On this blog I will talk about Rock´n´Roll women that I love. From Blues and Rockabilly, to Punk passing through 60s Garage Punk and 70s Glam, this is my tribute to the wonderful women of the Rock´n´Roll underground.
Please note that suggestions are welcome but there is no guarantee that I will publish it as this is a personal project.
Mz Neon is a genre-bending musician, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, and multimedia artist using performance and lyrics to express her sexuality as a trans woman and defy misconceptions about herself and anyone who identifies outside of the binary spectrum - both gender wise and ideologically. A lyrical provocateur, Neon confronts issues of identity, sexuality, politics, spirituality, and lived experiences as a trans-femme-fatale. She is a triple threat of sharp wit, hypnotic sensuality, and musical virtuosity. Neon commands an elegantly tough, yet unapologetic ownership, of her visceral vulnerability ─ on and off the stage ─ to local and international audiences alike.
Born in Boston, MA, Neon moved to New York City after high school where she spent over a decade performing in a number of bands and working in fashion as a couturier, and where she befriended some of the most influential characters of the trans movement; such as, Amanda Lepore, Laverne Cox, Flawless Sabrina, Allanah Starr, Jamie Clayton, and countless drag queens, sex workers, stealth queens, pier queens, and artists of trans experience. Her social circle and chosen family came from drastically different subcultures ─ between the ballroom community, the punk and rock world, and avant-garde fashion circuits.
Through the many walks of life Mz Neon traversed in NYC she befriended many icons and luminaries of the downtown scene such as Kembra Pfahler, Maripol, Nick Zedd, Philly Abe, Theo Kogan, Miss Guy, Lady Bunny, Mistress Formika, Debbie Harry and Lydia Lunch. She had an electro pop solo project and she went on to form other collective musical projects such as Youthquake and the short-lived industrial-space-rock band, called Sphinx.
She relocated to Los Angeles in 2017. Neon performs extensively in the U.S. and internationally, being billed alongside acts such as Hercules & Love Affair, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Azealia Banks, Martin Rev of Suicide, and Egyptian Lover, among others.
The Emotions are an American Grammy Award–winning soul/R&B vocal group from Chicago, Illinois. The group started out in gospel music but transitioned into R&B and disco music. The Emotions were named by VH1 as one of the 18 most influential girl groups of all time.
The group was originally a gospel outfit known as the Hutchinson Sunbeams who toured the gospel circuit with their father Joe Hutchinson. The Sunbeams sang on Jerry Van Dyke’s “Children’s Gospel” television show and also occasionally performed in the concert with Mahalia Jackson. They eventually became an R&B/Soul act with a popular following in their hometown of Chicago, Illinois. Soon being renamed as The Emotions, they signed with the Memphis-based Volt imprint of Stax Records in the late 1960s. Under the production of Isaac Hayes and David Porter the group issued their 1969 debut album entitled So I Can Love You on Stax.
"So I Can Love You" rose to no. 43 upon the Billboard Top R&B Albums chart. The album's title track got to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot R&B Songs chart and No. 39 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Another single entitled "The Best Part Of A Love Affair" rose to no. 27 upon the Billboard Hot R&B Songs chart. During 1970, The Emotions released a single entitled "Heart Association." That song reached No. 29 on the Billboard Hot Soul Songs chart. The girl group went on to release their sophomore LP entitled Untouched in 1972 upon Stax. A song from the album called "Show Me How" rose to No. 13 upon the Billboard Hot Soul Songs chart. During 1972, the girl group also released another single called "My Honey and Me." That song reached No. 18 on the Billboard Hot Soul Songs chart. The Emotions then started to work on their third studio album entitled Songs of Innocence and Experience. This LP was due to be issued in 1973, but was eventually shelved. The girl group went on to appear in the 1973 feature film Wattstax, performing the song "Peace Be Still." The tune went on to be added to the movie's soundtrack. Wattstax was also nominated for a Golden Globe in the category of Best Documentary. With Stax becoming defunct in 1975, the group then left the record label altogether.
