I SHOULD´VE FOLLOWED YOU HOME

AGNETHA FÄLTSKOG & GARY BARLOW

SONGWRITERS: GARY BARLOW & JÖRGEN ELOFSSON

COUNTRY: SWEDEN X U. K.

ALBUM: A

LABEL: UNIVERSAL MUSIC

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 2012

 

          Agnetha Åse Fältskog (Swedish pronunciation: [aŋˈnêːta ˈfɛ̂ltskuːɡ]) (born 5 April 1950) is a Swedish singer, songwriter, musician and actress. She achieved success in Sweden after the release of her debut álbum Agnetha Fältskog in 1968, and reached international stardom as a member of the pop group ABBA, which has sold over 360 million albums and singles worldwide, making them one of the best-selling music artists in history.

        After the break-up of ABBA, Fältskog found success with three albums and a leading role in a movie as a solo artist in the 1980s, though she became more solitary in the 1990s, avoiding outside publicity and residing on the Stockholm County island of Ekerö. Fältskog stopped recording music for 16 years until she released a new album in 2004. She returned again in 2013 with A, her highest UK charting solo album to date.

        Gary Barlow OBE (born 20 January 1971) is a British singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, and television personality. He is the lead singer of the British pop group Take That.

      Barlow is one of the United Kingdom's most successful songwriters, having written fourteen number-one singles (10 with Take That, 3 solo, 1 with Robbie Williams "Candy") and twenty-four top-ten hits. As a solo artist, he has had three number-one singles, six top-ten singles and three number-one albums, and has additionally had seventeen top-five hits, twelve number-one singles and eight number-one albums with Take That. Barlow has also established himself as a talent show judge and television personality. He has judged on The X Factor UK (2011–2013) and Let It Shine (2017).

         Barlow has received six Ivor Novello Awards from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, including the award for Outstanding Services to British Music. He has sold over 50 million records worldwide. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) at the 2012 Queen's Birthday Honours for his services to the entertainment industry and charity.

           "I Should've Followed You Home" is a duet sung by Swedish recording artist and ABBA member Agnetha Fältskog and British singer-songwriter and Take That frontman Gary Barlow. Written by Barlow and producer Jörgen Elofsson, it was the third single taken from A.

Can’t believe it’s really you

You still look the way you used to

All this time

What have you done?

Won’t you tell me

What you’ve been through?

 

And maybe

If you

Want to

Let’s talk for a while

 

Dance floor dust

Never quite settles

Busy feat, remember still

The way we moved

So close in the darkness

All the music, the magic, the thrill

I must have been so lost in the moment

I missed the chance to make you my own

Now I know

Now I know

Now I know

I should’ve followed you home

 

Yeah, should’ve followed you home

So familiar and so right

You never left me since that one night

Though we try to say goodbye

Some things stay with you your whole life

For your whole life

 

Dance floor dust

Never quite settles

Busy feat, remember still

The way we moved

So close in the darkness

All the music, the magic, the thrill

I must have been so lost in the moment

I missed the chance to make you my own

Now I know

Now I know

I should’ve followed you home

 

Snow falls

Streetlights paint your face

Smile and say ‘take care’

I’ll see you soon again

 

Maybe

If you

Want to

I’ll see you soon again

 

Dance floor dust

Never quite settles

Busy feat, remember still

The way we moved

So close in the darkness

All the music, the magic, the thrill

I must have been so lost in the moment

I missed the chance to make you my own

Now I know

Now I know

Now I know

I should’ve followed you home

 

Yeah, should’ve followed you home

Oh, should’ve followed you home

Yeah

 

Yeah, should’ve followed you home

Yeah

Yeah

Oooh followed you home.

A WHOLE NEW WORLD

PEABO BRYSON & REGINE BELLE

SONGWRITERS: ALAN MENKEN & TIM RICE.

