LAUGHTER IN THE RAIN

NEIL SEDAKA

SONGWRITER: Neil Sedaka & Phil Cody

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: LIVE AT THE ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL

LABEL: POLYDOR RECORDS

GENRE: EASY LISTENING

YEAR: 1974

Neil Sedaka (born March 13, 1939) is an American pop singer, pianist, composer and record producer. Since his music career began in 1957, he has sold millions of records as an artist and has written or co-written over 500 songs for himself and others, collaborating mostly with lyricists Howard Greenfield and Phil Cody.

"Laughter in the Rain" is a song recorded by Neil Sedaka, composed by him with lyrics by Phil Cody. It includes a 20-second saxophone solo by Jim Horn. Cody reports writing the lyrics in about five minutes after smoking marijuana and falling asleep under a tree for a couple of hours.

Strolling along country roads with my baby

It starts to rain, it begins to pour

Without an umbrella we're soaked to the skin

I feel a shiver run up my spine

I feel the warmth of her hand in mine

Oo, I hear laughter in the rain

Walking hand in hand with the one I love

Oo, how I love the rainy days

And the happy way I feel inside

After a while we run under a tree

I turn to her and she kisses me

There with the beat of the rain on the leaves

Softly she breathes and I close my eyes

Sharing our love under stormy skies

Oo, I hear laughter in the rain

Walking hand in hand with the one I love

Oo, how I love the rainy days

And the happy way I feel inside

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I feel the warmth of her hand in mine

Oo, I hear laughter in the rain

Walking hand in hand with the one I love

Oo, how I love the rainy days

And the happy way I feel inside

Oo, I hear laughter in the rain

Walking hand in hand with the one I love

Oo, how I love the rainy days

And the happy way I feel inside

Oo, I hear laughter in the rain

Walking hand in hand with the one I love

Oo, how I love the rainy days

And the happy way I feel inside.

LAYLA

DEREK AND THE DOMINOS

SONGWRITERS: ERIC CLAPTON & JIM GORDON

COUNTRY: U.K.

ALBUM: LAYLA AND OTHER ASSORTED LOVE SONGS

LABEL: ATCO RECORDS

GENRE: BLUES ROCK

YEAR: 1970

Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs is the only studio album by the Anglo-American blues rock band Derek and the Dominos. Released in November 1970, the double album is best known for its title track, "Layla", and is often regarded as Eric Clapton's greatest musical achievement. The other band members were Bobby Whitlock on keyboards and vocals, Jim Gordon on drums, Carl Radle on bass, and special guest performer Duane Allman on lead and slide guitar on 11 of the 14 songs.

In the United States, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs peaked at number 16 on the Billboard Top LPs chart. It returned to the US albums chart again in 1972, 1974 and 1977, and has since been certified Platinum by the RIAA. Having failed to chart in Britain originally, it finally debuted on the UK Albums Chart in 2011, peaking at number 68.

In 2000, the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In 2003, television network VH1 named Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs the 89th-greatest album of all time, and Rolling Stone ranked it number 117 on its list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". Critic Robert Christgau ranked Layla the third greatest album of the 1970s. In 2012, the Super Deluxe Edition of the record won a Grammy Award for Best Surround Sound Album.

What will you do when you get lonely

No one waiting by your side?

You've been running and hiding much too long

You know it's just your foolish pride

Layla

You've got me on my knees, Layla

Begging darling please, Layla

Darling, won't you ease my worried mind

Tried to give you consolation.

When your old man, had let you down.

But like a fool, I fell in love with you.

You turned my whole world upside down.

Layla

You've got me on my knees, Layla

Begging darling please, Layla

Darling, won't you ease my worried mind

Make the best of the situation

Before I finally go insane

Please don't say we'll never find a way

Or tell me all my love's in vain

Layla

You've got me on my knees, Layla

Begging darling please, Layla

Darling, won't you ease my worried mind

U SHOULD KNOW BETTER

ROBYN

SONGWRITER: ROBYN

COUNTRY: SWEDEN

ALBUM: BODY TALK PT. 2

LABEL: KONICHIWA RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 2010

Body Talk Pt. 2 is the sixth studio album by Swedish recording artist Robyn. It was released on 6 September 2010, by Konichiwa Records. The album is the second part of the Body Talk trilogy, which consists of three mini-albums, all released during 2010. Robyn started working on songs for the album when Body Talk Pt. 1 (2010) was still in development, and she collaborated with Klas Åhlund, Kleerup, Savage Skulls, Diplo, Snoop Dogg and Niggaracci. Musically, the songs on Body Talk Pt. 2 are upbeat and a mixture between electro, house, hip hop and disco.

