with the Philistine deity Dagon.
- William Faulkner's "Absalom, Absalom!"(1936) refers to the story of Absalom, David's son; his rebellion against his father and his death at the hands of David's general, Joab. In addition it parallels Absalom's vengeance for the rape of his sister Tamar by his half-brother, Amnon.
- Dan Jacobson's The Rape of Tamar (1970) is an imagined account, by one of David's courtiers Yonadab, of the rape of Tamar by Amnon.
Film[link]
- Gregory Peck played King David in the 1951 film David and Bathsheba, directed by Henry King. Susan Hayward played Bathsheba and Raymond Massey played the prophet Nathan.
- Jeff Chandler played David in the 1960 film A Story of David
- Finlay Currie played an aged King David in the 1959 film Solomon and Sheba, directed by King Vidor. Yul Brynner played Solomon and Gina Lollobrigida played the Queen of Sheba.
- Richard Gere portrayed King David in the 1985 film King David directed by Bruce Beresford.
Music[link]
- Josquin des Prez's Planxit autem David is a polyphonic setting of 2 Samuel Chapter I verses 17–27, David's lamentation for the dead Saul and Jonathan. His Absalon fili mi is a polyphonic lamentation from David's perspective on the death of his son.
- George Frideric Handel's oratorio Saul features David as one of its main characters
- Arthur Honegger's oratorio Le Roi David ('King David'), with a libretto by Rene Morax, was composed in 1921 and instantly became a staple of the choral repertoire; it is still widely performed.
- Leonard Cohen's song "Hallelujah" has references to David ("there was a secret chord that David played and it pleased the Lord", "The baffled king composing Hallelujah") and Bathsheba ("you saw her bathing on the roof") in its opening verses.
- "Mad About You", a song on Sting's 1991 album The Soul Cages, explores David's obsession with Bathsheba from David's perspective.
- Dead by the Pixies is a retelling of David's adultery and repentance.
- Herbert Howells (1892–1983) composed an artsong for voice and piano called "King David".
- Eric Whitacre composed a choral piece, "When David Heard," chronicling the death of Absalom and David's grief over losing his son.
Musical theater[link]
- King David, a modern oratorio, with a book and lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Alan Menken.
Television[link]
- Nathaniel Parker portrayed King David in the 1997 TV film David, with Leonard Nimoy as Samuel and Jonathan Pryce as Saul.
- Max von Sydow portrayed an older King David in the TV film Solomon, a sequel to David above, with Ben Cross as Solomon.
- In 2009, NBC introduced the series Kings, which was explicitly designed as a modern retelling of the David story.
- In the PBS television series Wishbone the episode "Little Big Dog" recounts the story of David, his favor with Saul, and his triumphant battle over Goliath.
- The season two episode of Xena: Warrior Princess "Giant Killer" features David and his killing of Goliath.
Trivia[link]
For a considerable period, starting in the 15th century and continuing until the 19th, French playing card manufacturers assigned to each of the court cards names taken from history or mythology.[72][73] In this context, the King of Spades was often known as "David".
See also[link]
- David and Jonathan
- King David's Palace site
- King David's Tomb
- Midrash Shmuel (aggadah)
- Passover songs
- Tel Arad
Notes[link]
- ^ داود is the traditional Koranic spelling without vocalization. In Modern Standard Arabic, it is normally written داوود.
- ^ Luke 3:23-38
- ^ Matthew 1:1-17
- ^ *Mykytiuk, Lawrence J. (2004). "Identifying Biblical Persons in Northwest Semitic Inscriptions of 1200–539 B.C.E." Atlanta, Ga.: Society of Biblical Literature. See pp. 110–132 and 265–277. "If the reading of בֵּיתדָּוִד [House of David] on the Tel Dan stele is correct, (...) then we have solid evidence that a 9th-century BC Aramean king considered the founder of the Judean dynasty to be a ruler named דָּוִד [David]. P. 132 states that "Although interpreters are free to favor possibilities . . . other than "the house of David," these other meanings remain largely theoretical, rather than demonstrable."
- ^ Tel Dan Stele
- ^ Biran, Avraham and Naveh, J. "An Aramaic Stele Fragment From Tel Dan." Israel Exploration Journal 43 (1993).
- ^ Picking Abraham and Choosing David, Christopher Heard, Associate Professor of Religion at Pepperdine University. See also Israeli journalist Daniel Gavron's King David and Jerusalem – Myth and Reality for a useful overview.
