IS THIS LOVE

BOB MARLEY

SONGWRITER: BOB MARLEY

COUNTRY: JAMAICA

ALBUM: KAYA

LABEL: TUFF GONG

GENRE: REGGAE

YEAR: 1978

Kaya is the tenth studio album released by Bob Marley and the Wailers in 1978. The album consists of tracks recorded alongside those present on the Exodus album in 1977.

The album has a very relaxed, laid back sound, lacking much of the militant quality of the Wailers lyrically and musically. They received criticism for 'going soft' as a result of the general sound of the album as well as the theme: songs primarily revolving around love, as well as marijuana.

The album's release coincided with the One Love Peace Concert, heralding Marley's triumphant return to Jamaica from exodus in London. Three of the songs are new versions of tracks from the 1971 album Soul Revolution. Well-known songs from the album include "Is This Love" and "Satisfy My Soul". Kaya reached the top five in the UK album charts.

Robert Nesta Marley, OM (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican singer, songwriter and musician. Considered one of the pioneers of reggae, his musical career was marked by fusing elements of reggae, ska, and rocksteady, as well as his distinctive vocal and songwriting style. Marley's contributions to music increased the visibility of Jamaican music worldwide, and made him a global figure in popular culture for over a decade. Over the course of his career Marley became known as a Rastafari icon, and he infused his music with a sense of spirituality. He is also considered a global symbol of Jamaican culture and identity, and was controversial in his outspoken support for the legalization of marijuana, while he also advocated for Pan-Africanism.

Born in Nine Mile, British Jamaica, Marley began his professional musical career in 1963, after forming Bob Marley and the Wailers. The group released its debut studio álbum The Wailing Wailers in 1965, which contained the single "One Love/People Get Ready"; the song was popular worldwide, and established the group as a rising figure in reggae. The Wailers subsequently released eleven further studio albums; while initially employing louder instrumentation and singing, the group began engaging in rhythmic-based song construction in the late 1960s and early 1970s, which coincided with the singer's conversion to Rastafarianism. During this period Marley relocated to London, and the group typified their musical shift with the release of the album The Best of The Wailers(1971).

The group attained international success after the release of the albums Catch a Fire and Burnin'(both 1973), and forged a reputation as touring artists. Following the disbandment of the Wailers a year later, Marley went on to release his solo material under the band's name. His debut studio album Natty Dread(1974) received positive reception, as did its follow-up Rastaman Vibration (1976). A few months after the album's release Marley survived an assassination attempt at his home in Jamaica, which prompted him to permanently relocate to London. During his time in London he recorded the álbum Exodus(1977); it incorporated elements of blues, soul, and British rock, enjoyed widespread commercial and critical success.

In 1977, Marley was diagnosed with acral lentiginous melanoma; he died as a result of the illness in 1981. His fans around the world expressed their grief, and he received a state funeral in Jamaica. The greatest hits álbum Legend was released in 1984, and became the best-selling reggae album of all time. Marley also ranks as one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with estimated sales of more than 75 million records worldwide. He was posthumously honored by Jamaica soon after his death with a designated Order of Merit by his nation. In 1994, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Rolling Stone ranked him No. 11 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.

Chris Blackwell, Island Records boss, wrote about this song, "It had a very summery, carefree feel. When the album came out, several reviewers said he'd gone soft. But Bob was feeling great at that time and those songs reflected how he was feeling."

This song was dedicated to Bob Marley's wife, Rita.

I wanna love you and treat you right

I wanna love you every day and every night

We'll be together with a roof right over our heads

We'll share the shelter of my single bed

We'll share the same room, yeah! - for Jah provide the bread

Is this love - is this love - is this love

Is this love that I'm feelin'?

Is this love - is this love - is this love

Is this love that I'm feelin'?

I wanna know - wanna know - wanna know now!

I got to know - got to know - got to know now!

I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I - I'm willing and able,

So I throw my cards on your table!

I wanna love you - I wanna love and treat - love and treat you right

I wanna love you every day and every night

We'll be together, yeah! - with a roof right over our heads

We'll share the shelter, yeah, oh no! - of my single bed

We'll share the same room, yeah! - for Jah provide the bread

Is this love - is this love - is this love

Is this love that I'm feelin'?

Is this love - is this love - is this love

Is this love that I'm feelin'?

Wo-o-o-oah! Oh yes, I know; yes, I know - yes, I know now!

Oh yes, I know; yes, I know - yes, I know now!

I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I - I'm willing and able

So I throw my cards on your table!

See: I wanna love ya, I wanna love and treat ya

love and treat ya right

I wanna love you every day and every night

We'll be together, with a roof right over our heads!

We'll share the shelter of my single bed

We'll share the same room, yeah! Jah provide the Bread

We'll share the shelter of my single bed - [fadeout].

