"""Ritual""; the song's chorus contains the line, ""it's a nice night for a black wedding,"" an obvious homage to Idol's 1982 hit ""White Wedding."" Due to claimed scheduling difficulties, Rob Halford of Judas Priest was featured on the track instead. Notes: White Wedding (song) ""White Wedding"" is a song by Billy Idol that appeared on his album ""Billy Idol"" in 1982. It is often considered one of his most recognizable songs, although other Idol songs charted higher. In the US, it peaked at No. 110 on the ""Billboard"" Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart on 27 November 1982, then reached"
"The Whites The Whites is an American country music vocal group consisting of Sharon White (born 1953), her sister Cheryl (born 1955), and their father Buck (born 1930). In the 1980s, they scored such hits as ""You Put The Blue In Me"", ""Hangin' Around"", ""Give Me Back That Old Familiar Feeling"", ""Pins And Needles"", ""If It Ain't Love (Let's Leave It Alone)"", ""Hometown Gossip"", and ""When The New Wears Off of Our Love"". In August 1981, Sharon White married Ricky Skaggs, who performed on several of the Whites' early releases. In 1987, the couple released the hit song, ""Love Can't"
"wore her gown again"". Even Queen Victoria had her famous lace wedding dress re-styled for later use. The portrayal of weddings in Hollywood movies, particularly immediately after World War II, helped crystallize and homogenize the white wedding into a normative form. The white wedding style was given another significant boost in 1981, when three-quarter billion people—one out of six people around the globe—watched Charles, Prince of Wales marry Diana Spencer in her elaborate white taffeta dress with a 25-foot-long train. This wedding is generally considered the most influential white wedding of the 20th century. The traditional white wedding wasn't necessarily"
"Karyn White Karyn Layvonne White (born October 14, 1965) is an American singer who was popular during the late 1980s and early 1990s. She is known for several hit singles including ""Superwoman"" (1988), ""Secret Rendezvous"" (1989), ""The Way You Love Me"" (1988), and the US Hot 100 No. 1 single ""Romantic"" (1991). White was born in Los Angeles to Vivian and Clarence White. She is the youngest of five children. She sang in a church choir and worked as a backing singer, then sang on Jeff Lorber's 1986 ""Private Passion"" single ""Facts of Love"", ""True Confessions"" and ""Back in Love"""
"Kitty White Kitty Jean Bilbrew, better known as Kitty White (July 7, 1923 – August 11, 2009) was an American jazz singer who was popular in Los Angeles nightclubs. She recorded mostly on the West Coast with Buddy Collette, Gerald Wiggins, Chico Hamilton, Bud Shank and Red Callender. She sang many demo recordings for her friend, Los Angeles blues composer Jessie Mae Robinson, including ""I Went to Your Wedding,"" a No. 1 hit for Patti Page in 1953. Kitty Jean Bilbrew was born on July 7, 1923 in Los Angeles, California. She was raised in a musical family—her parents were"
"of A Little White Wedding Chapel. Charolette Richards, the owner, also has had association with the Little Church of the West. Richards has worked at the chapel since the late 1950s. She came into the wedding business after her first husband abandoned her in Las Vegas, and Merle Edwards, who worked in the wedding chapel business, rescued her from the street and soon after became her second husband. He died in 1982. She has presided over the marriages of Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Michael Jordan, Britney Spears, Bruce Willis and Demi Moore. The chapel has been featured on"
"Great White Great White is an American hard rock band, formed in Los Angeles in 1977. The band gained popularity during the 1980s and early 1990s. The band released several albums in the late 1980s and gained airplay on MTV with music videos for songs like ""Once Bitten, Twice Shy"". The band reached their peak popularity with the album ""...Twice Shy"" in 1989. The band continued to release new material into the 1990s, although none of their material charted in the United States. The band broke up in 2001. Soon thereafter, lead singer Jack Russell started to tour with new"
"sound than most glam metal, it produced three top 10 hits, including the number one ""Sweet Child O' Mine"". Some of the glam rock bands that formed in the mid-1980s, such as White Lion and Cinderella experienced their biggest success during this period with their respective albums ""Pride"" (1987) and ""Long Cold Winter"" (1988) both going multi-platinum and launching a series of hit singles. In the last years of the decade, the most notable successes were ""New Jersey"" (1988) by Bon Jovi, ""OU812"" (1988) by Van Halen, ""Open Up and Say... Ahh!"" (1988) by Poison"", Pump"" (1989) by Aerosmith, and"
