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"The Tide Is High" is a 1967 song written by John Holt, originally produced by Duke Reid and performed by the Jamaican group The Paragons, with Holt as lead singer. The song gained international attention in 1980 when a reggae version by the American band Blondie became a US/UK number one hit.
The music video (using the single edit version) was produced, directed by Hart Perry.
"The Tide Is High" is a 1967 song written by John Holt, originally produced by Duke Reid and performed by the Jamaican group The Paragons, with Holt as lead singer. The song gained international attention in 1980 when a reggae version by the American band Blondie became a US/UK number one hit.
The music video (using the single edit version) was produced, directed by Hart Perry.
![Blondie - The Tide Is High (1980) [Digitally Enhanced]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9anlT-LQZ3o/mqdefault.jpg "Blondie - The Tide Is High (1980) [Digitally Enhanced]
The Tide Is High is a 1967 song written by John Holt, originally produced by Duke Reid and performed by the Jamaican group The Paragons, with Holt as lead singer. The song gained international attention in 1980 when a reggae version by the American band Blondie became a US/UK number one hit.
The music video (using the single edit version) was produced, directed by Hart Perry.")
![Bee Gees - Words [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AMVmHD3Tt9o/mqdefault.jpg "Bee Gees - Words [Restored]
Words is a song by the Bee Gees, written by Barry, Robin & Maurice Gibb. The song reached No. 1 in Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands.
Words was the Bee Gees third UK top 10 hit, reaching number 8, and in a UK television special on ITV in December 2011 it was voted fourth in The Nations Favourite Bee Gees Song. The song has been recorded by many other artists, including hit versions by Rita Coolidge in 1978 and Boyzone in 1996. This was Boyzones fifth single and their first number one hit in the UK.
Recorded live at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas in 1997.")
![The Three Degrees - When Will I See You Again (1974) [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AewGIIykcig/mqdefault.jpg "The Three Degrees - When Will I See You Again (1974) [Restored]
When Will I See You Again is a song released in 1974 by American soul group The Three Degrees, from their third album The Three Degrees. The song was written and produced by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff. Sheila Ferguson sang the lead, accompanied by Fayette Pinkney and Valerie Holiday.
It was one of the most successful recordings of the Philly Soul era. In the U.S., the song reached #1 on the adult contemporary chart, #2 on the pop singles chart, and #4 on the R&B chart in the autumn of 1974. In the UK, it fared even better, spending two weeks at the top of the UK Singles Chart in August 1974. The Three Degrees performed the song at Prince Charles 30th birthday party at Buckingham Palace in 1978.
Sheila Ferguson recalled that the song was played to me by Kenny Gamble at the piano in 1973 and I threw a tantrum. I screamed and yelled and said I would never sing it. I thought it was ridiculously insulting to be given such a simple song and that it took no talent to sing it. We did do it and several million copies later, I realized that he knew more than me. She would later have a #60 hit with a solo remake of the track in 1994. The song is unique in that every sentence is a question, heightening the overall effect and emotion. In the film Kill Bill: Volume 2, Bill cites this song as his favorite soul song of the 70s.
Billboard named the song #67 on their list of 100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time.")
![Fred Astaire - Id Rather Lead a Band [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AkAQQTm4sU0/mqdefault.jpg "Fred Astaire - Id Rather Lead a Band [Restored]
A song from the film Follow the Fleet.
Follow the Fleet (RKO) is a 1936 Hollywood musical comedy film with a nautical theme starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in their fifth collaboration as dance partners. It also features Randolph Scott, Harriet Hilliard, and Astrid Allwyn, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. Lucille Ball and Betty Grable also appear, in supporting roles. The film was directed by Mark Sandrich with script by Allan Scott and Dwight Taylor based on the 1922 play Shore Leave by Hubert Osborne.")
![Keith Jarrett - Over the Rainbow (Tokyo 1984) [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AyLQGDIrGcI/mqdefault.jpg "Keith Jarrett - Over the Rainbow (Tokyo 1984) [Restored]
A brilliant interpretation of the Academy Award song Over the Rainbow.
An almost sacrilegious audience cough right before the last melody note was digitally removed.
Performed in Tokyo 1984")
![The Manhattan Transfer - Chanson DAmour [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BOC1aQ7TXS8/mqdefault.jpg "The Manhattan Transfer - Chanson DAmour [Restored]
Chanson DAmour (Love Song) is a popular song written by Wayne Shanklin. A 1977 recording by the Manhattan Transfer was an international hit, reaching #1 in the UK Singles Chart and Australia.
Recorded in 1977.")
![The Rubettes - Sugar Baby Love [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CC7uKQQdZdo/mqdefault.jpg "The Rubettes - Sugar Baby Love [Restored]
Sugar Baby Love, recorded in autumn 1973 and released in January 1974, is a bubblegum pop song, and the debut single of the Rubettes. Written by Wayne Bickerton and Tony Waddington and produced by Bickerton, engineered by John Mackswith at Lansdowne Recording Studios, and with lead vocals by Paul Da Vinci, Sugar Baby Love was the bands one and only number one single in the UK Singles Chart, spending four weeks at the top of the chart in May 1974.
Source: Wikipedia.")
![Ginger Rogers / Fred Astaire - A Fine Romance - Swing Time (1936) [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CTU5ISVUsHQ/mqdefault.jpg "Ginger Rogers / Fred Astaire - A Fine Romance - Swing Time (1936) [Restored]
A Fine Romance is a popular song composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Dorothy Fields, published in 1936.
The song was written for the musical film, Swing Time, where it was co-introduced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.")
![Helen OConnell, Bob Eberly, Jimmy Dorseys Orchestra - Tangerine (1942) [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EIehXhNqupM/mqdefault.jpg "Helen OConnell, Bob Eberly, Jimmy Dorseys Orchestra - Tangerine (1942) [Restored]
Tangerine is a popular song. The music was written by Victor Schertzinger, the lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The song was published in 1941 and soon became a jazz standard.
This version is from the movie The Fleets In (1942). The recording was released in January 1942 by Decca Records as catalog number 4123. The record first reached the Billboard charts on April 10, 1942, and lasted 15 weeks on the chart, including six weeks at #1. The lyrics in this version differ slightly from those in the movie. On the record, Eberly sings And Ive seen toasts to Tangerine / Raised in every bar across the Argentine, the lyric that became standard. In the movie at that point, the line is And Ive seen times when Tangerine / Had the bourgeoisie believing she were queen.")
