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Patti Austin

Austin on the evening of her appearance at the Ram's Head in Annapolis, Maryland, where she sang an all-Gershwin show on October 29, 2007.
Background information
Born (1950-08-10) August 10, 1950 (age 61)
Origin Harlem, New York
Genres R&B, Pop rock, Jazz
Occupations Singer, Songwriter
Years active 1953–present
Labels CTI, Qwest, GRP, Concord
Website Patti Austin Official Website

Patti Austin (born August 10, 1950)[1] is an American R&B and jazz music singer.

Contents

Life and career [link]

Austin was born in Harlem, New York. She made her debut at the Apollo Theater at age four and had a contract with RCA Records when she was only five. Quincy Jones and Dinah Washington have proclaimed themselves as her godparents.[citation needed]

By the late 1960s Austin was a prolific session musician and commercial jingle singer. During the 1980s, signed to Jones's Qwest Records, she began her most prolific hitmaking period. She charted twenty R&B songs between 1969 and 1991 and had success on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, where she hit number one in 1981 with "Do You Love Me?" / "The Genie".

The album containing that hit, Every Home Should Have One, also produced her biggest mainstream hit. "Baby, Come To Me", a duet with James Ingram, initially peaked at number 73 on the Hot 100 in early 1982. After being featured as the love theme in a prominent storyline on the soap opera General Hospital, the song re-entered the pop chart in October and went to number one in February 1983. The single was certified Gold by the RIAA. She would later team up again with Ingram for "How Do You Keep The Music Playing".

That year, Austin's single "It's Gonna Be Special" was featured on the soundtrack for the Olivia Newton-John/John Travolta film Two of a Kind. Though the film was not the major success envisioned for the re-teaming of the Grease stars, the soundtrack went Platinum and Austin's single, produced by Quincy Jones, became one of her highest-profile hits. "It's Gonna Be Special" peaked at #5 on the Dance charts, #15 on the R&B charts, and charted on the Hot 100 in 1984. The song also appeared on her self-titled album of that year, and its follow-up, "Rhythm of the Street", remixed by John "Jellybean" Benitez, narrowly missed Billboard's Dance Top Ten, though it peaked higher on Hi-NRG charts. The two songs were featured on a double-A-side 12" single. For "Rhythm of the Street" Austin shot her first music video.

Austin released her third album in three years entitled Gettin' Away With Murder. In addition to the title track, she had two more hit singles, "Honey For The Bees" (#24 R&B and #6 Dance) and "The Heat of Heat". Produced by Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, noted for their later work with Janet Jackson, the latter track returned Austin to the top 15 of the R&B charts for what would be the last time to date. It would also be her last Hot 100 charting to date, although she would score a top-5 dance hit with the single Reach that appeared originally on her 1994 CD That Secret Place.

She next appeared with Jeff Bridges and Joan Allen in Francis Ford Coppola's critically acclaimed period piece Tucker: The Man and his Dream (1988). That year, Austin released The Real Me, a collection of standards which garnered her the first of several Top 10 showings on the Jazz Albums chart.

She sang the duet "It's the Falling in Love" with Michael Jackson on his album Off The Wall. Other duet partners include George Benson ("Moody's Mood for Love" and "Keep Your Dreams Alive"), and Luther Vandross ("I'm Gonna Miss You In The Morning"). In 1985 she sang lead vocals on a collaboration with her producer, Narada Michael Walden, and the single, "Gimme, Gimme, Gimme", went top 40 on the R&B charts.

In 1991, she recorded the duet "You Who Brought Me Love" with music legend Johnny Mathis, which was received with critical acclaim. That same year she was invited to be a guest on a Johnny Mathis television special that was broadcast across North America.

Austin led a new group of Raelettes for the 2006 album Ray Charles + Count Basie Orchestra = Genius². That group also featured veteran session singer Valerie Pinkston and members of the group Perry.

During a 2007 interview promoting her latest recording, Austin reflected how as a teenager she reluctantly attended one of Judy Garland's last concerts and the experience helped focus her career, stating "She (Judy Garland) ripped my heart out. I wanted to interpret a lyric like that, to present who I was at the moment through the lyric."[2]

In 2007 Patti Austin participated in the Avo Session Basel with a program dedicated to Ella Fitzgerald.

