FOR THE GIRL WHO HAS EVERYTHING

NSYNC

SONGWRITERS: JOLYON W. SKINNER & VEIT U. RENN

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: ‘N SYNC

LABEL: RCA RECORDS

GENRE: SOUL

YEAR: 1997

 

           NSYNC(/ɛnˈsɪŋk/, /ɪn-/; also stylized as *NSYNC or 'N Sync) was an American boy band formed by Chris Kirkpatrick in Orlando, Florida, in 1995 and launched in Germany by BMG Ariola Munich. NSYNC consisted of Kirkpatrick, Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez, Joey Fatone, and Lance Bass. Their self-titled debut album was successfully released to European countries in 1997, and later debuted in the U.S. market with the single "I Want You Back".

         After heavily publicized legal battles with their former manager Lou Pearlman and former record label Bertelsmann Music Group, the group's second album, No Strings Attached(2000), sold over one million copies in one day and 2.4 million copies in one week, which was a record for over fifteen years. NSYNC's first two studio albums were both certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Celebrity(2001) debuted with 1.8 million copies in its first week in the US. Singles such as "Bye Bye Bye", "This I Promise You", "Girlfriend", "Pop" and "It's Gonna Be Me" reached the top 10 in several international charts, with the last being a US Billboard Hot 100 number one. In addition to a host of Grammy Award nominations, NSYNC performed at the World Series, the Super Bowl and the Olympic Games, and sang or recorded with Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Britney Spears, Phil Collins, Celine Dion, Aerosmith, Nelly, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, Mary J. Blige, country music band Alabama, and Gloria Estefan. The group received eight Grammy Award nominations.

         NSYNC last recorded new material in 2002 before undergoing an indefinite hiatus. The five members have reunited a couple of times, including at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards and to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The band completed five nationwide concert tours and has sold over 70 million records, becoming one of the best-selling boy bands in history. Rolling Stone recognized their instant success as one of the Top 25 Teen Idol Breakout Moments of all time. Justin Timberlake went on to become a ten-time Grammy Award winner throughout his solo career.

         'NSYNC is the debut studio album by American boy band NSYNC, initially released in Germany on May 26, 1997 by Trans Continental Records and internationally on March 24, 1998 by RCA Records. Following the success of the album's initial release, with singles "I Want You Back" and "Tearin' Up My Heart" reaching the top ten on the Official German Charts, and the album reaching number one on the Offizielle Top 100.

         The album has since sold over 15 million copies worldwide, with the album earning a diamond certification in the US, as well as peaking at number two on the Billboard 200.

You drive a pretty car, you know how fine you are

And nobody needs to say it, no way

They love the clothes you wear, they compliment you and I

Just love the way you play it

 

But the only thing you dream of, money can't buy for you

And in my dreams I make your wish come true

For the girl who has everything

I bring you love

I bring you love

'Cause the girl who has everything can't get enough

Of my love

 

Why do you run and hide?

Say what you feel inside (say what you feel)

Why must you always fake it? (oh yeah)

Girl you need to understand

Your heart is safe within my hands and

I promise I'll never break it oh

 

I know that you still dream of what money can't buy for you

And in my dreams I'll make your wish come true

 

For the girl who has everything

I bring you love

I bring you love

'Cause the girl who has everything can't get enough

Of my love

 

If you just let me try, (my baby listen)

I'll help you find (what you've been missing)

You gotta listen to your heart (and not your mind)

Oh baby yeah

 

For the girl who has everything (everything)

I bring you love (I bring you love)

I bring you love (I bring you love)

'Cause the girl who has everything can't get enough

My love (of my love)

For the girl who has everything (I can't, 'cause you want my love )

I bring you love (And I'm gonna give it to ya)

I bring you love

'Cause the girl who has everything can't get enough.

FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE

STEVIE WONDER

SONGWRITERS: MILLER RONALD NORMAN & MURDEN ORLANDO

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE

LABEL: TAMLA LABEL

GENRE: SOUL

YEAR: 1968

 

       Stevland Hardaway Morris(born May 13, 1950), known professionally as Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter and musician, who is credited as a pioneer and influence by musicians across a range of genres that includes rhythm and blues, pop, soul, gospel, funk, and jazz. A virtual one-man band, his use of synthesizers and other electronic musical instruments during the 1970s reshaped the conventions of R&B. He also helped drive the genre into the album era, crafting his LPs as cohesive, consistent socially conscious statements with complex compositions.

          Blind since shortly after his birth, Wonder was a child prodigy who signed with Motown's Tamla label at the age of 11, where he was given the professional name Little Stevie Wonder. In 1963, the single "Fingertips" was a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 when Wonder was 13, making him the youngest artist ever to top the chart. Wonder's critical success was at its peak in the 1970s. His "classic period" began in 1972 with the releases of Music of My Mind and Talking Book, the latter featuring "Superstition", which is one of the most distinctive and famous examples of the sound of the Hohner Clavinet keyboard. His works Innervisions(1973), Fulfillingness' First Finale(1974) and Songs in the Key of Life(1976) all won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, making him the tied-record holder for the most Album of the Year wins, with three. He is also the only artist to have won the award with three consecutive album releases. Wonder began his "commercial period" in the 1980s; he achieved his biggest hits and highest level of fame, had increased album sales, charity participation, high-profile collaborations (including Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson), political impact, and television appearances. Wonder has continued to remain active in music and political causes.

          Wonder is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with sales of over 100 million records worldwide. He has won 25 Grammy Awards(the most by a solo artist) and one Academy Award(Best Original Song, for the 1984 film The Woman in Red). Wonder has been inducted into the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame. He is also noted for his work as an activist for political causes, including his 1980 campaign to make Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a federal holiday in the U.S. In 2009, he was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace, and in 2014, he was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

          For Once in My Life is the ninth (tenth overall) studio album by American singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder on Motown Records, released in November 1968. Then eighteen years old, Wonder had established himself as one of Motown's consistent hit-makers. This album continued Wonder's growth as a vocalist and songwriter, and is the first album where he shares credit as producer. It featured four songs that hit the Hot 100 charts: "For Once in My Life" (#2), "Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day" (#9) and the modest hits "I Don't Know Why" (#39) and "You Met Your Match" (#35). It also marked the debut of the Hohner Clavinet on a Stevie Wonder album, which would become a mainstay on albums to come.

For once in my life, I have someone who needs me

Someone I've needed so long

For once, unafraid, I can go where life leads me

Somehow I know I'll be strong

 

For once I can touch what my heart used to dream of

Long before I knew

Ooh, someone warm like you

Would make my dreams come true

Yeah, yeah, yeah (For once in my life)

 

For once in my life, I won't let sorrow hurt me

Not like it's hurt me before (Not like it's hurt me before)

For once, I have something I know won't desert me

I'm not alone anymore (I'm not alone anymore)

For once I can say, "This is mine, you can't take it"

As long as I know I have love, I can make it

For once in my life, I have someone who needs me

(Someone who needs me)

Hey, hey, hey, hey, yeah

(Someone who needs me)

Oh, I'm in love, baby

 

For once in my life (For once in my life)

I won't let sorrow hurt me

Not like it's hurt me before (Not like it's hurt me before)

For once, I have something I know won't desert me

I'm not alone anymore (I'm not alone anymore)

For once I can say, "This is mine, you can't take it"

As long as I know I have love, I can make it

For once in my life, I have someone who needs me

(Someone who needs me)

Oh, for once in my life

(Someone who needs me)

Yeah, somebody that needs me

(Someone who needs me)

Oh, baby, for once in my life.

SPEEDY GONZALES

PEPPINO DI CAPRI

COMPOSITORI: BUDDY KAYE; ETHEL LEE & DAVID HESS

PAESE: ITALIA

ALBUM: L’INCREDIBILE PEPPINO DI CAPRI

ETICHETTA: UNIVERSAL DIGITAL ENTERPRISES

GENERE: POP

ANNO: 1958

 

         Giuseppe Faiella, noto anche con lo pseudonimo di Peppino di Capri o Giuseppe di Capri(Capri, 27 luglio 1939), è un cantante, pianista e attore italiano.

          Ha al suo attivo una vittoria al Festival della Canzone Napoletana(nel 1970, con la canzone: Me chiamme ammore) e due al Festival di Sanremo(1973, Un grande amore e niente più e 1976, Non lo faccio più). I suoi più grandi successi sono Champagne e Roberta.

         Originario di una famiglia di musicisti (il nonno fu musicista nella banda di Capri e il padre Bernardo, che aveva un negozio di dischi e di strumenti musicali, nel tempo libero suonava il sax, il clarinetto, il violoncello e il contrabbasso in un'orchestra), si esibisce per la prima volta all'età di quattro anni nel 1943 suonando il pianoforte davanti alle truppe americane di stanza sull'isola natale durante la guerra.

            A sei anni incomincia a studiare pianoforte con una severa insegnante tedesca a Napoli, ma nel 1953 incomincia anche a esibirsi con l'amico Ettore Falconieri, che suona la batteria, nei night-club di Capri (il Number Two) e della vicina Ischia(il Rangio Fellone) con la denominazione Duo Caprese. L'insegnante, venuta a sapere la cosa, decide di cacciare Peppino che comincia così a dedicarsi esclusivamente alla nascente musica rock d'importazione americana.

         Il 26 agosto 1956 Peppino ed Ettore riescono anche a esibirsi in televisione, nella trasmissione televisiva Primo applauso, interpretando due brani: Cry e Tu vuo' fa' l'americano condotta da Enzo Tortora; vinsero e, per premio, ottennero un televisore.

        Sempre con Falconieri, detto Bebè, alla batteria, e altri amici (Pino Amenta al basso, Mario Cenci alla chitarra e Gabriele Varano al sax), forma nel 1958 un complesso, i Capri boys, vagamente ispirato ai tipici gruppi musicali rock statunitensi di quegli ultimi anni. Il gruppo incomincia ad avere buon successo nei vari locali delle due isole del golfo di Napoli, a volte rielaborando successi d'epoca napoletani o americani e a volte componendo nuovi brani.

         In particolare il chitarrista perugino Mario Cenci si rivelerà molto prolifico e creativo nella composizione. In quello stesso anno Peppino e Mario si iscrivono ala SIAE. Il cantante firmerà le sue canzoni fino al 1989 con il suo nome di battesimo, in quanto iscritto alla società degli autori con quest'ultimo e non con il suo futuro pseudonimo. In quello stesso anno, Cenci scrive versi e musica di Let me cry.

Ritorna a casa Speedy Gonzales

Devi lasciare quel bar

E devi smettere di bere

Per scordarti di me

Tu m'hai lasciato sola in casa

Tu m'hai lasciato perché

Ho tanto freddo e sono sola

E il tetto lacrima per me

 

Speedy Gonzales (Speedy, Speedy Gonzales)

Ritorna da me (Speedy, Speedy Gonzales)

Speedy Gonzales (Speedy, Speedy Gonzales)

Non lasciarmi mai più

 

"Ehi, Rosita, I have to go shopping downtown for my mother

She needs some tortillas and chili peppers"

Nascondi il viso col sombrero

E ti vergogni perché

Hai sulle labbra un'altro bacio

Mai baciato da me

Se torni ancor tra le mie braccia

Io ti perdono perché

Berremmo insieme una tequila

E brinderemo al nostro amor

 

Speedy Gonzales (Speedy, Speedy Gonzales)

Ritorna da me (Speedy, Speedy Gonzales)

Speedy Gonzales (Speedy, Speedy Gonzales)

Non lasciarmi mai più

 

"Ehi, Rositas, come down to the cantina

They are giving rib steaks with tequila"

 

Speedy Gonzales (Speedy, Speedy Gonzales)

Why don't you come home (Speedy, Speedy Gonzales)

Speedy Gonzales (Speedy, Speedy Gonzales)

Don't you leave me alone.

