Music Makers Encyclopedia: T

Click on a letter to choose an act ("S" for Bruce Springsteen, "B" for Beatles, etc.). Shown with the act are its major awards, short bios for select acts, and links to albums and songs reviewed by the DMDB.

Timmy T

Song(s):
One More Try (1991)

Billy Tabbert

Younger Than Springtime (from South Pacific, 1949)

Tag Team

Song(s):
Whoomp! There It Is (1993)

Tainy

Song(s):
Adicto (with Ozuna & Anuel AA, 2019)
Callaíta (2019) – see Bad Bunny
Agua (with J. Balvin, 2020)

Taj Mahal

Blues singer/songwriter and guitarist born Henry Saint Clair Fredericks on 5/17/1942 in Harlem, NY.

Album(s):
Taj Mahal (1968)
The Natch'l Blues (1968)
Taj Mo (2017) – see Keb' Mo'

Take That

Song(s):
Could It Be Magic (1992)
Pray (1993)
Back for Good (1995)
Patience (2006)
Shine (2007)
Rule the World (2007)

Album(s):
Never Forget – The Ultimate Collection (compilation, 2005)
Beautiful World (2006)

Talking Heads

Alternative/experimental rock band based out of New York City, NY. Each member did a lot of production work for other artists. Weymouth and Frantz also worked in Tom Tom Club and Gorillaz together.

Active: 1974-91 Members: David Byrne (v/g: 74-91), Jerry Harrison (k/g: 77-91), husband-wife team Tina Weymouth (b: 74-91) and Chris Frantz (d: 74-91)

Song(s):
Psycho Killer (1977)
Take Me to the River (1978)
The Big Country (1978)
Life During Wartime (1979)
Once in a Lifetime (1980)
Cross-Eyed and Painless (1980)
Born Under Punches (1980)
Burning Down the House (1983)
This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody) (1983)
And She Was (1985)
Wild Wild Life (1986)

Album(s):
77 (1977)
More Songs about Buildings and Food (1978)
Fear of Music (1979)
Remain in Light (1980)
Speaking in Tongues (1983)
Stop Making Sense (live soundtrack: 1983)
Speaking in Tongues (1983)
Popular Favourites (compilation: 1976-83)
Little Creatures (1985)
Sand in the Vaseline (compilation: 1984-92)

Talk Talk

Song(s):
It’s My Life (1984)

Album(s):
The Colour of Spring (1986)
Spirit of Eden (1988)
Laughing Stock (1991)

Garry Tallent

Rock bassist born 10/27/1949 in Detroit, MI. With Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band.

Tallest Man on Earth

Song(s):
Sagres (2015)

Nedra Talley

R&B singer born 1/27/1946 in New York, NY. With The Ronettes.

Thomas Tallis

Album(s):
Spem in Alium, Motel for 40 Voices (1570)

Harry Tally

Song(s):
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie (1906)
Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine (1911)

Shel Talmy

Producer born Sheldon Talmy on 8/11/1937 in Chicago, IL. Worked with the Who and The Kinks.

Tame Impala

Song(s):
Let It Happen (2015)
The Less I Know the Better (2016)

Album(s):
Innerspeaker (2010)
Lonerism (2012)
Currents (2015)
The Slow Rush (2020)

Tampa Red

Blues musician born Hudson Woodbridge (but known as Hudson Whitaker) on 1/8/1904 in Smithville, GA. Died 3/19/1981.

Song(s):
It’s Tight Like That (with Georgia Tom, 1928)
My Daddy Rocks Me with One Steady Roll (1929)
It Hurts Me Too (When Things Go Wrong) (1940)

The Tamperer

Song(s):
Feel It (featuring Maya, 1998)

The Tams

Song(s):
What Kind of Fool Do You Think I Am? (1963)

Richard Tandy

Rock keyboardist born 3/26/1948 in Birmingham, England. With Electric Light Orchestra (1972-86, 2000-01, 2014-).

Tangerine Dream

Album(s):
Phaedra (1974)
Rubycon (1975)

Gib Tanner & His Skillet Lickers

Song(s): Dixie (1927)

Elmo Tanner

Song(s):
Heartaches (1947) – see Ted Weems

Eugene Tanner

R&B singer born 2/1/1936 in Winston-Salem, NC. Died 12/29/1994. With The Five Royales.

Johnny Tanner

R&B singer born 11/28/1926 in Forsyth County, NC. Died 11/8/2005. With The Five Royales.

Tapes N Tapes

Song(s):
Insistor (2005)

Marv Tarplin

R&B guitarist born 6/13/1941 in Atlanta, GA. Died 9/30/2011. With The Miracles (1958-73).

A Taste of Honey

Song(s):
Boogie Oogie Oogie (1978)
Sukiyaki (1981)

Howard Tate

Song(s):
Ain’t Nobody Home (1966)

Album(s):
Get It While You Can (1967)

Mabel Wilson Tatro

Song(s):
The Suncook Town Tragedy (1930)

t.A.T.u.

Song(s):
All the Things She Said (2003)

Art Tatum

Jazz pianist born Arthur Tatum, Jr. on 10/13/1909 in Toledo, OH. Died 11/5/1956. Has been called the greatest pianist in jazz history, admired even by classical virtuosos. Blind most of his life.

Song(s):
Tea for Two (1939)
Sweet Lorraine (1940)

Album(s):
Piano Starts Here: Live at the Shrine (live, 1949)
The Solo Masterpieces (1953)
The Genius of Art Tatum, Vols. 1-13 (1955)

Bernie Taupin

Pop songwriter born Bernard John Taupin on 5/22/1950 in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England. Most noted as Elton John's regular writing partner ("Your Song", "Candle in the Wind").

Tavares

Song(s):
She’s Gone (1974)
It Only Takes a Minute (1975)
Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel (1976)
More Than a Woman (1977)
Whodunit (1977)

Andy Taylor

Rock guitarist born on 2/16/1961 in Tynemouth, Northumberland, England. With Duran Duran (1978-84, 2000-06) and The Power Station (1984-85, 1995-97). Also worked as a solo artist and a producer (Rod Stewart).

Billy Taylor

Jazz pianist born William Taylor on 7/24/1921 in Greenville, NC. Died 12/28/2010.

Chip Taylor

Eddie Taylor

Blues guitarist born Edward Taylor on 1/29/1923 in Benoit, MI. Died 12/25/1985.

Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers

Blues guitarist born Theodore Roosevelt Taylor on 4/12/1915 in Natchez, MI. Died 12/17/1975.

Song(s):
Give Me Back My Wig (1971)
Let’s Get Funky (1974)

Album(s):
Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers (1971)

Irene Taylor

Songs(s):
Willow Weep for Me (1932) – see Paul Whiteman

James Taylor

Pop/folk/adult contemporary singer/songwriter born James Vernon Taylor on 3/12/1948 in Boston, MA.

Song(s):
Fire and Rain (1970)
Sweet Baby James (1970)
You’ve Got a Friend (1971)
How Sweet It Is to Be Loved by You (1975)
Shower the People (1976)
Handy Man (1977)

Album(s):
Sweet Baby James (1970)
Greatest Hits (compilation: 1970-76, released 1976)
Hourglass (1997)

Jane Taylor

Words by Taylor:
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (1806)
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (1890) – see Emile Berliner

John Taylor

New-wave bassist born Nigel John Taylor on 6/20/1960 in Birmingham, England. With Duran Duran (1978-) and The Power Station (1984-85, 1995-97).

Johnnie Taylor

R&B singer born Johnnie Harrison Taylor on 5/5/1937 in Crawforsville, AR. Died 5/31/2000.

