IF IT MAKES YOU HAPPY

SHERYL SUZZANE CROW

SONGWRITERS: JEFFREY ROBERT TROTT/SHERYL CROW

PAIS: USA

ALBUM: SHERYL CROW

LABEL: A &M RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 1996

         Sheryl Crow is the second studio album by American singer and songwriter Sheryl Crow, released on September 24, 1996, by A&M Records. Unlike its predecessor Tuesday Night Music Club, which was written by a casual collective formed by Crow and several other musicians, Sheryl Crow was entirely produced by Crow, who wrote most of the songs alone or with only one collaborator. Most of the album was recorded at Kingsway Studios in New Orleans, Louisiana. The album covers topics of American life, relationship breakups, and moral and ethical issues, while encompassing a variety of music genres such as rock, blues, alternative rock, country, and folk.

          Sheryl Crow was a commercial success, being certified triple platinum by both the RIAA and the BPI. It reached number six on the Billboard 200 and produced five singles, including the international hit "If It Makes You Happy". The album received very positive reviews from critics, who praised its intricate production and Crow's louder and more assured singing. At the 39th Annual Grammy Awards, the album was awarded Best Rock Album and Crow received the Best Female Rock Vocal.

           Sheryl Suzanne Crow (born February 11, 1962) is an American musician, singer, and songwriter. Her music incorporates elements of rock, pop, country, folk, and blues. She has released eleven studio albums, five compilations, and three live albums, and contributed to several film soundtracks. Her most popular songs include "All I Wanna Do" (1994), "Strong Enough" (1994), "If It Makes You Happy" (1996), "Everyday Is a Winding Road" (1996), "My Favorite Mistake" (1998), "Picture" (2002, duet with Kid Rock), and "Soak Up the Sun" (2002).

            Crow has sold more than 50 million albums worldwide  and won nine Grammy Awards (out of 32 nominations) from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. As an actress, Crow has appeared on the television series 30 Rock, Cop Rock, GCB, Cougar Town, Jon Stewart's and Stephen Colbert's Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, One Tree Hill, and NCIS: New Orleans. Crow was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2023. 

I been long, a long way from here
Put on a poncho and played for mosquitoes
And drank 'til I was thirsty again
We went searchin', through thrift store jungles
Found Geronimo's rifle, Marilyn's shampoo
And Benny Goodman's corset and pen
Well, okay, I made this up
I promised you I'd never give up

If it makes you happy
It can't be that bad
If it makes you happy
Then why the hell are you so sad?

You get down, real low down
You listen to Coltrane, derail your own train
Well, who hasn't been there before?
I come 'round, around the hard way
Bring you comics in bed, scrape the mold off the bread
And serve you French toast again
Well, okay, I still get stoned
I'm not the kind of girl you'd take home

If it makes you happy
It can't be that bad
If it makes you happy
Then why the hell are you so sad?
If it makes you happy
It can't be that bad
If it makes you happy
Then why the hell are you so sad?

We've been far, far away from here
Put on a poncho and played for mosquitoes
And everywhere in between
Well, okay, we get along
So what if right now, everything's wrong?

If it makes you happy
It can't be that bad
If it makes you happy
Then why the hell are you so sad?
If it makes you happy
It can't be that bad
If it makes you happy
Then why the hell are you so sad?

EL PROBLEMA

RICARDO ARJONA

SONGWRITERS: RICARDO ARJONA

PAIS: GUATEMALA

ALBUM: SANTO PECADO

LABEL: SONY MUSIC

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 2002

 

 Édgar Ricardo Arjona Morales (Jocotenango, Guatemala, 19 de enero de 1964), conocido artísticamente como Ricardo Arjona, es un cantautor, compositor, arreglista, músico y productor musical guatemalteco. Su música varía desde baladas a pop latino, rock, pop rock, música cubana, y, más recientemente incluye actuaciones a capella y una mezcla de música tejana y norteña, música afroamericana y latina. Se estima que ha vendido más de treinta millones de copias de discos a lo largo de su carrera y es considerado uno de los artistas más exitosos de Iberoamérica.

