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Kenny Loggins - Footloose

Kenny Loggins - Footloose Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Footloose Soundtrack
Released: 1984

Footloose Lyrics

I've been working so hard
I'm punching my card
Eight hours for what?
Oh, tell me what I got
I've got this feeling
That time's just holding me down
I'll hit the ceiling or else
I'll tear up this town

Now I gotta cut loose
Footloose, kick off the Sunday shoes
Please, Louise, pull me off of my knees
Jack, get back, come on before we crack
Lose your blues, everybody cut footloose

You're playing so cool, obeying every rule
Dig a way down in your heart
You're burning yearning for some
Somebody to tell you that life ain't passing you by
I'm trying to tell you
It will if you don't even try
You'll get by if you'd only

Cut loose, footloose, kick off the Sunday shoes
Ooh-wee Marie shake it, shake it for me
Woah, Milo come on, come on let's go
Lose your blues, everybody cut footloose

You got to turn me around and put your
Feet on the ground, now take the hold of all
Ah ah ah ah ah
I'm turning you loose

Footloose, kick off the Sunday shoes
Please, Louise, pull me off of my knees
Jack, get back, come on before we crack
Lose your blues, everybody cut footloose (footloose)

Footloose, kick off the Sunday shoes
Please, Louise, pull me off of my knees
Jack, get back, come on before we crack
Lose your blues,
Everybody cut, everybody cut
Everybody cut, everybody cut
Everybody cut, everybody cut
Everybody cut, everybody cut footloose

Writer/s: LOGGINS, KENNY / PITCHFORD, DEAN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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This was the theme from the movie of the same name starring Kevin Bacon in his breakout role; Rob Lowe and Tom Cruise also tried out for the part. He plays a teenager who moves to a small town where dancing is illegal. Dean Pitchford, who wrote the screenplay to the film and the lyrics to all the songs in the movie, got the idea from a 1979 newspaper article about the town of Elmore City, Oklahoma, where a law against dancing was on the books since the 1800s. The 14 high school seniors decided they wanted a prom, and got the town council to overturn the antiquated interdiction so they could dance. Pitchford visited Elmore City to research his screenplay, where he spent a week immersing himself in their culture.

Pitchford was an actor, appearing in stage productions of Godspell and Pippin before getting a chance to write lyrics for songs in the 1980 movie Fame. He started working on Footloose when he was a staff songwriter for Warner Brothers Publishing. For a while it looked like 20th Century Fox was going to pick up the screenplay, but it ended up being produced by Paramount, who were rewarded with $80 million in ticket sales from the film, which cost about $8 million to make.

Dean Pitchford called his screenplay "Cheek To Cheek" as a placeholder for a real title. Once it became clear that studios were interested, he had to come up with a real title. In our 2012 interview, Pitchford explained: "I really had to come up with a better title. So I did what I do with lyric writing: I took a yellow legal tablet, and any ideas that I had, I did not edit. I just wrote down, line after line after line. I filled page after page after page with variations and ideas that I had for it.

About day 2, I wrote down 'footloose and fancy free,' and then I wrote down 'footloose,' and then separately 'fancy free.' When I went back over the list, I think I had four that I thought might be good ideas. But 'Footloose' was by far my favorite. I typed up hypothetical title pages, and I put, 'this title by Dean Pitchford,' as the title of the new screenplay. Then I put the four of them in a stack, and I put 'Footloose' on the bottom. I took them into a meeting with Craig (Melnick) and Dan (Zadan, producers at Fox), and I said, 'Here are some ideas for the title.' They looked at number one, they went, 'Okay. All right.' And they flipped it over, and number two, and they flipped it over, and number three, 'Okay.' And then they flipped over the last one, which was 'Footloose by Dean Pitchford,' and they lit up like a Christmas tree. I had deliberately done it that way, because it was my favorite and I was saving it for the end. And they felt what I felt, which was it was just such an interesting looking word and it didn't mean anything, but it did. And all those 'O's' gave it a visual kind of punch. We all just went for it. It sort of sold itself. I certainly didn't have an idea for a song, because I hadn't yet gotten together with Kenny Loggins. But it's one of those interesting words that looks good on paper - you see it scrawled across a billboard, and it sells itself." (Here's the full Dean Pitchford interview .)

