Bill Withers - Just The Two Of Us (official video) Pop music crooners of the 20th century 2016-05-22 | William Harrison "Bill" Withers, Jr. (born July 4, 1938) is an American pop/soul singer-songwriter and musician who performed and recorded from 1970 until 1985. Some of his best-known songs are "Lean on Me", "Ain't No Sunshine," "Use Me," "Just the Two of Us", "Lovely Day," and "Grandma's Hands".Bill Withers was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2005 and into the inaugural class of the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame in 2007. Also, in 2007 his "Lean On Me" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.he wrote and produced two songs on the Gladys Knight & the Pips record I Feel a Song, and in October 1974 performed in concert together with James Brown, Etta James, and B. B. King at the historic Rumble in the Jungle fight between Foreman and Ali in Zaire. Footage of his performance was included in the 1996 documentary film When We Were Kings, and he is heard on the accompanying soundtrack.Just the Two of Us" is a 1981 Grammy Award-winning R&B song recorded by Grover Washington, Jr. and Bill Withers. The song appeared on Washington's album Winelight. It reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, and topped the ARC Weekly Top 40 for a week.Regina Belle covered "Just the Two of Us" in 1991 on the Tribute album To Grover, With Love, produced by Jason Miles, which made # 4 on Top Contemporary Jazz Albums Billboard Chart.Bill Withers recorded another version of the song which is included on a CD of his greatest hits. Christian McBride covered the song with overdubbed basses only in a hidden track included in the album Philadelphia Experiment, released on Rope-A-Dope Records. Will Smith sampled "Just the Two of Us" in 1998. This version was parodied in the film Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. It was heard in a TV commercial for Taco Bell that aired during NBC's coverage of Super Bowl XLIII on February 1, 2009. Bill Cosby did a parody version, "Just the Slew of Us", as the theme music for his movie Bill Cosby: Himself.Musicians:Bill Withers - Lead VocalsRalph MacDonald - PercussionSteve Gadd - DrumsEric Gale - GuitarRichard Tee - Fender RhodesMarcus Miller - BassBill Eaton - Oberheim SynthesizerGrover Washington, Jr. - SaxophoneHilda Harris , Ullanda McCullough , Yvonne Lewis - Backing Vocals
Crooning pop music: Anne Murray, Eric Stewart from 10cc Pop music crooners of the 20th century 2019-03-02 | Soft crooning pop music playlist:You Needed Me - Anne MurrayRun Away - 10cc with Andrew Gold on backup vocalsAnne Murray:Morna Anne Murray CC ONS (born June 20, 1945), known professionally as Anne Murray, is a Canadian singer in pop, country, and adult contemporary music whose albums have sold over 55 million copies worldwide during her 40 year career. [1][2][3]Murray was the first Canadian female solo singer to reach No. 1 on the U.S. charts, and also the first to earn a Gold record for one of her signature songs, "Snowbird" (1970).[4] She is often cited as one of the female Canadian artists who paved the way for other international Canadian success stories such as k.d. lang, Céline Dion, and Shania Twain.[5][6] She is also the first woman and the first Canadian to win "Album of the Year" at the 1984 Country Music Association Awards for her Gold-plus 1983 album A Little Good News.10cc:10cc are an English rock band founded in Stockport, England, who achieved their greatest commercial success in the 1970s. The band initially consisted of four musicians – Graham Gouldman, Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley, and Lol Creme – who had written and recorded together for some three years, before assuming the name "10cc" in 1972. 10cc featured two songwriting teams, one "commercial" and one "artistic". Stewart and Gouldman were predominantly pop-songwriters, who created most of the band's accessible songs. By way of contrast, Godley and Creme were the predominantly experimental half of 10cc, featuring an Art School sensibility and cinematically inspired writing.[5]Andrew Gold:Andrew Maurice Gold (August 2, 1951 – June 3, 2011) was an American singer, songwriter, musician and arranger. His works include the US Top 10 single "Lonely Boy" (1977), as well as "Thank You for Being a Friend" (1978) and the UK Top Five hit "Never Let Her Slip Away" (1978). He had further international chart success in the 1980s as the lead singer of Wax, a collaboration with English musician and songwriter Graham Gouldman.Gold played and recorded with artists such as Linda Ronstadt, Paul McCartney, Don Henley, James Taylor, Brian Wilson, Roy Orbison, Ringo Starr, Carly Simon, John Waite, Roxy Music, Jennifer Warnes, Stephen Bishop, America, Nicolette Larson, Maria Muldaur, Neil Diamond, Barbi Benton, Eric Carmen, Juice Newton, Leo Sayer, Freddie Mercury, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Karla Bonoff, Bette Midler, Diana Ross, Cher, Jesse McCartney and J. D. Souther.[1]
Why there is no Barbara Eden in video of 10ccs Im Mandy Fly Me Pop music crooners of the 20th century 2019-03-02 | Barbara Eden:Barbara Eden (born Barbara Jean Morehead, August 23, 1931)[1] is an American film, stage, and television actress, and singer, best known for her starring role of "Jeannie" in the sitcom I Dream of Jeannie.10cc:10cc are an English rock band founded in Stockport, England, who achieved their greatest commercial success in the 1970s. The band initially consisted of four musicians – Graham Gouldman, Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley, and Lol Creme – who had written and recorded together for some three years, before assuming the name "10cc" in 1972. 10cc featured two songwriting teams, one "commercial" and one "artistic". Stewart and Gouldman were predominantly pop-songwriters, who created most of the band's accessible songs. By way of contrast, Godley and Creme were the predominantly experimental half of 10cc, featuring an Art School sensibility and cinematically inspired writing.[5]I'm Mandy Fly Me:"I'm Mandy Fly Me" is a single by 10cc released in 1976. It was taken from the How Dare You! album. It reached No. 6 on the UK Singles Chart.[1]
Why there is no Luke & Laura Version of Run Away by 10cc w/ Andrew Gold backing up Pop music crooners of the 20th century 2019-02-03 | Originally a UK single from 1982, written and produced by the late Andrew Gold, Eric Stewart & Graham Gouldman.Runaway is a 10cc single . It comes from their album Ten out of 10 . The single was only released in England.It is one of the songs written by Andrew Gold, Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman in the period that it looked like Gold became the producer of the album. That did not end and Runaway disappeared on the shelf, but appeared on the American version of the album.Runaway is used as Runaway (runaways) and Run Away (run away). The background choir is similar to the choir from I'm Not in Love .B-side was Action Man in Motown Suit , which featured both the European and American pressing of the album.Personnel:Eric Stewart: Lead Vocal, Guitar, Synthesizer, Backing VocalGraham Gouldman: Bass, Backing Vocal, GuitarAndrew Gold: Backing Vocal, Electric Piano, Synthesizer, PercussionMichael Boddicker, James Newton Howard & Suzanne Ciani: Synclavier
10cc- Run Away -American Version with Luke & Laura Pop music crooners of the 20th century 2019-02-03 | Originally a UK single from 1982, written and produced by the late Andrew Gold, Eric Stewart & Graham Gouldman.Runaway is a 10cc single . It comes from their album Ten out of 10 . The single was only released in England.It is one of the songs written by Andrew Gold, Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman in the period that it looked like Gold became the producer of the album. That did not end and Runaway disappeared on the shelf, but appeared on the American version of the album.Runaway is used as Runaway (runaways) and Run Away (run away). The background choir is similar to the choir from I'm Not in Love .B-side was Action Man in Motown Suit , which featured both the European and American pressing of the album.Personnel:Eric Stewart: Lead Vocal, Guitar, Synthesizer, Backing VocalGraham Gouldman: Bass, Backing Vocal, GuitarAndrew Gold: Backing Vocal, Electric Piano, Synthesizer, PercussionMichael Boddicker, James Newton Howard & Suzanne Ciani: Synclavier
For You and I -10cc - with Eric Stewart crooning on lead vocal- Estonian subtitles Pop music crooners of the 20th century 2018-09-06 | As allmusic.com once said:However, the album's singles present a few bright moments: "For You And I" is a lovely ballad that fortifies its attractive melody with some strong vocal harmonies.For You and I is more of a natural successor to 10cc’s work throughout the 70s. This song cleverly shows off the two sides of the band, starting off as a dreamy ballad swamped by synthesizer strings and turning into an all-out guitar-bass-drums pop-rocker on the chorus. Stewart’s tune is winningly inventive and moving, switching naturally between the minor and major keys of the two parts, but it’s his and Gouldmann’s lyrics that bring the song near classic status. An unusual philosophical discourse about the differences between people and how we judge others based on our own criteria, rather than judging them by theirs, the pop structure prevents this rather wordy song getting too clever for itself (and nicely fits this album’s themes of different countries and different cultures). Listen out too for some typically clever 10cc wordplay in amongst all this angst, which is easy to miss first time around: ‘She may not be beautiful but don’t make it plain’ sings Stewart in the second verse, urging his narrator to understand his girlfriend’s fears and insecurities, which seem silly to him when he knows how real his love is for her. The best bit of the song is probably the moog solo which suddenly appears out of nowhere in the song’s second half, which taps into the song’s hidden melancholy and does its best to sound like the tears welling up in the girlfriend’s eyes. A forgotten highlight of the record, For You And I is a good example of how 10cc – long dismissed by critics as being poppy and frivolous – were perhaps the most moving and quietly serious of Britain’s ‘comedy’ bands.
