Carole Bayer-Sager-You're Moving out Today-40th Anniversary video edit
Carole Bayer-Sager-You're Moving out Today-40th Anniversary video edit
(Carole bayer sager/bette midler/bruce roberts)
I stayed out late one night and you moved in
I didn't mind 'cause of the state you were in
May I remind you that it's been a year since then
Today the landlady, she said to me (what did she say?)
You're looney friend just made a pass at me (slap him in the face)
Perhaps you might enjoy a cottage by the sea
So pack your toys away
Your pretty boys away
Your 45s away
Your alibis away
Your spanish flies away
Your one-more-tries away
Your old tie-dyes away
You're moving out today
Your nasty habits ain't confined to bed (ha ha ha ha)
The grocer told me what you do with bread (what do you do?)
Why don't you take up with the baker's wife instead of me, fool!
Pack up your rubber duck
I'd like to wish you luck
Your funny cigarettes
Your sixty-one cassettes
Pack all your clothes away
Your rubber hose away
Your old-day-glos away
You're moving out today
Pack up your dirty looks
Your songs that have no hooks
Your stacks of modern screen
Your portrait of the queen
Your mangy cat away
Your baby fat away
You're headed that-a-way
You're moving out today
Pack up your fork and spoon
Please leave my lorna doones
Your map of mozambique
Your water bed that leaks
Carole Bayer Sager (born March 8, 1947) is an American lyricist, songwriter and singer. Born in New York City, Sager co-wrote her first pop hit, A Groovy Kind of Love, with Toni Wine, while a student at the New York City High School of Music and Art. It was recorded by the British invasion band The Mindbenders, whose version was a worldwide hit, reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot 100). The song was subsequently recorded by Sonny & Cher, Petula Clark, and Phil Collins, whose rendition for the film Buster hit #1 in 1988.
Sager was graduated from New York University, where she majored in English, Dramatic Arts and Speech. Her first recording as a singer was the 1977 album Carole Bayer Sager, which included the #1 international single "You're Moving Out Today", a song which she co-wrote with Bette Midler. (Paul Buckmaster provided horn and string arrangements for the album.) The album went platinum in Japan, Australia, and the United Kingdom. It was followed by …Too in 1978 and a third and last album, co-produced by Burt Bacharach, entitled Sometimes Late at Night (1981), which included a top 30 hit single "Stronger Than Before", later recorded by Dionne Warwick and Chaka Khan.
Many of Sager's early songs were co-written with her former husband, composer Bacharach. She has also collaborated with Melissa Manchester, Neil Diamond, Marvin Hamlisch, Michael Masser, Peter Allen, Bruce Roberts, Neil Sedaka, David Foster, Albert Hammond, Quincy Jones, Michael McDonald, James Ingram, Donald Fagen, Babyface and Clint Eastwood (for the film True Crime). Sager has won an Oscar (six nominations), a Grammy (nine nominations), two Golden Globe awards (seven nominations). She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987. Sager won the Academy Award for Best Song in 1981 for "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)", the theme song from the film Arthur. She shared the award with co-writers Peter Allen, Burt Bacharach, and Christopher Cross.
Sager received the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1987 for "That's What Friends Are For", which she co-wrote with Bacharach. The song was originally written for the 1982 film Night Shift and was recorded for the movie by Rod Stewart. The song was honored for its 1986 cover version by Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight, and Elton John, which became a number one hit, raising millions of dollars for AIDS research. Sager now lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband Robert A. Daly, former chairman CEO of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team and former chairman of Warner Brothers. Daly is currently Chairman (CEO) of the charitable organization Save The Children as well as an advisor to Tom Freston and Brad Grey at Paramount Pictures (Viacom). Sager and Daly co-chair the Los Angeles Advisory Board of DonorsChoose. Sager has one son from her previous marriage, Cristopher Bacharach. In May 2006 she was honored at a lunch at NYU's Steinhart School and later that evening received the Distinguished Alumni Award from New York University. She appeared on the January 24th, 2007 episode of American Idol as a judge during the Manhattan auditions.
