![Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers - Pick Yourself Up (Swing Time, 1936) [Restored] @VideoFunForAll](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ftdp_Pigvqo/maxresdefault.jpg)
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"Pick Yourself Up" was written for the film Swing Time (1936), where it was introduced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Rogers plays a dance instructor whom Astaire follows into her studio; he pretends to have "two left feet" in order to get her to dance with him.
"Pick Yourself Up" was written for the film Swing Time (1936), where it was introduced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Rogers plays a dance instructor whom Astaire follows into her studio; he pretends to have "two left feet" in order to get her to dance with him.
![Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers - Pick Yourself Up (Swing Time, 1936) [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ftdp_Pigvqo/mqdefault.jpg "Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers - Pick Yourself Up (Swing Time, 1936) [Restored]
Pick Yourself Up was written for the film Swing Time (1936), where it was introduced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Rogers plays a dance instructor whom Astaire follows into her studio; he pretends to have two left feet in order to get her to dance with him.")
![Al Stewart - The Year Of The Cat (1976) [Digitally Enhanced]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fvSP_1Nody0/mqdefault.jpg "Al Stewart - The Year Of The Cat (1976) [Digitally Enhanced]
Year of the Cat is a song by British singer-songwriter Al Stewart, released as a single in July 1976 in the UK (October 1976 in the U.S.). The song is the title track of his 1976 album Year of the Cat, and was recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, in January 1976 by engineer Alan Parsons. The song reached number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in March 1977. Although Stewarts highest charting single on that chart was 1978s Time Passages, Year of the Cat has remained Stewarts signature recording, receiving regular airplay on both classic rock and folk rock stations.
The year of the cat refers to the Chinese Zodiac. The man in the song can not fight his urges for this women, because its the year of the cat. Its a metaphor for the time he was seduced by this women, the women being symbolized with the cat.")
![Lucille Starr - The French Song (1965) [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gXfGTrmTPl8/mqdefault.jpg "Lucille Starr - The French Song (1965) [Restored]
The full title of the song is: Quand Le Soleil Dit Bonjour Aux Montagnes (The French Song)
At A&M Records, Starr recorded a song called The French Song that was produced by Herb Alpert] It was recorded in both French and English. In 1964, at a time when The Beatles dominated the music charts, The French Song was an international success that made Starr the first Canadian artist to have a record sell over a million copies. The popularity of the song led to a tour of the United States and appearing on the Louisiana Hayride radio show and on Chicago radio station WLS (AM) popular National Barn Dance. Starr also sang on American television musical variety shows such as Shindig! and Hullabaloo, followed by tours of Pacific Rim countries, Australia, South Africa, and across Europe where she became a particular favorite in the Netherlands. Selling sold over one million copies, it was awarded a gold disc.")
![Virginia Bruce - Ive Got You Under My Skin (Born to Dance, 1937) [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/io6soTS6tK4/mqdefault.jpg "Virginia Bruce - Ive Got You Under My Skin (Born to Dance, 1937) [Restored]
Ive Got You Under My Skin is a song written by Cole Porter in 1936. It was introduced that year in the Eleanor Powell musical film Born to Dance in which it was performed by Virginia Bruce. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song that year.
It became a signature song for Frank Sinatra, and, in 1966, became a top 10 hit for the Four Seasons.")
![Blondie - (Im Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ixJxvKB62zQ/mqdefault.jpg "Blondie - (Im Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear [Restored]
(Im Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear, is a song by the American band Blondie. It was released in 1978 as the second single from the bands second album Plastic Letters, reaching #10 in the UK singles chart in May 1978. It was never released as a single in the US.")
![Peggy Lee, Benny Goodman - Why Dont You Do Right (1943) [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jRYDwa50Y08/mqdefault.jpg "Peggy Lee, Benny Goodman - Why Dont You Do Right (1943) [Restored]
Why Dont You Do Right? (originally recorded as Weed Smokers Dream) is an American blues and jazz-influenced pop song written by Joseph Kansas Joe McCoy in 1936. A minor key twelve-bar blues with a few chord substitutions, it is considered a classic womans blues song and has become a standard.
One of the best-known versions of the song was recorded by Peggy Lee and Benny Goodman on July 27, 1942, in New York. Featured in the 1943 film, Stage Door Canteen, it sold over 1 million copies and brought her to nationwide attention.
