HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE

MICHAEL BUBLÉ FEAT KELLY ROLAND

SONGWRITERS: BARRY GIBB; ROBIN GIBB & MAURICE GIBB

COUNTRY: CANADA

ALBUM: CALL ME IRRESPONSIBLE

LABEL: 143 RECORDS

GENRE: BALLAD

YEAR: 2007

 

         Michael Steven Bublé (IPA:/buːˈbleɪ/ boo-BLAY; born September 9, 1975) is a Canadian singer. His first album reached the top ten in Canada and the United Kingdom. He found a worldwide audience with his 2005 album It's Time and his 2007 album Call Me Irresponsible – which reached number one on the Canadian Albums Chart, the UK Albums Chart, the US Billboard 200, the Australian ARIA Albums Chart and several European charts. Bublé's 2009 album Crazy Love debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 after three days of sales, and remained there for two weeks. It was also his fourth number one album on Billboard's Top Jazz Albums chart. His 2011 holiday album, Christmas, was in first place on the Billboard 200 for the final four weeks of 2011 and the first week of 2012, totalling five weeks atop the chart, it also made the top 5 in the United Kingdom. With this, Christmas became his third-consecutive number-one album on the chart. To Be Loved was released in April 2013, followed by Nobody but Me in October 2016 and Love in November 2018. Bublé has sold over 75 million records worldwide, and won numerous awards, including four Grammy Awards and multiple Juno Awards. Bublé is a dual citizen of Canada and Italy.

        "How Deep Is Your Love" is a pop ballad written and recorded by the Bee Gees in 1977 and released as a single in September of that year. It was ultimately used as part of the soundtrack to the film Saturday Night Fever. It was a number-three hit in the United Kingdom and Australia. In the United States, it topped the Billboard Hot 100 on 25 December 1977 (becoming the first of six consecutive US number-one hits), ended the 10-week reign of Debby Boone's "You Light Up My Life" and stayed in the Top 10 for 17 weeks, being the first song to spend 17+ weeks in the top ten since Chubby Checker's The Twist. It was also the longest song to be in the top ten in one run. It would hold the record until "End of the Road" by Boyz II Men. The single spent 19 weeks in the top ten after the introduction of Nielsen Soundscan in 1991 allowed singles to achieve longer runs on the charts. It spent six weeks atop the US adult contemporary chart. It is listed at Nº. 22 on Billboard's All Time Top 100. Alongside "Stayin' Alive" and "Night Fever", it is one of the group's three tracks on the list. The song was covered by Take That for their 1996 Greatest Hits album, reaching Nº 1 on the UK Singles Chart for three weeks.

       "How Deep Is Your Love" ranked number 375 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In a British TV special shown in December 2011, it was voted The Nation's Favourite Bee Gees Song by ITV viewers. During the Bee Gees' 2001 Billboard magazine interview, Barry reportedly said that this was his favourite Bee Gees song.

I know your eyes in the morning sun

I feel you touch me in the pouring rain

And the moment that you wander far from me

I wanna feel you in my arms again.

 

And you come to me on a summer breeze

Keep me warm in your love then you softly leave

And it's me you need to show

How deep is your love

 

(chorus)

Is your love

How deep is your love

I really need to learn

Cause we're living in a world of fools

Breaking us down

When they all should let us be

We belong to you and me.

 

I believe in you

You know the door to my very soul.

You're the light in my deepest darkest hour

You're my saviour when i fall..

 

And you may not think that i care for you

When you know down inside that i really do

And it's me you need to show how deep is your love?

 

(chorus)

La da da da da, la da da da da da da da da da da

 

And you come to me on a summer breeze

Keep me warm in your love and then softly leave

And it's me you need to show

How deep is your love

 

(chorus repeat) 

SKYLINE PIGEON

ELTON JOHN

SONGWRITERS: BERNIE TAUPIN / ELTON JOHN

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: EMPTY SKY

LABEL: DJM RECORDS

GENRE: BALLAD

YEAR: 1980

 

           Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is an English singer, songwriter, pianist and composer. Collaborating with lyricist Bernie Taupin since 1967 on more than 30 albums, John has sold over 300 million records, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. He has more than fifty Top 40 hits in the UK Singles Chart and US Billboard Hot 100, including seven number ones in the UK and nine in the US, as well as seven consecutive number-one albums in the US. His tribute single "Candle in the Wind 1997", rewritten in dedication to Diana, Princess of Wales, sold over 33 million copies worldwide and is the best-selling chart single of all time. According to Billboard in 2019, John is the top solo artist in US chart history (third overall), and the top Adult Contemporary artist of all time.