Conocido por su estilo lírico, Arjona con frecuencia aborda temas de amor y temas sociales como el racismo (la canción «Ella y él»), transexualidad («Que nadie vea»), el secuestro («La nena, bitácora de un secuestro»), la violación, la inmigración («Mojado», «Puente»), el aborto («Con una estrella»), la religión («Jesús verbo no sustantivo»), la psicología («Ayúdame, Freud») la prostitución («Marta», «Cita en el bar», «Niña de la noche», «Señorita»), los dirigentes políticos que escalan posiciones de poder y se olvidan de su origen y de la gente («Caudillo») y hechos contingentes como atentados terroristas o conspiraciones («Mesías», «Nadie sabe adónde va»).

             Santo pecado es el título del noveno álbum de estudio grabado por el cantautor guatemalteco Ricardo Arjona, Fue lanzado al mercado bajo el sello discográfico Sony Music Latin el 19 de noviembre de 2002. ​ El álbum contiene dos de los más grandes éxitos mundiales de Arjona, "El problema" y "Minutos".​ Santo pecado recibió una nominación para los Premio Grammy Latino al Mejor Álbum Pop Vocal Masculino en la cuarta entrega de los Premios Grammy Latinos celebrada el miércoles 3 de septiembre de 2003, pero perdió contra Quizás de Enrique Iglesias.

             El álbum fue lanzado al mercado bajo el sello discográfico Sony Music Latin el 19 de noviembre de 2002, ​ y actualmente es el álbum más vendido de Arjona, superando los diez millones de copias a nivel mundial.

El problema no fue hallarte
El problema es olvidarte
El problema no es tu ausencia
El problema es que te espero

El problema no es problema
El problema es que me duele
El problema no es que mientas
El problema es que te creo

El problema no es que juegues
El problema es que es conmigo
Si me gustaste por ser libre
¿Quién soy yo para cambiarte?

Si me quedé queriendo solo
¿Cómo hacer para obligarte?
El problema no es quererte
Es que tú no sientas lo mismo

¿Y cómo deshacerme de ti si no te tengo?
¿Cómo alejarme de ti si estás tan lejos?
¿Cómo encontrarle una pestaña a lo que nunca tuvo ojos?
¿Cómo encontrarle plataformas a lo que siempre fue un barranco?
¿Cómo encontrar en la alacena los besos que no me diste?

¿Y cómo deshacerme de ti si no te tengo?
¿Cómo alejarme de ti si estás tan lejos?
Y es que el problema no es cambiarte
El problema es que no quiero

El problema no es que duela
El problema es que me gusta
El problema no es el daño
El problema son las huellas

El problema no es lo que haces
El problema es que lo olvido
El problema no es que digas
El problema es lo que callas

¿Y cómo deshacerme de ti si no te tengo?
¿Cómo alejarme de ti si estás tan lejos?
¿Cómo encontrarle una pestaña a lo que nunca tuvo ojos?
¿Cómo encontrarle plataformas a lo que siempre fue un barranco?
¿Cómo encontrar en la alacena los besos que no me diste?

¿Y cómo deshacerme de ti si no te tengo?
¿Cómo alejarme de ti si estás tan lejos?
¿Cómo encontrarle una pestaña a lo que nunca tuvo ojos?
¿Cómo encontrarle plataformas a lo que siempre fue un barranco?
¿Cómo encontrar en la alacena los besos que no me diste?

¿Y cómo deshacerme de ti si no te tengo?
¿Cómo alejarme de ti si estás tan lejos?
El problema no fue hallarte
El problema es olvidarte
El problema no es que mientas
El problema es que te creo

El problema no es cambiarte
El problema es que no quiero
El problema no es quererte
Es que tú no sientas lo mismo
El problema no es que juegues
El problema es que es conmigo

GREEN GROW THE RUSHES OH

CELTIC WOMAN

SONGWRITERS: RONNIE BARKER & RONNIE HAZLEHURST

COUNTRY: IRELAND

ALBUM: CELTIC WOMAN BELIEVE

LABEL: MANHATTAN RECORDS

GENRE: CELTIC MUSIC

YEAR: 2011

 

          Believe is the seventh studio album released by the group Celtic Woman.

