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Dan Fogelberg - Same Old Lang Syne
Dan Fogelberg - Same Old Lang Syne


Dan Fogelberg - Same Old Lang Syne Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Innocent Age
Released: 1981

Same Old Lang Syne Lyrics


Met my old lover in the grocery store
The snow was falling Christmas Eve
I stood behind her in the frozen foods
And I touched her on the sleeve

She didn't recognize the face at first
But then her eyes flew open wide
She went to hug me and she spilled her purse
And we laughed until we cried

We took her groceries to the check out stand
The food was totaled up and bagged
We stood there lost in our embarrassment
As the conversation lagged

We went to have ourselves a drink or two
But couldn't find an open bar
We bought a six-pack at the liquor store
And we drank it in her car

We drank a toast to innocence
We drank a toast to now
We tried to reach beyond the emptiness
But neither one knew how

She said she's married her an architect
Who kept her warm and safe and dry
She would have liked to say she loved the man
But she didn't like to lie

I said the years had been a friend to her
And that her eyes were still as blue
But in those eyes I wasn't sure if I saw
Doubt or gratitude

She said she saw me in the record stores
And that I must be doing well
I said the audience was heavenly
But the traveling was Hell

We drank a toast to innocence
We drank a toast to now
We tried to reach beyond the emptiness
But neither one knew how

We drank a toast to innocence
We drank a toast to time
Reliving, in our eloquence
Another "Auld Lang Syne"

The beer was empty and our tongues were tired
And running out of things to say
She gave a kiss to me as I got out
And I watched her drive away

Just for a moment I was back at school
And felt that old familiar pain
And, as I turned to make my way back home
The snow turned into rain

Writer/s: Fogelberg, Dan
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Same Old Lang Syne
  • As Fogelberg tells it on his official website, the song is totally autobiographical. He was visiting family back home in Peoria, Illinois in the mid-'70s when he ran into an old girlfriend at a convenience store.

    After Fogelberg's death from prostate cancer in 2007, the woman who he wrote the song about came forward with her story. Her name is Jill Greulich, and she and Fogelberg dated in high school when she was Jill Anderson. As she explained to the Peoria Journal Star in a December 22, 2007 article, they were part of the Woodruff High School class of 1969, but went to different colleges. After college, Jill got married and moved to Chicago, and Dan went to Colorado to pursue music. On Christmas Eve, they were each back in Peoria with their families when Jill went out for egg nog and Dan was dispatched to find whipping cream for Irish coffee. The only place open was a convenience store at the top of Abington Hill, at Frye Avenue and Prospect Road, and that's where they had their encounter. They bought a six pack of beer and drank it in her car for two hours while they talked.

    Five years later, Jill heard "Same Old Lang Syne" on the radio while driving to work, but she kept quiet about it, as Fogelberg also refused to reveal her identity. Her main concern was that coming forward would disrupt Fogelberg's marriage.

    Looking at the lyrics, Jill says there are two inaccuracies: She has green eyes, not blue, and her husband was not an architect - he was a physical education teacher, and it's unlikely Fogelberg knew his profession anyway. Regarding the line, "She would have liked to say she loved the man, but she didn't like to lie," Jill won't talk about it, but she had divorced her husband by the time the song was released.
  • The single was released about eight months ahead of the album, which was certified double platinum. The Innocent Age is a concept album consisting of a song cycle describing the many stages of life from cradle to grave. (thanks, Charles - Charlotte, NC)
  • "Auld Lang Syne" is a traditional song that is often sung on New Year's Eve. That's the reference in the title.
  • The melody phrase at the beginning of each verse ("Met my old lover at the grocery store...") was taken by Fogelberg from Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture." (To get the effect, just sing that lyric twice, slightly speeded up. Maybe add a few fireworks explosions for good measure.) This song is one of several Pop tunes that have phrases or entire melodies ripped off from classical composers - Paul Simon's "American Tune" (from J.S. Bach), Billy Joel's "This Night" (from Beethoven), among others. (thanks, Peter - Little Silver, NJ)
  • When Fogelberg started writing this song, he considered it "a joke," essentially laughing at himself as he looked back on the fateful encounter at the convenience store. When he finished the song, he realized it was an important one so he saved it for his album The Innocent Age. It ended up being his best-known song, exemplifying the gentle but very emotional stories his lyrics portrayed.

    In late 2007, Fogelberg died at age 56 due to prostate cancer.
  • Fogelberg performed this song long before he recorded it, including at benefit shows for Colorado senator Gary Hart, who would later be a top presidential candidate before getting caught in a sex scandal.
  • In 2008, Abingdon Street in Peoria, which was the location of the convenience store where the events of this song took place, was designated "Fogelberg Parkway" in honor of the singer.
  • This was released as a single in December 1980. Fogelberg's record company expected the album to follow soon after, but the singer had an epiphany when he sat down to sequence it on New Year's Eve: it should be a double album with a "song cycle" starting with nostalgia and coming up to the present. Fogelberg spent another six months writing new songs.

    When "Same Old Lang Syne" peaked on the Hot 100 at #9 in February 1981, there was no album for fans to rush out to buy, which drove the record company nuts. Finally, the album emerged in August with "Lang Syne" the last song on the first disc. The wait was worth it: Three more singles were released, each making the US Top 20, and the album sold over two million copies.
  • Smooth jazz giant Michael Brecker played soprano saxophone on this song. His part is featured in the ending, and is an improvised, jazzy snippet of the classic holiday tune "Auld Lang Syne." Brecker died of leukemia (a blood cancer) in January of 2007 at age 57. (thanks, Tony - NYC, NY and Annabelle - Eugene, OR)

  • Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way Hom
    Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way Home


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    Album: Blind Faith
    Released: 1969

    Can't Find My Way Home Lyrics


    Come down off your throne and leave your body alone, somebody must change
    You are the reason I've been waiting so long, somebody holds the key
    Well, I'm near the end and I just ain't got the time
    And I'm wasted and I Can't Find My Way Home

    Come down on your own and leave your body alone, somebody must change
    You are the reason I've been waiting all these years, somebody holds the key
    Well, I'm near the end and I just ain't got the time
    And I'm wasted and I can't find my way home

    Writer/s: WINWOOD, STEVE
    Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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    Can't Find My Way Home Song Chart
  • Blind Faith was a Supergroup made up of Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Ginger Baker, and Ric Grech. This is their only album.
  • Winwood wrote this and sang lead. Many critics noted that Blind Faith sounded a lot more like Winwood's old band Traffic than Clapton's Cream, which is what Clapton was going for.
  • Clapton played acoustic guitar on this, which he rarely did. In his previous group, Cream, he played long, intense solos, something he wanted to get away from with Blind Faith.
  • The album cover was a photo of an 11-year-old girl. She was naked and holding a model spaceship, which caused a lot of controversy. They released an alternate cover with a picture of the band when stores refused to carry the original.
  • Clapton sometimes plays this at his concerts, with a member of his band singing. His bass player Nathan East would often sing it.
  • A common misconception is that Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood reunited at the Crossroads Guitar Festival, July 28, 2007, however, the first true live reunion occurred two months earlier at an event called Countryside Rocks at Highclere Castle, Hampshire, UK on May 19, 2007. Steve Winwood performed his set and Eric came on later as a guest. Together they played this song as well as "Watch Your Step," "Presence of the Lord," "Crossroads," "Little Queen Of Spades," "Had to Cry Today" and "Gimme Some Lovin'." (thanks, William - Melbourne, Australia)
  • The band House of Lords covered this on their 1990 album Sahara. Other artists to record it include Joe Cocker, Yvonne Elliman, Gilberto Gil and Widespread Panic. (thanks, Amanda - Amawalk, NY)