           Raised in the Pinner area of Greater London, John learned to play piano at an early age, and by 1962 had formed Bluesology, an R&B band with whom he played until 1967. He met his longtime musical partner Taupin in 1967, after they both answered an advert for songwriters. For two years, they wrote songs for artists including Lulu, and John worked as a session musician for artists including the Hollies and the Scaffold. In 1969, John's debut album, Empty Sky, was released. In 1970, his first hit single, "Your Song", from his second album, Elton John, became his first top ten in both the UK and the US. His most commercially successful period, 1970–1976, included Honky Château(1972), Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player(1973), Goodbye Yellow Brick Road(1973) and his first Greatest Hits compilation — the latter two among the official best-selling albums worldwide. John has also had success in musical films and theatre, composing for The Lion King and its stage adaptation, Aida and Billy Elliot the Musical.

           John has received five Grammy Awards, five Brit Awards; including for Outstanding Contribution to Music; two Academy Awards, two Golden Globes, a Tony Award, a Disney Legends Award, and the Kennedy Center Honor. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him 49th on its list of 100 influential musicians of the rock and roll era. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1992 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, and is a fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for "services to music and charitable services" in 1998. His music career was dramatised in the 2019 biopic Rocketman.

        "Skyline Pigeon" is a ballad composed and performed by English musician Elton John with lyrics by Bernie Taupin. It is the eighth track on his first album, Empty Sky. It was originally released by Guy Darrell and Roger James Cooke simultaneously as a single in August 1969. 

Turn me loose from your hands

Let me fly to distant lands

Over green fields, trees and mountains

Flowers and forest fountains

Home along the lanes of the skyway

 

For this dark and lonely room

Projects a shadow cast in gloom

And my eyes are mirrors

Of the world outside

Thinking of the ways

That the wind can turn the tide

And these shadows turn

From purple into grey

 

For just a Skyline Pigeon

Dreaming of the open

Waiting for the day

He can spread his wings

And fly away again

 

Fly away, skyline pigeon, fly

Towards the dreams

You've left so very far behind

Fly away, skyline pigeon, fly

Towards the dreams

You've left so very far behind

 

Let me wake up in the morning

To the smell of new mown hay

To laugh and cry, to live and die

In the brightness of my day

 

I want to hear the pealing bells

Of distant churches sing

But most of all please free me

From this aching metal ring

And open out this cage towards the sun

 

For just a Skyline Pigeon

Dreaming of the open

Waiting for the day

He can spread his wings

And fly away again

 

Fly away, skyline pigeon, fly

Towards the dreams

You've left so very far behind

Fly away, skyline pigeon, fly

Towards the dreams

You've left so very, so very far behind.

LONELY DAYS

BEE GEES

SONGWRITERS: MAURICE ERNEST GIBB; ROBIN HUGH GIBB & BARRY ALAN GIBB

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: 2 YEARS ON

LABEL: POLYDOR RECORDS

GENRE: BALLAD

YEAR: 1970

 

          The Bee Gees were a music group formed in 1958, featuring brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio were especially successful as a popular music act in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and later as prominent performers of the disco music era in the mid- to late 1970s. The group sang recognisable three-part tight harmonies; Robin's clear vibrato lead vocals were a hallmark of their earlier hits, while Barry's R&B falsetto became their signature sound during the mid- to late 1970s and 1980s. The Bee Gees wrote all of their own hits, as well as writing and producing several major hits for other artists. The Bee Gees have occasionally been referred to as The Disco Kings.

         Born on the Isle of Man to English parents, the Gibb brothers lived in Chorlton, Manchester, England until the late 1950s. There, in 1955, they formed the skiffle/rock and roll group the Rattlesnakes. The family then moved to Redcliffe, in the Moreton Bay Region, Queensland, Australia, and then to Cribb Island. After achieving their first chart success in Australia as the Bee Gees with "Spicks and Specks" (their 12th single), they returned to the UK in January 1967, when producer Robert Stigwood began promoting them to a worldwide audience. The Bee Gees' Saturday Night Fever soundtrack (1977) was the turning point of their career, with both the film and soundtrack having a cultural impact throughout the world, enhancing the disco scene's mainstream appeal. They won five Grammy Awards for Saturday Night Fever, including Album of the Year.

       The Bee Gees have sold over 120 million records worldwide (with estimates as high as over 220 million), making them among the best-selling music artists of all time. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997; the presenter of the award to "Britain's First Family of Harmony" was Brian Wilson, historical leader of the Beach Boys, another "family act" featuring three harmonising brothers. The Bee Gees' Hall of Fame citation says, "Only Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Michael Jackson, Garth Brooks and Paul McCartney have outsold the Bee Gees." With nine #1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 The Bee Gees are the third-most successful band in Billboard charts history behind only The Beatles and The Supremes.

       Following Maurice's sudden death in January 2003 at the age of 53, Barry and Robin retired the group's name after 45 years of activity. In 2009, Robin announced that he and Barry had agreed that the Bee Gees would re-form and perform again. Robin died in May 2012, aged 62, after a prolonged period of failing health, leaving Barry as the only surviving member of the group.

