CARIBBEAN BLUE

ENYA
SONGWRITERS: ENYA & ROMA RYAN
COUNTRY: IRELAND
ALBUM: THEMES FROM CALMI CUORI APPASSIONATI
LABEL: WEA
GENRE: CELTIC
YEAR: 1991
 
             Enya Patricia Brennan (Irish: Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin/ˈɛnjə/; born 17 May 1961) is an Irish singer, songwriter, record producer and musician. Born into a musical family and raised in the Irish-speaking area of Gweedore in County Donegal, Enya began her music career when she joined her family's Celtic folk band Clannad in 1980 on keyboards and backing vocals. She left in 1982 with their manager and producer Nicky Ryan to pursue a solo career, with Ryan's wife Roma Ryan as her lyricist. Enya developed her sound over the following four years with multitracked vocals and keyboards with elements of new age, Celtic, classical, church, and folk music. She has sung in ten languages.
             Enya's first projects as a solo artist included soundtrack work for The Frog Prince(1984) and the 1987 BBC documentary series The Celts, which was released as her debut album, Enya(1987). She signed with Warner Music UK, which granted her artistic freedom and minimal interference from the label. The commercial and critical success of Watermark(1988) propelled her to worldwide fame, helped by the international top-10 hit single "Orinoco Flow". This was followed by the multi-million-selling albums Shepherd Moons(1991), The Memory of Trees(1995) and A Day Without Rain(2000). Sales of the latter and its lead single, "Only Time", surged in the United States following its use in the media coverage of the September 11 attacks. Following Amarantine(2005) and And Winter Came...(2008), Enya took an extended break from music; she returned in 2012 and released Dark Sky Island(2015).
           She is Ireland's best-selling solo artist and second-best-selling artist behind U2, with a discography that has sold 26.5 million certified albums in the United States and an estimated 75 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. A Day Without Rain (2000) remains the best-selling new-age album, with an estimated 16 million copies sold worldwide. Enya has won awards including seven World Music Awards, four Grammy Awards for Best New Age Album, and an Ivor Novello Award. She was nominated for na Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for "May It Be", written for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring(2001).
           "Caribbean Blue" is a song by Irish musician Enya, originally released as the second track on her 1991 album, Shepherd Moons. It follows a waltz time signature, and mentions the Anemoi (Ancient Greek wind gods): Boreas, Afer Ventus(Africus), Eurus, and Zephyrus.
          When released, "Caribbean Blue" reached number 8 on the Irish Singles Chart and number 13 on the UK Singles Chart. In the United States, it reached number 79 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number three on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart; on the latter listing, it was the 12th-most-successful song of 1992. The music video for the song features visual imagery based on the paintings of Maxfield Parrish, and was an early appearance for British actress and singer Martine McCutcheon.
Eurus
Afer ventus
 
So the world goes round and round
With all you ever knew
They say the sky high above
Is Caribbean blue
 
If every man says all he can
If every man is true
Do I believe the sky above
Is Caribbean blue
 
Boreas
Zephryus
 
If all you told was turned to gold
If all you dreamed was new
Imagine sky high above
In Caribbean blue
 
Eurus
Afer ventus
Boreas
Zephryus
Africus.

HE THINKS I STILL CARE

ANNE MURRAY
SONGWRITER: DICKEY LEE LIPSCOMB & STEVE DUFFY
COUNTRY: CANADA
ALBUM: DANNY’S SONG
LABEL: CAPITOL RECORDS
GENRE: COUNTRY
YEAR: 1972
 
       Morna Anne Murray (born June 20, 1945) is a Canadian singer. Her albums consisting primarily of pop, country, and adult contemporary music have sold over 55 million copies worldwide during her over 40-year career.
         Murray was the first Canadian female solo singer to reach Nº.1 on the U.S. charts, and also the first to earn a Gold record for one of her signature songs, "Snowbird" (1970). She is often cited as one of the female Canadian artists who paved the way for other international Canadian success stories such as k.d. lang, Céline Dion, and Shania Twain. She is also the first woman and the first Canadian to win "Album of the Year" at the 1984 Country Music Association Awards for her Gold-plus 1983 album A Little Good News.
             Murray has received four Grammys, a record 24 Junos, three American Music Awards, three Country Music Association Awards, and three Canadian Country Music Association Awards. She has been inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame, the Juno Hall of Fame, The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame. She is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame Walkway of Stars in Nashville, and has her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles and on Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto.
               In 2011, Billboard ranked her 10th on their list of the 50 Biggest Adult Contemporary Artists Ever.
       "She Thinks I Still Care" is a country song written by Dickey Lee and Steve Duffy. The song was recorded by multiple artists, including George Jones, Connie Francis, Anne Murray, Elvis Presley and Patty Loveless.
Just because I ask a friend about him
Just because I spoke his name somewhere
Just because I rang his number by mistake today
He thinks I still care
 
Just because I haunt the same old places
Where the mem'ry of him lingers everywhere
Just because I'm not the happy girl I used to be
He thinks I still care
 
And if he's happy thinking I still need him
Then let that silly notion bring him cheer
But how could he ever be so foolish?
Or where would he get such an idea?
 
