MORNING HAS BROKEN

DANA WINNER

SONGWRITERS: CAT STEVENS & ELEANOR FARJEON

COUNTRY: BELGIQUE

ALBUM: UNFORGETTABLE

LABEL: PARLOPHONE BELGIUM

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 2001

 

      Dana Winner is the stage name of Chantal Vanlee(born 10 February 1965 in Hasselt). She is a Belgian singer who is famous especially in Flanders, South Africa and the Netherlands.

            In 1990 she released her first single Op het dak van de wereld, (Dutch: "On the roof of the world"), a cover of The Carpenters' Top of the World from 1973. In 1993 she became really popular with Woordenloos(Dutch: "Without words"). However, it was only in 1995 that she released her Only hit single so far to reach the Dutch Top 40, Westenwind. This was a cover of the former hit One Way Wind by the Volendam group The Cats.

       After her first success, Dana Winner also became well known in Germany and South Africa. At the end of the 1990s, she began singing in other languages and did not release an album in Dutch between 2000 and 2006. It was also in 2006 that she got a permanent memento in Bornem, along the SIM-route.

               "Morning Has Broken" is a Christian hymn first published in 1931. It has words by English author Eleanor Farjeon and was inspired by the village of Alfriston in East Sussex, then set to a traditional Scottish Gaelic tune, "Bunessan". It is often sung in children's services and in funeral services.

          English pop musician and folk singer Cat Stevens included a version on his album Teaser and the Firecat(1971). The song became identified with Stevens due to the popularity of this recording. It reached number six on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, number one on the U.S. easy listening chart in 1972, and number four on the Canadian RPM magazine charts.

Morning has broken like the first morning

Blackbird has spoken like the first bird

Praise for the singing

Praise for the morning

Praise for them springing fresh from the world

 

Sweet the rain's new fall, sunlit from heaven

Like the first dewfall on the first grass

Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden

Sprung in completeness where his feet pass

 

Mine is the sunlight

Mine is the morning

Born of the one light Eden saw play

Praise with elation, praise ev'ry morning

God's recreation of the new day

 

Morning has broken like the first morning

Blackbird has spoken like the first bird

Praise for the singing

Praise for the morning

Praise for them springing fresh from the world.

 SWEET DREAMS

PATSY CLINE

SONGWRITERS: DON GIBSON; G.A. SARAF; JOHN DAVID; LENOX; PAUL KENNERLEY & STEWART

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: THE PATSY CLINE STORY

LABEL: DECCA RECORDS

GENRE: COUNTRY BALLAD

YEAR: 1963

 

       Patsy Cline(born Virginia Patterson Hensley; September 8, 1932 – March 5, 1963) was an American singer. She is considered one of the most influential vocalists of the 20th century and was one of the first country music artists to successfully cross over into pop music. Cline had several major hits during her eight-year recording career, including two number-one hits on the Billboard Hot Country and Western Sides chart.

            Cline's first professional performances began at the local WINC radio station when she was fifteen. In the early 1950s, Cline began appearing in a local band led by performer Bill Peer. Various local appearances led to featured performances on Connie B. Gay's Town and Country television broadcasts. It also led to the signing of her first recording contract with the Four Star label in 1954. She had minor success with her earliest Four Star singles including "A Church, a Courtroom, Then Goodbye"(1955) and "I've Loved and Lost Again"(1956). In 1957 however, Cline made her first national television appearance on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts. After performing "Walkin' After Midnight", the single would become her first major hit on both the country and pop charts.

           Cline's further singles with Four Star Records were unsuccessful, although she continued performing and recording. After marrying in 1957 and giving birth in 1958, she moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to further her career. Working with new manager Randy Hughes, Cline would become a member of the Grand Ole Opry and then move to Decca Records in 1960. Under the direction of producer Owen Bradley, her musical sound shifted and she achieved consistent success. The 1961 single "I Fall to Pieces" would become her first to top the Billboard country chart. As the song became a hit, Cline was severely injured in an automobile accident, which caused her to spend a month in the hospital. After recovering, her next single release "Crazy" would also become a major hit.

         "Sweet Dreams" or "Sweet Dreams (of You)" is a country ballad, which was written by Don Gibson. Gibson originally recorded the song in 1955; his version hit the top ten of Billboard's country chart, but was eclipsed by the success of a competing version by Faron Young. In 1960, after Gibson had established himself as a country music superstar, he released a new version as a single. This version also charted in the top ten on the country chart and also crossed over to the Billboard Hot 100, where it peaked at number ninety-three. The song has become a country standard, with other notable versions by Patsy Cline and Emmylou Harris.

          In early 1963, Patsy Cline was recording songs for her next album, Faded Love, which was set for release in late March, 1963. She recorded "Sweet Dreams" for the album on February 5. However, on March 5, Cline died in a plane crash on the way home from a benefit in Kansas City, Missouri for the family of Cactus Jack Call, a disc jockey who was killed in an automobile accident so, therefore, the album was never released. The songs were later compiled for the release Patsy Cline the Last Sessions in 1988.

