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Harper Simon - Dixie Cleopatra

Harper Simon - Dixie Cleopatra Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Division Street
Released: 2013

Dixie Cleopatra Lyrics

Dixie Cleopatra

This is a track from Division Street, an album that Simon co-produced with Tom Rothrock, who helmed three albums for Elliott Smith (Either/Or, XO and Figure 8). "I felt challenged and inspired by the idea of making a modern psychedelic folk-rock album, a Tom Rothrock production like XO, but then the Velvet Underground and the Stones kept entering in," said Simon. "Elliott Smith was very influenced by the Beatles but my guitar playing is more influenced by Keith Richards. And I kept wanting to emphasize more lo-fi elements."

The song was intended to be a slice of rock 'n' roll fun. "There are other songs on the album that were more about wounded animals, misfits, and people with real problems that they may or may not be dealing with. I wanted 'Dixie Cleopatra' to be a fun, psychedelic garage stomp rock 'n' roll song," Simon told Artist Direct . "It felt like the album should have one in it."

"It was more of a conceptual idea," he added. "It's a Ramones, Stooges, Chuck Berry rock 'n' roll style put in with this made-up futuristic language that doesn't really belong in that sort of song. It's that concept more than a story about a specific person. I do have a friend named Dixie Cleopatra though."

Chad Kroeger - Hero

Chad Kroeger - Hero Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Spiderman Soundtrack
Released: 2002

Hero Lyrics

I am so high, I can hear heaven
I am so high, I can hear heaven
Whoa, but heaven, no, heaven don't hear me

[Chorus]
And they say
That a Hero could save us
I'm not gonna stand here and wait
I'll hold onto the wings of the eagles
Watch as we all fly away

Someone told me
Love would all save us
But, how can that be
Look what love gave us

A world full of killing
And blood spilling
That world never came

[Chorus]

Now that the world isn't ending
It's love that I'm sending to you
It isn't the love of a hero
And that's why I fear it won't do

[Chorus]

[Repeat: x3]
And they're watching us
They're watching us
As we all fly away

Writer/s: FREDERIKSEN, MARTI/MC GEE, PAT
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Hero

This was written for the movie Spiderman. The web crawler is the hero that will save us.

Chad Kroeger is the lead singer of rock band Nickelback. They had a huge hit with the song "You Remind Me." Singing with him on the track is Josey Scott from the group Saliva. Scott and Kroeger wrote the song while their bands were on tour together. (thanks, Linda - Oudenaarde, Belgium, for above 2)

This won the 2002 MTV Video Music Award for Best Video from a Film.

A dispute over profits from this song led to a rift between Kroeger and Scott. Scott, in his band Saliva, included a lyric in one of the bands songs that insults Nickelback because of it. (thanks, Julia - Detroit, MI)

Ice Cube - Drop Girl

Ice Cube - Drop Girl Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Everythang's Corrupt
Released: 2014

Drop Girl Lyrics

Drop Girl

This summery hip-hop anthem features 2 Chainz and former LMFAO member RedFoo. Cube told MTV UK in July 2014 that the cut was a long time coming. "I ran into 2 Chainz a couple of years ago and we admired what each other was doing and RedFoo I've known since he first started," he said. "His mother [video director and writer Nancy Leiviska] has been working with me for a long time, so it's been real cool because we waited till the perfect time, when we had the perfect song."

The song's music video was directed by Will Kendrick. "Will is very creative, especially from working in children's television, and I wanted the song to be fun," Cube said "I mean, it's got RedFoo in it, it can't be too heavy!"

Carpenters - (They Long to Be) Close to You

Carpenters - (They Long to Be) Close to You Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Close to You
Released: 1970

(They Long to Be) Close to You Lyrics

Why do birds suddenly appear
Every time you are near?
Just like me, they long to be
Close to you.

Why do stars fall down from the sky
Every time you walk by?
Just like me, they long to be
Close to you.

On the day that you were born
The angels got together
And decided to create a dream come true
So they sprinkled moon dust in your hair of golden starlight in your eyes of blue.

That is why all the girls in town
Follow you all around
Just like me, they long to be
Close to you.

