TIL I KISSED YOU

THE EVERLY BROTHERS

SONGWRITER: DON EVERLY

HOW: LIVE 1983

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: THE EVERLY BROTHERS

LABEL: HMEDIA

GENRE: ROCK

YEAR: 1959

"('Till) I Kissed You" is a song written by Don Everly of The Everly Brothers. It was released as a single in 1959 and peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. Chet Atkins played guitar on this record and Jerry Allison played drums. Recorded 7 July 1959 at RCA Victor Studio, Nashville, Tennessee, and issued as a single (Cadence 1369) July/August 1959 coupled with ‘Oh, What A Feeling’. Don Everly (guitar); Phil Everly (guitar); Chester B. “Chet” Atkins (electric guitar); Sonny Curtis (guitar); Floyd T. “Lightnin’” Chance (bass); Jerry “J.I.” Allison (drums); Floyd Cramer (piano). Producer: Archie Bleyer.

The Everly Brothers were an American country-influenced rock and roll duo, known for steel-string acoustic guitar playing and close harmony singing. Consisting of Isaac Donald "Don" Everly (born February 1, 1937) and Phillip "Phil" Jason Everly(January 19, 1939 – January 3, 2014), the duo was raised in a musical family, first appearing on radio singing along with their father Ike Everly and mother Margaret Everly as "The Everly Family" in the 1940s. When the brothers were still in high school, they gained the attention of prominent Nashville musicians like Chet Atkins, who began to groom them for national attention.

They began writing and recording their own music in 1956, and their first hit song came in 1957, with "Bye Bye Love", written by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant. The song hit number 1 in the spring of 1957, and additional hits would follow through 1958, many of them written by the Bryants, including "Wake Up Little Susie", "All I Have to Do Is Dream", and "Problems". In 1960, they signed with the major label Warner Bros. Records and recorded "Cathy's Clown", written by the brothers themselves, which was their biggest selling single. The brothers enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve in 1961, and their output dropped off, though additional hit singles continued through 1962, with "That's Old Fashioned (That's the Way Love Should Be)" being their last top-10 hit.

Long-simmering disputes with Wesley Rose, the CEO of Acuff-Rose Music, which managed the group, and growing drug usage in the 1960s, as well as changing tastes in popular music, led to the group's decline in popularity in its native U.S., though the brothers continued to release hit singles in the U.K. and Canada, and had many highly successful tours throughout the 1960s. In the early 1970s, the brothers began releasing solo recordings, and in 1973 they officially broke up. Starting in 1983, the brothers got back together, and would continue to perform periodically until Phil's death in 2014.

The group was highly influential on the music of the generation that followed it. Many of the top acts of the 1960s were heavily influenced by the close-harmony singing and acoustic guitar playing of the Everly Brothers, including the Beatles, the Beach Boys, the Bee Gees, and Simon & Garfunkel. The Everly Brothers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of the inaugural class of 1986, and into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001. Don was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2019, earning the organization's first Iconic Riff Award for his distinctive rhythm guitar intro to the Everlys' massive 1957 hit “Wake Up Little Susie”. 

[Verse]

Never felt like this until I kissed ya

How did I exist until I kissed ya

Never had you on my mind

Now you're there all the time

Never knew what I missed 'til I kissed ya

Uh-huh I kissed ya, oh yeah

Things have really changed since I kissed ya, uh-huh

My life's not the same now that I kissed ya, oh yeah

[Chorus]

Mmm, you got a way about ya

Now I can't live without ya

Never knew what I missed 'til I kissed ya

Uh-huh, I kissed ya, oh yeah

[Bridge]

You don't realize what you do to me

And I didn't realize what a kiss could be

[Chorus]

Mmm, you got a way about ya

Now I can't live without ya

Never knew what I missed 'til I kissed ya

Uh-huh, I kissed ya, oh yeah

[Bridge]

You don't realize what you do to me

And I didn't realize what a kiss could be

[Chorus]

Mmm, you got a way about ya

Now I can't live without ya

Never knew what I missed 'til I kissed ya

Uh-huh, I kissed ya, oh yeah

[Outro]

I kissed ya, uh-huh

I kissed ya, oh yeah

I kissed ya...

