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Madonna - Lucky Sta
Madonna - Lucky Star


Madonna - Lucky Star Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Madonna
Released: 1983

Lucky Star Lyrics


Lucky Star Song Chart
  • Written by Madonna, this was her first single from her debut album. It went nowhere, but was successfully re-released six months later after "Holiday" became a hit.

    The success the second time around was largely because of the video, which MTV put in hot rotation. It was commissioned by Jeff Ayeroff, who was an executive at Madonna's label, Warner Bros. Ayeroff said in the book I Want My MTV: "I made 'Lucky Star' for $14,000 with a friend who was a pot grower from Bolinas, California (Arthur Pierson). We'd released 'Everybody,' 'Burning Up,' 'Holiday' and 'Borderline' as singles. And Madonna didn't want to release 'Lucky Star.' Around the same time, she was getting sued and needed money. I said, 'Let me release 'Lucky Star,' and I guarantee you'll sell enough records to pay that off.' 'Lucky Star' broke the first album wide open."
  • This entered the charts as Madonna began work on her first movie, Desperately Seeking Susan. She went on to star in many others, including Dick Tracy, A League Of Their Own, Shanghai Surprise, Body Of Evidence, Dangerous Game, Swept Away, and Evita.
  • Guy Ritchie, Madonna's husband, used this in his 2001 movie, Snatch. It is featured in a scene where a tough-guy is roughing someone up while this plays on the radio.
  • The lyrics were based on a nursery rhyme: "Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight..."
  • The video introduced Madonna's "Thrift Store" look. Sporting lots of big, colorful accessories, fans who became known as "Madonna-Wannabes" started dressing like her. This look became an icon of '80s culture.
  • The song was covered in the "Old Dog New Tricks" episode of Glee. Starring actor Chris Colfer, who penned the episode, explained to Billboard magazine: "When we do 'Lucky Star,' it's because Kurt has joined an assisted living home's production of Peter Pan. In the story, he convinces them to update the production. He convinces them to use modern music to tell the story. So when he's singing 'Lucky Star' he's singing about Neverland."

    "The only thought I had was I wanted the music to fit. I didn't want anything to seem arbitrary. I wanted it to be there for a reason."
  • This song was featured in the 1988 drama Running On Empty in a scene where Danny (River Phoenix) is in music class and in the 1995 drama Safe, starring Julianne Moore and Xander Berkeley.
  • The song is referenced in Pulp Fiction (1994) when Fabienne (Maria de Medeiros) tells Butch (Bruce Willis): "I have a bit of a tummy, like Madonna when she did 'Lucky Star.'"
  • Madonna told Song Talk that she wrote this song on a synthesizer.
  • Martin Burgoyne, a close friend of Madonna's who lived with the singer before she was famous, designed the cover sleeve for the US release of this song (as well as "Burning Up"). After his death from AIDS at the age of 23, Madonna wrote the 1992 song "In This Life" as a tribute to him and many others she knew who died of the disease.

  • Calvin Harris - Outsid
    Calvin Harris - Outside


    Calvin Harris - Outside Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

    Album: Motion
    Released: 2014

    Outside Lyrics


    Look at what you've done
    Stand still, falling away from me
    When it takes so long
    Fire's out, what do you want to be?
    I'm holding on
    Myself was never enough for me
    Gotta be so strong
    There's a power in what you do
    Now every other day I've been watching you

    Oh oh, oh oh I'll show you what it feels like
    Now I'm on the Outside, oh oh
    We did everything right
    Now I'm on the outside, oh oh
    I'll show you what it feels like
    Now I'm on the outside, oh oh
    We did everything right
    Now I'm on the outside

    So you give me no reason
    For me to stay close to you
    Tell me what lovers do
    How are we still breathing
    It's never for us to choose
    I'll be the strength in you

    Now I'm holding on
    Myself was never enough for me
    Gotta be so strong
    There's a power in what you do
    Now every other day I've been watching you, oh oh oh oh

    I'll show you what it feels like
    Now I'm on the outside, oh oh
    We did everything right
    Now I'm on the outside, oh oh
    I'll show you what it feels like
    Now I'm on the outside, oh oh
    We did everything right
    Now I'm on the outside

    I'll show you what it feels like
    Now I'm on the outside
    I'll show you what it feels like

    I'll show you what it feels like
    Now I'm on the outside
    We did everything right
    Now I'm on the outside

