LE RUISSEAU DE MON ENFANCE
SALVATORE ADAMO
COMPOSITEUR: SALVATORE ADAMO
PAYS: FRANCE
ALBUM: OLYMPIA 1969/LP
RECORD: IMPORT
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 1969

Salvatore Adamo, também conhecido simplesmente como Adamo, é um cantor francófono ítalo-belga nascido em Comiso, Itália em 1º de Novembro de 1943. Seus grandes sucessos são: Tombe la neige, La nuit, j'aime, Elle, Inch'Allah, F... comme femme, C'est ma vie...
Parle-moi de mon enfance, mon vieux ruisseau
Du temps où coulait ma chance au fil de ton eau

Parle-moi des doux délires de mes tendres années
Les bleuets qui les fleurirent sont-ils à jamais fanés?
Parle-moi de ces dimanches où je venais te confier
En timide voile blanche, mes rêves de papier
Parle-moi tant que j'y pense de mon premier amour
Il était tout innocence, a-t-il duré toujours?

Parle-moi de mon enfance, mon vieux ruisseau
Du temps où coulait ma chance au fil de ton eau

Coule, coule mon enfance au fil du souvenir
C'est un jeu perdu d'avance que de la retenir
Car le vent de l'insouciance un jour lâcha ma main
Je vins pleurer en silence et larmes tu devins
Champs de roses: champs de ronces que j'avais traversés
Je viens chercher réponse, qui de vous m'a blessé?

Parle-moi de mon enfance, mon vieux ruisseau
Du temps où coulait ma chance au fil de ton eau
Je suis tombé le nez dans un rêve, c'est la faute au
ruisseau

Cœur meurtri je m'en relève, c'est la faute à son eau!
STRAIGHTEN UP & FLY RIGHT
NAT KING COLE
SONGWRITERS: NAT KING COLE & IRVING MILLS
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
ALBUM: STRAIGHTEN UP AND FLY RIGHT!
LABEL: VINTAGE JAZZ
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 1991

"Straighten Up and Fly Right" is a 1943 song written by Nat King Cole and Irving Mills and performed by The King Cole Trio. The single was the trio's most popular single reaching number one on the Harlem Hit Parade for ten nonconsecutive weeks. The single also peaked at number nine on the pop charts. "Straighten Up and Fly Right" also reached number one for six nonconsecutive weeks on the Most Played Jukebox Hillbilly Records.
The song was based on a black folk tale that Cole's father had used as a theme for one of his sermons. In the tale, a buzzard takes different animals for a joy ride. When he gets hungry, he throws them off on a dive and eats them for dinner. A monkey who had observed this trick goes for a ride; he wraps his tail around the buzzard's neck and gives the buzzard a big surprise by nearly choking him to death.
The song was a part of the score of the 1943 film Here Comes Elmer.
The song was used in the 1995 HBO historical war drama The Tuskegee Airmen and the title was quoted by the pilots when going into battle.
The song was used in the season 4 episode of Tales from the Crypt, "Split Personality".
The song was used in NBC's drama series This Is Us, "The best washing machine in the whole world". Rebecca Pearson (played by Mandy Moore) sang the song during rehearsal.


The buzzard took the monkey for a ride in the air
The monkey thought that everything was on a square
The buzzard tried to throw the monkey off his back
But the monkey grabbed his neck and said "Now listen Jack"

Straighten up and fly right
Straighten up and stay right
Straighten up and fly right
Cool down pappa, don't you blow your top
Ain't no use in divin', what's the use of jivin'
Straighten up and fly right
Cool down pappa, don't you blow your top

The buzzard told the monkey you are chokin' me
Release your hold and I will set you free
The monkey looked the buzzard right dead in the eye
And said, "Your story's so touching but it sounds like a lie"

Straighten up and fly right
Straighten up and stay right
Straighten up and fly right

Cool down pappa, don't you blow your top
WHAT WILL MY MARY SAY
JOHNNY MATHIS
SONGWRITER: PAUL VANCE & EDDIE SNYDER
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
ALBUM: THE SINGLES
LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS
GENRE: EASY LISTENING
YEAR: 1990

