"Don't Get Around
Much Anymore" is a jazz standard with music by Duke Ellington and lyrics
by Bob Russell. The tune was originally called "Never No Lament" and
was first recorded by Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra on May 4, 1940 as
a big-band instrumental. Russell's
lyrics were added in 1942.
Two different recordings
of "Don't Get Around Much Anymore", one by The Ink Spots and the
other by Ellington's own band, reached No. 1 on the R&B chart in the US in
1943. Both were top-ten pop records, along with a version by Glen Gray. The Duke Ellington version
reached No. 8 on the pop chart.
Missed the Saturday dance
Heard they crowded the floor
Couldn't bear it without you
Don't get around much anymore
I thought I'd visit the club
Got as far as the door
They'd have asked me about you
Don't get around much anymore
Well darling, I guess that my mind's more
at ease
But nevertheless, why stir up memories?
I've been invited on dates
Might have gone but what for
It's awfully different without you
Don't get around much anymore
Darling, I guess, my mind's more at ease
But nevertheless, why stir up memories?
They've been invited on dates
I might have gone but what for
It's awfully different without you
Don't get around much anymore
Oh baby, don't get around much anymore.
SCARLETT
RIBBONS
HARRY BELAFONTE
SONGWRITERS:
SEGAL, JACK & DANZIG, EVELYN
COUNTRY: U. S.
A.
ALBUM: VERY
BEST OF HARRY BELAFONTE
LABEL: SONY
MUSIC
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 1991.
Harry Belafonte(born Harold George
Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927) is an American singer, songwriter, activist,
and actor. As arguably the most successful Jamaican-Americanpop star, he popularized the Trinbagonian Caribbeanmusical
style with an international audience in the 1950s. His breakthrough album Calypso(1956)
was the first million-selling LPby a single
artist.
Belafonte is best known for his recordings of
"The Banana
Boat Song", with its signature "Day-O"
lyric, and "Jamaica Farewell".
He has recorded and performed in many genres, including blues, folk, gospel, show tunes, and American
standards. He has also starred in several films,
including Carmen Jones(1954),
Island in the
Sun(1957), and Odds Against
Tomorrow(1959).
Belafonte considered the actor, singer and
activist Paul Robesona mentor, and
was a close confidant of Martin Luther
King Jr.in the Civil Rights
Movementin the 1950s and 1960s. As he later
recalled, "Paul Robeson had been my first great formative influence; you
might say he gave me my backbone. Martin King was the second; he nourished my
soul." Throughout his career, Belafonte has been an advocate for political
and humanitarian causes, such as the Anti-Apartheid
Movementand USA for Africa. Since
1987, he has been a UNICEF
Goodwill Ambassador. He was a vocal critic of the
policies of the George W.
Bushpresidential administrations.
Belafonte acts as the American
Civil Liberties Unioncelebrity
ambassador for juvenile justice issues.
Belafonte has won three Grammy Awards(including
a Grammy
Lifetime Achievement Award), an Emmy Award, and a Tony Award. In
1989, he received the Kennedy
Center Honors. He was awarded the National
Medal of Artsin 1994. In 2014, he received the Jean Hersholt
Humanitarian Awardat the Academy's 6th Annual Governors Awardsand in 2022 was inducted into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Famein the Early Influence category and
is the oldest living person to have received the honor.
In 1952 Harry Belafonte,
at his third session for RCA Records, covered
the song with an arrangement using his guitarist Millard Thomas and male vocal
group. The four-year-old recording finally became a success in 1956 after it
appeared on his second
album, which reached Nº 1 on Billboard's album
chart for six weeks and stayed on the chart for over a year. The song reached Nº
18 on the UK's New Musical
Expresschart in late 1957
"Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair)" is
a popularsong. The music
was written by Evelyn Danzigand the lyrics by Jack Segal.
The song has become a standardwith
many recorded versions and has appeared on several Christmas albums.
"Scarlet Ribbons" was written in
only 15 minutes in 1949 at Danzig's home in Port
Washington, New York after she invited
lyricist Segal to hear her music. The song tells a miraculous tale: a father
hears his small daughter pray before she goes to bed for "scarlet ribbons
for her hair". It is late, no stores are open in their town, nor is there
anywhere the dad can obtain the ribbons so he is distraught throughout the
night. At dawn he again peeps in and is amazed to see beautiful "scarlet
ribbons" in "gay profusion lying there." He says that if he
lives to be two hundred, he will never know from where the ribbons came.
