George Harvey Strait Sr. (born May 18, 1952)
is an American country musicsinger, songwriter, actor, and music producer. George Strait is
known as the "King
of Country" and is considered one of
the most influential and popular recording artists of all time. He is known for
his neotraditionalist countrystyle, cowboy look, and being one of the first and most prominent
country artists to bring country music back to its roots and away from the pop
country era in the 1980s.
Strait's
success began when his first single "Unwound"
was a hit in 1980. During the 1980s, seven of his albums reached number one on
the country charts. In the 2000s, Strait was named Artist of the
Decade by the Academy of Country Music, was
elected into the Country Music Hall of Fame, and won
his first Grammy award for the album Troubadour. Strait was named CMAEntertainer of the Year in 1989,
1990 and 2013, and ACMEntertainer of the Year in 1990 and
2014. He has been nominated for more CMAand ACMawards and has more wins in both
categories than any other artist.
By 2009, he broke Conway Twitty's
previous record for the most number-one hits on Billboard's
Hot Country Songschart when his 44 number one singles surpassed Twitty's 40. Counting
all music charts, Strait has amassed a total of 60 number-one hits, breaking a
record also previously set by Twitty, giving him more number one songs than any
other artist in any genre of music.
Strait
is also known for his touring career when he designed a 360-degree
configuration and introduced festival style tours. For
example, the Strait Tours earned $99 million in three years. His concert at AT&T Stadiumin Arlington, Texas,
in June 2014 drew 104,793 people, marking a new record for largest indoor
concert in North America.
Strait has sold more than 100 million records
worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artistsof all time. His
certifications from the RIAAinclude 13 multi-platinum, 33 platinum, and 38 gold albums. His
best-selling album is Pure
Country(1992), which sold 6 million (6×platinum).
His highest certified album is Strait
Out of the Box(1995), which sold 2 million copies
(8× Platinum due to being a box set with four CDs). According to the RIAA, Strait is
the 12th best-selling album recording artist in the United States overall.
"Carrying Your Love with Me" is
a song written by Steve Bogard and Jeff
Stevens, and performed by American country musicartist George Strait.
It was released in May 1997 as the second single and title track from his album of the same name. The
song reached the top of the BillboardHot Country Singles & Trackschart. The track was also voted by website Country Universe as
number 200 of the top 400 greatest songs of the 1990s. "Carrying Your Love
with Me" was nominated for Best Male Country Vocal Performanceat the 1998 Grammy Awards.
Baby all I got is
this beat up leather bag
And everything I own don't fill up half
But don't you worry 'bout the way I pack
All I care about is gettin' back real soon
A goodbye kiss is all I need from you
Chorus:
'Cause I'm carrying your love with me
West Virginia down to Tennesse
I'll be moving with the good Lord's speed
Carrying your love with me
It's my strength for holding on
Every minute that I have to be gone
I'll have everything I'll ever need
I'm carrying your love with me
On a lonely highway
stuck out in the rain
Darlin' all I have to do is speak your name
The clouds roll back and the waters part
The sun starts shining in my heart for you
You're right there and everything I do
Chorus
It's my strength for
holding on
Every minute that I have to be gone
I'll have everything I'll ever need
I'm carrying your love with me
Chorus.
BRIGHT
EYES
ART
GARFUNKEL
SONGWRITERS:
M.K. JEROME; MIKE BATT & OTTO MOTZAN
COUNTRY:
U. S. A.
ALBUM: FATE
FOR BREAKFAST
LABEL: COLUMBIA
RECORDS
GENRE: POP
BALLAD
YEAR: 1979
Arthur Ira Garfunkel (born November 5, 1941)
is an American singer, poet, and actor. He is best known for his partnership
with Paul Simonin the folk rockduo Simon
& Garfunkel.
Highlights of Garfunkel's solo music career
include a top 10 hit, three top 20 hits, six top 40 hits, 14 Adult Contemporarytop 30 singles,
five Adult Contemporary number ones, two UK number ones and a People's
Choice Award. Through his solo and
collaborative work, Garfunkel has earned eight Grammys,
including a Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1990, he and Simon were inducted
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In
2008, Garfunkel was ranked 86th in Rolling
Stonemagazine's list of the 100 Greatest
Singers of All Time.
