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Chic - Good Times (Atlantic Records 1979)
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The Pointer Sisters is an American R&B singing group from Oakland, California, that achieved mainstream success during the 1970s and 1980s. Their repertoire has included such diverse genres as pop, disco, jazz, electronic music, bebop, blues, soul, funk, dance, country, and rock. The Pointer Sisters have won three Grammy Awards and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994. The group had 13 US top 20 hits between 1973 and 1985.
The group had its origins when sisters June and Bonnie Pointer began performing in clubs in 1969 as "Pointers, a Pair". The line-up grew to a trio when sister Anita joined them. They got a record deal with Atlantic Records and released several unsuccessful singles. The trio grew to a quartet when sister Ruth joined in December 1972. They then signed with Blue Thumb Records, recorded their debut album, and began seeing more success, winning a Grammy Award in 1975 for Best Country Vocal Performance for "Fairytale" (1974). Bonnie left the group in 1978 to commence a solo career with modest success.
The group achieved its greatest commercial success in the 1980s as a trio consisting of June, Ruth, and Anita. They won two more Grammys on 1984 for the top 10 hits "Automatic" and "Jump (For My Love)." The group's other U.S. top 10 hits are "Fire" (1979), "He's So Shy" (1980), "Slow Hand" (1981), the remixed version of "I'm So Excited" (1984), and "Neutron Dance" (1985).
June Pointer, the youngest sister, struggled with drug addiction for much of her career, leaving the group in April 2004 prior to her death from cancer in April 2006, at the age of 52. She was replaced by Ruth's daughter Issa Pointer. This trio had a number two hit in Belgium in 2005, covering "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves" with Belgian singer Natalia. Between 2009 and 2015, the group consisted of Anita, Ruth, Issa, and Ruth's granddaughter Sadako Pointer. While all four women remained in the group, they most often performed as a trio rotating the lineup as needed. In 2015, Anita was forced to retire due to ill health, leaving Ruth the sole member of the original sibling line-up.
In December 2016, Billboard magazine ranked them as the 80th most successful dance artists of all-time. In December 2017, Billboard ranked them as the 93rd most successful Hot 100 Artist of all-time and as the 32nd most successful Hot 100 Women Artist of all-time.
Through the night while I was fast asleep
I could feel you tuggin' me
Felt like a dream
Then I slowly opened my eyes
You were layin' by my side
Oh what a night
Could I be dreamin'?
Are you really with me
Are you right here by my side?
Could I be dreamin'?
I've waited for this moment for so long
And now you're mine
No, it's not a dream
Boy you know, I like your company
And I'm glad you said to me
Baby, can I come inside
I'm sure glad I opened up my door
Because we both knew the score
And the time was right
No, I'm not dreamin'
You're really, really with me
And I love the way it feels
No, I'm not dreamin'
I've waited for this moment oh so long
And now it's real
No it's not a dream
Life will come too slow, but
All things come and go, but
I'm sure glad to know
I got you here
(I got you here)
And I love the feelin'
(And I love the feelin')
So sincere
(So sincere)
Your love has got me spinnin'
I'm not dreamin'
You're really, really with me
And I love the way it feels
No, I'm not dreamin'
I've waited for this moment oh so long
And now it's here
I should be screamin'
Oh, telling everybody just how good you make me feel
(No I'm not dreamin')
No, I've got you here beside me
And this time I know it's real
Could I be dreamin'?
Or are you really with me, are you right here in my arms?
Oh baby, no I'm not dreamin'
Ohhh, ohhh, gonna love you, gonna love you
The single was initially released in 1983 and peaked at number seventy-six in the UK Singles Chart. The song became a popular dance track, particularly so in gay clubs. After hitting the U.S. Dance charts, where it peaked at number eight, it was re-issued in the UK in 1984 and managed to reach number six in the UK Singles Chart, becoming one of her most successful singles to date. The song was later included on her album Heart First.
Hazell Dean (born Hazel Dean Poole) is an English dance-pop singer, who achieved her biggest success in the 1980s as a leading Hi-NRG artist. She is best known for the top ten hits in the United Kingdom "Searchin' (I Gotta Find a Man)", "Whatever I Do (Wherever I Go)" and "Who's Leaving Who". She has also worked as a songwriter and producer.
Dean was born in Chelmsford, Essex. She started her career in the mid-1970s and came to prominence in the following decade after many years as a club performer and working on the gay scene with her brand of Hi-NRG. She was elected three times as the "Best Live Performer" by the "Federation of American Dance Clubs" (US), and twice as a "Best British Performer" by "Club Mirror Awards" (UK).
Dean started her career signed to Decca Records releasing a few pop/soul singles from the mid to late 70's written and produced by Paul Curtis. Dean participated in the A Song for Europe contest in 1976, and took eighth place (out of twelve) with the ballad, "I Couldn't Live Without You for a Day", written by contest veteran Paul Curtis.
Dean's first album was first released in 1981. The Sound Of Bacharach and David was a collection of covers written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David and was only released promotionally to radio stations for them to use the songs to pad out their programming with songs they didn't have to pay so much for in royalties. A very rare album, it was re-released commercially for the first time in 2014. Dean also released a promotional double A side single for the area of Medway (Medway You're The One / Medway That's Where I Wanna Be) in 1982. This was re-discovered and put onto YouTube in 2017.
Dean decided to put behind her pop/soul sound she had been recording, and issued her first dance record, "Searchin' (I Gotta Find a Man)" in the summer of 1983. While it was a big hit in gay clubs, it only peaked at #76.
After the success of "Searchin'", Dean made her LGBT club début at Heaven in London and has subsequently enjoyed a large LGBT following. Acknowledging the support she has received from the LGBT community throughout her career, Dean frequently performs at LGBT Pride events both in the UK and abroad.
Hazell Dean is Patron of Pride in Surrey. She is in the Pride Power List - which celebrates the 100 most influential LGBT people in the UK. Hazell Dean is proud to be a Trans Ally and supporter of Transgender Rights. Hazell Dean has been in a long term relationship since 1991 and has been in a civil partnership since 2005.
Searchin' and seekin'
Never sleepin'
I've got to find me a man
I want no disguises
Just surprises someone who I'll understand
I don't need a guy who spends only one night
Then tell me he's got no more time
I'm looking for someone to share my life
I better move on down the line
Searchin' - looking for love all the time I can
Searchin' - looking for love I've got to find a man
Some guys excite me but don't invite me
They don't even notice
It seems
Oh I'm always waiting
Anticipating.
I long for the man of my dreams
He needn't be handsome
Have fortune or fame
He just gotta be sweet and kind
But there's so many wanting or needing the same
I gotta move on down the line
Searchin' - looking for love all the time I can
Searchin' - looking for love all the time I can
Searchin' - looking for love every place I can
Searchin' - looking for love all the time I can
Will I ever reach my goal
Will I ever get the chance
To live my life with just one man
Oh I thought by now I held the love I always wanted
But things are not the way I planned
Oh I'm searchin' - looking for love all the time I can
Searchin' - looking for love
I've got to find me a man
Searchin' - looking for love every place I can
Searchin' - looking for love
I've got to find a man
Searchin' and seekin'
Never sleepin'
I've got to find me a man
I want no disguises
Just surprises someone who I'll understand
I don't need a guy who spends only one night
Then tell me he's got no more time
I'm looking for someone to share my life
I better move on down the line
Searchin' - looking for love all the time I can
Searchin' - looking for love I've got to find a man
Searchin' - looking for love every place I can
Searchin' - looking for love
I've got to find a man
"The Love I Lost" is considered an early example of disco. The track was one of the transitional songs marking the emergence of disco from traditional rhythm and blues as a distinctive style of music. It peaked at number seven on the US Billboard Hot 100 and spent two weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart. It also reached #21 in the United Kingdom in early 1974.
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes were an American soul and R&B vocal group. One of the most popular Philadelphia soul groups of the 1970s, the group's repertoire included soul, R&B, doo-wop, and disco. Founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the middle of the 1950s as The Charlemagnes, the group is most noted for several hits on Gamble and Huff's Philadelphia International label between 1972 and 1976, although they performed and recorded until Melvin's death in 1997. Despite group founder and original lead singer Harold Melvin's top billing, the Blue Notes' most famous member was Teddy Pendergrass, their lead singer during the successful years at Philadelphia International. The remaining members of the Blue Notes have reunited for Soul Train Cruises in 2013, 2015, and 2017.
Dimitri from Paris is a French music producer and DJ of Greek descent. His musical influences are rooted in 1970s funk and disco sounds that spawned contemporary house music, as well as original soundtracks from 1950s and 1960s movies such as Breakfast at Tiffany's, La Dolce Vita and The Party, which were sampled in his album Sacrebleu.
Has anyone out there lost someone?
That kind of meant the world to ya
My, my, my, my lord
My, my, my, I had a sweet love
I had a good love
I, I had a woman that wold stand right there by my side
My lover didn't know
I didn't realize, I didn't realize,
I didn't realize what I had
Until the day you walked out the door
My love I swear I ain't gonna love no more
'Cause I can't stand it, I can stand it baby
No, no, no
She was a good thang
She was a good love
She was a sweet thang, my love
She looked so good
She looked so fine
I thought she was all mine, my love
I treated her bad, would you forgive me baby
If I got down on my hands and knees and begged you please
Would you take me back, take me back, take me back
My love, I wonder if anyone out there feeling like the way I do
'Cause you lost it
Has anyone out there lost someone that kinda meant the world to you
If so stand up and sing along with me children
Yea, yea, yea, yea, yea, yea, yea, yea
Say it ya'll, say it ya'll
Say it, say it, say it ya'll
Say you lost it
I, I lost it
Yes I did
Ooh, my lawd I lost it
Come on ya'll, mhmm come on ya'll, come along with me children
The love I lost was a sweet love
The love I lost was complete love
The love I lost, I will never, no, no, never love again
I can remember planning
Building my whole world around you
I can remember hoping
That you and I could make it on through
But something went wrong
We loved each other
We just couldn't get along
Take a good look at me
I'm in misery, can't you see?
The love I lost
Was a sweet love (yes it was)
The love I lost
Was complete love
The love I lost
I will never (never), no, no, never (never)
Love again, ooh
I can't remember nothing, no no
But the good times we used to share
I didn't care, I'm so sad and lonely
Without you, my life is so dead
I'm sorry to say
You go your way and I'll go my way
It hurts deep inside
That the day, the day we said goodbye
The love I lost
(The love, the love I lost)
Was a sweet love
(It was a sweet love)
The love I lost
(The love, the love I lost)
Was complete love
(It was complete love)
The love I lost, ooh, ooh
I will never, no, no, never
(Never, never)
Love again
(I'll never love again)
I will never, no, no, never
(Never, never)
Love again, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
I will never, no, no, never
(Never, never)
Love again
(Never, never)
Love again, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
I will never, no, no, never
(Never, never)
Love again (repeat)
I ain't gonna never love again
(never)
Never, never, never
I ain't never gonna love again
My, my, my love
Yea, yea yeaaa, ooh, love
She was a good love, she was a sweet love
I thought I had her right here in my hands
But I lost it, I thought I had you all to myself
I didn't realize, I didn't realize exactly what I had
But you come back home, come on back home baby
I'm sorry, I'm sorry baby, I wonder what you've been doing baby
I've been worried about you, I've been wondering where you are
My lawd, what you been doing, would you forgive me baby
(I lost it, sorry I lost it)
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes were an American soul and R&B vocal group. One of the most popular Philadelphia soul groups of the 1970s, the group's repertoire included soul, R&B, doo-wop, and disco. Founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the middle of the 1950s as The Charlemagnes, the group is most noted for several hits on Gamble and Huff's Philadelphia International label between 1972 and 1976, although they performed and recorded until Melvin's death in 1997. Despite group founder and original lead singer Harold Melvin's top billing, the Blue Notes' most famous member was Teddy Pendergrass, their lead singer during the successful years at Philadelphia International. The remaining members of the Blue Notes have reunited for Soul Train Cruises in 2013, 2015, and 2017.
"Bad Luck" holds the record for the longest-running number-one hit on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart: 11 weeks. A fourth #1 R&B hit for the group was 1975's "Hope That We Can Be Together Soon" which featured female vocalist Sharon Paige.
Uh
Woo
Well, well
Look down-hearted and confused
Because lately you've been startin' to lose
Losin' out on everything you might try to do
Bad luck's there, it's got a hold on you
Losing money, `bout to lose your home
Done lost your woman and everything you own
Law of averages plainly states that chances go around
But if you want know the truth about it and tell you what's pullin' you down, Yeah, you got
Bad luck
That's what you got, that's what you got (Yes, uh)
Bad luck
That's what you got, that's what you got
Bad luck
That's what you got, that's what you got (You got)
Bad luck, bad luck (Bad)
Played a number `cause that number's hot stuff
But the bookies get you for every cent you've got
Walk around in a daze with your pockets bare
Go to see your woman and she ain't even there
Losing your wisdom and all your track of time
The more I think about it, I think you're 'bout to lose your mind
Some people call it jinxed, some say it ain't my day, huh
But if you want to know the truth about it and
Tell you what's pullin' you way down
Bad luck
That's what you got, that's what you got (Yes, uh)
Bad luck
That's what you got, that's what you got (You got)
Bad luck
That's what you got, that's what you got (You got)
Bad luck, bad luck (Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad)
One long week
Ooh, huh
Yeah, yeah
One more thing
Law of averages plainly states that chances go around
But if you want to know the truth about it and
Tell you what's pullin' you down
Down, down, down, down, down
Bad luck (Yes, sir)
You got Bad luck
That's what you got, that's what you got (Yes, uh)
Bad luck
That's what you got, that's what you got (You got)
Bad luck
That's what you got, that's what you got (You got)
Bad luck, bad luck (Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad)
Bad luck
That's what you got, that's what you got (Yes, uh)
Bad luck
That's what you got, that's what you got (You got)
Bad luck children
That's what you got, that's what you got (You got)
Bad luck, bad luck (Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad)
Bad luck, you ain't got to admit it
That's what you got, that's what you got (Yes, uh)
Bad luck, but all the sides, huh the sides they showin' on
That's what you got, that's what you got (You got)
Bad luck, I can't get away from it' it's bad luck
That's what you got, that's what you got (You got)
Bad luck, bad luck (Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad)
Bad luck
That's what you got, that's what you got
Bad luck
That's what you got, that's what you got
Bad luck
That's what you got, that's what you got
Bad luck, bad luck, bad luck, bad luck
Bad luck
That's what you got, that's what you got (Mhmm, yea)
Bad luck
That's what you got, that's what you got (Yea)
Bad luck children
That's what you got, that's what you got (Huh, yea, come on, on)
Bad luck, bad luck (Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad)
Uh
Ga-ga, ga-ga, uh. Whoo!
People of the world out there,
I know none of y'all are satisfied
The way prices have been going up on things
On that, I say I'm just mad about a morning paper, yeah
Ya had to cut down on smoking. (Cut down on smoking.)
Ya had to cut down on drinking. (Cut down on drinking.)
'Cause early one morning, I got me a paper.
I sat down on my living room floor.
Opened it up. (Opened it up.)
Opened it up. (Opened it up.)
Guess what I saw?
I saw the President of the United States
The man said he was gonna give it up
He's giving us high hopes
But he still turned around and left all us poor folks behind
They say they got another man to take his place,
But I don't think they need to satisfy the human race
Bad luck, bad luck, bad luck
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
The only thing that I got that I can hold on, is my God, my God.
Jesus be with me, Jesus
Give me good luck, good luck
Help me, Jesus
Everybody needs good luck
The Blue Notes' original version of the song, featuring Teddy Pendergrass's lead vocals, was included on the group's 1975 album Wake Up Everybody. Though not issued as a single in the United States at the time, the Blue Notes' recording reached number three on the US Billboard Hot Disco Singles chart in the wake of Thelma Houston's version. The song proved to be the group's highest-peaking entry in the United Kingdom, reaching number five on the UK Singles Chart, when released there as a single in 1977. It became the title track of a budget LP issued on the CBS Embassy label in the UK in 1978. The track was finally issued as a 12-inch single in the US in 1979.
"Don't Leave Me This Way" was covered by American singer Thelma Houston in 1976. Originally assigned to Diana Ross, it was intended to be the follow-up to her single "Love Hangover", but was reassigned and given to Houston instead.
Following the release of her fourth album Any Way You Like It, a Boston record pool unanimously reported positive audience response to "Don't Leave Me This Way" in discos, and the song was selected for release as a single. Houston's version topped the US soul singles chart and, nine weeks later, the Billboard Hot 100 for one week in April 1977. The song peaked at number 13 in the UK. The song peaked at number one on the disco chart. Later in the year, it was featured on the soundtrack to the film Looking for Mr. Goodbar. In 1978, "Don't Leave Me This Way" won the award for Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female at the 20th Annual Grammy Awards.
Houston's version was revived in 1995 in several remixes, which reached number 19 on the US Billboard dance chart and number 35 in the UK. This version got Houston ranked number 86 on VH1's "100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders", as well as the number-two spot on their "100 Greatest Dance Songs" list.
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Houston's version of the song became an unofficial theme song for the AIDS epidemic in gay male communities of the west. American artist Nayland Blake created a work for the American Foundation of Aids Research about the epidemic that referenced the song and its significance in the community. An art exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia entitled "Don't Leave Me This Way – Art in the age of AIDS" opened in 1994 containing various works about the epidemic. A 246-page publication of the exhibition also followed.
Don't leave me this way
I can't survive, I can't stay alive
Without you love
Don't leave me this way, no
I can't exist, I'd surely miss
Your tender kiss
Don't leave me this way, no
Don't leave me this way, yea
I'm broken man with empty hands, oh baby please, please
Don't leave me this way
Oh baby, my heart is full of love and desire for you
Now come on down and do what you've got to do
You started this fire down in my soul
Now can't you see it's burning, out of control
Now come down and satisfy the need in me
'Cause only your good loving can set me free
Don't leave me this way
'Cause it would be wrong to string along with love so true
Don't leave me this way
Don't you understand I'm at your command
Oh baby please, please don"t leave me this way
Don't leave me this way, way
I can't survive, I can't stay alive
Without you love
Don't leave me this way, no
Oh baby, my heart is full of love and desire for you
Now come on down and do what you've gotta to do
You started this fire down in my soul
Now can't you see it's burning, out of control
Now come on girl and satisfy the need in me
'Cause only your good loving can set me free, free free
Don't leave me this way, no
'Cause it would be wrong
To string along a love so true
Don't leave me this way
Oh baby, my heart is full of love and desire for you
Now come on down and do what you've gotta to do
You started this fire down in my soul
Now can't you see it's burning, out of control
Now come on girl and satisfy the need in me
'Cause only your good loving can set me free
I need it right now, I said I need
I need your love baby
Please, your love , please, please your love
Please, please don't go (repeat chorus)
I don't you you to go
See I love you you can't go
Would you stay with me, stay stay with me , baby please
Baby please (repeat)
Oh baby, my heart is full of love and desire for you
Now come on down and do what you've gotta to do
You started this fire down in my soul
Now can't you see it's burning, out of control
Now come on girl and satisfy the need in me
'Cause only your good loving can set me free
In 2006, Slant Magazine placed it at No. 60 on their list of the greatest dance songs of all time, and at 66 on the updated 2020 list.
