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.

WILL KEEP US ALIVE

THE EAGLES LOVE

SONGWRITERS: Capaldi James Nicola; Carrack Paul Melvyn & Vale Peter Benson

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: GREATEST HITS LIVE

LABEL: GET YER VINYL OUT

GENRE: FOLK

YEAR: 1993

 

        The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1971. With five number-one singles and six number-one albums, six Grammy Awards and five American Music Awards, the Eagles were one of the most successful musical acts of the 1970s in North America. Founding members Glenn Frey(guitars, vocals), Don Henley (drums, vocals), Bernie Leadon(guitars, vocals), and Randy Meisner(bass guitar, vocals) were recruited by Linda Ronstadt as band members, some touring with her, and all playing on her third solo album, before venturing out on their own on David Geffen's new Asylum Records label.

    Their debut, Eagles(1972), spawned two top-20 singles in the US and Canada: "Take It Easy" and "Witchy Woman". The next year's follow-up, Desperado, peaked at only number 41 in the US, although "Desperado" became a popular track. In 1974, guitarist Don Felder joined, and On the Border produced the top 40 hit "Already Gone" and the Eagles' first number-one song in the US and Canada, "Best of My Love", which made the top 15 in Australia, their first hit overseas. In 1975, the album One of These Nights became their first number-one album in the US and a top-10 album in many countries. It included the US number-one hit "One of These Nights", which was their first top-10 hit outside of North America, and US top-five songs "Lyin' Eyes" and "Take It to the Limit". Also in 1975, guitarist and vocalist Joe Walsh replaced Leadon.

    Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975)(1976) is the best-selling album in the United States, with 38million sold, and primed the public for the late 1976 release of Hotel California, which would sell more than 26million copies in the US (ranking 3rd all-time for US sales), and more than 32million copies worldwide. The album yielded two number-one singles in the US and Canada, "New Kid in Town" and "Hotel California", the latter of which became their only top-10 hit in the United Kingdom, while also reaching the top 10 in New Zealand and many European countries, including number two in France.

        Meisner was replaced by Timothy B. Schmit in 1977. The Eagles released their last studio album for nearly 28 years in 1979 with The Long Run, spawning the North American number-one song "Heartache Tonight", which became their biggest hit in Australia(number 13), and the North American top-10 hits "The Long Run" and "I Can't Tell You Why". The Eagles broke up in 1980 but reunited in 1994 for the album Hell Freezes Over, a mix of live and new studio tracks, and toured consistently. In 2007, the Eagles released Long Road Out of Eden, their sixth number-one album in the US, and in 2008 launched the Long Road Out of Eden Tour. In 2013, they began the extended History of the Eagles Tour in conjunction with the documentary release, History of the Eagles. Following Frey's death in January 2016, the Eagles re-formed in 2017, with Glenn's son Deacon Frey and Vince Gill sharing lead vocals for Frey's songs prior to the former's departure in 2022.

      The Eagles are one of the world's best-selling bands, having sold more than 200million records, including 100million sold in US alone. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 and were ranked number 75 on Rolling Stone's 2004 list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time"

I was standing

All alone against the world outside

You were searching

For a place to hide

 

Lost and lonely

Now you've given me the will to survive

When we're hungry

Love will keep us alive

 

Don't you worry

Sometimes you've just gotta let it ride

The world is changing

Right before your eyes

 

Now I've found you

There's no more emptiness inside

When we're hungry

Love will keep us alive

 

I would die for you

Climb the highest mountain

Baby, there's nothing I wouldn't do

 

Now I've found you

There's no more emptiness inside

When we're hungry

Love will keep us alive

 

I would die for you

Climb the highest mountain

Baby, there's nothing I wouldn't do

 

I was standing

All alone against the world outside

You were searching

For a place to hide

 

Lost and lonely

Now you've given me the will to survive

When we're hungry

Love will keep us alive

 

When we're hungry

Love will keep us alive

When we're hungry

Love will keep us alive.