He’s not fairly a family title, however these within the know respect that his greatest work embodies the romantic attract of the Californian pop singer-songwriter. Stephen Bishop, or “Bish” as he’s affectionately identified, was born on November 14, 1951.
Bishop is remembered and admired for splendidly melodic singles of the late Nineteen Seventies corresponding to “On and On,” “Save It For A Rainy Day,” and “Little Italy,” the latter that includes visitor vocals by Chaka Khan. He’s continued to document, and has been an in-demand movie music composer. His Blueprint album got here out in 2016, and he adopted it in 2019 with We’ll Speak About It Later In The Automobile.
However Bishop, whose straightforward, melodic model usually suits what’s now described as “yacht rock,” has additionally been repeatedly lined by admiring fellow musicians, together with Artwork Garfunkel, who has performed at the very least seven of his songs; by Barbra Streisand, Steve Perry, and Eric Clapton, who minimize “Holy Mother” for his 1986 album August. In his self-titled 2007 autobiography, Clapton says that he and Bishop had been shut associates within the Nineteen Seventies and reconnected within the 2000s, and describes him as “one of the great singer-songwriters.”
Born in San Diego, Bishop burst onto the scene after signing to the ABC label, with the excellent album Careless, launched late in 1976. It hit the American chart early within the new yr, and climbed to No.34. Its spectacular 32-week run was fuelled by the success of “Save It For A Rainy Day,” a No.22 single on the Sizzling 100, and “On and On,” which reached No.11. It additionally charted in Australia and, like a lot of Stephen’s singles, had airplay within the UK, however unjustly with none chart reward.
1978 introduced the Bish album, which additionally made the Prime 40 within the US, at No.35. Though it had a a lot shorter chart run, that set, which included such gems as “Looking For The Right One” (lined by Garfunkel), “Bish’s Hideaway,” and “Only The Heart Within You,” was licensed gold in direction of the tip of that yr.
A transfer to Warner Brothers led to the 1980 album Pink Cab To Manhattan, and in 1983, Bish had one among his most notable film soundtrack successes with the ballad “It Might Be You,” a US Prime 30 single from the hit movie Tootsie, starring Dustin Hoffman. One other of his best-known songs, nominated for an Oscar, was “Separate Lives,” an enormous hit for Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin from the movie White Nights. As Bishop has continued to burnish his popularity, his songbook has grown to some 650 copyrights and greater than 500 million streams of his work.
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