Kenny Loggins was a big star and helped make Caddyshack a huge success with his song "I'm Alright" in 1980. In 1982, he had a hit with "Don't Fight It," which he wrote with Pitchford and Steve Perry, who also sang on the track. Getting Loggins for the title track was huge for Pitchford, who had never written a screenplay before and was trying to sell a movie based around 9 songs - not a popular concept at the time. Losing Loggins could have derailed the entire project, and when Kenny broke a rib from a fall he took at a show in Provo, Footloose almost met its doom. Loggins had to take time off to recover, and the only chance for Dean to write with him was during his engagement at Lake Tahoe, Nevada, where he was performing before heading to Asia. Said Pitchford: "Paramount was chomping at the bit. They wanted to know that Kenny Loggins was going to be doing the title song, and if he wasn't then we had to move on and get somebody else. So it became absolutely vital that as soon as Kenny was back on his feet, I had to go and seal the deal, and the only place that we could seal the deal, he was going to attempt to get himself back on his feet in Tahoe, play one last engagement in the States, and then go off to Asia.

So it was decided that although Kenny lived at the time in the L.A. area, I should fly to Tahoe, and during the days when he was playing a show at night, we would try to at least get the beginning of a song so that I could go back to Paramount and say, 'Look, Kenny Loggins is pregnant, he is on board.' So I flew up to Tahoe in January of 1983, I think. I flew up sick, and I proceeded to get sicker and sicker and sicker while I was there. I had strep throat, as it turned out, but I could not let on to Kenny that I had strep throat, because I didn't want him going, 'Ooo, I can't come to your room, we can't be doing that.' And he was indeed coming to my room, because his wife Eva was there, and they had three kids at the time. I think she had given birth to their third, Isabella, so there were two little boys and a baby in his room. So that was not a place to work. So each day he would come to my room with a guitar and he was still taped up, with gauze and tape around his midriff while his rib was healing. He would show up with a guitar and he would ease himself into a chair, and it was obvious that sitting down was painful - if he was standing he was fine.

I was spraying my throat full of Chloraseptic to kill the pain and taking decongestants so it didn't sound like I had a cold or any kind of problems. I was running a fever, like 101, but I wasn't going to let on to him, because I didn't want him running out of my hotel room. I think it was two or three days we kept up this charade with him showing up on his painkillers and me on my painkillers, and us getting the gist of the song. We wrote the verses and the chorus melodies, we wrote the first verse, and we knew what we were going to do for the chorus. Then he went off and he left me with the melody for 'I'm Free,' which is his other contribution to the movie. While he was gone, I wrote the rest of the lyric to 'Footloose,' except the bridge. We finished the bridge after he came back to the States and I went over to his house, which may have been in the Valley. I was newish to L.A. so I was kind of foggy on where the neighborhoods were. But we wrote two verses and two choruses in advance, and then put the 'First we got to turn you around,' all that stuff was the final addition that completed the song."

A key songwriting device on this one is the use of various names: Louise, Jack, Marie and Milo. Marie was Dean Pitchford's mother; Milo was Loggins' idea because he liked the sound of the vowels. Pitchford explained: "Once I had cracked the back of the song with the 'Oo-wee, Marie, shake it shake it for me,' once we had the idea of using names throughout the chorus and calling out, 'Jack, get back, come on before we crack,' once that had been set up as a convention, he threw out Milo because he liked the way that the words felt in his mouth. And there may have been one or two other lines that he came up with. And he did that on several other songs that we wrote. Like, we did a song for his next album called 'Let There Be Love,' and he gave me a couple of not even lines, at least the ends of lines. The word that he wanted the line to end on, or the word that he wanted the high note to be on. So it was like somebody stepping up to a canvas and putting a couple of strokes of paint on and saying, 'Okay, now go finish the painting,' and you having to figure out how to incorporate the strokes of paint into the ultimate picture."

