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Fats Domino - Blueberry Hill

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Album: This Is Fats Domino
Released: 1956

Blueberry Hill Lyrics

I found my thrill
On Blueberry Hill
On Blueberry Hill
When I found you

The moon stood still
On Blueberry Hill
And lingered until
My dream came true

The wind in the willow played
Love's sweet melody
But all of those vows you made
Were never to be

Though we're apart
You're part of me still
For you were my thrill
On Blueberry Hill

The wind in the willow played
Love's sweet melody
But all of those vows you made
Were never to be

Though we're apart
You're part of me still
For you were my thrill
On Blueberry Hill

Writer/s: LARRY STOCK, A. LEWIS, V. ROSE
Publisher: MEMORY LANE MUSIC GROUP
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Blueberry Hill

This was written by Vincent Rose, Al Lewis and Larry Stock for the 1940 Western The Singing Hill before they decided it was good enough to be released commercially. The song was used in the movie, where it was heard for the first time performed by Gene Autry.

Larry Stock, who wrote the lyrics, recalls that "One important publisher turned down Blueberry Hill, because, he claimed, blueberries don't grow on hills. I assured him I had picked them on hills as a boy, but nothing doing. So Chappell And Company bought the song and another hit was born." (thanks, Brett - Edmonton, Canada, for above 2)

Fats recorded this in LA, at a session in which he ran out of material to tape. Domino insisted on recording the song over the vehement objections of producer-arranger Dave Bartholomew, and then forgot the lyrics while he was recording the song. The engineer pieced together the final version from many fragmentary takes.

In 1940, this was a #2 hit for Glenn Miller. In 1956, Louis Armstrong took it to #29 with the assistance of Gordon Jenkins and his orchestra (with a recording that was originally released in 1949). It has also been covered by Elvis Presley, The Beach Boys, Andy Williams, Kiki, Cliff Richard, Bruce Cockburn, and others.

Domino's real name is Antoine Domino. This is his biggest hit and best seller.

In the TV series Happy Days , Ritchie Cunningham (played by Ron Howard), sings this whenever he has found a date. (thanks, Brad Wind - Miami, FL, for above 4)

Ray Manzarek of The Doors admitted on his BBC Radio 2 program that the baseline to "Light My Fire" was based on this song.

Domino Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin performed this song on December 10, 2010 at a charity event in front of an audience of international film and television celebrities. Videos of his performance quickly went viral worldwide. Putin's spokesman said the former KGB chief learned the lyrics to the song as part of his English language studies.

Beware of Darkness - All Who Remain

Beware of Darkness - All Who Remain Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Orthodox
Released: 2013

All Who Remain Lyrics

Tell the one above he’s a criminal
For taking and giving life like marble candy
Everything collapses around me
Overwhelms and astounds me
A Terrible Truth

When you leave this life, the world will be a darker place for
All Who Remain
When you leave this life the world will be a darker place for
All Who Remain
The light you gave the human race will go away…

I see you every time that I close my eyes
I Hum every lullaby that you used to sing
You never know the last time you’ll see someone
So give them all of your love
Cause they’ll disappear

When you leave this life the world will be a darker place for
All Who Remain
When you leave this life the world will be a darker place for
All Who Remain
And the light you gave the human race will go away...

If I can’t have you in this life
Then I don’t want this life at all
Cause there’s nothing in this broken world
That I’ll ever ever love as much

I called and I called you never picked up
I cried and I cried but you never woke up
You died and died without asking me first
You left me all alone here on Earth

When you leave this life the world will be a darker place for
All Who Remain
When you leave this life the world will be a darker place for
All Who Remain
When you leave this life the world will be a darker place for
All Who Remain

Writer/s: NICOLAIDES, KYLE MICHAEL / LOWERY, JOHN
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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All Who Remain

Beware of Darkness is the Los Angeles-based trio of lead singer Kyle Nicolaides, bass player Daniel Curcio and drummer Tony Cupito. Nicolaides wrote this song's lyric, which he told us is about "losing your favorite person on the planet." When we pressed him for details, he declined: "That's all I can say about it."