In 2008, fifty-three years after getting her first record contract, Patti Austin was awarded her first Grammy Award, winning Best Jazz Vocal Album for Avant Gershwin at the 50th annual Grammy Awards.[1] The award came for her ninth nomination in that category.

On September 11, 2001, Austin was booked on United Flight 93, from Boston to San Francisco. However, she had to change the flight to a day earlier because her mother had a stroke. Austin later said: “I felt that my life had been saved for some specific reason.” “I have yet to figure that out, but I do a lot of charity work now, which I was doing before, but I do a lot more.”[citation needed]

She reported to Jim Newsom of Portfolio Weekly in 2006 “I just lost 140 pounds. “I had gastric bypass surgery a year and a half ago, and my life was saved by it. “I went to a doctor for a complete physical because I had a torn meniscus in my knee. He said, ‘You’ve got to lose this weight —- you’ve got type II diabetes, you have asthma and you’re menopausal. You’ve got to get rid of this weight and you’ve got to get rid of it fast. This is the best way for you to do it.’”

Austin is one of over 70 artists singing on "We Are the World: 25 for Haiti", a charity single in aid of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

Discography [link]

Studio albums [link]

Year Album Chart positions[3][4][5] Record label
US US
R&B		 US
Jazz		 UK
1976 End of a Rainbow — — 31 — CTI
1977 Havana Candy 116 — — —
1980 Body Language — 62 28 —
1981 Every Home Should Have One 36 16 9 99 Qwest
1984 Patti Austin 87 — — —
1985 Gettin' Away with Murder 182 25 — —
1988 The Real Me — 56 7 —
1990 Love Is Gonna Getcha 93 45 4 — GRP
1991 Carry On — 75 13 —
1994 That Secret Place — — 12 —
1996 Jukebox Dreams (Japan Only) — — — — Pony Canyon
1998 In & Out Of Love — — — — Concord
1999 Street Of Dreams — — — — Intersound / Platinum
2001 On the Way to Love — — 21 — Warner Bros.
2002 For Ella — — 7 — Playboy Jazz / Concord
2007 Avant Gershwin — — 5 — Rendezvous
2011 Sound Advice 15 — Shanachie
2011 still unnamed duets album with James Ingram — tba
"—" denotes the album failed to chart and/or was not released in that territory

Live albums [link]

Year Album Chart positions[3][4][5] Record label
US US
R&B		 US
Jazz		 UK
1979 Live at the Bottom Line — — 33 — CTI
1992 Live — — 20 — GRP
"—" denotes the album failed to chart and/or was not released in that territory

Compilation albums [link]

Year Album Chart positions[3][4][5] Record label
US US
R&B		 US
Jazz		 UK
1983 In My Life — 65 — — CTI
1994 The Best Of Patti Austin — — — — Columbia
1995 The Ultimate Collection — — — — GRP
1999 The Best Of Patti Austin (Japan Only) — — — — Warner Bros.
2001 Take Away The Pain Stain — — — — Wagram
The Very Best of Patti Austin: The Singles (1969-1986) — — — — Warner Bros. / Rhino
2002 The CTI Collection — — — — Connoisseur
2003 Baby Come to Me and Other Hits — — — — Flashback / Rhino
2005 Love Collection — — — — Intersound
2007 Intimate Patti Austin — — — — Mosaic Contemporary
"—" denotes the album failed to chart and/or was not released in that territory

Singles [link]