10cc -The Things we Do For Love - with Eric Stewart on lead vocals Pop music crooners of the 20th century 2018-07-17 | 'The Things We Do For Love' is much better, putting to good use more of the lessons learned over the previous years. Many fans were expecting Eric and Graham to simply rehash 'I'm Not In Love' for their first album as a duo (their biggest hit to date) but this is the closest we come: similarly lush (though not as electronically treated) 'aahing' vocals, a gorgeous melody and lyrics that look at love and romance from a slightly off-kilter viewpoint. The narrator of this song clearly views the love he feels for a girl as some form of illness: why else would he keep running back to her and their unstable relationship even when he knows it's all going to fall apart again sometime in the future and hang around 'in the rain and snow' just to see her when she doesn't seem to care anything like as much back. Even the lyrics in the verses seem to be conspiring against the narrator and telling him this relationship isn't going to work: when he tries to call her the phone lines are down. Eventually the narrator comes to two realizations: that love is a gamble every bit as risky as the nearest casino (only betting with hearts rather than money means even more is riding on the result) and that, for a relationship to work, compromises have to be made on both sides and you'll never truly get what you want- which may well make this the least romantic song ever (even 'I'm Not In Love' is 'secretly' a love song). Impressively multi-layered, this is a sad song at heart that knows there'll never be a happy ending, but it's all dressed up so cleverly (bouncy tempo, catchy chorus, singalong duh-de-duh-dee riff) that it still sounds like a happy song and works equally well as both. For me the masterstroke comes at the end of the middle eight when the song suddenly sadly shuffles off down a minor key ('You got me crawling up the wall') and seems to despondently give up on the relationship ever working, only to surge forward back in a major key and full of the joys of spring, the notes spiraling up to the sky. A clever song, written from the heart and the head pretty much equally, 'The Things We Do For Love' was a deserved big hit (although curiously it actually made #6, one place lower than 'Judge') and almost single-handedly saves the album. If Godley and Creme weren't jealous of their colleague's ability to write songs that were both deeper and more commercial than their own then they should have been.
10cc - Im Not In Love - with Eric Stewart crooning on lead vocals Pop music crooners of the 20th century 2018-07-08 | The serious version of this song might have been 10 times better than the epic original with Kathy's part added, so I said:I removed Kathy Redfern's whispered voice that wasn't the perfect fit for the song about neglect that Eric Stewart was singing, because I feel the epic version of this song is too long and too boring which the BBC couldn't play from the start, so I had to shorten it down to 4 minutes and 25 seconds, which is a good length for me. Here's what the story said about the original with the irrelevant part added: Next up is the song that everybody knows, ‘I’m Not In Love’. Eric Stewart’s perennial about self-denial would have been a classic in songwriting form anyway (it was inspired by an argument he had with his wife, after she accused him of never saying he loved her and he replied that saying it everyday would become a cliché). It’s what 10cc did with it that makes it special though – Godley, Crème and Gouldman all sang ‘aaaah’ to every individual note of the scale, so that Stewart (the engineer) could fade them up at any time he wanted in the final mix and swap around different notes to make up different chords. This is such a clever, unique selling point that it’s almost got in the way of the song, but listen again to how cleverly the narrator’s self-denial about falling in love becomes obvious to everyone but himself. There have been so many love songs in the last 50 years I think I’ll scream if I hear another one, but this song’s clever twist (it’s an ‘I’m not in love song’) makes it one of the cleverest 45s ever produced. The only down-side for me is the rather weak backing of a simple acoustic and keyboard, which do an effective job of conjuring up a romantic mood out of nothing against the narrator’s will but misses the band interplay and range of ideas of the band at their best. I’m also deeply confused as to the middle section where the band’s telephonist rings up to tell us ‘big boys don’t cry’ – what’s this section supposed to mean? If it’s the narrator’s (non) girlfriend then why does she say something she’s not supposed to know about? And if it’s the narrator’s conscience, then why does it have a female voice? I’m confused…It goes without saying that the band added the section in afterwards after realizing that needed something else to liven up he middle bit.
10cc - People In Love - with Eric Stewart crooning soulfully on lead vocals Pop music crooners of the 20th century 2018-07-08 | "People in Love" is a song by British band 10cc, released as a single in 1977. It appears on the album Deceptive Bends and was the group's third and final single from the album. The song reached No. 40 on the Billboard Hot 100,[1] No. 74 in Australia and No. 90 in Canada.
Interview with former 10cc member Eric Stewart - American Version Pop music crooners of the 20th century 2018-07-08 | It is quite possible that you have something by Eric Stewart in your music collection at this very moment without even realizing it. Eric was a member of Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders, eventually singing lead on their 1966 hit “Groovy Kind Of Love” after Fontana had left the fold. By 1969, with the Mindbenders in his rear view mirror, Stewart was recording backing tracks for Bubblegum hits at his Strawberry Studios facilities. His recording mates included hit songwriter Graham Gouldman and multi-instrumentalists Lol Creme and Kevin Godley. In 1970, Stewart, Creme and Godley released the surprise hit “Neanderthal Man” under the group name Hotlegs. Two years later, American singer/songwriter Neil Sedaka arrived in the UK in hopes of recording new material and making a comeback. His backing band featured Stewart, Gouldman, Godley and Creme. Sedaka and this quartet of talented musicians recorded two albums together, both directly responsible for the enormous success that Sedaka and 10cc would achieve within a few short years.
