LE TÉLÉPHONE PLEURE

CLAUDE FRANÇOIS
COMPOSITEURES: FRANK THOMAS & JEAN PIERRE BOUTRAYRE
PAYS: EGYPTEXFRANCE
ALBUM: LE MAL-AIMÉ
RECORD: DISQUES FLÈCHE
GENRE: CHANSON FRANÇAISE
ANNÉE: 1974
 
      Claude François, surnommé «Cloclo», né le 1er février 1939 à Ismaïlia(Égypte) et mort accidentellement le 11 mars 1978 à Paris 16e, a ÉtAIT un chanteur, danseur, musicien et producteur musical français des années 1960 et 1970.
         Lors de ses quinze années de carrière, il est un des artistes français les plus appréciés du public. Nombre de ses chansons sont restées célèbres, comme Belles ! Belles! Belles!, Cette année-là, Le Lundi au soleil, Le téléphone pleure, Magnolias for Ever, Alexandrie Alexandra ou encore Comme d'habitude(My Way en version anglaise).
       Le téléphone pleure est une chanson interprétée par Claude François en duo avec la petite Frédérique Barkoff, fille de sa comptable Nicole Gruyer et de l'agent artistique Jean-Paul Barkoff, publiée par les disques Flèche en octobre 1974.
          Les paroles sont de Frank Thomas et la musique de Jean-Pierre Bourtayre. Elle est inspirée d'une chanson américaine de George Jones et Tammy Wynette, The Telephone Call, sortie début 1974 sur l'album George and Tammy and Tina1. Toutefois, il y a une différence entre les deux chansons, dans le scénario. La version qu'interprète Claude François a été inspirée par Jean-Pierre Bourtayre, qui venait de voir le film L'Épouvantail, où l'on voit dans une scène Al Pacino parler avec sa fille au téléphone, alors qu'elle-même ignore que celui qui lui parle est son père. Dans The Telephone Call, la fille sait que celui qui lui parle est son père.
Allô
Écoute maman est près de toi
Il faut lui dire "maman, c'est quelqu'un pour toi"
Ah, c'est le monsieur de la dernière fois
Bon, je vais la chercher
Je crois qu'elle est dans son bain
Et je sais pas si elle va pouvoir venir
 
Dis-lui, je t'en prie, dis-lui c'est important
Et il attend
Dis, tu lui as fait quelque chose à ma maman
Elle me fait toujours des grands signes
Et elle me dire toujours tout bas "fais croire que je suis pas là"
 
Raconte-moi comment est ta maison?
Apprends-tu bien chaque soir toutes tes leçons?
Oh oui, mais comme maman travaille
C'est la voisine qui m'emmène à l'école
Et y a qu'une signature sur mon carnet
Les autres ont celles de leur papa, pas moi
 
Oh dis-lui que j'ai mal
Si mal depuis six ans
Et c'est ton âge, mon enfant
Ah non, moi, j'ai cinq ans
Mais dis, tu la connaissais ma maman avant
Pourtant elle m'a jamais parlé de toi
Tu restes là, hein?
 
Le téléphone pleure quand elle ne vient pas
Quand je lui crie je t'aime
Les mots se meurent dans l'écouteur
Oui, le téléphone pleure, ne raccroche pas
Je suis si près de toi avec la voix
 
Seras-tu aux prochaines vacances à l'hôtel Beau
Rivage?
Aimes-tu la plage?
Oh oui, j'adore me baigner, maintenant je sais nager
Mais dis donc, comment tu connais l'hôtel Beau-Rivage
Tu y as été toi, à Sainte-Maxime?
 
Oh, dis-lui toute ma peine
Combien toutes les deux, moi, je vous aime
Tu nous aimes, mais je t'ai jamais vu, moi
Et qu'est-ce que t'as, pourquoi t'as changé de voix
Mais tu pleures, pourquoi?
 
Le téléphone pleure quand elle ne vient pas
Quand je lui crie je t'aime
Les mots se meurent dans l'écouteur
Le téléphone pleure, non ne raccroche pas
Je suis si près de toi avec la voix
 
Dis, écoute-moi
Oui le téléphone pleure pour la dernière fois
Car je serai demain au fond d'un train
Dis, mais retiens-la, mais elle s'en va
Allons insiste, elle est partie
Si elle est partie, alors tant pis
 
Au revoir, monsieur
Au revoir, petite.

