Steve Kipner: Difference between revisions

His first band, Steve & the Board<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.milesago.com/Artists/steveboard.htm |title=MILESAGO - Groups & Solo Artists - Spectrum / Indelible Murtceps |work=milesago.com |access-date=2009-10-25}}</ref> achieved Australian chart success with the song "Giggle Eyed Goo",<ref name="giggle-eyed-goo">{{cite web |url=http://www.answers.com/topic/steve-and-the-board-and-the-giggle-eyed-goo |title=Steve and the Board…and the Giggle Eyed Goo |work=answers.com |access-date=2009-10-25}}</ref> co-written by his father [[Nat Kipner]] and released on [[Spin Records (Australian Labellabel)|Spin Records]] in 1966.<ref name="nk">[http://lmg.hurstville.nsw.gov.au/Nat-Kipner-and-The-Bee-Gees.html Nat Kipner and The Bee Gees], Hurstville City Library Museum Gallery.</ref> As a result of his father's A&R involvement in Spin Records, the members of Steve & the Board became good friends with the [[Bee Gees]], who were also on the label.<ref name="nk"/> Nat Kipner, interviewed in 2001, said that Steve Kipner sang backing vocals on some songs on the Bee Gees album ''[[Spicks and Specks (album)|Spicks and Specks]]'' which was produced by Nat Kipner ([[Colin Petersen]], the drummer of Steve & the Board, also played on some songs on that album).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/66.html |title=Gibb Songs: 1966 |last=Brennan |first=Joseph |access-date=26 December 2014}}</ref>

Steve & Thethe Board broke up in early 1967. Kipner then formed a duo with Steve Groves and relocated to England in 1968, where they recorded an unsuccessful LP as ''Steve & Stevie'' on Toast Records. After Kipner ran into [[Barry Gibb]] in 1969, Kipner and Groves were signed to [[Robert Stigwood]] with [[Maurice Gibb]] as their [[Record producer|producer]]. Under the name [[Tin Tin (band)|Tin Tin]], the group scored an international hit, "[[Toast and Marmalade for Tea]],", including an American top 20 placing in 1971. The next year Tin Tin, with additional member [[John Vallins]], supported the Bee Gees on their American tour.

In August 1969, Kipner, Groves, Gibb, and Billy Lawrie recorded the song "[[Have You Heard the Word]]" in a Tin Tin session, with Kipner on piano and participating inon the lead vocals with Groves and Gibb. Maurice Gibb's vocal impersonation of [[John Lennon]] led to the song appearing on [[The Beatles bootleg recordings|Beatles Bootlegbootleg]] albums as supposedly a lost Beatles recording.<ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beegees/69.html Gibb Songs 1969]</ref>

Over the years, Kipner has written songs for some of the music industry's biggest artists including Olly Murs, [[Doug Parkinson]], [[Heart (band)|Heart]], [[Janet Jackson]], [[Cher]], [[Matsuda Seiko]], [[Diana Ross]], [[Neil Diamond]], [[Laura Branigan]], [[The Temptations]], [[America (band)|America]], [[Cheap Trick]], [[LFO (American band)|LFO]], [[Westlife]], [[Huey Lewis & the News]], [[Joe Cocker]], [[Al Jarreau]], [[Rod Stewart]], and ''American Idol'''s [[David Archuleta]] from Season 7. Other ''Billboard'' charting songs include "20/20" by [[George Benson]],<ref name="george-benson-wiki">{{cite web |url=http://www.stubpass.com/concerts/jazz-blues/george-benson-wiki/ |title=George Benson Wiki Information at StubPass.com |work=stubbpass.com |access-date=2009-10-25}}</ref> "[[Invisible Man (98 Degrees song)|Invisible Man]]" by [[98 Degrees]], "[[Potential New Boyfriend]]" by [[Dolly Parton]], "Moonlight on Water" by [[Laura Branigan]], "[[Heart Attack" and(Olivia Newton-John song)|Heart Attack]]", "[[Twist of Fate (Olivia Newton-John song)|Twist of Fate]]" and "[[I Need Love (Olivia Newton-John song)|I Need Love]]" by Olivia Newton-John, and "[[Impulsive (song)|Impulsive]]" by [[Wilson Phillips]].