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: THE MUSIC BEHIND THE MAGIC

LABEL: WALT DISNEY RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 1994

 

       "A Whole New World" is a song from Disney's 1992 animated feature film Aladdin, with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Tim Rice. A duet originally recorded by singers Brad Kane and Lea Salonga in their respective roles as the singing voices of the main characters Aladdin and Jasmine, the ballad serves as both the film's love and theme song. Lyrically, "A Whole New World" describes Aladdin showing the confined princess a life of freedom and the pair's acknowledgment of their love for each other while riding on a magic carpet. The song garnered na Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 65th Academy Awards. "A Whole New World" also won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year at the 36th Annual Grammy Awards, the first and so far only Disney song to win in the category for the version sung by Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle. Zayn Malik and Zhavia Ward did their version of the song for the Aladdin (2019 film).

         The Music Behind the Magic: The Musical Artistry of Alan Menken, Howard Ashman & Tim Rice is a four-disc box set highlighting the creative evolution behind the music of Disney's The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin. Released on November 22, 1994 on Walt Disney Records, the set includes work tape recordings, demos, previously released final recordings, and unreleased master recordings of songs and score cues.

(Peabo Bryson)

I can show you the world

Shining, shimmering, splendid

Tell me, princess, now when did

You last let your heart decide?

 

I can open your eyes

Take you wonder by wonder

Over, sideways and under

On a magic carpet ride

 

A whole new world

A new fantastic point of view

No one to tell us no

Or where to go

Or say we're only dreaming

 

(Regina Belle)

A whole new world

A dazzling place I never knew

But when I'm way up here

It's crystal clear

That now I'm in a whole new world with you

 

(Regina Belle)

Unbelievable sights

Indescribable feeling

Soaring, tumbling, freewheeling

Through an endless diamond sky

A whole new world

 

(Peabo Bryson)

Don't you dare close your eyes

 

(Regina Belle)

A hundred thousand things to see

 

(Peabo Bryson)

Hold your breath, it gets better

 

(Regina Belle)

I'm like a shooting star

I've come so far

I can't go back to where I used to be

 

(Peabo Bryson)

A whole new world

With new horizons to pursue

 

(Both)

I'll chase them anywhere

There's time to spare

 

(Peabo Bryson)

Let me share this whole new world with you

 

(Regina Belle)

A whole new world

(Peabo Bryson)

A whole new world

A new fantastic point of view

 

(Both)

No one to tell us no, Or where to go

 

(Regina Belle)

Or say we're only dreaming

 

(Peabo Bryson)

A whole new world

 

(Regina Belle)

Every turn a surprise

 

(Peabo Bryson)

 With new horizons to pursue

 

(Regina Belle)

Every moment red letter

 

(Both)

I'll chase them anywhere there's time to spare

 

(Regina Belle)

Anywhere

 

(Peabo Bryson)

There's time to spare

 

(Regina Belle)

Let me share

 

(Peabo Bryson)

this whole new world with you, you

 

(Regina Belle)

A whole new world.

 

(Peabo Bryson)

A whole new world

 

(Regina Belle)

That's where we'll be

 

(Peabo Bryson)

Where we will be

 

(Regina Belle)

A thrilling chase

 

(Peabo Bryson)

A wondrous place

 

(Both)

For you and me.

Somewhere out there

James ingram & linda ronstadt

SONGWRITERs: BARRY MANN; CYNTHIA WEIL; JAMES HORNER & STEVE EARLE

COUNTRY: u. s. a.

ALBUM: an American tail: music from the motion picture sountrack

LABEL: mca records

GENRE: SOUL

YEAR: 1986

 

          James Edward Ingram (February 16, 1952 – January 29, 2019) was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and instrumentalist. He was a two-time Grammy Award-winner and a two-time Academy Award nominee for Best Original Song. After beginning his career in 1973, Ingram charted eight Top 40 hits on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart from the early 1980s until the early 1990s, as well as thirteen top 40 hits on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. In addition, he charted 20 hits on the Adult Contemporary chart (including two number-ones). He had two number-one singles on the Hot 100: the first, a duet with fellow R&B artist Patti Austin, 1982's "Baby, Come to Me" topped the U.S. pop chart in 1983; "I Don't Have the Heart", which became his second number-one in 1990 was his only number-one as a solo artist.

