What rock band topped the charts with their cover of "La Bamba" in 1987 and had a band member with a guest appearance on Dolly Parton's "Treasures" in 1996
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Treasures (Dolly Parton album) Treasures is a 1996 Dolly Parton album, made up of covers of rock and country hits from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. It was her 33rd studio album. Among the selections were work by Merle Haggard, Jeanne Pruett, Neil Young, Kris Kristofferson, Cat Stevens and Mac Davis. Perhaps the most surprising choices to fans were Young's "After the Gold Rush" and Stevens' "Peace Train", though Parton confessed a longtime admiration for both performers' work. (She had also recorded "After the Gold Rush" in 1994 with Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris as part of the "Trio 2" album, though as of "Treasures"' release, the "Trio" recording had not yet been released.) The album received mixed reviews and reached number 24 on the U.S. country albums charts. "Treasures" featured a number of famous guest artists, including Ladysmith Black Mambazo, John Popper of Blues Traveler, David Hidalgo of Los Lobos, and Alison Krauss.
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Los Lobos Los Lobos (] , Spanish for "the Wolves") is an American rock band from East Los Angeles, California, United States. Their music is influenced by rock and roll, Tex-Mex, country, zydeco, folk, R&B, blues, brown-eyed soul, and traditional music such as cumbia, boleros and norteños. It gained international stardom in 1987, when their cover version of Ritchie Valens' "La Bamba" topped the charts in the U.S., the UK and several other countries. In 2015, it was nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Mel McDaniel Melvin Huston "Mel" McDaniel (September 6, 1942 – March 31, 2011) was an American country music artist. His chart-making years were mainly the 1980s with his hits from that era including "Louisiana Saturday Night", "Big Ole Brew", "Stand Up", the Number One "Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On", "I Call It Love", "Stand on It", and a remake of Chuck Berry's "Let It Roll (Let It Rock)".
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BBMak BBMak (Barry, Burns, McNally) were an English pop/rock group consisting of Mark Barry, Christian Burns and Stephen McNally. Together they sold three million albums and had hit singles worldwide between 1999 and 2003 when they disbanded. The band guest starred on ABC's "All My Children" in 2000 and Disney's "Even Stevens" in 2001. They also featured on many movie soundtracks.
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The Box Tops The Box Tops are an American rock band, formed in Memphis in 1967. They are best known for the hits "The Letter", "Cry Like a Baby", and "Soul Deep" and are considered a major blue-eyed soul group of the period. They performed a mixture of current soul music songs by artists such as James & Bobby Purify and Clifford Curry; pop tunes such as "A Whiter Shade of Pale" by Keith Reid, Gary Brooker, and Matthew Fisher of Procol Harum; and songs written by their producers, Dan Penn, Spooner Oldham, and Chips Moman. Vocalist Alex Chilton went on to front the power pop band Big Star and to launch a career as a solo artist, during which he occasionally performed songs he had sung with the Box Tops.
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Rockin' down the Highway: The Wildlife Concert Rockin’ Down the Highway: The Wildlife Concert is the second double live album by American rock band The Doobie Brothers, released in 1996. (see 1996 in music). The concerts were performed to benefit the Wildlife Conservation Society, hence the album's title.
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My Maria "My Maria" is a song co-written by B. W. Stevenson and Daniel Moore. Stevenson released "My Maria" as a single in August 1973, and the song became a Top 10 hit, peaking at number 9 on the US pop chart. It remained in the Top 40 for twelve weeks. In addition, "My Maria" spent one week at number 1 on the US adult contemporary chart. The guitar portion of the track was played by Larry Carlton. A cover by Brooks & Dunn reached number 1 on the US country music chart and won the 1997 Grammy for Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.
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The Hits (Hal Ketchum album) The Hits is the title of the first compilation album by country music artist Hal Ketchum in 1996. It briefly appeared on "Billboard"'s Top Country Albums chart, peaking at No. 43. Three songs were newly recorded for this collection, "Satisfied Mind", the Bob Ferguson cover "Wings of a Dove", and "Hang in There Superman". Also included is "I Miss My Mary", an album cut from Ketchum's debut album "Past the Point of Rescue".
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Live in Montana Live in Montana is a 1999 live album by the Meat Puppets of two concerts on the 7th and 8 December 1988 in the United States. This was released simultaneously with the re-issues of the SST back catalogue. The album includes covers of Elvis Presley, Lionel Hampton, UTFO, Roy Orbison, Holocaust and Black Sabbath.
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Eagle When She Flies Eagle When She Flies is Dolly Parton's 30th solo studio album, released on April 6, 1991. Continuing the country sounds of 1989's "White Limozeen", the album featured collaborations with Lorrie Morgan and Ricky Van Shelton; additional supporting vocals were provided by Vince Gill and Emmylou Harris. Dolly Parton's duet with Shelton, "Rockin' Years", topped the country charts, and the follow-up single co-written by Carl Perkins, "Silver and Gold", was a #15 country single. Rounding out the hit singles was the title song "Eagle When She Flies", which only reached a #33 peak, despite spending 20 weeks on the Billboard Country Singles chart. Her duet with Lorrie Morgan, "Best Woman Wins", appeared simultaneously on Lorrie Morgan's 1991 album "Something in Red". She co-wrote the song "Family" with Carl Perkins and "Wildest Dreams" with Mac Davis. The album also topped the U.S. country albums charts, Parton's first solo album to reach the top in a decade (and her last to do so until 2016) and reached #24 on the pop albums charts. The album spent 73 weeks on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. It was her first album to reach number one album in the United States after 1980's "9 to 5 and Odd Jobs."
