YOU SANG TO ME

MARC ANTHONY

SONGWRITERS: COREY ROONEY & MARC ANTHONY

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: MARC ANTHONY

LABEL: COLUMBIA

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 2000

Marco Antonio Muñiz(born September 16, 1968), better known by his stage name Marc Anthony, is an American singer, songwriter, actor, record executive, television producer and philanthropist. Anthony is also the top selling tropical salsa artist of all time. The two-time Grammy Award and six-time Latin Grammy Award winner has sold more than 12 million albums worldwide. Known for his Latin salsa numbers and ballads, Anthony has won numerous awards and his achievements have been honored through various recognitions. He was the recipient of the 2009 Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute(CHCI) Lifetime Achievement Award. He also received the "2009 CHCI Chair's Lifetime Achievement Award" on September 16, 2009. He holds the Guinness World Record for best-selling tropical/salsa artist and the most number-one albums on the Billboard Tropical Albums year-end charts.

"You Sang to Me" is a 2000 hit song by Marc Anthony, and was released as the third single of his first English language album Marc Anthony.

The song was written and produced by Marc Anthony and Cory Rooney, and like the previous English single from Marc Anthony also a Spanish version was recorded, but wasn't included on the first edition of the album. Both versions of the track were very successful in the United States. The English version peaked at even higher than "I Need to Know", climbing to number 2 in the Billboard Hot 100, kept off from the top slot by "Maria Maria" by Santana featuring The Product G&B. It also spent seven weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard adult contemporary chart. The Spanish version ("Muy Dentro de Mi") hit No. 1 on the Hot Latin Tracks chart for 3 consecutive weeks. According to Anthony, he wrote this song for his then-friend Jennifer Lopez, whom he married soon after. This version was nominated for a Lo Nuestro Award for Pop Song of the Year, losing to "A Puro Dolor" by Son by Four.

The English-language version of the track received a nomination for a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, the second year in a row for Marc Anthony, losing once again to Sting with "She Walks This Earth (Soberana Rosa)", a collaboration for the album A Love Affair: The music of Ivan Lins.

"You Sang to Me" was included on the compilation album pLATINum rhythm, released on October 30, 2001 by Maverick Música. It is also included on the movie soundtrack for the 1999 hit movie Runaway Bride, winning an ASCAP award in the field "Most Performed Songs from Motion Pictures" for this collaboration.

I just wanted you to comfort me

When I called you late last night you see

I was falling into love

Yes I was crashing into love

Of all the words you said to me

About Life, The Truth, and Being Free

Yeah you sang to me

Oh how you sang to me

Girl I live for how you make me feel

So I question all this being real

Cause I'm not afraid of love

For the first time I'm not afraid to love

This day seems made for you and me

And you showed me what life needs to be

Yeah you sang to me

Oh you sang to me

All the while you were in front of me I never realized

I just can't believe I didn't see it In your eyes

I didn't see it, I can't believe it

Oh but I feel it, when you sing to me

How I long to hear you sing beneath the clear blue skies

And I promise you this time I'll see it in your eyes

I didn't see it, I can't believe it

Oh but I feel it, when you sing to me

Just to think you live inside of me

I had no idea how this could be

Now I'm crazy for your love

Can't believe I'm crazy for your love

The words you said just sang to me

And you showed me where I wanna be

You sang to me

Oh you sang to me

All the while you were in front of me I never realized

I just can't believe I didn't see it In your eyes

I didn't see it, I can't believe it

Oh but I feel it, when you sing to me

How I long to hear you sing beneath the clear blue skies

And I promise you this time I'll see it In your eyes

I didn't see it, I can't believe it

Oh but I feel it, when you sing to me

All the while you were in front of me I never realized

I just can't believe I didn't see it In your eyes

I didn't see it, I can't believe it

Oh but I feel it, when you sing to me

How I long to hear you sing beneath the clear blue skies

And I promise you this time I'll see it In your eyes

I didn't see it, I can't believe it

Oh but I feel it, when you sing to me

All the while you were in front of me I never realized

I just can't believe I didn't see it In your eyes

I didn't see it, I can't believe it

Oh but I feel it, when you sing to me

How I long to hear you sing beneath the clear blue skies

And I promise you this time I'll see it In your eyes

I didn't see it, I can't believe it

Oh but I feel it, when you sing to me.

