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Biography[edit]

Blackjack was formed in late 1978 after Bruce Kulick had come off the road touring with Meat Loaf behind the Bat Out of Hell album. Kulick and his older brother Bob had done a show backing up Michael Bolton, then a solo artist with two albums, at a club show in Connecticut. Afterwards both Kulick brothers were invited to join Bolotin in a proper band. While Bob declined, Bruce accepted. The band's manager Steve Weiss, also an attorney for Led Zeppelin, brought drummer Sandy Gennaro and bassist Jimmy Haslip into the fold to complete the line-up.

The band was quickly signed to Polydor Records and named Blackjack. At the behest of their record company and management, the foursome went to work with producer Tom Dowd at Criteria Studios in Miami, Florida to record their debut album. Blackjack was released in 1979 and peaked at No. 127 on the Billboard charts selling around 100,000 copies. The album's biggest single, 'Love Me Tonight', reached No. 62 on Billboard. Blackjack shot videos for both 'Without Your Love'^[5] and 'Love Me Tonight',^[6] which were part of a 9-minute promotional movie ^[7] circulated by the label, and toured with acts such as Peter Frampton and the Marshall Tucker Band.

In 1980, Bruce Kulick played guitar on Billy Squier's solo debut album, The Tale of the Tape, produced by Eddie Offord of Yes fame. Offord also became the producer for Blackjack's second album Worlds Apart. But, with the disappointing sales of their debut album and a regime change at Polydor, Blackjack were no longer a priority act at the label and Worlds Apart was released in 1980 with very little backing and no tour support from the record company. It spelled the end for Blackjack as individual members had opportunities and offers to join more promising musical situations.^{[citation needed]}

After break-up[edit]

By 1981, Gennaro had replaced Tommy Aldridge in the Pat Travers Band, making his debut on the Radio Active album. Haslip would re-team with members of the Robben Ford Band under the name Yellowjackets who issued their self-titled debut album in 1981. After turning down a touring gig with Billy Squier in favor of staying with Blackjack, Kulick recorded Great American Music with The Good Rats in 1981 and also played guitar on Michael Bolton's eponymous 1983 debut album for Columbia Records before joining Kiss in 1984.

Rap appeal[edit]

The Blackjack song 'Stay' off their second album Worlds Apart was sampled by rapper Jay Z for the song 'A Dream' off his 2002 album The Blueprint 2: The Gift & the Curse which reached No. 1 on the Billboard charts.

In 2004, rapper Kanye West re-recorded a section of 'Maybe It's the Power of Love' off Worlds Apart for inclusion on his song 'Never Let Me Down'; it was released on his triple platinum selling debut album The College Dropout which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. Speaking to the website Genius in 2015, Bolton gave his approval of the sampling, stating that 'the song turned out beautifully'.^[8]

Album re-issues[edit]

Blackjack and Worlds Apart were first issued on CD as a two-for-one package by PolyGram in 1990, with a Japanese release following in 1996. UK-based label Lemon Records would do another 2-for-1 reissue in 2006, titled Anthology, with extensive liner notes by English rock journalist Malcolm Dome. The most recent re-issues came in December 2013 when both albums were released individually by Universal Music Japan in the cardboard sleeve mini-LP format as SHM-CD remasters.

Band members[edit]

• Michael Bolton – lead vocals (1979–1980)
• Bruce Kulick – guitars (1979–1980)
• Jimmy Haslip – bass, backing vocals (1979–1980)
• Sandy Gennaro – drums, percussion (1979–1980)

Discography[edit]

• Blackjack (1979)
• Worlds Apart (1980)

Blackjack Symphony Band

References[edit]

1. ^Runtagh, Jordan; Stone, Rolling (2019-09-07). '30 Fascinating Early Bands of Future Music Legends'. Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2020-05-07.
2. ^Barbosa, Susan (14 August 1979). 'Blackjack thrills audience'. The Ledger. Lakeland, Florida, USA: Lakeland Ledger Publishing Company. p. 17. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
3. ^Gerber, Lisa (13 August 1979). 'Frampton came alive to knock 'em dead at Lakeland Saturday'. St. Petersburg Times. St. Petersburg, FL, United States: Times Publishing Company. p. 37. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
4. ^Hawes, Peter S. (6 August 1983). 'Michael Bolton struggles for recognition, success'. Schenectady Gazette. Schenectady, NY United States. Retrieved 16 September 2010.
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External links[edit]

• Blackjack at AllMusic

Blackjack is a popular casino-gambling card game.