There were nine original songs the Footloose movie, and six of them were Top 40 US hits. The film was released on February 17, 1984, and the week of April 14, four songs from the movie were in the Top 40: the title track, "Let's Hear It For The Boy" (by Deniece Williams, it also peaked at #1), "Holding Out For A Hero" (Bonnie Tyler) and "Dancing in the Sheets" (Shalamar). "Almost Paradise" entered the chart in May and became a #1 Adult Contemporary hit; the last single was the other one from Kenny Loggins, "I'm Free (Heaven Helps The Man)." Another popular song in the film that was not released as a single was "The Girl Gets Around" by Sammy Hagar.

Dean Pitchford wrote the lyrics to all of these songs with a variety of co-writers. He knew what kind of songs he wanted in different part of the film, and he also wanted to avoid repetition. This led to a variety of styles and some serious crossover success. The soundtrack spent 10 weeks at #1, knocking Michael Jackson's Thriller album from the top spot in the US.

We know it doesn't make a lot of sense, but we really thought Kenny Loggins was "punching my car" and kicking off his "Sundance shoes," when he was really punching his card and putting on his Sunday shoes (which goes along with the religious theme in the movie - church shoes aren't good for dancing). When we asked Pitchford about the way Loggins sang his words, Dean replied: "The way that Kenny sings, I was just so in love with the way that his voice worked around the words, I was never really aware that they were hard to understand, because I knew what the words were, and I never called him on that. But I would imagine maybe if you were listening to the song for the first time, there might be a couple of things that you go, 'Come again?'"

Pitchford adds that as he got older, he got more particular about how his

Dean Martin - Ain't That a Kick in the Head

Dean Martin - Ain't That a Kick in the Head Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Ocean's 11
Released: 1960

Ain't That a Kick in the Head Lyrics

How lucky can one guy be?
I kissed her and she kissed me
Like the fella once said,
"Ain't That a Kick in the Head?"
The room was completely black,
I hugged her and she hugged back
Like the sailor said, quote,
"Ain't that a hole in the boat?"

My head keeps spinnin',
I go to sleep and keep grinnin'
If this is just the beginnin',
my life is gonna be bee-yoo-tee-ful

I've sunshine enough to spread,
it's just like the fella said
Tell me quick, ain't that a kick in the head?

Like the fella once said,
"Ain't that a kick in the head?"
Like the sailor said, quote,
"Ain't that a hole in the boat?"

My head keeps spinnin',
I go to sleep and keep grinnin'
If this is just the beginnin',
my life is gonna be bee-yoo-tee-ful

She's tellin' me we'll be wed,
she's picked out a king-size bed
I couldn't be any better or I'd be sick
Tell me quick oh, ain't that a kick?
Tell me quick ain't that a kick in the head?

Writer/s: J. VAN HEUSEN, S. CAHN
Publisher: BARTON MUSIC CORPORATION
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Dean Martin originally recorded this in a Nelson Riddle-arrangement for his 1960 album This Time I'm Swingin!, but it didn't make the cut. That same year, he performed it in the movie Ocean's 11 in an alternate arrangement with Red Norvo and His Quartet.

This was written by Sammy Cahn, with music by Jimmy Van Heusen, in 1960. Cahn and Van Heusen also wrote "To Love and Be Loved" for the 1959 film Some Came Running, starring Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin.

In that movie, there is a scene in which, after a poker hand with both Sinatra and Martin at the table, Sinatra's character says, "Ain't that a kick in the head." This scene would have been shot before the song was written. So the question is, did the line originate in James Jones' novel of the same name, or in the screenplay, or was it an ad lib? In any case, it seems likely to have been the be the impetus for the song. (thanks, C Plus - Austin, TX)

Several artist have covered this, including Robbie Williams, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Westlife, David Slater, Ray Quinn, Hazell Dean, and Martin's daughter Deana Martin.

Martin's version was used in the 1999 movie Payback while Mel Gibson is, appropriately, kicking an enemy in the head.

This was also used on Veronica Mars, in the 2005 episode "Kanes and Abel's."

Using archive recordings of Martin's performance, this was made into a duet with Kevin Spacey for Forever Cool, a compilation of duets released in 2007, 12 years after the singer's death.

