RAINING IN MY HEART

JOHNNY TILLOTSON

SONGWRITER: BOUDLEAUX BRYANT & FELICE BRYANT

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: GREATEST HITS

LABEL: CADENCE RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 1966

 

       Johnny Tillotson (born April 20, 1938 in Jacksonville, Florida, United States) is an American singer-songwriter. He enjoyed his greatest success in the early 1960s, when he scored nine top-ten hits on the pop, country, and adult contemporary Billboard charts, including "Poetry in Motion" and the self-penned "It Keeps Right On a-Hurtin'" and "Without You".

The sun is out - the sky is blue
there's not a cloud to spoil the view
but it's raining - raining in my heart
The weather man says clear today
he doesn't know you've gone away
and it's raining - raining in my heart
 
Oh, misery – misery
what's gonna become of me
 
I tell my blues they musn't show
but soon these tears are bound to flow
cause it's raining - raining in my heart
 
But it's raining - raining in my heart
And it's raining - raining in my heart.

EL RELOJ

LUÍS MIGUEL

COMPOSITOR: ROBERTO CANTORAL

PAIS: MÉXICO

ÁLBUM: ROMANCES

DISCOGRÁFICA: WEA LATINA

GÉNERO: BOLERO

AÑO: 1997

 

             Romances es el duodécimo álbum de estudio del cantante mexicano Luis Miguel, lanzado el 12 de agosto de 1997 por WEA Latina. Es el tercer álbum de laserie Romance, en el que Miguel cubre canciones latinas de 1940 a 1978. Además de Miguel, la producción también involucró al arreglista  Bebu Silvetti y Armando Manzanero, quien dirigió todos los álbumes Romance de Miguel. Romances consta de doce versiones de portada y dos nuevas composiciones de Manzanero y Silvetti. La grabación tuvo lugar a principios de 1997 en el estudio de grabación Ocean Way en Los Ángeles, California.

          Romances ha vendido más de 4,5 millones de copias y ha recibido certificaciones de platino en varios países de América Latina, Estados Unidos y España. Miguel promocionó el álbum realizando una gira por Estados Unidos, América Latina y España. Tras su lanzamiento, Romances recibió críticas generalmente positivas de los críticos musicales. Principalmente elogiaron su voz y la producción del álbum, aunque pocos críticos encontraron que los arreglos eran repetitivos y el disco demasiado similar a sus predecesores. El álbum le valió a Miguel varios premios, incluido el premio Grammy a la Mejor Interpretación de Pop Latino en los Estados Unidos. Se lanzaron seis sencillos: "Por Debajo de la Mesa", "El Reloj", "Contigo (Estar Contigo)", "De Quererte Así (De T’ Bésame Mucho"y" Sabor a Mí ".

Reloj, no marques las horas

Porque voy a enloquecer

Ella se irá para siempre

Cuando amanezca otra vez

 

No más nos queda esta noche

Para vivir nuestro amor

Y tu tic-tac me recuerda

Mi irremediable dolor

 

Reloj, detén tu camino

Porque mi vida se apaga

Ella es la estrella que alumbra mi ser

Yo sin su amor no soy nada

 

Detén el tiempo en tus manos

Haz esta noche perpetua

Para que nunca se vaya de mí

Para que nunca amanezca

 

Reloj, detén tu caminho

Porque mi vida se apaga

Ella es la estrella que alumbra mi ser

Yo sin su amor no soy nada

 

Detén el tiempo en tus manos

Ooh, haz esta noche perpetua

Para que nunca se vaya de mí

Para que nunca amanezca.

CIGARETTES AND COFFEE

OTIS REDDING

SONGWRITERS: EDDIE THOMAS; JAY WALKER; JERRY BUTLER & OTIS REDDING

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: THE SOUL ALBUM

LABEL: VOLT RECORDS

GENRE: SOUL

YEAR: 1966

 

          Otis Ray Redding Jr. (September 9, 1941 – December 10, 1967) was an American singer and songwriter. He is considered one of the greatest singers in the history of American popular music and a seminal artist in soul music and rhythm and blues. Redding's style of singing gained inspiration from the gospel music that preceded the genre. His singing style influenced many other soul artists of the 1960s.

            Redding was born in Dawson, Georgia, and at the age of 2, moved to Macon, Georgia. Redding quit school at age 15 to support his family, working with Little Richard's backing band, the Upsetters, and by performing in talent shows at the historic Douglass Theatre in Macon. In 1958, he joined Johnny Jenkins's band, the Pinetoppers, with whom he toured the Southern states as a singer and driver. An unscheduled appearance on a Stax recording session led to a contract and his first single, "These Arms of Mine", in 1962.

             Stax released Redding's debut album, Pain in My Heart, two years later. Initially popular mainly with African-Americans, Redding later reached a wider American pop music audience. Along with his group, he first played small shows in the American South. He later performed at the popular Los Angeles night club Whisky a Go Go and toured Europe, performing in London, Paris and other major cities. He also performed at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967.

        Shortly before his death in a plane crash, Redding wrote and recorded his iconic "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" with Steve Cropper. The song became the first posthumous number-one record on both the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B charts. The álbum The Dock of the Bay was the first posthumous album to reach number one on the UK Albums Chart. Redding's premature death devastated Stax. Already on the verge of bankruptcy, the label soon discovered that the Atco division of Atlantic Records owned the rights to his entire song catalog.

          Redding received many posthumous accolades, including two Grammy Awards, the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame. and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In addition to "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay," "Respect" and "Try a Little Tenderness" are among his best-known songs.

