A MILLION SIGNS

VIVIDRY

SONGWRITERS: BENJ PASEC & JUSTIN PAUL

COUNTRY:

ALBUM: YOUR GOOD LIES

LABEL: EPIDEMIC SOUND

GENRE: SOUL

YEAR: 2019

 

            I CANNOT FIND A REGISTRATION ABOUT THIS GROUP, OR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN.

I think I might be over my troubles

Since you came, came around

Ooh

Something struck me

Oh baby

But it could have been my mind

Hmm

 

Oh it's not hard to see (yeah)

Why I was feeling dead

You saw right through it all

Oh I could not fake it

No matter how I tried

Ooh

 

You cured my aching heart

When you came, came around

I saw a million signs

I must be over it by now

There's a reason why, ooh

 

I think I might be over my troubles, yeah

They've been there for so long now

Hmm

 'Cause suddenly I think of tomorrow, yeah

Since you came, came around

Ooh

 

I feel like the only one

Who found out the reason why

Oh I was just lonely (lonely ooh)

But since you came around (came around)

All I see is tomorrow

 

When you hear me calling

Ooh

It's you and me

Ooh yeah

 'Cause I cannot fake it

No matter how I feel

Yeah

 

'Cause you heal my aching heart

When you come, come around

I saw a million signs

I must be over it by now

There's a reason why, ooh

I think I might be over my troubles

They've been there for so long now

It's, it's alright

'Cause suddenly I think of tomorrow (think of

tomorrow)

Since you came, came around

Ooh

 

I feel like the only one

Who found out the reason why

Oh I was just lonely

But since you came around (came around,

I could see)

All I see is tomorrow .

THE TRILL IS GONE

B. B. KING

SONGWRITERS: RICK DARNELL & ROY HAWKINS

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: COMPLETELY WELL

LABEL: BLUESWAY RECORDS

GENRE: BLUES

YEAR: 1969

 

        Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B.B. King, was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. King introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending, shimmering vibrato and staccato picking that influenced many later blues electric guitar players. AllMusic recognized King as "the single most important electric guitarist of the last half of the 20th century".

          King was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, and is one of the most influential blues musicians of all time, earning the nickname "The King of the Blues", and is considered one of the "Three Kings of the Blues Guitar" (along with Albert King and Freddie King, none of whom are blood related). King performed tirelessly throughout his musical career, appearing on average at more than 200 concerts per year into his 70s. In 1956 alone, he appeared at 342 shows.

         King was born on a cotton plantation in Itta Bena, Mississippi, and later worked at a cotton gin in Indianola, Mississippi. He was attracted to music and the guitar in church, and began his career in juke joints and local radio. He later lived in Memphis, Tennessee, and Chicago, and as his fame grew, toured the world extensively. King died at the age of 89 in Las Vegas, Nevada, on May 14, 2015.

        "The Thrill Is Gone" is a slow minor-key blues song written by West Coast blues musician Roy Hawkins and Rick Darnell in 1951. Hawkins' recording of the song reached number six in the Billboard R&B chart in 1951. In 1970, "The Thrill Is Gone" became a major hit for B.B. King. His rendition helped make the song a blues standard.

The thrill is gone

The thrill is gone away

The thrill is gone, baby

The thrill is gone away

You know you done me wrong, baby

And you'll be sorry someday

 

The thrill is gone

It's gone away from me

The thrill is gone, baby

The thrill is gone away from me

Although, I'll still live on

But so lonely I'll be

 

The thrill is gone

It's gone away for good

The thrill is gone, baby

It's gone away for good

Someday, I know I'll be open armed baby

Just like I know a good man should

 

You know I'm free, free now, baby

I'm free from your spell

Oh, I'm free, free, free now

I'm free from your spell

And now that it's all over

All I can do is wish you well. 

WALKING BLUES

Robert Johnson

SONGWRITER: SON HOUSE

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS

LABEL: PARAMOUNT RECORDS

GENRE: BLUES

YEAR: 1930

 

          Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1911 – August 16, 1938) was an American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. His landmark recordings in 1936 and 1937 display a combination of singing, guitar skills, and songwriting talent that has influenced later generations of musicians. He is now recognized as a master of the blues, particularly the Delta blues style.