Sweet dreams of you

Every night I go through

 

Why cant I forget you and start my life anew

Instead of having sweet dreams

About you

 

You dont love me its plain

I should know I'll never wear your ring

I should hate you the whole night through

Instead of having sweet dreams about you

 

Sweet dreams of you

Things I know can't come true

Why cant I forget the past

Start loving someone new

Instead of having sweet dreams about you.

 SAD MOVIES

SUE THOMPSON

SONGWRITER: JOHN D. LOUDERMILK

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: MEET SUE THOMPSON

LABEL: HICKORY RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 1962

 

            Sue Thompson(born Eva Sue McKee; July 19, 1925) is an American pop and country music singer. She is best known for the million selling hits "Sad Movies (Make Me Cry)" and "Norman", both pop hits in the early 1960s and her 1965 hit "Paper Tiger".

          "Sad Movies (Make Me Cry)" is a 1961 pop song by the American singer Sue Thompson. The song was written by John D. Loudermilk and appears on Thompson's 1962 Hickory Records album Meet Sue Thompson.

Sad movies always make me cry

He said he had to work, so I went to the show alone.

They turned down the lights and turned the projector on.

And just as the news of the world started to begin,

I saw my darling and my best friend walking in.

 

Although I was sitting right there they didn't see me.

And so they both sat right down in front of me.

And when he kissed her lips then I almost died.

And in the middle of the color cartoon I started to cry.

 

Oh Sad movies always make me cry

Oh Sad movies always make me cry

 

And so I got up and slowly I walked on home,

And Mama saw the tears and said "Baby, what is wrong".

And so just to keep from telling her a lie,

I just said "Sad movies makes me cry".

 

Oh Sad movies always make me cry

Oh Sad movies always make me cry

Oooo Ooooo - Sad movies make me cry.

A WORLD OF FANTASY

TRIUMPH

SONGWRITERS: G. MOORE; M. LEVINE; R. EMMETT & TAM PATRICK

COUNTRY: CANADA

ALBUM: NEVER SURRENDER

LABEL: ATTIC RECORDS

GENRE: HARD ROCK

YEAR: 1983

 

         Triumph was a Canadian hard rock band formed in 1975 that was popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s, building on its reputation and success as a live band. Between the band's 16 albums and DVDs, it has received 18 gold and nine platinum awards in Canada and the United States. It was nominated for multiple Juno Awards, including the 'Group of the Year Award' in 1979, 1985, 1986, and 1987. It was inducted into the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame in 2007, into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 2008, and into Canada's Walk of Fame in 2019.

         Triumph is most known for its guitar-driven rock songs and alternative Canadian rock trio vibe with such songs as "Lay It on the Line", "Magic Power", "Fight the Good Fight", "World of Fantasy" and strong cover songs like "Rocky Mountain Way". The band was formed in Toronto, and for much of its existence featured Rik Emmett(guitar, vocals), Mike Levine(bass, keyboards), and Gil Moore(drums, vocals) from 1975 onward. This lineup, which recorded the band's first nine studio albums, lasted until 1988, when Emmett left Triumph to pursue a solo career. He was replaced by Phil "X" Xenedis, and Triumph recorded their last album to date, Edge of Excess, with him before going on indefinite hiatus in 1993. The classic line-up of Moore, Levine and Emmett reunited for two live concerts in 2008, at Sweden Rock Festival and Rocklahoma, and again in 2019 for a three-song performance in Toronto.

      Never Surrender is the sixth studio album by Canadian hard rock band Triumph, released in 1982. The album reached #26 on the Billboard Albums chart assisted by the singles "All the Way", "A World of Fantasy" and "Never Surrender" which hit #2, #3 and #23, respectively, on the Billboard's Mainstream Top Rock Tracks chart in 1983. "All the Way" (the third of the three tracks to chart) was Triumph's highest charting song on the Top Rock Tracks chart, but did not sustain that level of popularity with Triumph fans as the song is not included on their 1985 live álbum Stages, the later Classics (a Greatest Hits album) or 2005's Livin' for the Weekend: The Anthology album.

           In Canada, the album peaked at Nº. 29 on the RPM album chart (compared to Nº. 13 for their previous album, Allied Forces) and none of the singles managed to reach the Top 100 of the RPM Singles chart, although they received some airplay at album-oriented rock stations.

          A remastered CD was first released in 1985 on MCA Records (then again in 1995 on the band's own TRC label). A new remaster was released in November 2004 on the band's own label TML Entertainment.

I was out on my own in a great big world

Thought I'd seen it all

Then along comes a woman - a fantasy

And I took the fall

 

I was chasing a dream, I was fancy free

I was so naïve

You were all wrapped up in a mystery

You looked good to me

 

And I needed love I wanted it desperately

But oh, real love, you never came to me

 

[CHORUS:]

I was lost in your world of fantasy

I was caught in your game of make-believe

I was lost in your world of fantasy

 

Lost in your world of fantasy

Look what you've done to me

 

You were drawin' me in to a spider's web

With your hungry eyes

I was under your power I was in your spell

I was hypnotized

 

And oh sweet love: you wore such a strange disguise

So neat love: the way I fell for your lies

 

[CHORUS]

 

All the times you lied

And all the times I cried

I'm never gonna be the same again

 

Lost in your world of fantasy

Look what you've done to me.