"Bright Eyes" is a song written by
British songwriter Mike Battand performed by Art
Garfunkel. It was written for the soundtrack of the
1978 British animated adventure drama film Watership
Down. Rearranged as a pop song from its original
form in the film, the track appears on British and European versions of
Garfunkel's 1979 Fate
for Breakfastand on the US versions of his 1981
album Scissors Cut.
"Bright Eyes" topped the UK
Singles Chartfor six weeks and became Britain's
biggest-selling single of 1979, selling over a million copies. Richard Adams,
author of the original novelis reported to have hated the song. A cover of the song was later
used in the television series of the same nameexplicitly as its theme song.
Is it a kind of
dream,
Floating out on the tide,
Following the river of death downstream?
Oh, is it a dream?
There's a fog along
the horizon,
A strange glow in the sky,
And nobody seems to know where you go,
And what does it mean?
Oh, is it a dream?
Bright eyes,
Burning like fire.
Bright eyes,
How can you close and fail?
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?
Bright eyes.
Is it a kind of shadow,
Reaching into the night,
Wandering over the hills unseen,
Or is it a dream?
There's a high wind in the trees,
A cold sound in the air,
And nobody ever knows when you go,
And where do you start,
Oh, into the dark.
Bright eyes,
burning like fire.
Bright eyes,
how can you close and fail?
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?
bright eyes.
Bright eyes,
burning like fire.
Bright eyes,
how can you close and fail?
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?
Bright eyes.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH
JOHN DENVER
SONGWRITERS: JOHN DENVER & MIKE TAYLOR
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH
LABEL: RCA RECORDS
GENRE: COUNTRY FOLK
YEAR: 1972
Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. (December 31,
1943 – October 12, 1997), known professionally as John Denver, was an American
singer-songwriter, record producer, actor, activist, and humanitarian, whose
greatest commercial success was as a solo singer. After traveling and living in
numerous locations while growing up in his military family, Denver began his
music career with folk musicgroups during the late 1960s. Starting in the 1970s, he was one of
the most popular acoustic artists of the decade and one of its best-selling
artists. By 1974, he was one of America's best-selling performers, and AllMusichas described Denver as "among the most beloved entertainers of
his era".
Denver recorded and released approximately
300 songs, about 200 of which he composed. He had 33 albums and singles that
were certified Gold and Platinum in the U.S by RIAA
certificationwith estimated sales of more than 33
million units. He recorded and performed primarily with an acoustic guitar and
sang about his joy in nature, his disdain for city life, his enthusiasm for
music, and his relationship trials. Denver's music appeared on a variety of
charts, including country music,
the Billboard Hot 100,
and adult contemporary, in all earning 12 goldand four platinumalbums with his signature
songs "Take Me Home, Country Roads",
"Annie's Song",
"Rocky
Mountain High", "Calypso", "Thank God I'm a Country Boy",
and "Sunshine on My Shoulders".
Denver
appeared in several films and television specials during the 1970s and 1980s. He
continued to record in the 1990s, also focusing on environmental issues as well
as lending vocal support to space exploration and testifying in front of Congressin protest against censorship in music. He lived in Aspenfor much of his life where he was known for his love of Colorado. In 1974, Denver was named poet
laureate of the state. The Colorado state legislature also adopted
"Rocky Mountain High" as one of its two state songs in 2007.
An
avid pilot, Denver died at the age of 53 in a single-fatality crash while
piloting his recently purchased light plane.
"Rocky Mountain High" is a folk rocksong written by John
Denverand Mike
Taylorabout Colorado and is one of the two
official state songsof Colorado. Recorded by
Denver in 1972, it went to No. 9 on the US Hot 100 in 1973. Denver told concert audiences in
the mid-1970s that the song took him an unusually long nine months to write. On
April 10, 2017, the song was certified Gold by the Recording Industry
Association of America for sales of 500.000 digital downloads.
Members of the Western Writers of Americachose it as one
of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.
