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Gary Malcolm Wright (April 26, 1943 – September 4, 2023) was an American musician and composer best known for his 1976 hit songs "Dream Weaver" and "Love Is Alive". Wright's breakthrough album, The Dream Weaver (1975), came after he had spent seven years in London as, alternately, a member of the British blues rock band Spooky Tooth and a ...
The Dream Weaver is a solo album by American singer and musician Gary Wright released in July 1975.. The album was said by Wright to be the first-ever all-keyboard album (though there were many all-synthesizer LPs before this, including Switched-On Bach by Wendy Carlos, in 1968), but in fact it also features drums, vocals, and guitar, among other instruments.
Wright re-recorded the song for the soundtrack of the 1992 film Wayne's World. [20] He performed the song on an episode of The Midnight Special. It was also used in the 2010 animated film Toy Story 3, where Barbie meets Ken at the sunnyside daycare. The song currently serves as the entrance music for New York Yankees closer Luke Weaver. [21]
Gary Wright, the musician best known for his hit singles “Dream Weaver” and “Love Is Alive,” has died. He was 80. Wright’s son Dorian confirmed the news to Variety; no cause of death was ...
Pages in category "Songs written by Gary Wright" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Composer credits and track lengths taken from US LP labels: Gary Wright, Touch and Gone (1977). Warner Bros. BSK 3137. Some other editions of the album erroneously credit "Can't Get Above Losing You" as being written by Gary Wright alone. Side one "Touch and Gone" (Gary Wright, Richard Reicheg) – 3:58 "Starry Eyed" (Wright, Reicheg) – 4:10
Recorded in 1971, [15] the album was engineered by Andy Johns, Wright's co-producer on Extraction, [16] and Chris Kimsey, [17] and again featured McCracken. [18] Although only Wright received a production credit on the album, [17] he has since stated that Harrison produced part of Footprint, [5] [19] and has variously named "Two Faced Man" [20] and "Stand for Your Rights" [13] as having been ...
Prior to Spooky Tooth, four of the band's five founding members had performed in the band Art (formerly known as the V.I.P.'s).Following the dissolution of Art, the members of that band's final line-up (guitarist Luther Grosvenor, vocalist Mike Harrison, drummer Mike Kellie and bassist Greg Ridley) joined forces with American keyboardist/vocalist Gary Wright in October 1967 and formed Spooky ...