Elton John - Can You Feel The Love Tonight

Elton John - Can You Feel The Love Tonight Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Lion King Soundtrack
Released: 1994

Can You Feel The Love Tonight Lyrics

There's a calm surrender to the rush of day
When the heat of the rolling world can be turned away
An enchanted moment and it sees me through
It's enough for this restless warrior just to be with you

And Can You Feel The Love Tonight? It is where we are
It's enough for this wide-eyed wanderer that we got this far
And can you feel the love tonight? How it's laid to rest
It's enough to make kings and vagabonds believe the very best

There's a time for everyone, if they only learn
That the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn
There's a rhyme and reason to the wild outdoors
When the heart of this star-crossed voyager beats in time with yours

And can you feel the love tonight? It is where we are
It's enough for this wide-eyed wanderer that we got this far
And can you feel the love tonight? How it's laid to rest
It's enough to make kings and vagabonds believe the very best
It's enough to make kings and vagabonds believe the very best

Writer/s: RICE, TIM / JOHN, ELTON
Publisher: Walt Disney Music Company
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This was featured in the Disney movie The Lion King when the main character, Simba the Lion, falls in love with his childhood friend Nala, to the dismay of his friends Timon and Pumba. This version was performed by the voice actors in the film (including Nathan Lane, who voiced Timon); the Elton John version plays over the end credits of the film.

Working on The Lion King was a welcome opportunity for Elton, who had a say in how the songs he wrote for the film were used. He contributed most of the songs on the soundtrack, including "Circle Of Life," which was also hit (Elton says that "Circle" is a better song and more deserving of the Academy Award).

Just a few years out of rehab, the soundtrack provided a career resurgence for Elton and led to more work writing for musicals - he would later write for Aida and Billy Elliot.

Elton wrote the music, Tim Rice wrote the lyrics. Rice made a name for himself putting lyrics to showtunes by Andrew Lloyd Webber. They wrote songs for Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ, Superstar, and Evita. Like Elton, Tim Rice has been knighted.

Elton had the Academy Award for Best Original Song locked up tight in 1995 with this song, along with two of his other Lion King contributions - "Circle of Life" and "Hakuna Matata" - nominated along with "Look What Love Has Done" by Patty Smyth (from the movie Junior) and "Make Up Your Mind" by Randy Newman (from The Paper).

"Can You Feel The Love Tonight" was the winner, and Elton performed the song at the ceremony. After the ceremony, Elton hosted his lavish after-party for the third year; the event was a benefit for his AIDS foundation.

This is performed as part of the Lion King Broadway show - a lavish, wildly successful production based on the movie. It is also featured in the Lion King show at the Animal Kingdom park at Disney World.

A #1 Adult Contemporary hit, this was the most played song on US radio and TV in 1994.

Kiki Dee, Rick Astley, and Gary Barlow sang backup. Kiki Dee sang a duet with Elton on the '70s hit "Don't Go Breaking My Heart," Astley had a series of hits in the early '90s, and Barlow was a member of the group Take That.

This won the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal, marking just the third Grammy win for Elton.

Jason Aldean - Laughed Until We Cried

Jason Aldean - Laughed Until We Cried Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Relentless
Released: 2007

Laughed Until We Cried Lyrics

Goin' through my closet the other day
I found an old yearbook, flipped right to the page of that senior trip
Down there on that Panama strip
We all started yelling when we smelled the beach
Just couldn't wait to try our fake ID's
We only had a few days
And a whole lot of memories to make

Oh man, we were livin'
Didn't waste one minute
We talked, and drank, and danced, and said goodbye
We Laughed Until We Cried

This past year my family
Was sittin' cross-legged 'round the Christmas tree listenin' to granddad
We all knew it'd probably be his last
He was crackin' jokes, and we were takin' turns
Tellin' stories 'bout fishin' or lessons learned
Out on the porch with him
We all felt like kids again

Oh man, we were livin'
Sittin' there reminiscin'
We sang, and talked, and traveled back in time
We laughed until we cried

[Bridge:]
It's like the best days under the sun
Every emotion rolled into one
A little of this, a little of that
Kinda happy, kinda sad

Just the other night the baby was cryin'
So I got out of bed and rocked her awhile, and I held her tight
And I told her it would be all right
And my mind went back to a few years ago
When we tried so long, we almost gave up hope
And I remember you comin' in and tellin' me the news

Oh man, we were livin'
Goin' crazy in the kitchen
We danced, and screamed, and held each other tight
We laughed until we cried

Writer/s: Gorley, Ashley / Lovelace, Kelley
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Written by Kelley Lovelace and Ashley Gorley, this ballad was the fifth and final single from Aldean's second album.

