Steve Winwood - Valerie (HD)
Steve Winwood - Valerie (HD)
So wild, standing there
With her hands in her hair
I can't help remember
Just where she touched me
There's still no face here in her place
So cool, she was like
Jazz on a summer's day
Music, high and sweet
Then she just blew away
Now she can't be that warm
With the wind in her arms
Valerie, call on me
Call on me, Valerie
Come and see me
I'm the same boy I used to be
Love songs fill the night
But they don't tell it all
Not how lovers cry out
Just like they're dying
Her cries hang there
In time somewhere
Someday, some good wind
May blow her back to me
Some night I may hear
Her like she used to be
No, it can't be that warm
With the wind in her arms
Valerie, call on me
Call on me, Valerie
Come and see me
I'm the same boy I used to be
So cool, she was like
Jazz on a summer's day
Music, high and sweet
Then she just blew away
Now she can't be that warm
With the wind in her arms
Valerie, call on me
Call on me, Valerie
Come and see me
I'm the same boy I used to be
I'm the same boy I used to be
As a solo artist, Steve Winwood is primarily associated with the highly polished blue-eyed soul-pop that made him a star in the '80s. Yet his turn as a slick, upscale mainstay of adult contemporary radio was simply the latest phase of a long and varied career, one that's seen the former teenage R&B shouter move through jazz, psychedelia, blues-rock, and progressive rock. Possessed of a powerful, utterly distinctive voice, Winwood was also an excellent keyboardist who remained an in-demand session musician for most of his career, even while busy with high-profile projects. That background wasn't necessarily apparent on his solo records, which established a viable commercial formula that was tremendously effective as long as it was executed with commitment.
Steve Winwood - While You See A Chance
Steve Winwood - While You See A Chance
Stand up in a clear blue morning
Until you see what can be
Alone in a cold day dawning
Are you still free? Can you be?
When some cold tomorrow finds you
When some sad old dream reminds you
How the endless road unwinds you
While you see a chance take it
Find romance fake it
Because its all on you
Dont you know by now
No one gives you anything?
And dont you wonder how you keep on moving?
One more day your way, oh your way
When theres no one left to leave you
Even you dont quite believe you
Thats when nothing can deceive you
While you see a chance take it
Find romance fake it
Because its all on you
Stand up in a clear blue morning
Until you see what can be
Alone in a cold day dawning
Are you still free? Can you be?
And that old gray wind is blowing
And theres nothing left worth knowing
And its time you should be going
While you see a chance take it
Find romance fake it
Because its all on you
While you see a chance take it
Find romance
While you see a chance take it
Find romance
While you see a chance take it
Find romance
While you see a chance take it
Find romance
While you see a chance take it
Find romance
While you see a chance take it
Find romance
Stephen Lawrence Winwood was born May 12th, 1948, in the Handsworth area of Birmingham, England. First interested in swing and Dixieland jazz, he began playing drums, guitar, and piano as a child, and first performed with his father and older brother Muff in the Ron Atkinson Band at the age of eight. During the early '60s, Muff led a locally popular group called the Muff Woody Jazz Band, and allowed young Steve to join; eventually they began to add R&B numbers to their repertoire, and in 1963 the brothers chose to pursue that music full-time, joining guitarist Spencer Davis to form the Spencer Davis Group. Althogh he was only 15, Steve's vocals were astoundingly soulful and mature, and his skills at the piano were also advanced beyond his years. Within a year, he'd played with numerous American blues legends both in concert and in the studio; in 1965, he also recorded the solo single "Incense" as the Anglos, crediting himself as Stevie Anglo. Meanwhile, the Spencer Davis Group released a handful of classic R&B-styled singles, including "Keep on Running," "I'm a Man," and the monumental "Gimme Some Lovin'," which stood with any of the gritty hardcore soul music coming out of the American South.
(Images Below) These colour photographs of Birmingham, England, in the 1960s were taken by Phyllis Nicklin (1913-1969), a University of Birmingham geography teacher. The photos were used in her lectures on the geography of Birmingham.
Soho Road near Boulton Road, Handsworth, Birmingham – March 9 1968
Soho Road near Boulton Road, Handsworth – March 9 1968
Winwood eventually tired of the tight pop single format; by the mid-'60s, the cutting edge of rock & roll often involved stretching out instrumentally, and with his roots in jazz, Winwood wanted the same opportunity. Accordingly, he left the Spencer Davis Group in 1967 to form Traffic with guitarist Dave Mason, horn player Chris Wood, and drummer Jim Capaldi, all of whom had played on "Gimme Some Lovin'." The quartet retired to a small cottage in the Berkshire countryside, where they could work out their sound -- a unique blend of R&B, Beatlesque pop, psychedelia, jazz, and British folk -- and jam long into the night without angering neighbors. Traffic debuted in the U.K. with the single "Paper Sun" in May 1967, and soon issued their debut album, Mr Fantasy (retitled Heave Is in Your Mind in the U.S.); it was followed by the jazzy psychedelic classic Traffic in 1968. However, conflicts had arisen between Winwood and Mason over the latter's tightly constructed folk-pop songs, which didn't fit into Winwood's expansive, jam-oriented conception of the band. Mason left, returned, and was fired again, and Winwood broke up the band at the beginning of 1969. Even so, by that time, he had become the unofficial in-house keyboardist for Traffic's label Island, playing at numerous recording sessions.
King’s Norton Mop Fair – October 7 1963
Winwood subsequently hooked up with old friend Eric Clapton, who'd recently parted ways with Cream. The two began jamming and found that they enjoyed working together, and rumors of their collaboration spread like wildfire; the enormous anticipation only grew when ex-Cream drummer Ginger Baker signed on, despite Clapton's misgivings over the expectations that would create. Concert promoters rushed to book the band before any material had been completed (hence the band's eventual name, Blind Faith), and offered too much money for them to refuse, despite their lack of rehearsal time. Their self-titled debut, released in the summer of 1969, was a hit, but the extreme pressure on the group led to their breakup even before the end of the year. Winwood joined Baker in a large, eclectic new supergroup called Ginger Baker's Air Force, but Winwood still had contractual obligations to Island, and he left not long after Air Force's debut performance at the Royal Albert Hall in early 1970.
Steve Winwood - Freedom Overspill
Steve Winwood - Freedom Overspill
Keep on talking all you want
Well you don't waste a minute of time
Who cares, who knows what's true
Coffee and tears the whole night through
Burning up on midnight oil
And it's come right back on you
Freedom Overspill
Freedom Overspill
Force of habit, you could say
The way they talk you're talking away
Who cares, who knows what's true
Your wounded pride is burning you up
Burning up on midnight oil
And it's come right back on you
Freedom Overspill
Freedom Overspill
You're sounding good to me now
Keep talking on
I want to hear the worst
You got no right going around
Talking 'bout the things that you do
Talking 'bout the things that you do
Keep on talking all you want
Well you don't waste a minute of time
Who cares, who knows what's true
Coffee and tears the whole night through
Burning up on midnight oil
And it's come right back on you
Freedom Overspill
Freedom Overspill
Freedom Overspill
Freedom Overspill
You're sounding good to me now
Keep talking on
I want to hear the worst
You got no right going around
Talking 'bout the things that you do
Talking 'bout the things you do
Force of habit, you could say
The way they talk you're talking away
Who cares, who knows what's true
Your wounded pride is burning you up
Burning up on midnight oil
And it's come right back on you
Freedom Overspill
Freedom Overspill
Winwood began work on what was slated to be his first solo LP, but he gradually brought in more ex-Traffic members to help him out, to the point where the album simply became a band reunion. John Barleycorn Must Die was released later in 1970, showcasing the sort of jam-happy jazz-rock sound that Winwood had in mind for the group from the start. Several more albums in that vein followed, including 1971's The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys, which brought Traffic to the peak of their commercial popularity in America. The run was briefly interrupted by Winwood's bout with peritonitis around 1972, but he'd recovered enough to play a major role in Eric Clapton's early 1973 comeback concerts at the Rainbow Theatre. Traffic broke up in 1974, but instead of going solo right away, an exhausted Winwood spent the next few years as a session musician, relaxing on his Gloucestershire farm during his spare time. He also featured prominently as a collaborator with Japanese percussionist Stomu Yamash'ta, appearing on his hit jazz fusion LP Go in 1976.
