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Grease (song), the Glossary

"Grease" is a song written by Barry Gibb and recorded by Frankie Valli (of the Four Seasons fame): it was released as a single in May 1978.^[1]

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Craig McLachlan songs
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Songs from Grease (film)
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Allan Carr

Allan Carr (born Allan Solomon; May 27, 1937 – June 29, 1999) was an American producer and manager of stage for the screen.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.

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Andy Gibb

Andrew Roy Gibb (5 March 1958 – 10 March 1988) was an English-Australian singer and songwriter.

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Backing vocalist

A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists.

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Barry Gibb

Sir Barry Alan Crompton Gibb (born 1 September 1946) is a British musician, singer, songwriter and record producer.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family.

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Beauty School Dropout

"Beauty School Dropout" is a song from the musical Grease. Grease (song) and Beauty School Dropout are songs from Grease (film) and songs from Grease (musical).

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Bee Gees

The Bee Gees --> were a musical group formed in 1958 by brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb.

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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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The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine. Grease (song) and Billboard Hot 100 are Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles.

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British Invasion

The British Invasion was a cultural phenomenon of the mid-1960s, when rock and pop music acts from the United Kingdom and other aspects of British culture became popular in the United States with significant influence on the rising "counterculture" on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

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British Phonographic Industry

British Phonographic Industry (BPI) is the British recorded music industry's Trade association.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many of the extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling Theatre as the proper noun in their names.

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Cashbox (magazine)

Cashbox, also known as Cash Box, is an American music industry trade magazine, originally published weekly from July 1942 to November 1996.

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Charles Fox (composer)

Charles Ira Fox (born October 30, 1940) is an American composer for film and television.

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Conflict of interest

A conflict of interest (COI) is a situation in which a person or organization is involved in multiple interests, financial or otherwise, and serving one interest could involve working against another.

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Craig McLachlan

Craig Dougall McLachlan (born 1 September 1965) is an Australian actor, musician, singer and composer.

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Criteria Studios

Criteria Studios is a recording studio in North Miami, Florida, founded in 1958 by musician Mack Emerman.

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Disco

Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the late 1960s from the United States' urban nightlife scene.

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Drum

The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments.

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Engineer

Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety and cost.

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Fine Arts Films

Fine Arts Films was a production studio based in Northern England and Hollywood.

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Frankie Avalon

Francis Thomas Avallone (born September 18, 1940), better known as Frankie Avalon, is an American actor, singer, and former teen idol.

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Frankie Valli

Francesco Stephen Castelluccio (born May 3, 1934), better known by his stage name Frankie Valli, is an American singer, best known as the frontman of the Four Seasons beginning in 1960.

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Frankie Valli... Is the Word

Frankie Valli...Is the Word is an album by Frankie Valli, released in 1978 on the Warner Bros. Records label.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the mid-20th century.

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George Terry (musician)

George Terry (born 1950) is an American rock and blues guitarist and songwriter best known for his work with Eric Clapton in the 1970s and as a session musician with other artists, including ABBA, the Bee Gees, Joe Cocker, Andy Gibb, Freddie King, Diana Ross, Stephen Stills, and Kenny Rogers.

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Gibb-Galuten-Richardson

Gibb-Galuten-Richardson were a British-American record producing team, consisting of Bee Gees founding member and British singer-songwriter Barry Gibb, American musician and songwriter Albhy Galuten and American sound engineer Karl Richardson.

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Girls Aloud

Girls Aloud are a British-Irish pop girl group that was created through the ITV talent show Popstars: The Rivals in 2002.

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Grease (film)

Grease is a 1978 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Randal Kleiser (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Bronté Woodard and an adaptation by co-producer Allan Carr, based on the stage musical of the same name by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey.

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Grease (musical)

Grease is a musical with music, lyrics, and a book by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey.

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Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture

Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture is the original motion picture soundtrack for the 1978 film Grease.

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Greaser (subculture)

Greasers are a youth subculture that emerged in the 1950s and early 1960s from predominantly working class and lower-class teenagers and young adults in the United States and Canada.

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Guitar

The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings.

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Happy Days

Happy Days is an American television sitcom that aired first-run on the ABC network from January 15, 1974, to July 19, 1984, with a total of 255 half-hour episodes spanning 11 seasons.

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Institut français d'opinion publique

The Institut français d'opinion publique (IFOP; French Institute of Public Opinion) is an international polling and market research firm, whose motto is "Connection creates value".

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Instrumental

An instrumental or instrumental song is music normally without any vocals, although it might include some inarticulate vocals, such as shouted backup vocals in a big band setting.

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Irish Recorded Music Association

The Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) is a non-profit association set up in 1999 to promote certain interests of the music industry in Ireland.

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Jim Jacobs

Jim Jacobs (born October 7, 1942) is an American actor, composer, lyricist, and writer for the theatre, long associated with the Chicago theater scene.

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John David Wilson

John David Wilson (7 August 1919 – 20 June 2013) was an English artist, animator and producer.

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Kent Music Report

The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music historian David Kent from May 1974 through to January 1999.

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Lead vocalist

The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard.

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One Night Only (Bee Gees album)

One Night Only is a live album and DVD/Blu-ray by the Bee Gees.

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Otosclerosis

Otosclerosis is a condition of the middle ear where portions of the dense enchondral layer of the bony labyrinth remodel into one or more lesions of irregularly-laid spongy bone.

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Paul Williams (songwriter)

Paul Hamilton Williams Jr. (born September 19, 1940) is an American composer, singer, songwriter, and actor.

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Peter Frampton

Peter Kenneth Frampton (born 22 April 1950) is an English-American guitarist, singer and songwriter who rose to prominence as a member of the rock bands the Herd and Humble Pie.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Private Stock Records

Private Stock Records was a record label that operated from 1974 to 1978.

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Productores de Música de España

Productores de Música de España (English: Spanish Music Producers, shortened as Promusicae) is the national organisation responsible for the music charts of Spain.

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Randal Kleiser

John Randal Kleiser (born July 20, 1946) is an American film and television director, producer, screenwriter and actor, best known for directing the 1978 musical romantic-comedy film Grease.

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Record World

Record World magazine was one of the three main music industry trade magazines in the United States, along with Billboard and Cashbox.

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Republic of Ireland

Ireland (Éire), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 counties of the island of Ireland.

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Rhino Entertainment

Rhino Entertainment Company (formerly Rhino Records Inc.) is an American specialty record label and production company founded in 1978.

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Robert Stigwood

Robert Colin Stigwood (16 April 1934 – 4 January 2016) was an Australian-born British-resident music entrepreneur, film producer and impresario, best known for managing Cream, Andy Gibb and the Bee Gees, theatrical productions like Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar, and film productions including the successful Grease and Saturday Night Fever.

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RPM (magazine)

RPM (and later) was a Canadian music-industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada.

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RSO Records

RSO Records was a record label formed by rock and roll and musical theatre impresario Robert Stigwood and record executive Al Coury in 1973.

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Save Me, Save Me

"Save Me, Save Me" is a song written by Barry Gibb and Albhy Galuten in 1977. Grease (song) and Save Me, Save Me are American disco songs, American funk songs, song recordings produced by Albhy Galuten, song recordings produced by Barry Gibb and songs written by Barry Gibb.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grease_(song)

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Grease (song), the Glossary

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See also

Craig McLachlan songs

Frankie Valli songs

Song recordings produced by Albhy Galuten

Songs about youth subcultures

Songs from Grease (film)

Songs from Grease (musical)

References