  • The White Stripes - Catch Hell Blue
    The White Stripes - Catch Hell Blues


    The White Stripes - Catch Hell Blues Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Icky Thump
    Released: 2007

    Catch Hell Blues Lyrics


    Catch Hell Blues
  • Jack White (from Uncut magazine June 2007): "I harken back to the days when bands didn't have any overdubs. There are songs on here which are one take, which are just me and Meg playing live, like 'Catch Hell Blues.' We're proud of that, because we know the conditions it was made under. If people say I love your song, and I think I spent $600,000 dollars and recorded it on computer and it took six months. I mean, what's the big deal? Anybody can do that! But if they love the song, and you look back and think all you had was a book of matches and a screwdriver, then you can be proud." (thanks, DeeTheWriter - Saint Petersburg, Russia Federation)

  • The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles
    The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)


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    Album: Sunshine On Leith
    Released: 1988

    I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) Lyrics


    When I wake up yeah I know I'm gonna be
    I'm gonna be the man who wakes up next to you
    When I go out yeah I know I'm gonna be
    I'm gonna be the man who goes along with you
    If I get drunk yes I know I'm gonna be
    I'm gonna be the man who gets drunk next to you
    And if I have yeah I know I'm gonna be
    I'm gonna be the man who's havering to you

    But I would walk 500 miles
    And I would walk 500 more
    Just to be the man who walked 1,000 miles

    To fall down at your door
    When I'm working yes I know I'm gonna be
    I'm gonna be the man who's working hard for you
    And when the money comes in for the work I'll do

    I'll pass almost every penny on to you
    When I come home yeah I know I'm gonna be
    I'm gonna be the man who comes back home to you
    And if I grow old well I know I'm gonna be
    I'm gonna be the man who's growing old with you

    When I'm lonely yes I know I'm gonna be
    I'm gonna be the man who's lonely without you
    When I'm dreaming yes I know I'm gonna dream
    Dream about the time when I'm with you

    Writer/s: REID, CHARLES STOBO/REID, CRAIG MORRIS
    Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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    I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) Song Chart
  • The Proclaimers are the Scottish twins Craig and Charlie Reid. This is their only hit in America, but four of their other songs made the UK Top 40, including their first hit, "Letter From America," which went to #3 in 1987.
  • This song is about being devoted to a woman and wanting to spend the rest of your life with her. And it's all sung in a Scottish accent.
  • In the line "I'm gonna be the one who's havering for you," 'havering' means babbling on.
  • This was written in 1988 and released on The Proclaimers album Sunshine On Leith. It became a hit when the song was used in the 1993 movie Benny And Joon, starring Johnny Depp and Mary Stuart Masterson.
  • Craig Reid in the Daily Mail, March 23, 2007: "I can remember sitting at the piano and the chords just came to me. I reckon I just wrote the whole thing in 45 minutes. I knew that it was a good song, maybe even a single, but I had no idea how popular it would become."
  • This was a hit in the US after being featured in the movie Benny & Joon after the director heard the song being played on his personal stereo by Mary Ann Waterston. The Proclaimers had no idea it would be featured in the film.
  • It was a #1 hit in Australia.
  • This song was adopted as a theme song by Hibernian Football Club in Scotland.
  • In March 2007 The Proclaimers teamed up with British comedians Peter Kay and Matt Lucas to release a new version for the charity Comic Relief, which topped the UK charts. Peter Kay stars as his wheelchair bound character the Phoenix Club boss Brian Potter and Matt Lucas in turn appears as his similarly wheelchair bound Little Britain character Andy Pipkin. The comedians duet on the first 2 verses of the song before the Proclaimers take over.

    The original version returned to the British chart at #37 the same week the Comic Relief version entered the chart at #3 making The Proclaimers become the first act in over 20 years to chart simultaneously with two different recordings of the same song. The last person to achieve this was Lulu, who in the last week of July 1986 had both her original 1964 recording of "Shout" in the Top 75 alongside a brand new "86" version.
  • By 2002, 500 miles just wasn't enough, as Vanessa Carlton used the same lyrical theme, but with twice the distance, in her song "A Thousand Miles."
  • Country duo Haley & Michaels covered this for their 2014 eponymous debut EP. "When I heard it, I listened to it, and I felt like, 'Wait a second, this could take on a whole different meaning if a man and woman were singing it to each other,'" Haley said. "I bounced it off Ryan, and he had actually just heard it, and it was one of those things, it was on both of our minds, and we just started playing it to see what it would sound like."
  • This was featured in a beloved Budweiser commercial that aired during the 2015 Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks. A sequel to the previous year's "Puppy Love" spot where the Budweiser Clydesdales befriend a golden retriever puppy, this one finds the dog getting lost, and the horses saving him from a wolf and guiding him home. The song was used to convey the lengths that living creatures will go for love.

    The version used in the commercial is a downtempo take on the song performed by Sleeping at Last , which is the one-man operation of Ryan O'Neal. He released the song in 2013.

  • Tim McGraw - Shotgun Rider
    Tim McGraw - Shotgun Rider


    Tim McGraw - Shotgun Rider Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Sundown Heaven Town
    Released: 2014

    Shotgun Rider Lyrics


    Roll, won’t you come roll with me slow, fast, full speed
    Girl wherever sweet time takes us
    Hang, with me down this old road
    Only god knows where we’ll go
    Don’t matter long as I’ve got your love

    I don’t ever want to wake up
    Lookin’ into someone else’s eyes
    Another Voice calling me baby
    On the other end of the phone
    A new girl puttin’ on her makeup
    Before dinner on Friday night
    No I don’t ever wanna know, oh oh
    No other Shotgun Rider, beside me, singin’ to the radio, Woohoo Oh O

    Slide, slide over nice and close
    Lay your head down on my shoulder
    You can fall asleep I’ll let you
    Dream, life aint nothing but a dream, don’t wanna be
    Cruisin’ through this dream without you

    I don’t ever want to wake up
    Lookin’ into someone else’s eyes
    Another Voice calling me baby
    On the other end of the phone
    A new girl puttin’ on her makeup
    Before dinner on Friday night
    No I don’t ever wanna know, oh oh
    No other shotgun rider, beside me, singin’ to the radio, woo hoo oh oh
    No other shotgun rider, oh oh

    I don’t ever want to wake up
    Lookin’ into someone else’s eyes
    Another Voice calling me baby
    On the other end of the phone
    A new girl puttin’ on her makeup
    Before dinner on Friday night
    No I don’t ever wanna know, oh oh
    No other shotgun rider, beside me, singin’ to the radio, woo hoo oh oh

    No other shotgun rider, oh oh

    Singin’ to the radio, oh oh

    You’re my shotgun rider

    Writer/s: GREEN, MARV / VERGES, TROY / LINDSEY, HILLARY
    Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group, UNIVERSAL MUSIC PUB GROUP, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC, WARNER CHAPPELL MUSIC INC
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    Shotgun Rider
  • This romantic song finds McGraw lovingly singing of never wanting another shotgun rider beside him. He just wants it to be with that special someone.

