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Eddie Cochran - C'Mon Everybody

Eddie Cochran - C'Mon Everybody Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: C'Mon Everybody
Released: 1959

C'Mon Everybody Lyrics

Well C'Mon Everybody and let's get together tonight
I got some money in my jeans and I'm really gonna spend it right
Well been a-doin' my homework all week long
And now the house is empty and my folks have gone
Ooo c'mon everybody

Well my baby's number one but I'm gonna dance with three or four
And the house'll be a-shakin' from the bare feet a-slappin' on the floor
When you hear that music you can't sit still
If your brother won't rock you then your sister will
Ooo c'mon everybody

Well we'll really have a party but we gotta put a guard outside
If the folks come home I'm afraid they're gonna have my hide
They'll be no more movies for a week or two
No more runnin' round with the usual crew
Who cares, c'mon everybody

C'mon everybody

Writer/s: Capehart, Jerry / Cochran, Eddie
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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In 1988, this became hit once again in the UK after it was used in a Levi's jeans commercial. It charted at #14 the second time. (thanks, Brad Wind - Miami, FL)

Cochran's biggest hit before his death. In 1960, he died in a car accident at age 21. A month after he was killed, his song "Three Steps To Heaven" was released and went to #1 in the UK.

The English band Humble Pie recorded this in 1973. The Sex Pistols covered this in 1979. It's on the soundtrack to their movie The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle.

Imogen Heap - Neglected Space

Imogen Heap - Neglected Space Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Sparks
Released: 2014

Neglected Space Lyrics

Hello
I watch you come and go
I know you can hear my voice
Don't walk away
Come daydream with me
In closed loops and future-proof cardboard to caviar
Let's show them how good we are
If you look after me, I'll look after you

Sonar, night vision or desperate lovers
Seeking privacy for their forbidden
I am their defenseless host
Through my open wounds they let themselves in
Sheltered (sheltered), they mock me (they mock me)

If you stand up for me, I'll stand up for you

I'm weather-beaten in a losing battle punctured by nature, becoming organic
The air in here ages me, ungracefully!
But if you take care of me, I will take care of you

Oh, my crumbling heart!
If you'll be good to me,
I'll be good to you

I'm amidst
I could be the best decision you ever made, a beacon, your peaceful corner
Find me, cherish me, take me on or pull me down
You choose (Wait!)

Oh, safe in the ache of soul-decay!
'Cause I will remember you
Will you (Remember me?)

Bespoke to broken, this interwoven tapestry of tragedy,
Crooked frames and cracked glazing
Slithers of wistful window gazes glint in borrowed light

Where doorways with no door stage a ballet of leaves,
Who pirouette in the footsteps of once glorious days

By peeling paint, I'm a sunken ceiling,
I'm cracking up, and can seem threatening

I'm falling apart

I'm scary at night
Take dark, forbidden
Keep out, keep out!
No, no, no go forth

A has-been, a once was, the leftovers, an eyesore, bleeding, oxidising,
A few remaining, unloved, emotionally damaged, a waste of space,
A nuisance, I haven't had time to become, unwanted!
What's gone? I'm losing it
This is not what I stand for
This is not what I stand for
This is not what I stand for

It was a perfectly good grand piano

Stop in the name of love!
I've got just what you're looking for!
I've got tree-lined interiors,
Where we can dine with the biosphere

If you'll take care of me, I'll take care of you
If you be good to me, then I'll be good to you

I'm a story in mourning, and you're the author
So pour out your masterpiece

Entropy increasing, how long before I'm dust?

Can we discuss?

Writer/s: HEAP, IMOGEN JENNIFER JANE
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Imogen Heap sings here about bringing to life an old walled garden dating from the 1770s in the Bedfords Park public open space, East London. The song incorporates sounds from on outdoor laboratory run by Clear Village, a charitable trust called in to help with the revitalization drive.

Judas Priest - Halls of Valhalla

Judas Priest - Halls of Valhalla Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Redeemer of Souls
Released: 2014

Halls of Valhalla Lyrics

Writer/s:
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In Norse mythology Valhalla is a giant hall, where the souls of warriors slain in battle are taken by the Valkyries. A form of heaven where they are ruled over by the god Odin, the fallen combatants spend their days fighting safe in the knowledge of never being permanently harmed.