Song(s):
Who’s Making Love (1968)
Jody’s Got Your Girl and Gone (1971)
I Believe in You, You Believe in Me (1973)
Cheaper to Keep Her (1973)
Disco Lady (1976)

Little Johnny Taylor

Song(s):
Part Time Love (1963)  

Koko Taylor

Blues singer born Cora Anna Walton on 9/28/1928 in Shelby County, TN. Died 6/3/2009.

Song(s):
Wang Dang Doodle (1966)

Little Johny Taylor

Song(s):
Part Time Love (1963)

Mel Taylor

Rock drummer born 9/24/1933 in Brownsville, NY. With The Ventures.

Mick Taylor

Blues-rock guitarist born Michael Kevin Taylor on 1/17/1949 in Welwyn, Garden City, UK. With John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and the Rolling Stones (1969-75).

Roger Taylor

Rock drummer and songwriter born Roger Meddows Taylor on 7/26/1949 in King's Lynn, Norfolk, England. With Queen (1975-95, 2004-). Roger Taylor

New-wave drummer born 4/26/1960 in Castle Bromwich, Solihull, England. With Duran Duran (1978-86, 2001-) and Arcadia (1985-86).

Vince Taylor & the Playboys

Song(s):
Brand New Cadillac (1958)

Zola Taylor

Doo-wop singer born Zoletta Lynn Taylor on 3/17/1938 in Los Angeles, CA. Died 4/30/2007. With The Platters.

Austen Tayshun

Song(s):
Australiana (1983)

Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky

Classical composer born 5/7/1840 in Votkinsk, Russia. Died 11/6/1893.

Album(s):
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor (1875)
Violin Concerto in D Major (1878)
Eugene Onegin (opera: 1879)
Capricco Italien (1880)
1812 Overture (1882)
Symphony No. 5 (1888)
The Nutcracker Suite (1891)
Symphony No. 6 in B Minor ("Pathétique") (1893)

Jack Teagarden

Jazz/big band leader born 8/20/1905 in Vernon, TX. Died 1/15/1964.

The Teardrop Explodes

Song(s):
Reward (1981)

Album(s):
Kilimanjaro (1980)

Tears for Fears

New wave group formed in Bath, England, in 1981 by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith. They had previously been in the ska-revival group Graduate. The pair went on to helm three albums as Tears for Fears in the 1980s before Curt Smith departed. Orzabal continued the band for two more albums, although they were effectively solo projects at that point since there were no other members from the ‘80s heyday. Orzabal and Smith reunited for 2004’s Everybody Loves a Happy Ending, but then went on another lengthy hiatus, only releasing an EP in 2014 and a couple of new songs on a 2017 compilation before finally reconvening for 2022’s The Tipping Point.

DMDB profile page
DMDB podcast: Tears for Fears: The Best of

Song(s):
Tears for Fears: Top 100 Songs
Mad World (1982)
Pale Shelter (1982)
Change (1983)
Shout (1984)
Everybody Wants to Rule the World (1985)
Head Over Heels (1985)
The Working Hour (1985)
I Believe (1985)
When in Love with a Blind Man (1985)
Sowing the Seeds of Love (1989)
Woman in Chains (with Oleta Adams, 1989)
Break It Down Again (1993)
The Devil (2004)
Ready to Start (2013)

Album(s):
The Hurting (1983)
Songs from the Big Chair (1985)
The Seeds of Love (1989)
Tears Roll Down (compilation: 1982-92, released 1992)
Elemental (1993)
The Millennium Collection (compilation: 1983-93, released 2000)
Shout: The Very Best of (compilation: 1981-93, released 2001)
Raoul and the Kings of Spain (1995)
Saturnine Martial & Lunatic (archives, released 1996)
Everybody Loves a Happy Ending (2004)
Secret World (live – recorded 2005, released 2006)
Rule the World: The Greatest Hits (compilation: 1982-2017, released 2017)
The Tipping Point (2022)
Songs for a Nervous Planet (live, 2024)

Renata Tebaldi

Technotronic

Song(s):
Pump Up the Jam (1990)

The Teddy Bears

Song(s):
To Know Him Is to Love Him (1958)

Susan Tedeschi

Album(s):
Just Won't Burn (1998)

Teenage Fanclub

Song(s):
Star Sign (1991)
Sparky’s Dream (1995)

Album(s):
Bandwagonesque (1991)

Tee Set

Song(s):
Ma Belle Amie (1969)

Tegan & Sara

Song(s):
Walking with a Ghost (2004)
Closer (2012)
Everything Is Awesome!!! (with the Lonely Island, 2014)

Album(s):
So Jealous (2004)

Tinie Tempah

Song(s):
Pass Out (2010)
Earthquake (2011) – see Labrinth

Teletubbies

Song(s):
Teletubbies Say 'Eh-Oh' (1997)

Television

American punk-rock band from the early '70s New York underground rock scene. Active: 1973-78, 1992-93, 2001- Members: Tom Verlaine (v/g/k: 73-), Richard Hell (v/b: 73-75), Richard Lloyd (g/v: 73-07), Billy Ficca (d: 73-), Fred Smith (b/v: 75-), Jimmy Rip (g: 07-)

Song(s):
Little Johnny Jewel (1975)
Marquee Moon (1977)
See No Evil (1977)
Venus (1977)

Album(s):
Marquee Moon (1977)

Television Personalities

Song(s):
Part-Time Punks (1978)

Michel Telo

Song(s):
Ai Se Eu Te Pego (2011)

Teluga Rhymes for Children

Song(s):
Chal Chal Gurram (2016)

Jack Tempchin

Temper Trap

Song(s):
Sweet Disposition (2009)

Temple of the Dog

One-time Seattle-based tribute project assembled as a tribute to Andrew Wood who died of a heroin overdose.

Active: 1990-91. Members: Chris Cornell (v), Stone Gossard (g), Jeff Ament (b), Eddie Vedder (v), Mike McCready (g), Matt Cameron (d). Cornell and Cameron were members of Soundgarden. Gossard and Ament were bandmates with Wood in Mother Love Bone and Cornell was friends with him. Gossard, Ament, Vedder, and McCready went on to form Pearl Jam. The album became popular after Pearl Jam's phenomenal success with 1991's Ten and Soundgarden’s breakthrough Badmotorfinger that same year.

Song(s):
Hunger Strike (1991)
Say Hello 2 Heaven (1991)

Album(s):
Temple of the Dog (1990)

Shirley Temple

Song(s):
On the Good Ship Lollipop (1935)

Ted Templeman

Producer for The Doobie Brothers and Van Halen.

