YEAR OF THE CAT

AL STEWART

SONGWRITERS: PETER JOHN WOOD & AL STEWART

COUNTRY: SCOTLAND

ALBUM: YEAR OF THE CAT

LABEL: RCA VICTOR

GENRE: SOFT ROCK

YEAR:1976

"Year of the Cat" is a single by Scottish singer-songwriter Al Stewart, released in July 1976. The song is the title track of his 1976 album Year of the Cat, and was recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London in January 1976 by engineer Alan Parsons. The song reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in March 1977. Although Stewart's highest charting single on that chart was 1978's "Time Passages", "Year of the Cat" has remained Stewart's signature recording, receiving regular airplay on both classic rock and folk rock stations.

On a morning from a Bogart movie

In a country where they turn back time

You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre

Contemplating a crime

She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running

Like a watercolor in the rain

Don't bother asking for explanations

She'll just tell you that she came

In the year of the cat

She doesn't give you time for questions

As she locks up your arm in hers

And you follow till your sense of which direction

Completely disappears

By the blue tiled walls near the market stalls

There's a hidden door she leads you to

These days, she says, "I feel my life

Just like a river running through"

The year of the cat

Well, she looks at you so coolly

And her eyes shine like the moon in the sea

She comes in incense and patchouli

So you take her, to find what's waiting inside

The year of the cat

Well morning comes and you're still with her

And the bus and the tourists are gone

And you've thrown away your choice and lost your ticket

So you have to stay on

But the drumbeat strains of the night remain

In the rhythm of the new-born day

You know sometime you're bound to leave her

But for now you're going to stay

In the year of the cat

Year of the cat.

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...