Joni Mitchell is a Canadian singer–songwriter who released nineteen studio albums between 1968 and 2007. She emerged with the Sixties North American folk revival that included singers Tom Rush, Judy Collins, and Buffy Sainte-Marie, who recorded Joni’s songs in advance of her debut album, Song to a Seagull. Her 1969–70 albums Clouds and Ladies of […]
Billy Joel is an American pianist, singer, and songwriter from the Bronx who released the album Cold Spring Harbor on Family Productions Inc. in 1971, followed by eleven studio albums on Columbia between 1973 and 1993. Prior to his solo career, he recorded two albums with psych-rockers The Hassles, which splintered into the 1970 hard-rock […]
Crosby, Stills and Nash (CSN) were an English–American folk-rock/harmony super-trio comprised of three established guitarist/vocalists: David Crosby (The Byrds), Stephen Stills (Buffalo Springfield), and Graham Nash (The Hollies). In 1969, the trio released a self-titled album to global fanfare on Atlantic. The following year, they were joined by Canadian guitarist/vocalist Neil Young for the album […]
Laura Nyro (Oct. 18, 1947 — April 8, 1997) was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist from the Bronx. She debuted with the 1967 album More Than a New Discovery on Verve Folkways, then signed to Columbia for the 1968–70 albums Eli and the Thirteenth Confession, New York Tendaberry, and Christmas and the Beads of […]
Richard Thompson is an English singer, guitarist, and songwriter who formed the folk rock band Fairport Convention, which he co-headed on the 1968–70 albums Fairport Convention, What We Did on Our Holidays, Unhalfbricking, Liege & Lief, and Full House. Post-Fairport, he played on albums by Nick Drake, Gary Farr, Mick Softley, John Martyn, and former […]
Al Stewart is a Scottish singer/songwriter who emerged from the British folk boom of the mid-1960s. He debuted with the 1967 orchestral-psych album Bed Sitter Images, his first of five albums on CBS, culminating with the lavish 1972/73 works Orange and Past, Present and Future. His 1975 release Modern Times marked his first collaboration with […]
Van Morrison (born Aug. 31, 1945) is an Irish singer–songwriter, best known for the hits “Brown Eyed Girl,” “Mooondance,” “Domino,” “Wild Night,” and “Jackie Wilson Said.” He first gained prominence as the frontman of Them, a mid-1960s R&B/beat band that rode the British Invasion with tracks like “Gloria” and “Here Comes the Night.” In 1967, […]
Harry Nilsson (1941–1994) was an American singer/songwriter who released fourteen albums between 1967 and 1977 on RCA Victor, including the chamber-psych classics Pandemonium Shadow Show and Aerial Ballet and the ribald pop-satire sets Nilsson Schmilsson and Son of Schmilsson. His songs were covered by The Monkees, Yardbirds, and Three Dog Night, who scored their chart […]
Donovan (born May 10, 1946) is a Scottish folk-rock singer, guitarist, and songwriter who released his first two albums in 1965 on Pye, followed by a prolific run of titles on Epic between 1966 and 1976. After a self-titled one-off on RAK in 1977, he released a further round of albums on RCA during the […]
Dan Fogelberg (Aug. 13, 1951 — Dec. 16, 2007) was an American singer/songwriter known for his introspective lyrics, layered arrangements, and multi-instrumental talents. His breakthrough came with Souvenirs (1974), followed by a string of best-selling albums including Phoenix (1979) and the double LP The Innocent Age (1981), which yielded the hits “Same Old Lang Syne,” […]
Cat Stevens (born July 21, 1948) is an English singer/songwriter who was primarily active as a recording artist between 1966 and 1978. Scoring a deal with Decca just shy of age 18, he burst onto Swinging London with the chipper “I Love My Dog” in late 1966. The following year saw back-to-back albums of mostly […]