"Lay All Your Love on Me" is an electro-disco song penned by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, with Agnetha Fältskog singing lead. Recording began at Polar Music Studios in Stockholm on 9 September 1980, with the final mix of the song being completed on 10 October 1980.
"Lay All Your Love on Me" is known for a descending vocal sound at the end of the verse immediately preceding the refrain. This was achieved by sending the vocal into a harmoniser device, which was set up to produce a slightly lower-pitched version of the vocal. In turn its output was fed back to its input, thereby continually lowering the pitch of the vocal. Andersson and Ulvaeus felt that the chorus of the song sounded like a hymn, so parts of the vocals in the choruses were run through a vocoder, to recreate the sound of a church congregation singing, slightly out of tune.[3] The song was not originally intended to be released as a single, but was issued in 12-inch form in the UK and a few other countries in 1981. "Lay All Your Love on Me" has since been much covered and is also featured in the Mamma Mia! musical (and its film adaptation), that showcases many of ABBA's hits.
ABBA are a Swedish pop group formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. The group's name is an acronym of the first letters of their first names. They became one of the most commercially successful acts in the history of popular music, topping the charts worldwide from 1974 to 1983. In 1974 ABBA were Sweden's first winner of the Eurovision Song Contest, with the song "Waterloo", which in 2005 was chosen as the best song in the competition's history as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the contest.
During the band's main active years, it consisted of two married couples: Fältskog and Ulvaeus, and Lyngstad and Andersson. With the increase of their popularity, their personal lives suffered, which eventually resulted in the collapse of both marriages. The relationship changes were reflected in the group's music, with latter compositions featuring darker and more introspective lyrics. After ABBA disbanded, Andersson and Ulvaeus achieved success writing music for the stage, while Lyngstad and Fältskog pursued solo careers.
Ten years after their disbanding, a compilation, ABBA Gold was released, which became a worldwide bestseller. In 1999, ABBA's music was adapted into the successful musical Mamma Mia! that toured worldwide. A film of the same name, released in 2008, became the highest-grossing film in the United Kingdom that year. A sequel, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, was released in 2018. That same year it was announced that the band had recorded two new songs after 35 years of being inactive.
They are one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with record sales estimated to be 150-385 million records and singles sold worldwide. In 2012, ABBA was ranked eight best selling singles artist in United Kingdom with 11.2 million singles sold.
I wasn't jealous before we met
Now every woman I see is a potential threat
And I'm possessive, it isn't nice
You've heard me saying that smoking was my only vice
But now it isn't true
Now everything is new
And all I've learned has overturned
I beg of you
Don't go wasting your emotion
Lay all your love on me
It was like shooting a sitting duck
A little smalltalk, a smile and baby I was stuck
I still don't know what you've done with me
A grown-up woman should never fall so easily
I feel a kind of fear
When I don't have you near
Unsatisfied, I skip my pride
I beg you dear
Don't go wasting your emotion
Lay all your love on me
Don't go sharing your devotion
Lay all your love on me
I've had a few little love affairs
They didn't last very long and they've been pretty scarce
I used to think I was sensible
It makes the truth even more incomprehensible
'Cause everything is new
And everything is you
And all I've learned has overturned
What can I do
Don't go wasting your emotion
Lay all your love on me
Don't go sharing your devotion
Lay all your love on me
Don't go wasting your emotion
Lay all your love on me
Don't go sharing your devotion
Lay all your love on me
Don't go wasting your emotion
Lay all your love on me
In 2006, Slant Magazine placed it at No. 60 on their list of the greatest dance songs of all time, and at 66 on the updated 2020 list.
"Lay All Your Love on Me" is an electro-disco song penned by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, with Agnetha Fältskog singing lead. Recording began at Polar Music Studios in Stockholm on 9 September 1980, with the final mix of the song being completed on 10 October 1980.
"Lay All Your Love on Me" is known for a descending vocal sound at the end of the verse immediately preceding the refrain. This was achieved by sending the vocal into a harmoniser device, which was set up to produce a slightly lower-pitched version of the vocal. In turn its output was fed back to its input, thereby continually lowering the pitch of the vocal. Andersson and Ulvaeus felt that the chorus of the song sounded like a hymn, so parts of the vocals in the choruses were run through a vocoder, to recreate the sound of a church congregation singing, slightly out of tune.[3] The song was not originally intended to be released as a single, but was issued in 12-inch form in the UK and a few other countries in 1981. "Lay All Your Love on Me" has since been much covered and is also featured in the Mamma Mia! musical (and its film adaptation), that showcases many of ABBA's hits.
ABBA are a Swedish pop group formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. The group's name is an acronym of the first letters of their first names. They became one of the most commercially successful acts in the history of popular music, topping the charts worldwide from 1974 to 1983. In 1974 ABBA were Sweden's first winner of the Eurovision Song Contest, with the song "Waterloo", which in 2005 was chosen as the best song in the competition's history as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the contest.
During the band's main active years, it consisted of two married couples: Fältskog and Ulvaeus, and Lyngstad and Andersson. With the increase of their popularity, their personal lives suffered, which eventually resulted in the collapse of both marriages. The relationship changes were reflected in the group's music, with latter compositions featuring darker and more introspective lyrics. After ABBA disbanded, Andersson and Ulvaeus achieved success writing music for the stage, while Lyngstad and Fältskog pursued solo careers.
Ten years after their disbanding, a compilation, ABBA Gold was released, which became a worldwide bestseller. In 1999, ABBA's music was adapted into the successful musical Mamma Mia! that toured worldwide. A film of the same name, released in 2008, became the highest-grossing film in the United Kingdom that year. A sequel, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, was released in 2018. That same year it was announced that the band had recorded two new songs after 35 years of being inactive.
They are one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with record sales estimated to be 150-385 million records and singles sold worldwide. In 2012, ABBA was ranked eight best selling singles artist in United Kingdom with 11.2 million singles sold.
I wasn't jealous before we met
Now every woman I see is a potential threat
And I'm possessive, it isn't nice
You've heard me saying that smoking was my only vice
But now it isn't true
Now everything is new
And all I've learned has overturned
I beg of you
Don't go wasting your emotion
Lay all your love on me
It was like shooting a sitting duck
A little smalltalk, a smile and baby I was stuck
I still don't know what you've done with me
A grown-up woman should never fall so easily
I feel a kind of fear
When I don't have you near
Unsatisfied, I skip my pride
I beg you dear
Don't go wasting your emotion
Lay all your love on me
Don't go sharing your devotion
Lay all your love on me
I've had a few little love affairs
They didn't last very long and they've been pretty scarce
I used to think I was sensible
It makes the truth even more incomprehensible
'Cause everything is new
And everything is you
And all I've learned has overturned
What can I do
Don't go wasting your emotion
Lay all your love on me
Don't go sharing your devotion
Lay all your love on me
Don't go wasting your emotion
Lay all your love on me
Don't go sharing your devotion
Lay all your love on me
Don't go wasting your emotion
Lay all your love on me
Vivien Vee (real name Viviana Andreattini) is an Italian singer and model (born in Trieste, 1960), discovered at the age of 18 by Claudio Simonetti and Giancarlo Meo, she was successful immediately with the first album Give Me A Break, released on Banana Records,1979. The LP - whose amazing cover was designed by Claude Gorial - was a worldwide smash disco hit . She released her last 12" in 1989 by X-Energy Records, but her tracks continue to be released on reissues and on italo-disco compilations. "Give Me A Break" became a minor hit in the American dance charts.
Between 1982 and 1984, she posed semi-nude in men's magazines such as Playmen, Blitz, and the Italian edition of Playboy.
Five, four, three, two, one, zero
Ignition
Baby, please stop telling fibs
In your words I don't believe
Do me a favor please
Give me a break
Baby, don't pretend with me
All you want is to make love
Don't bore me too much
Give me a break, give me a break
Down your hands, don't touch me, boy
Wait, my body is not a toy
I'm really tired now
Give me a break
Stop giving me that sweet look
Oh, you'll make me laugh
Your tactic is so wrong
Give me a break, give me a break
Give me a break, give me a break
All I want is to be free
I belong only to me
Forget your thoughts now
I'll sing you a melody
Everybody dance
And enjoy yourselves
Everybody dance
And enjoy yourselves
Don't be angry with me
Now relax and let it be
Listen to the music
I'll sing you a melody
Everybody dance
And enjoy yourselves
Everybody dance
And enjoy yourselves
All I want is to be free
I belong only to me
Forget your thoughts now
I'll sing you a melody
Everybody dance
And enjoy yourselves
Everybody dance
And enjoy yourselves
Don't be angry with me
Now relax and let it be
Listen to the music
I'll sing you a melody
Everybody dance
And enjoy yourselves
Everybody dance
And enjoy yourselves
Baby, please stop telling fibs
In your words I don't believe
Do me a favor please
Give me a break
Baby, don't pretend with me
All you want is to make love
Don't bore me too much
Give me a break, give me a break
Down your hands, don't touch me, boy
Wait, my body is not a toy
I'm really tired now
Give me a break
Stop giving me that sweet look
Oh, you'll make me laugh
Your tactic is so wrong
Give me a break, give me a break
Give me a break, give me a break
Baby, please stop telling fibs
Give me a break
Baby, don't pretend with me
Give me a break
Down your hands, don't touch me, boy
Give me a break
In your words I don't believe
Give me a break, give me a break
Give me a break, give me a break
Rapper Lil' Kim used a sample of this song for the remix of her song, "Not Tonight", also called "Not Tonight (Ladies' Night Remix)", which features Angie Martinez, Da Brat, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, and Missy Elliott.
Kool & the Gang is an American band formed in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1964 by brothers Robert "Kool" Bell and Ronald Bell, with Dennis "D.T." Thomas, Robert "Spike" Mickens, Charles Smith, George Brown, and Ricky West. They have undergone numerous changes in personnel and have explored many musical styles throughout their history, including jazz, soul, funk, rock, and pop music. After settling on their name following several changes, the group signed to De-Lite Records and released their debut album, Kool and the Gang (1970).
The band's first taste of success came with their fourth album Wild and Peaceful (1973), which contained the US top-ten singles "Jungle Boogie" and "Hollywood Swinging". Kool & the Gang subsequently entered a period of decline before they reached a second commercial peak between 1979 and 1986 following their partnership with Brazilian musician/producer Eumir Deodato and the addition of singer James "J.T." Taylor to the line-up. Their most successful albums of this period include Ladies' Night (1979), Celebrate! (1980), and Emergency (1984), their highest selling album with two million copies sold in the US, and the hit singles "Ladies' Night", the US number one "Celebration", "Get Down on It", "Joanna", and "Cherish". The band continues to perform worldwide, including as support for Van Halen in 2012 and their fiftieth-anniversary tour in 2014.
Kool & the Gang have won numerous awards, including two Grammy Awards, seven American Music Awards, and, in 2006, a Music Business Association Chairman's Award for artistic achievement. In 2018, the Bells, Brown, and Taylor were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Their discography includes 23 studio albums and almost 70 singles. They have sold 7.5 million and 4.5 million RIAA-certified albums and singles, respectively, in the US. Worldwide, they have sold 70 million albums.
Mmm, oh yeah
Oh, what a night
Oh, yes, it's Ladies' Night
And the feeling's right
Oh, yes, it's Ladies' Night
Oh, what a night (oh, what a night)
Oh, yes, it's Ladies' Night
And the feeling's right
Oh, yes, it's Ladies' Night
Oh, what a night (huh)
Girls, y'all got the one
A night that's special everywhere
From New York to Hollywood
It's Ladies' Night and, girl, the feeling's good
Oh, yes, it's Ladies' Night
And the feeling's right
Oh, yes, it's Ladies' Night
Oh, what a night (Oh, what a night)
Oh, yes, it's Ladies' Night
And the feeling's right
Oh, yes, it's Ladies' Night
On disco lights your name will be seen
You can fulfill all your dreams
Party here, party there, everywhere
This is your night, baby, you've got to be there
Come on lets all celebrate
Oh, It's Ladies' Night and the feeling's right
Come on lets all celebrate
Lady, Lady, Lady, I love you
Girls, y'all got the one
A night that's special everywhere
You dance, you smile, the guys go wild
So chic, so fine, you all look so divine
Oh, yes, it's Ladies' Night
And the feeling's right
Oh, yes, it's Ladies' Night
Oh, what a night (Oh, what a night)
Oh, yes, it's Ladies' Night
And the feeling's right
Oh, yes, it's Ladies' Night
Oh, what a night
Romantic lady
Single baby
Mm, sophisticated mama
Come on you disco lady, yeah
Play with me tonight mama, yeah
If you hear any noise, it ain't the boys
It's Ladies' Night, uh-huh
Gonna step out Ladies' Night
Steppin' out Ladies' Night
Gonna step out Ladies' Night
Steppin' out Ladies' Night
Oh, yes, it's Ladies' Night
And the feeling's right
Oh, yes, it's Ladies' Night
Oh, what a night (oh, what a night)
Oh, yes, it's Ladies' Night
And the feeling's right
Oh, yes, it's Ladies' Night
Oh, what a night
On disco lights your name will be seen
You can fulfill all your dreams
Party here, party there, everywhere
This is your night, baby, you've got to be there well
This is your night tonight
Everything's gonna be alright
(Repeat 3X's)
This is your night tonight (come on let's all celebrate)
Everything's gonna be alright
This is your night tonight
Everything's gonna be alright
(Repeat 6X's)
This is your night tonight
Everything's gonna be alright
(Repeat 7X's)
This is your night tonight (come on let's all celebrate)
Everything's gonna be alright
(Repeat to Fade)
Meco is an American record producer and musician, as well as the name of his band or production team. Meco is best known for his 1977 space disco version of the Star Wars theme from his album Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk; both the single and album were certified platinum in the U.S.
Meco Monardo was born in Johnsonburg, Pennsylvania, to parents of Italian descent. Building model ships, science fiction and movies were some of his boyhood preoccupations. His father played the valve trombone in a small Italian band, and through him Meco got his first musical education. Meco wanted to play the drums, but his father convinced him that the trombone was the right instrument, and at nine that was the instrument with which he was to stay. However, for Meco, the slide trombone was his choice, troublesome as it was for the small-statured boy to extend the slide fully at first. He joined the high school band while still attending elementary school. At 17, he won a scholarship to the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, which provided him with a solid classical and jazz music education. There, together with his two friends Chuck Mangione and Ron Carter, he started the Eastman School of Music jazz band. When he enrolled at West Point, he also played in the Cadet Band.
Out of the army Meco moved to New York City and joined Kai Winding[1] in his four-trombone band, and then from 1965 to 1974 he went on as a studio musician. Originally not inclined toward pop music, Meco's heart changed when he heard Petula Clark's "Downtown." He began doing arrangements, for example the horn section on Tommy James' "Crystal Blue Persuasion" and the Neil Diamond series of Coke commercials. As a session musician he played the trombone with acts like Tommy James, Diana Ross, and David Barretto. Although Meco focused on producing in the late 1970s, he contracted the horns and performed on Diana Ross' 1980 album Diana as a favor to producer (and neighbor) Nile Rodgers. His solo on the single "I'm Coming Out" is notable because of the rarity of trombone features on post-big-band era pop records.
Around 1973, Meco, Tony Bongiovi, and a third person[vague] formed the production company Disco Corporation of America, and, from 1974 to 1976, Meco worked as a record producer. The team of Meco, Bongiovi, Jay Ellis, and Harold Wheeler produced the 1974 Gloria Gaynor hit "Never Can Say Goodbye." Carol Douglas' "Doctor's Orders" was among the other productions of that period.
On Wednesday May 25, 1977, Meco watched the 20th Century-Fox soon-to-be blockbuster hit Star Wars on its opening day. By Thursday night, he had seen the film four more times, and attended several more screenings over the weekend.
He then got the idea to make a disco version of the score by John Williams and contacted Neil Bogart at Casablanca Records to pitch the project. Only after both the picture itself as well as the original score had become huge hits did Bogart agree to help Meco realize his idea. Contact was established with Millennium Records, then a Casablanca subsidiary, and this became Meco's first record company. Here Meco rejoined with Tony Bongiovi as well as Harold Wheeler who had also been part of the team behind "Never Can Say Goodbye" in 1974. Lance Quinn was also part of the Meco team.
Meco's third album came in early 1978, and this time it was the music from The Wizard of Oz, which got transformed into a disco album by the same name, as Meco described: "It is my best work, bar none." From this album came the hit single "Themes from The Wizard of Oz: 'Over the Rainbow'/'We're off to See the Wizard.'"
Musicians from the MILKY WAY GALAXY
Drums: Allen Schwartzenberg, Jimmy Young, Yhtac Xaurt
Bass: Neil Jason, Retsim Steab
Guitars: Lance Quinn, Cliff Morris, Bob Cadway, Atten Lessik, Inirt Zepol
Keyboards: Harold Wheeler, Pat Rebilliot, Ynot Odranom
Percussion: Dave Carvey, Nyto Bongo, Ynned Silsek
Auto-harps: Gene Bianco, Laup Ekliss
Trumpets: Jon Faddis, Dan Cahn, Bob Millikan, Mike Lawrence, Joe Shepley, Randy Brecker, Derf Nardomo, Brad Donmora
Trombones: Wayne Andre, Sonny Russo, Eddie Bert, Paul Faulise, Dick Hixson, Alan Raph, Lekly Roomdan, Retsim Ocem
Reeds: George Marge, Dave Tifani, Romeo Penque, Eddie Daniels, Phil Bodner, Doowy Thiwe
French Horns: Jim Buffington, Bill Brown, Fred Griffin, John Clark, Mali Nyl, Raula Lujei
Violins: Guy Lumia, Sanford Allen, LaMar Alsop, Leanie Kranf, Kemie Ceedu, Simm Tenaj, Lewis Eley, John Pintavalle, Dave Davis, Thatie Notsim, Simm Amorni, Tomen Risorm, Paul Winter, Harry Lookofsky, Nala Lebos
Cellos: Jesse Levy, Rairy Leicher, Het Mogen, Mijmy Nernie
Mason-James was born on 8 December 1958 in south London, United Kingdom to immigrants from Jamaica. She started her career with the disco band Voyage in 1977. She performed a duet with Jimmy Nail on his chart-topping single "Ain't No Doubt" in 1992, and appeared as a backing vocalist on the 1992 Joan Armatrading album Square the Circle, along with Linda Lewis and her sister Shirley Lewis. She appeared as the vocalist on Chicane's "Strong in Love" in 1998 (Chicane featuring Mason) and Freemasons' "Nothing But A Heartache" in 2007. She has also released a solo single with a cover version of the Diana Ross song "Touch Me in the Morning".
