◇ image via WikipediaYvonne Elliman
Yvonne Elliman is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Children of the World, Jefferson Airplane, Barbara Lewis, Bob Marley and RSO Records. Those roots explain a lot about how Yvonne Elliman arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Three Degrees, Thelma Houston, Walter Murphy, Captain & Tennille and Rose Royce, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Hazell Dean and Texas, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 35 connections around Yvonne Elliman, reaching back through Children of the World and forward to Hazell Dean. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Yvonne Marianne Elliman is an American singer, songwriter, and actress who performed for four years in the first cast of the stage musical Jesus Christ Superstar. She scored a number of hits in the 1970s and achieved a US No. 1 hit with "If I Can't Have You". The song also reached No. 9 on the Adult Contemporary chart and number 4 on the UK Singles Chart. Her cover of Barbara Lewis's "Hello Stranger" went to No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart, and "Love Me" was No. 5; at the time she had three top 10 singles. After a long hiatus in the 1980s and 1990s, during which time she left music to be with her family, she made a comeback album as a singer-songwriter in 2004.
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Yvonne Elliman connections
Yvonne Elliman grew out of Children of the World, Jefferson Airplane, Barbara Lewis and Bob Marley, shares an orbit with The Three Degrees, Thelma Houston, Walter Murphy and Captain & Tennille, went on to shape Hazell Dean and Texas. 35 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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