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A Song for You, the Glossary

"A Song for You" is a song written and originally recorded by rock singer and pianist Leon Russell for his first solo album Leon Russell, which was released in 1970 on Shelter Records.^[1]

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Herbie Hancock songs
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Songs written by Leon Russell

A Song for You (The Carpenters album)

A Song for You is the fourth studio album by the American music duo the Carpenters, released on June 22, 1972.

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A Song for You (The Temptations album)

A Song for You is a 1975 album by the Temptations.

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A&M Records

A&M Records was an American record label founded as an independent company by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss in 1962.

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Adult Contemporary (chart)

The Adult Contemporary chart is published weekly by Billboard magazine and lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary radio stations in the United States.

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Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the 1980s to the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quiet storm and rock influence.

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Alan Hamel

Alan Hamel (born June 30, 1936) is a Canadian entertainer, producer, and television host.

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Amy Winehouse

Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011) was an English singer and songwriter known for her deep, expressive contralto vocals and her eclectic mix of musical genres, including soul, rhythm and blues, reggae and jazz.

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Andy Williams

Howard Andrew Williams (December 3, 1927 – September 25, 2012) was an American singer.

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Aretha Franklin

Aretha Louise Franklin (March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist.

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Arif Mardin

Arif Mardin (March 15, 1932 – June 25, 2006) was a Turkish-American music producer, who worked with hundreds of artists across many different styles of music, including jazz, rock, soul, disco and country.

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Beacon Theatre (New York City)

The Beacon Theatre is an entertainment venue at 2124 Broadway, adjacent to the Hotel Beacon, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Bizzy Bone

Bryon Anthony McCane II (born September 12, 1976),Whitburn, Joel (2008) Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–2006, Record Research,, p. 97 better known by his stage name Bizzy Bone, is an American rapper, singer and the youngest member of the Cleveland rap group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony.

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Blue-eyed soul

Blue-eyed soul (also called white soul) is rhythm and blues (R&B) and soul music performed by white artists.

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Bob Hope

Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) was a British-born American comedian, actor, entertainer and producer with a career that spanned nearly 80 years and achievements in vaudeville, network radio, television, and USO Tours.

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Bubbling Under Hot 100

Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles (also known as Bubbling Under the Hot 100) is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.

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Cher

Cher (born Cherilyn Sarkisian on May 20, 1946) is an American singer, actress, and television personality.

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Christina Aguilera

Christina María Aguilera (born December 18, 1980) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and television personality.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the American division of multinational conglomerate Sony.

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Concept album

A concept album is an album whose tracks hold a larger purpose or meaning collectively than they do individually.

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Dick Glasser

Richard Eugene Glasser (December 8, 1933 – July 10, 2000) was an American singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Donny Hathaway

Donny Edward Hathaway (October 1, 1945 – January 13, 1979) was an American soul singer, keyboardist, songwriter, backing vocalist, and arranger who ''Rolling Stone'' described as a "soul legend".

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Donny Hathaway (album)

Donny Hathaway is the second studio album by American soul artist Donny Hathaway, released on April 2, 1971, on Atco.

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Foxy Lady (Cher album)

Foxy Lady is the eighth studio album by American singer-actress Cher, released in July 1972 by Kapp Records.

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Gospel music

Gospel music is a genre of Christian Music that spreads the word of God and a cornerstone of Christian media.

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Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance

The Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance was awarded between 1968 and 2011.

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Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals

The Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals was an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality pop songs on which singers collaborate.

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Grammy Hall of Fame

The Grammy Hall of Fame is a hall of fame to honor musical recordings of lasting qualitative or historical significance.

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Herbie Hancock

Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer.

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Honeysuckle Rose (film)

Honeysuckle Rose (also known as On the Road Again) is a 1980 American romantic drama western film directed by Jerry Schatzberg, written by John Binder, Gustaf Molander, Carol Sobieski, Gösta Stevens, and William D. Wittliff, and starring Willie Nelson, Dyan Cannon, and Amy Irving.

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Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs

The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart ranks the most popular R&B and hip hop songs in the United States and is published weekly by Billboard.

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I Look to You

I Look to You is the seventh and final studio album by American singer Whitney Houston.

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Jerry Wexler

Gerald Wexler (January 10, 1917 – August 15, 2008) was a music journalist turned music producer, and was a major influence on American popular music from the 1950s through the 1980s.

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Jet (magazine)

Jet is an American weekly digital magazine focusing on news, culture, and entertainment related to the African-American community.

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Leon Russell

Leon Russell (born Claude Russell Bridges; April 2, 1942 – November 13, 2016) was an American musician and songwriter who was involved with numerous bestselling records during his 60-year career that spanned multiple genres, including rock and roll, country, gospel, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, southern rock, blues rock, folk, surf and the Tulsa sound.

