IT'S ONLY MAKE BELIEVE

BILLY FURY

Songwriter: jack nance & Conway twitty

Country: u.k.

Album: the billy fury parade

Label: decca records

Genre: rock and roll

Year: 1982

"It's Only Make Believe" is a song written by Jack Nance and American country music artist Conway Twitty, and produced by MGM Records Jim Vienneau, released by Twitty as a single in July 1958. The single topped both U.S. and the UK Singles Chart, and was Twitty's only number-one single on the pop charts of either country. On a segment of Pop Goes The Country, Twitty states the single was a hit in 22 different countries and sold over 8 million copies. It is believed that Twitty wrote his part of the song while sitting on a fire escape outside his hotel room, to escape the summer heat, in Hamilton, Ontario. Twitty had come to Canada at the request of another American singer, Rompin' Ronnie Hawkins, due to Hawkins saying to Twitty that Canada was the 'promised land' for music.

Ronald William Wycherley (17 April 1940 – 28 January 1983), better known by his stage name Billy Fury, was an English singer from the late 1950s to the mid 1960s, and remained an active songwriter until the 1980s. Rheumatic fever, which he first contracted as a child, damaged his heart and ultimately contributed to his death. An early British rock and roll (and film) star, he equaled the Beatles' record of 24 hits in the 1960s, and spent 332 weeks on the UK chart, without a chart-topping single or album.

People see us everywhere

They think you really care

But myself I can't deceive

I know it's only make believe

My one and only prayer

Is that someday you'll care

My hopes, my dreams come true

My one and only you

No one will ever know

How much I love you

So my only prayer will be

Someday you'll care for me

But it's only make believe

My hopes, my dreams come true

My life, I'd give for you

My heart, a wedding ring

My all, my everything

My heart, I can't control

You rule my very soul

My only prayer will be

Someday you'll care for me

But it's only make believe

My one and only prayer

Is that someday you'll care

My hopes, my dreams come true

My one and only you

No one will ever know

How much I love you so

My prayer, my hope, and my schemes

You are my every dream

But it's only make

But it's only make

But it's only make believe

WHITE CHRISTMAS

BING CROSBY

SONGWRITER: IRVING BERLIN

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: MERRY CHRISTMAS

LABEL: DECCA RECORDS

GENRE: CHRISTMAS SONG

YEAR: 1945

White Christmas é uma canção natalina composta por Irving Berlin e gravada originalmente por Bing Crosby. A versão de Crosby figura no Guinness World Records como o single mais vendido de todos os tempos, tendo superado a marca de 100 milhões de cópias em todo o mundo. Outras versões da canção, somando a de Crosby, já venderam mais de 150 milhões de cópias.

As fontes variam sobre quando e onde Berlin compôs a canção. Uma versão afirma que a canção foi escrita em 1940 na cidade de La Quinta, Califórnia, sendo que outras fontes alegam que o local de sua origem é no hotel Arizona Biltmore. Segundo o próprio Berlin, White Christmas é a "melhor canção já escrita".

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,

Just like the ones I used to know.

Where those tree-tops glisten,

And children listen

To hear sleighbells in the snow.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,

With every Christmas card I write,

"May your days be merry and bright,

And may all your Christmases be white".

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,

Just like the ones I used to know.

May your days may your days may your days be merry and bright,

And may all your Christmases be white.

MY SPECIAL ANGEL

BOBBY VINTON

SONGWRITERS: JIMMY DUNCAN  

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: THE GREATEST HITS OF THE GREATEST GROUPS

LABEL: SONY MUSIC

GENRE: POP SONG

YEAR: 1963

"My Special Angel" is a popular song by Jimmy Duncan, published in 1957.

The song became a crossover hit in 1957 for Bobby Helms. "My Special Angel" peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and spent four weeks at number one on the US Country music chart. The single made the R&B chart as well peaking at number eight. It became a gold record. Backing vocals were sung by the Anita Kerr Singers.

Bill Haley and His Comets covered it on their 1960 covers album Bill Haley and His Comets.

Bobby Vinton and Frankie Avalon both released covers of this song in 1963. The Crests recorded a cover version for their 1960 album: The Crests Sing All Biggies.

It was revived in 1968 by The Vogues, a vocal group founded in Pennsylvania who had already scored top ten hits in the US with the songs "You're The One", "Five O'Clock World", and "Turn Around, Look at Me". The group's cover of "My Special Angel" reached number seven on the Hot 100 chart and fared even better on the Easy Listening chart, where it spent two weeks at number one in October 1968.

In the United Kingdom, a version recorded by Malcolm Vaughan spent 14 weeks on the charts, peaking at number three in 1957.

You are my special Angel

Sent from up above

The Lord smiled down on me

And sent an angel to love

You are my special angel

Right from paradise

I know you're an angel

Heaven is in your eyes

The smile from your lips brings the summer sunshine

Tears from your eyes bring the rain

I feel your touch, your warm embrace

And I'm in heaven again

You are my special angel

Through eternity

I'll have my special angel

Here to watch over me

A smile from your lips brings the summer sunshine

The tears from your eyes bring the rain

I feel your touch, your warm embrace

And I'm in heaven again

You are my special angel

Through eternity

I'll have my special angel

Here to watch over me

Here to watch over me

COME HOME FOR CHRISTMAS

DAVID GATES

SONGWRItEr: DAVID gatES

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

Album: TAKE ME NOW

LABEL: ARISTA RECORDS

GEnre: pop rock

YEaR: 1981

Take Me Now is the fifth solo album by David Gates of Bread. It was his final album until 1994.

David Ashworth Gates (born December 11, 1940) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and producer, best known as the co-lead singer of the group Bread, (sharing lead vocal rights with Jimmy Griffin) which reached the tops of the musical charts in Europe and North America on several occasions in the 1970s. The band was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame.

Everyone's comin' for christmas

Everyone soon will be here

And i'm calling again

Cause i've never been

Without you this time of the year

Everyone's sayin' how are you

Knowin'full well i'm not much

And presents to me

Means you here beside me

The love i'm so used to, the touch

Here in december it's hard to remember

The words of july ... that made us both cry

We've tried it apart and i know from my heart

That it's not working well ... it's just simply hell

Everyone's watchin' for santa

But you're all i'm longin' to see

To hold you once more, just like before

Or it won't be like christmas to me

We've tried it apart and i know from my heart

That it's not working well ... not working well

Won't you please come home for christmas

You're all that i have in this world

You know that i'll wait, won't give up hopin'

No matter how late, the door will stay open

I'm in love with you girl

So come home for christmas to me