I'VE GOT LOVE ON MY MIND

NATALIE COLE

SONGWRITERS: YANCY MARVIN JEROME & JACKSON CHARLES HENRY

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: UNPREDICTABLE

LABEL: CAPITOL RECORDS

GENRE: R & B

YEAR: 1977

 

         Natalie Maria Cole(February 6, 1950 – December 31, 2015) was an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She was the daughter of American singer and jazz pianista Nat King Cole. She rose to success in the mid-1970s as na R&B singer with the hits "This Will Be", "Inseparable" (1975), and "Our Love" (1977). She returned as a pop singer on the 1987 album Everlasting and her cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Pink Cadillac". In the 1990s, she sang traditional pop by her father, resulting in her biggest success, Unforgettable... with Love, which sold over seven million copies and won her seven Grammy Awards. She sold over 30 million records worldwide.

       Unpredictable is an album by the American singer Natalie Cole. Released on February 22, 1977, by Capitol Records, the album includes the single "I've Got Love on My Mind", which peaked at No. 5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and topped the R&B chart.

I've got love on my mind

I've got love on my mind

I've got love on my mind

And there's nothing particularly wrong

It's a feeling I feel inside

When I woke up early this morning

It was staring me straight in my eyes

I've got love (love) on my mind (ooh)

I've got love (love) on my mind (ooh)

I've got love (love) on my mind (ooh)

When you touch me I can't resist

And you've touched me a thousand times

When I think of your tender kiss, ah

Then and there I start to unwind, ooh, in your arms

I like to be, yeah, caressing you gentle

And tenderly, oh, yeah, from sunrise to sunset

All through the day, I've been waiting for your return

And you know this is where I'll be

I can say to the world I've learned only you can satisfy me

Satisfy me, oh, you have made me so very happy

Oh Baby, Baby, (love) love, love, on my (on my mind), my, my, my mind

Love (love), love, on-- (on my mind) my mind

(Love) I've got love (on my mind) on my mind, yeah

(Love) It's a whole lot of love (on my mind), it's a whole lot of love, yes, it is

(Love) I can't hear ya, say it for me one more time

(Love) Oh, I like the way you say it, when you say it for me, yeah

(Love, love) Ooh, you know, it's like paradise, say it twice

(Love, love) Got a whole lot of love, whole lot of love for you, Baby, yeah

(Love) You know this thing, I got love, yeah

I've got (Love) on my mind (on my mind)

Oh (love) love, love on my mind (on my mind)

I've got, (love) I've got, I've got, I've got, I've got

(On my mind) love, love, love

(Love) I've got love on

(On my mind) my mind, yeah

Oh (love) yeah, oh, love, (on my mind)

Love, love, love, la, la... yeah.

WHY SHOULD I CARE

DIANA KRALL

SONGWRITERS: CAROLE BAYER SAGER; CLINT EASTWOOD & LINDA THOMPSON

COUNTRY: CANADA

ALBUM: WHEN I LOOK

LABEL: VERVE RECORDS

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1999

 

     Diana Jean Krall (born November 16, 1964) is a Canadian jazz pianist, and singer known for her contralto vocals. She has sold more than 15 million albums worldwide, including over six million in the US. On December 11, 2009, Billboard magazine named her the second greatest jazz artist of the decade(2000–2009), establishing her as one of the best-selling artists of her time.

       Krall is the only jazz singer to have had eight albums debuting at the top of the Billboard Jazz Albums. To date, she has won three Grammy Awards and eight Juno Awards. She has also earned nine gold, three platinum, and seven multi-platinum albums.

        When I Look in Your Eyes is the fifth studio album by Canadian singer Diana Krall, released on June 8, 1999, by Verve Records. It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year, the first time in 25 years that a jazz album was nominated in that category, and won two awards for Best Jazz Vocal and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical at the 42nd Grammy Awards. The album also won the Juno Award for Best Vocal Jazz Album in 2000.

Was there something more I could have done?

Or was I not meant to be the one?

Where´s the life I thought we would share?

And should I care?

 

And will someone else get more of you?

Will she go to sleep more sure of you?

Will she wake up knowing you´re still there?

And why should I care?

 

There´s always one to turn and walk away

And one who just wants to stay

But who said that love is always fair?

And why should I care?

 

Should I leave you alone here in the dark?

Holding my broken heart

While a promise still hangs in the air

Why should I care?

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.