LIME STREET BLUES

PROCOL HARUM

SONGWRITERS: GARY BROOKER & KEITH REID

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: PROCOL HARUM

LABEL: DERAM RECORDS

GENRE: ROCK PROGRESSIVE

YEAR: 1967

Procol Harum is the debut studio album by English rock band Procol Harum. It was released in September 1967 by record label Deram in the US, following their breakthrough and immensely popular single "A Whiter Shade of Pale". The track doesn't appear on the UK version of the album, but was included on the US issue. The UK version of the album was released in December 1967 by record label Regal Zonophone.

Procol Harum was released in September 1967 in the US, and three months later in the UK. Though the album was recorded on multitrack, it was issued as mono-only in the UK, and in mono and rechannelled stereo in the US. Despite extensive searching, the original multitrack tapes have not been located and thus a stereo mix of the original ten tracks may never be possible. Several alternate takes, however, have been mixed into stereo and are available on CD. As recently as 2004, the original single, mixed to stereo, has appeared on a "Dick Bartley Presents: Classic Oldies" compilation on Eric Records.

Lime Street in the afternoon

everybody crazy as a coon

I'm running round in my underpants

trying to find some kinda romance

Quarter past three [sic] on Lime Street

I got whipped right offa my feet

Didn't realize that I'd been caught

till I found myself in the County Court

'Mr Judge,' I said, 'Won't you please be kind

Have pity on me, a poor orphan child?'

Mr Judge he says with a long mean frown

'Orphan or not, you're going down!'

Well I screamed on my knees in the witness box,

'Lord have mercy on my golden locks.'

The judge I could see that he was snide

He says, 'The only kind of blonde you are's a peroxide!'

Oh Lime Street, Lime Street

Lime Street, that's where we meet.

THE SKY IS CRYING

GARY B. B. COLEMAN

SNGWRITER: ELMORE JAMES

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: TOO MUCH WEEKEND

LABEL: ICHIBAN RECORDS

GENRE: BLUES

YEAR: 1992

"The Sky Is Crying" is a song that has become a blues standard. It was written and recorded by Elmore James in 1959. Called "one of his most durable compositions", "The Sky Is Crying" became a R&B record chart hit and has been interpreted and recorded by numerous artists.

Gary B.B. Coleman(January 1, 1947 – February 14, 1994) was an American soul blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and record producer.

Originally a local musician turned blues promoter and session musician, Coleman recorded his debut album in 1986, which was re-released by Ichiban Records. He issued several other albums and produced most of Ichiban's blues catalogue until his death, in 1994. On many occasions, Coleman undertook multi-instrumentalist duties in the recording studio. He acknowledged both B.B. King, with his "B.B." moniker, and a fellow Texan, Freddie King.

The sky is crying

Can't you see the tears roll down the street

The sky is crying

Can't you see the tears roll down the street

I've been looking for my baby

And I wonder where can she be

I saw my baby early one morning

She was walking on down the street

I saw my baby early one morning

She was walking on down the street

You know it hurt me so bad

It made my poor heart skip a beat

I've got a bad feeling

My baby don't love me no more

I've got a real bad feeling

My baby don't love me no more

The sky is crying, ya

Can't you see the tears roll down the road.

TEQUILA SUNRISE

THE EAGLES

SONGWRITERS:  DON HENLEY & GLENN FREY

WHERE: LIVE ABC 1973

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: DESPERADO

LABEL: ASYLUM

GENRE: COUNTRY ROCK

YEAR: 1973

"Tequila Sunrise" is a 1973 song written by Don Henley and Glenn Frey, and recorded by the Eagles. It was the first single from the band's second álbum Desperado. The song peaked at number 64 on the Billboard Hot 100.

A cover version was recorded by country music singer Alan Jackson on the 1993 tribute album Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles. It peaked at number 64 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.

Glenn Frey and Don Henley did not write songs together for their debut álbum Eagles, and they decided that they should collaborate after they had finished recording the debut album. According to Frey, he was lying on a couch playing the guitar, and came up with a guitar riff he described as "kinda Roy Orbison, kinda Mexican". He showed Henley the guitar riff and said: "Maybe we should write something to this." The title refers to a cocktail named Tequila Sunrise that was then popular. In the liner notes of 2003's The Very Best Of, Henley had this to say about the song:

I believe that was a Glenn title. I think he was ambivalent about it because he thought that it was a bit too obvious or too much of a cliché because of the drink that was so popular then. I said, 'No-Look at it from a different point of view. You've been drinking straight tequila all night and the sun is coming up!' It turned out to be a really great song.

The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1971. The founding members were Glenn Frey(guitars, vocals), Don Henley(drums, vocals), Bernie Leadon(guitars, vocals) and Randy Meisner(bass guitar, vocals). With five number-one singles, six Grammy Awards, five American Music Awards, and six number-one albums, the Eagles were one of the most successful musical acts of the 1970s. At the end of the 20th century, two of their albums, Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) and Hotel California, were ranked among the 20 best-selling albums in the United States according to the Recording Industry Association of America. By 2006, both albums were among the top three best-selling albums in the United States. Hotel California is ranked 37th in Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" and the band was ranked number 75 on the magazine's 2004 list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.

It's another tequila sunrise

Stirrin slowly across the sky

Said goodbye

He was just a hired hand

Workin on the dreams he planned to try

The days go by

Every night when the sun goes down

Just another lonely boy in town

And she's out runnin round

She wasn't just another woman

But man I couldn't keep from comin on

It's been so long

Whoa and it's a hollow feelin

When it comes down to dealin friends

It never ends

Take another shot of courage

Wonder why the right words never come

You just get numb

It's another tequila sunrise

And this old world still looks the same

Another frame.

THE LONG ROAD

MARK KNOPFLER

SONGWRITER: MARK KNOPFLER

HOW: INSTRUMENTAL

COUNTRY: U. S.

ALBUM: CAL

LABEL: VERTIGO RECORDS

GENRE: CELTIC MUSIC

YEAR: 1984

Cal is a soundtrack album by British singer-songwriter and guitarist Mark Knopfler, released on 24 August 1984 by Vertigo Records. The album contains music composed for the 1984 film Cal, produced by David Puttnam and directed by Pat O'Connor. Puttnam also produced the film Local Hero(1983)

In a contemporary review in The New York Times, Janet Maslin called the album "an exceptionally lovely and haunting score."

In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Steven McDonald gave the album four out of five stars and called it a "quiet, reflective set of cues that eschew false dramatics in favor of supporting the story." 

And I wished for so long, cannot stay...

All the precious moments, cannot stay...

It's not like wings have fallen, cannot stay...

But I feel something's missing, cannot say...

Holding hands are daughters and sons

And their faiths just falling down, down, down, down...

I have wished for so long

How I wish for you today

We all walk the long road. Cannot stay...

There's no need to say goodbye...

All the friends and family

All the memories going round, round, round, round

I have wished for so long

How I wish for you today

And the wind keeps roaring

And the sky keeps turning gray

And the sun is set

The sun will rise another day…

We all walk the long road. Cannot stay…

There’s no need to say goodbye…

All the friends and family

All the memories going round, round, round, round

I have wished for so long

How I wish for you today

How I”ve wished for so long

How I wish for you today

We all walk the long road (3x).