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Andy Grammer - Honey, I'm Good

Andy Grammer - Honey, I'm Good Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Magazines or Novels
Released: 2014

Honey, I'm Good Lyrics

Nah nah, honey I'm good
I could have another but I probably should not
I've got somebody at home

It's been a long night here, and a long night there
And these long, long legs are damn near everywhere
Hold up now, you look good, I will not lie
But if you ask where I'm staying tonight I gotta be like

Oh baby, no baby, you got me all wrong baby
My baby's already got all my love

So nah nah, honey I'm good
I could have another but I probably should not
I've got somebody at home, and if I stay I might not leave alone
No, honey I'm good, I could have another but I probably should not
I've gotta bid you adieu and to another I will stay true

(Hoo hoo wooh true) I will stay true
(Hoo hoo wooh true) I will stay true
(Hoo hoo wooh true)
(Hoo hoo wooh)

Now better men than me have failed
Drinking from that unholy grail
Now check it out, I've got her and she got me
And you've got that ass, but I kindly gotta be like

Oh baby, no baby, you got me all wrong baby
My baby's already got all my love

So nah nah, honey I'm good
I could have another but I probably should not
I've got somebody at home, and if I stay I might not leave alone
No, honey I'm good, I could have another but I probably should not
I've gotta bid you adieu and to another I will stay true

(Hoo hoo wooh true) I will stay true
(Hoo hoo wooh true) I will stay true
(Hoo hoo wooh true)
(Hoo hoo wooh)

Oh, I'm sure you, sure you will make somebody's night
But oh, I'll show you, show you it sure as hell's not mine

Oh no, honey I'm good
I could have another but I probably should not
I've got somebody at home, and if I stay I might not leave alone
No, honey I'm good, I could have another but I probably should not
I've gotta bid you adieu and to another I will stay

Nah nah, honey I'm good
I could have another but I probably should not
I've got somebody at home, and if I stay I might not leave alone
No, honey I'm good, I could have another but I probably should not
I've gotta bid you adieu and to another I will stay true

(Hoo hoo wooh true) I will stay true
(Hoo hoo wooh true) I will stay true
(Hoo hoo wooh true) I will stay true
(Hoo hoo wooh) I will stay

Singing out oh oh oh oh oh (Hoo hoo wooh true)
Singing out oh oh oh oh oh (Hoo hoo wooh true)
Singing out oh oh oh oh oh (Hoo hoo wooh true)
Singing out oh oh oh oh oh (Hoo hoo wooh true)
I will stay true

Writer/s: SIPE, NOLAN / GRAMMER, ANDY
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Andy Grammer worked his way up from a busker to a major-label recording artist, and by his second album, Magazines or Novels, he was starting to enjoy the fruits of that success, including more attention from the ladies.

In an earlier track on the album, "Holding Out," we hear about how he is holding on to his virginity. On "Honey, I'm Good," he sings about what he has to do to keep it. "I've got somebody at home, and if I stay I might not leave alone. No, honey, I'm good," he sings.

Grammer wrote this song with Nolan Sipe, who produced the track with Brian West and Steve Greenberg. When we spoke with Grammer in 2014 , he described the song as "a fun hoedown."

Asked by Billboard magazine if this song was inspired by a specific situation, Grammar replied: "I think it happens all the time where you're done with a show, you're signing autographs, you're meeting people, and you can feel like... you know, these situations come up."

"There's not one person I'm thinking of when I write this song," he added. "I'm basically like, everybody has temptations, guys and girls, they all have temptations. If you're in a relationship, there's temptation outside of your relationship. There's a lot of people though that are still doing right by their guy or girl and holding strong and staying true. So I wanted to write one for people like me that are trying to do that, trying to do the right thing."

"But that's a tough thing to write and have it feel cool," Grammar continued. "That is probably one of the hardest things, to get across the finish line and be like, yeah that song sounds good and it's cool. Nobody wants to sing that usually. It's so lucky that the biggest song that I've had so far is so in line, and I feel very blessed that I get to roll up to any interview or anything that I'm doing and be like, 'This is exactly who I am.' That kind of slightly dorky guy - that's me."

The song's music video features a montage of around one hundred real-life couples that have been together from several months to over 70 years. Grammer and his wife Aijia Lise Guttman can be seen at the 00:21 second mark. Several other familiar faces are included, such as pop duo Alex & Sierra and actor Colton Haynes.

Grammer told Radio.com the story behind the clip. "My manager and I were on the phone talking about an idea for the video. We wanted to press home the concept that this isn't a song about a guy who's cheating. This is about a guy who is being true. So we started calling all of our friends and family that we knew had been married for a long time and asked them to lip sync the song."

"They all started sending videos in and we started asking by word of mouth if people knew a couple who'd been married a long time. It was so fun getting all our friends and family involved that we decided to just put it up on social media and ask the fans to be part of the video too. We asked them to get their parents and grandparents to be in it also."