WHAT CAN I DO

THE CORRS
SONGWRITERS: ANDREA JANE CORR; CAROLINE CORR; JAMES CORR & SHARON CORR
COUNTRY: IRELAND
ALBUM: TALK ON CORNERS
LABEL: ATLANTIC RECORDS
GENRE: POP ROCK
YEAR: 1998
 
          The Corrs are an Irish family band that combine pop rock with traditional Irish themes within their music. The group consists of the Corr siblings, Andrea(lead vocals, tin whistle, ukulele), Sharon(violin, keyboards, vocals), Caroline(drums, percussion, piano, bodhrán, vocals) and Jim(guitar, piano, keyboards, vocals). They are from Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland.
        The Corrs have released seven studio albums and numerous singles, which have reached Platinum in many countries, and have sold 40 million albums worldwide. Talk on Corners, their most successful album to date, reached multi-Platinum status in Australia, and in the UK it was the highest selling album of the year. The band is one of only a handful of acts who have held the top two positions simultaneously in the UK album charts, with Talk on Corners at number one and Forgiven, Not Forgotten at number two. The latter was the year's third highest selling album in Australia. Their third studio album, In Blue, went to number one in seventeen countries.
    The Corrs have been actively involved in philanthropic activities. They have performed in numerous charity concerts, such as The Prince's Trust event in 2004 and Live 8 alongside Bono of U2 in 2005. The same year, they were awarded honorary MBEs for their contributions to music and charity. The band was inactive for almost ten years because Jim and Caroline were raising families, while Andrea and Sharon were pursuing solo careers while raising families of their own. According to Sharon, it was uncertain if and when The Corrs would reunite. Rumours of a reunion sparked in early 2015 and in a radio interview with Chris Evans in June 2015, Andrea confirmed that The Corrs were working on a new album and would play the BBC Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park festival. Their sixth studio album, White Light, was released on 27 November 2015, and was accompanied by a European tour. After two years, their seventh studio album, Jupiter Calling, was released on 10 November 2017.
         "What Can I Do" is a song by Irish band the Corrs, from their breakthrough album Talk on Corners(1997). The song was originally released in January 1998, but its moderate charting success was limited, due to the time of the shooting of the video. However, it was later re-released in August that year in a remixed form by Tin Tin Out, which generated more attention, particularly in the UK where it reached Nº 3, and became one of the band's most known hits worldwide. The song received generally favorable reviews from music critics, some of whom felt it was not as strong as their previous songs. An accompanying music video was released, which was shot in New Zealand during their world tour.
Do do do do do do do do do do do
Do do do do do do do do do do do
 
I haven't slept at all in days
It's been so long since we've talked
And I have been here many times
I just don't know what I'm doing wrong
 
What can I do to make you love me
What can I do to make you care
What can I say to make you feel this
What can I do to get you there
 
There's only so much I can take
And I just got to let it go
And who knows I might feel better, yeah
If I don't try and I don't hope
 
What can I do to make you love me
What can I do to make you care
What can I say to make you feel this
What can I do to get you there
 
No more waiting, no more, aching
No more fighting, no more, trying
 
Maybe there's nothing more to say
And in a funny way I'm calm
Because the power is not mine
I'm just going to let it fly
 
What can I do to make you love me (what can I do to make you love me)
What can I do to make you care (what can I do to make you care)
What can I say to make you feel this (what can I do to make you love me)
What can I do to get you there (what can I do to make you care)
What can I do to make you love me (what can I do to make you love me)
What can I do to make you care (what can I do to make you care)
What can I change to make you feel this (what can I do to make you love me)
What can I do to get you there (what can I do to make you care)
 
And love me
Love me, love me
Love me, love me
Love me, love me
Love me, love me
Love me, love me
Love me, love me.

