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Martha Emily Davis (born January 19, 1951) is an American rock and new wave singer-songwriter from Berkeley, California.She is most famous for being the lead singer of the band The Motels, but has also made several solo albums, contributed many songs to motion pictures, been on television, and worked onstage with Teatro ZinZanni.
The Motels featuring Martha Davis also appeared on the U.S. version of Hit Me, Baby, One More Time and toured the U.S. and Australia in 2007. [33] Martha Davis performed at Seattle's Teatro ZinZanni in 2005, [ 34 ] for which she collaborated with TZ Maestro Norm Durkee to make the special CD Omnium , which is available only through the Teatro ...
The Last Few Beautiful Days is the ninth studio album by new wave band The Motels. Martha Davis's eldest daughter Maria inspired many of the songs on The Last Few Beautiful Days album, as she had died in 2016 after battling an opioid addiction.
Careful is the second studio album by new wave band the Motels.It was recorded between March and May 1980, and released in June 1980. The album was produced by John Carter who had produced the group's 1979 debut.
Anthologyland is a compilation album containing material from the new wave band, The Motels, plus work by Warfield Foxes (an earlier incarnation), and solo work by Martha Davis, including a couple of duets with Sly Stone and Ivan Neville.
McGovern, Davis' boyfriend at the time, clashed with Garay in the studio, and ended up de facto producer and arranger for the album, which was titled Apocalypso. Martha Davis considers this period "the last time the Motels were uninhibited, wild, and not worried about our place on the charts." [2] [3]
The writer had died in February 1983—the same month that the Motels returned to the studio to record Little Robbers. According to Davis, the writer's death and the song's release were purely coincidental. She hadn't read Williams' work or seen the 1959 film version of Suddenly, Last Summer until long after the song was released. [4]
Motels is the first studio album by new wave band The Motels, recorded in the spring of 1979 and released in the fall. It was produced by John Carter. It was produced by John Carter. It peaked at #175 on Billboard 's album chart in December.