LAISSE MOI VIVRE MA VIE

FRÉDERIC FRANÇOIS
COMPOSITEURES: FRÉDÉRIC FRANÇOIS & R. MARINO ATRIA
PAYS: FRANCE
ALBUM: LE DOUBLE DISQUE D’OR DE FRÉDERIC FRANÇOIS
RECORD: VOGUE LDA
GENRE: POP
ANNÉE: 1976
 
      Frédéric François(born Francesco Barracato; 3 June 1950 in Lercara Friddi, Sicily, Italy), is a French-speaking singer-composer living in Belgium.
        Born on 3 June 1950 in Lercara Friddi in Sicily, in a very modest Italian family, he is the second child of Antonina (Nina) Salemi and Giuseppe (Peppino) Barracato. His mother was a seamstress in Lercara and his father was initially a miner in a sulphur mine in Lercara. He emigrated to Belgium in the coal basin of Liège, where he signed a three-year contract as a miner. In 1951, Nina and her two sons joined Giuseppe in Tilleur in a Red Cross Convoy. Francesco Barracato grew up in a family of eight children. Peppino used to sing Neapolitan songs and opera arias for pleasure and accompanied himself on the guitar. Young Francesco was only 10 when he sang O Sole Mio for the first time in public in a café frequented mostly by Sicilians in Tilleur, "Le Passage à Niveau" 
Laisse-Moi Vivre Ma Vie,
Non, je ne regrette rien,
Je ne veux plus être celui,
Qui ne connaît que des chagrins,
Laisse-Moi Vivre Ma Vie,
Si tu m'aimes encore un peu,
Fermes ta porte cette nuit,
Ça vaut mieux pour tous les deux.
Comme tu as changé,
Tu n'est plus la petite fille,
Que j'ai tant aimé,
Et que je trouvais si gentille,
Que de temps perdu
Depuis que nous vivons ensembles,
Pourtant au début,
Tu me disais comme on se ressemble.
Laisse-Moi Vivre Ma Vie,
Et redevenir un homme,
Je ne sais plus où j'en suis,
Je ne connais plus personne.
Comme tu as changé,
Tu n'est plus la petite fille,
Que j'ai tant aimé,
Et que je trouvais si gentille,
Que de temps perdu
Depuis que nous vivons ensembles,
Pourtant au début,
Tu me disais comme on se ressemble.
Laisse-Moi Vivre Ma Vie,
Ne me retiens surtout pas,
Si je reste encore une nuit,
Je n'aurais plus confiance en moi.

ON LONDON BRIDGE

JO STAFFORD
SONGWRITERS: ROY C. BENNETT & SID TEPPER
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: INTERNATIONAL HITS
LABEL: CORINTHIAN RECORDS
GENRE: TRADITIONAL POP
YEAR: 2001
 
     Jo Elizabeth Stafford(November 12, 1917–July 16, 2008) was an American traditional pop music singer and occasional actress, whose career spanned five decades from the late 1930s to the early 1980s. Admired for the purity of her voice, she originally underwent classical training to become na opera singer before following a career in popular music, and by 1955 had achieved more worldwide record sales than any other female artist. Her 1952 song "You Belong to Me" topped the charts in the United States and United Kingdom, becoming the second single to top the UK Singles Chart, and the first by a female artist to do so.
        Born in remote oil rich Coalinga, California, near Bakersfield in the San Joaquin Valley, Stafford made her first musical appearance at age 12. While still at high school, she joined her two older sisters to form a vocal trio named the Stafford Sisters, who found moderate success on radio and in film. In 1938, while the sisters were part of the cast of Twentieth Century Fox's production of Alexander's Ragtime Band, Stafford met the future members of the Pied Pipers and became the group's lead singer. Bandleader Tommy Dorsey hired them in 1939 to perform back-up vocals for his orchestra.
       In addition to her recordings with the Pied Pipers, Stafford featured in solo performances for Dorsey. After leaving the group in 1944, she recorded a series of pop standards for Capitol Records and Columbia Records. Many of her recordings were backed by the orchestra of Paul Weston. She also performed duets with Gordon MacRae and Frankie Laine. Her work with the United Service Organizations giving concerts for soldiers during World War II earned her the nickname "G.I. Jo". Starting in 1945, Stafford was a regular host of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) radio series The Chesterfield Supper Club and later appeared in television specials—including two series called The Jo Stafford Show, in 1954 in the U.S. and in 1961 in the UK.
        International Hits is a 2001 compilation album of songs recorded by American singer Jo Stafford. It was released on January 1, 2001, by Corinthian Records, the company founded by Stafford and her husband Paul Weston
I walked on London Bridge last night
I saw you by the lamppost light
Then bells rang out in sleepy London town
And London Bridge came tumbling down
 
