SONGWRITERS: Kim Fowley; Rick Henn; Earle Mankey &
Helen Reddy
COUNTRY: AUSTRALIA X U. S. A.
ALBUM: EAR CANDY
LABEL: CAPITOLIO RECORDS
GENRE: POP ROCK
YEAR: 1977
Helen Maxine Reddy (25 October 1941 – 29
September 2020) was an Australian-American singer, songwriter, author, actress,
and activist. Born in Melbourne,
Victoria, to a show-business family, Reddy started her career as an entertainer
at age four. She sang on radio and television and won a talent contest on the
television program Bandstandin 1966; her prize was a ticket to New York City and a record
audition, which was unsuccessful. She pursued her international singing career by moving to
Chicago, and subsequently, Los Angeles, where she made her debut singles "One Way Ticket" and
"I Believe in Music" in 1968 and
1970, respectively. The B-side of the latter single, "I Don't Know How to Love Him",
reached number eight on the pop chart of the Canadian magazine, RPM.
She was signed to Capitol Recordsa year later.
During the 1970s, Reddy enjoyed international
success, especially in the United States, where she placed 15 singles on the
top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100.
Six made the top 10 and three reached number one, including her signature hit
"I Am Woman".
She placed 25 songs on the Billboard Adult Contemporarychart;
15 made the top 10 and eight reached number one, six consecutively. In 1974, at
the inaugural American
Music Awards, she won the award for Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist. On
television, she was the first Australian to host a one-hour weekly primetime
variety show on an American network, along with specials that were seen in more
than 40 countries.
Between the 1980s and 1990s, as her single
"I Can't Say Goodbye to You"
became her last to chart in the US, Reddy acted in musicals and recorded albums
such as Center Stagebefore retiring from live
performance in 2002. She returned to university in Australia, earned a degree,
and practised as a clinical hypnotherapistand motivational speaker. In 2011, after singing "Breezin' Along with the Breeze"
with her half-sister, Toni Lamond,
for Lamond's birthday, Reddy decided to return to live performing.
Reddy's song "I Am Woman" played a
significant role in popular culture, becoming an anthem for second-wave
feminism. She came to be known as a "feminist
poster girl" or a "feminist icon". In 2011, Billboardnamed her the number-28 adult contemporary artist of all time (the
number-9 woman). In 2013, the Chicago
Tribunedubbed her the "Queen of '70s
Pop"
Ear Candy is the ninth studio album by Australian-Americanpopsinger Helen Reddy,
released on April 25, 1977 by Capitol
Records. The album included a modern take on the doo-wopgenre ("Long Distance Love"), a Cajun number that gave the
Melbournenative her first and only appearance on Billboardmagazine's Countrychart ("Laissez les Bontemps Rouler"), and a dark
self-parody on which Reddy proclaims: "I don't take no shit from
nobody" ("Baby, I'm a Star" - not to be confused with the Princesong of the same name).
Unprecedented for a Helen Reddy album, half of the songs recorded for Ear Candy
were co-written by Reddy herself, including the second single: "The Happy
Girls", Reddy's first self-penned A-sidesingle since "I am Woman":
however it was the first single: a remake of the 1964 Cilla Blackhit "You're
My World", which would afford Reddy a final Top 40hit.
And do I love you?
Well I know I really try;
Thinking of you;
Loving the sunshine in your eyes.
And when I falter,
Bringing you grief
Does it alter your feeling for me?
Oh baby can't you see?
That we're sharing,
All the ups we have in life,
While comparing,
All the downs that we've survived.
But how much stronger
Our love becomes.
And the longer we're living as one,
The more we'll overcome.
And I have lived the
greatest love song,
That my singer's years have ever heard.
You make this weary woman happy.
I overflow, it's cause I know
You wouldnt trade me,
For the moon inside a jar
For you've made me
Both the moon and the stars
And in our twilight,
We will recall, that the highlight
For us in this world,
Was having dreams come true.
