Posted June 26, 200619 yr Looking at the new release schedule, on 31st July there is a single called I Remember / Love Of Da Dancehall by a Trinidadian reggae act called Triniti. Also, in this week's album chart, there is an album by an Irish folk group who are also called Triniti. This got me thinking: how many other 'unusual' names have been shared by 2 different artists (names which seem so contrived that it would be remarkable for 2 artists to come up with the name independently). The best examples (apart from Triniti) would appear to be: Kokomo (US pianist from 1960s, UK group from 1980s) Jagged Edge (UK group, US R&B group) Any others?
June 27, 200619 yr Two bands (one UK & one from US) To avoid confusion the US band changed the spelling of their name slightly. Both from 1966 UK band Cryin' Shames 1966 #26 hit - PLEASE STAY listen to it HERE US band Cryan' Shames a clip from their US hit SUGAR & SPICE (cover of the searchers hit) HERE The session in which Please Stay was recorded, was the last recording session by legendary 60s producer Joe Meek before his untimely death. He also produced acts like The Honeycombs, The Tornados and Heinz. His mental instability worsened after experimenting with LSD and there were successive personal and business problems. He became paranoid about his professional work and was also being blackmailed for small amounts of money by past sexual partners. On 3 February 1967, he was involved in a bizarre shooting incident in which he fatally shot his landlady before turning the gun on himself. It was the end of a sometimes brilliant but frustratingly erratic career Then there is LOBO. US country singer who scored 2 UK Top 10 hits. 1971 - Me & You & A Dog Named Boo #4 1974 - I'd Love You To Want Me #5 Dutch singer who had a massive European hit with Carribean Disco Show which also made UK #8. The single was one of those medley type tracks like Stars On 45. ENIGMA UK group who had a #11 in 1981 with yet another medley called Ain't No Stopping German/Rumania duo who had massive hits worldwide in the early 90s with Sadeness Pt 1. UK#1 in 1991 Return To Innocence UK#3 in 1994 - (brilliant video which was in reverse and featured a Unicorn) Though they had other hits (including 3 other UK Top 40 hits) these 2 were the biggest. Edited July 1, 200619 yr by Euro Music
June 27, 200619 yr El Presidente (Some latin artist) El Pres!dente (The Best Band Ever from Scottland Who have such singles as Without you, rocket and 100 mph)
June 27, 200619 yr Looking at the new release schedule, on 31st July there is a single called I Remember / Love Of Da Dancehall by a Trinidadian reggae act called Triniti. Also, in this week's album chart, there is an album by an Irish folk group who are also called Triniti. This got me thinking: how many other 'unusual' names have been shared by 2 different artists (names which seem so contrived that it would be remarkable for 2 artists to come up with the name independently). The best examples (apart from Triniti) would appear to be: Kokomo (US pianist from 1960s, UK group from 1980s) Jagged Edge (UK group, US R&B group) Any others? jagged edge is not unusual. anyway here's grunge legends nirvana's bio Nirvana is the UK-based progressive rock band formed in 1967, primarily active in the late 1960s and early 1970s - and still sporadically active to the present day. The band was formed in the summer of 1967 in an era when melodic pop/rock music with baroque and chamber arrangements and instrumentation was highly-prized. The band, consisted of two songwriter/performers - Greek-born Alex Spyropoulos and Irish-born Patrick Campbell-Lyons who met in London. They produced a number of singles (notably "Rainbow Chaser", "Pentecost Hotel", and "Tiny Goddess") for the fledgling Island Records label. The band was signed by Island Records' founder Chris Blackwell in the era when he also signed the bands Traffic and Free. Blackwell considered Nirvana as one of his prize signings in his early forays into progressive rock and showcased the band by presenting them at prestigious concerts in venues such as London's Saville Theatre. In October 1967 the band released its first album - a concept album produced by Blackwell titled The Story of Simon Simopath. The album was probably the first narrative concept album ever released - predating story-driven concept albums such as the Pretty Things' S.F. Sorrow (December 1968), the Who's Tommy (April 1969) and the