The group then joined up with Columbia Records where an association with Maurice White of Earth, Wind & Fire brought them their greatest level of success. With White and Charles Stepney on production, The Emotions issued in 1976 their third studio album Flowers on Columbia Records. Flowers rose to No.5 upon the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and No. 45 on the Billboard 200. The album was also certified Gold in the US by the RIAA.The LP's title track got to No. 16 on the Billboard Hot R&B Songs chart. Another single called "I Don't Wanna Lose Your Love" rose to No. 4 on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart and No. 13 on the Billboard Hot R&B Songs chart. During 1977 the group issued their follow up album entitled Rejoice The album reached No. 1 on the Billboard Top R&B Albums chart and No. 7 on the Billboard 200 chart. Rejoice has also been certified Platinum in the US by the RIAA. With the LP came the single “Don't Ask My Neighbors" which got to the top ten on the Billboard R&B singles charts. Another song called "Best of My Love" reached No. 1 on the Billboard Pop and R&B charts and won a Grammy for Best R&B Performance By a Duo or Group with Vocals, as well as an American Music Award for Favorite Soul/R&B Single. "Best of My Love" has also been certified Platinum in the US by the RIAA.
During summer 1978 The Emotions went on to issue their third Columbia album called Sunbeam. The album rose to No. 12 on the Billboard Top Soul Albums chart and No. 40 on the Billboard 200 chart. During 1979, Earth, Wind & Fire collaborated with The Emotions on the single "Boogie Wonderland". The song reached No. 6 and No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Soul Songs charts. "Boogie Wonderland" has also been certified Gold in the US by the RIAA. Within October of that year the Emotions issued their follow up studio album again produced by White entitled Come into Our World upon Columbia, which rose to no. 35 upon the Billboard Top R&B Albums chart. The Emotions have been sampled by rappers such as Big Daddy Kane, Tupac Shakur, LL Cool J, Wu Tang Clan, 50 Cent, Ice Cube, Salt n Pepa, De La Soul, Kanye West, A Tribe Called Quest and Notorious BIG.
On September 18, 2020, Pamela Hutchinson died at the age of 61.
Vainica Doble was a Spanish pop music duo that was active between 1971 and 2000, formed by Gloria van Aerssen (1932-2015) and Carmen Santonja (1934-2000), and had a considerable influence on Spanish independent pop music. Although their artistic activity was always outside the major record labels, in the late seventies their songs and their attitude attracted the attention of several independent musicians who would form the so-called new wave of Spanish music. Carlos Berlanga and Fernando Márquez, especially, later brought Vainica Doble closer to the new indie music groups, such as Le Mans, La Buena Vida, Nosoträsh or Family, some of which also recorded for Elefant Records, the company that released the duo's last album. The group released their albums through eight different companies.
Carmen Santonja and Gloria van Aerssen met by chance at the University of Madrid. Gloria was studying Fine Arts and Carmen was at the Conservatory studying piano. They began to collaborate musically in 1966, after the Benidorm Festival, when Gloria suggested to Carmen that they should start composing, as she considered the songs presented in Benidorm to be mediocre. Later they made their anonymous debut in a 1969 Marisol film, Carola de día, Carola de noche. Through Enrique de las Casas, an executive of Televisión Española, they came into contact with the group Music Son and contributed some songs to their repertoire, including Lágrimas de cocodrilo, which was broadcast on television.
The duo's next job is to compose a theme song and several songs for the television series Fábulas, a project by Jaime de Armiñán. This leads them to collaborate with musicians and arrangers and to shape their first professional work as a duo that sings and composes. They get in touch with Pepe Nieto, who is producing a group called Nuevos Horizontes, to which Carmen and Gloria contribute four songs: El afinador de cítaras, Las cuatro estaciones, Mi mosca favorita and Mi churumbel. While composing songs for the group's new singles, they meet film director Iván Zulueta and prepare three songs for his film Un, dos, tres, al escondite inglés. After this experience, Nieto proposes them to record a single under their own name. From a long list of names, they finally choose Vainica Doble. The single, recorded with the Columbia label, includes the songs La bruja and Un metro cuadrado, which many years later would be covered by Los Planetas. The album goes unnoticed by the general public, but a small group of fans receive it with enthusiasm.