            As a traveling performer who played mostly on street corners, in juke joints, and at Saturday night dances, Johnson had little commercial success or public recognition in his lifetime. He participated in only two recording sessions, one in San Antonio in 1936, and one in Dallas in 1937, that produced 29 distinct songs (with 13 surviving alternate takes) recorded by famed Country Music Hall of Fame producer Don Law. These songs, recorded at low fidelity in improvised studios, were the totality of his recorded output. Most were released as 10-inch, 78 rpm singles from 1937–1938, with a few released after his death. Other than these recordings, very little was known of him during his life outside of the small musical circuit in the Mississippi Delta where he spent most of his life; much of his story has been reconstructed after his death by researchers. Johnson's poorly documented life and death have given rise to much legend. The one most closely associated with his life is that he sold his soul to the devil at a local crossroads to achieve musical success.

         His music had a small, but influential, following during his life and in the two decades after his death. In late 1938 John Hammond sought him out for a concert at Carnegie Hall, From Spirituals to Swing, only to discover that Johnson had died. Brunswick Records, which owned the original recordings, was bought by Columbia Records, where Hammond was employed. Musicologist Alan Lomax went to Mississippi in 1941 to record Johnson, also not knowing of his death. Law, who by then worked for Columbia Records, assembled a collection of Johnson's recordings titled King of the Delta Blues Singers that was released by Columbia in 1961. It is widely credited with finally bringing Johnson's work to a wider audience. The album would become influential, especially on the nascent British blues movement; Eric Clapton has called Johnson "the most important blues singer that ever lived." Musicians such as Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, and Robert Plant have cited both Johnson's lyrics and musicianship as key influences on their own work. Many of Johnson's songs have been covered over the years, becoming hits for other artists, and his guitar licks and lyrics have been borrowed by many later musicians.

            Renewed interest in Johnson's work and life led to a burst of scholarship starting in the 1960s. Much of what is known about him was reconstructed by researchers such as Gayle Dean Wardlow and Bruce Conforth, especially in their 2019 award-winning biography of Johnson: Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson (Chicago Review Press). Two films, the 1991 documentary The Search for Robert Johnson by John Hammond Jr., and a 1997 documentary, Can't You Hear the Wind Howl, the Life and Music of Robert Johnson, which included reconstructed scenes with Keb' Mo' as Johnson, were attempts to document his life, and demonstrated the difficulties arising from the scant historical record and conflicting oral accounts. Over the years, the significance of Johnson and his music has been recognized by numerous organizations and publications, including the Rock and Roll, Grammy, and Blues Halls of Fame; and the National Recording Preservation Board.

      "Walkin' Blues" or "Walking Blues" is a blues standard written and recorded by American Delta blues musician Son House in 1930. Although unissued at the time, it was part of House's repertoire and other musicians, including Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters, adapted the song and recorded their own versions.

           Besides "Walking Blues", Johnson's 1936 rendition incorporates melodic and rhythmic elements from House's "My Black Mama" (which House also used for his "Death Letter") and slide guitar techniques Johnson learned from House. In 1941, Waters recorded the song with some different lyrics as "Country Blues" in his first field recording session for Alan Lomax. It served as the basis for his first charting song, "(I Feel Like) Going Home", for Chess Records in 1948. He later recorded "Walkin' Blues" with lyrics closer to House's and Johnson's for his first single, released by Chess in 1950. Various musicians have recorded the song over the years, usually as an electric ensemble piece.

         

Woke up this mornin
Feelin round for my shoes
Know bout at i got these
Old walkin blues
Woke up this mornin
Feelin round oh for my shoes
But you know bout at i got these
Old walkin blues
Lord i feel like blowin my
Woh-old lonesome home
Got up this mornin, my little
Bernice was gone , lord
I feel like blowoon my
Lonesome home
Well, i got up this mornin
Woh-all i had was gone
Well-ah leave this mornin if i have to
Woh ride the blind ah
I've feel mistreated and i
Don't mind dyin
Levin this mornin ah
I have to ride a blind
Babe, i been mistreated
Baby, i don't mind dyin
Well, some people tell em that the worried
Blues ain't bad
Worst old feelin i most
Ever had
Some people tell me that these
Old worried, old blues ain't bad
Its the worst old feelin,
I most ever had
She got a
Elgin movement from her head down
To her toes
Break in on a dollar most any-
Where she goes, ooo oooooooooo
To her head down to her toes
Spoken: oh honey
Lord, she break in on a dollar
Most anywhere she goes.