Hiroko Taniyama — 谷山浩子 (born Aug. 29, 1956) — is a Japanese singer/songwriter from Yokohama, Kanagawa, who debuted with an album on King Records in 1972, followed by 14 albums on the Aard-Vark and Canyon labels between 1977 and 1990. Background Hiroko Taniyama was born in Tokyo on August 29, 1956, and grew up in […]
Bill Withers (1938–2020) was an American soul singer/songwriter, best known for the 1971/72 AM evergreens “Ain’t No Sunshine” and “Lean On Me” and the 1981 AC ballad “Just the Two of Us,” a duet with Grover Washington Jr. Background He was born William Harrison Withers, Jr. on July 4, 1938, in Slab Fork, West Virginia; […]
Roy Harper (born June 12, 1941) is an English folk-rock singer/songwriter and guitarist from Rusholme, Greater Manchester, who released an album apiece on Strike, CBS, and Liberty, followed by a run of nine studio albums between 1970 and 1980 on Harvest. The subsequent decades yielded further albums on EMI, Science Fiction, and Awareness Records. His […]
Joan Armatrading is a Caribbean-British singer-songwriter who released fourteen albums between 1972 and 1992 on A&M. She scored a UK hit with “Love and Affection” from her 1976 self-titled third album, her first of seven Top 20 albums on the UK Albums chart. Her 1980 release Me Myself I marked the pinnacle of her global […]
Gordon Lightfoot (November 17, 1938 – May 1, 2023) was a Canadian singer/songwriter, best known for the songs “If You Could Read My Mind,” “Sundown,” “Beautiful,” “Carefree Highway,” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.” He released five studio albums between 1966 and 1970 on United Artists, followed by six-album runs on Reprise (1971–76) and […]
Jimmy Webb is an American singer, composer, producer, and arranger who emerged as a writer of late-Sixties hits for the 5th Dimension (“Up, Up and Away”), Glen Campbell (“Wichita Lineman,” “Galveston”), and Richard Harris (“MacArthur Park”). Webb commenced his solo career with the 1970 Reprise release Words and Music, followed by And So: On, Letters, […]
Gerry Rafferty (1947–2011) was a Scottish musician and songwriter who emerged in The Humblebums, a folk duo with future comedian Billy Connolly. The pair released two 1969–70 albums, which presaged Rafferty’s 1971 solo debut Can I Have My Money Back? In 1972, Rafferty teamed with longtime friend Joe Egan in the art-pop/folk combo Stealers Wheel, […]
Nick Drake (June 19, 1948 — Nov. 25, 1974) was an English singer–songwriter and guitarist who released three albums on Island between 1969 and 1972: Five Leaves Left, Bryter Layter, and Pink Moon. In 1974, he completed four songs for a proposed album before his death that year from a prescription-med overdose. The songs appeared […]
Rupert Holmes (born Feb. 24, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, producer, playwright, and screenwriter with a career in entertainment that dates to the late 1960s. Starting as a hit-writer for The Cuff Links and The Buoys, he emerged as a recording artist with a string of production-pop albums during the second half of […]
Chris Rea is an English singer, guitarist, and songwriter who released nine albums between 1978 and 1987 on Magnet, followed by further titles on WEA, EastWest, and Jazzee Blue over the subsequent three decades. Rea’s 1989–91 albums The Road to Hell and Auberge both topped the UK Albums Chart and spawned Top 20 title singles. […]
Bruce Cockburn (born May 27, 1945) is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Ottawa, best known for a long string of albums on the True North label, starting in 1970. His biggest hits include “Wondering Where the Lions Are” and the politically-charged “If I Had a Rocket Launcher.” Background He was born in Ottawa, Ontario, the son […]
Chris De Burgh (born Oct. 15, 1948) is an Irish singer/songwriter who launched his five-decade career with the 1975 A&M albums Far Beyond These Castle Walls and Spanish Train and Other Stories. His songs combine lyrical storytelling with arrangements steeped in folk, art pop, and lavish orchestration. Stateside, De Burgh achieved his biggest successes with […]