The Temptations

Detroit R&B group. Originally called The Primes and Elgins. First recorded for Miracle in 1961. Active: 1960- Members: Eddie Kendricks (60-71), Paul Williams (60-71; died 8/17/73), Melvin Franklin (died 2/23/95), Otis Williams, Elbridge Bryant (60-64), David Ruffin (64-68), Dennis Edwards (Contours, Temptations: 68-77, 79-84, 87-89; died 2/1/2018), Ricky Owens (Vibrations, Temptations: 71-?), Richard Street (71-), Damon Harris (71-75), Glenn Leonard (75-), Louis Price (77-79), Ali Ollie Woodson (84-87), Ron Tyson (88-)

Song(s):
I Want a Love I Can See (1963)
The Way You Do the Things You Do (1964)
My Girl (1964)
Since I Lost My Baby (1965)
Don’t Look Back (1965)
It’s Growing (1965)
Get Ready (1966)
Ain’t Too Proud to Beg (1966)
Beauty Is Only Skin Deep (1966)
I Know I’m Losing You (1966)
I Wish It Would Rain (1967)
I Could Never Love Another After Loving You (1968)
Cloud Nine (1968)
I’m Gonna Make You Love Me (1968) – see the Supremes
Runaway Child, Running Wild (1969)
I Can’t Get Next to You (1969)
Ball of Confusion (That’s What the World Is Today) (1970)
Just My Imagination Running Away with Me (1971)
Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone (1972)
Masterpiece (1973)
Let Your Hair Down (1973)
Happy People (1974)
Shakey Ground (1975)
The Motown Song (1991) – see Rod Stewart

Album(s):
The Temptations Sing Smokey (1965)
Cloud Nine (1969)
All Directions (1972)
Anthology (compilation: 1964-72, released 1973)
All the Million Sellers (compilation: 1964-72, released 1981)
A Song for You (1975)

10cc

Song(s):
Rubber Bullets (1973)
Somewhere in Hollywood (1974)
Old Wild Men (1974)
I’m Not in Love (1975)
The Things We Do for Love (1976)

Album(s):
Sheet Music (1974)

Ten Years After

Song(s):
I’m Going Home (1968)

Benmont Tench

Rock keyboardist born Benjamin Montmorency Tench III on 9/7/1953 in Gainesville, FL. With Benmont Tench.

Teresa Teng

The Tennessee Two

Grant Marshall (bass) and Luther Perkins (guitar) – backing band for Johnny Cash.

10,000 Maniacs

Song(s):
Like the Weather (1987)
These Are Days (1992)

Album(s):
In My Tribe (1987)
Our Time in Eden (1992)

Terminator X

Rap DJ born Norman Rogers in New York, NY. Died 8/25/1966. With Public Enemy.

Tammi Terrell

Song(s):
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough (1967) – see Marvin Gaye
If I Could Build My Whole World Around You (1967) – see Marvin Gaye
Your Precious Love (1967) – see Marvin Gaye
Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing (1968) – see Marvin Gaye
You’re All I Need to Get By (1968) – see Marvin Gaye

Terror Squad

Song(s):
Lean Back (with Fat Joe & Remy, 2004)

Terrorvision

Album(s):
How to Make Friends and Influence People (1994)

Clark Terry

American jazz trumpeter born 12/14/1920. Died 2/21/2015.

Sonny Terry

Blues musician born Saunders Terrell on 10/24/1911 in Greensboro, NC. Died 3/11/1986.

Edward Teschmacher

Song(s) written by Teschmacher:
Because (written with Helen Guy as Guy d’Hardelot, 1902)

Tesla

Song(s):
Love Song (1989)
Signs (live, 1990)

Jeanine Tesori

Album(s):
Thoroughly Modern Millie (composed with Dick Scanlan, musical: 2002)
Fun Home (composed with Lisa Kron, musical: 2013)

Joe Tex

Pop singer/songwriter born Joseph Arrington, Jr. on 8/8/1933 in Rogers, TX. Died 8/13/1982.

Song(s):
Hold What You’ve Got (1964)
I Want to Do Everything for You (1965)
A Sweet Woman Like You (1965)
One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show (1965)
Skinny Legs and All (1967)
I Gotcha (1972)

Thalia

Desde Esa Noche (with Maluma, 2016)
No Me Acuerdo (with Natti Natasha, 2018)

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Gospel and blues singer and guitarist born Rosetta Nubin on 3/20/1915 in Cotton Plant, AR. Died 10/9/1973.

Song(s):
This Train (1939)
Down by the Riverside (1944)
Strange Things Happening Every Day (1944)
Up Above My Head I Hear Music in the Air (1948)

Album(s):
Completed Recorded Works in Chronological Order (compilation: 1938-47, released 2001)

Blanche Theborn

Them

Irish rock group fronted by Van Morrison.

Song(s):
Gloria (1964)
Baby Please Don't Go (1965)
Here Comes the Night (1965)
Mystic Eyes (1965)

Jon Theodore

Rock drummer with Mars Volta.

Theory of a Deadman

Song(s):
RX (Medicate) (2017)

Therapy?

Album(s):
Trouble Gum (1994)

These New Puritans

Album(s):
Hidden (2010)

The The

Song(s):
This Is the Day (1983)

Album(s):
Soul Mining (1983)
Infected (1986)

They Might Be Giants

Song(s):
Don’t Let’s Start (1986)
Ana Ng (1988)
Birdhouse in Your Soul (1990)

Album(s):
Flood (1990)

Robin Thicke

Singer born on 3/10/1977 in Los Angeles, California. Son of actor Alan Thicke.

Song(s):
Lost Without You (2006)
Sex Therapy (2009)
Blurred Lines (with T.I. & Pharrell Williams, 2013)

Thin Lizzy

Song(s):
Whiskey in the Jar (1973)
The Boys Are Back in Town (1976)
Jailbreak (1976)

Album(s):
Jailbreak (1976)
Live and Dangerous (live, 1977)

3rd Bass

Song(s):
Pop Goes the Weasel (1991)

Third Eye Blind

Song(s):
Semi-Charmed Life (1997)
How's It Gonna Be (1997)
Jumper (1997)
Never Let You Go (2000)

Album(s):
Third Eye Blind (1997)

3rd Matinee

Album(s):
Meanwhile (1994)

The Thirteenth Floor Elevators

Song(s):
You're Gonna Miss Me (1966)
Roller Coaster (1966)

Album(s):
The Psychedelic Sounds of the Thirteenth Floor Elevators (1966)
Easter Everywhere (1967)

.38 Special

Song(s):
Rockin’ into the Night (1979)
Hold on Loosely (1981)
Caught Up in You (1982)
If I’d Been the One (1983)

30 Seconds to Mars

Song(s):
The Kill (Bury Me) (2005)

This Mortal Coil

Song(s):
Song to the Siren (1983)

Sandi Thom

Song(s):
I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker with Flowers in My Hair (2005)
The House of the Rising Sun (2010)

Album(s):
Smile, It Confuses People (2006)

B.J. Thomas

Pop/country singer born Billy Joe Thomas on 8/7/1942 in Hugo, OK.

Song(s):
Mama (1966)
Hooked on a Feeling (1968)
Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head (1969)
Rock and Roll Lullaby (1972)
Hey, Won't You Play Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song (1975)
Whatever Happened to Old Fashioned Love (1983)
New Looks from an Old Lover (1983)

Bruce Thomas

Rock bassist born 8/14/1948 in Stockton-on-Tees, UK. With Elvis Costello & the Attractions.

Carla Thomas

Song(s):
Cause I Love You (1960) – see Rufus Thomas

Charlie Thomas

R&B singer born Charles Nowlin Thomas on 4/7/1937 in Lynchburg, VA. Died 1/31/2023. With The Drifters (1958–67, 1988–2023).

Chris Thomas

Producer for The Pretenders, The Sex Pistols, and Roxy Music. Born 1/13/1947 in Brentford, Middlesex, England.

Gene Grady Thomas

Funk bass singer born 1/5/1941 in Newark, NJ. With Parliament/Funkadelic.

Henry Thomas

Song(s):
Fishing Blues (1929)

Irma Thomas

R&B/blues singer known as "The Soul Queen of New Orleans." Born 2/18/1941 in Ponchatoula, LA.

Song(s):
It’s Raining (1962)
Ruler of My Heart (1963)
Time Is on My Side (1964)
Wish Someone Would Care (1964)

John Carlos Thomas

Michael Tilson Thomas

A conductor, pianist, and composer born 12/21/1944 in Los Angeles, California. Musical director of the San Francisco Symphony and artistic director of the New World Symphony.

