IT'S ALL COMIN' BACK....Take a listen to a new song, "It's All Comin' Back" from Bill Danoff's new CD, "Blasted in The Basement". You will hear all four members of Starland Vocal Band singing! You can purchase this CD through CD Baby.com
JULY 31, 1977 STARLAND VOCAL BAND TV SHOW PREMIERES:THE SHOW ENDED WITH THESE WORDS FROM BILL.............THAT'S OUR SHOW FOR TONIGHT.
ON BEHALF OF STARLAND VOCAL BAND,
WE'D LIKE TO THANK YOU ALL FOR WATCHING.
WE'D LIKE TO THANK OUR OLD FRIENDS IN THE CAST,
AND OUR NEW FRIENDS IN THE CREW,
AND WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHERE WE'LL BE NEXT WEEK,
BUT WE KNOW WE'LL BE HERE.
THANK YOU. GOODNIGHT.**************************************************
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Starland Vocal Band-Official MySpace page is being run by their MySpace Webmaster, Barb. Messages for Bill will be forwarded. Messages for Jon would best be left on his page, www.myspace.com/joncarrollmusic or contact him through his website:
www.joncarroll.org
CHECK OUT JON'S NEW ALBUM, "LOVE RETURNS" at www.joncarroll.org OR www.myspace.com/joncarrollmusic and HIS NEWEST SONG WITH HIS SON, BEN, "JUST RELAX" at
www.myspace.com/thecarrollsmusic
AN EXPANDED BIO WILL APPEAR SOON.
PLEASE CHECK BACK.
IF YOU HAVE ANY PHOTOS OR VIDEOS OF STARLAND VOCAL BAND, PLEASE SEND A MESSAGE TO ARRANGE TO HAVE THEM POSTED ON OUR PAGE!!!THANKS!
A vocal quartet based in Washington, DC, USA, the Starland Vocal Band took one single, the novelty disco hit "Afternoon Delight", to the top of the US charts in 1976. The band comprised the husband/wife team Bill Danoff (7 May 1946, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA) and Taffy Danoff (b. Kathleen Nivert, 25 October 1944, Washington, DC, USA), Jon Carroll (b. 1 March 1957, Washington, DC, USA) and Margot Chapman (b. 7 September 1947, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA). The Starland Vocal Band had its roots in a unit called Fat City which included the Danoffs. The band was formed in late 1974 and opened for John Denver on his 1975 tour (Bill had earlier co-written the John Denver hit "Take Me Home, Country Roads"); Denver subsequently signed them to his Windsong Records label. The dance song "Afternoon Delight", about the pleasures of mid-day sex, was the band's breakthrough in May 1976 and spent 14 weeks in the US charts, peaking at number 1 (the song also reached the UK Top 20). They placed a self-titled album at number 20 and three other singles charted but nothing came close to repeating the debut's success. Despite winning the Best New Artist and Best Vocal Arrangement Grammy awards, and being given a six-week television show of their own (featuring a then-unknown David Letterman), the band's popularity declined and they broke up in 1980. Carroll later wrote the Linda Ronstadt hit, "Get Closer", and eventually married Chapman; while the Danoffs divorced, but still worked together under the Fat City banner. In 1989, Bill Danoff released his solo debt, Souvenir. A follow-up was belatedly issued in 2002. Bill ran Starland Cafe in Washington, DC for many years with his second wife Joan until it was sold in the winter of 2007.
Websites: Jon Carroll:
www.joncarroll.org
Bill Danoff: www.billdanoff.com
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