Nicolaides was clearly going through a rough patch and working out his emotion in the song, where he sings: "If I can't have you in this life then I don't want this life at all."

Nicolaides wrote this song with John 5, a guitarist who has played in Marilyn Manson's band and with Rob Zombie.

Kyle Nicolaides keeps journals, which is where a lot of his song ideas come from. A key line in this song, "When you leave this life, the world will be a darker place," is something he wrote down in a journal months before he wrote this track. He discovered it when he went back to look at the journal, and decided to incorporate it into this song.

The Heartbeats - A Thousand Miles Away

The Heartbeats - A Thousand Miles Away Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: A Thousand Miles Away
Released: 1956

A Thousand Miles Away Lyrics

You're A Thousand Miles Away-ay
Bu-you-t I still have your love to remember you by
Oh, my dar-are-are-arling, dry your eyes
Daddy's coming home soon

On my knees every day-ay
All I do is pray, baby, just for you
Hope you a-a-a-always want me too
Daddy's coming home soon

It may be on a Sunday morning
It may be on a Tuesday afternoon
But no matter what the day is
I'm going to make it my business to get home soon

You're (a thousand miles away)
Bu-you-ut I still have your love to remember you by
Oh, my dar-are-are-arling, dry your eyes
Daddy's coming ho-ome so-oo-on

Writer/s: SHEPPARD, JAMES/MILLER, WILLIAM H
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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A Thousand Miles Away

The Heartbeats started out as The Hearts but changed their name in 1955. The members were Robbie Tatum, Wally Roker, Vernon Sievers, Albert Crump and James Sheppard. They signed with Hull Records and recorded this (co-written by Sheppard) in 1956. After Hull sold the master to Rama Records, this reached #5 on the R&B charts. (thanks, Frank Pellicone - Yardley, PA)

Shortly after this hit, Sheppard left the Heartbeats to form his own group, Shep and the Limelites, who eventually recorded an answer record. Five years later (in 1961) Shep and the Limelites hit #2 on the Hot 100 with "Daddy's Home." (thanks, Brad Wind - Miami, FL)

Beware of Darkness - Heart Attack (Bang Bang Shake)

Beware of Darkness - Heart Attack (Bang Bang Shake) Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Orthodox
Released: 2013

Heart Attack (Bang Bang Shake) Lyrics

Heart Attack (Bang Bang Shake)

In the Punk tradition, this song launches right into the caustic opening line: "Come on, like anybody cares your mother died."

In our interview with lead singer Kyle Nicolaides , he explained that the song is intended to get people to look at their lives in a different way, which can put personal struggles in perspective. "it's basically a really, really abrupt way to say, Does a person in China really care what you're going through right now?," he explained.

This is a track from the first Beware of Darkness album, Orthodox. The album title plays into the existential theme of this song - how there is something bigger than you out there. The original idea was to call the album Bleak and make it a concept set about depression. The band decided that Orthodox was a more meaningful title, and they wanted the songs to be more varied in their content.

"The first half of the word means 'right/true,'" Nicolaides told us. "And the second half means 'belief,' doxy. So it means 'right beliefs,' basically. That really hit home with the material of the record."

Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley

Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Bo Diddley Box Set
Released: 1955

Bo Diddley Lyrics

Bo Diddley bought his babe a diamond ring,
If that diamond ring don't shine,
He gonna take it to a private eye,
If that private eye can't see
He'd better not take the ring from me

Bo diddley caught a nanny goat,
To make his pretty baby a Sunday coat,
Bo diddley caught a bear cat,
To make his pretty baby a Sunday hat

Mojo come to my house, ya black cat bone,
Take my baby away from home,
Ugly ole mojo, where ya bin,
Up your house, and gone again

Bo diddley, bo diddley have you heard?
My pretty baby said she wasn't for it

Writer/s: ELLAS MCDANIEL
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Bo Diddley

The lyrics were based on the American folk song "Mockingbird." It has virtually the same lyrics as the "Mockingbird" adaptation by Charlie and Inez Foxx in 1963, which was later recorded by James Taylor and Carly Simon.