10cc - Im Mandy, Fly Me - with Eric Stewart crooning softly on lead vocals Pop music crooners of the 20th century 2018-07-08 | 'I'm Mandy, Fly Me' by Eric, Graham and Lol begins with the hook-line from 'Clockwork Creep' (on second album 'Sheet Music') and an airplane flying overhead before being swiped aside by a fat bass line, exotic synthesiser sound effects, a vocoder apparently whispering 'amazing grace' and whistling. We find out later that the airplane has crash-landed in the water, with the narrator thrown out of the plane (his first line is that he's 'on the outside looking in') but rather than sound petrified or angry, the narrator bobbing in the water is ecstatic. The poster he sees on the side of the aircraft, of an air-hostess named Mandy, 'with a smile as bright as sunshine' causes him to hallucinate (or so it seems) and takes him out of himself ('The world was spinning like a ball, and then it wasn't there at all!') Mandy gives him the 'kiss of life' that saves him, his addled brain setting off on a journey of exotic acoustic guitars and psychedelic effects that ends only when he's pulled from the wreckage; he asks for Mandy but she's not there. A love song to an imaginary person, created by a situation so intense and extreme that the 'real essence' of life comes into sharp contrast, 'Mandy' is balancing a lot of things for a humble catchy single. For a start we don't know who to believe: the narrator is clearly awake enough to realise that what's happening to him seems like a film (Mandy acts 'just like the girl in Dr No, no no no') and yet when he tells his rescuers later that it might have all been in his head they tell him 'no no no no' and that she was was real, yet currently missing - do they mean this? Or is that simply a ruse to keep him awake and conscious in the hope that the pair might be reunited? (note the sheer amount of denies in each of those two lines, the sort of things you do when you're lying to someone). The key line of this song is 'if your chance would you take it?' - would you be prepared to create a whole new life for yourself in your mind to keep yourself alive? And if you did, what would happen to you afterwards when you realised you were making it all up? It's interesting in this context that the band chose an 'air hostess' as their 'exotic woman' (the first in a whole sequence of imaginary confident Eric Stewart girls who'll end up seducing him on subways and all sorts in albums to come): air hostesses never seem quite real anyway, what with all that make-up and being made up to look the same. This clearly isn't a 'real' woman: she's the sort you see everywhere if you travel by plane a lot and even that name - Mandy - isn't a common one amongst 'real' people, though it's used a lot in books. The result is a fourth straight song in a row that's easy to admire and yet there's something difficult to fall in love with compared to earlier classic 10cc singles: there's too many questions and not enough answers for this to be an 'easy ride', with the sudden switch of gears every time the band break out for another instrumental making this song less easy on the ears than, say, 'I'm Not In Love' or 'Rubber Bullets'. Still, this is a lot of people's favourite 10cc song for a reason: its a love song told with such a radical twist that no one on first hearing could have heard it coming (if they'd understood it at all), traditionally loved by 'true' fans (although interestingly co-writer Lol Creme wasn't one of them; it was this song he quoted as evidence that the band were growing stale). In actuality 'Mandy' is a clever hybrid of catchy commercialism and bonkers uniqueness that couldn't possibly have been thought up by another band, but there are better mixtures of the same ingredients around, even on this same album.
It Doesnt Matter At All -10cc - with Eric Stewart singing the lead a la Paul Carrack Pop music crooners of the 20th century 2018-07-08 | ‘It Doesn’t Matter At All’ is one of the album highlights. A late choice as a second single, it died a death which is a great shame because while perhaps not as inventive or original as some of the band’s best biggest hits it features one of their loveliest melodies. A sort of ‘I’m Not In Love’ from the other perspective, this is someone deep in love trying to get his loved one to admit that she is too and that it’s the rest of the world who should be ignorant of their love. People call the narrator ‘crazy’ and ‘a fool’ for being in love, but that ‘doesn’t matter at all’ if she loves him too. The hint is that the narrator is being mocked for being overly-emotional and OTT in admitting his feelings (in contrast to the in-denial narrator of ‘Love’ who makes up excuses for his signs of affection) and – in the third verse – that this might be a one-way uncomfortable relationship, with the narrator a stalker (‘Hey I’ve been talked about the way I’ve been following you – but I don’t give a damn when it feels so right!’) Eric Stewart proves again that he’s one of the best pop singers of the day with a great vocal full of love and honey, the arrangement is subtle (with O’Malley’s muted, mournful sounding synthesiser part particularly spot-on) and there are more hooks in this one song than on the rest of the album. Of course, we’ve heard this sort of song lots of times before over the years and there isn’t the usual 10cc intellectual twist going on here – but arguably this song sounds better for not having one, adding a touch of emotion to an album that badly needs it. Lyrically, too, this is nothing special but it does its job and there’s a particularly strong second verse where the narrator says thinking without feeling is simply stupid (‘You’re living in a world where reason is a waste of time, nobody talking, the atmosphere cold!’) A likeable song – whatever the narrator’s motives really are – this song’s quiet, humble melody and appealing sounds should have made the song a much bigger hit than it was. Sadly it’s the only song from this whole album to be re-issued as part of the band’s ‘Tenology’ box set in 2012 – although at least its one of the best things here.
Run Away - 10cc - with Eric Stewart crooning soulfully on lead vocals Pop music crooners of the 20th century 2018-07-08 | Runaway is a 10cc single . It comes from their album Ten out of 10 . The single was only released in England.It is one of the songs written by Andrew Gold , Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman in the period that it looked like Gold became the producer of the album. That did not end and Runaway disappeared on the shelf, but appeared on the American version of the album.Runaway is used as Runaway (runaways) and Run Away (run away). The background choir is similar to the choir from I'm Not in Love .B-side was Action Man in Motown Suit , which featured both the European and American pressing of the album.
Sunday Brunch Music: Im Not In Love- Dennis Englewood (10cc cover) - Esperanto subtitles Pop music crooners of the 20th century 2017-08-06 | Note: When we did Dennis Englewood's creamy soul ballad version of the 10cc song "I'm Not In Love" in an American style, it's a good thing we left out the 'aaaah' part.It was a number one.Everywhere.Absolutely, and a revolutionary track really, and it's taken ages to put together. Now of course, you could do that vocal sound on a, on a computer.On a computer. It's a doddle, yeah, it's a doddle.Well, listen um, I thoroughly enjoyed meeting you today er, as you can tell, I'm a, I'm a huge fan of yours. I think you've done some fantastic stuff over the years.Thank you, Alan.Thank you, thank you very much for joining me on "I Write The Songs"It's been good talking to you.It's really nice to meet you, Eric, and er, could we go out with, with a bit of I'm Not In Love?I'm Not In Love? Yeah. [starts playing on the Fender Rhodes Eric adds " haaaaaaahhhhhhhh"] silver voices. I'm not in love so don't forget it. It's just a silly phase I'm going through. And just because I call you up, don't get me wrong, don't think you've got it made. I'm not in love, no, no, it's because. I like to see you but then again that doesn't mean you mean that much to me. So if I call you, don't make a fuss. Don't tell your friends about the two of us. I'm not in love, no, no, it's because. Piano. Ha ha ha haaaaah-ah Little bass solo here and then the secretary Cathy Redfern comes in to interfere in the middle of this song and says irrelevantly Be quiet, big boys don't cry, then echoes of her last line. I keep your picture upon the wall, it hides a nasty stain that's lying there. But don't you ask me to give it back. I know you know it doesn't mean that much to me. I'm not in love, no, no, it's because. Ooh you wait a long time for me, ooh ooh you wait a long time, ooh you wait a long time for me, ooh ooh you wait a long time. I'm not in love so don't forget it. It's just a silly phase I'm going through. And just because I call you up, don't get me wrong, don't think you've got it made. Ooh ooh. I'm not in love, I'm not in love. Ha ha ooh, forgot the other 256 voices woohooohooooh something like that?