- ^ Mykytiuk, Lawrence J. (2004). "Identifying Biblical Persons in Northwest Semitic Inscriptions of 1200–539 B.C.E." (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature), pp. 265–279.
- ^ K. A. Kitchen, "A Possible Mention of David in the Late Tenth Century BC, and Deity *Dod as Dead as the Dodo?" Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 76 (1997): 29–44, especially 39–41.
- ^ Lawrence J. Mykytiuk (2009). "Corrections and Updates to 'Identifying Biblical Persons in Northwest Semitic Inscriptions of 1200—539 B.C.E.". http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lib_research/129/. "this geographical name was inscribed within 45 years or less after the biblical time of King David's death and sees a parallel to another geographic name, "the city of David," in 2 Sam 5:7,9; 6:10, etc.; 1 Kgs 2:10, etc.; Isa 22:9; 1 Chr 11:5,7, etc. pages 119-121"
- ^ See David Ussishkin, "Solomon's Jerusalem: The Text and the Facts on the Ground," in: A.G. Vaughn and A.E. Killebrew (eds.), Jerusalem in Bible and Archaeology: The First Temple Period, (Society of Biblical Literature, Symposium Series, No. 18), Atlanta, 2003, pp. 103–115. See also Cahill, J., "David's Jerusalem, Fiction or Reality? The Archaeological Evidence Proves It," and Steiner, M., "David's Jerusalem, Fiction or Reality? It's Not There: Archaeology Proves a Negative," both in Biblical Archaeology Review 24 (July/August 1998). (These two scholars argue opposite sides of the case for a Jerusalem in keeping with the biblical portrayal).
- ^ Rossner, Rena (January 26, 2006). "The once and future city". The Jerusalem Post. http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1137605923369&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull. Retrieved November 15, 2009. "In August 2005, corroborating her conclusions with biblical verses, Mazar announced that she had found King David's palace."
- ^ See Eilat Mazar, "Did I find David's Temple?" in Biblical Archeology Review, Jan/Feb 2006
- ^ Finkelstein, Israel; Neil Asher SilbermanDavid and Solomon: In Search of the Bible's Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition Simon & Schuster Ltd (16 October 2006) ISBN 978-0-7432-4362-9 p32
- ^ a b Steven McKenzie, Associate Professor Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee.
- ^ Norman K. Gottwald, Tribes of Yahweh: A Sociology of the Religion of Liberated Israel, 1250–1050 BCE, Continuum 1999 pp.156–157, p.162.
- ^ Donald B. Redford, Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times, Princeton University Press, 1992 pp.301–307, p.301.
- ^ "A View from Copenhagen", Thomas L. Thompson, Professor of Old Testament, Copenhagen University.
- ^ Baruch Halpern, "David's Secret Demons", 2001.Review of Baruch Halpern's "David's Secret Demons".
- ^ Finkelstein and Silberman, "David and Solomon", 2006. See review "Archaeology" magazine.
- ^ 1 Samuel 15:11
- ^ 1 Samuel 16:10-12
- ^ 1 Samuel 17:1–58.
- ^ 2&src=Samuel 1 Samuel 18:1, 2
- ^ See David and Jonathan. There is debate amongst some scholars on whether this relationship might have been platonic, romantic or sexual. The Hebrew word 'ahav, meaning "love," has a very broad range of meanings, including simply the opposite of "hate" (The New Brown-Driver-Briggs-Gesenius Hebrew and English Lexicon [1978], p. 12), which can be shown by loyalty, as in 1 Samuel 18:16, "All Israel and Judah loved David, because he led them in their campaigns." Boswell, John. Same-sex Unions in Premodern Europe. New York: Vintage, 1994; Martti Nissinen, Homoeroticism in the Biblical World, Minneapolis, 1998; When Heroes Love:. The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David (New York & Chichester, Columbia University Press, 2005); Homosexuality and Liminality in the Gilgamesh and Samuel (Amsterdam, Hakkert, 2007); Gagnon, The Bible and Homosexual Practice. Texts and Hermeneutics (Nashville, Abingdon Press, 2001); Markus Zehnder, "Observations on the Relationship Between David and Jonathan and the Debate on Homosexuality", Westminster Theological Journal 69 (2007) Nevertheless, the Biblical narrative depicts their relationship favourably.
- ^ 2 Samuel 5
- ^ BibleGateway.com 2 Samuel 8:7
- ^ Stassen, Glen Harold & Gushee, David P. Kingdom ethics: following Jesus in contemporary context, InterVarsity Press, 2003. p. 200.