    "I don't ever want to wake up, looking into someone else's eyes.
    I don't want no other shotgun rider beside me, singing to the radio."

    McGraw is singing of his wife, Faith Hill, whom he's been married to since 1996.
  • Does the title ring a bell? Back in 2007 McGraw recorded a duet with Faith Hill titled "Shotgun Rider" for his 2007 album Let It Go. This is an entirely different song.
  • McGraw premiered the song on February 19, 2014 during Jimmy Fallon's first week hosting of The Tonight Show. "I thought since it's Jimmy's first week we should give his audience something they can't get anywhere else," McGraw explained of his choice of a new tune. "It's been a great week for the show already, and I'm honored Jimmy invited me to the party!"
  • The song was written by Hillary Lindsey (Carrie Underwood's "Jesus, Take The Wheel"), Marv Green (Lonestar's "Amazed") and Troy Verges (Hunter Hayes' "Wanted").

    McGraw said: "This is one of those songs that really paints a picture and sets a mood. In my mind, you look over and see the person that you love next to you sitting in the front seat, and you think, 'How good do I have it? Life is perfect.'"
  • The live video, which vacillates between black-and-white and color, was directed by Bennett Miller. The filmmaker is best known for directing acclaimed movies such as Capote (2005), Moneyball (2011), and Foxcatcher (2014). Previous music clips on Miller's resume include Bob Dylan's 2006 song "When the Deal Goes Down" and Scarlett Johansson's cut "Falling Down."

    The clip was shot during McGraw's concert in New York City, which was part of the American Express Unstaged live stream music series.
  • The song was Tim McGraw's 25th country #1 and his first since "Felt Good On My Lips" topped the charts for three weeks in January 2011.

  • The Beatles Songs - I Saw Her Standing There
    The Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There


    The Beatles - I Saw Her Standing There Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos
    Album: Please Please Me
    Released: 1963

    I Saw Her Standing There Lyrics


    Well she was just seventeen
    You know what I mean
    And the way she looked
    Was way beyond compare
    So how could I dance with another,
    Oh, when I Saw Her Standing There

    Well she looked at me
    And I, I could see
    That before too long
    I'd fall in love with her
    She wouldn't dance with another
    Oh, when I saw her standing there

    Well my heart went boom
    When I crossed that room
    And I held her hand in mine

    Oh we danced through the night
    And we held each other tight
    And before too long
    I fell in love with her
    Now I'll never dance with another
    Oh, when I saw her standing there

    Well my heart went boom
    When I crossed that room
    And I held her hand in mine

    Oh we danced through the night
    And we held each other tight
    And before too long
    I fell in love with her
    Now I'll never dance with another
    Oh, when I saw her standing there
    Oh, since I saw her standing there
    Yeah, well since I saw her standing there

    Writer/s: LENNON, JOHN / MCCARTNEY, PAUL
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, ROUND HILL MUSIC
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    I Saw Her Standing There Song Chart
  • John Lennon and Paul McCartney started writing this in McCartney's living room after they skipped school one day, with Paul writing the majority of this song in September of 1962.
  • Paul McCartney in Observer Music Monthly October 2007 on the early days of his songwriting partnership with John Lennon: "Those early days were really cool, just sussing each other out, and realizing that we were good. You just realize from what he was feeding back. Often it was your song or his song, it didn't always just start from nothing. Someone would always have a little germ of an idea. So I'd start off with [singing] 'She was just 17, she'd never been a beauty queen' and he'd be like, 'Oh no, that's useless' and 'You're right, that's bad, we've got to change that.' Then changing it into a really cool line: 'You know what I mean.' 'Yeah, that works.'"
  • The Beatles frequently played this at the Cavern Club, where they often played between 1961-1963. In fact, it was because of the crowd reaction to their live shows that George Martin decided to have them simply record their live show in the studio for their first album. That's why he kept Paul's "1, 2, 3, 4" count at the beginning, which was taken from the 9th take and edited on to the first. The title was originally "Seventeen" until it was changed for the album.
  • The Beatles performed this on their first two Ed Sullivan Show appearances, which took place a week apart in February 1964. Getting on the show was a really big deal because it had a huge audience. About 73 million people watched the first show, which made The Beatles household names.
  • This wasn't released as a single in England. In the US, it was released as the flip side of "I Want To Hold Your Hand," which was their first hit in the America. The Beatles were famous in England about a year before they caught on in America.
  • This became the first Beatles song performed on the TV series American Idol when Jordin Sparks won in 2007 and sang it on the finale with runner-up Blake Lewis. The first line of the song - "She was just 17" - was fitting, as that was Sparks' age.
  • Chuck Berry was a big influence on The Beatles, and the bass line of this song borrows from Berry's track "I'm Talking About You." (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)
  • This was the last song John Lennon performed for a paid audience. He played it at Madison Square Garden on November 28, 1974 when he took the stage at an Elton John concert. Elton released this version as the B-side of "Philadelphia Freedom" the following year. This was the only live duet ever recorded between Elton John and John Lennon, who were good friends.
  • This was covered in 1987 by pop star (and future Playboy model) Tiffany. It was on her first album, and released as a single after her first hit, which was a cover of "I Think We're Alone Now" by Tommy James & the Shondells. The her was changed to him in Tiffany's version, which hit #7 US and #8 UK. (thanks, Nora - richfield, MN)
  • At the 2001 World Series between the New York Yankees and Arizona Diamondbacks, McCartney went to one of the games at Yankee Stadium and was shown between innings singing along as this played in the stadium. It was McCartney's second visit to Yankee Stadium, and he saw The Yankees win that day, although they eventually lost the World Series.
  • Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman sing this song during a very powerful scene in the 1988 Oscar-winning film Rain Man. (thanks, Ariel - Rehovot, Israel)
  • The Who, Daniel Johnston, Santo & Johnny, and The Tubes all covered this song. (thanks, Airk - Skagway, AK)
  • With Dave Grohl playing drums, Paul McCartney played this at the Grammy Awards in 2009.
  • Willie Nelson - Always On My Mind
    Willie Nelson - Always On My Mind


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    Album: Always On My Mind
    Released: 1982

    Always On My Mind Lyrics


    Maybe I didn't love you
    Quite as often as I could have
    Maybe I didn't treat you
    Quite as good as I should have
    If I made you feel second best
    Girl I'm sorry I was blind

    But you were Always On My Mind
    You were always on my mind

    Maybe I didn't hold you
    All those lonely, lonely times
    I guess I never told you
    That I am so happy that you're mine
    If I made you feel second best
    Girl I'm sorry I was blind

