Charley Frank Pride (March 18, 1934 –
December 12, 2020) was an American singer, guitarist, and professional baseballplayer. His greatest musical success came in the early to mid 1970s,
when he was the best-selling performer for RCA Recordssince Elvis Presley.
During the peak years of his recording career (1966–1987), he had 52 top-10
hits on the BillboardHot Country Songschart, 30 of which made it to number one. He won the Entertainer of
the Year award at the Country Music Association Awardsin 1971.
Pride is one of three African-Americanmembersof the Grand Ole Opry(the others being DeFord
Baileyand Darius Rucker).
He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Famein 2000.
"Kiss an Angel Good Mornin'" is a
song written by Ben Peters,
and recorded by American country musicartist Charley Pride.
It was released in October 1971 as the first single from the álbum Charley
Pride Sings Heart Songs. The song has since become one of his signature tunes
and was his eighth song to reach number one on the country charts. and was also
Pride's only single to reach the Top 40 on the pop charts, peaking at #21 on
the Billboard Hot 100,
and also went into the Top Ten of the Adult Contemporary charts. It also
reached #19 on the U.S. Cash BoxTop 100. The song spent four months on the pop chart, longer than
any of his other hits. Billboard ranked it as the Nº. 74 song for 1972.
Whenever I chance to
me, some old friends on the street
They ask me: How does a woman get to feel this way?
I've always got a smilin' face, anytime and any place
Every time they ask me why, I just smile and say
You've got to kiss an
angel good morning
Let her know you think about her when you're gone
Kiss an angel good morning
Love her like the devil when you get back home
Well, people may try
to guess, the secret of happiness
Some of them never learn, and it's a simple thing
The secret I was speakin' of is a woman and a man in love
The answer is in this song that I always sing
You've got to kiss an
angel good morning
Let her know you think about her when you're gone
Kiss an angel good morning
Love her like the devil when you get back home
Kiss an angel good
morning
Let her know you think about her when you're gone
Kiss an angel good morning
Love her like the devil when you get back home.
SOMETHING IN THE WAY SHE MOVES
THE BEATLES, GEORGE HARRISON
SONGWRITER: GEORGE HARRISON
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM: ABBEY ROAD
LABEL: APPLE RECORDS
GENRE: ROCK AND ROLL
YEAR: 1970
George Harrison MBE(25 February 1943 – 29 November
2001) was an English musician, singer, songwriter, and music and film producer
who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles.
Sometimes called "the quiet Beatle", Harrison embraced Indian cultureand helped broaden the scope of popular musicthrough his incorporation of Indian instrumentation and Hindu-aligned
spirituality in the Beatles' work. Although the majority of the band's songs
were written by John
Lennon and Paul McCartney, most Beatles albums from
1965 onwards contained at least two Harrison compositions. His songs for the group include
"Taxman",
"Within You Without You", "While My Guitar Gently Weeps",
"Here Comes the Sun" and "Something".
Harrison's earliest musical influences
included George Formbyand Django Reinhardt;
Carl Perkins,
Chet Atkinsand Chuck Berrywere subsequent influences. By 1965, he had begun to lead the
Beatles into folk rockthrough his interest in Bob Dylanand the Byrds,
and towards Indian
classical musicthrough his use of the sitaron
"Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)".
Having initiated the band's embracing of Transcendental Meditationin 1967, he
subsequently developed an association with the Hare Krishna movement.
After the
band's break-upin 1970, Harrison released
the triple album All
Things Must Pass, a critically acclaimed work
that produced his most successful hit single, "My Sweet Lord",
and introduced his signature sound as a solo artist, the slide guitar.
He also organised the 1971 Concert for Bangladeshwith Indian
musician Ravi Shankar,
a precursor to later benefit concertssuch as Live Aid.
In his role as a music and film producer, Harrison produced acts signed to the
Beatles' Applerecord label before founding Dark
Horse Recordsin 1974 and co-founding HandMade Filmsin 1978.
Harrison
released several best-selling singles and albums as a solo performer. In
1988, he co-founded the platinum-sellingsupergroupthe Traveling
Wilburys. A prolific recording artist, he was
featured as a guest guitarist on tracks by Badfinger,
Ronnie Woodand Billy Preston,
and collaborated on songs and music with Dylan, Eric Clapton,
Ringo Starrand Tom Petty,
among others. Rolling Stonemagazine ranked him number 11 in their list of the "100
Greatest Guitarists of All Time". He is a two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fameinductee – as a
member of the Beatles in 1988, and posthumously for his solo career in 2004.