Murray Head (born March 5, 1946) is an English singer–songwriter and actor who portrayed Judas Iscariot on the 1970 rock musical album Jesus Christ Superstar by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber. He released the albums Nigel Lived (CBS, 1972) and Say It Ain’t So (Island, 1975), which offered source material for Roger Daltrey (“Say […]
Carly Simon (born June 25, 1943) is an American singer/songwriter from the Bronx who released eight albums between 1971 and 1979 on Elektra, followed by 1980s titles on Warner, Epic, and Arista. Simon first charted with “That’s the Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be,” an evergreen ballad that won her the 1972 Best New […]
John Martyn (September 11, 1948 — January 29, 2009) was an English singer/songwriter and guitarist who released eight studio albums and a live disc on Island between 1967 and 1980, followed by a pair of 1981/82 titles on WEA and a further round of Island albums during the late 1980s. His early acoustic work culminated […]
Rodriguez (July 10, 1942 – August 8, 2023) was an American singer/songwriter from Detroit who released the 1970 album Cold Fact, followed in 1971 by Coming From Reality. After losing touch with the industry, his work gained a mass following in South Africa, where his song “Sugar Man” became a national anthem. He remained unaware […]
Judee Sill (October 7, 1944 — November 23, 1979) was an American singer/songwriter from Oakland who released a 1971 self-titled album on Asylum, followed by the 1973 release Heart Food, both revered as masterworks in the 21st century. Background Judee Sill was born on October 7, 1944, in Studio City, Los Angeles. She spent her […]
Terry Callier (May 24, 1945 — Oct. 27, 2012) was an American singer/songwriter from Chicago whose songs appear on 1970s albums by Jerry Butler, Dee Dee Sharp, and The Dells. As a solo artist on Cadet Records, he made the 1971–73 albums Occasional Rain, What Color Is Love, and I Just Can’t Help Myself. He […]
Shawn Phillips (born Feb. 3, 1943) is an American singer/songwriter who released the 1965/66 Columbia albums I’m a Loner and Shawn. He linked with Traffic for the 1970 A&M release Contribution, an eclectic reinvention followed by Second Contribution, Collaboration, and seven further Seventies albums. During the early 1980s, he issued two albums with the space-rock […]
Michael Franks (born Sept. 18, 1944) is an American singer/songwriter who released eleven studio albums between 1973 and 1990, recorded largely with Steely Dan, Crusaders, and LA Express personnel. He reached smooth-jazz playlists with “Your Secret’s Safe With Me” and “When Sly Calls (Don’t Touch That Phone).” His 1975 album The Art of Tea contains […]
Stephen Bishop (born Nov. 14, 1951) is an American singer/songwriter who debuted with the 1976 ABC release Careless, which spawned the hits “On and On” and “Save It for a Rainy Day.” In 1982, he charted with the ballad “It Might be You” from the comedy film Tootsie. His songs have been recorded by Frida […]
Andy Pratt is an American singer/songwriter from Boston, best known for the song “Avenging Annie” as his acclaimed 1976 album Resolution. Background He was born Andrew S. Pratt on January 25, 1947; the youngest of four children borne to educator Edwin Howard Baker Pratt (1913–1975) and Monte Carlo-born Aileen Kelly (1915–1976). The elder Pratt served […]
Phoebe Snow (July 17, 1950 — April 26, 2011) was an American singer/songwriter from New York, best known for the songs “Harpo’s Blues” and “Poetry Man” from her 1974 debut album. Between 1976 and 1978, she released four albums on Columbia. Background She was born Phoebe Ann Laub to Merrill and Lili Laub, a Jewish […]
Labi Siffre is an English singer/songwriter, poet, and playwright who released six albums between 1970 and 1975 on Pye/EMI. He scored UK hits with the 1971/72 singles “It Must Be Love” (later covered by Madness) and “Crying Laughing Loving Lying.” After twelve years away from music, he returned with the 1987 hit “(Something Inside) So […]
