LOTTA LOVE

NICOLETTE LARSON

Songwriter: Neil young

Country: u. s. a.

album: nicolette

label: warner bros

genre: country rock

year: 1978

"Lotta Love" is a song written and recorded by Neil Young and released on his 1978 Comes a Time album. "Lotta Love" was also covered by Nicolette Larson in 1978. Larson's version reached No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and No. 8 on the Cash Box Top 100 in February 1979. It also hit No. 1 on the Easy Listening chart and was a hit in Australia (No. 11) and New Zealand (No. 22).

Nicolette Larson (July 17, 1952 – December 16, 1997) was an American pop singer. She is perhaps best known for her work in the late 1970s with Neil Young and her 1978 hit single of Neil Young's "Lotta Love," which hit No. 1 on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart and No. 8 on the Pop Singles chart. It was followed by four more adult contemporary hits, two of which were also minor pop hits.

By 1985, she shifted her focus to country music, charting six times on the US Country Singles chart. Her only top-40 country hit was "That's How You Know When Love's Right", a duet with Steve Wariner. She died in 1997 of cerebral edema and liver failure.

It's gonna take a lotta love

To change the way things are.

It's gonna take a lotta love

Or we won't get too far

So if you look in my direction

And we don't see eye to eye,

My heart needs protection and so do I.

It's gonna take a lotta love

To get us thru the night.

It's gonna take a lotta love

To make this work out right.

So if you are out there waitin'

I hope you show up soon,

You know I need relating, not solitude

Gotta lotta love

Gotta lotta love

La la la la la la la la la

Ooh, ooh

It's gonna take a lotta love

To change the way things are.

It's gonna take a lotta love

Or we won't get too far.

It's gonna take a lotta love

To change the way things are.

It's gonna take a lotta love

Or we won't get too far

Or we won't get too far.

CLAIR

GILBERTO O’ SULLIVAN

SONGWRITER: GILBERTO O’ SULLIVAN

COUNTRY: IRELAND

ALBUM: BACK TO FRONT

LABEL: MAM RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 1972

"Clair" is a popular song by Irish singer-songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan and is one of his biggest-selling singles. Written by O'Sullivan and produced by Gordon Mills, it was the number one single in the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in November 1972, number one in Canada on the RPM 100 national singles chart the following January, and peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US. It was also O'Sullivan's second and last number one hit on the U.S. Easy Listening chart, after "Alone Again (Naturally)".

The song is the love song of a close family friend who babysits a young girl (actually the artist's manager's daughter), though for the first part of the song, the ambiguous text leads one to think that it is from one adult to another. The brief instrumental introduction is the sound of O'Sullivan whistling, before he comes in. The real Clair was the three-year-old daughter of O'Sullivan's producer-manager, Gordon Mills, and his wife, the model Jo Waring. The little girl's giggling is heard at the end of this song. The "Uncle Ray" mentioned in the song is O'Sullivan himself, a reference to his real name of Raymond O'Sullivan. The instrumental break in the middle section is done half a step up from A to B-Flat, before going back to A.

"Clair" was included in O'Sullivan's álbum Back to Front (1972). An Italian version was performed in 1973 by the crooner Johnny Dorelli. A cover by Singers Unlimited was sampled by producer J Dilla for the Slum Village song "Players".

Clair

The moment I met you, I swear.

I felt as if something, somewhere,

Had happened to me,

which I couldn't see.

And then, the moment I met you, again.

I knew in my heart

that we were friends.

It had to be so,

it couldn't be no.

But try as hard as I might do,

I don't know why.

You get to me in a way

I can't describe.

Words mean so little

when you look up and smile.

I don't care what people say,

to me you're more than a child

Oh, Clair.

Clair

Clair

If ever a moment so rare

Was captured for all to compare.

That moment is you

in all that you do.

But why in spite of our

age difference do I cry.

Each time I leave you

I feel I could die.

Nothing means more to me

than hearing you say,

"I'm going to marry you.

Will you marry me?

Oh hurray!"

Oh, Clair.

Clair

Clair

I've told you before

"Don't you dare!"

"Get back into bed."

"Can't you see that it's late."

"No you can't have a drink."

"Oh all right then,

but wait just a minute."

While I, in an effort to babysit,

catch up on my breath,

What there is left of it.

