Dorothy Collins (November 18, 1926 – July 21, 1994) was a Canadian/American singer, actress, and recording artist. She was born Marjorie Chandler in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and adopted her stage name in her mid-teens.
Radio and TV
As a youngster, Collins sang on radio stations in Windsor and Detroit. In 1940, at age 14, she and her family were introduced to bandleader/composer Raymond Scott in Chicago. Shortly thereafter, she became Scott's protégée. In early 1942, at age 15, she became a featured vocalist with Scott's orchestra, performing on radio and on tour. Scott groomed her for stardom, which included coaching her vocals (pitch, phrasing, and delivery) and mentoring her performance skills. In the late 1940s, she contributed vocals to the revived Raymond Scott Quintette, a sextet that released records on the bandleader's own Master label and served as house band on the radio program Herb Shriner Time. In 1949, after Scott was hired to conduct the orchestra on the popular CBS Radio program, Lucky Strike's Your Hit Parade, Collins was trained by Scott to lead his sextet on tour in his absence.
Dorothy Collins can refer to
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Here I Am may refer to:
Albums
Songs
"Here I Am (Come and Take Me)" is a 1973 song by Al Green, the second single released from his album Call Me. The song reached #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #2 on the Hot Soul Singles chart. It was certified as a gold record by the Recording Industry Association of America. A cover version by UB40 peaked at #7 on the Billboard charts in July 1991.
Composition and recording
Green wrote "Here I Am (Come and Take Me)" with Teenie Hodges, with whom he also collaborated in writing "Take Me to the River," "Love and Happiness," "Full of Fire," and other songs. It was produced by Willie Mitchell in the 1972 recording session for the album Call Me.
Chart performance
Hi Records released the song as a single in June 1973, with "I'm Glad You're Mine" on the B-side. It was the second single from Call Me, after the title track. The record received a gold certification, having sold more than 500,000 copies.
Cover versions
The song has been covered by such performers as Michael Jackson, Etta James, and Seal. Several reggae versions have been recorded, including by Marcia Griffiths, Pluto Shervington, Owen Gray, and Inner Circle. A version by Al Brown, a founding member of The Paragons, served as the basis for another cover by UB40, included on their 1989 album, Labour of Love II. Released as a single in 1990, the song was an international hit, reaching #7 on the US charts and #3 on the Australian charts in 1991.
Pastor Marvin Louis Sapp (born January 28, 1967) is an American Gospel music singer-songwriter who recorded with the group Commissioned during the 1990s before beginning a record-breaking solo career. Sapp is also the founder and senior pastor of Lighthouse Full Life Center Church, located in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Early life and education
Sapp was born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and began singing in church at age four. He spent his teenage years singing with a number of Gospel groups and ensembles. He was a student at the unaccredited Aenon Bible College in Indianapolis, Indiana. He dropped out of Aenon after being invited by Gospel singer Fred Hammond to sing with Commissioned in 1991 after Keith Staten left. Sapp appears on the group's albums Number 7, Matters of the Heart, and Irreplaceable Love. Sapp left in 1996 and was replaced by Marcus R. Cole.
Solo career
In 1996, Sapp decided to establish himself as a contemporary gospel solo artist and has recorded seven albums. Sapp first achieved crossover fame with the release of "Never Would Have Made It" from the album Thirsty in 2007. It peaked at No. 14 on the U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, No. 82 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and also at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Gospel Songs chart. Thirsty debuted at No. 28 on the U.S. Billboard 200, No. 4 on the U.S. Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and also No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Top Gospel Albums. It has been certified gold by the RIAA due to the album selling over 500,000 copies, making it Sapp's best selling album of his solo career, and has so far sold over 712,000 copies. In 2009, Sapp won all seven Gospel Stellar Awards that he was nominated for.
Podcasts:
Dorothy Collins
ALBUMS
- Get Happy! released: 2010
- Songs by Dorothy Collins released: 2005
- Won't You Spend Christmas With Me released:
- Picnic: Sings Steve Allen released:
- Experiment Songs released:
Get Happy!
Released 2010- Moments to Remember
- Seven Days
- Four Walls
- Get Happy!
- All Full of Empty
- Would You Ever Hurt Me
- When Your Lover Has Gone
- Sing It Children, Sing It
- Spring in Maine
- This Could Be the Start of Something
- Twelve Gifts of Christmas
- Mister Santa
- From the Time You Say Goodbye
- Small World
- Never Love a Stranger
- That's All I Need
- Suddenly, There's a Valley
- Where Have You Been, Billy Boy?
- Out of This World
- Picnic
- South Rampart Street Parade
- Treasure of Love
- Christmas Comes but Once a Year
- Baby's First Christmas
- I See Your Face Before Me
- Crazy Rhythm
- I Want It to Be Right
- Singin' in the Rain
- Tweedlee Dee
Songs by Dorothy Collins
Released 2005- Sometimes I'm Happy
- Out of This World
- You Took Advantage of Me
- Here I Am in Love Again
- I See Your Face Before Me
- The Sky Fell Down
- When Your Lover Has Gone
- But Not for Me
- Come Rain or Come Shine
- Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry
- It Never Entered My Mind
- The Lady's in Love With You
- Tico Tico
- I'm Playing With Fire
- Me and My Imagination
- How Many Times
- Did I Remember
- After School
- By the Light of the Silvery Moon
- Earth Angel
- How Near to My Heart
- Istanbul
- It's Almost Tomorrow
- Ricochet
- Sincerely
- Stop, Let Me Off the Bus
- The Old Master Painter
- Tweedlee-Dee
- Unsuspecting Heart
- The Twelve Gifts of Christmas
Experiment Songs
- It's a Magnet
- Vibration
- We Know the Air Is There
- We're Making Heat
- Ice Is a Solid
- Why Do I Have a Shadow
- Rocks and Gems and Minerals
- The Earth Goes Around the Sun
- Why Is It Raining Rain
- Where Does the Sun Go at Night
- What's Inside Our Earth
- Where Does the Sun Rise
- How Many Colors Are in the Rainbow
- Who's Afraid of Thunder
- It's a Magnet, Reprise
Born: 1926-11-18
Died: 1994-07-21
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by Stephen Stills
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by Tok Tok Tok
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by Shawn Stockman
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by Cascada
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by Kyuhyun
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by John Denver
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by Clazziquai Project
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by Rabbit
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by Alesha Dixon
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by DJ Mystik
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Love Again
by: Stephen StillsAll of your time alone
How long do ya think it will take?
Before you go round the bend
A permanent spiritual break
A broken heart on the mend
Somebody comin' just wait
Fate
Can be your best friend
And love
Is an accident of
Faith
Then in the end
Here is love
Come again
I had a girl I know
Love me more than life
She couldn't figure why
Confused to be precise
Finally let it go
I couldn't get enough of it right, right
Fate
Can be your best friend
And love
Is an accident of
Faith
Then in the end
Here is love
Come again
I'm with a woman now
Satisfied with me must be
Crazy about her yeah
I think maybe I got lucky
Watchin' what we are growin'
Ain't it amazing she really loves me
Fate
Can be your best friend
And love
Is an accident of
Faith
Then in the end
Here is love