Pete Thomas

Rock drummer born 8/9/1954 in Sheffield, UK. With Elvis Costello & the Attractions.

Ray Thomas

Progressive rock musician (flute, harmonica, saxophone, percussion) born 12/29/1941. Died 1/4/2018. With The Moody Blues (1964-2002).

Rob Thomas

Rock singer/songwriter born 2/14/1972 in Landstuhl, West Germany. Has fronted group Matchbox 20 and worked as a solo artist.

Song(s):
Smooth (1999) – see Santana
Lonely No More (2005)

Rufus Thomas

Song(s):
Bear Cat (The Answer to "Hound Dog") (as Rufus "Hound Dog" Thomas Jr., 1953)
Cause I Love You (with Carla Thomas, 1960)
Walking the Dog (1963)
Do the Push and Pull (1970)

Hank Thompson

Country singer born Henry William Thompson on 9/3/1925 in Waco, TX. Died 11/6/2007.

Song(s):
The Wild Side of Life (1952)
Rub-A-Dub-Dub (1953)
Wake Up Irene (1953)

Paul Thompson

Art-rock drummer born 5/13/1951 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. With Roxy Music (1971-79, 2001-11, 2022-).

Richard Thompson

Folk singer/songwriter and musician born 4/3/1949 in Notthing Hill Gate, London, England. With Fairport Convention and then a solo artist.

Song(s):
I Want to See the Bright Lights (with Linda Thompson, 1974)
When I Get to the Border (with Linda Thompson, 1974)
Shoot Out the Lights (with Linda Thompson, 1982)
Don’t Renege on Our Love (1982)
1952 Vincent Black Lightning (1991)

Album(s):
I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight (with Linda Thompson, 1974)
Shoot Out the Lights (with Linda Thompson, 1982)

Tony Thompson

Drummer born Anthony Terrence Thompson on 11/15/1954 in New York City, NY. Died 11/12/2003. With Labelle, Chic (1977-83), Sister Sledge (1979-80), Diana Ross (1980), Debbie Harry (1981), David Bowie (1983), Madonna (1984), Led Zeppelin (1985), Mick Jagger (1985), and The Power Station (1985, 1996), Robert Palmer (1986), Rod Stewart (1988).

Song(s):
Le Freak (1978) – see Chic
We Are Family (1979) – see Sister Sledge
He’s the Greatest Dancer (1979) – see Diana Ross
Upside Down (1980) – see Diana Ross
I’m Coming Out (1980) – see Diana Ross
Let's Dance (1983) – see David Bowie
Like a Virgin (1984) – see Madonna
Material Girl (1984) – see Madonna
Get It On (Bang a Gong) (1985) – see The Power Station
Addicted to Love (1986) – see Robert Palmer
I Didn’t Mean to Turn You On (1986) – see Robert Palmer
Lost in You (1988) – see Rod Stewart
Forever Young (1988) – see Rod Stewart

Virgil Thomson

Composer and music critic born 11/25/1896 in Kansas City, MO. Died 9/30/1989.

Album(s):
Four Saints in Three Acts (opera, 1947)

Porl Thompson

Goth-rock guitarist born 11/8/1957 in Surrey, England. With The Cure (1984-93, 2005-11).

William H. Thompson

Song(s):
The Rosary (1902)

Thompson Twins

Song(s):
Hold Me Now (1983)

Claude Thornhill

American jazz/big band leader born 8/10/1909. Died 7/1/1965.

Song(s):
Snowfall (1941)

"Big Mama" Thornton

Blue singer born Willie Mae Thornton on 12/11/1926 in Montgomery, AL. Died 7/25/1984.

Song(s):
Hound Dog (1953)
Ball and Chain (1968)

Album(s):
Hound Dog: The Peacock Recordings (compilation: 1992)

James Thornton

Song(s) written by Thornton:
When You Were Sweet Sixteen (1898)

George Thorogood & the Destroyers

Song(s):
Bad to the Bone (1982)

Billy Thorpe

Song(s):
I Told the Brook/Funny Face (with the Aztecs, 1965)

Three Days Grace

Song(s):
I Hate Everything About You (2003)
Just Like You (2003)
Animal I Have Become (2006)
Pain (2006)
Never Too Late (2006)
Break (2009)
Chalk Outline (2012)
Misery Loves My Company (2012)
I Am Machine (2014)

Gerhart Thrasher

R&B musician born 12/3/1928 in Wetumpka, AL. Died November 1977. With The Drifters (1953-58).

The Three Degrees

Song(s):
When Will I See You Again (1974)

Three Dog Night

Song(s):
One (1968)
Easy to Be Hard (1969)
Mama Told Me Not to Come (1970)
Joy to the World (1970)
Black and White (1972)
Shambala (1973)
The Show Must Go On (1974)

3 Doors Down

Song(s):
Kryptonite (2000)
Loser (2000)
When I'm Gone (2002)
Here without You (2002)

311

The Three Flames

Song(s):
Open the Door, Richard! (1947)

The Three Suns

Song(s):
Peg O' My Heart (1947)

Throbbing Gristle

Song(s):
Beachy Head (1979)

Album(s):
DOA: The Third and Final Report (1978)
20 Jazz Funk Greats (1979)

Thunder

Song(s):
Love Walked In (1990)

Thundercat

Album(s):
It Is What It Is (2020)

Thunderclap Newman

Song(s):
Something in the Air (1969)

Johnny Thunders

Song(s):
You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory (1978)

T.I.

Rap singer born Clifford Joseph Harris, Jr. on 9/25/1980 in Atlanta, GA.

Song(s):
What You Know (2006)
Whatever You Like (2008)
Live Your Life (with Rihanna, 2008)
Dead and Gone (with Justin Timberlake, 2008)
Blurred Lines (2013) – see Robin Thicke

Album(s):
Trap Muzik (2003)
King (2006)
T.I. vs. T.I.P. (2007)
Paper Trail (2008)

Lawrence Tibbett

The Tic-Toc Rhythm Orchestra

Song(s):
Ferry Boat Serenade (1941)

Harry A. Tierney

Tiesto

Song(s):
The Business (2021)

Tiffany

Song(s):
I Think We’re Alone Now (1987)
Could’ve Been (1987)

Tight Fit

Song(s):
The Lion Sleeps Tonight (1982)

Sonny Til

R&B singer born Earlington Carl Tilghman on 8/18/1928. Died 12/9/1981. With The Orioles.

Glenn Tilbrook

New wave singer/songwriter born 8/31/1957 in Woolwich, London, England. One of two members of the new wave band Squeeze to last through every incarnation of the group.

DMDB profile page: Squeeze
DMDB podcast: The Best of Squeeze

Song(s):
The Top 50 Songs of Squeeze, Chris Difford, and Glenn Tilbrook.
Interviewing Randy Newman (2001)
Hot Shaved Asian Teens (2004)
Still (2009)
Chat Line Larry (with Nine Below Zero, 2011)
Ice Cream (2014)

Album(s):
Difford & Tilbrook (with Chris Difford, 1984)
The Incomplete Glenn Tilbrook (2001)
Transatlantic Ping Pong (2004)
Pandemonium Ensues (2009)
The Co-Operative (with Nine Below Zero, 2011)
Happy Ending (2014)

Bryson Tiller

Song(s):
Don’t (2015)
Exchange (2015)
Wild Thoughts (2017) – see DJ Khaled

Album(s):
Trapsoul (2015)

Mel Tillis

Country singer born Lonnie Melvin Tillis on 8/8/1932 in Tampa, FL. Died 11/19/2017.

