BLUES IN MY BEDROOM

LYNN WHITE

SONGWRITER: lynn white
TRANSCRIBER: SOLEDAD MCKINNON

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: at her best

LABEL: Columbia records

GENRE: blues

YEAR: 1996

Joy Lynn White(born July 24, 1961) is an American country music singer-songwriter. White was born in Arkansas but raised in Mishawaka, Indiana. Signed to Columbia Records in 1992, she released her debut album Between Midnight & Hindsight that same year. In 1993, she was nominated for Top New Female Vocalist at the Academy of Country Music Awards, but lost to Michelle Wright. A critical favorite, reviewer Alanna Nash once described White as "a fiery redhead with a wild-and-wounded delivery and an attitude that says she’s not to be ignored." The Dixie Chicks covered both "Cold Day in July" from White's first album and "Tonight the Heartache's on Me" from her Wild Love album.

At Her Best contains 13 (this time lucky) of Lynn White's sauciest tracks. There is straight, unapologetic southern soul on every cut. A medley of "Slow and Easy"/"Take Me to the Mountain" gets the disc off and flying.

Memphis soul and blues diva Lynn White possessed the kind of subtle, dulcet voice rare in a field typically dominated by more gritty singers. Born August 6, 1953 in Mobile, Alabama, White was six years old when she began singing in church, and began her professional career during the late '70s, making her debut in 1981 with Am I Too Much Woman for You. A year later, she recorded the single "I Don't Ever Want to See Your Face Again" for the tiny Sho Me label; the record made its way to legendary producer Willie Mitchell (best known for his work with Al Green), who reissued it on his Waylo Records imprint and soon after brought White in for a studio session. She remained with Waylo for the duration of the 1980s, but with the new decade formed her own label, Chelsea, and released The New Me in 1990. Home Girl followed in 1991, and two years later White returned with Cheatin'..

Well, it’s three o’clock in the morning baby

And I got the blues

In my bedroom.

Yeah, said it’s three o’clock in the

morning baby

Yes it is

And I got the blues

In my bedroom.

You know my love come tumbling down

And my man could not be found

I tried to call you last evening, baby

And explain

Three hours in my bed alone

Yes I did.

Said I tried to call you last evening, baby

And explain

Three hours in my bed alone

But some woman answered the phone

And she said Lynn, your baby’s not at home.

I wonder will you be at work, babe

I would’ve called you on the telephone.

Said I wonder will you be at work, babe

Yes I do

I would’ve called you on the telephone.

I would’ve come home from work

One evening, baby.

And find that you’d be gone

Baby…

Baby…

Yes, I got the blues…

CARIBEAN QUEEN

BILLY OCEAN

SONGWRITER: BILLY OCEAN

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: SUDDENLY

LABEL: BATTERY STUDIOS

GENRE: SOUL

YEAR: 1984

Suddenly is the fifth Studio album by British recording artist Billy Ocean, released in 1984. It featured his first major U.S. pop hit single "Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)", which reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 record chart. Prior to that, his biggest success in the U.S. charts had been a #22 placing for "Love Really Hurts Without You" in 1976, which was one of a number of British hits he had achieved by the release of this album. Despite these earlier hits, Suddenly became Ocean's first charting album in the UK, reaching #9 on the UK Album Chart. It also reached #9 in the US, and produced two additional top ten singles in the title track and "Loverboy".

Leslie Sebastian Charles MBE (born 21 January 1950), known professionally as Billy Ocean, is a Trinidadian-English recording artist who had a string of R&B international pop hits in the 1970s and 1980s. He was the most popular Trinidad–British R&B singer-songwriter of the early to mid-1980s. After scoring his first four UK Top 20 successes, seven years passed before he accumulated a series of transatlantic successes, including three US No. 1's. His 1985 hit "When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going" reached No. 1 in the UK and No. 2 in the US. In 1985, Ocean won the Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for his worldwide hit "Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)" and in 1987 was nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Male Artist. His 1988 hit "Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car" reached No. 1 in the US and No. 3 in the UK. His 1986 hit "There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)" also reached No. 1 in the US.

