WHEN THE GIRL IN YOUR ARMS

CLIFF RICHARD

SONGWRITERS: ROY C. BENNETT & SID TEPPER

WHERE: ROYAL ALBER HALL 2015

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: WHEN THE GIRL IN YOUR ARMS

LABEL: COLUMBIA

GENRE: ROCK

YEAR: 1961

"When the Girl in Your Arms Is the Girl in Your Heart" is a 1961 hit by Cliff Richard written by the songwriting team of Sid Tepper and Roy Bennett who would contribute fifteen songs to the Cliff Richard canon including his career record "The Young Ones". Produced by Richard's regular producer Norrie Paramor, "When the Girl in Your Arms..." featured backing by the Norrie Paramor Orchestra with vocal support from the Mike Sammes Singers. Richard's own group the Shadows backed him on the B-side "Got a Funny Feeling"

Recorded in January 1961, "When the Girl in Your Arms..." was not released until that October as the first advance single for the Cliff Richard movie vehicle The Young Ones. The track reached a chart peak of #3 in the UK and gave Richard a #1 hit in the Netherlands, Norway (for eight weeks) and South Africa. A #2 hit in Australia and Ireland, Richard's "When the Girl in Your Arms..." was also a hit in Belgium/Flemish Region (#4), Belgium/Wallonia (#10) and New Zealand (#7).

Sir Cliff Richard, OBE (born Harry Rodger Webb, 14 October 1940) is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor and philanthropist. Richard has sold more than 250 million records worldwide. He has total sales of over 21 million singles in the United Kingdom and is the third-top-selling artist in UK Singles Chart history, behind the Beatles and Elvis Presley.

Richard was originally marketed as a rebellious rock and roll singer in the style of Elvis and Little Richard. With his backing group, the Shadows, Richard dominated the British popular music scene in the pre-Beatles period of the late 1950s to early 1960s. His 1958 hit single "Move It" is often described as Britain's first authentic rock and roll song; in the opinion of John Lennon of the Beatles, "before Cliff and the Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music". Increased focus on his Christianity and subsequent softening of his music led to a more middle-of-the-road image and he sometimes ventured into contemporary Christian music.

When the girl in your arms

Is the girl in your heart

Then you have got everything

When you are holding the dream

You have been dreaming you would hold

You're as rich as a king

So hold her tight

And never let her go

Day and night

Let her know

You love her so

With the love of your life

Spend the lifetime of love

Make her yours for evermore

So hold her tight

And never let her go

Day and night

Let her know

You love her so

With the love of your life

Spend the lifetime of love

Make her yours for evermore

Make her yours for evermore.

IN THE WEE SMALL HOURS OF SIXPENCE

PROCOL HARUM

SONGWRITERS: GARY BROOKER & KEITH REID

WHERE: GERMANY 1971

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: SHINE ON BRIGHTLY

LABEL: A & M RECORDS

GENRE: ROCK

YEAR: 1968

Shine On Brightly is the second studio album by English rock band Procol Harum, released in 1968 by record labels Regal Zonophone and A&M.

It is considered an early example of progressive rock.

In the wee small hours of sixpence

And the lighted chandelier

Stands a rusty old retainer

Whose old eyes are filled with tears

For his master, Good Sir Galant,

Who is now off to the wars

And although his eyes are crying

We know grief is not the cause

And if grief is not the reason

He must be of sterner stuff

And his sword though old and rusty

Must be blunt as sharp enough

In the wee small hours of sixpence

And the broken window pane

Stand the remnants of the evening

Who are waiting all in vain

For the crowing of the cockerel

Showing morning is not night

But the air is filled with silence

And the daylight is not bright

But still darkness is no reason

We are men of sterner stuff

And our swords though old and rusty

Still are blunt as sharp enough.

In the wee small hours of sixpence

And the hat-stand in the hall

Waiting only for the morning

Shadows flitting 'cross the wall

And perhaps that old retainer

Whom now giving of his all

May have once been just as we are

And now has no face at all.

But still grief was not the reason

He was made of sterner stuff

And his sword though old and rusty

Still was blunt as sharp enough.

YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL

JOE COCKER

SONGWRITERS: Billy Preston & Bruce Fisher

WHERE: LORELEY AMPHITHEATRE

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL

LABEL: A & M

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 1974

"You Are So Beautiful" is a song written by Billy Preston and Bruce Fisher that was first released in 1974 on Preston's ninth studio album, The Kids & Me. It was also the B-side of his single "Struttin'". Later that same year, English Singer Joe Cocker released a slower version of the song on his album I Can Stand a Little Rain. Produced by Jim Price, Cocker's version was also issued as a single in November 1974 and became one of his biggest chart hits, peaking at number five on the US Billboard Hot 100.

Some sources credit Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys with contributing to the song's genesis. Wilson performed the song live with the Beach Boys from the late 1970s onwards. Kenny Rankin, Ray Stevens, Kenny Rogers, Bonnie Tyler and Brian Kennedy are also among the artists who have covered "You Are So Beautiful".

You are so beautiful to me

You are so beautiful to me

Can't you see

You're everything I hoped for

You're everything I need

You are so beautiful to me

Such joy and happiness you bring

Such joy and happiness you bring

Like a dream

A guiding light that shines in the night

Heaven's gift to me

You are so beautiful to me.

NEW KID IN TOWN

EAGLES

SONGWRITERS: FREY GLENN LEWIS, HENLEY DON & J. D. SOUTHER

WHERE: LIVE 1977

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: HOTEL CALIFORNIA

LABEL: ASYLUM

GENRE: SOFT ROCK

YEAR: 1976

"New Kid in Town" is a song by the Eagles from their 1976 studio album Hotel California. It was written by Don Henley, Glenn Frey and J.D. Souther. Released as the first single from the album, the song became a number-one hit in the US, and number 20 in the UK. The single version has an earlier fade-out than the album version. The song features Glenn Frey singing the lead vocals, with Don Henley singing main harmony vocals. Randy Meisner plays the guitarrón mexicano, Don Felder plays electric guitars, and Joe Walsh plays the electric piano and organ parts. The song won the Grammy Award for Best Vocal Arrangement for Two or More Voices. 

There's talk on the street

It sounds so familiar

Great expectations, everybody's watching you

People you meet

They all seem to know you

Even your old friends treat you like you're something new

Johnny come lately, the new kid in town

Everybody loves you, so don't let them down

You look in her eyes

The music begins to play

Hopeless romantics, here we go again

But after awhile

You're lookin' the other way

It's those restless hearts that never mend

Johnny come lately, the new kid in town

Will she still love you when you're not around?

There's so many things you should have told her

But night after night you're willing to hold her

Just hold her

Tears on your shoulder

There's talk on the street

It's there to remind you

It doesn't really matter which side you're on

You're walking away

And they're talking behind you

They will never forget you 'til somebody new comes along

Where you've been lately? There's a new kid in town

Everybody loves him

Don't they?

Now he's holding her, and you're still around

Oh, my, my

There's a new kid in town

Just another new kid in town

Everybody's talking 'bout the new kid in town

Everybody's walking like the new kid in town

There's a new kid in town

I don't wanna hear it

There's a new kid in town

I don't wanna hear it

There's a new kid in town

There's a new kid in town

There's a new kid in town

(Everybody's talking)

There's a new kid in town

(People started walking)

There's a new kid in town

There's a new kid in town.