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"When Will I See You Again" is a song released in 1974 by American soul group The Three Degrees, from their third album The Three Degrees. The song was written and produced by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff. Sheila Ferguson sang the lead, accompanied by Fayette Pinkney and Valerie Holiday.
It was one of the most successful recordings of the "Philly Soul" era. In the U.S., the song reached #1 on the adult contemporary chart, #2 on the pop singles chart, and #4 on the R&B chart in the autumn of 1974. In the UK, it fared even better, spending two weeks at the top of the UK Singles Chart in August 1974. The Three Degrees performed the song at Prince Charles' 30th birthday party at Buckingham Palace in 1978.
Sheila Ferguson recalled that "the song was played to me by Kenny Gamble at the piano in 1973 and I threw a tantrum. I screamed and yelled and said I would never sing it. I thought it was ridiculously insulting to be given such a simple song and that it took no talent to sing it. We did do it and several million copies later, I realized that he knew more than me." She would later have a #60 hit with a solo remake of the track in 1994. The song is unique in that every sentence is a question, heightening the overall effect and emotion. In the film Kill Bill: Volume 2, Bill cites this song as his "favorite soul song of the 70s".
Billboard named the song #67 on their list of 100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time.
"When Will I See You Again" is a song released in 1974 by American soul group The Three Degrees, from their third album The Three Degrees. The song was written and produced by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff. Sheila Ferguson sang the lead, accompanied by Fayette Pinkney and Valerie Holiday.
It was one of the most successful recordings of the "Philly Soul" era. In the U.S., the song reached #1 on the adult contemporary chart, #2 on the pop singles chart, and #4 on the R&B chart in the autumn of 1974. In the UK, it fared even better, spending two weeks at the top of the UK Singles Chart in August 1974. The Three Degrees performed the song at Prince Charles' 30th birthday party at Buckingham Palace in 1978.
Sheila Ferguson recalled that "the song was played to me by Kenny Gamble at the piano in 1973 and I threw a tantrum. I screamed and yelled and said I would never sing it. I thought it was ridiculously insulting to be given such a simple song and that it took no talent to sing it. We did do it and several million copies later, I realized that he knew more than me." She would later have a #60 hit with a solo remake of the track in 1994. The song is unique in that every sentence is a question, heightening the overall effect and emotion. In the film Kill Bill: Volume 2, Bill cites this song as his "favorite soul song of the 70s".
Billboard named the song #67 on their list of 100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time.
![The Three Degrees - When Will I See You Again (1974) [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AewGIIykcig/mqdefault.jpg "The Three Degrees - When Will I See You Again (1974) [Restored]
When Will I See You Again is a song released in 1974 by American soul group The Three Degrees, from their third album The Three Degrees. The song was written and produced by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff. Sheila Ferguson sang the lead, accompanied by Fayette Pinkney and Valerie Holiday.
It was one of the most successful recordings of the Philly Soul era. In the U.S., the song reached #1 on the adult contemporary chart, #2 on the pop singles chart, and #4 on the R&B chart in the autumn of 1974. In the UK, it fared even better, spending two weeks at the top of the UK Singles Chart in August 1974. The Three Degrees performed the song at Prince Charles 30th birthday party at Buckingham Palace in 1978.
Sheila Ferguson recalled that the song was played to me by Kenny Gamble at the piano in 1973 and I threw a tantrum. I screamed and yelled and said I would never sing it. I thought it was ridiculously insulting to be given such a simple song and that it took no talent to sing it. We did do it and several million copies later, I realized that he knew more than me. She would later have a #60 hit with a solo remake of the track in 1994. The song is unique in that every sentence is a question, heightening the overall effect and emotion. In the film Kill Bill: Volume 2, Bill cites this song as his favorite soul song of the 70s.
Billboard named the song #67 on their list of 100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time.")
![Fred Astaire - Id Rather Lead a Band [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AkAQQTm4sU0/mqdefault.jpg "Fred Astaire - Id Rather Lead a Band [Restored]
A song from the film Follow the Fleet.
