How were musical duo Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield known?
"his discography as part of the duo. Film Soundtracks Bobby Hatfield Robert Lee Hatfield (August 10, 1940 – November 5, 2003), better known as Bobby Hatfield, was an American singer, best known as one half of the Righteous Brothers. He sang the tenor part for the duo, but his most recognizable work is his 1965 recording of ""Unchained Melody"" which he performed as a solo. Born in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, Hatfield moved with his family to Anaheim, California, when he was four. He attended Anaheim High School, where he played football and baseball, and was co-captain of the basketball team."
"and Medley have contrasting vocal range that helped them create a distinctive sound as a duet, but also strong vocal talent individually that allowed them to perform as soloists. Medley sang the low parts with his bass-baritone voice, with Hatfield taking the higher register vocals with his countertenor voice. They had their first hit with the 1964 song ""You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'"", produced by Phil Spector and often considered one of his finest works. Other notable hits include ""Ebb Tide"", ""Soul and Inspiration"", ""Rock and Roll Heaven"", and in particular, their version of ""Unchained Melody"". Both Hatfield and Medley"
"They signed with Haven Records, quickly recorded ""Rock and Roll Heaven"" which became a hit. In 1976, Medley decided to quit music for some time after the death of his first wife. He reunited with Hatfield in 1981 for the 30th special of ""American Bandstand"", where they performed an updated version of ""Rock and Roll Heaven"". Although Medley focused his attention on his solo career in the 1980s, they continued to appear together as a duo. After a resurgence in popularity in 1990s due to the use of ""Unchained Melody"" in the film ""Ghost"", they toured extensively as a duo"
"a solo artist for some time after Hatfield's death, occasionally singing with a screen projection of old film footage of Hatfield. In January 2016, Medley announced he intended to revive the Righteous Brothers for the first time since 2003. The late Hatfield was replaced with singer Bucky Heard at Las Vegas's Harrah’s Showroom for more than 40 shows from March 23, 2016 to November 8. The repertoire included some of the Righteous Brothers' best-known songs, such as ""You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin',"" ""Soul & Inspiration,"" ""Unchained Melody"", but also the later ""Rock and Roll Heaven"", as well as Bill Medley's"
"and had another hit, the No. 3 ""Rock and Roll Heaven."" A hiatus followed between 1976 and 1981 when Medley retired from music after his wife died, but they reunited for an anniversary special on American Bandstand in 1981 to perform an updated version of ""Rock And Roll Heaven"". In 1990, after the success of the 1990 film ""Ghost"" where ""Unchained Melody"" was used, Hatfield re-recorded ""Unchained Melody"", and Hatfield remarked to friends that he had not lost any of the high notes in his tenor range since the original recording, but had actually gained one note. The duo then"
"Hatfield and Medley stopped performing as a duo after the death of Medley's first wife, as he wanted time off to look after his son. They reunited for an anniversary special on ""American Bandstand"" in 1981 to perform an updated version of ""Rock And Roll Heaven"". They resumed touring intermittently, and they recorded a 21st Anniversary Celebration concert in 1983 at the Roxy on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, which was later released on video and was also aired on television. In the late 1970s, Medley once again began to record as a solo artist and had some success"
"wrote ""Styrofoam Airplane"". His niece is singer Sharon Brown, who had a top ten hit on the ""Billboard"" Hot Dance Club Play chart in 1982 with the song ""I Specialize in Love"". Phil Medley Philip Medley (April 9, 1916 – October 3, 1997) was an American songwriter notable for his composition ""Twist & Shout"", which he wrote along with Bert Russell. The song was made famous by both The Isley Brothers and The Beatles. Medley also wrote ""A Million to One"" and co-wrote ""If I Didn't Have a Dime"" for Gene Pitney with Russell. He was also a co-writer of"
"are ""Most of All You"", the closing theme to the movie ""Major League""; ""Friday Night's A Great Night For Football"" from Tony Scott's movie, ""The Last Boy Scout""; and the theme song for the ""Growing Pains"" spinoff, ""Just The Ten of Us"". He also collaborated with Giorgio Moroder and scored a moderate UK hit in 1988 with a version of ""He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"". Medley recorded a video for the song which was also used as the end credit theme for ""Rambo III"". Medley continues to perform solo after Bobby Hatfield's death in 2003. Bill Medley appeared in"