The track peaked at #6 on the country chart.

The music video, directed by Kristin Barlowe, was filmed in Wildwood, New Jersey, and follows the singer strolling the Wildwood Boardwalk and Cape May beach. Aldean's daughter Keeley and his then-wife Jessica make cameo appearances.

Ini Kamoze - Here Comes The Hotstepper

Ini Kamoze - Here Comes The Hotstepper Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Here Comes The Hotstepper
Released: 1995

Here Comes The Hotstepper Lyrics

Hit It!
Nah, na na na nah

Here comes the hot stepper, murderer
I'm the lyrical gangster, murderer
Pick up the crew in-a de area, murderer
Still love you like that, murderer

No no we don't die, yes we multiply
Anyone test will hear the fat lady sing
Act like you know, Rico
I know what Bo don't know
Touch them up and go, uh-oh!
Ch-ch-chang chang

Here comes the hot stepper, murderer
I'm the lyrical gangster, murderer
Excuse me mister officer, murderer
Still love you like that, murderer

Extraordinary, juice like a strawberry
Money to burn baby, all of the time
Cut to fade is me, fade to cut is she
Come juggle with me, I say every time

Here comes the hot stepper, murderer
I'm the lyrical gangster, murderer
Dial emergency number, murderer
Still love you like that, murderer

Nah, na na na nah, it's how we do it man
Nah, na na na nah

Start like a jackrabbit, finish in front of it
On the night is jack , that's it, understand?
I'm the daddy of the mack daddy
His are left in gold, maybe
Ain't no homie gonna play me, top celebrity man

Murderer, I'm the lyrical gangster, murderer
Excuse me mister officer, murderer
Still love you like that, murderer

No no we don't die, yes we multiply
Anyone test will hear the fat lady sing
Act like you know, G go, I know what Bo don't know
Touch them up and go, uh-oh
Ch-ch-chang chang

Here comes the hot stepper, murderer
I'm the lyrical gangster, murderer
Pick up the crew in-a the area, murderer
Still love you like that, murderer

Nah, na na na nah yeah man
Nah, na na na nah right

Here comes the hot stepper, murderer
I'm the lyrical gangster, murderer
Big up all crew bow ya, murderer
Still love you like that, murderer

Here comes the hot stepper, murderer
I'm the lyrical danger, murderer
Pick up the crew in-a the area, murderer
Still love you like that, murderer

Here comes the Hot stepper
I'm the lyrical gangster
I'm a live in-a me danger
Still love you like that

Hey, da da da da

Writer/s: Remi, Salaam / Kenner, Christopher / Kamoze, Ini / Nix, Kenton
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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The "na-na-na-na-na" chorus is sampled from Cannibal And The Headhunters' version of "Land Of 1,000 Dances."

Fats Domino receives royalties from this. He was credited as co-author on "Land Of 1,000 Dances" in exchange for recording the song.

The bass line is sampled from Taana Gardner's 1981 song "Heartbeat." (thanks, Robin - Birmingham, AL)

"The Hotstepper" is Kamoze's nickname. It's a Jamaican term for a man on the run from the law. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

This was featured in Robert Altman's film Ready To Wear (Pret-a-Porter).

Ini Kamoze's name means "Mountain of the true God." (thanks, Brad Wind - Miami, FL, for above 2)

After some success as a Reggae artist with Sly & Robbie on Island Records, Kamoze's career had hit rock bottom by the early 1990s. He began crafting this song as a comeback late 1992 and he realized it would fare better in a non-reggae format. He turned to producer Salaam Remi for help. Kamoze recalled to Mojo magazine February 2009: "Salaam Remi's parents are from Barbados, but he was just into hip-hop and was working with the Fugees. I wanted to set the lyrics to a beat that would be played on mainstream radio, as I was always wondering, why is Ini Kamoze not being played behind Michael Jackson or Madonna? It was a serious effort to do something different, but the song was written about three years before it came out, because we couldn't get record companies to buy into the idea."

