TRUST IN ME

ETTA JAMES
SONGWRITERS: JEAN SCHWARTZ; MILTON AGER & NED WEVER
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: AT LAST!
LABEL: ARGO RECORDS
GENRE: BLUES
YEAR: 1960
 
             At Last! is the debut studio album by American blues and soul artist Etta James. Released on Argo Records in November 1960 the album was produced by Phil and Leonard Chess. At Last! also rose to no. 12 upon the Billboard Top Catalog Albums chart.
                At Last! was ranked at #119 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. It was ranked as the 62nd best album of the 1960s by Pitchfork Magazine.
               The original release of At Last! was issued as a 12-inch LP consisting of ten tracks, five songs on each side of the LP. Phil and Leonard Chess believed that James's voice had crossover pop potential, so with this debut album, they backed her with orchestral arrangements on many of the tracks. At Last! eventually spawned four singles being "All I Could Do Was Cry", "Trust in Me", "At Last", and "My Dearest Darling". The album also included covers of pop and jazz standards, such as "Stormy Weather", "A Sunday Kind of Love", and "I Just Want to Make Love to You". In 1987, the album was released for the first time by MCA/Chess, and then digitally remastered and reissued on compact disc in 1999 with four bonus duet tracks performed with Harvey Fuqua: "My Heart Cries," "Spoonful," "It's a Crying Shame," and "If I Can't Have You."

Trust in me in all you do
Have the faith I have in you
Love will see us through, if only you trust in me
Why don't you trust me?
Come to me when things go wrong
 
Cling to me daddy and I'll be Strong
We can get along, we can get along if only you trust in me
While there's a moon, a moon on high
While there are birds, birds to fly
 
While there is you, you and II can be sure that I love you...
Stand beside me, stand beside me all the while
Come on daddy face the future, why don't you smile?
Trust in me, and I'll be worthy of you
Why don't you trust in me in all you do?
Have the faith that I have in you
 
And love will see us through, if only you trust in me
Why don't you come to me, when things go wrong, cling to me and I'll be strong
We can get along, we can get along if only you trust in me...

WAITING AT THE END OF THE ROAD

ETHEL WATERS
SONGWRITERS: IRVING BERLIN
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: ETHEL WATES 100 SUPER BEST
LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 1929
 
              Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was an American singer and actress. Waters frequently performed jazz, swing, and pop music on the Broadway stage and in concerts. She began her career in the 1920s singing blues. Waters notable recordings include "Dinah", "Stormy Weather", "Taking a Chance on Love", "Heat Wave", "Supper Time", "Am I Blue?", "Cabin in the Sky", "I'm Coming Virginia", and her version of "His Eye Is on the Sparrow". Waters was the second African American to be nominated for an Academy Award. She was the first African American to star on her own television show and the first African-American woman to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.
             Waters was born in Chester, Pennsylvania on October 31, 1896 (some sources state her birth year as 1900) as a result of the rape of her teenaged African-American mother, Louise Anderson (1881–1962) by John Waters, (1878–1901), a pianist and family acquaintance from a middle-class African-American background. Waters' family was very fair skinned, her mother in particular. Many sources, including Ethel herself, have reported for years that her mother was 12 or 13 years old at the time of the rape, 13 when Ethel was born. Stephen Bourne opens his 2007 biography, Ethel Waters: Stormy Weather, with the statement that genealogical research has shown that she may have been in her late teens.
          Waters played no role in raising Ethel. Soon after she was born, her mother married Norman Howard, a railroad worker. Ethel used the surname Howard as a child and then reverted to her father's name. She was raised in poverty by Sally Anderson, her grandmother, who worked as a housemaid, and with two of her aunts and an uncle. Waters never lived in the same place for more than 15 months. Of her difficult childhood, she said "I never was a child. I never was cuddled, or liked, or understood by my family."
           Waters grew tall, standing 5 feet 9.5 inches (1.765 m) in her teens. According to jazz historian and archivist Rosetta Reitz, Waters's birth in the North and her peripatetic life exposed her to many cultures. Waters married at the age of 13, but her husband was abusive, and she soon left the marriage and became a maid in a Philadelphia hotel, working for $4.75 per week. On her 17th birthday, she attended a costume party at a nightclub on Juniper Street. She was persuaded to sing two songs and impressed the audience so much that she was offered professional work at the Lincoln Theatre in Baltimore. She recalled that she earned the rich sum of $10 per week, but her managers cheated her out of the tips her admirers threw on the stage.

