ONLY LOVE CAN HURT LIKE THIS

PALOMA FAITH

SONGWRITER: DIANE EVE WARREN

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: A PERFECT CONTRADICTION

LABEL: RCA RECORDS

GENRE: SOUL

YEAR: 2014

 

        Paloma Faith Blomfield(born 21 July 1981) is an English singer-songwriter and actress. Her debut studio album, Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful?, was released in 2009 and was certified double platinum in the UK. The album spawned the singles "Stone Cold Sober", "New York", and "Upside Down", and earned Faith her first BRIT Award nomination in 2010.

            In 2012, Faith released her second studio album, Fall to Grace, which charted at number two on the UK Albums Chart and earned her a double platinum certification in the UK. The album produced her first top ten single, "Picking Up the Pieces", the top twenty cover version of INXS's "Never Tear Us Apart", and earned her two BRIT Award nominations. In 2014, Faith released her third studio album, A Perfect Contradiction, which stands as her most successful album to date, also receiving a double platinum certification. The album spawned the hit singles "Can't Rely on You" and "Only Love Can Hurt Like This", with the latter also topping the charts in Australia. Her fourth studio album, The Architect, was released in 2017 and debuted at number one in the UK. In 2020, Faith released her fifth studio album, Infinite Things.

     In addition to her solo work, Faith also collaborated with the duo Sigma on the 2014 single "Changing", which charted at number one in the UK, and DJ Sigala on "Lullaby", which reached the top ten in 2018. As an actress, she has appeared in St Trinian's(2007), The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus(2009), Dread(2009), Youth(2015), and Pennyworth(2019–present). Faith was a judge on the fifth series of The Voice UK in 2016, and on The Voice Kids in 2020.

       A Perfect Contradiction is the third studio album by English recording artist Paloma Faith, released by Sony Music Entertainment on 10 March 2014. Musically, the album is a pop album, with elements of R&B, jazz, soul, Motown and disco. The album received mixed reviews; it spawned six singles; "Can't Rely on You", "Only Love Can Hurt Like This", "Trouble with My Baby", "Ready for the Good Life", "Leave While I'm Not Looking" and "Beauty Remains"; the first two of these charted within the top 10 in the United Kingdom and "Only Love Can Hurt Like This" topped the charts in Australia.

          On 15 September 2014, it was announced that a repackaged version of the album, entitled A Perfect Contradiction: Outsiders' Edition, will be released on 10 November 2014, postponed from the original date of 3 November 2014. It features three new songs as well as a rearranged version of "Changing", Faith's collaboration with Sigma.

I'd tell myself you don't mean a thing

But what we got, got no hold on me?

But when you're not there I just crumble

I tell myself that I don't care that much

But I feel like I'm dying till I feel your touch

 

Only love, only love can hurt like this

Only love can hurt like this

Must have been a deadly kiss

Only love can hurt like this

 

Say I wouldn't care if you walked away

But every time you're there I'm begging you to stay

When you come close I just tremble

And every time, every time you go

It's like a knife that cuts right through my soul

 

Only love, only love can hurt like this

Only love can hurt like this

Must have been a deadly kiss

Only love can hurt like this

Only love can hurt like this

 

Your kisses burning to my skin

Only love can hurt like this

But if the sweetest pain

Burning hot through my veins

Love is torture makes me more sure

 

Only love can hurt like this

Only love can hurt like this

Only love can hurt like this

Must have been the deadly kiss

Only love can hurt like this

Only love can hurt like this

Your kisses burning to my skin

Only love can hurt like this

Only love can hurt like this

Save me, save me

Only love, only love

'Cause only love can hurt like this

And it must have been the deadly kiss.

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).