    Writer/s: HARRIS, CALVIN / GOULDING, ELLIE
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, DOWNTOWN MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, SONY ATV MUSIC PUB LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Outside Song Chart
  • This song features vocals by Ellie Goulding. The pair previously teamed up on the 2012 single "I Need Your Love."
  • The song acts as a darker sequel to their previous collaboration. Whilst "I Need Your Love found Goulding singing about being enamoured with her guy, this finds her breaking up with him. "I'll show you what it feels like," she sings, "now I'm on the outside."
  • This topped the charts in Finland and Germany and was a Top 10 hit in many other countries. The song was Harris' eighth and Goulding's fifth Top 40 single in the US.

  • Alice Cooper - It's The Little Thing
    Alice Cooper - It's The Little Things


    Alice Cooper - It's The Little Things Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

    Album: Brutal Planet
    Released: 2000

    It's The Little Things Lyrics


    You can burn my house
    You can cut my hair
    You can make me wrestle naked
    With a grizzly bear
    You can poison my cat
    Baby I don't care
    But if you talk in the movies
    I'll kill you right there

    It's The Little Things
    It's just the little things
    Aw it's the little things
    It's just the little things
    Yeah it's the little things
    That drive me wild

    I'm like a mad dog
    I'm on a short leash
    I'm on a tight rope
    Hanging by a thread
    I'm on some thin ice
    You push me too far
    Welcome to my nightmare
    No more Mr. Nice Guy

    You can steal my car
    And drive it into the lake
    You can stick me in the oven
    And put it on bake
    You could throw a big brick
    Through my window pane
    But if I ever hear you ask me
    How I got my name

    It's the little things
    It's just the little things
    Aw it's the little things
    It's just the little things
    Yeah it's the little things
    That drive me wild

    I'm like a mad dog
    I'm on a short leash
    I'm on a tight rope
    Hanging by a thread
    I'm on some thin ice
    You push me too far
    Welcome to my nightmare
    No more Mr. Nice Guy

    I've done it all
    I mean I been everywhere
    I've been beaten
    I been stabbed
    I been hung
    I been buried alive
    And I can deal with that
    But its the little things
    I've done it all
    I mean I been everywhere
    I've been beaten
    I been stabbed
    I been hung
    I been buried alive
    And I can deal with that
    'Cause its the little things

    It's the little things
    It's just the little things
    Yeah it's the little things
    Just the littl

    Writer/s: MARLETTE, BOB / COOPER, ALICE
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    It's The Little Things Song Chart
  • This is about Cooper's observations that little things are what drive people crazy. Things like looking for a parking spot or waiting on hold seem to cause more stress than bigger problems.
  • Cooper based this song on what he noticed about people after 30 years of touring.

  • Dev - Kid
    Dev - Kids


    Dev - Kids Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

    Album: Bittersweet July
    Released: 2014

    Kids Lyrics


    You try to talk, but I'm already gone
    You want a sip, the drink's already done
    My phone is off, I'm already on
    All I want to do is dance
    I keep moving, moving, these bitches are see-through
    I think I've been steering and they're in the rearview
    I'm in my car going back to the bay
    Bad girls in a bad world, let me hear you say

    All I wanna do is get down tonight
    I'm on that shit that I know you like
    Don't judge me 'cause I'm about this life
    Yeah, the kid's gonna be alright

    All I wanna do is get down tonight
    I'm on that shit that I know you like
    Don't judge me 'cause I'm about this life
    Yeah, the kid's gonna be alright

    Yeah, we always did it our way
    Wanna celebrate and misbehave
    Fuck around downtown and act like nothing
    Wait around for everyone to say they love us
    To kiss us and hug us, and come undone
    The day is dead, the night is young
    I get in my car and go back to the teek
    Bad girls and the bad boy, let me hear you scream

    All I wanna do is get down tonight
    I'm on that shit that I know you like
    Don't judge me 'cause I'm about this life
    Yeah, the kid's gonna be alright

    All I wanna do is get down tonight
    I'm on that shit that I know you like
    Don't judge me 'cause I'm about this life
    Yeah, the kid's gonna be alright

    Betcha, betcha wanna do it like this, this, this
    You like it, like it when I do it like this, this, this
    All I wanna do is
    All I, all I wanna do is get down, get down, g-get down tonight
    Get down, get down tonight
    (All I wanna do, all I wanna do)
    Get down, get down tonight

