MANDOLIN MOON

SISTER HAZEL

SONGWRITER: DAVID COLEMAN & DUANE JARVIS

COUNTRY: u. s. a.

ALBUM: ABSOLUTELY

LABEL: ADRENALINE MUSIC

GENRE: SOUTHERN ROCK

YEAR: 2006

 

       Sister Hazel is an American alternative rock band from Gainesville, Florida, whose style blends elements of jangle pop, folk rock, classic rock, and southern rock.

        Sister Hazel formed in Gainesville, Florida, in 1993 and was named for Sister Hazel Williams, a local missionary who ran a homeless shelter. The group released its self-titled debut album in 1994, through its independent record label Croakin' Poets. Shortly after its release, singer/guitarist Ryan Newell and drummer Mark Trojanowski joined the band. Newell played on the album before officially joining the group.

      The band's second album, ...Somewhere More Familiar was released in 1997 and sold approximately 30,000 copies through its initial pressing, prompting Universal Records to sign the band. Universal re-released ...Somewhere More Familiar in late 1997. A single from the album, "All For You" hit Nº 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 and remains the band's most successful single.

          The band's third album Fortress was released in 2000 by Universal. The band worked with producers Mike Clink(Guns N' Roses, Mötley Crüe, Heart), Richie Zito(Cheap Trick), and Paul Ebersold (3 Doors Down). The album featured minor pop hits "Champagne High" and "Change Your Mind." The album's title track was featured as the outro of Valparaiso University radio station WVUR's weekly Saturday night program during the 2000-01 academic year.

        In 2003, after the band split from Universal, they released their fourth studio album, Chasing Daylight, on the Sixthman label and toured throughout the year to promote the album. The band's internet presence emerged during this time period, and hardcore fans dubbing themselves "Hazelnuts" studied setlists, shared bootleg concert recordings, and initiated a promotion scheme with the band through their official website. 2003 also saw the simultaneous release of Live*LIVE, a two-disc live album, and A Life in the Day, a live DVD.

        Absolutely is Sister Hazel's sixth studio album. It was released on October 10, 2006 by Adrenaline/Wandering Hazel Records. It is Sister Hazel's first album since departing from their previous record label, Sixthman. "Mandolin Moon", was the first single. The album was leaked to torrent websites on August 10, 2006. The leaked version was an advance copy of the CD and featured a short spoken-word track in place of "Hello It's Me."

Everything changes in the face of the moon

Now times here, and you're in for bloom

When you woo me

My luna girl

 

My feet two feet from the ground

I'm tasting colors, and I'm seeing sounds

When you take me out of this world

 

Well I, I count my blessings

And hug my luck like an old brass penny

With two heads up

It's all right if you're late

I'd just hope that you find your way soon

 

Shine down, light it up, wash it over

Wait around for my mandolin moon

Come around till the sweet, sweet morning

Come along, I'll be waiting for you

Waiting for you

 

You pull the tides up around me

So much that it could drown me

And you surround me

My luna girl

 

Don't tell me, I don't wanna hear

Wake me up before you disappear

Won't you take me out of this world?

 

Well I, I count my blessings

And hug my luck like an old brass penny

With two heads up

It's all right if you're late

I'd just hope that you find your way soon

 

Shine down, light it up, wash it over

Wait around for my mandolin moon

Come around till the sweet, sweet morning

Come along, I'll be waiting for you

Waiting for you

 

I'm waiting

Still waiting

If only you could stay a while

I'm waiting

Still waiting

If only you could stay a while

I'm waiting

I'm waiting

If only you could stay a while

 

Shine down, light it up, wash it over

Wait around for my mandolin moon

Come along till the sweet, sweet morning

Come along, I'll be waiting for you

 

Shine down, light it up, wash it over

Wait around for my mandolin moon

Come around till the sweet, sweet morning

Come along, I'll be waiting for you

Waiting for you.