    But you were always on my mind
    You were always on my mind

    Tell me, tell me that your sweet love hasn't died
    Give me, give me one more chance
    To keep you satisfied
    I'll keep you satisfied

    Little things I should have said and done
    I just never took the time
    But you were always on my mind
    You were always on my mind
    You were always on my mind
    You were always on my mind

    Writer/s: CHRISTOPHER, JOHN JR. / THOMPSON, WAYNE / JAMES, MARK
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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    Always On My Mind
  • This was written by the songwriting trio of Johnny Christopher, Mark James and Wayne Carson Thompson. It was originally recorded by Brenda Lee in 1971.
  • This song tells the story of a man who admits that he didn't always do the things he should have to show appreciation for his lady, but wants her to know he was always thinking about her.
  • The Country Music Association named this Single Of The Year in 1982. It also did very well at the Grammys, taking the awards for Song Of The Year, Best Male Country Vocal Performance, and Best Country Song. It was the first country song to take Song Of The Year, and it wasn't until the 2007 ceremonies when another country act got one: The Dixie Chicks for "Not Ready To Make Nice."
  • Elvis Presley recorded this in 1972. His version reached #9 in the UK. A cover version by The Pet Shop Boys made UK #1 in December 1987. They had released it after performing it on a BBC Elvis tribute show. (thanks, Adam - Dewsbury, England)
  • Levi's used this in a 2004 commercial where a guy goes to great lengths to retrieve his jeans. He brings his old girlfriend a flower as a peace offering, then grabs his jeans and leaves while she puts it in water.
  • In the January 2006 issue of Esquire magazine, B.B. King said that this was his favorite song.
  • In 1987, The Pet Shop Boys released a dance version on their album Introspective which was the Christmas #1 in the UK and reached #4 in the US. Neil Tennant explained to 1000 UK #1 Hits by Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh, "We were approached by Central TV to be on a program called Love Me Tender, commemorating the 10th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley, and for some reason, we agreed to do it. Rob Holden, who worked with our manager, Tony Watkins, got us a load of Elvis cassettes and the first track on the first one Chris picked up, Magic Moments With Elvis, was 'Always On My Mind.' We were originally going to do a house version of 'Baby Let's Play House' but there wasn't time. We wouldn't have done 'Always On My Mind' unless it was very different from the original, so we added an extra chord to it. There's a B flat at the end of each chorus that wasn't in the original. It makes it far more like a pop song."
  • As part of a series of re-releases of Elvis songs in the UK in 2007 his version re-entered the UK chart at #17.
  • The Pet Shop Boys rendition of this song was voted the top cover version of all time in a 2014 BBC Music vote. Johnny Cash's interpretation of Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt" came in second place, followed by The Stranglers' cover of Dionne Warwick's "Walk On By."
  • Wayne Carson wrote this song in ten minutes at his kitchen table in Missouri. He competed it in the studio with the help of Johnny Christopher and Mark James.

  • Five Finger Death Punch - The Bleeding
    Five Finger Death Punch - The Bleeding


    Five Finger Death Punch - The Bleeding Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: The Way Of The Fist
    Released: 2007

    The Bleeding Lyrics


    I remember when all the games began
    Remember every little lie
    And every last goodbye
    Promises you broke, words you choked on
    And I never walked away its still a mystery to me

    Well I'm so empty
    I'm better off without you and you're better off without me
    Well you're so unclean
    I'm better off without you and you're better off without me

    The lying
    The Bleeding
    The screaming, was tearing me apart
    The hatred
    Deceiving
    The bleeding
    It's over

    Paint the mirrors black (to forget you)
    I still picture your face and the way you used to taste
    Roses in a glass dead and wilted
    To you this all was nothing,
    Everything to you is nothing

    Well you're so filthy
    I'm better off without you and you're better off without me
    Well I'm so ugly
    You're better off without me and I'm better off without

    The lying
    The bleeding
    The screaming, was tearing me apart
    The hatred
    The beatings
    Disaster
    It's over

    As wicked as you are, you're beautiful to me
    You're the darkest burning star, your my perfect disease

    The lying
    The bleeding
    The screaming, was tearing me apart
    The hatred
    The beatings
    It's over
    Disaster

    The lying
    The bleeding
    The screaming, was tearing me apart
    The hatred
    The beatings
    It's over
    Disaster
    It's over now

    Writer/s: BATHROY, ZOLTAN / MOODY, IVAN
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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    The Bleeding
  • The lead single from Five Finger Death Punch's debut album, this was originally included on the band's first EP, Pre-Emptive Strike along with an acoustic version. The track peaked at #9 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart.
  • When Ivan Moody auditioned to be the vocalist for Five Finger, this was the song he was asked to sing. So chronically shy was Moody, he had to perform with his back turned to the rest of the band.
  • The Bradley Scott-directed video was shot in Los Angeles on July 7–8, 2007. The clip features scream queen actress Danielle Harris, best known for her roles in the Halloween series. Also appearing was writer/director Sxv'leithan Essex, who also turned up in Five Finger Death Punch's video for "Never Enough," and directed the visual for "The Way of the Fist."
  • This is about Five Finger Death Punch vocalist Ivan Moody's ex-fianceé and is also about his former band Motograter. Moody said in a Blistering interview: "That song is a two-part song and it comes across as a relationship piece, which it is. Half of it is about my ex-fianceé who meant everything to me, so once Motograter had fell apart and then her and I dwindled apart it just took a huge part of my life. So a lot of that song was about me losing that love and then having to say that it was over and move on. The other half was written about Motograter, because that was the closest thing I’ve ever had to a real family and it took a huge part of my soul."

    One time, at a Five Finger Death Punch show in Arizona, the girl who inspired the song showed up. Moody spoke about it saying, "When we performed in Arizona the girl who I wrote 'The Bleeding' for was at the show and that was the first time I had seen her in about a year and I almost broke into tears because it all came rushing back to me. I’m not one of those artists that just likes to get up on stage and drink beer, when I sing a song I like to take myself and the fans back to the place where I was when I wrote that song."