    All I wanna do is get down tonight
    I'm on that shit that I know you like
    Don't judge me 'cause I'm about this life
    Yeah, the kid's gonna be alright

    All I wanna do is get down tonight
    I'm on that shit that I know you like
    Don't judge me 'cause I'm about this life
    Yeah, the kid's gonna be alright

    Betcha wanna do it like this, this, this
    You like it when I do it like this, this, this
    All I wanna do is (this)
    All I wanna do is (this)
    All I wanna do is (this)
    All I wanna do is (this)

    Writer/s: Pringle, Leah / Crawford, Shondrae L / Lee, Brian / Tailes, Devin Star / Solorzano, Michael Rosendo
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Kids Song Chart
  • Dev told Artist Direct the story of the song: "I had the 'Kids' hook for two years and I had no idea what to do with it or how to record it or what verses to write. It is fun and nonchalant, but I sat on it for the longest time."

    "My producer did a rough version of the beat, then I laid the hook and then wrote the verses in one day," she continued. "It came out great. And it is fun. But it took forever. I am back in my zone."

  • Bob Seger - Beautiful Lose
    Bob Seger - Beautiful Loser


    Bob Seger - Beautiful Loser Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

    Album: Beautiful Loser
    Released: 1975

    Beautiful Loser Lyrics


    He wants to dream like a young man
    With the wisdom of an old man.
    He wants his home and security,
    He wants to live like a sailor at sea.
    Beautiful Loser, where you gonna fall?
    You realize you just can't have it all.

    He's your oldest and your best friend,
    If you need him, he'll be there again.
    He's always willing to be second best,
    A perfect lodger, a perfect guest.
    Beautiful loser, read it on the wall
    And realize, you just can't have it all.
    You can't have it all, you can't have it all,
    Oh, oh, can't have it all.

    He'll never make any enemies,
    He won't complain if he's caught in a freeze.
    He'll always ask, he'll always say please.

    Beautiful loser, never take it all
    'cause it's easier, faster when you fall,
    You just don't need it all
    Oh, oh, you just don't need it all.

    Writer/s: ANDERSON, BRETT / OAKES, RICHARD / LEE, ALEX
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Beautiful Loser Song Chart
  • This song is about people who set their goals so low that they never achieve anything. It is not about Seger personally. He told Creem magazine in a 1986 interview: "A lot of people think I wrote 'Beautiful Loser' about myself. I got the idea for that song from a book of Leonard Cohen poetry by the same name. The song was about underachievers in general. I very rarely write about myself that much. I draw on my own experiences like anyone else, but I'm not what you'd call auteuristic. I'm not like my songs at all. I'm a lot more up person than what I write."
    Cohen's book that Seger refers to is called Beautiful Losers.
  • Seger took almost a year to write this. He played around with many different arrangements of this until he got it right. In a 1994 interview with Music Connection, he explained: "I've never written the lyrics and tried to build the music around that. It's usually a feel or a verse or a chorus, and the lyrics will come after I've decided that a certain pattern or groove or rhythm is cool. Then I'll start singing gibberish over that and just find a lyrical idea that fits the ideas that I started out with.

    Other times I'll just sit down and say, 'I wanna write a song called this.' That's how 'Beautiful Loser' happened. I just loved the title, which I got from a book of poetry from Leonard Cohen called Beautiful Losers, with an 's,' and I thought it was a really cool title.

    Actually, I wrote three or four songs called 'Beautiful Loser' until I came up with the one that worked. But that's a pretty rare thing."
  • Glenn Frey, a member of the Eagles and a friend of Seger's, was one of the first people Seger played this for. Frey loved it and helped Seger tweak it before it was released.
  • Radio stations usually play the live version of this together with "Traveling Man" off the 1976 Live Bullet album. The 2 songs are separate cuts on the CD, but flow together seamlessly.
  • A regional hit in Michigan, this song gained a much wider audience when it was included on Seger's breakout album, Live Bullet.

  • Gwen Stefani - Spark The Fir
    Gwen Stefani - Spark The Fire


    Gwen Stefani - Spark The Fire Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

    Album: Yet to be Titled
    Released: 2014

    Spark The Fire Lyrics


    Spark The Fire Song Chart
  • This is one of several tracks that was produced by Stefani's fellow Voice mentor and longtime collaborator Pharrell for her third solo album. Speaking with AMP radio's Carson Daly, the singer explained the story of the song. "He's like, 'I've got to play you this. I have to play you this,'" she said. "And so he plays me this song, and it's like magic. All it was was a beat and he was singing this melody on top and I just knew, that's it. That night, after shooting all day, we went in the studio all night long, stayed up till four in the morning, came back, got on set and then didn't finish."

