Dancing on the Ceiling is the third solo studio albumby
American singer Lionel Richie,
released on July 15, 1986. The album was originally to be titled Say You, Say
Me, after the Academy Award-winning track of the same name, but it
was renamed to a different track's title after Richie rewrote several songs on
the album. The album was released to generally positive reviews and it made Nº
1 on the US Billboard 200chart, selling 4 million copies. Following this album's release,
Richie went on a long hiatus, not releasing an album of entirely new material
for another ten years.
I say
What is happening here
Something's going on that's not quite clear
Somebody turn on the lights, yeah
We're gonna have a party
It's starting tonight
Oh, what a feeling
When we're dancing on the ceiling
Oh, what a feeling
When we're dancing on the ceiling
The room is hot and
that's good (and that's good)
Some of my friends came by from the neighborhood
The people startin' a climb the walls
Ooh it looks like everybody is having a ball
Woo-oh, what a feeling (oh, what a feeling)
When we're dancing on the ceiling
Woo-oh, what a feeling
When we're dancing on the ceiling
Oh, what a feeling (oh, what a feeling)
When we're dancing on the ceiling (we're dancing on the ceiling)
Woo-oh, what a feeling (Woo-oh, what a feeling)
When we're dancing on the ceiling (we're dancing on the ceiling, yeah)
Woo
Come on!
Everybody start to lose control
When the music is right
If you see somebody
If you see somebody hangin' around
Don't get uptight
The only thing we want to do tonight
Is go 'round and 'round
And turn upside down, yeah
Come on!
So come on! (Yeah,
come on)
Let's get loose
Don't hold back
'Cause ain't no use (ain't no use)
It's hard to keep your feet on the ground
'Cause when we like to party
We only want to get down
Woo-oh, what a feeling
When we're dancing on the ceiling
Woo-oh, what a feeling
When we're dancing on the ceiling
Woo-oh, what a feeling (oh, what a feeling)
When we're dancing on the ceiling (when we're dancing on the ceiling)
Oh, what a feeling (oh, what a feeling)
Dancing (when we're dancing on the ceiling)
Dancing
Dancing
Dancing
She's dancing
Dancing
Dancing
Dancing
Dancing
Dancing
Dancing
Dancing on the ceiling
Woo-oh
Woo-oh
Woo-oh (dancing)
Woo-oh (dancing)
Woo-oh
Woo-oh
Oh, yeah
Good job my brothers.
SINCE I SAW YOU LAST
GARY BARLOW
SONGWRITER: GARY BARLOW
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM: SINCE I SAW YOU LAST
LABEL: POLYDOR RECORDS
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 2013
Since I Saw You Last is the fourth solo
studio album released by British singer-songwriter Gary Barlow. The
album was released by Polydor Recordson 22 November 2013 in Ireland, and on 25 November in the United
Kingdom. It debuted at number two on the UK Albums Chart, and met
with a mixed critical reaction.
It is Barlow's first full-length solo album
in fourteen years, following 1999's Twelve Months, Eleven Days.
It features a range
of genres, described by Barlow as a mixture of pop, folk pop and alternative. The
album's lead single, "Let Me Go",
was released a week before the album, and became Barlow's 21st UKtop 3 single.
They took my voice
Erased my past
With all that noise
It couldn't last
With words so cruel
I washed my face
I hoped one day
I'd wake up in a better place
Today I took back
what was stolen
And gave new life to what was frozen
One mouth talking
A dead man walking
A thousand faces watched me falling
I've made my peace
with what may happen
Accepted I won't be in fashin
Oh you gave I got it
Yeah you gave I got it all back
Since I saw you last
When brothers land
And take what's good
You can win a war
Oh and shed no blood
Everybody plays their part
Oh we let the haters hate
While everybody's losing heart
Lying in the longest grass I sit and wait
Today I took back
what was stolen
And gave new life to what was frozen
One mouth talking
A dead man walking
A thousand faces watched me falling
I've made my peace
with what may happen
Accepted I won't be in fashin
Oh you gave I got it
Yeah you gave I got it all back
Since I saw you last
I know you heard
My shout for help
For those who stood and watched
Go f* yourself
I know you heard my
cry for help
I know you heard I was going through hell
I know you heard I was losing my mind
I know you heard it was a matter of time
I know you heard
I know you heard
I know you heard
I know you heard.
LAYLA
ERIC CLAPTON
SONGWRITERS: ERIC PATRICK CLAPTON & JIM GORDON
COUNTRY: U. K. X U. S. A.
ALBUM: LAYLA AND OTHER ASSORTED LOVE SONGS
LABEL: POLYDOR RECORDS
GENRE: BLUES ROCK
YEAR: 1970
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs is the
sole studio album by the English–American blues rockband Derek and the
Dominos, released in November 1970 as a double album. It is
best known for its title track, "Layla",
and is often regarded as Eric Clapton's
greatest musical achievement. The other band members were Bobby Whitlockon keyboards and vocals, Jim Gordonon drums, Carl Radleon bass.
Duane Allmanplayed
lead and slide guitar on 11 of the 14 songs.