The sky was hidden by a mist
But just like magic when we kissed
The moon and stars were shining all around
When London Bridge came tumbling down
 
Just you and I over the river
Two hearts suspended in space
And there so high over the river
A miracle took place
 
Two empty arms found love to hold
Two smoke rings turned to rings of gold
I bless the night we met in London town
When London Bridge came tumbling down
 
Just you and I over the river
Two hearts suspended in space
And there so high over the river
A miracle took place
 
I bow my head in silent prayer
And thank Him for the love we share
He blessed the night we met in London town
When London bridge came tumbling down.

THE DREAMING TREE

DAVE MATTHEWS BAND
SONGWRITERS: DAVID JOHN MATTHEWS & STEFAN K. LESSARD
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: BEFORE THESE CROWDED STREETS
LABEL: RCA RECORDS
GENRE: FOLK ROCK
YEAR:1998
 
       Dave Matthews Band(also known by the initials DMB) is an American rock band formed in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1991. The band's founding members were singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave Matthews, bassist Stefan Lessard, drummer and backing vocalist Carter Beauford, violinist and backing vocalist Boyd Tinsley, and saxophonist LeRoi Moore. As of 2022, Matthews, Lessard, and Beauford are the only remaining founding members still performing with the band.
     Dave Matthews Band's 1994 major label debut album, Under the Table and Dreaming, was certified platinum six times. As of 2018, the band had sold more than 25 million concert tickets and a combined total of 38 million CDs and DVDs. Their 2018 album, Come Tomorrow, debuted at Nº 1 on the Billboard 200, making DMB the first band to have seven consecutive studio albums debut at the peak. The band won the 1996 Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group for "So Much to Say".
       A jam band, Dave Matthews Band is renowned for its live shows. The band is known for playing songs differently each performance; this practice has become a staple of their live shows since the early 1990s.
        Before These Crowded Streets is the third studio album by Dave Matthews Band, released on April 28, 1998. It was the last official album by the group to be produced by longtime producer Steve Lillywhite until 2012's Away from the World and their first album recorded at The Plant Recording Studios in Sausalito, California. The album title is taken from the lyrics of the song "The Dreaming Tree." It debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 charts after selling 421,000 units in its first week of release knocking the Titanic soundtrack from the top spot after a run of 16 consecutive weeks at #1.
Standing here
The old man said to me
Long before these crowded streets
Here stood my dreaming tree
Below it he would sit
For hours at a time
Now progress takes away
What forever took to find
And now he's falling hard
He feels the falling dark
How he longs to be
Beneath his dreaming tree
Conquered fear to climb
A moment froze in time
When the girl who first he kissed
Promised him she'd be his
Remembered mother's words
There beneath the tree
No matter what the world
You'll always be my baby
Mommy come quick
The dreaming tree has died
The air is growing thick
A fear he cannot hide
The dreaming tree has died
 
Oh
Have you no pity
This thing I do
I do not deny it
All through this smile
As crooked as danger
I do not deny
I know in my mind
I would leave you now
If I had the strength to
I would leave you up
To your own devices
Will you not talk
Can you take pity
I don't ask much
But won't you speak
Please
 
From the start
She knew she had it made
Easy up 'til then
For sure she'd make the grade
Adorers came in hordes
To lay down in her wake
She gave it all she had
But treasures slowly fade
Now she's falling hard
She feels the fall of dark
How did this fall apart
She drinks to fill it up
A smile of sweetest flowers
Wilted so and soured
Black tears stain the cheeks
That once were so admired
She thinks when she was small
There on her father's knee
How he had promised her
You'll always be my baby
Daddy come quick
The dreaming tree has died
I can't find my way home
There is no place to hide
The dreaming tree has died
 
Oh
If I had the strength to
I would leave you up
To your own devices
Will you not talk
Can you take pity
I don't ask much
But won't you speak
Please
 
Take me back
Take me back
Take me back
Take me back
Take me back
Take me back
Take me back
Save me please.

