DEAR HEART

ANDY WILLIAMS

SONGWRITERS: HENRY MANCINI; JAY LIVINGSTON & RAY EVANS

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: ANDY WILLIAMS

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: EASY LISTENING

YEAR: 1965

Andy Williams' Dear Heart is the sixteenth studio album by American pop singer Andy Williams and was released in the spring of 1965 by Columbia Records and was the last of his Columbia releases that remained exclusively within the realm of traditional pop. After covering two Beatles hits on his next non-holiday studio album, The Shadow of Your Smile, he would try out samba music on In the Arms of Love, aim for a much younger crowd with "Music to Watch Girls By" on Born Free, and focus more on contemporary material on subsequent albums.

This album made its first appearance on Billboard magazine's Top LP's chart in the issue dated April 10 of that year and remained on the album chart for 65 weeks, peaking at number four. The name of the album was changed to Andy Williams' Almost There for its release in the UK, where it became Williams's first album chart entry, spending 46 weeks there and peaking at number four. (Two of his previous albums, Days of Wine and Roses and Other TV Requests—which was retitled Can't Get Used to Losing You and Other Requests for its UK release—and The Great Songs from "My Fair Lady" and Other Broadway Hits, appeared on the album chart in the UK following the success of this album.).

Andy Williams' Dear Heart received Gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America on July 30, 1965. This was Williams's sixth album to receive this award as well as the one to do so the fastest thus far in terms of the amount of time between chart debut and certification, having accomplished this feat in less than four months as compared to the previous recordholder, Days of Wine and Roses and Other TV Requests, which did so in five months.

"Dear Heart" is a song written by Henry Mancini, Ray Evans, and Jay Livingston and performed by Andy Williams. The song reached #2 on the U.S. adult contemporary chart and #24 on the Billboard chart in 1964. It appears on the 1965 Andy Williams album, Andy Williams' Dear Heart.

The song was the theme to the 1964 movie Dear Heart. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song and also nominated for best song at the 22nd Golden Globe Awards.

Dear heart wish you were here to warm this night

My dear heart, seems like a year since you've been out of my sight

A single room, a table for one

It's a lonesome town all right

But soon I'll kiss you hello at our front door

And dear heart I want you to know

I'll leave your arms never more

(a single room, a table for one)

It's a lonesome town all right

But soon I'll kiss you hello at our front door

And dear heart I want you to know

I'll leave your arms never more.

WINTER WONDERLAND

JOHNNY MATHIS

SONGWRITERS: FELIX BERNARD & RICHARD B. SMITH

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: MERRY CHRISTMAS

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1958

Merry Christmas is the first Christmas album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis and was released by Columbia Records on October 6, 1958. The selections are a mix of traditional Christmas carols ("Silent Night", "O Holy Night", "The First Noel") and holiday hits ("The Christmas Song", "White Christmas", "Silver Bells").

The album debuted on Billboard magazine's list of the 25 Best-Selling Pop LPs in the US in its December 15, 1958, issue and got as high as number three during its initial four-week run. It made additional appearances there each holiday season from 1959 to 1962 and on the magazine's Christmas Albums and Pop Catalog Albums charts in subsequent years. It received Gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America for sales of 500,000 copies in the US in December 1960 and in 2013 ranked as one of the top selling Christmas albums of all time with five million copies sold.

Four songs from the album – "Winter Wonderland", "Blue Christmas", "White Christmas", and "Sleigh Ride" – were also released on the EP Merry Christmas, Vol. 1, which reached number two during the 1958 holiday season and number seven the following year on the magazine's Best-Selling Pop EPs chart. "Winter Wonderland" also spent three weeks on the UK singles chart, where his recording peaked at number 17 over the course of three weeks that began on Christmas Day 1958.

Sleigh bells ring, are you list'nin?

In the lane, snow is glist'nin'

A beautiful sight, we're happy tonight

Walkin' in the winter wonderland

Gone away is the blue bird

Here to stay is a new bird

He sings a love song, as we go along

Walkin' in the winter wonderland

In the meadow we can build a snowman

Then pretend that he is Parson Brown

He'll say "are you married?"

We'll say "no man!

But you can do the job when you're in town"

Later on we'll conspire, as we dream by the fire

To face unafraid, the plans that we've made

Walkin' in the winter wonderland

Over the ground lies a mantle of White

A heaven of diamonds shine down through the night

Two hearts are thrillin'

In spite of the chill in the weather

Love knows no season, love knows no clime

Romance can blossom any old time

Here in the open

We're walkin' and hopin' together

Together, together, together

Sleigh bells ring, are you list'nin?

In the lane, snow is glist'nin'

A beautiful sight, we're happy tonight

Walkin' in the winter wonderland

Gone away is the blue bird

Here to stay is a new bird

He's singing love song, as we go along

Walkin' in the winter wonderland

In the meadow we can build a snowman

And pretend that he's a circus clown

We'll have lots of fun with Mister Snowman

Until the other kiddies knock him down

When it snows ain't it thrillin'

Tho' your nose gets a chillin'

We'll frolic and play, the eskimo way

Walkin' in the winter wonderland

Walkin' in the winter wonderland

Winter wonder, winter wonderland

Winter winter, wonder wonderland.

SEVEN BRIDGES ROAD

THE EAGLES

SONGWRITER: STEVE YOUNG

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: EAGLES LIVE

LABEL: ASYLUM

GENRE: COUNTRY ROCK

YEAR: 1980

"Seven Bridges Road" is a song written by American musician Steve Young, recorded in 1969 for his Rock Salt & Nails album. It has since been covered by many artists, the best-known version being a five-part harmony arrangement by English musician Iain Matthews recorded by the American rock band Eagles in 1980.