TAKE ME BACK

BONNIE TYLER

SONGWRITER: BILLY CROSS

COUNTRY: GALES(WELSH)

ALBUM: FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF NIGHT

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: ROCK

YEAR: 1983

 

    Gaynor Sullivan(née Hopkins; born 8 June 1951), known professionally as Bonnie Tyler, is a Welsh singer who is known for her distinctive husky voice. Tyler came to prominence with the release of her 1977 album The World Starts Tonight and its singles "Lost in France" and "More Than a Lover". Her 1978 single "It's a Heartache" reached number four on the UK Singles Chart, and number three on the US Billboard Hot 100.

      In the 1980s, Tyler ventured into rock music with songwriter and producer Jim Steinman. He wrote Tyler's biggest hit "Total Eclipse of the Heart", the lead single from her 1983 UK chart-topping album Faster Than the Speed of Night. Steinman also wrote Tyler's other major 1980s hit "Holding Out for a Hero". She had success in mainland Europe during the 1990s with Dieter Bohlen, who wrote and produced her hit "Bitterblue". In 2003, Tyler re-recorded "Total Eclipse of the Heart" with singer Kareen Antonn. Their bilingual duet, titled "Si demain... (Turn Around)", topped the French charts.

    Rocks and Honey was released in 2013 and features the single "Believe in Me", which she performed representing the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö, Sweden. After reuniting with the producer David Mackay, she released Between the Earth and the Stars(2019) and The Best Is Yet to Come(2021).

    Her work has earned her three Grammy Award nominations and three Brit Award nominations, among other accolades.

       Faster Than the Speed of Night is the fifth studio album by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler. It was released first in Europe on 8 April 1983 and later that year in the US through Columbia Records. Tyler had changed musical direction and soon after began working with Jim Steinman, who produced the album and wrote its most successful single "Total Eclipse of the Heart".

       Faster Than the Speed of Night reached Nº 1 in the UK Albums Chart, and was certified Silver in the UK, Platinum in the US, and Double Platinum in Canada.

You said it's over now

It's just not right

You said there's a better place for you to be

It's not with me

Then you turned and walked away

I can't believe what I see

And I can't go to sleep at night when I think of how it used to be

 

She can't give you what I've got

And she can't stop your pain

And she can't love you the way I do

God I want you back again

Maybe she could try with money

Or she could buy you clothes

But baby when it's dark and you're home at night

Does she ever hold you close

 

She takes you out in style

She treats you right

She gives you all the things I never could, she's so good

But don't you think of me

Baby late at night

And I just can't take it boy, together we could be so right

 

She can't give you what I've got

And she can't stop your pain

And she can't love you the way I do

God I want you back again

Maybe she could try with money

Or she could buy you clothes

But baby when it's dark and you're home at night

Does she ever hold you close

 

Take me back

(Ooh you're gonna need me)

(Ooh you're gonna need me)

Take me back

(Ooh you're gonna need me)

All those things we did before

Whatever happened to them

And all those things I've been living for

Gotta start 'em all over again

 

You said it couldn't last

That we were meant to part

A guy like you and a girl like me didn't stand a chance - not from the

Start

But then you looked at me

I had to ask you why

As I see and try to find out why you left me for those hungry eyes

 

She can't give you what I've got

And she can't stop your pain

And she can't love you the way I do

God I want you back again

Maybe she could try with money

Or she could buy you clothes

But baby when it's dark and you're home at night

Does she ever hold you close

 

Take me back

(Ooh you're gonna take me)

Take me back

(Ooh you're gonna take me)

Take me back

(Ooh you're gonna take me)

Take me back.

I WANNA BE BY YOUR SIDE

SYREETA WRIGHT

SONGWRITER: STEVIE WONDER

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: STEVIE WONDER PRESENTS SYREETA

LABEL: UNIVERSAL SOUND OF THE WORLD

GENRE: SOUL

YEAR: 1974

 

         Syreeta Wright(August 3, 1946 – July 6, 2004), who recorded professionally under the single name Syreeta, was an American singer-songwriter, best known for her music during the early 1970s through the early 1980s. Wright's career heights were songs in collaboration with her ex-husband Stevie Wonder and musical artist Billy Preston.