In 2002, the University of Westminster, London, awarded Ocean an honorary doctorate of music. In 2010, Ocean was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the MOBO Awards. On 29 July 2011, Ocean became a Companion of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, presented to him by Sir Paul McCartney. He is a member of the Rastafari movement. 

She's simple awesome

She dashed by me in painted on jeans

And all heads turned 'cause she was the dream

In the blink of an eye I knew her number and her name yeah

Ah she said I was the tiger she wanted to tame

Caribbean queen

Now we're sharing the same dream

And our hearts they beat as one

No more love on the run

I lose my cool when she steps in the room

And I get so excited just from her perfume

Electric eyes that you can't ignore

And passion burns you like never before

I was in search of a good time

Just running my game

Love was the furthest

Furthest from my mind

Caribbean queen

Now we're sharing the same dream

And our hearts they beat as one

No more love on the run

Caribbean queen

Now we're sharing the same dream

And our hearts they beat as one

No more love on the run

Caribbean queen

Now we're sharing the same dream

And our hearts they beat as one

No more love on the run.

HUMAN

THE HUMAN LEAGUE

SONGWRITERS: JIMMY JAM & TERRY LEWIS

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: CRASH

LABEL: A & M RECORDS

GENRE: SYNTHPOP

YEAR: 1986

Crash is the fifth studio album by British synthpop band The Human League, released on 8 September 1986. Crash would provide the band with their second US number-one single, "Human", the same year. It was produced by the American production team of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis who also wrote several tracks.

The Human League are an English electropop/synth-popband formed in Sheffield in 1977. Initially an experimental electronic outfit, the group signed to Virgin Records in 1979 and later attained widespread commercial success with their third album Dare in 1981. The album contained four hit singles, including the UK/US number one hit "Don't You Want Me." The band received the Brit Award for Best British Breakthrough Act in 1982. Further hits followed throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, including "Mirror Man," "(Keep Feeling) Fascination," "The Lebanon," "Human" (a US No. 1) and "Tell Me When."

The only constant band member since 1977 has been lead singer and songwriter Philip Oakey. Keyboard players Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh both left the band in 1980 to form Heaven 17. Under Oakey's leadership, the Human League then evolved into a commercially successful New Pop band with a new line-up including female vocalists Joanne Catherall and Susan Ann Sulley. Since the mid-1990s, the band has essentially been a trio of Oakey, Catherall and Sulley with various sidemen.

Since 1978, the Human League have released nine studio albums, two remix albums, one live album, six EPs, 30 singles and several compilation albums. They have had five albums and eight singles in the UK Top 10 and had sold more than 20 million records worldwide by 2010. As an early techno-pop (electropop) act who received extensive MTV airplay they are regarded as one of the leading artists of the 1980s Second British Invasion of the US.

Come on, baby, dry your eyes

Wipe your tears

Never like to see you cry

Won't you please forgive me?

I wouldn't ever try to hurt you

I just needed someone to hold me

To fill the void while you were gone

To fill this space of emptiness

I'm only human

Of flesh and blood I'm made

Human

Born to make mistakes

So many nights I longed to hold you

So many times I looked and saw your face

Nothing could change the way I feel

No-one else could ever take your place

I'm only human

Of flesh and blood I'm made

Human

Born to make mistakes

I am just a man

Please forgive me

The tears I cry aren't tears of pain

They're only to hide my guilt and shame

I forgive you now I ask the same of you

While we were apart I was human too

I'm only human

Of flesh and blood I'm made

I am just a man Human

Human born to make mistakes.

REBEL YELL

BILLY IDOL

SONGWRITERS: BILLY IDOL & STEVE STEVENS

COUNTRY: U.K.