"Phil Medley Philip Medley (April 9, 1916 – October 3, 1997) was an American songwriter notable for his composition ""Twist & Shout"", which he wrote along with Bert Russell. The song was made famous by both The Isley Brothers and The Beatles. Medley also wrote ""A Million to One"" and co-wrote ""If I Didn't Have a Dime"" for Gene Pitney with Russell. He was also a co-writer of the song ""Killer Joe,"" recorded by many bands including the Rocky Fellers, the Rivieras and the Kingsmen. In 1994, he played guitar for The Jeffersons at the Great Oak Farm Benefit. He"
"decided to take a break and broke up the act. In 1969, Hatfield appeared in a TV movie, ""The Ballad of Andy Crocker"", and also recorded ""Only You"". He released a solo album, ""Messin' In Muscle Shoals"" in 1971. According to Medley, he was performing three shows a night in Las Vegas, but finding it too much of a strain on his voice singing solo, and under advice he sought out Hatfield to reform The Righteous Brothers; Hatfield at this point was broke and living alone in a small apartment. In 1974, Medley and Hatfield announced their reunion at an"
"in both Hatfield's and Medley's group and asked them to see each other's show. In 1962, they formed a new group, but kept the name Paramours, which included saxophone player John Wimber who later went on to found The Vineyard Church movement. They performed at The Black Derby nightclub in Santa Ana, and released a single ""There She Goes (She's Walking Away)"" in December 1962 with a small record label Moonglow. However, the band did not have much success and soon broke up, leaving Hatfield and Medley to perform as a duo in 1963. Medley and Hatfield adopted the name"
"sought-after dance band, joined later by vocalists Bob Johnstone and Dottie Dillard, that played well-heeled society parties all over the city. That same year he co-wrote Roy Acuff's hit ""Night Train to Memphis"". He kept the band up until 1964, although in the intervening decades, his work as a producer would far overshadow his own performing career. In 1947, Bradley took a position as a music arranger and songwriter at Decca Records. He worked for Paul Cohen on recordings by some of the biggest talents of the day, including Ernest Tubb, Burl Ives, Red Foley and Kitty Wells. Learning from"
"by Hatfield and Medley were then recorded and the strings overdubbed. The background singers were mainly the vocal group The Blossoms, also joining in the song's crescendo was a young Cher. Reverb was applied in the recording, and more was added on the lead vocals during the mix. According to music writer Robert Palmer, the effect of the technique used was to create a sound that was ""deliberately blurry, atmospheric, and of course huge; Wagnerian rock 'n' roll with all the trimmings."" The song started slowly in the recording, with Medley singing in a basso profondo voice. Right before the"
"at Northeastern University and Berklee College of Music. He is also a course author and instructor for Berklee Online. In 2012, Hatfield was awarded ""Best Online Course"" by the University Professional & Continuing Education Association for his Berklee Online course ""Music Supervision."" Hatfield and his wife, the musician and composer Gaye Tolan Hatfield, live in Westwood, MA. They have two children, Paul and Lee. Brad Hatfield Brad Hatfield (born May 15, 1956, in Columbus, Ohio) is a musician, arranger, and Emmy Award winning composer. He is a regular performer on piano and keyboards with the Boston Pops Orchestra. He has"
"Bette Midler the Record of the Year award. The song was originally recorded by Roger Whittaker in 1982 and has since been covered by numerous artists. On December 18, 2014, Henley died of Lewy Body Dementia in Nashville, Tennessee at age 77. He had been suffering from Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases. His interment was held at Kelsey Cemetery in Gilmer, Texas. Larry Henley Lawrence Joel ""Larry"" Henley (June 30, 1937 – December 18, 2014) was an American singer and songwriter, best known for co-writing (with Jeff Silbar) the 1989 hit record ""Wind Beneath My Wings."" Henley was born to Carl"
"Bill Medley, The Lettermen and The Blendells. The duo's television performances of the song at the time tended to undermine its more serious side, with both Sonny and Cher doing some stage mugging. This followed the comic conceit they were known for and would embellish even more on the rest of their career. The song missed being on a first couple of Sonny & Cher compilation albums due to contractual issues, but then was included in 1972's ""The Two of Us"". It later appeared on the 1991 """", as well as the 2003 ""The Very Best of Cher"", the 2005"
"from 1967–1971, performs as part of the Los Angeles-based Richard Sherman Trio jazz combo. Bassist Mike ""Doc"" Holiday and guitarist/bassist Charlie Coe made a special guest appearance with Mark Lindsay at a show in Boise, Idaho in 1996. They both reside in Idaho. Righteous Brothers Bill Medley's son, Darrin, sang and performed with Paul Revere & the Raiders. Another Darren, Darren Dowler, followed Darrin Medley as lead vocalist of the Raiders. Coincidentally, Darren Dowler also sang with Darrin Medley's father's group, the Righteous Brothers Band singing the parts formerly sung by tenor, recording great Bobby Hatfield. Dowler, the current vocalist,"
