Michael Stanley

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Michael Stanley (born March 25, 1948 as Michael Stanley Gee in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American singer, actor, and disc jockey. Both as a solo artist and with The Michael Stanley Band (a.k.a. MSB), his brand of heartland rock was popular in Cleveland and around the American Midwest in the 1970s and 1980s.

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[edit] Biography

Michael Stanely Gee graduated from Rocky River High School in 1966. In 1970, he graduated with a bachelor's degree from Hiram College where he was a disc jockey for WHRM, the school's radio station, and was elected to the Student Senate.

Stanley worked with producer Bill Szymczyk and artists such as Joe Walsh, Todd Rundgren, and David Sanborn. In the mid-1970s, Stanley formed The Michael Stanley Band, and recorded albums through the late 1970s and early 1980s.

His highest charting singles, with the Michael Stanley Band, were "He Can't Love You" (#33) in 1980 and "My Town" in 1983 (#39), which both got decent nationwide airplay. In fact, "He Can't Love You" was the 45th song ever played on MTV. The Michael Stanley Band was such a huge sensation in its home area that it still holds attendance records at Cleveland's Blossom Music Center.

Stanley was the host of PM Magazine on WJW Channel 8 from 1986 to 1991, and also appeared on The Drew Carey Show, playing himself.

Stanley's song "Let's Get the Show on the Road" was covered on the 2000 album Live in the Classic City by Widespread Panic. "My Town" was covered by Little Texas on their CD "Big Time." "Rosewood Bitters" was covered by Joe Walsh on his 1985 album The Confessor.

As of 2005, he works as the afternoon drive disc jockey for radio station WNCX in Cleveland, a job he has held since the early 90's.

Stanley is a Democrat, and in late 2006 performed with Jackson Browne and J.D. Souther at a fundraiser for Democratic candidates in Ohio.

[edit] Discography

[edit] Solo

  • Michael Stanley
  • Friends And Legends
  • Coming Up For Air
  • Eighteen Down
  • Live 2YK
  • Live At Tangiers
  • The Ground
  • American Road
  • The Farrago Sessions

[edit] The Michael Stanley Band

  • You Break It, You Bought It
  • Ladies Choice
  • Stage Pass
  • Cabin Fever
  • Greatest Hints
  • Heartland
  • North Coast
  • MSB
  • You Can't Fight Fashion
  • Fourth And Ten...
  • Inside Moves

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