• Viola Mae Wilkerson (December 30, 1939 – May 6, 2009), known professionally as Viola Wills, was an American pop and R&B singer, best known for her covers...
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    Staple Singers, Freda Payne October 23, 1971 5 5 Bill Withers, Al Green, Viola Wills October 30, 1971 6 6 Lou Rawls, The 100 Proof, The Emotions November...
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    actress Viola Smith (1912-2020), American drummer Viola Valentino (born 1949), Italian singer Viola Wills (1939–2009), American pop singer Viola Baskerville...
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    A House Is Not a Home (song) (category Viola Wills songs)
    "A House Is Not a Home" is a 1964 ballad written by the team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David for the 1964 film of the same name, starring Shelley Winters...
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  • If You Could Read My Mind (category Viola Wills songs)
    the versions were made available on digital platforms. A 1980 cover by Viola Wills peaked at No. 2 for five weeks on the dance/disco charts with a dance...
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  • the song as a single in 1970, reaching number 7 on the Dutch Top 40. Viola Wills covered the song on a single (from her Dare to Dream album), peaking...
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  • Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now (category Viola Wills songs)
    Sing. Viola Wills (1979), doing a version in "disco" or "Hi-NRG" style, with a slower tempo and heavy electronic instrumental backing. The Viola Wills version...
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    imprint, and White started working with the label's artists, including Viola Wills and The Bobby Fuller Four, as a songwriter, session musician, and arranger...
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  • Amii Stewart: Knock on Wood (1979) Nick Nicely: "DCT Dreams" (1980) Viola Wills: "If You Could Read My Mind" (1980) Aneka: "Japanese Boy" (1981) The...
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  • [citation needed] Steve Waller - guitar and vocals. Roy Davies - keyboards. Viola Wills - vocals. Sergio Castillo - drums. Huey, Steve. "Artist Biography". AllMusic...
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  • Fiachra Trench U.S.U.R.A. Village People The Weather Girls Kim Wilde Viola Wills Tom Wilson Butler 2006, p. 39. MacDonald, Ian (2003). The People's Music...
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  • 40, charting at No. 19, and was recorded on his 1982 album New York. Viola Wills recorded a dance/hi-NRG version, released as a single-only in 1993. The...
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    Touch Your Mind / 1973), the Grass Roots (album The Grass Roots / 1975), Viola Wills (album If You Could Read My Mind / 1980), the Nylons (album The Nylons...
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  • Carnegie Hall Mary Lou Williams – Live at the Keystone Korner (1977) Viola Wills – covered the song in 1982, peaking at #4 on the Billboard dance charts...
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    (1973) Dave Carlsen – Pale Horse (1973) Wings – Red Rose Speedway (1973) Viola Wills – Soft Centres (1974; re-issued as Without You) Andy Fairweather Low...
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  • vocals Beverly Gardner – backing vocals Gloria Jones – backing vocals Viola Wills – backing vocals, lead vocals (7) (A sticker placed on original issue...
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  • Mode (1987) "Route 66" - Depeche Mode (1987) "These Things Happen" - Viola Wills (1988) "Move Any Mountain/Progen" - The Shamen (1991) "L.S.I." - The...
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  • Patience and Prudence (1956), Skeeter Davis (1964), Trini Lopez (1967) and Viola Wills (1979). Cocaine Blues (Bear Family BCD-16191, 1999) Whitburn, Joel (2008)...
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    Lena Martell 1 "One Day at a Time" 1 — Sad Café 1 "Every Day Hurts" 3 — Viola Wills 1 "Gonna Get Along Without You Now" 8 — The Jam 1 "The Eton Rifles" 3...
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  • also sang on a 2018 non-related Charlie Puth song with the same title. Viola Wills released a disco version of "If You Leave Me Now" which was released...
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  • Love Pains (category Viola Wills songs)
    release's B-side track is "More Than Words Can Say". American singer Viola Wills released her own house cover version of the song in 1989 on Music Man...
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  • Senior VP at Ariola America, BMG's first label in the U.S.where he signed Viola Wills and Krokus, who both had hits. After Ariola he started Perfect Sound...
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    complex orchestration to his works, Milton scored hits with "That's What Love Will Make You Do" and "What It Is" from his live album, What It Is: Live at Montreux...
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  • include Grace Jones, Boy George, Charles Pierce, the Village People, Viola Wills, Pamela Stanley, Bette Midler, Barry Manilow, The Manhattan Transfer...
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  • organ Colin Gibson - bass Terry Popple - drums, percussion Liza Strike, Viola Wills - backing vocals Bob Potter - producer, engineer Ian Vincentini - sleeve...
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  • (Jam & Spoon's Watch Out for Stella mix) – 6:14 My Friend Sam featuring Viola Wills – "It's My Pleasure" (Rick van Breugel's club mix) – 5:24 Lemon Interrupt...
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  • mathematician and computer scientist. Valentin Varennikov, 85, Russian general. Viola Wills, 69, American pop singer, cancer. Robin Blaser, 83, American-born Canadian...
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  • future husband Barry White through a mutual friend. She was a fan of Viola Wills' single "Lost Without the Love of My Guy", a song co-written and arranged...
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  • Lena Martell (4 October) XTC (10 October) The Headboys (11 October) Viola Wills (11 October) Cats UK (11 October) New Musik (18 October) The Ramblers...
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  • (co-writer) 1979: (Gonna Get Along) Without You Now (disco mix version) - Viola Wills - (mixer) 1979: In London - Johnny Logan - peaked 29 Belgian charts -...
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