Josh Turner - Your Man

Josh Turner - Your Man Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Your Man
Released: 2005

Your Man Lyrics

Baby, lock the doors and turn the lights down low
Put some music on that's soft and slow
Baby, we ain't got no place to go
I hope you understand

[Chorus]
I've been thinking 'bout this all day long
Never felt a feeling quite this strong
I can't believe how much it turns me on
Just to be Your Man

There's no hurry, don't you worry
We can take our time
Come a little closer, let's go over
What I had in mind

Baby, lock the doors and turn the lights down low
Put some music on that's soft and slow
Baby, we ain't got no place to go
I hope you understand

[Chorus]

Ain't nobody ever love nobody
The way that I love you
We're alone now
You don't know how long I've wanted to

Baby, lock the doors and turn the lights down low
Put some music on that's soft and slow
Baby, we ain't got no place to go
I hope you understand

[Chorus]

Writer/s: EVERETT, JACE / DUBOIS, CHARLES / STAPLETON, CHRISTOPHER
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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This country chart-topper was written by Chris Stapleton, Chris DuBois, and Jace Everett. It was the first #1 in Turner's career.

Stapleton and DuBois won ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) awards for the song, while Everett won BMI (Broadcast Music Incorporated) award.

Turner's wife, Jennifer, played his love interest in the music video. She would also appear in the clip for "I Wouldn't Be a Man" in 2010.

Sam Cooke - Another Saturday Night

Sam Cooke - Another Saturday Night Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Ain't That Good News
Released: 1963

Another Saturday Night Lyrics

[Chorus]
Another Saturday Night and I ain't got nobody,
I have some money 'cause I just got paid.
How I wish I had someone to talk to,
I'm in an awful way.

I blew in town I week ago,
I ain't seen a lot of girls since then.
If I could meet 'em I could get 'em, but as yet I haven't met 'em,
That's why I'm in the shape I'm in ohh

[Chorus]

Another fella told me, he had a sister that looked so fine.
Instead of being my deliverance, she had a strong resemblance to a
Cat named Frankenstein ohh

[Chorus]

It's hard for a fella, when he don't know his way around,
If I can't find me a honey to help me spend my money,
I'm gonna have to blow this town ohh

[Chorus]

Writer/s: COOKE, SAM
Publisher: Abkco Music, Inc.
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Cooke wrote this when he was touring England in 1962 with Little Richard. Along with many Soulful ballads, he wrote a lot of lighter songs like this ("Good News," "Having A Party," "Twistin' The Night Away"), but did record a heavy political song shortly before his death in 1964: "A Change Is Gonna Come."

Cat Stevens recorded this in 1974 - his version hit US #6. Except for "Morning Has Broken," it's the only Stevens release he did not write himself.

The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll brings us this Sam Cooke moment: Cooke began as a gospel singer in church and replaced the Soul Stirrers' R.H. Harris in 1951. For his first solo onstage, the crowd was skeptical of his ability to fill Harris' absence, but Cooke "... eyes closed and arms outstretched, sang without the rasping delivery or broken vowels of older stylists, avoiding the tentative offering of Harris' Roman tenor. Yet his voice, burrowing and soaring through plaintive dirges, exuding a gentle world-weariness, moved the congregation to a standing ovation."

The album's title, Ain't That Good News, is an allusion to his previous gospel choir roots, as the Biblical gospel is often referred to as "good news" in witnessing and ministering.

This was the first song Cooke released after the tragic drowning death of his son Vincent, who was 18 months old. in the interim, he'd fled town for out-of-town gigs, as many as he could get.

