I CAN SING A RAINBOW

PEGGY LEE

SONGWRITER: ARTHUR HAMILTON

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: PETE KELLY’S BLUES

LABEL: CAPITOL RECORDS

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1955

 

       Norma Deloris Egstrom(May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002), known professionally as Peggy Lee, was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer, and actress, over a career spanning seven decades. From her beginning as a vocalist on local radio to singing with Benny Goodman's big band, Lee created a sophisticated persona, writing music for films, acting, and recording conceptual record albums combining poetry and music.

      Lee recorded over 1,100 masters and composed over 270 songs.

         "I Can Sing a Rainbow," also known simply as "Sing a Rainbow," is a popular song written by Arthur Hamilton. It was featured in the 1955 film Pete Kelly's Blues, where it was sung by Peggy Lee.

          The song has been used to teach children names of colours. Despite the name of the song, two of the seven colours mentioned ("red and yellow and green, pink and purple and orange and blue")–pink and purple– are not actually a colour of the rainbow(i.e. they are not spectral colors; pink is a variation of shade, and purple is the human brain's interpretation of mixed red/blue [see line of purples]). They are also not presented in order of the visible light spectrum.

…Red and yellow and pink and green

Purple and orange and blue

I can sing a rainbow

Sing a rainbow

Sing a rainbow too

 

…Listen with your eyes

Listen with your ears

And sing everything you see

I can sing a rainbow

Sing a rainbow

Sing along with me

 

…Red and yellow and pink and green

Purple and orange and blue

I can sing a rainbow

Sing a rainbow

Sing a rainbow too.

I'VE DREAMED OF YOU

BARBRA STREISAND

SONGWRITER: RICHARD RODGERS & OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: A LOVE LIKE OURS

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: FOLK

YEAR: 1999

 

        Barbara Joan Streisand (/ˈstraɪsænd/; born April 24, 1942), known professionally as Barbra Streisand, is an American singer, actress, and filmmaker. With a career spanning over six decades, she has achieved success in multiple fields of entertainment, and is among the few performers awarded an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony(EGOT).

         Streisand began her career by performing in nightclubs and Broadway theaters in the early 1960s. Following her guest appearances on various television shows, she signed to Columbia Records, insisting that she retain full artistic control, and accepting lower pay in exchange, an arrangement that continued throughout her career, and released her debut The Barbra Streisand Album(1963), which won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. Throughout her recording career, Streisand has topped the US Billboard 200 chart with 11 albums—a record for a woman—including People(1964), The Way We Were(1974), Guilty(1980), and The Broadway Album(1985). She also achieved five number-one singles on the US Billboard Hot 100—"The Way We Were", "Evergreen", "You Don't Bring Me Flowers", "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)", and "Woman in Love".

            Following her established recording success in the 1960s, Streisand ventured into film by the end of that decade. She starred in the critically acclaimed Funny Girl(1968), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Additional fame followed with films including the extravagant musical Hello, Dolly!(1969), the screwball comedy What's Up, Doc?(1972), and the romantic drama The Way We Were(1973). Streisand won a second Academy Award for writing the love theme from A Star Is Born(1976), the first woman to be honored as a composer. With the release of Yentl(1983), Streisand became the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major studio film. The film won an Oscar for Best Score and a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Musical. Streisand also received the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, becoming the first (and for 37 years, the only) woman to win that award. Streisand later directed The Prince of Tides(1991) and The Mirror Has Two Faces(1996).

         A Love Like Ours is the twenty-eighth studio album by American singer Barbra Streisand. It was released in North America on September 21, 1999, and Europe on September 20, 1999. It is her 23rd Top 10 album in the US. This was Streisand's first commercial release since her marriage to actor James Brolin. Much of the material was inspired by this event. As such, the disc booklet contains images of her and Brolin.

       The album did not achieve the success of Streisand's two previous albums, debuting at Nº 6 in the US with sales of 145,000 copies in the first week. It was eventually certified Gold and Platinum.

      "We Must Be Loving Right" was previously recorded by George Strait on his 1993 album Easy Come, Easy Go. Both Strait's original and Streisand's cover were produced by Tony Brown.

I've dreamed of you

Always feeling you were there

And all my life

I have searched for you everywhere

 

I caught your smile in the morning sun

I heard your whisper on the breeze at night

I prayed one day that your arms

Would hold me tight

 

And just when I thought love had passed me by

We met

That first look in your eyes

I can't forget

 

You melted me with your tender touch

I felt all fear and sorrow slip away

Now here we stand, hand in hand

This blessed day

 

I promise you as I give to you

My heart

That nothing, nothing in this world

Shall keep us apart

 

Come happily ever after be

The man I love until the very end

I've dreamed of you, my great love

And my best friend

 

For God must know how I love you so

He's blessed us here today as man and wife

Come dream with me as I've dreamed of you

All my life

 

Come dream with me

As I have dreamed of you

All my life.

EVERYBODY LOVES A LOVER

DORIS DAY

SONGWRITERS: ROBERT ALLEN & RICHARD ADLER

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: EVERYBODY LOVES A LOVER

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORD RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 1958

 

         Doris Day(born Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922–May 13, 2019) was an American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist. She began her career as a big band singer in 1939, achieving commercial success in 1945 with two Nº 1 recordings, "Sentimental Journey" and "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time" with Les Brown & His Band of Renown. She left Brown to embark on a solo career and recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to 1967.