I'm so comfortable
with you.
Jeff, you've made my dreams come true.
Here's a love song just for you.
SOUTHERN NIGHTS
GLEN CAMPBELL
SONGWRITER: ALLEN TOUSSAINT
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: SOUTHERN NIGHTS
LABEL: CAPITOL RECORDS
GENRE: CONTRY
YEAR: 1977
Glen Travis Campbell (April 22, 1936 – August
8, 2017) was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, television host, and
actor. He was best known for a series of hit songs in the 1960s and 1970s, and
for hosting The Glen Campbell Goodtime Houron CBStelevision
from 1969 until 1972. He released 64 albums in a career that spanned five
decades, selling over 45 million records worldwide, including twelve gold
albums, four platinum albums, and one double-platinum album.
Born in Billstown,
Arkansas, Campbell began his professional career as a
studio musicianin Los Angeles, spending several years playing with the group of
instrumentalists later known as "The Wrecking Crew". After becoming a
solo artist, he placed a total of 80 different songs on either the Billboard Country Chart,
Billboard Hot 100,
or Adult Contemporary Chart, of
which 29 made the top 10 and of which nine reached number one on at least one
of those charts. Among Campbell's hits are "Universal Soldier", his first hit from
1965, along with "Gentle on My Mind" (1967), "By the Time I Get to Phoenix"
(1967), "Dreams of the Everyday Housewife"
(1968), "Wichita Lineman"
(1968), "Galveston"
(1969), "Rhinestone Cowboy"
(1975) and "Southern
Nights" (1977).
In
1967, Campbell won four Grammys in the country and pop categories. For
"Gentle on My Mind", he received two awards in country
and western; "By the Time I Get to Phoenix"
did the same in pop. Three of his early hits later won Grammy Hall of Fame Awards(2000, 2004,
2008), while Campbell himself won the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awardin 2012. He owned trophies for Male Vocalist of the Year from both
the Country Music Association(CMA) and the Academy of Country Music(ACM), and took
the CMA's top award as 1968 Entertainer of the Year. Campbell played a
supporting role in the film True
Grit(1969), which earned him a Golden Globenomination for Most Promising Newcomer. He also sang the title song,
which was nominated for an Academy
Award.
"Southern Nights" is a song written
and recorded by Allen Toussaint,
from his 1975 album, Southern Nights,
and later recorded by American country
musicsinger Glen Campbell.
It was the first single released from Campbell's 1977 album, Southern Nights,
and reached Nº. 1 on three separate US charts. It was covered by the Chicagoband Whitneyin 2015.
Southern nights
Have you ever felt a southern night?
Free as a breeze
Not to mention the trees
Whistling tunes that you know and love so
Southern nights
Just as good even when closed your eyes
I apologize to anyone who can truly say
That he has found a better way
Southern skies
Have you ever noticed southern skies?
Its precious beauty lies just beyond the eye
It goes running through your soul
Like the stories told of old
Old man
He and his dog that walked the old land
Ev'ry flower touched his cold hand
As he slowly walked by
Weeping willows
Would cry for joy
Joy
Feel so good
Feel so good
It's frigth'ning
Wish I could
Stop this world from Fighting
La da da da da da la
da da da da da da da da
Mysteries
Like this and many others in the trees
Blow in the night
In the southern skies
Southern nights
They feel so good
it's fright'ning
Wish I could
Stop this world from Fighting
La da da da da da la
da da da da da
Da da da da da da da
da da da da.
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-wopgroup 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 Carusoof
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 rockabillyand country-and-westernband at high school. He was signed by Sam Phillipsof Sun Recordsin 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 Fameand Nashville Songwriters Hall of Famein 1987, the Songwriters Hall of Famein 1989, and
the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museumin 2014. He received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awardand 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 songwritten
and composed by American songwriters Billy
Steinbergand Tom
Kellyand 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 Chartand 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.