I peeked in to say good-night
When I heard my child in prayer
"And for me, some scarlet ribbons
Scarlet ribbons for my hair"
All our stores were closed and shuttered
All the streets were dark and bare
In our town, no scarlet ribbons
Scarlet ribbons for her hair
Through the night my heart was aching
Just before the dawn was breaking
In our town, no scarlet ribbons
Scarlet ribbons for her hair
I peeked in and on her bed
In gay profusion lying there
Lovely ribbons, scarlet ribbons
Scarlet ribbons for her hair
If I live to be a hundred
I will never know from where
Came those lovely scarlet ribbons
Scarlet ribbons for her hair.
I Can See Clearly Now
JOHNNY NASH
SONGWRITER: JOHNNY NASH
PRODUCTOR: JOHNNY NASH
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
ALBUM: I CAN SEE CLEARLY KNOW
LABEL: EPIC
GENRE: REGGAE
YEAR: 1972
I Can See Clearly Nowis an album byAmericansingerJohnny Nash, released in 1972. The album included two of his biggest hit
singles, the title track ("I Can See Clearly Now") and "Stir It Up." The song "I Can See Clearly
Now" hit number
one on theBillboardHot 100on November 4, 1972. Nash's
backing band for the album was the JamaicanreggaegroupFabulous Five Inc..
I can see clearly now, the rain is gone,
I can see all obstacles in my way
Gone are the dark clouds that had me
blind
It's gonna be a bright (bright), bright
(bright)
Sunshinning day.
I think I can make it now, the pain is
gone
All of the bad feelings have disappeared
Here is the rainbow I've been prayin' for
It's gonna be a bright (bright), bright
(bright)
Sunshinning day.
Look all around, there's nothin' but
blue skies
Look straight ahead, nothin' but blue
skies
I can see clearly now, the rain is gone,
I can see all obstacles in my way
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind
It's gonna be a bright (bright), bright
(bright)
Sunshinning day. (x3)
I SAW LINDA
YESTERDAY
DICKEY LEE
WRITTEN BY DICKEY LEE
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ÁLBUM: NEVER ENDING SONG OF
LOVE
GRAVADORA: RCA VICTOR
GÊNERO: COUNTRY
ANO: 1963
Royden Dickey Lipscomb (born September 21,
1936), known professionally as Dickey Lee(sometimes misspelled Dickie or
Dicky), is an American pop/countrysinger and songwriter, best known for the 1960s teenage
tragedy songs"Patches"
and "Laurie (Strange Things Happen)". He also has a number of hit
songs on the country charts in the 1970s, including "Rocky"
and "9,999,999 Tears",
and has written or co-written songs recorded by other singers, such as "She Thinks I
Still Care", "The Door Is
Always Open" and "The Keeper of
the Stars".
Lee formed a country trio while he was still
at school at the age of 16, performing at his school and local functions. In
1957–58, Lee made his first two recordings,
"Dream Boy" and "Stay True Baby", in his hometown of
Memphis for Tampa Records, later released two songs for Sun Recordsin,
although the song were only regional hits. He moved to Texas, and achieved his
first chartsuccess in
1962, when his composition "She Thinks I
Still Care" was a hitfor George Jones(later
recorded by Elvis Presley, Connie Francis, Leon Russell, and
later Anne Murrayas
"He Thinks I Still Care"). Glen Campbellalso recorded the song for his final album, Adios.
Later that year, "Patches", written by Barry Mannand Larry Kobler and recorded by Lee for Smash Records, rose to
Nº 6. The song tells in waltz-time the story of teenage lovers of different
social classes whose parents forbid their love. The girl drowns herself in the
"dirty old river". The singer concludes: "It may not be right,
but I'll join you tonight/ Patches I'm coming to you." Because of the teen
suicide theme, the song was banned by a number of radio stations. However, it
sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc.
It is in this period that he changed his named legally from Royden Dickey
Lipscomb to Dickey Lee after a man of similar name attempted to sue him for
using his name.
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