Bo Diddley was born Ellas Bates. He had his name changed to Ellas McDaniels when he was adopted. He took his stage name from a one-stringed Deep South instrument, the Diddley Bow.

Originally titled "Uncle John," the song was rejected by the owners of Chess Records because the original lyrics were "too dirty" for the white American record-buying public. In response, Diddley re-wrote the lyrics and named the song after himself. From this point forward, Diddley often put his name in his songs.

Diddley was trained on the violin as a child, but switched to guitar (to emulate John Lee Hooker) when his sister gave him one for a Christmas present.

Diddley took his longtime partner Jerome Green to play the maracas on the recording. Green's efforts were fed through an echo chamber to get the desired effect.

The Bo Diddley riff was incorporated into many rock'n'roll songs. Examples include "Not Fade Away" (Buddy Holly), "Willie and the Hand Jive" (Johnny Otis Show), "Cannonball" (Duane Eddy), "Hey Little Girl" (Dee Clark), "I Want Candy" (Strangeloves), "Bad Blood" (Neil Sedaka), and "Faith" (George Michael).

Although the riff used in this is ascribed to Bo Diddley (the "Bo Diddley Beat), it didn't originate with him. It goes back to West Africa -- American slaves patted the rhythms on their bodies as they were denied access to their traditional drums (many pre-Civil War slaveholders were afraid of them being used for communication). "Hambone" became part of the African-American musical tradition. Chicago youngster Sammy McGrier did a hambone on a radio talent show in the early '50s; bandleader Red Saunders recorded McGrier, Dee Clark, and Ronny Strong as the Hambone Kids and called the song "Hambone." "Hambone" became a novelty hit despite covers by Tennessee Ernie Ford and the duo of Frankie Laine and Jo Stafford. It was the only chart record for Red Saunders.

Contrary to popular belief, this did not make the Billboard Top Singles chart, but it did hit #1 on the Rhythm and Blues chart.

Diddley's sole Top 40 his was recorded four years later - "Say Man" - a tape of Diddley and Green swapping insults in a bar. Instruments were added in the studio, and a #20 hit was born. (thanks, Brad Wind - Miami, FL, for all above)

Bo Diddley performed this on his Ed Sullivan Show appearance November 20, 1955. Sullivan wanted Diddley to sing "Sixteen Tons," but Diddley played this song anyway, which didn't go over well with the host. Diddley was never asked back.

Killer Be Killed - Wings of Feather and Wax

Killer Be Killed - Wings of Feather and Wax Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Killer Be Killed
Released: 2014

Wings of Feather and Wax Lyrics

Cut from wire, blind of light, from another breed
Realize wrong from right, turning raw inside of me
Having visions in the sight, like cutting razor wire
We live on through the night, night of eternal fire

I never stopped to notice the fire in your hand
A burning so consuming, but now I understand
And now I'm falling, like Icarus to land
Too late to kill the flame that I fanned

Wings above, danger's near, they're coming down
Flying close to the sun, you will only hit the ground
The silence is so deafening, the end is just the beginning
Inside the void, I hear you scream

I never stopped to notice the fire in your hand
A burning so consuming, but now I understand
And now I'm falling, like Icarus to land
Too late to kill the flame that I fanned

Arise, arise, not so close to the sky
Alive, alive, when you face death, you feel alive
Kill it, kill it, channel your animal side
Fire, fire, it's time to start a riot

Unleash your wings
Unleash your soul
Unleash yourself
From the sun

I never stopped to notice the fire in your hand
A burning so consuming, but now I understand
And now I'm falling, like Icarus to land
Too late to kill the flame that I fanned

I never stopped to notice the fire in your hand
A burning so consuming, but now I understand
And now I'm falling, like Icarus to land
Too late to kill the flame that I fanned

Writer/s: MAXIMILIANO CABALLERO, GREGORY JOHN PUCIATO, TROY JAYSON SANDERS
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Wings of Feather and Wax

A band formed by vocalist Greg Puciato (The Dillinger Escape Plan), guitarist Max Cavalera (Soulfly), bassist Troy Sanders (Mastodon), and drummer Dave Elitch (The Mars Volta), Killer Be Killed released its debut album in 2014, with the songs composed by Puciato, Cavalera and Sanders.

