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Looking Back At Some Classics - Music Head - 20-02-2013
#369 - Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly With His Song - 1973
running recap for me - 3's=72, 2's=50, 1's=10
this one - ***
from the album: Killing Me Softly
Written by Norman Gimbel, Charles Fox
Produced by Joel Dorn
Chart action: #1 US, #1 UK, #1 Canada
the players:
Roberta Flack - vocal
other people playing things
Inspired by a Don McLean gig? That's what it says. Folk singer Lori Lieberman was the attendee
who took the idea to the eventual writers that came up with it. Lori was the first to record it
and it was then heard by Roberta who took it to the top. Helen Reddy was offered the song but
delayed any decision until it was too late. Prior to the recording of the song Roberta was the
opening act at a Marvin Gaye concert and performed it for the first time. Marvin told her to
hit the studio with it. She won three grammys for it including Song Of The Year. The Fugees
took the song back to the top of the charts 22 years later with Lauryn Hill doing the vocal
performance.
[video=youtube;DtW29oTp5cE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtW29oTp5cE[/video]
Lyrics
Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
I heard he sang a good song
I heard he had a style
And so I came to see him
To listen for a while
And there he was this young boy
A stranger to my eyes
Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
I felt all flushed with fever
Embarassed by the crowd
I felt he found my letters
And read each one out loud
I prayed that he would finish
But he just kept right on
Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
He sang as if he knew me
In all my dark despair
And then he looked right through me
As if I wasn't there
And he just kept on singing
Singing clear and strong
Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me
He was strumming my pain
Yeah, he was singing my life
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly
With his song
Looking Back At Some Classics - CRAZY-HORSE - 20-02-2013
"***" from me also, classic track IMO
Looking Back At Some Classics - Music Head - 21-02-2013
#368 - Muddy Waters - Got My Mojo Working - 1957
running recap for me - 3's=72, 2's=51, 1's=10
this one - **
from the album: various compilations
Written by Preston Foster
Produced by Phil Chess, Leonard Chess, Willie Dixon
Chart action: did not chart
the players:
Muddy Waters - vocal
other people playing things
Good blues I guess. Like most of the early genre, I always have a problem with the lyrics. No
deep thinking involved here. I can only guess what a mojo is. Hearing this while touring with
Ann Cole, Muddy decided to make it his own, and his stepped up version became the standard.
Recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts as a recording of the century. Copyright
litigation ensued once Muddy's version became popular. Settled out of court when the two record
labels involved probably realized they didn't have any money anyway.
[video=youtube;8hEYwk0bypY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hEYwk0bypY[/video]
Lyrics
Got my mojo working, but it just won't work on you
Got my mojo working, but it just won't work on you
I wanna love you so bad till I don't know what to do
I'm going down to Louisiana to get me a mojo hand
I'm going down to Louisiana to get me a mojo hand
I'm gonna have all you women right here at my command
Got my mojo working
Got my mojo working
Got my mojo working
Got my mojo working
Got my mojo working, but it just won't work on you
Play on!
Got my mojo working
Got my mojo working
Got my mojo working
Got my mojo working
Got my mojo working, but it - uh uh - just won't work on you
Looking Back At Some Classics - Music Head - 22-02-2013
#367 - Martha And The Vandellas - Nowhere To Run - 1965
running recap for me - 3's=73, 2's=51, 1's=10
this one - ***
from the album: Dance Party
Written by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland
Produced by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier
Chart action: #8 US, #26 UK
the players:
Martha Reeves - lead vocal
Rosalind Ashford - backing vocals
Betty Kelly - backing vocals
Funk Brothers - the music
Mary Wells missed a session date and Martha Reeves filled in. A Star is born. This wasn't the
first hit but that's how she broke in to the music biz. This one is from the girls third album.
Much used for sporting events and a troop favorite in the Vietnam war. On the US side I would
think. Actually the commies had all kinds of places to hide. I think we lost.
[video=youtube;J6JQ2Vzr0bQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6JQ2Vzr0bQ[/video]
Lyrics
Nowhere to run to, baby
Nowhere to hide
Got nowhere to run to, baby
Nowhere to hide
It's not love
I'm running from
It's the heartaches
That I know will come
'Cause I know
You're no good for me
But you`ve become
A part of me
Everywhere I go
Your face I see
Every step I take
You take with me, yeah
Nowhere to run to, baby
Nowhere to hide
Got nowhere to run to, baby
Nowhere to hide
I know you're
No good for me
But free of you
I'll never be, no
Each night as I sleep
Into my heart you creep
I wake up feeling sorry I met you
Hoping soon that I'll forget you
When I look in the mirror
And comb my hair
I see your face
Just a-smiling there
Nowhere to run
Nowhere to hide
Got nowhere to run to, baby
Nowhere to hide
I know you're
No good for me
But you've become
A part of me
How can I fight a lover
That's sugar sweet
When it's so deep, so deep
Deep inside of me
My love reaches so high
I can't get over it
It's so wide
I can't get around it, no
Nowhere to run
Nowhere to hide
From you, baby
Just can't get away
No matter how I try
I know you're no good for me
But free of you I'll never be
Nowhere to run to, baby
Nowhere to hide
Got nowhere to run to, baby
Nowhere to hide
Got nowhere to run
Got nowhere to run
Looking Back At Some Classics - CRAZY-HORSE - 22-02-2013
"***"....for Martha & The Vandellas from me
"**" for Muddy Waters and thats only because i do not actually dislike it(not because i like it!!!)