Then they collaborate in a new season of Fábulas, accompanied by a group called Tickets (from which Asfalto would emerge), which would include in its first single a song by Vainica Doble titled El rigor de las desdichas. At the end of their contract with Columbia, through Pepe Nieto they contact Manolo Díaz, who runs the recently created Ópalo label. Again with Tickets, they record a single titled Refranes, a song that is again the theme song for a television series. In 1971 they finally record their first full-length album, Vainica Doble, produced by Manolo Díaz. It includes such surprising themes as Guru Zakun Kin Kon, the story of an extraterrestrial dragon that comes in contact, traumatically, with the human species. Once the album was finished, the company had problems with censorship because of the song Quién le pone el cascabel al gato, in which they wanted to see an allegory about Franco.
In 1972 they recorded a Christmas album containing two songs in which Aguaviva, from the same label, collaborated: Oh Jesús and Evangelio según San Lucas. It would be the last work of Vainica Doble for Ópalo. After the closing of the company, they signed with Ariola and for this label they released Heliotropo, an album with a more elaborate production, with orchestral arrangements and the artistic direction of Pepe Nieto. This album includes group classics such as Habanera del primer amor and Elegía al jardín de mi abuela. With this album they made some of their few live performances, in Morocco and Bourbon St. They composed the theme song for the TV series Tres eran tres and performed in the children's program Hoy también es fiesta. In 1975, José Luis Borau asks them for the soundtrack of his film Furtivos. They signed with the record company Gong and in the summer of 1976 they recorded their next album, Contracorriente. Their most popular song is Déjame vivir con alegría, with a surprising sitar arrangement. Dissatisfied with the final production, they disappear from the scene.
In 1980 they return to the recording studio. From these sessions comes the album El eslabón perdido, in which they recover several television songs and forgotten themes and add some new melodies. In 1981 they released El tigre del Guadarrama, with a dark and critical atmosphere. In songs like Crónica madrileña they give their peculiar rock vision of the nascent Movida madrileña. In 1984 they released a double album entitled Taquicardia, an intriguing and very experimental comeback. That same year they create and perform, together with Joaquín Sabina, the theme song for Con las manos en la masa, a TVE program presented by Elena Santonja, Carmen's sister. In 1997 Carbono 14 is released, with which the record company tries to channel them towards a massive public. It turns out to be their best-selling album, but also the one their fans appreciate the least.
In 2000 Vainica say goodbye definitively with En familia, recorded on the independent label Elefant and without any commercial pressure. It includes the ballad Dices que soy and the specialized press hails it as one of the best of the year. Carmen Santonja died in Madrid at the age of 66 on July 23, 2000, and fifteen years later Gloria van Aerssen died at the age of 83 in a hospital in the town of Cercedilla (Community of Madrid) on October 22, 2015.
Patricia Ann Cole (born October 3, 1946), known professionally as P. P. Arnold, is an American soul singer. Arnold began her career as an Ikette with the Ike & Tina Turner Revue in 1965. The following year she relocated to London to pursue a solo career. Arnold enjoyed considerable success in the United Kingdom with her singles "The First Cut Is the Deepest" (1967) and "Angel of the Morning" (1968).
Arnold was born into a family of gospel singers, and performed as a vocal soloist for the first time when she was four years old. Her family lived in the African-American Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. In 1965, Maxine Smith contacted her with an offer. Smith and her friend Gloria Scott had managed to arrange an audition for three girls to replace the original Ikettes, the dancer/singer troupe that provided vocal and dance accompaniment for the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. At the audition the three young women were offered the job on the spot.
As an Ikette, Arnold sang lead on the 1966 single "What'cha Gonna Do (When I Leave You)," backed by Brenda Holloway and Patrice Holloway for Phil Spector's Phi-Dan Records. Arnold sang backing vocals on the Ike Turner produced side of the album River Deep – Mountain High. She also appeared in the 1966 concert film, The Big T.N.T Show. Arnold quit the Ike & Tina Turner Revue in the fall of 1966 after their tour with the Rolling Stones in the UK. She remained in London to establish a solo career, with the encouragement of Mick Jagger. She had a solo contract with Immediate Records, a label founded by Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham.
