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From the album «Sounds ... And Stuff Like That!!» 1978 Written By: Tom Bahler, Quincy Jones , Ralph MacDonald Arranged By – Johnny Mandel, L. Leon Pendarvis*, Quincy Jones, Sy Johnson, Tom Bahler Producer – Quincy Jones Credits Lyricon, Soloist [Solo] – Tom Scott Bass – Anthony Jackson Bass Trombone [New York Horn Section] – Alan Raph Cello [L.A. String Section] – Dennis Karmazyn, Gloria Strassner Drums – Steve Gadd Guitar – Eric Gale Harp [L.A. String Section] – Gayle Levant Percussion – Ralph MacDonald Piano, Organ – Richard Tee Synthesizer, Vocoder [Vocordor], Performer, Programmed By – Michael “Lily“ Boddicker Born Quincy Delightt Jones Jr. March 14, 1933 in Chicago (Illinois), also known as «Q», is an American record producer, actor, conductor, arranger, composer, musician, television producer, film producer, instrumentalist, magazine founder, entertainment company executive, and humanitarian.[2] His career spans six decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations,[3] and 28 Grammys,[3] including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991. After high school and a scholarship at Boston's Berklee College of Music, Jones was introduced to the life of a musician on the road. He toured with Dizzy Gillespie (1917–1993) in 1956 and Lionel Hampton (1909–2002) in 1957, and then he made his base in Paris, France. He studied with composer Nadia Boulanger(1887–1979), wrote for Harry Arnold's Swedish All-Stars in Stockholm, Sweden, and directed the music for Harold Arlen's production Free and Easy, which toured Europe for three months, ending in early 1960. After an unsuccessful tour of the United States with a band made up of eighteen musicians from Free and Easy, Jones worked as musical director at Mercury Records in New York. He became the first African American executive in a white-owned record company in 1964 when he was promoted to vice president at Mercury. He produced albums, sat in on recording sessions, and wrote arrangements for artists at Mercury as well as other labels. Jones wrote for Andy Williams (1928–), Peggy Lee (1920–2002), and Aretha Franklin (1942–), as well as arranging and conducting It Might As Well Be Swing, an album featuring Frank Sinatra (1915–1998) and the Count Basie (1904–1984) Band. Jones's first venture into Hollywood came when he composed the score (the music that accompanies a movie) for the 1965 film The Pawnbroker. Jones won an Academy Award for his score for In Cold Blood (1967) and went on to write the music for over fifty films. In 1969 Jones signed a contract as a recording artist with A&M Records, and his first album with that label, Walking in Space, won a Grammy for best jazz instrumental (without vocals) album of 1969. Burned out from producing film sound-tracks, Jones stopped working for Hollywood in 1973 to explore his own music career as a vocalist. His singing debut was with Valerie Simpson on an album called You've Got It Bad, Girl. The title song from the album stayed at the top of the charts for most of the summer of 1973. Jones's next album, 1974's Body Heat, was an even bigger hit. Containing the hit songs “Everything Must Change“ and “If I Ever Lose This Heaven,“ the album sold over a million copies. In 1974 Jones nearly died after suffering two aneurysms (irregular stretching of blood vessels) two months apart. After a six-month recovery he was back at work, touring and recording with a fifteen-member band, with which he released the album Mellow Madness. After Jones's 1980 album The Dude won five Grammy awards, he signed a deal with Warner Brothers Records to create his own label, Qwest. It took Jones almost ten years to make his next album, Back on the Block. During that time he produced hit albums for other artists, including Michael Jackson's Thriller (1983), which is still one of the bestselling albums of all time with forty million copies sold. Jones also has one of the bestselling singles of all time, “We Are the World,“ to his credit. Another triumph for Jones in the mid-1980s was his production of The Color Purple, the film version of Alice Walker's (1944–) novel, which featured the first film performance of Oprah Winfrey. VIDEO DISCLAIMER : Video is made for entertainment purposes. No copyright infringement is intended in the making of this video.