STOMU YAMASHTA
When Winwood finally returned with his self-titled solo debut in 1977, Britain was in the midst of the punk revolution, and the music itself was somewhat disappointing even to Winwood himself. Dismayed, he returned to Gloucestershire and all but disappeared from music. He returned in late 1980 with the little-heralded Arc of a Diver, a much stronger effort on which he played every instrument himself. Modernizing Winwood's sound with more synthesizers and electronic percussion, Arc of a Diver was a platinum-selling hit in the U.S., helped by the hit single "While You See a Chance"; it received highly positive reviews as well, most hailing the freshness of Winwood's newly contemporary sound. The extremely similar 1982 follow-up Talking Back to the Night sounded rushed to some reviewers, and it wasn't nearly as big a hit, with none of its singles reaching the Top 40. Unhappy with the record, Winwood even considered retiring to become a producer (though his brother talked him out of it).
King’s Norton Mop Fair – October 7 1963
Steve Winwood - The Finer Things
Steve Winwood - The Finer Things
"The Finer Things"
While there is time
Let's go out and feel everything
If you hold me
I will let you into my dream
For time is a river rolling into nowhere
We must live while we can
And we'll drink our cup of laughter
The finer things keep shining through
The way my soul gets lost in you
The finer things I feel in me
The golden dance life could be
Oh, I've been sad
And have walked bitter streets alone
And come morning
There's a good wind to blow me home
So time is a river rolling into nowhere
I will live while I can
I will have my ever after
The finer things keep shining through
The way my soul gets lost in you
The finer things I feel in me
The golden dance life could be
We go so fast, why don't we make it last
Life is glowing inside you and me
Please take my hand, here where I stand
Won't you come out and dance with me
Come see, with me, come see
And lovers try
'Til they get the best of the night
And come morning
They are tangled up in the light
So time be a river rolling into nowhere
They love while they can
And they think about the night so sweet
The finer things keep shining through
The way my soul gets lost in you
The finer things I feel in me
The golden dance life could be
Steve Winwood, 1982 by Lynn Goldsmith
Taking more time to craft his next album, Winwood didn't return until 1986, with an album of slickly crafted, sophisticated pop called Back in the High Life, which was his first '80s album to feature outside session musicians. It was a smash hit, selling over three-million copies and producing Winwood's first number one single in "Higher Love," which also won a Grammy for Record of the Year. In 1987, Virgin offered Winwood a substantial sum of money and successfully pried him away from Island; a remixed version of Talking Back to the Night's "Valerie," featured on the Island greatest-hits compilation Chronicles, became a Top Ten hit later that year. Winwood's hot streak continued with his first album for Virgin, 1988's Roll with It. The title track became his second number one and his biggest hit ever, and the album topped the charts as well; plus, the smoky ballad "Don't You Know What the Night Can Do?" was featured in a prominent TV ad campaign. Winwood had by now established a large, mostly adult fan base, but that support began to slip with his next album, 1990's Refugees of the Heart, Refugees repeated the slick blue-eyed soul updates of its predecessor, but according to most reviewers, it simply wasn't performed with the same passion, save for the lead single "One and Only Man," a collaboration with Traffic mate Jim Capaldi.
Steve Winwood walking in the woods NEW YORK CITY, 1982
Image Right - Steve Winwood in 1982.
Steve Winwood - Higher Love (Official Music Video)
Steve Winwood - Higher Love (Official Video)
"Higher Love"
Think about it, there must be higher love
Down in the heart or hidden in the stars above
Without it, life is a wasted time
Look inside your heart, I'll look inside mine
Things look so bad everywhere
In this whole world, what is fair?
We walk blind and we try to see
Falling behind in what could be
Bring me a higher love
Bring me a higher love
Bring me a higher love
Where's that higher love I keep thinking of?
Worlds are turning and we're just hanging on
Facing our fear and standing out there alone
A yearning, and it's real to me
There must be someone who's feeling for me
Things look so bad everywhere
In this whole world, what is fair?
We walk blind and we try to see
Falling behind in what could be
Bring me a higher love
Bring me a higher love
Bring me a higher love
Where's that higher love I keep thinking of?
Bring me a higher love
Bring me a higher love
Bring be a higher love
I could rise above on a higher love
I will wait for it
I'm not too late for it
Until then, I'll sing my song
To cheer the night along
Bring it... Oh bring it...
I could light the night up with my soul on fire
I could make the sun shine from pure desire
Let me feel that love come over me
Let me feel how strong it could be
Bring me a higher love
Bring me a higher love
Bring me a higher love
Where's that higher love I keep thinking of?
Steve Winwood, London, 1976.
Afterward, Winwood continued his pattern of following disappointments with periods of inactivity; he next resurfaced in 1994 as part of a Traffic reunion with Capaldi. Together they released the new album Far from Home, and toured the world. Winwood subsequently returned to his solo career and spent two years working on Junction Seven, which finally appeared in 1997 and was co-produced by Narada Michael Walden. However, his momentum had stalled, and the album -- which received mixed reviews -- failed to sell well. The following year, Winwood toured with his new project Latin Crossings, a jazz group that also featured Tito Puente and Arturo Sandoval (though they never recorded). He subsequently parted ways with Virgin. About Time appeared in 2003, followed in 2008 by Nine Lives. Winwood reunited with Eric Clapton for a trio of concerts in New York City's Madison Square Garden in February 2008. Highlights from these shows were released as the 2009 album Live from Madison Square Garden. Over the next decade Winwood played the occasional studio session -- he appears on Miranda Lambert's 2011 album Four the Record and Gov't Mule's 2013 LP Shout!-- while also gigging fairly steadily. In September 2017, he released Greatest Hits Live, his first solo live album..
Lime - Babe We're Gonna Love Tonight (Official Music Video)
Lime - Babe We're Gonna Love Tonight (Official Music Video)
Oh-oh, babe, we're gonna love tonite
Oh-oh, babe, we're gonna love tonite
They said I was a loser
They said that I've been untrue
But I don't care what the others say
Babe, I'm gonna be with you
Yeah, yeah
Oh-oh, babe, we're gonna love tonite
Babe, we're gonna love tonite
Oh-oh, babe, we're gonna lover tonite
All I wanna do
Babe, it's true
Is give me love to you, just you
When I close my eyes
All I see
Is a place for you and me
Oh yes there is
Oh-oh, babe, we're gonna love tonite
Just the thought of you, babe
Oh-oh, babe, we're gonna love tonite
Making love to you, babe
(Keyboard Solo)
Oh-oh, babe, we're gonna love tonite
You're a woman like no other
You lift me when I'm down and blue
You make me care for you every day
There's no other in my life but you
Yeah, yeah
Oh-oh, babe, we're gonna love tonite
Babe, we're gonna love tonite
Oh-oh, babe, we're gonna love tonite
Yeah, yeah
Just the thought of you
Late at night
Holding on to me real tight
Knowing how it feels
The first time
Holds a place deep in my mind
Ooh-hoo
Oh-oh, babe, we're gonna love tonite
Just the thought of you, baby
Oh-oh, babe, we're gonna love tonite
All I wanna do
(Keyboard Solo)
(Instrumental Break)
Oh-oh, babe, we're gonna love tonite
Oh-oh, babe, we're gonna love tonite
We were meant for one another
Even though they say we've been untrue
The way we kiss just the other day
There could be no other love but you
We can make it right
To the night
Hold each other tight, real tight
Baby, don't you go
I need you
Stay here by my side, please do
Oh-oh, babe, we're gonna love tonite
Just the thought of you, baby
Oh-oh, babe, we're gonna love tonite
Yeah, we're gonna love tonite
(Keyboard Solo)
Lime is a Canadian Disco band from Montreal, Quebec. The group was composed of married couple Denis and Denyse LePage. In 1979, Denis LePage wrote, arranged and released an instrumental 12" single vinyl record called "The Break" under the name Kat Mandu. It appeared first on Unidisc Records. The single was successful and peaked at number three on Billboard's Disco chart. Singer Denyse Le Page also wrote and sang on the records "Dancin' The Night Away" by Voggue and "DIVA": "Double Trouble". In between the Kat Mandu project, the LePages also produced and arranged music for numerous studio projects, notably for acts signed to Prelude Records. 1981 brought a worldwide hit single and album sung by Carol Jiani, "Hit N Run Lover", written by Denis LePage and Sandy Wilbour. The album tracks ("Mercy" and others) were written and arranged by Sandy Wilbour and Denis LePage, as well as Pete Bellotte and Sylvester Levay, who has composed music for movies, television and theatre.