"Hatfield recorded a number of singles as a solo artist, such as the self-penned ""Hang Ups"" and covers of older songs, but ""Only You"" was the only lowly charted single. In 1969, Hatfield also appeared in a TV movie, ""The Ballad of Andy Crocker"". In 1971, he released a solo album, ""Messin' In Muscle Shoals"", recorded at the FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals in August 1970. However, MGM was in financial trouble, a scheduled single ""The Promised Land""/""Woman You Got No Soul"" was not released, and with little promotion the album largely went unnoticed. Hatfield and Medley reunited in 1974,"
"on riffs in odd time signatures and protracted melodies associated (in hindsight at least) with the Canterbury style. The band played a few live shows between July and September that year, and gained their first record contract with Virgin Records with the 'Sinclair cousins'...as Steve Miller was replaced by Dave Sinclair (Hammond organ, also from Matching Mole and Caravan), the band soon changed their name to Hatfield and the North. Delivery reunited for a BBC session in November 1972 with Steve Miller, Phil Miller, Lol Coxhill, Roy Babbington (bass), Pip Pyle, and Richard Sinclair on vocals. (Steve Miller went on"
"Bill, who died of pneumonia in 1915 at the age of 20 after contracting tuberculosis. Haley headlined in vaudeville as a song-and-dance comedian. One of his closest friends was Fred Allen, who would frequently mention ""Mr. Jacob Haley of Newton Highlands, Massachusetts"" on the air. In the early 1930s, Haley starred in comedy shorts for Vitaphone in Brooklyn, New York. His wide-eyed, good-natured expression gained him supporting roles in musical feature films, including ""Poor Little Rich Girl"" with Shirley Temple, ""Higher and Higher"" with Frank Sinatra and the Irving Berlin musical ""Alexander's Ragtime Band"". Both ""Poor Little Rich Girl"" and"
"Brad Hatfield Brad Hatfield (born May 15, 1956, in Columbus, Ohio) is a musician, arranger, and Emmy Award winning composer. He is a regular performer on piano and keyboards with the Boston Pops Orchestra. He has also performed with the Utah Symphony and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. His arrangements, orchestrations and compositions have been performed by the Boston Pops, Houston Symphony, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Hatfield's songs have appeared in the films ""Iron Man 2"", ""Borat"", ""Analyze This"", ""The Break-Up"", and ""Cop Land"". His music has also appeared in more than two dozen television series, including ""The"
"Phil and John Phil and John was a contemporary Christian music duo from Mansfield who recorded and toured throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Phil and John were Phil Baggaley and John Hartley, childhood friends who first started playing together at the age of 13. Their performances, which included an appearance at the Greenbelt festival in 1989, typically incorporated music and comedy. Although no longer performing and recording as a group, both remained within the music business: Baggaley went on to establish Christian record label Gold Records, while Hartley moved to Nashville, Tennessee and became director of A&R for Worship Together"
"few live shows in August/September that year, but with Steve Miller being replaced by Dave Sinclair (from Matching Mole and Caravan), the band changed its name to Hatfield and the North. A final Delivery performance took place in November 1972 for the BBC's Radio One In Concert series, with an unusual line-up bringing together the Miller brothers, Pyle, Babbington, Coxhill and Sinclair, the latter on vocals only. Steve Miller went on to release two shared (rather than ""duo"") albums with Coxhill for Virgin's Caroline budget label in 1973/74. Roy Babbington, who had played with the Keith Tippett Group and Nucleus"
"a degree in songwriting from Berklee. The group disbanded in 1991, but largely due to persistence of Freda Love it reunited briefly in late 1999, performing a few shows in 1999 and 2000 and embarking on a U.S. tour in 2001. Coinciding with the tour, the Blake Babies recorded and released the album ""God Bless The Blake Babies"" which received strong reviews. The album featured new original songs as well as renditions of songs by Ben Lee and Madder Rose. Frequent collaborator Evan Dando also made a guest appearance on the album. After the tour, Hatfield released a Blake Babies"
"""My Baby""), Mary Wells (""My Guy"", ""The One Who Really Loves You"", ""What Love Has Joined Together"", ""Two Lovers""), Marvin Gaye (""I'll Be Doggone"", ""Ain't That Peculiar"", ""One More Heartache""), the Marvelettes (""Don't Mess With Bill"", ""My Baby Must Be a Magician"", ""The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game""), The Contours (""First I Look at the Purse), and Brenda Holloway (""When I'm Gone""). Unlike other Motown artists, whose songs were written for them by staff songwriters, the Miracles were one of the few Motown acts that composed their own songs, adding to the group's already impressive reputation. Around 1964, Smokey"