The song is a reference to Icarus, a figure in Greek mythology whose father Daedalus crafted him wings made of feathers and wax. Icarus flew too close to the sun, which melted his wings and led to his doom.

The tale is an allegory of unchecked ambition - believing you are capable of more than you are. In this song, the Puciato relates the myth to one-sided relationships. "I've gone out of my way certain times in my life to the point of self-destructive co-dependency where I was trying to fix something or someone, or change something or someone, and I was hurting myself in the process," he told us. "I took that to its absolute limit in a couple of personal relationships in my life around the time of the last year or two. "Feather Wax" references that. It's an inability to fix people's problems that aren't yours." (Here's our full Greg Puciato interview .)

Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life

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Album: Third Eye Blind
Released: 1997

Semi-Charmed Life Lyrics

I'm packed and I'm holding
I'm smiling, she's living, she's golden
And she lives for me
She says she lives for me
Ovation
She's got her own motivation
She comes round and she goes down on me
And I make her smile
It's like a drug for you
Do ever what you want to do
Coming over you
Keep on smiling, what we go through
One stop to the rhythm that divides you
And I speak to you like the chorus to the verse
Chop another line like a coda with a curse
And I come on like a freak show takes the stage
We give them the games we play, she said
I want something else
To get me through this
Semi-charmed kind of life, baby, baby
I want something else
I'm not listening when you say
Good-bye
The sky it was gold, it was rose
I was taking sips of it through my nose
And I wish I could get back there
Some place back there
Smiling in the pictures you would take
Doing crystal myth
Will lift you up until you break
It won't stop
I won't come down, I keep stock
With a tick-tock rhythm and a bump for the drop
And then I bumped up
I took the hit I was given
Then I bumped again
And then I bumped again
How do I get back there to
The place where I fell asleep inside you?
How do I get myself back to
The place where you said
I want something else
To get me through this
Semi-charmed kind of life, baby, baby
I want something else
I'm not listening when you say
Good-bye
I believe in the sand beneath my toes
The beach gives a feeling
An earthy feeling
I believe in the faith that grows
And the four right chords can make me cry
When I'm with you I feel like I could die
And that would be all right
All right
When the plane came in
She said she was crashing
The velvet it rips
In the city we tripped
On the urge to feel alive
But now I'm struggling to survive
The days you were wearing
That velvet dress
You're the priestess, I must confess
Those little red panties
They pass the test
Slide up around the belly
Face down on the mattress
One
Now you hold me
And we're broken
Still its all that I want to do just a little I
Feel myself with a head made of the ground
I'm scared but I'm not coming down
And I won't run for my life
She's got her jaws just locked now in smile
But nothing is all right
All right
I want something else
To get me through this life
I want something else
I'm not listening when you say
Good-bye

Writer/s: STEPHAN JENKINS
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Semi-Charmed Life

In our interview with Third Eye Blind lead singer Stephan Jenkins , he said this song is "about falling apart." It relates specifically to a drug-induced high that makes everything fleetingly better. Said Jenkins: "Perfection is the moment right before gravity comes back in."

This song describes a drug user's descent into crystal meth addiction. The line, "I want something else..." contains a reference to crystal meth in the song. Stephan Jenkins explained on the HBO show Reverb that they intentionally put a chipper melody to the dark lyrical content. Said Jenkins: "When I wrote 'Semi-Charmed Life,' the guitar riff was intended to have this sort of bright duh-nuhnuh-nunt, this shiny thing, because that was a feeling of speed. You know, it's sort of a bright, shiny drug. And we all were sort of into hip-hop, and so it has a hip-hop flow over it."

The line: "Doing crystal meth will lift you up until you break" was a little racy for some radio stations, who played an edited version with the words "Crystal Meth" distorted.

Talking about the deeper meaning of the song on Reverb, Jenkins said: "It's a song about always wanting something. It's about never being satisfied, and reaching backwards to things that you've lost and towards things that you can never get. I think everybody has some identification with that. The story line between the people, the demise of this relationship, is just an extreme example of that condition. I think that's what makes people really relate to 'Semi-Charmed Life.'"