Harrison's first marriage, to model Pattie Boydin 1966, ended in divorce in 1977. The following year he married Olivia Arias,
with whom he had a son, Dhani.
Harrison died from lung cancer in 2001 at the age of 58, two years after
surviving a knife attack by an intruder at his Friar Parkhome. His remains were cremated and the ashes were scattered
according to Hindu traditionin a private ceremony in the Gangesand Yamunarivers
in India. He left na estateof almost £100 million.
Abbey Road is the eleventh studio album by
the English rockband the Beatles,
released on 26 September 1969 by Apple
Records. Named after the
locationof EMI Studiosin London, the cover features the group walking across the street's zebra crossing,
an image that became one of the most famous and imitated in popular music.
The album's
initially mixed reviews were contrasted by its immediate commercial success,
topping record charts in the UK and US. The lead single "Something" / "Come
Together" was released in October and topped the US charts.
The album incorporates genres such as blues, rockand pop,
and makes prominent use of Moog
synthesizer, sounds filtered through a Leslie speaker,
and tom-tom drums.
It is the Beatles' only album recorded exclusively through a solid-statetransistormixing desk, which afforded a clearer and brighter sound than the
group's previous records. Side two contains a medley of shorter song fragments. The
sessions also produced a non-album single, "The Ballad of John and Yoko"
backed with "Old Brown Shoe".
Producer George
Martinreturned on the condition that the
Beatles adhere to the discipline of their earlier records. They found the
album's recording more enjoyable than the preceding Get Backsessions, but personal
issues still permeated the band. Production lasted from February to August
1969, and the closing track "The
End" marked the final occasion that all four members
recorded together. John Lennon privately
left the group six days before the album's release; Paul McCartneypublicly declared the
band's break-upthe following April.
Upon
release, detractors found Abbey Road to be inauthentic and bemoaned
the production's artificial effects. Since then, many critics
have hailed the album as the Beatles' finest; in particular,
"Something" and "Here
Comes the Sun" are considered among the
best songs George Harrisonwrote for the group. The album has also been ranked as one of the
Beatles' best-selling, including a multi-platinum certification by the RIAA. Shortly
after its release, a satirical interpretation of the cover photograph fuelled
rumours in the US of McCartney's purported death.
EMI Studios was also renamed Abbey
Road Studiosin honour of the album. In 2020, it
was ranked fifth in Rolling
Stone's list of the greatest albums of all time.
Something in the way
she moves
Attracts me like no other lover
Something in the way she woos me
I don't want to leave
her now
You know I believe and how
Somewhere in her
smile, she knows
That I don't need no other lover
Something in her style that shows me
I don't want to leave
her now
You know I believe and how
You're asking me will
my love grow
I don't know, I don't know
You stick around now it may show
I don't know, I don't know
Something in the way she knows
And all I have to do is think of her
Something in the things she shows me
I don't want to leave
her now
You know I believe and how.
MIGHT AS WELL HAVE A GOO
CROSBY, STILLS & NASH
SONGWRITERS: JUDY HENSKE & CRAIG DOERGE
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: DAYLIGHT AGAIN
LABEL: RUDY RECORDS
GENRE: ROCK
YEAR: 1982
Crosby, Stills & Nash (CSN) is a folk rocksupergroupmade up of American singer-songwriters David Crosbyand Stephen Stills,
and English singer-songwriter Graham
Nash. When joined by Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Youngas 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 musicand 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 Byrdsin late 1967, and Stills' band Buffalo
Springfieldhad broken up in early 1968; Nash
left his band The Holliesin 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 40hits, "Suite:
Judy Blue Eyes" [#21] and "Marrakesh Express"
[#28]. In order to tour the album, the trio hired drummer Dallas
Taylorand session bassist Greg Reeves,
though they still needed a keyboardist; Ahmet
Ertegunsuggested 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 Festivalin 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 Fameand all three
members were also inducted for their work in other groups (Crosby for the Byrds,
Stills for Buffalo
Springfieldand 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.
Daylight Again is the seventh album by Crosby, Stills & Nash, and
their fourth studio albumcomprising original material. It peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard 200albums chart, the final time the band has made the top ten to date.