You can be murder

at this hour of the day.

But in the morning the sun

will see my lifetime away.

Oh, Clair

Clair

Oh, Clair.

TULSA QUEEN

EMMYLOU HARRIS

SONGWRITERS: Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: LUXURY LINER

LABEL: WARNER BROS

GENRE: COUNTRY

YEAR: 1977

Luxury Liner is an album by country music artist Emmylou Harris, released in 1976. The album was Harris' second successive #1 country album on the Billboard Music Charts, although, unlike the preceding Elite Hotel, there were no #1 hits from this album. The highest charting singles were the #6 Chuck Berry cover "(You Never Can Tell) C'est la Vie" and the #8 "Making Believe" (originally a hit for Kitty Wells). However, the album may be better known for including the first cover version of Townes Van Zandt's 1972 song "Pancho and Lefty", which subsequently became Van Zandt's best-known composition.

Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter and musician. She has released many popular albums and singles over the course of her career, and she has won 14 Grammys, the Polar Music Prize, and numerous other honors, including induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame. In 2018 she was presented the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

I heard the train

In the Tulsa night

Calling out my name

Looking for a fight

She's come a long, long way

Got a longer way to go

So tell me how a train from Tulsa

Has got a right to know

She sings a song

So sad and high

And the Tulsa Queen

Don't ever lie

And she don't care where she goes

Don't care where she's been

And the Tulsa Queen ain't crying

'Cause I won't see you again

And I want to ride

Like a Tulsa Queen

Calling out to you

As she calls to me

As far away from Tulsa

As these ten wheels can be

Lately I speak

Your name too loud

Each time it comes up

In a crowd

And I know it when I do

The Tulsa Queen and you

Are gone...

DEDICATED TO THE ONE I LOVE

THE MAMAS & THE PAPAS

SONGWRITERS: LOWMAN PAULING & RALPH BASS

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: DELIVER

LABEL: DUNHILL

GENRE: FOLK

YEAR: 1966

The Mamas & The Papas Deliver is the third album by The Mamas & the Papas, released in 1967. It charted at #2 in Billboard's "Top Pop" albums for 1967. Three of the album's singles ranked in the "Pop Singles" chart: "Dedicated to the One I Love" at #2, "Creeque Alley" at #5 and "Look Through My Window" at #24.

The album was first issued on CD in 1988 (MCAD-31044) and is included in its entirety on All the Leaves Are Brown, a retrospective compilation of the band's first four albums and various singles.

The album's title was an in-joke among the group, as recording commenced shortly after Cass Elliot gave birth to her daughter, Owen. Given the social stigma of unwed mothers at the time, both the pregnancy and the birth had been kept a closely guarded secret from the public, and the LP's name was meant to imply that Cass and the others had "delivered" a newborn creative creation.

The Mamas & the Papas were an American folk rock vocal group who recorded and performed from 1965 to 1968, and were a defining force in the music scene of the Counterculture of the 1960s. The band reunited briefly in 1971 to record the álbum People Like Us but did not perform outside their recording studio at that time. The group was composed of John Phillips, Denny Doherty, Cass Elliot, and Michelle Phillips née Gilliam. Their sound was based on vocal harmonies arranged by John Phillips, the songwriter, musician, and leader of the group who adapted folk to the new beat style of the early sixties.

They released a total of five studio albums and seventeen singles over a four-year period, six of which made the Billboard top ten, and have sold close to 40 million records worldwide. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 for their contributions to the music industry.

While I'm far away from you my baby

I know it's hard for you my baby

Because it's hard for me my baby

And the darkest hour is just before dawn

Each night before you go to bed my baby

Whisper a little prayer for me my baby

And tell all the stars above

inRead invented by Teads

This is dedicated to the one I love

(love can never be exactly like we want it to be)

I could be satisfied knowing you love me

(and there's one thing I want you to do

especially for me)

And it's something that everybody needs

While I'm far away from you my baby

Whisper a little prayer for me my baby

Because it's hard for me my baby

And the darkest hour is just before dawn

If there's one thing I want you to do especially for me

Then it's something that everybody needs

Each night before you go to bed my baby

Whisper a little prayer for me my baby

And tell all the stars above

This is dedicated to the one I love

This is dedicated to the one I love

This is dedicated to the one I love

This is dedicated to the one I love.