Half Hour With Your Artist: Today with The Rock Band Foreigner (Jan/02/2019)

Hello again and welcome to Half Hour With Your Artist. I'm Fidel Benitez Corrales and today we're going to spend 30 minutes with Foreigner, an English-American rock band, originally formed in New York City in 1976 by veteran English musician and ex–Spooky Tooth member Mick Jones, and fellow Briton and ex–King Crimson member Ian McDonald along with American vocalist Lou Gramm.

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This Foreigner set contains 8 songs

1. Cold As Ice
2. Double Vision
3. Hot Blooded
4. I Don't Want To Live Without You
5. I Want To Know What Love Is
6. Juke Box Hero
7. Waiting For A Girl Like You
8. Feels Like The First Time

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Listen To: Foghat - Slow Ride - 1975 song

"Slow Ride" is a song by the British rock band Foghat. It was the lead single from their fifth studio album, Fool for the City (1975), released on Bearsville Records. In 2009, it was named the 45th "Best Hard Rock" song of all time by VH1

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There are five versions of this song on the market. The original LP version from Fool for the City lasts 8 minutes and 14 seconds. The single version, found in several compilations, was truncated to 3:56 with a fade-out ending. The 1977 live version is 8:21, the King Biscuit Flower Hour Foghat version is 10:37 and the 2007 live version is 9:44.

According to drummer Roger Earl, the song was created during a jam session with then new bassist Nick Jameson.

Nick had a cassette player and he would record whatever we played there. As I recall it, the whole song was written— the middle part and the bass part and the ending were all Nick's ideas. Basically, Nick wrote the song, but we just jammed on it, and Nick cut the stuff up so it made sense as far as the song goes. And then Dave [Peverett, the band's then guitarist and vocalist] said, 'I've got some words.' That's how that came about (laughs).

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Half Hour With Your Artist: Today with Barry White (Jan/01/2019)

Hi, I'm Fidel Benitez Corrales and today we're going to spend 30 minutes with Barry White. I hope you enjoy!

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1. Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe
2. I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More Baby
3. Love's Theme
4. Never Never Gonna Give Ya Up
5. What Am I Gonna Do With You (Album Version)
6. You're The First, The Last, My Everything
7. Rhapsody In White

7 songs

Say the name Barry White and you’d be hard pressed to follow it with the name of any other recording artist with such a huge, cross-sectional following. He was at home appearing on Soul Train, guesting with a full band on The Today Show, and appearing in cartoon form in various episodes of The Simpsons. During the ’70s, Dinah Shore devoted a full hour of her daily syndicated Dinah! show to White . While there was a period where Barry White wasn’t releasing records or making the pop charts, he did stay active touring and appearing on other artists’ records including Quincy Jones ’ “The Secret Garden (The Seduction Suite),” Regina Belle , and rap star Big Daddy Kane ’s “All of Me.” It’s surprising to find out that such an illustrious career almost didn’t happen because White wasn’t interested in being a recording artist. Born in Galveston, TX, Barry White grew up singing gospel songs with his mother and taught himself to play piano. Shortly after moving from Texas to South Central Los Angeles, White made his recording debut at the tender age of 11, playing piano on Jesse Belvin ’s “Goodnight My Love.”

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