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Song(s):
Whoomp! There It Is (1993)
Take That
Song(s):
Could It Be Magic (1992)
Pray (1993)
Back for Good (1995)
Patience (2006)
Shine (2007)
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 (1978)
Life During Wartime (1979)
Cross-Eyed and Painless (1980)
Once in a Lifetime (1981)
Burning Down the House (1983)
Album(s):
77 (1977)
More Songs about Buildings and Food (1978)
Fear of Music (1979)
Remain in Light (1980)
Stop Making Sense (live soundtrack, 1983)
Little Creatures (1985)
Talk Talk
Album(s):
Spirit of Eden (1988)
About: Producer for the Who and The Kinks.
Born: Hudson Woodbridge (but known as Hudson Whitaker) on 1/8/1904 Died: 3/19/1981
Blues musician.
Tangerine Dream
Album(s):
Phaedra (1974)
Elmo Tanner
Song(s):
Heartaches (with Ted Weems, 1947)
Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers
Song(s):
Down Yonder (1934)
Mabel Wilson Tatro
Song(s):
The Suncook Town Tragedy (1930)
Born: 10/13/1909 Died: 11/5/1956
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):
The Genius of Art Tatum, Vols. 1-13 (1955)
Born: Bernard John Taupin on 5/22/1950 Died:
Pop songwriter most noted as Elton John’s regular writing partner (“Your Song”, “Candle in the Wind”).
Born: 7/24/1921 Died:
Jazz pianist.
Born: 1/29/1923 in Benoit, MI Died: 12/25/1985
Blues guitarist.
Born: Theodore Roosevelt Taylor on 4/12/1915 Died: 12/17/1975
Blues guitarist.
Album(s):
Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers (1971)
Born: 3/12/1948 Died:
American pop/folk/adult contemporary singer/songwriter.
Song(s):
Fire and Rain (1970)
You've Got a Friend (written by Carole King, 1971)
Album(s):
Sweet Baby James (1970)
Greatest Hits (compilation, 1970-1976)
Hourglass (1997)
Born: 5/5/1937 Died: 5/31/2000
American R&B singer (“Disco Lady”).
Born: Cora Walton on 9/28/1928 in Shelby County, TN Died: 6/3/2009
American blues singer.
Mick Taylor
Born: 7/26/1949 Died:
British rock drummer and songwriter with Queen.
Born: 5/7/1840 Died: 11/6/1893
Russian classical composer (The Nutcracker, Swan Lake).
Song(s):
1812 Overture (?)
Album(s):
Piano Concerto No. 1 (1874)
Symphony No. 6 in B Minor (1893)
Captricco Italien (?)
Born: 8/20/1905 in Vernon, TX Died: 1/15/1964
Jazz/big band leader.
Song(s):
Shout (1984)
Everybody Wants to Rule the World (1985)
Head Over Heels (1985)
Album(s):
The Hurting (1983)
Songs from the Big Chair (1985)
The Seeds of Love (1989)
Elemental (1993)
Raoul and the Kings of Spain (1995)
Everybody Loves a Happy Ending (2004)
Renata Tebaldi
Teenage Fanclub
Album(s):
Bandwagonesque (1991)
Tee Set
Song(s):
Ma Belle Amie (1969)
Tinie Tempah
Song(s):
Pass Out (2010)
About: 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 (year?)
Album(s):
Marquee Moon (1977)
About: One-time Seattle-based tribute project. Members of Soundgarden (Cornell, Cameron) assembled with future members of Pearl Jam (Gossard, Ament, Vedder, McCready) as a tribute to Andrew Wood, who died of a heroin overdose. Cornell had been friends with him and Gossard and Ament were bandmates with him in Mother Love Bone. Album became popular after Pearl Jam’s phenomenal success with 1991’s Ten and Soundgarden’s breakthrough with their album Badmotorfinger from the same year.
Active: 1990-91 Members: Chris Cornell (v), Stone Gossard (g), Jeff Ament (b), Eddie Vedder (v), Mike McCready (g), Matt Cameron (d).