          In between these hits, he also recorded the song "Somewhere Out There" with fellow recording artist Linda Ronstadt for the animated film An American Tail. The song and the music video both became gigantic hits. Ingram co-wrote "The Day I Fall in Love", from the motion Picture Beethoven's 2nd (1993), and singer Patty Smyth's "Look What Love Has Done", from the motion picture Junior (1994), which earned him nominations for Best Original Song from the Oscars, Golden Globes, and Grammy Awards in 1994 and 1995.

          Linda Maria Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946) is a retired American singer who performed and recorded in diverse genres including rock, country, light opera, and Latin. She has earned 10 Grammy Awards, three American Music Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, and an ALMA Award. Many of her albums have been certified gold, platinum or multiplatinum in the United States and internationally. She has also earned nominations for a Tony Award and a Golden Globe award. She was awarded the Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award by the Latin Recording Academy in 2011 and also awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award by the Recording Academy in 2016. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2014. On July 28, 2014, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts and Humanities. In 2019, she received a star jointly with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for their work as the group Trio. Ronstadt was among five honorees who received the 2019 Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime artistic achievements.

            Ronstadt has released 24 studio albums and 15 compilation or greatest hits albums. She charted 38 US Billboard Hot 100 singles. Twenty-one of those singles reached the top 40, ten reached the top 10, and one reached number one ("You're No Good"). Her success however did not translate across the Atlantic to the UK. Although Ronstadt's duets, "Somewhere Out There" with James Ingram and "Don't Know Much" with Aaron Neville, peaked at numbers 8 and 2 respectively in 1987 and 1989, the single "Blue Bayou" was her only solo single to reach the UK Top 40. She has charted 36 albums, ten top-10 albums, and three number 1 albums on the US Billboard Pop Album Chart.

       Ronstadt has collaborated with artists in diverse genres, including Bette Midler, Billy Eckstine, Frank Zappa, Carla Bley (Escalator Over the Hill), Rosemary Clooney, Flaco Jiménez, Philip Glass, Warren Zevon, Emmylou Harris, Gram Parsons, Dolly Parton, Neil Young, Paul Simon, Earl Scruggs, Johnny Cash, and Nelson Riddle. She has lent her voice to over 120 albums and has sold more than 100 million records, making her one of the world's best-selling artists of all time. Christopher Loudon, of Jazz Times, wrote in 2004 that Ronstadt is "blessed with arguably the most sterling set of pipes of her generation."

           Ronstadt reduced her activity after 2000 when she felt her singing voice deteriorating, releasing her last full-length album in 2004 and performing her last live concert in 2009. She announced her retirement in 2011 and revealed shortly afterwards that she is no longer able to sing as a result of a degenerative condition later determined to be progressive supranuclear palsy. Since then, Ronstadt has continued to make public appearances, going on a number of public speaking tours in the 2010s. She published an autobiography, Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir, in September 2013. A documentary based on her memoirs, Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice, was released in 2019.

          "Somewhere Out There" is a song released by MCA Records and recorded by American singers Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram for the soundtrack of the animated film An American Tail (1986). The song was written by James Horner, Barry Mann, and Cynthia Weil, and produced by Peter Asher and Steve Tyrell. It reached number eight in the United Kingdom, number six in Ireland, and number two in both the United States and Canada.

Somewhere out there

Beneath the pale moonlight

Someone's thinking of me

And loving me tonight

 

Somewhere out there

Somone's saying a prayer

That we'll find one another

In that big somewhere out there

 

And even though I know how very far apart we are

It helps to think we might be wishing on the same bright star

And when the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby

It helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.