Melissa Manchester is an American singer–songwriter who released two 1973–74 albums on Bell Records, followed by nine albums between 1975 and 1983 on Arista. She first emerged under the auspices of Barry Manilow and Bette Midler and co-wrote many songs with Carole Bayer Sager. Manchester’s best known songs include “Don’t Cry Out Loud,” “Midnight Blue,” […]
Lori Lieberman is an American singer/songwriter who released four 1972–75 albums on Capitol Records and a 1978 fifth on Millennium. After a sixteen-year break from recording, she returned with three Nineties-era albums on Pope Music. Since 2003, she’s issued CDs on self-press Drive On Records. Her debut album contains the first version of “Killing Me […]
Sally Oldfield (born Aug. 3, 1947) is an English-Irish singer and composer, born in Dublin and raised in Reading, Berkshire. In 1968, she formed the folk-psych duo Sallyangie with her younger brother Mike Oldfield, aged 15 at the time of their singular album Children of the Sun, released that year on Transatlantic Records. Between 1973 […]
Lesley Duncan (Aug. 12, 1943 — March 12, 2010) was an English singer/songwriter who made the 1971/72 CBS albums Sing Children Sing and Earth Mother, followed by the 1974/75 GM titles Everything Changes and Moon Bathing and the 1977 MCA release Maybe It’s Lost. Background Lesley Duncan was born on August 12, 1943, in Stockton-on-Tees, England. […]
Vashti Bunyan is an English singer–songwriter who released two mid-’60s singles and the 1970 Philips album Just Another Diamond Day. After its 2000 reissue and reappraisal, she reemerged with the 2005 disc Lookaftering. Meanwhile, vaulted early recordings surfaced on the archival double-disc Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind. Her third album, Heartleap, followed in […]
Bill Fay (September 9, 1943 — February 21, 2025) was an English singer/songwriter who released a self-titled album on Deram in 1970, followed by Time of the Last Persecution in 1971. Background Born in North London, Fay began writing songs in the early 1960s while studying at university in Wales, where he increasingly diverted his […]
Shelagh McDonald is a Scottish singer/songwriter who released two albums in 1970 and 1971 on B & C Records. Background Shelagh McDonald was born in Edinburgh in 1948 and grew up immersed in classical music and traditional Scottish ballads. She studied piano as a child and gravitated to guitar in her teens, drawn to the […]
Clifford T. Ward (Feb. 10, 1944 — Dec. 18, 2001) was an English singer/songwriter who emerged from the Midlands beat circuit before his 1972 solo debut on Dandelion. His 1973 Charisma albums Home Thoughts and Mantle Pieces produced his main UK chart entries, led by the Top Ten single “Gaye” and the later hit “Scullery.” […]
Linda Perhacs is an American singer-songwriter who released the 1970 album Parallelograms on Kapp Records. Reissues brought the album to a wider audience during the 1990s and 2000s. Perhacs resumed recording with the 2014 album The Soul of All Natural Things and the 2017 release I’m a Harmony. Background Linda Jeanne Arnold was born on […]
Tim Moore is an American singer/songwriter who emerged beside Daryl Hall in Gulliver and released the 1974/75 Asylum albums Tim Moore and Behind the Eyes, followed by the 1977–79 titles White Shadows and High Contrast. He charted with “A Fool Like You,” “Second Avenue,” “Charmer,” and “In the Middle.” His songs inspired covers by Cliff […]
Shona Laing is a Kiwi singer/songwriter who rose to fame in her native New Zealand with a pair of teen-prodigy albums in 1973–74 on Vertigo and Philips. During the 1980s, she gained renown in the Northern Hemisphere with the hi-tech political numbers “(Glad I’m) Not a Kennedy” and “Soviet Snow,” both included on her 1987 […]
