FLY AWAY

LENNY KRAVITZ

SONGWRITER: Lenny Albert Kravitz

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: 5

LABEL: VIRGIN RECORDS

GENRE: FUNK ROCK

YEAR: 1998

 

             Leonard Albert Kravitz(born May 26, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter and actor. His style incorporates elements of rock, blues, soul, R&B, funk, jazz, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, pop and folk.

         Kravitz won the Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance four years in a row from 1999 to 2002, breaking the record for most wins in that category and setting the record for most consecutive wins in one category by a male. He has been nominated for and won other awards, including American Music Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, Radio Music Awards, Brit Awards, and Blockbuster Entertainment Awards. Kravitz's hit singles include "It Ain't Over 'til It's Over" (1991) and "Again" (2000), each of which reached the top 10 on the Billboard Top 100 chart; other hits include "Let Love Rule"(1989), "Always on the Run" (1991), "Are You Gonna Go My Way"(1993), "Fly Away"(1998), and "American Woman"(1999), each of which reached the top 10 on the Alternative Airplay chart.

        Kravitz was ranked at Nº 93 on VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock".He was made an Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2011, and has played Cinna in the Hunger Games film series. In his career, Kravitz has sold over 40 million albums worldwide. He is the son of actress Roxie Roker, a cousin of television anchor Al Roker, and the father of actress Zöe Kravitz.

     5 is the fifth full-length studio album by American rock musician Lenny Kravitz, released on May 12, 1998, by Virgin Records. The album produced six singles released over the course of 1998 and 1999.

         The album featured such hits as "Fly Away" and "I Belong to You", which helped Kravitz to expand his success in Europe. The album won two Grammy Awards.

            5 was re-issued in 1999, including Lenny Kravitz's latest single from the soundtrack of Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, "American Woman", plus a bonus track called "Without You"—initially a B-side to the lead single, "If You Can't Say No".

         Initially, the album received mediocre reviews by some critics, and its rise to commercial success was quite slow, until it gained traction towards the end of 1998 and throughout 1999 producing a string of worldwide hits and becoming one of the most successful albums of 1999. Despite paling in comparison in US chart position with Kravitz's other albums, it managed to have a remarkably long chart-life, charting for nearly three years straight on the Billboard 200, two of which were spent in the top 100.

     The album gained Kravitz multiple awards nominations and gave him his first two Grammy Awards in the Best Male Rock Vocal Performance category for the hits "Fly Away" and "American Woman"

I wish that I could fly

Into the sky

So very high

Just like a dragonfly

 

I'd fly above the trees

Over the seas in all degrees

To anywhere I please, oh

 

I want to get away

I want to fly away

Yeah, yeah, yeah

 

I want to get away

I want to fly away

Yeah, yeah, yeah

 

Let's go and see the stars

The Milky Way or even Mars

Where it could just be ours

 

Let's fade into the sun

Let your spirit fly

Where we are one

Just for a little fun

Oh, oh, oh yeah

 

I want to get away

I want to fly away

Yeah, yeah, yeah

 

I want to get away

I want to fly away

Yeah, yeah, yeah

 

I got to get away (get away, get away)

Girl, I got to get away (get away, get away)

Oh, oh, oh yeah

 

I want to get away

I want to fly away

Yeah (with you), yeah, yeah (oh yeah)

 

I want to get away

I want to fly away

Yeah (with you) yeah, yeah

I got to get away

 

I want to get away

I want to get away

I want to get away

I want to get away, yeah

 

I want to get away

I want to fly away

Yeah (with you) yeah, yeah

Oh girl, I got to get away

 

I want to get away

I want to get away

I want to get away

I want to get away, yeah

 

I want to get away

I want to fly away

Yeah (with you) yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

TEARS FROM MY EYES

UB40

SONGWRITER: TEDDY DAVIS

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: LABOUR OF LOVE II

LABEL: VIRGIN RECORDS

GENRE: REGGAE

YEAR: 1989

 

        UB40 are an English reggae and pop band, formed in December 1978 in Birmingham, England. The band has had more than 50 singles in the UK Singles Chart, and has also achieved considerable international success. They have been nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album four times, and in 1984 were nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Group. UB40 have sold over 70 million records worldwide. The ethnic make-up of the band's original line-up was diverse, with musicians of English, Welsh, Irish, Jamaican, Scottish, and Yemeni parentage.

        Their hit singles include their debut "Food for Thought" and two Billboard Hot 100 number ones with "Red Red Wine" and "Can't Help Falling in Love". Both of these also topped the UK Singles Chart, as did the band's version of "I Got You Babe", recorded with Chrissie Hynde. Their two most successful albums, Labour of Love(1983) and Promises and Lies(1993), reached number one on the UK Albums Chart. UB40 and the English ska band Madness hold the record for most weeks spent by a group in the UK singles chart during the 1980s, with 214 weeks each.