THE BEST OF MY LOVE

THE EAGLES
SONGWRITERS: DON HENLEY; GLENN LEWIS FREY & JOHN DAVID SOUTHER
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: ON THE BORDER
LABEL: ASYLUM RECORDS
GENRE: ROCK
YEAR: 1974
 
          The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1971. With five number-one singles and six number-one albums, six Grammy Awards and five American Music Awards, the Eagles were one of the most successful musical acts of the 1970s in North America. Founding members Glenn Frey(guitars, vocals), Don Henley (drums, vocals), Bernie Leadon(guitars, vocals) and Randy Meisner(bass guitar, vocals) were recruited by Linda Ronstadt as band members, some touring with her, and all playing on her third solo album, before venturing out on their own on David Geffen's new Asylum Records label.
      Their debut, Eagles(1972), spawned two top-20 singles in the US and Canada: "Take It Easy" and "Witchy Woman". The next year's follow-up, Desperado, only peaked at number 41 in the US, although "Desperado" became a popular track. In 1974, guitarist Don Felder joined, and On the Border produced the top 40 hit "Already Gone" and the Eagles' first number-one song in the US and Canada, "Best of My Love", which made the top 15 in Australia, their first hit overseas. In 1975, the álbum One of These Nights became their first number-one album in the US and a top-10 album in many countries. It included the US number-one hit "One of These Nights", which was their first top-10 hit outside of North America, and US top-five songs "Lyin' Eyes" and "Take It to the Limit". Also in 1975, guitarist and vocalist Joe Walsh replaced Leadon.
       Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975)(1976) is the best-selling album in the United States, with 38 million sold, and primed the public for the late 1976 release of Hotel California, which would sell more than 26million copies in the US (ranking 3rd all-time for US sales), and more than 32million copies worldwide. The album yielded two number-one singles in the US and Canada, "New Kid in Town" and "Hotel California", the latter of which became their only top-10 hit in the United Kingdom, while also reaching the top 10 in New Zealand and many European countries, including number two in France.
        Meisner was replaced by Timothy B. Schmit in 1977. The Eagles released their last studio album for nearly 28 years in 1979 with The Long Run, spawning the North American number-one song "Heartache Tonight", which became their biggest hit in Australia (number 13), and the North American top-10 hits "The Long Run" and "I Can't Tell You Why". The Eagles broke up in 1980 but reunited in 1994 for the álbum Hell Freezes Over, a mix of live and new studio tracks, and toured consistently. In 2007, the Eagles released Long Road Out of Eden, their sixth number-one album in the US, and in 2008 launched the Long Road Out of Eden Tour. In 2013, they began the extended History of the Eagles Tour in conjunction with the documentary release, History of the Eagles. Following Frey's death in January 2016, the Eagles re-formed in 2017, with Glenn's son Deacon Frey and Vince Gill sharing lead vocals for Frey's songs.
        The Eagles are one of the world's best-selling bands, having sold more than 200million records, including 100million sold in US alone. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 and were ranked number 75 on Rolling Stone's 2004 list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time".
      On the Border is the third studio album by American rock group the Eagles, released in 1974. Apart from two songs produced by Glyn Johns, it was produced by Bill Szymczyk because the group wanted a more rock‑oriented sound instead of the country-rock feel of the first two albums. It is the first Eagles album to feature guitarist Don Felder. On the Border reached number 17 on the Billboard album chart and has sold two million copies.
      Three singles were released from the album: "Already Gone", "James Dean" and "Best of My Love". The singles peaked at numbers 32, 77 and 1 respectively. "Best of My Love" became the band's first of five chart toppers. The album also includes "My Man", Bernie Leadon's tribute to his deceased friend Gram Parsons. Leadon and Parsons had played together in the pioneer country rock band Flying Burrito Brothers, before Leadon joined the Eagles.
      This is the first album by the Eagles to be released in Quadraphonic surround sound. It was released on Quadraphonic 8-track tape and CD-4 LP. A hidden message carved into the run out groove of some vinyl LPs reads: "He who hesitates is lunch".
Every night i'm lyin' in bed
Holdin' you close in my dreams
Thinkin' about all the things that we said
Comin' apart at the seams
We try to talk it over
But the words come out too rough
I know you were tryin' to give me the best of your love
 
Beautiful faces and loud empty places
Look at the way that we live
Wastin' our time on cheap talk and wine
Left us so little to give
That same old crowd was like a cold dark cloud
That we could never rise above
But here in my heart
I give you the best of my love
Oh... whoa oh sweet darlin'
You get the best of my love
(You get the best of my love)
Oh... whoa oh sweet darlin'
You get the best of my love
(You get the best of my love)
 