          The Soul Album is the fourth studio album by American soul singer-songwriter Otis Redding, released in 1966.

It's early in the morning

About a quarter till three

I'm sittin' here talkin' with my baby

Over cigarettes and coffee, now

And to tell you that

Darling i've been so satisfied

Honey since i met you

Baby since i met you, ooh

 

All the places that i've been around

And all the good looking girls i've met

They just don't seem to fit in

Knowing this particularly sad, yeah

 

But it seemed so natural, darling

That you and i are here

Just talking over cigarettes and drinking coffee, ooh now

 

And whole my heart cries out

Love at last i've found you, ooh now

And honey won't you let me

Just be my whole life around you

And while i complete, i complete my whole life would be, yeah

If you would take things under consideration

And walk down this hour with me

And i would love it, yeah

 

People i say it's so early in the morning

Ou, it's a quarter till three

We're sittin' here talkin'

Over cigarettes and drinking coffee, now, lord

And i'll like to show you, well

I've known nothing but good old joy

Since i met you, darling

Honey since i've met you, baby yeah

 

I would love to have another drink of coffee, now

And please, darling, help me smoke this one more cigarette, now

I don't want no cream and sugar

'Cause i've got you, now darling

But just let me enjoy

Help me to enjoy

this good time that we'll have, baby

It's so early, so early in the morning

So early, so early in the morning

And i've got you

And you've got me

And we'll have each other

And we don't, we don't want nothing but joy, y'all

Nothing but joy...

RUSSIAN ROULETTE

RIHANNA

SONGWRITERS: CHARLES HARMON & SHAFFER SMITH

COUNTRY: BARBADOS

ALBUM: RATED R

LABEL: DEF JAM

GENRE: R&B

YEAR: 2009

 

           Robyn Rihanna Fenty(Saint Michael, February 20, 1988), better known as Rihanna, is a Barbadian singer, songwriter, actress and businesswoman. Her artistic career started professionally in 2003, when she auditioned for music producer Evan Rogers, where she passed. She would later sign a six-album deal with Def Jam record label. In addition to her musical career, Rihanna is also known for her involvement in humanitarian causes, business ventures and the fashion industry.

           Rihanna gained prominence in the music industry after the release of her first studio album, Music of the Sun in 2005, followed by the second album A Girl like Me(2006); both were influenced by Caribbean rhythms and reached the top ten on the United States album chart. She gained greater commercial recognition after the release of her third studio album, Good Girl Gone Bad(2007), which incorporated elements of dance-pop and catapulted her to greater stardom, establishing her as a pop icon and a prominent figure. In the music entertainment industry. Rihanna introduced elements of music pop, dance and R & B in their four subsequent albums, Rated R(2009), Loud(2010), Talk That Talk(2011). All of which have incorporated experimentations of various musical styles and consolidated Rihanna's success on the international charts, with Unapologetic being her first number one album in the USA. His eighth album, Anti(2016), showed greater control over the artistic creativity of his work after his departure from Def Jam. It became his second number one album in the USA. In addition to her solo work, Rihanna has collaborated with various recording artists such as Drake, Eminem, Britney Spears and Calvin Harris.

      "Russian Roulette" is a song of the singer Barbadian Rihanna, for her fourth studio album, Rated R. It is the debut single from the work, released on November 23, 2009. It was written and produced by Ne-Yo, with help with composition by the singer. It debuted on the radio on October 21, 2009 at 4:23. Composed in a totally different rhythm fromprevious singles, "Russian Roulette" brings a bridge song and a strong chorus, pulling the vocal powers to the maximum. The song talks about exploring what can happen if we fall in love, and when that love becomes a kind of "fatal game". The hesitant pace is similar to that of "Unfaithful", but not as deep and specific.

      Contemporary critics attributed positive opinions to the song, with most of them expecting new material. Since then, it reached the first position in the Norway Singles Top 20 , Swiss Singles Top 75 , Bulgaria Singles Top 40 , and in the tables of Austria, Germany, and UK Singles Chart it reached the second position. It reached the ninth position in the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, in the Canadian Hot 100 and New Zealand. In the music video, there is an exchange of scenarios, between a game room, and a police interrogation room, arriving at an open space and in a water tank, where the singer is supposedly hit with several shots, coming from several sides.

           It has been certified gold by the ARIA, RIANZ and the IFPI Switzerland. It was performed for the first time live at Nokia's promotional concert, to promote the album's release. Since then, several performances of the song have been made, including at the NRJ Music Awards.

Take a breath, take it deep

Calm yourself, he says to me

If you play, you play for keeps

Take the gun, and count to three

I'm sweating now, moving slow

No time to think, my turn to go

 

And you can see my heart beating

You can see it through my chest

Said I'm terrified, but I'm not leaving

I know that I must pass this test

So just pull the trigger (trigger, trigger, trigger)

 

Say a prayer to yourself

He says, close your eyes

Sometimes it helps

And then I get a scary thought

That he's here, means he's never lost

 

And you can see my heart beating

Now you can see it through my chest

Said I'm terrified, but I'm not leaving

I know that I must pass this test

So just pull the trigger

 

As my life flashes before my eyes

I'm wondering will I ever see another sunrise?

So many won't get the chance to say goodbye

But it's too late to think of the value of my life

 

And you can see my heart beating

Now you can see it through my chest

Said I'm terrified but I'm not leaving, no!

I know that I must pass this test

And you can see my heart beating

Oh you can see it through my chest

I'm terrified but I'm not leaving, no!

I know that I must pass this test

So just pull the trigger (trigger, trigger, trigger).