THIS IS THE RIGHT TIME

LISA STANSFIELD

SONGWRITERS: ANDY MORRIS; IAN OWEN DEVANEY & LISA JANE STANSFIELD

COUNTRY: U.K.

ALBUM: AFFECTION

LABEL: ARISTA RECORDS

GENRE: R & B

YEAR: 1989

 

       Lisa Jane Stansfield(born 11 April 1966) is an English singer, songwriter, and actress. Her career began in 1980 when she won the singing competition Search for a Star. After appearances in various television shows and releasing her first singles, Stansfield, along with Ian Devaney and Andy Morris, formed Blue Zone in 1986. The band released several singles and one album, but after the success of Coldcut's "People Hold On" in 1989, on which Stansfield was featured, the focus was placed on her solo career.

         Stansfield's first solo álbum Affection(1989) and its worldwide chart-topping lead single "All Around the World" were major breakthroughs in her career. She was nominated for two Grammy Awards, and Affection is her best-selling album to date. In the following years, Stansfield released Real Love(1991), So Natural(1993), and Lisa Stansfield(1997). In 1999 she appeared in her first film, Swing, and also recorded the soundtrack for it. Her next albums included Face Up(2001), Biography: The Greatest Hits(2003), and The Moment (2004). Thereafter, Stansfield took a break from music and focused on her film career. In 2008, she starred in The Edge of Love and in 2014 she appeared in Northern Soul.

         Stansfield released her seventh álbum Seven on 31 January 2014. Its lead single "Can't Dance" was digitally released on 16 October 2013. She promoted the album with the European Seven Tour in 2013 and 2014. Her most recent álbum Deeper was released on 6 April 2018. In June 2018, following a string of sold-out tour dates in Europe, Stansfield announced her North American Tour, which began in October 2018.

          Stansfield has won numerous awards, including three Brit Awards, two Ivor Novello Awards, a Billboard Music Award, World Music Award, ASCAP Award, Women's World Award, Silver Clef Award and two DMC Awards. She has sold over 20 million albums worldwide, including five million of Affection. In December 2016, Billboard magazine ranked her as the 46th-most-successful dance artist of all time.

       "This Is the Right Time" is a song recorded by British singer Lisa Stansfield for her 1989 album, Affection. It was written by Stansfield, Ian Devaney and Andy Morris, and produced by Coldcut. The song was released as the first European single on 31 July 1989. It included "Affection," "Big Thing" (recorded by Stansfield's 80s band Blue Zone) and remixes created by David Dorrell, CJ Mackintosh, Paul Witts and Eddie Gordon. One year later, on 30 July 1990, "This Is the Right Time" was issued as the third North American single. It included previously unreleased track, "My Apple Heart" and new remixes created by Shep Pettibone and Yvonne Turner. In September 1990, just before Stansfield's European tour, the double A-side single "This Is the Right Time"/"You Can't Deny It" with new US remixes was released in selected European countries. In Japan, "This Is the Right Time" was released as a single on 3 October 1990.

       In 2003, it was included on Biography: The Greatest Hits. In 2014, the remixes of "This Is the Right Time" were included on the deluxe 2CD + DVD re-release of Affection and on People Hold On ... The Remix Anthology (also on The Collection 1989–2003).

 

This is the right time to believe in love

Ooh yeah yeah yeah

Ooh oh oh

 

Everyone knows, if you don't demand it shows

That you understand the light shining inside us

It's more than tonight, it's forever more, it's right

When there's someone there through the night to hold you close

 

You know it's all that you'll ever need

'Cause you're seeing love, and seeing it clearly

There's no doubt about it, you just have to shout out

 

This is the right time, this is the right time

I can see it in your eye

This is the right time to believe in love

 

Everyone knows it's a special thing, it's a love

That will never, ever be wrong, 'cause this love is strong

 

You know it's all that you'll ever need

'Cause you're seeing love, and seeing it clearly

There's no doubt about it, you just have to shout out

 

This is the right time, this is the right time

I can see it in your eye

This is the right time to believe in love

 

This is the right time, this is the right time

I can see it in your eye

This is the right time to believe in love

 

So when you know that there's someone there you want

And you want him so tonight, more than you've ever done anyone

 

You know it's all that you'll ever need

'Cause you're seeing love, and seeing it clearly

There's no doubt about it, you just have to shout out

 

This is the right time, this is the right time

I can see it in your eye

This is the right time to believe in love

 

This is the right time, this is the right time

I can see it in your eye

This is the right time to believe in love

 

Well do you believe baby

'Cause I believe baby

Do you believe baby

 

This is the right time, this is the right time

This is the right time to believe in love

This is the right time, this is the right time

This is the right time to believe in love.