Carole Bayer Sager - It's The Falling In Love
Carole Bayer Sager - It's The Falling In Love
Home to Myself
Carole Bayer Sager Home to Myself
Anne Murray ~ Snowbird (1970)
Anne Murray ~ Snowbird (1970)
"Snowbird"
Beneath this snowy mantle cold and clean
The unborn grass lies waiting
For its coat to turn to green
The snowbird sings the song he always sings
And speaks to me of flowers
That will bloom again in spring
When I was young
My heart was young then, too
Anything that it would tell me
That's the thing that I would do
But now I feel such emptiness within
For the thing that I want most in life's
The thing that I can't win
Spread your tiny wings and fly away
And take the snow back with you
Where it came from on that day
The one I love forever is untrue
And if I could you know that I would
Fly away with you
The breeze along the river seems to say
That he'll only break my heart again
Should I decide to stay
So, little snowbird
Take me with you when you go
To that land of gentle breezes
Where the peaceful waters flow
Spread your tiny wings and fly away
And take the snow back with you
Where it came from on that day
The one I love forever is untrue
And if I could you know that I would
Fly away with you
Yeah, if I could you know that I would
Fl-y-y-y-y away with you
Anne Murray’s signature voice has graced recordings since 1968 and is recognized worldwide as one of Canada’s most enduring treasures. In a business that measures itself in quick trends, Anne Murray is practically timeless. Because she has never sought to be musically fashionable, she has never been out of fashion. Born in Springhill, Nova Scotia, she is one of six children and the only daughter of Dr. Carson and Marion Murray. Success came quickly: Her debut album, What About Me, was released in 1968 and generated an instant Canadian hit with the title track. Soon after, she signed with Capitol Records and recorded “Snowbird” for her second album — the song would be certified gold by the RIAA, the first in history for a Canadian artist. From there, hit after hit reached the top of both country and pop charts.
With four Grammy Awards and a combination of 26 RPM and JUNO Awards to her credit, Murray is justly celebrated. She holds the record for the most JUNO wins of any entertainer in history. Her many hits include “Snowbird” (1970), the Grammy-winning “Love Song” (1974), “You Needed Me” (1978), “Could I Have This Dance” (1980), “A Little Good News” (1983), “Nobody Loves Me Like You Do” (1984), and the number-one single “Now and Forever” (1986). She has released dozens of singles and more than 30 studio albums, and her sales exceed $24 million. She was a mentor on Canadian Idol in 2008, and in 2010, she helped carry the Olympic flag for the opening ceremonies of the Vancouver Winter Games.
Murray is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame Walkway of Stars in Nashville, and has her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. In 2011, Billboard ranked her No. 10 on its list of the 50 Biggest Adult Contemporary Artists Ever. In addition to her musical career, Murray has been involved with numerous charities. A collection of memorabilia from her personal and professional life opened in Springhill in 1989: the Anne Murray Centre is a registered charity that helps promote tourism to Nova Scotia and contributes to the local economy. Murray also helped build the Dr. Carson and Marion Murray Community Centre, which opened in her hometown in 2004. It has an NHL-sized rink and seats 800 people. Murray is also the Honorary National Chairperson of the Canadian Save The Children Fund, and has been a spokeswoman for many charities, including Colon Cancer Canada.
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Murray is a serious golf aficionado. Her Anne Murray Charity Golf Classic raised thousands of dollars for Colon Cancer Canada over its 10 years. She is the first woman to score a hole-in-one on the 108-yard, par 3, 17th hole at the Kaluhyat Golf Club in Las Vegas. And in 2007, she was named the world’s best female celebrity golfer by Golf for Women magazine. Murray released her autobiography, All of Me, in 2009.