TO TURN THE STONE

ANNI-FRID LANGSTAD(FRIDA)

SONGWRITERS: GIORGIO MORODER & PETE BELLOTTE

COUNTRY: NORWEGIAN-SWEDISH

ALBUM: SOMETHING’S GOING ON

LABEL: POLYDOR RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 1982

 

        Princess Anni-Frid Reuss, Dowager Countess of Plauen(née Lyngstad; born 15 November 1945), better known by her nickname Frida, is a Norwegian-Swedish singer, songwriter and environmentalist, who is best known as one of the founding members and lead singers of the Swedish pop band ABBA.

       Born in Bjørkåsen (Ballangen), Norway, to a Norwegian mother and a German father, she grew up in Torshälla, Sweden, and started her first solo career there, as a jazz singer in 1967, through a talent competition called New Faces. She won the competition with her song, "En ledig dag", leading to a television appearance on Hylands Hörna on Dagen H; as a result, she was signed by EMI, and in turn was signed by Stig Anderson's record label, Polar Music, after years of releasing several singles and an album, Frida under the earlier record label. Although she had moderate success in Sweden, as she was a contestant for Melodifestivalen 1969 with her song "Härlig är vår jord", she did not reach international fame until she joined ABBA, which has sold over 150 million albums and singles worldwide, making them one of the best-selling music acts in history. After the break-up of ABBA, she continued an international solo singing career with mixed success, releasing the albums Something's Going On(1982) and Shine(1984); the latter being her last international album. In 1996, Lyngstad recorded her final album in Swedish, Djupa andetag(Deep Breaths), released by Anderson Records, before retiring from music.

     In April 1964, Anni-Frid married Ragnar Fredriksson, with whom she had two children; they divorced in 1970. The following year she was engaged to Swedish pianista Benny Andersson, also a member of ABBA, until they married in 1978. The couple separated in 1980 and divorced in 1981. In 1992, Lyngstad married Prince Heinrich Ruzzo of Reuss, Count of Plauen, who was a prince of the former sovereign House of Reuss; since then she has held the titles of Princess Reuss and Countess of Plauen with the style of Her Serene Highness. Heinrich Ruzzo died of lymphoma in October 1999, leaving her the titles of Dowager Princess and Countess. She currently resides in Genolier VD, Switzerland, sharing a home with her British partner, Henry Smith, 5th Viscount Hambleden.

            Something's Going On is the third solo album by Swedish singer Anni-Frid Lyngstad(Frida), one of the founding members of the Swedish pop group ABBA, and her first album recorded entirely in English. Her previous two albums had been recorded in Swedish. Recorded in early 1982 during the final months of ABBA, the album was released in September of that same year.

          Produced by Phil Collins with Hugh Padgham, the album featured a harder-edged and more rock-oriented sound than the music she had previously recorded with ABBA, and it included Collins' distinctive gated reverb drum sound. The album was met with a positive reception by both critics and the public, with sales in excess of 1.5 million copies, making it the best-selling solo record of any of the ABBA members to date. The album has since been re-released several times, including a 2005 remastered version that contained several bonus tracks. Promotional videos from the album are included in the DVD documentary entitled Frida – The DVD.

The moon retreats behind a silver cloud

As darkness throws its cloak towards the earth

 

And mystery replaces what we thought we knew

To turn the stone

to turn the stone.

The one dimension only shows one side

But do we see the same through different eyes?

As you and I peer into life's kaleidoscope

To turn the stone

to turn the stone.

 

Eternal sands of time shiff endlessly

Behind a veil of motionless disguise

 

An eyelid flash is all it really seems to need

To turn the stone

to turn the stone –

To turn the stone

to turn the stone.