"and became the resident DJ and musical director at Jeryl's, which was Atlanta's most prominent mainstream disco venue during that era. He was the on-camera television spokesman for the Georgia School of Bartending, which ran frequent late night advertisements on Ted Turner's soon-to-be Superstation WTBS over the next few years. White would receive a gold record, both for his recommendation of remix artist Jim Burgess, and for his promotional efforts which helped nationally break Burgess's 12"" remix of Alicia Bridges' ""I Love the Nightlife"" in 1978. In the early 1980s, he would perform on and produce a couple of novelty"
"1980s which have since sold to other companies such as Wet 'n Wild, Frontier City, and Six Flags. White Water Branson, built in 1980, was the forerunner and is still owned by HFE; while the White Waters in Oklahoma City (1981), Grand Prairie, Texas (1982), Garland, Texas (1982) and Atlanta (1983) have been sold. The 4,000 seat Grand Palace Theatre opened in 1992 by the Herschends. The theatre was co-owned by singer Kenny Rogers. Along with Rogers headliners were Glen Campbell, Louise Mandrell and Barbara Mandrell. In 1994 HFE entered into a ten-year contract with Radio City Entertainment. The Grand"
"Lari White Lari Michele White Cannon (; May 13, 1965 – January 23, 2018) was an American country music artist and actress. She first gained national attention in 1988 as a winner on ""You Can Be a Star"", a talent competition which aired on The Nashville Network. A recording contract with RCA Records Nashville followed a year later, producing three studio albums, a greatest hits package, and several chart singles, with three of her singles having reached Top Ten: ""That's My Baby"" and ""That's How You Know (When You're In Love)"" at No. 10, and ""Now I Know"" at No."
"Whitney Houston, Duran Duran, Prince, Cyndi Lauper and Madonna mastered the format and helped turn this new product into a profitable business. New wave and synthpop were developed by many British and American artists, and became popular phenomena throughout the decade, especially in the early and mid-Eighties. Music grew fragmented and combined into subgenres such as house, goth, and rap metal. The event of numerous new technologies had a significant impact on 1980s music, and led to a distinct production aesthetic that included synthesizer sounds and drum reverb. Duran Duran was the most successful pop band of the 1980s, gaining"
"""I was so young and naïve, I just figured this is what they normally do in music videos,"" recalls Paula Abdul, who eventually became the choreographer. She replaced Perri Lister, an alumna of the British dance troupe Hot Gossip, who had choreographed and/or danced in many early 1980s videos, including playing the bride in ""White Wedding"" for her boyfriend at the time, Billy Idol. Lister and Stein had worked together before and the Jacksons approved her. A few days afterwards Field told her that Jackie wanted his girlfriend, who he said was a dancer herself, to be in the video."
"only moderate success for the first few years, Split Enz scored huge success in 1980 with the release of their album ""True Colours"" and the hit single ""I Got You"", which marked the emergence of Neil Finn. In 1981 Gudinski started White Label Records, an alternative Mushroom label, to release innovative music, with signings such as Hunters & Collectors, Machinations, Painters and Dockers, Kids in the Kitchen and The Stems. Mushroom entered the international scene by setting up an International division in London headed by Gary Ashley (deceased 2017). The Australian label had some international success before then by signing"
"White Nights (1985 film) White Nights is a 1985 American drama film directed by Taylor Hackford and starring Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gregory Hines, Jerzy Skolimowski, Helen Mirren and Isabella Rossellini. It was choreographed by Twyla Tharp and shot in Finland, Portugal, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and Austria. The title refers to the sunlit summer nights of Leningrad, the setting for the majority of the film, situated near the Arctic Circle. The film is notable both for the dancing of Hines and Baryshnikov and for the Academy Award-winning song ""Say You, Say Me"" by Lionel Richie in 1986, as well"
"before signing to Warner Bros. Records. White's self-titled debut album ""Karyn White"" was released in 1988. It was produced by L.A. Reid and Babyface and achieved platinum status in the US. The album contained the Hot 100 hit singles ""The Way You Love Me"", ""Secret Rendezvous"", and ""Superwoman"" as well as the #1 R&B hit ""Love Saw It"", a duet with Babyface. White was nominated in the Best R&B/Urban Contemporary New Artist category for the 1989 Soul Train Music Awards which was won by Al B. Sure. She was also received nominations for two Grammy Awards. She became the first"
