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Footsteps in the Dark

Index Footsteps in the Dark

"Footsteps in the Dark" is a 1977 slow jam recorded by The Isley Brothers as an album track featured on the group's double-platinum album, Go For Your Guns. [1]

70 relations: A Woman's Worth, Alicia Keys, Backing vocalist, Bass guitar, Bearsville, New York, Black Milk, Blue Collar (album), Cat Stevens, Chris Jasper, Compton's Most Wanted, Conga, Drum kit, Dwele, Electric guitar, Ernie Isley, Evelyn "Champagne" King, Exit (k-os album), Funk, Go for Your Guns, Hip hop music, Ice Cube, Infidelity, It Was a Good Day, J Dilla, Jimi Hendrix, K-os, LA Weekly, Lead vocalist, Los Angeles Times, Malcolm Cecil, Mario (American singer), Marvin Isley, My Way (Usher album), Nivea (singer), O'Kelly Isley Jr., Piano, Players Association, Quiet storm, Raheem DeVaughn, Recording Industry Association of America, Rhymefest, Rhythm and blues, Robert Margouleff, Ronald Isley, Rudolph Isley, Sampling (music), Slow jam, Slum Village, Slum Village (album), Song Exploder, ..., Soul music, Straight Checkn 'Em, Synthesizer, T-Neck Records, Tambourine, The A.V. Club, The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam, The Girl Next Door (album), The Isley Brothers, The Love Experience, The New York Times, The Pride (The Isley Brothers song), The Shining (J Dilla album), Thundercat (musician), Twelve-string guitar, University of Minnesota Press, Unplugged (Alicia Keys album), Usher (musician), YouTube, 1977 in music. Expand index (20 more) »

A Woman's Worth

"A Woman's Worth" is a song by American singer–songwriter Alicia Keys.

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Alicia Keys

Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), known professionally as Alicia Keys, is an American singer-songwriter.

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Backing vocalist

Backing vocalists are singers who provide vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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Bearsville, New York

Bearsville is a hamlet in Ulster County, New York, USA.

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Black Milk

Curtis Eugene Cross (born August 14, 1983), known professionally as Black Milk, is an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer.

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Blue Collar (album)

Blue Collar is the debut album by Grammy Award winning songwriter, Rhymefest.

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Cat Stevens

Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou), commonly known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

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Chris Jasper

Christopher H. "Chris" Jasper (born December 30, 1951, Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American singer, composer, and producer.

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Compton's Most Wanted

Compton's Most Wanted (C.M.W.) was an American gangsta rap group and one of the original pioneers of the West Coast hip hop scene.

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Conga

The conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Dwele

Andwele Gardner (born February 14, 1978), better known by his stage name Dwele is an American soul singer, songwriter and record producer from Detroit, Michigan.

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Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals.

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Ernie Isley

Ernest "Ernie" Isley (born March 7, 1952) is a member of the American musical ensemble The Isley Brothers.

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Evelyn "Champagne" King

Evelyn "Champagne" King (born July 1, 1960) is an American singer, songwriter and record producer.

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Exit (k-os album)

Exit is the debut album of underground hip-hop artist k-os, released 26 March 2002 in Canada and 28 January 2003 in the United States by Astralwerks.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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Go for Your Guns

Go for Your Guns is the fifteenth album by The Isley Brothers.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.

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Ice Cube

O'Shea Jackson Sr. (born June 15, 1969), known professionally as Ice Cube, is an American rapper, writer and actor.

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Infidelity

Infidelity (synonyms include: cheating, adultery (when married), netorare (NTR), being unfaithful, or having an affair) is a violation of a couple's assumed or stated contract regarding emotional and/or sexual exclusivity.

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It Was a Good Day

"It Was a Good Day" (aka "Today Was a Good Day") is a song by American gangsta rapper Ice Cube.

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J Dilla

James Dewitt Yancey (February 7, 1974 – February 10, 2006), better known by the stage names J Dilla and Jay Dee, was an American record producer and rapper who emerged from the mid-1990s underground hip hop scene in Detroit, Michigan, as one third of the acclaimed music group Slum Village.

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Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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K-os

Kevin Brereton (born February 20, 1972), better known by his stage name k-os ("chaos"), is a Canadian alternative rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer.

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LA Weekly

LA Weekly is a free weekly alternative newspaper in Los Angeles, California.

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Lead vocalist

The lead vocalist (or main vocalist, lead vocals or lead singer) in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent in a performance where multiple voices may be heard.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Malcolm Cecil

Malcolm Cecil (born 9 January 1937) is a British jazz bassist and Grammy Award-winning record producer.