Song(s):
I Ain’t Never (1972)
Good Woman Blues (1976)
Heart Healer (1977)
I Believe in You (1978)
Coca Cola Cowboy (1979)
Southern Rains (1980)

Floyd Tillman

Song(s):
They Took the Stars Out of Heaven (1944)

Johnny Tillotson

Pop singer/songwriter born 4/20/1939 in Jacksonville, FL.

Song(s):
Poetry in Motion (1961)

Martha Tilton

Song(s):
This Can’t Be Love (1938) – see Benny Goodman
I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart (1938) – see Benny Goodman
And the Angels Sing (1939) – see Benny Goodman

‘Til Tuesday

Song(s):
Voices Carry (1985)

Timbaland

Rap singer and producer born Timothy Zachery Mosley on 3/10/1971 in Norfolk, VA. Worked with Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake.

Song(s):
Promiscuous (2006) – see Nelly Furtado
Apologize (2007) – see One Republic
Give It to Me (with Nelly Furtado & Justin Timberlake, 2007)
The Way I Are (with Doe & Keri Hilson, 2007)
Say Something (with Drake, 2009)

Justin Timberlake

Pop singer born 1/31/1981 in Memphis, TN. With boy group N*Sync and later became a solo star.

Song(s):
Rock Your Body (2002)
Senorita (2002)
Where Is the Love? (2003) – see the Black Eyed Peas
Cry Me a River (2003)
Signs (2005) – see Snoop Dogg
SexyBack (2006)
What Goes Around…Comes Around (2006)
My Love (with T.I. 2006)
Summer Love (2006)
Give It to Me (2007) – see Timbaland
4 Minutes (2008) – see Madonna
Dead and Gone (2008) – see T.I.
Mirrors (2013)
Not a Bad Thing (2013)
Pusher Love Girl (2013)
Can’t Stop the Feeling! (2016)

Album(s):
Justified (2002)
FutureSex/LoveSounds (2006)
The 20/20 Experience (2013)

The Timelords

Song(s):
Doctorin’ the Tardis (1988)

Timex Social Club

Song(s):
Rumours (1986)

Time Zone

Song(s):
World Destruction (1985)

Bobby Timmons

Jazz pianist.

Tindersticks

Song(s):
A Night In (1995)

The Ting Tings

That’s Not My Name (2008)

Tin Machine

Supergroup formed by David Bowie with Reeves Gabrels, Hunt Sales, and Tony Sales.

Album(s):
Tin Machine (1989)
Tin Machine II (1991)

Glenn Tipton

Heavy metal guitarist and keyboardist born 10/25/1947 in Blackheath, England. With Judas Priest (1974-).

TLC

Song(s):
Baby Baby Baby (1992)
Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg (1992)
What About Your Friends (1992)
Creep (1994)
Waterfalls (1994)
No Scrubs (1999)

Album(s):
Crazy Sexy Cool (1994)
Fan Mail (1999)

Toadies

Song(s):
Possum Kingdom (1995)

Toad the Wet Sprocket

Song(s):
Walk on the Ocean (1991)
All I Want (1991)
Hold Her Down (1991)
Pray Your Gods (1991)
Fall Down (1994)

Album(s):
Fear (1991)

Charles Tobias

Harry Tobias

Louise Tobin

Song(s):
There'll Be Some Changes Made (1941) – see Benny Goodman

Art Todd & Dotty

Song(s):
Chanson D’Amour (1958)

The Tokens

Song(s):
The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh) (1961)

Lol Tolhurst

Goth-rock keyboardist and drummer born Laurence Andrew Tolhurst on 2/3/1959 in Horley, Surrey, England. With The Cure (1978-89).

Ralph Tomlinson

Song(s) written by Tomlinson:
To Anacreon in Heaven (words by Tomlinson, music by John Stafford Smith & Samuel Arnold; 1783)

Tomorrow

Song(s):
My White Bicycle (1967)

Tom Tom Club

New wave band. 1981-. Formed by husband-and-wife duo Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, both from Talking Heads.

Song(s):
Genius of Love (1981)

Album(s):
Tom Tom Club (1981)

Tone L%u014Dc

Song(s):
Wild Thing (1988)

Album(s):
Loc-ed After Dark (1989)

Tones and I

Song(s):
Dance Monkey (2019)

Tonic

Song(s):
If You Could Only See (1997)

Tony! Toni! Toné!

Song(s):
Little Walter (1988)
The Blues (1990)
Feels Good (1990)
It Never Rains in Southern California (1990)
Whatever You Want (1991)
If I Had No Loot (1993)

Tool

Song(s):
Schism (2001)

Album(s):
Ænima (1996)
Lateralus (2001)
Fear Inoculum (2019)

Toots & the Maytals

Song(s):
54 46 Was My Number (1968)
Pressure Drop (1970)

Album(s):
Funky Kingston (1973)
In the Dark (1976)

Topic

Song(s):
Breaking Me (with A7S, 2020)

Toploader

Song(s):
Dancing in the Moonlight (2000)

Mel Tormé

Jazz singer born Melvin Howard Tormé on 9/13/1925 in Chicago, IL. Died 6/5/1999.

Song(s):
Careless Hands (1949)
Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered (from Pal Joey, 1950)

Album(s):
Swings Shubert Alley (1960)

The Tornadoes

Song(s):
Telstar (1962)

Tico Torres

Rock drummer born Hector Juan Samuel Torres on 10/7/1953 in New York City, NY. With Bon Jovi (1983-).

Tortoise

Song(s):
DJ’ed (1996)

Album(s):
Millions Now Living Will Never Die (1996)

Arturo Toscanini

Peter Tosh

Song(s):
Legalize It (1976)
Equal Rights (1977)

Album(s):
Legalize It (1976)
Live at the One Love Peace Concert (live, 2000)

Toto

Song(s):
Hold the Line (1978)
Rosanna (1982)
Africa (1982)
Stranger in Town (1984)

Album(s):
Toto IV (1982)
40 Trips Around the Sun (compilation: 2018)

Ali Farka Touré

Album(s):
Talking Timbuktu (with Ry Cooder, 1994)
Savane (2006)

Allen Toussaint

R&B songwriter and producer born 1/14/1938 in Gert Town, LA. Died 11/10/2015.

Album(s):
Finger Poppin' & Stompin' Feet: 20 Classic Productions for Minit Records (compilation: 1960-62, released 2002)

Tove Lo

Song(s):
Habits (Stay High) (2013)

Tower of Power

Song(s):
What Is Hip? (1973)

Myke Towers

Song(s):
Si Se Da (remix with Farruko, Arcángel, Sech & Zion; 2019)

Pete Townshend

Rock singer/songwriter and guitarist born Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend on 5/19/1945 in Chiswick, Middlesex, England. With the Who. Also a solo artist.

Song(s):
Let My Love Open the Door (1980)
Rough Boys (1980)

Album(s):
The Best of (coolwalkingsmoothtalkingstraightsmokingfirestoking) (compilation, released 1996)
Lifehouse (2000)

Toy Matinee

Active: 1989-1992 Members: Patrick Leonard (k: 89-90), Kevin Gilbert (v: 89-92), Brian MacLeod (d), Tim Pierce (g), and Guy Pratt (b), Marc Bonilla (g: 91-92), Sheryl Crow (k: 91), Spencer Campbell (b: 91), Toss Panos (d: 91).

Adult alternative rock group assembled by Leonard. When he expressed disinterest in touring, Gilbert assembled the 1991 version of the band that toured but never recorded. Gilbert and Bonilla also supported the album with radio promos that included a lot of casual, acoustic cover songs. All but Gilbert from the original lineup formed 3rd Matinee in 1994. Leonard, MacLeod, and Pierce all worked together on Toby Lightman's 2006 album Bird on a Wire.