"Once Bitten (Great White album) Once Bitten is the third studio album released by the American hard rock band Great White. It was released in 1987 and became a commercial success, selling more than a million copies and being certified Platinum in April, 1988. The anthem ""Rock Me"" became a hit single, charting in September 1987, and is one of Great White's best known songs. AllMusic explains in their review that it brought Great White a broader audience. ""Save Your Love"" also charted, becoming their most famous power ballad at the time, in February 1988. ""Lady Red Light"" and ""All"
"part of the decade, with the advent of the golden age of hip hop. These urban genres—particularly rap and hip hop—would continue their rise in popularity through the 1990s and 2000s. A 2010 survey conducted by the digital broadcaster Music Choice, which polled over 11,000 European participants, revealed that the 1980s is the most favored tune decade of the last 50 years. The 1980s saw the reinvention of Michael Jackson, the superstardom of Prince, and the emergence of Madonna and Whitney Houston, who were all among the most successful musicians during this time. Michael Jackson, along with Prince, was the"
"album. In the early 1960s White lived in Thames Ditton and was married to the British Decca artist Lyn Cornell, who later became a member of the Vernons Girls, the Pearls, and also the Carefrees, who had the biggest selling Beatles novelty single ever with ""We Love You Beatles,"" peaking in the U.S. at No. 39 and staying on the ""Billboard"" charts for five weeks. In September 1962, White received a call from producer Ron Richards asking him to attend a Beatles recording session at the EMI Studios at Abbey Road in London. Richards was record producer George Martin's assistant"
"popular wedding song. The song also successfully launched the careers of Nichols and Williams, who went on to write multiple hits for the Carpenters and many other artists. Richard composed many of the Carpenters' hits as well, with John Bettis as lyricist, such as: While Karen was suffering from the anorexia nervosa that would ultimately lead to her death in 1983, in the late 1970s, Richard suffered from insomnia, panic attacks, depression, and an addiction to Quaalude, a sedative and hypnotic medication. Author James Gavin noted in his ""New York Times"" review of Randy L. Schmidt's biography ""Little Girl Blue:"
"50 placing. ""Superwoman"" became her biggest hit there, reaching #11 in the UK Singles Chart. White co-wrote two songs on the album. Karyn White (album) Karyn White is the self-titled debut album by American R&B singer Karyn White. The album was released on September 6, 1988 by Warner Bros.. It went to #1 on the R&B albums chart for seven weeks the following year. The album was certified Platinum by the RIAA on April 4, 1989. It gave her four hits, ""The Way You Love Me"", ""Superwoman"", ""Love Saw It"" and ""Secret Rendezvous"". The former three were #1 singles on"
"White Sister (band) White Sister was an American hard rock and AOR band formed in 1980. Their song ""Save Me Tonight"" appeared on the soundtrack album for the 1985 Columbia Pictures film, ""Fright Night"". Their song ""April"" can be heard in the 1986 Metro-Goldwyn Mayer film, ""Killer Party"". The band also performs in the movie. The band recorded the song ""Touch the Sky"" which can be heard in the 1986 film ""Thrashin'"" starring Josh Brolin. Their song ""Dancin' on Midnight"" appeared on the soundtrack album for the 1989 Magnum Pictures film """". Their song ""Fashion by Passion"" appeared on the"
"Leblanc and McDonald were members of the house band for the Sugarhill Records record label and the trio of hip-hop artists known as the Sugarhill Gang. They were also the musicians playing behind DJ Grandmaster Flash's 1982 hit ""The Message"" (the vocal was by Melle Mel) and another hit ""White Lines"". During a visit to New York City, to help with a remix, London-based producer Sherwood (already noted in the dub music scene) met Leblanc, and they began to collaborate. Soon the trio of Wimbish, Leblanc and McDonald were producing tracks on Sherwood's On-U Sound record label. One of their"
"at the Blue Angel in Toronto, was widely praised. Since the mid-80s she has performed mainly as a duo with the witty piano player Bob Johnston, who has co-written several other Broadway shows as well as ""Anne and Gilbert"". She was formerly married to the composer and keyboardist Doug Wilde. Their daughters, Suzy and Maddy Wilde, are also singers, Suzy in the glamfolk band StoneFox, and in Flashlight Radio (with Ben Whitely) and Maddy in the indie rock band Spiral Beach. White was born in PEI, educated in Halifax, and lived in Toronto. She has a BA in English from"
"Chart. Devo's song ""Whip It"" went to number 14 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in the year 1980. Kim Wilde's song ""Kids in America"" peaked at number 25 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in 1982. ""Kids in America"" was at number 2 on the UK Singles Chart in March 1981. Tears for Fears' album ""Songs from the Big Chair"" was certified 4x platinum by the RIAA less than a year after being released. Tears for Fears had four top ten hits on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 during the second half of the 1980s, with two of those hits both peaking"