Arnold enjoyed several major British hits on Immediate Records, including songs written for her by Paul Korda, who wrote "The Time Has Come" and released the solo album The First Lady of Immediate. She also recorded songs written by Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane from labelmates Small Faces, who backed her on several recordings. She toured with the Small Faces during 1967–68, made several TV appearances with them, and featured as backing vocalist on two of their biggest hits, "Itchycoo Park" and "Tin Soldier". In 1968 she released the ambitious solo album Kafunta, with orchestral arrangements by John Paul Jones and including self-penned songs and covers such as Angel of the Morning and Eleanor Rigby, Other credits in this period include her duet with Rod Stewart on the single "Come Home Baby" (produced by Mick Jagger on Immediate Records, with Ron Wood on guitar, Keith Richards on bass, Nicky Hopkins on electric piano, Keith Emerson on Hammond organ and the Georgie Fame Brass Section), as well as Chris Farlowe's version of the Motown standard "Reach Out (I'll Be There)" (with Albert Lee on guitar and Carl Palmer on drums). Her first backing band, the Blue Jays, had been inherited from American soul singer Ronnie Jones and included former Bluesbreakers guitarist Roger Dean. This was followed by the Nice, whose line-up was Keith Emerson on organ, who had just quit the VIPs (later to be known as Spooky Tooth), David O'List on guitar, Lee Jackson on bass and Ian Hague on drums. During this period she scored several hits, including the original version of Cat Stevens' song "The First Cut Is the Deepest" and "Angel of the Morning", plus the Marriott-Lane song "(If You Think You're) Groovy".
After the collapse of Immediate Records in the late 1960s, Arnold signed a production contract with the Robert Stigwood Organisation and released two singles on the Polydor label, produced by Barry Gibb, but a planned album with Gibb was never completed. Between 1969 and 1970, she recorded eleven songs which were produced by Gibb himself but only two of the songs "Bury Me Down By the River" and "Give a Hand, Take a Hand" were released. In 1970 Arnold moved to the musical stage, appearing alongside P.J. Proby in the rock musical Catch My Soul. She then formed a new backing band that included the future members of Ashton, Gardner and Dyke, plus Steve Howe, who would soon join Yes. During this period she renewed her association with Steve Marriott, recording and touring with his new band Humble Pie (Rock On), as well as contributing session musician backing vocals for many notable UK and US recordings including the original 1970 album recording of the rock musical Jesus Christ Superstar, Nick Drake's "Poor Boy", and recordings by Dr. John, Graham Nash, Gary Wright, Manassas, Nektar, Jimmy Witherspoon, Nils Lofgren and Eric Burdon. In 1984, she returned to the stage in the cast of the musical Starlight Express as Belle the Sleeping Car, after which she worked with a number of noted British acts including Boy George as well as working on several film soundtracks. During the late 1980s and 1990s Arnold resumed an active career as a session vocalist, and her credits in this period included The KLF ("What Time Is Love?", "3 A.M Eternal"), Nina Hagen, Roger Waters (Amused to Death), and Graham Parker. In 1994, she joined the cast of the award-winning musical Once on This Island as Erzulie, beautiful Goddess of Love. In 2001 Arnold released her full Immediate Records discography on the album The First Cut (The Immediate Anthology). It includes her famous albums The First Lady of Immediate and Kafunta in addition to several singles. In 2017 P. P. Arnold finally released her Heritage recordings in album. The Turning Tide is a collection of songs recorded between 1968 and 1970. In August 2019, Arnold released her fourth solo album The New Adventures Of... P.P. Arnold. The album was recorded and produced by life-long P.P. enthusiast, OCS star and Paul Weller band guitarist Steve Cradock.
The Cookies were an American R&B girl group active in two distinct lineups, the first from 1954 to 1958 which later became The Raelettes, and the second from 1961 to 1967. Several of the members of both lineups were members of the same family. Both lineups were most prominent as session singers and backing vocalists.