Recently, she appeared as vocalist on two songs from Superchumbo's Wowie Zowie album. Mason-James also sang on Scott and Leon's "Shine On", "Sounds of Eden" and "You Used to Hold Me". She has appeared as a backing vocalist on music by artists including Go West, Simple Minds, Adam Rickitt, Robbie Williams, Cher, Bo Selecta, Swing Out Sister, Sheena Easton, The Blow Monkeys and most frequently, Pet Shop Boys. Mason-James has also toured extensively with Pet Shop Boys, including Glastonbury 2000 where they played second billing to Travis on the Pyramid stage, Live 8 in 2005, their extensive 2006/2007 Fundamental World Tour as well as their month-long residency at the Savoy Theatre in 1997, their 2006 BBC Radio Theatre & Radio 2 concerts, and their iconic 1991 Performance World Tour.
Their lone Billboard Hot 100 entry was "Souvenirs," which hit number forty-one in 1979. They had more success on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart, where two of their albums, Voyage (1978) and Fly Away (1979), hit number one.
In the UK, the group had three chart singles. A double A-side, "From East To West"/"Scotch Machine" (the latter song retitled "Scots Machine" because the term "Scotch" is generally considered offensive in Scotland) reached number thirteen in 1978, while later that same year "Souvenirs" made number fifty-six. Their last impact on the charts came in 1979 when "Let's Fly Away" peaked at number thirty-eight.
The songs on the Voyage album paid a nodding homage to musical styles of different regions of the world, as if the band and its listeners were taking a jet set trip around the world, finally landing triumphantly in America, as if it was the center of the disco universe, with the song Lady America.
Get your bag put on your boots and fly to the sun
Hitch a ride don't be afraid
That's livin' for fun
A voyage-a
Find a spot unoccupied so much to be done
Try to find your way and let's go dancin' along
A voyage-a
All around the world people singin' along
Crazy boys and girls will teach you lyrical songs
A voyage-a
All around the world people singin' along
Crazy boys and girls will teach you lyrical songs
A voyage-a
Look at them dancin'
Look at them playin'
(repeat)
The cover photograph was taken at 409 N Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills, California.
The Crusaders were an American jazz fusion group that was popular in the 1970s. The group was known as the Jazz Crusaders before shortening its name in 1971.
Wayne Henderson died on April 5, 2014. Joe Sample died in Houston on September 12, 2014. Wilton Felder died on September 27, 2015.
Veronica "Randy" Crawford (born February 18, 1952, Macon, Georgia) is an American jazz and R&B singer. She has been more successful in Europe than in the United States, where she has not entered the Billboard Hot 100 as a solo artist. Her only appearance on the Hot 100 chart was in 1979 as a guest vocalist on The Crusaders's top 40 hit "Street Life". She has had five Top 20 hits in the UK, including her 1980 number 2 hit, "One Day I'll Fly Away", as well as six UK Top 10 albums. Despite her American nationality, she won Best British Female Solo Artist in recognition of her popularity in the UK at the 1982 Brit Awards. In the late 2000s she received her first two Grammy Award nominations.
Crawford first performed at club gigs from Cincinnati to Saint-Tropez, but made her name in mid 1970s in New York, where she sang with jazzmen George Benson and Cannonball Adderley. She signed with Columbia Records and released her first single, "Knock On Wood" / "If You Say the Word" in 1972. Adderley invited her to sing on his album, Big Man: The Legend Of John Henry (1975). During a brief tenure at Columbia Records, Crawford recorded "Don't Get Caught in Love's Triangle". She is also one of the vocalists on Fred Wesley & The Horny Horns – A Blow For Me, A Toot To You (1977).
In 1978, Crawford sang vocals on "Hoping Love Will Last", the opening song on side two of Please Don't Touch!, which was the second solo album by the former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett.
She led R&B veterans the Crusaders on the transatlantic hit "Street Life" (1979). A specially re-recorded version was featured in the soundtrack for the films Sharky's Machine and Jackie Brown, and appeared in commercials in the early 2000s. She later recorded for Warner Bros. Records. Crawford was named the 'Most Outstanding Performer' at the 1980 Tokyo Music Festival. Crawford also recorded the love theme ("People Alone") for the film soundtrack of The Competition on MCA Records in 1980.
I still hang around
Neither lost nor found
Hear the lonely sound
Of music in the night
Nights are always bright
That's all that's left for me, yeah
I play the street life because there's no place I can go
Street life, it's the only life I know
Street life and there's a thousand cards to play
Street life, until you play your life away
You let the people see
Just who you wanna be
And every night you sang
Just like a superstar
The type of life that's played
A temptin' masquerade
You dress and walk and talk
You're who you think you are
Street life, you can run away from time
Street life, for a nickel, for a dime
Street life, but you better not get old
Street life, or you're gonna feel the cold
There's always love for sale
A grown up fairy tale
Prince charming always smiles
Behind a silver spoon
And if you keep it young
Your song is always sung
Your love will pay your way
Beneath the silver moon
Street life
Street life
Street life
Oh, street life
I play the street life because there's no place I can go
Street life, it's the only life I know
Street life and there's a thousand cards to play
Street life, until you play your life away
You let the people see
Just who you wanna be
And every night you sang
Just like a superstar
The type of life that's played
A temptin' masquerade
You dress and walk and talk
You're who you think you are
Street life, you can run away from time
Street life, for a nickel, for a dime
Street life, but you better not get old
Street life, or you're gonna feel the cold
There's always love for sale
A grown up fairy tale
Prince charming always smiles
Behind a silver spoon
And if you keep it young
Your song is always sung
Your love will pay your way
Beneath the silver moon
Street life
Street life
Street life
Oh, street life
Oh, street life
Yeah, street life
Street life
Oh, street life
Written by Sandy Linzer and Denny Randell, the song was originally recorded by The Four Seasons in 1966, reaching No. 9 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. In the UK Top 50 chart it spent three weeks - all at No. 50. It is the only hit to feature the group's arranger Charles Calello in the temporary role of bassist/bass vocalist, having replaced original member Nick Massi.
The lyrics tell about a man who cheated on his girlfriend and also emotionally abused her. When she leaves, he realizes that he did love her and is very remorseful about his past actions. He vows to win her love back. It is in some ways a re-casting of the melody from their previous hit, "Let's Hang On!".
In 1979 American soul and R&B group The Spinners recorded a medley of "Working My Way Back to You" and Michael Zager's "Forgive Me Girl," topping the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in April 1980. On the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, the medley (released in December 1979 in the U.S.) peaked at the No. 2 position in March and April 1980 for two weeks, behind "Another Brick in the Wall" by Pink Floyd. The Spinners version also made it to No. 6 on the Soul Singles chart and No. 8 on the disco/dance chart.
The Spinners are an American rhythm and blues vocal group that formed in Ferndale, Michigan, in 1954. They enjoyed a string of hit singles and albums during the 1960s and 1970s, particularly with producer Thom Bell. The group continues to tour, with Henry Fambrough as the only original member.
The group is also listed as the Detroit Spinners and the Motown Spinners, due to their 1960s recordings with the Motown label. These other names were used in the UK to avoid confusion with a British folk group also called The Spinners. On June 30, 1976, they received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2015, they were nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Music critic Robert Christgau has called the Spinners "a renowned show group whose supersmooth producer inhibits improvisation".
I'll keep working my way back to you, babe
With a burning love inside
Yeah, I'm working my way back to you, babe
And the happiness that died
I let it get away (Do-do, do-do-do)
Been payin' every day (Do-do, do-do-do)
When you were so in love with me
I played around like I was free
Thought I could have my cake and eat it, too
But how I cried over losing you
See, I'm down and out
But I ain't about to go living my life without you
Hey, every day I made you cry
I'm paying, girl, till the day I died
I'll keep working my way back to you, babe
With a burning love inside
Yeah, I'm working my way back to you, babe
And the happiness that died
I let it get away (Do-do, do-do-do)
Been payin' every day (Do-do, do-do-do)
Oh, I used to love to make you cry
It made me feel like a man inside
If I had been a man in reality
You'd be here, baby, loving me
Now my nights are long and lonely
And I ain't too proud, babe, I just miss you so
Girl, but you're too proud, and you won't give in
But when I think about all I could win
I'll keep working my way back to you, babe
With a burning love inside
Yeah, I'm working my way back to you, babe
And the happiness that died
I let it get away (Do-do, do-do-do)
Been payin' every day (Do-do, do-do-do)
(You, you, babe) My road is kinda long
(You, you, babe) I just gotta get back home
Whoa, I'm really sorry for actin' that way
I'm really sorry, ooh, little girl
I'm really sorry for throwing away our love
Sweet little girl I'm really sorry, for making you cry
I really mean it, don't your hear my talking to ya
I'm really sorry, for telling your lies for so long
Oh, please, forgive me, girl, come on (Give me a chance)
Won't you forgive me, girl, hey (Let's have romance)
Ooh, forgive me, girl (Let's start again)
Come on, forgive me, girl
I want you over and over and over and over again
Won't you give me one more try
If you don't I believe I'll die
I'm sorry for actin' that way
I'm really sorry, little bitty girl
I'm really sorry for throwing away our love
Please baby, forgive me, girl, oh (Give me a chance)
Won't you forgive me, girl, hey (Let's have romance)
Please, forgive me, girl (Let's start again)
Forgive me, girl
I want you over and over and over and over again
I keep working my way back to you, babe
With a burning love inside
Hey, I'm working my way back to you, babe
And the happiness that died
I let it get away (Do-do, do-do-do)
Payin' every day (Do-do, do-do-do)
I keep (Working my way back to you, babe)
Ooh, Yeah (Burning love inside)
I keep (Working my way back to you, babe)
And the happiness that died
I let it get away (Do-do, do-do-do)
Payin' every day (Do-do, do-do-do)
I keep (Working my way back to you, babe)
Yeah (Burning love inside)
(Working my way back to you, babe)
And the happiness that died
"Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band" is one of two songs which became hits featuring music from the Star Wars movie. The other is "Star Wars (Main Title)," which is original music from the movie soundtrack by John Williams. The song reached the Top 10 concurrently with Meco's more popular version. Meco again jousted with Williams a few months later, with both artists issuing competing versions of music from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, both reaching the US and Canadian Top 40, but with Williams' version being more successful than Meco's.
On Wednesday May 25, 1977, Meco watched the 20th Century-Fox soon-to-be blockbuster hit Star Wars on its opening day. By Thursday night, he had seen the film four more times, and attended several more screenings over the weekend.
He then got the idea to make a disco version of the score by John Williams and contacted Neil Bogart at Casablanca Records to pitch the project. Only after both the picture itself as well as the original score had become huge hits did Bogart agree to help Meco realize his idea. Contact was established with Millennium Records, then a Casablanca subsidiary, and this became Meco's first record company. Here Meco rejoined with Tony Bongiovi as well as Harold Wheeler who had also been part of the team behind "Never Can Say Goodbye" in 1974. Lance Quinn was also part of the Meco team, and the different roles played by the four musicians is described by Meco himself in a 1999 interview with his fan Web site:
“Tony and Lance are the two guys who would not let me be "too musical". Tony would say: "It's not dumb enough—It's too good." Tony is a frustrated drummer and Lance is a guitar genius, so they would make sure the rhythm section was always "smoking" under the very sophisticated arrangements and concepts that Harold and I started with.”
In a matter of just three weeks they arranged and recorded Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk. Although the album was nominated for "Best Instrumental Pop performer" in 1977, the award ultimately went to John Williams for the original soundtrack album.
Meco (real name Domenico Monardo) is an American record producer and musician, as well as the name of his band or production team. Meco is best known for his 1977 space disco version of the Star Wars theme from his album Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk; both the single and album were certified platinum in the U.S.
For his 1995 album Q's Jook Joint Jones modernized the song. This time vocals were provided by Ashford & Simpson, Khan, Brandy, Charlie Wilson and Ray Charles while Greg Phillinganes was playing keyboards. In 2002 the song was featured in a Peter Lindbergh-directed Gap TV commercial starring Will Kemp, this time credited to QJ's Jook Joint and Brothers Johnson.
Ashford & Simpson were an American husband-and-wife songwriting-production team and recording duo of Nickolas Ashford (May 4, 1941 – August 22, 2011and Valerie Simpson (born August 26, 1946).
Ashford was born in Fairfield, South Carolina, and Simpson in the Bronx, New York City. Afterwards, his family relocated to Ypsilanti, Michigan, where he became a member of Christ Temple Baptist Church. While there, he sang with a group called the Hammond Singers (named after the founding minister, James Hammond). Later, Nickolas attended and graduated from Willow Run High School in Ypsilanti, Michigan, before pursuing his professional career, where he would ultimately meet his wife, Valerie. They met at Harlem's White Rock Baptist Church in 1964. After having recorded unsuccessfully as a duo, they joined an aspiring solo artist and former member of the Ikettes, Joshie Jo Armstead, at the Scepter/Wand label, where their compositions were recorded by Ronnie Milsap ("Never Had It So Good"), Maxine Brown ("One Step at a Time"), as well as the Shirelles and Chuck Jackson. Another of the trio's songs, "Let's Go Get Stoned," gave Ray Charles a number one U.S. R&B hit in 1966. That same year, Ashford & Simpson joined Motown, where their best-known songs included "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," "You're All I Need To Get By," "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing," and "Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)." Ashford and Simpson wrote many other hit songs, including Chaka Khan's "I'm Every Woman" (1978) and Teddy Pendergrass's "Is It Still Good to You?"
As performers, Ashford & Simpson's best-known duets are "Solid" (1984) and "Found a Cure" (1979). The duo was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002. Ashford and Simpson were also recipients of The Rhythm & Blues Foundation's Pioneer Award in 1999, and ASCAP's highest honor, the Founder's Award, which they received on March 18, 1996.
Yvette Marie Stevens, better known by her stage name Chaka Khan, is an American singer, songwriter and musician. Her career has spanned nearly five decades, beginning in the 1970s as the lead vocalist of the funk band Rufus. Khan received public attention for her vocals and image. Known as the Queen of Funk, Khan was the first R&B artist to have a crossover hit featuring a rapper, with "I Feel for You" in 1984. Khan has won ten Grammys and has sold an estimated 70 million records worldwide.
Quincy Delight Jones Jr. is an American record producer, multi-instrumentalist, singer, composer, arranger, and film and television producer. His career spans over 60 years in the entertainment industry with a record 80 Grammy Award nominations, 28 Grammys, and a Grammy Legend Award in 1992.
I walked in the joint
They were lined up back to back
Anything you can name, but it ain't no shame
Ain't no stuff like that
Do it - do it
Do it - do it
What makes you feel like doin' stuff like that? (repeat)
Before my eyes
Was the promise of paradise
Is she real, can she feel
Is she a dream? If ya know what I mean
'Cause she was built out of
Stuff like that (do it - do it) (repeat)
I knew I was captured
By the rhythm of the magic flute
Pulling and urging me
To taste the forbidden fruit
Though I felt naive
I did not want to leave
Fever was in the air
All of a sudden, I didn't care
No reason why, I just had to testify
What makes you feel like doin' stuff like that? (repeat)
Do it - do it (Stuff like that) (repeat)
I knew I was captured
By the rhythm of the magic flute
Pulling and urging me
To taste the forbidden fruit
Though I felt naive
I did not want to leave
Fever was in the air
All of a sudden, I didn't care
No reason why, I just had to testify
What makes you feel like doin' stuff like that? (repeat)
All of a sudden, I didn't care
No reason why, I just had to testify
What makes you feel like doin' stuff like that? (repeat)
Do it - do it (Stuff like that) (repeat)
Stuff like that
Stuff like that
What makes you feel like doin' stuff like that?
Their first hit was the 1975 Motown-inspired production "Uptown Festival," and released on Soul Train Records the success of which inspired Griffey and Don Cornelius to replace session singers with popular Soul Train dancers Jody Watley and Jeffrey Daniel to join original Shalamar lead singer Gary Mumford. Gerald Brown would take over the spot vacated by Mumford in 1978 for the Disco Gardens album which featured the hit "Take That To The Bank". After conflicts over lack of payment from Dick Griffey and Solar Records, Brown would leave the group. Brown was replaced by Howard Hewett in 1979.
The group was joined up with producer Leon Sylvers III in 1979, signed with Griffey's SOLAR Records and scored a US million seller with "The Second Time Around."
The "classic" lineup of Shalamar (Hewett, Watley, and Daniel) scored a total of three gold albums in the US with Big Fun, Three for Love (which eventually went platinum) and Friends. Jody Watley vocals are featured on many of the songs including this one.
They went on to be an influential dance trio, masterminded by Soul Train producer Don Cornelius. As noted in the British Hit Singles & Albums, they were regarded as fashion icons and trendsetters, and helped to introduce 'body-popping' to the United Kingdom. Their collective name 'Shalamar' was picked by Griffey. This song was released before Howard Hewitt joined the group. Gerald Brown was the lead male vocals on this song.
Disco Gardens is the second album by American R&B group Shalamar, released in 1978 on the SOLAR label. It features the line-up of Gerald Brown, Jeffrey Daniel and Jody Watley, and was the only Shalamar album on which Brown appeared.
Disco Gardens was less successful than Shalamar's debut Uptown Festival, peaking at #52 on the R&B chart and #171 on the Billboard chart. It contains early indications of what was to become the distinctive "SOLAR sound", most notably on the single release "Take That to the Bank" which was a UK Top 20 hit in early 1979.