On the day that you were born
The angels got together
And decided to create a dream come true
So they sprinkled moon dust in your hair of gold and starlight in your eyes of blue.

That is why all the girls in town
Follow you all around
Just like me, they long to be
Close to you.

Just like me, they long to be
Close to you.

Wa, close to you
Wa, close to you
Ha, close to you
La, close to you

Writer/s: BACHARACH, BURT F. / DAVID, HAL
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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(They Long to Be) Close to You

This was written by the songwriting team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David. It was originally released as the B-side of "Blue Guitar" by Richard Chamberlain in 1963. (thanks, Richard - Toronto, Canada)

Dusty Springfield recorded an early version of this song in 1964, which was originally scheduled for release as a single and potential follow-up to her hit "I Just Don't Know What To Do with Myself." However, it wasn't until 3 years later, in 1967, that her version was finally was released on her album Where Am I Going?.

The Carpenters signed with A&M Records in 1969, which was co-owned by Herb Alpert. Burt Bacharach asked Alpert to record the song himself, but he didn't feel comfortable with the lyrical content - "Moondust in your hair" - and instead produced a new arrangement for the Carpenters. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

Richard Carpenter said of recording this song: "He (Herb Alpert) just gave me a lead sheet, and he said, 'I have a recording of this, but I don't want you to hear it. I don't want anything to influence what I may come up with. Just keep, at the end of the first bridge, two piano quintuplets.' That record, that song, the arrangement, all of it, is misleading to the uninitiated, because it sounds simple. And it's anything but simple."

In their first sessions for this song, Karen Carpenter played the drums, which Alpert didn't like. Said the producer: "I thought it was a little light. And so I asked them to go back in the studio again, because Karen was playing drums. And they recorded it the second time and I still felt they were missing a little something on the groove, so I suggested very carefully to Karen that maybe Hal Blaine should come in and play drums on it."

Blaine replaced Karen on drums and they got the take they liked with Richard on piano, Joe Osborn on bass, and Karen singing.

The trumpet part in the middle of the song didn't come easy: Richard had a very specific sound in mind, and had multiple trumpets trying to play it, which wasn't working because each trumpet was playing slightly different. Chuck Findley solved the problem by playing all the parts himself, then layering them together to create the elusive sound Richard wanted.

This was the first of a string of hits for the Carpenters. They dominated Easy Listening radio in the early '70s.

The Carpenters' first single was a cover of The Beatles' "Ticket To Ride," which hit #54 in the US. This was their second single.

This was featured in the 1989 movie Parenthood, starring Steve Martin. It was used in a scene where Rick Morranis' character sings to apologize to his wife in the middle of teaching her class. (thanks, Britney - Calabasas, CA)

Jesse McCartney - In Technicolor Part I

Jesse McCartney - In Technicolor Part I Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Technicolor
Released: 2014

In Technicolor Part I Lyrics

In Technicolor Part I

The title track of Jesse McCartney's Technicolor album, the song is split into two parts. "'In Technicolor,' I had a theory, and I still have this theory that we're all on planet Earth for a very short amount of time, as everyone knows, and basically we're here and we're searching for that one person that validates you or see you for what you're worth," McCartney explained to MTV News. "And until you find that person, your life is black and white, and that person puts the color in your world."

"So, 'In Technicolor' is a song that was written in two parts for this album and basically says that a lot more eloquently," he added, "and in a cool way on the album and just kind of has that retro sound to it so I think it matched the record musically as well."

Louis Armstrong - We Have All The Time In The World

Louis Armstrong - We Have All The Time In The World Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Her Majesty's Secret Service Soundtrack
Released: 1969

We Have All The Time In The World Lyrics

We Have All The Time In The World
Time enough for life to unfold
All the precious things love has in store
We have all the love in the world
If that's all we have
You will find we need nothing more
Every step of the way will find us

With the cares of the world far behind us
We have all the time in the world
Just for love nothing more nothing less only love
Every step of the way will find us
With the cares of the world far behind us
We have all the time in the world
Just for love nothing more nothing less only love

Writer/s: DAVID, HAL/BARRY, JOHN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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We Have All The Time In The World

This was not a hit when it was first released, but became very popular 30 years later when it was used in a UK ad campaign for Guinness beer.