Haitian Creole cusine music: Im Not In Love-Dennis Englewood-Haitian Creole subtitles Pop music crooners of the 20th century 2016-10-07 | Originally performed by 10ccWriters: Eric Stewart & Graham GouldmanBacking singer Sue Fleming said, "I don't care for the be-quiet-big-boys-don't-cry stuff! That part in the middle is false! I can't say it in the song like that! I'd rather myself be singing 'Ooh, you'll wait a long time for me/Ooh, you'll wait a long time' twice in a row. Even a grumpy old man would say 'Be quiet big boys don't cry, my foot! That part in the middle makes no sense!"Here's the story:Eric Stewart spent three weeks recording Gouldman, Godley and Creme singing "ahhh" 16 times for each note of the chromatic scale, building up a "choir" of 48 voices for each note of the scale. The main problem facing the band was how to keep the vocal notes going for an infinite length of time, but Creme suggested that they could get round this issue by using tape loops. Stewart created loops of about 12 feet in length by feeding the loop at one end though the tape heads of the stereo recorder in the studio, and at the other end through a capstan roller fixed to the top of a microphone stand, and tensioned the tape. By creating long loops the 'blip' caused by the splice in each tape loop could be drowned out by the rest of the backing track, providing that the blips in each loop did not coincide with each other. Having created twelve tape loops for each of the twelve notes of the chromatic scale, Stewart recorded each loop to a separate track of the mixing desk. This effectively turned the mixing desk into a musical instrument complete with all the notes of the chromatic scale, which the four members together then "played", fading up three or four channels at a time to create "chords" for the song's melody. Stewart had put gaffer's tape across the bottom of each channel, which meant it was impossible to completely fade down the tracks for each note: this resulted in the constant background hiss of vocals heard throughout the song.[3] Composer and music theory professor Thomas MacFarlane considered the resulting "ethereal voices" to be a major influence on Billy Joel's hit ballad "Just the Way You Are", released two years later.[8]A basic guide track was recorded first in order to help create the melody using the vocals, but the proper instrumentation was added after the vocals had been recorded. In keeping with Godley's idea to focus on the voices, only a few instruments were used: a Fender Rhodes electric piano played by Stewart, a Gibson 335 electric guitar played by Gouldman for the rhythm melody, and a bass drum sound played by Godley on a Moog synthesizer which Creme had recently purchased and learnt how to program. The drum sound that was created was very soft and more akin to a heartbeat, in order not to overpower the rest of the track. The song does not feature a standard bass guitar line, but Gouldman added a bass guitar solo during the middle eight of the song, and Creme played piano during the middle eight and the bridge. The middle eight originally included lyrics, but Stewart and Gouldman were not happy with them and removed them, with Creme's piano replicating the original melody of the discarded lyrics. The middle eight and the outro also feature a toy music box which was recorded and double tracked out of phase.[3]Once the musical backing had been completed Stewart recorded the lead vocal and Godley and Creme the backing vocals, but even though the song was finished Godley felt it was still lacking something. Stewart said, "Lol remembered he had said something into the grand piano mics when he was laying down the solos. He'd said 'Be quiet, big boys don't cry' — heaven knows why, but I soloed it and we all agreed that the idea sounded very interesting if we could just find the right voice to speak the words. Just at that point the door to the control room opened and our secretary Kathy [Redfern] looked in and whispered 'Eric, sorry to bother you. There's a telephone call for you.' Lol jumped up and said 'That's the voice, her voice is perfect!'"[7] The group agreed that Redfern was the ideal person, but Redfern was unconvinced and had to be coaxed into recording her vocal contribution, using the same whispered voice that she had used when entering the control room. These whispered lyrics would later serve as the inspiration for the name of the 1980s band Boys Don't Cry.
Coffee Break Music: Im Not In Love-Dennis Englewood-Estonian subtitles Pop music crooners of the 20th century 2016-10-04 | 10CC’s ‘I’m Not In Love’ is one of rock’s greatest love songs, one that is loved by everyone. Work on the song began in late 1974 and was finished in 1975 so that it could be included in the band’s ground-breaking album, The Original Soundtrack .The level of care taken by Stewart and the band over this record is no better illustrated than through the three weeks that Stewart spent recording Gouldman, Godley and Creme singing “ahhh” 16 times for each note of the chromatic scale, building up a “choir” of 48 voices. Eventually Creme suggested that Stewart should create tape loops, these were 12 feet in length raising technical challenges of their own.“The appeal of the song,” according to Eric, “is simple. It’s exactly what people want to say to their loved one. It’s become ‘our record’ to countless couples. Somehow it conveys that initial rush of pleasure that the four of us had when we recorded it.”The Original Soundtrack came out in March 1975 in the UK and ‘I’m Not In Lover’ was released, first in the US, in early May, making the Hot 100 on 17 May. It steadily climbed the charts until it made #2 on 26 July, where it stalled for three weeks, kept from No.1 by Van McCoy’s DISCO classic, ‘The Hustle’, The Eagles and ‘One Of These Nights’ and The Bee Gee’s, ‘Jive Talkin’ The single made the UK charts on the last day of May and a month later it spent two weeks at the top.
Coffee Break Music: Early In The Morning-Larry Santos-Estonian subtitles Pop music crooners of the 20th century 2016-10-04 | ...
Sunday Brunch Music: My Lady Just Cares For Me - George Stewart-Spanish subtitles Pop music crooners of the 20th century 2016-10-04 | Male version of the Nina Simone female version, "My Baby Just Cares For Me."
Café Music: The Things We Do For Love- Karen West (modified10cc cover)- Estonian subtitles Pop music crooners of the 20th century 2016-10-04 | Originally done by 10ccWritten by Eric Stewart & Graham Gouldman'The Things We Do For Love' is much better, putting to good use more of the lessons learned over the previous years. Many fans were expecting Eric and Graham to simply rehash 'I'm Not In Love' for their first album as a duo (their biggest hit to date) but this is the closest we come: similarly lush (though not as electronically treated) 'aahing' vocals, a gorgeous melody and lyrics that look at love and romance from a slightly off-kilter viewpoint. The narrator of this song clearly views the love he feels for a girl as some form of illness: why else would he keep running back to her and their unstable relationship even when he knows it's all going to fall apart again sometime in the future and hang around 'in the rain and snow' just to see her when she doesn't seem to care anything like as much back. Even the lyrics in the verses seem to be conspiring against the narrator and telling him this relationship isn't going to work: when he tries to call her the phone lines are down. Eventually the narrator comes to two realizations: that love is a gamble every bit as risky as the nearest casino (only betting with hearts rather than money means even more is riding on the result) and that, for a relationship to work, compromises have to be made on both sides and you'll never truly get what you want- which may well make this the least romantic song ever (even 'I'm Not In Love' is 'secretly' a love song). Impressively multi-layered, this is a sad song at heart that knows there'll never be a happy ending, but it's all dressed up so cleverly (bouncy tempo, catchy chorus, singalong duh-de-duh-dee riff) that it still sounds like a happy song and works equally well as both. For me the masterstroke comes at the end of the middle eight when the song suddenly sadly shuffles off down a minor key ('You got me crawling up the wall') and seems to despondently give up on the relationship ever working, only to surge forward back in a major key and full of the joys of spring, the notes spiraling up to the sky. A clever song, written from the heart and the head pretty much equally, 'The Things We Do For Love' was a deserved big hit (although curiously it actually made #6, one place lower than 'Judge') and almost single-handedly saves the album. If Godley and Creme weren't jealous of their colleague's ability to write songs that were both deeper and more commercial than their own then they should have been.
