FASCINATION(KEEP FEELING)

THE HUMAN LEAGUE

SONGWRITERS: JOHN WILLIAM CALLIS CALLIS & PHILIP OAKEY

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: DARE/FASCINATION

LABEL: VIRGIN RECORDS

GENRE: SYNTH-POP

YEAR: 1981

 

         The Human League are an English synth-pop band formed in Sheffield in 1977. Initially an experimental electronic outfit, the group signed to Virgin Records in 1979 and later attained widespread commercial success with their third album Dare in 1981. The album contained four hit singles, including the UK/US number one hit "Don't You Want Me". The band received the Brit Award for Best British Breakthrough Act in 1982. Further hits followed throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, including "Mirror Man", "(Keep Feeling) Fascination", "The Lebanon", "Human" (a US Nº 1) and "Tell Me When".

       The only constant band member since 1977 has been lead singer and songwriter Philip Oakey. Keyboard players Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh both left the band in 1980 to form Heaven 17. Under Oakey's leadership, the Human League then evolved into a commercially successful New Pop band, with a new line-up including female vocalists Joanne Catherall and Susan Ann Sulley. Since the mid-1990s, the band have essentially been a trio of Oakey, Catherall and Sulley with various sidemen.

        Since 1978, the Human League have released 9 studio albums, a remix album, a live album, 6 EPs, 29 singles and 13 compilation albums. They have had 6 Top 20 albums and 13 Top 20 singles in the UK and had sold more than 20 million records worldwide by 2010. As an early techno-pop act that received extensive MTV airplay, they are regarded as one of the leading artists of the 1980s Second British Invasion of the US.

If it seems a little time is needed

Decisions to be made (hey, hey, hey, hey)

The good advice of friends unheeded

The best of plans mislaid

Just looking for a new direction

In an old familiar way (hey, hey, hey, hey)

The forming of a new connection

To study or to play

 

And so the conversation turned

Until the sun went down

And many fantasies were learned

On that day

 

Keep feeling fascination

Passion burning

Love so strong

Keep feeling fascination

Looking, learning

Moving on

 

Well the truth may need some re-arranging

Stories to be told (hey, hey, hey, hey)

And, plain to see, the facts are changing

No meaning left to hold

 

And so the conversation turned

Until the sun went down

And many fantasies were learned

On that day

 

Keep feeling fascination

Passion burning

Love so strong

Keep feeling fascination

Looking, learning

Moving on

 

And so the conversation turned

Until the sun went down

And many fantasies were learned

On that day

 

Keep feeling fascination

Passion burning

Love so strong

Keep feeling fascination

Looking, learning

Moving on

 

Keep feeling fascination

Passion burning

Love so strong

Keep feeling fascination

Looking, learning

Moving on

 

Keep feeling fascination

Passion burning

Love so strong

Keep feeling fascination

Looking, learning

Moving on.

LA VIE EN ROSE

MIREILLE MATHIEU

COMPOSITEURes: ÉDITH PIAF & LOUIS GUGLIELMI LOUIGUY

PAYS: FRANCE

ALBUM: et tu serás poète

RECORD: philips records

Genre: variété française

Année: 1976

 

          Mireille Mathieu, née le 22 juillet 1946 à Avignon (Vaucluse), est une chanteuse française de variétés.

Issue d'un milieu modeste, Mireille Mathieu commence sa carrière en 1965 et connaît son premier grand succès en 1966 avec Mon credo. Se façonnant un répertoire regroupant environ 1.200 chansons, interprétées en de nombreuses langues, elle devient une figure de la chanson française à l'échelle internationale.

    Parmi les chansons les plus connues de son répertoire figurent La Dernière Valse, La Paloma adieu, Paris en colère, Une histoire d'amour, Pardonne-moi ce caprice d'enfant, Bravo tu as gagné, Acropolis Adieu, Mille colombes, Santa Maria de la Mer ou encore Une femme amoureuse.

        Et tu seras poète est un album de la chanteuse française Mireille Mathieu sorti en 1976. Il contient une reprise dela célèbre chanson d'Édith Piaf, La Vie en rose.

Des yeux qui font baisser les miens

Un rire qui se perd sur sa bouche

Voilà le portrait sans retouche

De l'homme auquel j'appartiens

 

Quand il me prend dans ses bras

Il me parle tout bas

Je vois la vie en rose

 

Il me dit des mots d'amour

Des mots de tous les jours

Et ça me fait quelque chose

 

Il est entré dans mon cœur

Une part de bonheur

Dont je connais la cause

 

C'est lui pour moi, moi pour lui dans la vie

Il me l'a dit, l'a juré pour la vie

 

Et dès que je l'aperçois

Alors je sens en moi

Mon cœur qui bat

 

Des nuits d'amour à ne plus en finir

Un grand bonheur qui prend sa place

Des ennuis, des chagrins, s'effacent

Heureux, heureux à en mourir

 

Quand il me prend dans ses bras

Il me parle tout bas

Je vois la vie en rose

 

Il me dit des mots d'amour

Des mots de tous les jours

Et ça me fait quelque chose

 

Il est entré dans mon cœur

Une part de bonheur

Dont je connais la cause

 

C'est toi pour moi, moi pour toi dans la vie

Il me l'a dit, l'a juré pour la vie

 

Et dès que je t'aperçois

Alors je sens dans moi

Mon cœur qui bat.