The band has admitted that they borrowed the doot doot doot part of the song from Lou Reed's "Walk On The Wild Side."

This was Third Eye Blind's first single. The group's name could be a reference to a penis, but The Third Eye is also a metaphysical term in new age spirituality referring a state of enlightenment and is associated with clairvoyance. (thanks, Jules - W. Bloomfield, MI)

The original line was "I want nothing else..." but when the song was eventually released, it was changed to "I want something else." No explanation has ever been given for this, however recordings of the original can be found. (thanks, Andy - Chattanooga, TN)

This was played in the Norm MacDonald movie Dirty Work as Norm's character, Mitch, returns home after being fired to find his girlfriend is also kicking him out. (thanks, DC - Kansas City, MO)

In 2015, when we asked Stephan Jenkins how he felt about this song, he replied: "I don't feel like it's really mine. It's participating in the experiences that other people are having with it."

Kyuss - Demon Cleaner

Kyuss - Demon Cleaner Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Welcome to Sky Valley
Released: 1994

Demon Cleaner Lyrics

I've got the demons in me,
I've got to flush them all away,
I feel the demons rage,
I must clean them all away

Yeah (yeah)

Inside I see more,
Cobwebs in the way,
The magic cleaner will,
Shine his smile over me

I am the demon,
Cleaner to save the day,
I get the back one,
Important they'll always stay

If only one thing that you'll know
Impostors from the show,
They'll try to trick you into,
Normal treatment,
Oh don't you listen to them say,
Shush them all away
I am the Demon Cleaner,
Madman of Encino,
I am the the freedom bleeder,
Standing naked here to say,
I'm the only way

Writer/s: HOMME, JOSH
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Demon Cleaner

Written by Kyuss guitarist Josh Homme, "Demon Cleaner" finds frontman John Garcia singing about purging the demons from his system. The song could be interpreted different ways, but it's really about brushing your teeth.

Dentists and oral hygiene were a big deal for Homme, who used to have nightmares about having his teeth pulled. So the song does relate to his personal demons, but it's also quite literal: the line "I get the back one,
Important they'll always stay," is about brushing your molars.

Garcia, however, would interpret Kyuss songs as they related to his life, and he encouraged listeners to do the same. "If you try to get something deeper out of that from that song, I think that's great," he said in our 2014 interview .

Kyuss didn't print the lyrics on their albums for this very reason: they wanted listeners to hear it through their own ears.

Kyuss was full of rancor around this time, with many of their disputes dealing with songwriting and creative control. John Garcia was not involved in the songwriting, which made him feel like he was not respected. Bass player Brant Bjork, who was the main songwriter along with Homme, left the band after the Welcome to Sky Valley album.

Buckner & Garcia - Pac-Man Fever

Buckner & Garcia - Pac-Man Fever Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Pac-Man Fever
Released: 1982

Pac-Man Fever Lyrics

I got a pocket full of quarters, and I'm headed to the arcade.
I don't have a lot of money, but I'm bringing everything I made.
I've got a callus on my finger, and my shoulder's hurting too.
I'm gonna eat them all up, just as soon as they turn blue.

[Chorus]
'Cause I've got Pac-Man Fever;
Pac-Man fever.
It's driving me crazy.
Driving me crazy.
I've got Pac-Man fever;
Pac-Man fever.
I'm going out of my mind.
Going out of my mind.
I've got Pac-Man fever;
Pac-Man fever.
I'm going out of my mind.
Going out of my mind.

I've got all the patterns down, up until the ninth key.
I've got Speedy on my tail, and I know it's either him or me.
So I'm heading out the back door and in the other side;
Gonna eat the cherries up and take them all for a ride.

[Chorus]

I'm gonna fake it to the left, and move to the right;
'Cause Pokey's too slow, and Blinky's out of sight.

Now I've got them on the run, and I'm looking for the high score;
So it's once around the block, And I'll slide back out the side door.
I'm really cookin' now, eating everything in sight.
All my money's gone, so I'll be back tomorow night.