Ne-Yo - She Knows

Ne-Yo - She Knows Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Non Fiction
Released: 2014

She Knows Lyrics

You know from the moment she turned around
She Knows how to back it up and drop it down
She knows, she wants all the fellas looking at her
Cause they know as soon as our song come, it's a wrap

Does she love the attention?
Does she get it when she moves?
She loves the attention that she get when she move
Showin' out with her homegirls
Hypnotizing all the dudes

She knows
She knows
I know, I know, she knows
And I know, I know, she knows

She bad
So bad, I just couldn't let her pass me
I told her, shawty
You so right, but you so wrong
She said, daddy, I'll be back after this song
Then you're taking me home

She loves the attention that she get when she move
Showin' out with her homegirls
Hypnotizing all the dudes

She knows
She knows
I know, I know, she knows
And I know, I know, she knows

She loves the attention that she get when she move
Showin' out with her homegirls
Hypnotizing all the dudes

She knows
She knows
I know, I know, she knows
And I know, I know, she knows

Writer/s: HENRY WALTER, JORDAN HOUSTON, SHAFFER SMITH, LUKASZ GOTTWALD
Publisher: UNIVERSAL MUSIC PUB GROUP, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Ne-Yo sings here about a a captivating, knowing temptress who has all the goods:

She loves the attention that she get when she move
Showin' out with her homegirls
Hypnotizing all the dudes

Juicy J spits a a couple verses. At the beginning of his first verse he's with two girls and by the end he's with three!

Pop maestro Dr. Luke's production is centered around a saxophone riff. It follows Ariana Grande's "Problem," Jason Derulo's "Talk Dirty," and Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off" - all 2014 hit tunes that were led by horns.

The Emil Nava directed video finds exotic dancers grabbing Ne-Yo 's attention wherever he goes. Juicy J is the boss who allows pole dancing in the office for his employees. Nicole "The Pole" Williams also co-stars - the expert pole dancer also appeared in Rihanna's "Pour It Up" clip.

Cat Stevens - (Remember The Days Of The) Old Schoolyard

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Album: Izitso
Released: 1977

(Remember The Days Of The) Old Schoolyard Lyrics

Remember the days of the old schoolyard
We used to laugh a lot, oh don't you
Remember the days of the old schoolyard
When we had imaginings and we had
All kinds of things and we laughed
And needed love yes, I do
Oh and I remember you
Remember the days of the old schoolyard
We used to cry a lot, oh don't you
Remember the days of the old schoolyard
When we had simplicity and we had
Warm toast for tea and we laughed
And needed love yes, I do
Oh and I remember you

You were my sweet love, my first sweet love
My lovey dove, my love lovey dove
No matter what place, whichever the place
I still see your face, your smiling face
In childish dreams, inside my dreams
Like king and queen, god save our dreams
N'though time may face, though time may fade
It ain't never too late, to learn about love
Learn about love

Remember the days of the old schoolyard
We used to laugh a lot, oh don't you
Remember the days of the old schoolyard
When we had imaginings and we had
All kinds of things and we laughed
And needed love yes, I do
Oh and I remember you

Writer/s: YUSUF ISLAM, CAT STEVENS
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Stevens wrote this for Linda Lewis, who sang on his 1972 album Catch Bull At Four and accompanied Stevens on his 1974 Bamboozle tour. Clive Davis of Arista Records signed Lewis on the strength of her performance of this song, which she released on her 1975 album Not A Little Girl Anymore. Lewis had a UK hit with a cover of "It's In His Kiss (Shoop Shoop Song)." (thanks, Richard - Toronto, Canada)

This was Stevens' last hit. Later that year, he changed his name to Yusuf Islam and became a Muslim.

This was inspired by the playground at St. Joseph's in London, where Stevens went to school.

Elkie Brooks sang on this with Stevens. She became a very successful singer with a string of UK hits in the '70s and '80s.

Overkill - Hello from the Gutter

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Album: Under the Influence
Released: 1988

Hello from the Gutter Lyrics

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One of Overkill's most popular songs, "Hello from the Gutter" is about the serial killer David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam."

Beginning in 1976, Berkowitz began killing young people - mostly women - in New York City. By 1977, police had linked the crimes and dubbed him "The .44 Killer" for his choice of weapon. Jimmy Breslin was the reporter who covered the story for the New York Daily News, and on July 2, 1977 he received a chilling letter - supposedly sent by the killer - that began, "Hello from the gutters of N.Y.C., which are filled with dog manure, vomit, stale wine, urine, and blood."