Formed in 1954 in Brooklyn, New York, United States, the Cookies originally consisted of Dorothy Jones, Darlene McCrea and Dorothy's cousin, Beulah Robertson. In 1956, Robertson was replaced by Margie Hendricks (Hendrix). The group was introduced to Ray Charles through their session work for Atlantic Records. In 1958, The Cookies performed with Ray Charles and Ann Fisher for the Cavalcade of Jazz concert produced by Leon Hefflin Sr., held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, on August 3. The other headliners were Little Willie John, Sam Cooke, Ernie Freeman, and Bo Rhambo. After backing Charles and other Atlantic Records artists, McCrea and Hendricks helped form the Raelettes in 1958. Pat Lyles was a Raelette, but never a Cookie.
In 1961, a new version of the Cookies emerged in New York, with Dorothy Jones joining newcomers Earl-Jean McCrea (Darlene's younger sister) and another of Dorothy's cousins, Margaret Ross. Jones also recorded one solo recording for Columbia in 1961. This trio had the greatest success as the Cookies: under their own name; as backing vocals for other artists, including Neil Sedaka's hit songs "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do", "The Dreamer" and "Bad Girl"; and recording demos for Aldon Music, under the direction of Carole King and Gerry Goffin. They provided the backup vocals for the Little Eva hit song, "The Loco-Motion", as well as her follow-up hit "Let's Turkey Trot", both from 1962; and for Mel Tormé's hit version of "Comin' Home Baby". They scored their biggest hit in 1963 with the song "Don't Say Nothin' Bad (About My Baby)", which reached number 3 on the Billboard R&B chart and #7 on the Billboard Pop chart. A 1962 hit, "Chains", was recorded by the Beatles on their debut release Please Please Me. Earl-Jean McCrea left the group in 1965 after two solo singles, which included the first recording of the Goffin/King song, "I'm Into Something Good", made famous by Hermans Hermits.
The Cookies also released several recordings under other names, mostly with Margaret Ross on lead vocals. Their alternative names on recordings were the Palisades (Chairman), the Stepping Stones (Philips), the Cinderellas (Dimension) and the Honey Bees (Fontana 1939 only); record labels are given in brackets. In April 1967, they released their last record, produced by the Tokens. Darlene McCrea returned to replace her sister for this recording.
Margie Hendrix died on July 14, 1973, at the age of 38. Dorothy Jones died in Columbus, Ohio, from complications of Alzheimer's disease on December 25, 2010, at the age of 76. Darlene McCrea died from cancer on February 4, 2013. Margaret Ross, now Margaret Williams, tours today as the Cookies with new back-up singers. She also performs with Barbara Harris and the Toys occasionally.
The White Trash Debutantes are an American punk rock band from San Francisco, California, United States, active since 1989. The band deals with issues of gender equality and transcendence.
The White Trash Debutantes debuted at San Francisco's Covered Wagon Saloon on October 18, 1989 for a birthday party for Punk Globe Editor and Debutante Ginger Coyote. Joey Ramone invited them to partake in his "Circus Of the Perverse" party in New York City playing with the likes of Debbie Harry, Bebe Buell, Ronnie Spector, Lemmy and the Ramones in 1990.
George Michalski, the Musical Director for the hit CBS Drama, "Nash Bridges" began using their material on the show's soundtrack. White Trash Debutantes was featured in the full-length movie "Blast Off.. Shonen Knife" by filmmaker David Markey. Appeared in the documentary film "A Regular Frankie Fan" about fans of the cult film "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." Appeared in the feature film "Tweek City", shot in San Francisco; directed by Eric G. Johnson. The band's music also was used in the film's soundtrack. The White Trash Debutantes won the Rockies award for "Best Punk Band 2003" and the "Best Punk Band 2004" at the Rock City News Awards. White Trash Debutantes were named "Best 2004 Underground Punk Band" and Ginger Coyote "Best 2004 Underground Diva" by Demons In Exile.
Ginger Coyote and Jayne County recorded two songs together in June 2006, "Rock n Roll Republikkkan (renamed from "Punk Rock Republican")," in which Jayne and Ginger name some well known 'Republikkkans' in the music industry; "Trans-Generation," a song written by Jayne County as an anthem for those with gender identity issues. White Trash Debutantes played a memorial tribute for the late Dirk Dirksen "The Pope Of Punk" at The Great American Music Hall along with Jello Biafra and many others. The band has toured the United States, Canada, Mexico and Japan playing with such notables as Rancid, the Ramones, Green Day, Blondie and The Offspring. The band generated a lot of publicity when they invited notorious former Olympic skater Tonya Harding to join the band.
