Bessie Smith(April 15, 1894 – September 26,
1937) was an African-American bluessinger widely
renowned during the Jazz Age.
Nicknamed the "Empress
of the Blues", she was the most popular
female blues singer of the 1930s. Inducted into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Famein 1989, she is often regarded as
one of the greatest singers of her era and was a major influence on fellow bluessingers, as
well as jazzvocalists.
Born in Chattanooga,
Tennessee, Smith was young when her parents died, and
she and her six siblings survived by performing on street corners. She began
touring and performed in a group that included Ma Rainey,
and then went out on her own. Her successful recording career with Columbia Recordsbegan in 1923, but her performing career was cut short by a car
crash that killed her at the age of 43.
[Verse 1]
My heart is sad and I'm all alone
My man's treating me mean
I regret the day that I was born
And the man I ever seen
My happiness is less today
My heart is broke, that's why I say
[Chorus:]
Lord, a good man is hard to find
You always get another kind
Just when you think that he's your pal
You look and find him foolin' 'round some old
gal
Then you rave, you all crave
You want to see him in his grave
So if your man is nice, take my advice;
Hug him in the morning, kiss him at night
Give him plenty lovin'; treat your good man
right
Oh, a good man is so hard to find
[Chorus:]
We always get that roughed old kind
Just when you think that he's your pal
You like and find him hangin' 'round some old
gal
Then you rave, how you crave
You wanna see him dead layin' in his grave
So if your man is nice, take my advice
Hug him in the morning, kiss him at night
Give him plenty love madam, treat your man
right
Cause a good man nowadays sure is hard to
find.
SUMMERTIME
LOUIS
ARMSTRONG & EELA FITZEGERALD
SONGWRITERS: Dorothy Heyward; DuBose; George Gershwin &
Ira Gershwin
COUNTRY:
U. S. A.
ALBUM: PORGY & BESS
LABEL: VERVE
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 1959
Louis Daniel Armstrong(August 4, 1901 – July
6, 1971), nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops",
was an American trumpeterand vocalist. He was
among the most influential figures in jazz. His
career spanned five decades and several eras in the history of jazz. He
received numerous accolades including the Grammy Award for Best Male Vocal Performancefor Hello, Dolly!in 1965, as well as a posthumous win for the Grammy
Lifetime Achievement Awardin 1972, and
the induction into the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Famein 2017
Ella Jane Fitzgerald(April 25, 1917 – June
15, 1996) was an American jazzsinger,
sometimes referred to as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of
Jazz", and "Lady Ella". She was noted for her purity of tone,
impeccable diction, phrasing,
timing, intonation,
and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing.
Porgy and Bess is a studio albumby jazz
vocalist and trumpeter Louis Armstrongand singer Ella Fitzgerald,
released on Verve Recordsin 1959. The third and final of the pair's albums for the label, it
is a suite of selections from the George GershwinoperaPorgy and Bess. Orchestral arrangementsare by Russell
Garcia, who had previously arranged the 1956 jazz
vocal recording The Complete
Porgy and Bess.
Ella:
Summertime when the livin' is easy
Fish are jumpin and the cotton is high
You're daddy's rich and your ma is good
lookin'
So hush little baby, don't you cry
Louis:
One of thses mornings you gonna rise up
singing
Oh you spead your wings and you take to the skies
But till that morning, ain't nothin' can harm
you
Yea with Daddy and Mommy standin' by
Ella:
Summertime when the livin' is easy
Fish are jumpin and the cotton is high.
You're daddy's rich and your ma is good
lookin'
So hush little baby, don't you cry.
YOU DON’T
KNOW
CYNDI
LAUPER
SONGWRITERS: Cyndi Lauper & Jan Pulsford
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: SISTERS OF AVALON
LABEL: EPIC RECORDS
GENRE: SOUL
YEAR: 1996
Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper Thornton(born
June 22, 1953) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and activist. Her
career has spanned over 40 years. Her album She's So Unusual(1983)
was the first debut album by a female artist to achieve four top-five hits on
the Billboard Hot 100—"Girls Just
Want to Have Fun", "Time After
Time", "She Bop",
and "All Through the Night"—and
earned Lauper the Best New
Artistaward at the 27th Annual Grammy Awards in
1985. Her success continued with the soundtrackfor the motion
picture The Goonies(1985)
and her second record True Colors(1986).
This album included the number-one single "True Colors"
and "Change of
Heart", which peaked at number three. In
1989, she had a hit with "I Drove All Night".
Since 1983, Lauper has released eleven studio
albums and participated in many other projects. In 2010, Memphis Bluesbecame Billboard's most successful blues album of the year,
remaining at number one on the Billboard Blues Albums chart for 13 consecutive
weeks. In 2013, she won the Tony Awardfor best original score for composing the Broadwaymusical Kinky Boots,
making her the first woman to win the category by herself. The musical was
awarded five other Tonys including Tony Award for Best New Musical. In 2014,
Lauper was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Albumfor the cast
recording. In 2016, the West Endproduction
won Best New Musical at the Olivier
Awards.