I ONLY HAVE EYES FOR YOU

THE FLAMINGOS

SONGWRITERS: AL DUBIN & HARRY WARREN

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: FLAMINGO SERENADE

LABEL: LONDON RECORDS

GENRE: R&B

YEAR: 1959

"I Only Have Eyes for You" is a romantic love song by composer Harry Warren and lyricist Al Dubin, written for the film Dames Successful recordings of the song have been made by Ben Selvin, The Flamingos, and Art Garfunkel.

The Flamingos are a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inducted doo-wop group from the United States, most popular in the mid- to late 1950s and best known for their 1959 cover version of "I Only Have Eyes for You". Billboard magazine wrote: "Universally hailed as one of the finest and most influential vocal groups in pop music history, the Flamingos defined doo wop at its most elegant and sophisticated."

The Flamingos received the Rhythm & Blues Foundation Pioneer Award in 1996 (where Terry Johnson, Jake Carey, Zeke Carey, Tommy Hunt and Johnny Carter performed) and were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2000, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001, and the Doo-Wopp Hall of Fame in 2004. The group that performed at the Rock Hall ceremony included Terry Johnson on lead, Tommy Hunt and Johnny Carter. In 2003, the Flamingos' recording of "I Only Have Eyes For You", co-written by Walle (Walter) Dillard, was inducted into the Grammy Award Hall of Fame.

My love must be a kind of blind love

I can't see anyone but you

Are the stars out tonight?

I don't know if it's cloudy or bright

I only have eyes for you, dear

The moon may be high

But I can't see a thing in the sky

I only have eyes for you

I don't know if we're in a garden

Or on a crowded avenue

You are here and so am I

Maybe millions of people go by

But they all disappear from view

And I only have eyes for you.

WHAT A LITTLE MOONLIGHT CAN DO

NANCY WILSON

SONGWRITER: HARRY MAC GREGOR WOODS

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: SOMETHING WONDERFUL

LABEL: CAPITOL

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1960

Nancy Sue Wilson(February 20, 1937 – December 13, 2018) was an American singer whose career spanned over five decades, from the mid-1950s until her retirement in the early 2010s. She was especially notable for her single "(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am" and her version of the standard "Guess Who I Saw Today". Wilson recorded more than 70 albums and won three Grammy Awards for her work. During her performing career, Wilson was labeled a singer of blues, jazz, R&B, pop, and soul; a "consummate actress"; and "the complete entertainer". The title she preferred, however, was "song stylist". She received many nicknames including "Sweet Nancy", "The Baby", "Fancy Miss Nancy" and "The Girl With the Honey-Coated Voice".

"What a Little Moonlight Can Do" is a popular song written by Harry M. Woods in 1934. In 1934, Woods moved to London for three years where he worked for the British film studio Gaumont British, contributing material to several films, one of which was Road House(1934). The song was sung in the film by Violet Lorraine and included an introductory verse, not heard in the version later recorded by Billie Holiday in 1935.

Something Wonderful was the second album by the American vocalist Nancy Wilson, it was released in October 1960 by Capitol Records, and arranged by Billy May.

As with her debut album on the label, Like in Love, she was teamed up with Billy May, one of its star arrangers, who had come to prominence through his outstanding work with such singers as Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra.

The album spawned one of Wilson's all-time signature songs, "Guess Who I Saw Today". Another highlight was "What a Little Moonlight Can Do", which was, as critic Pete Welding wrote in his liner notes to the 1996 three-CD set Ballads, Blues & Big Bands: The Best of Nancy Wilson, "a song so closely associated with the sublime Billie Holiday(that) few would even have attempted it, let alone brought it off so well, with just the right blend of lightheartedness and sincerity."

In 2003, the UK label EMI Gold re-issued Something Wonderful on a 2-for-1 CD, coupled with its natural companion, Like in Love.