 

Somewhere out there

If love can see us through

Then we'll be together

Somewhere out there

Out where dreams come true.

SLIP, SLIDIN' AWAY

PAUL SIMON

SONGWRITER: PAUL SIMON

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: SOFT ROCK

YEAR: 1975

 

           Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and actor. Simon's musical career has spanned over six decades. He reached fame and commercial success as half of the duo Simon & Garfunkel, formed in 1956 with Art Garfunkel. Simon wrote nearly all of their songs, including US number-one singles "The Sound of Silence", "Mrs. Robinson", and "Bridge over Troubled Water".

             After Simon & Garfunkel split up in 1970, at the height of their popularity, Simon began a successful solo career. He recorded three acclaimed albums over the following five years. In 1986, following a career slump, he released Graceland, an album inspired by South African township music, which sold 14 million copies worldwide and remains his most popular solo work. Simon also wrote and starred in the film One-Trick Pony (1980) and co-wrote the Broadway musical The Capeman (1998) with the poet Derek Walcott. On June 3, 2016, Simon released his 13th solo album, Stranger to Stranger, which debuted at number one on the Billboard Album Chart and the UK Albums Chart.

          Simon has earned sixteen Grammy Awards for his solo and collaborative work, including three for Album of the Year (Bridge Over Troubled Water, Still Crazy After All These Years, and Graceland), and a Lifetime Achievement Award. He is a two-time inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: first in 1990 as a member of Simon & Garfunkel and again in 2001 for his solo career. In 2006 he was selected as one of the "100 People Who Shaped the World" by Time. In 2011, Rolling Stone named Simon one of the 100 greatest guitarists, and in 2015 he was ranked eighth in their list of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time. Simon was the first recipient of the Library of Congress's Gershwin Prize for Popular Song in 2007.

           Still Crazy After All These Years is the fourth solo studio album by Paul Simon. Recorded and released in 1975, the album produced four U.S. Top 40 hits: "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" (#1), "Gone at Last" (#23), "My Little Town" (#9, credited to Simon & Garfunkel), and the title track (#40). It won two Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance in 1976.

         "My Little Town" reunited Simon with former partner Art Garfunkel for the first time since 1970, while "Gone at Last" was a duet between Simon and Phoebe Snow. Several tracks featured members of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section as a backing band.

           The title track has been recorded by Rosemary Clooney (on her 1993 album Still on the Road), Ray Charles (on his 1993 album My World), Karen Carpenter (on her self-titled solo album released posthumously in 1996), and Willie Nelson (on the soundtrack of the 2000 motion picture Space Cowboys).

Slip slidin' away

Slip slidin' away

You know the nearer your destination

The more you're slip slidin' away

I know a man

He came from my home town

He wore his passion for his woman

Like a thorny crown

He said delores

I live in fear

My love for you's so overpowering

I'm afraid that I will disappear

 

Slip slidin' away

Slip slidin' away

You know the nearer your destination

The more you're slip slidin' away

 

I know a woman

Became a wife

These are the very words she uses

To describe her life

She said a good day

Ain't got no rain

She said a bad day's when I lie in bed

And think of things that might have been

 

Slip slidin' away

Slip slidin' away

You know the nearer your destination

The more you're slip slidin' away

 

And I know a fa-ther

Who had a son

He longed to tell him all the reasons

For the things he'd done

He came a long way

Just to explain

He kissed his boy as he lay sleeping

Then he turned around and headed home again

 

Slip slidin' away

Slip slidin' away

You know the nearer your destination

The more you're slip slidin' away

 

God only knows

God makes his plan

The information's unavailable

To the mortal man

We work our jobs

Collect our pay

Believe we're gliding down the highway

When in fact we're slip slidin' away

 

Slip slidin' away

Slip slidin' away

You know the nearer your destination

The more you're slip slidin' away

 

Slip slidin' away

You know the nearer your destination

The more you're slip slidin' away

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