'Cause I've got Pac-Man fever;
Pac-Man fever.
It's driving me crazy.
Driving me crazy.
I've got Pac-Man fever;
Pac-Man fever.
I'm going out of my mind.
Going out of my mind.
Repeat and fade

Writer/s: J. BUCKNER, G. GARCIA
Publisher: EUFAULA MUSIC, INC.
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Pac-Man Fever

Jerry Buckner and Gary Garcia were a songwriting team who recorded jingles and commercials in the Atlanta area when they got hooked on Pac-Man. After a recording session one night, they went to a bar that had the game and started playing. After a few more nights playing Pac-Man, they wrote a song about it.

Buckner & Garcia were slightly ahead of the Pac-Man trend. By the time the game became a phenomenon, they had already released the song on a small label and were in a position to capitalize on the Pac-Man craze. One of their friends who was a disc jockey in Atlanta played it a few times on his show, and the single started selling. This got the attention of CBS records, who signed them to a deal and issued it as a single in wide release.

When CBS signed Buckner & Garcia, they needed them to put out an album, but it had to be quick, before the Pac-Man fad passed. For 3 weeks, Buckner and Garcia went to arcades researching video games and writing songs about them. The result was an album of video-game songs like "Do The Donkey Kong," "Ode To A Centipede," and "Froggy's Lament."

The single sold over 2 million copies and was a major source of revenue for CBS Records. They dropped Buckner and Garcia the next year.

Contains sound effects from the video game. Since there was no good way to do it, the sounds were recorded directly from the machine.

This was recorded in German by Gerald Mann. The title was "Pac-Man Fieber."

Pac-Man was a big deal in 1982. Spin-off games include "Ms. Pac-Man" and "Pac-Man Jr." It was also made into a cartoon series that year.

The Crystal Method - Born Too Slow

The Crystal Method - Born Too Slow Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Legion of Boom
Released: 2003

Born Too Slow Lyrics

Just like seventies goofballs
He's waiting on last calls
Well listen to Method Man
'Cause if you leave him the last line
Don't leave him the brown kind
Born just a little too slow
Just a little too slow

Just a little too
Oh your lights are burning too
Just a little too
Oh just a little too

'Cause if he picks up the wrong kind
You'll know you'll be turning blind
Gun at your head
Lay him down just the wrong way
You know that he's turning gray
Born just a little too slow

Oh your lights are burning too,
Burning too, burning too slow.
Oh your lights are burning too, just a little too.
Just a little too

Your lights are burning too
Just a little too
Oh your lights are burning too
Just a little to slow

'Cause if you leave him the last line
Don't leave him the brown kind
Well listen to Method Man

So if you're leavin' him callin'
You know you'll be fallin'
Lights are burning low
Your stars are burnin' gold
Lights are burning low.
Your stars are burnin' gold

Born just a little too

Writer/s: KEN JORDAN, SCOTT KIRKLAND, WES BORELAND
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Born Too Slow

The Crystal Method (Scott Kirkland and Ken Jordan) wrote the track for this song and commissioned former Kyuss frontman John Garcia to write the lyric and sing on the track. In our interview with Garcia, he said that he was surprised when The Crystal Method asked to work with him, since there wasn't much crossover between their sound and what he did in Kyuss. Garcia, however, has varied musical tastes and was intrigued by the challenge, so he took the gig, choosing this track to work with out of a few that Kirkland and Jordan sent him.

"I like it when I have a personal vendetta with a song, I'll put it to you that way," he said in our 2014 interview . "When I can't fit a lyric or a melody to a song, it becomes a thing with me and I have a relationship with it, and sometimes it wins and sometimes it doesn't win. Well, this one was personal to me and I wanted to see if I could do it. My inner artist was bored with what he was doing, and I just thought it was a challenge."

Describing the lyrical content of this song, John Garcia told us it was "another tragedy about this dude born slow and who got into drugs - just another tragic story."