Andy Grammer teamed up with Nashville outfit Eli Young Band for an alternative version of this tune, in which the singer trades verses with EYB frontman Mike Eli. "I always felt this song was country at its core," Grammer said. "Being in the studio with the Eli Young Band, I finally got to hear it come home."

This song blasts right in with the chorus, which was a popular technique at the time: "Time Of Our Lives" by Pitbull and "Bad Blood" by Taylor Swift also get right to the action.

Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time

Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: She's So Unusual
Released: 1983

Time After Time Lyrics

Lying in my bed I hear the clock tick,
And think of you
Caught up in circles
Confusion is nothing new
Flashback, warm nights
Almost left behind
Suitcases of memories,
Time after

Sometimes you picture me
I'm walking too far ahead
You're calling to me, I can't hear
What you've said
Then you say, go slow
I fall behind
The second hand unwinds

If you're lost you can look and you will find me
Time After Time
If you fall I will catch you, I will be waiting
Time after time

If you're lost you can look and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall I will catch you, I will be waiting
Time after time

After my picture fades and darkness has
Turned to gray
Watching through windows
You're wondering if I'm okay
Secrets stolen from deep inside
The drum beats out of time

If you're lost you can look and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall I will catch you, I will be waiting
Time after time

You said go slow
I fall behind
The second hand unwinds

If you're lost you can look and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall I will catch you, I'll be waiting
Time after time

If you're lost you can look and you will find me
Time after time
If you fall I will catch you, I'll be waiting

Time after time
Time after time
Time after time
Time after time
Time after time
Time after time
Time after time
Time after
Time

Writer/s: LAUPER, CYNDI / HYMAN, ROBERT
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Lauper wrote this song with Rob Hyman, who also sang backup. Hyman was in a Philadelphia band with Eric Bazilian and Rick Chertoff. When Rick took a job as a staff producer at Columbia Records, he kept in touch with Rob and Eric, who formed The Hooters. Chertoff was assigned to produce Lauper, a then-unknown artist. Lauper's band, Blue Angel, had broken up, so she needed musicians. Rick suggested Rob and Eric, then brought her to see The Hooters at a club called The Bottom Line. Says Rob:
"It was the first time we met her. We talked and right from the jump she was so unusual. She was definitely different and striking and creative. One thing led to another - she saw our band, we got a chance to hear one of her demos. She came down to Philadelphia and was staying with a friend. She worked with us in our rehearsal studio and did a bunch of demos, so it was really a tryout period - we also tried out some drummers and bass players, but it ended up being Eric and myself doing most of the guitars and keyboards, and Rick producing. We became her band for that album."

Hyman: "With 'Time After Time,' we wrote that very quickly. We were recording Cyndi's debut album. We had all the songs chosen, and quite simply the producer, Rick Chertoff, suggested to all of us that the album could use 'One more song.' We had 'Girls Just Want To Have Fun,' we had 'She Bop,' we had 'All Through The Night,' we had what would end up being really strong songs. It felt good to us, but for Rick, he's been known to say that on every album - you could always have 'One more song,' but in this case, he absolutely was right and in this case we delivered. We had most of the album recorded and we were close to mixing the record when he suggested this fateful 'One more song.' Cyndi and I sat at the piano one night and after the sessions we would just stay in the studio. It was over several days. We would start after the session, we would just stay. This was at the Record Plant studios in New York, and we would just sit at the piano and throw these ideas around into a cassette machine."

Cyndi came up with the title when she saw it in the magazine TV Guide. "Time After Time" was the name of a 1979 science fiction movie starring Malcolm McDowell as a man who invents a time machine. Says Rob:
"When she saw 'Time After Time,' something clicked - she said 'I think I have a title.' I was sitting at the piano and just started banging out what would eventually be the chorus, hook, and the way we sing it. It almost had like a Reggae feel, it was a little bouncier and a little more upbeat. We started getting off on that chorus, then the verse melodies started to appear. It's a deceptively simple song. The verses are just a little repeating 3 note motif - almost like a nursery rhyme, a very simple song. Then we started to realize we were on to something. The mood of the lyrics came from both of us. I think Cyndi came in and really started the lyric flow, then all of the sudden we realized it wasn't such a bouncy song, but it was a little more bittersweet and a little deeper in its feeling and a little more poignant, so the music started to change. We wrote a little bridge section and I think the last thing we really wrote was the chorus. We had 'Time After Time,' we just had to get the words that would surround it."

Hyman: "A lot of things happened in that song. It was the first song we ever wrote together. We had just finished recording her first album together - this was going to be a big debut for her. We all felt there was something special in the works, but it was still very fresh to us. We were really just getting to know each other in a way. At this point, we were both going through some personal relationships and some personal things that were both meaningful and deep for us, and somehow the lyrics just started to come out. It's almost one of those things where you can open up to a stranger or a more casual acquaintance than a deep friend or family member. Sometimes you meet someone at a party and you start saying things about yourself that you might not say to your closest friend. I think with the things we were both going through - for me it was a relationship that was just breaking up and for Cyndi with her manager, which was also a personal relationship - I think the song reflected that mood."

