BREAK IT TO ME GENTLY

BRENDA LEE

SONGWRITERS: DIANE LAMPERT & JOE SENECA

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: ...”LET ME SING”.

LABEL: DECCA RECORDS

GENRE: ROCKABILLY

YEAR: 1963

 

       Brenda Mae Tarpley (born December 11, 1944), known professionally as Brenda Lee, is an American singer. Performing rockabilly, pop and country music, she had 47 US chart hits during the 1960s and is ranked fourth in that decade, surpassed only by Elvis Presley, the Beatles and Ray Charles. She is known for her 1960 hit "I'm Sorry", and 1958's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree", which has become a Christmas standard.

            At 4 ft 9 inches tall (approximately 145cm), she received the nickname "Little Miss Dynamite" in 1957, after recording the song "Dynamite" when she was 12, and was one of the earliest pop stars to have a major contemporary international following.

        In 1969, Lee returned to the charts with her recording "Johnny One Time" penned by A.L. "Doodle" Owens and Dallas Frazier. The song reached #3 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Chart and #41 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song also earned Lee her second Grammy nomination for Best Pop Female Vocal. Later success came with a return to her roots as a country singer, with a string of hits through the 1970s and 1980s. She is a member of the Rock and Roll, Country Music and Rockabilly Halls of Fame. She is also a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. Lee is the only woman to be inducted into both the Rock and Roll and Country Music Halls of Fame. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

          "Break It to Me Gently" is a pop song written by blues musician Joe Seneca with lyrics by Diane Lampert. Both Brenda Lee and Juice Newton met with considerable success with their versions of the song.

           Brenda Lee recorded "Break It to Me Gently" on August 31, 1961 with Owen Bradley producing the session at his Bradley Film and Recording Studio in Nashville: after another track from the same session, "Fool #1", had become a Top Ten hit. "Break It To Me Gently" was released as a single at the end of 1961 and reached number four on the US Billboard Hot 100 in January 1962. In 2008, the Brenda Lee version of the song was featured at the closing of season 2, episode 7 of the AMC series Mad Men. Lee's "Break It to Me Gently" is on the track list of the CD Pan Am: Music From and Inspired By the Original Series set for release January 17, 2012.

Break it to me gently, let me down that easy way

Make me feel you still love me if it's just, just for one more day

Break it to me gently so my tears, my tears won't fall too fast

If you must go, then go slowly, let me love you 'till then

 

The love we've shared oh so long, it's a tender part of me

If you must take your love away, take it gradually

And break it to me gently, give me time, oh give me a little time to ease the pain

If you must go, then go slowly, 'cause I'll never love again

 

If you must take your love away, take it gradually

And break it to me gently

Give me time, oh give me a little time to ease the pain

Love me just a little longer, 'cause I'll never, never love again

'Cause I'll never, no never love again.

JOANNA

SCOTT WALKER

SONGWRITERS: TONY HATCH & JACKIE TRENT

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: IT’S RAINING TODAY: THE SCOTT WALKER STORY(1967-1970)

LABEL: PHILIPS RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 1968

 

          Noel Scott Engel(January 9, 1943 – March 22, 2019) better known by the stage name Scott Walker, was an American singer-songwriter, composer and record producer who resided in England. Walker was known for his baritone voice and an unorthodox career path which took him from 1960s teen pop icon to 21st-century avant-garde musician. Walker's success was largely in the United Kingdom, where his first four solo albums reached the top ten. He lived in the UK from 1965 and became a UK citizen in 1970.

          Rising to fame in the mid-1960s as frontman of the pop music trio the Walker Brothers, he began a solo career with 1967's Scott, moving toward an increasingly challenging style on late-1960s baroque pop albums such as Scott 3 and Scott 4(both 1969). After sales of his solo work started to decrease, he reunited with the Walker Brothers in the mid-1970s. From the mid-1980s onward, Walker revived his solo career while moving in an increasingly avant-garde direction; of this period in his career, The Guardian said "imagine Andy Williams reinventing himself as Stockhausen". Walker's 1960s recordings were highly regarded by the 1980s UK underground music scene, and gained a cult following.

        Walker continued to record until 2018. He was described by the BBC upon his death as "one of the most enigmatic and influential figures in rock history"

       "Joanna" is a song written by the English husband and wife song-writing team Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent which was first a song for the American singer-songwriter Scott Walker in 1968. The song was Walker's second solo single in the UK. The accompaniment was directed by Peter Knight.

         While credited to Hatch and Trent journalist Joe Jackson writes in his article "The Fugitive Kind" that Walker wrote a significant proportion of the lyric. Jackson quotes Walker as follows: 'that whole verse about "lived in your eyes completely" is mine and I wrote the last line in the song, "you may remember me and change your mind"'.

             "Joanna" was a major hit and is one of Walker's most popular recordings spending eleven weeks on the UK Singles Chart and peaking at number 7 in June 1968. An instrumental arrangement on the song was used as the theme for Walker's BBC TV series, Scott in 1969.