54 Nude Honeys (Japanese: フィフティフォー・ヌード・ハニーズ) was a Japanese punk rock band formed in 1992, in Tokyo. The band was primarily composed of the bass guitarist and co-founder Vivi, the guitarist and co-founder Kotome and the vocalist Yuri. The band and its membership went through a number of reconfigurations between 1992 and 2007, the year in which the band was disbanded. For a portion of the groups active years a second guitarist, Fumi, was added to the line-up.
54 Nude Honeys were formed in 1992 by the Japanese bass guitarist Vivi and the guitarist Kotome. They rehearsed and wrote punk-orientated rock songs before completing the line-up out with the vocalist Yuri. The name 54 Nude Honeys came from a deck of playing cards popular with American forces in World War II, which had images of nude women on the fronts. For its first three years, the band played shows around Japan before attracting interest from the Japanese independent record label Lion Records, who released the band's first single Happy Honey Pretty Go on September 10, 1995.
After the first single gained success on the independent music scene in Japan, the Epic Sony subsidiary label dohb Discs released the band's first mini-album, Crazy Honey Bunny, on October 1, 1995. In 1996, the mini-album Q-Tee Spy was released as well as the single "Ai No Vulgar/Pretty Vacant", the B-side of which was a Sex Pistols' cover. The single was released as a promotional tool in the lead up to their first full-length album, Go Go Cabaret. One more mini-album, Animal Girl, was released in 1997 with Lion Records before the band's second full-length album Drop the Gun the following year. Drop the Gun had some underground success for the band in Europe where they were signed to Mademoiselle records after being dropped from their Epic Sony/dohb Discs deal. For the Drop the Gun album, the band recruited a second guitarist, Fumi. Three promotional singles were released from the album, "One-Eyed Bat", "Man to Sun" and the double A-side "Hot Generation"/"I’m A Rubber Man". "Man to Sun" did not appear on Drop the Gun and was later released on Snake & Queen.
After the tour for the Drop the Gun album, Snake & Queen, the group's third full-length album, was released in 2000. Shortly after the release of the album, Fumi left the band to join the Japanese synth-pop band Polysics as a full member in 2001. In January 2001, 54 Nude Honeys teamed up with the British punk band the Diaboliks for the split EP 54 Nude Honeys Vs Diaboliks – Black Tight Killers which had two 54 Nude Honeys' songs, "Man to Sun" and "Hell on Debt".
In 2003, the band moved to New York to record a fourth and final full-length album 54 Nude Honeys. The album was the band's most successful album both in sales and reviews and was produced by the famed punk producer Marc Zermati. The single, "Where is Love?", was released to promote the album, the group's last original release. In 2006, the group toured France and played a show in Switzerland. While touring in Europe, a greatest hits compilation also titled 54 Nude Honeys was released by the band's new French label, Skydog International. A special edition version of this compilation was released with a bonus DVD of the group's three promotional music videos (for "Jungle Girl", "Drop the Gun" and "Where is Love") and a live performance from 2003 at the punk rock venue CBGB in New York.
In 2007, it was announced that the band would break up.
Sisters Ann Dustin Wilson (born June 19, 1950) and Nancy Lamoureaux Wilson (born March 16, 1954) are American musicians, singers and songwriters, they rose to fame as the singer and guitarist in the rock band Heart.
