Grace Kelly & Bing Crosby - True Love (High Society, 1956) [Restored] Music Video Vault 2021-04-18 | "True Love" is a popular song written by Cole Porter and was published in 1956. The song was introduced by Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly in the musical film High Society. "True Love" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Kelly's contribution on the record is relatively minor, duetting with Crosby on only the final chorus. Nonetheless, the single is co-credited to her.
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers - Pick Yourself Up (Swing Time, 1936) [Special Version] Music Video Vault 2023-11-02 | Both the song and the dance are in this version."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.Music written by Jerome KernLyrics written by Dorothy Fields
Charles Aznavour - Yesterday When I Was Young [Restored] Music Video Vault 2022-12-31 | "Hier encore", whose original French title translates to "Just yesterday" or "Not so long ago", is a song composed by Georges Garvarentz and written by Charles Aznavour and released in September 1964French version: youtu.be/GftJvYqCzBkLyrics:[Verse 1]Yesterday when I was youngThe taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongueI teased at life as if it were a foolish gameThe way the evening breeze may tease a candle flameThe thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I plannedI always built, alas, on weak and shifting sandI lived by night and shunned the naked light of dayAnd only now I see how the years ran away[Verse 2]Yesterday, when I was youngSo many drinking songs were waiting to be sungSo many wayward pleasures lay in store for meAnd so much pain my dazzled eyes refused to seeI ran so fast that time and youth at last ran outI never stopped to think what life was all aboutAnd every conversation I can now recallConcerned itself with me, me and nothing else at all[Verse 3]Yesterday the moon was blueAnd every crazy day brought something new to doI used my magic age as if it were a wandAnd never saw the waste and emptiness beyondThe game of love I played with arrogance and prideAnd every flame I lit too quickly, quickly diedThe friends I made all seemed somehow to drift awayAnd only I am left on stage to end the play[Outro]There are so many songs in me that won't be sungI feel the bitter taste of tears upon my tongueThe time has come for me to pay for yesterdayWhen I was youngYoung, young...
Shirley Temple - Auld Lang Syne (Wee Willie Winkie, 1937) [Dig. Restored] Music Video Vault 2022-12-26 | Priscilla (Shirley Temple) sings "Auld Lang Syne" for a dying Sergeant Donald MacDuff.
Helen OConnell, Bob Eberly, Jimmy Dorseys Orchestra - Tangerine (1942) [Restored] Music Video Vault 2022-09-15 | "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 Fleet's 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 I've 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 I've seen times when Tangerine / Had the bourgeoisie believing she were queen."
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - Aint No Mountain High Enough (1967) [Restored] Music Video Vault 2022-06-12 | "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" is a song written by Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson in 1966 for the Tamla label, a division of Motown. The composition was first successful as a 1967 hit single recorded by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, and became a hit again in 1970 when recorded by former Supremes frontwoman Diana Ross. The song became Ross's first solo number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.
Opus - Live is Life (1984) [Restored] Music Video Vault 2021-08-14 | "Live Is Life" is a song originally recorded in 1984 by Austrian band Opus. It was a European number-one hit in the summer of 1985. The single also reached number one in Canada and was a top 40 hit in the US in 1986. It has been covered by many artists.
Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier - Thrilla in Manilla, last round (October 1, 1975) [In Slow Motion] Music Video Vault 2021-07-12 | Slow-motion of Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier - Thrilla in Manilla - The last round (October 1, 1975)
Chick Corea, Gary Burton - La Fiesta (Live, 1997) [Restored] Music Video Vault 2021-06-19 | Recorded live at the Munich Philharmonie in 1997.Chick Corea: PianoGary Burton: Vibraphone
Engelbert Humperdinck - The Last Waltz (1967) [Restored] Music Video Vault 2021-06-03 | "The Last Waltz" is a ballad, written by Barry Mason and Les Reed. It was one of Engelbert Humperdinck's biggest hits, spending five weeks at number 1 on the UK Singles Chart, from September 1967 to October 1967, and has since sold over 1.17 million copies in the United Kingdom. In Australia, "The Last Waltz" spent nine nonconsecutive weeks at number one.In the United States, "The Last Waltz" reached number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and made the top ten of the easy listening chart.Songwriters: Barry Mason and Les Reed
Diana Ross - Endless Love (July, 21, 1983) [Restored] Music Video Vault 2021-05-10 | Recorded on July 21, 1983, Central Park, New York."Endless Love" is a song written by Lionel Richie and originally recorded as a duet between Richie and fellow R&B singer Diana Ross. In this ballad, the singers declare their "endless love" for one another. It was covered by R&B singer Luther Vandross with fellow R&B singer Mariah Carey and also by country music singer Shania Twain. Richie's friend (and sometimes co-worker) Kenny Rogers has also recorded the song. Billboard has named the original version as the greatest song duet of all-time.Source: Wikipedia
Virginia Bruce - Ive Got You Under My Skin (Born to Dance, 1937) [Restored] Music Video Vault 2021-04-24 | "I've 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.