Composer and lyricist Harry MacGregor Woods was born in North Chelmsford, Massachusetts on November 4, 1896. His mother, a concert singer, encouraged him to play the piano, regardless of the deformed left hand he had been born with. His musical training would help when he attended Harvard University and supported himself there by singing in church choirs and giving piano recitals. After graduation, Woods settled on Cape Cod and began life as a farmer. He began cultivating his talent for songwriting while in the Army during World War II. After his discharge, Woods settled in New York and began his successful career as a songwriter.

His first songwriting success came in 1923 with the song “I’m Going South”, written with Abner Silver, and a #2 hit song in 1924 for Al Jolson. In the same year, “Paddlin’ Madeleine Home” was published with words & music by Woods (a recording by Cliff Edwards in 1925 would reach #3 on Billboard).

By 1926, Woods had become an established songwriter on Tin Pan Alley and he would become legendary with his new song “When the Red, Red, Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin’ Along”. One of the great standards ever written, the song was an instant hit for singers like Paul Whiteman, “Whispering” Jack Smith, Cliff Edwards and the Ipana Troubadors. Al Jolson, however, had the most success with his recording, which reached #1 on the billboard charts. The song was recreated in 1953 by Doris Day and again reached considerable success on the charts.

In 1929, Woods began contributing songs to Hollywood musicals such as The Vagabond Lover, A Lady’s Morals, Artistic Temper, Aunt Sally, Twentieth Century, Road House, Limelight, It’s Love Again, Merry Go Round of 1938 and She’s For Me. In 1934, he moved to London where he lived for three years and worked for the British film studio Gaumont-British Films, contributing to the films Jack Ahoy and Evergreen.

While Woods primarily created both the words & music for his songs, he also collaborated with Mort Dixon, Howard Johnson, Arthur Freed, Rube Bloom and Gus Kahn. Alone, and with his collaborators, he wrote “I’m Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover”, “I’m Goin’ South”, “Just a Butterfly that’s Caught in the Rain”, “Side by Side”, “My Old Man”, “A Little Kiss Each Morning”, “Heigh-Ho, Everybody, Heigh-Ho”, “Man From the South”, “River Stay “Way from My Door”, “When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain”, “We Just Couldn’t Say Goodbye”, “Just and Echo in the Valley”, “A Little Street Where Old Friends Meet”, “You Ought to See Sally on Sunday”, “Hustlin’ and Bustlin’ for Baby”, “What a Little Moonlight Can Do”, “Try a Little Tenderness”, “I’ll Never Say “Never Again” Again”, “Over My Shoulder”, “Tinkle Tinkle Tinkle”, “When You’ve Got a Little Springtime in Your Heart” and “I Nearly Let Love Go Slipping Through My Fingers”.

Around 1945, Woods retired and moved to Glendale, Arizona where he passed away in 1970.

Ooh, ooh, ooh

What a little moonlight can do

Ooh, ooh, ooh

What a little moonlight can do to you

You're in love

Your heart's a flutter and all day long

You only shutter

Cut your poor tongue

Just won't utter the words

I love you

Ooh, ooh, ooh

What a little moonlight can do

Wait a while

Till a little moonbeam comes peepin' through

You'll get bold

You can't resist him

And all you'll say

When you have kissed him is

Ooh, ooh, ooh

What a little moonlight can do.

SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME

SARAH WAUGHAN

SONGWRITER: GERSHWIN, GEORGE IRA

COUNTRY: U.SA.

ALBUM: SARAH VAUGHAN SINGS GEORGE IRA GERSHWIN

LABEL: EMARCY

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1958

Sarah Vaughan Sings George Gershwin is a 1958 studio album by Sarah Vaughan, of the music of George Gershwin.

Vaughan would release another all-Gershwin album, Gershwin Live!, in 1982.

Sarah Lois Vaughan(March 27, 1924 – April 3, 1990) was an American jazz singer.

Nicknamed "Sassy" and "The Divine One", she won four Grammy Awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award. She was given an NEA Jazz Masters Award in 1989. Critic Scott Yanow wrote that she had "one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century".

