RUNAWAY

BONNIE RAITT

SONGWRITER: MAX CROOK & DEL SHANNON

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: SWEET FORGIVENESS

LABEL: WARNER BROS

GENRE: BLUES

YEAR: 1977

Sweet Forgiveness is the sixth album by Bonnie Raitt, released in 1977. The single "Two Lives" was provided by the leader of bassist Freebo's former band Edison Electric Band songwriter Mark T. Jordan.

Raitt's cover of the Del Shannon hit "Runaway" was issued as a single, reaching #57 on the U.S. singles chart.

Bonnie Lynn Raitt(born November 8, 1949) is an American blues singer-songwriter, musician, and activist.

During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of roots-influenced albums that incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country. In 1989, after several years of critical acclaim but little commercial success, she had a major hit with the álbum Nick of Time. The following two albums, Luck of the Draw(1991) and Longing in Their Hearts(1994), were also multimillion sellers, generating several hit singles, including "Something to Talk About", "Love Sneakin' Up on You", and the ballad "I Can't Make You Love Me" (with Bruce Hornsby on piano).

Raitt has received 10 Grammy Awards. She is listed as number 50 in Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time" and number 89 on the magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".

As I walk along I wonder what went wrong

With our love, a love that was so strong

And as still walk on I think of the things we've done

Together while our hearts were young

I'm a walking in the rain, tears are falling and I feel a pain

Wishing you were here by me to end this misery

And I wonder, I wo wo wo wo wonder

Why, why why why why why she (you) ran away

And I wonder where she (you) will stay

My little runaway, a run run run run runaway.

UPON THE ROOF

CAROLE KING

SONGWRITER: GERRY GOFFIN & CAROLE KING

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: WRITER

LABEL: ATLANTIC RECORDS

GENRE: R & B

YEAR: 1970

"Up on the Roof" is a song written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King and recorded in 1962 by The Drifters. Released late that year, the disc became a major hit in early 1963, reaching number 5 on the U.S. pop singles chart and number 4 on the U.S. R&B singles chart. In the UK it was a top ten success for singer Kenny Lynch, whose version was also released in 1962.

In addition to the hit appeal of the "second Drifters" lineup, "Up on the Roof" epitomized the urban romantic dream as presented by New York City Brill Building writers:

When this old world starts getting me down,

And people are just too much for me to face—

I climb way up to the top of the stairs

And all my cares just drift right into space ...

Carole King (born Carol Joan Klein, February 9, 1942) is an American composer and singer-songwriter. She is the most successful female songwriter of the latter half of the 20th century in the US, having written or co-written 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1955 and 1999. King also wrote 61 hits that charted in the UK, making her the most successful female songwriter on the UK singles charts between 1952 and 2005.

King's career began in the 1960s when she and her first husband, Gerry Goffin, wrote more than two dozen chart hits, many of which have become standards, for numerous artists. She has continued writing for other artists since then. King's success as a performer in her own right did not come until the 1970s, when she sang her own songs, accompanying herself on the piano, in a series of albums and concerts. After experiencing commercial disappointment with her debut álbum Writer, King scored her breakthrough with the album Tapestry, which topped the U.S. album chart for 15 weeks in 1971 and remained on the charts for more than six years.

When this old world starts getting me down

And people are just too much for me to face

I climb way up to the top of the stairs

And all my cares just drift right into space

On the roof it's peaceful as can be

And there the world below can't bother me

Let me tell you now

When I come home feelin' tired and beat

I go up where the air is fresh and sweet

I get away from the hustling crowds

And all that rat race noise down in the street

Up on the roof

On the roof's the only place I know

Where you just have to wish to make it so

Oh, let's go up on the roof

At night the stars put on a show for free

And darling, you can share it all with me

I keep a-telling you

Right smack dab in the middle of town

I found a paradise that's trouble-proof

Up on the roof

So if this world starts getting you down

There's room enough for two, up on the roof

Up on the roof, everything is all right

Up on the roof, oh, come on, baby

Up on the roof

Up on the roof.

BELIEVE IN ME

BONNIE TYLER

SONGWRITERS: DESMOND CHILD; LAUREN CHRISTY & CHRISTOPHER BRAIDE

WHERE: EUROVISION SONG CONTESTE 2013-BBC

COUNTRY: WELES

ALBUM: ROCKS AND HONEY

LABEL: WARNER MUSIC

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 2013

Rocks and Honey is the sixteenth studio album by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler, first released by ZYX Music on March 8, 2013. Eight years since Wings was released in 2005, this was the longest gap between album releases in Tyler's career, and is the first of her studio albums to chart in the United Kingdom since 1988. With tracks written by Nashville-based songwriters such as Frank J. Myers, Desmond Child, Brett James and Beth Hart, the album consists of a number of country songs reminiscent to Tyler's country albums from the 1970s with elements of rock.