Heart is an American rock band formed in 1967 in Seattle, Washington as The Army. Two years later, The Army changed their name to Hocus Pocus, then they changed their name again to White Heart a year later, and eventually changed the name a final time to Heart in 1973. By the mid-1970s, original members Roger Fisher (guitar) and Steve Fossen (bass guitar) had been joined by sisters Ann Wilson (lead vocals and flute) and Nancy Wilson (rhythm guitar, backing and occasional lead vocals), Michael Derosier (drums), and Howard Leese (guitar and keyboards) to form the lineup for the band's initial mid- to late-1970s success period. These core members were included in the band's 2013 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Heart rose to fame with music influenced by hard rock and heavy metal, as well as folk music. The band's popularity declined in the early 1980s, and the band began a successful comeback in 1985 which continued into the mid-1990s. Heart disbanded in 1998, resumed performing in 2002, went on hiatus in 2016, and resumed performing in the summer of 2019. Heart's US Top 40 singles include "Magic Man" (1975), "Crazy on You" (1976), "Barracuda" (1977), "What About Love" (1985), "Never" (1985), and "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You" (1990), along with no. 1 hits "These Dreams" (1986) and "Alone" (1987).
The Wilson sisters started a recording studio, Bad Animals, in Seattle in the mid-1990s. They formed a side band, the Lovemongers, which performed "The Battle of Evermore" on the 1992 soundtrack to the Cameron Crowe movie Singles, and later released a four-song EP. The Lovemongers' debut album Whirlygig was released in 1997.
Ann Wilson's first solo album, Hope & Glory, was released on September 11, 2007 and featured guest appearances from Elton John, k.d. lang, Alison Krauss, Gretchen Wilson, Shawn Colvin, Rufus Wainwright, Wynonna Judd, and Deana Carter. Nancy Wilson also contributed. Three singles were released from the project: "Little Problems, Little Lies", "Isolation", and a cover of Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song."
Baby Shakes is an American rock & roll band from New York City. They define their music as rock 'n' roll, power pop, punk, and glam rock.
Baby Shakes were founded 2005 in New York City by Mary Blount, Judy Lindsay and Claudia Gonzalez. They first performed as a group in February 2005. They have toured the U.S., U.K., Europe (September 2007, November 2009, September 2015, July 2016, October 2016, Fall 2017), China (July 2016) and Japan (February 2009, February 2016, March 2017).
They've released 5 singles, a 10” heart-shaped EP, a singles collection, and 4 full-length albums: The First One came in 2008 on Douchemaster Records, followed by Starry Eyes in 2015, Turn It Up in 2017 and Cause A Scene in 2019, the last three were on Lil' Chewy Records.
Their current and permanent drummer (since 2015) is Ryan McHale (New York), and their former drummer was Dave Rahn from Atlanta (Gentleman Jesse & His Men, Carbonas) who also played the drums on all Baby Shakes recordings prior to 2016. Their drummer during their February 2009 Japanese tour was Travis Ramin (Nikki Corvette, Fevers) and Shingo Nishimaru was their drummer during their 2009 European tour.
Ann Sexton (born Mary Ann Sexton, February 5, 1950) is an American soul singer who recorded mainly in the 1970s. Her biggest hit, "You're Gonna Miss Me", reached the R&B chart in 1973.
She was born in Greenville, South Carolina, and is the cousin of singer and songwriter Chuck Jackson. Influenced by gospel music, she sang in her church choir and won local talent shows before singing back-up on a recording by Elijah and the Ebonies. She formed her own band, Ann Sexton and the Masters of Soul, in the late 1960s.
She was seen performing with the group by songwriter David Lee, the owner of the small local Impel record label, who recorded and released her first solo single, "You're Letting Me Down", in 1971. She then signed to John Richbourg's Seventy 7 Records, part of the Sound Stage 7 group, for whom she recorded a series of singles in Nashville and Memphis, Tennessee. In 1973, "You're Gonna Miss Me" reached no.47 on the Billboard R&B chart, and she released the album Loving You, Loving Me. Many of her recordings were co-written by herself and her husband, and several later became popular on the Northern soul scene in the UK. She recorded ballads as well as dance tracks, and the Sound Stage 7 label released her album The Beginning in 1977. It featured the single "I'm His Wife (You're Just a Friend)" which reached no.79 on the R&B chart.
After her 1973 recording of "You're Losing Me" was featured in the 2003 film, 21 Grams, Sexton agreed to go on stage again after a 30-year absence. In March 2007, she made her first performance since the 1970s at the Baltic Soul Weekender in Germany. She performed again at the Baltic Soul Weekender in April 2008, and has continued to make occasional appearances at festivals in the US and Europe since then.