Judas Priest vocalist Rob Halford told the story of this song to Classic Rock Revisited : "I've written about a lot of things in my life as a lyricist and I'm always trying to go one step further and into different places.," he said. "There is a series on American TV called The Vikings. I love that. I loved going to Scandinavia and I love to check out the culture and the history of that place and the other places I visit. The Norse mythology of Scandinavia and Denmark and Sweden and some of England...I think about these things and then about four o'clock in the morning I wake up wondering what I can write about to go with this great music."

"Out of the blue came this word, 'Valhalla,'" Halford continued. "I categorized that as a bullet word, and I realized that was my focus. I write and I write and I write. I always overwrite my lyrics. Who knew that the Metal God would be singing about being on the North Sea and heading to Denmark or Sweden searching for Valhalla? That's the great adventure that we have in Priest."

Other songs that reference the giant hall of Valhalla include Manowar's "Swords In The Wind," Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song (the lyric "Valhalla I am coming") and for those of a more classical bent, Richard Wagner's "The Ride Of The Valkyries."

Concrete Blonde - Joey

Concrete Blonde - Joey Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Bloodletting
Released: 1990

Joey Lyrics

Joey, baby - don't get crazy
Detours, fences...I get defensive

I know you've heard it all before
So I don't say it anymore
I just stand by and let you
Fight your secret war
And though I used to wonder why
I used to cry till I was dry
Still sometimes I get a strange pain inside
Oh, Joey, if you're hurting so am I

Joey, honey - I got some money
All is forgiven. Listen, listen

But if I seem to be confused
I didn't mean to be with you
And when you said I scared you
Well I guess you scared me too
But we got lucky once before
And I don't want to close the door
And if you're somewhere out there
Passed out on the floor
Oh Joey, I'm not angry anymore

And if I seem to be confused
I didn't mean to be with you
And when you said I scared you
Well I guess you scared me too
But if it's love you're looking for
Then I can give a little more
And if you're somewhere drunk and
Passed out on the floor
Oh Joey, I'm not angry anymore
Angry anymore, angry anymore
Writer/s: Napolitano, Johnette Lin
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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This song is about being in love with an alcoholic. Concrete Blonde lead singer Johnette Napolitano wrote it about Marc Moreland of the band Wall Of Voodoo - the bands played many of the same Los Angeles venues in the '80s. Moreland died of liver failure in 2002; Napolitano discussed Moreland and writing the song about him in a concert known as the "D.C. Sessions." (thanks, Michael - Cleveland, OH)

The lyrics to this song didn't come easy, as they were very personal and intense. In our interview with Johnette Napolitano , she told the story: "We did a demo with no lyrics. It was just like scratchy vocals, just me making sounds, basically, where I knew the melody would go. And right away everybody reacted to it. There weren't any lyrics, but there was something about the music that everybody really reacted to. And so we went to England to record the record with Chris Tsangarides, our producer. I knew what I wanted to say, but I wasn't looking forward to saying it. And so it was the last vocal that I recorded.

And I remember Chris every day, 'Do we have vocals to 'Joey' yet? Do we have words to 'Joey' yet?' And I'm like, 'Not yet.' So I literally wrote them in a cab. I knew what I was going to say, it's just a matter of like a cloud's forming and then it rains. The lines are forming in my head and they're all in my head, and I know the chorus, and I know what I'm going to say. It's just a matter of fine tuning the details and how I'm going to lug it out. And then it rains. The clouds all formed and it rained. And then it happened. And that was it. And it was just there."

This is by far the biggest hit for Concrete Blonde, and their only one to make the Hot 100 (they have placed several songs on the Modern Rock charts). Johnette Napolitano has expressed little interest in hit singles or album sales, which led to tensions with the group's label, I.R.S. Records, which signed them in 1986. After five albums with I.R.S., including the gold-certified Bloodletting, the label offered them a deal where the group was sold to Capitol Records.