Black Jack or Blackjack may also refer to:

Places[edit]

Australia[edit]

• Black Jack, Queensland, a locality in Queensland
• Black Jack, a civil parish of Pottinger County, New South Wales
• Black Jack Hill, near Gunnedah, New South Wales

United States[edit]

• Black Jack (Red Oak, North Carolina), a historic plantation house
• Black Jack, Kansas, an unincorporated community
• Black Jack, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
• Black Jack, Missouri, a city
• Blackjack, Cherokee County, Texas, an unincorporated community
• Blackjack, Smith County, Texas, an unincorporated community

People[edit]

• Ada Blackjack (1898–1983), Inuit woman
• Roddy Blackjack (c. 1920–2013), Canadian elder and former Chief of the Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation of the Yukon Territory
• Blackjack Lanza (born 1935), ring name of former professional wrestler John Lanza
• Blackjack Mulligan (1942–2016), ring name of former professional wrestler Robert Jack Windham
• 'Blackjack' Hoss Taylor, a professional wrestler from All-Star Wrestling

Arts and entertainment[edit]

Fictional characters[edit]

• Black Jack (manga character), the main character of the 1973 manga series of the same name
• Blackjack (Transformers), a fictional character in the Transformers universe

Films[edit]

• Black Jack (1927 film), an American silent Western film
• Black Jack (1950 film), written and directed by Julien Duvivier
• Black Jack (1968 film), a Spaghetti Western directed by Gianfranco Baldanello
• Black Jack (1979 film), by Ken Loach
• Blackjack (1978 film), an American crime drama film
• Blackjack (1990 film), directed by Colin Nutley
• Blackjack (1998 film), a TV movie directed by John Woo
• BlackJack (film series) (2003–2007), a series of Australian seven TV movies starring Colin Friels

Blackjack Song

Games and cards[edit]

• Black Jack (Hearts), a variant of Hearts
• Black Jack (Switch), also known as Switch, a name given to some variations of Crazy Eights in United Kingdom
• A jack (playing card) from a black suit, a jack of clubs or jack of spades
• Blackjack (Atari 2600 video game), a video game cartridge developed by Atari
• Blackjack, an NES video game developed by Odyssey Software; See American Video Entertainment

Literature[edit]

• 'Black Jack', a short story by Rudyard Kipling in the collection Soldiers Three
• Black Jack, a 2003 novel by Finnish writer Reijo Mäki

Music[edit]

• Blackjack, a 21-note scale in the miracle temperament

Groups[edit]

• Black Jack (Chilean band), a Chilean rock band
• Black Jack (Australian band), an Australian heavy metal band
• Blackjack (American band), an American rock band
• BlackJack (Swedish band), a Swedish dansband

Albums[edit]

• Blackjack (Blackjack album), by the American band, 1979
• Blackjack (Donald Byrd album), 1968

Songs[edit]

• 'Black Jack', by The Hives from Barely Legal
• 'Black Jack', by Junkie XL from Big Sounds of the Drags
• 'Black Jacks', by Girls Aloud from Tangled Up
• 'Blackjack', by Airbourne from Runnin' Wild
• 'Blackjack', by Aminé from OnePointFive
• 'Blackjack', by Death Grips from The Money Store
• 'Blackjack', by Everclear from Slow Motion Daydream
• 'Blackjack', by Ray Charles from Yes Indeed!

Television[edit]

• 'Black Jack' (Jericho episode), a 2007 episode of the television series Jericho
• 'Blackjack', season 4, episode 12 of Fear the Walking Dead
• 'BlackJack', an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants
• 'Blackjack', an episode of the TV series The Adventures of Ellery Queen

Other uses in arts and entertainment[edit]

• Black Jack (manga), a 1973 manga and anime series

Brands and enterprises[edit]

• Black Jack (confectionery), aniseed flavour chews
• Black Jack (gum), a brand of chewing gum
• BlackJack (phone), a mobile phone made by Samsung
  • BlackJack II (phone), a mobile phone made by Samsung
• Blackjack Pizza, a chain of pizza delivery restaurants in Colorado, US

Military and law enforcement[edit]

• Blackjack (weapon), a type of baton for law enforcement
• RQ-21 Blackjack, a small tactical unmanned air system
• Black Jack Brigade, nickname of the U.S. 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division
• Tupolev Tu-160 (NATO reporting name: Blackjack), a Russian bomber
• VMF-441, nicknamed The Blackjacks, a United States Marine Corps fighter squadron
• Battle of Black Jack, a battle in Kansas preceding the American Civil War
• National Society of Blackjacks, a High School Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps leadership program

Science[edit]

• Black jack (fish), a gamefish
• Blackjack oak or Quercus marilandica, a small tree
• Black jack, a common fig cultivar
• Black jack, often weedy species of the genus Bidens from the family of Asteraceae
• Sphalerite, a mineral sometimes called black-jack by miners

Other uses[edit]

• Black Jack (horse) (1947–1976), a horse used in U.S. Armed Forces full honors funerals
• Black Jack (stamp), a United States postage stamp
• STV Black Jack, a 1904 Canadian brigantine sailing ship
• The Blackjacks, a professional wrestling tag team

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See also[edit]

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• Blak Jak (born 1983), American rapper
• Blk Jks, signifying Black Jacks, South African rock band
• John Gotti (1940-2002), nicknamed 'Black John', U.S. mobster

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