Bond Week: The Art of the Bond Theme Song Nov 13, 2008
All Time High, Rita Coolidge From the dreadful Octopussy, this love ballad presses all the wrong buttons. A perfect encapsulation of all the was wrong with the late Roger Moore era. (Time.com)
The coolest Bond villains Nov 11, 2008
In that work week you would hear cruddy Sheryl Crow, Rita Coolidge and A-Ha songs posing as Bond themes, you would see Madonna pop up as a fencing instructor, and Roger Moore with a prosthetic third nipple (Ill get to that later). Youd also see some of the greatest bad guys ever. (MSNBC -- Movies)
A look at 'The Best of Bond' and other new releases Nov 8, 2008
A couple of stretches of sultry sophistication by women singers ensued -- including Carly Simon ("Nobody Does It Better"), a toned-down Bassey ("Moonraker"), Sheena Easton ("For Your Eyes Only") and Rita Coolidge ("All Time High") and later Gladys Knight ("Licence to Kill"), Tina Turner ("GoldenEye"), Sheryl Crow ("Tomorrow Never Dies") and k.d. lang ("Surrender") -- but they were broken up by Duran Duran's "A View to a Kill" and a-ha's "The Living Daylights." The last few themes have simply... (Scripps Howard News Wire)
Bond Best-Of Back For More Oct 8, 2008
"All Time High" - Rita Coolidge 15 ... "All Time High" - Rita Coolidge (music video) 6. (IGN FilmForce)
Licence to trill Sep 19, 2008
4) 'All Time High', Rita Coolidge ... A deathly dull MoR dirge, hastily written by Evita lyricist Tim Rice and perfunctorily performed by Rita Coolidge for Roger Moore's sixth outing as 007. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Boom peg fit into a square role Aug 2, 2008
All-Time High, Rita Coolidge (1983) 4. Never Say Never Again, Lani Hall (1983) 5. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Movie: The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper Jun 11, 2008
Songs featured on the soundtrack included "Shine" (Waylon Jennings), "Bittersweet Love" (Jessi Colter), "Maybe He Knows About You," "Money" (Rita Coolidge), "Silk Dresses" (The Marshall Tucker Band) and "White Room" (Cream). D.B. Cooper Cast. (Suite101.com)
George Varga asks: Who made you God? Mar 21, 2008
A&M's diverse roster also featured Wes Montgomery, The Carpenters, Waylon Jennings, Supertramp, Peter Frampton and future North County resident Rita Coolidge. In later years, the label became home to artists as varied as Joan Armatrading, Soul Asylum, Squeeze, UB40, John Hiatt, Al Green, Janet Jackson, Split Enz, Amy Grant, Les McCann and the recently reunited Police. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
'I was killing myself' Mar 4, 2008
Movies, music, and marriage to Rita Coolidge in 1973 - they recorded four albums together - kept him busy for the rest of the decade. The apogee of his career came with the 1977 remake of A Star Is Born, in which Kristofferson is the only compelling figure. (Guardian Unlimited)
Five TV Shows To Enrich The Ears In '08 Jan 3, 2008
Created by Mike Kelley ("Jericho"), executive-produced by Alan Poul ("Big Love," "Six Feet Under") and music-supervised by Gary Calamar, the show will make use of tracks by Gary Wright, Rita Coolidge and Captain & Tennille. In between the licensed tracks will be an original musical score by Liz Phair. (Billboard.com)
Community News briefs: Gift wrap booth opens at mall Dec 7, 2007
Rita Coolidge to host reception. FALLBROOK ---- Rita Coolidge, two-time Grammy Award winner, will step up in support of the Boys Clubs' "Step Up to the Plate Campaign" by hosting a reception at the home of Sam and Ann Logan in Fallbrook. (North County Times)
Jacko's Angel? Nov 27, 2007
Another track he was desperate to cover was Boz Scaggs hit, "We re All Alone," which Rita Coolidge scored a hit on. Again, "No one would put our version out," Frankie said. (Fox News)
It ain't me babe but I like how it sounds Aug 16, 2007
Linda Ronstadt, Rita Coolidge, Emmy Lou Harris and Norah Jones have all recorded this honky tonk song which first appeared on Dylan's John Wesley Harding album in 1967. But the best version is the sleazy 1990 interpretation by the late Robert Palmer. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Reeves sings tonight at Lincoln (Robyn-Denise Yourse) Apr 27, 2007
There have been annual performances at the Kennedy Center, including 2005's "Billie a musical tribute to the late Billie Holiday, which also featured Rita Coolidge, Joan Osborne, Niki Haris and Rokia Traore. "I always love playing in D.C.," Miss Reeves says during a phone chat from her Denver home, one of several interviews squeezed into a jam-packed schedule. Amid all the activity, the star, who turned 50 last fall, doesn't seem to have a handler or flack fielding her calls. She's manning the... (Washington Times, DC)
Olivias magic Apr 26, 2007
Newton-John has said that she likes the music of The Carpenters, Rita Coolidge, Anne Murray, Barbra Streisand, Simon and Garfunkel and many others. But she was not particularly a fan of the 70s family-singing outfit The Osmonds. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