  • Conchita Wurst - Rise Like a Phoeni
    Conchita Wurst - Rise Like a Phoenix


    Conchita Wurst - Rise Like a Phoenix Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Conchita
    Released: 2014

    Rise Like a Phoenix Lyrics


    Waking in the rubble
    Walking over glass
    Neighbors say we're trouble
    Well that time has passed

    Peering from the mirror
    No, that isn't me
    Stranger getting nearer
    Who can this person be

    You wouldn't know me at all today From the fading light I fly

    Rise Like a Phoenix
    Out of the ashes
    Seeking rather than vengeance
    Retribution
    You were warned
    Once I'm transformed
    Once I'm reborn
    You know I will rise like a phoenix
    But you're my flame

    Go about your business
    Act as if you're free
    No one could have witnessed
    What you did to me

    Cause you wouldn't know me today
    And you have got to see
    To believe
    From the fading light I fly

    Rise like a phoenix
    Out of the ashes
    Seeking rather than vengeance
    Retribution
    You were warned
    Once I'm transformed
    Once I'm reborn

    I rise up to the sky
    You threw me down but
    I'm gonna fly

    And rise like a phoenix
    Out of the ashes
    Seeking rather than vengeance
    Retribution
    You were warned
    Once I'm transformed
    Once I'm reborn
    You know I will rise like a phoenix
    But you're my flame

    Writer/s: PATULKA, JOEY / ZUCKOWSKI, ALEXANDER / MAAS, JULIAN / MASON, CHARLIE
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Rise Like a Phoenix
  • Thomas "Tom" Neuwirth is an Austrian singer who first came to public attention in 2007 after finishing as runner-up in the 2007 casting show Starmania. Four years later he returned to television in drag as the character "Conchita Wurst" on the Austrian talent show Die große Chance. After being selected to represent Austria in the 2014 Eurovision Contest, as Conchita Wurst, she won the competition with 290 points.
  • Wurst's win wasn't the first by a contestant pushing the boundaries of gender identity. Back in 1998 Israel's Dana International, who'd undergone sex reassignment surgery five years previously, won with the song "Diva."
  • Speaking backstage after her victory, Wurst commented that she felt Europe had taken a stand by voting her the winner. "I dream of a world where we don't have to talk about unnecessary things like sexuality, who you love," she said. "I felt like tonight Europe showed that we are a community of respect and tolerance."
  • The lyric, "I will rise like a phoenix," is a reference to the mythical bird of ancient legend that burned itself to death on a pyre every several hundred years before rising from the ashes to start a new life. The phoenix was subsequently adopted as a symbol of resurrection in early Christianity. Other songs that namecheck the legendary bird include:

    "Phoenix" by A$AP Rocky
    "The Phoenix" by Fall Out Boy
    "Phoenix" by Wishbone Ash.

  • The Killers Songs - Don't Shoot Me Santa
    The Killers - Don't Shoot Me Santa


    The Killers - Don't Shoot Me Santa Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: (RED) Christmas EP
    Released: 2007

    Don't Shoot Me Santa Lyrics


    Oh, Santa
    I've been waiting on you
    That's funny kid
    Because I've been coming for you

    Oh, Santa
    I've been killing just for fun
    Well, the party is over kid
    Because I, because I got a bullet in my gun
    A bullet in your what

    (Santa's got a bullet in his gun, you know it)
    (Santa's got a bullet in his gun)

    Don't Shoot Me Santa Clause
    I've been a clean living boy
    I promise you, did every little thing you ask me to
    I can't believe the things I'm going through

    Don't shoot me Santa Clause
    No one else around believes me
    But the children on the block they tease me
    I couldn't let them off that easy

    Oh, Santa
    It's been a real hard year
    There just ain't no getting around this
    Life is hard but look at me I turned out alright

    Hey, Santa
    Why don't we talk about it, work it out
    Believe me, this ain't what I wanted
    I love all you kids, you know that, hell

    I remember when you were just 10 years old
    Playing out in the desert
    Just waiting for a sip of that
    Sweet Mojave rain

    In the sweet Mojave rain
    The boy was on his own

    Don't shoot me Santa Clause
    I've been a clean living boy
    I promise you, did every little thing you ask me to
    I can't believe the things I'm going through

    Hey, Santa Clause
    No one else around believes me
    But the children on the block they tease me
    I couldn't let them off that easy

    They had it coming, so, why can't you see
    I couldn't turn my check no longer
    The sun is going down and Christmas is near
    Just look the other way and I'll disappear forever

    Don't shoot me Santa Clause
    No one else around believes me
    But the children on the street they tease me
    I couldn't let them off that easy

    Believe me Santa, Santa
    Writer/s: FLOWERS, BRANDON / KEUNING, DAVE BRENT / STOERMER, MARK AUGUST / VANNUCCI, RONNIE JR.
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Don't Shoot Me Santa Song Chart
  • With the exception of the Savior of the World himself, that white-bearded guy who bring gifts to the homes of the well-behaved children on 24th December seems to crop up in more Christmas songs than any other seasonal character. The Killers added to the Kris Kringle oeuvre with this ditty about being a good boy for Santa. Released on November 27, 2007 as a digital download, proceeds from this tune went to AIDS charities as part of the Bono-headed Red campaign.
  • The video was directed, edited, and co-produced by Las Vegas native Matthew Gray Gubler, who is best known for playing Spencer Reid on Criminal Minds. The role of Santa was performed Ryan Pardey. The Halloween Town frontman has been a road fixture with The Killers since 2004 and is known to die-hard fans of the band as The Captain. The Sawdust hidden track "Questions With the Captain" was written by the band about Purdey. In 2012, Pardey appeared as Santa again for The Killers on their Christmas single "I Feel It in My Bones."

    Killers frontman Brandon Flowers recalled to NME: "Our buddy who's an actor on a show called Criminal Minds, which is pretty successful, he went to school with our buddy who played Santa. His parents own a strange-desert ranch and so we were able to shoot it out there."
  • Fun Fact: To visit every child in the world on Christmas Eve, Santa has to travel at 3,000 times the speed of sound.

  • Jay-Z - Intro
    Jay-Z - Intro


    Jay-Z - Intro Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: American Gangster
    Released: 2007

    Intro Lyrics


    Somebody's pulling me closer to the ground
    I ain't panicked, I been here before
    Seems like only yesterday when I got up on that stage
    In front of that crowd
    And showed them who was who, and what was what
    Man look at these suckers
    I ain't no rapper, I'm a hustler
    It just so happens that I know how to rap
    Okay, I'm reloaded!

    I did it again niggas
    Fucked up, right? I know
    I know what y'all niggas asking yourself
    Is he gonna ever fall off?
    No

    A lot of speculation
    On the monies I've made, honeys I've slayed
    How is he for real? Is that nigga really paid?
    Hustlers I've met or, dealt with direct
    Is it true he slay the beef and slept with a tech?
    What's the position you hold? Can you really match
    A triple platinum artist buck by buck by only a single goin gold?
    Roc-A-Fella ship fold, and you're left out in the cold
    Is it back to charging motherfuckers 11 for an O
    For the millionth time askin me
    Questions like Wendy Williams, harassing me
    Then get upset when I catch feelings
    Can I get a minute to breathe? And in that minute you leave
    While I'm looking at my Rol' ice spinning on my sleeve
    Uh, nice watch, do you really have a spot?
    Like you said in Friend or Foe and if so, what block?
    What you doing in L.A., with Filipinos and ese's
    Latinos and Cheve's, down by Pico with Frederico
    I answer all your questions but then y'all got to go
    Now the question I ask you is how bad you want to know? blow!

