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The group first began performing together in the early 1960s, and signed to Swan Records at the behest of producer Jerry Ross. [1] Their first single was "Where Is Johnny Now" b/w "Your True Love", featuring Leon Huff and Thom Bell on keyboards, Bobby Eli on guitar, Bobby Martin on vibraphones, and Joe Macho on bass.
In the 2012 musical film The Sapphires, Jessica Mauboy portrays the character of Julie McCrae, one of four Indigenous women who are discovered by a talent scout and formed into a 1960s singing group called The Sapphires, known as Australia's answer to The Supremes. [1] [2] The group travel to Vietnam in 1968 to sing for the US troops during the ...
The Sapphires is about four Yorta Yorta (Aboriginal Australian) women: Gail (Deborah Mailman), Julie (Jessica Mauboy), Kay (Shari Sebbens), and Cynthia (Miranda Tapsell); who are discovered by a talent scout (Chris O'Dowd), form a music group named The Sapphires, and travel to Vietnam in 1968 to sing for troops during the war.
The Sapphires: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is a soundtrack album for the film The Sapphires (2012), released on 27 July 2012 by Sony Music Australia. It features the vocals of Jessica Mauboy, Jade MacRae, Lou Bennett, Juanita Tippens and Darren Percival, with Mauboy singing in ten of the sixteen songs. [1]
Los Zafiros (The Sapphires) were a Cuban close-harmony vocal group working from 1962 until 1976. [1] The group was part of the filín (feeling) movement, inspired by American doo-wop groups such as The Platters. Their music was a fusion of Cuban genres, such as the bolero, with doo-wop, ballads, R&B, calypso, Bossa Nova and early rock and roll.
Mayers was born in 1941, [1] of Yorta Yorta and Wiradjuri heritage. [2] She was one of three members of The Sapphires, along with Beverly Briggs (her sister) and Laurel Robinson, in the 1960s. She and Briggs chose not to travel with the group to Vietnam, owing to their opposition to the Vietnam War. [3]
Mauboy was the runner-up on the fourth season of Australian Idol in 2006, and subsequently signed a contract with Sony Music Australia. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She released her debut live album The Journey in February 2007, which features songs she performed as part of the top twelve on Australian Idol .
The Best of The Band: 35 [25] 51 RIAA: Gold [26] 1978 Anthology — — 1989 To Kingdom Come: The Definitive Collection — — 1994 Across the Great Divide — — 1999 The Best of The Band, Vol. II — — 2000 Greatest Hits — 83 2005 A Musical History (Box set) — — 2007 The Best of the Band: A Musical History — — 2013 Collected (NL ...