POUR QUE TU M’AIMES ENCORE

CELINE DION
COMPOSITEURES: JEAN-JACQUES GOLDMAN; ERICK BENZI & PHIL GALDSTON
PAYS: CANADA
ALBUM: D’EUX
RECORD: COLUMBIA RECORDS
GENRE: POP
ANNÉE: 1996
 
  Céline Dion, née le 30 mars 1968 à Charlemagne(Québec), est une chanteuse québécoise.
         Dernière d'une famille de quatorze enfants, elle connaît un succès presque immédiat dans sa province d'origine, le Québec, dès 1981 avec la chanson Ce n'était qu'un rêve. Une série d'albums francophones, dans les années 1980, consolide sa popularité au Québec, alors que le titre D'amour ou d'amitié(1983) lui vaut sa première exposition en France. Elle acquiert sa première renommée internationale en gagnant le Concours Eurovision de la chanson 1988 durant lequel elle représente la Suisse avec la chanson Ne partez pas sans moi. Elle apprend ensuite l'anglais, change de style vestimentaire et signe un contrat chez Epic Records aux États-Unis. Son premier album anglophone, Unison, sort en 1990 et l'établit comme une artiste pop importante sur les marchés nord-américains et anglo-saxons.
          D'eux(ou The French Album aux États-Unis), est le quinzième album de Céline Dion, sorti le 28 mars 1995. Écrit et réalisé par Jean-Jacques Goldman, il est l'album francophone le plus vendu de l'histoire de la musique et est certifié «disque de diamant» en France en 1995.
You're the bravest of hearts
You're the strongest of souls
You're my light in the dark
You're the place I call home
 
You can say it's all right
But I know that you're breaking up inside
I see it in your eyes
Even you face the night
Afraid and alone
That's why I'll be there
 
When the storm rises up
When the shadows descend
Every beat of my heart
Every day without end
 
Every second I live
That's the promise I make
Baby, that's what I'll give
If that's what it takes
If that's what it takes
 
You can sleep in my arms
You don't have to explain
When your heart's crying out
Baby, whisper my name
 
'Cause I've reached out for you
When the thunder is crashing up above
You've given me your love
When you smile like the sun
That shines through the rain
That's why I'll be there
 
When the storm rises up
When the shadows descend
Every beat of my heart
Every day without end
 
I will stand like a rock
I will bend 'til I break
'Til there's no more to give
If that's what it takes
 
I will risk everything
I will fight, I will bleed
I will lay down my life
If that's what you need
 
Every second I live
That's the promise I make
Baby, that's what I'll give
If that's what it takes
 
Through the wind and the rain
Through the smoke and the fire
When the fear rises up
When the wave's ever higher
 
I will lay down my heart
My body, my soul
I will hold on all night
And never let go
 
Every second I live
That's the promise I make
Baby, that's what I'll give
If that's what it takes
 
If that's what it takes
Whatever it takes
Whatever it takes
If that's what it takes
Oh ooh
Whatever, whatever it takes. 

YOU’RE SMILING FACE

JAMES TAYLOR
SONGWRITER: JAMES TAYLOR
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ÁLBUM: JT
LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS
GENRE: SOFT ROCK
YEAR: 1977
 
          James Vernon Taylor(born March 12, 1948) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. A six-time Grammy Award winner, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 100 million records worldwide.
            Taylor achieved his breakthrough in 1970 with the Nº 3 single "Fire and Rain" and had his first Nº 1 hit in 1971 with his recording of "You've Got a Friend", written by Carole King in the same year. His 1976 Greatest Hits album was certified Diamond and has sold 12 million copies in the US alone. Following his 1977 album JT, he has retained a large audience over the decades. Every album that he released from 1977 to 2007 sold over 1 million copies. He enjoyed a resurgence in chart performance during the late 1990s and 2000s, when he recorded some of his most-awarded work (including Hourglass, October Road, and Covers). He achieved his first number-one album in the US in 2015 with his recording Before This World.
Taylor is also known for his covers, such as "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)" and "Handy Man", as well as originals such as "Sweet Baby James". He played the leading role in Monte Hellman's 1971 film Two-Lane Blacktop.
          "Your Smiling Face" is a hit single by singer James Taylor. First available on the álbum JT, and released as the album's sophomore single in September 1977, "Your Smiling Face" peaked at number 11 in Cash Box magazine and at 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 near year's end. It reached number 11 on the RPM Top Singles chart in Canada. On Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart, it reached number 6.
Whenever I see your smiling face
I have to smile myself
Because I love you, yes, I do
And when you give me that pretty little pout
It turns me inside out
There's something about you, baby
I don't know
 
Isn't it amazing a man like me
Can feel this way
Tell me how much longer
It could grow stronger every day
Oh, how much longer?
 
