Diesel was a Dutch pop/rock group that became one of the few Dutch acts to chart in the U.S. when their song "Sausalito Summernight" entered the U.S. Top 40 in 1981, with the band created in October 1978 by the late ex-Kayak drummer Pim Koopman & Rob Vunderink(guitar/lead vocals),Mark Boon(guitar,composer),Frank Papendrecht (bass).Their first album, "Watts in a Tank", was released in the Netherlands in 1980.
Actual footage of the band DIESEL performing (lip-sync) "Sausalito Summernight" on TV! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebDZvy7WKTg
Source - http://www.dieselonline.nl/
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Gary Wright was born on April 26, 1943 in Cresskill, New Jersey, became a child stage actor and later formed the British band Spooky Tooth in 1967 as a singer/keyboardist before embarking on a solo career, garnering hits such as "Love Is Alive" and "Dream Weaver" in 1976, the latter later redone for the hit comedy "Wayne's World" in 1991.
This rare single from his 7th album "The Right Place" (1981) was a 99.5RT playlist staple.
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Influenced by both traditional Brazilian singers and the improvisations of American jazz divas like Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan, Flora Purim was one of the most adventurous singers of the 1970s. After meeting and marrying her husband, percussionist Airto Moreira, in their native Brazil, Purim moved with him to the U.S. in the late '60s. Though she worked with Stan Getz and pianist Duke Pearson before the decade ended, it wasn't until joining Chick Corea, Joe Farrell, Stanley Clarke, and Moreira in the original Return to Forever in 1972 that she became well known in the States. Purim showed considerable promise on Forever classics like "500 Miles High" and "Light As a Feather" and lived up to it when she went solo with 1973's Butterfly Dreams. Ranging from superb to passably decent, Purim's Milestone dates of the mid- to late '70s kept her quite visible in the jazz world. Purim's work grew erratic and uneven in the 1980s, and she wasn't recording as often (though she did provide one album for Virgin and three with Moreira for Concord's Crossover label). Purim didn't record very often in the early to mid-'90s either, but she continued to be highly regarded in Brazilian jazz circles. ~ Alex Henderson, All Music Guide
This jazz fusion fave from her 7th LP "NOTHING WILL BE AS IT WAS...TOMORROW" (Warner Brothers 1977).
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