Lime - Unexpected Lovers (Official Music Video)
Lime - Unexpected Lovers (Official Music Video)
How can there be no love?
No feeling of passion too
The way we were dancing, love
How could it be I'm through?
We danced the night together
Until the morning light
Baby, do you remember
The music in our eyes?
Such an enchanting evening
A lovers' romantic night
The moon and stars are leaving
The sea was glowing bright
We'll spend the night together
Until the morning light
Baby, do you remember
The music in our eyes?
We were unexpected lovers
Not just ordinary lovers
Sharing unexpected love
My true love
We were unexpected lovers
Not just ordinary lovers
Sharing unexpected love
My true love
We love like no other lovers
Like no other lovers do
The way we kissed each other
And helped each other through
We'll spend the night together
Until the morning light
Baby, do you remember
The music in our eyes?
When will we ever love again
And share another night?
Should we ever meet again
To love each other right?
We'll spend the night together
Until the morning light
Baby, do you remember
The music in our eyes?
We were unexpected lovers
Not just ordinary lovers
Sharing unexpected love
My true love
We were unexpected lovers
Not just ordinary lovers
Sharing unexpected love
My true love
Sentimentally Yours - Remaster / LIME
Sentimentally Yours - Remaster / LIME
(Richard Buck)
I remember the night
When I met you, baby
We were sitting in the car
Teenagers on summer holiday
You looked into my eyes
And said you were lonely
So I would kiss you in the moonlight
Stay close to you the night away
(Chorus)
I love you, I want you
More than ever I treasure you
I'll be sentimentally yours always
(Chorus 2)
Take me, take me
Hold me in your arms
Say you love me
Touch me, touch me
I want to feel it
Deeper in my soul
You're an angel of love
And a sunshine of my life
Girl, each time I hold you near me
My heart is beating out of control
I remember the night
When I met you baby, baby
(Repeat Chorus 1)
(Repeat Chorus 2)
Baby...
(Repeat Chorus 2)
(Sax Solo)
(Repeat Chorus 1)
Sentimentally yours always
Sentimentally yours...always
Lime released their debut album Your Love in 1981. The title track was a gold record, a #1 Billboard Disco-chart hit in the US and a success in Europe. It appeared in the 1982 movie "Summer Lovers", "You're My Magician" was an international hit single. 1982 saw the release of Lime's second album Lime II and the release of one of their best known hits: "Babe We're Gonna Love Tonight". In 1983 Lime released Lime 3, featuring the hits "Guilty" and "Angel Eyes". Both tracks were bootlegged by German dance act "Lexy & K-Paul" in 2003 as "Dancing" and "Love Me Babe". After becoming instant hits in Germany, an agreement with Unidisc was achieved.
![Lime - Please Say You Will (Be My Baby) [Extended Remix]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/word2N77GjM/maxresdefault.jpg)
Lime - Please Say You Will (Be My Baby) [Extended Remix]
Lime - Please Say You Will (Be My Baby) [Extended Remix]
(Denis LePage)
(Chorus)
Please, say you will
Say you will
Be my baby
Please say you will
Say you will
Be my baby
Oh...
Be my baby tonight
Be my baby
Oh...
Be my baby tonight
Be my baby
Have you really forgotten my love
More than any devotion, my love
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh...
Baby, don't I deserve you my own
Do I have to desert you alone
(Repeat Chorus)
Don't you ever consider my love
Aren't you ever bewildered, my love
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh...
Do I seem like a stranger, my love
Hoping there is no other, my love
(Repeat Chrous with Ad-Libs)
(Instrumental Break)
(Repeat Chorus with Ab-Libs)
(Outro with Ad-Libs, Repeat 3x)
Please, say you will
Say you will
Be my baby
Oh...
1984, Lime released "Sensual Sensation", and the single "My Love". Lime's next album was Unexpected Lovers and the title track became another worldwide hit. 1986's release, Take The Love, gave Lime two more chart hits, "Gold Digger" and "Cutie Pie". Denis and Denyse LePage divorced in 1988, and Denis continued to perform under the Lime name. Lime continued to release albums through 2002, including "A Brand New Day", "Caroline", "The Stillness of the Night" and "Love Fury". Denis LePage signed over rights to classic Lime royalties before releasing a new album, Love Fury, in 2003. Since leaving the Lime project, Denis LePage has come out as transgender. She now releases records as Nini Nobless. In 1983, two younger singers, Joy Dorris and Chris Marsh, were chosen to go on tour as "Lime". Joy Dorris has been performing the live Lime concerts since 1983. Her current partner is Rob Hubertz. Joy Dorris and Rob Hubertz own the trademark to perform as Lime.
![Lime - You're My Magician (Extended Rework Sapopra Edit) [1981 HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/lDyayzKAFak/maxresdefault.jpg)
Lime - You're My Magician (Extended Rework Sapopra Edit) [1981 HQ]
Lime - You're My Magician (Extended Rework Sapopra Edit) [1981 HQ]
(Denis LePage, Denyse LePage)
(Chorus, Repeat 2x)
You're my magician
I tell you anything
You make it everything
Your inspiration
You're always there on time
Boy, your on my mind
(Refrain)
Aah-ah, aah-ah, aah-ah-aaah-ah
Aah-ah, aah-ah, aah-ah-aaah-ah
You came to me and held me tight
I was so mystified
You grinned at me, prince of my light
My wish is certified
(Repeat Chorus 2x)
(Repeat Refrain)
You broke the spell with your kiss
[Lyrics from: https:/lyrics.az/lime/your-love/youre-my-magician.html]
Awaking my desire
You rang my bell, you couldn't miss
Our love was getting higher
(Instrumental Break)
(Repeat Chorus 2x)
(Repeat Refrain)
My kingdom's yours and yours is mine
Now that we're together
Can't ask for more, you'd love so fine
I'll make it last forever
(Repeat Refrain)
(Instrumental Break)
(Ending, Repeat 2x)
You're my magician
You're inspiration
(Repeat Refrain and Fade)
Studio albums
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Your Love (1981)
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Lime II (1982)
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Lime 3 (1983)
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Sensual Sensation (1984)
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Lime – The Greatest Hits (1985)
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Unexpected Lovers (1985)
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Take The Love (1986)
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A Brand New Day (1988)
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Caroline (1991)
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Stillness of the Night (1998)
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Love Fury (2002)
YearSongU.S. Dance[7]UK[8]
1980"Your Love"1—
1981"You're My Magician"——
1982"Baby, I'll Be Yours / Agent 406"——
"Wake Dream"——
"Come & Get Your Love"18—
"A Man And A Woman"——
"Babe, We're Gonna Love Tonight"6—
1983"Angel Eyes"12—
"Guilty"22—
1984"I Don't Wanna Lose You"——
"Take It Up"——
"My Love"——
"Give Me Your Body" / "On The Grid"——
1985"Unexpected Lovers"678
"Alive And Well" / "I'm Falling In Love"——
1986"Take The Love"——
1989"Sentimentally Yours"
Moon Zappa Valley Girl
Moon Zappa Valley Girl
"Valley Girl" is a song by American musician Frank Zappa and his then-14-year-old daughter, Moon Zappa. The song appeared on Zappa's 1982 album Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch and was released as a single, becoming his sole Top 40 hit. The track resulted from the combination of a guitar riff that Frank had composed and Moon's desire to work with her father. According to Zappa biographer Kelly Fisher Lowe, Frank woke Moon in the middle of the night and took her to a studio to recreate conversations that she had had with friends. The lyrics were a deliberate attack on the slang and behavior of stereotypical valley girls. Zappa stressed that it was not a happy song, and that he hated the San Fernando Valley, calling it "a most depressing place." Moon supplied Frank with much of the content, speaking typical "valley girl" or "Valspeak" phrases she heard at "parties, bar mitzvahs, and the Galleria. Musically, the song is atypical for Zappa because of its conventional structure compared to his other compositions, and is played entirely in 4-4 time signature with the exception of the 7-4 groove at the end.