Looking Back At Some Classics - Music Head - 22-02-2013
CRAZY-HORSE Wrote:"**" for Muddy Waters and thats only because i do not actually dislike it(not because i like it!!!)lol, that's the way I am on most old blues stuff
Looking Back At Some Classics - SteveO - 22-02-2013
One of the best songs by the Fab Four!!!!!!...I love this song!!!!...rated much much too low IMHO!
Music Head Wrote:#370 - Beatles - All You Need Is Love - 1967
running recap for me - 3's=71, 2's=50, 1's=10
this one - ***
from the album: Magical Mystery Tour
Written by John Lennon, Paul McCartney
Produced by George Martin
Chart action: #1 US, #1 UK
the players:
John Lennon - lead vocal, harpischord
Paul McCartney - bass, vocal
George Harrison - guitar, violin, vocal
Ringo Starr - drums
Let's face it, all you need is the Beatles. First performed in something called Our World which
I'm not familiar with. The first live global satellite television broadcast. One of those world
peace things that the group was asked to contribute a song for. It failed to bring world peace,
but no harm in trying I guess. The day before the perforance the group decided it would be
their next single. Appeared on US versions of Magical Mystery Tour as well as Yellow Subarine.
Fade out choir vocal includes Mick Jagger, Keith Moon, and Donovan.
[video=youtube;ZXL08IoNKiE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXL08IoNKiE[/video]
Lyrics
Love, love, love
Love, love, love
Love, love, love
There's nothing you can do that can't be done
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung
Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game
It's easy
Nothing you can make that can't be made
No one you can save that can't be saved
Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time
It's easy
All you need is love
All you need is love
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need
Love, love, love
Love, love, love
Love, love, love
All you need is love
All you need is love
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need
Nothing you can know that isn't known
Nothing you can see that isn't shown
Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be
It's easy
All you need is love
All you need is love
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need
All you need is love (All together, now!)
All you need is love (Everybody!)
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need
Love is all you need (Love is all you need)
Love is all you need (Love is all you need)
Love is all you need (Love is all you need)
Love is all you need (Love is all you need)
Love is all you need (Love is all you need)
Love is all you need (Love is all you need)
Love is all you need (Love is all you need)
Love is all you need (Love is all you need)
Love is all you need (Love is all you need)
Love is all you need (Love is all you need)
Love is all you need (Love is all you need)
Yee-hai! (Love is all you need)
Love is all you need (Love is all you need)
Yesterday (Love is all you need)
Love is all you need (Love is all you need)
Love is all you need (Love is all you need)
Love is all you need (Love is all you need)
Oh yeah! (Love is all you need)
She loves you, yeah yeah yeah (Love is all you need)
She loves you, yeah yeah yeah (Love is all you need)
Looking Back At Some Classics - SteveO - 22-02-2013
Classy lady, classic track...love it!
CRAZY-HORSE Wrote:"***" from me also, classic track IMO
Looking Back At Some Classics - SteveO - 22-02-2013
Can't knock Muddy!!!!!
Music Head Wrote:#368 - Muddy Waters - Got My Mojo Working - 1957
running recap for me - 3's=72, 2's=51, 1's=10
this one - **
from the album: various compilations
Written by Preston Foster
Produced by Phil Chess, Leonard Chess, Willie Dixon
Chart action: did not chart
the players:
Muddy Waters - vocal
other people playing things
Good blues I guess. Like most of the early genre, I always have a problem with the lyrics. No
deep thinking involved here. I can only guess what a mojo is. Hearing this while touring with
Ann Cole, Muddy decided to make it his own, and his stepped up version became the standard.
Recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts as a recording of the century. Copyright
litigation ensued once Muddy's version became popular. Settled out of court when the two record
labels involved probably realized they didn't have any money anyway.
[video=youtube;8hEYwk0bypY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hEYwk0bypY[/video]
Lyrics
Got my mojo working, but it just won't work on you
Got my mojo working, but it just won't work on you
I wanna love you so bad till I don't know what to do
I'm going down to Louisiana to get me a mojo hand
I'm going down to Louisiana to get me a mojo hand
I'm gonna have all you women right here at my command
Got my mojo working
Got my mojo working
Got my mojo working
Got my mojo working
Got my mojo working, but it just won't work on you
Play on!
Got my mojo working
Got my mojo working
Got my mojo working
Got my mojo working
Got my mojo working, but it - uh uh - just won't work on you
Looking Back At Some Classics - SteveO - 22-02-2013
Martha and Vandellas ...not a bad song.
CRAZY-HORSE Wrote:"***"....for Martha & The Vandellas from me
"**" for Muddy Waters and thats only because i do not actually dislike it(not because i like it!!!)