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Jersey Boys
Jersey Boys, the Tony Award-winning jukebox bio-musical of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons by Brickman, Elice, Gaudio, and Crewe; Broadway 2005-2017, 4,642 performances, four Tonys, 2014 Eastwood film, 20th anniversary tours.
Jerusalem and Dopesmoker
Jerusalem and Dopesmoker are two releases of Sleep's third album, one 63-minute stoner doom song recorded 1996 for London Records, released 52 minutes (1999) and 63 minutes (2003).
Jerusalem of Gold (ירושלים של זהב)
Jerusalem of Gold (Yerushalayim Shel Zahav) is a 1967 Israeli song by Naomi Shemer, debuted by Shuli Natan at the Israel Song Festival and adopted as an unofficial national anthem after the Six-Day War; its melody drew on the Basque lullaby Pello Joxepe, which Shemer acknowledged in 2004.
Jerusalema
Jerusalema: 2019 Limpopo house and gospel song by South African producer Master KG featuring Nomcebo Zikode, sung in Zulu, which went global in 2020 via the Angolan-sparked #JerusalemaDanceChallenge.
Jessica (instrumental)
"Jessica" is a 1973 instrumental by the Allman Brothers Band, written by Dickey Betts, that served as the Top Gear theme and won a Grammy Award.
Jessie's Girl
Jessie's Girl: 1981 power pop single by Rick Springfield from Working Class Dog, recorded at Sound City, two weeks at Billboard Hot 100 number one, Grammy winner, inspired by a Pasadena stained glass class.
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Jesus bleibet meine Freude) is Bach's famous chorale from cantata BWV 147, added in the 1723 Leipzig revision, set to Martin Jahn's 1661 text on Johann Schop's 1642 melody.
Jesus Christ Superstar
Jesus Christ Superstar: Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's sung-through rock opera on Jesus's last days through Judas's eyes; 1970 double-LP concept album, 1971 Broadway premiere, 1973 Norman Jewison film, and continuing revivals.
Jesus Christ Superstar (album)
Jesus Christ Superstar (1970 concept album): double-LP rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice on Decca, with Ian Gillan as Jesus and Murray Head as Judas; gold in three weeks, banned by BBC, basis of the 1971 Broadway musical.
Jesus Is King
Jesus Is King is Kanye West's ninth studio album, released October 25, 2019 on Def Jam: a 27-minute, 11-track gospel-rap record with the Sunday Service Choir. It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and won the 2021 Grammy for Best Contemporary Christian Music Album.
Jesus of Suburbia
Jesus of Suburbia: Green Day's 9:08 five-part punk suite from American Idiot (2004), single 2005, written by Billie Joe Armstrong, produced with Rob Cavallo, anchor of the album's rock opera.
Jesus Walks
Jesus Walks is a 2004 Kanye West song from The College Dropout, built on an ARC Choir "Walk with Me" sample, co-written with Rhymefest; it peaked at #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 and won the 2005 Grammy for Best Rap Song.
Jesus, Etc.
Jesus, Etc. is a 2002 Wilco song by Jeff Tweedy and Jay Bennett from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, a string-led track written before 9/11, the album's only charting single, and a live staple covered by Norah Jones and others.
Jimi Hendrix discography
Jimi Hendrix discography: the recorded catalog of Jimi Hendrix, covering three lifetime studio albums (Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold as Love, Electric Ladyland), Band of Gypsys, and the sprawling posthumous catalog under Jeffery, Douglas, and Experience Hendrix.
Jimi Hendrix posthumous discography
Jimi Hendrix posthumous discography: the 85-plus albums released since his September 1970 death, from The Cry of Love and the Alan Douglas years to Experience Hendrix's First Rays of the New Rising Sun and the Valleys of Neptune trilogy.
Jimmy Crack Corn
"Jimmy Crack Corn", also known as "Blue-Tail Fly", is an American minstrel song first published in 1846 and usually attributed to Dan Emmett of the Virginia Minstrels.
Jimmy Smith discography
Jimmy Smith discography: catalog of jazz organist Jimmy Smith (1928-2005), over 100 albums; Blue Note 1956-63 (The Sermon!, Back at the Chicken Shack), Verve 1962-72 with Wes Montgomery, later Milestone and Dot Com Blues.
Jingle Bell Rock
Jingle Bell Rock: 1957 Christmas song credited to Joe Beal and Jim Boothe, recorded by Bobby Helms (originally Jingle Bell Hop, reworked with Hank Garland); a secular holiday standard with a 60-year chart span.
Jingle Bells
Jingle Bells, originally "The One Horse Open Sleigh" (1857), is James Lord Pierpont's sleighing song, first performed in a Boston blackface minstrel hall, now a public-domain Christmas standard and the first song performed in space (Gemini 6, 1965).
Jizz in My Pants
Jizz in My Pants: 2008 comedy song by The Lonely Island (Samberg, Taccone, Schaffer), premiered as an SNL Digital Short on December 6, 2008; first single from Incredibad, with Timberlake, Sims, and Sigler cameos.
Joan Sebastian
Joan Sebastian (José Manuel Figueroa Figueroa, 1951-2015), Mexican singer-songwriter born in Juliantla, Guerrero; El Rey del Jaripeo; 4 Grammy and 5 Latin Grammy wins; over 50 albums and about 1,000 songs including Secreto de Amor.
Joanne (album)
Joanne is Lady Gaga's fifth studio album, released October 21, 2016 on Streamline/Interscope. Named for her late aunt, it pivots from Artpop's dance-pop to country, folk, and soft rock with Mark Ronson and BloodPop, debuting at number one on the Billboard 200.
Jocelyn Flores
Jocelyn Flores is a 2017 song by XXXTentacion from his debut album 17, named for a 16-year-old who died by suicide while visiting him in Florida; it samples Shiloh Dynasty via Potsu, peaked at No. 19 on the Billboard Hot 100, and is multi-platinum.
Joe Cocker discography
Joe Cocker discography: studio, live, and compilation releases by English singer John Robert Cocker (1944–2014), from With a Little Help from My Friends (1969) and Mad Dogs & Englishmen to Fire It Up (2012), plus UK and US chart peaks.
Joel Little
Joel Little is a Grammy-winning New Zealand songwriter and producer from Auckland, known for co-writing and producing Lorde's "Royals" and works with Taylor Swift, Khalid, and Imagine Dragons; he fronts Goodnight Nurse and founded BIG FAN.
John Barleycorn
John Barleycorn (Roud 164) is a traditional English-Scottish folk ballad personifying barley and its brewing into beer and whisky. First printed as a broadside in the 1620s, rewritten by Burns in 1786, and revived by Traffic (1970) and Steeleye Span (1972).
John Barleycorn Must Die
John Barleycorn Must Die is Traffic's third studio album, released by Island Records in July 1970 and recorded by the trio of Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, and Chris Wood.
John Henry (folklore)
John Henry, the Steel Driving Man: American folk hero and ballad of a steel driver who beat a steam drill and died; historical candidates, 1924 first recording, Talcott heritage.
John Lennon discography
John Lennon discography: the post-Beatles catalog of John Lennon, from 1968's experimental Unfinished Music with Yoko Ono through Plastic Ono Band, Imagine, Double Fantasy, and posthumous Milk and Honey, plus singles and reissues.
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band is John Lennon's debut solo studio album, released in 1970, and is widely regarded as one of the most confessional albums in rock.