Bing Crosby & Frank Sinatra - Well, Did You Evah! (High Society, 1956) [Restored] Music Video Vault 2021-04-17 | "Well, Did You Evah!" is a song written by Cole Porter for his 1939 musical DuBarry Was a Lady, where it was introduced by Betty Grable and Charles Walters. It is written as a duet, with the pair exchanging bad news and each shrugging off the other's tidbits in favor of an aloof good time.Sung here by Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra in the movie High Society (recorded January 17, 1956)Source: Wikipedia
Bobby Darin - Beyond the Sea (Live) [Restored] Music Video Vault 2021-02-07 | "Beyond the Sea" is a 1945 contemporary pop romantic love song by Jack Lawrence, with music taken from the song "La Mer" by Charles Trenet.Trenet had composed "La Mer" (which means "the Sea") with French lyrics. It had some differences to the English-language version that Lawrence later wrote. Trenet's French version was a homage and ode to the changing moods of the sea, while Lawrence, by just adding one word "Beyond" to the title, gave him the start whereby he made the song into a love song."Beyond the Sea" has been recorded by many artists, but Bobby Darin's version released in late 1959 is the best known by many, reaching No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100, No. 15 on the US R&B Chart, and No. 8 in the UK Singles Chart. in early 1960Source: Wikipedia
Paul Simon - Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard (Sesame Street, 1977) [Restored] Music Video Vault 2021-02-04 | "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. Didn't 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.
The Bangles - Manic Monday - Acoustic Version (2000, Live) [Restored] Music Video Vault 2021-01-02 | "Manic Monday" is a song by the American pop rock band the Bangles, and the first single released from their second studio album, Different Light (1986). It was written by American musician Prince using the pseudonym "Christopher" and was originally intended for the group Apollonia 6 in 1984. Lyrically, it describes a woman who is waking up to go to work on Monday, wishing it was still Sunday so she could continue relaxing.The single, released by Columbia Records on Monday, January 27, 1986, received generally positive reviews from music critics and some comparisons with the Mamas & the Papas' "Monday, Monday". It became the Bangles' first hit, reaching number two in the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as in Austria, Canada, Germany and Ireland, and peaked within the top five in Australia, New Zealand, Norway and Switzerland. It was later certified silver in the UK by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).Source: Wikipedia
Redbone - We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee (1973) [Digitally Enhanced] Music Video Vault 2020-09-26 | In 1973, Redbone released the politically oriented "We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee", recalling the massacre of Lakota Sioux Indians by the 7th Cavalry Regiment in 1890. The song ends with the subtly altered sentence "We were all wounded 'by' Wounded Knee". It charted in several European countries and reached the No. 1 position in The Netherlands but did not chart in the U.S. where it was initially withheld from release due to lyrical controversy and then banned by several radio stations due to its confrontation of a sore subject.Source: Wikipedia
Blondie - The Tide Is High (1980) [Digitally Enhanced] Music Video Vault 2020-09-20 | "The Tide Is High" is a 1967 song written by John Holt, originally produced by Duke Reid and performed by the Jamaican group The Paragons, with Holt as lead singer. The song gained international attention in 1980 when a reggae version by the American band Blondie became a US/UK number one hit.The music video (using the single edit version) was produced, directed by Hart Perry.
Deborah Harry & Iggy Pop - Well, Did You Evah! (1990) Music Video Vault 2020-09-19 | "Well, Did You Evah!" is a song written by Cole Porter for his 1939 musical DuBarry Was a Lady, where it was introduced by Betty Grable and Charles Walters. It is written as a duet, with the pair exchanging bad news and each shrugging off the other's tidbits in favor of an aloof good time.Deborah Harry and Iggy Pop recorded the song in 1990 for Red Hot + Blue, a compilation album released as part of a HIV/AIDS benefit project. Released as a single in the UK in 1991 but not the US. The single reached No. 42 in the UK Singles Chart, and No. 29 in the Irish chart.
Blondie - Fan Mail (1978) [Digitally Enhanced] Music Video Vault 2020-09-10 | Fan Mail is the first track of Plastic Letters the second studio album by American rock band Blondie, released in February 1978.
David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes (Glastonbury, 2000) [Restored] Music Video Vault 2020-09-01 | "Ashes to Ashes" is a song written and recorded by English singer-songwriter David Bowie. It was the lead single from the 1980 album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) and became Bowie's second UK No. 1 single. It is also known for its innovative video, directed by Bowie and David Mallet, which at the time was the most expensive music video ever made.The lyrics revisit Bowie's Major Tom character from 1969's "Space Oddity" in a darker theme, which he referenced once again in 1995 with "Hallo Spaceboy". The song's melody was sampled in a remix of his 2013 single "Love Is Lost". The song's original title was "People Are Turning to Gold".Interviewed in 1980, Bowie described the song as "very much a 1980s nursery rhyme. I think 1980s nursery rhymes will have a lot to do with the 1880s/1890s nursery rhymes which are all rather horrid and had little boys with their ears being cut off and stuff like that." Years later, Bowie said that with "Ashes to Ashes" he was "wrapping up the seventies really" for himself, which "seemed a good enough epitaph for it."AllMusic critic Dave Thompson described the track and its accompanying music video as "a very deliberate acknowledgment of the then-burgeoning New Romantic scene." It was ranked as the 5th best single of 1980 by NME magazine.Source: Wikipedia
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - Lets Hang On (2020) Music Video Vault 2020-08-31 | Recorded at a virtual band performance in 2020.youtube.com/watch?v=I4pvFDeYsrUWith scenes from Saturday Night Fever.
Boz Scaggs - Were All Alone (Great American Music Hall, 2004) [Digitally Enhanced] Music Video Vault 2020-08-31 | "We're All Alone" is a song written by Boz Scaggs, which became a 1977 top-ten hit for Rita Coolidge in the US and the UK. Scaggs introduced it on his 1976 album Silk Degrees. Recorded live at Great American Music Hall, San FranciscoKeyboards: Kim Cox, Michael BluesteinGitar: Drew ZinggBass: Matt BisonetteDrums: John FerraroBacking Vocals: Ms. Mone't, Barbara WilsonTrumpet: Rich ArmstrongSaxophone: Charles McNealLyrics:Outside the rain beginsAnd it may never endSo cry no more, on the shore a dreamWill take us out to seaForevermore, forevermoreClose your eyes amiAnd you can be with meBeneath the waves, through the caves of hoursLong, forgotten nowWe're all alone, we're all aloneClose the window, calm the lightAnd it will be all rightNo need to bother nowLet it out, let it all beginLearn how to pretendOnce a story's toldIt can't help but grow oldRoses do, lovers too, so castYour seasons to the windAnd hold me dear, oh, hold me dearClose the window, calm the lightAnd it will be all rightNo need to bother nowLet it out, let it all beginAll's forgotten nowWe're all alone, we're all aloneClose the window, calm the lightAnd it will be all rightNo need to bother nowLet it out, let it all beginThrough and through the windWe're all alone, all alone
Fats Waller - Aint Misbehavin (Stormy Weather, 1943) [Digitally Enhanced] Music Video Vault 2020-08-24 | "Ain't Misbehavin'" is a 1929 stride jazz/early swing song. Andy Razaf wrote the lyrics to a score by Thomas "Fats" Waller and Harry Brooks for the Broadway musical comedy play Connie's Hot Chocolates.It has a thirty-two-bar form (AABA) at a slow-to-moderate tempo.[citation needed] Waller said the song was written while "lodging" in prison (for an alimony violation), and that is why he was not "misbehaving".Source: Wikipedia
Diana Ross - Endless Love (July, 22, 1983) [Restored] Music Video Vault 2020-08-19 | Recorded on July 22, 1983, Central Park, New York."Endless Love" is a song written by Lionel Richie and originally recorded as a duet between Richie and fellow R&B singer Diana Ross. In this ballad, the singers declare their "endless love" for one another. It was covered by R&B singer Luther Vandross with fellow R&B singer Mariah Carey and also by country music singer Shania Twain. Richie's friend (and sometimes co-worker) Kenny Rogers has also recorded the song. Billboard has named the original version as the greatest song duet of all-time.Source: Wikipedia
Carpenters - Top of the World (1974) [Digitally Enhanced] Music Video Vault 2020-08-18 | "Top of the World" is a 1972 song written and composed by Richard Carpenter and John Bettis and first recorded by American pop duo Carpenters. It was a Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit for the duo for two consecutive weeks in 1973. Carpenters originally intended the song to be only an album cut. Source: Wikipedia
Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney - How About You? (Babes on Broadway, 1941) [Digitally Enhanced] Music Video Vault 2020-08-14 | "How About You?" is a popular song composed by Burton Lane, with lyrics by Ralph Freed. (1941 in music) It was introduced in the 1941 film Babes on Broadway by Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney.The lyrics of the song are often changed depending on the recording artist. In its original form it is a humorous romantic duet, though rarely recorded that way. Certain lyrics, especially those with topical references, are often changed based on the time of the performance's release. For example, the line "Franklin Roosevelt's looks give me a thrill" was changed to "James Durante's looks" in a 1956 recording by Sinatra, though he did sing it in its original form when he recorded it with Dorsey back in December of 1941.Source: Wikipedia.
Frank Sinatra - Time After Time (It Happened in Brooklyn, 1947) [Restored] Music Video Vault 2020-08-13 | "Time After Time" is a jazz standard about nostalgia with lyrics written by Sammy Cahn and music by Jule Styne in 1946.The first recording was on November 19, 1946 for Musicraft by Sarah Vaughan with the Teddy Wilson Quartet: Wilson on piano, Charlie Ventura on tenor saxophone, Remo Palmieri on guitar, and Billy Taylor on double bass.The song was written for Frank Sinatra in the 1947 film It Happened in Brooklyn. The pianist providing the music offstage was André Previn.
Frank Sinatra - Old Man River (Till the Clouds Roll By, 1946) [Digitally Enhanced] Music Video Vault 2020-08-04 | "Ol' Man River" (music by Jerome Kern, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II) is a show tune from the 1927 musical Show Boat that contrasts the struggles and hardships of African Americans with the endless, uncaring flow of the Mississippi River. It is sung from the point of view of a black stevedore on a showboat, and is the most famous song from the show. The song is notable for several aspects: the lyrical pentatonic-scale melody, the subjects of toil and social class, metaphor to the Mississippi, and as a bass solo (rare in musicals, solos for baritones or tenors being more common). Source: Wikipedia.The video is a scene from the movie "Till the Clouds Roll By'. The movie is in the public domain because MGM did not renew their copyrights.
Leonard Nimoy - Maiden Wine (Star Trek - Platos Stepchildren) [Digitally Enhanced] Music Video Vault 2020-08-04 | The song "Maiden Wine" was featured in the Star Trek episode, "Plato's 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 they'll 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.
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers - Pick Yourself Up (Swing Time, 1936) - Dance [Digitally Enhanced] Music Video Vault 2020-08-03 | "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.Music written by Jerome KernLyrics written by Dorothy Fields
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers - Pick Yourself Up (Swing Time, 1936) [Digitally Enhanced] Music Video Vault 2020-08-02 | "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.Music written by Jerome KernLyrics written by Dorothy Fields
Luciano Pavarotti - Recondita Armonia - Tosca (1991) [Digitally Enhanced] Music Video Vault 2020-07-30 | "Recondita armonia" is the first romanza in the opera Tosca (1900) by Giacomo Puccini. It is sung by the painter Mario Cavaradossi when comparing his love, Tosca, to a portrait of Mary Magdalene that he is painting.Luciano Pavarotti was an Italian operatic tenor who during the late part of his career crossed over into popular music, eventually becoming one of the most acclaimed and loved tenors of all times. He made numerous recordings of complete operas and individual arias, gaining worldwide fame for the quality of his tone, and eventually established himself as one of the finest tenors of the 20th century, achieving the honorific title "King of the High Cs".This video was recorded in July 1991 in Hyde Park, London, UK.
Lena Horne - Where or When (Words and Music 1948) [Digitally Enhanced] Music Video Vault 2020-07-29 | "Where or When" is a show tune from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical Babes in Arms. It was first performed by Ray Heatherton and Mitzi Green. That same year, Hal Kemp recorded a popular version. It also appeared in the film version of Babes in Arms two years later.
The Mamas & The Papas - Monday Monday (1966) [Digitally Restored] Music Video Vault 2020-07-26 | "Monday, Monday" is a 1966 song written by John Phillips and recorded by the Mamas & the Papas, using background instruments played by members of The Wrecking Crew for their 1966 album If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears.
Neil Sedaka - Laughter in the Rain (1974) [Digitally Enhanced] Music Video Vault 2020-07-25 | "Laughter in the Rain" is a song composed and recorded by Neil Sedaka, with lyrics by Phil Cody.
The Four Seasons - Lets Hang On (1965) [Digitally Enhanced] Music Video Vault 2020-07-24 | "Let's Hang On!" is a song composed by Bob Crewe, Sandy Linzer, and Denny Randell that was popularized by The Four Seasons in 1965. The single reached the No. 3 position in the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, the group's highest placement since "Rag Doll" hit the top spot in July 1964.This was the last Four Seasons hit to feature bass singer/bassist Nick Massi. The same month "Let's Hang On!" was released, Massi left the group and was temporarily replaced by the band's arranger Charles Calello before Joe Long came in as Massi's full-time replacement.
Virginia Mayo/Jeri Sullavan - Daddy-O (A Song Is Born, 1948) [Digitally Enhanced] Music Video Vault 2020-07-22 | The song is sung by Jeri Sullavan (dubbing for Virginia mayo) with the Page Cavanaugh Trio.The song is written by Gene de Paul (music) and Don Raye (lyrics)A Song Is Born (also known as That's Life) is a 1948 Technicolor musical film remake of the 1941 movie Ball of Fire with Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck, starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo.
The New Seekers - Beg, Steal or Borrow (1972) [Digitally Enhanced] Music Video Vault 2020-07-22 | Recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall on April 12, 1972."Beg, Steal or Borrow" was the British entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1972, performed in English by The New Seekers.The song was composed and written by Tony Cole, Steve Wolfe and Graeme Hall. On the night of the contest, the song was directed by David Mackay.The theme is a love song to a former lover. The two lovers should be together and one of them will "beg, steal or borrow" in order to "bring" the other love.At the Contest, it was performed fifth on the night.
Gérard Lenorman - La Ballade Des Gens Heureux (1975) [Digitally Enhanced] Music Video Vault 2020-07-20 | "La Ballade des gens heureux" (translation: The Ballad of the Happy People) is a song by Gérard Lenorman, released in 1975. English singer and songwriter Jonathan King wrote the British lyrics and had a hit with it as The Happy People Song.
Elvis Presley - Wooden Heart (G.I. Blues, 1960) [Digitally Enhanced] Music Video Vault 2020-07-16 | "Wooden Heart" ("Muss i denn" lit. Must I then) is a song recorded by Elvis Presley and featured in the 1960 Elvis Presley film G.I. Blues. The song was a hit single for Presley in the UK Singles Chart, reaching No. 1 for six weeks in March and April 1961.
