SAILLING

ROD STEWART

SONGWRITER: GAVIN SUTHERLAND

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: ATLANTIC CROSS

LABEL: WARNER BROS.

GENRE: SOFT ROCK

YEAR: 1975

 

           Sir Roderick David Stewart CBE (born 10 January 1945) is a British rock and pop singer, songwriter and record producer. With his distinctive raspy singing voice, Stewart is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold over 250 million records worldwide. He has had ten number-one albums and 31 top ten singles in the UK, six of which reached number one. Stewart has had 16 top ten singles in the US, with four reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100. He was knighted in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to music and charity.

"Sailing" is a song composed by Gavin Sutherland of the Sutherland Brothers in 1972, best known as a 1975 international hit for Rod Stewart.

           "Sailing" was recorded by Rod Stewart for his first album recorded in North America rather than Great Britain: Atlantic Crossing, which album was recorded April – June 1975 at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio with Tom Dowd producing. The first single from the album, "Sailing" afforded Stewart an international hit notably in the UK where "Sailing" was No. 1 for four weeks in September 1975: augmented by a return to the UK chart in 1976 and – to a lesser extent – 1987, "Sailing" remains the Rod Stewart single to have the greatest success in its UK release. However, "Sailing" failed to afford Stewart a major hit in his newly adopted US homeland.

I am sailing, I am sailing

Home again across the sea

I am sailing, stormy waters

To be near you, to be free

 

I am flying, I am flying

Like a bird across the sky

I am flying, passing high clouds

To be near you, to be free

 

Can you hear me? Can you hear me?

Through the dark night, far away

I am dying, forever crying

To be with you, who can say?

 

Can you hear me? Can you hear me?

Through the dark night, far away

I am dying, forever crying

To be near you, who can say?

 

We are sailing, we are sailing

Home again across the sea

We are sailing stormy waters

To be near you, to be free

 

Oh Lord, to be near you, to be free

Oh Lord, to be near you, to be free

Oh Lord!

 WATERMELON SUGAR

HARRY STYLES

SONGWRITERS: HARRY STYLES; MITCH ROWLAND THOMAS HULL & TYLER JOHNSON

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: FINE LINE

LABEL: ERSKINE RECORDS

GENRE: SOFT ROCK

YEAR: 2020

 

               Harry Edward Styles (born 1 February 1994) is an English singer, songwriter, and actor. His musical career began in 2010 as a solo contestant on the British music competition series The X Factor. Following his elimination early on, he was brought back to join the boy band One Direction, which went on to become one of the best-selling boy bands of all time.

           Styles released his self-titled debut solo album through Columbia Records in 2017. It debuted at number one in the UK and the US, and became one of the world's top-ten best-selling albums of the year. Its lead single, "Sign of the Times", topped the UK Singles Chart. He made his acting debut in Christopher Nolan's 2017 war film Dunkirk. Styles' second album, Fine Line(2019), debuted atop the US Billboard 200 with the biggest first-week sales by an English male artist in history, and was listed among Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" in 2020. Its fourth single, "Watermelon Sugar", topped the US Billboard Hot 100.

          Throughout his career, Styles has earned several accolades, including a Brit Award, an American Music Award, two ARIA Music Awards, and a Billboard Music Award. Aside from music, he is also known for his flamboyant fashion, and is the first man to appear solo on the cover of Vogue magazine.

"Watermelon Sugar" is a song by English singer Harry Styles from his second studio album Fine Line (2019), included as the album's second track. Styles wrote the song with Mitch Rowland and the song's producers, Tyler Johnson and Kid Harpoon. They were inspired by the American novel In Watermelon Sugar (1968) by Richard Brautigan. "Watermelon Sugar" is a horn and guitar-driven rock, funk-pop, and indie pop song.

           Originally released as a promotional single from Fine Line on 16 November 2019, "Watermelon Sugar" was later released as the album's fourth single on 15 May 2020. The song was well received by music critics, with many praising its concept and Styles' vocals. The single also performed well commercially, peaking within the top ten in more than 20 countries, including the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and the United States, where it became Styles' first number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance.