Just because I ask a friend about him
Just because I spoke his name somewhere
Just because I saw him, then went all to pieces
He thinks I still care
 
Yes, he thinks I still care.

WHEN YOU KISS ME

SHANIA TWAIN
SONGWRITERS: Twain & Robert John Mutt Lange
COUNTRY: CANADA
ALBUM: UP!
LABEL: MERCURY NASHVILLE
GENRE: COUNTRY
YEAR: 2002
 
          Eilleen "Shania" Twain (/aɪˈliːn/eye-LEEN,/ʃənaɪə/; born Eilleen Regina Edwards; August 28, 1965) is a Canadian singer and songwriter. She has sold over 100 million records, making her the best-selling female artist in country music history and among the best-selling music artists of all time. Her success garnered her several honorific titles including the "Queen of Country Pop". While Billboard named her as the leader of the '90s country-pop crossover stars.
          Raised in Timmins, Ontario, Twain pursued singing and songwriting from a young age before signing with Mercury Nashville Records in the early 1990s. Her self-titled debut studio album was a commercial failure upon release in 1993. After collaborating with producer and later husband Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Twain rose to fame with her second studio album, The Woman in Me (1995), which brought her widespread success. It sold over 20 million copies worldwide, spawned eight singles, including "Any Man of Mine" and earned her a Grammy Award. Her third studio album, Come On Over (1997), became the best-selling studio album by a female act in any genre and the best-selling country album of all time, selling over 40 million copies worldwide. Come On Over produced twelve singles, including "You're Still the One", "From This Moment On", "That Don't Impress Me Much" and "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" and earned Twain four Grammy Awards. Her fourth studio album, Up! (2002), spawned eight singles, including "I'm Gonna Getcha Good!", "Ka-Ching!" and "Forever and for Always", selling over 20 million copies worldwide, also being certified Diamond in the United States.
         In 2004, after releasing her Greatest Hits album, which produced three new singles including "Party for Two", Twain entered a hiatus, revealing years later that diagnoses with Lyme disease and dysphonia led to a severely weakened singing voice. She chronicled her vocal rehabilitation on the OWN miniseries Why Not? with Shania Twain, released her first single in seven years in 2012, "Today Is Your Day", and published an autobiography, From This Moment On. Twain returned to performing the following year with an exclusive concert residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Shania: Still the One, which ran until 2014. In 2015, she launched the North American Rock This Country Tour, which was billed as her farewell tour. Twain released her first studio album in 15 years in 2017, Now, and embarked on the Now Tour in 2018. In 2019, she started her second Las Vegas residency, Let's Go! at the Zappos Theater.
Twain has received five Grammy Awards, a World Music Award, 27 BMI Songwriter Awards, stars on Canada's Walk of Fame and the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and an induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. According to the RIAA she is the only female artist in history to have three (consecutive) albums certified Diamond by the RIAA and is the sixth best-selling female artist in the United States. Altogether, Twain is ranked as the 10th best-selling artist of the Nielsen SoundScan era. Billboard listed Twain as the 13th Greatest Music Video Female Solo Artist of all time (42nd overall).
         "When You Kiss Me" is a song recorded by Canadian singer Shania Twain. It was the seventh single overall released from her fourth studio álbum Up! (2002). The song was written by Twain and her then-husband Robert John "Mutt" Lange. Despite Twain admitting on several occasions that "When You Kiss Me" is her favorite ballad off Up!, it was excluded from her 2004 Greatest Hits album. Twain also performed the song on the Up! Tour.
          The song found mild success in Europe and Australia, and it was the only non-single from the album to chart on the Billboard Country Chart in the United States. Although, the music video was later released to CMT in that country. In the British Isles, "When You Kiss Me" was released as a double A-side with "Up!", but was overpowered by the latter single. The DVD release of the song marked Shania's first and only DVD single. The song was also released as the last single to Canadian country radio.
This could be it, I think I'm in love
It's love this time
It just seems to fit, I think I'm in love
This love is mine
 
I can see you with me when I'm older
All my lonely nights are finally over
You took the weight of the world off my
shoulders (the world just goes away)
 
Chorus:
Oh, when you kiss me
I know you miss me –
and when you're with me
The world just goes away
The way you hold me
The way you show me that you
adore me - oh, when you kiss me
Oh, yeah
 
You are the one, I think I'm in love
Life has begun
 
I can see the two of us together
I know I'm gonna be with you forever
Love couldn't be any better
Repeat Chorus
 
Instrumental Solo
I can see you with me when I'm older
All my lonely nights are finally over
You took the weight of the world off my
shoulders (the world just goes away)
 
Repeat Chorus
And when you kiss me
I know you miss me
Oh, the world just goes away
When you kiss me.