Rainin' In My Heart
Anne Murray Raining In My Heart
Anne Murray - You Needed Me
Anne Murray - You Needed Me 1978 (Original MV Stereo)
Anne Murray - Hold Me Tight
Anne Murray - Hold Me Tight
Killing Me Softly With His Song
Anne Murray "Killing Me Softly with His Song"
Walk Right Back
Anne Murray - Walk Right Back
The Call
Anne Murray - The Call (1976 version
JUST TO FEEL THIS LOVE FROM YOU (Anne Murray)-LYRICS
JUST TO FEEL THIS LOVE FROM YOU (Anne Murray)-LYRICS
Anne Murray + You're A Part Of Me + Lyrics / HD
Anne Murray + You're A Part Of Me + Lyrics / HD
Another Pot O' Tea
Anne Murray and Emmylou Harris - Another Pot O' Tea
![Van McCoy - The Hustle [Remix Dance Perfume] (2014)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hvoISeBWNNI/maxresdefault.jpg)
Van McCoy - The Hustle [Remix Dance Perfume] (2014)
Van McCoy - The Hustle [Remix Dance Perfume] (2014)
Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony The Hustle
Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony The Hustle (Pans People Dancers)
Van Allen Clinton McCoy (January 6th, 1940 – July 6, 1979) was an American musician, record producer, arranger, songwriter, singer and orchestra conductor. He has approximately 700 song copyrights to his credit, and is also noted for producing songs for such recording artists as Glady's Knight & the Pips, The Stylistics, Aretha Franklin, Brenda & the Tabulations, David Ruffin, Peaches & Herb, Lesley Gore and Stacy Lattisaw.
"The Hustle" is a disco track by songwriter/arranger Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony. It went to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Soul Singles charts during the summer of 1975. It also peaked at No. 9 on the Australian Singles Chart (Kent Music Report) and No. 3 in the UK. It would eventually sell over one million copies. The song won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance early in 1976 for songs recorded in 1975. While in New York City to make an album, McCoy composed the song after his music partner, Charles Kipps, watched patrons do a dance known as "the Hustle" in the nightclub Adam's Apple. The sessions were done at New York's Media Sound studio with pianist McCoy, bassist Gordon Edwards, drummer Steve Gadd, keyboardist Richard Tee, guitarists Eric Gale and John Tropea, and orchestra leader Gene Orloff. Producer Hugo Peretti contracted piccolo player Phil Bodner to play the lead melody.
May 30th 1963 - Lesley Gore performed "It's My Party" for her American bandstand debut.
Peaches & Herb
According to producers Hugo & Luigi who owned the Avco RECORD LABEL that originally released "The Hustle", McCoy met with them shortly before his death in 1979 to discuss ideas for a new, longer version of the song, in order to appease Avco's UK and German affiliates who were clamoring for a 12" disco single release. The new version, clocking in at just under 6-and-a-half minutes, was assembled posthumously as a remix, using parts of the original recording plus new parts, including drum, Syndrum, and a "little" Moog synthesizers. It was credited to Van McCoy alone or with an unnamed orchestra, mixed by "The Mix Masters", identity unknown. The song has been featured in numerous movies and television shows including Vampires Suck, Club Oscar, The Lorax, That '70s Show, American Dad and in also My Wife & Kids.
Stacy Lattisaw
Van McCoy was born in Washington, D.C., the second child of Norman S. McCoy, Sr. and Lillian Ray. He learned to play piano at a young age and sang with the Metropolitan Baptist Church choir as a youngster. By the age of 12, he had begun writing his own songs, in addition to performing in local amateur shows alongside his older brother, Norman Jr. The two brothers formed a doo-wop combo named the Starlighters with two friends while in Theodore Roosevelt High School. In 1956, they recorded a single entitled, "The Birdland", a novelty dance record. It gained some interest, resulting in a tour with saxophonist Vi Burnside. In 1959, the Starlighters produced three singles for End Records that included "I Cried". Marriage and other commitments eventually caused the group to disband during the mid-1950s. Van also sang with a group called the Marylanders. During 1961, McCoy met Kendra Spotswood (also known as Sandi Sheldon) who lived near his family. For the next five years, they sang and recorded music together professionally. Their relationship ended when McCoy delayed their wedding plans because of a work contract he had signed with Columbia Records.