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Leon Russell (album)

Leon Russell is the debut solo album by the singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Leon Russell.

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Let Me in Your Life

Let Me in Your Life is the twentieth studio album by American singer Aretha Franklin, released on February 26, 1974, by Atlantic Records.

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Lioness: Hidden Treasures is a posthumous compilation album by English singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse.

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Live and Kickin' (Willie Nelson album)

Live and Kickin was a 2003 all-star concert by country singer Willie Nelson on April 9, 2003, featuring music stars of diverse genres like Eric Clapton, Shania Twain, Elvis Costello, Diana Krall, Norah Jones, Ray Charles and Steven Tyler.

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My World (Ray Charles album)

My World is an album by the American musician Ray Charles, released in 1993.

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Norma Deloris Egstrom from Jamestown, North Dakota

Norma Deloris Egstrom from Jamestown, North Dakota is a 1972 album by Peggy Lee.

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Peggy Lee

Norma Deloris Egstrom (May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002), known professionally as Peggy Lee, was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, and actress whose career spanned seven decades.

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Ray Charles

Ray Charles Robinson Sr. (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist.

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Reprise

In music, a reprise (from the verb reprendre 'to resume') is the repetition or reiteration of the opening material later in a composition as occurs in the recapitulation of sonata form, though—originally in the 18th century—was simply any repeated section, such as is indicated by beginning and ending repeat signs.

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RhythmOne

RhythmOne, previously known as Blinkx, and also known as RhythmOne Group, is an American digital advertising technology company which owns and operates the web properties AllMusic, AllMovie, and SideReel.

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Rita Coolidge

Rita Coolidge (born May 1, 1945) is an American recording artist.

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Rock music

Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Shelter Records

Shelter Records was a U.S. record label started by Leon Russell and Denny Cordell that operated from 1969 to 1981.

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Shotgun Willie

Shotgun Willie is the 16th studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Willie Nelson, released on June 11, 1973.

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Suzanne Somers

Suzanne Marie Somers (October 16, 1946 – October 15, 2023) was an American actress, author, and businesswoman.

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Tenor horn

The tenor horn (British English; alto horn in American English, Althorn in Germany; occasionally referred to as E horn) is a brass instrument in the saxhorn family and is usually pitched in E. It has a bore that is mostly conical, like the flugelhorn and euphonium, and normally uses a deep, cornet-like mouthpiece.

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The Carpenters

Carpenters, also known as The Carpenters, were an American vocal and instrumental duo consisting of siblings Karen (1950–1983) and Richard Carpenter (born 1946).

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The Temptations

The Temptations are an American vocal group from Detroit, Michigan, who released a series of successful singles and albums with Motown Records during the 1960s to mid 1970s.

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Trigger (guitar)

Trigger is a modified Martin N-20 nylon-string classical acoustic guitar used by country music singer-songwriter Willie Nelson.

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Welcome Home Heroes with Whitney Houston

Welcome Home Heroes with Whitney Houston is the first ever solo televised concert and video by American singer Whitney Houston.

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Whitney Houston

Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American singer, actress, film producer, and philanthropist.

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Willie Nelson

Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 29, 1933) is an American country singer, guitarist and songwriter.

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You've Got a Friend

"You've Got a Friend" is a 1971 song written by American singer-songwriter Carole King. A Song for You and You've Got a Friend are 1971 singles.

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You've Got a Friend (Andy Williams album)

You've Got a Friend is the twenty-eighth studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams, released in August 1971 by Columbia Records.

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(Where Do I Begin?) Love Story

"(Where Do I Begin?) Love Story" is a popular song published in 1970, with music by Francis Lai and lyrics by Carl Sigman. A Song for You and (Where Do I Begin?) Love Story are 1970 songs, 1971 singles, andy Williams songs and song recordings produced by Dick Glasser.

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1971 in music

List of notable events in music that took place in the year 1971.

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48th Annual Grammy Awards

The 48th Annual Grammy Awards took place on February 8, 2006, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California honoring the best in music for the recording year beginning from October 1, 2004, through September 30, 2005.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Song_for_You

Also known as A Song for You (Hathaway), A Song for You (Herbie Hancock single), A Song for You (Herbie Hancock song), A Song for You (single).

, Suzanne Somers, Tenor horn, The Carpenters, The Temptations, Trigger (guitar), Welcome Home Heroes with Whitney Houston, Whitney Houston, Willie Nelson, You've Got a Friend, You've Got a Friend (Andy Williams album), (Where Do I Begin?) Love Story, 1971 in music, 48th Annual Grammy Awards.

A Song for You, the Glossary

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See also

Herbie Hancock songs

Leon Russell songs

Song recordings produced by Dick Glasser

Songs written by Leon Russell

References