This was the theme song to the 1969 Bond film Her Majesty's Secret Service. George Lazenby played Bond in that one, with Diana Rigg as the Bond girl. (thanks, Ben - London, England, for above 2)

The recording session for this turned out to be Armstrong's last.

Josh Record - The War

Josh Record - The War Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Pillars
Released: 2014

The War Lyrics

The War

Singer-songwriter Josh Record hails from Stroud, Gloucestershire in South England. This is the title track from his 2013 self-produced EP The War.

The song received critical acclaim and BBC Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe made it his "Hottest Record of 2013." Record told The Sun. "I've never just sat down to write a song for the sake of it – I normally write when I'm an absolute wreck."

"The first song I ever put out was called 'The War.' Zane Lowe then downloaded it off YouTube and played it on Radio 1. It was kinda illegal but I like it!"

Record also included the track on his 2014 debut album, Pillars.

Ray Charles - One Mint Julep

Ray Charles - One Mint Julep Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Genius + Soul = Jazz
Released: 1961

One Mint Julep Lyrics

One Mint Julep

A Mint Julep is a drink made with bourbon, sugar, and cracked ice. Served with a sprig of mint, it is a traditional drink at horse races.

The Clovers did the original version in 1952 (with a cover by Louis Prima the same year), but Charles made it uniquely his own. Other artists to record the song include Sarah Vaughan, Duane Eddy, Count Basie, King Curtis and The Ventures.

Released on ABC's Impulse! Jazz label, Charles' recording was a surprise hit. The producer was Creed Taylor, who started the Impulse! label. Charles' one and only album with Impulse! was due to their association with ABC Records, whom he was signed to.

This song is mainly an instrumental, with room for some improvised vocals. Taylor takes credit for the one vocal line in Ray's version of the song, stating he told Charles that during the break in the instrumental, he wanted Charles to say, "Just a little bit of soda." Charles seemed hesitant for a bit, but complied... sort of. Instead, he said, "Just a little bit of SOUL, yeah!" Interestingly, this "incidental" line helped further fuel the Soul Music Movement of the 60s. In addition, several other acts began using the phrase in their own way, most noticeably Little Stevie Wonder in his first hit, "Fingertips (Part 2)." (thanks, Faundell - Brooklyn, NJ, for above 2)

La Roux - Paradise Is You

La Roux - Paradise Is You Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Trouble in Paradise
Released: 2014

Paradise Is You Lyrics

Walking along on a sandy beach
Everybody's laughing under cigarette trees
And the water here is crystal clear and bright
The air is rich with a Hawaiian breeze
The grass is alive with sugar weeds
And the hill tops tuck in the bay for the night

And the palm trees make it feel like paradise
But without you here there's nothing nice
'Cause in your eyes
That's my paradise

When all the roads ahead of me stop looking new
My Paradise Is You, my paradise is you
When everything I know is slipping out of view
My paradise is you, my paradise is you

You
My heaven is you

The runners run and the teasers tease
But none of these faces can set me free
And the water here is crystal clear and bright
When I compare this pleasure beach
To all the places in your eyes that I have seen
It could be anywhere, if you're not by my side

And the palm trees make it feel like paradise
But without you here there's nothing nice
'Cause in your eyes
That's my paradise

When all the roads ahead of me stop looking new
My paradise is you, my paradise is you
When everything I know is slipping out of view
My paradise is you, my paradise is you

When all the roads ahead of me stop looking new
My paradise is you, my paradise is you
When everything I know is slipping out of view
My paradise is you, my paradise is you

You
My heaven is you
My heaven is you
My heaven is you

All my love is for you
Darling it's only you who can stop my heart from crying

(When all the roads ahead of me stop looking new) All my love is for you
(My paradise is you, my paradise is you) Darling it's only you who can stop my heart from crying

(When everything I know is slipping out of view) All my love is for you
(My paradise is you, my paradise is you) Darling it's only you who can stop my heart from crying

(When all the roads ahead of me stop looking new) All my love is for you
(My paradise is you, my paradise is you) Darling it's only you who can stop my heart from crying