I've gone around the world and the seven seas

I'm cashin' six-figure checks in all currencies

It's like when I be tearin' it up in Paris

Motherfuckers parler on the m-i-c

It's all "ooh la la" and "ahh oui oui"

Sippin' vin blanc in our lingerie

Choppin' heads off with madame guillotine

Even the French know better than to fuck with me

Comment allez-vous Robyn, what it do

I'm in the UK (why?) got a show to do (uh-huh)

It's big Snoopy Dogg, check the catalog

I'm overseas gettin' cheese with this dialogue

I missed my plane to Spain so I'm stuck in Colonna

I'm sippin' Saronno with this chick named Ramona

She wants me to take a flick on her phone-ah

Then take her to my hotel room and then bone her

You know when in Rome I sat down with the Romans

Said "We need a black pope and she better be a woman"

There'll be no more celibacy

Even the Vatican knows not to fuck with me

You should know better

Y-You should know better

You should know better than to fuck with me

If you knew better you would do better

You should know better

Y-You should know better

You should know better than to fuck with me

If you knew better you would do better

We big-ballin' in Holland, Amsterdam my man

I got a table at the coffee shop

Where we like to spark a lot

Hangin' in the parking lot blowin' a bleezy

Easy fo sheezy deezy

I crashed a party with the Czar

Threw a molotov cocktail in the bar

And you know my style's revolutionary

Even the Russians know better than to fuck with me

You try to ban me, you can't stand me

Cuz I'm an outlaw

Black president livin' in the White House

Mr. B he wrote a letter to me

The FBI know better than to fuck with me

Yo, I was there at Watergate

You know I rigged my gear got the fuckers on tape

They put the mic in the hand of the wrong MC

Even the CIA knows not to fuck with me

You should know better

Y-You should know better

You should know better than to fuck with me

If you knew better you would do better

You should know better

Y-You should know better

You should know better than to fuck with me

If you knew better you would do better

Tell 'em Snoop, tell 'em like it is

I been there, in there, out there like that

Right back to the hood, a hundred Euro stacks

Shoot motherfuckers just on GP

LAPD know better than to fuck with me

I danced with the devil in Kathmandu

I came hummin' and blastin' with the boogaloo too

Now I declare most solemnly

The prince of darkness know better than to fuck with me

You know not what you know

Tell 'em what I'm in it for

Then I run up in it slow

Really though, silly ho

Yea spend a minute though

I blow an ounce and make you bounce

Just like a sixty-four

Now you know me I'm a woman of peace

I don't never take nothin' don't belong to me

I throw down and say "Whatever's gonna be, gonna be"

The whole industry knows not to fuck with me

You should know better

Y-You should know better

You should know better than to fuck with me

If you knew better you would do better

You should know better

Y-You should know better

You should know better than to fuck with me

If you knew better you would do better

You should know better

Y-You should know better

You should know better than to fuck with me

If you knew better you would do better

PLEASE COME HOME FOR CHRISTMAS

KELLY CLARKSON

SONGWRITERS: CHARLES BROWN & GENE REDD
WHERE: LIVE AT HARD ROCK NASHVILLE

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: WRAPPED IN RED

LABEL: RCA RECORDS

GENRE: CHRISTMAS MUSIC

YEAR: 2013

Kelly Brianne Clarkson (Fort Worth, 24 de abril de 1982) é uma cantora e compositora, ocasionalmente atriz, de origem norte-americana. Atingiu a fama em 2002, após vencer a primeira temporada do reality show American Idol. Seu single de estreia, "A Moment Like This", alcançou a primeira posição da Billboard Hot 100 nos Estados Unidos e na época quebrou o recorde de maior salto para o topo do gráfico musical, além de ter sido o mais vendido do ano naquele país. No ano seguinte, ela tornou-se a vice-campeã do World Idol. Ao longo da carreira, foi nomeada em dez categorias ao Grammy Awards, vencendo três delas.

"Please Come Home for Christmas" is a Christmas song, released in 1960, by the American blues singer and pianist Charles Brown. Hitting Billboard’s Hot 100 chart in December 1961, the tune Brown co-wrote with Gene Redd peaked at position #76. It appeared on the Christmas Singles chart for nine seasons, hitting #1 in 1972. It includes a number of characteristics of Christmas music, such as multiple references in the lyrics to the Christmas season and Christmas traditions, and the use of a Church bell type sound, created using a piano, at the start of the song. It is sometimes referred to as "Bells Will Be Ringing", which are the first four words of the song.

Bells will be ringing

The glad, glad news

Oh, what a christmas

To have the blues

My baby's gone

I have no friends

To wish me greetings

Once again

Choirs will be singing

"silent night"

Christmas carols

By candlelight

Please come home for christmas

Baby please come home for christmas

If not for christmas

By new year's night

Friends and relations

Send salutations

Sure as the stars shine above

It's christmas yea

It's christmas

The time of year

To be, with the one you love

Then won't you tell me

You'll never more roam

Christmas and new year's

Will find you home

There'll be no more sorrow

No grief no pain

Then I'll be happy, happy

Once again

There'll be no more sorrow

No grief and pain

Then I'll be happy

Christmas

Once again