FOOTSTEPS

THE SKYLINES
SONGWRITERs: Geoffrey mcarthur & jonathan paul shaban
COUNTRY: u. s. a.
ALBUM: the skyliners: greatest hits
LABEL: calico records
GENRE: doo-wop
YEAR: 1987
 
           The Skyliners are an American doo-wop group from Pittsburgh. The original lineup was: Jimmy Beaumont (lead), Janet Vogel (soprano), Wally Lester (tenor), Jackie Taylor (bass voice, guitarist), Joe Verscharen (baritone). The Skyliners were best known for their 1958 hit, "Since I Don't Have You".
Hey, hey, hey
 
Footsteps, I hear, at the endin’ of the day
Your footsteps, my dear
Thought I know you’re far away
Hey, hey, hey
 
Tiptoe, alone, till they come into my heart
Those footsteps, that say
We will never stay apart
Footsteps that haunt me and seems to tell me
That they’ll be my guide, they’ll be my guide
 
And if I follow, yes if I follow
They, will lead, me to, your side
Those little footsteps, I hear
Every mornin’ noon and night
Your footsteps, my dear
Even though you’re out of sight
 
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey…

 I DROVE ALL NIGHT
ROY ORBISON
SONGWRITERS: BILLY STEINBERG & TOM KELLY
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: NINTENDO: WHITE KNUCKLE SCORIN’
LABEL: RCA VICTOR
GENRE: ROCK
YEAR: 1987
 
            Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician known for his impassioned singing style, complex song structures, and dark, emotional ballads. His music was described by critics as operatic, earning him the nicknames "the Caruso of Rock" and "the Big O". Many of Orbison's songs conveyed vulnerability at a time when most male rock-and-roll performers chose to project defiant masculinity. He was known for his shyness and stage fright, which he countered by wearing dark sunglasses.
         Orbison began singing in a rockabilly and country-and-western band at high school. He was signed by Sam Phillips of Sun Records in 1956, but enjoyed his greatest success with Monument Records. From 1960 to 1966, 22 of Orbison's singles reached the Billboard Top 40. He wrote or co-wrote almost all of his own Top 10 hits, including "Only the Lonely" (1960), "Running Scared" (1961), "Crying" (1961), "In Dreams" (1963), and "Oh, Pretty Woman" (1964). Beginning in the mid-1960s, Orbison suffered a number of personal tragedies and his career faltered.
          Orbison experienced a resurgence in popularity in the 1980s following the success of several cover versions of his songs. In 1988, he co-founded the Traveling Wilburys (a rock supergroup) with George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Jeff Lynne. Orbison died of a heart attack in December 1988 at age 52. One month later, his song "You Got It" (1989) was released as a solo single, becoming his first hit to reach the U.S. Top 10 in nearly 25 years.
            Orbison's honors include inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987, the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1989, and the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2014. He received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and five other Grammy Awards. Rolling Stone placed him at number 37 on its list of the "Greatest Artists of All Time" and number 13 on its list of the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time". In 2002, Billboard magazine listed him at number 74 on its list of the Top 600 recording artists.
         "I Drove All Night" is a song written and composed by American songwriters Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly and recorded by American singer Cyndi Lauper. The song was originally intended for Roy Orbison, who recorded it in 1987, the year before his death, but his version was not released until 1992, after Lauper's version became a top 10 hit on both sides of the Atlantic in 1989. The song has also been covered by Canadian singer Celine Dion, whose version topped the Canadian Singles Chart and reached number 7 on the U.S. Adult Contemporary chart in 2003.

I had to escape, the city was stinking and cruel
Maybe I should have called you first, but I was dying to get toyou
I was dreaming while I drove the long straight road ahead
Uh-huh, yeah
Could taste your sweet kisses, your arms open wide
This fever for you was just burning me up inside
 
I drove all night to get to you
Is that all right?
I drove all night, crept in your room
Woke you from your sleep
To make love to you
Is that all right?
I drove all night
 
What in this world keeps us from falling apart?
No matter where I go I hear the beating of our one heart
I think about you when the night is cold and dark
Uh-huh, yeah
No one can move me the way that you do
Nothing erases this feeling between me and you
 
To taste your sweet kisses, your arms open wide
This fever for you is just burning me up inside
 
I drove all night to get to you
Is that all right?
I drove all night, crept in your room
Is that all right?
I drove all night.

