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Rick Shorter

Index Rick Shorter

Rick Shorter was a song-writer, music producer, and author. [1]

57 relations: Adam Mitchell (songwriter), Atlantic Records, Bernard Purdie, Big Dee Irwin, Bigtop Records, Billboard (magazine), Burl Ives, California, Cashbox (magazine), CHUM (AM), Ciska Peters, Cleophus Robinson, Clergy, Colleen Peterson, Columbia Records, Courier News, Deezer, Discogs, Folk music, Galt MacDermot, Gene Pitney, Greenwich Village, Hair (musical), If I Call You By Some Name, James Cleveland, Janis Joplin, Jessy Dixon, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny and the Hurricanes, List of jazz saxophonists, Magic People, MGM Records, Mighty Clouds of Joy, MusicBrainz, Ola & the Janglers, RCA Records, Record producer, Record World, Rhythm and blues, Rock music, Seventh-day Adventist Church, Shirley Caesar, Ska, Skip Prokop, Songwriter, Sound & Vision (magazine), Street (band), The Daily Gazette, The Esquires (Canadian band), The Herald-Palladium, ..., The Liverbirds, The Paupers, Verve Forecast Records, Wayne Shorter, Weather Report, Woody Herman, 3's a Crowd (band). Expand index (7 more) »

Adam Mitchell (songwriter)

Adam Mitchell (born 24 November 1944 in Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland) is a Canadian-referenced singer-songwriter, most notable for writing "French Waltz," which was a hit for Nicolette Larson; "Dancing Round and Round," which was a hit for Olivia Newton-John; and for his later co-writing work with KISS on the albums Killers, Creatures of the Night, Crazy Nights, and Hot in the Shade.

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Atlantic Records

Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American major record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegün and Herb Abramson.

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Bernard Purdie

Bernard Lee "Pretty" Purdie (born June 11, 1939) is an American drummer, considered an influential and innovative funk musician.

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Big Dee Irwin

DiFosco "Dee" T. Ervin Jr. (July 6, 1932 – August 27, 1995), usually known professionally as Big Dee Irwin, was an American singer and songwriter whose biggest hit was a version of "Swinging On A Star" in 1963, recorded as a duet with Little Eva.

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Bigtop Records

Bigtop Records was an American record label started by music executive Johnny Bienstock and the major music publisher Hill & Range Music and was co-owned along with Big Top Record Distributors (sic).

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Burl Ives

Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995) was an American singer and actor of stage, screen, radio and television.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Cashbox (magazine)

Cash Box is a music industry trade magazine iconic brand.

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CHUM (AM)

CHUM, broadcasting at 1050 kHz, is a Canadian radio station licensed to Toronto, Ontario.

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Ciska Peters

Ciska Peters is a female singer from the Netherlands who had success in the 70s and 80s with six hits during that period.

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Cleophus Robinson

The Reverend Cleophus Robinson (March 18, 1932, Canton, MississippiJuly 2, 1998, Saint Louis, Missouri) was an American gospel singer and preacher.

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Clergy

Clergy are some of the main and important formal leaders within certain religions.

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Colleen Peterson

Colleen Susan Peterson (November 14, 1950 – October 9, 1996) was a Canadian country and folk singer, who performed both as a solo artist and as a member of the band Quartette.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Courier News

The Courier News, headquartered in Somerville, New Jersey, is a daily newspaper serving Somerset County and other areas of Central Jersey.

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Deezer

Deezer is an Internet-based music streaming service.

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Discogs

Discogs (short for discographies) is a website and crowdsourced database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases.

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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Galt MacDermot

Arthur Terence Galt MacDermot (born December 18, 1928) is a Canadian-American composer, pianist and writer of musical theatre.

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Gene Pitney

Gene Francis Alan Pitney (February 17, 1940 – April 5, 2006) was an American singer-songwriter, musician, and sound engineer.

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Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village often referred to by locals as simply "the Village", is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan, New York City.

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Hair (musical)

Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado and music by Galt MacDermot.