John Royce "Johnny" Mathis (born September 30, 1935) is an American singer of popular music and jazz. Starting his career with singles of standard music, he became highly popular as an album artist, with several dozen of his albums achieving gold or platinum status and 73 making the Billboard charts to date. Mathis has sold well over 350 million records worldwide, according to Guinness Book of World Records writer and charts music historian Paul Gambaccini and other sources. This makes Mathis the third biggest selling artist of the 20th century.
Although he is frequently described as a romantic singer, his discography includes jazz, traditional pop, Brazilian music, Spanish music, soul music, rhythm and blues, soft rock, Broadway theatre, Tin Pan Alley standards, some blues and country songs, and even a few disco songs for his album Mathis Magic in 1979. Mathis also recorded six albums of Christmas music. In a 1968 interview, Mathis cited Lena Horne, Nat King Cole, and Bing Crosby among his musical influences.
I must be going (Don't go)
My heart is showing (Don't go)
I better hurry away
If I don't leave I'll be sorry
What will my Mary say?

Your lips are thrilling
My arms are willing
I know that I shouldn't stay
If I don't leave I'll be sorry
What will my Mary say?

What would I do if she should need me
And find me kissing you?
She's always trusted me completely
Her poor heart would break in two

I must be going (Don't go)
My heart is showing (Don't go)
I better hurry away
If I don't leave I'll be sorry
What will my Mary say?

If I don't leave I'll be sorry
What will my Mary say?
(Don't go)
(Don't go)
MISTS OF TIME 
JOHN MAYALL AND THE BLUESBREAKERS
Songwriter: JOHN MAYALL
Country: U.K.
Album: STORIES
Label: EAGLE RECORDS
genre: BLUES ROCK
Year: 2002

John Mayall, 69 years of age at the time of this recording, is at the very least irrepressible. He and his many versions of the Bluesbreakers have hit the road every year for decades, and the five years leading up to the release of Stories offer a flurry of activity that hasn't been seen from him since the 1970s. The Bluesbreakers lineup here has been with him since Spinning Coin, and includes Joe Yuele on drums, guitarist Buddy Whittington, Hank Van Sickle on bass, and Tom Canning on keyboards. Like the young hip-hop kids who self reference ubiquitously, Mayall writes more songs about blues music or playing the blues than virtually any musician in history, and Stories seems to be a series of narrative songs that are, for the most part, about various blues giants of the past, such as a reminiscence about seeing Little Walter in "Southside Story" or a paean to Leadbelly in "Oh, Leadbelly," various blues myths such as "I Thought I Heard the Devil" and "The Witching Hour," or exhortations for young people to take up the blues mantle ("Kids Got the Blues"). There are other tracks, however, like the excellent political minor-key shuffle "Dirty Water" -- no, not that one. The best track on the album is a country-style Bo Diddley shuffle called "Feels Just Like Home," the only love song on the record and it's a stunner. The production is crisp, perhaps a little too, and the playing is inspired. Mayall's harmonica playing is as fine as ever, and if there is one complaint about the last few records, it's the overplaying of Whittington, who is a stunning guitar player in the modern style. Mayall reins him in a bit here (though not enough) and as a result the songs – because Mayall is a fine writer -- come shining through the instrumental prowess. This is a worthy inclusion in one of the most prolific and consistent catalogs in blues-rock history.



Somewhere in the world
Are friends I've missed from long ago
Could be drifting by the wayside
Or even dead - I just don´t know
And now my memories are fading
Like melting footprints in the snow

Sometimes a dream will haunt me
And I see a young girl's face
Was she once for real
And did she really share my space
Within the swirling mists of time
It's hard to keep a track of year and place

I thought about my mother
When she was young and on the road
Hanging out with my musicians
Or camping out in forest groves
Like gray mists conceal horizons
I miss those times we'll share no more

So far my life's a journey
And even if I could I wouldn't change a thing
All those years of bold adventures
The highs and lows that make me sing
Within the swirling mists of time

Such sweet memories still often ring