On July 16, 2021, “Columbia” label released “Sob Rock”, the eighth John Mayer studio album. It was recorded 2017 – 2021, at “Henson Recording Studio” in Los Angeles, and was produced by John Meyer, Don Was, No I.D. and Chad Franscoviak.
Personnel:
John Mayer – vocals, guitars, keyboards, piano, bass
Maren Morris – vocals
Cautious Clay – vocals
Greg Leisz – pedal steel guitar
Jeff Babko – keyboards
Larry Goldings – keyboards
Jamie Muhoberac – keyboards
Greg Phillinganes – keyboards, synthesizers
Pino Palladino – bass
Sean Hurley – bass
Aaron Sterling – drums, percussion
Lenny Castro – percussion
Chad Franscoviak – engineer
Curt Schneider – engineer
Chenao Wang – engineer assistant
Matt Tuggle – engineer assistant
Ryan Lytle – engineer assistant
Mark “Spike” Stent – mixing
Matt Wolach – mixing assistant
Michael Freeman – mixing assistant
Martin Pradler – digital editing
Randy Merrill – mastering
Ryan Del Vecchio – mastering assistant
Track listing:
All tracks are written by John Mayer, except where noted.
On July 14,1997, “Columbia” label released “Drive”, the debut Bic Runga studio album. It was recorded in 1997, at “Revolver” in Auckland New Zealand, Brooklyn and Los Angeles, and was produced by Bic Runga. At the 32nd “New Zealand Music Awards”, “Drive” won “Music Award for Album of the Year”. It was certified 7 x Platinum in New Zealand.
On July 13, 2018, “Columbia” label released “Still Run”, the second Wet studio album. It was recorded 2017 – 2018, and was produced by Rostam Batmanglij, Andrew Sarlo, John Hill, Joe Valle, Kelly Zutrau, Noah Beresin, Loren Humphrey and Robert Ackroyd.
Personnel:
Kelly Zutrau – vocals, synthesizer, strings
Joseph Valle – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, programmer, strings, synthesizer, piano, bass, horn, organ, engineer
Bryndon Cook (as Starchild & The New Romantic) – backing vocals
Garo Yellin – cello
TJ Maiani – drums
Sam Geller – piano
Jesse Kotansky – strings, violin
Meg Duffy – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Hamilton Berry – cello, strings
Joey Waronker – drums
Shane O’Connell – electric guitar, engineer
Buddy Ross – piano, synthesizer
Daniel Aged – steel guitar, bass
Joe Santa Maria – saxophone
Chris Smith – keyboard, piano, guitar, backing vocals
Danny Meyer – saxophone
Gabriel Smith – piano, drums
Melody English – backing vocals
Aerial East – backing vocals
Sam Geller – backing vocals
Sean Tracy – acoustic and electric guitar, slide guitar
In June 1962, “Columbia” label released “Hollywood Jazz Beat”, the tenth Ray Bryant album. It was recorded March – April 1962, in Hollywood, and was produced by John Hammond.
Personnel:
Ray Bryant – piano
Richard Wess – arrangements, conductor
John Hammond – liner notes
Henry Parker – photography
Track listing:
On Green Dolphin Street – Bronisław Kaper, Ned Washington
Ruby – Heinz Roemheld, Mitchell Parish
Invitation – Bronislaw Kaper, Paul Francis Webster
Secret Love – Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster
An Affair to Remember (Our Love Affair) – Harry Warren, Harold Adamson, Leo McCarey
The High and the Mighty – Dimitri Tiomkin, Ned Washington
Exodus (Main Theme) – Ernest Gold
Laura – David Raksin, Johnny Mercer
Three Coins in the Fountain – Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn
On June 4, 1962, “Columbia” label released “The Sound of Johnny Cash”, the eighth Johnny Cash studio album. It was recorded April 1961 – February 1962, and was produced by Frank Law and Frank Jones.