The group still refused to serve the musical tastes of a wider audience, and they ended up on independent labels. These days, their artistic credibility is unquestioned, but at the time, they took some criticism for daring to have a hit song. Napolitano addressed this in a 1993 interview with Happening when she said: "People call that song a 'sell-out' only because it sold records. If I could intentionally write a Top 40 song, don't you think I would have done it on the first album?"

The video drove hope the alcoholic theme. It featured Napolitano with the band playing in a small club while one lone patron drinks to excess. It was the only Concrete Blonde song to receive significant airplay on MTV.

This was a #1 hit for 4 weeks on the US Modern Rock charts. It gained popularity as "alternative" music was coming into the mainstream and radio stations were looking for stuff like this to play. Finding female voices was particularly problematic for radio program directors in this era of Pearl Jam, so this song was a welcome addition to many playlists.

Judas Priest - Hell & Back

Judas Priest - Hell & Back Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Redeemer of Souls
Released: 2014

Hell & Back Lyrics

I have roamed so far away
I have found there's no turning back
I have seen so many things
I have been to hell and back

Still in the land of the living
Rocking the home of the brave
Staying alive and still kicking
Ain't got no need to be saved

Out of the fire and into the black
We've been through it all
We've been to hell and back

When I was young life was savage
The leather gets scuffed as it's worn
Rolling along you get damaged
So you grab the bull by the horns

Out of the fire and into the black
We've been through it all
We've been to hell and back
Taking it up higher when you're under attack

We've been through it all
We've been to hell and back

We have roamed so far away
We have found there's no turning back
We have seen so many things
We have been to hell and back

Out of the fire and into the black
We've been through it all
We've been to hell and back
Taking it up higher when you're under attack

We've been through it all
We've been to hell and back

We've all been under attack
We've all been to hell and back

We've all been under attack
We've all been to hell and back

We've all been under attack
We've all been to hell and back

We've all been under attack
We've all been to hell and back

Writer/s: FAULKNER, RICHARD / TIPTON, GLENN RAYMOND / HALFORD, ROBERT
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Judas Priest vocalist Rob Halford told Classic Rock Revisited that this song is autobiographical. "You know, the leather gets scuffed up and worn," he said. "By the end of a tour my leather is ready for the dump as it is all beat up. When we finish a tour we are physically and mentally exhausted which means we've done a good job. It is a little bit of that."

"We throw in that we are still alive and kicking and the home of the brave and all these references," Halford continued. "It's like the song 'Never Forget' is a testament to our beautiful fans that have loved and supported us over the years. There are lots of wonderful messages on Redeemer of Souls."

Phish - Fast Enough for You

Phish - Fast Enough for You Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Rift
Released: 1993

Fast Enough for You Lyrics

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The lyrics refer to Tom Marshall, who has written many songs with guitarist Trey Anastasio. They talk about how Marshall's relationship with his girlfriend was not going as fast as she wanted it to go. It was a direct response to her wish to get married. (thanks, Jeff - Kendall Park, NJ)

Marshall has written many songs with Anastasio, including "Stash," "Bouncing Around the Room," and "Down With Disease." Some of his solo compositions performed by Phish include "Dirt" and "First Tube."

Appears on their 3-disc 2002 live release, Vol. 12 - 8/13/96 - Noblesville, IN. This is part of a series of live Phish concerts released on CD in their entirety.

Kimbra - Madhouse

Kimbra - Madhouse Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: The Golden Echo
Released: 2014

Madhouse Lyrics

Devils don't lie
They just fuel the heart’s fire for more, more

Devils don't pry
They just wait until you want a bit more, more

I don't want lies
I want open skies
I want doors, doors

But the pressure keeps prying
There's an open fire at the core, core

Oh hear the sound of the Madhouse that you’re making
Oh hear the sound of the madhouse that you’re making

Chaos and disorder!
I’m a mess then I’m a messiah
(Don’t you leave me alone)
In the chaos and disorder!
I’m a mess then I’m a messiah
(I’m terrorizing everything)