WOMAN TO WOMAN

SHIRLEY BROWN

SONGWRITERS: HOMER BANKS; EDDIE MARION & HENDERSON THIGPEN

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: WOMAN TO WOMAN

LABEL: STAX

GENRE: CLASSIC SOUL

YEAR: 1974

Shirley Brown(born January 6, 1947, West Memphis, Arkansas) is an American R&B singer, best known for her million-selling single "Woman to Woman", which was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1975.

Brown was born in West Memphis, but was raised in Madison, Illinois, where she started singing in church at the age of nine. Early experience singing gospel gave her a powerful but expressive voice likened to that of Aretha Franklin. Albert King discovered her when she was aged 14, singing in the Harlem Club in Brooklyn, Illinois. Young Shirley went on the road with King for nine years. While King made sure she had a tutor, Brown often cut her classes to work with the band.

By 1972, Shirley was living in East St. Louis, Illinois, where she made her first record for the Abet label called, "I Ain't Gonna Tell" and "Love Built on a Strong Foundation". Bandleader Oliver Sain produced the record; Sain worked with King on his first hit record ten years earlier. By 1974, King recommended Brown to Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee, where he had been one of the label's stars for some time.

Her 1974 hit, "Woman to Woman" spent two weeks at #1 in the Billboard R&B chart and climbed to #22 in the Billboard Hot 100. It sold over one million copies by December 1974, and was awarded a gold disc. It was to prove to be Stax's final major hit record (the song was later covered by Barbara Mandrell in 1978 and became a top-five country hit).

A moderately successful debut album, Woman to Woman, was released by Stax on their Truth label, but by 1975, the company was struggling financially and also facing litigation. A follow-up single, "It Ain't No Fun" was only a moderate success, and Stax closed soon afterwards.

Her signing to Arista Records in 1977 resulted in the album Shirley Brown, produced by the former Stax owner Jim Stewart and writer-producer Bettye Crutcher, who provided most of the songs. These included "Blessed Is The Woman" which reached #14 R&B (#102 pop).

Brown continued to record for several labels since then, including Fantasy, on the re-formed Stax label, and Sound Town. She has been with the Mississippi based blues label, Malaco Records since 1989. She remains a popular live performer, mainly in southern states of the US, without having found the recording success of her earlier years.

"Woman to Woman" is the title of a 1974 deep soul single recorded by Shirley Brown for whom it was a #1 R&B hit.

The song was written by James Banks, Eddie Marion and Henderson Thigpen, who had previously written hits for Little Milton, the Bar-Kays and other Stax Records artists. According to Thigpen, he and Banks were brainstorming ideas for songs at Stax Studio (quote:)"trying to come up with...something different. When people get serious, they say: 'Hey, let's talk man to man'...We thought it would be interesting to have a song with somebody coming up [with]: 'Hey, let's talk woman to woman'." Thigpen had recently overheard his wife on the phone arguing with a friend about an involved couple of their acquaintance, and - with Eddie Marion - Thigpen and Banks completed their "Woman to Woman" song structuring it as a phone call from a wife to her husband's mistress.

"Woman to Woman" was first offered to Inez Foxx, then signed to Stax's Volt label, who turned it down because - according to Banks - she didn't want to do the spoken intro, feeling that format could only work for a male singer. Around this time Shirley Brown was introduced to Stax president Jim Stewart by Albert King in whose live revue she'd performed while a teenager: Stewart was impressed enough by Brown to himself produce her Stax debut recording - Stewart's first production task in two years - of "Woman to Woman" (Stewart co-produced the track with Al Jackson Jr.) with Brown cutting her vocal in a single take. Brown would state in a 1975 interview (quote:)"The guys who wrote ['Woman to Woman'] sang it through to me and I felt it needed a rap to begin it, so I wrote one off the top of my head"; however the song's co-writer James Banks has stated that the spoken intro was part of the song when it was offered to Inez Foxx, whose dislike of the "rap" caused her to turn the song down.

Reportedly selling a million units in its first eight weeks of release, "Woman to Woman" spent two weeks at #1 on Billboard magazine's Hot Soul Singles chart in November 1974 and crossed-over to the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, peaking there at #22. The song is notable for being the last big hit for Stax Records.