Hyman: "We never did a demo of the song. We just kind of bashed it out on the piano over a couple of days, maybe a week or two period. It really did happen pretty quickly, and we needed to because the album was being finished. I'd say in 2 or 3 sessions the song was pretty much done. Didn't do a demo, we went right to the 24-track machine. The demo was what you hear. That was literally the first real recording besides some little cassette ideas. We were in the studio, we figured, 'All right, we have no time to waste, let's just put it down.' The process with all the other songs was, we spent months and months in our rehearsal studio doing various arrangements and demos before we went in the studio. In this case, there was no pre-production. We went right to the tape, and what you hear is our first take on it, which I think added so much to the overall feel of that song, not just the impact as a composition, but the idea that we were capturing that spontaneous feel. That's always a great thing to do. In the studio you're always chasing that magic that you caught on your first demo. Her vocal was incredible. I think she was singing it and we were playing it for the first time. That's such a rare thing to happen, and I know that communicates to people."

Hyman and Bazilian had several hits with The Hooters, including "And We Danced" and "Day By Day." They went on to write and produce for many artists, including Joan Osborne, Amanda Marshall, Ricky Martin and Jon Bon Jovi. At the time, they did not have a record deal. Rob explains how it came together:
"We had an independent label that would put out 45s. When we finished Cyndi, and I think prior to when the album was released or around the same time, we put out an independent album called Amore. We were playing a lot in the Philly area, we were selling our records ourselves at shows. We got a local distributor eventually, but it was really a homemade project. It was a combination of constant playing in the Northeast area and also getting some airplay on radio stations that were bold enough to play us in those days. It's a lot harder now for local bands to get that, but we actually had some great radio support even from the bigger commercial stations, as well as college stations. We were creating a buzz, and by the time Cyndi hit, that independent buzz got big enough and it got to Columbia Records. The band was really ready to pop, and I think Cyndi was what really put it over the top." (Thanks to Rob for speaking with us about this song. For more, check out www.robhyman.com)

This was Lauper's first #1 hit. She had another US #1 in 1986 with "True Colors."

Wrestler Captain Lou Albano, who appeared in the "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" video, played a cook at a diner in this one. Lauper's mom and boyfriend were also in the video, portraying her mom and boyfriend.

At the beginning of the video, Lauper is watching the 1936 film Garden of Allah. (thanks, Jojo - Kuala Lumpur, GA)

The tear that Lauper sheds at the end of the video is authentic. She rejected the director's suggestion to manually induce a tear because she was confident in her ability to cry when she wanted to. (thanks, Stephen - Cupertino, CA)

Jazz great Miles Davis recorded an instrumental cover of this in 1985. George Cole, author of The Last Miles: The Music of Miles Davis, 1980-1991 , explains: "Miles had always played popular tunes - in the past, tunes such as 'My Funny Valentine' and 'If I Were A Bell' were part of his repertoire - and when Miles heard the Cyndi Lauper track, he just fell in love with the melody. In fact, Miles played this tune in almost all of his concerts from 1984 until just before his death in 1991. If you get a chance, try and hear a live version of it, which is superior to the album version."

Lauper told The Sun July 25, 2008 that this is her favorite of all the many cover versions of this track. She added: "I mean it's Miles. Wow. Mindblowing!"

This was used in the 1997 movie Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion. It was played in two scenes, the first when Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino's characters were at their prom and they danced to this, the second toward the end when Kudrow and Sorvino were doing some odd dance with Scottish actor Alan Cumming. (thanks, Britney - Calabasas, CA)

This appears at the end of the 2004 movie Napoleon Dynamite. (thanks, Christina - Houston, TX)

Quietdrive recorded this on their 2007 album When All That's Left Is You. Their version, with a male lead singer, hit #33 in the US.

Other covers of this song that charted include INOJ's 1998 pop/R&B version, which peaked at #6 on the singles chart and The Voice contestant Javier Colon, whose R&B-tinged take also reached the Hot 100.

Andy Grammer - Red Eye

Andy Grammer - Red Eye Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Magazines or Novels
Released: 2014

Red Eye Lyrics

I lost perspective of who I was, I hit the wall
I knew that it would take a lot but it took it all
No you don't come this far to turn around, covered too many miles
No you don't get this close to breaking down just to close your eyes

While the world sleeps under my feet tonight
I'm chasing myself in the sky
While the world sleeps under my feet tonight
I'll be up here learning to fly
When you know that you can't let go
And your heart already knows
Sure to hurt but it's worth it to be burned
'Cause one day you'll get home
Still it feels like I am always on the Red Eye

This time around it's not even about getting paid
I'm just an addict for the moment when the magic is made
And when you are who you are who you really are
It can put you through hell
Spend a day in the skin that you want to live in
To see how it feels