4 groove at the very end.
"Valley Girl"
Valley Girl
She's a Valley Girl
Valley Girl
She's a Valley Girl
Okay, fine...
Fer sure, fer sure
She's a Valley Girl
In a clothing store
Okay, fine...
Fer sure, fer sure
She's a Valley Girl
In a clothing store
Like, OH MY GOD! (Valley Girl)
Like-TOTALLY (Valley Girl)
Enchino is like SO BITCHEN (Valley Girl)
There's like the Galleria (Valley Girl)
And like all these like really great shoe stores
I love going into like clothing stores and stuff
I like buy the neatest mini-skirts and stufl
It's like so BITCHEN cuz like everybody's like
Super-super nice...
It's like so BITCHEN...
On Ventura, there she goes
She just bought some bitchen clothes
Tosses her head 'n flips her hair
She got a whole bunch of nothin' in there
Anyway, he goes are you into S and M?
I go, oh RIGHT...
Could you like just picture me in like a LEATHER TEDDY
Yeah right, HURT ME. HURT ME...
I'm sure! NO WAY'
He was like freaking me out...
He called me a BEASTIE...
That's cuz like he was totally BLITZED
He goes like BAG YOUR FACE'
I'm sure!
Valley Girl
She's a Valley Girl
Valley Girl
She's a Valley Girl
Okay. fine...
Fer sure, fer sure
She's a Valley Girl
So sweet 'n pure
Okay, fine...
Fer sure, fer sure
She's a Valley Girl
So sweet'n pure
It's really sad (Valley Girl)
Like my English teacher
He's like... (Valley Girl)
He's like Mr. BU-FU (Valley Girl)
We're talking Lord God King BU-FU (Valley Girl)
I am SO SURE
He's like so GROSS
He like sits there and like plays with all his rings
And he like flirts with all the guys in the class
It's like totally disgusting
I'm like so sure
It's like BARF ME OUT...
Gag me with a spoon!
Last idea to cross her mind
Had something to do with where to find
A pair of jeans to fit her butt
And where to get her toenails cut
So like I go into this like salon place, y'know
And I wanted like to get my toenails done
And the lady like goes, oh my God, your toenails
Are like so GRODY
It was like really embarassing
She's like OH MY GOD, like BAG THOSE TOENAILS
I'm like sure...
She goes, uh, I don't know if I can handle this, y'know.
I was like really embarassed...
Valley Girl
She's a Valley Girl
Valley Girl
She's a Valley Girl
Okay, fine
Fer sure, fer sure
She's a Valley Girl
And there is no cure
Okay, fine
Fer sure, fer sure
She's a Valley Girl
And there is no cure
Like my mother is like a total space cadet (Valley Girl)
She like makes me do the dishes and (Valley Girl)
CLEAN the cat box (Valley Girl)
I am sure
That's like GROSS (Valley Girl)
BARF OUT' (Valley Girl)
OH MY GOD (Valley Girl
Hi!
Uh-huh... (Valley Girl)
My name?
My name is Ondrya Wolfson (Valley Girl)
Uh-huh
That's right, Ondrya (Valley Girl)
Uh-huh .
I know (Valley Girl)
It's like...
I do not talk funny...
I'm sure (Valley Girl)
Whatsa matter with the way I talk? (Valley Girl)
I am a VAL, I know
But I live in like in a really good part of Encino so it's okay (Valley Girl)
So like, I don't know
I'm like freaking out totally
Oh my God!
Hi - I have to go to the orthodontist
I'm getting my braces off, y'know
But I have to wear a retainer
That's going to be really like a total bummer
I'm freaking out
I'm SURE
Like those things that like stick in your mouth
They're so gross...
You like get saliva all over them
But like, I don't know, it's going to be cool
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"Valley Girl" was picked up by KROQ-FM who obtained an acetate disc before release. Zappa praised the station's original programming but feared it would lead to others copying it, adding, "I would hate for it to become another service, freeze-dried to other stations." Moon was a regular KROQ listener and persuaded the station to play the track during an interview. There was an immediate response from the public, and the song began receiving regular airplay. The song was Zappa's only Top 40 single in the United States, peaking at #32 on the Billboard Hot 100 during September 1982, although he had charted hits in other parts of the world. The song was also included on the 1995 compilation album Strictly Commercial. In the U.S. the B-side was "You Are What You Is", but in other territories it was "Teen-Age Prostitute." Promotional copies contained the album and single versions of the song.
Moon Zappa at SiriusXM Studios in New York 06/20/2016.
Though intended as a parody, the single popularized the Valley Girl stereotype nationwide. Following the single's release, there was a significant increase in "Valspeak" slang usage, whether ironically spoken or not. In particular, the film Valley Girl capitalized on this cultural curiosity. Zappa expressed concern that, despite his rich body of music, he was seen as a "novelty" artist because of songs like "Valley Girl" and "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow". At the time of the single's release, Moon said, "I am not a valley girl, but I guess that is my claim to fame."
Frank Zappa, Moon Zappa and Dweezil Zappa.
American avant-garde rock guitarist and composer Frank Zappa is pictured with his wife, Gail, in 1972, location unknown. (Anonymous/AP)
Gail Zappa, widow of the iconoclastic musician Frank Zappa and a zealous advocate for artists’ ownership rights over their work, died October 7th 2015 at her home in Los Angeles. She was 70. After her husband’s death from prostate cancer in 1993, she battled tribute groups, record labels and music festivals she believed were taking illegal advantage of his music and his identity. “I don’t want anybody standing in between the audience and what Frank’s intention as a composer was, and still is,” she said in the 2008 interview. “What I’ve discovered in the process . . . comes down to one simple thing — because everybody wants to remake his image. And they can . . . well, they can all pound salt!” A composer who co-founded the Mothers of Invention and whose work was satirical, complex, brilliant and sometimes impenetrable, Frank Zappa released more than 60 albums during his lifetime, including “Freak Out!” (1966), “We’re Only in It for the Money” (1968), “Uncle Meat” (1969) and “Weasels Ripped My Flesh” (1970). Since his death, Gail Zappa and the Zappa Family Trust have issued an additional 38 albums of music that had been recorded by Frank but not previously released. She encountered Frank Zappa when she was a 20-year-old secretary at the Whiskey a Go Go nightclub in Los Angeles. Sparks failed to fly at their first meeting, which, as she recalled in 2013 to the Times of London, was “like a vaccination that didn’t take.”
Two years later, they married in what Frank Zappa described in his autobiography as “a severely ridiculous civil ceremony” in New York. In lieu of a ring, Gail received a ball-point pen that Zappa bought from a vending machine at the marriage bureau. It said, “Congratulations from Mayor Lindsay.”
They shared a zest for the absurd. They called their home studio the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen, where a framed quote from Frank said it all: “You can’t write a chord ugly enough to say what you want sometimes. So you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.”
Moon Zappa was born in New York City, the eldest child of Gail (née Sloatman) and musician Frank Zappa. She has three younger siblings: Dweezil, Ahmet, and Diva. Zappa's father was of Sicilian, Greek-Arab, and French ancestry, and her mother was of French, Irish, and mostly Danish ancestry. Moon Zappa attended Oakwood School in North Hollywood, California. She married Paul Doucette, current drummer and rhythm guitarist for American pop group Matchbox Twenty, , in June 2002. They have one child. They divorced in early 2014. Following the death of Zappa's mother, Gail, in October 2015, it was revealed that her siblings Ahmet and Diva were given control of the Zappa family trust with shares of 30% each, while Moon and her brother Dweezil were given smaller shares of 20% each. Speaking to the Los Angeles Times in 2016, Zappa called it "the most hideous shock of [her] life."As beneficiaries only, Moon and Dweezil will not see any money from the trust until it is profitable—in 2016, it was "millions of dollars in debt"—and must seek permission from Ahmet, the trustee, to make money from their father's music or merchandise bearing his name.
She sang on Dweezil's songs "My Mother is a Space Cadet," b/w "Crunchy Water" in 1982 and "Let's Talk About It" from the album Havin' a Bad Day in 1986. As a teenager, Zappa acted in the television series CHiPs, The Facts of Life, and the film Nightmares. While still 18, she was a technical consultant and appeared in several episodes of Fast Times. As an adult, she has worked as a stand-up-comic, magazine writer, and actress, appearing in the films National Lampoon's European Vacation and Spirit of '76, the television sitcom Normal Life, and The Super Mario Bros: Super Show. She is the author of the novel America, the Beautiful, published in 2001. She has also written for The New York Times. In a 2016 interview with the Los Angeles Times, Zappa said she was working on a book about growing up in her "crazy house."
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense (Full Concert)
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense (1984)
Talking Heads were an American rock band formed in 1975 in New York City and active until 1991. The band was composed of David Byrne (lead vocals, guitar), Chris Frantz (drums), Tina Weymouth (bass), and Jeryy Harrison (keyboards, guitar). Described as "one of the most critically acclaimed bands of the '80s," the group helped to pioneer new wave music by integrating elements of punk, art rock, funk, and world music with avant-garde sensibilities and an anxious, clean-cut image.
Stop Making Sense is a 1984 American concert film featuring a live performance by American rock band Talking Heads. Directed by Jonathan Demme, it was shot over the course of four nights at Hollywood's Pantages Theater in December 1983, as the group was touring to promote their new album Speaking in Tongues. The film is the first made entirely using digital audio techniques. The band raised the budget of $1.2 million themselves. The film has been hailed by Leonard Maltin as "one of the greatest rock movies ever made", and "the finest concert film" according to Robert Christgau, while Pauline Kael of The New Yorker described it as "close to perfection".
Demme has stated that one night of shooting was dedicated almost entirely to wide shots from a distance, to minimize the intrusion of cameras on stage. Demme had considered additional shooting on a soundstage made to recreate the Pantages Theater, but the band declined to do this, as they thought the lack of audience response would have hindered the energy of their performance. Before the shooting of the movie, David Byrne implored the band to wear neutral-colored clothing so the stage lights would not illuminate anything too distinctive. However, drummer Chris Frantz can still be seen wearing a turquoise-colored polo shirt.
Director Jonathan Demme also considered including more shots of the audience reacting to the performance, as is traditional in concert films. However, he discovered that filming the audience required additional lighting, which inhibited the audience's energy. This in turn made the band feel insecure and thus led to "the worst Talking Heads performance in the history of the band's career." The only direct audience shots in the film occur at the very end, during "Crosseyed and Painless".
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This concert film is widely regarded as one of the finest examples of the genre. Leonard Maltin rated the film four stars out of four, describing it as "brilliantly conceived, shot, edited and performed" and "one of the greatest rock movies ever made." Roger Ebert gave the film a three-and-a-half star rating, writing that "the overwelming impression throughout Stop Making Sense is of enormous energy, of life being lived at a joyous high...It's a live show with elements of Metropolis... .But the film's peak moments come through Byrne's simple physical presence. He jogs in place with his sidemen; he runs around the stage; he seems so happy to be alive and making music...He serves as a reminder of how sour and weary and strung-out many rock bands have become." Danny Peary described Stop Making Sense as "Riveting...What takes place on stage will make even the most skeptical into Talking Heads converts...[The] performances are invariably exciting, Byrne's lyrics are intriguing. Byrne, his head moving rhythmically as if he had just had shock treatments, is spellbinding - what a talent!...Byrne is known for his belief that music should be performed in an interesting, visual manner, and this should make him proud." Robert Christgau noted the "sinuous, almost elegant clarity" of Demme's direction, while writing that the film had pushed the "limits to how great a rock concert movie can be ... as far as they were liable to go." Christgau described it as "the finest concert film..
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All songs in the film are written by David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth, except where noted.
1. "Psycho Killer" (Byrne, Frantz, Weymouth)
2. "Heaven" (Byrne, Harrison)
3. "Thank You for Sending Me an Angel" (Byrne)
4. "Found a Job" (Byrne)
5. "Slippery People"
6. "Burning Down the House".
7. "Life During Wartime".
8. Making Flippy Floppy"
9. "Swamp"
10. "What a Day That Was" (Byrne)
11. "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)"
12. "Once in a Lifetime" (Byrne, Brian Eno, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth)
13. "Genius of Love" )as Tom Tom Club) (Weymouth, Frantz, Adrian Belew, Steven Stanley)
14. "Girlfriend is Better"
15. "Take Me to the River" (Al Green, Mabon "Teenie" Hodges)
16. "Crosseyed and Painless" (Byrne, Eno, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth)
Extra songs available on the DVD and Blu Ray (as a bonus feature) and on the original VHS and LaserDisc (edited into the sequence):
1. "Cities" (Byrne)
2. "Big Business" (Byrne, John Chernoff)/"I Zimbra" (Byrne, Eno, Hugo Ball).
Black Box - Ride on Time (feat Loleatta Holloway) Animation Video
Black Box - Ride on Time (feat Loleatta Holloway) Animation Video
Leaders of the Italian house music movement of the late '80s Black Box was primarily comprised of club DJ Daniele Davoli, computer whiz Mirko Limoni, and classical clarinetist Valeric Semplici, a trio of studio musicians known collectively as the Groove Groove Melody production team. Acclaimed among the most successful producers in all of Italian dance music, Groove Groove Melody helmed dozens of singles each year at their peak; in 1989 they teamed with model Katrin (born Catherine Quinol) as Black Box, debuting with the single "Ride on Time." Not only was the record a huge hit at home, but it soon crossed over into the British pop charts, landing at the number one spot for six consecutive weeks despite the controversy that erupted in the wake of the discovery that it included uncredited samples of Loleatta Holloway's disco single "Love Sensation." (A second version featured uncredited vocals by Heather Small.) A series of Black Box hits followed, among them "I Don't Know Anybody Else" (a Top Ten smash in the U.S. as well) and "Everybody Everybody," which featured vocals by Martha Wash: the group's debut LP, 1990's Dreamland, was also a success. They returned in 1991 with "Strike It Up," another American Top Ten entry, as well as the Mixed Up! collection: additionally, the Groove Groove Melody team scored with material recorded under a variety of other aliases, among them Starlight ("Numero Uno") and Mixmaster ("Grand Piano"). After a long hiatus, Black Box returned in 1995 with the album Positive Vibration, which went largely unnoticed. Davoli remained a prominent DJ and occasionally produced and remixed tracks under a number of aliases.
Split Enz - I Got You (1980)
Split Enz - I Got You (1980)
"I Got You"
I got you - and that's all I want
I won't forget - that's a whole lot
I don't go out - not now that you're in
Sometimes we shout - but that's no problem
I don't know why sometimes I get frightened
You can see my eyes, you can tell that I'm not lyin'
Look at you - you're a pageant
You're everything - that I've imagined
Something's wrong - I feel uneasy
Reassure me - tell me you're not teasing
I don't know why sometimes I get frightened
You can see my eyes, you can tell that I'm not lyin'
I don't know why sometimes I get frightened
You can see my eyes, can you tell me you're not lyin'
There's no doubt - not when I'm with you
When I'm without - I stay in my room
Where do you go - I get no answer
You're always out - it gets on my nerves
I don't know why sometimes I get frightened
You can see my eyes, you can tell that I'm not lying
But I don't know why sometimes I get frightened
You can see my eyes, can you tell me you're not lyin'
I don't know why sometimes I get frightened
You can see my eyes, you can tell that I'm not lying
After three singles released in New Zealand, the band was well established in their homeland. They moved to Australia in early 1975, with all the members (except Judd) switching to using their middle names. Split Enz recorded their first album (Mental Notes) for the Mushroom Records label. At the invitation of Phil Manzanera, who had seen the band when they supported Roxy Music on tour in Australia, Split Enz (with Wilkinson fired and Gillies back in the line-up) flew to the UK. Manzanera recorded the band’s second album, which was mainly comprised of reworked versions of material from Mental Notes. Unfortunately, the band’s arrival in England coincided with the punk movement and they found acceptance difficult.