ALBUM: REBEL YELL

LABEL: ELETRIC LADY STUDIOS

GENRE: ROCK

YEAR: 1983

Rebel Yell is the second studio album by English rock musician Billy Idol. It was released on 10 November 1983, by Chrysalis Records. After the release of his 1982 eponymous debut album, Idol continued his collaboration with Keith Forsey and Steve Stevens. The album was recorded at Electric Lady Studios in New York. Initially recording without a drummer, utilizing only the electronic drum machine LinnDrum, Forsey and Stevens later decided to hire Thommy Price to play drums on some of the songs. Musically, Rebel Yell is a rock album with a strong influence of new wave music. The cover sleeve and images were shot by Brian Griffin. Idol got the idea of the album's title after attending a party with The Rolling Stones and drinking the Rebel Yell whiskey.

Upon its release, Rebel Yell received positive reviews from critics and was a commercial success. In the United States, it peaked at number six on the Billboard 200 and also peaked into the top ten in other countries, such as Canada, Germany and New Zealand. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) certified it double platinum for shipment of two million copies across the United States. Four singles were released from the album. The accompanying music videos for all singles received heavy airplay on television channel MTV.

William Michael Albert Broad (born 30 November 1955), known professionally as Billy Idol, is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and actor who holds dual British and American citizenship. He first achieved fame in the 1970s emerging from the London punk rock scene as a member of Generation X. Subsequently, he embarked on a solo career which led to international recognition and made Idol a lead artist during the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" in the United States. The name "Billy Idol" was inspired by a schoolteacher's description of him as "idle".

Idol began his music career in late 1976 as a guitarist in the punk rock band Chelsea. However, he soon left the group. With his former bandmate Tony James, Idol formed the band Generation X. With Idol as lead singer, the band achieved success in the United Kingdom and released three albums on Chrysalis Records, then disbanded. In 1981, Idol moved to New York City to pursue his solo career in collaboration with guitarist Steve Stevens. His debut studio album, Billy Idol(1982), was a commercial success. With music videos for singles "Dancing with Myself" and "White Wedding" Idol soon became a staple of then-newly established MTV.

Idol's second studio album, Rebel Yell (1983), was a major commercial success, featuring hit singles "Rebel Yell" and "Eyes Without a Face". The album was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipment of two million copies in the U.S. In 1986, he released Whiplash Smile. Having accumulated three UK top 10 singles ("Rebel Yell", "White Wedding" and "Mony Mony") Idol released a 1988 greatest hits album titled Idol Songs: 11 of the Best; the album went platinum in the United Kingdom. Idol then released Charmed Life(1990) and the concept album Cyberpunk(1993).

Idol spent the second half of the 1990s out of the public eye focusing on his personal life. He made a musical comeback with the release of Devil's Playground (2005) and again with Kings & Queens of the Underground(2014).

Last night a little dancer came dancing to my door

Last night a little angel came pumping on the floor

She said, come on baby, You got a license for love

And if it expires, pray help from above

Because in the midnight hour, she cried more, more, more

With a rebel yell she cried more, more, more

In the midnight hour babe more, more, more

With a rebel yell more, more, more, more, more, more

She don't like slavery, she won't sit and beg

But when I'm tired and lonely she sees me to bed

What set you free and brought you to me, babe

What set you free, I need you here by me, because

In the midnight hour, she cried more, more, more

With a rebel yell she cried more, more, more

In the midnight hour babe more, more, more

With a rebel yell more, more, more

He lives in his own Heaven

Collects it to go from the seven eleven

Well he's out all night to collect a fare

Just so long, just so long it don't mess up his hair

I walked the ward for you, babe

A thousand miles for you

I dried your tears of pain, babe

A million times for you

I'd sell my soul for you, babe

For money to burn with you

I'd give you all and have none, babe

Just to, just to, just to, just to have you here by me, because

In the midnight hour, she cried more, more, more

With a rebel yell she cried more, more, more

In the midnight hour babe more, more, more

With a rebel yell she cried more, more, more, more, more, more

Oh yeah, little baby

She wants more, more, more, more, more, more

Oh yeah, little angel

She wants more, more, more, more, more, more.