Kinks'Arthur (September 1969). Musically, the group blended myriad musical styles including rock, pop, folk, jazz, Latin rhythms and classical music - primarily augmented by baroque chamber-style arrangements to create a unique entity. The next year 1968 their follow-up album, All Of Us, featured a similar broad range of musical styles. Their third album To Markos III was released on the Pye label in 1969. In 1971 the duo amicably separated for a while, with Campbell-Lyons the primary contributor to the next two Nirvana albums, Local Anaesthetic 1971, and Songs Of Love And Praise 1972. Campbell-Lyons subsequently worked as a solo artist and issued further albums: Me And My Friend 1973, Electric Plough 1981, and The Hero I Might Have Been 1983 though these did not enjoy commercial success. The band reunited in 1985, successfully touring Europe and releasing a compilation album Black Flower 1987 containing some new material. (Black Flower had been the provisional title of their third album.) In the 1990s two further albums were released. Secret Theatre 1994 compiled rare tracks and demos, while Orange And Blue 1996 contained previously unreleased material including a tongue-in-cheek cover of the song "Lithium" originally recorded by the American grunge band Nirvana who released its first album in 1989, and who the band had successfully sued over use of the name Nirvana. The undisclosed terms of the settlement has apparently allowed the original Nirvana to continue using its name and issuing new recordings. In 1999 the band released a three-disc CD anthology titled "Chemistry" including several previously-unreleased tracks and some new material. Though the band has never achieved massive commercial success - from their inception they were acclaimed both by music industry professionals and critics. A who’s-who of behind-the-scenes craftsmen - who would go on to become Britain’s top producers, arrangers, engineers and mixers in the 1970’s - chose to work with Nirvana in the late 1960’s - and in essence cut their studio teeth working with Nirvana. Two of these arranger/producers actually worked with Nirvana prior to working with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Nirvana’s producers, arrangers, engineers and mixers included: Island Records founder Chris Blackwell who produced the band prior to hitting his production stride in the 1970s with Bob Marley Arranger/producer Tony Visconti before he worked with David Bowie, Marc Bolan, the Moody Blues and U2 Former Manfred Mann multi-instrumentalist Mike Vickers who undertook arrangement work for Nirvana in 1967 and 1968 before his extensive work with the Beatles in 1969 arranging and programming the extensive Moog synthesizer contributions on their Abbey Road album. US-born producer Jimmy Miller who worked with them immediately before starting his five-album streak producing the Rolling Stones - including the “Beggars Banquetâ€, “Exile On Main Street†and "It's Only Rock 'n' Roll"" albums. Producer Chris Thomas before his production work with Procol Harum and The Pretenders A&R executive and producer Guy Stevens before he produced Mott The Hoople Recording engineer Brian Humphries who started engineered for Nirvana before going on to work with Pink Floyd (eventually engineering their acclaimed “The Dark Side of the Moon†album) Others who worked on production with Nirvana include Muff Winwood (formerly of the Spencer Davis Group and arranger/producer Mike Hurst who worked with Jimmy Page, Cat Stevens, Manfred Mann, Spencer Davis Group and Colin Blunstone; arranger Johnny Scott who arranged for the Hollies and subsequently scored films such as The Shooting Party and Greystoke. Top musicians who played on Nirvana sessions include: Lesley Duncan, Herbie Flowers, Billy Bremner (later of Rockpile/Dave Edmunds fame), Luther Grosvenor, Wynder K. Frogg, Clem Cattini and the full lineup of rock band Spooky Tooth One Nirvana song Rainbow Chaser is thought to be the first-ever recording to feature the audio technique known as "phasing" throughout an entire track as distinct from occasional usage within a song such as The Beatles' usage in their song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and the Small Faces usage in their single Itchycoo Park. Phasing was at that time heavily identified with the musical style known from 1967 onwards as psychedelia and as Rainbow Chaser was the only Nirvana single to achieve significant radio airplay in