About Yacht Rock Schooner™
The Yacht Rock Schooner throws the smoothest dance party on the high seas, taking you and your guests on a journey to a time when good-times music had heart and musical integrity.
The 8-man Schooner specializes in the smooth sounds of the late ’70s and early ’80s. It’s a party that spans generations, and the band is comprised of some of Atlanta’s top players with a dual keyboard setup, multiple ace vocalists and (of course) a sax man.
If you’re a big fan of Hall & Oates, Steely Dan, Kenny Loggins, and Michael McDonald, this is the band for you.
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Yacht Rock Schooner
Yacht Rock Schooner, a 1970's-1980's tribute band, that entices audiences onto the dance floor.
An 8-musician band, Yacht Rock Schooner, brings the 1970's and 80's back to life in full force. With an impeccable resemblance, instrumentally, to every 80's tune, band members trade off turns in the vocal department, flawlessly reaching all highs and lows of a pitch as their talent shines.
Luring 70's and 80's enthusiasts onto the dance floor with the likes of Lionel Richie, Stealers Wheel, Toto, Bee Gees, Kenny Loggins, and many more greatest hits, Yacht Rock Schooner takes it back to the old-school days of music. The band found a way to use songs as a time-travel-portal assisted by their strong vocals, sax, drums, guitar, and a sense of camaraderie that audiences can feel from beyond the stage.
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Yacht rock (originally known as the West Coast sound or adult-oriented rock) is a broad music style and aesthetic commonly associated with soft rock, one of the most commercially successful genres from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Drawing on sources such as smooth soul, smooth jazz, R&B, and disco, common stylistic traits include high-quality production, clean vocals, and a focus on light ...
The following is a list of yacht rock bands and artists. Yacht rock. Airplay; Air Supply; Alessi; Ambrosia; America; Atlanta Rhythm Section; Attitudes; Patti Austin; Average White Band; ± The ...
Yacht Rock Schooner, Atlanta, Georgia. 6,698 likes · 211 talking about this. Smooth jams from the sunny, breezy beaches of 1978-84, when pop music used slash chords and craft to create wrinkle-free... Yacht Rock Schooner, Atlanta, Georgia. 6,679 likes · 233 talking about this. Smooth jams from the sunny, breezy beaches of 1978-84, when pop ...
The Yacht Rock Schooner throws the smoothest dance party on the high seas, taking you and your guests on a journey to a time when good-times music had heart and musical integrity. The 8-man Schooner specializes in the smooth sounds of the late '70s and early '80s. It's a party that spans generations, and the band is comprised of some of ...
An 8-musician band, Yacht Rock Schooner, brings the 1970's and 80's back to life in full force. With an impeccable resemblance, instrumentally, to every 80's tune, band members trade off turns in the vocal department, flawlessly reaching all highs and lows of a pitch as their talent shines. Luring 70's and 80's enthusiasts onto the dance floor ...
Yacht Rock Revue is an American band that specializes in performing and paying tribute to the soft rock and yacht rock music of the 1970s and 1980s. The term "yacht rock" refers to a style of music characterized by smooth melodies, lush harmonies, and lyrics often associated with a carefree, summertime, or coastal lifestyle.
Sailing the Seas of Yacht Rock. Jed Gottlieb Published: July 4, 2021. UCR. Louis Armstrong said, "If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.". Duke Ellington said, "There are ...
Complete behind-the-scenes story of the most popular history-of-smooth-music series ever made. Dave "Koko" Lyons, center, and Hunter "Messina" Stair regale some young women with tales of smooth ...
Last updated: Sep 9, 2021 • 2 min read. The name "yacht rock" didn't enter the popular imagination until decades after its heyday in the early 1980s. It was a public access comedy show that gave this genre its name, which evokes the breezy marinas of southern California. The name "yacht rock" didn't enter the popular imagination ...
The Yacht Rock Schooner throws the smoothest dance party on the high seas, taking you and your guests on a journey to a time when good-times music had heart and musical integrity. The 8-man Schooner specializes in the smooth sounds of the late '70s and early '80s. It's a party that spans generations, and the band is comprised of some of ...
The web TV series of the mid-00s that parodied the lifestyle was even named Yacht Rock; one of the biggest hits of a chief exponent of the sound, Christopher Cross, was, of course, "Sailing."
Broadly speaking, yacht rock is an ocean of smooth, soft-listening music made in the late '70s and early '80s by artists like Toto, Hall & Oates and Kenny Loggins — music you can sail to. But as ...
Although not all yacht rock songs reference the ocean, yachts, or the beach, the distant roots of the sound and the vibe go back to 1961. That's the year The Beach Boys was formed. As noted by Jacobin Magazine, the cheerful fun in the sun beach aesthetic of The Beach Boys' sound provides the fundamental template for yacht rock's sound.What elevated The Beach Boys was the songwriting craft of ...
Yacht Rock: Album Guide. From Steely Dan to Christopher Cross to Carly Simon, these smooth summer jams will take you away to where you're going to. Walter Becker, left, and Donald Fagen are Steely ...
Schooner. A schooner ( / ˈskuːnər / SKOO-nər) [1] is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast. A common variant, the topsail schooner also has a square topsail on the foremast, to which may be ...
The Yacht Rock Schooner. A fast, light version of the Yacht Rock Revue. The Yacht Rock Schooner enjoys walks on the beach, umbrella drinks, relaxed high-seas piracy, low velocity skinny skiing, stepping to the left first, and shopping for bell bottoms and deck shoes that match. (615) 254-7553 (615) 254-7553
Yacht rock began as a sendup of the late '70s and early '80s smooth jams to which many Millennials and late period Gen-Xers were likely conceived, then morphed into a beloved musical genre that ...
47. "Sailing," Christopher Cross (1979) You'd be hard-pressed to find a more quintessential yacht rock song than "Sailing." The second single (and first chart-topper) off Christopher Cross ...
On August 22, Yacht Rock Revue returns to Piedmont Park for the fifth annual Yacht Rock Revival, where thousands of so-called Nation of Smooth faithful sing along to hits from Hall & Oates, Steely ...
Finally, a name for that music: "Yacht Rock". Originally published January 9, 2006 at 12:00 am. A few little-known facts about singer/songwriter Michael McDonald: Aside from topping the charts ...
Steely Dan: Hey Nineteen (1980) The frisson of yacht rock derives from its blend of bourgie feelgood bounce crossed with a shiver of thwarted desire. Steely Dan self-deprecatingly called their ...
"Sailing" is a 1979 soft rock song written and recorded by American artist Christopher Cross. It was released in June 1980 as the second single from his debut album Christopher Cross (1979), which was already certified Gold by this time. The song was a success in the United States, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on August 30, 1980, where it stayed for one week.
13:32 Defining yacht rock once and for all with the genre's originators. JD Ryznar and Dave Lyons are the co-creators of the mid-2000s comedic web-series Yacht Rock. While the joke genre they ...