Take that to the bank
Take that to the bank
A long time we stayed together
Been through the roughest weather, you and I
Still rich with love
We never had to borrow
And baby, only we know why
I'm so glad I saved my love for you
And I did what I had to do
I invested my heart so free
For what you gave me
Open your account to me
'Cause I'll give you security, my love
Take that to the bank
My interest is strong
I got a love you can count on, baby love
Take that to the bank
Best believe I shopped around
Good insurance you have found in me
Don't you worry
No one can steal my heart
Our contract can't be torn apart
That easily
'Cause we build a strong love affair
On investments of equal share
Two hearts that beat as one
Just look what love has done
Dime in the socket
Just like money in my pocket, baby love
Take that to the bank
I know how to treat a man
With me you're in good hands, baby love
Take that to the bank
Keep savin', keep buildin' (Baby)
That interest for our love
Take that to the bank
Keep savin', keep buildin' (Sugar)
That interest for our love
Take that to the bank
(Huh) Save on love
Save it for me, baby
(Huh) Save on love, yeah
Take that to the bank
Take that to the bank
Keep savin', keep buildin'
That interest for our love (Love)
Take that to the bank
Keep savin', keep buildin'
That interest for our love (Love)
Take that to the bank
Open your account to me
'Cause I'll give you security, my love
Take that to the bank
My interest is strong
I got a love you can count on, baby love
Take that to the bank
Jacob Wright of Resident Advisor commented that the song is "accessible," yet is "new and ambitious and different, and it has quality."
The Chicago Maroon placed "Blind" at #2 on the Top 5 Songs of 2008. "Blind" ranked at #2 on the 10 Best Singles of 2008 list by American magazine Entertainment Weekly. Mother Jones ranked "Blind" at #14 on The Best Singles of 2008. Likewise, NME placed "Blind" at #18 on the Top 50 Singles of 2008. Pitchfork Media placed "Blind" at #1 on The 100 Best Tracks of 2008 and at #18 on The Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s. PopMatters placed "Blind" at #8 on The Best Singles of 2008. Resident Advisor voted "Blind" at #6 on the Top 30 Tracks of 2008 and at #18 on the Top 100 Tracks of the 2000s. Rolling Stone placed "Blind" at #77 on the 100 Best Singles of 2008.Slant Magazine placed "Blind" at #4 on the Top 25 Singles of 2008 and at #16 on the Best of the Aughts: Singles. Spin placed "Blind" at #19 on The 20 Best Songs of 2008. In October 2011, NME placed it at number 128 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years".
Hercules & Love Affair is a dance music project created by American DJ Andy Butler in 2004. Consisting of a rotating cast of performers and musicians, the band work within the genres of house music, disco, techno and nu-disco.
Originally based in New York City, now based in Ghent, Belgium, Hercules and Love Affair were founded following Butler's collaboration with Anohni to produce the song "Blind", which was a hit single. Initially signing to DFA Records, for their eponymous 2008 debut album, the band went on to record two more albums for Moshi Moshi, Blue Songs (2011) and The Feast of the Broken Heart (2014). Their fourth album Omnion was released in September 2017 by Atlantic Records.
In 2007, after Anohni had won the Mercury Prize for her work with Antony and the Johnsons, Butler approached her with the "Blind" demo, and they agreed to release it. Butler decided to do so under the name of Hercules and Love Affair because it reflected his interest in Greco-Roman mythology; it referenced Hercules and his "love affair" with Hylas. According to Butler, "[Hercules] stayed on the island, looking for his boyfriend. I just thought this was super-beautiful: the strongest man on earth looking for his lost love, at his most vulnerable. Strong men can have strong feelings. And they can experience those feelings and experience pain and express pain — and be gay." DFA Records agreed to release the song, with DFA founder Tim Goldsworthy stating that "We had slight reservations that 'Blind' would be a one-hit wonder. But then he played us some bits he had been playing around with at home." The single was first released in the United Kingdom in March 2007, where it made the Top 40. It was awarded Best Song of 2008 by Pitchfork Media and came in at sixth place in Resident Advisor's Top 30 tracks of that year, while Entertainment Weekly called it the second best song of the year.
At this point, Butler decided to establish Hercules and Love Affair as a continuing musical project, stating his intent to release music with a rotating cast of performers and musicians. The band's self-titled debut album was released in Europe through DFA's parent company, EMI, in March 2008. For the album, Butler assembled a mixed line-up; Morgan Wiley and Andrew Raposo, both formerly of Automato, joined the backing band, while Nomi Ruiz, CocoRosie, Kim Ann Foxman, and Anohni took up vocals. However, although Anohni would appear on five of the album's tracks, she did not participate in the band's live performances.[8] The band made its live debut on May 17, 2008, at the Studio B venue in Brooklyn, New York, before going on a European and North American tour. Appearing at London's Lovebox Festival in 2010, it was there that they were interviewed by Vogue. After touring for a year, Butler split with his record company and returned to Denver.
As a child, I knew
That the stars could only get brighter
And we would get closer
Get closer
Oh
As a child, I knew
That the stars could only get brighter
That we would get closer
Get closer
Leaving this darkness
Behind
Oh
Now that I'm older
The stars should lie upon my face
When I find myself alone
Find myself alone
Oh
Now that I'm older
The stars should lie upon my face
And when I find myself alone
I feel like I
I am blind
Feel it
Feel it
Feel it
Feel it
Like I am blind
I am blind
I wish the stars could shine now
For they are closer
They are near
But they will not present my present
They will not present my present
I wish the light could shine now
For it is closer
It is near
But it will not present my present
It makes my past and future painfully clear
To hear you now
To see…
The track was remixed and re-released in 1989 for Khan's remix album Life Is a Dance: The Remix Project; this mix reached number 8 in the United Kingdom. American singer Whitney Houston would later cover the song in 1992 with production by David Cole and Robert Clivillés and vocals produced by Narada Michael Walden, turning it into a dance hit for a new generation.
In the United States, "I'm Every Woman" reached number twenty-one on the Billboard Hot 100, number one on the Hot Soul Singles, and number thirty on the disco chart. In the United Kingdom, it peaked at number eleven.
Yvette Marie Stevens (born March 23, 1953), better known by her stage name Chaka Khan, is an American singer, songwriter and musician. Her career has spanned nearly five decades, beginning in the 1970s as the lead vocalist of the funk band Rufus. Khan received public attention for her vocals and image. Known as the Queen of Funk, Khan was the first R&B artist to have a crossover hit featuring a rapper, with "I Feel for You" in 1984. Khan has won ten Grammys and has sold an estimated 70 million records worldwide.
In the course of her solo career, Khan has achieved three gold singles, three gold albums and one platinum album with I Feel for You. With Rufus, she achieved four gold singles, four gold albums, and two platinum albums. She has collaborated with Ry Cooder, Robert Palmer, Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Guru, Chicago, and Mary J. Blige, among others. In December 2016, Billboard magazine ranked her as the 65th most successful dance artist of all time. She was ranked at number 17 in VH1's original list of the 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll. She has been nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice;[6] she was first nominated as member of Rufus in 2011.
I'm every woman,
It's all in me
Anything you want done, baby,
I'll do it naturally
I'm every woman,
It's all in me
I can read your thoughts right now,
Every one from A to Z
Whoa, whoa, whoa
Whoa, whoa, whoa
I can cast a spell,
Of secrets you can't tell,
Mix a special brew,
Put fire inside of you
Anytime you feel danger or fear,
Then instantly
I will appear 'cause
I'm every woman,
It's all in me
Anything you want done, baby,
I'll do it naturally
Whoa, whoa, whoa
Whoa, whoa, whoa
I can sense your needs
Like rain unto the seeds
I can make a rhyme
Of confusion in your mind
And when it comes down to some good old-fashioned love,
That's what I've got baby, 'cause
I'm every woman,
It's all in me
I can read your thoughts right now,
Every one from A to Z
Whoa, whoa, whoa
Whoa,…
"How Deep Is Your Love" ranked number 375 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In a British TV special shown in December 2011, it was voted "The Nation's Favourite Bee Gees Song" by ITV viewers. It was originally intended for Yvonne Elliman, but she later recorded "If I Can't Have You" instead.
During the Bee Gees' 2001 Billboard magazine interview, Barry reportedly said that "How Deep Is Your Love" was his favorite Bee Gees song.
The Bee Gees started to record it in from February to March 1977 in Le Château, Hérouville in France, continued it in Criteria Studios in Miami in April, and later in September, the song was finished in Cherokee Studios, Los Angeles.
The soundtrack includes two versions — one by the Bee Gees and the other by Tavares. Both versions are featured in the film as well. The song has been recorded and performed by various artists but in different forms. The Bee Gees did not release this song as a single (though in Italy it peaked at No. 4 in September 1978 and even peaked at #39 in Billboard Easy Listening Charts), yet it has remained a staple on radio and one of their best known songs.
Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 American dance film directed by John Badham and starring John Travolta as Tony Manero, an emotionally immature young man whose weekends are spent visiting a local Brooklyn discotheque; Karen Lynn Gorney as Stephanie Mangano, his dance partner and eventual friend; and Donna Pescow as Annette, Tony's former dance partner and would-be girlfriend. While in the disco, Tony is the king. His care-free youth and weekend dancing help him to temporarily forget the reality of his life: a dead-end job, clashes with his unsupportive and squabbling parents, racial tensions in the local community, and his associations with a gang of macho friends.
The Bee Gees were a pop music group that was formed in 1958. The group's line-up consisted of brothers Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb. The trio were successful for most of their decades of recording music, but they had two distinct periods of exceptional success: as a rock act in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and as prominent performers of the disco music era in the late 1970s. The group sang recognisable three-part tight harmonies; Robin's clear vibrato lead vocals were a hallmark of their earlier hits, while Barry's R&B falsetto became their signature sound during the late 1970s and 1980s. They wrote all of their own hits, as well as writing and producing several major hits for other artists.
Musician includes Maurice Gibb (bass guitar); Dennis Bryson (drums); Alan Kendall, Barry Gibb (guitar); Blue Weaver (keyboards); Albhy Galuten, Bee Gees, Karl Richardson (producers); Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb, Robin Gibb (vocals).
I know your eyes in the morning sun
I feel you touch me in the pouring rain
And the moment that you wander far from me
I want to feel you in my arms again
And you come to me on a summer breeze
Keep me warm in your love, then you softly leave
And it's me you need to show
How deep is your love, how deep is your love
How deep is your love?
I really mean to learn
'Cause we're living in a world of fools
Breaking us down when they all should let us be
We belong to you and me
I believe in you
You know the door to my very soul
You're the light in my deepest, darkest hour
You're my savior when I fall
And you may not think I care for you
When you know down inside that I really do
And it's me you need to show
How deep is your love, how deep is your love
How deep is your love?
I really mean to learn
'Cause we're living in a world of fools
Breaking us down when they all should let us be
We belong to you and me
And you come to me on a summer breeze
Keep me warm in your love, then you softly leave
And it's me you need to show
How deep is your love, how deep is your love
How deep is your love?
I really mean to learn
'Cause we're living in a world of fools
Breaking us down when they all should let us be
We belong to you and me
How deep is your love, how deep is your love
I really mean to learn
'Cause we're living in a world of fools
Breaking us down when they all should let us be
We belong to you and me
How deep is your love, how deep is your love
I really mean to learn
'Cause we're living in a world of fools
Breaking us down when they all should let us be
We belong to you and me
Ashford & Simpson were an American husband-and-wife songwriting-production team and recording duo of Nickolas Ashford (May 4, 1941 – August 22, 2011 and Valerie Simpson (born August 26, 1946).
Ashford was born in Fairfield, South Carolina, and Simpson in the Bronx, New York City. Afterwards, his family relocated to Ypsilanti, Michigan, where he became a member of Christ Temple Baptist Church. While there, he sang with a group called the Hammond Singers (named after the founding minister, James Hammond). Later, Nickolas attended and graduated from Willow Run High School in Ypsilanti, Michigan, before pursuing his professional career, where he would ultimately meet his wife, Valerie. They met at Harlem's White Rock Baptist Church in 1964. After having recorded unsuccessfully as a duo, they joined an aspiring solo artist and former member of the Ikettes, Joshie Jo Armstead, at the Scepter/Wand label, where their compositions were recorded by Ronnie Milsap ("Never Had It So Good"), Maxine Brown ("One Step at a Time"), as well as the Shirelles and Chuck Jackson. Another of the trio's songs, "Let's Go Get Stoned," gave Ray Charles a number one U.S. R&B hit in 1966. That same year, Ashford & Simpson joined Motown, where their best-known songs included "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," "You're All I Need To Get By," "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing," and "Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)." Ashford and Simpson wrote many other hit songs, including Chaka Khan's "I'm Every Woman" (1978) and Teddy Pendergrass's "Is It Still Good to You?"
Is it daylight, I can't tell no more
Never had this condition before
Everywhere I turn (It seems to hang on)
Everything I do (It seems to hang on)
Was I mistaken (It seems to hang on)
About you (It seems to hang on)
Aside from wantin' you (It seems to hang on)
Aside from needin' you (It seems to hang on)
Let me give you some idea (It seems to hang on)
It ain't just the tears, the fact of it is
I can't go nowhere
I can't be the same
I don't know my name
I can't understand just why
(It seems to hang on) Oh, ooh, why
(It seems to hang on)
Wasn't I clever
As only I can be
But tell me what's happenin'
What's botherin' me, yeah, yeah
Aside from dreams I had
Nothin' else exists
Honey, it's you I miss
Don't leave me like this
I can't go nowhere
I can't be the same
I don't know my name
I can't understand just why
(It seems to hang on) Why
(It seems to hang on)
Like a snowball rollin' down the hill (It seems to hang on)
I look behind me, it's there still (It seems to hang on)
Ooh, like a shadow it follows
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, loose me, loose me, loose me please
I can't go nowhere
I can't be the same
I don't know my name
I can't understand just why
(It seems to hang on)
(It seems to hang on) I can't shake it
(It seems to hang on) I can't shake it
(It seems to hang on)
Like a snowball rollin' down the hill (It seems to hang on)
I look behind me, it's there still (It seems to hang on)
Ooh, it follows like a shadow
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, loose me, loose me, loose me please, please
Please
{Hey} Hey
I can't go nowhere
I can't be the same
I don't know my name
I can't understand just why, why
(It seems to hang on) {Oh, oh} Why
(It seems to hang on)
(It seems to hang on)
(It seems to hang on) {Was it} Was it
(It seems to hang on) {Was it} Was it
(It seems to hang on) {Baby, was it love}
(It seems to hang on)
(It seems to hang on)
(It seems to hang on) {I wanna know}
(It seems to hang on) I wanna know
(It seems to hang on)
(It seems to hang on)
(It seems to hang on)
(It seems to hang on)
(It seems to hang on)
(It seems to hang on)
(It seems to hang on)
(It seems to hang on)
(It seems to hang on)
(It seems to hang on)
Alicia Myers is an American R&B musician. She started her music career with the band Al Hudson & the Soul Partners. Her first solo release, Alicia, was released in 1981 with MCA Records, and it was her breakthrough release upon the Billboard magazine charts, placing on the R&B Albums. The subsequent album, Alicia Again, released the same year, yet this failed to place on any Billboard charts. She released, I Fooled You This Time, the subsequent year, and it charted on the Billboard R&B Albums chart. The 1984 release, I Appreciate, placed on the aforementioned chart alongside a charting on The Billboard 200. Her last album, Don't Stop What You're Doin', was released in 1986 by Universal Special Products, however it did not chart.
Myers was born Alicia Myers on November 20, 1957, in Detroit, Michigan, to Lawrence and Margaret Myers, as one of their nine children, and she has an older brother, Jackie Myers who was a part of the beach band Chairman of the Board. She attended Lee University for her collegiate studies. They competed in a local talent competition in April 1968 at Detroit's Martin Luther King Jr. High School, where they sang, "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing", a song by Marvin Gaye and Tammy Terrell, and they were awarded first place. She is a survivor of childhood tuberculosis, and later survived breast cancer. In 1978, she departed her hometown to start her music career in Los Angeles, California, with Al Hudson & the Soul Partners. They released the album 'Happy Feet' as Al Hudson and the Partners in 1979 which contains the R&B hit "You Can Do It" which was co-penned by Myers and also a big club/disco hit on which Myers had lead vocals. Soon after her arrival, the group changed their name into One Way featuring Al Hudson and, eventually, into One Way.
After her stint in the band Al Hudson & the Soul Partners, she started her solo music recording career in 1981, with the release of Alicia by MCA Records, and this placed on the Billboard magazine R&B Albums at No. 41. The album contains the R&B hit "I Want To Thank You".
Hey Mr. Goodbye, you know who you are
You're my sugar, sugar, sugar-coated baby
Honey, you're my star
I've traveled many miles just to find someone like you
Ain't no way I'm gonna give you up
'Cause I know you feel the same way too
Say say say say, say say say say (repeat)
Say Mr. Goodbye, you know who you are
You're my sugar-coated, baby
Honey, you're my star
I've traveled many miles just to find someone like you
Ain't no way I'm gonna give you up
'Cause I know you feel the same way too
Say say say say, say say say say
(You get the best of me)
Say say say say, say say say say
(You're all these eyes can see)
Now, my thirst for love ended
When my heart suggests about you
That's when I knew you were Mr. Right for me
The more I'm with you, the more I feel that it is true
Keep on loving me, I love the way you do
I've traveled many miles just to find someone like you
Ain't no way I'm gonna give you up
'Cause I know you feel the same way too
Say say say say, say say say say
(You get the best of me)
Say say say say, say say say say
(You're all these eyes can see)
Say say say say, say say say say
(Don't you know you get the best of me)
Say say say say, say say say say
Say say say say, say say say say
(Get the best)
Say say say say, say say say say
(I've traveled a mile to find someone like you)
Say say say say, say say say say
(You know you get the best)
Say say say say, say say say say (repeat)
Say say say say, say say say say
(Sugar-coated, baby)
(You get the best from me)
Say say say say, say say say say
(You're my sugar-coated, baby)
Say say say say, say say say say
(Don't you know you get the best)
Say say say say, say say say say
Say say say say, say say say say
(You're my star, Mr. Goodbye)
Say say say say, say say say say
(You, you are, you are the best) (repeat)
Say say say say, say say say say
(You get the best of me)
Say say say say, say say say say
(You're all these eyes can see)
Say say say say, say say say say
(Don't you know you get the best from me)
Say say say say, say say say say
Say say say say, say say say say
(Best from me, the best from me)
Say, say, say, say, say, say, say, say
(You get the very best, Mr. Goodbye)
The song was written by Stephen Bray, Regina Richards & Mary Kessler. Bray had written several hits for Madonna. It was intended for Madonna, with Regina's recording the song when Madonna declined. With Bray's production, it sounded similar to Madonna's own recordings and was sometimes mistaken for one.