       The band's line-up was stable for nearly 29 years, from March 1979 until January 2008, when frontman Ali Campbell left the band, followed shortly thereafter by keyboardist Mickey Virtue. Another member, Astro, remained with the band until November 2013, when he departed the original band to team up with Campbell and Virtue in a new version of UB40. In 2014, legal advice was sought by the original band (now consisting of remaining co-founding members drummer Jimmy Brown, guitarist Robin Campbell, bassist Earl Falconer, percussionist Norman Hassan, and saxophonist Brian Travers, along with new vocalist Duncan Campbell) who took action against the group containing Campbell, Virtue, and Astro over usage of the band name, due to it being used by both parties. On 5 July 2021, it was announced that Matt Doyle (formerly of the reggae band Kioko) would become the band's new vocalist, following Duncan Campbell's retirement due to ill health.

         Labour of Love II is the ninth album and second covers album by UB40, released in 1989. The album contained two top-ten Billboard Hot 100 hits – "Here I Am (Come and Take Me)" peaked at Nº 7, "The Way You Do the Things You Do" peaked at Nº 6 – and "Kingston Town" reached Nº 4 on the UK Singles Chart.

Tears from my eyes keep on falling

cause you are leaving, leaving with another

Things that we've done together

I'll always remember though you're with another, baby.

Tears from my eyes keep on falling

cause you are leaving, leaving with another

Things that we've done together

I'll always remember though you're with another, baby.

 

I've done everything one man can do, girl

Said every word one man can say

The thing that we had has gone astray, girl

I'm missing you from day to day.

 

Tears from my eyes keep on falling

cause you are leaving, leaving with another

Things that we've done together

I'll always remember though you're with another, baby.

 

I've done everything one man can do, girl

Said every word one man can say

The thing that we had has gone astray, girl

I'm missing you from day to day.

 

Tears from my eyes keep on falling

cause you are leaving, leaving with another

Things that we've done together

I'll always remember though you're with another, baby.

 

Tears from my eyes keep on falling

cause you are leaving, leaving with another

Things that we've done together

I'll always remember though you're with another, baby.

 

Tears from my eyes keep on falling

cause you are leaving, leaving with another

Things that we've done together. 

SLIGHTLY HUNG OVER

BLUES DELIGHT

SONGWRITERS: ROBERT LANGLOIS & VINCENT BEAULNE

COUNTRY: CANADA

ALBUM: ROCK ISLAND LINE

LABEL: BLUES DEL RECORDS

GENRE: BLUES

YEAR: 2006

 

       Five experienced blues musicians fan the flames, blowing in gusts on the glowing members of their shared passion. Under the artistic direction of producer Vincent Beaulne (vocals, guitar, slide guitar), Marco Desgagné (bass), Gilles Schetagne (drums), Laurent Trudel (vocals, guitar, harmonica and banjo) and Dave Turner (alto and baritone saxophones) set the 12-bar chord progressions ablaze with their intense and masterful playing. This is blues at its best: original, torrid, vigorous, reaching a fever pitch with their wild rides across the pentatonic scale!

       They have performed many times on the stages of eastern Canada’ major festivals (Montreal International Jazz festival , Tremblant Blues festival, Edmunston Jazz and Blues festival). They have been nominated in the best cd and best writer-songwriter category at the Lys Blues awards in Montreal also in the best new bluesband in Canada category at the prestigious Maple Blues awards in Toronto.

       They have two cd on the market and reviews have been great. Original Blues at its best is the general consensus! Words that revel in the everyday, words of great simplicity but oh, how powerful. A torrent of emotions! A whole range of them!

       Blues Delight love to perform and share with their audience, large or small, the feeling of the Blues. They are known to leave their audience happy and satisfied. A Blues Delight show will have you tapping your feet, clapping your hands and singing on a regular basis. Just what the doctor ordered!

Blues Delight’s five musicians have performed thousands of time (as accompanist) with different artists. They join hands and heart in Blues Delight to bring together virtuosity, great lyrics and the love of the stage.

         Blues Delight invites blues enthusiasts to warm their bodies and souls to the languorous sounds of the blue notes.

Slightly hungover

Slightly hungover of you

Slightly hungover

Slightly hungover of you

I'll be lying baby

If I said it wasn't true

 

Slightly hungover

Maybe, maybe slightly blues

Slightly hungover

Maybe slightly blues

 

I never had the blues baby

Before I meet you

 

Slightly hungover

Slightly hungover of you

Slightly hungover

Slightly hungover of you

 

You shouldn't lie baby

No, no

To someone who loves you

And I do

 

Morning after

Morning after you

Morning after

Morning after you

Morning who won't last forever

And I'll be over with you

And I'll be over with you

And I'll be over with you.

