DON'T SLOW DOWN

MR. MISTER

SONGWRITERS: RICHARD PAGE; STEVE GEORGE; JOHN LANG & STEVE FARRIS

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD

LABEL: RCA RECORDS

GENRE: POP ROCK

YEAR: 1985

 

          Mr. Mister was an American rock band from Phoenix, Arizona, active from 1982 until 1990. The band consisted of Richard Page on lead vocals and bass guitar, Steve George on keyboards/backing vocals, Pat Mastelotto on acoustic and electronic drums/percussion and Steve Farris on guitars/backing vocals. Mr. Mister was the successor to the band Pages, fronted by Page and George from 1978 to 1981. JOHN LANGE WAS A COUSIN.

            "Don't Slow Down" is a song and single written and performed by British group, UB40. Released on their album Present Arms, it is the second track on side two. Released in 1981 as a double A-side single with "Don't Let it Pass You By", it reached 16, on the UK charts in May, 1981, staying for nine weeks.

I look into your eyes, I see the dream that I've been searching for

I'll search no more

The age of innocence is never truly spent when there is love

Still there to touch

 

[Chorus:]

So don't slow down, the wheels are turning, the fire's burning in us now

Don't slow down, don't lose the magic, we've come too far to turn back now

 

I ask to share your dreams, recalling empty scenes, you hesitate

It's not too late

I wish into your eyes, the truth of what I am behind the mask

Beyond the past

 

[Chorus]

 

Don't slow down!

 

[Chorus] - don't slow down

 

Don't slow down, yeah.

WINGS UPON YOUR HORNS

LORETTA LYNN

SONGWRITER: LORETTA LYNN

COPUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: WINGS UPON YOUR HORNS

LABEL: DECCA RECORDS

GENRE: COUNTRY

YEAR: 1969

 

            Loretta Lynn (née Webb; born April 14, 1932) is an American singer songwriter. In a career which spans six decades in country music, Lynn has released multiple gold albums. She is famous for hits such as "You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)", "Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)", "One's on the Way", "Fist City" and "Coal Miner's Daughter" along with the 1980 biographical film of the same name.

            Lynn has received numerous awards and other accolades for her groundbreaking role in country music, including awards from both the Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music as a duet partner and an individual artist. She has been nominated 18 times for a GRAMMY Award, and has won 3 times. Lynn is the most awarded female country recording artist and the only female ACM Artist of the Decade (1970s). Lynn has scored 24 No. 1 hit singles and 11 number one albums. Lynn continues to tour, appear at the Grand Ole Opry and release new albums.

            Wings Upon Your Horns is the fifteenth solo studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn. It was released on January 5, 1970, by Decca Records. 

Before you first made love to me

You called me, your wife-to-be

And after that, I saw the devil in your eyes

With your sweet smooth talkin' ways

You turned a flame into a blaze

The night I let you hang my wings upon your horns

 

Don't tell me that I'm no saint

I'm the first to know I ain't

There's a little thing called love

And that's what changed me

From an innocent country girl

To a woman of the world

The night I let you hang my wings upon your horns

 

You hung my wings upon your horns

And turned my halo into thorns

And turned me into a woman I can't stand

You're the first to ever make me

Fall in love and then not take me

The night I let you hang my wings upon your horns

 

You hung my wings upon your horns

And turned my halo into thorns

And turned me into a woman I can't stand

You're the first to ever make me

Fall in love and then not take me

The night I let you hang my wings upon your horns

WILD IS THE WIND

JOHNNY MATHIS

SONGWRITERS: DIMITRI TIOMKIN & NED WASHINGTON

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: WILD IS THE WIND

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: SOUNDTRACK

YEAR: 1957

 

               John Royce Mathis (born September 30, 1935) is an American singer-songwriter of popular music. Starting his career with singles of standard music, he became highly popular as an album artist, with several dozen of his albums achieving gold or platinum status and 73 making the Billboard charts to date. Mathis has received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for three separate recordings.

             Although frequently described as a romantic singer, his discography includes traditional pop, Brazilian and Spanish music, soul, rhythm and blues, show tunes, Tin Pan Alley, soft rock, blues, country music, and even a few disco songs for his album Mathis Magic in 1979. Mathis has also recorded six albums of Christmas music. In a 1968 interview, Mathis cited Lena Horne, Nat King Cole, and Bing Crosby among his musical influences.

             "Wild Is the Wind" is a song written by Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington for the 1957 film Wild Is the Wind. Johnny Mathis recorded the song for the film and released it as a single in November 1957. Mathis' version reached No. 22 on the Billboard chart. It was nominated for na Academy Award for Best Song in 1958, but lost to "All the Way" by Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn from The Joker's Wild.