    Roc-A-Fella y'all, uh
    Know my style

    Motherfuckers can't rhyme no more, bout crime no more
    Til I'm no more, cause I'm so raw
    My flow expose holes that they find in yours
    Wasn't for me, niggas still be dying for whores
    But I hate when a nigga sit back, admiring yours
    Young blood you better get that, we frying baccars
    Niggaz don't want to be confined to riding the iron horse
    And don't listen to the rappers, they dying to floss
    I used to be O.T., applying the force
    Shoot up the whole block, then the iron I toss
    Come back with the click playing Diana Ross
    I'm the boss and this is how it's gonna be
    Burnt the turnpike, wild miles on the V
    I got mouths to feed till they put flowers on me
    And kiss my cold cheek, chicks crying like I was Cochise
    Tombstone read 'He Was Holdin No Leaks'
    Started from the crack game and then so sweet
    Freaked it to the rap game, Jigga the old-G
    On MTV, telling em how I sold D
    And used to back work up out of apartment 4-B
    Me and my homie, started out coldies
    Picked the mailbox lock cause I ain't have no key
    Had the cable with the anchor when Jaz made 'Sophie'
    Then I went low key, but now I'm back it's on
    Motherfuckers
    Jigga, uh-huh, yeah
    Roc-A-Fella y'all
    Uhh, feel this

    Writer/s: SHAWN CARTER, SHAWN C CARTER, CHRISTOPHER E MARTIN
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Intro
  • This track introduces American Gangster, Jay-Z's first concept album, which was inspired by the 2007 crime movie of the same name. The rapper had been invited to an advanced screening of the film and it had a profound resonance on him; Hova would play it on the monitors above the recording booth to keep him inspired.
  • The song features dialogue excerpts from the American Gangster movie, spoken by Denzel Washington.
  • This was co-produced by British actor Idris Elba, whose roles include Russell "Stringer" Bell in HBO's The Wire and Nelson Mandela in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Elba started out working as a DJ in clubs in the 1990s and is also known as Driis or Big Driis to his rapper and DJ friends.

  • Cast of Phantom of the Opera - The Phantom of the Opera
    Cast of Phantom of the Opera - The Phantom of the Opera


    Cast of Phantom of the Opera - The Phantom of the Opera Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: The Phantom of the Opera
    Released: 1986

    The Phantom of the Opera Lyrics


    The Phantom of the Opera
  • This song from Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical follows the title character's obsession with a beautiful young soprano at the Paris Opera House, where his deformity forces him to skulk in the shadows and hide behind a mask. The lyrics, written by Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe, reflect how he woos her with his otherworldly voice and haunts her dreams.
  • Running for over 25 years, The Phantom Of The Opera is one of the most popular musical productions of all time, but its literary predecessor didn't fare as well. The story by French author Gaston Leroux was originally published as a serialization in the Le Gaulois newspaper from September 1909 to January 1910 but did not draw much attention. Its low sales even forced it out of print several times until it was adapted for film in 1925. Taglined as "The Greatest Horror Film of Modern Cinema," it starred Lon Chaney in the title role and Mary Philbin as his love, Christine.
  • Not long after this song was released, Webber was sued by a songwriter named John Brett, who claimed that Webber copied his 1985 composition "Farewell Song." Webber vigorously denied the accusation. He said that his song was written before Brett's, and that he even supervised a demo recording of "Phantom" sung by Mike Batt and Sarah Brightman in 1984. Brett dropped the case in 1991, at which time Webber stated: "It was monstrous that this matter was allowed to run and run for over five years. I am delighted my name has been cleared."
  • In 2004, Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote and produced his own version of Phantom for the big screen and picked Joel Schumacher, the brain behind the widely reviled Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, to direct. Webber said he chose Schumacher because he was impressed with his 1987 vampire flick The Lost Boys. He told Wild About Movies: "I thought it was extraordinary the way Joel used music with visuals. I thought that opening sequence, when you see the fairground, was genius."

    In his three-star review, Roger Ebert was kinder to the film than he was to the Broadway smash that inspired it. He wrote: "Schumacher has bravely taken aboard this dreck and made of it a movie I am pleased to have seen." The movie starred then-unknown Gerard Butler and Emmy Rossum (At the first whispers of a possible film version years before, Michael Jackson lobbied hard for the title role and visited Webber several times).
  • Webber remembers picking up the novel at a book fair and being intrigued by the dark romance. He tells Piers Morgan: "I just wanted to write a high romance, and I thought this is high, Gothic stuff." When he started writing the music, he envisioned the title theme as "sort of a dark rock song."
  • This song was originally performed onstage by Sarah Brightman (Webber's wife at the time) and Michael Crawford, the first Christine and Erik/Phantom. It appears twice in the show - in Act I between "Angel of Music" and "Music of the Night," and in Act II at the end of "Notes/Twisted Every Way."
  • Webber came under fire for another alleged plagiarism when Pink Floyd's bassist and co-lead vocalist Roger Waters claimed he stole the riff to the band's 1971 song "Echoes." He told Q magazine: "Yeah, the beginning of that bloody 'Phantom' song is from 'Echoes.' DAAAA-da-da-da-da-da. I couldn't believe it when I heard it. It's the same time signature - it's 12/8 - and it's the same structure and it's the same notes and it's the same everything. Bastard. It probably is actionable. It really is! But I think that life's too long to bother with suing Andrew f--king Lloyd Webber."

    Waters did take a dig at Webber, though, in "It's a Miracle" from his 1992 solo album Amused to Death. He sang:

    "We cower in our shelters with our hands over our ears,
    Lloyd Webber's awful stuff runs for years and years and years.
    An earthquake hits the theater but the operetta lingers,
    Then the piano lid comes down and breaks his f--king fingers,
    It's a miracle…"
  • Rufus Wainwright borrowed the theme for the end of "Between My Legs" from his Release the Stars album in 2007.
  • Webber wrote a solo male version of this song for X Factor(UK) finalist Rhydian Roberts in 2007. Roberts wowed the judges with his performance and he eventually finished as runner-up to Leon Jackson.

  • Traditional - The Star-Spangled Banne
    Traditional - The Star-Spangled Banner


    Traditional - The Star-Spangled Banner Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

    Album: Celebrate America
    Released: 1814

    The Star-Spangled Banner Lyrics


    The Star-Spangled Banner
  • This song is the national anthem of the United States. The poem that formed the basis of the lyrics was penned in 1814 by Francis Scott Key, a 35-year-old lawyer who was sent to negotiate with the British in an attempt to gain the release of an American prisoner they were holding. On September 7, Key reached the British fleet and after a few days of negotiations, secured the release of the prisoner. However, the British planned to attack Baltimore and would not release the Americans until after the battle. On September 13, the British launched a fierce bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore that lasted throughout the night, an event Key witnessed from the deck of a US truce ship. The next morning (in the "dawn's early light") Key saw the Americans take down the battle-torn US flag at the fort and replace it with a larger one. This inspired him to write down notes for his famous poem, which he finished upon his return to Baltimore the evening of the 16th. Key later described the event: "Through the clouds of the warthe stars of that banner still shone in my view, and I saw the discomfited host of its assailants driven back in ignominy to their ships. Then, in he hour of deliverance, and joyful triumph, my heart spoke; and 'Does not such a country and such defenders of their country deserve a song?' was its question." (Thanks to the folks at the Fort McHenry national monument for providing this information. Check out the Fort in Song Images.)
  • Key's poem was published on September 17, 1814, the day after he returned to Baltimore. The poem was sung to the music of a popular British drinking song called "To Anacreon in Heaven" (also known as "The Anacreontic Song"), which has been attributed to John Stafford Smith.
  • Before 1931, the US National Anthem was "My Country 'Tis Of Thee."