Café Music: People In Love Joyce Berry 10cc soft soul ballad cover Estonian subtitles Pop music crooners of the 20th century 2016-10-04 | "People in Love" is a song by British band 10cc, released as a single in 1977. It appears on the album Deceptive Bends and was the group's third and final single from the album. The song reached No. 40 on the Billboard Hot 100,[1] No. 74 in Australia and No. 90 in Canada.
Cocktail Music: The Things We Do For Love- Karen West (soulful 10cc cover)-Esperanto subtitles Pop music crooners of the 20th century 2016-09-02 | 'The Things We Do For Love' is much better, putting to good use more of the lessons learned over the previous years. Many fans were expecting Eric and Graham to simply rehash 'I'm Not In Love' for their first album as a duo (their biggest hit to date) but this is the closest we come: similarly lush (though not as electronically treated) 'aahing' vocals, a gorgeous melody and lyrics that look at love and romance from a slightly off-kilter viewpoint. The narrator of this song clearly views the love he feels for a girl as some form of illness: why else would he keep running back to her and their unstable relationship even when he knows it's all going to fall apart again sometime in the future and hang around 'in the rain and snow' just to see her when she doesn't seem to care anything like as much back. Even the lyrics in the verses seem to be conspiring against the narrator and telling him this relationship isn't going to work: when he tries to call her the phone lines are down. Eventually the narrator comes to two realizations: that love is a gamble every bit as risky as the nearest casino (only betting with hearts rather than money means even more is riding on the result) and that, for a relationship to work, compromises have to be made on both sides and you'll never truly get what you want- which may well make this the least romantic song ever (even 'I'm Not In Love' is 'secretly' a love song). Impressively multi-layered, this is a sad song at heart that knows there'll never be a happy ending, but it's all dressed up so cleverly (bouncy tempo, catchy chorus, singalong duh-de-duh-dee riff) that it still sounds like a happy song and works equally well as both. For me the masterstroke comes at the end of the middle eight when the song suddenly sadly shuffles off down a minor key ('You got me crawling up the wall') and seems to despondently give up on the relationship ever working, only to surge forward back in a major key and full of the joys of spring, the notes spiraling up to the sky. A clever song, written from the heart and the head pretty much equally, 'The Things We Do For Love' was a deserved big hit (although curiously it actually made #6, one place lower than 'Judge') and almost single-handedly saves the album. If Godley and Creme weren't jealous of their colleague's ability to write songs that were both deeper and more commercial than their own then they should have been.
Sunday Brunch Music People In Love Joyce Berry 10cc sweet soul ballad cover Cebuano subtitles Pop music crooners of the 20th century 2016-09-02 | ...
Sunday Brunch Music: The Things We Do For Love- Karen West (10cc cover)- French subtitles Pop music crooners of the 20th century 2016-09-02 | "The Things We Do for Love" is a song by British band 10cc, released as a single in 1976. It later featured on the album Deceptive Bends released in 1977 and was the group's first release after the departure of band members Godley and Creme. The song was a hit in various countries worldwide, reaching number one in Canada,[2] as well as peaking at number 6 in the UK,[3] number 5 in the US[4] and Australia, number 13 in the Netherlands,[5] and number 2 in Ireland.[6]
Cocktail Music Early In The Morning Larry Santos Hmong subtitles Pop music crooners of the 20th century 2016-09-01 | ...
Cocktail Music: Im Not In Love- Dennis Englewood (10cc soul ballad cover)-Javanese subtitles Pop music crooners of the 20th century 2016-09-01 | American soul singer and backing vocalist Dennis Englewood said, "When I first heard my favorite popular 10cc song about broken relationships, called, 'I'm Not In Love' that I wanted to do soul ballad record of instead of an epic record, I noticed that there were too many Synclavier choir voices that sounded awful to me, so I said, 'I don't like those Synclavier voices that are so horrible! They don't seem right to me! I can't use that in my soul ballad remake! I'd rather be using real instruments in my sweet soul ballad cover of the song, originally done by British band 10cc.' When I also heard Kathy Warren, the studio secretary from Strawberry Recording Studios say the irrelevant line: 'Be quiet, big boys don't cry', I said 'No, I can't say 'Be quiet, big boys don't cry', because that part in the middle sounds very irrelevant and it doesn't fit the breakup song! Over the instrumental break I'd rather not say it! I like to make this breakup song more relevant and sing-songy, so on my soulful version of that song I want to sing in the range of sweet tenor, almost like in a low falsetto like David Pack from the pop group Ambrosia and Russell Thompkins, Jr. from the pop-soul group The Stylistics, plus me and my friends as backing singers wanted to sound like Ashford & Simpson on backing vocals on that tune in order to avoid the strange wall of sound."store.cdbaby.com/cd/dennisenglewood2dennisenglewood.bandcamp.com/album/im-not-in-loveAs the original once said:10cc's "I'm Not in Love" was totally original in sound and production in the mid 70's. Growing up listening to Top 40 radio, we heard only the shortened edit which is a shame since the full song (6 minutes +) is a masterpiece both from a lyrical and production standpoint. I recall hearing at one time the group used a large chorus to get the massive backing vocal. Also slick is the heartbeat-like tempo.