Year Single Peak positions Album
US R&B US Hot 100 US A.C US Dance
1969 "The Family Tree" 45 - - - -
1977 "Say You Love Me" 63 - - - End of a Rainbow
1978 "Love, I Never Had It So Good" 60 - - - Sounds...And Stuff Like That!
1978 "We're in Love" 90 - - - Havana Candy
1980 "Body Language" 45 - - - Body Language
1980 "Do You Love Me?" / "The Genie" 24 - - 1 Every Home Should Have One
1981 "Razzamatazz" 17 - - - QUINCY JONES: "The Dude"
"Betcha Wouldn't Hurt Me" - - - QUINCY JONES: "The Dude"
1982 "Every Home Should Have One" 55 62 24 - Every Home Should Have One
1982 "Baby, Come to Me" (w/ James Ingram) 9 1 1 - Every Home Should Have One
1983 "How Do You Keep the Music Playing" (w/ James Ingram) 6 45 5 - Duets
1983 "In My Life" 92 - - - In My Life
1984 "It's Gonna Be Special" 15 82 - 5 Patti Austin
Two of a Kind original soundtrack
1984 "Rhythm of the Street" - - - 11 Patti Austin
1984 "Shoot the Moon" 49 - - 16 Patti Austin
1985 "Honey for the Bees" 24 - - 6 Gettin' Away With Murder
1985 "Gettin' Away With Murder" 72 - - - Gettin' Away With Murder
1986 "The Heat of Heat" 13 55 - 14 Gettin' Away With Murder
1990 "Through the Test of Time" 60 - 9 - Love Is Gonna Get Cha
1991 "Givin' Into Love" 55 - - - Carry On
1994 "Reach" - - - 4 That Secret Place
"—" denotes the single failed to chart and/or was not released in/to that format
  • "All Behind Us Now"

Guest appearances [link]

With Lalo Schifrin

See also [link]

References [link]

  1. ^ Some sources still list Austin's birth year as 1948. She gave this date in the early years of her career, in order to avoid child work regulations. "I lied about my age and I kicked it up two years because in those days it was a problem to work at that age. [...] I think women are very foolish when they say they're younger than they are anyway." Quoted in: Roberts, Michael (2007). "Bless The Godchild". Jazziz Magazine (Boca Raton, FL) (4): 32–37 
  2. ^ "Topic Galleries". baltimoresun.com. https://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bal-li.popcol08mar08,0,4663600.column?track=rss. Retrieved 2012-05-02. 
  3. ^ a b c "Patti Austin US chart history". allmusic.com. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/p3589. Retrieved 2010-06-14. 
  4. ^ a b c "Patti Austin US chart history". billboard.com. https://www.billboard.com/#/artist/patti-austin/chart-history/4007. Retrieved 2010-06-14. 
  5. ^ a b c "Patti Austin UK chart history". chartstats.com. https://www.chartstats.com/artistinfo.php?id=4167. Retrieved 2010-06-14. 

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Patti Austin (album)

Patti Austin is the self-titled album by R&B singer Patti Austin.

Track listing

  • "It's Gonna Be Special" (Clif Magness, Glen Ballard) - 4:17
  • "Rhythm of the Street" (Jeffrey Cohen, Preston Glass, Narada Michael Walden) - 4:00
  • "All Behind Us Now" (David Pack) - 4:59
  • "Hot! In the Flames of Love" (Cohen, Glass, Walden) - 3:59
  • "Change Your Attitude" (Magness, Ballard) - 3:41
  • "Shoot The Moon" (Ballard, Magness) - 3:35
  • "I've Got My Heart Set on You" (David Bryant, Diane Warren) - 4:12
  • "Fine Fine Fella (Got to Have You)" (Ollie E. Brown, Attala Zane Giles, Phillip Ingram) - 4:34
  • "Starstruck" (Glass, Dwayne Simmons, Walden) - 4:28
  • "Any Way You Can" (Pack, Michael McDonald) - 4:31

    • Production

  • Executive Producers: Quincy Jones, Ed Eckstine
  • Produced by Narada Michael Walden, David Pack, Clif Magness, Glen Ballard, Ollie E. Brown, and Quincy Jones
  • Editing: Ian Eales, Clif Magness
  • Mastering: Greg Calbi

    • Personnel

  • Drums, percussion: Narada Michael Walden, Ollie E. Brown, Paulinho Da Costa, Steve Forman, Clif Magness, Raul Rekow, Orestes Vilato, Randy Jackson, John "J.R." Robinson
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    Lady, Be Good (musical)

    Lady, Be Good (title sometimes presented with an exclamation point) is a musical written by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson with music by George and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It was first presented on Broadway in 1924; the West End production followed in 1926. The story of the musical is about a brother and sister who are out of money; both are eager to sacrifice themselves to help the other. This was the first Broadway collaboration of the Gershwin brothers, and the Astaire siblings play a brother-sister dance team.