     Wright was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, in 1946, and started singing at the age of four. Her father served in the Korean War and Wright and her sister Kim were raised by their mother Essie and their grandmother. The Wrights moved back and forth from Detroit to South Carolina, before finally settling in Detroit just as Wright entered high school. Money problems kept Wright from pursuing a career in ballet, so she focused her attention on a music career joining several singing groups, before landing a job as a receptionist for Motown in 1965. Within a year, she became a secretary for Mickey Stevenson, just as Martha Reeves had done before her.

At any given time

And at any given place

I wanna be by your side, baby

Just to put a little smile

On your sad but lovely face

You need me right by your side

 

To stay right there and love you

I won't ever let you down

I wanna be by your side

I don’t care

Right there by your side

 

To convince this heart of mine

Well that's gonna take some time

I have heard those sweet things before

But I'd like to get to know

If your love’s that wonderful

Then you should be by my side

To stay right there and love me

I won't ever, ever, ever let you down

I wanna be by your side, I don't care

Right there by your side

 

I'll stay right here and love you

I won't ever let you down

I wanna be by your side

I don't care, right there by your side

 

I wanna be by your side, yeah, yeah, yeah

I wanna be by your side baby

C'mon

I wanna be, oh, baby

Yeah, c'mon, woah, baby

I wanna be by, ooh, by your, by your

Show me what you can do

I wanna, I wanna.

IT’S TOO LATE

BILLY PAUL

SONGWRITERS: DAVID JOHANSEN & JOHNNY THUNDERS

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: 360 DEGREES OF BILLY PAUL

LABEL: PHILADELPHIA INTERNACIONAL RECORDS

GENRE: SOUL

YEAR: 1972

 

     Paul Williams(December 1, 1934 – April 24, 2016), known professionally as Billy Paul, was a Grammy Award-winning American soul singer, known for his 1972 Nº 1 single "Me and Mrs. Jones", as well as the 1973 album and single War of the Gods, which blends his more conventional pop, soul, and funk styles with electronic and psychedelic influences.

       He was one of the many artists associated with the Philadelphia soul sound created by Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff, and Thom Bell. Paul was identified by his diverse vocal style, which ranged from mellow and soulful to low and raspy. Questlove of the Roots equated Paul with Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder, calling him "one of the criminally unmentioned proprietors of socially conscious post-revolution '60s civil rights music."

      360 Degrees of Billy Paul is an album by soul singer Billy Paul. It was produced by Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff and arranged by Bobby Martin, Lenny Pakula and Norman Harris. Released in 1972, it includes the Grammy Award-winning number 1 pop and soul single "Me and Mrs. Jones" and its follow-up "Am I Black Enough for You?" which reached number 29 on the soul chart and number 79 on the pop chart. The album was expanded and remastered by Big Break Records for compact disc in 2012 with three bonus tracks, new liner notes by Andy Kellman, and new quotes from Billy Paul.

Stayed in bed all mornin' just to pass the time.

There's somethin' wrong here, there can be no denyin'.

One of us is changin', or maybe we've just stopped tryin'.

And it's too late, baby now, it's too late,

Though we really did try to make it.

Somethin' inside has died, and I can't hide,

And I just can't fake it, oh, no, no.

It used to be so easy, livin' here with you.

You were light and breezy, an' I knew just what to do.

Now you look so unhappy, and I feel like a fool.

And it's too late, baby now, it's too late,

Though we really did try to make it.

Somethin' inside has died, and I can't hide,

And I just can't fake it, oh, no, no.

There'll be good times again for me and you,

But we just can't stay together; don't you feel it too?

Still I'm glad for what we had and how I once loved you.

And it's too late, baby now, it's too late,

Though we really did try to make it. (we can't make it)

Somethin' inside has died, and I can't hide,

And I just can't fake it, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.

 

It's too late baby, it's too late now darling

It's too late.