People In Love -covered by Joyce Berry (original by 10cc) - Vietnamese subtitles Pop music crooners of the 20th century 2016-07-14 | This is the female contralto version of the 10cc tune as her third single, taken from her second album, "Believe It Or Not", written by Eric Stewart & Graham Gouldman with gender changed from 'her' to 'his' and from 'she' to 'he' where she sings in a lower register, lower than Eric Stewart from British pop group 10cc.When American blue-eyed soul/pop singer and backing vocalist Joyce Berry was younger back in 1977, she heard a pop song on the radio, called, "People In Love" by British pop band 10cc she would be more familiar with and then also bought both a small 45 RPM single and a sheet music of the same song, so she had to learn the words to that song over and over again until she was satisfied with it, so she decided to sing it lower in her smoky alto than band member Eric Stewart in his tenor. Their 1977 original is the Leo Sayer-style ballad according to amazon.com though other critics from rateyourmusic.com complained that their original was a bit too stale, a lot too bread-and-butter while her 1982 soft and percussive ballad version with soft shakers, soft drums and soft congas playing is the Timi Yuro-style ballad.Since Joyce is a straightforward pop/soul singer with a soft ballad voice in a real authentic style, she moves away from the Godley & Creme artistic, abstract art-rock stuff, progressive rock, avant-garde, rock opera and experimental stuff when she said "No, I don't like the abstract art-rock stuff of Godley & Creme because I find it bland and boring that lacks soul. I don't like it. I prefer some of Eric Stewart & Graham Gouldman only from the mid-'70s better that have more soul than that when they made such real authentic pop music that I'm always crazy about.", so she decided to focus more on some of the straightforward Stewart & Gouldman pop stuff that she is more comfortable with.store.cdbaby.com/cd/joyceberry1
People In Love -Joyce Berry - Yoruba subtitles Pop music crooners of the 20th century 2016-07-14 | This is the female contralto version of the 10cc tune as her third single, taken from her second album, "Believe It Or Not", written by Eric Stewart & Graham Gouldman with gender changed from 'her' to 'his' and from 'she' to 'he' where she sings in a lower register, lower than Eric Stewart from British pop group 10cc.When American blue-eyed soul/pop singer and backing vocalist Joyce Berry was younger back in 1977, she heard a pop song on the radio, called, "People In Love" by British pop band 10cc she would be more familiar with and then also bought both a small 45 RPM single and a sheet music of the same song, so she had to learn the words to that song over and over again until she was satisfied with it, so she decided to sing it lower in her smoky alto than band member Eric Stewart in his tenor. Their 1977 original is the Leo Sayer-style ballad according to amazon.com though other critics from rateyourmusic.com complained that their original was a bit too stale, a lot too bread-and-butter while her 1982 soft and percussive ballad version with soft shakers, soft drums and soft congas playing is the Timi Yuro-style ballad.Since Joyce is a straightforward pop/soul singer with a soft ballad voice in a real authentic style, she moves away from the Godley & Creme artistic, abstract art-rock stuff, progressive rock, avant-garde, rock opera and experimental stuff when she said "No, I don't like the abstract art-rock stuff of Godley & Creme because I find it bland and boring that lacks soul. I don't like it. I prefer some of Eric Stewart & Graham Gouldman only from the mid-'70s better that have more soul than that when they made such real authentic pop music that I'm always crazy about.", so she decided to focus more on some of the straightforward Stewart & Gouldman pop stuff that she is more comfortable with.rocktome.com/discover/release/86
Im Not In Love - soulful remake of 10cc song by Dennis Englewood - Nepali subtitles Pop music crooners of the 20th century 2016-07-14 | This is Dennis Englewood's second single as a Philly soul ballad remake of the 10cc tune, written by Eric Stewart & Graham Gouldman off from his only one album, "Satisfaction".When backing singers Dennis Englewood himself, Joyce Berry, Sue Fleming and then-12-year-old Laurie Maitland and Philly soul producer Thom Bell, who worked with songwriting partner Linda Creed, for pop-soul group The Stylistics, heard "I'm Not In Love" by 10cc they were complaining, "Oh, my God, too many synthesizers playing on that original! We don't like that strange abstract tape hiss that we can't deal with! That nauseous, irrelevant mid-section where the woman hushed her baby child to sleep at night from crying or vomiting by saying, 'Be quiet, big boys don't cry.' that turned our tummies inside out! We all prefer the Fender Rhodes electric piano and rhythm guitar playing and also the soft and buttery smooth tenor of Eric Stewart from that group in that song that all enjoy listening to. On the other hand their original tune needed a little more work by adding real live drums, shakers, bongos and congas besides the bass drum itself alone to make it more polished, so why don't we do it with real instruments playing on our Philly soul ballad version of the 10cc tune, 'I'm Not In Love' to make it as a Philly soul dancer instead of too many ethereal synclavier voices? Instead of us singing the 'ahh' part to create the strange wall of sound just like 3 members from that group, named, Kevin Godley, Laurence Neil Creme and Graham Gouldman in a British style that sounded so wrong, we wanted to sound like a decent family of backing singers, named, David Pack from the pop group Ambrosia, Royce Jones, David Lasley and Jo Ann Harris or Myrna Matthews, Ashford & Simpson, Vivian Cherry and Hilda Harris on backing vocals behind Dennis himself, who performed lead on that song in the style of David Pack from the pop group Ambrosia to create the American sweet soul/pop sound so natural, so right."store.cdbaby.com/cd/dennisenglewood2
Dennis Englewood - Im Not In Love R&B/soul ballad cover of the 10cc song - Italian subtitles Pop music crooners of the 20th century 2016-07-12 | This is Dennis Englewood's only one lone one-off single as a Philly soul ballad remake of the 10cc tune, written by Eric Stewart & Graham Gouldman off from his only one album, "Satisfaction".When backing singers Dennis Englewood himself, Joyce Berry, Sue Fleming and then-12-year-old Laurie Maitland and Philly soul producer Thom Bell, who worked with songwriting partner Linda Creed, for pop-soul group The Stylistics, heard "I'm Not In Love" by 10cc they were complaining, "Oh, my God, too many synthesizers playing on that original! We don't like that strange abstract tape hiss that we can't deal with! We don't like the way studio secretary Kathy Redfern scolded Eric Stewart in midsection to whisper aggressively in an abrupt manner, 'Be quiet, big boys don't cry.' We hate it. We all prefer the Fender Rhodes electric piano and rhythm guitar playing and also the soft and buttery smooth tenor of Eric Stewart from that group in that song that all enjoy listening to. On the other hand their original tune needed a little more work by adding real live drums, shakers, bongos and congas besides the bass drum itself alone to make it more polished, so why don't we do it with real instruments playing on our Philly soul ballad version of the 10cc tune, 'I'm Not In Love' to make it as a Philly soul dancer instead of too many ethereal synclavier voices? Instead of us singing the 'ahh' part to create the strange wall of sound just like 3 members from that group, named, Kevin Godley, Laurence Neil Creme and Graham Gouldman in a British style that sounded so wrong, we wanted to sound like a decent family of backing singers, named, David Pack from the pop group Ambrosia, Royce Jones, David Lasley and Jo Ann Harris or Myrna Matthews, Ashford & Simpson, Vivian Cherry and Hilda Harris on backing vocals behind Dennis himself, who performed lead on that song in the style of David Pack from the pop group Ambrosia to create the American sweet soul/pop sound so natural, so right."itunes.apple.com/us/album/im-not-in-love-single/1265345231amazon.com/Im-Not-Love-Dennis-Englewood/dp/B074CWLD2Sstore.cdbaby.com/cd/dennisenglewood2
Joyce Berry - People In Love - Italian subtitles - Buy on ITunes Pop music crooners of the 20th century 2016-07-12 | This is the female contralto version of the 10cc tune as her third single, taken from her second album, "Believe It Or Not", written by Eric Stewart & Graham Gouldman with gender changed from 'her' to 'his' and from 'she' to 'he' where she sings in a lower register, lower than Eric Stewart from British pop group 10cc.When American blue-eyed soul/pop singer and backing vocalist Joyce Berry was younger back in 1977, she heard a pop song on the radio, called, "People In Love" by British pop band 10cc she would be more familiar with and then also bought both a small 45 RPM single and a sheet music of the same song, so she had to learn the words to that song over and over again until she was satisfied with it, so she decided to sing it lower in her smoky alto than band member Eric Stewart in his tenor. Their 1977 original is the Leo Sayer-style ballad according to amazon.com though other critics from rateyourmusic.com complained that their original was a bit too stale, a lot too bread-and-butter while her 1982 soft and percussive ballad version with soft shakers, soft drums and soft congas playing is the Timi Yuro-style ballad.Since Joyce is a straightforward pop/soul singer with a soft ballad voice in a real authentic style, she moves away from the Godley & Creme artistic, abstract art-rock stuff, progressive rock, avant-garde, rock opera and experimental stuff when she said "No, I don't like the abstract art-rock stuff of Godley & Creme because I find it bland and boring that lacks soul. I don't like it. I prefer some of Eric Stewart & Graham Gouldman only from the mid-'70s better that have more soul than that when they made such real authentic pop music that I'm always crazy about.", so she decided to focus more on some of the straightforward Stewart & Gouldman pop stuff that she is more comfortable with.