AIN'T NO SUNSHINE

BILL WITHERS

SONGWRITER: BILL WITHERS & SIMMONS EARL; WILLIAM HARRISON & BLACKMAN DAMON J

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: JUST US I AM

LABEL: SUSSEX

GENRE: SOUL

YEAR: 1971

Bill Withers was inspired to write this song by the film Days of Wine and Roses (1962). He said about its characters "They were both alcoholics who were alternately weak and strong. It's like going back for seconds on rat poison. Sometimes you miss things that weren't particularly good for you. It's just something that crossed my mind from watching that movie, and probably something else that happened in my life that I'm not aware of."

Just As I Am is the debut studio album of American soul musician Bill Withers, released in 1971 on Sussex Records. The album features the hit single "Ain't No Sunshine", which was ranked at number 280 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of Booker T. Jones produced, arranged, and played keyboards and guitar on Just As I Am, alongside bassist Donald "Duck" Dunn and drummer Al Jackson Jr. of Booker T. & the M.G.'s, with Stephen Stills on lead guitar. The album was later reissued as a dual disc with a second disc featuring all the tracks in 5.1 Surround Sound.

Ain't no sunshine when she's gone

It's not warm when she's away

Ain't no sunshine when she's gone

And she's always gone too long

Anytime she goes away

Wonder this time where she's gone

Wonder if she's gone to stay

Ain't no sunshine when she's gone

And this house just ain't no home

Anytime she goes away

And I know, I know, I know, I know, I know

I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know

I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know

I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know

I know, I know, I know

Hey, I ought to leave the young thing alone

But ain't no sunshine when she's gone

Ain't no sunshine when she's gone

Only darkness everyday

Ain't no sunshine when she's gone

And this house just ain't no home

Anytime she goes away

Anytime she goes away

Anytime she goes away

Anytime she goes away

Anytime she goes away.

I WANT TO BE EVIL

EARTHA KITT

SONGWRITERS: RAYMOND TAYLOR & LESTER JUDSON

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: THAT BAD EARTHA

LABEL: RCA VICTOR

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1953

That Bad Eartha is a 1954 studio album by American singer Eartha Kitt, her debut 12" vinyl album issued by RCA Victor. The album was recorded in four sessions between March and October 1953 with Henri Rene and His Orchestra. Long-playing records were introduced in 1948 by Columbia with 10" albums as the popular music format and the 12" album the format for classical music. RCA introduced the 45 RPM format shortly afterwards. In May 1953 RCA Victor released the 10" vinyl álbum RCA Victor Presents Eartha Kitt which reached No. 2 on the pop albums chart and featured 8 songs. By the mid-50s, 10” LPs were phased out, replaced by 12” ones for popular as well as classical music, and RCA Victor expanded and re-issued the album with 12 tracks.

RCA released her second album in the 10” popular format and reissued it a year later in the now established 12” format with additional songs. It was also released in a 45 RPM extended play version with two songs on each side of a disk. That Bad Eartha spent 12 weeks on the pop albums chart, peaking at No. 5.

Several singles were issued from this album, "Under the Bridges of Paris" charted in the UK singles chart in 1955 at #7.

Many of the songs recorded for this album, such as "C'est si bon", "Uska Dara" and "I Want to Be Evil" became closely associated with Eartha Kitt and were performed live by her until one of her last concerts at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival, shortly before her death in December 2008. The complete album was re-issued on CD in 1994 as part of the Bear Family Records five-CD boxset Eartha – Quake; this included "Santa Baby" and several other tracks from the same recording session not included in this album.

I've posed for pictures with Iv'ry Soap

I've petted stray dogs, and shied clear of dope

(I've petted stray dogs, and I never mope)

My smile is brilliant, my glance is tender

But I'm noted most for my unspoiled gender

I've been made Miss Reingold, though I never touch beer

(I've been named Miss Perseverance year after year)

And I'm the person to whom they say: You're sweet, my dear

The only etchings I've seen have been behind glass

And the closest I've been to a bar, is at ballet class

Prim and proper, the girl who's never been cased

I'm tired of being pure and not chased

Like something that seeks it's level

I wanna go to the devil

I wanna be evil, I wanna spit tacks

I wanna be evil, and cheat at jacks

I wanna be wicked, I wanna tell lies

I wanna be mean, and throw mud pies

I want to wake up in the morning

With that dark brown taste

I want to see some dissipation in my face

I wanna be evil, I wanna be mad

But more that that I wanna be bad

I wanna be evil, and trump an ace

Just to see my partner's face

I wanna be nasty, I wanna be cruel

I wanna be daring, I wanna shoot pool

And in the theatre

I want to change my seat

Just so I can step on

Everybody's feet

I wanna be evil, I wanna hurt flies

I wanna sing songs like the guy who cries

I wanna be horrid, I wanna drink booze

(I want to be horrid, I want to make news)

And whatever I've got I'm eager to lose

I wanna be evil, little evil me

Just as mean and evil as I can be.