       The album was released in two versions: the first a compilation of earlier songs packaged with a new song, "Princess Toyotomi", released on 25 May 2011 in Japan to promote the release of the titular film in which said track served as the theme song, the other a studio album released internationally on 24 January 2012, featuring new music. Vocalists Chloë Agnew, Lisa Kelly, Lisa Lambe, and fiddler Máiréad Nesbitt appear on both versions, while the Japanese version features former members Órla Fallon, Lynn Hilary, Méav Ní Mhaolchatha, Alex Sharpe, and Hayley Westenra.

There's not but care on every hand

In every hour that passes oh

What signifies the life of man

If it were not for the lassies oh

 

Green grow the rushes oh

Green grow the rushes oh

The sweetest hours that e'er I spent

Are spent among the lassies oh

 

The worldly race may riches chase

And riches still may fly them oh

And though at last they catch them fast

Their hearts can ne'er enjoy them oh

 

Green grow the rushes oh

Green grow the rushes oh

The sweetest hours that e'er I spent

Are spent among the lassies oh

 

The sweetest hours that e'er I spent

Are spent among the lassies oh

 

Green grow the rushes oh

Green grow the rushes oh

The sweetest hours that e'er I spent

Are spent among the lassies oh

 

Old nature swears the lovley dears

Her noblest work she classes oh

Her apprentice hand she tried on man

Then she made the lassies oh

 

Green grow the rushes oh

Green grow the rushes oh

The sweetest hours that e'er I spent

Are spent among the lassies oh

 

Green grow the rushes oh

Green grow the rushes oh

The sweetest hours that e'er I spent

Are spent among the lassies oh

Are spent among the lassies oh.

SOMETHING GOOD

JULIE ANDREWS & BILL LEE

SONGWRITER: RICHARD RODGERS & OSCAR HAMERSTEIN II

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

MOVIE: THE SOUND OF MUSIC

ALBUM: SOMETHING GOOD

GENRE: SOUNDTRACK

LABEL: 20^TH CENTURY STUDIOS

YEAR: 1965

 

     The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr, and Eleanor Parker. The film is an adaptation of the 1959 stage musical, composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. The film's screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman, adapted from the stage musical's book by Lindsay and Crouse. Based on the 1949 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp, the film is about a young Austrian postulant who, in 1938, is sent to the villa of a retired naval officer and widower to be governess to his seven children.

       Filming took place from March to September 1964 in Los Angeles and Salzburg. The Sound of Music was released on March 2, 1965, in the United States, initially as a limited roadshow theatrical release. Although initial critical response to the film was mixed, it was a major commercial success, becoming the number one box office film after four weeks, and the highest-grossing film of 1965. By November 1966, The Sound of Music had become the highest-grossing film of all-time—surpassing Gone with the Wind—and held that distinction for five years. The film was just as popular throughout the world, breaking previous box-office records in twenty-nine countries. Following an initial theatrical release that lasted four and a half years, and two successful re-releases, the film sold 283 million admissions worldwide and earned a total worldwide gross of $286 million.

       The Sound of Music received five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, Wise's second pair of both awards, the first being from the 1961 film West Side Story. The film also received two Golden Globe Awards, for Best Motion Picture and Best Actress, the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement, and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Musical. In 1998, the American Film Institute(AFI) listed The Sound of Music as the fifty-fifth greatest American film of all time, and the fourth greatest film musical. In 2001, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Perhaps I had a wicked childhood

Perhaps I had a miserable youth

But somewhere in my wicked, miserable past

There must have been a moment of truth

 

For here you are, standing there, loving me

Whether or not you should

So somewhere in my youth or childhood

I must have done something good

 

Nothing comes from nothing

Nothing ever could

So somewhere in my youth or childhood

I must have done something good

 

For here you are, standing there, loving me

Whether or not you should

So somewhere in my youth or childhood

I must have done something good

 

Nothing comes from nothing

Nothing ever could

So somewhere in my youth

Or childhood

I must have done something

Something good.