What college did the background singer of You're So Vain attend?
Dartford Grammar School
Title: Thorn Kief Hillsbery
Passage: Thorn Kief Hillsbery is an American novelist. He is the author of "War Boy" and "What We Do Is Secret", which was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. He was born in Portland, Oregon, and attended Evergreen State College. He currently lives in Manhattan, and teaches a creative writing workshop at Columbia University.
Title: Vocal jazz
Passage: Vocal jazz or jazz singing is an instrumental approach to the voice, where the singer can match the instruments in their stylistic approach to the lyrics, improvised or otherwise, or through scat singing; that is, the use of non-morphemic syllables to imitate the sound of instruments.
Title: Fooled Around and Fell in Love
Passage: ``Fooled Around and Fell in Love ''is a song written and performed by blues guitarist Elvin Bishop. It appeared on his 1975 album Struttin 'My Stuff and was released as a single the following year. Bishop does not sing lead vocals on the track; feeling that his gravelly voice would n't do the song justice, he invited vocalist Mickey Thomas, who was a background singer in his band at the time, to sing it. The song peaked at # 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in May 1976. The record was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America on June 23, 1976. In Canada, the song reached number 22 on the singles chart and number 8 on the Adult Contemporary chart. The song became a Gold record.
Title: Beat It
Passage: Michael Jackson -- lead vocals, background vocals, drum case beater Paul Jackson Jr. -- rhythm guitar Steve Lukather -- lead guitar, bass guitar Eddie Van Halen -- guitar solo Steve Porcaro -- synthesizer, synthesizer programming Greg Phillinganes -- Rhodes, synthesizer Bill Wolfer -- keyboards Tom Bahler -- Synclavier Jeff Porcaro -- drums
Title: Mick Jagger
Passage: In September 1950, Keith Richards and Jagger were classmates at Wentworth Primary School, Dartford. In 1954, Jagger moved to Wilmington, Kent with his family. The same year he passed the eleven-plus and went to Dartford Grammar School, which now has the Mick Jagger Centre, named after its most famous alumnus, installed within the school's site. Jagger and Richards lost contact with each other when they went to different schools, but after a chance encounter on platform two at Dartford railway station in July 1960, resumed their friendship and discovered their shared love of rhythm and blues, which for Jagger had begun with Little Richard.
Title: A Piece of What You Need
Passage: A Piece of What You Need is the fourth studio album by singer-songwriter Teddy Thompson. The album contains all new Teddy originals and was produced by Marius De Vries, whom Teddy met while recording background vocals on Rufus Wainwright's "Want" records in 2002. Included are new songs Teddy had been testing out live, such as "Turning the Gun On Myself", "In My Arms" and "Can't Sing Straight".
Title: Raven-Symoné
Passage: In 1992, Pearman began her singing career at the age of seven, when she signed with MCA Records. She spent that year and the next taking vocal lessons from Missy Elliott. Her debut album, "Here's to New Dreams", was released on June 22, 1993, which spawned two singles: "That's What Little Girls Are Made Of" and "Raven Is the Flavor". "That's What Little Girls Are Made Of" reached No. 68 on the "Billboard" Hot 100. The album however was not successful, and due to low sales she was dropped from MCA Records in 1995. The album sold over 73,000 copies in the US.
Title: You're So Vain
Passage: In 1983, she said it is not about Mick Jagger, who contributed uncredited backing vocals to the song. In a 1993 book, Angie Bowie claimed to be the ``wife of a close friend ''mentioned in`` You're So Vain'', and that Jagger, for a time, had been ``obsessed ''with her. Simon made another comment about the subject's identity as a guest artist on Janet Jackson's 2001 single,`` Son of a Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You)'', which sampled ``You're So Vain ''. Simon said about the song,`` The apricot scarf was worn by Nick (Delbanco). Nothing in the words referred to Mick.''