         The music video for "Watermelon Sugar" was released on 18 May 2020 to positive reviews. Directed by Bradley & Pablo and filmed in Malibu, California, it features Styles alongside a plethora of bikini-clad women and men dancing on the beach and eating watermelon. Styles has promoted the single with many live televised performances including on Saturday Night Live, Later... with Jools Holland and Today.

Tastes like strawberries on a summer evenin'
And it sounds just like a song
I want more berries and that summer feelin'
It's so wonderful and warm
 
Breathe me in, breathe me out
I don't know if I could ever go without
I'm just thinking out loud
I don't know if I could ever go without
 
Watermelon sugar high
Watermelon sugar high
Watermelon sugar high
Watermelon sugar high
Watermelon sugar
 
Strawberries on a summer evenin'
Baby, you're the end of June
I want your belly and that summer feelin'
Getting washed away in you
 
Breathe me in, breathe me out
I don't know if I could ever go without
 
Watermelon sugar high
Watermelon sugar high
Watermelon sugar high
Watermelon sugar high
 
Watermelon sugar high
Watermelon sugar high
Watermelon sugar high
Watermelon sugar high
 
I just wanna taste it, I just wanna taste it
Watermelon sugar high
 
Tastes like strawberries on a summer evenin'
And it sounds just like a song
I want your belly and that summer feelin'
I don't know if I could ever go without
 
Watermelon sugar high
Watermelon sugar high
Watermelon sugar high (sugar)
Watermelon sugar high (sugar)
 
Watermelon sugar high
Watermelon sugar high
Watermelon sugar high
Watermelon sugar high
 
I just wanna taste it, I just wanna taste it
Watermelon sugar high
I just wanna taste it, I just wanna taste it
Watermelon sugar high
Watermelon sugar.

PARTY CROWD

DAVID LEE MURPHY

SONGWRITERS: DAVID LEE MURPHY & JIMBEAU HINSON

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: OUT WITH A BANG

LABEL: MCA

GENRE: COUNTRY

YEAR: 1994

 

      David Lee Murphy (born January 7, 1959) is an American country music singer and songwriter. He is best known for his #1 country hits "Dust on the Bottle" and "Everything's Gonna Be Alright", as well as the hit songs "Party Crowd", "Out with a Bang", "Every Time I Get Around You", "The Road You Leave Behind", and "Loco". He has released five solo studio albums: Out with a Bang (1994), Gettin' Out the Good Stuff (1996), We Can't All Be Angels (1997), Tryin' to Get There (2004), and No Zip Code (2018). His songs "Just Once" and "We Can't All Be Angels" appeared on the soundtracks of the films 8 Seconds (1994) and Black Dog (1998), respectively.

         Murphy took a hiatus from recording in 2004, and has co-written several singles for other artists, including the hits "Living in Fast Forward" for Kenny Chesney, "Anywhere With You" for Jake Owen, "Big Green Tractor" for Jason Aldean, and "Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not" for Thompson Square. On April 6, 2018, Murphy and Kenny Chesney released a studio album together, No Zip Code, which features their hit song "Everything's Gonna Be Alright".

           Out with a Bang is the debut album of American country music artist David Lee Murphy. It features the hit single "Dust on the Bottle", which reached Number One on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks in late 1995. The track "High Weeds and Rust" was previously recorded by Doug Stone on his 1990 self-titled debut album. "Just Once" is also included on the soundtrack to the 1994 movie 8 Seconds. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA for sales of 500,000.