(When everything I know is slipping out of view) All my love is for you
(My paradise is you, my paradise is you) Darling it's only you who can stop my heart from crying

(When all the roads ahead of me stop looking new) All my love is for you
(My paradise is you, my paradise is you) Darling it's only you who can stop my heart from crying

(When everything I know is slipping out of view) All my love is for you
(My paradise is you, my paradise is you) Darling it's only you who can stop my heart from crying

(When all the roads ahead of me stop looking new) All my love is for you
(My paradise is you, my paradise is you) Darling it's only you who can stop my heart from crying

(When everything I know is slipping out of view) All my love is for you
(My paradise is you, my paradise is you) Darling it's only you who can stop my heart from crying

All my love is for you
(My heaven is you) Darling it's only you who can stop my heart from crying (All my love is for you)

(My heaven is you) All my love is for you
(My heaven is you) Darling it's only you who can stop my heart from crying (All my love is for you)

Writer/s: Sherwin, Ian Francis / Jackson, Elly / Langmaid, Ben
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Paradise Is You

This song finds La Roux's Elly Jackson in tropical paradise away from her beloved. However, without her lover, the palm-lined beach is "nothing nice."

The song is a track from La Roux's Trouble In Paradise album. Jackson explained its title to NME: "There are lot of themes to the record and I think that 'Trouble In Paradise' is a nice umbrella title," she said. "In songs I like the juxtaposition between dark and light. It's that feeling you get when you're in a club and there's a tune that's essentially a happy tune, but there's something about it that's melancholy – whether it's a chord, or one part of the melody, or one line of the lyrics – and it makes you feel like you could cry, but also run at the same time. That's what really gets me – that mood – and that's what the record tries to capture."

This track and the rest of the album's sunny atmosphere comes from growing up in Brixton, where La Roux still lives. (A large percentage of Brixton's population is of African and Caribbean descent). "I never really felt it came out on my first record," she told The Independent, "but I've always been fascinated by Caribbean culture."

Ray Charles - Busted

Ray Charles - Busted Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul
Released: 1963

Busted Lyrics

My bills are all due and the baby needs shoes and I'm Busted
Cotton is down to a quarter a pound, but I'm busted
I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won't lay
A big stack of bills that gets bigger each day
The county's gonna haul my belongings away cause I'm busted.

I went to my brother to ask for a loan cause I was busted
I hate to beg like a dog without his bone, but I'm busted
My brother said there ain't a thing I can do,
My wife and my kids are all down with the flu,
And I was just thinking about calling on you 'cause I'm busted.

Well, I am no thief, but a man can go wrong when he's busted
The food that we canned last summer is gone and I'm busted
The fields are all bare and the cotton won't grow,
Me and my family got to pack up and go,
But I'll make a living, just where I don't know cause I'm busted.

I'm broke, no bread, I mean like nothing,




Writer/s: THOMAS, ROB /
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Busted

The Nashville songwriter Harlan Howard wrote this in 1962. It was originally recorded by Johnny Cash that year, but it became a hit in 1963 Charles did a Soul version. Both Johnny Cash and Ray Charles could have a lot of fun with their music, and that's the case here as they sing from the perspective of a farmer who could really use a government bailout. He can't even borrow some cash, since everyone else is busted too. (thanks, Brett - Edmonton, Canada)

This was the 1963 Grammy winner for Best Rhythm and Blues Recording.

This song's writer Harlan Howard was a prolific, legendary songwriter. Country Universe quotes him explaining some of the songwriting technique that went into "Busted": "The only thing I know to do with songs like "Why Not Me" and "Busted" – which I never thought was a good title – is to put the title in there often so that people remember it. The weaker the title, the more you gotta hear it."

Love and Theft - Night That You'll Never Forget

Love and Theft - Night That You'll Never Forget Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: single release only
Released: 2014

Night That You'll Never Forget Lyrics

You showed up at the party
You wasn't gonna stay too long
But that all changed up when your song came on
Somebody handed you a cup
So you went with the flow and you filled it on up.

You feel the buzz in your bones
And then you start making the rounds
You know all too well what's about to go down
You say "hold up, I better go"
Yeah right, next thing you know...

You look up and it's 2 in the morning
You're still sipping whatever they're pouring
You got your shades on, you got your drink up
Like you're VIP at the nightclub
You kissed a girl and she told you her secrets
She's so hot, you still can't believe it's true
It ain't over yet, but it's gonna be a hard to remember
Night That You'll Never Forget

Now you're phone's filled up
With pictures that you didn't take
And it's you throwing deuces with 'what's her name'
And there's your boys right there
Tailgate poker table all in on a pair.

Here come the country girls
They wanna dance all on ya, wanna rock your world
It was supposed to be a regular night (Regular night)
But now you're like
"To the left, to the left, to the right."

You look up and it's 3 in the morning
You're still sipping whatever they're pouring
You got your shades on, you got your drink up
Like you're VIP at the nightclub
You kissed a girl and she told you her secrets
She's so hot, you still can't believe it's true
It ain't over yet, but it's gonna be a hard to remember
Night that you'll never forget

To the left, to the left, to the left, to the right

You look up and it's 4 in the morning
You're still sipping whatever they're pouring
You got your shades on, you got your drink up
Here's to the nights that memories are made of
You kissed a girl and she told you her secrets
She's so hot, you still can't believe it's true
It ain't over yet, but it's gonna be a hard to remember
Night that you'll never forget

To the left, to the left, to the left, to the right
To the left, to the left, to the left, to the right

Writer/s: GORLEY, ASHLEY / DAVIDSON, DALLAS
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Night That You'll Never Forget

This song describes a house party gone right. "It's a party song, but it has a cool, laid-back feel," Love and Theft's Eric Gunderson said. "A few people I've talked to at country radio recently said there's a lot of stuff on the radio right now that sounds the same, and this is very fresh, and it's a different take on a song that a lot of people are tryin' to put out. So, we're excited about it."

Gunderson and his Love & Theft partner Stephen Barker Liles called in some colleagues to help out on the hook. "This is the first time we've ever had a party song at radio, but playing clubs all these years, we've had a few of these nights where you lose track of time celebrating," Liles explained. "We had a blast recording the song, and some of the RCA promotion staff joined us in the studio and sang on the chorus, and it's cool to have the people working the song singing on it."

We see Gunderson and Liles throw a party in the music video. Several other several country music artists join in the bash – look out for Parmalee, JT Hodges, Joel Crouse and Maggie Rose.

Ray Charles - You Are My Sunshine

Ray Charles - You Are My Sunshine Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
Released: 1962

You Are My Sunshine Lyrics

The other night dear, as I lay sleeping
I dreamed I held you in my arms
When I awoke, dear, I was mistaken
So I hung my head and I cried.

[Chorus]
You Are My Sunshine, my only sunshine
You make me happy when skies are gray
You'll never know dear, how much I miss you
Please don't take my sunshine away

I'll always love you and make you happy,
If you will only say the same.
But if you leave me to love another,
You'll regret it all some day:

[Chorus]

You told me once, dear, you really loved me
And no one else could come between.
But not you've left me and love another;
You have shattered all my dreams:

[Chorus]

Writer/s: DAVIS, JIMMIE
Publisher: Peermusic Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group
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You Are My Sunshine

This was written by Jimmie Davis and his guitar player Charles Mitchell, who first recorded it in 1940, a year after both the Pine Ridge Boys and the The Rice Brothers Gang introduced it (some historians claim Paul Rice actually wrote the tune and sold it to Davis). Davis was a prolific songwriter who became Governor of Louisiana a few years after.

Bing Crosby was the first to have a hit with this song. His version went to #20 in the US in 1941.

This was sung on the "It Was a GOOD Life" episode of The Twilight Zone by a neighbor of a supernatural little boy -- before the boy changes the neighbor into a jack-in-the-box and buries him in a cornfield.

The B-side was Hank Williams' signature song, "Your Cheatin' Heart." (thanks, Brad Wind - Miami, FL, for above 3)

The acclaimed 2000 O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack includes a version from bluegrass performer Norman Blake.