I'm goin' back in time and it's a sweet dream
It was a quiet night and I would be all right
If I could go on sleeping
But every mornin' I wake up and worry
What's gonna happen today?
You see it your way I see it mine
But we both see it slippin' away
 
You know we always had each other baby
(Ooh...) I guess that wasn't enough oh-oh ooh whoa
But here in my heart
I give you the best of my love
Oh... whoa oh sweet darlin'
You get the best of my love
(The best of my love) Oh... whoa oh sweet darlin'
You get the best of my love
(The best of my love) Oh... whoa oh sweet darlin'
Every night and day
You get the best of my love
(The best of my love) Oh... whoa oh sweet darlin'
Oh-oh oh-oh
You get the best of my love
(The best of my love) Oh... whoa oh sweet darlin'
You get the best of my love
(You get the best of my love)
The best of my love Oh... whoa oh sweet darlin'
Mmm-mmm mmm-mmm-mmm
You get the best of my love
(The best of my love) Oh... whoa oh sweet darlin'
You got it
You got it.

A LOVE SO BEAUTIFUL

ROY ORBISON
SONGWRITERS: ROY ORBISON & JEFF LYNNE
COUNTRY: U. S.A
ALBUM: ROY ORBISON WITH THE ROYAL PHILARMONIC ORCHESTRA
LABEL: ROY’S BOYS
GENRE: ORCHESTRAL POP
YEAR: 2017
 
          Roy Kelton Orbison(April 23, 1936– December 6, 1988) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician known for his impassioned singing style, complex song structures, and dark, emotional ballads. His music was described by critics as operatic, earning him the nicknames "the Caruso of Rock" and "the Big O." Many of Orbison's songs conveyed vulnerability at a time when most male rock-and-roll performers chose to project defiant masculinity. He performed while standing motionless and wearing black clothes to match his dyed black hair and dark sunglasses, which he wore to counter his shyness and stage fright.
     Born in Texas, Orbison began singing in a rockabilly and country-and-western band as a teenager. He was signed by Sam Phillips of Sun Records in 1956, but enjoyed his greatest success with Monument Records. From 1960 to 1966, 22 of Orbison's singles reached the Billboard Top 40. He wrote or co-wrote almost all of his own Top 10 hits, including "Only the Lonely" (1960), "Running Scared" (1961), "Crying" (1961), "In Dreams" (1963), and "Oh, Pretty Woman" (1964).
             After the mid-1960s, Orbison suffered a number of personal tragedies and his career faltered. He experienced a resurgence in popularity in the 1980s following the success of several cover versions of his songs. In 1988, he co-founded the Traveling Wilburys(a rock supergroup) with George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Jeff Lynne. Orbison died of a heart attack in December 1988 at age 52. One month later, his song "You Got It" (1989) was released as a solo single, becoming his first hit to reach the US & UK Top 10 in nearly 25 years.
         Orbison's honors include inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987, the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1989, and the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2014. He received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and five other Grammy Awards. Rolling Stone placed him at number 37 on its list of the "Greatest Artists of All Time" and number 13 on its list of the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time". In 2002, Billboard magazine listed him at number 74 on its list of the Top 600 recording artists.
            A Love So Beautiful is a compilation album by American singer Roy Orbison. It was released on November 3, 2017 by Roy's Boys, Monument, Legacy, Sony. The album features archival vocal recordings of Orbison accompanied by new orchestral arrangements by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. It also features a duet with English country duo Ward Thomas.
         A Love So Beautiful debuted and peaked at number 2 on the UK Albums Chart, becoming Orbison's highest charting album for almost 30 years.
            "Oh, Pretty Woman" opens with a guitar strum played by Orbison's grandson Roy III, then aged about ten months
The summer sun went down on our love long ago
But in my heart I feel the same old after glow
A love so beautiful in every way
A love so beautiful we let it slip away
 
We were all too young to understand to ever know
That lovers drift apart and that's the way love goes
A love so beautiful a love so free
A love so beautiful a love for you and me
And when I think of you I fall in love again
 
A love so beautiful we let it slip away
A love so beautiful in every way
A love so beautiful we let it slip away