I thought I was in love a couple of times
Before with the girl next door
But that was long before I met you
Now I'm sure that I won't forget you
And I thank my lucky stars
That you are who you are
And not just another lovely lady
Set out to break my heart
 
Isn't it amazing a man like me
Can feel this way
Tell me how much longer
It could grow stronger every day
How much longer?
 
No one can tell me that I'm doing wrong today, whenever I see you smile at me
No one can tell me that I'm doing wrong today
Whenever I see your smiling face my way
No one can tell me that I'm doing it wrong today
No one can tell me that I'm doing it wrong today, no, no, darling
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la la
Ye, ye, ye, ye, ye, ye, ye, ye, ye, ye.

HOW CAN I TELL HER

LOBO
SONGWRITER: KENT LA VOIE
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: CALUMET
LABEL: BIG TREE RECORDS
GENRE: SOFT ROCK
YEAR: 1973
 
      Roland Kent LaVoie(born July 31, 1943), better known by his stage name Lobo(which is a Spanish word for wolf), is an American singer-songwriter who was successful in the early 1970s, scoring several U.S. Top 10 hits including "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo", "I'd Love You to Want Me", and "Don't Expect Me to Be Your Friend". These three songs, along with "Where Were You When I Was Falling in Love", gave Lobo four chart toppers on the Easy Listening/Hot Adult Contemporary chart.
          "How Can I Tell Her" is a song by American singer-songwriter Lobo, from his third studio album Calumet. The song reached Nº 22 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and Nº 4 on the Adult Contemporary chart.
She knows when I am lonesome
She cries when I am sad
She's up in the good times
She's down in the bad
Whenever I am discouraged
She knows just what to do
But girl,
She doesn't know about you
 
I can tell her my troubles
She makes them all seem right
I can make up excuses
Not to hold her at night
We can talk of tomorrow
I'll tell her things that I wanna do
But girl,
How can I tell her about you?
 
How can I tell her about you?
Girl, please tell me what to do
Everything seems right whenever I'm with you
So girl, won't you tell me
How to tell her about you
 
How can I tell her I don't miss her
Whenever I am away
How can I say it's you I think of
Every single night and day
But when is it easy telling someone the truth
Oh girl, help me tell her about you
 
How can I tell her about you?
Girl, please tell me what to do
Everything seems right whenever I'm with you
So girl, won't you tell me
How to tell her about you.

PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH WIND

KANSAS
SONGWRITERS: KERRY A. LIVGREN & KERRY LIVGREN
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: MONOLITH
LABEL: KIRSHNER
GENRE: PROGRESSIVE ROCK
YEAR: 1979
 
       Kansas is an American rock band that became popular in the 1970s initially on album-oriented rock charts and later with hit singles such as "Carry On Wayward Son" and "Dust in the Wind". The band has produced nine gold albums, three multi-platinum albums (Leftoverture 4×, Point of Know Return 4×, and The Best of Kansas 4×), one other platinum studio album (Monolith), one platinum live double album (Two for the Show), and a million-selling single, "Dust in the Wind". Kansas appeared on the Billboard charts for over 200 weeks throughout the 1970s and 1980s and played to sold-out arenas and stadiums throughout North America, Europe and Japan. "Carry On Wayward Son" was the second-most-played track on US classic rock radio in 1995 and No. 1 in 1997.
           Monolith is the sixth studio album by American progressive rock band Kansas, released in 1979 (see 1979 in music). The album was remastered and reissued in 2011, as a Japanese import vinyl-replica Blu-spec CD (Epic EICP 20078) including the rarity live version of "On the Other Side" previously available only on the 1994 Legacy-issued Box Set. A domestic version of the remaster was released in standard CD format in the US as part of Legacy Recordings' Classic Album Collection series which included all of their Kirshner/CBS studio releases. A Dutch-issued "Music on CD" series released the album on CD in 2016. It was last of the albums with the original lineup to be re-released on vinyl. Three different colored vinyl versions appeared in 2018 and 2019.
There are some who can still remembre
All the things that we used to do
But the days of our youth were numbered
And the ones who survive it are few
Oh, I can still see the smiling faces
When the times were so good
All in the old familiar places
I'd go back if I could (to the)
 
People of the south wind, people of the southern wind
It's the people of the wind, I got to be there again
 
Well, it's a hard thing to face the music:
But it's something everybody has got to do
So I hope that I can always remember
All the crazy times we had to go through
Now it's a dream that is slowly fading
And I don't want it to go
All of the memories are evading
And I want you to know (it's the)
 
People of the south wind, people of the southern wind
It's the people of the wind, I got to be there again
 
Now we've traveled all across the oceans
And we've seen what there is to see
But I guess it's not the proper solution
Cause it's all about the same to me
Now I look back and it makes me wonder
Why we just couldn't see
All of the battles we fought and won there
And I wish that I could be with the
 
People of the wind
I want to see 'em again
It's where we used to be free
And that's the place for me
It's just a state of my mind
A thing that's so hard to find.