◇ image via WikipediaWalter Murphy
Walter Murphy is a Disco and Funk act. Their sound grew out of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, George Gershwin, Wes Montgomery and Oliver Nelson. Those roots explain a lot about how Walter Murphy arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as David Shire, Ralph MacDonald, Tavares, Van McCoy and Yvonne Elliman, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Harry Belafonte, Jack Jones, Alabama, Paul Williams and Taj Mahal, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 48 connections around Walter Murphy, reaching back through Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and forward to Harry Belafonte. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Walter Murphy connections
Walter Murphy grew out of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, George Gershwin, Wes Montgomery and Oliver Nelson, shares an orbit with David Shire, Ralph MacDonald, Tavares and Van McCoy, went on to shape Harry Belafonte, Jack Jones, Alabama and Paul Williams. 48 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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