question: Music from Big Pink was an album that was composed in a house shared by which lead singer from The Band?
answer: Richard George Manuel
context: Title: This Wheel's on Fire
  Passage: "This Wheel's on Fire" is a song written by Bob Dylan and Rick Danko.  It was originally recorded by Dylan and The Band during their 1967 sessions, portions of which (including this song) comprised the 1975 album, "The Basement Tapes".  The Band's own version appeared on their 1968 album, "Music from Big Pink".  Live versions by The Band appear on their 1972 live double album "Rock of Ages", as well as the more complete four-CD-DVD version of that concert, "Live at the Academy of Music 1971", and the 2002 Box Set of "The Last Waltz" (the song did not make it into the movie or the original soundtrack album).
  Title: John Simon (record producer)
  Passage: John Simon (born August 11, 1941) is an American music producer, composer, writer and performer.  Recognized as one of the top record producers in the United States during the late 1960s and the 1970s, Simon produced numerous classic albums that continue to sell more than 30 years later, including The Band’s "Music from Big Pink", "The Band", and "The Last Waltz", "Cheap Thrills" by Big Brother & the Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin, "Songs of Leonard Cohen" by Leonard Cohen, and "Child Is Father to the Man" by Blood, Sweat & Tears.
  Title: Greatest Hits (The Band album)
  Passage: Greatest Hits is a compilation album by the classic rock group The Band.  It was released in 2000 on Capitol Records.  The album was released in conjunction with remastered versions of the group's first four albums.  It draws very heavily from these records, containing thirteen of the eighteen tracks on "Music from Big Pink", "The Band", "Stage Fright" and "Cahoots".
  Title: Live at Billy Bob's Texas (Stoney LaRue album)
  Passage: Live at Billy Bob's Texas is Stoney LaRue's first live album.  They are one of many bands to record a "Live at Billy Bob's Texas" album at the Fort Worth honky-tonk.  It was originally released in September 2005 as a limited edition CD/DVD combo.  It was re-released in 2006 with the full track listing.  The album included one new song, "Love You For Loving Me," as well as six cover songs.  The song, "Feet Don't Touch The Ground," was originally recorded by Brandon Jenkins on his 2003 album, "Unmended".  The song "Oklahoma Breakdown" was originally recorded by the Norman-based group, Hosty Duo.  "Goin' Down the Road (Feelin' Bad) is a folk song originally sung by Woody Guthrie.  The song The Weight was written by Robbie Robertson and recorded by The Band on their 1968 album, "Music from Big Pink".  "Long Black Veil" is a 1959 song, written by Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin and originally recorded by Lefty Frizzell as well as many other artists.  The album's cover photograph was by Texas photographer Todd Purifoy.
  Title: A Brief History of Love
  Passage: A Brief History of Love is the debut album from British electronic rock duo The Big Pink.  The album was released on 14 September 2009 on 4AD.  The Big Pink signed with 4AD in February 2009, and won the prestigious "NME" Philip Hall Radar Award for best new act.  The band were also named as "one of the most likely breakout acts of 2009" by the BBC.  Prior to the album's release, the band issued three singles: "Too Young to Love"/"Crystal Visions" on the House Anxiety label in October 2008, "Velvet" on 4AD in April 2009, and the non-album track "Stop the World" in June 2009. " Dominos", the album's first proper single and the band's fourth single overall, preceded the album on 7 September.
  Title: Girls Fall Like Dominoes
  Passage: "Girls Fall Like Dominoes" is a song by Trinidadian rapper Nicki Minaj.  It serves as the seventh single from the Japanese and New Zealand versions of Minaj's debut album "Pink Friday" (2010).  The chorus is sampled from "Dominos", a 2009 single by British indie rock band The Big Pink.  "Girls Fall Like Dominoes" was originally released as an iTunes Store bonus track on Minaj's debut album, "Pink Friday"; however it was released later included on all editions of the album in the United Kingdom on March 11, 2011.  The single was released on April 11, 2011 in Australia.  It was released on April 15, 2011 as the fourth UK single after "Moment 4 Life".
  Title: Music from Big Pink
  Passage: Music from Big Pink is the debut studio album by the Band.  Released in 1968, it employs a distinctive blend of country, rock, folk, classical, R&B, and soul.  The music was composed partly in "Big Pink", a house shared by Rick Danko, Richard Manuel and Garth Hudson in West Saugerties, New York.  The album itself was recorded in studios in New York and Los Angeles in 1968, and followed the band's backing of Bob Dylan on his 1966 tour (as the Hawks) and time spent together in upstate New York recording material that was officially released in 1975 as "The Basement Tapes", also with Dylan.  The cover artwork is a painting by Dylan.
  Title: Richard Manuel
  Passage: Richard George Manuel (April 3, 1943 – March 4, 1986) was a Canadian composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist, best known as a pianist, lead singer, and occasional drummer of the Band.  He was a member of the original band from 1967 to 1976 and the re-formed band from 1983 until his death.
  Title: The Weight
  Passage: "The Weight" is a song originally by the Canadian-American group The Band that was released as Capitol Records single 2269 in 1968 and on the group's debut album "Music from Big Pink".  Written by Band member Robbie Robertson, the song is about a visitor's experiences in a town mentioned in the lyric's first line as Nazareth.  "The Weight" has significantly influenced American popular music, having been listed as #41 on "Rolling Stone"'s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time published in 2004.  Pitchfork Media named it the 13th best song of the Sixties, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame named it one of the 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.  PBS, which broadcast performances of the song in "Ramble at the Ryman" (2011), "Austin City Limits" (2012), and "Quick Hits" (2012), describes it as "a masterpiece of Biblical allusions, enigmatic lines and iconic characters" and notes its enduring popularity as "an essential part of the American songbook."
  Title: Chest Fever
  Passage: "Chest Fever" is a song recorded by the Band on its 1968 debut, "Music from Big Pink".  It is, according to Peter Viney, a historian of the group, "the Big Pink track that has appeared on most subsequent live albums and compilations", second only to "The Weight".
citations: Richard Manuel Music from Big Pink