GREEN GREEN GRASS

GEORGE EZRA
SONGWRITERS: GEORGE EZRA BARNETT; JOEL LASLETT POTT & STUART DAVID PRICE
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM: GOLD RUSH KID
LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 2022
 
     George Ezra Barnett(born 7 June 1993) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. After releasing two EPs, Did You Hear the Rain?(2013) and Cassy O'(2014), Ezra rose to prominence with the release of his hit single, "Budapest", which reached number one in several countries. His debut studio album, Wanted on Voyage, was released in June 2014, reaching number one in the UK and the top ten in seven other countries. It was also the third-best-selling album of 2014 in the UK.
         Ezra's second studio album, Staying at Tamara's, was released in March 2018 and reached number one in the UK and the top ten in eight other countries. The second single from the album, "Paradise", reached number two in the UK, while the next single, "Shotgun", reached number one, becoming Ezra's first chart-topping single in the UK, Ireland and Australia. In February 2019, he won the Brit Award for British Male Solo Artist. Ezra released his third studio album, Gold Rush Kid, in June 2022. It became his third consecutive number-one album in the UK.
      George Ezra Barnett was born on 7 June 1993 in Hertford, Hertfordshire, U. K.. His parents were teachers, with his father, Paul, teaching at Barnwell School in Stevenage. Barnett attended primary school in Bengeo and then Simon Balle School. He studied at Hertford Regional College. He moved to Bristol in 2011 to study songwriting at the British and Irish Modern Music Institute. Ezra has an elder sister named Jessica who accompanies him on tour, and a younger brother named Ethan who is also a singer and songwriter under the stage name Ten Tonnes.
       Gold Rush Kid is the third studio album by English singer-songwriter George Ezra, released on 10 June 2022 by Columbia Records. The album was promoted by four singles: "Anyone for You (Tiger Lily)", "Green Green Grass", "Dance All Over Me" and "Sweetest Human Being Alive". It became his third consecutive number-one album in the UK.
        All songs written by George Ezra and Joel Pott, except where noted; all tracks produced by Joel Pott, except where noted.
Well she moves like lightning
And she counts to three
Then she turns out all the lights
And says she's coming for me
Now put your hands up
This is a heist
And there's no one in here living
Gonna make it out alive
 
Load it up when the sun comes down
Getaway car for two young lovers
Me and the girl straight out of town
Over the hills and undercover
Undercover, undercover
She said
 
Green green grass, blue blue sky
You better throw a party on the day that I die
Green green grass, blue blue sky
You better throw a party on the day that I die
 
We go together, Adam and Eve
But the girl is so much more than just another apple thief
Yeah, she's a genius (genius), watch and learn
How she sets the world on fire just to watch the sucker burn
 
Load it up when the sun comes down
Getaway car for two young lovers
Me and the girl straight out of town
Over the hills and undercover
Undercover, undercover
She said
 
Green green grass, blue blue sky
You better throw a party on the day that I die
Green green grass, blue blue sky
You better throw a party on the day that I die
 
Throw a party (yeah), throw a party, yeah
Throw a party (woo), on the day that I die
Throw a party (hey), throw a party, yeah
Throw a party, on the day that I die
 
Load it up when the sun comes down
Getaway car for two young lovers
Me and the girl straight out of town
Over the hills and undercover
Undercover, undercover
She said
 
Green green grass, blue blue sky
You better throw a party on the day that I die
Green green grass, blue blue sky
You better throw a party on the day that I die
Green green grass, blue blue sky
You better throw a party on the day that I die
Green green grass, blue blue sky
You better throw a party on the day that I die.

APENAS MAIS UMA DE AMOR

LULU SANTOS
COMPOSITORES: LUIZ MAURÍCIO PRAGANA DOS SANTOS
PAÍS: BRASIL
ÁLBUM: MONDOCANE
GRAVADORA: PHILIPS RECORD
GÊNERO: POP
ANO: 1992
 
     Lulu Santos reinou nos anos 1980 como o compositor hitmaker que buscou – e muitas vezes encontrou – a batida perfeita do pop brasileiro. Já no primeiro álbum, Tempos modernos(1982), o artista vislumbrou começo de era pop para a música do Brasil.
          Confiando nessa visão, Lulu descobriu o tesouro da juventude e extraiu ouro puro de lavra própria, mostrando inspiração inabalável em série de discos que consolidaram, ao longo da década de 1980, um dos cancioneiros mais aliciantes do universo pop nacional. Essa monumental obra autoral resistiu bem ao tempo e, decorridos 40 anos, ainda garante plateias lotadas e embevecidas nos festivos shows do artista.
Eu gosto tanto de você
Que até prefiro esconder
Deixo assim ficar subentendido
Como uma ideia que existe na cabeça, e não
Tem a menor obrigação de acontecer
 
Eu acho tão bonito isso
De ser abstrato, baby
A beleza é mesmo tão fugaz
É uma ideia que existe na cabeça, e não
Tem a menor pretensão de convencer
 
Pode até parecer fraqueza
Pois que seja fraqueza então
A alegria que me dá, isso vai sem eu dizer
 
Se amanhã não for nada disso
Caberá só a mim esquecer
O que eu ganho, o que eu perco
Ninguém precisa saber
 
Eu gosto tanto de você
Que até prefiro esconder
Deixo assim ficar subentendido
Como uma ideia que existe na cabeça, e não
Tem a menor obrigação de acontecer
 
Pode até parecer fraqueza
Pois que seja fraqueza então
A alegria que me dá, isso vai sem eu dizer
 
Se amanhã não for nada disso
Caberá só a mim esquecer
Eu digo: vai doer
O que eu ganho, o que eu perco
Ninguém precisa saber
 
Eu acho tão bonito isso
De ser abstrato, baby
A beleza é mesmo tão fugaz
É uma ideia que existe na cabeça, e não
Tem a menor pretensão de convencer.