Joyce Berry - People In Love (1982) - Icelandic subtitles Pop music crooners of the 20th century 2016-07-12 | This is the female contralto version of the 10cc tune as her third single, taken from her second album, "Believe It Or Not", written by Eric Stewart & Graham Gouldman with gender changed from 'her' to 'his' and from 'she' to 'he' where she sings in a lower register, lower than Eric Stewart from British pop group 10cc.When American blue-eyed soul/pop singer and backing vocalist Joyce Berry was younger back in 1977, she heard a pop song on the radio, called, "People In Love" by British pop band 10cc she would be more familiar with and then also bought both a small 45 RPM single and a sheet music of the same song, so she had to learn the words to that song over and over again until she was satisfied with it, so she decided to sing it lower in her smoky alto than band member Eric Stewart in his tenor. Their 1977 original is the Leo Sayer-style ballad according to amazon.com though other critics from rateyourmusic.com complained that their original was a bit too stale, a lot too bread-and-butter while her 1982 soft and percussive ballad version with soft shakers, soft drums and soft congas playing is the Timi Yuro-style ballad.Since Joyce is a straightforward pop/soul singer with a soft ballad voice in a real authentic style, she moves away from the Godley & Creme artistic, abstract art-rock stuff, progressive rock, avant-garde, rock opera and experimental stuff when she said "No, I don't like the abstract art-rock stuff of Godley & Creme because I find it bland and boring that lacks soul. I don't like it. I prefer some of Eric Stewart & Graham Gouldman only from the mid-'70s better that have more soul than that when they made such real authentic pop music that I'm always crazy about.", so she decided to focus more on some of the straightforward Stewart & Gouldman pop stuff that she is more comfortable with.rocktome.com/discover/release/86
People In Love remade by Joyce Berry (original by 10cc) - Russian subtitles Pop music crooners of the 20th century 2016-07-12 | "People in Love" is a song by British band 10cc, released as a single in 1977. It appears on the album Deceptive Bends and was the group's third and final single from the album. The song reached No. 40 on the Billboard Hot 100,[1] No. 74 in Australia and No. 90 in Canada.
People In Love by Joyce Berry (tradução) - soul ballad cover of 10cc song Pop music crooners of the 20th century 2016-07-10 | Originally released in 1982.Written by Eric Stewart & Graham Gouldman from British art rock band 10ccThis is Joyce Berry's female contralto version of the 10cc tune with the gender changed from "her" to "his" and from "she" to "he", which is now available on:play.google.com/music/preview/Tdn2hjwdsmfblmb65f77uhzn424?play=1&u=0tributetovarioussongwriters.bandcamp.com/track/people-in-loveamazon.com/People-Love-Joyce-Berry/dp/B074CH4FZQitunes.apple.com/us/album/people-in-love-single/1265100266
Eric Stewart (10cc) - Im not in love (with not-in-love Valerie & Sara from Imprisoned Women) Pop music crooners of the 20th century 2016-05-19 | Depending on your age or taste in music, you may not have heard of 10cc. But it’s likely that you will have heard their most famous song, I’m Not in Love, and be able to hum its titular refrain. The song won three Ivor Novello awards after its release in 1975, despite the fact the band struggled to get it played on radio at the complete length of more than six minutes.Manchester quartet 10cc nearly dropped the song too, but dramatically reworked it in Stockport’s Strawberry Studios over the course of several weeks to create one of the most innovative pop songs of the 20th century.That ‘silly phase’ was actually a 50-year marriage“It’s just a silly phase I’m going through”, sings Eric Stewart, who co-wrote the song with Graham Gouldman. However, the song was inspired by a comment his wife, Gloria – then of eight years, now of nearer 50 – made, that he didn’t tell her he loved her often enough.Stewart told Sound on Sound in 2005 that he didn’t want to devalue the meaning of the phrase by saying it too frequently, but her thoughts made him “try to figure out another way of saying it, and the result was that I chose to say 'I'm not in love with you,' while subtly giving all the reasons throughout the song why I could never let go of this relationship."He took the beginnings of the song into the Studios, which he part-owned, and bassist Gouldman, known to the band as GiGi, volunteered to help write the rest. They finished it in three days, after working on it with a couple of guitars.Only the band know what the original version sounded likeLong before the song’s celestial chords were even thought about, I’m Not in Love was a bossa nova number – one of the reasons why it was scrapped early on. The band, which at the time consisted of Lol Creme and Kevin Godley as well, made decisions democratically, and Godley and Creme vetoed the song. Godley said: “It's not working, man. It's just crap, right? Chuck it,” Stewart recalls. The tape was erased, which “worked [Stewart] off no end at the time”, and which means there’s no record of it now, either.It survived because it was catchyEven after the song was deleted Stewart heard it being sung absent-mindedly by employees at the studio, which convinced him that I’m Not in Love was worth working on. Secretary Kathy Redfern shaped her own destiny as the voice speaking in the song’s middle eight after telling the band: “Why didn't you finish that song? I really love it. It's the nicest thing you've ever done.”This led to 10cc picking it back up again, and, several weeks later, asking her to record the false refrain “Be quiet, boys don’t cry” after she interrupted the band with a phone call for Stewart – her words would later influence Eighties band Boys Don’t Cry.The a cappella idea came from ‘the wacky baccy’Godley was only happy to give I’m Not in Love another try if the band would “totally f--- it up and do it like nobody has ever recorded a thing before”, and settled on an a cappella vocal instrumentation, made by endless loops of a chromatic scale – or 13 notes, all one pitched one note above the other.Stewart said: “‘Right. OK, Jesus, this is really off the wall’. I think they'd been at the wacky baccy at this time, and it took me a couple of hours to get my head around the idea.”The vocals alone took three weeks to recordThe band wanted to create a “wall of sound” made from voice alone, which meant that they had to record these “endless loops of a chromatic scale” themselves by singing: for three solid weeks. Creme, Godley and Gouldman recorded enough “aahs” for there to be 48 different recordings, or voices, for each of the 13 notes of the chromatic scale: 624 in total.