Song(s):
There Was a Little Boy (1990)
Blank Page (1990)

Album(s):
Toy Matinee (1990)
Toy Matinee Acoustic (archives: 1990-91, released 2014) – see Toy Matinee
Live at the Roxy (live, 1991)

The Toys

Song(s):
A Lover’s Concerto (1965)

Toys (Musical Cast of)

Song(s):
The Closing of the Year (Reprise) (1992)

Giorgio Tozzi

Song(s):
Some Enchanted Evening (1958)

T-Pain

Rapper and music producer born Faheem Rasheed Najm on 9/30/1985 in Tallahassee, FL. Known for his use of Auto-Tune.

Song(s):
Low (2007) – see Flo Rida
Good Life (2007) – see Kanye West
Kiss Kiss (2007) – see Chris Brown
Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin') (with Yung Joc, 2007)
Blame It (2008) – see Jamie Foxx
All I Do Is Win (2011) – see DJ Khaled

T'Pau

Song(s):
Heart and Soul (1987)
China in Your Hand (1987)

Al Trace

Song(s):
You Call Everybody Darlin’ (with Bob Vincent, 1948)

The Trade Winds

Song(s):
New York’s a Lonely Town (1965)

Traffic

Rock band formed in Birmingham, England. Active: 1967-74, 1994, 2004. Members: Rbop Kwaku Baah (percussion: 71-74), Barry Beckett (k: 73), Randall Bramblett (k/flute/sax: 94, 04), Jim Capaldi (d/v: 67-74, 94, 04), Rosko Gee (b: 74, 94), Jim Gordon (d: 71-72), Ric Grech (b: 70-72), Roger Hawkins (d: 72-73), David Hood (b: 72-73), Dave Mason (v/g/b: 67-68, 71), Michael McEvoy (k/g/viola: 94), Walfredo Reyes Jr. (d/percussion: 94), Steve Winwood (v/g/k/b: 67-74, 94, 04), Chris Wood (k/flute/sax: 67-74).

Song(s):
Hole in My Shoe (1967)
Dear Mr. Fantasy (1967)
Paper Sun (1967)
Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys (1971)
Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory (1973)

Album(s):
Mr. Fantasy (1967)
Heaven Is in Your Mind (1968)
Traffic (1968)
John Barleycorn Must Die (1970)
The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys (1971)

The Tragically Hip

Song(s):
New Orleans Is Sinking (1989)
Courage (For Hugh MacLennan) (1992)
Wheat Kings (1992)
Ahead by a Century (1996)
Bobcaygeon (1998)

Train

Song(s):
Meet Virginia (1998)
Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me) (2001)
Calling All Angels (2003)
Hey Soul Sister (2009)

Album(s):
Drops of Jupiter (2001)

Meghan Trainor

Song(s):
All About That Bass (2014)
Like I’m Gonna Lose You (with John Legend, 2015)

Tramaine

Song(s):
Fall Down (1985)

The Trammps

Song(s):
Hold Back the Night (1976)
Disco Inferno (1977)

Trans-Siberian Orchestra

Song(s):
Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24) (1996)

Trapt

Song(s):
Headstrong (2002)

The Trashmen

Song(s):
Surfin’ Bird (1963)

Helen Traubel

Traveling Wilburys

Supergroup with Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison (1988), Tom Petty. 1988-1991.

Song(s):
Handle with Care (1988)

Album(s):
Traveling Wilburys Volume 1 (1988)
Traveling Wilburys Volume 3 (1990)

Travis

Song(s):
Why Does It Always Rain on Me? (1999)
Love Will Come Through (2003)

Album(s):
The Man Who (1999)
The Invisible Band (2001)

Merle Travis

Country singer/songwriter born 11/29/1917 in Rosewood, KY. Died 10/20/1983.

Song(s):
Dark As a Dungeon (1946)
Divorce Me C.O.D. (1946)
So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed (1947)

Album(s):
Folk Songs of the Hills (1946)

Randy Travis

Country singer born Randy Bruce Traywick on 5/4/1959 in Marshville, NC.

Song(s):
On the Other Hand (1985)
Diggin’ Up Bones (1986)
Forever and Ever, Amen (1987)
I Won’t Need You Anymore (Always and Forever) (1987)
Too Gone Too Long (1987)
I Told You So (1987)
Honky Tonk Moon (1988)
Deeper Than the Holler (1988)
Is It Still Over? (1988)
It’s Just a Matter of Time (1989)
Hard Rock Bottom of Your Heart (1989)
Forever Together (1991)
If I Didn’t Have You (1992)
Look Heart, No Hands (1992)
Whisper My Name (1994)
Three Wooden Crosses (2003)

Album(s):
Storms of Life (1986)
Always and Forever (1987)
Old 8 x 10 (1988)

Scott Travis

Heavy metal drummer born Mark Scott Travis on 9/6/1961 in Norfolk, VA. With Judas Priest (1989-).

John Travolta

Song(s):
You're the One That I Want (1978) – see Olivia Newton-John
Summer Nights (1978) – see Olivia Newton-John
Grease Megamix (1990) – see Olivia Newton-John

Album(s):
Grease (soundtrack with various artists, 1978) – see Various Artists

Tré Cool

Punk-rock drummer born Frank Edwin Wright III on 12/9/1972 in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany. With Green Day.

The Tremelones

Song(s):
Silence Is Golden (1967)

Charles Trenet

Song(s):

Beyond the Sea (La Mer) (1946)

Ralph Tresvant

Song(s):
Sensitivity (1990)
The Best Things in Life Are Free (1992) – see Luther Vandross

George Trevare

Song(s):
Sunday, Monday or Always (1944)
I’m Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover (1948)

Gloria Trevi

Pete Trewavas

Progressive-rock bassist born 1/15/1959 in Middlesbrough, UK. With Marillion (1982-) and Iris for Crossing the Desert (1996).

T-Rex /a>

British glam-rock band. Active: 1968-1977 Members: Marc Bolan (v/g: 68-77), Steve Peregrine Took (bongos/v: 68-69), Mickey Finn (bongos/v: 69-75), Steve Currie (b: 70-77), Bill Legend (d: 70-73), Jack Green (g – T-Rex: 73-75; Pretty Things), Gloria Jones (backing v/k: 73-77), Davy Lutton (d – Heavy Jelly; T-Rex: 73-77; Wreckless Eric), Dino Dines (k: 74-77), Miller Anderson (g – Savoy Brown; T-Rex: 77; Southside Johnny), Herbie Flowers (b – T-Rex: 77; Sky), Tony Brennan (d: 77).

Song(s):
King of the Rumbling Spires (1969)
Ride a White Swan (1970)
Elemental Child (1970)
Hot Love (1971)
Get It On (Bang a Gong) (1971)
Jeepster (1971)
Life’s a Gas (1971)
Cosmic Dancer (1971)
Telegram Sam (1972)
Metal Guru (1972)
Children of the Revolution (1972)
Ballrooms of Mars (1972)
20th Century Boy (1973)

Album(s):
Electric Warrior (1971)
The Slider (1972)

A Tribe Called Quest

Song(s):
Can I Kick It? (1991)
Excursion (1991)
Scenario (remix with Busta Rhymes, 1992)
Electric Relaxation (Relax Yourself Girl) (1994)

Album(s):
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythms (1990)
The Low-End Theory (1991)
Midnight Marauders (1993)

Tricky

Song(s):
Hell Is Round the Corner (1995)
Overcome (1995)
Evolution Revolution Love (with Ed Kowalczyk & Hawkman, 2001)
Veronika (2008)

Album(s):
Maxinquaye (1995)

The Triffids

Song(s):
Wide Open Road (1986)

Album(s):
Calenture (1987)

Trio

Song(s):
Da Da Da (1981)

Lennie Tristano

Jazz pianist born 3/19/1919 in Chicago, IL. Died 11/18/1978.

