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Billy Swan

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William Lance "Billy" Swan (born May 12, 1942) is an American Country singer-songwriter, best known for his 1974 single, "I Can Help". [1]

68 relations: A&M Records, Adult Contemporary (chart), AllMusic, ARIA Charts, Backing vocalist, Bill Black, Billboard 200, Billboard charts, Billboard Hot 100, Billy Joel, Billy Swan, Black Tie (band), Bonnie Bramlett, Bread (band), Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Clyde McPhatter, Conway Twitty, Country music, David Kemper, Don't Be Cruel, Eagles (band), Elvis Presley, Epic Records, Ernesto Juan Castellanos, Fania All-Stars, GfK Entertainment Charts, Graceland, Havana, Havana Jam, Havana Jam '79, Hot Country Songs, I Can Help, I'm Gonna Get You (Billy Swan song), Irakere, Kris Kristofferson, List of artists who reached number one in the United States, List of artists who reached number one on the Australian singles chart, List of one-hit wonders in the United States, List of performers on Top of the Pops, Mel Tillis, Memphis, Tennessee, Monument Records, Musician, Nashville, Tennessee, Orquesta Aragón, Overdubbing, Pacho Alonso, Polk Salad Annie, Pop music, Randy Meisner, ..., Record chart, Rita Coolidge, Rockabilly, Session musician, Shake, Rattle and Roll, Sierra Swan, Singing, Songwriter, Stephen Stills, Tata Güines, The Jordanaires, Tony Joe White, Top 40, Trio of Doom, UK Singles Chart, VG-lista, Waylon Jennings, Weather Report. Expand index (18 more) »

A&M Records

A&M Records was an American record label founded as an independent company by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss in 1962.

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Adult Contemporary (chart)

The Adult Contemporary chart is published weekly by Billboard magazine and lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary radio stations in the United States.

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AllMusic

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

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ARIA Charts

The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association.

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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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Bill Black

William Patton "Bill" Black, Jr. (September 17, 1926 – October 21, 1965) was an American musician and bandleader who is noted as one of the pioneers of rock and roll.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Billboard charts

The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of singles or albums in the United States and elsewhere.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Billy Joel

William Martin Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.

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Billy Swan

William Lance "Billy" Swan (born May 12, 1942) is an American Country singer-songwriter, best known for his 1974 single, "I Can Help".

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Black Tie (band)

Black Tie was an American country rock supergroup formed by Jimmy Griffin, Randy Meisner and Billy Swan.

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Bonnie Bramlett

Bonnie Bramlett (born Bonnie Lynn O'Farrell, November 8, 1944) is an American singer and occasional actress known for her distinctive vocals in rock and pop music.

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Bread (band)

Bread was an American soft rock band from Los Angeles, California.

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Cape Girardeau, Missouri

Cape Girardeau (Cap-Girardeau; colloquially referred to as "Cape") is a city in Cape Girardeau and Scott counties in the U.S. state of Missouri.

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Clyde McPhatter

Clyde Lensley McPhatter (November 15, c. 1932 – June 13, 1972) was an American rhythm and blues, soul and rock and roll singer.

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Conway Twitty

Harold Lloyd Jenkins (September 1, 1933 – June 5, 1993), better known by his stage name Conway Twitty, was an American country music singer.

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Country music

Country music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.

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David Kemper

David Law Kemper (born 1947/8 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American rock drummer who was a member of the Jerry Garcia Band (1983–1994) and Bob Dylan's band (1996–2001).

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Don't Be Cruel

"Don't Be Cruel" is a song recorded by Elvis Presley and written by Otis Blackwell in 1956.

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Eagles (band)

The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1971.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor.

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Epic Records

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

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Ernesto Juan Castellanos

Ernesto Juan Castellanos is a Cuban freelance author, translator, educator, journalist, producer, filmmaker, and researcher who currently lives and works in Miami.

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Fania All-Stars

The Fania All-Stars is a musical group formed in 1968 as a showcase for the musicians on Fania Records, the leading salsa music record label of the time.

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GfK Entertainment Charts

The GfK Entertainment Charts are the official music charts in Germany and are gathered and published by GfK Entertainment GmbH (formerly Media Control GmbH and Media Control GfK International GmbH) on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie (Federal Association of Phonographic Industry).

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Graceland

Graceland is a mansion on a estate in Memphis, Tennessee, United States, that was owned by Elvis Presley.

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Havana

Havana (Spanish: La Habana) is the capital city, largest city, province, major port, and leading commercial center of Cuba.