    Stefani added that completing the song was a challenge, given their busy schedules. "I met him in New York at my fashion show after working all week, and again, we went into the studio all night long," she said "didn't finish, but had these incredible songs coming out, so he came off of tour from Europe, met me in Miami, and we finished the song."
  • A snippet of the song was premiered by Gwen Stefani on AMP Radio on October 20, 2014. Pharrell then played the track as part of a live performance during the Odd Future Carnival in early November 2014. The singer-producer played the tune from his cell phone and explained that it addresses feminist issues.
  • Gwen Stefani interpolates the Rolling Stones famous "hey, get off my cloud" lyric during the pre-hook portion of the song. The No Doubt frontwoman was a surprise guest on the opening night of the Stones' 2013 50 And Counting tour.

  • Jason Aldean - Just Gettin' Starte
    Jason Aldean - Just Gettin' Started


    Jason Aldean - Just Gettin' Started Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

    Album: Old Boots, New Dirt
    Released: 2014

    Just Gettin' Started Lyrics


    I knew the minute that I picked you up
    It was gonna be a wild ride
    You kissed me like you couldn't get enough
    Barely made it out of your drive
    Burn a little rubber at the red light
    Got a little warning from the blue lights
    It's only going 9 o'clock but feels more like midnight

    We ain't even turned up the radio
    Ain't been two miles down the road
    The way you look at me baby I don't know
    If we even gonna make it to the party
    Yeah we gotta whole lot of moon light left
    Already having the time of my lives
    And we're just getting started tonight

    Girl you already got the window down
    And you got your seat laid back
    I ain't even made it halfway to town
    And you're already talking about a 6 pack
    Already got your shoes off
    And you talking about slippin' off
    No we ain't even found your friends saying
    You already wanna get lost

    We ain't even turned up the radio
    Ain't been two miles down the road
    The way you look at me baby I don't know
    If we even gonna make it to the party
    Yeah we gotta whole lot of moon light left
    Already having the time of my lives
    And we're just getting started tonight

    Ain't had a drink and I'm tore up
    Ain't even had a taste of your love
    But girl the crazy thing is
    We're just getting warmed up

    We ain't even turned up the radio
    Ain't been two miles down the road
    The way you look at me baby I don't know
    If we even gonna make it to the party
    Yeah we gotta whole lot of moon light left
    Already having the time of my lives
    And we're just getting started tonight

    And we're just getting started tonight

    Writer/s: GORLEY, ASHLEY / DESTEFANO, CHRIS / AKINS, RHETT
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., WARNER CHAPPELL MUSIC INC, SONY ATV MUSIC PUB LLC, ATLAS MUSIC PUBLISHING
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Just Gettin' Started Song Chart
  • This energetic love song finds Aldean singing of a dirt road drive under the moonlight with a beautiful woman. The song was written by Chris DeStefano, Rhett Akins, Ashley Gorley. The three Nashville songwriters also penned together Billy Currington's hit tune "Hey Girl."
  • Speaking to Radio.com , Aldean admitted that he originally intended to title his sixth album after this song, but the more he considered other tracks on the release it became clear it should be named after the Old Boots, New Dirt tune.

    "We had 'Just Gettin' Started,' which I felt like, here we are on our sixth album and I feel like we're getting warmed up good," he said. "I felt like that was a fitting title. [Then] we started kicking around 'Old Boots, New Dirt.' From all aspects of everything in my life at this point, that seemed like a really good title for everything musically, personally. [I've] been around for a while but [I'm just] getting a fresh start on a lot of things here."

  • Kyu Sakamoto - Sukiyak
    Kyu Sakamoto - Sukiyaki


    Kyu Sakamoto - Sukiyaki Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

    Album: Sukiyaki And Other Japanese Hits
    Released: 1963

    Sukiyaki Lyrics


    Let's look up as we walk, so that the tears don't spill
    Remembering that spring day, that lonely night.
    Let's look up as we walk, count the blurry stars
    Remembering that summer day, that lonely night.