The way we get by
Is to lie, lie, lie
A bit more, more

Way we get high
Is get high on pride
A bit more, more

You go deep inside
No room for the light
In these four walls

Hunting for your dream
Down the cocaine streets
Give me more, more

Oh hear the sound of the madhouse that you’re making
Oh hear the sound of the madhouse that you’re making

Chaos and disorder!
I’m a mess then I’m a messiah
(Don’t you leave me alone)
In the chaos and disorder!
I’m a mess then I’m a messiah
(I’m terrorizing everything)

Inside of my head
It’s a madhouse that you’re making
Oh hear the sound of the madhouse that you’re making
Breaking inside of me

We gotta find that light shining in the hard times
Gotta find that light shining in the dark times
Gotta find that light shining in the hard times
Gotta find that light shining in the dark times

Oh hear the sound of the madhouse
Oh hear the sound of the madhouse
Breaking inside of me

Whats that clack clack? Gotta get outta here
Rather be caught dead than die in here!

Writer/s: JOHNSON, KIMBRA / BRUNER, STEPHEN LEE / WHITLEY, JOEL DAVID / BRUNER, RON
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., THIRD SIDE MUSIC INC.
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This bass-driven track sounds like a long-lost Prince cut. "I can't help but be influenced by Prince," Kimbra told Radio.com . "But I think I was trying not to. I don't ever want to sound too much like an artist I love."

Petula Clark - My Love

Petula Clark - My Love Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: My Love
Released: 1966

My Love Lyrics

My Love is warmer than the warmest sunshine
Softer than a sigh.
My love is deeper than the deepest ocean
Wider than the sky.
My love is brighter than the brightest star
That shines every night above
And there is nothing in this world
That can ever change my love

Something happened to my heart the day that I met you
Something that I never felt before
You are always on my mind no matter what I do
And everyday it seems that I want you more

My love is warmer than the warmest sunshine
Softer than a sigh.
My love is deeper than the deepest ocean
Wider than the sky.
My love is brighter than the brightest star
That shines every night above
And there is nothing in this world
That can ever change my love
Once I thought that love was meant for anyone else but me
Once I thought you'd never come my way
Now it only goes to show how wrong we all can be
For now I have to tell you everyday

My love is warmer than the warmest sunshine
Softer than a sigh
My love is deeper than the deepest ocean
Wider than the sky
My love is brighter than the brightest star
That shines every night above
And there is nothing in this world
That can ever change my love
My love is warmer than the warmest sunshine
Softer than a sigh
My love is deeper than the deepest ocean
Wider than the sky
My love is brighter than the brightest star
That shines every night above
And there is nothing in this world
That can ever change my love

Writer/s: CARWELL, SUE ANN/JENKINS, TOMI/ENOS, JOHNSON
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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This was Clark's second #1 hit in the US. She was the first British solo act to have two #1 singles in the States. Her first #1 was "Downtown," released the previous year.

Tony Hatch wrote this song as he flew from London to Los Angeles, where Clark recorded it. The air travel have him the idea for the idea of love transcending distance.

This was one of three songs Clark recorded at the session, and she hated it. She had to leave right after she was done with her vocals, but on the way out implored her American record label representative, Joe Smith, not to release "My Love." Smith, sensing a hit, put it out anyway, telling Petula, "Trust me, baby." He was right about he song being a hit, but this didn't appease Petula, who now had to perform it. When we asked her in 2013 why she didn't like the song, Petula explained: "I thought it was a bit ordinary. I had got so used to these wonderful songs that Tony [Hatch] had been writing with all these different moods and I thought it was just a bit flat. You know what, I still do. But I do sing it now. For a long time I wouldn't sing it on stage, but I sort of play around with it a little bit now and that makes it a bit easier for me to do it." (Here's our full Petula Clark interview .)