While the world sleeps under my feet tonight
I'm chasing myself in the sky
While the world sleeps under my feet tonight
I'll be up here learning to fly
When you know that you can't let go
And your heart already knows
Sure to hurt but it's worth it to be burned
'Cause one day you'll get home
Still it feels like I am always on the red
It feels like I am always on the red eye

I'm finding myself these days
Looking down from a window shade
I'm counting lies on hours
Just when I should be counting sheep
Truth is I can't complain
I do it over and over again and over again

While the world sleeps under my feet tonight
I'm chasing myself in the sky
While the world sleeps under my feet tonight
I'll be up here learning to fly

While the world sleeps under my feet tonight
I'm chasing myself in the sky
While the world sleeps under my feet tonight
I'll be up here learning to fly
When you know that you can't let go
And your heart already knows
Sure to hurt but it's worth it to be burned
'Cause one day you'll get home
Still it feels like I am always on the red
It feels like I am always on the red eye

Writer/s: ABRAHART JR., JAMES JOHN / GRAMMER, ANDREW CHARLES / LEVY, MASON DAVID / MEREDITH, THOMAS GABRIEL / DEAN, ABRAM / ROSEN, JOSIAH / KEAR, JOSHUA PETER
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group, UNIVERSAL MUSIC PUB GROUP, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC, WARNER CHAPPELL MUSIC INC
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A "red eye" is an overnight flight, something Grammer got very familiar with when he was touring. "'Red Eye' is about getting over the hump when nobody knows who you are, nobody cares, and you really just have to hit each major city in this country so many times," he said in our interview . "And the only way to really do that, to go from city to city to city every single day, is to play a show in the city that you're in, and then get on the plane and sleep, and sleep on the plane while it flies through the night to the next city. And that gets pretty intense."

Me by Ben E. King - Stand

Me by Ben E. King - Stand Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Don't Play That Song
Released: 1960

Stand Lyrics

When the night has come
And the land is dark
And the moon is the only light we'll see
No I won't be afraid, no I won't be afraid
Just as long as you Stand, stand by me

And darlin', darlin', stand by me, oh now now stand by me
Stand by me, stand by me

If the sky that we look upon
Should tumble and fall
And the mountains should crumble to the sea
I won't cry, I won't cry, no I won't shed a tear
Just as long as you stand, stand by me

And darlin', darlin', stand by me, oh stand by me
Stand by me, stand by me, stand by me, yeah

Whenever you're in trouble won't you stand by me, oh now now stand by me
Oh stand by me, stand by me, stand by me

Darlin', darlin', stand by me, stand by me
Oh stand by me, stand by me, stand by me

Writer/s: KING, BEN / LEIBER, JERRY / STOLLER, MIKE
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, IMAGEM U.S. LLC, BELINDA ABERBACH STEVENSON AGAR REVOCABLE TRUST
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Ben E. King recorded this shortly after leaving The Drifters in 1960. It gave him a solid reputation as a solo artist.

"Stand By Me" was the name of a gospel hymn written by the Philadelphia minister Charles Albert Tindley in 1905. His hymn became popular in churches throughout the American south and was recorded by various Gospel acts in the 1950s. The most popular adaptation was by The Staple Singers, who recorded it in 1955. It was this version that Ben E. King heard; he pushed The Drifters to record it, but the group's manager rejected it.

After leaving The Drifters, King auditioned for the legendary songwriting team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, singing a few popular songs before doing what he had of "Stand By Me," which was just a few lines of lyrics with some humming to fill in the words. He agreed to collaborate on the song with Leiber and Stoller, who gave it a more contemporary sound and polished it into a hit. The bassline at the beginning was Stoller's idea.

The song was credited as being written by Leiber, Stoller and King. Charles Albert Tindley, who composed the original hymn, was left off the composer credits as his work had been sufficiently transformed. This wasn't the first time Tindley was omitted from the credits of a song he originated: he also wrote a song called "I'll Overcome Someday," which eventually became "We Shall Overcome."

In an interview with the TV station WGBH, Jerry Leiber explained: "Ben E. is not a songwriter, he's a singer, he might have written two songs in his whole career. I would guess that this comes out of church. The whole 'stand by me' and the way the release takes out, it sounds like a gospel-type song."

This was used in the 1986 movie of the same name starring River Phoenix. The film was based on a short novel by Stephen King called The Body, but that title was a little to gruesome for a movie hoping to appeal to a wide audience. Rob Reiner, who directed the film, got the idea to use "Stand By Me" as the title and incorporate it into the movie when he heard the song one day at his house. This played up the friendship of the young boys in the film and downplayed the role of the dead body they find, which was a good move at the box office. The movie was a hit and propelled the song back to the charts, introducing the track to a new generation.

When this was first released in 1960, it charted US #4 and UK #27. When it was re-released to coincide with the movie, it hit US #9 and UK #1. It found a new audience who had never heard it before and proved to be a timeless classic.