- ^ 2 Samuel 11
- ^ 2Samuel 18:14–15
- ^ 2 Samuel 18:33, King James Version
- ^ 1 Kings 1
- ^ 1 Kings 2
- ^ Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin. pp. 107a.
- ^ Jewish Encyclopedia, "David"
- ^ Zohar Bereishis 91b
- ^ "David" article from Encyclopædia Britannica Online
- ^ John Corbett (1911) King David The Catholic Encyclopedia (New York: Robert Appleton Company)
- ^ Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity,
- ^ Saint of the Day for December 29 at St. Patrick Catholic Church, Washington, D.C.
- ^ Doctrine and Covenants 132:1, 38–39 (see highlighted portions).
- ^ A-Z of Prophets in Islam and Judaism, Wheeler, David
- ^ Encyclopedia of Islam, Dawud
- ^ Stories of the Prophets, Ibn Kathir, Story of David
- ^ Cole, Juan (1982). "The Concept of Manifestation in the Bahá'í Writings". Bahá'í Studies monograph 9: 1–38. http://bahai-library.com/cole_concept_manifestation.
- ^ a b Note, 'eleventh' – counting Judah as first – like the example in the book of Jude where Enoch is said to be the 'seventh from Adam', which makes Adam first. Jude 1:14
- ^ Talmud Tractate Bava Batra 91a
- ^ |1|Samuel|25
- ^ 2 Samuel 23:1
- ^ 1 Samuel 16:17–23
- ^ 2 Chronicles 23:18
- ^ Nehemiah 12:24,36, 45–46
- ^ Introduction to Psalms (pp. 1280, 1281), The Jewish Study Bible, Tanakh Translation. Berlin, Adele; Brettler, Marc Zvi; Fishbane, Michael, eds. Jewish Publication Society, New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-529751-2
- ^ "David" and "Psalms, Book of," New Bible Dictionary, second edition,1982. Douglas, J.D. (organizing editor), Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale Press. ISBN 0-8423-4667-8
- ^ Introduction to Psalms (p. 1013), NIV Study Bible,1995. Barker, Kenneth, Burdick, Donald; Stek John; Wessel, Walter; Youngblood, Ronald, eds. Zondervan. Grand Rapids, MI, USA ISBN 0-310-92709-9
- ^ "Psalms, Book of," New Bible Dictionary, second edition,1982. Douglas, J.D. (organizing editor), Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale Press. ISBN 0-8423-4667-8
- ^ "Psalms, Book of", New Bible Dictionary, second edition,1982. Douglas, J.D. (organizing editor), Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale Press. ISBN 0-8423-4667-8
- ^ Introduction to Psalms (p. 1284), The Jewish Study Bible, Tanakh Translation, 2004. Berlin, Adele; Brettler, Marc Zvi; Fishbane, Michael, eds. Jewish Publication Society, New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-529751-2
- ^ Midrash Psalms 24 read online
- ^ Psalms 3, 7, 18, 34, 51, 52, 54, 56, 57, 59, 60, 63 and 142, Commentary on II Samuel 22, The Anchor Bible, Vol. 9. II Samuel. P. Kyle McCarter, Jr., 1984. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-06808-5
- ^ Psalm 34, Interlinear NIV Hebrew-English Old Testament. Kohlenberger, J.R, 1987. Grand Rapids, Michigan:Zondervan Publishing House ISBN 0-310-40200-X
- ^ 1 Samuel 21:15 (NIV)
- ^ Explanatory Notes on Psalm 34, ‘’Treasury of David’’ (1885), Charles H. Spurgeon, Hendrickson Publishers, 1988. ISBN 0-917006-25-9 read online
- ^ Commentary on Psalm 34, The Jewish Study Bible, Tanakh Translation. Berlin, Adele; Brettler, Marc Zvi; Fishbane, Michael, eds. Jewish Publication Society, New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-529751-2
- ^ Commentary on II Samuel 22, The Anchor Bible, Vol. 9: II Samuel. P. Kyle McCarter, Jr., 1984. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-06808-5
- ^ Commentary on Psalm 18: The Anchor Bible, Vol. 16. Psalms I. Mitchell Dahood, 1995. New York:Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-52250-9
- ^ Feinberg, Charles Lee, Th.D., Ph.D., 1947. The Date of the Psalms. Bibliotheca Sacra 104: 426–40 Dallas Theological Seminary Department of Semitics and Old Testament, p. 429 read online
- ^ 2 Samuel 22 and Psalm 18, Interlinear NIV Hebrew-English Old Testament. Kohlenberger, J.R, 1987. Grand Rapids, Michigan:Zondervan Publishing House ISBN 0-310-40200-X
- ^ Psalm 18:4 (NIV)
- ^ For example, “At noon, will I pray, and cry aloud” Ps 55:17. “In my distress I cried to the LORD” Ps 18:6. “Unto thee have I cried, O LORD” Ps 88:13. “Out of the depths have I cried” Ps 130:1. “Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock” Ps 28:1.