Album(s):
Crosscurrents (1949)
Tristano (1955)
Intuition (with Wayne Marsh, 1956)
The New Tristano (1962)

Travis Tritt

Country singer born James Travis Tritt on 2/9/1963 in Marietta, GA.

Song(s):
Help Me Hold On (1990)
Here's a Quarter, Call Someone Who Cares (1991)
Anymore (1991)
Can I Trust You with My Heart (1992)
Foolish Pride (1994)
Best of Intentions (2000)
It’s a Great Day to Be Alive (2000)

Triumph

Song(s):
Magic Power (1981)

Helen Trix

Song(s):
The Bird on Nellie’s Hat (1907)

Trixter

Song(s):
Give It to Me Good (1990)

The Troggs

Song(s):
Wild Thing (1966)
Love Is All Around (1968)

Troop

Song(s):
Spread My Wings (1989)
All I Do Is Thing of You (1990)
Sweet November (1992)

Trooper

Song(s):
Raise a Little Hell (1978)

John Scott Trotter

Song(s):
The Moon Got in My Eyes (1937) – see Bing Crosby
Remember Me? (1937) – see Bing Crosby
Bob White (Whatcha Gonna Swing Tonight?) (1937) – see Bing Crosby
I’ve Got a Pocketful of Dreams (1938) – see Bing Crosby
Alexander’s Ragtime Band (1938) – see Bing Crosby
Moonlight Becomes You (1942) – see Bing Crosby
I Don’t Want to Walk Without You (1942) – see Bing Crosby
I’ll Be Home for Christmas (1943) – see Bing Crosby
I Love You (1944) – see Bing Crosby
San Fernando Valley (1944) – see Bing Crosby
I'll Be Seeing You (1944) – see Bing Crosby
Amor (1944) – see Bing Crosby
Swinging on a Star (1944) – see Bing Crosby
On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe (1945) – see Bing Crosby
You Keep Coming Back Like a Song (1946) – see Bing Crosby

Roger Troutman

Song(s):
California Love (1996) – see Tupac Shakur

Robin Trower

Doris Troy

Song(s):
Just One Look (1963)

Butch Trucks

Rock drummer born Claude Hudson Trucks on 5/11/1947 in Jacksonville, FL. Died 1/24/2017. With the Allman Brothers Band (1969-76, 1989-2017).

Derek Trucks

John Trudell

Song(s):
Doesn’t Hurt Anymore (2001)

The Andrea True Connection

Song(s):
More, More, More (1976)

Robert Trujillo

Heavy metal bassist born Roberto Agustín Miguel Santiago Samuel Trujillo Veracruz on 10/23/1964 in Santa Monica, CA. With Metallica (2003-).

Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra

Song(s):
Singin’ the Blues (with Bix Beiderbecke, 1927)

T-Series Bhakti Sagar

Song(s):
Shree Hanuman Chalisa (2011)

Ernest Tubb

Country singer born Ernest Dale Tubb on 2/9/1914 in Crisp, TX. Died 9/6/1984.

Song(s):
Walking the Floor Over You (1941)
Soldier’s Last Letter (1944)
It’s Been So Long Darling (1945)
Rainbow at Midnight (1946)
Slipping Around (1949)
Blue Christmas (1949)
Goodnight Irene (with Red Foley, 1950)

Album(s):
Definitive Collection (compilation: 2006)

The Tubes

Song(s):
White Punks on Dope (1975)

Tubeway Army

Song(s):
Are Friends Electric? (1979)

Marshall Tucker Band

Song(s):
Can’t You See (1973)
Fire on the Mountain (1975)
Heard It in a Love Song (1977)

Moe Tucker

Rock drummer born Maurieen Ann Tucker on 8/26/1944 in Jackson Heights, NY. With the Velvet Underground (1965-71).

Richards Tucker

Sophie Tucker

Singer and actress born Sonia Kalish on 1/13/1884 in Tulchyn, Ukraine. Died 2/9/1966. Known for comical and risqué songs. One of the most popular entertainers in America during the first half of the 20th century. Nicknamed "The Last of the Red Hot Mamas."

Song(s):
Some of These Days (1910)
Aggravatin’ Papa (1923)
You’ve Got to See Mama Ev’ry Night or You Can’t See Mama at All (1923)
Some of These Days (with Ted Lewis, 1927)
I Ain’t Got Nobody (1927)

Tanya Tucker

Country singer born 10/10/1958 in Seminole, TX. Charted more than 60 country hits from 1972 to 2003, including ten #1’s.

Song(s):
Delta Dawn (1972)
What’s Your Mama’s Name (1973)
Blood Red and Goin’ Down (1973)
Would You Lay with Me in a Field of Stone (1974)
Lizzie and the Rainman (1975)
San Antonio Stroll (1975)
Here’s Some Love (1976)
Just Another Love (1986)
I Won’t Take Less Than Your Love (with Paul Davis & Paul Overstreet, 1987)
If It Don’t Come Easy (1988)
Strong Enough to Bend (1988)
Bring My Flowers Now (2019)

Album(s):
While I'm Living (2019)

Tommy Tucker

Song(s):
Hi-Heel Sneakers (1964)

Tuesday Night Music Club

DMDB profile page

Along with Bill Bottrell, Kevin Gilbert initiated the "Tuesday Night Music Club," an informal weekly jam session that also included Gilbert's then-girlfriend Sheryl Crow. They all contributed to her debut album Tuesday Night Music Club and went on to work together on other projects as well. Active: 1992-1994 Members: Bill Bottrell (producer), Kevin Gilbert, Sheryl Crow, David Baerwald, David Ricketts, Dan Schwartz (b), and Brian MacLeod (d).

Albums on which 2 or more members appeared:
Boomtown (1986) – see David David
Toy Matinee (1990) – see Toy Matinee
Live at the Roxy (live, 1991) – see Toy Matinee
Triage (1992) – see David Baerwald
Tuesday Night Music Club (1993) – see Sheryl Crow
Thud (1995) – see Kevin Gilbert
In Flight (Linda Perry, 1996)
Susanna Hoffs (1996) – see Susanna Hoffs
Ladyland (Sierra Swan, 2006)
Bird on a Wire (Toby Lightman, 2006)
Detours (2008) – see Sheryl Crow

Rev. John Tufts

Song(s):
100 Psalm Tune New (1726)

Charlie Tuna

Radio DJ.

KT Tunstall

Song(s):
Black Horse & the Cherry Tree (2004)
Suddenly I See (2004)
Hold On (2007)

Album(s):
Eye to the Telescope (2004)

2pac

- see Tupac Shakur

The Turbans

Song(s):
When You Dance (1955)

Manuel Turizo

Song(s):
Una Lady Como Tú (2017)
Vaina Loca (2018) – see Ozuna
Déjala Que Vuelva (2021) – see Piso 21
La Bachata (2022)

Roy Turk

Alan Turner

Song(s):
As Long As the World Rolls On (1908)
Till the Sands of the Desert Grow Cold (1912)

Big Joe Turner

Blues singer born Joseph Vernon Turner, Jr. on 5/18/1911 in Kansas City, MO. Died 11/24/1985.

