Paul Stanley: Soul Man
KISS frontman turns to soul music and R&B to further his musical passions and create the Soul Station album NOW AND THEN.
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May 7, 2021
Paul Stanley on Soul Station tracks: “I found writing these songs easy because it wasn’t a case of ‘Gee, let me write in the style of,’ it was being part of it, so it’s not like wearing a different hat.” Photo by Masanori Naruse
KISS frontman turns to soul music and R&B to further his musical passions and create the Soul Station album NOW AND THEN.
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Today in Music History - April 10
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Today in Music History for April 10:
In 787, the church of St. Corneille at Compiegne installed an organ at the request of Frankish King Pepin, in what is modern-day France. This is the first recorded mention of this musical instrument.
In 1928, saxophonist Fraser MacPherson, one of the most respected jazz musicians in Western Canada, was born in Winnipeg. A resident of Vancouver from 1948 on, he received international attention in 1975 with his album Fraser: Live at the Planetarium. He died of cancer in 1993.
In 1932, Nate Nelson, lead singer of The Flamingos, was born in Chicago. The R&B group scored their first U.S. hit in 1953 and hit the charts as late as 1970. I ll Be Home and I Only Have Eyes For You were two of their biggest hits. Nelson joined The Platters in 1962. He died in 1984.
Omaha Performing Arts presents Alicia Olatuja Intuition: Songs From The Minds Of Women on March 11th at the Holland Performing Arts Center. Once you have listened to acclaimed vocalist, composer and arranger
Alicia Olatuja, you won’t forget her. Praised in The New York Times as “a singer with a strong and luscious tone,” Alicia has shared the stage with Chaka Khan, Christian McBride, Billy Childs, and others, astounding audiences with her exquisite vocals and artistic versatility. Her program: “Intuition,” celebrates the works of female icons including songs of Brenda Russell, Sade, Tracy Chapman, Kate Bush, Angela Bofill and Linda Creed and feature classics such as Give Me One Reason and This Woman s Work. A preshow curtain warmer discussion will be prsented with Omaha’s own “Queen of Soul” Kathy Tyree on the landmark, ground-breaking Black women in jazz. Preshow curtain warmers will take place in the theater lobby one hour prior to the start of the show. Al
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Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff and Thom Bell tell the tale of Philly soul.
Leon Huff, Thom Bell and Kenneth Gamble (from left) in Philadelphia in 1973. Credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images.
From scorching message songs to sexy ballads, laidback steppers to boogie joints, the catalog of Philadelphia International Records (PIR) is both unmistakably bold and warmly enticing. Spearheaded by the influential songwriting and production partnership of Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff, along with invaluable input from their colleague Thom Bell, a producer, arranger and musician, the label put out 15 Gold singles and 22 Gold albums, including eight Platinum LPs, during its 1970s and early ’80s heyday, and nurtured the careers of artists including Lou Rawls, Patti LaBelle, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes and the O’Jays. Most important, and impressive, was how the label created a timeless signature sound quite literally that changed the trajectory of global popular music, from R&B to dis