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This Is America (album)

Index This Is America (album)

This Is America is the third studio album (and second solo album) by Kim Weston. [1]

29 relations: Abel Meeropol, Album, Bob Merrill, Cyril Ornadel, Don Black (lyricist), Don Raye, Earl Robinson, Ernest Gold (composer), For the First Time (Kim Weston album), J. Rosamond Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Joe Darion, John Barry (composer), Jule Styne, Kim Weston, Leonard Bernstein, Leslie Bricusse, Lift Every Voice and Sing, Marty Paich, MGM Records, Mitch Leigh, Pat Boone, Pop music, Somewhere (song), The House I Live In (1945 film), The Impossible Dream (The Quest), Val Valentin, When Johnny Comes Marching Home, William "Mickey" Stevenson.

Abel Meeropol

Abel Meeropol (February 14, 1903 – October 29, 1986)Baker, Nancy Kovaleff, "Abel Meeropol (a.k.a. Lewis Allan): Political Commentator and Social Conscience," American Music 20/1 (2002), pp.

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Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape or another medium.

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Bob Merrill

Bob Merrill (born Henry Robert Merrill Levan, May 17, 1921 – February 17, 1998) was an American songwriter, theatrical composer, lyricist, and screenwriter.

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Cyril Ornadel

Cyril Ornadel (2 December 192422 June 2011) was a British conductor, songwriter and composer, chiefly in musical theatre.

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Don Black (lyricist)

Don Black, (born 21 June 1938) is an English lyricist.

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Don Raye

Don Raye (March 16, 1909 – January 29, 1985), born Donald MacRae Wilhoite, Jr., in Washington, D.C., was an American vaudevillian and songwriter, best known for his songs for the Andrews Sisters such as "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar", "The House of Blue Lights", "Just for a Thrill" and "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy." The latter was co-written with Hughie Prince.

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Earl Robinson

Earl Hawley Robinson (July 2, 1910 – July 20, 1991) was a composer, arranger and folk music singer-songwriter from Seattle, Washington.

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Ernest Gold (composer)

Ernst Sigmund Goldner (July 13, 1921 – March 17, 1999), known professionally as Ernest Gold, was an Austrian-born American composer.

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For the First Time (Kim Weston album)

For the First Time is a studio album by Kim Weston, recorded after her departure from Motown Records.

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J. Rosamond Johnson

John Rosamond Johnson (August 11, 1873 – November 11, 1954), most often referred to as J. Rosamond Johnson, was an American composer and singer during the Harlem Renaissance.

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James Weldon Johnson

James Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871June 26, 1938) was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist.

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Joe Darion

Joe Darion, (30 January 1917 - 6 June 2001) was an American musical theatre lyricist, most famous for Man of La Mancha. Darion was born in New York City and died in Lebanon, New Hampshire.

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John Barry (composer)

John Barry Prendergast, (3 November 1933 – 30 January 2011) was an English composer and conductor of film music.

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Jule Styne

Jule Styne (December 31, 1905 – September 20, 1994) was a British-American song writer and composer known for a series of Broadway musicals, which include several famous and frequently revived shows.

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Kim Weston

Kim Weston (born December 20, 1939) is an American soul singer, and Motown alumna.

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Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist.

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Leslie Bricusse

Leslie Bricusse (born 29 January 1931) is an English composer, lyricist, and playwright, most prominently working in musicals and also film theme songs.

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Lift Every Voice and Sing

"Lift Every Voice and Sing" – often referred to as the "Black/African-American National Anthem" – is a song written as a poem by James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) in 1900 and set to music by his brother John Rosamond Johnson (1873–1954) in 1905.

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Marty Paich

Martin Louis Paich (January 23, 1925 – August 12, 1995) was an American pianist, composer, arranger, record producer, music director, and conductor.

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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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Mitch Leigh

Mitch Leigh (born Irwin Michnick; January 30, 1928March 16, 2014) was an American musical theatre composer and theatrical producer best known for the musical Man of La Mancha.

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Pat Boone

Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone (born June 1, 1934) is an American singer, composer, actor, writer, television personality, motivational speaker, and spokesman.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Somewhere (song)

"Somewhere", sometimes referred to as "Somewhere (There's a Place for Us)" or simply "There's a Place for Us", is a song from the 1957 Broadway musical West Side Story that was made into a film in 1961.

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The House I Live In (1945 film)

The House I Live In is a ten-minute short film written by Albert Maltz, produced by Frank Ross and Mervyn LeRoy, and starring Frank Sinatra.

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The Impossible Dream (The Quest)

"The Impossible Dream (The Quest)" is a popular song composed by Mitch Leigh, with lyrics written by Joe Darion.

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Val Valentin

Luis Pastor "Val" Valentin (January 6, 1920 – March 24, 1999) was an internationally renowned recording engineer with six decades of work in the music industry.

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When Johnny Comes Marching Home

"When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (sometimes "When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again") is a popular song from the American Civil War that expressed people's longing for the return of their friends and relatives who were fighting in the war.

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William "Mickey" Stevenson

William "Mickey" Stevenson was born on January 4, 1937 in Detroit, Michigan.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_America_(album)

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