Song(s):
Roll ‘Em Pete (with Pete Johnson, 1938)
Honey Hush (1953)
Shake, Rattle and Roll (1954)

Album(s):
The Boss of the Blues (1956)
Big, Bad & Blue: Anthology (compilation: 1983)

Grant Turner

Ike Turner

R&B guitarist born Izear Luster Turner, Jr. on 11/5/1931 in Clarksdale, MI. Died 12/12/2007. Paired with one-time wife Tina Turner during the '60s and '70s. Also the force behind "Rocket 88", which some call the first rock song.

Song(s):
Rocket 88 (1951) – see Jackie Brenston
I’m Tore Up (Ike Turner’s Rhythm Rockers with Billy Gayles, 1956)
River Deep, Mountain High (1966) – see Tina Turner
Proud Mary (1970) – see Tina Turner
Sexy Ida (Part 1) (1974) – see Tina Turner

Joel Turner & the Modern Day Poets

Song(s):
These Kids (2004)

Joe Lynn Turner

Rock singer born Joseph Arthur Mark Linquito on 8/2/1951 in Hackensack, NJ. With Rainbow (80-84) and Deep Purple (89-92).

Tina Turner

R&B/rock singer born Anna Mae Bullock on 11/26/1939 in Nutbush, TN. Died 5/24/2023. Found success as half of a duo with Ike Turner, to whom she was married from 1962-78. After a few overlooked solo efforts in the '70s, Tina returned with the album Private Dancer in 1984 and launched one of rock's greatest comeback stories. The 12-time Grammy winner has been called "The Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll" and sold more than 200 million records worldwide.

DMDB podcast: Celebrating Tina Turner, 1939-2023

Song(s):
Tina Turner: Top 50 Songs
Fool in Love (1960)
It’s Gonna Work Out Fine (1961)
River Deep, Mountain High (with Ike Turner, 1966)
Proud Mary (with Ike Turner, 1970)
Sexy Ida (Part 1) (with Ike Turner, 1974)
Acid Queen (1975)
What’s Love Got to Do with It? (1984)
Better Be Good to Me (1984)
Tonight (1984) – see David Bowie
We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) (1985)
Typical Male (1986)
The Best (1989)
I Don’t Wanna Fight (1993)

Album(s):
The Soul of Ike & Tina Turner (with Ike Turner, 1961)
River Deep, Mountain High (with Ike Turner, 1966)
Private Dancer (1984)
Proud Mary & Other Hits (with Ike Turner, compilation: 1991)
Simply the Best (compilation: 1973-91, released 1991)

Turnstile

Album(s):
Glow On (2021)

Viola Turpeinen

Song(s):
Kauhavan Polkka (with John Rosendahl, 1928)

Tom Turpin

Song(s):
Harlem Rag (1897)
The St. Louis Rag (1905)
The Buffalo Rag (1906)

The Turtles

Song(s):
It Ain't Me, Babe (1965)
Happy Together (1967)
She’d Rather Be with Me (1967)
Elenore (1968)
You Showed Me (1968)

Jane Turzy

Song(s):
Sweet Violets (1951)

TV Rock

Song(s):
Flaunt It (with Seany B, 2006)

TV on the Radio

Rock band formed in Brooklyn, New York in 2001. Tunde Adebimpe (vocals, backing vocals, programming, sequencing), David Andrew Sitek (guitar, bass, synthesizer, horns, percussion, programming, sampling), Kyp Malone (vocals, backing vocals, guitar, bass, synthesizer, strings: 2003-), Jaleel Bunton (drums, percussion, guitar, bass, synthesizer, programming, strings: 2005-), Gerard Smith (bass, organ, piano, sampling, programming: 2005-11. Died in 2011).

Song(s):
Wolf Like Me (2006)

Album(s):
Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes (2004)
Return to Cookie Mountain (2006)
Dear Science (2008)

Shania Twain

Country singer born Eileen Regina Edwards on 8/28/1965 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Married at one time to producer "Mutt" Lange.

Song(s):
Any Man of Mine (1995)
Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under? (1995)
If You’re Not in It for Love, I’m Outta Here (1995)
You Win My Love (1995)
No One Needs to Know (1995)
Love Gets Me Every Time (1997)
You’re Still the One (1997)
Man! I Feel Like a Woman (1997)
That Don't Impress Me Much (1997)
Come on Over (1997)
Honey I’m Home (1997)
From This Moment On (with Bryan White, 1997)
Forever and for Always (2002)
I’m Gonna Getcha Good! (2002)

Album(s):
The Woman in Me (1995)
Come on Over (1997)
Up! (2002)
Greatest Hits (compilation: 1994-2004, released 2004)

The Twelfth Man

Song(s):
It’s Just Not Cricket (1984)
Marvelous! (1992)

24K Goldn

Song(s):
Mood (with Iann Dior, 2020)

Twenty One Pilots

Song(s):
Stressed Out (2015)
Ride (2016)
Heathens (2016)
The Hype (2018)
Level of Concern (2020)

Album(s):
Vessel (2013)
Blurryface (2015)
Scaled and Icy (2021)

21 Savage

Song(s):
Rockstar (2017) – see Post Malone
Bank Account (2017)
A Lot (with J. Cole, 2018)
My Life (2021) – see J. Cole
Jimmy Cooks (2022) – see Drake
Rich Flex (2022) – see Drake
Creepin’ (2022) – see Metro Boomin
Good Good (2023) – see Usher

Album(s):
Her Loss (2022) – see Drake

Twinkle

Song(s):
Terry (1964)

Twista

Song(s):
Slow Jamz (with Kanye West & Jamie Foxx, 2003)

Twisted Sister

Song(s):
We’re Not Gonna Take It (1984)
I Wanna Rock (1984)

Conway Twitty

Country singer born Harold Lloyd Jenkins on 9/1/1933 in Friars Point, MI. Died 6/6/1993.

Song(s):
It’s Only Make Believe (1958)
Mona Lisa (1959)
Next in Line (1968)
I Love You More Today (1969)
To See My Angel Cry (1969)
Hello Darlin’ (1970)
Fifteen Years Ago (1970)
Lead Me On (1971) – see Loretta Lynn
After the Fire Is Gone (with Loretta Lynn, 1971)
How Much More Can She Stand (1971)
Los Her Love on Our Last Date (1972)
I Can’t Stop Loving You (1972)
She Needs Someone to Hold Her When She Cries (1972)
You’ve Never Been This Far Before (1973)
Louisana Woman, Mississippi Man (1973) – see Loretta Lynn
As Soon As I Hang Up the Phone (1974) – see Loretta Lynn
There’s a Honky Tonk Angel Who’ll Take Me Back In (1974)
I See the Want to in Your Eyes (1974)
Feelins’ (1975) – see Loretta Lynn
Linda on My Mind (1975)
Touch the Hand (1975)
This Time I’ve Hurt Her More Than She Loves Me (1975)
After All the Good Is Gone (1976)
The Games That Daddies Play (1976)
I Can’t Believe She Gives It All to Me (1976)
Play Guitar Play (1977)
I’ve Already Loved You in My Mind (1977)
Don’t Take It Away (1979)
I May Never Get to Heaven (1979)
Happy Birthday, Darlin’ (1979)
I’d Just Love to Lay You Down (1980)
Rest Your Love on Me (1981)
Tight Fittin’ Jeans (1981)
Red Neckin’ Love Makin’ Night (1981)
The Clown (1982)
Slow Hand (1982)
The Rose (1982)
Somebody’s Needin’ Somebody (1984)
I Don’t Know a Thing About Love (The Moon Song) (1984)
Ain’t She Somethin’ Else (1984)
Don’t Call Him a Cowboy (1985)
Desperado Love (1986)