Foley (surname)

Foley is a surname which originated in Ireland, in the southeast Munster region. The name is derived from the original modern Irish Ó Foghlú and older Irish Ó Foghladha, meaning "plunderer". The Lord of the Decies (the Waterford area of Munster) was a title attributed to some early Foleys.

List of people surnamed Foley

Adrian Foley, 8th Baron Foley, British composer

Anthony Foley, Irish rugby player

Bernard Foley, Australian rugby player

Blaze Foley, American singer

Brendan Foley, Irish writer-director

Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids (1857–1942), English scholar and translator

Charles Foley (disambiguation), several people

Chris Foley (disambiguation), several people

Cornelia MacIntyre Foley, American/Hawaiian artist

Curry Foley, early Irish baseball player

Dave Foley, Canadian actor

David Foley, English professional footballer

Denis Foley (1934–2013), Irish politician

Desmond Foley, Irish sportsman and politician

Dominic Foley, Irish professional footballer

Ellen Foley, American singer and actress

Foley

Foley may refer to:

Places

United States

Foley, Alabama

Foley, Florida, a community in Taylor County, Florida

Foley, Minnesota

Foley, Missouri

Foley Field, baseball stadium in Athens, Georgia

Foley Square in Manhattan

Canada

Foley Island, Nunavut

Northern Ireland

Foley, County Armagh, a townland in County Armagh

People

Foley (surname), a list of people with the surname

Baron Foley, British peerage title

Foley (musician), Miles Davis sideman 1987–1991

Fiction

Miss Foley, a fictional character from the novel Something Wicked This Way Comes

Technology

Foley (filmmaking), a process or a studio for creating sound effects used to enhance film or video soundtrack

Foley catheter, the most common type of indwelling urinary catheter

Ships

HMS Foley, more than one ship of the British Royal Navy

USS Foley (DE-270), a United States Navy destroyer escort in commission from August to October 1945

Foley (musician)

Joseph McCreary, Jr., known professionally as Foley, is an American composer, musician, and photographer who is best known as the "lead bassist" with trumpeter Miles Davis from 1987 until 1991. With his custom-made Blue Marble bass, tuned nearly an octave higher than a standard bass guitar and processed through various effects, Foley was able to create the illusion of a lead guitarist.

Biography

Foley spent his early years playing in Columbus, Ohio, where he was born and raised, composing and recording his own music.

Foley is featured on the Miles Davis albums Amandla, Dingo, Live Around the World, The Complete Miles Davis at Montreux, and countless live bootleg recordings. He also plays a lead bass solo on Mint Condition's R&B Top 40 hit "So Fine" and the interlude track "Gumbo" from their CD From the Mint Factory.

In 1993, during his time at Motown, Foley released 7 Years Ago....Directions In Smart-Alec Music. The album featured the AIDS-related song "If It's Positive," which is widely regarded as the first in a long line of AIDS awareness songs during the early 1990s. Foley performed this song live on BET's award-winning show Teen Summit, in which then-host Belma Johnson had taken an AIDS/HIV test and revealed the results live on the air. That episode, featuring "If It's Positive" and Foley's AIDS awareness concerns, helped BET to win their first NAACP Image Award. The video features guest appearances from Speech and Aerle Taree of Arrested Development. The video had heavy rotation on BET as well. Foley later joined Arrested Development and can be seen in the group's "Ease My Mind" video and their Arsenio Hall appearance in which he served as music arranger. He toured with Arrested Development from 1993 to 1994, alternately playing bass with Arrested Development and drums with Fishbone, during Lollapalooza '93.

Foley (filmmaking)

Foley is the reproduction of everyday sound effects that are added to film, video, and other media in post-production to enhance audio quality. These reproduced sounds can be anything from the swishing of clothing and footsteps to squeaky doors and breaking glass. The best Foley art is so well integrated into a film that it goes unnoticed by the audience. It helps to create a sense of reality within a scene. Without these crucial background noises, movies feel unnaturally quiet and uncomfortable.

Foley artists recreate the realistic ambient sounds that the film portrays. The props and sets of a film often do not react the same way acoustically as their real life counterparts. Foley sounds are used to enhance the auditory experience of the movie. Foley can also be used to cover up unwanted sounds captured on the set of a movie during filming, such as overflying airplanes or passing traffic.

The term "Foley" is also used to describe a place, such as Foley-stage or Foley-studio, where the Foley process takes place.