In England, this was used in commercials for Levi's jeans in 1987 before the movie was released there. The exposure helped lift the song to #1 UK. "When A Man Loves A Woman" by Percy Sledge, used in the same group of Levi's ads, went to #2 at the same time.

According to BMI, this was the fourth most-played track of the 20th Century on American radio and TV.

This song has made an astounding nine appearances on the US Hot 100, plus two more that "bubbled under." Here's the breakdown:

1961, #4 - Ben E. King
1964, #102 - Cassius Clay
1965, #75 - Earl Grant
1967, #12 - Spyder Turner
1970, #61 - David & Jimmy Ruffin
1975, #20 - John Lennon
1980, #22 - Mickey Gilley
1985, #50 - Maurice White
1986, #9 - Ben E. King (re-release)
1998, #82 - 4 The Cause
2010, #109 - Prince Royce

Sean Kingston sampled this on his 2007 hit "Beautiful Girls." Other songs that have used pieces of "Stand By Me" include "A Little Bit of Soap" by De La Soul (1989), "My Darlin'" by Miley Cyrus feat. Future (2013), and "Marvin Gaye" by Charlie Puth (2015).

Dionne Warwick sang backup on this song as part of a trio known as The Gospelaires. Soon after, songwriter Burt Bacharach helped Warwick launch a successful solo career. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

This was not released on an album until it had been out as a single for two years.

Cassius Clay (who would later change his name to Muhammad Ali ) recorded this in 1963 on an album called I Am The Greatest!. In 1964, when he beat Sonny Liston to become the heavyweight boxing champ, Clay's version of "Stand By Me" was released as a single, with his spoken-boast song called "I Am The Greatest" as the flip side. The single made the Billboard charts, bubbling under at #102 on the Hot 100.

During an interview with Spinner UK, King was asked if he had any favorite cover versions of this song. He replied: "David Ruffin from the Temptations did a great version of it. And, of course, the one that held up in my head the most was John Lennon's version. He took it and made it as if it should have been his song as opposed to mine. Now there's a [Dominican] singer named Prince [Royce] - he has a version out there that I think is brilliant. And then there's Sean Kingston, with 'Beautiful Girls' [chuckles] - that's another one that did well. So many of them have done well. As a songwriter, it pleases me a lot - you don't always have a chance to write a song that people can relate to."

The Bachata singer Prince Royce released a cover of this song (with mostly Spanish lyrics) in 2010 as his first single. Royce had been selling cell phones in New York City when he started shopping his demo CD around. When he got little reaction to the songs he wrote, he decided to record one that was familiar, and he chose "Stand By Me" because it was one of his favorite songs. The ploy worked, as it garnered attention and jumpstarted his career.

Sham 69 - Borstal Breakout

Sham 69 - Borstal Breakout Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Tell Us the Truth
Released: 1978

Borstal Breakout Lyrics

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Also known as "There's Gonna Be A Borstal Break-Out," this uptempo, rebellious song is pure punk. Co-written by band leader and front man Jimmy Pursey with guitarist Dave Parsons in 1976, it was their first single after being signed by Polydor. According to the Sham 69: History, Discography And Biography, it was released January 6, 1978. It was backed by "Hey Little Rich Boy" and was engineered by Peter Wilson, who produced it with Pursey.

"Borstal Breakout" was re-released in March 1993 as the B Side of "Uptown" on the C.M.P. label.

Borstals were a form of youth detention center. The first one was established at Borstal Prison in the Kent village of Borstal near Rochester in 1902, and they had an almost uniformly bad reputation. In the UK, the 1982 Criminal Justice Act abolished them, replacing them with youth custody centers, although other Commonwealth countries continue to use them, India, for example. If this reform had occurred ten years earlier, this song would probably not have been written; somehow "Youth Custody Center Breakout" doesn't gel. (thanks, Alexander Baron - London, England, for above 3)

The Rolling Stones - Highwire

The Rolling Stones - Highwire Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Flashpoint
Released: 1991

Highwire Lyrics

We sell 'em missiles, we sell 'em tanks
We give 'em credit, you can call the bank
It's just a business, you can pay us in crude
You love these toys, just go play out your feuds
Got no pride, don't know whose boots to lick
We act so greedy, makes me sick sick sick

So get up, stand up, out of my way
I want to talk to the boss right away
Get up, stand up, whose gonna pay
I want to talk to the man right away

We walk the Highwire
Sending the men up to the front line
Hoping they don't catch the hell fire
With hot guns and cold, cold nights

We walk the highwire
Sending the men up to the front line
And tell 'em to hotbed the sunshine
With hot guns and cold, cold nights

Our lives are threatened, our jobs at risk
Sometimes dictators need a slap on the wrist
Another Munich we just can't afford
We're gonna send in the eighty-second airborne

Get up, stand up, who's gonna pay
I want to talk to the boss right away
Get up, stand up, outta my way
I want to talk to the man right away

We walk the highwire
Putting the world out on a deadline
And hoping they don't catch the shellfire
With hot guns and cold, cold nights

We walk the highwire
Putting the world out on a deadline
Catching the bite on prime time
With hot guns and cold, cold nights

Get up! Stand up!
Dealer! Stealer!

