I’M LIKE A BIRD

NELLY FURTADO

SONGWRITER: NELLY FURTADO

COUNTRY: CANADA

ALBUM: WHOA, NELLY

LABEL: DREAMWORKS

GENRE: COUNTRY

YEAR: 2000

 

      Whoa, Nelly! is the debut studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado. It was released in North America on October 24, 2000, by DreamWorks Records. Recording sessions for the album took place from 1999 to 2000. It peaked at number twenty-four on the US Billboard 200 chart, and opened to critical acclaim. It produced three international singles: "I'm Like a Bird", "Turn Off the Light" and "Shit on the Radio (Remember the Days)". "Party's Just Begun (Again)" was a club-only single released exclusively in the US before the album's availability in stores, and it was included on the soundtrack of the 1999 film Brokedown Palace. When "Party's Just Begun (Again)" was released, Furtado's label was unsure about the genre in which to market her. They eventually remixed "Party's Just Begun (Again)" and included it on this album as "Party". The DreamWorks label released "Trynna Finda Way" as the fourth single in Mexico and South America, and "Hey, Man!" as the fourth single in the UK and Germany. The album spent seventy-eight weeks on the Billboard 200. It hit double-platinum status in the US in January 2002.

    After the release of the album, Furtado headlined the Burn in the Spotlight Tour and appeared on Moby's Area:One tour. According to Maclean's magazine, Whoa, Nelly! has sold 5-6 million copies Worldwide as of 2006. The album also caught the eye of record producer Timbaland, who later signed Furtado to his record label. 

You're beautiful, that's for sure

You'll never, ever fade

You're lovely, but it's not for sure

That I won't ever change

And though my love is rare

Though my love is true

 

I'm like a bird, I only fly away

I don't know where my soul is

I don't know where my home is

And baby, all I need for you to know is

I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away

I don't know where my soul is

I don't know where my home is

All I need for you to know is

 

Your faith in me brings me to tears

Even after all these years end

And it pains me so much to tell that you don't know me that well

And though my love is rare

Though my love is true

 

I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away

I don't know where my soul is

I don't know where my home is

And baby, all I need for you to know is

I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away (fly away)

I don't know where my soul is (soul is)

I don't know where my home is

And baby, all I need for you to know is

 

It's not that I wanna' say goodbye

It's just that every time you try

To tell me, me that you love me, oh

Each and every single day

I know I'm going to have to eventually give you away

And though my love is rare, rare, rare

And though my love is true, yeah

I'm just scared that we may fall through

 

Yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah

I'm like a bird (I'm like a bird)

I don't know where my soul is (soul is)

I don't know where my home is

 

And baby, all I need for you to know is

I'm like a bird

I'll only fly away

I don't know where my soul is (soul is)

I don't know where my home

 

And baby, all I need for you to know isI'm like a bird, I'll only fly away

I don't know where my soul is (soul is)

I don't know where my home is

And baby, all I need for you to know is

 

I'm like a bird, I only fly away

I don't know where my soul is (soul is)

I don't know where my home is

And baby, all I need for you to know is

I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away

I don't know where my soul is (soul is)

I don't know where my home is

And baby, all I need for you to know is

 

I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away

I don't know where my soul is (soul is)

I don't know where my home is.

 I WILL ALWAYS RETURN

BRYAN ADAMS

SONGWRITERS: LANGE ROBERT JOHN; ADAMS BRYAN & ZIMMER HANS FLORIAN

COUNTRY: CANADA

ALBUM: SPIRIT STALLION OF THE CIMARRON

LABEL: A & M RECORDS

GENRE: ROCK

YEAR: 2002

 

       Bryan Guy Adams(born 5 November 1959) is a Canadian guitarist, singer, composer, record producer, and photographer. Adams has sold between 75 and 100 million records and singles worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Adams was the most played artist on Canadian radio in the 2010s and has had 25 Top 15 singles in Canada, and a dozen or more in each of the US, UK, and Australia.

          Adams joined his first band at age 15, and at age 20 his eponymous debut album was released. He rose to fame in North America with the 1983 Top 10 album Cuts Like a Knife, featuring its title track and the ballad "Straight From the Heart", his first US Top 10 hit. His 1984 album, Reckless, made him a global star with tracks like "Run to You" and "Summer of '69", both Top 10 hits in the US and Canada, and the power ballad "Heaven", a US number 1 hit. His 1987 album Into the Fire went to number 2 in Canada and the Top 10 in several other countries.

         Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron is a soundtrack album and the ninth studio album by Bryan Adams and Hans Zimmer to the animated feature of the same name. The album was released on May 24, 2002 (see 2002 in music) and includes the European hit, "Here I Am".

      Both the English and French versions of the album have Bryan Adams as the singer.

       The German vocals were provided by Hartmut Engler, lead singer of the German pop band Pur.

       Spanish vocals in the European version of the soundtrack were recorded by singer Raúl Malo.

    Spanish vocals in the Latin version of the soundtrack were recorded by Mexican singer Erik Rubin.

I hear the wind call your name
It calls me back home again
It sparks up the fire, a flame that still burns
Oh, it's to you, I'll always return, yeah
 
I still feel your breath on my skin
I hear your voice deep within
The sound of my lover, a feeling so strong
Oh, it's to you, I'll always belong
 
Now I know it's true, yeah
My every road leads to you
And in the hour of darkness, darling
Your light gets me through
 
Wanna swim in your river
Be warm by your sun
Bathe in your waters
'Cause you are the one
 
I can't stand the distance
I can't dream alone
I can't wait to see you
Yes, I'm on my way home
I'm on my way
 
Oh, I hear the wind call your name
The sound that leads me home again
It sparks up the fire, a flame that still burns
Oh, it's to you I will always return
 
Wanna swim in your river
Be warm by your sun
Bathe in your waters
'Cause you are the one
 
I can't stand the distance
I can't dream alone
I can't wait to see you
'Cause I'm on my way home
 
Oh, I hear the wind call your name
The sound that leads me home again
It sparks up the fire, a flame that still burns
Yeah, I'm on way, I will always return
Yes, I will always return
 
I've seen every sunset
And with all that I've learned, oh
It's to you I will always, always return.

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.