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Eric Carmen's 1975 first solo and self titled album includes "All By Myself" (Eric Carmen) based on Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Opus 18. The single peaked at number two on Billboard's Top One Hundred. Wikipedia: "Carmen thought

Angela Lansbury starred in Disney's 1991 animated hit film and sang the title song "Beauty And The Beast" (Ashman - Menken). Angela recorded the tune in one take. Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson formed a duet to record "Beauty And The Beast" which also

Dennis Lambert recorded live at Joe's Pub in NYC with members of Tavares singing "Nightshift" (Walter Orange - Dennis Lambert - Franne Golde). Both Jackie Wilson and Marvin Gaye died the year before this hit and the tune is considered as a tribute to

Former member and co-founder of Traffic and once a member of Fleetwood Mac, Dave Mason released "Only You Know And I Know" (Mason) in 1970. This is from the solo album "Alone Together". Delaney and Bonnie (Bramlett) and Friends (various members

"Wade In the Water" is a spiritual associated with the Underground Railroad. Apparently Harriet Tubman used the song to tell escaping slaves to get into the water so slaver's dogs lost the trail. This track is from the album "Black Secular Vocal Groups"

Fran Warren (Wolfe) was the vocalist with the Claude Thornhill Orchestra in 1946 when they recorded "A Sunday Kind Of Love" (Belle - Leonard - Rhodes - Prima). Yes that's Louis Prima who had a hand in the composition. Claude played with Benny Goodman,

A required member of The Traveling Wilburys, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (Mike Campbell, Benmont Tench, Ron Blair and Stan Lynch) recorded "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" (Tom Petty - Mike Campbell) as a demo. One of Tom's guitar teachers was Don

"I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" was composed in 1937 by Irving Berlin. It was introduced in the musical "On the Avenue" in1937 by Dick Powell and Alice Faye (Leppert). Big band leader, composer, saxophonist and clarinettist Les Brown and his

Carl Perkins recorded "Matchbox" on a partial lyric suggested by his father. The song is based on twenties tunes called "Match Box Blues" recorded by Blind Lemon Jefferson and Ma Rainey's "Lost Wandering Blues". The Sun label single was recorded in 1956

According to Wikipedia Fred Hellerman and The Weavers (Ronnie Gilbert, Lee Hays, Fred Hellerman, and Pete Seeger) were first to record "The Roving Kind". This was based on the sea shanty titled "The Pirate Ship" and issued just days before the Guy

One of the most successful songwriters on the fifties, Bob Merrill sings and plays piano on his composition "Sparrow In The Tree Top". Please consider me one of Bob's fans. Guy Mitchell (Al Cernik) had the hit with "Sparrow In The Tree Top" in 1951 with

The Tamla/Motown five man group The Messengers (Greg Jeresek, Peter Barnes, Jesse Row, Jeff Taylor and Augie Jurishica) issued "California Soul" (Nickolas Ashford - Valerie Simpson) as a B side in 1967. The genesis of group started as a high school band

It was 1934 when Britain's Lew Stone and his band first issued "Isle of Capri" (Grosz - Kennedy) with trumpeter Nat Gonella as the vocalist. Noteworthy is the fact that Al Bowlly was a vocalist with the band at the same time. England's Ray Nobel and

The demo for "Don't Forbid Me" (Charles Singleton) was sent to Elvis Presley's home where it was ignored, in Elvis' words "with all the junk that comes there". This was revealed by Elvis during the Million Dollar Quartet (Elvis, Johnny Cash, Jerry lee

Lead guitarist for Bon Jovi for more than a quarter century, songwriter and producer Richie Sambora with an in concert version of the tune he wrote with Jon Bon Jovi and Desmond Child especially for Cher. "We All Sleep Alone" features the vocals of

Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm Orchestra first recorded "In the Chapel In the Moonlight" (Billy Hill) peaking at the top of the charts in 1936. On their way to tour the U.S. east coast the band stopped in Rockford, Illinois. Here his trademark was

"Waiting For Tonight" (Christensen - Garvin - Temple) was first issued by 3rd Party (Maria Christensen, Elaine Borja and Karmine Alers) in 1997 on the group's debut album "Alive". Jennifer Lopez covered "Waiting For Tonight" in 1999 for her debut album

"Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair)" (Evelyn Danzig - Jack Segal) was written in part by Evelyn Danzig who was a professional pianist. Wikipedia: ""Scarlet Ribbons" was written in only 15 minutes in 1949 at Danzig's home in Port Washington, New York after she

Singer, pianist, writer and producer Neil Sedaka composed "Lonely Night (Angel Face)" on the 1975 album "The Hungry Years". This was on Elton John's Rocket Records label and featured Elton on "Bad Blood" along with the slower version of "Breaking Up Is

Here is the "Detroit" version of The Miracles (Bill Robinson, Bobby and Claudette Rogers, Ronnie White and Pete Moore) original "Shop Around" (Smokey Robinson - Berry Gordy). Recorded at a faster tempo The Miracles featuring William "Smokey" Robinson

Here is the demo of The Motels (Martha Davis and a revolving group of members) singing "Take My Breath Away" (Giorgio Moroder - Tom Whitlock). It was released later on the 2001 album "Anthologyland". Featured in the film and issued as the first single