Lee often stated that Greens recording was influential to her music. In a 1984 interview she said, I was and am a fan of Lil Green, a great old blues singer, and Lil recorded it. I used to play that record over and over in my dressing room, which was next door to Bennys. Finally he said, You obviously like that song. I said, Oh, I love it. He said, Would you like me to have an arrangement made of it? I said, Id love that, and he did.
Why Dont You Do Right? was not Goodman and Lees biggest hit. However, it reached number four on the Billboard charts and defined Lees sultry and rich vocal style early on in her career. Lee married guitarist Dave Barbour and left Goodman in 1943. She intended to retire from the music industry and focus on homemaking, but she continued receiving offers to return to the music world, largely due in part to the success of Why Dont You Do Right? Ultimately she returned to singing, and collaborated off and on with Goodman throughout her career. They recorded an alternate version of Why Dont You Do Right? in 1947.")
![Paul Simon - Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard (Sesame Street, 1977) [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jfoBIVNntto/mqdefault.jpg "Paul Simon - Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard (Sesame Street, 1977) [Restored]
Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard is a song by American singer-songwriter Paul Simon. It was the second single from his second, self-titled studio album (1972), released on Columbia Records.
The song is about two boys (Me and Julio) who have broken a law, although the exact law that has been broken is not stated in the song. When the mama pajama finds out what they have done, she goes to the police station to report the crime. The individuals are later arrested, but released when a radical priest intervenes.
The meaning and references in the song have long provoked debate. In a July 20, 1972 interview for Rolling Stone, Jon Landau asked Simon: What is it that the mama saw? The whole world wants to know. Simon replied I have no idea what it is... Something sexual is what I imagine, but when I say something, I never bothered to figure out what it was. Didnt make any difference to me.
More recently, in October 2010, Simon described the song as a bit of inscrutable doggerel, while the radical priest has been interpreted as a reference to Daniel Berrigan, who was featured on the cover of Time on January 25, 1971, near when the song was written.
The song mentions Rosie, the queen of Corona, referring to a neighborhood in Queens near where Simon grew up.")
![David Bowie – Space Oddity (1969) [HDR Mastered]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jlFtJNPuZoQ/mqdefault.jpg "David Bowie – Space Oddity (1969) [HDR Mastered]
Music: Space Oddity (1969) by David Bowie
Video: Solaris (1972) by Andrei Tarkovsky
Space Oddity is a song written and recorded by David Bowie. It was first released as a 7-inch single on 11 July 1969. It was also the opening track of his second studio album, David Bowie. It became one of Bowies signature songs and one of four of his songs to be included in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fames 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.
The song is about the launch of Major Tom, a fictional astronaut, and was released during a period of great interest in space flight. The United States Apollo 11 mission would launch five days later and would become the first manned moon landing another five days after that. The lyrics have also been seen to lampoon the British space programme, which was and still is an unmanned project. Bowie would later revisit his Major Tom character in the songs Ashes to Ashes, Hallo Spaceboy and possibly the music video for Blackstar.
Space Oddity was David Bowies first single to chart in the UK. It reached the top five on its initial release and received the 1970 Ivor Novello Special Award for Originality. His second album, originally released as David Bowie in the UK, was renamed after the track for its 1972 re-release by RCA Records and became known by this name. In 1975, upon re-release as part of a maxi-single, the song became Bowies first UK No. 1 single.
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![Peggy Mann / Larry Clinton & his Orchestra - Deep Purple (1943) [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jq3RkIuc3RU/mqdefault.jpg "Peggy Mann / Larry Clinton & his Orchestra - Deep Purple (1943) [Restored]
Deep Purple was the biggest hit written by pianist Peter DeRose, who broadcast, 1923 to 1939, with May Singhi as The Sweethearts of the Air on the NBC radio network. Deep Purple was published in 1933 as a piano composition. The following year, Paul Whiteman had it scored for his suave big band orchestra that was making a lady out of jazz in Whitemans phrase. Deep Purple became so popular in sheet music sales that Mitchell Parish added lyrics in 1938.
Margaret Germano, better known as Peggy Mann (September 27, 1919 – summer 1988), was an American Big Band singer who was prominent in the 1930s and 1940s. She worked with the likes of Henry Halstead, Ben Pollack, Larry Clinton, and Teddy Powell, and also as a solo act, before retiring from the music industry in the early 1950s.")