VINCENT

DON MCLEAN
SONGWRITER: DON MCLEAN
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: AMERICAN PIE
LABEL: UNITED ARTISTS RECORDS
GENRE: FOLK
YEAR: 1971
 
          Donald McLean III (born October 2, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for his 1971 hit song "American Pie", an 8.5-minute folk rock "cultural touchstone" about the loss of innocence of the early rock and roll generation.
            His other hit singles include "Vincent", "Dreidel", a rendition of Roy Orbison's "Crying", a rendition of the Skyliners' "Since I Don't Have You", and "Wonderful Baby".
           His composition "And I Love You So" has been sung by Elvis Presley, Perry Como, Helen Reddy, Glen Campbell, and others, and in 2000, Madonna had a hit with a rendition of "American Pie".
          In 2004, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In January 2018, BMI certified that "American Pie" and "Vincent" had reached five million and three million airplays respectively.
             American Pie is the second studio album by the American singer-songwriter Don McLean, released by United Artists Records on 24 October 1971. containing the chart-topping singles "American Pie" and "Vincent." Recorded in May and June 1971 at The Record Plant in New York City, the LP is dedicated to Buddy Holly, and was reissued in 1980 minus the track "Sister Fatima".The album was released to much acclaim, later being included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
           At the Australian 1972 King of Pop Awards the album won Most Popular Overseas L.P. 

Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
 
Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land
 
Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
 
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now
 
Starry, starry night
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
 
Colors changing hue
Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand
 
Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
 
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now
 
For they could not love you
But still your love was true
And when no hope was left in sight
On that starry, starry night
 
You took your life, as lovers often do
But I could've told you Vincent
This world was never meant for
One as beautiful as you
 
Starry, starry night
Portraits hung in empty halls
Frame-less heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
 
Like the strangers that you've met
The ragged men in ragged clothes
The silver thorn of bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
 
Now I think I know
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
 
They would not listen, they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will.

TEACH YOUR CHILDREN

CROSBY, STILL, NASH AND YOUNG
SONGWRITER: GRAHAM NASH
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: CROSBY, STILLS & NASH
LABEL: ATLANTIC RECORDS
GENRE: FOLK ROCK
YEAR: 1969
 
           Crosby, Stills & Nash (CSN) were a folk rock supergroup made up of American singer-songwriters David Crosby and Stephen Stills, and English singer-songwriter Graham Nash. When joined by Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young as a fourth member, they are called Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY). They are noted for their intricate vocal harmonies, often tumultuous interpersonal relationships, political activism, and lasting influence on American music and culture.
             CSN formed in 1968 shortly after Crosby, Stills and Nash performed together informally in July of that year, discovering they harmonized well. Crosby had been asked to leave The Byrds in late 1967, and Stills' band Buffalo Springfield had broken up in early 1968; Nash left his band The Hollies in December, and by early 1969 the trio had signed a recording contract with Atlantic Records. Their first album, Crosby, Stills & Nash, was released in May 1969, from which came two Top 40 hits, "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" [#21] and "Marrakesh Express" [#28]. In order to tour the album, the trio hired drummer Dallas Taylor and session bassist Greg Reeves, though they still needed a keyboardist; Ahmet Ertegun suggested Neil Young, who had played with Stills in Buffalo Springfield, and after some initial reluctance, the trio agreed, signing him on as a full member. The band, now named Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, started their tour, and played their second gig at Woodstock Festival in the early morning hours of August 18, 1969. The first album with Young, Déjà Vu, reached number one in several international charts in 1970, and remains their best selling album, going on to sell over 8 million copies with three hit singles. Four singles were released from the album including "Woodstock", "Teach Your Children", and "Our House". The group's second tour, which produced the live double álbum 4 Way Street (1971), was fraught with arguments between Young and Taylor, which resulted in Taylor being replaced by John Barbata, and tensions with Stills, which resulted in his being temporarily dismissed from the band. At the end of the tour the band split up. The group have since reunited several times, sometimes with and sometimes without Young, and have released eight studio and four live albums.
           Crosby, Stills & Nash were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and all three members were also inducted for their work in other groups (Crosby for the Byrds, Stills for Buffalo Springfield and Nash for the Hollies). Neil Young has also been inducted as a solo artist and as a member of Buffalo Springfield but not as a member of CSN. They have not made a group studio album since 1999's Looking Forward, and have been inactive as a performing unit since the end of 2015. Whether or not this break is permanent remains to be seen, as the group has often been inactive for years at a time.
        Crosby, Stills & Nash is the first album by Crosby, Stills & Nash, released in 1969 on the Atlantic Records label. It spawned two Top 40 hit singles, "Marrakesh Express" and "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes", which peaked respectively at No. 28 the week of August 23, 1969, and at No. 21 the week of December 6, 1969, on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. The album itself peaked at Nº. 6 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart. It has been certified four times platinum by the RIAA for sales of 4.000.000.

You who are on the road
Must have a code that you can live by
And so become yourself
Because the past is just a good bye
 
Teach your children well
Their father's hell did slowly go by
And feed them on your dreams
The one they picked, the one you'll know by
 
Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry
So just look at them and sigh and know they love you
 
And you, of tender Years
Can't know the fears that your elders grew by
And so please help them with your youth
They seek the truth before they can die
 
Teach your parents well
Their children's hell will slowly go by
And feed them on your dreams
The one they picked, the one you'll know by
 
Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry
So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.