Originally formed in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1972 as Split Ends, this beloved and expansive unit evolved around Tim Finn (Brian Timothy Finn, 25 June 1952, Te Awamutu, New Zealand; vocals/piano), Mike Chunn (b. Michael Jonathan Chunn, 8 June 1952, Otahuhu, Auckland, New Zealand; bass/keyboards), Phil Judd (b. Philip Raymond Judd, 23 March 1953, Hastings, New Zealand; vocals/guitar/mandolin), Miles Golding (violin), and Mike Howard (flute). Their debut single ‘For You’/‘Split Ends’ was released in February 1973, but following a promotional tour Golding and Howard announced they were leaving. The band adopted a more electric sound with the recruitment of new members Wally Wilkinson (b. Paul Wilkinson, New Zealand; guitar), Robert Gillies (b. New Zealand; saxophone) and Geoffrey Chunn (b. Auckland, New Zealand; drums). They appeared on the televised New Zealand talent show New Faces and, after changing their name to Split Enz, added Eddie Rayner (b. Anthony Edward Rayner, 19 November 1952, Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand; keyboards) to the line-up. Their reluctance to perform on the traditional bar circuit left only the college and university venues, as well as the occasional open-air park concert, in which to enact their brand of theatrical pop. They featured an eclectic set, wore unusual costumes, facial make-up (which drew comparisons in their homeland to Skyhooks), and even featured a spoons player in the shape of percussionist and costume designer Noel Crombie (b. Geoffrey Crombie, 17 April 1953, Wellington, New Zealand), who became a full-time member in late 1974. Around the same time Geoffrey Chunn was replaced by Emlyn Crowther (b. Paul Emlyn Crowther, 2 October 1949, Dunedin, New Zealand) and saxophonist Robert Gillies left the band.
A number of personnel changes ensued, with Crowther and Mike Chunn making way for Malcolm Green (b. 25 January 1953, England; drums) and Nigel Griggs (b. 18 August 1949, Hatfield, England; bass). Tim Finn’s brother Neil Finn (b. 27 May 1958, Te Awamutu, New Zealand) was also recruited after one of the band’s main songwriters, Phil Judd, left during a tour of America. The other main songwriter Tim Finn adopted the leadership of Split Enz, and the new line-up recorded 1977’s Dizrythmia. Less theatrical than their earlier releases, the album went gold and the single ‘My Mistake’ reached the Australian Top 20. Waning European sales meant that the band was unceremoniously dropped by their worldwide distributor Chrysalis Records, however, and the departure of Gillies reduced the line-up to a sextet. A grant from the New Zealand Arts Council facilitated the recording of the band’s next album, Frenzy, which proved less successful than Dizrythmia. Split Enz regrouped and set about fashioning their most pop-orientated collection of material. True Colours, released worldwide on A&M Records, contained their most successful single, Neil Finn’s glorious ‘I Got You’, which reached number 12 in the UK. The album went on to sell over 200, 000 albums in Australia.
Reduced to a quintet following the departure of Green after 1981’s Corroboree (known as Waiata internationally), Split Enz lost their momentum. Despite the commercial success of Time And Tide on the Australasian market, the album failed to make much headway in Europe or America. Furthermore, the band ran into trouble in the UK when their ‘Six Months In A Leaky Boat’ was banned by the BBC, as its title was considered too provocative at a time when the British were fighting the Falklands War. Tim Finn took time out to record a solo album and was overshadowed as a songwriter by his brother Neil on the next Split Enz release, Conflicting Emotions. Tim Finn was not even present on 1984’s See Ya ’Round, with Paul Hester (b. 8 January 1959, Melbourne, Australia, d. 26 March 2005, Melbourne, Australia) brought in to the line-up to relieve Crombie of drumming duties. A final tour saw the Finn brothers reunited on stage following which the band was dissolved.
Six Months In A Leaky Boat - Split Enz - HD STEREO
Six Months In A Leaky Boat - Split Enz - HD STEREO
When I was a young boy
I wanted to sail around the world
That's the life for me
Living on the sea
Spirit of a sailor
Circumnavigates the globe
The lust of a pioneer
Will acknowledge no frontier
I remember you by, thunderclap in the sky
Lightning flash, tempers flare
'Round the horn if you dare
I just spent six months in a leaky boat
Lucky just to keep afloat
Aotearoa
Rugged individual
Glisten like a pearl
At the bottom of the world
The tyranny of distance
Didn't stop the cavalier
So why should it stop me
I'll conquer and stay free
Ah, c'mon all you lads
Let's forget and forgive
There's a world to explore
Tales to tell back on shore
I just spent six months in a leaky boat
Six months in a leaky boat
Ship-wrecked love can be cruel
Don't be fooled by her kind
There's a wind in my sails
Will protect and prevail
I just spent six months in a leaky boat
Nothing to it leaky boat
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Neil Finn / Tim Finn / Geoffrey Crombie / Nigel Philip Griggs / Anthony Rayner
Six Months in a Leaky Boat lyrics © Mushroom Music Pty. Ltd., Rebel Larynx Music, Publisher(s) Unknown, Mushroom Music Pty Ltd
Neil Finn went on to form Crowded House with latter years Split Enz member Paul Hester. Tim also occasionally recorded with this band while maintaining a solo career, and has also joined his brother in the Finn project. Noel Crombie, Nigel Griggs and Phil Judd released two albums as Schnell Fenster, while Eddie Rayner worked with the Makers. In 1996, Rayner directed the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in a symphonic tribute to Split Enz. The resulting album ENZSO was a notable success, and a second project ENZSO 2 followed in 1999. The various members of Split Enz have regularly reunited for one-off shows and tours.
Source: The Encyclopedia of Popular Music by Colin Larkin. Licensed from Muze.
Night Ranger - Sister Christian (Official Music Video)
Night Ranger - Sister Christian (Official Music Video)
"Sister Christian"
Sister Christian
Oh, the time has come
And you know that you're the only one
To say, okay
Where you going
What you looking for
You know those boys
Don't want to play no more with you
It's true
You're motoring
What's your price for flight
In finding mister right
You'll be alright tonight
Babe, you know
You're growing up so fast
And mama's worrying
That you won't last
To say, let's play
Sister Christian
There's so much in life
Don't you give it up
Before your time is due
It's true
It's true, yeah
Motoring
What's your price for flight
You've got him in your sight
And driving through the night
Motoring
What's your price for flight
In finding mister right
You'll be alright tonight
[Instrumental interlude]
Motoring
What's your price for flight
In finding mister right
You'll be alright tonight
Motoring
What's your price for flight
In finding mister right
You'll be alright tonight
Sister Christian
Oh, the time has come
And you know that you're the only one
To say, okay
But you're motoring
Yeah, motoring
Biography
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Years Active
1979 – present (41 years)
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Founded In
San Francisco, California, United States
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Members
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Brad Gillis
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Eric Levy (2011 – present)
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Gary Moon (1994 – 1996)
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Jack Blades
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Jeff Watson
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Joel Hoekstra (2008 – 2014)
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Kelly Keagy
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Keri Kelli (2014 – present)
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Michael Lardie (2003 – 2007)
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Night Ranger is an American rock band from San Francisco that formed in 1982 and gained popularity during the 1980s with a series of albums and singles.
