I DON’T WANNA LOSE YOUR LOVE

JOHN O’BANION
SONGWRITER: JOEY CARBONE
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ÁLBUM: DANGER
LABEL: ELEKTRA RECORDS
GENRE: ROCK
YEAR: 1982
 
       John O'Banion(16 February 1947 – 14 February 2007) was an American vocalist and actor.
     O'Banion was born in Kokomo, Indiana in 1947 and was performing in theater by the age of 13 as well as in a local Indiana band Hog Honda & the Chain Guards. By age 15, he hosted his own radio show on WIOU and had hosted his own local television show by age 20.
       O'Banion was the lead singer in Doc Severinsen's band, Today's Children. He was managed by Bud Robinson, also Severinsen's manager. They parted ways in early 1974. O'Banion said that Johnny Carson was a big fan and supporter of his career. O'Banion made five appearances on Carson's Tonight Show, and as many on Merv Griffin's and Mike Douglas' shows. He also appeared on American Bandstand, Solid Gold, and was the winning singer of the pilot of Star Search.
          His song "Love You Like I Never Loved Before" was a hit single in 1981, making it to No. 24 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, Nº 32 in Canada and Nº 51 in Australia. O'Banion won the prestigious Tokyo Music Festival Award in 1982, with "I Don't Want to Lose Your Love", later sung by Crystal Gayle on her 1983 album Cage the Songbird and achieving the No. 2 spot on Billboard's country chart. O'Banion also sang two songs for the Japanese period film Legend of the Eight Samurai; "I Don't Want This Night to End" and "White Light".
You look at me and I can see the feeling's gone
What happened to the dream we planned our future on
You turn away and try to say what we both know
But baby, i can't let you go
Let you go away 'cause
 
I don't want to lose your love
I don't want to be the one who's broken-hearted
Don't take the only love I've ever known
I don't want to lose your love
How could you go and stop what we have started
Oh baby, I don't want to be alone
 
I try to hide the hurt inside so plain to see
I never could keep secrets from you anyway
So hard to face, I can't erase the thought of you
Oh baby, won't you change your mind
Change your mind and stay 'cause
 
I don't want to lose your love
I don't want to be the one who's broken-hearted
Don't take the only love I've ever known
I don't want to lose your love
How could you go and stop what we have started
Oh baby, I don't want to be alone
 
I don't want to lose your love
I don't want to be the one who's broken-hearted
Don't take the only love I've ever known
I don't want to lose your love
How could you go and stop what we have started
Oh baby, I don't want to be alone
 
I don't want to lose your love
I don't want to be the one who's broken-hearted
Don't take the only love I've ever known
I don't want to lose your love
How could you go and stop what we have started
Oh baby, I don't want to be alone.

DAY BY DAY

JO STAFFORD
SONGWRITERS: SAMMY CAHN; PAUL WESTON & ALEX STORDAHL
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: YOU BELONG TO ME
LABEL: CAPITOL RECORDS
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 1989
 
           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.
           Stafford married twice, first in 1937 to musician John Huddleston (the couple divorced in 1943), then in 1952 to Paul Weston, with whom she had two children. She and Weston developed a comedy routine in which they assumed the identity of an incompetent lounge act named Jonathan and Darlene Edwards, parodying well-known songs. The act proved popular at parties and among the wider public when the couple released an album as the Edwardses in 1957. In 1961, the álbum Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris won Stafford her only Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album, and was the first commercially successful parody album. Stafford largely retired as a performer in the mid-1960s, but continued in the music business. She had a brief resurgence in popularity in the late 1970s when she recorded a cover of the Bee Gees hit, "Stayin' Alive" as Darlene Edwards. In the 1990s, she began re-releasing some of her material through Corinthian Records, a label founded by Weston. She died in 2008 in Century City, Los Angeles, and is interred with Weston at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City. Her work in radio, television, and music is recognized by three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
         "Day by Day" is a popular song with music by Axel Stordahl and Paul Weston and lyrics by Sammy Cahn. Chart versions in 1946 were by Frank Sinatra (recorded on August 22, 1945, and released in January 1946); Jo Stafford; Les Brown; and Bing Crosby with Mel Tormé and His Mel-Tones.
Day by day
I'm falling more in love with you
And day by day
My love seems to grow
There isn't any end to my devotion
It's deeper, dear, by far than any ocean
 
I find that day by day
You're making all my dreams come true
So come what may
I want you to know
I'm yours alone
Cause I'm in love to stay
As we go through the years
Day by day
 
I'm yours alone
Cause I'm in love to stay
As we go through the years
Day by day.