The song has been recorded many times, by many performers. The best known versions are one by Nina Simone in 1966, and one by David Bowie released in 1976/1981 as a tribute to Simone. 

Love me, love me; say you do.

Let me fly away with you.

For my love is like the wind

And wild is the wind.

Give me more than one caress;

Satisfy this hungriness.

Let the wind blow through your heart,

For wild is the wind.

 

*You touch me;

I hear the sound of mandolins.

You kiss me,

And, with the kiss, the world begins.

You're spring to me, all things to me;

You're life itself!

Like a leaf clings to a tree,

Oh my darling, cling to me,

For we're creatures of the wind,

And wild is the wind, the wind.

Wild is my love for you.

(Instrumental interlude and pick up at *.)

A LITTLE PARTY NEVER KILLED NOBODY

FERGIE

SONGWRITER: DAVID LISTENBEE; STACY FERGUSON; KAMAL FAREED; ANDREA MARTINI; JORDAN ORVASH; MAUREEN MCDONALD; FRANCESCA RICHARD; ANDRE SMITH; JOSH STEVENS & ALEXANDER SCOTT

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: THE GREAT GATSBY: MUSIC FROM BAZ LUHRMANN’S FILM

LABEL: INTERSCOPE

GENRE: HIP HOP

YEAR: 2013

 

               Fergie Duhamel (/ˈfɜːrɡidəˈmɛl/; born Stacy Ann Ferguson; March 27, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter, and rapper. She originally achieved chart success as part of the hip hop group the Black Eyed Peas. Her debut solo album, The Dutchess (2006), saw commercial success and spawned three Billboard Hot 100 number one singles: "London Bridge", "Glamorous", and "Big Girls Don't Cry".

         Fergie was originally a member of the children's television series Kids Incorporated and the girl group Wild Orchid. In 2001, she left the group and in the subsequent year joined the Black Eyed Peas. She worked with the Black Eyed Peas on two albums before releasing her debut solo album, The Dutchess, in 2006. She continued her collaboration with the Black Eyed Peas and released a further two albums with them, The E.N.D. (2009) and The Beginning (2010). Fergie began touring with her own group in 2009. Her second solo album, Double Dutchess, was released in 2017.

        Fergie launched her first fragrance, Outspoken, under Avon in May 2010 and has since released four more fragrances.

           "A Little Party Never Killed Nobody (All We Got)" is a 2013 song recorded by Fergie, Q-Tip and GoonRock for the soundtrack to the 2013 film The Great Gatsby, an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel of the same name, released through Interscope Records on May 6, 2013

Just one night, all I got

 

I ain’t got time for you baby

Either you’re mine, or you’re not

Make up your mind sweet baby

Right here, right now’s all we got

 

A little party never killed nobody

So we gon’ dance until we drop, drop (hmm)

A little party never killed nobody

Right here, right now’s all we got

 

Skip, parap-pap

Islands, diamonds, trips around the world

Don’t mean a thing if I ain’t your girl

 

A little party never killed nobody

So we gon’ dance until we drop, drop

A little party never killed nobody

Right here, right now’s all we got (Woo-ooooh, yeah!)

 

A little party never killed nobody

So we gon’ dance until we drop, drop (hmm)

A little party never killed nobody

Right here, right now’s all we got

 

All we got, all we got, all we got, all we got

All we got, all we got, all we got, all we (c’mon)

All we got-got, got, got-got, got, got-got

 

God damn!

Skip, parap-pap

 

Glad that you made it, look around

You don’t see one person sitting down

They got drinks in their hands

And the room’s a bust

At the end of the night maybe you’ll find love

Fake chit chat ’bout the things they got

And my scout reputation keeping it hot girl

At the party of the year I’m a master plan

If you make me realize I’m your man

 

If the people get lost, underneath the moonlight

Hectic topic, paparazzi, hold it while I take this pic

Speak easy, rocking the feathers I’m breezy

Hope you can keep up boys, cause believe me, I’m a beat mean

 

It don’t mean a thing if I give you my heart

If you tear it apart, no, ah, ah, ah, aoh

It don’t mean a thing if I ain’t in your eyes

Probably ain’t gonna fly, no, ah, ah, ah, aoh

 

It don’t mean a thing if I give you my heart

If you tear it apart, no, ah, ah, ah, aoh

It don’t mean a thing if I ain’t in your eyes

Probably ain’t gonna fly, no, ah, ah, ah, aoh

 

Just one night’s all we got

What do you think? You rock?

Are you ready?

 

A little party never killed nobody

So we gon’ dance until we drop, drop (let’s do all!)

A little party never killed nobody

Right here, right now’s all we got (ooooh)

 

A little party never killed nobody

So we gon’ dance until we drop, drop

A little party never killed nobody.