MOLAMBO

NELSON GONÇALVES

COMPOSITOR: AUGUSTO MESQUITA & JAYME FLORENCE

PAÍS: BRASIL

ÁLBUM: MULAMBO

GRAVADORA: RCA VICTOR

GÊNERO: SAMBA-CANÇÃO

ANO: 1988

 

         Nelson Gonçalves, nome artístico de Antônio Gonçalves Sobral(Sant'Ana do Livramento, 21 de junho de 1919—Rio de Janeiro, 18 de abril de 1998), foi um cantor e compositor brasileiro. Segundo maior vendedor de discos da história do Brasil, com mais de 79 milhões de cópias vendidas até março de 1998, fica atrás apenas de Roberto Carlos, com mais de 120 milhões. Foi também o artista que mais tempo ficou em uma mesma gravadora: foram 59 anos com a RCA Victor/BMG Brasil. Um de Seus maiores sucessos foi a canção "A Volta do Boêmio" (composição de Adelino Moreira), logo depois "Naquela Mesa" (composição de Sérgio Bittencourt), que chegou a ser primeiro lugar na Bélgica.

             Nelson é filho de dois imigrantes portugueses: Manoel Gonçalvez Sobral (nascido em Trás-os-Montes e trazido ao Brasil em 1902, aos 12 anos) e Libânia de Jesus (nascida em Viseu e trazida ao Brasil em 1911, aos 17 anos). Ambos moravam inicialmente no Rio de Janeiro, onde se conheceram, casaram-se e tiveram o primeiro filho, Joaquim. Trabalhando no ramo dos tecidos, decidem migrar para o sul do Brasil em 1918, buscando melhores oportunidades, e se estabelecem em Sant'Ana do Livramento, no Rio Grande do Sul, onde Nelson nasceu em 25 de junho de 1919.

              Em 1926, mudou-se com seus pais para São Paulo, mais precisamente para uma casa comprada na Rua Almirante Barroso no bairro do Brás (outra fonte diz que era alugada).

           Matriculado no Liceu Eduardo Prado, que equilibrava disciplinas tradicionais com uma convivência com o mundo rural. Lá, Nelson sofreu bullying dos colegas e golpes de palmatória da professora por sua dificuldade em falar. Num desses castigos, sucumbiu à raiva e jogou um tinteiro na professora, provocando sua expulsão.

           Nesta época, passou a ajudar seu pai no sustento do lar, acompanhando-o em praças e feiras onde, enquanto o pai tocava violino, Nelson cantava, agradando os transeuntes e ganhando gorjetas. Para sustentar a família, seu pai também vendia frutas na feira e fazia serviços de pedreiro.

                O pai, em dado momento, deixou o trabalho com tecidos para a esposa e foi tentar carreira musical, cantando fados em barbearias e bares. O dinheiro que ganhava, gastava em bebida com seus colegas. Nelson às vezes o acompanhava nos vocais e Manoel chegava até a se fingir de cego para sensibilizar os passantes.

       Para ajudar a sustentar o lar, Nelson trabalhou também como jornaleiro, mecânico, engraxate, polidor e tamanqueiro (atuou como este último por dois anos Querendo ganhar mais dinheiro e seguir uma profissão, inscreveu-se em concursos de luta e venceu, tornando-se lutador de boxe na categoria peso-médio, recebendo, aos dezesseis anos de idade, o título de campeão paulista de luta. Após o prêmio, só ficou mais um ano lutando, pois queria investir em seu sonho de infância: ser artista.

        A real motivação para aprender a boxear, contudo, foi uma vingança: numa certa noite, envolveu-se em uma briga com um guarda de rua que praticava box e acabou levando uma surra. Decidido a desafiá-lo para uma revanche, foi praticar a luta antes em uma academia no Brás. O tal segundo embate não aconteceu, pois o guarda abandonou os ringues enquanto Nelson ainda treinava. O cantor, contudo, continuou praticando por dois anos.

Eu sei que vocês vão dizer

Que é tudo mentira

Que não pode ser

Porque depois de tudo

Que ela me fez

Eu jamais deveria aceitá-la outra vez

Bem sei que assim procedendo

Me exponho ao desprezo de todos vocês

Lamento, mas fiquem sabendo

Que ela voltou e comigo ficou

 

Ficou pra matar a saudade

A tremenda saudade

Que não me deixou

Que não me deu sossego um momento sequer

Desde o dia em que ela me abandonou

Ficou pra impedir que a loucura

Fizesse de mim um molambo qualquer

Ficou desta vez para sempre

Se Deus quiser!