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Up from the Skies: The Polydor Years

Index Up from the Skies: The Polydor Years

Up From the Skies: The Polydor Years is a 1998 compilation album featuring the music of Ellen McIlwaine during her 1972–1973 recording years with Polydor Records. [1]

34 relations: A. Roland Fields, AllMusic, Blues, Bobbie Gentry, Can't Find My Way Home, Carnegie Hall, Compilation album, David Porter (musician), Ellen McIlwaine, Farther Along (song), Folk music, Funk, Guy Warren, Honky Tonk Angel (Ellen McIlwaine album), Isaac Hayes, It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels, J. D. "Jay" Miller, Jack Bruce, Jerome Lyle Rappaport, Jimi Hendrix, New York City, Ode to Billie Joe, Pete Brown, Polydor Records, PolyGram, Record Plant, Smokey Robinson, Steve Winwood, The Bitter End, Timmie Rogers, Tom Delaney (songwriter), Wade in the Water, Warren "Pete" Moore, We the People (Ellen McIlwaine album).

A. Roland Fields

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Bobbie Gentry

Bobbie Gentry (born Roberta Lee Streeter; July 27, 1944) is an American singer-songwriter who was one of the first female artists to compose and produce her own material.

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Can't Find My Way Home

"Can't Find My Way Home" is a song written by Steve Winwood which was first released by Blind Faith on their 1969 album Blind Faith.

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Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall (but more commonly) is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east side of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park.

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Compilation album

A compilation album comprises tracks, either previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several performers.

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David Porter (musician)

David Porter (born November 21, 1941) is an American record producer, songwriter, singer, entrepreneur and philanthropist.

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Ellen McIlwaine

Ellen McIlwaine (born October 1, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter and musician best known for her career as a solo singer, songwriter and slide guitarist.

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Farther Along (song)

"Farther Along" is an American Southern gospel song of disputed authorship.

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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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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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Guy Warren

Guy Warren of Ghana, also known as Kofi Ghanaba (4 May 1923 – 22 December 2008), was a Ghanaian musician, best known as the inventor of Afro-jazz — "the reuniting of African-American jazz with its African roots" — and as a member of The Tempos, alongside E. T. Mensah.

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Honky Tonk Angel (Ellen McIlwaine album)

Honky Tonk Angel is the 1972 debut solo album by Ellen McIlwaine, following her departure from Fear Itself.

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Isaac Hayes

Isaac Lee Hayes Jr. (August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008) was an American singer-songwriter, actor, voice actor and producer.

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It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels

"It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" is a 1952 country song written by J. D. "Jay" Miller, and originally recorded by Kitty Wells.

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J. D. "Jay" Miller

Joseph Denton "Jay" Miller (May 5, 1922 – March 23, 1996) was an American record producer, musician and songwriter from Crowley, Louisiana, whose Cajun, swamp blues, and swamp pop recordings influenced American popular culture.

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Jack Bruce

John Symon Asher "Jack" Bruce (14 May 1943 – 25 October 2014) was a Scottish musician, singer and songwriter known primarily for his contributions to the British supergroup Cream, which also included the guitarist-singer Eric Clapton and the drummer Ginger Baker.

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Jerome Lyle Rappaport

Jerome Lyle Rappaport (born 1927) is a lawyer, developer, political leader, and landlord.

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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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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Ode to Billie Joe

"Ode to Billie Joe" is a song written and recorded by Bobbie Gentry, a singer-songwriter from Chickasaw County, Mississippi.

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Pete Brown

Peter Ronald Brown (25 December 1940) is an English performance poet, lyricist, and singer best known for his collaborations with Cream and Jack Bruce.

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Polydor Records

Polydor is a British record label and company, that operates as part of Universal Music Group.

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PolyGram

PolyGram Entertainment is a film and TV production company owned by Universal Music Group.

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Record Plant

The Record Plant was a series of three famous recording studios which were founded by Gary Kellgren and Chris Stone, beginning in New York City in 1968.

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Smokey Robinson

William "Smokey" Robinson Jr. (born February 19, 1940) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and former record executive.

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Steve Winwood

Stephen Lawrence Winwood (born 12 May 1948) is an English rock musician whose genres include progressive rock, blue-eyed soul, rhythm and blues, blues rock, pop rock, and jazz.

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The Bitter End

The Bitter End is a 230-person capacity nightclub, coffeehouse and folk music venue in New York City's Greenwich Village.

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Timmie Rogers

Timmie Rogers (born Timothy John Anerum July 4, 1915 – December 17, 2006) was an American comedian, singer-songwriter, bandleader and actor who appeared on many national TV shows in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Tom Delaney (songwriter)

Tom Delaney (September 14, 1889 – December 16, 1963) was an African-American blues and jazz songwriter, pianist and singer, who wrote a number of popular songs, mainly in the 1920s.

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Wade in the Water

"Wade in the Water" (Roud 5439) is the name of a Negro spiritual first published in New Jubilee Songs as Sung by the Fisk Jubilee Singers (1901) by John Wesley Work II and his brother, Frederick J. Work (see Fisk Jubilee Singers).

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Warren "Pete" Moore

Warren Thomas "Pete" Moore (November 19, 1938 – November 19, 2017) was an American singer-songwriter and record producer, notable as the bass singer for Motown group The Miracles from 1955 onwards, and was one of the group's original members.

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We the People (Ellen McIlwaine album)

We the People is a 1973 album by Ellen McIlwaine.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_from_the_Skies:_The_Polydor_Years

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