"Seven Bridges Road" would have its highest profile incarnation due to a 1980 live recording by the Eagles whose 4/4 tempo and close harmony vocal arrangement are borrowed from a recording made by Iain Matthews from his August 1973 album release Valley Hi. Matthews' album was recorded with producer Mike Nesmith at the latter's Countryside Ranch studio in North Hills (LA): Nesmith would recall of Matthews' recording of "Seven Bridges Road": "Ian and I put it together and [we] sang about six or seven part harmony on the thing, and I played acoustic. It turned out to be a beautiful record[ing]". On the similarity of the Eagles' later version, Nesmith would state: "Son of a gun if...Don [Henley] or somebody in the Eagles didn't lift [our] arrangement absolutely note for note for vocal harmony for vocal harmony...If they can't think it up themselves [and] they've got to steal it from somebody else, better they should steal it...from me I guess." Ian Matthews would recall that, in 1973, he and the members of the Eagles were acquainted through frequenting the Troubadour: "we were forever going back to somebody's house and playing music. Don Henley had a copy of 'Valley Hi' that he liked, so I've no doubt about that being where their version of the song came from."

The Eagles recorded "Seven Bridges Road" for their Eagles Live concert album. According to band member Don Felder, when the Eagles first began playing stadiums the group would warm up pre-concert by singing "Seven Bridges Road" in a locker room shower area. After, each concert would then open with the group's five members singing "Seven Bridges Road" a capella into a single microphone. Felder recalls that it "blew [the audience] away. It was always a vocally unifying moment, all five voices coming together in harmony." Following the release of the Hotel California album, that set's title cut replaced "Seven Bridges Road" as the Eagles' concert opener, and according to Felder, the band "rarely even bothered to rehearse with it in the shower of the dressing room anymore." The song was restored to the set list for the Eagles' tour, prior to the band's 31 July 1980 breakup, with the band's performance of the song at their 28 July 1980 concert at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, which was recorded for the Eagles Live album released in November 1980. They issued it as a single, with "The Long Run" (live) as its B-side; Eagles' "Seven Bridges Road" reached #21 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 becoming the group's final Top 40 hit until "Get Over It" by the reunited band in 1994. "Seven Bridges Road" also became the third Eagles' single to appear on the Billboard C&W chart, reaching #55 there. At the time Eagles charted with "Seven Bridges Road" the song's composer Steve Young commented: "I didn't like the Eagles' version at first. I thought it was tôo bluegrassy, tôo gospel. But the more I hear it, the better it sounds."

There are stars in the southern sky

Southward as you go.

There is moonlight and moss in the trees

Down the Seven Bridges Road.

Now I have loved you like a baby...

Like some lonesome child,

And I have loved you in a tame way,

And I have loved you wild.

Sometimes there's a part of me

Has to turn from here and go...

Running like a child from these warm stars

Down the Seven Bridges Road.

There are stars in the southern sky.

And if ever you decide you should go,

There is a taste of time sweet and honey

Down the Seven Bridges Road.

BLUEBIRD WINE

EMMYLOU HARRIS

SONGWRITER: RODNEY CROWELL

WHERE: LIVE LAEISZHALLE HAMBURG 2013

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: PIECES OF THE SKY

LABEL: REPRISE RECORDS

GENRE: COUNTRY MUSIC

YEAR: 1975

Pieces of the Sky is the second studio album by American country music artist Emmylou Harris, released in February 1975 through Reprise.

Although she had released the obscure folk-styled Gliding Bird five years earlier, Pieces of the Sky became the album that launched Harris' career and is widely considered to be her début. In those intervening years she had forged a musical relationship with Gram Parsons that would alter the musical direction that her career would take. The album includes Harris' first high-charting Billboard country hit, the #4 "If I Could Only Win Your Love", and the relatively low-charting #73 "Too Far Gone" (originally a 1967 hit for Tammy Wynette). The overall song selection was varied and showed early on how eclectic Harris' musical tastes were. In addition to her own "Boulder to Birmingham" (written for former singing partner Parsons, who had died the previous year), she included the Merle Haggard classic "The Bottle Let Me Down", the Beatles' "For No One", and Dolly Parton's "Coat of Many Colors". (Parton, in turn, covered "Boulder to Birmingham" on her 1976 album All I Can Do.) On Shel Silverstein's "Queen Of The Silver Dollar", her friend and occasional collaborator Linda Ronstadt sings harmony.

The album rose as far as the #7 spot in the Billboard country albums chart.

Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. She has released dozens of albums and singles over the course of her career and 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.

Her work and recordings include work as a solo artist, a bandleader, an interpreter of other composers' works, a singer-songwriter, and a backing vocalist and duet partner. She has worked with numerous artists.

Baby brought me in out off the highway

Made me put my money in the bank, bank

Straightened out my crooked way of thinking

Made it purely pleasure when I drank

And It's all right

I've just hit my stride

Right off the bat

Lord, I'm drunk on Bluebird Wine

Baby taught me a diff'rent way of thinkin'

Like how to spend my evenings here at home

List'ning to the music on the radio

Drinking all the Bluebird we can hold

And It's all right

I've just hit my stride

Right off the bat

Lord, I'm drunk on Bluebird Wine

Baby says he'd really love a party

We'll get some friends together feelin' fine

Any friend of mine is worth his habit

A belly full of baby's Bluebird Wine

And It's all right

I've just hit my stride

Right off the bat

Lord, I'm drunk on Bluebird Wine.