Van McCoy - Shakey Ground
Van McCoy - Shakey Ground
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In 1975, McCoy released to low expectations the mostly instrumental LP Disco Baby for the Avco (later H&L) label. The title song, "Disco Baby", was written by George David Weiss, Hugh Peretti and Luigi Creatore, and was also performed by The Stylistics for their 1975 album Thank You Baby. Unexpectedly, a single called "The Hustle" from the album, written about the dance of the same name and recorded last for the album, went to the top of both the Billboard pop and R&B charts (also No. 3 in the UK) and won a Grammy Award. The album was also nominated for a Grammy. McCoy, then regarded as a disco hitmaker, never repeated the success of the song, although the singles "Party", "That's the Joint" and "Change with the Times" got significant airplay. The latter reached No. 6 in the Billboard R&B chart and was a Top 40 hit in the UK. There were no further major sellers in the US, despite a series of follow-up albums, From Disco to Love (the abridged 1975 reissue of Soul Improvisations), The Disco Kid (1975), The Real McCoy (1976), Rhythms of the World (1976), My Favorite Fantasy (1978), Lonely Dancer (1979) and Sweet Rhythm (1979). However, he scored the UK top 5 again during 1977 with the instrumental success "The Shuffle". which became the theme tune for BBC Radio 4's Sport on Four.
David Ruffin
McCoy also had success with David Ruffin's comeback album, Who I Am, featuring "Walk Away from Love", (US#9, US#1 R&B) in the US and a UK Top 5 success. He went on to produce the next two albums for Ruffin, which spawned further successes. McCoy produced Gladys Knight & the Pips' Still Together LP, and for Melba Moore ("This Is It" and "Lean on Me"). He discovered Faith, Hope And Charity, whose major success in 1975, "To Each His Own", was another R&B chart-topper. In 1975 he also arranged two of his compositions "My Heart's Too Big For My Head" and "You've Got to Tell Her" for the Asha Puthli album She Loves to Hear the Music.
Faith, Hope And Charity
In September 1958, McCoy entered Howard University to study Psychology but dropped out after two years to relocate to Philadelphia, where he formed his own recording company, Rockin' Records, releasing his first single, "Hey Mr. DJ," in 1959. This single gained the attention of Scepter Records owner Florence Greenburg, who hired McCoy as a staff writer and A&R representative for the label. As a writer there, McCoy composed his first success, "Stop the Music," for the popular female vocal group, The Shirelles, in 1962. He was co-owner of Vando Records with Philly D.J. Jocko Henderson. He owned the Share record label and co-owned the Maxx record label in the mid-1960s, supervising such artists as Gladys Knight & The Pips, Chris Bartley and The Ad Libs. He came into his own after first working for top producers Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller as a writer and then signing with the major April-Blackwood music publishing concern, connected with Columbia Records. McCoy went on to write a string of hits as the 1960s progressed. He penned "Giving Up" for Gladys Knight & The Pips (later a hit for both The Ad Libs and Donny Hataway), "The Sweetest Thing This Side of Heaven" for Chris Bartley, "When You're Young and in Love" for Ruby & the Romantics (later a hit for The Marvelettes), "Right on the Tip of My Tongue" for Brenda & the Tabulations, "Baby I'm Yours" for Barbara Lewis, "Getting Mighty Crowded" for Betty Everett, "Abracadabra" for Erma Franklin, "You're Gonna Make Me Love You" for Sandi Sheldon, and "I Get the Sweetest Feeling" for Jackie Wilson.