Album(s):
Temple of the Dog (1990)
Shirley Temple
Song(s):
On the Good Ship Lollipop (1935)
About: Producer for The Doobie Brothers and Van Halen.
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-), 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):
My Girl (1964)
Ain't Too Proud to Beg (written by Norman Whitfield and Edward Holland Jr., 1966)
Just My Imagination Running Away with Me (written by Barrett Strong and Norman Whitfield, 1971)
Papa Was a Rollin' Stone (written by Barrett Strong and Norman Whitfield, 1972)
10cc
Song(s):
I'm Not in Love (1975)
Tammi Terrell
Song(s):
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough (with Marvin Gaye, 1967)
Terrorvision
Album(s):
How to Make Friends and Influence People (1994)
Clark Terry
Born: 12/14/1920 Died:
American jazz trumpeter.
Born: Saunders Terrell on 10/24/1911 Died: 3/11/1986
Blues musician.
Born: Rosetta Nubin on 3/20/1915 Died: 10/9/1973
American gospel and blues singer and guitarist.
Song(s):
Down by the Riverside (1944)
This Train (year?)
Blanche Theborn
Them
Song(s):
Gloria (1965)
Jon Theodore
Therapy?
Album(s):
Trouble Gum (1994)
These New Puritans
Album(s):
Hidden (2010)
Thin Lizzy
Album(s):
Live and Dangerous (1977) live
Third Eye Blind
Song(s):
Semi-Charmed Life (1997)
3rd Matinee
Album(s):
Meanwhile (1994)
The Thirteenth Floor Elevators
Album(s):
The Psychedelic Sounds of the Thirteenth Floor Elevators (1966)
Easter Everywhere (1967)
This Mortal Coil
Song(s):
Song to the Siren (1983)
Born: 8/7/1942 Died:
American pop singer.
Song(s):
Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head (written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, 1969)
Hey, Won’t You Play Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song (1975)
Bruce Thomas
Carla Thomas
Charlie Thomas
Born: 1/13/1947 Died: --
British producer for The Pretenders, The Sex Pistols, and Roxy Music.
Dylan Thomas
Album(s):
A Child’s Christmas in Wales (1952)
Born: 2/18/1941 Died: --
R&B/blues singer.
John Carlos Thomas
Rob Thomas
Song(s):
Smooth (with Santana, 1999)
The DMDB Blog:
Santana’s “Smooth” hit #1: October 23, 1999 (10/23/11)
Rufus Thomas
Song(s):
Walking the Dog (1963)
Born: 9/3/1925 Died: 11/6/2007
Country singer.
Song(s):
The Wild Side of Life (1952)
Born: 4/3/1949 Died: --
British folk singer/songwriter and musician with Fairport Convention and then a solo artist.
Song(s):
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)
Born: 11/25/1896 in Kansas City, MO Died: 9/30/1989
Composer and music critic.
Album(s):
Four Saints in Three Acts (1947) opera
Born: 8/10/1909 Died: 7/1/1965
American jazz/big band leader.
Born: Willie Mae Thornton on 12/11/1926 Died: 7/25/1984
Blues singer.
Song(s):
Hound Dog (written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, 1953)
Ball ‘N’ Chain (1968)
Born: 12/31/1952 Died:
Blues-rock guitarist and singer (“Bad to the Bone”, “I Drink Alone”).
Song(s):
Bad to the Bone (1982)
Three Dog Night
Song(s):
Joy to the World (1971)
3 Doors Down
Song(s):
Here without You (2003)
T.I.
Song(s):
What You Know (2006)
Harry A. Tierney
British singer/songwriter. One of two members of the new wave band Squeeze to last through every incarnation of the group.
Album(s):
The Incomplete Glenn Tilbrook (2001)
Transatlantic Ping Pong (2004)
Born: 8/8/1932 Died:
Country singer.