We walk the highwire
We send all our men into the front lines
We're hoping that we backed the right side
With hot guns and cold, cold nights

We walk the highwire
We send all the men up to the front lines
And hoping they don't catch the hellfire
With hot guns and cold cold, cold, cold,
Cold nights

We walk the highwire
We walk the highwire
With hot guns and cold, cold, cold nights

With hot guns and cold, cold nights

Writer/s: MICK JAGGER, KEITH RICHARDS
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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The Stones recorded this for Flashpoint in 1991. The album consists of live recordings from their Steel Wheels tour followed by 2 new studio tracks, this and "Sex Drive."

The song is a commentary on the international arms trade and the events that led to the first US war with Iraq, which ended around the time this was released.

The first line - "We sell them missiles, we sell them tanks, we give them credit, you can call up the bank," was censored when The Stones performed it on the BBC TV show Top Of The Pops.

Bernard Fowler sang background vocals. Since the '90s, he has appeared on many Rolling Stones tracks. He has also worked with Yoko Ono, Sly & Robbie, Bootsy Collins, Duran Duran, Living Colour and Herb Alpert. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

Sham 69 - If The Kids Are United

Sham 69 - If The Kids Are United Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: The Adventures of the Hersham Boys (reissue)
Released: 1978

If The Kids Are United Lyrics

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This has been called Sham 69's finest song, and it is hard to disagree. Rather than simply rebellious punk, it is a true youth anthem. Including a football-type chant, it reached #9 on the UK singles chart.

Running to 3 minutes 8 seconds, it was co-written by the regular team of Jimmy Pursey and Dave Parsons. It was released on the Polydor label in July 1978 backed by "Sunday Morning Nightmare."

A cover version was released by the German punk band Did Toten Hosen on the Virgin label in 1992 along with "Individual" and "Blackpool." (thanks, Alexander Baron - London, England, for above 2)

Tone-Loc - Wild Thing

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Album: Loc'ed After Dark
Released: 1988

Wild Thing Lyrics

Wild Thing, you make my heart sing
You make everything groovy, wild thing
Wild thing, I think I love you
But I wanna know for sure
Come on and hold me tight
I love you

Wild thing, you make my heart sing
You make everything groovy, wild thing
Wild thing, I think you move me
But I wanna know for sure
Come on and hold me tight
You move me

Wild thing, you make my heart sing
You make everything groovy, wild thing
Wild thing, you make my heart sing
You make everything groovy, wild thing
Wild thing, you make my heart sing
You make everything groovy, wild thing

Writer/s: MATT DIKE, ANTHONY T. SMITH, MARVIN YOUNG
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC, THE BICYCLE MUSIC COMPANY
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This samples Van Halen's "Jaime's Cryin'." It was not the first time an Eddie Van Halen guitar riff helped a black artist appeal to a white audience. Eddie played the guitar solo on Michael Jackson's "Beat It," which helped make it a huge hit.

"The Wild Thing" is slang for sex. It was a popular and benign euphemism that worked well in the late '80s when people like Arsenio Hall needed to talk about sex without arousing censors.

This was the first rap song by a black artist to crossover to Pop radio, and also the first rap single to be certified Platinum (Tone Loc's "Funky Cold Medina" was the second). The Beastie Boys crossed over the year before with "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)."

This was written by Matt Dike, Anthony Smith and Marvin Young. Young, better known as Young MC, had his own hit soon after with "Bust A Move." Dike and Smith had started the record label Delicious Vinyl and signed Tone-Loc. They got the idea for the song after watching the 1986 Spike Lee movie She's Gotta Have It, where Hip-Hop scenester Fab 5 Freddy tells a woman, "Let's do the wild thing!"

Weird Al Yankovic wrote a parody of this song called "Isle Thing," which is about the show Gilligan's Island and can be found on his album UHF - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff. (thanks, Steph - SoCal, CA)

Avery Sunshine - Call My Name

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Album: The SunRoom
Released: 2014

Call My Name Lyrics

Can I bring something up
Don't mean to be confrontational
But lately we haven't made time
To be conversational

Don't hear sweet nothing's no more
Like if life has gotten in the way, yeah
How in the world could this have happen to us
We use to have so much to say

Tell me baby

When was the last time you heard me call you sweet darling, yeah
And when was the last time I heard you say hey baby, hey, (been such a long time)
It's been such long time since you heard me call you sweet darling, (I don't know)
I just can't remember the last time you called my name

Mmmm, I don't know where we went wrong
And I don't won't these days to turn to years, baby (I decided)
So I decided not to live this way
So I'm asking you through my tears (So tell me baby)