The first released version of the song was by Dutch girl group The Star Sisters, who released it on their 1985 album Danger.
Regina Richards is best known by her stage name Regina, is an American pop music singer born in Brooklyn, New York. She is best known for her hit song "Baby Love," which reached Number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1986. "Baby Love" was her only song to chart on the Hot 100, making her a one-hit wonder. The song also reached #50 on the UK Singles Chart that same year.
Regina, who majored in theater at Marymount Manhattan College, began her music career in the late 1970s, recording and performing with the new wave band "Regina Richards and Red Hot".[3] The band regularly played New York City music venues such as CBGB, Max's Kansas City, and Irving Plaza. With the help of Richard Gottehrer, the band signed to A&M Records. The first single released was titled "Tyger," with "Tug of War"as the B side. The second single "Don't Want You Back," with "Company Girl" as the B side, was followed by one self-titled album; the records did not attain mainstream success. Subsequently, she dissolved the group and focused on writing songs for other artists and helping them record demos with Stephen Bray, her former Red Hot drummer.[3] One of the artists who approached them was Madonna, who was trying to secure a recording deal at the time; Regina helped Madonna with vocal harmonies on her demos.
In 1986, Regina and Bray co-wrote "Baby Love", initially planning on selling it to Madonna or another artist. However her record label, Atlantic Records, requested Regina sing the song herself. The single reached Number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 that year and was included on Regina's Curiosity album, which also included "Say Goodbye," a song she had originally written with Kenny Rogers in mind. Another song from the album appeared on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart that year – "Beat of Love." Music publications of the time often commented on perceived similarities to Madonna, and called her the "queen of the wanna-bes".
In 1987 she appeared in an anti-drug public service announcement with McGruff the Crime Dog that aired well into the 1990s. In 1988, Regina released the song "Extraordinary Love". It reached #11 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. In 1990, no longer on Atlantic Records, she released her final single "Track You Down".
In 1991, Australian singer Dannii Minogue released a cover of "Baby Love" as a single, reaching #14 in the UK Singles Chart.
Boy, there's no one home tonight
The timing could be right
To forget the rules, we're out of school
Until tomorrow
Now, if only you would stay
There's so many games we'd play
Why should we pretend to be just friends
When we could be so much more?
Baby love, you are my
Baby love, just call it
Words don't mean so much to me
I'd rather wait and see
See what happens when the lights go down
With your arms around me
Time to leave the world behind
Save it for another time
Cause I don't remember where I am when
You start to love me
Baby love, you are my
Baby love, just call it
Ooh, baby, baby, love
Ooh, sweet and tasty baby, baby, love
Boy, I want you by my side
There's no reason we should hide
How we feel when we are near each other undercover
Warm, I'll hold you close to me
You're perfection first degree
Cause I don't remember where I am
When you start to move me
Baby love, you are my
Baby love, just call it
Herb Fame sang in church and neighborhood groups as a child. After graduation from high school, he worked in a local record store where he met record producer Van McCoy and was signed to Columbia subsidiary Date Records by McCoy and A&R executive Dave Kapralik. Francine "Peaches" Barker (born Francine Edna Hurd, April 28, 1947, in Washington, D.C.), using the stage name Francine Day, started a singing trio initially dubbed The Darlettes and later renamed The Sweet Things after a change of record label to Date Records. Having produced two releases for the trio, McCoy decided to record Feemster/Fame and Hurd/Day together at Kapralik's suggestion. The resulting single, "We're in This Thing Together," was distributed to radio stations but went nowhere for months until December 1966, when a St. Louis disc jockey broadcast the single's B-side, a revival of the 1934 hit "Let's Fall in Love."
The new duo, christened "Peaches & Herb," had a string of successful singles and albums over the next two years such as "Let's Fall in Love," "Close Your Eyes," "For Your Love," and "Love Is Strange." Despite burgeoning success and a media image as the "Sweethearts of Soul," Barker chose to semi-retire from the duo after two years because of the rigors of touring. Marlene Mack (aka Marlene Jenkins), who had sung on the Jaynetts' hit "Sally Go 'Round the Roses" and had recorded as Marlina Mars, replaced Barker on stage, but Barker remained on all of the duo's recordings for Date Records. During this period, the semi-retired "Peaches" also worked as a solo artist using her married name, Francine Barker. She released three singles in total on the Columbia Records label, including "Angels in the Sky" and "Mister DJ.
Baby, baby when you hold me tight
It feels so right
Let's do it again, oh honey now one more time
And the sexy way you give me the eye
Gets me so high
Will you do it again,
Oh honey now one more climb
I wanna feel that inner thunder
Each tender word you say
You've got the natural act
So baby don't hold back
Do the things that take me all the way
What I want is what I need is all your love
Give it here, give it here, give it here, give it here
Give me all your love
What I want is what I need is all your love
Give it here, give it here, give it here, give it here
Give me all your love
Sugar sugar when I?
Let's do it for real
Oh honey now one more time
And I'll feel your dream of love my dear
And stay right here
My loving is real, I'll love you so much
I wanna feel that inner thunder
Each tender word you say
You've got the natural act
So baby don't hold back
Do the things that take me all the way
What I want is what I need is all your love
Give it here, give it here, give it here, give it here
Give me all your love
What I want is what I need is all your love
Give it here, give it here, give it here, give it here
Give me all your love
Peaches baby
Yes Herby
You know you are blessed with
All the beautiful things that I desire
And guess what, you can set me on fire
By giving me, all your love
And Herby, I know deep down inside
I want what you got
And you can make me so very hot
By giving me all your love
Oh baby
I wanna feel that inner thunder
Each tender word you say
You've got the natural act
So baby don't hold back
Do the things that take me all the way
What I want is what I need is all your love
Give it here, give it here, give it here, give it here
Give me all your love
What I want is what I need is all your love
Give it here, give it here, give it here, give it here
Give me all your love
All your love
Oh, all your love
Give me all your love
All your love
Give me all your love
All your love
I want it all
Give it all
Gotta give it up
Gotta give it up
All your love now give it up
What I want, what I need
Gotta have it
The album peaked at number 72 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and at number 9 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart in the United States. Its lead single, "Running Away", reached peak position #19 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.
Roy Ayers is an American funk, soul, and jazz composer, vibraphone player, and music producer. Ayers began his career as a post-bop jazz artist, releasing several albums with Atlantic Records, before his tenure at Polydor Records beginning in the 1970s, during which he helped pioneer jazz-funk. He is a key figure in the acid jazz movement, and has been dubbed "The Godfather of Neo Soul". He is best known for his compositions "Everybody Loves The Sunshine", "Searchin" and "Running Away" and at one time was said to have more sampled hits by rappers than any other artist.
Dippy doo, run, run, run
Dippy doo, run, run, run
Hey, I'm taking my bag
And I'm running away now
'Cause you've been mean to me
And I've been good to you
And I've been oh so strong
Hey ya ya ha ha
You don't spend the time when I'm in need
We don't love each other like we used to do
We don't love each other like we used to do
Running, running, running far away
You don't do the things you used to do
Hey, I'm taking my bag
And I'm running away now
'Cause you've been mean to me
And I've been good to you
And I've been oh so strong
Hey ya ya ha ha
Yes, I'm running away
Can't say I need you
Running, running, running far away
Running, running, running far away
The album peaked at number 82 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and at number 22 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart in the United States. Both of its singles, "Don't Stop the Feeling" and "What You Won't Do for Love", reached peak positions on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart at #32 and #73 respectively.
Roy Ayers is an American funk, soul, and jazz composer, vibraphone player, and music producer. Ayers began his career as a post-bop jazz artist, releasing several albums with Atlantic Records, before his tenure at Polydor Records beginning in the 1970s, during which he helped pioneer jazz-funk. He is a key figure in the acid jazz movement, and has been dubbed "The Godfather of Neo Soul". He is best known for his compositions "Everybody Loves The Sunshine", "Searchin" and "Running Away" and at one time was said to have more sampled hits by rappers than any other artist.
Don't stop
Don't stop the feeling
Don't stop
Don't stop the feeling
Don't stop
Don't stop the feeling
You've got
You've got my meaning
You've got
You've got my meaning
Feel, move, groove, groove
Don't stop
Feel, move, groove, groove
Don't stop
Don't stop
Don't stop the feeling
Don't stop
Don't stop the feeling
Don't stop
Don't stop the feeling
Don't stop
Don't stop the feeling
Don't stop
Don't stop the feeling
I know
I know you feel it
I know
I know you feel it
Feel, move, groove, groove
Don't stop
Feel, move, groove, groove
Don't stop
Don't stop
Don't stop the feeling
Don't stop
Don't stop the feeling
Don't stop
Don't stop the feeling
Don't stop
Don't stop the feeling
Move it to the left
Move it to the right, move it up and down, move it all around
Don't stop
Don't stop
Don't stop the feeling
Don't stop the feeling
Just keep on dancing
Don't stop
Don't stop the feeling
I know
I know you feel it
I know
I know you feel it
Feel, move, groove, groove
Don't stop
Feel, move, groove, groove
Don't stop
Don't stop
Don't stop the feeling
Just seven months after Manilow's original version was released as a single, American singer Donna Summer recorded a disco version of the track and included it on her third studio album, A Love Trilogy, and took it to number three on the US Dance chart in 1976.[12] The song also entered the UK singles chart where it stayed for seven weeks (peak point #40).
LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012), known by her stage name Donna Summer, was an American singer, songwriter, and painter. She gained prominence during the disco era of the late-1970s. A five-time Grammy Award winner, she was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach No. 1 on the United States Billboard album chart and charted four number-one singles in the U.S. within a 12-month period. Summer has reportedly sold over 140 million records, making her one of the world's best-selling artists of all time.
While influenced by the counterculture of the 1960s, she became the front singer of a psychedelic rock band named Crow and moved to New York City. Joining a touring version of the musical Hair, she left New York and spent several years living, acting, and singing in Europe, where she met music producers, Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte.
Summer returned to the U.S., in 1975 with commercial success of the song 'Love to Love You Baby', followed by a string of other hits, such as "I Feel Love", "Last Dance", "MacArthur Park", "Heaven Knows", "Hot Stuff", "Bad Girls", "Dim All the Lights", "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" (duet with Barbra Streisand), and "On the Radio". She became known as the "Queen of Disco", while her music gained a global following.
Summer died on May 17, 2012, at her home in Naples, Florida. In her obituary in The Times, she was described as the "undisputed queen of the Seventies disco boom" who reached the status of "one of the world's leading female singers." Moroder described Summer's work with him on the song 'I Feel Love' as "really the start of electronic dance" music. In 2013, Summer was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Oh baby it's been so long
I've waited so long
And now that I have you
I want you to come
Come, come, come into my arms
Oh baby I need you, I need you
Come, come, come into my arms again
Spirits move me every time I'm near you
Whirling like a cyclone in my mind
Oh sweet Peter, angel of my lifetime
Answer to all answers I can find
Baby, I love you, come
Come, come into my arms
Let me know the wonder of all of you
Baby, I want you now
Now, now and hold on fast
Could this be your magic at last
Oh, hold on to me
Don't let go
Oh, oh, come into my life
Ooh, oh, I need you so, baby
Don't let go
Oh, baby, hold on, hold on
Oh
Baby, take me high up on your hillside
High up where the stallion meets the sun
I could love you, build my world around you
Never leave you till my life is done
Baby, I love you, come
Come, come into my arms
Let me know the wonder of all of you
Baby, I want you now
Now, now and hold on fast
Could this be your magic at last
Baby, I love you, come
Come, come into my arms
Could this be the magic of all of you
Baby, I want you now, now
Now, now and hold on fast
Could this be your magic at last
Baby, I want you, come
Come, come into my arms
Let me know the wonder of all of you
Baby, I want you now
Now, now and hold on fast
Could this be your magic at last
Could it be magic, yeah
Hold on, come into my arms
Could this be the magic of all of you
Baby, I want you now, now, oh now
Oh now and hold on fast
Oh could this be your magic at last
Could it be magic now, now oh now
Oh now and hold on fast
Oh could this be your magic at last
Could it be magic
Come on now, come on, hey, come into my arms
Oh, let me know the wonder of all of you, all of you
Baby, I want you now, now, oh now
Oh now and hold on fast
Oh could this be your magic at last
The song was covered by Quincy Jones in 1981 on his album The Dude, with vocals by Dune (a.k.a. Charles May) and Patti Austin. Jones's version peaked at #28 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and #10 on the R&B chart. In the UK it peaked at #14 in May 1981.
Jerry Hey and Quincy Jones received the 1982 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) for their recording of this song.
I hold you, I touch you
In a maze can't find my way
I think you, I drink you
I'm being served you on a tray
You see girl
That's what I go through every day
Is this the way it should feel?
Pinch me, I'm dreaming
But if it is, don't let me know
I'm drowning, don't save me
It's just the way I'd like to go
You see girl
You thrill me, half kill me
That's what you do
Ai no corrida, that's where I am
You send me there
You dream is my command
Ai no corrida, I find myself
No other thought
Just you and nothing else
You and nothing else
Before my heart saw you
Each day was just another day
Night, the lonely interlude
Just came, then blew away
You know girl
Everything was come what may
Until you fell in my life
This spell I'm under has caught me
I'm in a daze
Your lightning and thunder
Sets my poor heart ablaze
You see girl
You thrill me, half kill me
That's what you do
Ai no corrida, that's where I am
You send me there
You dream is my command
Ai no corrida, I find myself
No other thought
Just you and nothing else
You and nothing else
I hold you, I touch you
In a maze can't find my way
I think you, I drink you
I'm being served you on a tray
You see girl
That's what I go through every day
Is this the way it should feel?
Pinch me, I'm dreaming
But if it is, don't let me know
I'm drowning, don't save me
It's just the way I'd like to go
You see girl
You thrill me, half kill me
That's what you do
Ai no corrida, that's where I am
You send me there
You dream is my command
Ai no corrida, I find myself
No other thought
Just you and nothing else
You and nothing else
Ai no corrida, that's where I am
You send me there
You dream is my command
Ai no corrida, I find myself
No other thought
Just you and nothing else
The backing track for the record was recorded in 45 minutes as a demo and featured guitarist Jerome Smith of KC and the Sunshine Band, with Casey on keyboards and Finch on bass and drums. It was also one of the first records to use a drum machine, an early Roland rhythm machine. The track was not originally intended for McCrae but he happened to be in the studio, added a vocal and the resulting combination of infectious rhythm and falsetto vocals made it a hit. Music critic Robert Christgau has described the song as "irresistibly Memphis-cum-disco-with-a-hook".
The chord progression of John Lennon's number one single "Whatever Gets You thru the Night", released a few months later, bears a great resemblance to the one found in "Rock Your Baby". Lennon later admitted to using the song as an inspiration. ABBA's Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus have also cited the song as an inspiration for the backing track of their 1976 smash hit "Dancing Queen". The song was covered by indie rock band The House of Love for the 1992 compilation album Ruby Trax and in the same year by British dance group KWS, whose cover of 'Rock Your Baby' reached number eight in the UK charts that year.
George Warren McCrae, Jr. (born October 19, 1944) is an American soul and disco singer, most famous for his 1974 hit "Rock Your Baby".
McCrae was the second of nine children, born in West Palm Beach, Florida. He formed his own singing group, the Jivin' Jets, before joining the United States Navy in 1963. Four years later, he reformed the group, with his wife Gwen joining the line-up, but soon afterwards they decided to work as a duo, recording for Henry Stone's Alston record label. Gwen then won a solo contract, with George acting as her manager as well as doing some singing on sessions and in clubs in Palm Beach.
He was about to return to college to study law enforcement, when Richard Finch and Harry Wayne Casey of KC and the Sunshine Band invited him to sing the lyrics for a song that they had recorded for the band, but could not reach the high notes that were required for the song. The original intention was that Gwen, his wife, should record it, but she was late for the session and George recorded alone. It suited his high-pitched voice to the extent that the song, "Rock Your Baby", became one of the first hits of the disco era in 1974, selling an estimated eleven million copies worldwide,[6] topping the charts in the U.S., UK. The song was so successful that Rolling Stone magazine voted it the No. 1 song of the year in 1974. McCrae received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Male R&B Vocalist the following year.
Two further single releases, "I Can't Leave You Alone" and "It's Been So Long" also reached the UK Singles Chart Top 10. He recorded several further albums for TK, including George McCrae (1975) and Diamond Touch (1976), and also continued to record with, and manage, his wife until their divorce in 1976. While he continued to record albums including We Did It! and his second self-titled album George McCrae (both 1978), his commercial popularity slipped as the decade progressed. He remarried, moved to Canada, and entered a period of semi-retirement, leaving TK at the end of the 1970s.
He returned with the album One Step Closer to Love in 1984, the title track from which entered the charts in Britain, Canada and Holland. He moved to the village Munstergeleen in The Netherlands and remarried again in the late 1980s. His later albums found some success in Europe, and he continued to perform regularly there. By the 2000s, he shared his time between homes in Florida, Aruba and the Netherlands.
Woman, take me in your arms
Rock your baby
Woman, take me in your arms
Rock your baby
There's nothin' to it
Just say you wanna do it
Open up your heart
And let the lovin' start
Woman, take me in your arms
Rock your baby
Woman, take me in your arms
Rock your baby
Yeah, hold me tight
With all your might
Now let your lovin' flow
Real sweet and slow
Woman, take me in your arms
Rock your baby
Woman, take me in your arms
Rock your baby
C'mon...
Aaaaaaah woman, take me in your arms
Rock your baby
Oo, oo, oo
Woman, take me in your arms
Rock your baby
Ah-aaaaaah, yeah
Take me in your arms and rock me
Ah-aaaaaah, yeah
Take me in your arms and rock me
Ah-aaaaaaaaaaaah
(Repeat)
Initially, "Rock the Boat" appeared as though it would also flop, as months went by without any radio airplay or sales activity. Not until the song became a disco favorite in New York did Top 40 radio finally pick up on the song, leading the record to finally enter the Hot 100 and zip up the chart to number-one the week of July 6, 1974, in only its seventh week on the chart (and fourth week in the Top 40). The record also reached the top-ten in the United Kingdom. "Rock the Boat" is considered one of the earliest disco songs. Some authorities proclaim it to be the first disco song to hit number-one, while others give that distinction to "Love's Theme" by Love Unlimited Orchestra, a chart-topper from earlier in 1974. The song became a gold record. It is a heavy airplay favorite on oldie and adult contemporary stations today.
