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Yacht rock (originally known as the West Coast sound [4] [5] or adult-oriented rock [6]) is a broad music style and aesthetic [7] commonly associated with soft rock, [8] one of the most commercially successful genres from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Drawing on sources such as smooth soul, smooth jazz, [1] R&B, and disco, [7] common ...
Yacht Rock Revue is an American rock band formed in Atlanta, Georgia in 2007. [1] The band was formed by members of the now defunct indie rock band Y-O-U after an ironic performance of soft rock hits at a local club gig took off into a weekly residence. [2] Performing primarily covers, the band's set list is centered around a genre called ...
Archived from the originalon June 12, 2006. Retrieved October 9,2006. ^Happy Birthday Donald Fagen: The Dukes Of September Featuring Michael McDonald - JamBase. ^ abc""NOW That's What I Call Yacht Rock" compilation is sailing into record stores next month - Music News - ABC News Radio". abcnewsradioonline.com.
yacht rock. Soft rock (also known as light rock) is a form of rock music that originated in the late 1960s in Southern California and the United Kingdom which smoothed over the edges of singer-songwriter and pop rock, [1] relying on simple, melodic songs with big, lush productions. Soft rock was prevalent on the radio throughout the 1970s and ...
April 14, 2010. ( 2010-04-14) Yacht Rock is an online video series following the fictionalized lives and careers of American soft rock stars of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The series debuted at a Channel 101 screening on June 26, 2005. It placed in the top five at subsequent screenings until June 25, 2006, when the tenth episode placed ...
An early 20th-century sail wagon in Brooklyn, New York. Land sailing, also known as sand yachting, land yachting or dirtboating, [1] entails overland travel with a sail -powered vehicle, similar to sailing on water. [2] Originally, a form of transportation or recreation, it has evolved primarily into a racing sport since the 1950s.
The following is a list of notable soft rock bands and artists and their most notable soft rock songs. This list should not include artists whose main style of music is anything other than soft rock, even if they have released one or more songs that fall under the "soft rock" genre. (Such songs can be added under Category:Soft rock songs.)
Why I’ll be reading:Reporter Dylan Stableford told me that McDonald’s soulful singing helped pioneer the so-called yacht rock of the mid-1970s and ’80s. Sounds like this book will be an ...