    Happiness is above the clouds,
    Happiness is above the skies.
    Let's look up as we walk, so that the tears don't spill
    Crying as we walk, that lonely night.
    Remembering that autumn day, that lonely night.

    Sadness is in the shadow of the clouds,
    Sadness is in the shadow of the moon.
    Let's walk with our head held up so that the tears don't spill,
    Crying as we walk, that lonely night.

    Writer/s: NAKAMURA, HACHIDAI/EI, ROKUSUKE
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Sukiyaki Song Chart
  • This song has a remarkable story - it's a Japanese hit that became wildly popular in America despite Japanese lyrics that hardly anyone in the US could understand. Kyu Sakamoto was a star in Japan as both an actor and a singer, and this song, known in his country as "Ue O Muite Aruko," was a #1 hit there in 1961.

    Sometime in 1962, a British music executive named Louis Benjamin heard the song when he was traveling in Japan, and he had his group Kenny Ball & his Jazzmen record an instrumental version that made it to #10 on the UK charts. Benjamin renamed the song "Sukiyaki" after a Japanese food he enjoyed - a one-pot dish made with sliced beef, tofu, noodles and vegetables.

    The song made it to America when a disk jockey in Washington state heard the British version, and started playing the original by Sakamoto. He used the title "Sukiyaki," which was much more palatable to Americans than "Ue O Muite Aruko," and requests started pouring in for the song. Capitol Records obtained the American rights to the song and released it stateside, where it went to #1 on the Hot 100 for 3 weeks and also held the top spot on the Adult Contemporary chart for 5 weeks.

    So how did this American disc jockey get a copy of the original song? Marsha Cunningham gave us the answer. She explained to us:
    "In 1961-2 I was a high school student at The American School In Japan, living in Zushi, Japan. My dad was a pilot for Japan Airlines. While enjoying a Japanese movie staring Kyu Sakamoto, I heard the most unbelievably beautiful song. I purchased the record at a local shop and brought it back to the states the next year when I attended a girl's boarding school in Sierra Madre, CA. I played it in the dormitory frequently; everyone liked it. One girl took my record home with her on the weekend so her dad could play it on his radio station, and the rest is history!"
  • The Japanese lyrics are about sadness and isolation; the original title means "I look up when I walk."
  • In 1963, the Country singer Clyde Beavers arranged to have an official of the Japanese embassy (J.S. Shima) translate the lyrics into English. Although Beavers' "Sukiyaki" did not chart, A Taste of Honey made it to #3 in the US with their English lyric version in 1981. A Taste Of Honey was a Disco group who had a hit in 1978 with "Boogie Oogie Oogie." Their bass player/vocalist Janice Marie Johnson came up with the English lyrics for their version. She didn't translate the song literally, but kept the mood of the song with lyrics about a love that was taken away.
  • Kyu Sakamoto was one of 520 people who died in a Japan Airlines crash in 1985. He was 43.
  • Learn more about how this song came to America and what it's like to be an American in Japan in Song Images .
  • The R&B group 4 P.M. (For Positive Music) covered this in 1995 with the same English lyrics that A Taste Of Honey used. Their version went to #8 in the US.
  • This is the only song by a Japanese artist, and the only song with lyrics entirely in Japanese, to hit #1 in the United States.
  • This isn't the first foreign language song to hit #1 in America - that would be "Nel Blu, Dipinto di Blu (Volare)" by Domenico Modugno in 1958. That one was in Italian and kept at least part of the original title.
  • Slick Rick boosted the chorus from the A Taste Of Honey version for an interlude in "La Di Da Di," his 1985 song with Doug E. Fresh.

  • Kendrick Lamar - Keisha's Song (Her Pain
    Kendrick Lamar - Keisha's Song (Her Pain)


    Kendrick Lamar - Keisha's Song (Her Pain) Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

    Album: Section.80
    Released: 2011

    Keisha's Song (Her Pain) Lyrics


    Fancy girls on Long Beach Blvd
    Flagging down all of these flashy cars

    And Lord knows she's beautiful
    Lord knows the usuals leaving a body sore
    She take the little change she make to fix her nail cuticles,
    Lipstick is suitable to make you fiend for more
    She play Mr. Shakur
    That's her favorite rapper bumping "Brenda's Got A Baby"
    While a pervert yelling at her and she capture features of a woman
    But only 17, the 7 cars start honkin'
    She start running like FLo-Jo don't care if they Joe Blow
    If they got money to blow a blow job is a sure go
    And sure enough don't see a dime of dirty dollars
    She give all to her daddy but she don't know her father,
    That's ironic see a block away from Lueders park, I seen the El Camino parked
    In her heart she hate it there, but in her mind she made it where
    Nothing really matters, so she hit the back seat
    Rosa Parks never a factor when she making ends meet

