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Greatest Hits is a compilation album by Australian hard rock band The Angels, released in November 2011. Greatest Hits peaked at number 26 on the ARIA Charts. [1] It was certified platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association in 2015.
Face to Face is the second studio album by Australian hard rock band, the Angels, which was released in June 1978. [1] [2] It was co-produced by the band with Mark Opitz, [3] which peaked at No. 18 on the Kent Music Report Albums Chart. [2] For shipment of 280,000 copies, it was accredited as 4× platinum. [1]
In 1976, the Angels signed a recording deal with the Albert Productions label, [2] [4] upon the recommendation of Bon Scott and Malcolm Young (from AC/DC). The group dropped "Keystone" from their name to become the Angels and relocated to Sydney with the line-up of Neeson on lead vocals and bass guitar, King on drums, Rick on lead guitar and John Brewster on lead vocals and rhythm guitar.
The Angels' performance (with Santiglia on lead) was originally intended as a demo for The Shirelles' consideration, but the music publishers chose instead to release it as it stood. [3] The song was a major hit, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100. "My Boyfriend's Back" sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. [4]
A song from the album, "Walking on a Highware" became Marseille's first and only single to enter the UK Singles chart, peaking at number 98 and spending one week in the listing. [9] However, lack of industry interest in the band caused this iteration of Marseille to split up soon after. [1]
Allyn Malcolm Ferguson Jr. (October 18, 1924 – June 23, 2010) was an American composer, whose works include the themes for 1970s television programs Barney Miller and Charlie's Angels (1976-1981), which he co-wrote with Jack Elliott.
La Marseillaise des Blancs (English: The Marseille [Song] of the 'Blancs') is a royalist and Catholic adaptation of the national anthem of France, La Marseillaise.The lyrical content of the Royal and Catholic variation is strongly counter-revolutionary and originated from the War in the Vendée, where locals attempted to resist the republican forces in 1793.
Passage to Marseille, also known as Message to Marseille, is a 1944 American war film made by Warner Brothers, directed by Michael Curtiz. The screenplay was by Casey Robinson and Jack Moffitt from the novel Sans Patrie ( Men Without Country ) by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall .