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Songs People Should Hear - kerry101 - 01-02-2010
kerry101 Wrote:Gave it all away. by Boyzone.
" i will learn to live before i die, learn to love and learn to cry"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n8fxrejX78
I was at the memorial they show Ronan going into. it was very emotional.
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 02-02-2010
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YouTube - Martha & The Vandellas "Dancing in the Streets"
from wikipedia
"Dancing in the Street" is a 1964 song first recorded by Martha and the Vandellas. It is one of Motown's signature songs and is the group's premier signature song.
Produced by William "Mickey" Stevenson and written by Stevenson and Marvin Gaye, the song highlighted the concept of having a good time in whatever city the listener lived. The idea for dancing came to Stevenson from watching people on the streets of Detroit cool off in the summer in water from opened fire hydrants. They appeared to be dancing in the water.[1] The song was conceived by Stevenson who was showing a rough draft of the lyrics to Gaye disguised as a ballad. When Gaye read the original lyrics, however, he said the song sounded more danceable. With Gaye and Stevenson collaborating, the duo composed the single with Kim Weston in mind to record the song. Weston passed on the song and when Martha Reeves came to Motown's Hitsville USA studios, the duo presented the song to Reeves. Hearing Gaye's demo of it, Reeves asked if she could arrange her own vocals to fit the song's message.
Gaye and Stevenson agreed and including new Motown songwriter Ivy Jo Hunter adding in musical composition, the song was recorded in two takes. The interesting loud beat of the drums in its instrumentation can be attributed to Hunter, who banged on a crowbar to add to the drum beat led by Gaye, who was often a drummer on many of Motown's earliest hits.
While produced as an innocent dance single (it became the precursor to the disco movement of the 1970s), the song took on a different meaning when riots in inner-city America led to many young black demonstrators citing the song as a civil rights anthem to social change which also led to some radio stations taking the song off its play list because certain black advocates such as H. Rap Brown began playing the song while organizing demonstrations.
Dancing in the street had two meanings. The first is the one Martha Reeves asserted to reporters in England. "The British press aggravated Reeves when someone put a microphone in her face and asked her if she was a militant leader. The British journalist wanted to know if Reeves agreed, as many people had claimed, that "Dancing in the Street" was a call to riot. To Reeves, the query was patently absurd. "My Lord, it was a party song," she remarked in retrospect" (Smith 221). While Berry Gordy had created the Black Forum label to preserve black thought and creative writing, he kept the Motown record label and the popular hits it produced from being too revolutionary. "Berry Gordy Jr. was extremely wary about affiliating his business with any organization of movement that might negatively influence his company's commercial success" (Smith 230). The central tenet of Motown records was to produce a sound that was genteel enough to appeal to white audiences across the country while still wholly African American and reflective of the African Diaspora in America. This song is suave and melodious, while still percussive, repetitive, and danceable. The primary meaning was innocent enough to allow national audiences to accept and enjoy the song, if only at first.
"Motown records had a distinct role to play in the city's black community, and that community--as diverse as it was--articulated and promoted its own social, cultural, and political agendas. These local agendas, which reflected the unique concerns of African Americans living in the urban north, both responded to and reconfigured the national civil rights campaign" (Smith 227). The movement lent the song its secondary meaning and the song with its second meaning fanned the flames of unrest. This song (and others like it) and its associated political meanings did not exist in a vacuum. It was a partner with its social environment and they both played upon each other creating meaning that could not have been brought on by one or the other alone. The song therefore became a call to reject peace for the chance that unified unrest could bring about the freedom that suppressed minorities all across the United States so craved.
"Dancing in the Street" peaked at number two on the U.S. Billboard Pop Singles chart when it was originally released as the group's third album Dance Party's first single in 1964 (see 1964 in music), with "There He Is (at My Door)" included as a B-side. The song also reached the top 5 on the UK pop charts peaking at #4 in a 1969 release after initially peaking at #28 on the chart and helped to revive the Vandellas' success in England.
On April 12, 2006, it was announced that Martha and the Vandellas' version of "Dancing in the Street" would be one of 50 sound recordings preserved by the Library of Congress to the National Recording Registry. Lead singer Martha Reeves said she was thrilled about the song's perseverance, saying "It's a song that just makes you want to get up and dance".
This version was #40 on the list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time by Rolling Stone.
Songs People Should Hear - gryphon - 02-02-2010
Don't forget Mike Jagger and David Bowie's Version !!!!
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 02-02-2010
gryphon Wrote:Don't forget Mike Jagger and David Bowie's Version !!!!I was trying to!
thanks a lot
Songs People Should Hear - CMB1888 - 02-02-2010
Music Head Wrote:I was trying to!
thanks a lot
that version was truly cringeworthy
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 03-02-2010
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YouTube - Frankie Valli - Can't take my eyes off you
from wikipedia
"Can't Take My Eyes Off You", written by Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio, was a 1967 single by Frankie Valli. The song was among Valli's biggest hits, reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and earning a gold record. It was Valli's biggest "solo" hit until he hit #1 in 1974 with "My Eyes Adored You".
The song has been covered by a variety of artists over the years (78 times). A version by Andy Williams made it to #5 on the UK singles chart in 1968. Samantha Jones recorded it for her 1968 album Call It Samantha. Anni-Frid Lyngstad chose her Swedish-language version (Du är så underbart rar) to be the flipside of a 1967 single release.