The Ad Libs
Erma Franklin
He also put together the hit-making duo of Peaches & Herb, arranging and co-producing their first hit, "Let's Fall in Love," for the Columbia subsidiary Date in 1966. The same year, McCoy recorded a solo LP for Columbia entitled Night Time Is Lonely Time, and, a year later, started his own short-lived label, Vando, as well as his own production company VMP (Van McCoy Productions). Van wrote or produced most consistently for The Presidents ("5-10-15-20 (25-30 Years of Love), The Choice Four, recording as The Finger Pointers ("Come Down to Earth"), Faith, Hope & Charity ("To Each His Own" and "Life Goes On" and David Ruffin ("Walk Away From Love"). In the early 1970s, McCoy began a long, acclaimed collaboration with songwriter/producer Charles Kipps and arranged several hits for the soul group The Stylistics as well as releasing his own solo LP on the Buddah label, Soul Improvisations, in 1972. The album included a minor hit, "Let Me Down Easy," but it was not a success following poor promotion. Following his success with The Hustle, it was re-released in abridged form (two songs less) as From Disco to Love. He formed his own orchestra, Soul City Symphony and, with singers Faith, Hope and Charity, produced several albums and gave many performances.
The Marvelettes
Van McCoy appeared on the Mike Douglas Show and was a regular guest on The Tonight Show. He wrote and sang the theme song for the 1978 movie Sextette that starred Mae West and Timothy Dalton and made a cameo appearance in it, playing a delegate from Africa. He also contributed some music for A Woman Called Moses. Along with Faith Hope & Charity, Brass Construction and Johnny Dark, he appeared in episode 4.20 of Don Kirshner's Rock Concert.
McCoy sadly died from a heart attack in Englewood, New Jersey, on July 6th, 1979, at the tender age of 39. He is buried in the McCoy family plot at Lincoln Cemetery, Suitland, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C. On June 25th, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Van McCoy among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the devastating 2008 Universal fire.
Janet Kay - Silly games - Top of The Pops 1979
Janet Kay - Silly games - Top of The Pops 1979
Janet Kay - Silly games - Top of The Pops 1979
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I've been wanting you
For so long, it's a shame
Oh, baby
Every time I hear your name
Oh, the pain
Boy, how it hurts me inside
'Cause every time we meet
We play hide and seek
I'm wondering what I should do
Should I, dear, come up to you
And say, "How do you do?"
Would you turn me away
You're as much to blame
'Cause I know you feel the same
I can see it in your eyes
But I've got no time to live this lie
No, I've got no time to play your silly games Silly games
Yet, in my mind I say
"If he makes his move today
I'll just pretend to be shocked"
Oh, baby
It's a tragedy
That you hurt me
We don't even try
You're as much to blame
'Cause I know you feel the same
I can see it in your eyes
But I've got no time to live this lie
No, I've got no time to play your silly games
Silly games
Silly games
Silly games (No, don't wanna play)
Silly games (Your silly)
No, I've got no time to play your silly games
No
Janet Kay
Janet Kay, was born Janet Kay Bogle (the first of 6 children) in London to Jamaican parents. Janet is a descendant of the Jamaican National Hero the Rt Excellent Deacon Paul Bogle. As a sixties child, Janet was exposed to the singing greats, especially those from the Tamla Motown stable and as a result of the exposure and inspiration, Janet's love for singing was born. In 1977, whilst in Secretarial College, Janet was invited by her school friend Sonia Ferguson (who recorded a cover version of Smokey Robinson's 'Oh Baby Baby' in the late 70's) to a band rehearsal. Destiny saw to it that band member Tony Gad heard Janet singing in the rehearsal room. He was so impressed with the sweetness of Janet's voice that he introduced her to the reggae legend, the Late Great Alton Ellis. That meeting resulted in Janet recording a cover version of Minnie Ripperton's 'Loving You' (produced by Alton Ellis), which became a reggae smash hit spending many weeks at No. 1 in the reggae charts.