          Day was one of the biggest film stars of the 1950s–1960s. Day's film career began during the Golden Age of Hollywood with the film Romance on the High Seas(1948). She starred in films of many genres, including musicals, comedies, dramas, and thrillers. She played the title role in Calamity Jane(1953) and starred in Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much(1956) with James Stewart. Her best-known films are those in which she co-starred with Rock Hudson, chief among them 1959's Pillow Talk, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She also worked with James Garner on both Move Over, Darling(1963) and The Thrill of It All(1963), and starred alongside Clark Gable, Cary Grant, James Cagney, David Niven, Ginger Rogers, Jack Lemmon, Frank Sinatra, Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, and Rod Taylor in various movies. After ending her film career in 1968, only briefly removed from the height of her popularity, she starred in her own sitcom The Doris Day Show(1968–1973).

           In 1989, she was awarded the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures. In 2004, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2008, she received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award as well as a Legend Award from the Society of Singers. In 2011, she was awarded the Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Career Achievement Award. The same year, she released her 29th studio album, My Heart, which contained new material and became a UK Top 10 album. As of 2020, she was one of eight record performers to have been the top box-office earner in the United States four times.

         "Everybody Loves a Lover" is a popular song which was a hit single for Doris Day in 1958. Its lyricist, Richard Adler, and its composer, Robert Allen, were both best known for collaborations with other partners. The music Allen composed, aside from this song, was usually for collaborations with Al Stillman, and Adler wrote the lyrics after the 1955 death of his usual composing partner, Jerry Ross.

Everybody loves a lover

I'm a lover, everybody loves me

Anyhow, that's how I feel

Wow, I feel just like a Pollyanna

 

I should worry, not for nothin'

Everybody loves me, yes they do

And I love everybody

Since I fell in love with you

 

Who's the most popular personality?

I can't help thinkin' it's no one else but me

Gee, I feel just about ten feet tall, havin' a ball

Guess ya might call me a Pollyanna

Everybody loves a lover

 

Who's the most popular personality?

I can't help thinkin' it's no one else but me

Gee, I feel just about ten feet tall, havin' a ball

Well, I feel just like a Pollyanna.

 

I should worry, not for nothin'

Everybody loves me, yes they do

And I love everybody

Since I fell in love with

Fell in love with

Fell in love with you, (Call me a Pollyanna, do).

OCEAN EYES

BILLIE EILISH

SONGWRITERS: AARON CARL DAVEY;  BILLIE EILISH O'CONNELL & FINEAS BAIRD O'CONNELL   

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: COMMON CULTURE, VOL. V BY CONNOR FRANTA

LABEL: HEARD WELL

GENRE: INDIE

YEAR: 2016

       Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell(/ˈaɪlɪʃ/EYE-lish; born December 18, 2001) is an American singer-songwriter. She first gained public attention in 2015 with her debut single "Ocean Eyes", which was subsequently released by Darkroom, an imprint of Interscope Records. It was written and produced by her brother, Finneas O'Connell, with whom she frequently collaborates on music and in live shows. Her commercially successful debut extended play Don't Smile at Me(2017) charted in the top 15 in numerous countries, including the US, UK, Canada, and Australia.

     Eilish's first studio album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?(2019), debuted atop the US Billboard 200 and UK Albums Chart. It was one of the best-selling albums of 2019, buoyed by the success of its fifth single, "Bad Guy", Eilish's first number-one on the US Billboard Hot 100. The following year, she co-wrote and performed the theme song "No Time to Die" for the James Bond film of the same name, which topped the UK Singles Chart and won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2022. Her subsequent singles "Everything I Wanted", "My Future", "Therefore I Am", and "Your Power" each peaked in the top 10 in the US and UK; her second studio album, Happier Than Ever(2021), reached number one in 25 countries.

         Eilish has received several accolades, including seven Grammy Awards, two American Music Awards, two Guinness World Records, three MTV Video Music Awards, three Brit Awards, a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award. She is the youngest artist in Grammy history and second overall to win all four general field categories—Best New Artist, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Album of the Year—in the same year. She was featured on Time magazine's inaugural Time 100 Next list in 2019 and the Time 100 in 2021. According to the RIAA and Billboard, Eilish is the 26th-highest-certified digital singles artist and one of the most successful artists of the 2010s.

I've been watchin' you for some time
Can't stop starin' at those ocean eyes
Burning cities and napalm skies
Fifteen flares inside those ocean eyes
Your ocean eyes
 
No fair
You really know how to make me cry
When you gimme those ocean eyes
I'm scared
I've never fallen from quite this high
Fallin' into your ocean eyes
Those ocean eyes
 
I've been walkin' through a world gone blind
Can't stop thinkin' of your diamond mind
Careful creature made friends with time
He left her lonely with a diamond mind
And those ocean eyes
 
No fair
You really know how to make me cry
When you gimme those ocean eyes
I'm scared
I've never fallen from quite this high
Fallin' into your ocean eyes
Those ocean eyes
 
Da, da-da, da-da
Da-da-da, da, da
Da, da, da, da, da-da-da-da
Mm
Mm
Mm
 
No fair
You really know how to make me cry
When you gimme those ocean eyes
I'm scared
I've never fallen from quite this high
Fallin' into your ocean eyes
Those ocean eyes.