the UK - the band were invariably tagged as a "psychedelic" band implying associations with so-called druggy music and distorted acid-rock-style guitars. A tag that has stayed with the band ever since. In fact "Rainbow Chaser" was the only recording that Nirvana produced that had any phasing or any other element of so-called "psychedelic" music. Apart from being seen on the cover of their first album wearing the flower-power style clothes common to contemporary musicians in 1967, the band actually had no other associations with that style of music. The group was in the school of baroque-flavored, melodic pop-rock music typified by the Beatles of "Rubber Soul" and "Revolver", the Beach Boys of Pet Sounds and God Only Knows, the Zombies of Odessey and Oracle and Time Of The Season, the Procol Harum of A Whiter Shade Of Pale, the Moody Blues of Days of Future Passed and Nights In White Satin and the Kinks of Waterloo Sunset. The majority of the tracks on Nirvana's albums fall into that broad genre of contemporary popular music - not easily categorized - but perhaps best described as the baroque or chamber strand of "progressive rock, soft rock or "orchestral pop". Their first three albums were reissued on CD by Universal in 2003 and received critical acclaim. In 2005 Universal (Japan) reissued Local Anaesthetic and Songs Of Love And Praise. As of late 2005 the founding members Alex Spyropoulos and Patrick Campbell-Lyons are still sporadically writing and recording. wait a minute!!!! where's http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/10/Nirvanaband.jpg
June 27, 200619 yr Looking at the new release schedule, on 31st July there is a single called I Remember / Love Of Da Dancehall by a Trinidadian reggae act called Triniti. Also, in this week's album chart, there is an album by an Irish folk group who are also called Triniti. This got me thinking: how many other 'unusual' names have been shared by 2 different artists (names which seem so contrived that it would be remarkable for 2 artists to come up with the name independently). The best examples (apart from Triniti) would appear to be: Kokomo (US pianist from 1960s, UK group from 1980s) Jagged Edge (UK group, US R&B group) Any others? And talking of jagged edge: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a3/No_Way_Out_album.jpg Sean Combs AKA Puffy (along with many other names like Diddy, Puff daddy etc and http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/35/Puffy.JPG aka (after the court case in america): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8b/Puffypic1.jpg also http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ab/Bad_boy_p_diddy.jpg Sean Combs AKA Diddy (along with many other names like Puffy, Puff daddy etc and Diddy, a London based musical artist & DJ who sued mr combs for using the name diddy!!!
June 27, 200619 yr Blue : UK male vocal/instrumental group had one hit in 1977 (Gonna capture your heart) Blue : UK male vocal boy band of the 00's had a dozen hits and all members had solo careers of varying success. ******************************************************** The Jets : Uk male vocal/instrumental group had 8 Top 75 hits during the early 80's based on the rock'n'roll genre. The Jets : US male/female vocal/instrumental group managed a UK Top 5 in 1987 with 'Crush on you'..(5 Star they weren't.) Jet : Australia male vocal/instrumental group six UK Top 40 hits to date since 2003,punk based rock act. ******************************************************** Rainbow : Spin off band from legendary rock-gods Deep Purple,three Top 10 UK hits from 1979 to 1981. Rainbow : 'DJ George' & 'MC Zippy' had a one off #15 hit in 2002 with their updated version of the classic childrens TV theme. ******************************************************** Shaft : aka Mark Pritchard managed a UK #7 in 1991/1992 with rave-tastic variation of the 'Roobarb & Custard' theme tune. Shaft : Elliot Ireland & Alex Rizzo kept off UK #1 by Lou Bega in 1999 with their updated remix of (Mucho Mambo) 'Sway'..the old Rosemary Clooney (yep,Georges auntie !) hit from 1954. ********************************************************
June 27, 200619 yr Does this include Liberty X, as they had to change their name from Liberty to Liberty X, and I think there was another Blue act
June 27, 200619 yr I think there was another Blue act There have only been two bands that have gone by the name 'Blue'. :)