The album received generally positive reviews from music critics, who praised Tyler's vocals as well as the album's consistency. Rocks and Honey charted in Europe, reaching number 28 in Denmark, number 52 in the UK and number 59 in Germany and Switzerland. Tyler embarked on her South Africa Tour 2013 following the Eurovision Song Contest. The single "Believe in Me" represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö, Sweden on 18 May 2013, and has charted in the UK Singles Chart at number 93. The album was named in reference to the contrast between the voices of Tyler and duet partner Vince Gill on the track "What You Need From Me". The follow-up singles, "This Is Gonna Hurt" and "Love Is the Knife", were released in August and September 2013 respectively.

You say you don't believe in signs from up above

And you laugh at the thought

Of putting your faith in stuff like love

You never see the rainbow, you just curse the rain

You say you wanna believe

But it's just not worth the pain today

But that's all fine if that's how you want it to be

But if you're feeling alone and afraid

And you can't breathe

Believe in me, yeah

Believe in me, yeah

Believe in

The way I look at you

And stand beside you

The way I speak the truth

I'd never lie to you

If you'd just believe in the things

That your eyes can't see

Believe in me

You come and you go and there's never no compromise

That's why

The seconds and the minutes of the days of your life

Go crawling by

But that's all fine if that's how you want it to be

But if you're feeling alone and afraid

And you can't breathe

Believe in me, yeah

Believe in

The way I look at you

And stand beside you

The way I speak the truth

I'd never lie to you

If you'd just believe in the things

That your eyes can't see

Believe in me

What ya gonna do when your ship is sinking

And you're crying out for help and just the seagull's listening

In the dark of the night, in the middle of the fight

When you're reaching out for something and there's nothing

Believe in me, yeah

Believe in

The way I look at you

And stand beside you

The way I speak the truth

I'd never lie to you

If you'd just believe in the things

That your eyes can't see

Believe in me

LADY WRITER

DIRE STRAITS

SONGWRITER: MARK KNOPFLER

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: COMMUNIQUÉ

LABEL: VERTIGO

GENRE: ROCK

YEAR: 1979

"Lady Writer" is a 1979 song by Dire Straits, which appears on the band's second album Communiqué.

When asked what the song was about, lead Singer Mark Knopfler said that he was watching TV one day, and there was a lady writer on the TV, and that's basically where the idea for the song came from. Because the song says the writer is "talking about the Virgin Mary", some have speculated that the writer in question is Marina Warner, a view shared by Warner herself.

Dire Straits were a British rock band formed in London in 1977 by Mark Knopfler (lead vocals and lead guitar), David Knopfler (rhythm guitar and backing vocals), John Illsley (bass guitar and backing vocals), and Pick Withers (drums and percussion). They were active from 1977 to 1988 and again from 1991 to 1995. The band became one of the world's best-selling music artists, with album sales of over 100 million.

Their first hit single "Sultans of Swing", from their self-titled debut album released in 1978, reached the top ten in the US chart and became a top ten hit in the UK the following year. The band released several hit singles in the 1980s, such as "Romeo and Juliet" (1981), "Private Investigations" (1982), "Twisting by the Pool" (1983), "Money for Nothing" (1985), and "Walk of Life" (1986). Their most commercially successful album was Brothers in Arms (1985), which has sold more than 30 million copies and was the first album to sell a million copies on the compact disc (CD) format. Dire Straits' sound was drawn from a wide variety of musical influences including jazz, folk, and country, as well as the blues-rock of J. J. Cale and Eric Clapton. Their stripped-down sound contrasted with punk rock and demonstrated a roots rock influence that emerged from pub rock.

Lady Writer on the TV

Talk about the Virgin Mary

Reminded me of you

Expectations left to come up to yeah

Lady writer on the TV

Yeah, she had another quality

The way you used to look

And I know you never read a book

Just the way that her hair fell down around her face

Then I recall my fall from grace

Another time, another place

Lady writer on the TV

She had all the brains and the beauty

The picture does not fit

You talked to me when you felt like it

Just the way that her hair fell down around her face

Then I recall my fall from grace

Another time, another place

Yes and your rich old man

You know he'd call her a dead ringer

You got the same command

Plus you mother was a jazz singer

Just the way that her hair fell down around her face

Then I recall my fall from grace

Another time, another place

Lady writer on the TV

She knew all about a history

You couldn't hardly write your name

I think I want you just the same as the

Lady writer on the TV

Talking about the Virgin Mary

Yeah you know I'm talking about you and me

And the lady writer on the TV

Lady writer on the TV

Talking about the Virgin Mary

Yeah you know I'm talking about you and me

And the lady writer on the TV.