In the summer of 1980 she received a plaque on 52nd Street outside the CBS Building (Black Rock) commemorating the jazz clubs she had once frequented on "Swing Street" and which had long since been replaced with office buildings. A performance of her symphonic Gershwin program with the New Jersey Symphony in 1980 was broadcast on PBS and won her an Emmy Award the next year for Individual Achievement, Special Class. She was reunited in 1982 with Tilson Thomas for a modified version of the Gershwin program, played again by the Los Angeles Philharmonic but this time in its home hall, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion; the CBS recording of the concert Gershwin Live! won a Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female.

After the end of her contract with Pablo in 1982, she committed to a limited number of studio recordings. She made a guest appearance in 1984 on Barry Manilow's 2:00 AM Paradise Cafe, an album of pastiche compositions with established jazz musicians. In 1984, she participated in The Planet is Alive, Let It Live a symphonic piece composed by Tito Fontana and Sante Palumbo on Italian translations of Polish poems by Karol Wojtyla, better known as Pope John Paul II. The recording was made in Germany with an English translation by writer Gene Lees and was released by Lees on his private label after the recording was rejected by the major labels.

In 1985 Vaughan reconnected with her longstanding, continually growing European audience during a celebratory concert at the Chatelet Theater in Paris. Released posthumously on the Justin Time label, In the City of Lights is a two-disc recording of the concert, which covers the highlights of Vaughan's career while capturing a beloved singer at the height of her powers. Thanks in part to the hard-swinging telepathic support of pianist Frank Collett (who answers each of her challenges then coaxes the same from her), Sarah reprises Tad Dameron's "If You Could See Me Now" with uncommon power, her breathstream effecting a seamless connection between chorus and bridge. For the Gershwin Medley, drummer Harold Jones swaps his brushes for sticks to match energy and forcefulness that does not let up until the last of many encores.

In 1986, Vaughan sang "Happy Talk" and "Bali Ha'i" in the role of Bloody Mary on a studio recording by Kiri Te Kanawa and José Carreras of the score of the Broadway musical South Pacific, while sitting on the studio floor. Vaughan's final album was Brazilian Romance, produced by Sérgio Mendes with songs by Milton Nascimento and Dori Caymmi. It was recorded primarily in the early part of 1987 in New York and Detroit. In 1988, she contributed vocals to an album of Christmas carols recorded by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir with the Utah Symphony Orchestra and sold in Hallmark Cards stores. In 1989, Quincy Jones' álbum Back on the Block included Vaughan in a brief scatting duet with Ella Fitzgerald. This was her final studio recording. It was her only studio recording with Fitzgerald in a career that had begun 46 years earlier opening for Fitzgerald at the Apollo.

The video Sarah Vaughan Live from Monterey was taped in 1983 or 1984 with her trio and guest soloists. Sass and Brass was taped in 1986 in New Orleans with guests Dizzy Gillespie and Maynard Ferguson. Sarah Vaughan: The Divine One was part of the American Masters series on PBS. Also in 1986, on Independence Day in a program nationally televised on PBS she performed with the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich, in a medley of songs composed by George Gershwin.

There's a saying old

Says that love is blind

Still we're often told

"Seek and ye shall find"

So I'm going to seek

A certain lad

I've had in mind

Looking everywhere

Haven't found him yet

He's the big affair

I cannot forget

Only man I ever think

Of with regret

I'd like

To add his initial

To my monogram

Tell me

Where is the shepherd

For this lost lamb?

There's a somebody

I'm longin' to see

I hope that he turns

Out to be

Someone to watch over me

I'm a little lamb

Who's lost in the wood

I know I could

Always be good

To one

Who'll watch over me

Although he may

Not be the man some

Girls think

Of as handsome

To my heart

He carries the key

Won't you tell him please

To put on some speed

Follow my lead

Oh, how I need

Someone to watch over me

Won't you tell him please

To put on some speed

Follow my lead

Oh, how I need

Someone to watch over me

Someone to watch over me.