LO PASADO PASADO

JOSÉ JOSÉ
COMPOSITOR: ALBERTO AGUILERA VALADEZ
PAIS: MÉXICO
ÁLBUM: JOSÉ JOSÉ
DISCOGRÁFICA: ARIOLA RECORDS
GÉNERO: BALADA
AÑO: 1978
 
      José Rómulo Sosa Ortiz(Clavería, Azcapotzalco, Ciudad de México, 17 de febrero de 1948-Homestead, Florida, 28 de septiembre de 2019), conocido como José José, fue un cantante, músico, productor discográfico y actor mexicano. Se le considera como un icono musical en la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Su legado y trayectoria como cantante le valieron el llegar a ser apodado como El Príncipe de la Canción.
        Nacido en una familia de músicos, José comenzó su carrera musical en su adolescencia tocando la guitarra y cantando serenatas. Más tarde se unió a un trío de jazz y bossa nova donde cantó y tocó el bajo y el contrabajo. José encontró el éxito como solista a principios de la década de 1970. Demostrando su habilidad vocal con una impresionante interpretación de la canción «El triste» en el segundo Festival de la Canción Latina celebrado en Ciudad de México en 1970, subió a las listas latinas durante esa década. Habiendo logrado el reconocimiento como baladista, su canto obtuvo la aclamación crítica universal de sus pares musicales y medios de comunicación.
        En la década de los ochenta, después de firmar con Ariola Records, José saltó a la fama internacional como el artista número 1 de México y como uno de los artistas latinos más populares y talentosos. Según datos de Sony BGM, se estima que José José vendió más de 85 millones de copias. Con muchos éxitos internacionales, recibió 9 nominaciones Grammy y numerosos reconocimientos en todo el mundo. Agotó en lugares como Madison Square Garden y Radio City Music Hall donde se ganó el apodo de Mr. Sold Out. Su música llegó a países de habla no española como Japón, Israel y Rusia. También forjó una carrera como actor, protagonizando en películas como Gavilán o paloma(1985), la cual fue una cinta autobiografica sobre su carrera, y Perdóname todo (1995). Adicional a esto, igualmente destaca su participación en la telenovela La fea más bella de 2006.
        Sus presentaciones y estilo vocal influyeron en muchos artistas latinos de diversas partes del mundo en un amplio rango de géneros musicales, en una carrera que abarcó más de cuatro décadas. Debido a su voz y popularidad, José José fue considerado por la audiencia y los medios latinos como un ícono de la música pop latina y uno de los cantantes mexicanos más emblemáticos de su tiempo.
Ya lo pasado pasado, no me interesa (el ayer)
Si antes sufrí y lloré
Todo quedó en el ayer
Ya olvidé (ya olvidé)
Ya olvidé (ya olvidé)
Ya olvidé (ya olvidé)
 
Tengo en la vida por quien vivir, amo y me aman (soy feliz)
Ya nunca más estaré
Solo y triste otra vez
El ayer (ya olvidé)
Ya olvidé (ya olvidé)
(Ya olvidé)
 
Pido un aplauso para el amor que a mí ha llegado
Mil gracias por tanto y tanto amor
Vivo enamorado, hoy me he enamorado
Qué feliz estoy (soy feliz)
 
Ya todo he olvidado
Y a todo el pasado
Ya le dije adiós (ya lo olvidé)
 
Ya olvidé (ya olvidé)
Ya olvidé (ya olvidé)
Ya olvidé (ya olvidé)
 
Pido un aplauso para el amor que a mí ha llegado
Mil gracias por tanto y tanto amor
Vivo enamorado, hoy me he enamorado
Qué feliz estoy (soy feliz)
 
Ya todo he olvidado
A todo el pasado
Ya le dije adiós (ya olvidé)
(Ya olvidé)
(Ya olvidé)
(Ya lo olvidé).