LILY WAS HERE

CANDY DULFER & DAVE STEWART
SONGWRITER: DAVID A. STEWART
HOW: INSTRUMENTAL
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM: LILY WAS HERE
LABEL: ANXIOUS RECORD
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 1989
 
          David Allan Stewart(born 9 September 1952) is an English musician, songwriter and record producer, best known for Eurythmics, his successful professional partnership with Annie Lennox. Normally credited as David A. Stewart, he won Best British Producer at the 1986, 1987 and 1990 Brit Awards.
          Candy Dulfer(born 19 September 1969) is a Dutch jazz and pop saxophonist. She is the daughter of jazz saxophonist Hans Dulfer. She began playing at age six and founded her band Funky Stuff when she was fourteen. Her debut álbum Saxuality(1990) received a Grammy nomination. She has performed and recorded with Hans Dulfer, Prince, Dave Stewart, Van Morrison, Angie Stone, Maceo Parker and Rick Braun and has performed live with Alan Parsons(1995), Pink Floyd(1990), and Tower of Power(2014). She hosted the Dutch television series Candy Meets...(2007), in which she interviewed musicians. In 2013, she became a judge in the 5th season of the Dutch version of X Factor.
       "Lily Was Here" is an instrumental duet by English musician David A. Stewart and Dutch saxophonist Candy Dulfer. It was released as a single in 1989 from the soundtrack of the same name for the Dutch movie De Kassière, also known by the English title Lily Was Here. The song reached number one in the Netherlands and became a top-twenty hit in several other European countries, Australia, and the United States.

MAYBE THIS TIME

MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY
SONGWRITERS: DAVE LOGGINS & RANDY GOODRUM
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: THE HEART NEVER LIES
LABEL: A & M RECORDS
GENRE: COUNTRY
YEAR: 1983
 
          Michael Martin Murphey(born March 14, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter best known for writing and performing Western music, country music and popular music. A multiple Grammy nominee, Murphey has six gold albums, including Cowboy Songs, the first album of cowboy music to achieve gold status since Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs by Marty Robbins in 1959. He has recorded the hit singles "Wildfire", "Carolina in the Pines", "What's Forever For", "A Long Line of Love", "What She Wants", "Don't Count the Rainy Days", and "Maybe This Time". Murphey is also the author of New Mexico's state ballad, "The Land of Enchantment". Murphey has become a prominent musical voice for the Western horseman, rancher, and cowboy.
       Michael Martin Murphey was born on March 14, 1945, to Pink Lavary Murphey and Lois (née Corbett) Murphey, in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, Texas, where he grew up. He has a brother, Mark, who is three years younger. When he was 6 years old, he started riding horses on his grandfather's and uncle's ranches. Years later he would remember sleeping on his grandfather's porch under the stars, listening to the older man's stories and cowboy songs.
        He enjoyed being around these men of the land as they went about their work. These experiences made a deep impression on the young boy. During these early years, he developed a special love for cowboy songs and stories. He was also an avid reader, especially drawn to the books of Mark Twain and William Faulkner. As a youth, he enjoyed writing poetry and loved listening to his uncle's old 78 rpm records, particularly the music of country and folk artists such as Hank Williams, Bob Wills, and Woody Guthrie.
        The Heart Never Lies is the eleventh album by American singer-songwriter Michael Martin Murphey. The album peaked at number 27 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart.
Two old friends meet again
Wearin' older faces
And talk about the places they've been
 
Two old sweethearts who fell apart
Somewhere long ago
How are they to know
Someday they'd meet again
And have a need for more than reminiscin'
 
Maybe this time
It'll be lovin' they'll find
Maybe now they can be more than just friends
She's back in his life
And it feels so right
Maybe this time, love won't end
 
It's the same old feeling back again
It's the one that they had way back when
They were too young to know when love is real
But somehow, some things never change
And even time hasn't cooled the flame
It's burnin' even brighter than it did before
It got another chance, and if they take it...
 
Maybe this time
It'll be lovin' they'll find
Maybe now they can be more than just friends
She's back in his life
And it feels so right
Maybe this time, love won't end
 
She's smilin' like she used to smile way back then
She's feelin' like she used to feel way back when
They tried, but somethin' kept them
Waiting for this magic moment
 
Maybe this time
It'll be lovin' they'll find
Maybe now they can be more than just friends
She's back in his life
And it feels so right
Maybe this time...
 
Maybe this time
Maybe this time love won't end.

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.