The following year, 1978, saw Janet record 2 more cover versions, 'I Do Love You' and 'That's What Friends Are For', again, both spending weeks at No. 1 in the reggae charts. In 1979, Janet made history by becoming the 'First British born Black Female Reggae Artist to have a No. 1 in the British Pop Charts' - Music Guinness Book of Records. The song 'Silly Games', (produced by Dennis Bovell) was a hit not only in the UK but also in Europe. Janet's songwriting prowess became evident on the release of her first album 'Capricorn Woman'. The album was, and still is a best seller. All the songs except 2 were penned by Janet Kay. By now, Janet had become known as the 'Queen of Lover's Rock'. In that same year Janet was presented with the awards for Best 7" Vinyl Single, Best 12" Vinyl Single and Best Female Vocalist 1979 by Black Echoes Music Newspaper. Janet's voice was not exclusive to only reggae music and in the early 80's she also penned and sung the soulful 'Eternally Grateful' which became an underground hit.
The early 80's also saw the collaboration between Janet and reggae legend the Late Jackie Mitto with the Randy Crawford classic, 'You Bring The Sun Out'. In 1980, after a chance meeting with actor/singer Victor Romero Evans, Janet was introduced to the theatre company 'Black Theatre Co-operative'. A successful audition saw the birth of Janet's theatrical career, in the play 'Mama Dragon' by Faroukh Dhondy's which toured England and Europe. Janet has since appeared in several films and has also made numerous TV appearances, theatre plays, (touring the UK and Europe) and radio plays. In 1981, Janet also starred in the 'Black Theatre Co-operative's' TV sitcom 'No Problem' (LWT/Channel 4), the first black TV show which was created and conceived by a black theatre company. The show became a cult classic. The late 80's saw Janet's collaboration with the singer/producer Lloyd Charmers with the cover album 'Sweet Surrender'.
In 1990 Janet collaborated with Beats International (Norman Cook aka Fat Boy Slim) on their track Burundi Blues. Following this collaboration, Janet was invited to feature on Lindy Layton's version of Silly Games. In the early 90's Janet, along with fellow actresses Judith Jacob, Suzanne Packer, Suzette Llewellyn, Beverley Michaels, Josephine Melville and the Late Joanne Campbell formed the highly successful female theatre company the Bibi Crew. All the shows were written produced and directed by the Crew. In 1991, the album 'Sweet Surrender' was renamed 'Lovin' You, Best of Janet Kay', (which included a newly recorded version of 'Lovin' You'), and was released in Japan. The track 'Lovin' You' propelled Janet to stardom in Japan. Janet subsequently signed to Sony Music (Japan) from 1993 - 2003.
BiBi Crew
Over the years Janet has collaborated with top producers, Drummie Zeb and Tony Gad (Aswad), Junior Giscombe ('Mama Used To Say'), Jeremy Meehan, Shinichi Osawa (Japan), Kodama & Gota (Japan), Omar and Sly and Robbie. Janet's has had 3 Platinum and Gold selling albums in Japan, 'Love You Always' selling over 400 thousand copies in its first year alone. Janet has also co-written and composed songs for a Japanese TV series entitled 'La Dolce Vita', alongside the renowned Japanese composer Taro Iwashiro. Janet has visited Japan at least once a year every year since 1990. In recent years Janet has visited Japan, performing at the exclusive Blue Note Night Club for 2 to 3 weeks at a time in Fukuoka, Osaka, Yokohama, Nagoya and Tokyo.
Judith Jacob
Josephine Melville
Suzette Llewellyn
Suzanne Packer
Beverley Michaels
Joanne Campbell, Judith Jacob, Janet Kay, Suzette Llewellyn, Josephine Melville, Beverley Michaels and Suzanne Packer founded the BiBi Crew in the 1990’s. They formed the company with the aim of creating new writing from an African Caribbean perspective incorporating music, dance, comedy and drama. Their first show ‘On A Level’ toured the UK and they were invited to perform in New York at the BAM Majestic Theatre. Their second show ‘But Stop We Have Work To Do’ also toured the UK.
The BiBi Crew led drama workshops in schools, prisons as well as youth and community groups all around the UK. After a number of years they disbanded focusing on their individual careers and families.