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Havana Jam

Havana Jam was a three-day music festival that took place at the Karl Marx Theater, in Havana, Cuba, on 2–4 March 1979.

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Havana Jam '79

Havana Jam ’79 is an hour-long documentary written, produced and directed in 2009 by Cuban author, journalist and filmmaker Ernesto Juan Castellanos.

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Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine in the United States.

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I Can Help

"I Can Help" is a song written and performed by Billy Swan.

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I'm Gonna Get You (Billy Swan song)

"I'm Gonna Get You" is a song written by Dennis Linde.

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Irakere

Irakere (faux-Yoruba for 'forest') is a Cuban band founded by pianist Chucho Valdés (son of Bebo Valdés) in 1973.

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Kris Kristofferson

Kristoffer Kristofferson (born June 22, 1936) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor.

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List of artists who reached number one in the United States

This is a list of recording artists who have reached number one on Billboard magazine's weekly pop singles chart(s).

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List of artists who reached number one on the Australian singles chart

This is a list of recording artists who have reached number one on Australia's singles chart from 1956 to the present.

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List of one-hit wonders in the United States

A one-hit wonder is a musical artist who is successful with one hit song, but without a comparable subsequent hit.

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List of performers on Top of the Pops

This list of performers on Top of the Pops includes popular music recording artists and musical ensembles who have performed on Top of the Pops, a weekly BBC One television programme that featured artists from the UK singles chart.

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Mel Tillis

Lonnie Melvin Tillis (August 8, 1932 – November 19, 2017) was an American country music singer and songwriter.

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Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city located along the Mississippi River in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Monument Records

Monument Records was an American record label in Washington, D.C. named for the Washington Monument, founded in 1958 by Fred Foster and Buddy Deane (a prominent Baltimore disc jockey at WTTG).

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Musician

A musician is a person who plays a musical instrument or is musically talented.

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Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County.

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Orquesta Aragón

Orquesta Aragón is a Cuban musical band formed on 30 September 1939, by Orestes Aragón Cantero in Cienfuegos, Cuba.

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Overdubbing

Overdubbing (the process of making an overdub, or overdubs) is a technique used in audio recording, whereby a musical passage is recorded twice.

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Pacho Alonso

Pacho Alonso (August 22, 1928 – August 27, 1982) was a Cuban singer and bandleader from Santiago de Cuba who is attributed with creating the musical form pilón in collaboration with percussionist/composer Enrique Bonne.

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Polk Salad Annie

"Polk Salad Annie" is a 1968 song written and performed by Tony Joe White.

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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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Randy Meisner

Randall Herman “Randy” Meisner (born March 8, 1946) is a retired American musician, singer, songwriter and founding member of the Eagles.

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Record chart

A record chart, also called a music chart, is a ranking of recorded music according to certain criteria during a given period of time.

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Rita Coolidge

Rita Coolidge (born May 1, 1945) is an American recording artist.

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Rockabilly

Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music, dating back to the early 1950s in the United States, especially the South.

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Session musician

Session musicians, studio musicians, or backing musicians are musicians hired to perform in recording sessions or live performances.

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Shake, Rattle and Roll

"Shake, Rattle and Roll" is a twelve bar blues-form song, written in 1954 by Jesse Stone under his songwriting pseudonym of Charles E. Calhoun.

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Sierra Swan

Sierra Marie Swan (born April 5, 1978) is an American musician.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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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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Stephen Stills

Stephen Arthur Stills (born January 3, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.

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Tata Güines

Tata Güines (June 30, 1930 – February 4, 2008), born Federico Arístides Soto Alejo, was a Cuban percussionist on the tumbadora, or conga drum, as well as a composer.

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The Jordanaires

The Jordanaires were an American vocal quartet that formed as a gospel group in 1948.

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Tony Joe White

Tony Joe White (born July 23, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for his 1969 hit "Polk Salad Annie" and for "Rainy Night in Georgia", which he wrote but was first made popular by Brook Benton in 1970.

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Top 40

In the music industry, the top 40 is the current, 40 most-popular songs in a particular genre.

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Trio of Doom

The Trio of Doom was a short-lived jazz fusion power trio consisting of John McLaughlin on guitar, Jaco Pastorius on bass, and Tony Williams on drums.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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VG-lista

VG-lista is a Norwegian record chart.

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Waylon Jennings

Waylon Arnold Jennings (pronounced; June 15, 1937 – February 13, 2002) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician.

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Weather Report

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

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References

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

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