SEMPRE E PER SEMPRE

FRANCESCO DE GREGORI

COMPOSITORE: FRANCESCO DE GREGORI

PAESE: ITALIA

ALBUM: AMORE NEL POMERIGGIO

ETICHETTA:CBS RECORDS

GENERE: FOLK

ANNO: 2001

 

       Francesco De Gregori(Roma, 4 aprile 1951) è un cantautore e musicista italiano.

        Fra i più importanti cantautori italiani, nelle sue canzoni si incontrano musicalmente sonorità varie, dal rock alla canzone d'autore, con a volte riferimenti anche alla musica popolare, mentre nelle liriche c'è un ampio uso della sinestesia e della metafora, spesso di non immediata interpretazione, con passaggi di ispirazione intimista, letterario-poetica ed etico-politica in cui trovano spazio riferimenti all'attualità e alla storia.

       È spesso definito cantautore e poeta, sebbene egli preferisca essere identificato semplicemente come "artista". Egli è, inoltre, uno tra gli artisti con il maggior numero di riconoscimenti da parte del Club Tenco, con sei Targhe Tenco e un Premio Le parole della musica.

        Amore nel pomeriggio è il quattordicesimo album in studio del cantautore italiano Francesco De Gregori, pubblicato il 19 gennaio 2001 dalla CBS.

         Il disco ha vinto la Targa Tenco per il miglior album ed ha raggiunto la prima posizione in classifica in Italia mantenendola per due settimane.

Pioggia e sole

Cambiano

La faccia alle persone

Fanno il diavolo a quattro nel cuore

E passano

E tornano

E non la smettono mai

 

Sempre e per sempre tu

Ricordati

Dovunque sei

Se mi cercherai

Sempre e per sempre

Dalla stessa parte mi troverai

 

E ho visto gente andare, perdersi e tornare

E perdersi ancora

E tendere la mano a mani vuote

E con le stesse scarpe camminare

Per diverse strade

O con diverse scarpe

Su una strada sola

 

Tu non credere

Se qualcuno ti dirà

Che non sono più lo stesso ormai

 

Pioggia e sole abbaiano e mordomo

Ma lasciano

Lasciano il tempo che trovano

E il vero amore può

Nascondersi

Confondersi

Ma non può perdersi mai

 

Sempre e per sempre

Dalla stessa parte mi troverai

Sempre e per sempre

Dalla stessa parte mi troverai.

DON'T CLOSE YOUR EYES

KEITH WHITLEY

SONGWRITER: BOB MCDILL

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: DON’T CLOSE YOUR EYES

LABEL: RCA RECORDS

GENRE: COUNTRY

YEAR: 1988

 

          Jesse Keith Whitley (July 1, 1954 – May 9, 1989) was an American country music singer. During his career, Whitley recorded only two albums but charted 12 singles on the Billboard country charts, and 7 more after his death.

        Born in Ashland, Kentucky, Whitley grew up in nearby Sandy Hook, Kentucky. Whitley began his career there in 1970, performing in Ralph Stanley's band. Establishing himself as a lead singer in bluegrass music, Whitley moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1983 and began his recording career there. His first Top 20 Country Hit single, "Miami, My Amy", was released in 1986. In 1988, his first three singles from his studio álbum Don't Close Your Eyes, the title song, "When You Say Nothing at All" and "I'm No Stranger to the Rain" were number one hits. Years of alcoholism severely compromised his health and he died of alcohol intoxication in 1989 at his Goodlettsville home at the age of 34. His later singles, "I Wonder Do You Think of Me", "It Ain't Nothin'", and "I'm Over You", were released after his death.

        "Don't Close Your Eyes" is a song written by Bob McDill, and recorded by American country music artist Keith Whitley. It was released in March 1988 as third single from his album of the same name. In the United States, the single reached number-one for the week of August 13, while peaking at number 2 in Canada. Additionally, it was Billboard's number-one country single of the year 1988.