Three singles were released from the album, all making the Billboard Hot 100:
"Wasted on the Way"
peaked at No. 9, "Southern Cross"
at No. 18, and "Too Much Love to Hide" at No. 69. The album was
certified platinumby the RIAAwith
sales of 1,850,000
There are windows on
the water Lighting up the silver strand Shining on the sea Shining on the sea And the ocean's just a player On an old piano Who repeats one melody Repeats one melody I belong on the shore Hustlin' nickels and dimes 'Cause it ain't long before it's gone You might as well have a good time [Instrumental (Piano)] Well, the elbows of his jacket Are blue and shiny He's drunk and gone to seed He's drunk and gone to seed And he mumbles as he plays The only song he knows It's the only song he needs The only song he needs I belong on the shore Hustlin' nickels and dimes 'Cause it ain't long before it's gone You might as well have a good time [Instrumental (Piano)] All his restless music Don't mean a damn thing to me The shallow or the deep Said, the shallow or the deep And if you're free this evening We'll go out together And party 'till we sleep I said, party 'till we sleep And I belong on the shore Hustlin' nickels and dimes 'Cause it ain't long before it's gone You might as well have a good time I belong on the shore Hustlin' nickels and dimes 'Cause it ain't long before it's gone You might as well have a good time You might as well have a good time [Ending (Piano)]
THE EMPTY
CHAIR
STING
SONGWRITER:
STING & J. RAIPH
COUNTRY:
U. K.
ALBUM: 57TH
& 9TH
LABEL: THE
RUMOR MILL
GENRE: ROCK
YEAR: 2016
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE(born 2
October 1951), known as Sting, is an English musician and actor. He was the
principal songwriter, lead singer, and bassist for new waverock band the Policefrom 1977 to 1984, and launched a solo career in 1985. He has
included elements of rock,
jazz, reggae, classical,
new-ageand worldbeatin his music.
As a solo musician and a member of the
Police, Sting has received 17 Grammy Awards:
he won Song of the Yearfor "Every
Breath You Take", three Brit Awards,
including Best British Male Artistin 1994 and Outstanding Contribution in 2002, a Golden
Globe, an Emmyand four nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. In
2019, he received a BMI Awardfor "Every Breath You Take" becoming the most-played song
in radio history. In 2002, Sting received the Ivor
Novello Awardfor Lifetime Achievement from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and
Authorsand was also inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He was
inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fameas a member of
the Police in 2003. In 2000, he received a star on the Hollywood
Walk of Famefor recording. In 2003, Sting
received a CBEfrom Elizabeth IIat Buckingham Palace for services to music. He was made a Kennedy
Center Honoreeat the White House in 2014, and was
awarded the Polar Music Prizein 2017.
With the Police, Sting became one of the
world's best-selling music artists. Solo
and with the Police combined, he has sold over 100 million records. In 2006, Pasteranked him 62nd of the 100 best living songwriters. He was 63rd of VH1's 100
greatest artists of rock, and 80th of Q magazine's
100 greatest musical stars of the 20th century. He has collaborated with other
musicians on songs such as "Money for Nothing" with Dire Straits,
"Rise & Fall" with Craig David,
"All
for Love" with Bryan
Adamsand Rod Stewart,
"You Will Be My Ain True Love"
with Alison Krauss,
and introduced the North African music genre raïto Western audiences through the hit song "Desert Rose" with Cheb Mami.
In 2018, he released the álbum 44/876,
a collaboration with Jamaicanmusician Shaggy,
which won the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Albumin 2019.
"The Empty Chair" is a song
recorded by English singer-songwriter Sting.
Co-written by Sting and American record producer J. Ralph,
the song was released as the lead single from the soundtrack album of 2016
documentary film Jim: The James Foley Story.
"The Empty Chair" was nominated for
the 2017 Academy
Awardin the Best Original Songcategory. Both
Sting and J. Ralph have previously received nominations in the same category;
Sting was nominated three times before while J. Ralph had two previous nominations.
Sting recorded a separate version of the song
with a guitar, instead of piano, for his studio álbum 57th & 9th.
If I should close my
eyes, that my soul can see
And there's a place at the table that you saved for me
So many thousand miles over land and sea
I hope to dare, that you hear my prayer
And somehow I'll be there
It's but a concrete
floor where my head will lay
And though the walls of this prison are as cold as clay
But there's a shaft of light where I count my days
So don't despair of the empty chair
And somehow I'll be there
Some days I'm strong,
some days I'm weak
And days I'm so broken I can barely speak
There’s a place in my head where my thoughts still roam
Where somehow I've come home
And when the Winter
comes and the trees lie bare
And you just stare out the window in the darkness there
Well I was always late for every meal you'll swear