         The single was backed with the 1967 Scott album track "Always Coming Back to You". The accompaniment of the b-side was directed by Reg Guest. Japanese editions are backed with "The Plague", which was previously released as the b-side to "Jackie" in 1967.

Joanna

I can't forget the one they call Joanna

We owned the summer, hand in hand Joanna

And now she's always just a tear away

Goodbye you, you long lost summer

Leaving me behind you

Revealing things for lovers that may find you

I still hang on to every word that day, you passed my way

Joanna

You made the man a child again, so sweetly

He breathed your smile

Lived in your eyes completely

And on his heart there's still a trace of you

I love you but nothing in this world could make you mine

Yet still in time

Joanna

Joanna, you may remember me and change your mind

 

I love you but nothing in this world could make you mine

Yet still in time

Joanna

Joanna, you may remember me and change your mind.

A KIND OF LOVE

MARC ALMOND

SONGWRITERS: MARC ALMOND & CHRISTOPHER BRAIDE

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: A KIND OF LOVE

LABEL: SOME BIZZARE RECORDS

GENRE: ROCK

YEAR: 2017

 

          Mark Peter Sinclair "Marc" Almond, OBE(born 9 July 1957) is an English singer-songwriter and musician. Almond first began performing and recording in the synthpop/new wave duo Soft Cell. He has also had a diverse career as a solo artist. His collaborations include a duet with Gene Pitney on the 1989 UK number one single "Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart". Almond's career spanning over four decades has enjoyed critical and commercial acclaim, and he has sold over 30 million records worldwide. He spent a month in a coma after a near-fatal motorcycle accident in 2004 and later became a patron of the brain trauma charity Headway.

          He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2018 New Year Honours for services to arts and culture.

If I had another life

And not the one i'm in

I'd reach down into my soul

And find a little love within

I'd emerge as someone new

Dressed in another skin

Be someone who wants something more

And not the fool I've been

I look into your eyes to see what i can see

But i only see a paper face staring back at me

Only you can understand what love is meant to be

And it's a strange thing, undoughtedly

I'ts a kind of love, this strange thing that we have

It's a kind of love, a kind of going mad

It's sometimes good, but never truly bad

It's a kind of love, this strange that we have

 

And in the night

When sleep won't come for free

A laughing dancing clown

In dreams that torment me

And there you are again

Find more lyrics at

That photo in my pocket

It's a madness in my mind

But i don't know how to stop it

We meet in shadows after dark we run down endless streets

Black serpents at my back i never get to sleep

Red roses falling from the sky landing at my feet

But they turn to thorns and only make me bleed

It's a kind of love, this strange thing that we have

It's a kind of love, a kind of going mad

It's sometimes good, but never truly bad

It's a kind of love, this strange that we have

I keep a little memory of how it used to be

A bit your life in my hands from days when you loved me

Only you can understand what love is meant to be

 

And it's a strange thing, undoughtedly

I'ts a kind of love, this strange thing that we have

It's a kind of love, a kind of going mad

It's sometimes good, but never truly bad

It's a kind of love, this strange that we have.

DELILAH

THE SENSATIONAL ALEX HARVEY BAND

SONGWRITERS: BARRY MASON & LESS REED

COUNTRY: SCOTLAND

ALBUM: THE COLLECTION

LABEL: VERTIGO RECORDS

GENRE: ROCK

YEAR: 1994

 

     Alexander James Harvey (5 February 1935–4 February 1982) was a Scottish rock and blues musician. Although his career spanned almost three decades, he is best remembered as the frontman of The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, with whom he built a reputation as an exciting live performer during the era of glam rock in the 1970s.

          The Sensational Alex Harvey Band were a rock band formed in Glasgow in 1972. Fronted by Alex Harvey accompanied by Zal Cleminson on guitar, bassist Chris Glen, keyboard player Hugh McKenna and drummer Ted McKenna, their music veered from glam rock to experimental jazz, around a core of experimental and avant-garde rock, dealing with themes from environmentalism to Chinese take away food. They achieved a critically acclaimed status in the UK, were very popular in continental Europe, and were also highly influential in Australia, most notably on the young Nick Cave and his first band The Boys Next Door.

I saw the light on the night that I passed by her window

I saw the flickering shadows of love on the blinds

She was my woman

And as she betrayed me I watched and went out of my mind

 

My, my, my Delilah

Why, why, why, Delilah

I could see that girl was no good to me

And just like a slave I was lost and no man could free

 

At break of day when this man drove away, I was waiting

I crossed the street to her house, she opened the door

She stood there, laughing

And I felt the knife in my hand and she laughed no more

 

My, my, my Delilah

Why, why, why, Delilah

So before they come to break down the door

Forgive me, Delilah, I just couldn't take anymore

 

She stood there, laughing

And I felt the knife in my hand and she laughed no more

 

My, my, my Delilah

Why, why, why, Delilah

So before they come to break down the door

Forgive me, Delilah, I just couldn't take anymore

 

Oh, my, my, my Delilah

Oh, why, why, why, Delilah

So before they come to break down the door

Forgive me, Delilah, I just couldn't take anymore

Forgive me, Delilah, I just couldn't take anymore.