- ^ quoted in Explanatory Notes on Psalm 34, ‘’Treasury of David’’ (1885), Charles H. Spurgeon, Hendrickson Publishers, 1988. ISBN 0-917006-25-9 read online
- ^ Midrash Psalms 4, emphasis is in the source. read online
- ^ "The Four King Truth" at the Urban Legends Reference Pages
- ^ "Courts on playing cards", by David Madore, with illustrations of the Anglo-American and French court cards
References[link]
Translations of 1 and 2 Samuel[link]
- Samuel 1 and 2 at Bible Gateway
- Kirsch, Jonathan (2000) King David: the real life of the man who ruled Israel. Ballantine. ISBN 0-345-43275-4.
- See also the entry "David" in Easton's Bible Dictionary.
- Dever, William G. (2001) What did the Bible writers know and when did they know it? William B. Eerdmans Publ. Co., Cambridge UK.
- Thiele, E.R. (1983). The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings. Eerdmans. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Wx4GsZH3dzAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Mysterious+Numbers+of+the+Hebrew+Kings&hl=en&ei=QaveTrDtNuOeiAfcycCqBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Mysterious%20Numbers%20of%20the%20Hebrew%20Kings&f=false.
Commentaries on Samuel[link]
- Auld, Graeme (2003). "1 & 2 Samuel". In James D. G. Dunn and John William Rogerson. Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible. Eerdmans. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2Vo-11umIZQC&pg=PA213&lpg=PA213&dq=There+are+two+common+types+of+strategy+for+reading+the+books+of+Samuel#v=onepage&q=There%20are%20two%20common%20types%20of%20strategy%20for%20reading%20the%20books%20of%20Samuel&f=false.
- Bergen, David T. (1996). 1, 2 Samuel. B&H Publishing Group. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=eGT6fWsajqcC&pg=PA49&dq=I+%26+II+Samuel:+a+commentary+Gordon&cad=3#v=onepage&q=I%20%26%20II%20Samuel%3A%20a%20commentary%20Gordon&f=false.
- Gordon, Robert (1986). I & II Samuel, A Commentary. Paternoster Press. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=JMJ1ZAnswuUC&pg=PA338&lpg=PA338&dq=I+%26+II+Samuel:+a+commentary+Gordon#v=onepage&q&f=false.
- Hertzberg, Hans Wilhelm (1964, trans. from German 2nd edition 1960). I & II Samuel, A Commentary. Westminster John Knox Press. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=friNN7IdjOIC&pg=PA11&lpg=PA11&dq=I+%26+II+Samuel:+a+commentary+Hans+Wilhelm+Hertzberg#v=onepage&q&f=false.
- Tsumura, Hans Wilhelm (2007). The First book of Samuel. Eerdmans. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=iLKAlhLDkMwC&pg=PA103&lpg=PA103&dq=The+First+book+of+Samuel+Tsumura#v=onepage&q&f=false.
General[link]
- Breytenbach, Andries (2000). "Who Is Behind The Samuel Narrative?". In Johannes Cornelis de Moor and H.F. Van Rooy. Past, present, future: the Deuteronomistic history and the prophets. Brill. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=uP22QHpnKq8C&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50&dq=Breytenbach+Who+is+behind+the+Samuel+narrative#v=onepage&q=Breytenbach%20Who%20is%20behind%20the%20Samuel%20narrative&f=false.
- Coogan, Michael D. (2009) A Brief Introduction to the Old Testament: the Hebrew Bible in its Context Oxford University Press
- Dick, Michael B (2004). "The History of "David's Rise to Power" and the Neo-Babylonian Succession Apologies". In Bernard Frank Batto and Kathryn L. Roberts. David and Zion: biblical studies in honor of J.J.M. Roberts. Eisenbrauns. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Vlkb0cSBGlIC&pg=PA373&lpg=PA373&dq=David+and+Zion:+biblical+studies+in+honor+of+J.J.M.+Roberts#v=onepage&q&f=false.
