LOVE CAN BUILD A BRIDGE

THE JUDDS
SONGWRITERS: JOHN BARLOW JARVIS; NAOMI ELLEN JUDD & PAUL OVERSTREET
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: LOVE CAN BUILD A BRIDGE
LABEL: RCA NASHVILLE
GENRE: COUNTRY
YEAR: 1990
 
       The Judds were an American country music duo composed of lead vocalist Wynonna Judd and her mother, Naomi Judd. The duo signed to RCA Nashville in 1983 and released six studio albums between then and 1991. The Judds were one of the most successful acts in country music history, winning five Grammy Awards for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, and nine Country Music Association awards. They also charted more than twenty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including fourteen that went to number one. After eight years as a duo, the Judds disbanded in 1991 after Naomi was diagnosed with Hepatitis C. Wynonna began a solo career soon after, although she and her mother reunited on multiple occasions.
       Naomi Judd committed suicide on April 30, 2022, nineteen days after the final performance of the Judds and a day before the duo's induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
       Love Can Build a Bridge is the sixth and final studio album by American country duo the Judds, released by RCA Nashville in September 1990. It features the singles "Born to Be Blue", the title track, and "One Hundred and Two". The title track has later been covered by several other artists.
I'd gladly walk across the desert
With no shoes upon my feet
To share with you the last bite
Of bread I had to eat
I would swim out to save you
In your sea of broken dreams
When all your hopes are sinkin'
Let me show you what love means
 
Love can build a bridge
Between your heart and mine
Love can build a bridge
Don't you think it's time?
Don't you think it's time?
 
I would whisper love so loudly
Every heart could understand
That love and only love
Can join the tribes of man
I would give my heart's desire
So that you might see
The first step is to realize
That it all begins with you and me
 
Love can build a bridge
Between your heart and mine
Love can build a bridge
Don't you think it's time?
Don't you think it's time?
 
When we stand together
It's our finest hour
We can do anything (anything), anything (anything)
Keep believin' in the power
 
Love can build a bridge
Between your heart and mine
Love can build a bridge
Don't you think it's time?
Don't you think it's time?
Yeah, yes, I do
 
Oh, love can build a bridge (oh, love and only love)
Between your heart and mine (between your heart and mine)
Love can build a bridge (love and only love)
Don't you think it's time?
Oh, don't you think it's time?
 
Mmm
Don't you think it's time?
 
Love and only love
Hey
Love and only love.

LOOK THROUGH ANY WINDOW

THE HOLLIES
SONGWRITERS: CHARLES SILVERMAN & GRAHAM GOULDMAN
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM: THE HOLLIES
LABEL: RHINO ENTERTAINMENT
GENRE: POP ROCK
YEAR: 1965
 
     The Hollies are a British rock and pop band, formed in 1962. One of the leading British groups of the 1960s and into the mid 1970s, they are known for their distinctive three-part vocal harmony style. Allan Clarke and Graham Nash founded the band as a Merseybeat-type music group in Manchester, although some of the band members came from towns further north in East Lancashire. Graham Nash left the group in 1968 to form Crosby, Stills & Nash.
       They enjoyed considerable popularity in many countries (with at least 60 singles or EPs and 26 albums charting somewhere in the world, spanning over five decades) although they did not achieve major US chart success until "Bus Stop" was released in 1966. The group went on to have periodic success on both sides of the Atlantic over the next decade with hits such as "Stop Stop Stop" (1966), "On a Carousel" (1967), "Carrie Anne" (1967), "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" (1969), "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress" (1972) and "The Air That I Breathe" (1974). Overall, the Hollies had over 30 charting singles on the UK Singles Chart and 22 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The Hollies are one of the few UK groups of the early 1960s, along with the Rolling Stones, who have never disbanded and continue to record and perform. In recognition of their achievements, the Hollies were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010.
Look through any window, yeah
What do you see
Smilin' faces all around
Rushin' through the busy town
 
Movin' on their way
Walkin' down the highways and the by ways
(Where do they go)
Movin' on their way
People with their shy ways and their sly ways
 
Oh, you can see the little children
All around
Oh, you can see the little ladies
In their gowns when you
 
Look through any window, yeah
Any time of day
See the drivers on the roads
Pullin' down their heavy loads
 
Movin' on their way
Drivin' down highways and the by ways
(Where do they go)
Movin' on their way
Drivers with their shy ways and their sly ways
 
Oh, you can see the little children
All around
Oh, you can see the little ladies
In their gowns when you
 
Look through any window, yeah
What do you see
Smiling faces all around
Rushin' through the busy town
 
Movin' on their way
Movin' on their way
Movin' on their way.

TICK TICK BOOM

THE HIVES
SONGWRITER: RANDY FITZSIMMONS
COUNTRY: SWEDEN
ALBUM: THE BLACK AND WHITE ALBUM
LABEL: UNIVERSAL MUSIC
GENRE: ROCK
YEAR: 2007
 
        The Hives are a Swedish rock band that rose to prominence in the early 2000s during the garage rock revival. Their mainstream success came with the release of the album Veni Vidi Vicious, containing the single "Hate to Say I Told You So". The band has been acclaimed by music critics as one of the best live rock bands.
    The Hives have released five studio albums: Barely Legal(1997), Veni Vidi Vicious(2000), Tyrannosaurus Hives(2004), The Black and White Album(2007) and Lex Hives(2012). They have one compilation album, Your New Favourite Band(2001) and they have issued a live DVD, Tussles in Brussels(2005).
        The Black and White Album is the fourth studio album by Swedish rock band The Hives. The track listing for The Black and White Album was confirmed on the band's German website on 13 September 2007, and later through NME. The Hives recorded 20 to 30 songs (including seven recorded with super producers The Neptunes) for this album from which they finally chose the best. Other tracks were produced by Jacknife Lee and Dennis Herring. Sessions were held with Timbaland, with whom the band produced the song "Throw It On Me", but took place too late for any of the resulting tracks to be on the album. They hoped to use these songs as B-sides.
Yeah (yeah, yeah)
I was right all along,
Yeah (yeah, yeah)
You come tagging along,
Exhibit a,
On a tray,
What you say,
Ends up thrown in your face,
Exhibit b,
What you see,
Well that's me,
I'll put you back in your place
 
Yeah I've done it before,
And I can do it some more,
So what you waiting for?
Yeah!
I was right all along!
 