10cc - Im Not In Love (1975) [Digitally Enhanced] Music Video Vault 2020-07-15 | "I'm Not in Love" is a song by English group 10cc, written by band members Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman. It is known for its innovative and distinctive backing track, composed mostly of the band's multitracked vocals. Released in the UK in May 1975 as the second single from the band's third album, The Original Soundtrack, it became the second of the group's three number-one singles in the UK between 1973 and 1978, topping the UK singles chart for two weeks. The song was also the band's breakthrough hit worldwide, reaching number one in Ireland and Canada and number two on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US, as well as reaching the top 10 in Australia, New Zealand and several European countries.Written mostly by Stewart as a riposte to his wife's declaration that he did not tell her often enough that he loved her, "I'm Not in Love" was originally conceived as a bossa nova song played on guitars, but the other two members of the band, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme, disliked the track and it was abandoned. However, after hearing members of their staff continue to sing the melody around their studio, Stewart persuaded the group to give the song another chance, to which Godley replied that for the song to work it needed to be radically changed, and suggested that the band should try to create a new version using just voices. - Source: Wikipedia
Al Stewart - The Year Of The Cat (1976) [Digitally Enhanced] Music Video Vault 2020-07-14 | "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 Stewart's highest charting single on that chart was 1978's "Time Passages", "Year of the Cat" has remained Stewart's 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 it's 'the year of the cat'. It's a metaphor for the time he was seduced by this women, the women being symbolized with the cat.
Don McLean - Vincent (Starry Starry Night) (1972) [Digitally Enhanced] Music Video Vault 2020-07-11 | "Vincent" is a song by Don McLean written as a tribute to Vincent van Gogh. It is often erroneously titled after its opening refrain, "Starry Starry Night", a reference to Van Gogh's 1889 painting The Starry Night. The song also describes other paintings by the artist.
Fred Astaire / Ginger Rogers - Cheek to Cheek (1935) Top Hat [Digitally Enhanced] Music Video Vault 2020-07-08 | "Cheek to Cheek" is a song written by Irving Berlin in 1935, for the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movie Top Hat (1935). In the movie, Astaire sings the song to Rogers as they dance. The song was nominated for the Best Song Academy Award for 1936, which it lost to "Lullaby of Broadway". The song spent five weeks at #1 on Your Hit Parade and was named the #1 song of 1935. Astaire's 1935 recording with the Leo Reisman Orchestra was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000. In 2004, Astaire's version finished at No. 15 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema.
Lee Marvin - Wandrin Star (Paint Your Wagon, 1969) [Digitally Enhanced] Music Video Vault 2020-07-05 | Lee Marvin performs Wand'rin' Star (or Wandering Star) from the musical Paint Your Wagon.Song written by Alan J. Lerner (lyrics) and Frederick Loewe (music) Orchestrated and arranged by Nelson Riddle.
The Rolling Stones - Time is on My Side (T.A.M.I. Show - Oct 1964) [Digitally Enhanced] Music Video Vault 2020-07-04 | "Time Is on My Side" is a song written by Jerry Ragovoy (using the pseudonym "Norman Meade"). First recorded by jazz trombonist Kai Winding and his orchestra in 1963, it was covered (with additional lyrics by Jimmy Norman) by both soul singer Irma Thomas and the Rolling Stones in 1964.The Rolling Stones recorded two versions of the song in 1964. The first version (a looser arrangement featuring a briefer, organ-only intro), recorded in London in June 1964, was released as a single in the US, on September 25, 1964, and was included the following month on their US album 12 X 5. The second version (more tightly arranged and featuring guitar in the intro), recorded in Chicago on November 8, 1964, was released in the UK on January 15, 1965.
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers - Isnt This a Lovely Day (Top Hat) (1935) [Digitally Enhanced] Music Video Vault 2020-07-03 | "Isn't This a Lovely Day?" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin for the 1935 film Top Hat, where it was introduced by Fred Astaire in the scene where his and Ginger Rogers' characters are caught in a gazebo during a rainstorm. The lyric is an example of a song which turns a bad situation into a love song, a common style for Irving Berlin, as in I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm and Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee. His 1935 version was assessed as reaching the No. 3 spot in the charts of the day
Chet Baker - Time After Time [Digitally Enhanced] Music Video Vault 2020-07-03 | Chet Baker - Time After TimeBass – Luigi TrussardiDrums – Franco ManzecchiFlute – Jacques PelzerPiano – René UrtregerRecorded in Brussels (Belgium) on May 2, 1964 by R.T.B.
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