Opeth - Faith in Others

Opeth - Faith in Others Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Pale Communion
Released: 2014

Faith in Others Lyrics

The grave of our youth is up ahead
And life has become a burden
We move in circles of suppressed despair
Waiting for the sun
And turning stones to find evidence
But it hides in the recesses of our hearts

A written decree of our loss
And we carried no faith in the cross
And the cold years are coming
For the victims of a longing

Out through the doors of starvation
And into the rains of damnation
Where the bitter winds are singing
For the victims of a longing

We carried along through squalor
With an inborn need to dominate and possess
It gives birth to an anger inside
And we can't control this
The blood of departure in our tracks
Dripping from our emptying vessels
Your hand reached out to hold mine
But you're grasping melting ice

Asleep in the rain
A child once again
And the ghost in my head
Has forgiven me

Lifted his curse upon me

Writer/s: AKERFELDT, MIKAEL LARS
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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The closing track on Pale Communion, this was the first song that frontman Mikael Škerfeldt wrote for the album. Speaking with Noisey , he explained: "Normally when I start writing for a record, I'm a bit nervous. You don't know whether or not you're going to be able to come up with something that you like or come up with something at all, to be honest. I was inspired because pretty early on, I wrote a song on the new album — the last song on there, which I ended up being really happy with. So I had some type of guidelines which was more melody, I think."

"[2011's] Heritage was somewhat deliberately f--ked up all over the place because I love f--ked-up-all-over-the-place-type music, but I wanted to do something more melodic with this album, so there's stronger vocal melodies and more melodies overall for this album," Škerfeldt continued. "I was pretty consistent with that frame of mind throughout the writing process, so at least I had a plan with this album, and I normally don't, to be honest."

Bobby Vinton - Mr. Lonely

Bobby Vinton - Mr. Lonely Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Roses Are Red
Released: 1962

Mr. Lonely Lyrics

Lonely, I'm Mr. Lonely
I have nobody for my own
I am so lonely, I'm Mr. Lonely
Wish I had someone to call on the phone

Now I'm a soldier, a lonely soldier
Away from home through no wish of my own
That's why I'm lonely, I'm Mr. Lonely
I wish that I could go back home

Letters, never a letter
I get no letters in the mail
I've been forgotten, yes, forgotten
Oh how I wonder, how is it I failed

Now I'm a soldier, a lonely soldier
Away from home through no wish of my own
That's why I'm lonely, I'm Mr. Lonely
I wish that I could go back home

Writer/s: THIAM, ALIAUNE / ALLEN, GENE / VINTON, BOBBY
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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The fourth and last of the #1 singles by Vinton, this is the only one that was not a cover. Vinton wrote the song with Gene Allan, a songwriter who worked for Don Kirshner's Aldon Music.

This was recorded in the make-or-break session in which Vinton recorded "Roses Are Red (My Love)," in 1962. His label, Epic Records, was going to drop him if he did not produce a hit. Said Vinton: "I wrote the song when I was in the Army, and when I did my first recording session - which was 'Roses Are Red' - the producers asked if I had any songs of my own. I played them 'Mr. Lonely' and they loved it."

After he recorded this song, Epic Records refused to release it, preferring to offer it to Buddy Greco, who was another artist in their stable. Greco's version stalled at #64 in the US in 1962, and that looked like the end of "Mr. Lonely." However, when Epic Records scheduled the release of a greatest hits LP for Vinton, the singer insisted upon the inclusion of his mothballed recording of this song. It became a hit quickly after the release of the LP, and as with "Blue Velvet," the single was released in response to popular demand.

This remains Vinton's favorite recording. It has endured through numerous cover versions. Frank Chacksfield, Franky B., The Lettermen, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, The Red Squares and The Village Stompers all recorded the song. Akon's 2005 hit Lonely is based on a sample of this song.

Sixx: A.M. - Stars

Sixx: A.M. - Stars Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Modern Vintage
Released: 2014

Stars Lyrics

Do you wanna go to heaven tonight
Leave the evidence far behind
Say alright, alright
Do you wanna be my lover tonight
We can leave everybody else behind
Say alright, alright

Do you wanna see heaven tonight?
Underneath those lights you will look so beautiful
Do you wanna see the Stars before they fall?
See the stars before they fall

Do you wanna be my love tonight?
And for all my life it could be so wonderful
Do you wanna see the stars before they fall?
See the stars before they fall