When was the last time you heard me call you sweet darling, (I don't remember when)
And when was the last time I heard you say hey baby, (hey baby) hey (hey baby, baby, baby)
It's been such long time since you heard me call you sweet darling
(And I just can't remember why)
And I just can't remember the last time you called my name
(I just don't know, hey)

Come over here
Hello hello
My love my love
Sweet baby (ooh woo)
So I'm gonna really need to hear you say

When was the last time you heard me call you sweet darling, yeah
And when was the last time I heard you say hey baby, hey, (I just want you to Call My Name)
It's been such long time since you heard me call you sweet darling, (?)
I just can't remember (I just can't remember baby) the last time you called my name (Call me, call my name)

When was the last time I heard you call me sweet darling
And when was the last time I heard you say hey baby, hey (things, things just aren't the same)
It's been such long time since you heard me call you sweet darling. ( all you gotta do, all you gotta say
And I just can't remember the last time you called my name

Writer/s: Johnson, Damon / Mtume, James / Morales, Mark / Rooney, Mark Cory
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group
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This love song was penned by Avery Sunshine with her musical partner, guitarist/producer Dana Johnson. Released as a single, it became the first #1 for the songstress on Billboard's Adult R&B Songs chart. "There is something magical and spiritual that happens when my partner Dana [Johnson] and I work together," said Sunshine. "This song was derived from a very honest space. I believe that when you work from a place of truth, the music finds a way to connect. Most of our career, we have been told to be something other than who we are. This #1 shows us that trusting your own voice is the answer."

Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine

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Album: Just As I Am
Released: 1971

Ain't No Sunshine Lyrics

Ain't No Sunshine when she's gone
It's not warm when she's away
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone
And she's always gone too long
Anytime she goes away

Wonder this time where she's gone
Wonder if she's gone to stay
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone
And this house just ain't no home
Anytime she goes away

And I know, I know, I know, I know,
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know,
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know,
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know,
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know,
I know, I know,
Hey, I oughtta leave young thing alone
But ain't no sunshine when she's gone

Ain't no sunshine when she's gone
Only darkness every day
Ain't no sunshine when she's gone
And this house just ain't no home
Anytime she goes away
Anytime she goes away
Anytime she goes away
Anytime she goes away

Writer/s: WITHERS, BILL
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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In our interview with Bill Withers, he told us how this song came about: "I was watching a movie called Days Of Wine And Roses (1962) with Lee Remick and Jack Lemmon. They were both alcoholics who were alternately weak and strong. It's like going back for seconds on rat poison. Sometimes you miss things that weren't particularly good for you. It's just something that crossed my mind from watching that movie, and probably something else that happened in my life that I'm not aware of."

This was Withers' first hit. After spending nine years in the US Navy, he had a job at a factory making parts for airplanes when he was introduced to Booker T. Jones from Booker T. & the MG's. Booker was an elite session musician with Stax Records, where Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett and many other soul legends recorded. He brought in some other top-notch musicians, including Stephen Stills on lead guitar, and produced this album for Withers, who was 32 when it was recorded.

This was released as the B-side to another song called "Harlem." Disc jockeys played this as the single instead and it became a hit.

All the instruments on this are acoustic.

The part where Withers repeats "I know, I know," has become a very recognizable piece of the song, but it wasn't what he had in mind. Withers told us: "I wasn't going to do that, then Booker T. said, 'No, leave it like that.' I was going to write something there, but there was a general consensus in the studio. It was an interesting thing because I've got all these guys that were already established, and I was working in the factory at the time. Graham Nash was sitting right in front of me, just offering his support. Stephen Stills was playing and there was Booker T. and Al Jackson and Donald Dunn - all of the MGs except Steve Cropper. They were all these people with all this experience and all these reputations, and I was this factory worker just sort of puttering around. So when their general feeling was, 'Leave it like that,' I left it like that."

The MGs were the backup band for Otis Redding when he recorded "Dock Of The Bay" in 1967. The famous whistling in the third verse of that song was something Redding did to fill time until he could fill it in with some words. He never had the chance because he died in a plane crash 3 days later. The whistling stayed, just like Withers' verse of "I knows."

On its first release, this song did not chart in the UK, but Michael Jackson's cover hit #8 there in 1972. Withers original version eventually made its first entry into the UK singles chart in May 2009 after being performed on Britain's Got Talent by contestant Shaun Smith.

Withers performed this on an episode of The Old Grey Whistle Test, a British TV show that ran from 1971-1987 and featured a variety of musical guests. In the '70s, the show was shot in a small studio with no audience, which resulted in more relaxed performances where the artists could concentrate on their music. Withers' appearance is considered a classic from the show, and was included in a DVD compilation released in 2001.

Won the Grammy for Best R&B Song in 1972.