Title: I Want to Know What Love Is
Passage: The song has received positive retrospective reviews from critics, with Bret Adams of AllMusic writing: ``It's not hard to see why it became Foreigner's first # 1 single. Its dreamy, hypnotic feel is due in part to Lou Gramm's soulful lead vocals and the New Jersey Mass Choir's background vocals. ''
Title: The Kentucky Headhunters
Passage: Greg Martin -- lead guitar, background vocals (1968 - 1973, 1976 -- 1982, 1986 -- present) Doug Phelps -- bass guitar, background vocals (1986 -- 1992, 2008 -- present); lead vocals (1995 -- present); rhythm guitar (1995 -- 2008) Fred Young -- drums, background vocals (1968 -- 1982, 1986 -- present) Richard Young -- rhythm guitar, lead and background vocals (1968 -- 1982, 1986 -- present)
Title: Motown Remembers Marvin Gaye: Never Before Released Masters
Passage: Motown Remembers Marvin Gaye: Never Before Released Masters is a posthumous compilation album featuring the singer's unreleased recordings dating from 1963 to 1972 when Gaye was recording with Motown Records. Many of the records featured are overdubbed with eighties-styled drum programming and featured background vocalists whereas original recordings of the songs feature no background vocals and the instrumentation was more live than what is featured in this collection which was produced within a year after Gaye's 1984 death.
Title: You Lost the Sweetest Boy
Passage: "You Lost the Sweetest Boy" is a song written by Holland–Dozier–Holland and released as a single by Motown star Mary Wells. The song is most noted for the background vocals by The Supremes and The Temptations.
Title: You're So Vain
Passage: ``You're So Vain ''is a song written in 1971 by Carly Simon and released in November 1972. The song is a critical profile of a self - absorbed lover about whom Simon asserts`` You're so vain, you probably think this song is about you.'' The title subject's identity has long been a matter of speculation, with Simon stating that the song refers to three men, only one of whom she has named publicly, actor Warren Beatty. The song is ranked at # 92 on Billboard's Greatest Songs of All - Time. ``You're So Vain ''was voted # 216 in RIAA's Songs of the Century, and in August 2014, the UK's Official Charts Company crowned it the ultimate song of the 1970s.
Title: Up Where We Belong
Passage: ``Up Where We Belong ''is a Platinum - certified, Grammy Award - winning hit song written by Jack Nitzsche, Buffy Sainte - Marie, and Will Jennings. It was recorded by Joe Cocker (lead vocals) and Jennifer Warnes (lead and background vocals) for the smash 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman.
Title: Henry Thacker
Passage: Henry Thacker attended Boys' High School and then Canterbury College (what is now known as the University of Canterbury), from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. He then enrolled at Edinburgh University where he gained his M.B. and C.M. diplomas in 1895. Two years later he gained a fellowship in the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin.
Title: Thriller (song)
Passage: Swedien and Jones stated that Vincent Price recorded his introduction and voice - over rap for the song in two takes; Jones, acknowledging that doing a voice - over for a song is ``difficult '', praised Price and described his recording takes as being`` fabulous''. Swedien said of Jackson recording the song, that, ``I tried all sorts of things with Michael -- for instance, he would sing the main vocal part and we'd double it one time and then I'd ask him to step away from the mic and do it a third time and that really changed the acoustics in the room so it gave Michael's vocals a unique character... We recorded some of those background vocals in the shower stall at Westlake. ''
Title: December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)
Passage: The song features drummer Gerry Polci on lead vocals, with the usual lead Frankie Valli singing the bridge sections and backing vocals, and bass player Don Ciccone (former lead singer of The Critters) singing the falsetto part (And I felt a rush like a rolling ball of thunder / Spinning my head around and taking my body under).
Title: Love the One You're With
Passage: ``Love the One You're With ''is a song by folk rocker Stephen Stills. It was released as the lead single from his debut self - titled studio album in November 1970. The song, inspired by a remark Stills heard from musician Billy Preston, became his biggest hit single, peaking at No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1971. David Crosby and Graham Nash, Stills' fellow members of Crosby, Stills & Nash, provide background vocals on the song. The song was also covered by a number of artists, including The Isley Brothers, Bucks Fizz, and Luther Vandross.
Title: Best of My Love (Eagles song)
Passage: Don Henley -- lead vocals, brushed drums Glenn Frey -- double - tracked 12 - string acoustic guitar, background vocals Bernie Leadon -- pedal steel guitar, background vocals Randy Meisner -- bass, background vocals
Title: Love Language
Passage: Love Language was the eighth album by R&B/Soul crooner Teddy Pendergrass. It was his first record for Asylum Records after being a longtime artist on Philadelphia International Records. It did much better on the "Billboard" 200 than his last two records, peaking at #38. He had not reached the top 40 on the album charts since 1981's "It's Time for Love". The album was composed and produced by Michael Masser, with the exception of the track "You're My Choice Tonight (Choose Me)" (#15 R&B chart, November 3, 1984), which was produced by Luther Vandross and featured Cissy Houston on background vocals and as "Solo Female Voice".
Mick Jagger You're So Vain