The band's first five albums sold more than 10 million copies worldwide and have sold 17 million albums total. After their success waned in the late 1980s, the band split up in 1989 and its members pursued other musical endeavours including group and solo efforts. Brad Gillis and Kelly Keagy teamed up with bassist Gary Moon and released an album without the other original band members in 1995, but the band soon re-united to release two new albums in the latter half of the decade.
Jack Blades (bass/vocals)
Brad Gillis (guitars)
Kelly Keagy (drums/vocals)
Joel Hoekstra (guitars)
Christian Cullen (keyboards)
Night Ranger - (You Can Still) Rock In America (Live 1983)
Night Ranger - (You Can Still) Rock In America (Live 1983)
Little sister by the record machine
A tiny dancer such a sweet sixteen
She's goin' out, she's gonna party tonight
She's gonna shake and make it last all night
Little brother's got a drivin' machine
A fast driver such a clean machine
They're going out they're gonna put out the lights
They gonna rock it, rock it, rock it
You can still rock in America
Oh yeah, it's alright
You can still rock in America
Oh yeah, all night
You can still rock in America
Little sister makes a move for the door
The door squeaks she's on the second floor
Her daddy wakes is everything okay
Not a sound as she makes her getaway
Little brother's got it ready to roll
Tires burning as they head for the show
Light it up and turn the music up loud
And rock it, rock it, rock it
You can still rock in America
Oh yeah, it's alright
You can still rock in America
Oh yeah, all night
You can still rock in America
Rock in America
(You can still)
Rock in America
(Rock in America)
Rock in America
(Yeah, you can still)
Rock in America
You can still rock in America
Oh yeah, it's alright
You can still rock in America
Oh yeah, all night
You can still rock in America
You can still rock in America
Well you can still rock in America
Night Ranger - Faces
Night Ranger - Faces
"Faces"
Faces
Pictures on the wall
Do you sleep at all
When you sleep
Faces
Burning in your mind
Faces
She's trapped inside her own world
And I'm trying to get in
And she doesn't know what's gin' on
Or where she might have been
She talks to many people
And she lives life through their eyes
And the voices down the hall
Tell her no reason where or why
All of your life
You've been missing the answer
It should be easy to tell
You see faces
Pictures on the wall
Do you sleep at all
When you sleep
Faces
Burning in your mind
Will it be the lies that you see
She hears the words of people
That live deep in her mind
And she wants to feel the passion
That's locked up inside
The pictures now are falling
There's no trace at all
And the voices that were calling her
No longer call
All of your life
You've been missing the answer
It should be easy to tell
You see faces
Pictures on the wall
Do you sleep at all
When you sleep
Faces
Burning in your mind
Will it be the lies
What do you see?
All of your life
You've been hearing the answer
It should be easy to tell
No more faces
Faces
Do you see faces
Burning in your mind
No more faces
Hear me call, hear me call, hear me call....
Night Ranger - Hearts Away (1987, US # 90)
Night Ranger - Hearts Away (1987, US # 90) (Enhanced)
"Hearts Away"
Hearts away, I cast my heart
To some romantic yesterday
When I was young and on my own
And you were blind to everyone but me
Now today, I throw my heart to some
Forgotten memory, when you were
What was meant for me, a stranger
With a place to always be
Hearts away [3x]
Cast away, I cast my heart away each
Time I think I see
Your face come down a crowded avenue
How come it's never really you
And today, I cry myself to sleep each night
I only wish, I'd wake to see you lying next to me
I know I'm sure it's killing me
Hearts away [3x]
Oh I wanna know
All the times I held you near me
Did you think I'd ever let you go now
And the time I had you with me
Did you feel so sorry for the lonely ones
Are we the only ones
Hearts away
Now today I throw my heart
To some forgotten memory
When you were what was meant for me
A stranger with a place to always be
Hearts away [4x]
Captain & Tennille - Do That To Me One More Time
Captain & Tennille - Do That To Me One More Time
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Do that to me one more time
Once is never enough with a man like you
Do that to me one more time
I can never get enough of a man like you
Whoa-oh-oh, kiss me like you just did
Oh, baby, do that to me once again
Pass that by me one more time
Once is never enough for my heart to hear
Whoa-oh-oh, tell it to me one more time
I can never hear enough while I got you near
Whoa-oh-oh, say those words again like you just did
Oh, baby, tell it to me once again
Do that to me one more time
Once is never enough with a man like you
Whoa-oh-oh, do that to me one more time
I can never get enough of a man like you
Whoa-oh-oh, kiss me like you just did
Oh, baby, do that to me once again
Whoa-oh-oh, baby, do that to me once again
Whoa-oh-ho-oh-oh-oh, baby, do that to me one more time
(Do it again)
One more time
(Do it again)
One more time
(Do it again)
One more time
(Do it again)
One more time
(Do it again)
One more time
(Do it again)
One more timeWriter/s: Toni Tennille
Publisher: BMG Rights Management
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind
Captain & Tennille were American recording artists whose primary success occurred in the 1970s. The husband-and-wife duo were "Captain" Daryl Dragon (August 27, 1942-January 2, 2019) and Toni Tennille (born May 8, 1940). They have five albums certified gold or platinum and scored numerous hits on the US singles charts, the most enduring of which included "Love Will Keep Us Together", "Do That to Me One More Time", and "Muskrat Love". They hosted their own television variety series on ABC in 1976–77.
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1979-Captain And Tenille - Happy Together (maxi)
1979-Captain And Tenille - Happy Together (maxi)
Captain & Tennille
Imagine me and you, I do
I think about you day and night
It's only right
To think about the one you love
And hold her tight
So happy together
If I should call you up
Invest a dime
And you say you belong to me
You'd ease my mind
Imagine how the world
Could be so very fine
So happy together
I can't see me
Loving nobody but you
For all my life
When you're near me
Baby, the skies'll be blue
For all my life
Me and you and you and me
No matter how they
Toss the dice, it had to be
In 1972, Toni Tennille was the co-writer of an ecology-themed musical, Mother Earth. At that time, Daryl Dragon (son of composer Carmen Dragon) was working as a keyboardist for the Beach Boys. When Tennille's show was preparing to move from San Francisco's Marines Memorial Theatre to Southern California's South Coast Repertory, a call was put out for a replacement keyboardist. Dragon was between tours when he heard about the opening, met Tennille in San Francisco to audition, and landed the gig. Dragon later reciprocated by recommending Tennille to the Beach Boys when the band needed an additional keyboardist, and they hired her. She toured with them for a year, and has since been known as The Beach Boys' one and only "Beach Girl". Realizing their collaborative potential when the tour was over, Tennille and Dragon began performing as a duo at the now-defunct Smokehouse Restaurant in Encino, California. They started to become popular in the Los Angeles area, and their early version of the Tennille-penned "The Way I Want to Touch You" became popular on a local radio station. This led to a recording contract with A&M Records.
Until You Come Back To Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)
CAPTAIN & TENNILLE - Until You Come Back To Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)
"Until You Come Back To Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)"
Though you don't call anymore
I sit and wait in vain
I guess I'll rap on your door
Tap on your window pane
I want to tell you, baby
The changes I've been going through
Missing you
Listen you
'Till you come back to me
That's what I'm gonna do
Why did you have to decide
You had to set me free
I'm gonna swallow my pride
I'm gonna beg you to please, baby, please see me
I'm gonna walk by myself
Just to prove that my love is true
Oh, for you, baby
'Till you come back to me
That's what I'm gonna do
Living for you my dear
Is like living in a world of constant fear
In my plea, I've got to make you see
That our love is dying
Although your phone you ignore
Somehow I must explain
I'm gonna rap on your door
Tap on your window pane
I'm gonna camp on your step
Until I get through to you
I've got to change your view baby
'Till you come back to me
That's what I'm gonna do
Their first hit single, a rendition of Neil Sedaka's and Howard Greenfield's "Love Will Keep Us Together", reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart nine weeks after its 1975 debut, and went on to win the Grammy Award for Record of the Year. It sold over 1 million copies and was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA on July 1, 1975. Tennille paid tribute to Sedaka in the recording when she sang the overdub "Sedaka is back" at the end of the song. The duo successfully mined the Sedaka songbook a number of times over their chartmaking career. Two of their other hit singles were the Sedaka co-writes "Lonely Night (Angel Face)" and "You Never Done It Like That". Their Spanish recording of "Love Will Keep Us Together", "Por Amor Viviremos", also charted in 1975; it was the first time two versions of the same single charted simultaneously. Tennille and Dragon included renditions of several other Sedaka songs on their albums. Tennille and Dragon married on November 11, 1975 (not on Valentine's Day 1974, as is often erroneously reported, for example, on the February 14, 1976 edition of Casey Kasem's American Top 40). Over the next few years, Captain and Tennille released a string of hit singles mostly from their first two albums Love Will Keep Us Together (US #2, 1975) and Song Of Joy (US #9, 1976) including "The Way I Want to Touch You" (US #4), "Lonely Night (Angel Face)" (US #3), "Shop Around" (US #4), and "Muskrat Love" (US #4).