The song features a lead vocal by Fleming Williams, who left The Hues Corporation shortly after the song was recorded. According to The Billboard Book of Number One Hits by Fred Bronson, the lone female member of the group, H. Ann Kelley, had originally been pegged to sing lead, but this idea was discarded out of fear that groups with female lead singers were less commercially viable. The bass player on the session was Wilton Felder, not James Jamerson as previously reported. The drummer on the session who inadvertently brought the concept of using that Cumbia beat to the song was Bobby Perez, session drummer (former Ludwig endorser) from Los Angeles and New York. Prior to that recording session the song had a completely different rhythm.
The Hues Corporation was an American pop and soul trio, formed in Santa Monica, California in 1969. They are best known for their 1974 single "Rock the Boat", which sold over 2 million copies.
Before achieving mainstream success they were the opening act for a list of headliners that included Frank Sinatra, Milton Berle, Nancy Sinatra, and Glen Campbell. The original band had a lineup of three singers and three sidemen. The sidemen were Joey Rivera from the Checkmates; Monti Lawston; and Bob "Bullet" Bailey, formerly of the Leaves. Bailey, Rivera, and Lawston left the band to form Goodstuff.
The group's name was a pun on the Howard Hughes Corporation, with the 'hue' (a synonym of 'color'), being a nod to the group members' African heritage. The original choice for the group's name was The Children of Howard Hughes, which their record label turned down.
So I'd like to know where, you got the notion
Said I'd like to know where, you got the notion
(To rock the boat), don't rock the boat baby
(Rock the boat), don't tip the boat over
(Rock the boat), don't rock the boat baby
(Rock the boat)
Ever since our voyage of love began
Your touch has thrilled me like the rush of the wind
And your arms have held me safe from a rolling sea
There's always been a quiet place to harbor you and me
Our love is like a ship on the ocean
We've been sailing with a cargo full of love and devotion
So I'd like to know where, you got the notion
Said I'd like to know where, you got the notion
(To rock the boat), don't rock the boat baby
(Rock the boat), don't tip the boat over
(Rock the boat), don't rock the boat baby
(Rock the boat)
Up to now we sailed through every storm
And I've always had your tender lips to keep me warm
Oh, I need to have the strength that flows from you
Don't let me drift away my dear, when love can see me through
(Our love is like a ship on the ocean)
We've been sailing with a cargo full of love and devotion
So I'd like to know where, you got the notion
Said I'd like to know where, you got the notion
So I'd like to know where, you got the notion
Said I'd like to know where, you got the notion
(To rock the boat), don't rock the boat baby
(Rock the boat), don't tip the boat over
(Rock the boat), don't rock the boat, baby
(Rock the boat), don't tip the boat over
(Rock the boat) ooh-ooh
(Rock the boat) rock on with you, baby
(Rock the boat) rock on with you, baby
(Rock the boat) rock on with you, baby
(Rock the boat)
(Rock the boat)
(Rock the boat)
(Rock the boat)
(Rock the boat)
(Rock the boat)
(Rock the boat)
(Rock the boat)
(Rock the boat)
(Rock the boat)
(Rock the boat)
(Rock the boat)
(Rock the boat)
(Rock the boat)
Deniece Williams is an American singer, songwriter and producer. Williams has been described as "one of the great soul voices" by the BBC. Williams has won four Grammys with twelve nominations altogether.
Deniece Williams has a four-octave range and distinctive soprano voice. Her vocal range was also pointed out by The New York Times, "Miss Williams mounted a spectacular vocal display in which her penetrating, feline soprano soared effortlessly to E flat above high C, and she worked various vowel sounds into prolonged feats of vocal gymnastics." In pointing to Williams's similar vocal ability as her former musical icon and colleague (Minnie Riperton), Mark Anthony Neal, in referencing Jill Scott's agility in displaying vocal acrobatics, states, "Scott draws on her upper register recalling the artistry of the late Minnie Riperton and "songbird" Deniece Williams." According to Monica Haynes of Post-Gazette.com, Williams "has the kind of range that would make Mariah Carey quiver".
Baby, baby, baby
My love's all for you
Baby, baby, baby
My love's all for you
Baby, baby, baby
My love's all for you
When you give love
You will be loved
By the one you say you want
I knew at first I fell in love
When I saw you
I need you
So I can feel you
Cause you're the one I'm thinking of
You're a different kind of love
My dream come true
I'm all together lovely being loved by you
And all together lovely is my love for you
I'm all together lovely being loved by you
And all together lovely is my love
Baby, baby, baby
My love's all for you
Baby, baby, baby
My love's all for you
This is the first time
That a love's all mine
To cherish and to hold
The greatest story ever told is how I found you
I thank the day
You came my way
Only death will make us part
You will always have my heart
Now I feel brand new
I'm all together lovely being loved by you
And all together lovely is my love for you
I'm all together lovely being loved by you
And all together lovely is my love
Baby, baby, baby
My love's all for you
Baby, baby, baby
My love's all for you
Baby, baby, baby
My love's all for you
The song has had many cover versions over the years. In 1998, girl group All Saints released a cover of the song that peaked at number one on the UK Singles Chart. The 2001 version by singers Christina Aguilera, Mýa, Pink and rapper Lil' Kim, recorded for the Moulin Rouge! soundtrack, was a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 for 5 weeks, and also a number-one hit in the UK. "Lady Marmalade" was the ninth song to reach number one by two different musical acts in America.
Labelle is an American all-female singing group who were a popular vocal group of the 1960s and 1970s. The group was formed after the disbanding of two rival girl groups in the Philadelphia/Trenton areas, the Ordettes and the Del-Capris, forming as a new version of the former group, later changing their name to The Blue Belles (later Bluebelles). The founding members were Patti LaBelle (formerly Patricia Holt), Cindy Birdsong, Nona Hendryx and Sarah Dash.
As The Bluebelles, and later Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles, the group found success with ballads in the doo-wop genre, most notably "Down the Aisle (The Wedding Song)", "You'll Never Walk Alone" and "Over the Rainbow". After Birdsong departed to join The Supremes in 1967, the group, following the advice of Vicki Wickham, changed its look, musical direction, and style and reformed as Labelle in 1971. Their funk rock recordings of that period became cult favorites for their brash interpretation of rock and roll and for dealing with subject matter that was not typically touched by female black groups. Finally after adapting glam rock and wearing outlandish space-age and glam-rock costumes, the group found success with the proto-disco smash "Lady Marmalade" in 1974, leading to their parent album, Nightbirds, which achieved gold success. They are notable for being the first contemporary pop group and first black pop group to perform at the Metropolitan Opera House. They were also the first black vocal group to appear on the cover of Rolling Stone.
The group members each went on their own after the end of a tour in 1976, going on to have significant solo success. Nona Hendryx followed an idiosyncratic muse into her own solo career, which often bordered on the avant-garde, Sarah Dash became a celebrated session singer while Patti LaBelle enjoyed a very successful Grammy winning and receiving lifetime achievement awards from the Apollo Theatre, World Music Awards and BET Awards .
The group returned with their first new album in 32 years with 2008's Back to Now.
Labelle had nine Top 20 R&B hits between 1963 and 1976.
Hey sista, go sista, soul sista, go sista
Hey sista, go sista, soul sista, go sista
He met marmalade down in old New Orleans
Struttin' her stuff on the street
She said "hello,
Hey joe, you wanna give it a go?" mmm, mmm
Itchi gitchi ya ya da da
Itchi gitchi ya ya here
Mocha-choca-lata ya ya
Creole lady marmalade
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?
He sat in her boudoir while she freshened up
The boy drank all her magnolia-wine
On the black satin sheets oh I swear he started to freak
Itchi gitchi ya ya da da
Itchi gitchi ya ya here
Mocha-choca-lata ya ya
Creole lady marmalade
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?
Hey, hey, hey
Touching her skin feelin' silky smooth
The colour of cafe au lait
Made the savage beast inside
Roar until it cried, more, more, more
Now he's back home doing nine to five
Living his grey flannel life
But when he turns off to sleep
Old memories creep, more, more, more
Itchi gitchi ya ya da da da
Itchi gitchi ya ya here
Mocha-choco-lata ya ya
Creole lady marmalade
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?
Voulez-vous couchez avec moi ce soir?
Creole lady marmalade
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?
Voulez-vous couchez avec moi ce soir?
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?
Voulez-vous couchez avec moi ce soir?
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?
Voulez-vous couchez avec moi ce soir?
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi?
Itchi gitchi ya ya da da
Itchi gitchi ya ya here
Mocha-choco-lata ya ya
Itchi gitchi ya ya here
Released as a single by Private Stock Records in 1976, the song debuted at number 80 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and climbed to number 1 within 19 weeks, remaining there for one week. In 1977, it was licensed to RSO Records for inclusion on the best-selling Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. The song is one of Murphy's few Top 40 hits, and is considered one of the most popular pieces of music from the disco era.
Following its release, "A Fifth of Beethoven" was a hit. The single sold two million copies, while the album sold about 750,000 copies. The second single, a rendition of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee" titled "Flight '76", was less successful, reaching only number 44 on the Hot 100.
Walter Anthony Murphy, Jr. is an American composer, arranger, pianist, musician, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known for the instrumental "A Fifth of Beethoven", a disco adaptation of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony which topped the charts in 1976 and was featured on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. Further classical–disco fusions followed, such as "Flight '76", "Rhapsody in Blue", "Toccata and Funk in 'D' Minor", "Bolero", and "Mostly Mozart", but were not as successful.
In college, Murphy's interests included rock music, particularly that which was adapted from classical music, such as "Joy" by Apollo 100 and "A Lover's Concerto" by The Toys. Later, in 1976, he was writing a disco song for a commercial, when a producer gave him the idea of "updating classical music", which "nobody had done lately". He then recorded a demo tape of five songs—three were ordinary pop songs, while the fourth was a disco rendition of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony titled "A Fifth of Beethoven"—and mailed it to various record labels in New York City.
The response was generally unimpressive, but "Fifth" caught the interest of Private Stock Records owner Larry Uttal. Murphy signed on to Private Stock and recorded the album A Fifth of Beethoven, containing the title track and first single of the same name. The single was credited to "Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band" upon encouragement from Private Stock, who believed it would be more successful if credited to a group rather than an individual. However, two days following the record's release, Private Stock discovered the existence of another Big Apple Band (which promptly changed its name to Chic). The record was later re-released and credited to "The Walter Murphy Band", then simply "Walter Murphy".
In a career spanning nearly five decades, Murphy has written music for numerous films and TV shows, including The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Savage Bees, Stingray, Wiseguy, The Commish, Profit, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Looney Tunes, and How Murray Saved Christmas. He has had a long-running partnership with Seth MacFarlane, composing music for his films and TV shows such as Family Guy, The Cleveland Show, American Dad!, Ted, and Ted 2.
Their sophomore album Twennynine with Lenny White was released in 1980, with White and Dunn again as producers. The album reached number 22 on Billboard Top R&B Albums chart. The single "Kid Stuff" reached number 19 on the Billboard Hot R&B Songs chart, while "Fancy Dancer" reached number 17 on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart and number 25 on the Hot R&B Songs chart. Twennynine performed on American Bandstand and The Mike Douglas Show in 1980.
Twennynine released their third album Just Like Dreamin' in 1981. The group added guitarist Steve Horton for this album. Just Like Dreamin' reached number 41 on the Billboard Top R&B Albums chart. The singles "Didn't Know About Love (Till I Found You)" and "All I Want" reached numbers 31 and 62 respectively on the Hot R&B Songs chart.Another single, "My Turn To Love You" reached number 29 on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart. The group split up in 1983, after which Lenny White returned to jazz session work.
Fancy dancer
You're my answer
You hold the key
To my heart, fancy dancer
You're my answer
You hold the key
To my heart
Love woman's glow on summer's night
The rhythm of the music's right
I love to watch her do this dance
Made for romance
Oh, she's dancing
We're in love
She wants to dance and sing to life
I'm glad she's mine
Fancy dancer
You're my answer (oh, she's mine)
You hold the key
To my heart, fancy dancer
You're my answer
You hold the key
To my heart
And when I hold her in my arms
There comes alive in me a song
That fills my heart and soul with joy
'Cause we're in love
How I love to hold you tight
I watch her move, she looks so fine
I'm glad she's mine, whoa!
You and me together, dancing in the groove
You and me forever, love to see you move
You and me together, dancing in the groove
You and me forever, love to see you move
You and me together, dancing in the groove
You and me forever, love to see you move
You and me together, dancing in the groove
You and me forever, love to see you move
You and me together, dancing in the groove
You and me forever
Summer's 1980 The Wanderer album — her inaugural release on Geffen Records — had been certified gold in America although it did not enjoy numerous hit singles as some of her '70s releases had enjoyed. Summer had prepped her next album, which would be released in 1996 as I'm a Rainbow — a double set which continued her association with Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte, but David Geffen, decided to cancel the project, and assigned Summer to record an album with producer Quincy Jones. Jones was a much sought-after producer at the time, particularly due to his association with Michael Jackson's album Off the Wall.
"Love Is in Control (Finger on the Trigger)" was the lead single off the Jones' produced album Donna Summer. It was written by Jones and Rod Temperton (formerly of funk band Heatwave) — who'd also written Jackson's "Rock with You". Summer reports that the recording process for this album was challenging, as she was pregnant at the time and unhappy over I'm a Rainbow' being shelved by Geffen Records.
The single was issued in three different versions: the 7" single release (3:42), the LP version (4:19), and a 12" single version (7:04). The 12" version features a "Dance Remix" on Side One and an "Instrumental Version Featuring Ernie Watts On Sax Solo" on Side Two. Both are remixes by Craig Kostich and Bruce Swedien.
LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012), known by her stage name Donna Summer, was an American singer, songwriter, and painter. She gained prominence during the disco era of the late-1970s. A five-time Grammy Award winner, she was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach No. 1 on the United States Billboard album chart and charted four number-one singles in the U.S. within a 12-month period. Summer has reportedly sold over 140 million records, making her one of the world's best-selling artists of all time.
While influenced by the counterculture of the 1960s, she became the front singer of a psychedelic rock band named Crow and moved to New York City. Joining a touring version of the musical Hair, she left New York and spent several years living, acting, and singing in Europe, where she met music producers, Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte.
Summer returned to the U.S., in 1975 with commercial success of the song 'Love to Love You Baby', followed by a string of other hits, such as "I Feel Love", "Last Dance", "MacArthur Park", "Heaven Knows", "Hot Stuff", "Bad Girls", "Dim All the Lights", "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" (duet with Barbra Streisand), and "On the Radio". She became known as the "Queen of Disco", while her music gained a global following.
Summer died on May 17, 2012, at her home in Naples, Florida. In her obituary in The Times, she was described as the "undisputed queen of the Seventies disco boom" who reached the status of "one of the world's leading female singers." Moroder described Summer's work with him on the song 'I Feel Love' as "really the start of electronic dance" music. In 2013, Summer was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Hung around with big shots
Never knew love was in the sights
I guess I missed the target
Caught up in a different line of fire
But I know since I've been aiming
For the sweetness in your soul
Your name is on the bullet
And it's gettin' ready to explode
There's be a change inside my life
(And just wanna let you know)
I've got my finger on the trigger
Love is in control, whooo
I've got my finger on the trigger
Ah, yeah
I ain't lettin' go
Mama used to tell me
Girl, you better load your gun up right
She said ya, ya gotta come out smokin'
Hit it with your best shot every time
Well I didn't understand her
'Til you walked right into range
I saw your love at twenty paces
And I knew I'd won the game
You better raise your heart up high
(Or love will blow you right away)
I've got my finger on the trigger
Love is in control, whooo
I've got my finger on the trigger
I ain't lettin' go, whoooo
I've got my finger on the trigger
Love is in control
I've got my finger on the trigger
I ain't lettin' go
Leave off the safety catch
There ain't no risk
We're gonna have some fun, whoooo
I've got cha, love's begun
So stay with me
Until the mornin' sun, whooo
(You're superbullet number one)
[Instrumental Interlude]
There's been a change inside my life
(And I just wanna let you know)
I've got my finger on the trigger
Love is in control
I've got my finger on the trigger
I ain't lettin' go
I've got my finger on the trigger
Love is in control
I've got my finger on the trigger
I ain't lettin' go...
Harvey William Mason is an American jazz drummer, record producer, and member of the band Fourplay. He has worked with many jazz and jazz fusion artists, including Bob James, Chick Corea, the Brecker Brothers, Chuck Loeb, Nathan East, Lee Ritenour, Herbie Hancock's Headhunters and almost all the Mizell Brothers productions with Donald Byrd, Johnny Hammond, Bobbi Humphrey, and Gary Bartz. He is featured on George Benson's multi-platinum-selling breakthrough jazz to pop crossover album of 1976, Breezin'. Mason is the father of Harvey Mason Jr.
Mason grew up in Atlantic City, New Jersey and attended Atlantic City High School.
Starting in 1975, Mason began recording albums as a leader, the first five for Arista Records, which he also produced hiring the cream of the crop of primarily West Coast-based musicians and singers from the jazz, rock, pop, R&B and recording session scenes. In 1979, he had a hit single in dance clubs with "Groovin' You," the title track of his fourth album. It was sampled by house music producer Gusto in his 1996 hit "Disco's Revenge".
Let me groove you
I'll tell you why you love me so
It's very plain to see yea
I'll make your inner feelings flow
I do your ? from A to Z
I'll pick you up when you're feeling low
It comes so easy to me
It means so much this love I've found
I'll let my music close the key, oh girl
Groovin' you
Just to keep from loosing you..
Groovin' you
Keeps you in my life
Groovin' you
Just to keep from loosing you..
Groovin' you
Keeps you in my life
Lets keep our love in full supply
A happy place ?
We've got to keep out feeling high
To keep us strong I know we can
Groovin' you
Just to keep from loosing you..
Groovin' you
Keeps you in my life
I'll tell you why you love me so
It's very plain to see yea
I'll make your inner feelings flow
I do your ? from A to Z
Groovin' you
Just to keep from loosing you..
