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"Shining Star" is a song from Earth, Wind & Fire's album That's the Way of the World, issued as a single in January 1975 on Columbia Records. [4] The song rose to No. 1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 chart and the Billboard Hot Soul Songs chart, becoming their first single to top both charts (and only single to top the former).
Shining Star" was released as a single in 1980 and peaked at number 4 on the US Billboard R&B chart, [3] and number 5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. [4] The song was most successful in New Zealand, where it reached position number 2; [5] the same position that it also reached in the Black Oriented Singles of the Record World magazine in the USA ...
The Manhattans are an American R&B vocal group.Their songs "Kiss and Say Goodbye", recorded in 1976, and 1980's "Shining Star", both sold millions of copies. [1]The Manhattans have recorded 45 hits on the Billboard R&B Chart, including twelve top-10 R&B hits in the United States, starting in 1965. [2]
The single, "Shining Star", reached number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Soul Singles charts. "Shining Star" went on to win a Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. [12] [13] [14] The album's title track reached No. 5 on the Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart and No. 12 on the Hot 100 chart. [15] [16]
Gerald Alston (born November 8, 1951) is an American soul/R&B singer, [1] and the lead singer of the Manhattans.Between late 1970 and 1988, the group had 25 top 40 R&B and 12 Hot 100 hit singles.
[9] Martin's revised lyric was "hang a shining star upon the highest bough." Martin made several other alterations, changing from the future tense to the present, so that the song's focus is a celebration of present happiness rather than anticipation of a better future. [11] (However, Sinatra had recorded the original song's lyrics in 1948.)
Shining Star, Iranian film; The Shining Star, a MediaCorp Singapore drama serial; The Shining Star, and African-American newspaper published in Anderson, Indiana from 1922 to 1927; Minugu Taare (lit. ' Shining Star '), nickname of Indian Kannada cinema actress Kalpana "Shining Star" Chandrakanth, a character in the 2010 Indian film Payanam
Shining Star is a double-disc anthology featuring Garcia's other band, and is comprised entirely of cover tunes derived from concert recordings made between 1989 and 1993. The late '80s and early '90s were sporadic in terms of performance consistency for the Grateful Dead; however, 'the Jerry band' — as Deadheads refer to this aggregate ...