[Shirley Brown]

Hello, may I speak to Barbara

Barbara, this is Shirley

You might not know who I am

But the reason I am calling you is because

I was going through my

Old man's pockets this morning

And I just happened to find your name and number

So woman to woman

I don't think it's being anymore than fair

To call you and let you know

Where I'm coming from

Now Barbara

I don't know how you're gonna take this

But whether you be cool

Or come out of a bag on me

You see it doesn't really make any difference

But it's only fair that I let you know that

The man you're in love with

He's mine

From the top of his head

To the bottom of his feet

The bed he sleeps in

And every piece of food he eats

You see, I make it possible

The clothes on his back

Ha ha, I buy them

The car he drives

I pay the note every month

So I'm telling you these things

To let you know how much I love that man

And woman to woman

I think you'll understand

How much I'll do to keep him

Woman to woman

If you've ever been in love

Then you know how I feel

And woman to woman

Now, if you were in my shoes

Wouldn't you have done the same thing too

Oh, oh, woman to woman

Can't you see where I'm coming from

Woman to woman

Ain't that the same thing you would've done

Woman to woman

Now should I just step aside

And let her take what's rightfully mine

Oh, oh, woman to woman

Was I right or was I wrong

I ain't gonna let you break up my happy home

Now woman to woman

Now you see I don't want no trouble now

I hope you understand

I love that man and he's mine

I'm talking to you

Woman to woman

You should be woman enough to understand

That man, I love that man

Woman, woman

Woman to woman, he's mine

And I ain't gonna give him up

My baby, I ain't lying, now.

“(IF LOVING YOU IS WRONG) I DON’T WANT TO BE RIGHT”

MILLIE JACKSON

SONGWRITERS: HOMER BANKS; CARL HAMPTON & RAYMOND JACKSON

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: “(IF LOVING YOU IS WRONG) I DON’T WANT TO BE RIGHT"

LABEL: KOKO

GENRE: SOUL

YEAR: 1972

Mildred Virginia Jackson(born July 15, 1944) is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter and former model. Beginning her career in the early 1960s, three of Jackson's albums have been certified gold by the RIAA for over 500,000 copies. Jackson vocal performances are often distinguished by long, humorous, and explicit spoken sections in her music, which she started doing on stage to get the attention of the audience. She recorded songs in a disco or dance music style and occasionally in a country style.

Occasionally, Jackson refers to herself as other have touted as the "mother of hip-hop," or of rapping itself. According to the cataloguing site WhoSampled.com, her songs have appeared in 189 samples, 51 covers, and six remixes revealing the appeal of her proto-typical rapping style of delivery.

Since she always enjoyed writing poems, in the early '70s Jackson began crafting such proto-rap R&B singles as the outspoken "A Child of God (It's Hard To Believe)."

"(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right" is a song written by Stax Records songwriters Homer Banks, Carl Hampton, and Raymond Jackson. Originally written for The Emotions, it has been performed by many singers, most notably by Luther Ingram, whose original recording topped the R&B chart for four weeks and rose to number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1972. Billboard ranked it as the No. 16 song for 1972.

In 1972–73, The Faces recorded the song as an outtake for Ooh La La(1973), their final studio album. In 1974, Millie Jackson released her version of the song which received two Grammy Award nominations. In 1978, Barbara Mandrell's version topped the U.S. country chart, reached number 31 on the Billboard Hot 100 (number 27 Cashbox), and was nominated for Single of the Year at the 1979 CMA (Country Music Association) Awards. Rod Stewart recorded the song for Foot Loose & Fancy Free(1977), his eighth album; as a single it peaked at number 23 on the UK Singles Chart in 1980.

If loving you is wrong, I don't want to be right

If being right means being without you

I'd rather live a wrong-doing life

Your mama and daddy say it's a shame

It's a downright disgrace

But long as I got you by my side

I don't care what your people say

My friends tell me it's no future in loving a married man

If I can't see you when I want

I'll have to see you when I can

If loving you is wrong, I don't want to be right

If loving you is so wrong, baby

I don't want to be right

Am I wrong to fall, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, so deeply in love with you

Knowing you have a wife and two little children depending on you too

Am I wrong to hunger for the gentleness of your touch

Knowing you have someone else at home who needs you just as much

Am I wrong to give my love to a married man

And am I wrong for trying to hold on to the best thing I ever had

If loving you is wrong, I don't want to be right

If loving you is wrong, I don't want to be right, baby

Oohaaow!

No, baby. Heh, eh, eh, eh. Uh, uh

Tell me, baby

Am I wrong to give my love to a married man

Am I wrong for trying to hold on to the best thing I ever had

If loving you is so wrong, I don't want to be right

If loving you is wrong, baby, I just can't be right

Ohaaow!