Follow the Fleet (RKO) is a 1936 Hollywood musical comedy film with a nautical theme starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in their fifth collaboration as dance partners. It also features Randolph Scott, Harriet Hilliard, and Astrid Allwyn, with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. Lucille Ball and Betty Grable also appear, in supporting roles. The film was directed by Mark Sandrich with script by Allan Scott and Dwight Taylor based on the 1922 play Shore Leave by Hubert Osborne.")
![Keith Jarrett - Over the Rainbow (Tokyo 1984) [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AyLQGDIrGcI/mqdefault.jpg "Keith Jarrett - Over the Rainbow (Tokyo 1984) [Restored]
A brilliant interpretation of the Academy Award song Over the Rainbow.
An almost sacrilegious audience cough right before the last melody note was digitally removed.
Performed in Tokyo 1984")
![The Manhattan Transfer - Chanson DAmour [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BOC1aQ7TXS8/mqdefault.jpg "The Manhattan Transfer - Chanson DAmour [Restored]
Chanson DAmour (Love Song) is a popular song written by Wayne Shanklin. A 1977 recording by the Manhattan Transfer was an international hit, reaching #1 in the UK Singles Chart and Australia.
Recorded in 1977.")
![The Rubettes - Sugar Baby Love [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CC7uKQQdZdo/mqdefault.jpg "The Rubettes - Sugar Baby Love [Restored]
Sugar Baby Love, recorded in autumn 1973 and released in January 1974, is a bubblegum pop song, and the debut single of the Rubettes. Written by Wayne Bickerton and Tony Waddington and produced by Bickerton, engineered by John Mackswith at Lansdowne Recording Studios, and with lead vocals by Paul Da Vinci, Sugar Baby Love was the bands one and only number one single in the UK Singles Chart, spending four weeks at the top of the chart in May 1974.
Source: Wikipedia.")
![Ginger Rogers / Fred Astaire - A Fine Romance - Swing Time (1936) [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CTU5ISVUsHQ/mqdefault.jpg "Ginger Rogers / Fred Astaire - A Fine Romance - Swing Time (1936) [Restored]
A Fine Romance is a popular song composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Dorothy Fields, published in 1936.
The song was written for the musical film, Swing Time, where it was co-introduced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.")
![Helen OConnell, Bob Eberly, Jimmy Dorseys Orchestra - Tangerine (1942) [Restored]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EIehXhNqupM/mqdefault.jpg "Helen OConnell, Bob Eberly, Jimmy Dorseys Orchestra - Tangerine (1942) [Restored]
Tangerine is a popular song. The music was written by Victor Schertzinger, the lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The song was published in 1941 and soon became a jazz standard.
This version is from the movie The Fleets In (1942). The recording was released in January 1942 by Decca Records as catalog number 4123. The record first reached the Billboard charts on April 10, 1942, and lasted 15 weeks on the chart, including six weeks at #1. The lyrics in this version differ slightly from those in the movie. On the record, Eberly sings And Ive seen toasts to Tangerine / Raised in every bar across the Argentine, the lyric that became standard. In the movie at that point, the line is And Ive seen times when Tangerine / Had the bourgeoisie believing she were queen.")
![Leonard Nimoy - Maiden Wine (Star Trek - Platos Stepchildren) [Digitally Enhanced]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GNN57f0hgII/mqdefault.jpg "Leonard Nimoy - Maiden Wine (Star Trek - Platos Stepchildren) [Digitally Enhanced]
The song Maiden Wine was featured in the Star Trek episode, Platos Stepchildren. It is the song sung by Spock while he was being manipulated by the Platonians in 2268 (hence the serenade from the laughing spaceman, as originally named).
Leonard Nimoy wrote three sections, only the first and last were used in the Star Trek episode:
Take care, young ladies, and value your wine.
Be watchful of young men in their velvet prime.
Deeply theyll swallow from your finest kegs,
Then swiftly be gone, leaving bitter dregs.
Ahh-ah-ah-ah, bitter dregs.
Your time hold precious, for youth is your gold.
Your beauty, like silver, will tarnish when old.
Memories and dreams shall comfort you not.
When the flow of your sweetness is gone and forgot.
Ahh-ah-ah-ah, gone and forgot.
With smiling words and tender touch,
Man offers little and asks for so much.
He loves in the breathless excitement of night,
Then leaves with your treasure in cold morning light.
Ahh-ah-ah-ah, in cold morning light.")