Danny O’Keefe is an American singer/songwriter, best known for his 1972 hit “Good Time Charlie’s Got the Blues” and the acclaimed 1973 album Breezy Stories. Between 1970 and 1984, O’Keefe made seven albums for assorted labels. His songs inspired covers by Jackson Browne (“The Road”), Donny Hathaway and Leo Sayer, who both covered the Breezy […]
Cheryl Dilcher (1949–2005) was an American singer/songwriter who emerged with the 1970 Ampex release Special Songs, followed by the 1973/74 A&M albums Butterfly and Magic. She retired after her 1977 fourth album, Blue Sailor. Background She was born Cheryl Aleta Dilcher on November 12, 1949, in Allentown, Pennsylvania. As a teenager, she took up songwriting […]
Mick Softley (Sept. 26, 1939 — Sept. 1, 2017) was an English folk guitarist–singer who first appeared with the 1965 Columbia album Songs for Swingin’ Survivors. He reemerged as a CBS singer–songwriter with the 1970–72 albums Sunrise, Street Singer, and Any Mother Doesn’t Grumble. On self-press Doll Records, he made the 1976–78 albums Capitol and […]
M was the recording moniker of English musician, singer, and songwriter Robin Scott, who released three electro/art-pop albums under the name between 1979 and 1982 on Sire. Ten years before M, Scott released the folk album Woman From the Warm Grass on Head Records. In 1981, he collaborated with Ryuichi Sakamoto on tracks for the […]
Essra Mohawk — born Sandra Elayne Hurvitz on April 23, 1948, in Philadelphia — is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist known for her visionary lyricism and genre-defying albums. She emerged with Sandy’s Album Is Here at Last! (1968) on Verve after a stint with Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention, followed by the cult classic […]
Chi Coltrane is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist whose music blends piano-driven rock with gospel and soul elements. She reached the U.S. Top 20 with her 1972 single “Thunder and Lightning” and found sustained popularity in Europe with the spiritual anthem “Go Like Elijah.” Her early albums Chi Coltrane and Let It Ride mix […]
Nigel Mazlyn Jones (born June 26, 1950) is an English singer/songwriter and guitarist from Dudley, West Midlands, who issued five albums on self-press Isle of Light between 1976 and 1991. As a producer, he oversaw the recording of the 1984 album Silent Dance by symphonic-folksters Solstice. Background Nigel Mazlyn Jones was born on June 26, […]
John Kongos (b. 1945) is a South African pop/rock musician, vocalist, and songwriter who was active during the 1960s and early ’70s. He first emerged at age 15 in 1961 as a member of Johannesburg rock ‘n’ roll sensation the G-Men. Within a year, he assumed featured billing in the band’s nameplate. The band scored […]
Michael Farneti is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from Palm Beach Shores who released the 1976 album Good Morning Kisses on self-press Full Moon. Subsequent 1980s demos surfaced on Looking for a Goddess. Background Michael Farneti was born on March 19, 1951, and grew up near the Atlantic coast in Palm Beach Shores, Florida. […]
Catherine Howe is an English singer/songwriter who released the 1971 album What a Beautiful Place, a collection of post-psych orchestral ballads. She returned with the 1975/76 RCA albums Harry and Silent Mother Nature, concluding her initial run with the 1979 album Dragonfly Days. Background Catherine Howe (born May 17, 1950) grew up in Yorkshire in […]
Gary Farr (Oct. 19, 1944 — July 29, 1994) was an English singer/songwriter who first emerged in the mid-1960s R&B/beat combo The T-Bones, which also included the nucleus of The Nice. In 1969, he released the album Take Something With You on Marmalade, followed by Strange Fruit on CBS in 1970. His final solo album, […]
Dean Friedman is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist from New Jersey who released three albums between 1977 and 1981. He scored a US Top 40 hit with “Ariel” and a UK Top 3 hit with “Lucky Stars.” Between 1999 and 2021, he self-produced six albums on Real Life Records. Background Dean Friedman was born […]
