MAKE IT WITH YOU

BREAD

SONGWRITER: DAVID GATES

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: ON THE WATERS

LABEL: ELEKTRA RECORDS

GENRE: SOFT ROCK

YEAR: 2019

 

           Bread was an American soft rock band from Los Angeles, California. They had 13 songs chart on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1970 and 1977.

       The band was fronted by David Gates (vocals, bass guitar, guitar, keyboards, violin, viola, percussion), with Jimmy Griffin (vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion) and Robb Royer (bass guitar, guitar, flute, keyboards, percussion, recorder, backing vocals). On their first album session musicians Ron Edgar played drums and Jim Gordon played drums, percussion, and piano. Mike Botts became their permanent drummer when he joined in the summer of 1969, and Larry Knechtel replaced Royer in 1971, playing keyboards, bass guitar, guitar, and harmonica.

           David Ashworth Gates (born December 11, 1940) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, musician and producer, frontman and co-lead singer (with Jimmy Griffin) of the group Bread, which reached the tops of the musical charts in Europe and North America on several occasions in the 1970s. The band was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame.

        "Make It with You" is a song written by David Gates and originally recorded by the pop-rock group Bread, of which Gates was a member. Gates and drummer Mike Botts are the only members of the group to appear on the recording which was a #1 hit.

          The song first appeared on Bread's 1970 album, On the Waters. Released as a single that June, it was the group's first top-ten hit on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and spent the week of August 22, 1970, at number one, their only single to do so; it also reached #5 on the UK Singles Chart. Billboard ranked "Make It with You" as the Nº. 13 song of 1970, and it was certified gold by the RIAA for sales of over one million copies.

Hey have you ever tried

Really reaching out for the other side?

I may be climbing on rainbows

But baby, here goes

 

Dreams are for those who sleep

Life is for us to keep

And if you're wondering what this song is leading to,

I want to make it with you

I really think that we could make it, girl

 

Though you don't know me well

And every little thing only time will tell

If you believe the things that I do,

And we'll see it through

 

Life can be short or long

Love can be right or wrong

And if I chose the one I'd like to help me through

I'd like to make it with you

I really think that we could make it, girl

 

Baby you know that dreams there for those who sleep

Life is for us to keep

And if I chose the one I'd like to help me through

I'd like to make it with you

I really think that we could make it, girl.

BETTER PLACE

RACHEL PLATTEN

SONGWRITERS: RACHEL PLATTEN & SALLY SELTMANN

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: WILDFIRE

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 2016

 

          "Better Place" is a song recorded by American singer and songwriter Rachel Platten for her third studio album, Wildfire(2016). The record's third and final single, initially released as a promotional single on December 18, 2015, was distributed to Hot adult contemporary radio for airplay in the United States. Platten co-wrote the song with Sally Seltmann while Jon Levine served as the sole producer. The singer wrote the song after discovering her sister had become engaged, which she felt was inspirational.

          "Better Place" divided music critics, with some praising the piano ballad's simplicity and production, and others finding it underwhelming. In the United States, it peaked at number 21 on the Adult Top 40 and peaked at number 227 on Russia's radio chart. An accompanying music video was directed by Matthew Stawski and released on May 9 of the same year. It features several couples and individuals gathering together and embracing each other. Platten dedicated it to her former school teacher and labeled it as a "social experiment". She has performed it on various occasions, including during an episode of Today Show and as part of a setlist on her summer concerts. The song appeared in the 2017 Microsoft Windows holiday commercial to promote Paint 3D.

I'll tell the world, I'll sing a song

It's a better place since you came along

Since you came along

Your touch is sunlight through the trees

Your kisses are the ocean breeze

Everything's alright when you're with me

 

And I hold my favorite thing

I hold the love that you bring

But it feels like I've opened my eyes again

And the colors are golden and bright again

There's a song in my heart, I feel like I belong

It's a better place since you came along

It's a better place since you came along

 

I see the whole world in your eyes

It's like I've known you all my life

We just feel so right

So I pour my heart into your hands

It's like you really understand

You love the way I am

 

And I hold my favorite thing

I hold the happiness you bring

But it feels like I've opened my eyes again

And the colors are golden and bright again

And the sun paints the skies and the wind sings our song

It's a better place since you came along

It's a better place since you came along

 

Now I'm alright

Now I'm alright

Everything's alright

 

'Cause it feels like I've opened my eyes again

And the colors are golden and bright again

There's a song in my heart, I feel like I belong

It's a better place since you came along

It's a better place since you came along.

VISION OF LOVE

MARIAH CAREY

SONGWRITERS: Mariah Carey & BEN MARGULIES 

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

Album: MARIAH CAREY

LABEL: COLUMBIA. RECORDS

GENRE: r&b

YEAR: 1990

 

        "Vision of Love" is the debut single by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey. Written by Carey and Ben Margulies, "Vision of Love" was released as the lead single from Carey's self-titled debut album on May 15, 1990. After being featured on Carey's demo tape for Columbia, the song was re-recorded and produced by Rhett Lawrence and Narada Michael Walden. "Vision of Love" features a slow-dance theme tempo and backing vocals sung by Carey herself, and introduces her usage of the whistle register. Lyrically, the song describes both a past and present relationship with a lover: Carey describes the "vision of love" she dreamed of, as well as the present love she feels for him.

         The accompanying music video for "Vision of Love" was filmed in April 1990. It features Carey in a large cathedral, where she meditates and sings by a large picture window. "Vision of Love" was performed on several television and award show ceremonies, such as The Arsenio Hall Show, Good Morning America, and the 33rd Annual Grammy Awards. It has been performed at almost every one of Carey's concerts and tours, and is featured on Carey's live álbum MTV Unplugged(1992) and on many of her compilation albums including #1's(1998), Greatest Hits(2001) and The Ballads(2008).