    "The Star Spangled Banner" was recognized for official use by the United States Navy in 1889 and the White House in 1916. It got more attention when it was played during the seventh-inning stretch at Game 1 of the 1918 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs. World War I was raging on, and when the band at the ballpark played the song, the players faced the flag and stood at attention. The fans did likewise, and this ritual was repeated for the rest of the Series. In ensuing years, the song was often played at baseball games as a show of patriotism. The song gained supporters, and on March 3, 1931 it was made the US National Anthem by a Congressional resolution.
  • The flag that was raised over Fort McKenry on September 16, 1814 is considered the Star Spangled Banner. It measures 42 by 30 feet and was made by Mary Pickersgill. The American officers wanted a huge flag so that the British would have no trouble seeing it in the distance and know that the Americans were not defeated. The flag is displayed in the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of American History in Washington, DC.
  • The song is hard for amateurs to sing, because of its extended vocal-range requirements. And among the professional singers who have the vocal finesse and range to "nail" all of the high notes, many often forget or stumble over the lyrics - one reason why the song is frequently prerecorded and lip-synched for public performances.
  • The song consists of four verses, but it is very rare to hear any but the first performed. One poll showed that 61% of Americans don't know all of the words to the song. Of those who claim to know all the words, only 39 percent know what comes after "Whose broad stripes and bright stars."
  • Like the British national anthem "God Save The Queen," the song is one of the few national anthems of the world without a country's name mentioned in the lyrics.
  • In the US, this is played before most professional sporting events. Many famous and not-so-famous musicians have performed it before football, basketball, hockey and baseball games. Sometimes kids sing it, and celebrities are occasionally asked to sing it with disastrous results. Sprinter Carl Lewis did a painfully bad version, but perhaps no version of the song has generated more ill-will than comedian Roseanne Barr's version sung at a San Diego Padres-Cincinnati Reds doubleheader in July of 1990. It launched more than patriotic fireworks... it generated a veritable firestorm of truculent criticism. Barr's version was called "disgraceful" by then-President George Bush and dubbed "The Barr-Strangled Banner" by the press. More than 25,000 fans heard her attempted belt out of the song transformed into a screeching, horrible performance. When they booed and jeered, Roseanne added insult to comedic injury by grabbing her crotch and spitting onto the field in a misguided attempt to imitate what ballplayers do. The fans didn't think it was funny at all. The San Diego Padres switchboard lit up with more than 1,000 angry calls, and Roseanne reportedly received multiple death threats owing to her disastrous rendition.
  • At the original Woodstock in 1969, Jimi Hendrix did a famous performance of this song. He was the last act of the festival and was scheduled to close the show on Sunday night, but he didn't take the stage until 8 am Monday morning. Of about 500,000 people who were there over the weekend, only about 30,000 were left, and many of them remember waking up to this song. Jimi did an extended version on his guitar which was very unorthodox and caused some controversy among people who felt he was desecrating the song. He had been playing this version for about a year, beginning as part of a guitar solo he played during "Purple Haze." When he played southern states in the US, he was often warned not to play it because the locals made threats against him, but Jimi always played it anyway. He tried to record his version for an album, but was never happy with the results in the studio. After he died, engineer Eddie Kramer mixed a version from Jimi's studio takes which was released on the album Rainbow Bridge, but his Woodstock performance is by far his most famous version of the song.
  • Hendrix' version can be seen as an anti-war song about the situation in Vietnam. Halfway through the song, Hendrix imitates the sounds of bombs dropping, machine gun fire and people singing. His version was the first song played when a propaganda radio station called "Radio Hanoi" went on the air broadcasting to American troops serving in Vietnam in an effort to destroy their morale and convince them to desert. (thanks, Euan - Lanark, Scotland)
  • A controversial Spanish-language version, "Nuestro Himno," was released on 28 April 2006, just days before nationwide immigration-law reform demonstrations on May 1, 2006. Public reaction was divided. "I think people who want to be a citizen of this country ought to learn English and they ought to learn to sing the national anthem in English," said President George W. Bush.
  • "Nuestro Himno" is not the first Spanish-language version of the The Star-Spangled Banner to have been published. The United States Department of State's website shows other Spanish-language versions of it, including "Himno nacional - La Bandera de Estrellas," copyrighted in 1919. Another multilingual version was released on May 16, 2006: performing as Voices United for America, 10 singers performed the song in Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Bulgarian, German, Arabic, Japanese, Tagalog, Korean, and English. The song was recorded to raise awareness of House Resolution 793, which states that the National Anthem should be sung only in English.
  • Other notable moments in Star Spangled Banner history:

    Jose Feliciano sings a slow, Jazzy version at Tiger Stadium before Game 5 of the 1968 World Series. It was the first time artistic liberties were taken with the song preceding a major sporting event, and it created a huge controversy. Many Americans felt he defiled the song, and by extension, America, but Feliciano - a native of Puerto Rico - explained that he was simply expressing his love for the United States with feeling. His performance was released as a single and reached #50.

    Marvin Gaye's soulful rendition at the 1983 NBA All-Star game the year before his death. Back in 1968, Gaye sang the National Anthem at Game 4 of the World Series - the game before Feliciano. Gaye was asked to keep the "Motown Influence" to a minimum, and sang that one straight, but at the All-Star Game, held at the Los Angeles Forum (where the Lakers played), Gaye walked out to a beat - a major departure from tradition. Gaye put the arrangement together with his musical director Gordon Banks that weekend, and showed up at the Forum shortly before the performance. Lakers management feared for the backlash, but the fans in attendance cheered wildly. This version was the first song played on VH1 when the network went on the air on January 1, 1985.

    Whitney Houston's performance at the 1991 Super Bowl when the US was battling the first Gulf War. Her performance was lip-synched, but was released as a single and sold about 750,000 copies.

    Steven Tyler changes the words from "Home of the brave" to "Home of the Indianapolis 500" at the 2001 race. The ad-lib didn't go over well and Tyler apologized.
  • In the Disney/Pixar movie Cars, a funny scene recurs when an an army jeep raises a flag in the morning to this tune, while next door a hippy micro-bus plays the Jimi Hendrix version. (thanks, Mike - Mountlake Terrace, WA)
  • A 2008 Harris Interactive survey revealed that 67% of Americans know all the words to this song, up from 61% in 2004. Folks in the Midwest and Northeast were more likely to know the words. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)
  • The song has charted three times, all from performances at sporting events. Jose Feliciano's version checked in at #50 in 1968, Whitney Houston's made #20 in 1991, and Jennifer Hudson's performance at the Super Bowl in 2009 nicked the charts at #98. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)
  • Billy Joel sang this at the 1989 Super Bowl, and when asked about the experience in a 1998 interview with Uncut, he said: "It was OK. Between you and me, it's not a very good song, nobody can hit the high notes. They asked me to do it, and I thought it was a good way of getting Super Bowl tickets."