Weary of roamin' on,
Yearning to see the dawn,
Counting the hours till I can lay down my load.
Weary, but I don't mind,
Knowing that I'll soon find
Peace and contentment at the end of the road.
 
The way is long, the night is dark,
But I don't mind 'cause a happy lark
Will be singing at the end of the road.
I can't go wrong, I must go right,
I'll find my way 'cause a guiding light
Will be shining at the end of the road.
 
There may be thorns in my path, but I'll wear a smile,
For in a little while my path will be roses!
 
The rain may fall from up above,
But I won't stop 'cause the one I love
Will be waiting at the end of the road.
 
Say, the way may be long and the night is dark,
But I don't mind 'cause a happy lark
Will be singing at the end of the road;
And I can't go wrong, I must go right,
I'll find my way 'cause a guiding light
Will be shining at the end of the road.
 
There may be thorns in my path, but I'll wear a smile,
For in a little while my path will be roses!
 
And the rain may fall from up above,
But I won't stop 'cause the one I love
Will be waiting at the end of the road.

NO MOON AT ALL

JULIE LONDON
SONGWRITERS: REDD EVANS & DAVID MANN
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: JULIE IS HER NAME
LABEL: LIBERTY RECORDS
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 1955
 
             Julie London (née Peck; September 26, 1926 – October 18, 2000) was an American singer and actress whose career spanned more than 40 years. A torch singer noted for her sultry, languid contralto vocals, London recorded over thirty albums of pop and jazz standards between 1955 and 1969. Her recording of "Cry Me a River", a track she introduced on her debut album, was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001. In addition to her musical notice, London was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1974 for her portrayal of nurse Dixie McCall in the television series Emergency!.
              Born in Santa Rosa, California to vaudevillian parents, London was discovered while working as an elevator operator in downtown Los Angeles, and began her career as an actress. London's 35-year acting career began in film in 1944, and included roles as the female lead in numerous westerns, co-starring with Rock Hudson in The Fat Man (1951), with Robert Taylor and John Cassavetes in Saddle the Wind (1958), and opposite Robert Mitchum in The Wonderful Country (1959).
           In the mid-1950s, she signed a recording contract with the newly established Liberty Records, marking the beginning of her professional musical career. She released her final studio album in 1969, but achieved continuing success playing the female starring role of nurse Dixie McCall, in the television series Emergency! (1972–1979), in which she appeared opposite her real-life husband, Bobby Troup. The show was produced by her ex-husband, Jack Webb.
                A shy and introverted woman, London rarely granted interviews, and spent the remainder of her life out of the public sphere. In 1995, she suffered a stroke, which left her with permanent health problems. In 1999, she was diagnosed with lung cancer, but forewent treatment due to her already compromised physical state. She died of cardiac arrest the following year in Los Angeles, aged 74.
              "No Moon at All" is a jazz standard written in 1947 by David Mann and Redd Evans. The vocal parts were initially performed by Doris Day.

No moon at all, what a night
Even lightning bugs have dimmed their lights
Stars have disappeared from sight
And there's no moon at all
 
Don't make a sound, it's so dark
Even Fido is afraid to bark
What a perfect chance to park
And there's no moon at all
 
Should we want atmosphere for inspiration, dear
One kiss will make it clear
That tonight is right and bright moonlight might interfere
 
No moon at all way up above
This is nothing like they told us of
Just to think we fell in love
And there's no moon at all
 
Should we want atmosphere for inspiration, dear
One kiss will make it clear
That tonight is right and bright moonlight might interfere
 
No moon at all up above
Aww, this is nothing like they told us of
Just to think we fell in love
And there's no moon at all
 
Aww, there's no moon at all
There is no moon at all
No moon at all.