Personnel:
Johnny Cash – vocals, rhythm guitar
Luther Perkins – lead guitar
Ray Edenton – guitar
Don Helms – steel guitar
Floyd Cramer – piano
Marshall Grant – bass
Buddy Harman – drums
Leigh Wiener – photography
Track listing:
Lost on the Desert – Dallas Frazier, Buddy Mize
Accidentally on Purpose – Darrell Edwards, George Jones
In the Jailhouse Now – Jimmie Rodgers
Mr. Lonesome – Tompall Glaser
You Won’t Have Far to Go – Charles Glaser
Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song) – Lead Belly
Delia’s Gone – Karl Silbersdorf, Dick Toops
I Forgot More than You’ll Ever Know – Cecil A. Null
You Remembered Me – Johnny Cash
I’m Free from the Chain Gang Now – Lou Herscher, Saul Klein
On June 1, 1981, “Columbia” label released “The Baron”, the 66th Johnny Cash album. It was recorded in in September 1980 and March 1981, at “CBS Studios” in Nashville, Tennessee, and was produced by Billy Sherrill.
Personnel:
Johnny Cash – vocals, guitar
Pete Wade, Phil Baugh, Terry Jacks, Billy Sanford, Pete Bordonali – guitar
Marty Stuart – guitar, fiddle, arrangements
Pete Drake, Weldon Myrick – steel guitar
Hargus “Pig” Robbins, Bobby Wood – piano
Bobby Emmons – keyboards
Terry McMillan, Charlie McCoy – harmonica
Bob Wray – bass
Jerry Carrigan, Kenny Malone, Jerry Kroon – drums
Lea Jane Berinati, Millie Forrest, Janie Fricke, The Jordanaires, Millie Kirkham, Louis Nunely, Gordon Stocker, Hurshel Wiginton – backing vocals
Bill McElhiney – string arrangements
Ron Reynolds – engineer
Bill Johnson – design
Slick Lawson – photography
Track listing:
The Baron – Paul Richey, Billy Sherrill, Jerry Taylor
Mobile Bay – David Kirby, Curly Putman
(I Learned) The Hard Way – Jerry Lynn Lansdowne
Celling, Four Walls and a Floor – Tom T. Hall
Hey, Hey, Train – Marty Stuart
The Reverend Mr. Black / Lonesome Valley (Medley) – Jerry Lieber, Mike Stoller, Billy Ed Wheeler, Jed Peters
In May 1960, “Columbia” label released “Mingus Dynasty”, the 18th Charles Mingus album. It was recorded in November 1959, at “CBS 30th Street Studio” in New York City, and was produced by Teo Macero. In 1999, the album was inducted in the “Grammy Hall of Fame”.
Personnel:
Charles Mingus – bass
John Handy – alto sax
Booker Ervin – tenor sax
Benny Golson – tenor sax
Jerome Richardson – baritone sax, flute
Richard Williams – trumpet
Don Ellis – trumpet
Jimmy Knepper – trombone
Roland Hanna – piano
Nico Bunink – piano
Dannie Richmond – drums
Teddy Charles – vibes
Maurice Brown – cello
Seymour Barab – cello
Honi Gordon – vocals
Track listing:
All tracks by Charles Mingus, except where noted.
Slop
Diane
Song with Orange
Gunslinging Bird (originally titled If Charlie Parker Were a Gunslinger, There’d Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats)
Things Ain’t What They Used to Be – Mercer Ellington
On May 6, 2022, “Columbia” label released “WE”, the sixth Arcade Fire studio album. It was recorded 2020 – 2021, at “RAK Studios”, “Wack Formula” and “The Crow’s Nest Studios” in London, “Boombox Studios” and “Marigny Recording Studio” in New Orleans, “Dockside Studio” in Los Angeles, “Sonic Ranch Studios” in Tornilo, Texas, and was produced by Nigel Godrich, Win Butler and Régine Chassagne.