Groovin' you
Keeps you in my life
Groovin' you
Just to keep from loosing you
Groovin' you
just to keep from loosing you
Groovin' you
Just to keep from loosing you
You will groove
Groovin' you
just to keep from loosing you
Please groove
Groovin' you
Keep on groovin' you
Groovin' you
Keep on groovin' you
Groovin' you
Just to keep from loosing you..
Groovin' you
Keeps you in my life
Groovin' you
Just to keep from loosing you..
Groovin' you
Keeps you in my life
Groovin' you
Groovin' you
Groovin' you
The accompanying promotional music video was filmed entirely in Detroit, Michigan, and was one of the most popular videos of the year. In a remixed "rock" version, the song also topped the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.[2] This single became Aretha's fifteenth Top 10 pop hit in the United States and earned her 12th Grammy Award, for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance.
The song features a notable contribution from Clarence Clemons, the saxophonist from Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band. Sylvester and Jeanie Tracy provided backup vocals.
Aretha Louise Franklin (March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer and songwriter. Franklin began her career as a child singing gospel at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, where her father, C. L. Franklin, was minister. In 1960, at the age of 18, she embarked on a secular career, recording for Columbia Records but only achieving modest success. By the end of the 1960s she had gained the title "The Queen of Soul".
On August 13, 2018, Franklin was reported to be gravely ill at her home near Detroit. She was reported to be under hospice care and surrounded by friends and family. Stevie Wonder and Jesse Jackson, among others, had visited her. Franklin died at home in Detroit on August 16, aged 76. The cause was reported to be advanced pancreatic cancer.
Knew you'd be a vision in white
How'd you get your pants so tight?
Don't know what you're doin'
But you must be livin' right, yeah
Oh, we got some places to see
I brought all the maps with me
So jump right in, it ain't no sin
Take a ride in my machine
City traffic movin' way too slow
Drop the pedal and go, go, go
We goin' ridin' on the freeway of love
Wind's against our backs
We goin' ridin' on the freeway of love
In my pink Cadillac
We goin' ridin' on the freeway of love
Wind's against our back
Ain't we ridin' on the freeway of love
In my pink Cadillac?
Never you mind the exit signs
We got lots of time
We can't quit 'til we get
To the other side, ide, ide
With the radio playin' our song
We keep rollin' along
Who knows how far our car can get
Before you think your love slowin' on down
City traffic's movin' way too slow
Drop the pedal and go, go come on now, go
We goin' ridin' on the freeway of love
Wind's against our backs
We goin' ridin' on the freeway of love
In my pink Cadillac
We goin' ridin' on the freeway of love
Wind's against our back
Ain't we ridin' on the freeway of love
In my pink Cadillac? Oh yeah
Here we go, one more time mmm
With the wind and your fingers in my hair
Kind of think we're going for an extended throw down
So drop the top baby
And let's cruise on into this better than ever street
City traffic's movin' way too slow
Drop the pedal and go, go, come on baby, go, do it for me now
We goin' ridin' on the freeway of love
Wind's against our back
We goin' ridin' on the freeway of love
In my pink Cadillac
We goin' ridin' on the freeway of love
Wind's against my back
Ain't we ridin' on the freeway of love
In my pink Cadillac?
What I want you to do baby
Get over to the left lane
And let's merge with peace, oh yeah
Take the love that's sent ya
And then in the right time
Go on over in love and satisfaction and joy, well
Ain't we riding babe, ain't we cruising down
Free, free, sweet
Go on after, awh let's be good to each other street
Well, see that little landmark over there
A whole lot of kisses and sweet stuff
We'll be just about, awh, awh, awh
And satisfaction road yeah, satisfaction yeah ooo ahhh
'Jump to It' was Aretha's biggest Pop hit since 1974, reaching #24 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart in October. The upbeat single also reached #4 on the Dance chart.[2] It was nominated for a Grammy Award and several American Music Awards.
Aretha Louise Franklin (March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer and songwriter. Franklin began her career as a child singing gospel at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, where her father, C. L. Franklin, was minister. In 1960, at the age of 18, she embarked on a secular career, recording for Columbia Records but only achieving modest success. By the end of the 1960s she had gained the title "The Queen of Soul".
On August 13, 2018, Franklin was reported to be gravely ill at her home near Detroit. She was reported to be under hospice care and surrounded by friends and family. Stevie Wonder and Jesse Jackson, among others, had visited her. Franklin died at home in Detroit on August 16, aged 76. The cause was reported to be advanced pancreatic cancer.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(Girl, I got to go)
Yeah, yeah, yeah
(I got to go now, really)
(Yeah, I'm kinda in a hurry)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(Uh, huh, here's the reason why)
Jump, jump, jump to it
Jump, jump, jump to it
Jump, jump, jump to it
Jump, jump, jump to it
My baby, loves me, he told me that
And I never question, that point or fact
There is no fighting, scandal or shame
Uh, he really moves me, drives me insane
I can't talk to you now, girl, I got love to get
When my baby, calls I got jump to it
I'm in a hurry, there's love to get
When my baby, calls I jump, jump, jump to it
Jump, jump, jump to it
Jump, jump, jump to it
I just can't wait till today at four
That's when my sweet thing, said he would call
Please don't keep me waitin', it's 3:59
Ring ding, hello baby, oh, come please be mine
Girl, I can't talk to you now, I got love to give
When my baby, calls I got jump to it
I'm in a hurry, there's love to get
When my baby, calls I jump, jump, jump to it
Jump, jump, jump to it
I really flip and I jump, jump, jump to it
Now Kelly
(Jump to it)
You know when we talk
We have a lot of fun, don't we, girl, dishin' out
The dirt on everybody and givin' each other the 411
(Jump to it)
On who drop kicked who this week
You know what I'm talkin' ?bout
When my baby call, shout
(Jump to it)
When my baby calls
(Jump to it)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(Yeah, yeah, yeah)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
(Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, huh
Jump, jump, jump to it
Jump to it
Jump, jump, jump to it
Jump to it
Jump, jump, jump to it
Jump to it
Jump, jump, jump to it
Jump to it
Aretha Louise Franklin (March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer and songwriter. Franklin began her career as a child singing gospel at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, where her father, C. L. Franklin, was minister. In 1960, at the age of 18, she embarked on a secular career, recording for Columbia Records but only achieving modest success. By the end of the 1960s she had gained the title "The Queen of Soul".
On August 13, 2018, Franklin was reported to be gravely ill at her home near Detroit. She was reported to be under hospice care and surrounded by friends and family. Stevie Wonder and Jesse Jackson, among others, had visited her. Franklin died at home in Detroit on August 16, aged 76. The cause was reported to be advanced pancreatic cancer.
Alright gang let's start from number one
Let's throw down till it's done
Let's get this thing to workin'
There's no reason to wait
The time is now to start
We all could use the change
Hey, from right now till the dawn
We gonna really carry on
We won't stop
Not until we get it right
Out to be on the one
It's not over till is done
It's gonna be so good
When we get it right
Got to be willing to try
Even if we get up early
And we work over time
Do it till you get it right
It's an incredible high
There's no limit to what's in it
It's your's and mine
So let's do it till we get it, get it right
Till we get it (Make it shout, toss it, turn you inside out), ho...oh...
Do it till we get it (Stay with it and get it right)
Do it till we get it (Never stop, we could take it to the top), oh...oh...
Do it till we get it (Take the time, get it right)
I know just how to do it
To make it really nice
There's no mystery to it
Here's how you get it right
Well, you make it scream, you make it shout
Toss it, turn it inside out
Never quit, stay with it
And get it right
Don't give up, never stop
We can take it to the top
If we just take the time
To get it right
Oh...oh...don't give up now
We can make it, we can take it
Right to the top
Hey...ey...and never stop
Honey, let's reach for the sky
If we keep believin'
We can never go to high
Yeah, let's give it a try
Come on let's keep reaching up
Believe if it lasts forever
It's never too much
No way to get enough
Do it till we get it right
Even if it takes from mornin'
Till way into night
We've got do it till we get it, get it right
Till we get it (Make it shout, toss it, turn it inside out), oh...
Do it till we get it (Stay with it and get it right)
Do it till we get it (Never stop, we could take it to the top), hey...
Do it till we get it (Take the time get it right)
Do it till we (Get it), get it right, do it
Do it till we get it (Get it) get it (Get it right) and get it right
Do it till we (Get it) get it, baby, yeah, yeah
Do it till we (Get it) get it (Get it right) and get it right
Do it till we (Get it), ooh...
Do it till we get it (Get it), get it (Get it right)
Do it till we (Get it) ow, get it, baby
Do it till we (Get it), get it (Get it right) and get it right
I...yi...yi...yi...yi...yi...yi...yi...
(Do it till you get it) Do it till you get it
Till you get it, get it right
(Do it till you get it) Do it till you get it
Till you get it, l you get it (Get it) get it (Get it right) and get it right
Do it till you (Get it) get it, get it
Do it till you (Get it right)
(Repeat)
Don't give up now
We can make it, we can take it
Right to the top
Yeah...and never stop
Honey, let's reach for the sky
If we keep believin'
We could never go to high
Yeah, let's give it a try
Come on let's keep reachin' up
Believe if it lasts forever
Never too much
No way to get enough
Do it till we get it right
Even if it takes from mornin'
Till way into night
We've got do it till you get it, get it right
Till we get it (Make it shout, toss it, turn it inside out), get it
Do it till we get it (Stay with it and get it right)
Do it till we get it (Never stop, we could take it to the top), yeah...yeah...
Do it till we get it (Take the time get it right) and get it right
Do it till we (Get it), get it, oh, yeah
Do it till we get it (Get it) get it (Get it right), get it right
Do it till we (Get it), ow, ho, ho, ho, ho
Do it till we (Get it) get it (Get it right) and get it right
Do it till we (Get it), do it, do it
Do it till we get it (Get it), do it (Get it right) and get it right
Do it till we (Get it)
Do it till we (Get it, get it right)
Gino Soccio is a Canadian disco record producer of Italian descent. His only US Billboard Hot 100 entry was the #48 hit single "Dancer" in 1979, but he did hit #1 on the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart twice ("Dancer" / "Dance to Dance" in 1979, and "Try It Out" / "Hold Tight" in 1981, six weeks each). "Dancer" peaked at #46 in the UK Singles Chart in May 1979. Soccio's third biggest hit, "It's Alright" / "Look At Yourself", from his album, Face to Face, reached #2 for 5 weeks also on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. "Turn It Around" was released only as a single in 1984.
Soccio got his start in disco when Montreal producer Pat Deserio called him and asked if he would play keyboards and help compose for the Kebekelektrik album. Prior to this, Soccio was working as a local session musician. The Kebekelektrik album helped to launch Soccio's career, as his composition "War Dance" became a hit on U.S. dance floors, a song Soccio himself had deemed "filler".
He also played keyboards on the Bombers album "Bombers" in 1978.
His debut solo album "Outline" was released in 1979 and contained the hit "Dancer"; the album received widespread critical acclaim and catapulted Soccio onto the world disco stage.
In 1979, Soccio also recorded a disco album with Guy Lafleur which cost CAD$100 000 to produce.
In the UK he received airplay from Robbie Vincent on BBC Radio London, and Greg Edwards on Capital Radio on imported RFC Records, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Records.
He also assembled and produced the disco studio group, Witch Queen, best known for their hit, "Bang A Gong" / "All Right Now" (1979). It peaked at number eight on the US Hot Dance/Disco chart.
I keep hearing overtones of the song "Harmony" by Suzi Lane produced by Giorgio Moroder (1979) and later hit for Suzy Q ft Michelle Mills with producers Jerry Cucuzzella & John Brenner (1985).
Dancer
Dancer
Dancer
Dancer
Dancer
Let your body free now
Dancer
If you want to feel good
Dancer
Got to get a move on
Dancer
Try to take it higher
Dancer
Dancer
Try to take it higher
Dancer
Dancer
Try to take it higher
Dancer
CHORUS
You never knew the power of your body
But when you keep on dancing to the music
You reach up high into the sky
Dancer
Got to get a move on
Dancer
If you want to feel good
Dancer
Keep your body shaking
Dancer
Try to take it higher
Dancer
Dancer
Dancer
Dancer
Try to take it higher
(Chorus x2)
Dancer
Got to get a move on
Dancer
If you want to feel good...
The original band was formed by Godfrey McLean and Bobby Tench from Gass[3] in 1970 and included other members of that band, with the line-up of Tench as vocalist and guitarist, drummer Godfrey McLean, bassist Delisle Harper and percussionist Lennox Langton. At the end of May 1970, Tench left Gonzalez to become a member of The Jeff Beck Group[5] and the band formed a new core membership, with saxophonists Michael "Mick" Eve, Chris Mercer, Steve Gregory, Geoffrey "Bud" Beadle , keyboardist Roy Davies and guitarist Gordon Hunte. Later George Chandler, Glen LeFleur, Cliff Lake and Delisle Harper were included whilst simultaneously members of The Olympic Runners. Vocalist Lenny Zakatek joined in 1974 and they released their first album Gonzalez (1974), which featured a heavy funk sound. This album was Queen's bassist John Deacon favorite band in the mid 1970s.[6] Our Only Weapon is Our Music (1975) followed, released on EMI's sister label, Capitol.
In 1976 drummer Preston Heyman joined and they supported Bob Marley on his Hammersmith Odeon Shows. In 1977 Air Studios London they recorded the Gloria Jones song "Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet" which reached No. 26 on the Billboard Hot 100 and established a following amongst disco enthusiasts. A remix of the same song reached No. 7 on the US Club Play chart and No. 15 in the UK Singles Chart.[7] The band's third and fourth albums, Shipwrecked and Move It to the Music, were produced by Jones. Eve and Hunte left before their single "Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady" (1979) was released.
In 1980 and after five years with the band Lenny Zakatek left to sing vocals with The Alan Parsons Project. The band's follow-up singles and their fifth album Watch Your Step, were not successful and the group lost its major label status. Gonzalez then worked with Pye Records and concentrated on live performances, usually backing R&B, funk and soul stars, such as Freddie King.
Roy Davies died in 1986 and Gonzalez disbanded.
More recently Mick Eve, Kuma Harada, Bud Beadle, Preston Heyman and Bobby Stignac have appeared on the London music circuit.
I haven't stopped dancing yet
Since we met on our first date
I haven't stopped loving you less
It's all right all right all right all right
I haven't stopped dancing yet
With you my only partner
I haven't stopped loving you less
It's all right all right all right all right
Uuuuh... Well you see
You're all I ever wanted in a girl
Well it's all right all right
Lets have some fun tonight
I haven't stopped dancing yet
Since we met on our first date
I haven't stopped loving you less
It's all right all right all right all right
I haven't stopped dancing yet
With you my only partner
I haven't stopped loving you less
It's all right all right all right all right
Uuuuh... Well you see
Your all I ever wanted in a girl
Well it's all right all right
Lets have some fun tonight
I haven't stopped dancing yet
Since we met on our first date
I haven't stopped loving you less
It's all right all right all right all right
I haven't stopped dancing yet
With you my only partner
I haven't stopped loving you less
It's all right all right all right all right
I haven't stopped dancing yet
I haven't stopped dancing yet
I haven't stopped dancing yet
I haven't stopped dancing yet
Since we met on our first date
I haven't stop loving you less
It's all right all right all right all right
I haven't stopped dancing yet
With you my only partner
I haven't stopped loving you less
It's all right all right all right all right
It's all right...
The Gibson Brothers are a France-based musical group, who had their greatest success during the disco boom of the late 1970s. Their best known hit singles included "Cuba" and "Que Sera Mi Vida".
The three brothers, Chris (lead vocals, percussion), Patrick (vocals, drums), and Alex (vocals, keyboards) were born on Martinique in the West Indies. They recorded their first single "Come to America" in Paris in 1976, and both it and its follow-up "Non Stop Dance" made the charts in Europe, where they toured successfully. The following year they released "Heaven", which was picked up by TK Records in the U.S.
In 1978 they recorded "Cuba". The mix of disco beats, Latin percussion, soulful vocals and a catchy tune propelled the song to #1 in several countries, and earned them four gold records worldwide. In the UK it made #41 on its initial release, and #12 when reissued in 1980. Like their other hits, it was written and produced by Daniel Vangarde and the Belgian producer Jean Kluger. The Gibson Brothers had three further big hits in 1979 and 1980, "Ooh! What a Life", "Que Sera Mi Vida" (a Nelly Byl song which sold over 5 million copies worldwide), and "Mariana". They have continued to record and tour worldwide.
Cuba,quiero bailar la salsa
Cuba,quiero bailar la salsa
You dance to the music
Like nobody does
The first time i saw you
I knew it was love
Cuba,quiero bailar la salsa
Cuba,quiero bailar la salsa
My heart is on fire
The night is divine
My only desire
Is making you mine
Your the one that i want
Heart of fire
Your the one
Yes you are
Cuba,quiero bailar la salsa
Cuba,quiero bailar la salsa
When you're in motion
You seem not to care
You hide your emotions
Your joy your despair
Your the one that I want
Heart of Love
Your the one
Yes you are
Cuba,quiero bailar la salsa
Cuba,quiero bailar la salsa
You dance to the music
Like nobody does
The first time I saw you
I knew it was love
Your the one that I want
Heart of love
Your the one
Yes you are
Cuba,quiero bailar la salsa
Cuba,quiero bailar la salsa
Cuba,quiero bailar la salsa
Cuba,quiero bailar la salsa
Your the one that I want
Heart of love
Your the one
Yes you are
Cuba,quiero bailar la salsa
Cuba,quiero bailar la salsa
Cuba,quiero bailar la salsa
Cuba
Cuba
Cuba
Cuba
Cuba
Cuba
Paolo Martini became a professional DJ in 1985 in the Venice area and started producing music in 1992 for a number of projects released by the Underground Music Movement (UMM) label. He also hosted a TV program on Italian television in 1992. Gianni Bini began producing in 1990, and the following year started a production team named Fathers Of Sound with Fulvio Perniola.
Bini and Martini met at UMM in 1996 and started producing tracks under the name House Of Glass, also founding the label Ocean Trax. Many of their tracks are released by British label Azuli Records. Their best known release is "Makes Me Love You", a rework of Sister Sledge's "Thinking Of You", released under the name Eclipse, that reached #25 in the UK Singles Chart in 1999.
I wanna feel it in my soul
I wanna feel it
I wanna feel it in my soul
Come on everybody
I wanna feel it in my soul
I wanna feel it
I wanna feel it in my soul
Can't you feel the music?