Henry Gaffney (March 8, 1949 — May 23, 2010) was an American singer/songwriter from Brooklyn who released the 1976 RCA album Waiting for a Wind, followed by the 1978 Manhattan release On Again Off Again. Background Henry Michael Gaffney was born on March 8, 1949, in Brooklyn, New York, to Mary Gross Gaffney and Henry […]
Jane Getz is an American pianist and songwriter who released an album as Mother Hen on RCA Victor in 1971, followed by No Ordinary Child in 1973. Background Jane Getz was born on September 12, 1942, in Los Angeles. Raised between LA and San Francisco, she studied classical piano from a young age but turned […]
June Wallack is a Québécois singer, songwriter, pianist, and flutist who issued a 1974 single on Vibrations and a 1976 self-titled album on RCA Victor. Profile June Wallack emerged on the Montreal folk circuit in the early Seventies. In 1974, she issued two originals on Vibrations, a DIY one-press. A. “A Partir d’a Matin” [Starting […]
Claire Hamill is an English singer–songwriter who debuted at seventeen with the 1971 Island release One House Left Standing, followed in 1973 by October. She signed with Ray Davies’ Konk label for the 1974–75 albums Stage Door Johnnies and Abracadabra. Between 1979 and 1981, she sang for Yes guitarist Steve Howe and hard-rockers Wishbone Ash. […]
John Howard is an English pianist, singer, and songwriter who released the 1975 album Kid in a Big World on CBS, which vaulted his two subsequent albums, Technicolour Biography and Can You Hear Me OK? He cut five single between 1978 and 1984, but didn’t return as an album artist until the 2005 discs The Dangerous […]
Pete Fine is an American is an American guitarist, singer, composer, and orchestrator from New York City. He recorded with The Flow before self-releasing On a Day of Crystaline Thought in a 1974 handmade 100-copy edition, then moved to Tucson and joined the group that supplied the 1976 archival album Northstar. His later work includes […]
Harriet Schock is an American singer/songwriter from Dallas who released three albums between 1974 and 1976 on 20th Century Records. Her songs inspired covers by Gonzalez (“Ain’t No Way to Treat a Lady”) and Manfred Mann’s Earth Band (“Hollywood Town”). Background Harriet Schock was born Harriet Schoch on January 24, 1941, in Dallas, Texas. Her […]
Patti Dahlstrom is an American singer–songwriter who released a 1972 self-titled album on UNI Records, followed by the 1973–76 albums The Way I Am, Your Place or Mine, and Livin’ It Thru on 20th Century. She wrote “No One’s Gonna Be a Fool Forever,” a 1972 MoWest a-side by Thelma Houston, who also recorded Patti’s […]
Jonathan Kelly (1947–2020) was an Irish singer/songwriter from Drogheda who recorded initially as Jon Ledingham with the Boomerangs and on two Pye solo singles between 1966 and 1968. Under the Kelly name, he released the 1970 Parlophone album Jonathan Kelly, followed by the 1972–75 RCA titles Twice Around the Houses, Wait Till They Change the […]
Peter Harris is an Australian pianist and songwriter from Tenterfield, NSW, whose 1975 partnership with student David Madden yielded the album Fool’s Paradise. That same year, Harris released the solo album Ruby on the Ritz Gramophone label. Background Peter Harris first studied piano and bassoon at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. In the late Sixties, […]
Peter Allen — aka Peter Richard Woolnough (Feb. 10, 1944 — June 8, 1992) — was an Australian pianist, singer, composer, and showman, best known internationally through his songwriting partnership with Carole Bayer Sager that yielded hits for Melissa Manchester (“Don’t Cry Out Loud”), Rita Coolidge (“I’d Rather Leave While I’m In Love”), and Christopher […]
David Chalmers is an American folk-psych singer/songwriter from East Dubuque, Iowa, who released three albums in 1976/77 on self-press River Records. He concurrently played in The Farm Band and Autumn Dust. Background David Chalmers was born in Lima, Ohio. His family later lived in Seattle, Washington. His mother sang and played piano, which she taught […]