Personnel:
Régine Chassagne – lead and backing vocals, keyboards, piano, accordion, orchestral arrangements
Win Butler – lead and backing vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, piano, percussion
Richard Reed Parry – electric guitar, bass guitar, backing vocals
Tim Kingsbury – acoustic and electric guitar, bass guitar, backing vocals
Will Butler – keyboards, bass guitar, backing vocals
Jeremy Gara – drums, percussion
Peter Gabriel – additional vocal
Andre Michot – accordion
Geoff Barrow – granular synthesis, additional production
Orlando Primo – congas, djembe
Willonson Duprate – congas
Louis Michot – fiddle
Charlie Gabriel – saxophone
Mark Braud – trumpet
Wendell Brunious – trumpet
Liza Rey – harp
Paul Beaubrun – sound effects
Owen Pallett – orchestral arrangements, strings
Sally Herbert – conductor, additional arrangements
Helen Gillet – strings
Harry Hardin – strings
Matt Rhody – strings
Sarah Neufeld – strings
Edwin Farnham Butler IV – whispers
Josh Tillman – stomps and breaths, additional production
Romeo Bougere – agogô bell
Michael Brun – additional synthesis
Emily Eck – recording
Eric Heigle – recording, co-producer
Mikko Gordon – recording, mixing assistant, additional production
Suvi-Eeva Äikäs – additional recording
Julia Simpson – additional recording
Owen Pallett – additional recording
James Seymour – additional recording
Mark Lawson – additional recording
Jerry Ordonez – recording assistant
Marco Ramirez – recording assistant
Justin Tocket – recording assistant
Matt Aguiluz – recording assistant
Nathanael Graham – recording assistant
Francesca Edwards – recording assistant
Joy Stacey – recording assistant
Pablo Godin – recording assistant
Felipe Gutierrez – recording assistant
Craig Silvey – mixing
Nigel Godrich – mixing
Dani Bennett Spragg – mixing assistant
Greg Calbi – mastering
Steve Fallone – mastering
Ryan Smith – vinyl mastering
Steve Mackey – pre-production
JR – cover image, WE poster image, additional eye photography
Terry Pastor – airbrush color tinting
Ping Pong Ping – album graphic design
Julia Simpson – album creative production
Alison Green – center image, Polaroids
IV – “I Guy” Character, handwriting
Camille Pajot – studio art director
Rick Rose – digitech
Fabien Barrau – cover image photo post-production
Chroma Center – photo printing, post-production
EHT Collaboration – “Black Hole” image
Danny Clinch – David Bowie photograph
Pneuhaus – “Giant Eye”
Maria Jose Govea – additional photography
JF Lalonde – additional photography
Wes Winship – “Acropolis Is Burning” poster
Don Hertzfeldt – still from World of Tomorrow: Episode 2
Gift Horst Tintypes – WE poster photo development
Track listing:
All tracks by Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, except where noted.
Age of Anxiety I
Age of Anxiety II (Rabbit Hole)
Prelude
End of the Empire I-III
End of Empire IV (Sagittarius A)
The Lightning I
The Lightning II
Unconditional I (Lookout Kid)
Unconditional II (Race and Religion) – additional writing by Will Butler
On April 23, 1985, “Columbia” label released “Two Hearts”, the third and final Men at Work studio album. It was recorded September 1984 – February 1985, at “Fast Forward Studios” in Melbourne, and was produced by Colin Hay and Greg Ham.
Personnel:
Greg Ham – lead and backing vocals, keyboards, saxophone, drum programming, mixing
Colin Hay – lead and backing vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, electric sitar, bass, piano, additional keyboards, marimba, drums, drum programming, mixing
Ron Stryker – acoustic, electric and steel guitars
In April 1967, “Columbia” label released “Don’t Stop Me Now!”, the eleventh Cliff Richard studio album. It was recorded in September 1966 – February 1967, at “EMI Abbey Road” in London, and was Norrie Paramor.
Personnel:
Cliff Richard – lead vocal
Bruce Welch – backing vocals
Hank Marvin – backing vocals
Mike Leander – arrangements, conductor
John Dove – photography
Track listing:
Shout – O’Kelly Isley, Jr., Rudolph Isley, Ronald Isley
One Fine Day – Carole King, Gerry Goffin
I’ll Be Back – John Lennon, Paul McCartney
Heartbeat – Bob Montgomery, Norman Petty
I Saw Her Standing There – John Lennon, Paul McCartney
Hang On to a Dream – Tim Hardin
You Gotta Tell Me – Roy Williams
Homeward Bound – Paul Simon
Good Golly Miss Molly – John Marascalco, Robert “Bumps” Blackwell
Don’t Make Promises – Tim Hardin
Move It – Ian Samwell
Don’t – Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller
Dizzy Miss Lizzy – Larry Williams
Baby It’s You – Burt Bacharach, Mack David, Barney Williams a.k.a. Luther Dixon
My Babe – Willie Dixon
Save the Last Dance for Me – Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman
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