 TE ODIO Y TE QUIERO

GUADALUPE PINEDA
COMPOSITORES: ENRIQUE DISCEPOLO SANTOS; REINALDO GHISO & ENRIQUE ALESIO
PAIS: MÉXICO
ÁLBUM: BOLEROS DE SIEMPRE
DISCOGRÁFICA: ARIOLA RECORDS
GÉNERO: BOLERO
AÑO: 1990
 
          María Guadalupe Pineda Aguilar(23 de febrero de 1955) es una cantante mexicana, nacida en Guadalajara, Jalisco; cuya privilegiada voz y estilo han marcado el panorama musical de México y Latinoamérica. Ganadora del Grammy Latino a la Excelencia Musical, ha grabado más de 30 discos con más de 10 millones de copias vendidas. Su versatilidad y fuerza interpretativa la han convertido en una de las voces favoritas y más reconocidas de México. En 1984, graba el tema "Yolanda" (más conocido como "Te Amo"), que la lanza definitivamente al gran público, logrando vender un millón y medio de discos, adquiriendo una creciente popularidad entre las nuevas voces jóvenes de la canción en México. Merecedora de innumerables premios, varios discos de oro y platino, y menciones especiales por parte de la crítica, Guadalupe es siempre un punto de encuentro para quienes gustan de la buena música.
Me muerdo los lábios
Para no llamarte
Me queman tus besos, me sigue tu voz
 
Pensando que hay otro
Que pueda besarte
Se llena mi pecho de rabia y rencor
 
Prendido en la fiebre brutal de mi sangre
Te siento profundo
Como una obsesión
 
Te niego y te busco
Te odio y te quiero
Y siento en el pecho un infierno por vos
 
Te odio y te quiero
Porque a ti te debo
Mis horas amargas
Mis horas de miel
 
Te odio y te quiero
Fuiste el milagro
La espina que duele
Y el beso de amor
 
Por eso te ódio
Por eso te quiero
Con todas las fuerzas
De mi corazón
 
Te odio y te quiero
Porque a ti te debo
Mis horas amargas
Mis horas de miel
 
Te odio y te quiero
Fuiste el milagro
La espina que duele
Y el beso de amor
 
Por eso te ódio
Por eso te quiero
Con todas las fuerzas
De mi corazón.

GOLDEN RING

ERIC CLAPTON
SONGWRITER: ERIC CLAPTON
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM: BACKLESS
LABEL: OLYMPIC STUDIOS
GENRE: ROCK
YEAR: 1978
 
         Eric Patrick Clapton(born 30 March 1945) is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter, widely regarded as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time. Clapton ranked second in Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and fourth in Gibson's "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time". He was also named number five in Time magazine's list of "The 10 Best Electric Guitar Players" in 2009.
        After playing in a number of different local bands, Clapton joined the Yardbirds in 1963, replacing founding guitarist Top Topham. Dissatisfied with the change of the Yardbirds sound from blues rock to a more radio-friendly pop rock sound, Clapton left in 1965 to play with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. On leaving Mayall in 1966, after one album, he formed the power trio Cream with drummer Ginger Baker and bassist Jack Bruce, in which Clapton played sustained blues improvisations and "arty, blues-based psychedelic pop". After Cream broke up in November 1968, he formed the blues rock band Blind Faith with Baker, Steve Winwood, and Ric Grech, recording one album and performing on one tour before they broke up. Clapton embarked on a solo career in 1970.
          Backless is the sixth full-length studio album by Eric Clapton. Produced by Glyn Johns, and released by RSO Records, Backless reached Nº 8 on the pop charts. While the single "Promises" only reached Nº 37 in the UK, it was a much bigger success in the US, reaching Nº 9 on the Billboard charts. The follow-up single, "Watch Out for Lucy", was the B-side of "Promises", but reached Nº. 40 on the Billboard charts on its own merit. Later in 1980 "Tulsa Time" was US #30 with 1977 song "Cocaine" as B-side. It was Clapton's last studio album to feature his longtime bassist Carl Radle who died in 1980.

He gave to you a golden ring;
It made you happy, it made you sing.
And I played for you on my guitar;
It didn't last long, we didn't go far.
 
And though the times have changed,
We're rearranged.
Will the ties that bind remain the same?
 
You came around after a while;
Everyone said that I made you smile.
It all went well, and suddenly then
You heard that he would marry again.
 
Chorus
Well I know that I have been here before;
I've trod on your wings, I've opened the door.
If I gave to you a golden ring
Would I make you happy, would I make you sing?
 
Chorus
 
Chorus.