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Year Album Chart positions Label Certifications US [10]US R&B [10]US Jazz [10]1974 The Blackbyrds: 96 14 6 Fantasy: Flying Start: 30 5 2 1975 Cornbread, Earl and Me (soundtrack)
Blackbird was an electronic post-punk band, formed by brothers Chip and Tony Kinman after they dissolved their cowpunk band Rank and File.. Blackbird marked the third distinct musical style embraced and perpetrated by the Kinmans, first with punk rock (), followed by country punk (or cowpunk) with Rank and File, and finally the abrasive, metallic techno-pop of Blackbird.
Since composing "Blackbird" in 1968, McCartney has given various statements regarding both his inspiration for the song and its meaning. [6] He has said that he was inspired by hearing the call of a blackbird one morning when the Beatles were studying Transcendental Meditation in Rishikesh, India and also [7] writing it in Scotland as a response to the Little Rock Nine incident and the overall ...
Black Byrd is a 1973 album by Donald Byrd and the first of his Blue Note albums to be produced by Larry Mizell, assisted by his brother, former Motown producer Fonce. In the jazz funk idiom, it is among Blue Note Records' best selling album releases.
After recording the Beatles' song "Blackbird" for his album Silver Morning, he was asked by Paul McCartney to perform it when McCartney and John Lennon were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. [2] Rankin befriended comedian George Carlin; both were signed to Little David Records. Beginning in 1972 Rankin was often the opening act or ...
The three records on Southern, 2003's Hymns for the Hopeless, 2005's Ashes to Dust, and 2006's Song of the Blackbird, were a trilogy that were focused on death and his experience processing the deaths of those close to him. [12] He recorded the records with Mike Lust at Phantom Manor in Chicago. [11]
The Blackbird is a 1926 American silent crime film directed by Tod Browning [1] and starring Lon Chaney. The screenplay was written by Waldemar Young , based on a story "The Mockingbird" by Tod Browning (which was originally supposed to be the film's title).
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. The core lineup of the band comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.They are widely regarded as the most influential band in Western popular music and were integral to the development of 1960s counterculture and the recognition of popular music as an art form.