The 5th Dimension - Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In

The 5th Dimension - Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: The Age Of Aquarius
Released: 1969

Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In Lyrics

When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars
This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius
Age of Aquarius
Aquarius
Aquarius

Harmony and understanding
Sympathy and trust abounding
No more falsehoods or derisions
Golden living dreams of visions
Mystic crystal revelation
And the mind's true liberation
Aquarius
Aquarius

When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars
This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius
Age of Aquarius
Aquarius
Aquarius
Aquarius
Aquarius

Let the sunshine, let the sunshine in, the sunshine in
Let the sunshine, let the sunshine in, the sunshine in
Let the sunshine, let the sunshine in, the sunshine in

Oh, let it shine, c'mon
Now everybody just sing along
Let the sun shine in
Open up your heart and let it shine on in
When you are lonely, let it shine on
Got to open up your heart and let it shine on in
And when you feel like you've been mistreated
And your friends turn away
Just open your heart, and shine it on in

Writer/s: MAC DERMOT, GALT/RADO, JAMES/RAGNI, GEROME /
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In

This was written for the rock opera Hair, where it became an anthem for young people who grew their hair out and protested the US government. In the book By the Time We Got to Woodstock: The Great Rock 'n' Roll Revolution of 1969 , Bruce Pollock writes:
Among the many people calling the publisher in 1968 for a lock of Hair's mystique was the L.A. producer Bones Howe, who'd been working with the 5th Dimension since engineering "Up-Up and Away" for their first album in 1967. He'd produced hits for the Turtles ("It Ain't Me Babe") and the Association ("Windy"); he'd been a personal guest of Lou Adler at the Monterey Pop Festival where he was perhaps the only West Coast guy in attendance to appreciate Laura Nyro's gruesome performance. Later he delivered Laura's "Stoned Soul Picnic" to the 5th Dimension, for which it was their biggest r&b hit. He was shuttling back and forth between his home in L.A. and the studio in New York working on the vocals for the Stoned Soul Picnic album when the group told him they wanted to do "Aquarius."

"The thing that bothered me about it was that there'd been other releases of 'Aquarius,'" said Bones, "and none had done anything, so I was concerned about what we would do that would be any different. I went to see the show and there's a place where they do "The Flesh Failures" and at the end of the song is just a three bar repeated thing of 'Let the sunshine in' where Ragni was swinging across the stage on a chandelier and there was all kinds of craziness going on. That really stayed with me and I came out of the theater saying, I wonder if I could stick that on the end of 'Aquarius' and make that the ending. So I went back to the hotel and I called the publisher. I mean you don't mess with the music from a Broadway show. I started my professional career in 1956 and I knew a lot about what you can and what you can't do with songs. I said, look the 5th Dimension would like to record 'Aquarius,' but I'd like to make it a medley and I'd like to use the last three bars of 'The Flesh Failures' and I don't want to do it without permission. So he said okay, you can go ahead and do it."

The next problem was to go ahead and do it. "The record was plotted in the fall of '68 and more or less finished in January of '69," Bones said. "I had to do a lot of work with my vocal arranger, Bob Alsivar. Because they couldn't sing both songs in the same key, we had to do a modulation; we figured out how I was going to do the instrumental arrangement so we could change keys. The record itself is the result of a conglomeration of things. I began as a jazz musician and I know the standard repertoire pretty well. I kept thinking about a song called 'Lost in the Stars' and trying to find something to give you that kind of impression. I described it to Bill Holman and he wrote that beautiful woodwinds and strings part that's in the intro. We did the track in L.A. and the vocals in Las Vegas where the 5th Dimension were opening for Frank Sinatra. We were working in that studio in Las Vegas where you used to have to stop when the train went by. Once when we were doing practice runs while the train passed Billy started that riff at the end 'oh let the sunshine…' so I said, wait, let me put that on a separate track at the end. There were a lot of happy accidents making the record."

That the Age of Aquarius (harmony, understanding, sympathy, trust, mystic crystals, revelations) announced to mainstream America by the song had already irrevocably given way to Richard Nixon's vision of law and order troubled Bones Howe not in the least. "I was in my thirties then; I was never part of that culture," he said. "But I made records they liked. I spent my life in the studio. Sometimes I went to the Trip and the Crescendo and all of those places on Sunset Strip because I worked with so many of those people. I was the engineer on 'Eve of Destruction' when the Mamas and Papas came to sing backup vocals. I was there the first night they were there and did their first three albums."