- Eynikel, Erik (2000). "The Relation Between the Eli Narrative and the Ark Narratives". In Johannes Cornelis de Moor and H.F. Van Rooy. Past, present, future: the Deuteronomistic history and the prophets. Brill. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=uP22QHpnKq8C&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50&dq=Breytenbach+Who+is+behind+the+Samuel+narrative#v=onepage&q=Breytenbach%20Who%20is%20behind%20the%20Samuel%20narrative&f=false.
- Halpern, Baruch (2001). David's secret demons: messiah, murderer, traitor, king. Eerdmans. http://books.google.com/books?id=tn8PG4XfuBAC&pg=PA8&lpg=PA8&dq=David's+secret#v=onepage&q=lahmi+bethlehemite&f=false.
- Jones, Gwilym H (2001). "1 and 2 Samuel". In John Barton and John Muddiman. The Oxford Bible Commentary. Oxford University Press. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=wCRYl9Ikk6EC&pg=PA196&lpg=PA196&dq=Gwilym+Jones+1+and+2+Samuel#v=onepage&q=Gwilym%20Jones%201%20and%202%20Samuel&f=false.
- Klein, R.W. (2003). "Samuel, books of". In Bromiley, Geoffrey W. The international standard Bible encyclopedia. Eerdmans. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6OJvO2jMCr8C&pg=PA314&lpg=PA314&dq=narrative+sources+books+of+samuel#v=onepage&q=narrative%20sources%20books%20of%20samuel&f=false.
- Knight, Douglas A (1995). "Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomists". In James Luther Mays, David L. Petersen and Kent Harold Richards. Old Testament Interpretation. T&T Clark. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=SNLN1nEEys0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Old+Testament+Interpretation+Mays+Peterson+Richards#v=onepage&q&f=false.
- Knight, Douglas A (1991). "Sources". In Watson E. Mills, Roger Aubrey Bullard. Mercer Dictionary of the Bible. Mercer University Press. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=goq0VWw9rGIC&dq=Mercer+Bible+Dictionary&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false.
- Schleffer, Eben (2000). "Saving Saul from the Deuteronomist". In Johannes Cornelis de Moor and H.F. Van Rooy. Past, present, future: the Deuteronomistic history and the prophets. Brill. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=uP22QHpnKq8C&pg=PA50&lpg=PA50&dq=Breytenbach+Who+is+behind+the+Samuel+narrative#v=onepage&q=Breytenbach%20Who%20is%20behind%20the%20Samuel%20narrative&f=false.
- Soggin, Alberto (1987). Introduction to the Old Testament. Westminster John Knox Press. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=mqSNsKXnHQgC&pg=PA112&lpg=PA112&dq=Soggin+Introduction+to+the+Old+Testament#v=onepage&q&f=false.
- Spieckerman, Hermann (2001). "The Deuteronomistic History". In Leo G. Perdue. The Blackwell companion to the Hebrew Bible. Blackwell. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=41_0okLzQJkC&pg=PA337&lpg=PA337&dq=The+Deuteronomistic+History+Hermann+Spieckermann#v=onepage&q=The%20Deuteronomistic%20History%20Hermann%20Spieckermann&f=false.
- Van Seters, John (1997). In search of history: historiography in the ancient world and the origins of biblical history. Eisenbrauns. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=0-skPdXtewwC&pg=PA406&lpg=PA406&dq=Van+Seters+In+Search+of+History#v=onepage&q=Samuel&f=false.
- Walton, John H (2009). "The Deuteronomistic History". In Andrew E. Hill, John H. Walton. A Survey of the Old Testament. Zondervan. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=41_0okLzQJkC&pg=PA337&lpg=PA337&dq=The+Deuteronomistic+History+Hermann+Spieckermann#v=onepage&q=The%20Deuteronomistic%20History%20Hermann%20Spieckermann&f=false.
Further reading[link]
- Alexander, David; Alexander, Pat, eds. (1983). Eerdmans' handbook to the Bible ([New, rev.]. ed.). Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans. ISBN 0-8028-3486-8.
- Bright, John (1981). A history of Israel (3rd ed.). Philadelphia: Westminster Press. ISBN 0-664-21381-2.
- Bruce, F. F. (1963). Israel and the Nations. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.
- Harrison, R.K. (1969). An Introduction to the Old Testament. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.
- Kidner, Derek (1973). The Psalms. Downers Grove, IL: Inter-Varsity Press. ISBN 0-87784-868-8.
- Noll, K. L. (1997). The faces of David. Sheffield: Sheffield Acad. Press. ISBN 1-85075-659-7.
- Thompson, J.A. (1986). Handbook of life in Bible times. Leicester, England: Inter-Varsity Press. ISBN 0-87784-949-8.
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