    Productions

    Lady, Be Good premièred on Broadway at the Liberty Theatre on December 1, 1924 and closed on September 12, 1925, after 330 performances. The musical was staged by Felix Edwardes with musical staging by Sammy Lee and scenic design by Norman Bel Geddes. It starred brother and sister performers Fred and Adele Astaire.

    The musical opened in the West End at the Empire Theatre on April 14, 1926, again starring Fred and Adele Astaire. It played strongly there, running for 326 performances. The best-known songs from the score are "Oh, Lady be Good!" and "Fascinating Rhythm."

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    Lady Be Good

    Lady Be Good may refer to:

  • Lady, Be Good (musical), a 1924 Broadway musical by George and Ira Gershwin
  • "Oh, Lady Be Good!", a song from the above musical
  • Lady Be Good (1928 film), a romantic comedy
  • Lady Be Good (1941 film), a musical starring Eleanor Powell
  • Lady Be Good (aircraft), an American B-24D Liberator bomber of World War II

    • See also

  • Lady Behave!, a 1937 American film directed by Lloyd Corrigan
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    Lady Be Good (1928 film)

    Lady Be Good was a 1928 American silent romantic comedy film directed by Richard Wallace. The film is based on the 1924 musical of the same name by George Gershwin and starred Jack Mulhall and Dorothy Mackaill.

    Cast

  • Jack Mulhall - "Mysterio" the magician
  • Dorothy Mackaill - his assistant
  • John Miljan - Murray
  • Nita Martan - Madison
  • Dot Farley - Texas West
  • James Finlayson - Trelawney West
  • Aggie Herring - Landlady
  • Jay Eaton - Dancer
  • Eddie Clayton - Dancer
  • Yola d'Avril - Assistant
  • Don Charno and His Martini Orchestra (uncredited)
  • Charlie Hall - Backstage Actor in Blackface (uncredited)

    • Preservation status

    The film is now considered a lost film.

    References

    Footnotes

    External links

  • Lady Be Good at the Internet Movie Database
  • Lady Be Good at SilentEra
  • Lady Be Good at AllMovie


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    Patti Austin

    ALBUMS

    Avant Gershwin

    Released 2007

    Havana Candy

    Released 2003

    On the Way to Love

    Released 2001

    Street of Dreams

    Released 1999

    In and Out of Love

    Released 1998

    The Ultimate Collection

    Released 1995

    The Best of Patti Austin

    Released 1994

    That Secret Place

    Released 1994

    Carry On

    Released 1991

    Live at the Bottom Line

    Released 1991

    Love Is Gonna Getcha

    Released 1990

    The Real Me

    Released 1988

    Gettin' Away With Murder

    Released 1985

    Patti Austin

    Released 1984

    Every Home Should Have One

    Released 1981

    End of a Rainbow

    Released 1976

    For Ella

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    The Man I Love

    by: Patti Austin

    When the mellow moon begins to beam,
    Ev'ry night I dream a little dream;
    And of course Prince Charming is the theme:
    The he
    For me.
    Although I realize as well as you
    It is seldom that a dream comes true,
    To me it's clear
    That he'll appear.
    Some day he'll come along,
    The man I love;
    And he'll be big and strong,
    The man I love;
    And when he comes my way,
    I'll do my best to make him stay.
    He'll look at me and smile--
    I'll understand;
    And in a little while
    He'll take my hand;
    And though it seems absurd,
    I know we both won't say a word.
    Maybe I shall meet him Sunday,
    Maybe Monday -- maybe not;
    Still I'm sure to meet him one day--
    Maybe Tuesday
    Will be my good news day.
    He'll build a little home
    Just meant for two;
    From which I'll never roam--
    Who would? Would you?
    And so all else above,
    I'm waiting for




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