I just wanna boogie tonight
I wanna disco down till the morning light
Ooh... Ah ah I wanna boogie tonight
I wanna disco down till the morning light
I just wanna boogie tonight
I wanna disco down till the morning light
Uh! Oh yeah!
Yeah, everybody
I move with the music!
Ooh... Ah ah I wanna boogie tonight
I wanna disco down till the morning light
I just wanna boogie tonight
I wanna disco down till the morning light
Ooh... Ah ah I wanna party tonight
I wanna disco down till the morning light
I said that, ah ah I wanna boogie tonight
I wanna disco down till the morning light...
I wanna feel the music
Let my body to the talking (?)
And let my beat to the walkin'
Oh I love you...
I need you here babe
Yeah! I know I know!
Ooh... Ah ah I wanna boogie tonight
I wanna disco down till the morning light
I just wanna boogie tonight
I wanna disco down till the morning light
Ooh... Ah ah I wanna party tonight
I wanna disco down till the morning light
I said that, ah ah I wanna boogie tonight
I wanna disco down till the morning light...
Can't you feel the music?
Ooh... Ah ah I wanna boogie tonight
I wanna disco down till the morning light
I just wanna boogie tonight
I wanna disco down till the morning light
Ooh... Ah ah I wanna party tonight
I wanna disco down till the morning light
I said that, ah ah I wanna boogie tonight
I wanna disco down till the morning light...
Robinson recorded "Turn the Beat Around" on September 26, 1975, cutting her lead vocal in a single take after recording her own multi-tracked chorale vocals. Like the other cuts on Robinson's debut album Never Gonna Let You Go, "Turn the Beat Around" was recorded at RCA Studios with producer Warren Schatz who recalls the basic master of the song was recorded "on a Friday after a very depressing week of rain [and] I hated [the track]! I listened to it in my office and I just couldn't get it. It had been such a bad week that I just couldn't hear anything with an open mind. Then David Todd, the head of disco promotion at RCA, came into my office and he went crazy over the track! He convinced me to finish it as soon as possible."
Issued as a single in February 1976 "Turn the Beat Around" became a club smash subsequently breaking on Top 40 radio in Boston - where it would reach #1 that June - to make a gradual ascent on the national Pop chart: the Billboard Hot 100 to reach a #10 peak in August 1976.
Vicki Sue Robinson (May 31, 1954 – April 27, 2000) was an American theatre and film actress and singer, closely associated with the disco era of late 1970s pop music; she is most famous for her 1976 hit, "Turn the Beat Around.
Turn the beat around
Love to hear the percussion
Turn it upside down
Love to hear the percussion
Love to hear it
Blow horns you sure sound pretty
Your violins keep movin' to the nitty gritty
When you hear the scratch of the guitars scratchin'
Then you'll know that rhythm carries all the action, woah
Turn the beat around
Love to hear the percussion
Turn it upside down
Love to hear the percussion
Love to hear it
Turn the beat around
Love to hear the percussion
Turn it upside down
Love to hear the percussion
Love to hear it
Flute player play your flute 'cause
I know that you want to get your thing off
But you see I've made up my mind about it
It's got to be the rhythm, no doubt about it, woah, woah
'Cause when the guitar player start playing
With the syncopated rhythm, with the scratch, scratch, scratch
Makes me wanna move my body, yeah, yeah, yeah
And when the drummer starts beating that beat
He nails that beat with the syncopated rhythm
With the rat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat on the drums, hey
Turn the beat around
Love to hear the percussion
Turn it upside down
Love to hear the percussion
Love to hear it, love to hear it
Love to hear it, love to hear it
Turn the beat around
Love to hear the percussion
Turn it upside down
Love to hear the percussion
Love to hear it
Turn the beat around
Love to hear the percussion
Turn it upside down
Love to hear the percussion
When the guitar player start playing
With the syncopated rhythm, with the scratch, scratch, scratch
Makes me wanna move my body, yeah, yeah, yeah
And when the drummer starts beating that beat
He nails that beat with the syncopated rhythm
With the rat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat on the drums, hey
Turn the beat around
Love to hear the percussion
Turn it upside down
Love to hear the percussion
Turn the beat around
Love to hear the percussion
Turn it upside down
Love to hear the percussion
Turn the beat around
Love to hear the percussion
Turn it upside down
Love to hear the percussion
Turn the beat around
Love to hear the percussion
Turn it upside down
Love to hear the percussion
Turn the beat around
Love to hear the percussion
Turn it upside down
The song was listed at No. 73 on Billboard magazine's "All-Time Top 100 Songs" in 2008. It was also the group's only U.S. Top 40 song.
Wild Cherry was an American funk rock band best known for their song "Play That Funky Music".
"Play That Funky Music" became a huge hit when released in 1976, peaking at number one on both the Billboard R&B and pop charts. Both the single and Wild Cherry's self-titled debut album went platinum. The band was named Best Pop Group of the Year by Billboard, and received an American Music Award for Top R&B Single of the Year, as well as a pair of Grammy nominations for Best New Vocal Group and Best R&B Performance by a Group or Duo.
"Play That Funky Music" was the only hit on the album, and none of Wild Cherry's subsequent albums were hits. Neither Electrified Funk (1977) nor I Love My Music (1978) produced any top 20 hits, and Only the Wild Survive (1979) did not produce a top 100 single. "Hot to Trot" was a minor follow-up hit in some non-U.S. markets. The band broke up in 1979.
Coogie Stoddart returned to perform with Wild Cherry beginning with the tour to support Electrified Funk and recorded I Love My Music with the band. Stoddart toured with the group in support of I Love My Music, but left before Only the Wild Survive was recorded.
Hey, do it now
Yeah, hey
Hey, Once I was a boogie singer playin' in a Rock and Roll Band
I never had no problems, yeah
Burnin' down one night stands
And everything around me, yeah
Got to stop to feelin' so low And I decided quickly (Yes I did)
To disco down and check out the show
Yeah, they was dancin' and singin' and movin' to the groovin'
And just when it hit me somebody turned around and shouted
Play that funky music white boy
Play that funky music right
Play that funky music white boy
Lay down the boogie and play that funky music till you die
Till you die
Oh ya, ya
I tried to understand this
I thought that they were out of their minds
How could I be so foolish (How could I)
To not see I was the one behind
So still I kept on fighting
Well, losing every step of the way
I said, I must go back there (I got to go back)
And check to see if things still the same
Yeah they was dancin' and singin' and movin' to the groovin'
And just when it hit me somebody turned around and shouted
Play that funky music white boy
Play that funky music right
Play that funky music white boy
Lay down the boogie and play that funky music till you die
Till you die, ya
Till you die
(Gonna play that electified funky music, yeah)
(Hey, wait a minute)
Now first it wasn't easy
Changin' Rock and Roll and minds and things were getting shaky
I thought I'd have to leave it behind
But now it's so much better (it's so much better)
I'm funking out in every way
But I'll never lose that feelin' (no I won't)
Of how I learned my lesson that day
When they were dancin' and singin' and movin' to the groovin'
And just when it hit me somebody turned around and shouted
Play that funky music white boy
Play that funky music right
Play that funky music white boy
Lay down the boogie and play that funky music till you die
Till you die
Oh' till you die
They shouted play that funky music
(Play that funky music)
Play that funky music
(You Gotta keep on playin' funky music)
Play that funky music
(Play that funky music)
Play that funky music
(Come and take you higher, ya)
Play that funky music white boy
Play that funky music right, ya
Play that funky music white boy
Play that funky music right
Play that funky music white boy
Play that funky music right
By 1985, Louie began playing house and block parties in his local Bronx and his first nightclub residency was at the Devil's Nest, in the Bronx, and later he moved to hearthrob (the old Funhouse), Roseland, Studio 54 and the Palladium in Manhattan. During the 1990s, Vega was playing at one of the most influential nightclubs for house music, The Sound Factory Bar at the Underground Network Parties with promoters Don Welch and Barbara Tucker (also singer). During this time, production team Masters at Work began a remixing team which consisted of young producers "Little Louie" Vega and partner Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez. By 1993, in just a few years, Masters at Work established themselves as one of the top remixers in the world.
"Boogie Wonderland" was written for The Emotions - cousins of Earth, Wind, & Fire's lead singer - and was commercially successful, selling over a million copies and being certified gold in the US (until the RIAA lowered sales levels required for certified singles in 1989, a gold certification was awarded for sales of one million units) and gold by the British Phonographic Industry for selling over 400,000 copies in the U.K.
Earth, Wind & Fire (EWF) is an American band that has spanned the musical genres of R&B, soul, funk, jazz, disco, pop, rock, Latin, and African. They were one of the most successful bands of the 1970s. Rolling Stone called them "innovative, precise yet sensual, calculated yet galvanizing" and declared that the band "changed the sound of black pop". The kalimba (African thumb piano) is played on all of the band's albums.
The band was founded in Chicago by Maurice White in 1970, having grown out of a previous band known as the Salty Peppers. Other members have included Philip Bailey, Verdine White, Fred White, Ralph Johnson, Larry Dunn, Al McKay and Andrew Woolfolk. The band has received 20 Grammy nominations; they won six as a group and two of its members, Maurice White and Bailey, won separate individual awards. Earth, Wind & Fire has 12 American Music Awards nominations and four awards. They have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Vocal Group Hall of Fame, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and have sold over 90 million records, making them one of the world's best-selling bands of all time.
Five members of Earth, Wind & Fire were also inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame: Maurice White, Philip Bailey, Verdine White, Larry Dunn, and Al McKay. The band received Lifetime Achievement awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (Rhythm & Soul Heritage Award – 2002), NAACP (Hall of Fame – 1994), and the BET Awards (Lifetime Achievement Award – 2002).
Earth, Wind & Fire is the first African-American act to sell out Madison Square Garden and to receive the MSG Gold Ticket Award. President Barack Obama invited Earth, Wind & Fire to perform at the White House.
The Emotions are an American Grammy Award-winning soul/R&B vocal group from Chicago, Illinois. The group originally consisted of three sisters; Wanda Hutchinson, Sheila Hutchinson and Jeanette Hutchinson. The sisters are all children of Joseph and Lillian Hutchinson.
Their association with Maurice White of Earth, Wind & Fire brought them their greatest success. With White's assistance, The Emotions released the albums Flowers, Rejoice, and Sunbeam in 1976, 1977, and 1978. Maurice White and Clarence McDonald co-produced the single "Best Of My Love" which spent five weeks at number one on the US pop chart in 1977. Jeanette left in 1977, to give birth to her second child, Pili, and their youngest sister Pamela was brought in to record on the album Rejoice and perform live dates. In 1978, Jeanette returned to the group. In collaboration with Earth, Wind & Fire, the group scored big with the single, "Boogie Wonderland", which was a top ten hit in 1979. The group continued to record together during the 1980s, and were signed briefly with Motown Records. Their last recording to date was 1996's The Emotions Live released on their own record label, Sunbeam Records.
Dance, boogie wonderland. Ha, ha, dance, boogie wonderland
Midnight creeps so slowly into hearts of men who need more than they get
Daylight deals a bad hand to a woman who has laid too many bets
The mirror stares you in the face and says,"Baby, uh, uh, it don't work"
You say your prayers though you don't care; you dance and shake the hurt
Dance, boogie wonderland. Ha, ha, dance, boogie wonderland
Sounds fly through the night; I chase my vinyl dreams to boogie wonderland
I find romance when I start to dance in boogie wonderland
I find romance when I start to dance in boogie wonderland
All the love in the world can't be gone
All the need to be loved can't be wrong
All the records are playing and my heart keeps saying
"Boogie wonderland, wonderland"
Dance, boogie wonderland. Ha, ha, dance, boogie wonderland. Ha, ha
I find romance when I start to dance in boogie wonderland
I find romance when I start to dance in boogie wonderland
"Sing Sing" has been sampled by hip hop artists such as Grandmaster Flash, Wu-Tang Clan, Chubb Rock, and Lil Jon. In the early 1990s it was featured prominently in breakbeat tracks from the Baltimore club genre, where DJs looped and modified it using Ensoniq ASR-10 samplers and Mackie mixers. In the early 2000s it also became a staple of the Jersey club sound.
The song was featured on the fourth volume of Street Beat Records' Ultimate Breaks and Beats collection.
In October 2013, Salsoul Records filed a lawsuit against Kylie Minogue and Warner Bros., claiming that Minogue copied the "entire rhythm" of "Sing Sing" in her 2007 song "Speakerphone".
Born in Houston, he listened to the blues as a child and started playing piano at the age of three. In his teens, he performed with a local group and worked as an accompanist to blues musician, Guitar Slim. In the early 1960s, he moved to Los Angeles, California, where he worked with saxophonist Big Jay McNeely. McNeely arranged for him to record his first single, "Without a Love", an instrumental on the small Swingin' record label. After that, he joined Sam Cooke's band as keyboardist until the singer's death. Haywood next recorded two singles for Fantasy Records, and subsequently moved to Imperial Records, where he recorded the single "She's with Her Other Love", which made the R&B charts in 1965. He was also part of two session bands organized by Los Angeles disc jockey Magnificent Montague which issued the instrumental hits "Hole in the Wall" (R&B #5/Pop #50, 1965) under the name of The Packers, and "Precious Memories" (R&B number 31, 1967) as the Romeos. In 1967, Haywood secured his first solo hit with "It's Got to Be Mellow" (R&B #21 and Pop #63) on Decca Records. He played on further recording sessions with the Packers and Dyke & the Blazers, then returned to recording under his own name. He also established in 1967 a production company, Evejim, named after his parents.
Haywood recorded, without too much success for the Fat Fish (Hollywood, Ca.) label in 1966 and 1967. Two singles from that source got a UK release at the time on the Decca distributed Vocalion label but gathered few sales - "Skate a while" and "Ain't no use". However it was the rarer "Baby reconsider" from the same American label that sticks in the memory of northern soul fans; becoming one of the first top sounds on that then very much underground scene in about 1971.
He found only sporadic success as a singer, most notably with "It's Got to Be Mellow" and "Keep It in the Family". In the Carolinas and Virginia, Haywood's song, "It's Got to Be Mellow," has become a timeless beach music classic. After recording for Columbia Records, he moved over to MCA Records. He emerged as a star in the 1970s by modifying his style to incorporate the emerging funk and disco idioms. Haywood joined 20th Century Records in 1974 and was immediately successful, notably with "I Want'a Do Something Freaky to You" (R&B #7/Pop #15, 1975), "Strokin' (Pt. II)" (R&B #13, 1976) and "Party" (R&B #24, 1978). In 1980, Haywood revived the shuffle beat of 1950s rock and roll with "Don't Push It Don't Force It" (R&B #2 and Pop #49). This single also reached #12 in the UK, where he is considered a one-hit wonder.
Haywood is credited with writing the 1981 hit "She's a Bad Mama Jama" by Carl Carlton, which he produced in his own studio.[3] In 1983, he released the album It's Me Again, which featured a couple minor R&B hits. His last R&B chart record was "Tenderoni" (#22) in 1984, but the accompanying album, Now and Then went unreleased. After a few more chart singles, for Casablanca Records and Modern Records, Haywood disappeared from the charts. In the late 1980s he became associated in an executive/production capacity with the Los Angeles based Edge Records. From the 1980s, he produced blues albums by Jimmy McCracklin, Clay Hammond, Ronnie Lovejoy, Buddy Ace and others on his own Evejim Records label.
He died on April 5, 2016, aged 74.
I'm ready
I'm ready now
Don't push it
don't force it
Let it happen naturally
It will surely happen
If it was menat to be.
Don't push it
don't force it
Let it happen naturally
It will surely happen
If love was meant to be.
Patience isn't my best virtue
When I'm in the mood for love
I can't controll my passion
I wanna love you all over.
Don't push it
don't force it
...
My nature is high inside
I'm burning about to lose self control
I can't fight this feeling
My love is much to hot to hold.
Don't push it
don't force it
...
If it was really meant to be
Don't push it
It will happen naturally
Don't force it
What will be will surely be
Don't push it
If love was meant for you and me
Don't force it.
Don't push it
don't force it
...
You're the spark
that lights my fire
You set me off to a full alarm
I can't stand anticipation
I'm in the mood to get it on.
Don't push it
don't force it
Detroit vocalist Al Hudson, guitarist Dave Roberson and bassist Kevin McCord founded Al Hudson and the Soul Partners in the mid '70s. Other members included keyboardists Jack Hall and Jonathan “Corky” Meadows, drummers Theodore Dudley and Gregory Greene and guitarist Cortez Harris. They recorded several singles for Atco Records before joining ABC Records and made their debut with the LP Especially for You in 1977. They recorded their second album Cherish that same year and released their third album Spreading Love in 1978. By that time ABC Records was in the process of being bought by MCA Records and vocalist Alicia Myers joined the group. They released the album Happy Feet as Al Hudson and the Partners in 1979 which contains the R&B hit "You Can Do It" which was co-penned by Myers and a top 15 hit in the UK.
Dance!
Let your body go
You know you can do it
Like thee
(ee-ne-me-ne-manny-mo)
There's really nothing to it
Repeat Intro
(1st Tag)
You can do it
And you know that you can
There's nothing to it
Just go ahead and do your dance
Repeat 1st Tag
(Chorus)
Get up and do your thing
(You know you can do it)
And don't you feel your shame
(There's really nothing to it)
(2nd Tag)
You know you can do it
So get up and move your body to it
Don't be 'fraid to do your thing
No such words as being shame
Everybody, boogy tonight
Chorus (x2)
Trinidadian steel-pan player John A. Gibbs studied science at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica where he earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees and formed The Jamaica All Stars Steel Band. This was the start of a dual career in science and music that eventually took him to the United States.
He moved to Philadelphia in the mid-70s and met Philly arranger/producer Louis A. deLise, with whom he collaborated to create a new steel pan music, welding Trinidadian steel music to Philly soul. He researched and advocated a new style of steel pan music, describing the steel pan as an 'omnivibraphone' in his 1978 book The Unit Steel Band, in which he combined his scientific and musical backgrounds to illuminate the physics of the steel pan.
Gibbs' innate musicality comes to the fore on the album "Steel Funk", where he compiles several years of experience with deLise into an appealing Trini-Philly groove union, with the five steel pan players of the Unlimited Sound of Steel Orchestra working in sync with a 30-piece studio orchestra of brass, strings and rhythm. The album hosts songs ranging from Calypso to film theme to pop standard, covers and originals, but Steel Funk is not a chintzy pastiche, it's a glorious unity.