Double Fantasy, released by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, is the seventh
and final studio album released by Lennon in his lifetime. The album is
notable for its association with Lennon’s murder three weeks after its
release. It became a worldwide commercial success, and went on to win
the 1981 Album of the Year.
John Lennon at the studio mixing board
Huey Lewis (Born Hugh Anthony Cregg III in New York City)
Lewis is a singer and harmonica player with his group The News. The
band is perhaps best known for their third album, Sports, and their
contribution to the soundtrack of the 1985 feature film Back to the
Future. Lewis previously played with the band Clover from 1972 to
1979. He learned how to play the harmonica while hitchhiking across
the country.
1983
Throughout the 1950s and 1960s Jackie Gleason enjoyed lending his
name to a series of best-selling "mood music" albums with jazz overtones
for Capitol Records. He felt there was a market for romantic instrumentals
and his goal was to make "musical wallpaper that should never be intrusive,
but conducive”.
Gleason’s first album, Music for Lovers Only, still holds the record for the
album longest in the Billboard Top Ten Charts (153 weeks), and his first ten
albums all sold over one million copies. At one point, Gleason held the record
for charting the most number-one albums on the Billboard 200 without charting
any hits on the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. Gleason could
not read or write music; he was said to have conceived melodies in his head
and described them vocally to assistants.
Orchestra conducted by Jackie Gleason, Trumpet solo by Bobby Hackett
Robert Joseph "Bobby" Bare, Sr.
Bare’s big break in country music came in 1962 when RCA Records‘ Chet Atkins
signed him. The first song he released on the label was "Shame On Me".
The album Come Fly with Me was released in 1958 and was Sinatra’s
first collaboration with arranger/conductor Billy May. It reached #1
on the Billboard album chart in its second week, and remained at
the top for five weeks.