SWEET MEMORIES

RAY CHARLES
SONGWRITERS: DENZIL DELANO FOSTER; JAY A KING & THOMAS DERRICK MCELROY
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: LOVE COUNTRY STYLE
LABEL: ABC RECORDS
GENRE: BLUES
YEAR: 1970
 
        Ray Charles Robinson Sr. (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004) was an American singer, songwriter, pianist and alto saxophonist. He is regarded as one of the most iconic and influential singers in history, and was often referred to by contemporaries as "The Genius". Among friends and fellow musicians he preferred being called "Brother Ray". Charles was blinded during childhood, possibly due to glaucoma.
         Charles pioneered the soul music genre during the 1950s by combining blues, jazz, rhythm and blues, and gospel styles into the music he recorded for Atlantic Records. He contributed to the integration of country music, rhythm and blues, and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, notably with his two Modern Sounds albums. While he was with ABC, Charles became one of the first black musicians to be granted artistic control by a mainstream record company.
         Charles's 1960 hit "Georgia On My Mind" was the first of his three career Nº 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. His 1962 album Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music became his first album to top the Billboard 200. Charles had multiple singles reach the Top 40 on various Billboard charts: 44 on the US R&B singles chart, 11 on the Hot 100 singles chart, 2 on the Hot Country singles charts.
     Charles cited Nat King Cole as a primary influence, but his music was also influenced by Louis Jordan and Charles Brown. He had a lifelong friendship and occasional partnership with Quincy Jones. Frank Sinatra called Ray Charles "the only true genius in show business," although Charles downplayed this notion. Billy Joel said, "This may sound like sacrilege, but I think Ray Charles was more important than Elvis Presley".
           For his musical contributions, Charles received the Kennedy Center Honors, the National Medal of Arts, and the Polar Music Prize. He was one of the inaugural inductees at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986. He has won 18 Grammy Awards (5 posthumously), the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987, and 10 of his recordings have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Rolling Stone ranked Charles Nº 10 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, and Nº 2 on their list of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. In 2022, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, as well as the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame.
My world is like a river as dark as it is deep
Night after night the past slips in and gathers all my sleep
My days are just and endless stream of emptiness to me
Filled only by the fleeting moments of her memories
 
Sweet memories
Sweet memories
She slipped into the silence of my dreams again last night
Wandering from room to room, she's turning on each light
Her laughter spills like water from the river to the sea
And I'm swept away from sadness clinging to her memories
Sweet memories
Sweet memories.

MEMORIES

ELVIS PRESLEY
SONGWRITERS: BILLY STRANGE & MAC DAVIS
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: ELVIS ’68 COMEBACK
LABEL: SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINEMENT
GENRE: ROCK
YEAR: 1968
 
           Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), often referred to mononymously as Elvis, was an American singer and actor. Dubbed the "King of Rock and Roll", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century. His energized interpretations of songs and sexually provocative performance style, combined with a singularly potent mix of influences across color lines during a transformative era in race relations, led him to both great success and initial controversy.
       Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, and relocated to Memphis, Tennessee, with his family when he was 13 years old. His music career began there in 1954, recording at Sun Records with producer Sam Phillips, who wanted to bring the sound of African-American music to a wider audience. Presley, on rhythm acoustic guitar, and accompanied by lead guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, was a pioneer of rockabilly, an uptempo, backbeat-driven fusion of country music and rhythm and blues. In 1955, drummer D. J. Fontana joined to complete the lineup of Presley's classic quartet and RCA Victor acquired his contract in a deal arranged by Colonel Tom Parker, who would manage him for more than two decades. Presley's first RCA Victor single, "Heartbreak Hotel", was released in January 1956 and became a number-one hit in the United States. Within a year, RCA would sell ten million Presley singles. With a series of successful network television appearances and chart-topping records, Presley became the leading figure of the newly popular sound of rock and roll; though his performative style and promotion of the then-marginalized sound of African Americans led to him being widely considered a threat to the moral well-being of the White American youth.
        In November 1956, Presley made his film debut in Love Me Tender. Drafted into military service in 1958, Presley relaunched his recording career two years later with some of his most commercially successful work. He held few concerts, however, and guided by Parker, proceeded to devote much of the 1960s to making Hollywood films and soundtrack albums, most of them critically derided. Some of his most famous films included Jailhouse Rock(1957), Blue Hawaii(1961), and Viva Las Vegas(1964). In 1968, following a seven-year break from live performances, he returned to the stage in the acclaimed television comeback special Elvis, which led to an extended Las Vegas concert residency and a string of highly profitable tours. In 1973, Presley gave the first concert by a solo artist to be broadcast around the world, Aloha from Hawaii. Years of prescription drug abuse and unhealthy eating habits severely compromised his health, and he died suddenly in 1977 at his Graceland estate at the age of 42.
Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind
Memories, sweetened thru the ages just like wine
 
Quiet thought come floating down
And settle softly to the ground
Like golden autumn leaves around my feet
I touched them and they burst apart with sweet memories,
Sweet memories
 
Of holding hands and red bouquets
And twilight trimmed in purple haze
And laughing eyes and simple ways
And quiet nights and gentle days with you
 
Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind
Memories, sweetened thru the ages just like wine,
Memories, memories, sweet memories.