    Fancy girls on Long Beach Blvd
    Flagging down all of these flashy cars

    And Lord knows she's beautiful
    Lord knows the usuals, leaving a body sore
    Her anatomy is God's temple, and it's quite simple
    Her castle is about to be destroyed, she's always paranoid
    Watching the law inside the streets undercover the dummies that look like decoys
    Remember the sergeant let her slide,
    Said if he seen what's between her thighs he'd compromise,
    To no surprise she took the ultimatum around the alleyway and gave him
    A warm welcome to fill him right below the navel
    Though he was wired up like a pair of jumping cables
    His eyes was closed shut, prior charges, he had waived 'em
    It was a block away from Lueders Park, I seen a squad car parked
    And in her heart, she hate it there but in her mind, she made it where
    Nothing really matters, so she hit the back seat
    Cause Rosa Parks never a factor when she topping off police

    Fancy girls on Long Beach Blvd
    Flagging down all of these flashy cars

    And Lord knows she's beautiful
    Lord knows the usuals, leaving a body sore
    As she bust down like a 12 bunk on tour
    She suddenly realized she'll never escape the allure
    Of the black man, white man, needed satisfaction, at first
    It became a practice, but now she's numb to it
    Sometimes she wonder if she can do it like nuns do it
    But she never heard of Catholic religion or sinners' redemption
    That sounds foolish, and you can blame it on her mother
    For letting her boyfriend slide candy under her cover
    Ten months before she was ten he moved in and that's when he touched her
    This muthafucka is the fucking reason why Keisha rushing through that
    Block away from Lueders park, I seen a El Camino park
    And in her heart she hate it there but in her mind, she made it where
    Nothing really matters, so she hit the back seat
    And caught a knife inside the bladder, left her dead, raped in the street Keisha's song

    My little sister eleven, I looked her right in the face
    The day that I wrote this song, set her down and pressed play

    Fancy girls on Long Beach Blvd
    Flagging down all of these flashy cars
    Fancy girls on Long Beach Blvd oh
    Flagging down all of these flashy cars

    Writer/s: LAMAR, KENDRICK / PERKINS, DONTE
    Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    Keisha's Song (Her Pain) Song Chart
  • Section.80 is a concept album that revolves around the life of Tammy and Keisha and explains the personal hardships in their lives. This song, which tells the tragic story of the prostitute Keisha's demise was recorded by Kendrick Lamar for his little sister, as a warning to never become a hooker.
  • The cut was inspired by a real 17-year-old girl that Lamar knew. The teenage prostitute was his friend's younger sister, and right after he saw her standing on a block selling her body, he went home and wrote the song.

  • The Drifters - On Broadwa
    The Drifters - On Broadway


    The Drifters - On Broadway Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

    Album: Greatest Hits
    Released: 1963

    On Broadway Lyrics


    They say the neon lights are bright
    On Broadway (on Broadway)
    They say there's always magic in the air (on Broadway)
    But when you're walkin' down that street
    And you ain't got enough to eat
    The glitter rubs right off and you're nowhere
    They say the girls are somethin' else
    On Broadway (on Broadway)
    But lookin' at them just gives me the blues (on Broadway)
    How ya gonna make some time
    When all you got is one thin dime
    And one thin dime won't even shine your shoes (on Broadway)
    They say that I won't last too long on Broadway (on Broadway)
    I'll catch a Greyhound bus for home they all say (on Broadway)
    But they're wrong, I know they are
    I can play this here guitar
    And I won't quit till I'm a star
    On Broadway (on Broadway)
    But they're wrong, I know they are
    I can play this here guitar
    And I won't quit till I'm a star on Broadway (on Broadway)
    On Broadway (on Broadway)
    I'm gonna make it, yeah (on Broadway)
    I'll be a big, big man (on Broadway)
    I'll have my name in lights (on Broadway)
    Everybody gonna know me (on Broadway)
    All up and down Broadway (on Broadway)
    All up and down Broadway (on Broadway)
    All up and down Broadway