Mossy Davidson (aka Mairiis Kilcher) is an American singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Homer, Alaska, who released the 1977 double-album NorthWind Calling on the self-operated North Woods label. Background Mairiis Kilcher was born in Alaska in 1942 to Swiss immigrants Ruth and Yule Kilcher. She grew up as the eldest of eight children on the family […]
Suzanne Vega (born July 11, 1959) is an American singer/songwriter from Santa Monica whose acclaimed 1985 self-titled album spawned the college radio hits “Freeze Tag” and “Marlene On the Wall.” She scored a Billboard Top 10 with her 1987 single “Luka,” a song about child abuse from her second album Solitude Standing, which also featured […]
Jimmie Spheeris (Nov. 5, 1949 — July 4, 1984) was an American singer/songwriter who made the 1971–73 Columbia albums Isle of View and The Original Tap Dancing Kid, followed by the 1975/76 Epic titles The Dragon Is Dancing and Ports of the Heart. Background Jimmie Spheeris was born on November 5, 1949, in Phenix City, […]
Harry Chapin (Dec. 7, 1942 — July 16, 1981) was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist from Brooklyn who released eight albums between 1972 and 1978 on Elektra and a 1980 ninth on Boardwalk. His catalog centered on narrative songs such as “Taxi,” “W.O.L.D.,” “Cat’s in the Cradle,” and “Sequel,” while his later career also included […]
Keith Green (Oct. 21, 1953 — July 28, 1982) was an American singer/songwriter from Brooklyn. He first recorded as a child for Decca during the mid-1960s, then emerged in the 1970s as a Christian singer-songwriter with Sparrow releases including For Him Who Has Ears to Hear and No Compromise. Green combined studio and concert activity […]
Gary Ogan is an American singer/songwriter from Portland, Ore., who emerged in partnership with musician Bill Lamb on the 1972 Elektra release Portland. In 1977, he issued a self-titled album on Leon Russell’s Paradise Records label. His third album, Let Go the Heart, appeared on small-press Seagull Records in 1982. Gary Ogan taught himself to […]
Barry Manilow (born June 17, 1943) is an American singer, pianist, songwriter, producer, and arranger from Brooklyn. He debuted with two 1973/74 albums on Bell Records, which spawned the hits “Could It Be Magic” and “Mandy.” Between 1975 and 1984, he released eight studio albums and two live sets on Arista. His most prolific chart […]
Gilbert O’Sullivan is an Irish singer/songwriter from Waterford who grew up in Swindon, England. He first recorded as Gilbert on the late-1960s singles “Disappear,” “What Can I Do?,” and “Mr. Moody’s Garden,” then emerged under his full name with “Nothing Rhymed.” His 1970s run produced the international hits “Alone Again (Naturally),” “Clair,” and “Get Down” […]
Phil Keaggy (born March 23, 1951) is an American guitarist and songwriter who emerged in Glass Harp, a Midwest psych-rock trio that made three 1970–72 albums for MCA/Decca. As a solo artist, he debuted with the 1973 New Song album What a Day, followed with the 1976 release Love Broke Thru and the 1979 instrumental […]
Mick Greenwood (born Feb. 13, 1951) is an English singer/songwriter from Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, who made the 1971/72 MCA albums Living Game and …To Friends, followed by the 1974 Warner release Midnight Dreamer. Background Mick Greenwood was born Michael Vernon Greenwood on Feb. 13, 1951, at the family home in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, England. His […]
Mandy More (born Sept. 10, 1945) is an English singer/songwriter from Leeds who released the 1972 album But That Is Me, followed by three singles through 1975 on Philips and Fresh Air. Background Mandy More was born Amanda Campbell-Moore on Sept. 10, 1945, in Leeds, England. More sang with sextet the Soul Survivors and then […]