Maybe we should just run away
Never look back 'cause the world decay
Say alright, alright
Nothing matters ever since the day
You put a pin in my heart like a hand grenade
Say alright, alright

Do you wanna see heaven tonight?
Underneath those lights you will look so beautiful
Do you wanna see the stars before they fall?
See the stars before they fall

Do you wanna be my love tonight?
And for all my life it could be so wonderful
Do you wanna see the stars before they fall?
See the stars before they fall

All I love being almost fearless
(Run) Run until we disappear and
Never let they come and get you
Never let them take my way just run

Do you wanna see heaven tonight?
Underneath those lights you will look so beautiful
Do you wanna see the stars before they fall?
See the stars before they fall

Do you wanna be my love tonight?
And for all my life it could be so wonderful
Do you wanna see the stars before they fall?
See the stars before they fall

Before they fall (oh)
Before they fall (oh)
Before they fall (oh)
Do you wanna see the stars before they fall? (oh)
Before they fall (oh)
Before they fall (oh)
Before they fall (oh)
Do you wanna see the stars before they fall?

Writer/s: ASHBA, DJ / SIXX, NIKKI / MICHAEL, JAMES
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group, DOWNTOWN MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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According to James Michael, this Modern Vintage track is, "a quintessential Sixx: A.M. song." The Sixx: A.M. vocalist explained: "I think 'Stars' might be one of the best songs we've ever written. It does everything Sixx: A.M. does on a heightened level."

"It's one of the most aggressive rock songs we have — the tempo is a lot faster than we usually write," Michael continued. "It's one of those moments you always hope for as a songwriter, where the melody line, lyric and the track all marry. That chorus explodes — it gives me goosebumps every time I hear it, and I've heard it thousands of times."

Bobby Vinton - Blue Velvet

Bobby Vinton - Blue Velvet Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Blue on Blue
Released: 1963

Blue Velvet Lyrics

She wore Blue Velvet
Bluer than velvet was the night
Softer than satin was the light

From the stars
She wore blue velvet
Bluer than velvet were her eyes
Warmer than May her tender sighs

Love was ours
Ours a love I held tightly
Feeling the rapture grow
Like a flame burning brightly
But when she left, gone was the glow of

Blue velvet
But in my heart there'll always be
Precious and warm, a memory

Through the years
And I still can see blue velvet
Through my tears

Writer/s: LEE MORRIS, BERNIE WAYNE
Publisher: Spirit Music Group, DEMI MUSIC CORP. D/B/A LICHELLE MUSIC COMPANY
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After the success of his song "Blue on Blue" (#3 in mid-1963), Vinton decided to record an album of "Blue" songs ("Blue Moon," "Blue Hawaii," "Am I Blue," etc). As he was picking up sheet music in Nashville, Vinton received a gift from publisher Al Gallico: a copy of "Blue Velvet," which in 1951 was the last major hit for Tony Bennett. The song fit very well with Vinton's project, as every song on the album had "Blue" in the title.

This was considered a throwaway, recorded in only two takes. Vinton was not impressed with the recording, but Epic Records released it as a single in response to popular demand. His recording caught on and is considered the definitive version.

Written by Bernie Wayne and Lee Morris, the song had also been recorded by The Clovers in 1955. Other artists to record the song include Sammy Davis, Jr., The Countdown Singers, Jackie Gleason, Brenda Lee, The Lettermen, Barry Manilow, The Moonglows, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 1986, a movie called Blue Velvet, directed by David Lynch, was released. This song had a prominent role: It was used in a gruesome scene where we discover a human ear that had been cut off someone's head. The song completely contradicted the mood of the scene, which apparently was the point. The movie brought the song to a new audience, although it was now associated with a severed ear.

Vinton's version stalled at #33 in the UK in 1963 - however, on reissue in 1990 it peaked at #2, and, by some amazing coincidence, at one point it occupied at chart slot adjacent to a near-namesake: Alannah Myles' "Black Velvet." (thanks, Dave - Cardiff, Wales)

A cover by Lana Del Rey soundtracked a commercial for clothing company H&M. Del Rey's version also featured on the re-release of her 2012 debut album, Born To Die.