OCEAN DEEP

CLIFF RICHARD

SONGWRITERS: JON SWEET & ROD TROTT

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: SILVER

LABEL: EMI RECORDS

GENRE: ROCK

YEAR: 1983

 

           Sir Cliff Richard OBE (born Harry Rodger Webb; 14 October 1940) is an English singer, musician, actor, and philanthropist who holds both British and Barbadian citizenship. He has sold more than 250 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. He has total sales of over 21 million singles in the United Kingdom and is the third-top-selling artist in UK Singles Chart history, behind the Beatles and Elvis Presley.

       Richard was originally marketed as a rebellious rock and roll singer in the style of Presley and Little Richard. With his backing group, the Shadows, he dominated the British popular music scene in the pre-Beatles period of the late 1950s to early 1960s. His 1958 hit single "Move It" is often described as Britain's first authentic rock and roll song; John Lennon once said that "before Cliff and the Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music". In the early 1960s, he had a prosperous film career with films including The Young Ones and Summer Holiday. Increased focus on his Christianity and subsequent softening of his music led to a more middle-of-the-road image, and he sometimes ventured into contemporary Christian music.

         Over a career spanning 60 years, Richard has amassed several gold and platinum discs and awards, including two Ivor Novello Awards and three Brit Awards. More than 130 of his singles, albums, and EPs have reached the UK Top 20, more than any other artist. Richard has had 67 UK top ten singles, the second highest total for an artist behind Presley. He holds the record, with Presley, as the only act to make the UK singles charts in all of its first six decades (1950s–2000s). He has achieved 14 UK No. 1 singles, and is the only singer to have had a No. 1 single in the UK in each of five consecutive decades. He also had four UK Christmas Nº. 1 singles, two of which were as a solo artist; "Mistletoe and Wine" and "Saviour's Day".

         Richard has never achieved the same popularity in the United States despite eight US Top 40 singles, including the million-selling "Devil Woman" and "We Don't Talk Anymore". In Canada, he had a successful period in the early 1960s, the late 1970s and early 1980s, with some releases certified gold and platinum. He has remained a popular music, film, and television personality in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Northern Europe and Asia, and retains a following in other countries. When not touring, he divides his time between Barbados and Portugal. In 2019, he relocated to the United States.

        Silver is a 1983 studio album by Cliff Richard, marking his 25th anniversary in music. The North American version was titled Give a Little Bit More and had a revised track list.

           A limited edition 2-LP box set of Silver was also released in the UK. The second LP, entitled Rock 'n' Roll Silver contained 9 new recordings of rock and roll classics, including Richard's debut single "Move It", and one new song "Makin' History".

          The album reached number 7 in the UK Albums Chart and earned Gold certification.

Love can't you see I'm alone

Can't you give this fool a chance

A little love is all I ask - a little kindness

In the night

Please don't leave me behind

No - don't tell me love is blind

A little love is all I ask and that is all

 

oh Love i've been searching so long

I've been searching high'n'low

A little love is all I ask - a little sadness

When you're gone

Maybe you need a friend

Only please don't let's pretend

A little love is all I ask and that is all

 

I wanna spread my wings - but I just can't fly

As a string of pearls and pretty girls go sailing by

 

Ocean Deep - I'm so afraid to show my feelings

I have sailed a million ceilings - in my –

Solitary Room

Ocean Deep - will I ever find a lover

Maybe she has found another

And as I cry myself to sleep

I know this love of mine I'll keep - Ocean Deep

 

Love can't you hear when I call

Can't you hear a word I say

A little love is all I ask

a little feeling When we touch

Why am I still alone?

I've got a heart without a home

A little love is all I ask - and that is all

 

I wanna spread my wings - but I just can't fly

As a string of pearls and pretty girls go sailing by

 

Ocean Deep - I'm so afraid to show my feelings

I have sailed a million ceilings - in my –

Solitary Room

Ocean Deep - will I ever find a lover

Maybe she has found another

And as I cry myself to sleep

I know this love of mine I'll keep - Ocean Deep

I'm so lonely lonely lonely...

maybe…