SORRY SEEMS TO BE THE HARDEST WORD

DIANA KRALL

SONGWRITERS:  JOHN ELTON & TAUPIN BERNIE

COUNTRY: CANADA

ALBUM: WALLFLOWER

LABEL: VERVE RECORDS

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 2015

 

     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.

   Wallflower is the twelfth studio album by Canadian singer Diana Krall, released on February 3, 2015, by Verve Records. The album was produced by David Foster. The album's supporting tour, Wallflower World Tour, began in Boston on February 25, 2015.

       The album consists of cover songs of various pop and rock songs, the only previously unreleased track being "If I Take You Home Tonight" by Paul McCartney. He wrote the song for his album Kisses on the Bottom, in which he collaborated with Krall. Although the song did not make the cut for that album, Krall asked McCartney if she could record the song, and he gave his consent.

What have I got to do to make you love me?

What have I got to do to make you care?

What do I do when lightning strikes me?

And to wake to find that you're not there

 

What do I do to make you want me?

What have I got to do to be heard?

What do I say when it's all over?

And sorry seems to be the hardest word

 

It's sad, so sad

It's a sad, sad situation

And it's getting more and more absurd

 

It's sad, so sad

Why can't we talk it over?

Oh, it seems to me

That sorry seems to be the hardest word

 

It's sad, so sad

It's a sad, sad situation

And it's getting more and more absurd

 

It's sad, so sad

Why can't we talk it over?

Oh, it seems to me

That sorry seems to be the hardest word

 

What do I do to make you love me?

What have I got to do to be heard?

What do I do when lightning strikes me?

What have I got to do?

What have I got to do?

When sorry seems to be the hardest word. 

SO LONELY

THE POLICE

SONGWRITERS: CHRISTOPHER EATON & GORDON SUMNER

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: URGH! A

LABEL: WARNER BROS

GENRE: PUNK ROCK

YEAR: 1978

 

         Urgh! A Music War is a 1982 British concert film featuring performances by punk rock, new wave, and post-punk bands and artists. Filmed in August to September 1980 it was directed by Derek Burbidge and produced by Michael White and Lyndall Hobbs. Among the acts featured in the film are Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), Magazine, the Go-Go's, Toyah Willcox, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, X, XTC, Devo, the Cramps, Oingo Boingo, Dead Kennedys, Gary Numan, Klaus Nomi, Wall of Voodoo, Pere Ubu, Steel Pulse, Surf Punks, 999, UB40, Echo & the Bunnymen and The Police. These were many of the most popular groups on the New Wave scene; in keeping with the spirit of the scene, the film also features several less famous acts.

 

Well someone told me yesterday

That when you throw your love away

You act as if you just don't care

You look as if you're going somewhere

 

But I just can't convince myself

I couldn't live with no one else

And I can only play that part

And sit and nurse my broken heart

 

So lonely

So lonely

So lonely

So lonely

 

So lonely

So lonely

So lonely

 

So lonely

So lonely

So lonely

 

So lonely

So lonely

 

Now no one's knocked upon my door

For a thousand years or more

All made up and nowhere to go

Welcome to this one man show

 

Just take a seat they're always free

No surprise, no mystery

In this theater that I call my soul

I always play the starring role

 

So lonely

So lonely (I feel low)

So lonely (I feel so lonely)

So lonely (I feel low)

(I feel so lonely)

 

So lonely (I feel low)

So lonely (I feel so lonely)

So lonely (I feel low)

(I feel so lonely)

 

So lonely (I feel low)

So lonely (I feel so lonely)

So lonely (I feel low)

(I feel so lonely)

 

So lonely (I feel low)

So lonely (I feel so lonely)

 

Lonely, I'm so lonely

So lonely

So lonely

So lonely

 

So lonely

So lonely

So lonely

 

Lonely, I'm so lonely

I feel so alone

I feel low

I feel so

Feel so low

I feel low, low

I feel low, low, low

I feel low, low, low

I feel low, low, low

I feel low, low, low

I feel low, low, low

Low, I feel low

I feel low

I feel low

I feel so lonely

I feel so lonely

I feel so lonely, lonely, lonely, lone

Lone, lone, lone

I feel so lonely

So lonely

So lonely

So lonely

 

So lonely (I feel so alone)

So lonely (I feel so alone)

So lonely (I feel so lonely)

 

So lonely (I feel so alone)

So lonely (I feel so alone)

So lonely (I feel so lonely)

 

So lonely (I feel so alone)

So lonely (I feel so alone)

So lonely (I feel so lonely)

 

So lonely (I feel so alone)

So lonely (I feel so alone)

So lonely (I feel so lonely)

 

So lonely (I feel so alone)

So lonely (I feel so alone)

So lonely (I feel so lonely).