A version in Italian (titled "Per ricominciare") was recorded live by Mina in her historical album Mina_alla_Bussola_dal_vivo in 1968. One year later she also recorded the song with the original lyrics for the US market in the album "More than strangers".
In 1982, San Francisco based disco band Boys Town Gang performed a disco version of the song.
In 1991, the Pet Shop Boys used part of the song on their double A-side single "Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off You)/How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously?", which reached #4 in the U.K. (In the U.S., both sides of the single were released as separate singles and both charted, with "How Can You Expect to be Taken Seriously?" at #93 and the "Where The Streets Have No Name/I Can't Take My Eyes Off You" medley at #72.)
Other renditions of the song to have charted in the U.S. included versions by The Lettermen (#7 in 1968, in a medley with "Goin' Out Of My Head"), Nancy Wilson (#52 in 1969), Maureen McGovern (#27 on the Adult Contemporary chart in 1979), Boys Town Gang (#1 in the Netherlands in 1982[1]) and Lauryn Hill (#35 on the Hot 100 Airplay chart in 1998).
Experimental progressive rock guitarist Bumblefoot recorded a heavy metal version of the song. In 2005 the song was covered by Queens for their debut album "Made For Dancing". In 2007 this song was covered by Soccx. In Germany this song was used for dancing at the ADTV-Worlddance-Day 2010, ChaChaCha-Simultan-Event and Quintal. In 2004, tejano singer Jennifer Peña released a cover version in Spanish, titled "No Hay Nadie Igual Como Tú" for her album Seducción.
Songs People Should Hear - carbon_psycho - 03-02-2010
reminded me of 10 things I hate about you. Heath Ledger singing it for Julia Stiles..
May his soul R.I.P.
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 03-02-2010
carbon_psycho Wrote:reminded me of 10 things I hate about you. Heath Ledger singing it for Julia Stiles..Reminded me of the track you posted just the other day (drawing a blank and don't have time to search for it) from the movie Closer. I know it's not the same song, but wasn't the song title the same? Saw that the movie was on the same day you posted that. Watched it but didn't care for it.
May his soul R.I.P.
Songs People Should Hear - carbon_psycho - 03-02-2010
Blower's daughter, though the song is usually called Can't take my eyes off you, I have no idea if it's an offcial alternate song title..
the movie was okay... I have no clue why people speak so high of it.. but it did have it's moments.
I am a big fan of Clive Owen... The guy should have been a Bond.. I hope he gets an oppurtunity within the next 5 years...
Songs People Should Hear - Music Head - 04-02-2010
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YouTube - Angels - My Boyfriend's Back - 45 rpm
"My Boyfriend's Back" was a hit song in 1963 for The Angels, an American girl group. It was written by the songwriting team of Feldman, Goldstein and Gottehrer. The recording was originally intended as a demo for The Shirelles, but ended up being released as recorded.[1] The result was a single that spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and number two on the R&B Billboard.
The song is a word of warning to a would-be suitor who, after the narrator of the song rebuffed his advances, went on to spread nasty rumours accusing the narrator of romantic indiscretions. Now, the narrator declares, her boyfriend is back in town and ready to settle the score, and she tells the rebuffed would-be suitor to watch his back.
The inspiration for the song was when co-writer Bob Feldman overheard a conversation between a high school girl and the boy she was rebuffing
Rival girl groups The Chiffons and Martha and the Vandellas recorded covers shortly after The Angels' original release. Nearly twenty years later, Melissa Manchester released a faithful cover version as a single in 1983 which became a minor Adult Contemporary hit.[citation needed] More than twenty years after that, the song was also covered by former American Idol contestant Paris Bennett on her 2007 album "Princess P."
The song has also been covered in punk rock-influenced recordings by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, The Raveonettes, Bracket, and Australian female punk trio The Spazzys.
UK Powerpop originators The Pleasers featured the song as a highspot of their live stage shows as 'My Girlfriends Back' and recorded it for their Thamesbeat Album in 1978.
Bette Bright and the Illuminations released a cover version in 1978 as their single debut.
The rap group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's track "Guess Who's Back" borrows heavily from the structure and lyrics of "My Boyfriend's Back".
The song is featured in the 2006 Tony award winning musical, Jersey Boys. It was also featured on the U.S. television show "American Dreams," where it was sung by Christian Pop singer Stacie Orrico playing the lead singer of the Angels.
A version of the tune has been used in a commercial jingle for the Hess toy truck, sung as "The Hess Truck's Back".
A cover by Australian band The Chantoozies featured in the film "The Crossing" (1990).
The song was parodied by Bob Ricci on his debut album Get a Life as "My Girlfriend's Back".
Sarah Brightman released a cover version of the song on a single in 1981.
In 1981, the band Dire Straits made a reference to the song in their hit Romeo and Juliet, from the album Making Movies.
The song figured prominently in the 1989 made for television film My Boyfriend's Back, which featured Jill Eikenberry, Sandy Duncan and Judith Light as former members of a fictitious girl group named The Bouffants. In the story, "My Boyfriend's Back" was their only hit song.
The song title was referenced for the 1993 film My Boyfriend's Back, directed by Bob Balaban.
The Disney Channel did a DTV music video of the song set to clips from the Legend of Sleepy Hollow segment of The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad.
Comedian Frank Caliendo often sings a cover of the song, with the lyrics changed to be about Brett Favre, when doing his John Madden impersonation. (My Brett Favre's back and your defense is in trouble/Hey now, hey now, my Brett Favre's Back!) A viral video was later posted on YouTube, with Caliendo's lyrics put over the original song.