The 5th Dimension was a highly popular ensemble group during the late '60s and early '70s. It originally consisted of Billy Davis, Jr., Marilyn McCoo, Lamonte McLemore, and Ron Townson, who were quickly joined by Florence LaRue. They at first called themselves the Versatiles, and owed their rise to Motown Records and Johnny Rivers, who had just started his own record company. This song turned out to be their biggest hit, staying at #1 for six weeks. The 5th Dimension performed several more hits over the years until 1975, when Davis and McCoo got married and left the group. The original group reunited in 1990 for a tour, capitalizing on the growing nostalgia for the music of its era. (thanks, Mike - Santa Barbara, CA)

The Age of Aquarius is when the sun is in the constellation Aquarius during the springtime. The next time that this will happen is 2448. We are currently in the age of Pisces. (thanks, Derick - West Hartford, CT)

This song won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1970. It was the second time the group won the Record of the Year, two years previously they won the award for "Up-Up and Away."

This appeared in the movie Forrest Gump, and has a big part in the movie The 40 Year Old Virgin, where at the end of the movie the cast performs the song in Hippie costumes to celebrate the de-flowering of the virgin. (thanks, Dawson - Draper, UT)

In he movie Apollo 13, there are some scenes where the astronauts are filming live feeds from space from inside the spaceship for viewing on television (the live feeds were commonly featured on network TV in the early days of space flight). In the movie, the astronauts play Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit In The Sky" as the background music and theme song for the TV appearances. Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell has since stated that the real song used as the "Theme Song" was "Aquarius," as Aquarius was the name of the Lunar Landing Module that ultimately served as the crew's lifeboat when the mission went awry. (thanks, justin - Canton, IL)

Ex-Soul Coughing frontman Mike Doughty used the "Let the sunshine in" refrain as the chorus for "Fort Hood," a song from his 2008 album Golden Delicious. (thanks, Joshua - La Crosse, WI)

Banks - Waiting Game

Banks - Waiting Game Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Goddess
Released: 2014

Waiting Game Lyrics

I'm thinking it over
The way you make me feel all sexy but it's causing me shame
I wanna lean on your shoulder
I wish I was in love but I don't wanna cause any pain
And if I'm feeling like I'm evil, we've got nothing to gain

What if I never even see you cause we're both on a stage
Don't tell me listen to your song because it isn't the same
I don't wanna say your love is a Waiting Game

Baby I'm thinking it over
What if the way we started made it something cursed from the start
What if it only gets colder
Would you still wrap me up and tell me that you think this was smart
Cause lately I've been scared of even thinking 'bout where we are

What if I never even see you cause we're both on a stage
Don't tell me listen to your song because it isn't the same
I don't wanna say your love is a waiting game

What if I never even see you cause we're both on a stage
Don't tell me listen to your song because it isn't the same
I don't wanna say your love is a waiting game

Writer/s: BANKS, JILLIAN ROSE / TAYLOR, CHRIS
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., AUSTRO-MECHANA GMBH
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Waiting Game

This was covered by Neon Jungle on their Welcome to the Jungle album, which was released a month before Banks' own Goddess set. The American singer accused the British girl group of failing to get her permission to cover the tune. "People keep asking why I let Neon Jungle put my song 'Waiting Game' on their album when my album has yet to come out," she wrote on her Facebook page. "The answer is I was never asked. I was as shocked as you to see this song made up of my own heartbeats on their album."

"A song that was born from my real life, my real heartache, my real fingertips when I was at one of the most confusing times in my life," Banks added. "How strange it is to see it used on someone else's album before it even comes out on mine. It makes me feel very uncomfortable."

"I am a new artist and new to this business and I am told it is legal. But it feels really icky. I guess I can only hope 'Waiting Game' means as much to Neon Jungle as it did to me when I wrote it."

Banks performed this song along with "Beggin' For Thread" when she made her TV debut on the August 7, 2014 episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live.

The song was used to soundtrack the scene in Divergent when Tris goes to visit her brother Caleb at Erudite headquarters.

This backed a racy Victoria's Secret lingerie commercial as a model walks down a Parisian street.