IL ÉTAIT UNE FOIS LA VIE

SANDRA KIM
COMPOSITEURES: MICHEL LEGRANS & ALBERT BARILLÉ
PAYS: BELGIQUE
ALBUM: HYMNE À LA VIE
RECORD: CARRERE
GENRE: POP ROCK
ANNÉE: 1987
 
           Sandra Caldarone (née le 15 octobre 1972), mieux connue sous le nom de Sandra Kim, est une chanteuse belge d'origine italienne qui a remporté le concours Eurovision de la chanson 1986. Son père était un immigrant italien de Torrebruna dans la province de Chieti dans la région des Abruzzes en Italie.
               Au moment de sa victoire à l'Eurovision, elle n'avait que 13 ans, ce qui en fait la plus jeune lauréate du concours, même si les paroles de sa chanson "J'aime la vie" la prétendent avoir 15 ans ; la Suisse a fait une pétition pour que la chanson soit disqualifiée après que son âge réel ait été révélé. Cette pétition a échoué et Kim a remporté le concours Eurovision de la chanson cette année-là. Kim a également représenté la Belgique au Yamaha Music Festival de Tokyo à l'automne 1986 et a chanté la chanson titre de la série télévisée d'animation française Il était une fois ... la vie. L'album pop rock de Kim Make Upest sorti le 12 mai 2011, contenant des chansons écrites par de célèbres artistes belges comme Salvatore Adamo, Dani Klein (Vaya Con dios), Ozark Henry, Anthony Sinatra (Piano Club), Jacques Duval et David Bartholomé (Sharko). Elle a également remporté la première saison de la version belge de The Masked Singer.
             «J’ aime la vie» (prononciation française: [ʒɛmə la vi], j’ aime la vie ) a été la chanson gagnante du concours de l' Eurovision 1986, réalisée pour la Belgique par Sandra Kim. La Belgique avait terminé le Concours de 1985 à la dernière place, et ainsi réalisé le rare retournement de la dernière à la première en l'espace d'un an. La chanson marque également la seule fois à ce jour que la Belgique a remporté le concours. La chanson a également été incluse sur l'album de Kim J'aime la vie en 1986. Lorsqu'il est sorti en single, il a dominé le classement des singles de Belgique pendant sept semaines et a été le succès le plus vendu du pays en 1986, et il a également atteint le top 20 en Autriche, aux Pays-Bas, au Portugal et en Suède.

La vie, la vie, la vie, la vie
La vie, la vie, la vie, la vie
 
Et voici la vie
La vie, la vie
Le belle vie toute pressée d'éclore
Le monde nous convie
Et voici la vie
À de nouvelles aurores
Et nous donne des lendemains qui chantent
Et l' soleil qui nous éblouit
L'air vif nous enchante
Nous emplit de joie et de vie
 
La vie, la vie, la vie, la vie
La vie, la vie, la vie, la vie
 
Et voici la vie
La vie, la vie
La belle vie qui coule dans nos veines
Laissons là nos soucis
Et voici la vie
Que la joie souveraine
Emporte les flots de notre sang
Dans un rythme étourdissant
Et donne à tous l'envie
D' s'éclater et de chanter la vie
 
La vie, la vie, la vie, la vie
La vie, la vie, la vie, la vie
 
Et voici la vie
La vie, la vie
La belle vie comme une fête foraine
Pas de temps pour l'ennui
Et voici la vie
Elle court, elle nous entraîne
Chaque instant nous offre ses couleurs
Arc-en-ciel aux mille saveurs…
 
La vie, la vie, la vie, la vie
La vie, la vie, la vie, la vie
 
Et voici la vie
La vie, la vie
La belle vie qui s'écoule sereine
Relevons le défi
D'en faire hymne à la joie la vie.