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By early 1988, House became mainstream and supplanted the typical 80s music beat. [12] House was created and pioneered by DJs and producers in Chicago such as Frankie Knuckles, Ron Hardy, Jesse Saunders, Chip E., Joe Smooth, Steve "Silk" Hurley, Farley "Jackmaster" Funk, Marshall Jefferson, Phuture, and others.
Composition. "Let the Music Play" is a dance-pop and freestyle song with synthesizer and drum machine-produced rim shot percussion sounds and kick-drum/snare-drum interaction. Critic and journalist Peter Shapiro described the song as a "cross between Gary Numan and Tito Puente ." [11] The song's tempo is 116 beats per minute.
Despite the music's limited commercial availability, house records sold in the tens of thousands, and the music was further popularized via radio station 102.7 WBMX-FM, where Program Director Lee Michaels gave airtime to the station's resident DJ team, the Hot Mix 5 (Ralphi Rosario, Mickey "Mixin" Oliver, Scott "Smokin" Silz, Kenny "Jammin ...
In addition, Jackson remained the longest at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (27 weeks). Whitney Houston scored seven consecutive number-one singles during the 1980s, becoming the only artist in the chart's history to achieve this feat. During the 1980s, George Michael scored four number-one singles as a solo artist ...
Ahead of Beyoncé's "Renaissance" album release, read a brief history of house music, a genre pioneered by Frankie Knuckles and Ron Hardy.
Farley "Jackmaster" Funk (born Farley Keith Williams; January 25, 1962) is an American musician, DJ and record producer of Chicago house and acid house music. He is notable for writing and producing a number of highly influential tracks in the mid and late 1980s.
Glass Houses is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel, released on March 12, 1980. [5] The record was a smash hit. It topped the Billboard 200 chart at number one, and held that spot for six consecutive weeks. It features Joel's first single to peak at No. 1 on Billboard 's Hot 100 chart, "It's Still Rock and Roll to ...
Stars on 45 (song) " Stars on 45 " is a song medley issued in January 1981 by Dutch studio group Stars on 45. In some countries, including the UK, Ireland, and New Zealand, the band was credited as 'Starsound' and only the medley itself was named "Stars on 45". The song's origin comes from an underground 12" that was big in clubs in the late ...