This was used in the movies Girls Town (1996), Notting Hill (1999), Old School (2003) and Munich (2005). TV shows to use the song include Monk (2005), CSI: NY (2009) and Scandal (2013).

Besides Michael Jackson, this has been covered by many artists in a wide range of styles. Paul McCartney, Isaac Hayes, Lionel Hampton, Prince, Sting, Kenny Rogers, Tom Jones and Lighthouse Family have all recorded it. It was also sampled by rapper DMX for his 2001 song "No Sunshine."

Sax player Grover Washington became the first person to cover one of Withers' songs when he did an instrumental version shortly after Withers released his. In 1981, Washington and Withers teamed up to record "Just The Two Of Us."

There is no introduction on this song, as the vocals come in right away. This was thought of as bad for marketing purposes, as it meant disc jockeys couldn't talk it up, but it gave the song a more interesting structure. Withers' label Sussex Records gave him plenty of artistic freedom, which he lost when Sussex folded and he moved to Columbia. In the 2009 documentary Still Bill, Withers explains, "If nobody throws all their rules at you, you might make a song with no introduction."

The metal band Black Label Society recorded this song and issued it as a single in 2013. Band members John DeServio and Zakk Wylde decided to cover it after seeing a 1974 episode of the TV show The Midnight Special, where Withers performed the song.

Black Label Society made an unusual video for the song featuring anthropomorphic horses. In our interview with Zakk Wylde , he said that he got a kick out of reading the negative comments about the video from folks who didn't get the joke, comparing the hostility to what his professional wrestler friends get when they turn heel.

Stevie Wonder inducted Bill Withers into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015. At the ceremony, Wonder performed this song with Withers sitting next to him on stage. Withers decided not to perform at the ceremony, although he appeared midway through Wonder and John Legend's performance of "Lean On Me" to join on vocals.

In the 2015 Shawn Mendes song "I Know What You Did Last Summer," he and his duet partner Camila Cabello sing "I know" sections similar to how Withers did in "Ain't No Sunshine." Wither was given a songwriting credit because the vocal is so similar.

Chief Keef - Nobody

Chief Keef - Nobody Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Nobody
Released: 2014

Nobody Lyrics

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This heavily Auto-Tuned song features Kanye West delivering some background vocals. The GOOD Music owner first worked with his fellow Chicago rapper back in 2011 when he remixed his tune, "I Don't Like." The following year, Ye recruited Keef to spit some slurred rhymes for his "Hold My Liquor" Yeezus track.

The song samples Willie Hutch's 1973 track "Brother's Gonna Work It Out" from the soundtrack of the Blaxploitation film, The Mack.

Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well

Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Then Play On
Released: 1969

Oh Well Lyrics

I can't help about the shape I'm in
I can't sing I ain't pretty and my legs are thin
But don't ask me what I think of you
I might not give the answer that you want me to

Now when I talk to God you know he understands
He said stick by me and I'll be your guidin' hand
But don't ask me what I think of you
I might not give the answer that you want me to

Writer/s: PETER ALAN GREEN
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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At the time, Fleetwood Mac was a successful Blues band known for their raucous stage shows. Their albums consistently sold about 300,000 copies and they were known as outstanding musicians. When Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham joined the band in 1974, they changed their sound and became one of the best-selling bands ever. Until then, this was the only Fleetwood Mac song that made the Hot 100 in America; they did have several UK hits in this era, including the #1 "Albatross."

This was one of Peter Green's last contributions to Fleetwood Mac. He was revered as one of the greatest guitarists and songwriters of the time, having replaced Eric Clapton in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers before forming Fleetwood Mac in 1967. He became a high profile acid casualty in 1970 when he suffered a mental breakdown and left the band, devoting himself to religious practice and proclaiming money as evil. An oft-repeated tale has him entering his manager's office with a shotgun, demanding that his royalty checks be discontinued.

The single was released in two parts. Radio stations usually play the A-side, "Oh Well (part 1)." The B-side is "Oh Well (part 2)," an orchestral piece that sounds completely different. Both parts were written by Peter Green and go together on the album, but Green has very strong feelings about which is the better part. "The best bit was Part 2 on the other side of the record," he told Mojo in 1996. "You miss the best bit, the Spanish guitar break. The first side was what we played on stage. I didn't think it would be a hit and I used to hate playing that one because we played the part that wasn't as good. I wanted a bit of moody guitar playing. They wanted the bit that was easy to do, that everyone knew."

Mick Fleetwood was sure this song would go nowhere. He bet Green that it would tank.

Fleetwood Mac was six years away from their Stevie Nicks/Lindsey Buckingham era when this song was released. The lineup on this track was Peter Green (vocals, guitar), John McVie (bass), Danny Kirwan (guitar), Mick Fleetwood (drums), and Jeremy Spencer (piano).

The stop and start technique inspired Led Zeppelin to do the same thing on "Black Dog."

Jimmy Page and The Black Crowes a version of this for their 2000 album Live At The Greek.