BiBi Crew reunited in 2005 though the line up had slimmed. Very sadly Joanne Campbell died in 2002 and Janet Kay left the troupe to pursue her singing career.
The current line up is Judith Jacob, Suzette Llewellyn, Josephine Melville, Beverley Michaels and Suzanne Packer.
In 2006/7 Janet returned to theatre, where she appeared as the Fairy Godmother in Hackney Empire's Pantomime, 'Cinderella', which the Evening Standard rated the best 'Panto of the season'. Janet works from time to time as a vocal coach for WAC a Performing Arts & Media College provides training in the arts for children and young people up to the age of twenty-five. Janet has also just recorded 2 concept albums for Universal Music (Japan) and Ariola (Japan) to be released 2012. Janet's creativity is not exclusive to singing and drama, but extends to the dexterous world of Arts and Crafts where she is an accomplished Machine Knitter/Hand Knitter/Designer and Lacemaker and her works have been published in craft editorials. Janet has also embraced the digital revolution, becoming highly skilled in web and graphic design (enabling her to build her own website as well as others), music technology (enabling her to record her own vocals on her last album), as well as 3D logo animation and video editing. Janet has co-edited a short feature film by Clive Gandison ('Evergreen Man'), starring Victor Romero Evans, which was nominated for an award by the BFM.
Minnie Riperton
Janet has been voted one of Britain's Top 100 Black Britains by the Evening Standard and she has also been presented with many awards over the years including, Silver Disc for Silly Games, Best Female Singer, Best 7" Vinyl Single and Best 12" Vinyl Single (1979), Memorial Disc in Commemoration of 1 Platinum and 2 Gold albums in Japan, presented by Sony Music Japan (1994), Women of Merit by Darker than Blue in Association with Barclays (2002), Contribution to British Black Music Industry (2001) and Outstanding Contribution to British Reggae (2009) to name but a few...
Janet performs along side Carroll Thompson and Victor Romero Evans in their self promoted show, the 'Lovers Rock Monologues' (written by Victor Romero Evans) which they have been touring the UK successfully for 4 years and also Janet promotes, presents and performs with Carroll & Victor in their annual Valentines Live Concert at the Clapham Grand. Janet and Victor Romero Evans also promote and present their annual Mother's Day and Father's Day shows 'SONGS & LAUGHTER with my MOTHER' and 'SONGS & LAUGHTER with my FATHER' respectively. Janet performs live at venues throughout the UK and World including annual performances at the World famous Jazz Cafe, Under The Bridge, 02 Indigo and Billboard Live in Japan, to name but a few. This year, 2019, Janet is celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the release of 'Silly Games' her iconic hit track. Janet continues to perform at Live Shows and Festivals throughout the World. Janet's sweet, heart warming vocals has and continues to win her many friends and fans around the world. Her songs, 'Silly Games' and 'Lovin' You', reaching anthemic heights, on this side and the other side of the globe.
ACCOLADES
Silver Disc – Silly Games (1979)
Black Echoes, British Reggae Awards, Best Singer, Best 7” Vinyl Single, Best 12” Vinyl Single (1979)
Memorial Disc in Commemoration of 1 Platinum and 2 Gold albums in Japan, presented by Sony Music Japan (1994)
Contribution to British Black Music Industry (2001)
Men & Women of Merit, in association with Barclays, Award for Outstanding Contribution to Black Music (2002)
Hidden Creative Economy Awards (2010)
PowerSis Women of Substance, UK & International Female Reggae Vocalist (2012)
PowerSis Women of Substance, Best Lovers Rock Single ‘Silly Games’ (2012)
Voted one of the UKs ‘100 Great Black Britons’ by the Evening Standard
In recognition of 4 decades of hard work and service to the British Black Music sector, in particular for popularising Lovers Rock globally and putting Brent on the musical map. Presented by BritishBlackMusic.com/Black Music Congress (2017)
Reggae Fraternity UK Celebrating 40 Years in the Music Industry (2017)