STRUMBLIN’IN

SUZI QUATRO & CHRIS NORMAN

SONGWRITERS: MIKE DONALD CHAPMAN & NICKI BARRY CHINN

COUNTRY: U.S.A./U.K.

ALBUM: IF YOU KNEW SUZI…

LABEL: RSO

GENRE: POP ROCK

YEAR: 1978

"Stumblin' In" is a song written by Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn, performed by Chris Norman and Suzi Quatro. Originally released as a standalone single, it was later added to some editions of the Quatro álbum If You Knew Suzi...

The single peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1979. The song was Quatro's only US Top 40 hit and Norman's lone US charting effort apart from the band Smokie. In the UK Singles Chart, where the song was also Norman's only chart hit as a solo artist, the disc hit the listing on 11 November 1978 and peaked at number 41 with eight weeks in the chart. It reached #11 on the Canada RPM Chart, but went to #1 on the Canada Adult Contemporary Chart. It was Norman's first single as a solo artist.

Namibian Singer Nianell and South African singer Dozi recorded a version in 2009 on their cover duets album It Takes Two.

In 1979, Al Bano and Romina Power made a cover version in French under the title "Et je suis à toì". German singers Bernd Clüver and Marion Maerz recorded a German version in the same year under the title "Schau mal herein (die Tasse Kaffee)". There is also a Hungarian version under the title "A szerelem él" recorded by Csuka Mónika and Korda György with the "Express Együttes" in 1982. Danish Gry Meilstrup and German Bernd Vonficht have recorded a cover on their 1989 album "Moments In Love" as Bo Andersen and Bernie Gold.

Susan Kay Quatro(born June 3, 1950) is an American rock singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and actress. She was the first female bass player to become a major rock star.:1–3

In the 1970s, Quatro scored a string of hit singles that found greater success in Europe and Australia than in her homeland. She reached no. 1 in the UK and other European countries and Australia with her singles "Can the Can" (1973) and "Devil Gate Drive" (1974). Following a recurring role as bass player Leather Tuscadero on the popular American sitcom Happy Days, her duet "Stumblin' In" with Smokie's lead singer Chris Norman reached No. 4 in the US.

Quatro released her eponymous debut album in 1973. Since then, she has released fifteen studio albums, ten compilation albums, and one live album. Her other solo hits include "48 Crash", "Daytona Demon", "The Wild One", and "Your Mama Won't Like Me".

Between 1973 and 1980, Quatro was awarded six Bravo Ottos. In 2010, she was voted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends online Hall of Fame. Quatro has sold over 50 million albums and continues to perform live, worldwide. Her most recent studio album was released in 2019 and she also continues to present new radio programmes.

Christopher Ward Norman (born 25 October 1950) is an English soft rock singer. Norman was the lead singer of Smokie, an English soft rock band which found success in Europe in the 1970s. "Stumblin' In", a 1978 duet with Suzi Quatro, was a big US hit.

 [Chris & Suzi]:

Our love is alive and so we begin

Foolishly layin' our hearts on the table, stumblin' in

Our love is a flame burnin' within

Now and then firelight will catch us, stumblin' in

[Chris]:

Wherever you go, whatever you do

You know these reckless thoughts of mine are followin' you

[Suzi]:

I've fallen for you, whatever you do

'Cause baby you've shown me so many things that I never knew

[Chris & Suzi]:

Whatever it takes, baby, I'll do it for you

[Chris & Suzi]:

Our love is alive and so we begin

Foolishly layin' our hearts on the table, stumblin' in

Our love is a flame burnin' within

Now and then firelight will catch us, stumblin' in

[Chris]:

You were so young, ah, and I was so free

[Suzi]:

I may have been young but baby that's not what I wanted to be

[Chris]:

Well, you were the one

[Suzi]:

Oh, why was it me?

[Chris]:

'Cause baby you've shown me so many things that I'd never seen

[Chris & Suzi]:

Whatever you need, baby, you got it from me

[Chris & Suzi]:

Our love is alive and so we begin

Foolishly layin' our hearts on the table, stumblin' in

Our love is a flame burnin' within

Now and then firelight will catch us, stumblin' in

Stumblin' in, stumblin' in

Foolishly layin' our hearts on the table, stumblin' in

Ahh, stumblin' in, mmm, stumblin' in

Now and then fire light will catch us, stumblin' in

Ahh, stumblin' in, ahh, stumblin' in

Foolishly layin' our hearts on the table, stumblin' in

Ahh, stumblin' in, you were stimblin' in...