I know you loved him, a long time ago

Even now in my arms, you still want him I know

But darling this time, your memories die

When you hold me tonight, don't close your eyes

 

Don't close your eyes, let it be me

Don't pretend it's him, in some fantasy

Darling just once, let yesterday go

And you'll find more love than you'll ever know

Just hold me tight, when you love me tonight

And don't close your eyes

 

Maybe I've, been a fool, holding on all this time

Lying here in your arms, knowing he's in your mind

But I keep hoping someday, that you'll see the light

Let it be tonight and don't close your eyes

 

Don't close your eyes, let it be me

Don't pretend it's him, in some fantasy

Darling just once, let yesterday go

And you'll find more love than you'll ever know

Just hold me tight, when you love me tonight

And don't close your eyes

 

Don't close your eyes, let it be me

Don't pretend it's him, in some fantasy

Darling just once, let yesterday go

And you'll find more love than you'll ever know

Just hold me tight, when you love me tonight

And don't close your eyes

 

Just hold me tight, when you love me Tonight

And don't close your eyes.

STAY

SUGARLAND

SONGWRITER: JENNIFER O. NETTLES

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: ENJOY THE RIDE

LABEL: MERCURY NASHVILLE

GENRE: COUNTRY

YEAR: 2006

 

       Sugarland is an American country music duo founded in Atlanta, Georgia, consisting of singer-songwriters Jennifer Nettles(lead vocals) and Kristian Bush (vocals, guitar, mandolin). The group was founded in 2002 by Nettles and Bush with Kristen Hall(vocals, guitar). Hall left the group after its first album. All three members had experience in folk rock: Nettles had recorded in the groups Soul Miner's Daughter and Jennifer Nettles Band, Bush had recorded two albums as one-half of the duo Billy Pilgrim, and Hall had recorded two solo albums.

       Signed to Mercury Nashville Records in 2004, Sugarland recorded four studio albums, one Christmas album, and one live album for that label between then and 2010. These albums accounted for fifteen singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including the number-one singles "Want To", "Settlin'", "All I Want to Do", "Already Gone", and "It Happens". Nettles was also a featured vocalist on rock band Bon Jovi's late 2005-early 2006 single "Who Says You Can't Go Home", which also topped the country music charts. Their four studio albums for this label—Twice the Speed of Life, Enjoy the Ride, Love on the Inside, and The Incredible Machine—are all certified platinum or higher by the Recording Industry Association of America(RIAA). The duo went on hiatus in 2012, during which time both Nettles and Bush recorded solo albums. They reunited officially in 2017 for Bigger, a studio album issued on Big Machine Records.

        Enjoy the Ride is the second studio album by country music duo Sugarland, released on November 7, 2006 on Mercury Nashville Records. The album is the first one released with Sugarland as a duo (comprising Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush), as former member Kristen Hall had departed earlier in 2006.

        The album debuted at Nº 4 on the US Billboard 200 and at Nº 2 on the US Country Album Chart, selling 211,000 copies in its first week; these were also its peak positions on the two charts. The album is certified 3× platinum by the RIAA for shipments of 3 million copies.

        The album produced four chart singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, all of which were Top Ten hits. "Want To" and "Settlin'" (respectively the first and second singles) were both Number One hits, with the former being their first U.S. Number One. "Everyday America", the third single, was a Nº 9 on the country charts and was used on the TV series Good Morning America. The final single was the acoustic ballad "Stay", which peaked at Nº 2.

I've been sitting here staring at the clock on the wall

And I've been laying here praying, praying she won't call

It's just another call from home

And you'll get it and be gone

And I'll be crying

 

And I'll be begging you, baby

Beg you not to leave

But I'll be left here waiting

With my heart on my sleeve

Oh, for the next time we'll be here

Seems like a million years

And I think I'm dying

 

What do I have to do to make you see

She can't love you like me?

 

Why don't you stay

I'm down on my knees

I'm so tired of being lonely

Don't I give you what you need?

When she calls you to go

There is one thing you should know

We don't have to live this way

Baby, why don't you stay?

 

You keep telling me, baby

There will come a time

When you will leave her arms

And forever be in mine

But I don't think that's the truth

And I don't like being used and I'm tired of waiting

It's too much pain to have to bear

To love a man you have to share

 

Why don't you stay

I'm down on my knees

I'm so tired of being lonely

Don't I give you what you need?

When she calls you to go

There is one thing you should know

We don't have to live this way

Baby, why don't you stay?

 

I can't take it any longer

But my will is getting stronger

And I think I know just what I have to do

I can't waste another minute

After all that I've put in it

I've given you my best

Why does she get the best of you?

So next time you find you wanna leave her bed for mine

 

Why don't you stay

I'm up off my knees

I'm so tired of being lonely

You can't give me what I need

When she begs you not to go

There is one thing you should know

I don't have to live this way

Baby, why don't you stay? Yeah

Oh! Oh! oh!