Lauper has sold over 50 million records
worldwide. She has won awards at the Grammys,
Emmys, Tonys, the New
York's Outer Critics Circle, MTV Video
Music Awards(VMAs), Billboard Awards,
and American
Music Awards(AMAs). An inductee into both the
Songwriters
Hall of Fameand the Hollywood
Walk of Fame, Lauper is one of the few
singers to win three of the four major American entertainment awards (EGOT). She won the inaugural
Best Female Video prize at the 1984 VMAs for "Girls Just
Want to Have Fun". This music videois
recognized by MTV, VH1and Rolling Stoneas one of the greatest music videos of the era. She is featured in
the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame's Women Who Rock exhibit. Her
debut album is included in Rolling Stone's
list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time,
while "Time After
Time" is included in VH1's list of the 100 Best
Songs of the Past 25 years. VH1 has
ranked Lauper Nº 58 of the 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll.
Sisters of Avalon is the fifth studio album
by American singer Cyndi Lauper. It was
released in Japan on October 15, 1996 and worldwide on April 1, 1997, by Sony Music
Entertainment. Thematically the album
expounded on the issue of complacency and ignorance in popular culture and the discriminationof minorities, gays, and women. Songs like
"Love to Hate" and "You Don't Know" address the
entertainment industry and media and their corruption. "Ballad of Cleo and
Joe" is a song about the double life of a cross dresser.
"Say a Prayer" is about the AIDSepidemic.
The album was heavily praised by multiple
music critics due to Lauper's creative growth and eclectic themes. However, the
album's release was delayed and sold only 56,000 copies in the United States,
according to Nielsen SoundScan. Since its release, the album has been met with
continued praise including the Songwriters'
Hall of Famenoting the title track as one of
Lauper's key songs in her catalog.
You don't know where you belong
You should be more careful
As you follow blindly along
You just need to belong somehow
Relying on rhetoric
Not well versed on topics
Any idea what you're talking about?
Revisions of history
Fair well in some company
But don't shove that bullshit down my throat
You don't know where you belong
You should be more careful
As you follow blindly along
To find something to swear to
Till you don't know what's right from wrong
You just need to belong somehow
Left suppresses right
Right suppresses left
So what's the left, and what's right?
You're told what to wear
You're told what to like
I'd be nice if you'd think for yourself
sometime
But you don't
Now you don't know where you belong
You should be more careful
As you follow blindly along
To find something to swear to
Till you don't know what's right from wrong
You just need to belong somehow
You just need to belong somehow
Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity
You'll play it safe every time
So life turns up empty
And you're so dissatisfied
Who are you blaming blaming this time this
time?
Don't you know?
Now you don't know where you belong
You should be more careful
As you follow blindly along
To find something to swear to
Till you don't know what's right from wrong
You just need to belong somehow
You just need to belong somehow
You don't, you don't know where
You don't know where you belong
You don't know where you belong
You don't know where you belong.
SWEET LORRAINE
NAT KING COLE
SONGWRITERS: CLIFFORD BURWELL & MITCHELL PARISH
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: SWEET LORRAINE
LABEL: CLASSIC JAZZ
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 1992
Nathaniel Adams Coles(March 17, 1919 –
February 15, 1965), known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American
singer, jazz pianist, and actor. Cole's career as a jazzand pop
vocalist started in the late 1930s and spanned almost three decades where he
found success and recorded over 100 songs that became hits on the pop charts.
He received numerous accolades including a star on the Hollywood
Walk of Fame(1960) and a Special Achievement Golden Globe Award.
Posthumously, Cole has received the Grammy
Lifetime Achievement Award(1990), along with the Sammy Cahn
Lifetime Achievement Award(1992) and has been
inducted into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame(2000), and the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame(2020).
Cole started his career as a jazz pianistin the
late 1930s, where he formed The King Cole Trio which became the top-selling
group (and the only black act) on Capitol Recordsin the 1940s. His trio was the model for small jazz ensemblesthat followed. Starting in 1950 he transitioned to become a solo
singer billed as Nat King Cole. Despite achieving mainstream success, during
his career he faced intense racial
discrimination. While not a major vocal public
figure in the civil rights
movement, Cole was a member of his local NAACPbranch and
participated in the 1963 March on
Washington. He regularly performed for
civil rights organizations. From 1956 to 1957, he hosted the NBCvariety series The Nat King
Cole Show, which became the first nationally broadcast
television show hosted by an African American.
Some of his most notable singles include
"Unforgettable",
"Smile",
"L-O-V-E",
"Let There Be
Love", "Mona Lisa",
"Autumn Leaves",
"Stardust",
"Straighten Up
and Fly Right", "The Very
Thought of You", "For Sentimental Reasons",
"Embraceable You"
and "Almost Like
Being in Love". He is known for his
Christmas album The Magic of Christmas(1960)
which included "The Christmas Song";
in 1999 it was named by Rolling Stoneas one of the greatest Christmas albums of all time. He was the
father of singer Natalie Cole(1950–2015),
who covered her father's songs in the 1991 album Unforgettable...
with Love.
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