In July 1976, they were invited by First Lady Betty Ford to perform in the East Room of the White House in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II and President Gerald Ford during the country's bicentennial celebration. After a long journey, the Queen fell asleep during their show. Such was the level of their popularity that they were given their own television variety show. The Captain and Tennille TV show aired from September 1976 to March 1977 on ABC. It featured musical numbers and comedy sketches performed with various guest stars. However, despite solid ratings success, the duo wanted to focus on their music and touring career and, after one season, asked to be released from their contract. The duo's third album Come in from the Rain (US #18, 1977) produced three singles: "Can't Stop Dancing" (US #13), the title track (US #61), and "Circles", which did not chart. A&M Records later released a Greatest Hits album (1977) which peaked at #55 on the US Top 200.
The duo released their fourth studio album Dream (US #131, 1978), although their first single "I'm on My Way" (US #74) failed to become a hit. However, their second single, and third Sedaka title, "You Never Done It Like That," fared much better at #10. A third single was "You Need a Woman Tonight" (US #40). Dream would be the last Captain and Tennille studio album released by A&M. In 1979, Neil Bogart signed them to a contract on his Casablanca Records label. The album Make Your Move (US #23, 1979) rose much higher on the chart than the act's previous release, and the first single "Do That to Me One More Time" reached the summit on February 16, 1980, becoming their second #1 single. However, subsequent singles "Love on a Shoestring" (US #55) and "Happy Together (A Fantasy)" (US #53) only achieved minimal success. Keeping Our Love Warm (1980) was the duo's second Casablanca release, and sixth studio album overall, but failed to crack the Top 200. The first single from this album, the title track, was performed live (although lip synced) during the 1980 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
During the duo's period of highest popularity, Tennille also worked as a session singer (most frequently partnered with The Beach Boys' Bruce Johnston), performing as a backing vocalist on the Elton John albums Caribou, Blue Moves, and 21 at 33 (some vocally arranged by Dragon) and most notably on the hit track "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me". She also appeared as a backing vocalist on tracks by Art Garfunkel and The Beach Boys, as well as Pink Floyd for whom she performed backing tracks on The Wall album.
In the liner notes of the Captain & Tennille anthology Ultimate Collection: The Complete Greatest Hits, Tennille explains how her work on Pink Floyd's album gained her at least one new fan:
I went to see the Pink Floyd concert at the Sports Arena in Los Angeles. There was a 15-year-old boy sitting in front of me who recognized me. He turned around and snottily said, 'What are YOU doing here?' So I told him I sang on the album. He ran off to find a friend who had brought the LP to the show, and looked at the back to see if my name was really on there. A few minutes later, he came back and apologetically said, 'Can I have your autograph?'
Captain & Tennille in 1997.
Toni Tennille hosted her own syndicated television talk show from September 1980 to January 1981. Throughout the 1990s, they continued to perform various concert dates at venues around the world, frequently at Harrah's Lake Tahoe and Harrah's Reno, which were located close to their home near Carson City, Nevada. One of their more notable appearances in that decade occurred when they played at the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles in 1995, as part of their 20th anniversary as an act. At the same time throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Tennille enjoyed a second career as a big band and pop standard singer, not unlike pop colleague Linda Ronstadt. She performed with orchestras throughout the country and subsequently recorded several solo albums including Mirage Records' More Than You Know (1984), and All of Me on Gaia Records in 1987. In 1999, on Cartoon Network, the duo made a guest appearance, interviewed by Harvey Birdman, rather than Space Ghost (who is sent to jail and breaks out) in an episode of Space Ghost Coast to Coast. In 2001, on the popular television series, Friends, the duo was referenced in "The One With Joey's Award." Toni Tennille also enjoyed a year as the star of the Broadway tour of Victor/Victoria. At the end of that project, she and Dragon were to have embarked on a 25th anniversary tour; however, the stresses of the road proved too demanding and Captain & Tennille instead put an indefinite hold on their career as a performing duo. Nevertheless, Captain & Tennille's popularity remained evident in the release of their Ultimate Collection: The Complete Hits on Hip-O Records (a subsidiary of Universal Records) in 2001, and More Than Dancing… Much More, a 2002 compact disc. The latter contains what was originally their final album in 1982, More Than Dancing, which at that time was released only in Australia, and is combined with selected tracks from their 1995 20 Years of Romance, originally on K-Tel (re-recording of their songs, and cover versions of others), as well as five newly released tracks.
In November 2003, Tennille performed a benefit concert for the Reno, Nevada Chamber Orchestra, where her surprise guest was Dragon. It was the first time they had publicly performed as Captain & Tennille in many years. Their first live recording, An Intimate Evening with Toni Tennille, was released to commemorate the event. In 2005, Brant Berry, the vice president of a small Portland, Oregon–based entertainment company, Respond 2 Entertainment (R2), signed an agreement with Captain & Tennille to release three projects. The first was the home video release of Captain & Tennille's 1976 variety series, on a three-disc DVD set containing 11 complete episodes with bonus musical tracks. Second, R2 re-released all six of their albums, both from the original A&M and Casablanca labels, on newly remastered CDs. Several of the CDs were previously available only in Japan. The new CDs, packaged both as individual CDs and in a box set, contained new liner notes written by Tennille. Third, a new recording by Captain & Tennille was released—a three-song Christmas CD entitled Saving Up Christmas. This effort was followed by The Secret of Christmas released on Captain & Tennille's own label, Purebred Records, on November 1, 2006. It was Captain & Tennille's first complete original album produced in more than a decade, and their first-ever Christmas album. Tennille returned to the UK airwaves and to club play when the band Bent sampled a small portion of her vocals from Captain & Tennille's 1979 track, "Love on a Shoestring" (from the album Make Your Move), into their "Magic Love" single in 2003. An Ashley Beedle remix of the single heightened the danceability of the original ambient track. In October 2006, Cartoon Network's animated special Casper's Scare School was aired. The duo recorded two songs for the film, and voiced the dialog for the characters who sang the songs. Tennille portrayed Aunt Belle and the Captain was Uncle Murray, who together formed a two-head-on-one-body being known as the Ankle. The two songs they performed, "Why Does Love Make Me Feel So Good" and "World Without Fear," were written by Magnus Fiennes. Captain & Tennille's co-stars on the show included Phyllis Diller, James Belushi, Dan Castellaneta, and Bob Saget. In 2007, three new DVDs were released of Captain & Tennille's ABC TV specials: Captain & Tennille in Hawaii, Captain & Tennille in New Orleans, and Captain & Tennille Songbook. Dragon and Tennille spent most of the 1990s and 2000s living in the Carson City area of Nevada, where they had lived for more than fifteen years, and where Tennille served as Ambassador for the Arts for the state. In the mid-2000s, they temporarily took year-round residence at their second home, located in the Palm Springs area of Southern California. In 2008 they sold their home near Carson City, and built a house and settled down in Prescott, Arizona, where Tennille participates in the annual Prescott Jazz Summit.