"“Neat Stuff.” The duo did not last long. In 1973, schoolmate Connie Mims graduated from high school and joined Calvert and Idlet in forming the band Wheatfield. The original trio of Calvert, Mims, and Idlet found its first regular gigs at Tanney’s, a burger place near University of Houston, the Steak and Ale, and the Railhead Restaurant. The September after Mims graduated, Wheatfield was invited to perform in St. Croix, where the trio learned how to play as a tight band. In 1974, they met “Beaver” Bob Russell, an architecture major at UH who was moonlighting as a lounge bassist"
"Batdorf & Rodney Batdorf & Rodney were an early-1970s folk rock duo consisting of John Batdorf and Mark Rodney. The two began performing in the summer of 1970 in Las Vegas. They toured extensively with many of the most famous acts of the 1970s. Their tours included playing at Carnegie Hall. They issued three albums on three different labels between 1971 and 1975, logging two chart hits during their final year after signing with Arista Records. A track from their third album, ""You Are a Song,"" written by Jim Weatherly, was released as a single and reached number 87 on"
"Records. Whilst known for contemporary worship music as Phil and John, the duo also recorded secular music as ""The Wood Thieves"". Their most notable release in this capacity was a single with The Grimethorpe Colliery Band and was a response to announcement of the closure of Grimethorpe Colliery. Phil and John Phil and John was a contemporary Christian music duo from Mansfield who recorded and toured throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Phil and John were Phil Baggaley and John Hartley, childhood friends who first started playing together at the age of 13. Their performances, which included an appearance at the"
"Ben Bagley Ben Bagley (October 18, 1933 – March 21, 1998) was an American musical producer and record producer. Born in Burlington, Vermont, Bagley moved to New York during the early 1950s, and in 1955, at age 22, he produced his first hit, ""Shoestring Revue"", starring (among others) Beatrice Arthur and Chita Rivera (and, later, Jane Connell), and with songs by Charles Strouse, Lee Adams, June Carroll, and Sheldon Harnick. The glowing notices from ""Shoestring"" enabled him to mount a more lavish and sophisticated revue, ""The Littlest Revue"" Off-Broadway in 1956. This revue featured the young, unknown Joel Grey, Larry"
"the Pennsylvania music scene. Three students from Mansfield University in north-central Pennsylvania met while attending the school's music department in the early 1980s. Singer and multi-instrumentalist Jeff Feltenberger was a vocal performance major, drummer Ron Simasek was a music education major, while saxophonist and future Badlees manager Terry Selders was a music merchandising major. While at Mansfield, the three played in various pickup bands with names such as ""The Leaky Sneakers"" and ""Secret Service"". After graduation, the three initially went their separate ways. Selders went to New York City where he managed a recording studio. Simasek went to Florida at"
"Battle Records (1962), Decca Records (1965) and Nashboro Records (""I'll Fly Away"", 1974). In 1997, he recorded several cuts for Tony Heilbut's collection All God's Sons & Daughters: Chicago Gospel Legends, which Heilbut's Spirit Feel label released in 1999. After Campbell's death, he succeeded her as National Baptist Convention director of music. Bradley died from complications of diabetes in Nashville, Tennessee. J. Robert Bradley John Robert Lee Bradley (October 5, 1919 – May 3, 2007) was an American gospel music singer. He was the favorite singer of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and was nicknamed ""Mr. Baptist."" Mahalia"
"area's most popular jazz musicians, including Joe Jones, Jimmy Barbour, and Philippe Fields. After graduating from Lake Taylor High School in Norfolk in 1971, Hatfield attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he established himself as a leading student. He joined the faculty after his first year and remained an adjunct professor for the next two years. Then he left Berklee to pursue a career as a professional musician. He travelled throughout the U.S. and Canada before settling in Baltimore, Maryland. Hatfield remained in Baltimore for two years, working as a member of the R&B group Pockets, playing"
"Bill Bentley (record producer) Bill Bentley (born August 24,1950, Houston, Texas, United States) is an American music industry executive, particularly notable for having produced tribute albums of the music of significant cult artists (1990), (1999), Doug Sahm (2009) and Lou Reed (2013), in addition to other recording projects. Bill Bentley was born in Houston, Texas in 1950 and attended Lamar High School. He commenced playing drums at an early age. His music career started at the age of fifteen, when he interned at the KYOK-AM radio station in Houston. While in high school, he formed a band called The Aggregation,"