Diane Schuur
Diane Schuur (born December 10, 1953 in Tacoma, Washington) is an American jazz singer and pianist. Nicknamed "Deedles", she has won two Grammy Awards, headlined many of the world's most prestigious music venues, including Carnegie Hall and The White House and has toured the world performing with such greats as Quincy Jones, Stan Getz, B. B. King, Dizzy Gillespie, Maynard Ferguson, Ray Charles, Joe Williams and Stevie Wonder. Like Stevie Wonder, Schuur was blinded at birth due to retinopathy of prematurity.
Biography
Diane Schuur grew up in suburban Seattle, Washington and was encouraged by both her parents to sing. She started singing when she was two-and-a-half, and by age nine, was getting professional gigs. She has said that as a small child she would often retreat to the closet to be alone with herself and sing. Her early childhood music heroines were Sarah Vaughan and Dinah Washington. Schuur had her first gig at Tacoma's Holiday Inn at age ten in which she sang country music. Attending the Washington School for the Blind, she began performing original material, and starting at the young age of sixteen, revealed a distinctive voice and began performing. Her big break came when Stan Getz became positive about her work on hearing her sing "Amazing Grace" at legendary Monterey Jazz Festival in 1979, returning in '88 and '91. In 1982, Getz asked her to join him at a performance at the White House. Nancy Reagan invited her to perform again as a vocalist with the Count Basie Orchestra in 1987. Stan Getz later played on Schuur's first three albums, Deedles (1984), Schuur Thing (1985 also with Jose Feliciano ) and Timeless (1986).
Blue Skies
Blue Skies may refer to:
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See also
7 Blue Skies
7 Blue Skies is an alternative rock band formed in 2004. The group is well known for their high energy live performances, as well as for always performing barefoot. The band has since broken up.
Band name
The band's name was chosen following an email from producer Ron Saint Germain, in which Germain signed off "Good luck, 7 blue skies!" The band determined the name to mean "have a nice week," and decided to use the name. This was later revealed to be a typo, as the intended line was "Good luck & blue skies!" (the & is located above the 7 key).
History
Jon Shaffer, Adam Schulman and Andy Stickel formed the band and posted an ad online for a singer and drummer in 2004. Ramsay and Garitta responded to the ad and arranged a rehearsal and from there the band was born. The group entered the studio to begin recording what would be their first release 'Exhausted' in May 2004 with producers Sam Verella and Jason Laughton.
The album was released in the summer of 2005, and saw sales of several thousand copies. The album attracted the attention of Mike Grippo, an A&R from E-Klectrik Music Group, a division of the GoDigital Media Group. On February 28, 2007 the group signed to E-Klectrik Music Group and began working on their next release, "Last Night."
Mobile Home (album)
Mobile Home is the second and final album by Longpigs, released in 1999 on U2's record label Mother.
Track listing
All songs written by Crispin Hunt unless otherwise stated.
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Podcasts:
Diane Schuur
ALBUMS
- Some Other Time released: 2008
- Schuur Fire released: 2005
- Midnight released: 2003
- Friends for Schuur released: 2000
- Music Is My Life released: 1999
- Blues for Schuur released: 1997
- Love Walked In released: 1996
- Diane Schuur & The Count Basie Orchestra released: 1990
- Talkin' 'bout You released: 1988
- Timeless released: 1986
- GRP Live in session released: 1985
- Love Songs released:
- The Best of Diane Schuur released:
- Schuur Thing released:
- Heart to Heart released:
- Collection released:
- Deedles released:
- In Tribute released:
Friends for Schuur
Released 2000- Easy Living (feat. Stan Getz, digitally reintroduced)
- I'd Fly (feat. Richard Cocciante)
- For the First Time
- It Might Be You (Theme from 'Tootsie') (feat. Alan Bergman & Dave Grusin)
- Love Like Ours (feat. Dave Grusin)
- Red Cab to Manhattan (feat. Stephen Bishop)
- The Heart Never Learns
- Never Take That Chance Again
- It Had to Be You (feat. Ray Charles)
- I Just Called to Say I Love You (feat. Herbie Hancock)
- Finally (feat. Stevie Wonder)
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Stay Away From Bill
by: Diane Schuur"[Karrin Allyson]
If you want a man you can love
and be his one and only
[Deedles Schuur]
If you want a man who will be there
and always will
K: If this is who you're looking for
D: The prince who's going to show up
at your door
Both: Whatever you do,
Stay away from Bill
[Horn & piano interlude]
D: Stay away from Bill, he's a beast
and you'll always be lonely
K: He won't ever call, and he'll run
when he's had his fill
D: He'll put you on a pedestal
K: That's right before he puts you
through the mill
Both: Whatever you do,
Stay away from Bill
Both: If you're wonderin' if there's any good in him
When it comes to Bill, the answer's no
He'll lie and deceive you
He'll love you and leave you
and ohhhhhh.....
D: You'll be miserable
K: So stay away from Bill
'Cause he's bad, and he's nothin' but trouble
D: [He's nothin' but trouble]
K: Stay away from Bill
D: [counterpoint] Stay away from Bill
K: If you do
Both: And you're gonna be fiiiiiiine.....
D: He'll have you and hurt you
and then he will desert you
K: He'll shock you and shake you
He'll rock you and he'll break you
Both: He'll chill you and thrill you
He'll kill you, then he'll bill you
Stay--a-way--from--Bill
That--boy--is--miiiiiiine
D: That boy is mine
K: No, that boy is mine
D: Did you hear me, girlfriend?
That boy is mine
K: I heard you loud and clear
That boy is mine
D: No he's not, no he's not
K: [humming]
D: I'll tell you one more time, girlfriend,
He's mine
D: [humming]
K: Deedles, that boy is mine
D: Karryn, that boy is mine
[Karryn - scatting]
[Deedles - scatting]
K: Stay away from Bill