'Cause I've done it before,
And I can do it some more,
I've got my eye on the score,
I'm gonna cut through the floor,
It's too late,
It's too soon,
Or is it
Tick tick tick tick tick tick tick...boom!
 
Yeah, (yeah, yeah)
I was right you were wrong,
Yeah, (yeah, yeah)
Going, going you're gone!
I saw you yesterday, waiting too much,
 
Till it slipped through your hands,
And then you stagger to your feet and out the door,
'Cause there's no second chance!
 
'Cause I've done it before,
And I can do it some more,
I've got my eye on the score,
I'm gonna cut through the floor,
It's too late,
It's too soon,
Or is it
Tick tick tick tick tick tick tick...boom!
 
Now you come crying to me
But it's too late!
The man you're proud to be,
But it's too late!
Get your head out of the sand,
But it's too late
 
It's too late,
Too late,
Too late,
Too late!
 
Yeah!
But it's too late!
But it's too late!
 
Get your head out of the sand,
But it's too late!
But it's too late!
 
'Cause I've done it before,
And I can do it some more,
I've got my eye on the score,
I'm gonna cut through the floor,
It's too late,
It's too soon,
Or is it
Tick tick tick tick tick tick tick...boom!
 
It's too late,
It's too soon,
It's too late,
It's too soon,
It's too late,
It's too soon,
 
Or is it
Tick tick tick tick tick tick tick
Boom!

WAKE UP LITTLE SUSIE

EVERLY BROTHERS
SONGWRITERS: BOUDLEAUX BRYANT & FELICE BRYANT
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: WAKE UP LITTLE SUSIE
LABEL: CADENCE RECORDS
GENRE: ROCK
YEAR: 1957
 
       The Everly Brothers were an American rock duo, known for steel-string acoustic guitar playing and close harmony singing. Consisting of Isaac Donald "Don" Everly (February 1, 1937 – August 21, 2021) and Phillip "Phil" Everly(January 19, 1939 – January 3, 2014), the duo combined elements of rock and roll, country, and pop, becoming pioneers of country rock.
The duo was raised in a musical family, first appearing on radio singing along with their father Ike Everly and mother Margaret Everly as "The Everly Family" in the 1940s. When the brothers were still in high school, they gained the attention of prominent Nashville musicians like Chet Atkins, who began to promote them for national attention.
      They began writing and recording their own music in 1956, and their first hit song came in 1957, with "Bye Bye Love", written by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant. The song hit Nº 1 in the spring of 1957, and additional hits would follow through 1958, many of them written by the Bryants, including "Wake Up Little Susie", "All I Have to Do Is Dream", and "Problems". In 1960, they signed with the major label Warner Bros. Records and recorded "Cathy's Clown", written by the brothers themselves, which was their biggest selling single. The brothers enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve in 1961, and their output dropped off, though additional hit singles continued through 1962, with "That's Old Fashioned (That's the Way Love Should Be)" being their last top-10 hit.
      Long-simmering disputes with Wesley Rose, the CEO of Acuff-Rose Music, which managed the group, and a growing drug usage in the 1960s, as well as changing tastes in popular music, led to the group's decline in popularity in its native U.S., though the brothers continued to release hit singles in the U.K. and Canada and had many highly successful tours throughout the 1960s. In the early 1970s, the brothers began releasing solo recordings, and in 1973 they officially broke up. Starting in 1983, the brothers got back together and continued to perform periodically until Phil's death in 2014. Don died seven years later.
        The group was highly influential with the music of the generation that followed it. Many of the top acts of the 1960s were heavily influenced by the close-harmony singing and acoustic guitar playing of the Everly Brothers, including the Beatles, the Beach Boys, the Bee Gees, and Simon & Garfunkel. In 2015, Rolling Stone ranked the Everly Brothers Nº 1 on its list of the 20 Greatest Duos of All Time. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of the inaugural class of 1986, and into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001. Don was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2019, earning the organization's first Iconic Riff Award for his distinctive rhythm guitar intro to the Everlys' massive 1957 hit "Wake Up Little Susie".
Wake up, little Susie, wake up
Wake up, little Susie, wake up
 
We've both been sound asleep
Wake up, little Susie and weep
The movie's over, it's four o'clock
And we're in trouble deep
 
Wake up, little Susie
Wake up, little Susie
 
Well, what are we gonna tell your mama?
What are we gonna tell your pa'?
What are we gonna tell our friends when they say
"Ooh, la, la"?
 
Wake up, little Susie
Wake up, little Susie
 
Well, I told your mama that we'd be in by tem
Well, Susie, baby, looks like we goofed again
 
Wake up, little Susie
Wake up, little Susie
We gotta go home
 
Wake up, little Susie, wake up
Wake up, little Susie, wake up
 
The movie wasn't so hot
It didn't have much of a plot
We fell asleep, our goose is cooked
Our reputation is shot
 
Wake up, little Susie
Wake up, little Susie
 
Well, what are we gonna tell your mama?
What are we gonna tell your pa?
What are we gonna tell our friends when they say
"Ooh, la, la"?
 
Wake up, little Susie
Wake up, little Susie
Wake up, little Susie.