Initially regarded as a critical and
commercial disappointment, it failed to chart in Britain and peaked at number
16 on the Billboard Top LPschart in the United States. It returned to the US albums chart again
in 1972, 1974 and 1977, and has since been certified Gold by the RIAA. The album finally
debuted on the UK Albums Chartin 2011, peaking at number 68.
In 2000, the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall
of Fame. In 2003, television network VH1named Layla and
Other Assorted Love Songs the 89th-greatest album of all time, and Rolling Stoneranked it number 117 on its list of "The 500
Greatest Albums of All Time". It was voted
number 287 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's
All Time Top
1000 Albums(2000). In 2012, the Super Deluxe
Edition of Layla won a Grammy Award for Best Surround Sound Album.
What'll you do when
you get lonely
And nobody's waiting by your side?
You've been running and hiding much too long
You know it's just your foolish pride
Layla, you've got me
on my knees
Layla, I'm begging, darling please
Layla, darling won't you ease my worried mind
I tried to give you
consolation
When your old man had let you down
Like a fool, I fell in love with you
You turned my whole world upside down
Layla, you've got me
on my knees
Layla, I'm begging, darling please
Layla, darling won't you ease my worried mind
Make the best of the
situation
Before I finally go insane
Please don't say we'll never find a way
And tell me all my love's in vain
Layla, you've got me
on my knees
Layla, I'm begging, darling please
Layla, darling won't you ease my worried mind
Layla, you've got me on my knees
Layla, I'm begging, darling please
Layla, darling won't you ease my worried mind.
A GROOVY KIND OF LOVE
PHIL
COLLINS
SONGWRITERS: Carole
Bayer Sager & Toni Wine
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM:
LABEL: VIRGIN RECORDS
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 1988
Philip David Charles Collins LVO(born 30 January 1951) is
an English drummer, singer, record producer, songwriter and actor. He is best
known as the drummer/singer of the rock band Genesisand for his
solo career. Between
1982 and 1990, Collins achieved three UK and seven US number-one singles in his
solo career. When his work with Genesis, his work with other
artists, as well as his solo career is totalled, he had more US top 40 singles
than any other artist during the 1980s. His most successful singles from the
period include "In the Air Tonight",
"I Don't Care
Anymore", "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)",
"One More
Night", "Sussudio",
"Take Me Home",
"Two Hearts",
"A Groovy Kind
of Love", "I Wish It
Would Rain Down", and "Another Day
in Paradise".
Born
and brought up in West London, Collins played drums from the age of five and
completed drama school training, which secured him various roles as a child
actor. He then pursued a music career, joining Genesis in
1970 as their drummer and becoming lead singer in 1975 following the departure
of Peter Gabriel. Collins
began a successful solo career in the 1980s, initially inspired by his marital
breakdown and love of soul music,
releasing the albums Face Value(1981),
Hello, I Must
Be Going(1982), No Jacket Required(1985)
and ...But Seriously(1989). Collins became, in the words of AllMusic,
"one of the most successful pop and adult
contemporarysingers of the '80s and
beyond". He also became known for a distinctive gated reverbdrum
sound on many of his recordings. In 1985, he was the only artist to perform at
both Live Aidconcerts.
He also resumed his acting career, appearing in Miami Viceand
subsequently starring in the film Buster(1988).
In 1996, Collins left Genesis to focus on solo work; this included writing
songs for Disney’s Tarzan(1999)
for which he received an Oscar for Best
Original Songfor “You'll Be in
My Heart”. He rejoined Genesis for their Turn It On
Again Tourin 2007. Following a five-year
retirement to focus on his family life, Collins released an autobiography in
2016 and completed his Not Dead Yet Tourin 2019. He then joined up with Genesis for a second
reunion tourto commence in late 2021.
Collins's
discographyincludes eight studio albums that
have sold 33.5 million certified units in the US and an estimated
150 million records sold worldwide, making him one of the world's
best-selling artists. He is one of only three
recording artists, along with Paul McCartneyand Michael Jackson, who
have sold over 100 million records both as solo artists and separately as
principal members of a band. He has won eight Grammy Awards, six Brit Awards(winning
Best British Male Artistthree times), two Golden Globe Awards,
one Academy Award, and a Disney LegendAward. He was awarded six Ivor Novello Awardsfrom the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors,
including the International Achievement Award. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Famein 1999, and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Famein 2003 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fameas a member of Genesis in 2010. He has also been recognised by music
publications with induction into the Modern DrummerHall of Fame in 2012, and the Classic Drummer Hall of Fame in 2013.
Phil Collinsrecorded
a new version of "A Groovy Kind of Love" in 1988. He had originally
suggested the song as a good one for collaborator Stephen
Bishopto record, with Collins producing.
While filming the movie Buster(1988),
Collins suggested the song as a potential love theme for the title character
and his wife. He
recorded a demo as a guide for the producers, only to find out later his demo
had actually been used in the film. Collins had initially expressed
reservations about being featured on the soundtrack during the movie, but
relented due to feeling it worked well for the scene. He
subsequently recorded a full version of the song, co-produced by Anne Dudley. This
version was originally released on Buster: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
It subsequently appeared on the compilation albums Hits,
Love Songs: A Compilation... Old and New,
and The Singles.
A live performance appeared on his Serious
Hits... Live!album.