I don't wanna be right. No, baby

I don't wanna be right. Oh, baby, heh

Ohaaow! I've been loving you a little bit too long

I can't give up on your loving now

I love you, want you, need you, got to have you

Heeeeeeeeey! Good god almighty, baby

I love you. Mmmm, hmmm, hmmm, mmmm, mmmm

I need you. Let me have you. Mmmm.

COULD IT BE MAGIC

DONNA SUMMER

SONGWRITERS: ADRIENNE ANDERSON; BARRY MANILOW; F. CHAPIN & FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN.

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: A LOVE TRILOGY

LABEL: WEA FILIPACCHI MUSIC

GENRE: R&B

YEAR: 1976

LaDonna Adrian Gaines(December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012), widely known by her stage name based on her married name Donna Summer, was an American singer, songwriter and actress. She gained prominence during the disco era of the late 1970s and became known as the "Queen of Disco", while her music gained a global following.

While influenced by the counterculture of the 1960s, Summer became the lead singer of a psychedelic rock band named Crow and moved to New York City. Joining a touring version of the musical Hair, she left New York and spent several years living, acting and singing in Europe, where she met music producers Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte in Munich, where they recorded influential disco hits such as "Love to Love You Baby" and "I Feel Love", marking her breakthrough into an international career. Summer returned to the United States in 1975, and other hits such as "Last Dance", "MacArthur Park", "Heaven Knows", "Hot Stuff", "Bad Girls", "Dim All the Lights", "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" (duet with Barbra Streisand) and "On the Radio" followed.

Summer earned a total of 42 hit singles on the US Billboard Hot 100 in her lifetime, with 14 of those reaching the top-ten. She claimed a top 40 hit every year between 1975 and 1984, and from her first top-ten hit in 1976, to the end of 1982, she had 12 top-ten hits (10 were top-five hits), more than any other act during that time period. She returned to the Hot 100's top-five in 1983, and claimed her final top-ten hit in 1989 with "This Time I Know It's for Real". She was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach number one on the US Billboard 200 chart and charted four number-one singles in the US within a 12-month period. She also charted two number-one singles on the R&B Singles chart in the US and a number-one single in the United Kingdom. Her most recent Hot 100 hit came in 1999 with "I Will Go with You (Con Te Partiro)". While her fortunes on the Hot 100 waned through those decades, Summer remained a force on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart over her entire career.

Summer died on May 17, 2012, from lung cancer, at her home in Naples, Florida. She sold over 100 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. She won Five Grammy Awards. In her obituary in The Times, she was described as the "undisputed queen of the Seventies disco boom" who reached the status of "one of the world's leading female singers." Giorgio Moroder described Summer's work with them on the song "I Feel Love" as "really the start of electronic dance" music. In 2013, Summer was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In December 2016, Billboard ranked her at No. 6 on its list of the Greatest of All Time Top Dance Club Artists .

(Oh, baby, it's been so long

I've waited so long

And now that I have you

I want you to come

Come come come into my arms

Oh, baby, I need you I need you

Come come come into my arms again)

Spirits move me

Every time I'm near you

Whirling like a cyclone in my mind

Oh, sweet Peter, angel of my lifetime

Answer to all answers I can find

Baby, I love you, come, come

Come into my arms

Let me know the wonder of all of you

Baby, I want you now, now

Now, and hold on fast

Could this be the magic at last?

Spoken

Oh, hold on to me

Don't let go

Come into my life

Don't let go

Oh

Baby, take me high upon a hillside

High up where the stallion meets the sun

I could love you, build my world around you

Never leave you till my life is done

Baby, I love you, come, come

Come into my arms

Let me know the wonder of all of you

And baby, I want you now, now

Oh, now, oh now, and hold on fast

Could this be the magic at last?

Baby, I want you, come, come

Could this be the magic at last?

Could it be magic?

Come, c'mon, c'mon

Come oh oh come into my arms

Oh, let me know the wonder

Of all of you, all of you

Baby, I want you now, now

Oh, now, oh now and hold on fast

Oh, could this be the magic at last?

Come, c'mon, c'mon

Come oh oh come into my arms

Oh, let me know the wonder of all of you

Baby, I want you now, now, oh now

Oh now and hold on fast

Oh, could this be the magic at last?

Could it be the magic?