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When the Children Cry "When the Children Cry" is a ballad performed by the rock band White Lion. It is the third single and 10th and final track on their 1987 album "Pride". The single peaked at #3 on the "Billboard" Hot 100, #7 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks
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Reneé Austin Reneé Austin is an American rhythm and blues, gospel, and soul singer, songwriter and actor. She has a wide vocal range, and has opened for Los Lobos, Robert Cray, Delbert McClinton, Blues Traveler, Big Head Todd & the Monsters and more. She released three albums during her career, and supplied backing vocals to the Lamont Cranston Band's 1997 album, "Roll with Me", and on Tommy Castro's 2005 album, "Soul Shaker". Austin was also part of a group of women who performed in Morgan Freeman's Blues Divas, as well as singing for a live WWE season premier, whose television audience was six million. Her singing voice has been compared by critics to those of Janis Joplin, Tina Turner, Gladys Knight, Anita Baker, Regina Belle, even a female Michael McDonald.
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Long Way Down (Goo Goo Dolls song) "Long Way Down" is the fifth single by the Goo Goo Dolls from their breakthrough album, 1995's "A Boy Named Goo". This song is often overshadowed by the low-key ballad "Name", which launched the band to household names. Although it could not match the chart-topping success of "Name" on the rock and pop charts, "Long Way Down" reached No. 7 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, but only made it halfway up the Modern Rock Tracks chart (#25). It did not reach the pop charts. "Long Way Down" was also part of the soundtrack for the 1996 film "Twister".
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Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks is a tribute album based on the Emmy Award-winning animated TV series, "Schoolhouse Rock!". It was released by Atlantic/Hollywood Records in 1996 and contains 15 tracks, the original "Schoolhouse Rocky" theme and covers of 14 songs from the series performed by popular music artists. There was also a promo-only 7" single distributed to promote this album featuring the Man or Astro-man? track and the Pavement track. This single was pressed on yellow vinyl. "Three Is a Magic Number" was one of the last recordings made by Blind Melon's Shannon Hoon, who died of a drug overdose in October 1995.
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Greatest Hits (Clint Black album) Greatest Hits is a 1996 compilation album by country singer Clint Black. It compiles twelve hit songs from his first five albums. It also includes four new tracks: the singles "Like the Rain" and "Half Way Up", as well as "Cadillac Jack Favor" and a live cover of the Eagles' "Desperado". Black had originally covered this song in 1993 for the album, "".
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The Gentrys The Gentrys were an American band of the 1960s and early 1970s, best known for their 1965 hit "Keep on Dancing". A cover by the Bay City Rollers charted No. 9 in the UK in 1971. Follow-up singles charted outside of the Top 40: "Every Day I Have to Cry" (1966), "Spread It On Thick" (1966), "Cinnamon Girl" (1970), "Why Should I Cry" (1970), "Wild World" (1971), and a 'Bubbling Under' "Billboard" chart entry, "Brown Paper Sack" (#101, 1966).
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Safe at Home Safe at Home is a 1968 album by country rock group The International Submarine Band, led by the then-unknown 21-year-old Gram Parsons. The group's only album release, "Safe at Home" featured four of Parsons' original compositions rounded out by six covers of classic country and rock and roll songs made famous by the likes of Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Merle Haggard, and Hank Snow. Described as "hippie and hillbilly in equal measure", the album helped to forge the burgeoning country rock movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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Osborne Brothers The Osborne Brothers, Sonny Osborne (b. October 29, 1937) and Bobby Osborne (b. December 7, 1931), were an influential and popular bluegrass act during the 1960s and 1970s. They are probably best known for their No. 33 1967 country hit song, "Rocky Top", written by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant and named after a fictional Tennessee location.
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Howard Huntsberry Howard Stafford Huntsberry (born March 5, 1952) is an American R&B singer and actor from Pacoima, California. He was the lead singer of the group Klique from 1981 to 1985, and then had a solo career that produced two minor hits on the "Billboard" R&B chart. He also starred as singer Jackie Wilson in the movie "La Bamba", singing a cover of "Lonely Teardrops" which was on the soundtrack album of the same.
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Dolly (album) Dolly is the 16th solo studio album by American entertainer Dolly Parton, released on September 19, 1975. It is sometimes referred to as "Dolly: The Seeker • We Used To" to differentiate it from Parton's 2009 4-disc, career-spanning box set "Dolly." The first single, "The Seeker," peaked at #2, and was later covered by Merle Haggard; the follow-up single, "We Used To", with its "Stairway to Heaven"-inspired guitar intro, reached #9. The album reached # 14 on the country album charts.
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Starting Over (Reba McEntire album) Starting Over is the twenty-second album released by American country singer/actress Reba McEntire on October 3, 1995. It was a tribute to her roots and influences, featuring cover versions of songs by artists whom she admired growing up. Among the artists being covered were Dolly Parton, Donna Summer, Linda Ronstadt, The Supremes, Lee Greenwood and Patti LaBelle.
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Greatest Hits (Alabama album) Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits package released by the American country music band Alabama. The album was released by RCA Records in 1986, and has since been certified platinum for sales of 5 million units by the Recording Industry Association of America.