June 28, 200619 yr Does this include Liberty X, as they had to change their name from Liberty to Liberty X, and I think there was another Blue act no there is 19!!! including 1. Members: Chris Mann (2), Paul Darking from 1995 2. Real Name: Mark Ashworth 3. Blue (5) / artists (B) Real Name: Antony Costa, Duncan James, Lee Ryan, Simon Webbe Profile: An all male band from the U.K. plus the one from eurovision Sonia was born in Liverpool and by the age of 13 had decided to become a professional singer. In 1989, age 17, her first single 'You'll Never Stop Me From Loving', produced by top producers Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman, topped the charts. Sonia's debut album 'Everybody Knows' sold half a million copies in 1990. The following year, working with a new record company, her success continued with a further series of hit singles and without the help of Stock, Aitken and Waterman. Established in Europe, Sonia is now looking towards the USA, where her second album was recently released. Dean Collinson joined the pop-band 'Blue' in 1989 and later returned to writing and producing. He is a multi-instrumentalist and plays all the instruments on the track of an album which will soon be released. Brian Teasdale (Red) is also a multi-instrumentalist. He is working on a solo album called 'The Lord Made The Sun The Moon And The Stars'. His songs have been contracted by EMI and published by Virgin Music. Nigel Wright is a music director who works with the top names in the industry, especially in the musical field. He has recorded a succession of No. 1 hits and with Andrew Lloyd-Webber co-produced the official theme music of the Barcelona Olympics. [From the 1993 Programme by RTÉ] and many many more
June 28, 200619 yr The Drifters The US group and Cliff Richards backing band were called The Drifters before they changed it to The Shadows.
June 28, 200619 yr The Drifters The US group and Cliff Richards backing band were called The Drifters before they changed it to The Shadows. also the spinners, some irish band and the american one who were the motown spinners, the the detroit spinners (motown being motortown usa with folks such as general motors) and then back to the spinners for a single by a random bloke called rapping 4-tay or something like that
June 29, 200619 yr jagged edge is not unusual. anyway here's grunge legends nirvana's bio Nirvana is the UK-based progressive rock band formed in 1967, primarily active in the late 1960s and early 1970s - and still sporadically active to the present day. The band was formed in the summer of 1967 in an era when melodic pop/rock music with baroque and chamber arrangements and instrumentation was highly-prized. The band, consisted of two songwriter/performers - Greek-born Alex Spyropoulos and Irish-born Patrick Campbell-Lyons who met in London. They produced a number of singles (notably "Rainbow Chaser", "Pentecost Hotel", and "Tiny Goddess") for the fledgling Island Records label. I actually have the singles RAINBOW CHASER with its phasing and PENTECOST HOTEL. The sound was typical of the year 1968 the year after the summer of love. Of their singles only Rainbow Chaser was a hit peaking at #33. Listen to it HERE It's still a popular favourite on oldies radio stations and shows including R2. Edited June 29, 200619 yr by Euro Music
June 30, 200619 yr KENNY Male solo singer from Ireland - had 2 UK chart hits in 1973 Heart Of Stone #11 Give It To Me Now #38 Teeny Bop group from UK - had 4 UK chart hits in 1974-5 (Bay City Rollers type group) The Bump #3 Fancy Pants #4 Baby I Love You OK #12 Julie Ann #10 Initially there was confusion between them as the years were close together and the hits for them both were on the same label - RAK owned by the late Mickie Most. The label had hits for many big acts including Kim Wilde and Suzi Quatro, but the label's biggest act was Hot Chocolate. They had a total of 30 Top 75 hits and that doesn't include remixes or re-issues.
July 1, 200619 yr also the spinners, some irish band and the american one who were the motown spinners, the the detroit spinners (motown being motortown usa with folks such as general motors) and then back to the spinners for a single by a random bloke called rapping 4-tay or something like that It was only in the UK & Ireland that the got Motown & Detroit. Everywhere else they were just The Spinners It was to avoid confusion with the British folk group.
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