The letter went on to taunt Breslin and threaten to kill again. Three days later, the paper ran the letter as part of Breslin's story, which was headlined "Breslin to .44 Killer: Give Up Now!"

Berkowitz was captured in August after a parking ticket led to his arrest - he had parked illegally during one of his murders, and police placed him at the scene.

The members of Overkill grew up in New Jersey and spent a lot of time in New York City, where the crimes took place. With vivid memories of the story, guitarist Bobby Gustafson, bass player D.D. Verni and lead singer Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth wrote this song. "Lyrically, I took some of that pomp and circumstance and sensationalism that was going on around that time," Ellsworth told us.

Cat Stevens - Moonshadow

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Album: Teaser And The Firecat
Released: 1971

Moonshadow Lyrics

[Chorus:]
Oh, I'm bein' followed by a Moonshadow, moon shadow, moonshadow---
Leapin and hoppin' on a moonshadow, moonshadow, moonshadow---
And if I ever lose my hands, lose my plough, lose my land,
Oh if I ever lose my hands, Oh if I won't have to work no more.

And if I ever lose my eyes, if my colours all run dry,
Yes if I ever lose my eyes, Oh if I won't have to cry no more.

[Chorus]

And if I ever lose my legs, I won't moan, and I won't beg,
Yes if I ever lose my legs, Oh if I won't have to walk no more.

And if I ever lose my mouth, all my teeth, north and south,
Yes if I ever lose my mouth, Oh if I won't have to talk...

Did it take long to find me? I asked the faithful light.
Did it take long to find me? And are you gonna stay the night?

[Chorus]
Moonshadow, moonshadow, moonshadow, moonshadow.

Writer/s: YUSUF ISLAM, CAT STEVENS
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Stevens wrote this about finding hope in any situation. Be present and joyful. See life as it is, right now, and don't compare it to others' lives, or other times in your life. Every moment in life is rich and unique; whether we are aware of it or not, we are always leaping and hopping on a moonshadow - the inescapable present moment. If we are wrapped up in our whirlpools of worry and concern about what could be, or what has been, we are missing the richness of life as it is.

In the bridge of the song, Stevens seems to be speaking of faith, indicating clearly that, although he is experiencing this ecstasy in the present, despite all the losses and suffering of existence, it is the light that has found him, and not the other way around. He is surrendering to a power greater than himself - the "faithful light." (thanks, Ted - Victoria, Canada, for above 2)

When he appeared on The Chris Isaak Hour in 2009, Stevens said of this song: "I was on a holiday in Spain. I was a kid from the West End (of London) - bright lights, ect. - I never got to see the moon on its own in the dark, there were always streetlamps. So there I was on the edge of the water on a beautiful night with the moon glowing, and suddenly I looked down and saw my shadow. I thought that was so cool, I'd never seen it before."

Stevens, now known as Yusuf Islam, considers this his favorite of his old songs. It's one of the songs that convinced him to release a Greatest Hits record of his work as Cat Stevens. He felt its uplifting message could help people.

Director John Landis wanted to use this song in his 1981 horror comedy An American Werewolf in London. The film featured a number of songs with "moon" in the title ("Moon Dance", "Blue Moon", etc.) but Stevens, who had recently converted to Islam, refused permission because he did not like the subject matter of the film. (thanks, Bob - The Colony, TX)

Stevens has in recent years called this song the "Optimist's anthem." (thanks, Mary - Little Rock, AR)

This song was used for a "Teaser And The Firecat" animation. The cover of the album came to life as the boy and cat ride on the moon while this song plays. It can be found on the Cat Stevens - Majikat (Earth Tour 1976) DVD. (thanks, christy - Southlake, TX)

Artists to record this song include LaBelle, Roger Whittaker and Mandy Moore.

Overkill - Elimination

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Album: The Years of Decay
Released: 1989

Elimination Lyrics

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This song is about the AIDS epidemic, which was still widely misunderstood. In our interview with Overkill lead singer Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth , he explained: "When the band had started in the early '80s, AIDS was 'the gay cancer.' But by '89, people had a better view of it: it wasn't a gay disease, it was a human disease. The idea behind 'Elimination' was to say, 'This is about us, it's not about you or about you, it's about us collectively.'"