SMPL-A&MS-0001 - THE A&M POP PARTY

SMPL-A&MS-0001

THE POP PARTY

YOU ARE EVERYTHING - STYLISTICS
THE MIDNIGHT IN ME - TWILIGHT SPARKLE
GIVE MORE POWER TO THE PEOPLE (For God's Sake) - CHI-LITES
EMBRACE THE MAGIC - SUNSET SHIMMER
EVERY DAY I HAVE THE BLUES (Live) - B.B. KING
RAINY DAYS AND MONDAYS - CARPENTERS
THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD - RAY CHARLES
MR. BIG STUFF - JEAN KNIGHT
FRIENDS - ELTON JOHN
I PLAY AND SING - DAWN

SMPL-A&MS-0001 - THIS RECORD CAN BE PLAYED WITH ANY MODERN, LIGHTWEIGHT PICK-UP. STEREO DISCS CAN BE REPRODUCED ON A MONO PLAYER WITHOUT LOSS OF QUALITY, BUT THE SPECIAL STEREOPHONIC EFFECT IS ACHIEVED ONLY IF STEREO EQUIPMENT IS EMPLOYED. AS USUAL, REGULAR MONOPHONIC RECORDS ARE IDEAL FOR PLAYBACK USING STEREOPHONIC EQUIPMENT. A&M Records of Equestria, Ltd. is a division of A&M Records, Inc. © MCMLXXI A&M Records of Equestria, Ltd.

A&M invites you to the first party under its own name here in Equestria. Hear 10 separate artists perform 10 separate songs - all to perfection. Here's a simple description of what is on this record:
- The Stylistics sing YOU ARE EVERYTHING by Thom Bell and Linda Creed, and it's everything you've always wanted to hear in a soul group. (Licensed from Avco Embassy Record Corporation)
- ''Beautiful'' and ''Enchanting'' are the two most operative words for Twilight Sparkle and her voice; they're put to even more incredible use on THE MIDNIGHT IN ME, a tune written for her by the team of Kristine Songco, Joanna Lewis and Daniel Ingram for use in the motion picture LEGEND OF EVERFREE.
- The Chi-Lites (who take their name from their hometown of Chicago) make an important statement with GIVE MORE POWER TO THE PEOPLE, written by their lead singer Eugene Record, which has been an even bigger hit here than it was in their native US. (Licensed from Brunswick Record Corporation)
- You can always count on Equestria's premier musician-songwriter-singer Sunset Shimmer to deliver a great musical performance every time. It even happens on songs she didn't write; the same team that wrote THE MIDNIGHT IN ME wrote the chirpy EMBRACE THE MAGIC, and they put it in the same picture.
- A long time ago, some guy named Peter Chatman wrote a tune called EVERY DAY I HAVE THE BLUES. Since then, it's come to be forever associated with the great bluesman B.B. King; we extracted this particular performance from an album of songs he performed Live In Cook County Jail. (Licensed from Records, Inc.)
- Paul Williams, the astute singer-songwriter from Omaha, Nebraska, followed up his WE'VE ONLY JUST BEGUN with RAINY DAYS AND MONDAYS; he co-wrote the two with Roger Nichols. It's performed here (and was a hit for) the group that brought this man to the public conscience: The Carpenters.
- Ray Charles' take on John Lennon and Paul McCartney's THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD is testament of invincibility for the man who helped invent soul music as we know it today.
- Joseph Broussard, Carol Washington and Ralph Williams wrote for Jean Knight her huge American hit MR. BIG STUFF, which is excerpted here. (Licensed from Stax Records, Inc.)
- From Lewis Gilbert's FRIENDS comes the theme tune by Bernie Taupin and Elton John. The latter brings to the tune an incredible sense of lyrical understanding and communication. (Licensed from Dick James Music and Famous Music)
- Dawn's frontman, Tony Orlando, wants everybody to know that I PLAY AND SING. Irwin Levine and Russell Brown wrote this record, which went to a comfortable #5 here. (Licensed from Bell Records, a Division of Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.)