    Writer/s: STOLLER, MIKE / LEIBER, JERRY / MANN, BARRY / WEIL, CYNTHIA
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

    On Broadway Song Chart
  • "On Broadway" was a collaboration between the familiar songwriting team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, and the also-successful team of Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. As such, it represents an especially distilled example of the "Brill Building sound." However, as Leiber and Stoller, and even such music scholars as Al Kooper and Ken Emerson, are hasty to remind us, the "Brill Building sound" actually came from 1650 Broadway as much as it did from 1619 Broadway (the address of the actual Brill Building). Weil and Mann worked out of 1650; Leiber and Stoller at 1619.
  • Pay attention to the instrumentals and vocals here. The Drifters were a cross-over from doo-wop to R&B, with the vocals striking a balance here. The music has a hint of soul with a large production number, and that intrusive guitar kicking in towards the end gives a nod to rockabilly. At this time, Motown was just firing up with its new soul sound, and Mike Stoller reports in Hound Dog: The Leiber & Stoller Autobiography , "Some say Sam Cooke invented soul music in the fifties, and some say Ray Charles. Some say soul didn't come about until later, in the sixties, with the advent of Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin. Others have told us that our productions for the Drifters began it all. Who can say?"

    It's no surprise, then, that Berry Gordy came to see Jerry Leiber at his Brill Building office right before this song came out. Explaining that he wanted to make R&B more appealing to whites by softening the sound, he played some demo tapes for Leiber. Gordy then offered him a partnership. But Leiber turned him down, telling him, "You don't need me. You have everything you need. Just go back to Detroit and do it."
  • Phil Spector was an apprentice to Leiber and Stoller at the time, and he played the guitar solo on this. Spector learned many of his production techniques watching Leiber and Stoller produce The Drifters.
  • This was one of the last Drifters songs featuring lead singer Rudy Lewis, who replaced Ben E. King in 1961. Lewis died of a heart attack in 1964.
  • George Benson's cover version was a #7 US hit in 1978.
  • Gary Numan did a synthesizer-driven cover in 1979. Other artists to cover the song include Neil Young, Frank Sinatra, Tom Jones, Bobby Darin and Sly & the Family Stone.
  • This song was used in TV commercials for Radio Free Europe in the early '60s. (thanks, Jim - Boston, MA)

  • Little Big Town - Faster Gu
    Little Big Town - Faster Gun


    Little Big Town - Faster Gun Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

    Album: Pain Killer
    Released: 2014

    Faster Gun Lyrics


    You walk in six gun style
    Put another bullet in the chamber with your smile

    You move in and you don't stop
    Till your pretty little finger pulls the trigger and the hammer drops

    Love for you is like a wild west movie
    You always end up on the run
    You draw quick and your aim is deadly
    And then you ride off in the sun
    Someday I hope you find a Faster Gun

    Cold steel, gun powder kiss
    Livin' for the taste of new blood on your lips

    Your high noon is a midnight moon
    Puttin' every Jesse James to shame with your gunshot wound

    Love for you is like a wild west movie
    You always end up on the run
    You draw quick and your aim is deadly
    And then you ride off in the sun
    Someday I hope you find a faster gun

    Somebody gonna come along and shoot you
    Like you shot me down
    Somebody gonna come along and shoot you down

    Somebody gonna come along and shoot you
    Like you shot me down
    Somebody gonna come along and shoot you down

    Love for you is like a wild west movie
    You always end up on the run
    You draw quick and your aim is deadly
    And then you ride off in the sun
    (Somebody gonna come along and shoot you down)
    Someday I hope you find a faster gun

    Somebody gonna come along and shoot you down

    Somebody gonna come along and shoot you
    Like you shot me down
    Somebody gonna come along and shoot you down down

    Writer/s: SWEET, PHILLIP / WESTBROOK, JIMI / SPILLMAN, JEREMY / TYNDELL, RYAN
    Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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    Faster Gun Song Chart
  • Little Big Town's Jimi Westbrook and Phillip Sweet penned this song with Nashville songsmiths Jeremy Spillman and Ryan Tyndell. Westbrook explained to Billboard magazine: "We wrote with Jeremy Spillman and Ryan Tyndell on the road -- all four of us, but there were a couple of times where we made it a guys' day."

    "It was just something to shake things up a little bit, and put ourselves in a different place," he added.
  • The song ranks as one of the edgier LBT have cut. According to Westbrook, the two female members call it "the testosterone fest."

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