Orleans
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Biography
[Edit]Best known for their hits "Still the One" and "Dance with Me," Orleans were founded in New York in 1972 by John Hall, Larry Hoppen, and Wells Kelly. Hoppen's brother Lance joined before the group signed with ABC Records in 1973; working with producers Barry Beckett and Roger Hawkins at Muscle Shoals Studios, they released their self-titled debut later that year. In 1974 Orleans recorded a self-produced album in New York's Bearsville Studio, but ABC didn't like it and dropped the group from the label, leaving Asylum to release the album Let There Be Music in 1974, spurring the group's first big hit, 1975's "Dance with Me."
Their album Waking and Dreaming contained the hit "Still the One," which ABC-TV used as a theme song for that year. In 1977, Hall, who wrote many of the group's hits with his wife Johanna, left the group to pursue a solo career. He recorded two solo albums after signing with Elektra Records, and became something of a spokesman for the antinuclear power movement, helping to organize a group called MUSE (Musicians United for Safe Energy). Hall eventually worked with Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, and Bonnie Raitt to organize the No Nukes concerts at Madison Square Garden in 1979.
Without Hall, Orleans went through several other personnel changes before they had a number 11 hit with "Love Takes Time," from the album Forever. Though MCA's Infinity label went bankrupt in 1980, the group persevered, performing together in clubs and releasing the album One of a Kind in 1982. In 1984 Kelly died in London of a heroin overdose, and by the early '90s Hall ditched his solo career and returned to performing with Orleans. After the group released 1994's Orleans Live, Vol. 1, and 1995's Analog Men on its own Major record label, Hall and the Hoppen brothers toured on and off during the rest of the '90s and 2000s. Hall later left the band to pursue a seat in the U.S. Congress, which he won in 2006 and was re-elected to in 2008 before losing it in 2010. Amidst plans to integrate Hall back into the band, Larry Hoppen died in the summer of 2012.
Title: Live In Orleans, France June 1980
Artist: Orleans, Ian Matthews
Genre: Rock, Punk Rock, World Music, Songwriter/Lyricist, Folk
Collections
Title: Raised On Soft Rock
Genre: Rock
Title: 70's Greatest Hits
Genre: Pop
Title: '70s - 100 Retro Radio Hits
Genre: Rock
Title: Made in America - 70s Number One Hits
Genre: Rock
Title: Greatest Hits of the '70s
Genre: Pop
Title: Love Rocks - Love Time, Vol. 3
Genre: Pop
Title: '60s & '70s Greatest Hits
Genre: Pop
Title: 70s Love Songs Greatest Hits
Genre: Pop
Title: Best of the 70s
Genre: Pop
Title: That 70's Radio Hits
Genre: Pop
Title: 70 Hits of the '70s (Re-Recorded Versions)
Genre: Rock
Title: 100 Hits of the 70's
Genre: Rock
Title: Best of 60s
Genre: Pop
Title: Best of 70s
Genre: Pop
Title: 70's Music Flashback
Genre: Pop
Title: Only the 70's Hits
Genre: Pop
Title: Listen To The Music: The 70s
Genre: Pop
Title: Greatest Hits of the '70s / Greatest Hits of the '70s
Genre: Pop
Title: 70's Legends
Genre: Pop
Title: Music From Beyond the Galaxy (Re-Recording)
Genre: Pop
Title: Singers & Songwriters
Title: Easy Rider - 100 Songs of The '60s & '70s
Genre: Rock
Title: 100 Soft Rock Hits (Re-Recorded / Remastered Versions)
Genre: Rock
Title: 100 '70s Hits (Re-Recorded Versions)
Genre: Rock
Title: 70s Classics (Re-recorded Version)
Genre: Pop
Title: 7 Hours of Super Hits of the '70s (Re-Recorded Versions)
Genre: Pop
Title: Tailgate Party Classics!
Genre: Pop
Title: Mother's Day
Genre: Pop
Title: School of Rock Live From the 70s
Genre: Pop
Title: Let's Rock The 70s!
Genre: Pop
Title: Rock It! Classic Rock Live
Genre: Rock
Title: My Record Collection: Deep Cuts/The 70s
Genre: Pop
Title: Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me)
Genre: Pop
Title: '70s Pop Classics
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