She couldn't keep from cryin' when she told me goodbye

I knew Lord it was breakin' her heart, and she was breakin mine

So for the sake of her feelings and the sake of my pride

I told her not to worry 'bout me

So I'm sittin here soakin' up the neon lights

Misery looking for some company

 

Tonight I'm lookin for a party crowd

Slammin' 'em back and laughing out loud

Where the smoke's so thick the blues can't hang around

With the jukebox a jumpin' like it just don't care

If they're dancin' over here or fightin over there

I'm makin' the rounds, looking for a party crowd

 

It'll dawn on me tomorrow wherever I wake up

I'll look back and try to recall just where the heck's my truck

So take my keys and lock em up tight, let the good times flow

I'll worry bout tomorrow when it comes to light

The night's still young and I'm on a roll

 

Tonight I'm lookin for a party crowd

Slammin' 'em back and laughing out loud

Where the smoke's so thick the blues can't hang around

With the jukebox a jumpin' like it just don't care

If they're dancin' over here or fightin over there

I'm makin' the rounds, looking for a party crowd

 

Tonight I'm lookin for a party crowd

Slammin' 'em back and laughing out loud

Where the smoke's so thick the blues can't hang around

With the jukebox a jumpin' like it just don't care

If they're dancin' over here or fightin over there

I'm makin' the rounds, looking for a party crowd

 

Tonight I'm lookin for a party crowd

Slammin' 'em back and laughing out loud

Where the smoke's so thick the blues can't hang around

With the jukebox a jumpin' like it just don't care

If they're dancin' over here or fightin over there

I'm makin' the rounds, looking for a party crowd.

YOU'VE GOT TO STAND FOR SOMETHING

AARON TIPPIN

SONGWRITERS: BUDDY BROCK & AARON TIPPIN

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: YOU’VE GOT TO STAND FOR SOMETHING

LABEL: RCA NASHVILLE

GENRE: COUNTRY

YEAR: 1991

 

         Aaron Dupree Tippin (born July 3, 1958) is an American country musician and record producer. Initially a songwriter for Acuff-Rose Music, he gained a recording contract with RCA Nashville in 1990. His debut single, "You've Got to Stand for Something" became a popular anthem for American soldiers fighting in the Gulf War and helped to establish him as a neotraditionalist country act with songs that catered primarily to the American working class. Under RCA's tenure, he recorded five studio albums and a Greatest Hits package. Tippin switched to Lyric Street Records in 1998, where he recorded four more studio albums, counting a compilation of Christmas music. After leaving Lyric Street in 2006, he founded a personal label known as Nippit Records, on which he issued the compilation álbum Now & Then. A concept album, In Overdrive, was released in 2009.

        Tippin has released a total of nine studio albums and two compilations, with six gold certifications and one platinum certification among them. In addition, he has charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including three Number Ones: "There Ain't Nothin' Wrong with the Radio" (1992), "That's as Close as I'll Get to Loving You" (1995), and "Kiss This" (2000), as well as the top ten hits "You've Got to Stand for Something", "I Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way", "My Blue Angel", "Workin' Man's Ph.D.", "For You I Will", and "Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly".

            You've Got to Stand for Something is the debut album of American country music artist Aaron Tippin. The title track was Tippin's first chart entry, peaking at #6 on the Billboard country charts in 1991. Also released from this album were "I Wonder How Far It Is over You" and "She Made a Memory out of Me", which reached #40 and #54, respectively. "In My Wildest Dreams" would later be recorded by Kenny Chesney as the title track to his 1994 debut album In My Wildest Dreams.

Now Daddy didn't like trouble, but if it came along
Everyone that knew him knew which side that he'd be on
He never was a hero, or this county's shinin' light
But you could always find him standin' up
For what he thought was right
 
He'd say, "You've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything
You've got to be your own man not a puppet on a string
Never compromise what's right and uphold your family name
You've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything"
 
Now we might've been better off or owned a bigger house
If Daddy had done more givin' in or a little more backin' down
But we always had plenty just living his advice
"Whatever you do today you'll have to sleep with tonight"
 
He'd say, "You've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything
You've got to be your own man, not a puppet on a string
Never compromise what's right, and uphold your family name
You've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything"
 
And I know that things are different than they were in Daddy's day
But I still believe what makes a man really hasn't changed
 
You've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything
You've got to be your own man, not a puppet on a string
Never compromise what's right, and uphold your family name
You've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything
You've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything.