NO MATTER WHAT

BOYZONE

SONGWRITER: FRANK JOSEPH MYERS; GARY BAKER & JERRY ALAN WILLIAMS

COUNTRY: IRELAND

ALBUM: WHERE WE BELONG

LABEL: UNIVERSAL UMC

GENRE: POP MUSIC

YEAR: 1998

 

       Boyzone were an Irish boy band, created in 1993 by talent manager Louis Walsh. Before even recording any material, Boyzone made an appearance on RTÉ's The Late Late Show. Their most successful line-up was composed of Keith Duffy, Stephen Gately, Mikey Graham, Ronan Keating, and Shane Lynch. As of 2018, Boyzone have released seven studio albums and nine compilation albums.

        In 2012, the Official Charts Company revealed the biggest selling singles artists in British music chart history, with Boyzone currently placed at 29th and the second most successful boy band in Britain, behind Take That. According to the British Phonographic Industry(BPI), Boyzone has been certified for six million albums and over seven million singles in the UK, with 25 million records sold by 2013 worldwide.

       Boyzone have had six UK Nº1 singles and nine Nº1 singles in Ireland. Of the 24 singles they released in the UK, 21 entered the top 40 (including 18 in the top 10 and 12 in the top 2) in the UK charts and 22 singles (including 19 in the top 5) in the Irish charts. They have had five Nº 1 albums in the UK.

         The group split in 1999. Boyzone made a comeback in 2007, originally with the intention of just touring. Gately died on 10 October 2009 of natural causes while on holiday in the Spanish island of Majorca.

         Boyzone went on tour in late 2018 to celebrate their 25th anniversary. An album to celebrate the anniversary was released on 16 November 2018. On 28 April 2018, it was announced that the band would split for good after their anniversary celebrations, which ended in 2019.

       Where We Belong is the third studio album by Irish boy band Boyzone. The album was released on 25 May 1998 by Polydor Records. Five singles were released from the album, including a cover version of "I Love the Way You Love Me". The album became a top 10 album in eleven countries. It was the group's first and only album to be released in the United States, where it charted at number 167 on the Billboard 200. Where We Belong is also the third and final studio album Boyzone released before the death of Stephen Gately, 11 years later.

I don't know, but I believe

That some things are meant to be

And that you'll make a better me

Everyday I love you

 

I never thought that dreams came true

But you showed me that they do

You know that I learn something new

Everyday I love you

 

'Cause I believe that destiny

Is out of our control (don't you know that I do)

And you'll never live until you love

With all your heart and soul

 

It's a touch when I feel bad

It's a smile when I get mad

All the little things I am

Everyday I love you

 

Everyday I love you boy

Everyday I love you

 

'Cause I believe that destiny

Is out of our control (don't you know that I do)

 

And you'll never live until you love

With all your heart and soul

 

If I asked would you say yes?

Together we're the very best

I know that I am truly blessed

Everyday I love you

And I'll give you my best

Everyday I love you.

 VIETNAM BLUES

J. B. LENOIR

SONGWRITER: J. B. LENOIR

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: VIETNAM BLUES

LABEL: PARROT CHESS

GENRE: BLUES

YEAR: 1996

 

         J. B. Lenoir(/ləˈnɔːr/luh-NORR; March 5, 1929 – April 29, 1967) was an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter, active in the Chicago blues scene in the 1950s and 1960s.

        Lenoir was born in Monticello, Mississippi. His full given name was simply "J. B."; the letters were not initials. Lenoir's guitar-playing father introduced him to the music of Blind Lemon Jefferson, which became a major influence. During the early 1940s, Lenoir worked with the blues artists Sonny Boy Williamson II and Elmore James in New Orleans. He was later influenced by Arthur Crudup and Lightnin' Hopkins.

       In 1949, he moved to Chicago, where Big Bill Broonzy helped introduce him to the blues community. He began to perform at local nightclubs, with musicians such as Memphis Minnie, Big Maceo Merriweather, and Muddy Waters, and became an important part of the city's blues scene. He began recording in 1951 for J.O.B. Records and Chess Records. His recording of "Korea Blues" was licensed to and released by Chess, as having been performed by J. B. and his Bayou Boys. His band included the pianist Sunnyland Slim, the guitarist Leroy Foster, and the drummer Alfred Wallace.

[Verse 1]

Vietnam Vietnam, everybody cryin' about Vietnam

Vietnam Vietnam, everybody cryin' about Vietnam

Dear Lord, as long as they've been killing me down in Mississippi, nobody seems to give a damn

 

[Verse 2]

Oh God if you can hear my prayer now, please help my brothers over in Vietnam

Oh God if you can hear my prayer now, please help my brothers over in Vietnam

The poor boys fightin', killin' and hidin' all in holes

Maybe killin' their own brother, they do not know | Verified

 

[Verse 3]

Mister President you always cry about peace, but you must clean up your house before you leave

Oh how you cry about peace, but you must clean up your house before you leave

How can you tell the world how we need peace, and you still mistreat and killin' poor ol' me

RUN RUDOLPH RUN

CHUCK BERRY

SONGWRITERS: BROADIE MARVIN LEE & MARKS JOHN D.

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: CHRISTMAS WITH CHUCK BERRY

LABEL: CHESS RECORD

GENRE: CHRISTMAS SONG

YEAR: 1959

 

      Charles Edward Anderson Berry (October 18, 1926–March 18, 2017) was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist who pioneered rock and roll. Nicknamed the "Father of Rock and Roll", he refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive with songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven"(1956), "Rock and Roll Music"(1957) and "Johnny B. Goode" (1958). Writing lyrics that focused on teen life and consumerism, and developing a music style that included guitar solos and showmanship, Berry was a major influence on subsequent rock music.

      Born into a middle-class black family in St. Louis, Berry had an interest in music from an early age and gave his first public performance at Sumner High School. While still a high school student he was convicted of armed robbery and was sent to a reformatory, where he was held from 1944 to 1947. After his release, Berry settled into married life and worked at an automobile assembly plant. By early 1953, influenced by the guitar riffs and showmanship techniques of the blues musician T-Bone Walker, Berry began performing with the Johnnie Johnson Trio. His break came when he traveled to Chicago in May 1955 and met Muddy Waters, who suggested he contact Leonard Chess, of Chess Records. With Chess, he recorded "Maybellene"—Berry's adaptation of the country song "Ida Red"—which sold over a million copies, reaching number one on Billboard magazine's rhythm and blues chart. 

Out of all the reindeers you know you are the mastermind

Run, run Rudolph, Randolph ain't too far behind

Run, run Rudolph, Santa's gotta make it to town

Santa, make him hurry, tell him he can take the freeway down

Run, run Rudolph 'cause I'm reelin' like a merry-go-round

 

Said Santa to a boy child, "What have you been longin' for?"

"All I want for Christmas is a rock 'n' roll 'lectric guitar"

And then away went Rudolph whizzin' like a shootin' star

 

Run, run Rudolph, Santa's has to make it in town

Santa, make him hurry, tell him he can take the freeway down

Run, run Rudolph, reelin' like a merry-go-round

 

Run, run Rudolph, Santa's gotta make it to town

Santa, make him hurry, tell him he can take the freeway down

Run, run Rudolph, I'm reelin' like a merry-go-round

 

Said Santa to a girl child, "What would please you most to get?"

"A little baby doll that can cry, sleep, drink and wet"

And then away went Rudolph, whizzin' like a Saber jet

 

Run, run Rudolph, Santa's gotta make it to town

Santa, make him hurry, tell him he can take the freeway down

Run, run Rudolph I'm reelin' like a merry-go-round.

THINKING OF YOU( I DRIVE MYSELF CRAZY)

NSYNC

SONGWRITERS: Ellen Shipley; Richard W. Jr. Nowels & Allan D Rich

COUNTRY:

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. 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 2.4million 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 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.

Oh, oh

Oh, oh

Lying in your arms

So close together

Didn't know just what I had

Now I toss and turn

'Cause I'm without you

 

How I'm missing you so bad

Where was my head?

Where was my heart?

Now, I cry alone in the dark

 

I lie awake

I drive myself crazy

Drive myself crazy

Thinking of you

 

Made a mistake

When I let you go, baby

I drive myself crazy

Wanting you the way that I do

Wanting you the way that I do

Oh, oh

 

I was such a fool, I couldn't see it

Just how good you were to me

(Just how good you were to me)

 

You confessed your love

(You confessed your love)

Undying devotion

I confessed my need to be free

And now I'm left with all this pain

I've only got myself to blame, yeah

 

I lie awake

I drive myself crazy

Drive myself crazy

Thinking of you

 

Made a mistake (oh yeah)

Let you go, baby

I drive myself crazy

Wanting you the way that I do

(Wanting you the way that I do)

 

Why didn't I know it?

How much I loved you, baby

Why couldn't I show it?

If I had only told you

When I had the chance

Oh, I had the chance

 

Oh, oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh

 

Wanting you the way that I do

I lie awake

I drive myself crazy

I drive myself crazy

Thinking of you

 

Made a mistake (Mistake)

Let you go, baby

I drive myself crazy

Wanting you the way that I do

 

I lie awake

I drive myself crazy (I drive, myself)

Drive myself crazy (crazy, crazy)

Thinking of you (crazy, crazy, yeah)

Made a mistake (made a mistake)

 

Let you go, baby

I drive myself crazy

Wanting you the way that I do

I drive myself crazy

Wanting you the way that I do.