Floyd Tillman
Martha Tilton
Song(s):
And the Angels Sing (with Benny Goodman, written by Johnny Mercer with Ziggy Elfman; 1939)
Born: Timothy Zachery Mosley on 3/10/1971 Died:
Rap singer and producer for Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake.
Song(s):
Promiscuous (with Nelly Furtado, 2006)
Apologize (with One Republic, 2007)
Born: 1/31/1981 Died: --
Pop singer with boy group N*Sync who later became a solo star.
Song(s):
Where Is the Love? (with Black Eyed Peas, 2003)
Cry Me a River (2003)
SexyBack (2006)
Album(s):
Justified (2002)
FutureSex/LoveSounds (produced by Rick Rubin, 2006)
The DMDB Blog:
Justin Timberlake released “SexyBack”: July 15, 2006 (7/15/12)
Tin Machine
About: Supergroup formed by David Bowie.
Album(s):
Tin Machine (1989)
Tin Machine II (1991)
Tindersticks
Song(s):
City Sickness (1993)
Glenn Tipton
TLC
Song(s):
Waterfalls (1994)
No Scrubs (1999)
Album(s):
CrazySexyCool (1994)
Fanmail (1999)
Charles Tobias
Harry Tobias
Louise Tobin
Song(s):
There’ll Be Some Changes Made (with Benny Goodman, 1941)
The Tokens
Song(s):
The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh) (1961)
Tone Loc
Song(s):
Wild Thing (1988)
Tool
Album(s):
Ænima (1996)
Lateralus (2001)
2 Live Crew
The DMDB Blog:
2 Live Crew were arrested for obscenity: June 10, 1990 (6/10/12)
Toots & the Maytals
Song(s):
Pressure Drop (1970)
Born: 9/13/1925 Died: 6/5/1999
Jazz singer.
The Tornadoes
Song(s):
Telstar (1962)
Tico Torres
Arturo Toscanini
Peter Tosh
Song(s):
Legalize It (1976)
Equal Rights (1977)
Toto
Song(s):
Rosanna (1982)
Album(s):
Toto IV (1982)
Born: 1/14/1938 Died: --
American R&B songwriter and producer.
Born: 5/19/1945 Died:
British rock guitarist, songwriter, and singer with the Who. Also a solo artist (“Let My Love Open the Door”).
Song(s):
Rough Boys (1980)
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)
Album(s):
Toy Matinee (1990)
Toy Matinee Live (1991) live
Born: Faheem Rasheed Najm on 9/30/1985 in Tallahassee, FL
American rapper and music producer known for his use of Auto-Tune.
Song(s):
Low (with Flo Rida, 2007)
Good Life (with Kanye West, 2007)
Traffic
Song(s):
Dear Mr. Fantasy (1967)
Album(s):
Mr. Fantasy (1967)
Heaven Is in Your Mind (1968)
John Barleycorn Must Die (1970)
Song(s):
Drops of Jupiter (2001)
Hey, Soul Sister (2009)
The DMDB Blog:
Train charts with “Hey, Soul Sister”: September 5, 2009 (9/5/11)
The Trammps
Song(s):
Disco Inferno (1977)
Helen Traubel
Travis
Album(s):
The Man Who (1999)
The Invisible Band (2001)
Born: 11/29/1917 Died: 10/20/1983
American country singer and guitarist.
Born: Randy Bruce Traywick 5/4/1959 Died:
American country singer/songwriter.
Song(s):
On the Other Hand (written by Don Schlitz, 1985)
Forever and Ever, Amen (written by Don Schlitz, 1987)
Album(s):
Storms of Life (1986)
Scott Travis
Song(s):
You're the One That I Want (with Olivia Newton-John, 1978)
Album(s):
Grease (with Olivia Newton-John et al, 1978)
The DMDB Blog:
The Grease Soundtrack Goes to #1: July 29, 1978 (7/29/11)
“Tré Cool” see Frank Edwin Wright III
British glam-rock band.
Active: 1968-1977 Members: Marc Bolan (v/g: 68-77), Steve Peregrine Took (bongos/v: 68-69), Micky Finn (born 1/3/47; died 11/80; bongos/v: Tyrannosaurus Rex: 69-70; T-Rex: 70-75; Pink Fairies), Steve Curry/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).
