TEARS
FROM MY EYES
UB40
SONGWRITER: TEDDY DAVIS
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM: LABOUR OF LOVE II
LABEL: VIRGIN RECORDS
GENRE: REGGAE
YEAR: 1989
UB40 are an English reggae and pop band, formed in
December 1978 in Birmingham,
England. The band has had more than 50 singles in the UK Singles Chart, and has
also achieved considerable international success. They have been nominated for
the Grammy Award
for Best Reggae Album four times, and
in 1984 were nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Group. UB40 have sold over 70 million records
worldwide. The ethnic make-up of the band's original line-up was diverse, with
musicians of English, Welsh, Irish, Jamaican, Scottish, and Yemeni parentage.
Their hit singles include their debut "Food for
Thought" and two Billboard Hot 100 number ones with "Red Red Wine"
and "Can't Help Falling in Love".
Both of these also topped the UK Singles Chart,
as did the band's version of "I Got You Babe",
recorded with Chrissie Hynde. Their
two most successful albums, Labour of Love(1983)
and Promises and Lies(1993),
reached number one on the UK Albums Chart.
UB40 and the English ska band Madness hold the record
for most weeks spent by a group in the UK singles chart during the 1980s, with
214 weeks each.
The band's line-up was stable for nearly 29
years, from March 1979 until January 2008, when frontman Ali Campbell left the
band, followed shortly thereafter by keyboardist Mickey Virtue. Another member,
Astro, remained with the band until November 2013, when he departed the
original band to team up with Campbell and Virtue in a new version of UB40. In
2014, legal advice was sought by the original band (now consisting of remaining
co-founding members drummer Jimmy Brown, guitarist Robin Campbell, bassist Earl
Falconer, percussionist Norman Hassan, and saxophonist Brian Travers, along
with new vocalist Duncan Campbell) who took action against the group containing
Campbell, Virtue, and Astro over usage of the band name, due to it being used
by both parties. On 5 July 2021, it was announced that Matt Doyle (formerly of
the reggae band Kioko) would become the band's new vocalist, following Duncan
Campbell's retirement due to ill health.
Labour of Love II is the ninth album and
second covers album by UB40, released in 1989. The
album contained two top-ten Billboard Hot 100 hits – "Here I Am (Come and Take Me)"
peaked at Nº 7, "The Way You
Do the Things You Do" peaked at Nº 6 – and
"Kingston Town"
reached Nº 4 on the UK Singles Chart.
Tears from my eyes keep on falling
cause you are leaving, leaving
with another
Things that we've done together
I'll always remember though you're
with another, baby.
Tears from my eyes keep on falling
cause you are leaving, leaving
with another
Things that we've done together
I'll always remember though you're
with another, baby.
I've done everything one man can
do, girl
Said every word one man can say
The thing that we had has gone
astray, girl
I'm missing you from day to day.
Tears from my eyes keep on falling
cause you are leaving, leaving
with another
Things that we've done together
I'll always remember though you're
with another, baby.
I've done everything one man can
do, girl
Said every word one man can say
The thing that we had has gone
astray, girl
I'm missing you from day to day.
Tears from my eyes keep on falling
cause you are leaving, leaving
with another
Things that we've done together
I'll always remember though you're
with another, baby.
Tears from my eyes keep on falling
cause you are leaving, leaving with
another
Things that we've done together
I'll always remember though you're
with another, baby.
Tears from my eyes keep on falling
cause you are leaving, leaving
with another
Things
that we've done together.
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