He was born in the
summer of his 27th year
Coming home to a place he'd never been before
He left yesterday behind him
You might say he was born again
Might say he found a key for every door
When he first came to the mountains
His life was far away
On the road and hanging by a song
But the strings already broken
And he doesn't really care
It keeps changin' fast, and it don't last for long
It's a Colorado Rocky Mountain high
I've seen it raining fire in the sky
The shadows from the starlight are softer than a lullaby
Rocky Mountain high, in Colorado
Rocky Mountain high
He climbed cathedral
mountains, he saw silver clouds below
Saw everything as far as you can see
And they say that he got crazy once and that he
Tried to touch the Sun
And he lost a friend, but kept the memory
Now he walks in quiet solitude, the forest and the stream
Seeking grace in every step he takes
His sight is turned inside himself, to try and
Understand, the serenity of a clear blue mountain lake
And the Colorado
Rocky Mountain high
I've seen it raining fire in the sky
You can talk to God and listen to the casual reply
Rocky Mountain high, in Colorado
Rocky Mountain high
Now his life is full
of wonder
But his heart still knows some fear
Of the simple things he can not comprehend
Why they try to tear the mountains down
To bring in a couple more
More people, more scars upon the land
It's the Colorado
Rocky Mountain high
I've seen it raining fire in the sky
I know he'd be a poorer man if he never saw an eagle fly
Rocky mountain high
It's the Colorado Rocky Mountain high
I've seen it raining fire in the sky
Friend around the camp fire and everybody's high
Rocky Mountain high, Rocky Mountain high
Rocky Mountain high
Rocky Mountain high.
WHERE DO THE CHILDREN PLAY
CAT STEVENS
SONGWRITER: CAT STEVENS
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM: MONA BONE JAKON
LABEL: ISLAND RECORDS
GENRE: FOLK ROCK
YEAR: 1970
Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou; 21
July 1948), commonly known by his stage nameCat Stevens and later Yusuf Islam, Yusuf, and Yusuf/Cat Stevens, is
a British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. His musical style
consists of folk,
pop, rock, and, in his later career, Islamic
music, before returning to secular music in 2006. He
was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Famein 2014.
His 1967 debut
albumand its title song "Matthew and Son"
both reached top ten in the UK charts. Stevens' albums Tea
for the Tillerman(1970) and Teaser
and the Firecat(1971) were certified triple
platinumin the US. His 1972 album Catch
Bull at Fourspent weeks at the top of several
major charts. He earned ASCAPsongwriting
awards in 2005 and 2006 for "The First Cut Is the Deepest",
and the song has been a hit for four artists. His other hit songs include
"Father
and Son", "Wild World",
"Moonshadow",
"Peace Train",
and "Morning
Has Broken".
In December 1977, Stevens convertedto Islamand
adopted the name Yusuf Islam the following year. In 1979, he auctioned all of
his guitars for charity. He has since bought back at least one of these guitars
as a result of the efforts of his son Yoriyos, and left his musical career to
devote himself to educational and philanthropic causes in the Muslim community.
He was embroiled in a long-running controversy regarding comments he made in 1989about the death fatwaon author Salman
Rushdie. His current stance is that he never supported the fatwa:
“I was cleverly framed by certain questions. I never
supported the fatwa." He has received two honorary doctorates and awards
for promoting peace as well as other humanitarian awards.
In 2006, he returned to pop music – releasing
his first new studio album of new pop songs in 28 years, entitled An Other Cup.
With that release and subsequent ones, he dropped the surname "Islam"
from the album cover art – using the stage name Yusuf as a mononym.
In 2009, he released the album Roadsingerand, in 2014, he released the album Tell
'Em I'm Goneand began his first US tour since
1978. His second North American tour since his resurgence, featuring 12 shows
in intimate venues, ran from 12 September to 7 October 2016. In 2017, he
released the album The
Laughing Apple, now using the stage name
Yusuf/Cat Stevens, using the Cat Stevens name for the first time in 39 years. In
September 2020, he released Tea
for the Tillerman 2, a reimagining of his classic
album Tea for the Tillerman to celebrate its 50th anniversary.
"Where Do the Children Play?" is a
song by British folk rockmusician Cat
Stevens, released as the opening track on his
November 1970 album Tea
for the Tillerman.
In 2017, Garbagerecorded a cover of the song for United Nationscharity album, Music To Inspire: Artists UNited Against Human
Trafficking.
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