Dennis Englewood - Im not in love - 10cc cover - relevant scenes from Imprisoned Women Pop music crooners of the 20th century 2016-05-19 | Personnel:Backing Vocals – Dennis Englewood, Joyce Berry, Laurie Maitland, Sue FlemingLead Vocals – Dennis EnglewoodMusic By – The Thom Bell OrchestraProducer – Thom BellSongwriter – Eric Stewart, Graham Gouldmandiscogs.com/Dennis-Englewood-Im-Not-In-Love/release/8535708As Laurie Maitland once said about this song:When I was listening to "I'm Not In Love" by 10cc on the radio, I noticed that there were too many synclavier voices that overpowered their recording from 1975, plus there was too much abstract hissing going on that didn't appeal to me. Their original from 1975 needed a little more work by more adding some percussion instruments besides the bass drum itself alone, so in 1987, we did the Philly sweet soul ballad version of their song, remade by Dennis Englewood, with instruments playing.I'm Not In Love:Depending on your age or taste in music, you may not have heard of 10cc. But it’s likely that you will have heard their most famous song, I’m Not in Love, and be able to hum its titular refrain. The song won three Ivor Novello awards after its release in 1975, despite the fact the band struggled to get it played on radio at the complete length of more than six minutes.Manchester quartet 10cc nearly dropped the song too, but dramatically reworked it in Stockport’s Strawberry Studios over the course of several weeks to create one of the most innovative pop songs of the 20th century.That ‘silly phase’ was actually a 50-year marriage“It’s just a silly phase I’m going through”, sings Eric Stewart, who co-wrote the song with Graham Gouldman. However, the song was inspired by a comment his wife, Gloria – then of eight years, now of nearer 50 – made, that he didn’t tell her he loved her often enough.Stewart told Sound on Sound in 2005 that he didn’t want to devalue the meaning of the phrase by saying it too frequently, but her thoughts made him “try to figure out another way of saying it, and the result was that I chose to say 'I'm not in love with you,' while subtly giving all the reasons throughout the song why I could never let go of this relationship."He took the beginnings of the song into the Studios, which he part-owned, and bassist Gouldman, known to the band as GiGi, volunteered to help write the rest. They finished it in three days, after working on it with a couple of guitars.Only the band know what the original version sounded likeLong before the song’s celestial chords were even thought about, I’m Not in Love was a bossa nova number – one of the reasons why it was scrapped early on. The band, which at the time consisted of Lol Creme and Kevin Godley as well, made decisions democratically, and Godley and Creme vetoed the song. Godley said: “It's not working, man. It's just crap, right? Chuck it,” Stewart recalls. The tape was erased, which “worked [Stewart] off no end at the time”, and which means there’s no record of it now, either.It survived because it was catchyEven after the song was deleted Stewart heard it being sung absent-mindedly by employees at the studio, which convinced him that I’m Not in Love was worth working on. Secretary Kathy Redfern shaped her own destiny as the voice speaking in the song’s middle eight after telling the band: “Why didn't you finish that song? I really love it. It's the nicest thing you've ever done.”This led to 10cc picking it back up again, and, several weeks later, asking her to record the irrelevant refrain “Be quiet, boys don’t cry” after she interrupted the band with a phone call for Stewart – her words would later influence Eighties band Boys Don’t Cry.Cage Without A Key (Imprisoned Women):Cage Without a Key is a 1975 made-for-TV movie starring Susan Dey and Sam Bottoms, with Jonelle Allen and Lani O'Grady in supporting roles. The movie appeared on the NBC television network, later repeating on The CBS Late Movie. The film was released on VHS under the title Imprisoned Women.
Derek Holt (Climax Blues Band) - I Love You Pop music crooners of the 20th century 2016-05-12 | This song developed a large following and continues to get airplay on many radio stations. It's a pure love song about a woman who enters a man's life and changes his world for the better. The message of love and friendship, along with the line, "You got what it takes so I made you my wife," made the song very popular at weddings.Bass player Derek Holt wrote this song. He told us: "It was about meeting my first wife, meeting the lady that's going to encourage me to do what I did best, and that was be a musician, with no qualms about it. I used to go away from home, used to leave her behind, and used to come back. I was a hippie, a drinking hippie with really long hair. We had a great time - I'm meeting my wife, since then I've never looked back. You know, pretty much out living a dream, because, 'Ooo, I love you.' You could say it's for one person, but it's quite generic. At that particular moment in time, everything was right. You know, usually songs appear from nowhere, and that one appeared in a couple of hours. Why, I have no idea, but it did. And I guess the influence was the person I was with at the time."Holt: "That song was written in my house. After a couple of hours just sitting in my studio I came up with this song I Love You - words, solo, drums, the whole thing. And I thought, 'Well, it's a lovely song.' We had a guy come over from L.A., an American producer called John Ryan, who arrived in Stafford to do some pre-production on an album that we were going to record in Los Angeles called Flying The Flag. So he came to England and spent probably 2 weeks with us going through all the tracks that we'd got. And he said, 'Does anybody have any more songs?' I'd already played my song to the band and they didn't really like it; it was a little bit too lovey, so I said to John Ryan, 'I've got this song called 'I Love You.'' He said, 'Well, play it for me.' So I plugged in my cassette, played it, then he said, 'That's a hit.' Just like that. Everybody just sort of looked at each other and said, 'Oh, bloody hell.' So anyway, we ended up going to Los Angeles, and that song was recorded with just me and the drummer because the other two guys weren't really into the song. So it's me, the drummer, and a fantastic keyboard player named Nicky Hopkins. He's since died, unfortunately. He was the sort of legendary keyboard player, he played with The Stones and lots of people like that, and he was great. So it was me, Nicky Hopkins and the drummer in the studio. We all sat down together and played the basic backing track. I then put the bass on it, sang it, did all the harmonies, then I got Pete - the guitarist - to play the lead solo, which was the solo that I wanted to be played. So he played the solo, because he was the guitarist - reluctantly. Then John Ryan said, 'This song needs some strings.' So he got a string section in at whatever cost it was, which also pissed the other guys in the band off to think that the strings were a big part of my song. Then Warner Brothers arrived to hear all the tracks, and everybody was blown away by 'I Love You,' this song that I believed in, the producer believed in, but none of the other guys did, and it became a hit. And it's just unbelievable that nobody else in the band recognized it other than the producer and me. So the story's quite phenomenal, really. And it's also probably one of the reasons why the band split up in the end, because they weren't into playing it live, and I was. The song was in the charts, we had the tour booked, and two guys in the band said, 'We're not going to go to America to promote Derek Holt's career.' How's that for faith?"After forming in 1968 as The Climax Chicago Blues Band (they dropped the "Chicago" to avoid confusion with the group of that name), The Climax Blues Band had their first hit in 1976 with "Couldn't Get It Right." They had a strong following and worked hard touring Europe and America, but this song created a great deal of tension in the band.
Larry Santos - Dont Let The Music Stop (lost music video of 1977) Pop music crooners of the 20th century 2016-05-12 | "Don't Let The Music Stop" is the first single, written and performed by soft-voiced pop singer Larry Santos, taken from his sixth album of the same name, produced by the late Detroit soul producer Don Davis. This song features female backing vocals by Brandye with group members Donna Davis, Cynthia Douglas and Joyce Vincent-Wilson's sister, Pamela Vincent who worked on Brad Shapiro Productions.
Larry Santos - Early In The Morning (1975 promo video) Pop music crooners of the 20th century 2016-05-12 | Chorus:I long to touch You like the rising sunEarly in the morningEarly in the morningI want to feel Your warmness by My sideEarly in the morningEarly in the morningSo come and lay by Me and stay by MeDon't be afraid to open up Your love and let Me inLet Me inI've needed One like You to love Me tooEarly in the morningEarly in the morningI want to be where You areI want to see You as You areI've needed One like You to love Me tooEarly in the morningEarly in the morningRepeat ChorusEarly in the morning, early in the morningEarly in the morning, early in the morninghttp://www.worshipsong.com/songs/songdetails/early-in-the-morning3