    Surprisingly, Joel sang it again for the 2007 game.

  • Pink - Get The Party Started
    Pink - Get The Party Started


    Pink - Get The Party Started Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Missundaztood
    Released: 2001

    Get The Party Started Lyrics


    Get The Party Started
  • Linda Perry wrote this and produced the album. Pink was a big fan of Perry's group 4 Non Blondes, and contacted her to work on the album. The success of this song caused Perry to put her solo career on hold and instead work with other female singers.
  • Pink was once arrested for disturbing her neighbors by singing out of her window at 3.30am. The song she was singing was by 4 Non Blondes, and was written by Linda Perry.
  • Perry came up with this when she was learning how to program a drum machine. It was the first dance hit she ever wrote.
  • This won the 2002 MTV Europe Music Award for Best Song.
  • In the UK a cover by the veteran Welsh vocalist Shirley Bassey peaked at #47 in the singles charts. This was her 33rd British hit, her first being a version of "The Banana Boat Song (Day-O)," which reached #8 in 1957. Shirley Bassey thus has recorded chart UK entries over a 50-year period, a record for a female.
  • Bassey covered this originally for a 2006 advert for the English food and clothing retailer Marks and Spencer over the Christmas period. Such was the response for her version that it became the title track of her first album release for ten years in 2007. It also enjoyed some chart success across the Atlantic entering the American Hot Dance Club Play list.

  • Buck Owens - Together Agai
    Buck Owens - Together Again


    Buck Owens - Together Again Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

    Album: Together Again/My Heart Skips a Beat
    Released: 1964

    Together Again Lyrics


    Together Again
    My tears have stopped falling
    The long lonely nights
    Are now at an end

    The key to my heart
    You hold in your hand
    And nothing else matters
    We're together again

    Together again
    The gray skies are gone
    Your back in my arms
    Now where you belong

    The love that I knew
    Is living again
    And nothing else matters
    We're together again

    And nothing else matters
    We're together again
    Writer/s: OWENS, BUCK
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Together Again
  • Country singer Gene Watson and Bluegrass/Country singer Rhonda Vincent recorded a duet of this song in 2007. They recorded their parts at the studio at separate times so, to their surprise, they first met when they went on stage to perform it at the Grand Ol' Opry. "I walk in, walk up to the stage, and we sang that song on live TV before we ever even said hello," Rhonda recalled in a Songfacts interview .

    They must have hit it off, because they collaborated on "Staying Together" in 2009 and released the duet album Your Money and My Good Looks in 2011.
  • Owens recorded the song "Play Together Again, Again" with Emmylou Harris in 1979 after she released a successful version of this song on her Elite Hotel album a few years earlier.
  • Other notable covers came from Ray Charles in 1966 and a duet from Kenny Rogers and Dottie West in 1983.
  • Tom Brumley played the steel guitar on this song and inspired the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia to learn to play. His friend and fellow musician Pete Grant remembered: "'Together Again' came on the radio, with that memorable solo by Tom Brumley. We both listened in reverent awe, and said, 'Man, we gotta learn pedal steel.'"

  • Michael Jackson - Be
    Michael Jackson - Ben


    Michael Jackson - Ben Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

    Album: Ben
    Released: 1972

    Ben Lyrics


    Ben, the two of us need look no more,
    We both found what we were looking for.
    With a friend to call my own,
    I'll never be alone, and you, my friend, will see,
    You've got a friend in me.
    Ben, you're always running here and there,
    You feel you're not wanted anywhere.
    If you ever look behind and don't like what you find
    There's something you should know, you've got a place to go.
    I used to say I and me, now it's us, now it's we.
    I used to say I and me, now it's us, now it's we.
    Ben most people would turn you away;
    I don't listen to a word they say.
    They don't see you as I do;
    I wish they would try to'
    I'm sure they'd think again if they had a friend like Ben,
    A friend like Ben
    (Like Ben)
    Like Ben

    Writer/s: Scharf, Walter / Black, Don
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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  • Don Black and Walter Scharf wrote this for the 1972 movie of the same name. It was the sequel to a movie called Willard, which was remade in 2003 starring Crispin Glover. Ben is a pet rat. In the movie, a young boy befriends the rat, but the rat turns evil and recruits other rats to attack humans. In the remake of Willard, Ben becomes an enormous super-rat.

    Despite being about a rat, the lyrics are touching and sentimental, and make no reference to rodents. A lot of people were very moved by the song.
  • According to the book Jacksons Number Ones , this was intended for Donny Osmond, but Don Black suggested Jackson, who got the song instead.

    Donny Osmond told The Huffington Post that he didn't record the song when it was offered to him as he was on tour and they had to finish the movie. He added: "Michael and I would talk about this all the time. It's funny, because we eventually ended up laughing at this one. I will never forget, we stayed up to like two in the morning, laughing about the fact that I had a hit about a puppy and he had a hit about a rat. (Laughs)"
  • The song's co-writer Don Black has written many movie themes, including the hits "Diamonds Are Forever" (for the James Bond movie) and "Born Free." At his 2007 induction in the Songwriters Hall Of Fame, he said of "Ben," "When it came to writing about a rat, I said, 'You can't write about a rat.' I mean, I'm not going to use words like 'cheese.' I thought the best thing to do is write about friendship."
  • This song is one of Michael Jackson's favorites, and it was his first #1 hit as a solo artist. Motown recorded him as a solo artist when The Jackson 5 stopped selling well.
  • Jackson was 14 when he recorded this. He became the youngest artist to top the US charts both as a solo artist and as a member of a group (The Jackson 5).
  • This was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Song. Jackson sang it at the ceremony in 1973.
  • Part of this song was used in a 1991 episode of The Simpsons, where Jackson guest stars as an overweight, white mental patient who sings it to Homer. While Michael Jackson voiced all the talking parts for the character, the singing voice was someone else, which caught the rest of the cast by surprise. Harry Shearer , who does several voices on the show, told us: "Michael did all the vocal parts when we read it again at the stage. The character in the show sang special lyrics to 'Ben,' and when it came time to sing, Michael sat back, nodded, and a guy that we'd not noticed before, a white guy sitting across from him at the table, started singing in a ridiculously accurate Michael Jackson voice. And I thought about it for a minute, and then I realized, I guess we paid enough for the talking Michael Jackson, but not enough for the singing Michael Jackson.

    The guy who did the singing was Kipp Lennon, who often did singing parts for the show.
  • Pearl Jam has a song called "Rats," which is a reference to this. It's on their 1993 release Vs..
  • At Michael Jackson's 2001 tribute special, young Country singer Billy Gilman performed this with Marc Anthony.
  • This song was used in an episode of Queer as Folk where Michael Novotny is trying to win back lover Ben Bruckner. (thanks, Allison - Portales, NM)
  • After Jackson's death, his family sued the promotion company that planned his comeback tour. In testimony, his mother, Katherine, revealed that Michael did enjoy the company of certain rodents: he once smuggled a mouse into a Beverly Hills restaurant.

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