"Jack White John Anthony ""Jack"" White (; born July 9, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer. He is best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the duo The White Stripes, but has also had success in other bands and as a solo artist. White has enjoyed consistent critical and popular success and is widely credited as one of the key artists in the garage rock revival of the 2000s. He has won twelve Grammy Awards, and all three of his solo albums have reached number one on the ""Billboard"" charts. ""Rolling Stone"" ranked him number"
"& Melle Mel""). This was done to mislead the general public into believing that Grandmaster Flash participated on the record, when in fact he played no part and had already left the Sugar Hill Records label the previous year. ""White Lines"" peaked at No. 47 on the ""Billboard"" Hot Black Singles chart in 1983. The song fared better in the United Kingdom, reaching number 7 on the UK Singles Chart in July 1984, spending 17 consecutive weeks in the top 40. It was the 13th best-selling single of 1984 in the UK, selling more than several number one hits that"
"Rick Florian Rick Florian (born April 10, 1962) is a musician, songwriter and producer, most known for being the lead singer of contemporary Christian music rock band White Heart since 1986. He currently lives in Franklin, Tennessee with his wife, Lisa, and two of their five children. Florian works as a real estate agent, though he has sung on several music projects over the year. Florian was born in South Bend, Indiana, in 1962. He graduated from Taylor University in 1984. Florian was a lighting tech/roadie for the band back in the 80s. When Florian was caught off guard singing"
"Karyn White (album) Karyn White is the self-titled debut album by American R&B singer Karyn White. The album was released on September 6, 1988 by Warner Bros.. It went to #1 on the R&B albums chart for seven weeks the following year. The album was certified Platinum by the RIAA on April 4, 1989. It gave her four hits, ""The Way You Love Me"", ""Superwoman"", ""Love Saw It"" and ""Secret Rendezvous"". The former three were #1 singles on the R&B chart. A re-issue in late 1989 of ""Secret Rendezvous"" in the UK reached #22, as opposed to the original top"
"April 1980, and the next Thin Lizzy album, ""Chinatown"". Lynott got married on 14 February, and his wife gave birth to a second daughter in July. Dave Flett had hoped to be made a permanent member of Thin Lizzy but Lynott chose Snowy White, who had played with Pink Floyd and Peter Green. Midge Ure was still acting as a temporary keyboard player at gigs during early 1980, but was replaced by Darren Wharton in April, shortly after White joined the band. Wharton was only 18 at the time and was initially hired on a temporary basis. This new line-up"
"Skaggs won them a Grammy Award for Best Southern, Country or Bluegrass Gospel Album. In 2007, The Whites and Ricky Skaggs received a GMA Dove Award for Bluegrass Recorded Album of the Year. In 2008, they were inducted into the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame. The Whites The Whites is an American country music vocal group consisting of Sharon White (born 1953), her sister Cheryl (born 1955), and their father Buck (born 1930). In the 1980s, they scored such hits as ""You Put The Blue In Me"", ""Hangin' Around"", ""Give Me Back That Old Familiar Feeling"", ""Pins And Needles"","
"White Christmas (song) ""White Christmas"" is a 1942 Irving Berlin song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting. The version sung by Bing Crosby is the world's best-selling single with estimated sales in excess of 50 million copies worldwide. Other versions of the song, along with Crosby's, have sold over 50 million copies. Accounts vary as to when and where Berlin wrote the song. One story is that he wrote it in 1940, in warm La Quinta, California, while staying at the La Quinta Hotel, a frequent Hollywood retreat also favored by writer-director-producer Frank Capra, although the Arizona Biltmore also claims"
"White Nights (soundtrack) White Nights: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack for the 1985 film, ""White Nights"". The most successful single on the album, ""Separate Lives"" by Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin, reached the top of the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 singles chart and was nominated for an Academy Award in 1986. The prize instead went to Lionel Richie's ""Say You, Say Me"", another chart topper which appeared in the film but was not included on the original soundtrack due to licensing issues. It was included in the album reissue as a bonus track along with ""I Don't Wanna Know"""