British glam rock group.
Song(s):
Get It On (Bang a Gong) (1971)
Album(s):
Electric Warrior (1971)
A Tribe Called Quest
Song(s):
Scenario (with Busta Rhymes, 1992)
Album(s):
People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythms (1990)
The Low-End Theory (1991)
Tricky
Album(s):
Maxinquaye (1995)
Trinity Choir
Song(s):
Joy to the World (1911)
Born: 3/19/1919 in Chicago, IL Died: 11/18/1978
Jazz pianist.
Album(s):
Crosscurrents (1949)
Born: 2/9/1963 Died: --
Country singer.
Helen Trix
Song(s):
The Bird on Nellie’s Hat (1907)
The Troggs
Song(s):
Wild Thing (1966)
John Scott Trotter
Song(s):
I'll Be Seeing You (with Bing Crosby, 1944)
Swinging on a Star (Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter's Orchestra & the Williams Brothers Quartet, 1944)
Roger Troutman
Song(s):
California Love (with Tupac Shakur and Dr. Dre, 1996)
Robin Trower
Doris Troy
Derek Trucks
Robert Trujillo
Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra
Song(s):
Singin’ the Blues (with Bix Beiderbecke, 1927)
Born: 2/9/1914 Died: 9/6/1984
Country singer.
Song(s):
Walking the Floor Over You (1941)
Maureen “Moe” Tucker
About: Russian-born American singer and actress 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”.
Born: Sonia Kalish on 1/13/1884 in Tulchyn, Ukraine Died: 2/9/1966
Song(s):
Some of These Days (1911)
Some of These Days (with Ted Lewis, 1927)
Born: 10/10/1958 Died:
Country singer.
About: Along with Bottrell, 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).
2pac - see Tupac Shakur
Roy Turk
Alan Turner
Song(s):
As Long As the World Rolls On (1908)
Born: 5/18/1911 Died: 11/24/1985
American blues singer.
Song(s):
Shake, Rattle and Roll (1954)
Album(s):
The Boss of the Blues (1956)
Grant Turner
Born: 11/5/1931 Died: 12/12/2007
American R&B guitarist. 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):
River Deep, Mountain High (with Tina Turner, 1966)
Proud Mary (with Tina Turner, 1970)
Born: Anna Mae Bullock on 11/26/38 in Brownsville, TN Died: --
R&B/rock singer. Half of duo with husband Ike Turner, to whom she was married from 1958-76. After a few overlooked solo efforts in the ‘70s, Tina returned as a solo star in 1984 in one of rock’s greatest comeback stories.
Song(s):
River Deep, Mountain High (with Ike Turner, 1966)
Proud Mary (with Ike Turner, 1970)
What's Love Got to Do with It? (1984)
Album(s):
Private Dancer (1984)
The Turtles
Song(s):
It Ain’t Me, Babe (1965)
Happy Together (1967)
TV on the Radio
Album(s):
Return to Cookie Mountain (2006)
Dear Science (2008)
Born: 8/28/1965 Died:
Country singer. Married at one time to producer “Mutt” Lange.
Song(s):
You're Still the One (1997)
Come on Over (1997)
Album(s):
The Woman in Me (1995)
Come on Over (1997)
Up! (2002)
Twista
Song(s):
Slow Jamz (with Kanye West & Jamie Foxx, 2003)
Twisted Sister
Song(s):
We’re Not Gonna Take It (1984)
Born: 9/1/1933 Died: 6/6/1993
Country singer.
Song(s):
Hello Darlin’ (1970)
Song(s):
Total Eclipse of the Heart (written by Jim Steinman, 1983)
Born: Steven Victor Tallarico on 3/26/1948 Died: --
Rock singer/songwriter with Aerosmith (70-).
The Tymes
Song(s):
So Much in Love (1963)
Born: 12/11/1938 Died:
American jazz pianist.
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