          "Lonely Days" is a ballad written and performed by the Bee Gees. It appeared on their álbum 2 Years On, and was released as a single, becoming their first Top Five hit in the US, peaking at number three in the Billboard Hot 100 and reaching number one in the Cashbox and Record World charts. Barry Gibb later re-recorded the song with country quartet Little Big Town for his 2021 album Greenfields.

Good morning mister sunshine, you brighten up my day

Come sit beside me in your way

I see you every morning, outside the restaurants

The music plays so nonchalant

 

Lonely days, lonely nights.

Where would I be without my woman?

Lonely days, lonely nights.

Where would I be without my woman?

 

Lonely days, lonely nights.

Where would I be without my woman?

Lonely days, lonely nights.

Where would I be without my woman?

 

Lonely days, lonely nights

Where would I be without my woman?

 

Good morning mister sunshine, you brighten up my day

Come sit beside me in your way

 

Lonely days, lonely nights

Where would I be without my woman?

Lonely days, lonely nights

Where would I be without my woman?

 

Lonely days, lonely nights

Where would I be without my woman?

Lonely days, lonely nights

Where would I be without my woman?

ANCORA CON TE

PEPPINO DI CAPRI

COMPOSITORE: ISOLDA

PAESE: ITALIA

ALBUM: 40 ANOS DE SUCESSO

ETICHETTA: TRAMA

GENERE: BALLATA

ANNO: 1999

 

           Peppino di Capri(nato Giuseppe Faiella a Capri, Italia, il 27 luglio 1939) è un cantante, cantautore e pianista di musica popolare italiano, di successo in Italia e in Europa. I suoi successi internazionali includono "St. Tropez Twist"; "Daniela"; "Torna piccina"; "Roberta"; "Melancolie"; "Freva"; "L'ultimo romantico"; "Un grande amore e niente piú"; "Non lo faccio più"; "Nun è peccato"; e "Champagne".

       Peppino ha iniziato a cantare e suonare il pianoforte all'età di 4 anni, intrattenendo le truppe dell'esercito americano di stanza sull'isola di Capri con un repertorio di standard americani. Dopo 6 anni di studi classici e suonando nei locali notturni di Capri, Peppino e il suo gruppo The Rockers hanno pubblicato il loro primo singolo, con le canzoni "Malattia" ("Sickness") e "Nun è Peccato" ("It's not a sin"), cantata a Napoletano nel 1958.

         Il singolo fu um successo immediato e Peppino trascorse la maggior parte dell'anno successivo in tour. Presto seguì una serie di singoli di successo, che di solito alternavano versioni italiane di rock'n'roll americano e canzoni twist (con alcuni versi cantati in inglese), e originali in italiano e napoletano, e di Capri divenne uno dei migliori artisti del nazione.

              Dopo essersi esibito come atto di apertura dei Beatles nel loro tour in Italia del 1965, Peppino e il suo gruppo hanno tentato, con moderato successo, di uscire dal mercato europeo. Il loro lavoro è stato ben accolto, in particolare in Brasile, grazie alla numerosa comunità di immigrati italiani nel Paese.

              Gli anni '70 hanno visto Peppino con una nuova band, i New Rockers. Nel 1973 vince il prestigioso Festival della canzone italiana, meglio conosciuto come Festival di Sanremo, con il brano "Un grande amore e niente più").

        Lo stesso anno, ha pubblicato la canzone "Champagne" che è stata un grande successo in Italia, Germania, Spagna e Brasile.

Vince nuovamente il Festival della canzone italiana nel 1976, con il brano "Non lo faccio più". Ha rappresentato l'Italia all'Eurovision Song Contest 1991, classificandosi al 7º posto con 89 punti con il brano "Comme è ddoce 'o mare", cantato in napoletano.

           Dal 2006, Peppino di Capri è l'artista con il maggior numero di presenze (15) al Festival della canzone italiana, la sua ultima apparizione è stata nel 2005, cantando "La Panchina" ("La piccola panchina del parco").

Tu che sei tra le tante esperienze

Quella che ho ancora in mente

Quella che più mi preme

Tu che sei tra gli amori che ho avuto

Il più complicato il più semplice insieme

 

Tu che sei il mio sbaglio più giusto

E la più strana storia che han scritto di me

E per questo e per altro che anche

Così tornerei ancora con te

 

Tu che sei la bugia più sincera

La batuta più seria che io ho detto mai

Tu che sei il brivido più antico

Dell'amore più amico che ho avuto mai

Dei ricordi che mi fan compagnia

Tu sei la nostalgia che sempre vorrei

E così anche solo così sono ancora con te

 

Ho scordato che volevo scordare

Ho pensato che era sciocco pensare

Ho capito che non posso capire

Ma solo accetare che non ti avrò più

 

Tu che sei il mio grande rimedio

E la sola perfidia che accetterò

Tu che sei la mia pace l'affanno

Il più stupido ingano che mai soffrirò

Dei ricordi che mi fan compagnia

Tu sei la nostalgia che sempre vorrei

E così anche solo così sono acora con te.