         "Vision of Love" received universal acclaim from music critics. While the song's production was typical of late 1980s pop, the vocals were not, being much more showy and expressing a wider range than artists popular at the time such as Paula Abdul and Debbie Gibson. It has been credited with popularizing the use of melisma in contemporary popular music and for inspiring several artists to pursue a music career. The New Yorker named "Vision of Love" the "Magna Carta of melisma" for its and Carey's influence on pop and R&B singers and American Idol contestants. Additionally, Rolling Stone said that "the fluttering strings of notes that decorate songs like "Vision of Love," inspired the entire American Idol vocal school, for better or worse, and virtually every other female R&B singer since the nineties." The song topped the singles charts in Canada, New Zealand, and the United States, where it spent four weeks atop the chart.

Treated me kind

Sweet destiny

Carried me through desperation

To the one that was waiting for me

It took so long

Still I believed

Somehow the one that I needed

Would find me eventually

 

I had a vision of love

And it was all that you've given to me

 

Prayed through the nights

Felt so alone

Suffered through alienation

Carried the weight on my own

Had to be strong

So I believed

And now I know I've succeeded

In finding the place I conceived

 

I had a vision of love

And it was all that you've given to me

I had a vision of love

And it was all that you've given me

 

I've realized a dream

And I visualized

The love that came to be

Feel so alive

I'm so thankful that I've received

The answer that heaven has sent down to me

 

You treated me kind (yeah)

Sweet destiny (yes, you did)

And I'll be eternally grateful (oh)

Holding you so close to me (prayed through the night)

Prayed through the nights (so faithfully)

So faithfully (faithfully)

Knowing the one that I needed

Would find me eventually (he would find me)

 

I had a vision of love

And it was all that you've given to me

I had a vision of love

And it was all that you turned out to be, yeah, mmm.

CADEIRA VAZIA

JAMELÃO

COMPOSITOR: LUPICÍNIO RODRIGUES

PAÍS: BRASIL

ÁLBUM: MESTRES DA MPB – VOL. 2

GRAVADORA: WEA INTERNACIONAL

GÊNERO: SAMBA

ANO: 1994

 

        José Bispo Clementino dos Santos, mais conhecido como Jamelão (Rio de Janeiro, 12 de maio de 1913–Rio de Janeiro, 14 de junho de 2008), foi um cantor brasileiro, tradicional intérprete dos sambas-enredo da escola de samba Mangueira.

         Nasceu no bairro da Corcundinha e passou a maior parte da juventude no Engenho Novo, para onde se mudou com seus pais. Lá, começou a trabalhar, para ajudar no sustento da família - seu pai havia se separado de sua mãe. Levado por um amigo músico, conheceu a Estação Primeira de Mangueira e se apaixonou pela escola de samba.

           Ganhou o apelido de Jamelão na época em que se apresentava em gafieiras da capital fluminense. Começou ainda jovem, tocando tamborim na bateria da Mangueira e depois se tornou um dos principais intérpretes da escola.

       Passou para o cavaquinho e depois conseguiu trabalhos no rádio e em boates. Foi "corista" do cantor Francisco Alves e, numa noite, assumiu o lugar dele para cantar uma música de Herivelto Martins.

            A consagração veio como cantor de samba. Sua primeira gravadora foi a Odeon. Depois, trabalhou para a Companhia Brasileira de Discos, Philips e mais tarde para a Continental, onde gravou a maioria de seus álbuns, para a RGE e depois para a Som Livre. Entre seus sucessos, estão "Fechei a Porta" (Sebastião Motta/ Ferreira dos Santos), "Leviana" (Zé Kéti), "Folha Morta" (Ary Barroso), "Não Põe a Mão" (P.S. Mutt/ A. Canegal/ B. Moreira), "Matriz ou Filial" (Lúcio Cardim), "Exaltação à Mangueira" (Enéas Brites/ Aluisio da Costa), "Eu Agora Sou Feliz" (com Mestre Gato), "O Samba É Bom Assim" (Norival Reis/ Helio Nascimento) e "Quem Samba Fica" (com Tião Motorista).

         De 1949 até 2006, Jamelão foi intérprete de samba-enredo na Mangueira, sendo voz principal a partir de 1952, quando sucedeu Xangô da Mangueira. Em janeiro de 2001, recebeu a medalha da Ordem do Mérito Cultural, entregue pelo então presidente Fernando Henrique Cardoso.

Entra meu amor fique à vontade

E diz com sinceridade o que desejas de mim

Entra podes entrar a casa é tua

Já que cansaste de viver na rua

E os teus sonhos chegaram ao fim

 

Eu sofri demais quando partiste

Passei tantas horas tristes

Que não gosto de lembrar esse dia

Mas de uma coisa pode ter certeza

Teu lugar aqui na minha mesa

Tua cadeira ainda está vazia

 

Tu es a filha pródiga que volta

Procurando em minha porta

O que o mundo não te deu

E faz de conta que eu sou o teu paizinho

Que há tanto tempo aqui ficou sozinho

A esperar por um carinho teu

 

Voltaste estás bem, estou contente

Só me encontraste um pouco diferente

 

Vou te falar de todo coração

Não te darei carinho nem afeto

Mas pra te abrigar podes ocupar meu teto

Pra te alimentar podes comer meu pão

 

Voltaste estás bem, estou contente

Só me encontraste um pouco diferente

 

Vou te falar de todo coração

Não te darei carinho nem afeto

Mas pra te abrigar podes ocupar meu teto

Pra te alimentar

Podes comer meu pão.