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Mario (American singer)

Mario Dewar Barrett (born August 27, 1986), known mononymously as Mario, is an American singer, songwriter, actor, record producer and model.

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Marvin Isley

Marvin Isley (August 18, 1953 – June 6, 2010) – accessed June 2010 was the youngest member of the family music group the Isley Brothers and its bass guitarist.

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My Way (Usher album)

My Way is the second studio album by American singer Usher.

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Nivea (singer)

Nivea B. Hamilton (born March 24, 1982), who performs under the mononym Nivea, is an American singer whose recordings reached the Billboard charts during the early 2000s.

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O'Kelly Isley Jr.

O'Kelly "Kelly" Isley Jr. (December 25, 1937 – March 31, 1986) was an American singer and one of the founding members of the family group The Isley Brothers.

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Piano

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.

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Players Association

The Players Association were a New York based studio group, put together by drummer / arranger Chris Hills and producer Danny Weiss in 1977 on Vanguard Records.

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Quiet storm

Quiet storm is a radio format and a "super genre" of contemporary R&B, jazz fusion and pop music that is characterized by understated, mellow dynamics, slow tempos, and relaxed rhythms.

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Raheem DeVaughn

Raheem DeVaughn (born May 5, 1975) is an American singer and songwriter.

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Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the recording industry in the United States.

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Rhymefest

Che Smith (born July 6, 1977), better known by his stage name Rhymefest, is an American hip hop artist, philanthropist, and politician from Chicago, Illinois, whose first official album, Blue Collar, was released on July 11, 2006.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Robert Margouleff

Robert "Bob" Margouleff is an American record producer, recording engineer, electronic music pioneer, audio expert, and film producer.

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Ronald Isley

Ronald Isley (born July 21, 1941) also known as Ron Isley and Mr.

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Rudolph Isley

Rudolph Bernard Isley (born April 1, 1939 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American singer-songwriter and is one of the founding members of The Isley Brothers.

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Sampling (music)

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a sound recording in a different song or piece.

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Slow jam

A slow jam is an umbrella term for music with rhythm and blues and soul influences.

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Slum Village

Slum Village is a hip hop group from Detroit, Michigan.

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Slum Village (album)

Slum Village is the fifth studio album by American hip hop group Slum Village, released on October 25, 2005 on the independent label Barak Records.

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Song Exploder

Song Exploder is a music podcast hosted and produced by Hrishikesh Hirway.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Straight Checkn 'Em

Straight Checkn 'Em is the second studio album by American rap group Compton's Most Wanted, released July 16, 1991 on Orpheus Records.

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Synthesizer

A synthesizer (often abbreviated as synth, also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals that are converted to sound through instrument amplifiers and loudspeakers or headphones.

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T-Neck Records

T-Neck Records was a record label founded by members of the R&B/soul group The Isley Brothers in 1964, which became notable for distributing the first nationally-released recordings of Jimi Hendrix, their guitarist, and which later became a successful label after the Isleys began releasing their own works after years of recording for other labels, scoring hits such as "It's Your Thing" and "That Lady".

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Tambourine

The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zils".

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The A.V. Club

The A.V. Club is an entertainment website featuring reviews, interviews, and other articles that examine films, music, television, books, games, and other elements of pop culture media.

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The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam

The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam is an EP by American musician Thundercat.

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The Girl Next Door (album)

The Girl Next Door is the 10th studio album by Evelyn "Champagne" King.

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The Isley Brothers

The Isley Brothers are an American musical group originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, that started as a vocal trio consisting of brothers O'Kelly Isley, Jr., Rudolph Isley and Ronald Isley.

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The Love Experience

The Love Experience is the debut studio album by American singer Raheem DeVaughn, released June 28, 2005 by Jive Records.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Pride (The Isley Brothers song)

"The Pride" is a 1977 funk song by The Isley Brothers, released on their T-Neck imprint.

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The Shining (J Dilla album)

The Shining is the third studio album by American hip hop recording artist J Dilla, who died February 10, 2006.

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Thundercat (musician)

Stephen Lee Bruner (born October 19, 1984), better known by his stage name Thundercat, is an American multi-genre bass guitarist, record producer, singer and songwriter from Los Angeles, California.

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Twelve-string guitar

The 12-string guitar is a steel-string guitar with 12 strings in six courses, which produces a richer, more ringing tone than a standard six-string guitar.

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University of Minnesota Press

The University of Minnesota Press is a university press that is part of the University of Minnesota.

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Unplugged (Alicia Keys album)

Unplugged is the first live album (third overall) by American recording artist Alicia Keys.

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Usher (musician)

Usher Raymond IV (born October 14, 1978), is an American singer, songwriter and dancer.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

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1977 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1977.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footsteps_in_the_Dark

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