IT MUST HAVE BEEN LOVE

ROXETTE
SONGWRITTER: PER GESSLE
COUNTRY: SWEDEN
ALBUM: PEARLS OF PASSION
LABEL: EMI RECORDS
GENRE: POWER BALLAD
YEAR: 1987
 
            Roxette was a Swedish pop rock duo, consisting of Marie Fredriksson (vocals and keyboards) and Per Gessle (vocals and guitar). Formed in 1986, the duo became an international act in the late 1980s, when they released their breakthrough second álbum Look Sharp! Their third album Joyride, which was released in 1991, became just as successful as its predecessor. Roxette went on to achieve nineteen UK Top 40 hits and several US Hot 100 hits, including four US number-ones with "The Look", "Listen to Your Heart", "It Must Have Been Love", featured on the soundtrack of Pretty Woman, and "Joyride". Their other hits include "Dressed for Success", "Dangerous", and "Fading Like a Flower".
     Before coming together to form the duo, Fredriksson and Gessle were already established artists in Sweden, she having released a number of solo albums and he being the lead singer and songwriter of Gyllene Tider, a band that had three No. 1 albums. On the advice of the managing director of their record label, the two came together to record "Neverending Love", which became a hit single in Sweden.
           After the release of Don't Bore Us, Get to the Chorus!, a greatest hits record, the duo took a hiatus before returning with the albums Have a Nice Day(1999) and Room Service(2001). They continued to chart in other territories, mainly in Europe and Latin America, where they earned various Gold and Platinum awards until the beginning of the new millennium. In 2002, the duo took a break from recording and touring when Fredriksson was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Gessle went on to release solo albums and reunited with Gyllene Tider before Roxette took to the stage together again for the first time in eight years, in 2009, during Gessle's European Party Crasher tour. In 2011, they released Charm School, their first studio album in ten years, which was followed by Travelling in 2012. Their final studio album, Good Karma, was released in 2016. Marie Fredriksson died on 9 December 2019, at the age of 61, following a long battle with a brain tumour, and the group was disbanded shortly after Fredriksson's death.
          Their songs "It Must Have Been Love" and "Listen to Your Heart" continue to receive wide radio airplay, with both singles receiving awards from BMI in 2014 for achieving five million radio plays. They have sold an estimated 75 million records worldwide, with over 10 million in certified units from Germany, the US and the UK, achieving gold and platinum certifications for Joyride and Look Sharp! in all three regions. They are Sweden's second-best-selling music act after ABBA.
          "It Must Have Been Love" originally "It Must Have Been Love (Christmas for the Broken Hearted)" is a song written by Per Gessle and performed by the Swedish pop duo Roxette. The power ballad became the duo's third number one hit in the United States, and is one of their best selling releases, being certified gold or platinum in a number of countries.
          Four different versions of the song have been officially released. The original song was released in 1987, which was followed by the most successful incarnation, a slightly edited version, omitting the Christmas references, created for the soundtrack to the 1990 film Pretty Woman. During the "Join the Joyride! World Tour" in 1991, the band recorded a country music version in Los Angeles, included on their 1992 album Tourism. A Spanish-language version of the Pretty Woman recording was released on their 1996 compilation Baladas en Español. Finally, an orchestral live performance from the band's 2009 concert at Night of the Proms was included on their 2012 studio album, Travelling.
It must have been love, but it's over now
Lay a whisper on my pillow
Leave the winter on the ground
I wake up lonely, there's air of silence
In the bedroom and all around (and all around)
 
Touch me now
I close my eyes
And dream away
 
It must have been love, but it's over now
It must have been good, but I lost it somehow
It must have been love, but it's over now
From the moment we touched 'til the time had run out
 
Make-believing we're together
That I'm sheltered by your heart
But in and outside, I've turned to water
Like a teardrop in your palm
 
And it's a hard winter's day
I dream Away
 
It must have been love, but it's over now
(It must have been love, but it's over now)
It was all that I wanted, now I'm living without
It must have been love, but it's over now
(It must have been love, the wind blows)
It's where the water flows
It's where the wind blows
 
It must have been love, but it's over now
 (It must have been love, but it's over now)
It must have been good, but I lost it somehow
It must have been love, but it's over now
(It must have been love, but it's over now)
From the moment we touched 'til the time had run out
 
Yeah! It must have been love, but it's over now
(It must have been love, but it's over now)
It was all that I wanted, now I'm living without
 
It must have been love, but it's over now
(The wind blows)
It's where the water flows
It's where the wind blows
 
(It must have been love, but it's over now)
But it's over now
Now!
(It must have been love, but it's over now)
(It must have been love, but it's over now)
Now!