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If I Call You By Some Name

If I Call You By Some Name was a hit for the Canadian rock group The Paupers.

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James Cleveland

The Reverend Dr.

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Janis Joplin

Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) nicknamed The Pearl, was an American rock, soul and blues singer and songwriter, and one of the most successful and widely-known female rock stars of her era.

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Jessy Dixon

Jessy Dixon (March 12, 1938 – September 26, 2011) was an American gospel music singer, songwriter, and pianist, with success among audiences across racial lines.

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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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Johnny and the Hurricanes

Johnny and the Hurricanes were an American instrumental rock and roll band from Toledo, Ohio, that had a number of hits, especially in the UK, in the 1950s and early 1960s.

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List of jazz saxophonists

Jazz saxophonists are musicians who play various types of saxophones (alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone etc.) in jazz and its associated subgenres.

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Magic People

Magic People was the debut album for Canadian rock group The Paupers.

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MGM Records

MGM Records was a record label started by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio in 1946 for the purpose of releasing soundtrack albums of their musical films.

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Mighty Clouds of Joy

The Mighty Clouds of Joy are an American traditional gospel music quartet.

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MusicBrainz

MusicBrainz is a project that aims to create an open data music database that is similar to the freedb project.

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Ola & the Janglers

Ola & the Janglers were a garage rock and beat group, founded in Stockholm, Sweden in 1962.

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RCA Records

RCA Records (formerly legally traded as the RCA Records Label) is an American record label owned by Sony Music, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.

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Record producer

A record producer or track producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performer's music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album.

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Record World

Record World magazine was one of the three main music industry trade magazines in the United States, along with Billboard and Cash Box magazines.

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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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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Seventh-day Adventist Church

The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Protestant Christian denomination distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in Christian and Jewish calendars, as the Sabbath, and by its emphasis on the imminent Second Coming (advent) of Jesus Christ.

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Shirley Caesar

Shirley Ann Caesar-Williams, known professionally as Shirley Caesar (born October 13, 1938 in Durham, North Carolina), is an American Gospel music singer, songwriter and recording artist whose career has spanned over six decades.

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Ska

Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae.

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Skip Prokop

Ronald Harry "Skip" Prokop (December 13, 1943 – August 30, 2017) was a Canadian drummer and band leader who was a driving force in Canadian rock music, creating seminal bands, including The Paupers.

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Songwriter

A songwriter is a professional who is paid to write lyrics for singers and melodies for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music.

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Sound & Vision (magazine)

Sound & Vision is an American magazine, purchased by AVTech Media Ltd.

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Street (band)

Street was a rock group from New York that was around from the late 1960s to the early 1970s.

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The Daily Gazette

The Daily Gazette, formerly The Schenectady Gazette, is an independently owned daily newspaper based in Schenectady, New York and mainly covers the counties of Schenectady, Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Fulton, Schoharie, and Montgomery.

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The Esquires (Canadian band)

The Esquires were a Canadian band, based in Ottawa, active from 1962 to 1967.

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The Herald-Palladium

The Herald-Palladium is a newspaper distributed in the Southwest Michigan region serving all or part of Berrien, Cass, Van Buren, and Allegan Counties.

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The Liverbirds

The Liverbirds were a British all-female beat group, based in Liverpool, active between 1963 and 1968.

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The Paupers

The Paupers were a Canadian psychedelic rock band from Toronto, Ontario who recorded between 1965 and 1968.

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Verve Forecast Records

Verve Forecast Records is a record label specializing in cutting-edge material, initially used in 1967 by Verve Records and since revived twice.

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Wayne Shorter

Wayne Shorter (born August 25, 1933) is an American jazz saxophonist and composer.

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Weather Report

Weather Report was an American jazz fusion band of the 1970s and early 1980s.

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Woody Herman

Woodrow Charles Herman (May 16, 1913 – October 29, 1987) was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, singer, and big band leader.

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3's a Crowd (band)

3's a Crowd was a folk rock band originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, that existed from 1964 to 1969, spending most of that time in Toronto and Los Angeles.

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References

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

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