Michael Allen
Michael Allen was a British singer whose career bridged the transition from early to mid-'60s British beat (and Merseybeat) into '70s pop/rock. He seems to have been from the north of England, as indicated by the fact that he was represented by the management of Liverpool's Cavern Club during their post-Beatles salad days, and made a string of appearances at the club commencing in the January of 1965. And it was through that relationship that he also ended up on the Ember Records album Liverpool Today: Live at the Cavern, working in tandem with Earl Preston's Realms and the Richmond Group. Allen, then age 17, definitely represented the most traditional of the three acts, a Billy J. Kramer-type singer (long past the point where Kramer was a leading figure in the city's music scene), even performing "Trains & Boats & Planes," although he did do the latter very credibly and showed some potential. Based on the evidence of this early effort, Allen was more properly suited to the career arc taken by Tom Jones and, even more so, Gerry Dorsey-cum-Engelbert Humperdinck (or, perhaps given the Liverpudlian start to his career, Cilla Black) than to rock & roll, and this was precisely the direction that he did follow. After a series of gigs at the Cavern Club in 1965, he headed to London and was signed by Decca Records, where he cut a debut album a couple of years later. His last major thrust at international fame followed at the start of the '70s with the album Something Special, recorded in London for MGM Records, with Eddy Offord engineering, Johnny Harris producing, and a contingent of session players that included guitarist Chris Spedding. He had the voice to pull off numbers such as the ubiquitous "Yesterday When I Was Young" or the lushly romantic "This Is My Woman," but such repertory in 1971 hardly pegged Allen as potential cutting-edge talent, despite some great moments and fine playing and production: he was already out of the rock world, and a day late and a dollar short (as a signee of the rapidly weakening MGM label) in the pop world. Those who have heard him in subsequent years have tended to describe him in comparison to Tony Bennett and Frank Sinatra, rather than Humperdinck, et al.
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The Forgotten City (Original Score)
Colonne sonore - Pubblicato da Michael Allen il 17 ago 2021
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Solium Infernum (Original Game Soundtrack)
Colonne sonore - Pubblicato da League of Geeks il 23 feb 2024
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Wyld's Call (Armello Original Soundtrack)
Colonne sonore - Pubblicato da League of Geeks il 2 set 2015
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Last Dance (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Colonne sonore - Pubblicato da Dragon's Domain Recording - IFM il 23 set 2022
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Blood Night (Soundscapes from Netherworld Haunted House)
Musica d'ambiente/New Age - Pubblicato da Michael Allen il 22 set 2017
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Why, Why, Why
Country - Pubblicato da Cleft Rock Music il 1 set 2017
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Softness Isn't Admired Enough
Pop - Pubblicato da Michael Allen il 4 apr 1999
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Molecular Universe
Elettronica - Pubblicato da Michael Allen il 22 ott 2020
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Eurobeats: Musical Images, Vol. 58
House - Pubblicato da Image il 6 mag 2014
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2003 Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA): All-State Symphony Orchestra, All-State Philharmonic Orchestra & All-State String Orchestra
Texas All-State Symphony Orchestra, TMEA All-State Philharmonic Orchestra, TMEA All-State String Orchestra, William McGlaughlin, Larry Livingston, Michael Allen
Classica - Pubblicato da Mark Records il 19 nov 2013
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The Journey
Country - Pubblicato da Lucky 7 Music Group, LLC il 2 dic 2016
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Stargazer
Michael Allen, The Makeshift Orchestra
Pop - Pubblicato da Michael Allen il 4 apr 2003
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Can I Get U (Outta Dem Jeans)
Soul - Pubblicato da Independent il 15 gen 2023
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Netherworld Haunted House: Spirits of the Dead
Musica d'ambiente/New Age - Pubblicato da Michael Allen il 6 giu 2007
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Girl Do Yo Dance
Hip-Hop/Rap - Pubblicato da Independent il 1 gen 2023
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