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The Miracles - Shop Around

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Album: Hi, We're The Miracles
Released: 1960

Shop Around Lyrics

When I became of age my mother called me to her side,
She said, "Son, you're growing up now pretty soon you'll take a bride"
And then she said, "Just because you've become a young man now,
There's still somethings that you don't understand now,
Before you ask some girl for her hand now
Keep your freedom for as long as you can now."

My mama told me, "You better Shop Around, (Shop, shop)
Oh yeah, you better shop around" (Shop, shop around)

Ah, there's somethings that I want you to know now
Just as sure as the winds gonna blow now
The women come and the women gonna go now
Before you tell 'em that you love em so now.

My mama told me, "You better shop around, (Shop, shop)
Oh yeah, you better shop around" (Shop, shop around)

A-try to get yourself a bargain son
Don't be sold on the very first one
A-pretty girls come a dime a dozen,
A-try to find one who's gonna give you true lovin'

Before you take a girl and say I do, now,
Make sure she's in love with-a you now.
My mama told me, "You better shop around."

Ooh yeah, a-try to get yourself a bargain son
Don't be sold on the very first one
A-pretty girls come a dime a dozen,
A-try to find one who's gonna give you true lovin'.

Before you take a girl and say I do, now,
Make sure she's in love with-a you now.
Make sure that her love is true now.
I hate to see you feelin' sad and blue now"

My mama told me, "You better shop around (Shop, shop)
Don't let the first one get you
Oh no 'cause I don't want to see her with you
Uh huh before you let her hold you tight, ah yeah make sure she's alright
Uh huh before you let her take your hand my son
Understand my son, be a man my son I know you can my son I love you"

Writer/s: ROBINSON, SMOKEY/GORDY, BERRY JR
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing
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Shop Around

This was the first million-seller for Motown Records. It was also the label's first Top 10 single in the US.

Miracles leader Smokey Robinson wrote this in about 20 minutes. In a 2006 interview with NPR, he explained that some songs just flowed out of him, and those were often the hits. Robinson wrote the song for another Motown artist, Barrett Strong, but Motown leader Berry Gordy convinced him to record it with his group, The Miracles, and have Robinson's wife, Claudette, sing lead. Gordy worked on the song with Robinson, which was a slower and more Bluesy number when the Miracles first recorded it.

The song was released as a single, but late one night, Gordy woke Robinson up with a phone call announcing he thought up a different arrangement for the song and called the group into the studio to record it (it was not uncommon to re-record a song in those days after hearing it on the radio and considering improvements). Everybody made it to the studio except the piano player, so Gordy pounded the ivories while the tape was rolling. The hit version, which had a faster tempo and Smokey on lead, was recorded around 3 a.m.

Robinson made up the lyrics about his mother telling him go through lots of girls in pursuit of the perfect one. His mother died when he was 10.

A cover version by Captain & Tennille went to #4 US in 1976. In this version, the advice to "shop around" is delivered to a daughter.

A white singer on the Motown roster named Debbie Dean recorded an answer song called "Don't Let Him Shop Around" which hit #92 in 1961.

Dry the River - Everlasting Light

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Album: Alarms in the Heart
Released: 2014

Everlasting Light Lyrics

Everlasting Light

The first single from Dry the River's Alarms in the Heart album was a creative breakthrough for the band. Frontman Peter Liddle explained: "At the time Dry the River were in something of a wilderness, creatively and temporally. For me, 'Everlasting Light' represents the path out of the wilderness - a kind of unlikely moment of clarity where we remembered what it's like to be a band in a room."

The band are seen taking on a black belt female judo team in the music visual. "The combative video came from these themes - of getting back up after a setback, dusting ourselves off.," said Liddle. "The black belts are real, and so is the pain."

Mary Wells - Two Lovers

Mary Wells - Two Lovers Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Two Lovers and Other Great Hits
Released: 1962

Two Lovers Lyrics

Well, I've got Two Lovers, and I ain't ashamed,
Two lovers and I love them both the same.
Let me tell you 'bout my first lover.
He's sweet and kind and he's mine all mine.
He treats me good like a lover should and makes me love him,
I really, really love him,
Oh, I love him so,
And I'll do ev'rything I can to let him know.

Well, I've got two lovers, and I ain't ashamed,
Two lovers and I love them both the same.
Let me tell you 'bout my other lover.
He treats me bad, makes me sad,
Makes me cry but sill I can't deny that I love him,
I really, really love him,
Oh I love him so,
And I'll do ev'rything I can to let him know.

Darling, Well, Don'tcha know that I can tell whenever I look at you,
That you think that I'm untrue,
'Cause I said that I love two,
But I really, really do.
'Cause you're a split personality.
And in reality, both of them are you.

Well, I've got two lovers, and I ain't ashamed,
Two lovers and I love them both the same.
Well, I've got two lovers, and I ain't ashamed,
Two lovers and I love them both the same.
Well, I've got two lovers, and I ain't ashamed,


Writer/s: GUTIEREZZ, ROBERT/RAMIREZ, ROBERT/CARTER, JAMES CALVIN
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Two Lovers

"Two Lovers" was the third collaboration between Motown hit-makers Mary Wells and Smokey Robinson, following "The One Who Really Loves You" and "You Beat Me to the Punch."

The 1962 hit plays on a risqué theme of a woman torn between two lovers, one who's sweet and kind and one who makes her cry - and she "ain't ashamed." But the surprise ending saved the song from the censors: "you're a split personality, and in reality, both of them are you."

Smokey Robinson said that this song was inspired by his then-wife, Claudette Rogers, who also performed with him in the Miracles.

The song was also inspired by an old movie that Smokey was watching on TV one night. He recalled to Mojo: "This woman had these two men that she loved. And see, people think that love is exclusive, 'How can you love somebody else if you love this person?' That's just the way love is. Love doesn't have no boundaries, no formulas, and no rules, love doesn't know that."

"So I thought, OK she's got these two lovers, she loved them both, and in the movie I think one guy died or something, but I thought about it. What if she has two lovers but they're the same person? So I wrote the song."

5 Seconds of Summer - Mrs All American

5 Seconds of Summer - Mrs All American Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: 5 Seconds Of Summer
Released: 2014

Mrs All American Lyrics

I love that accent you have when you say hello
You relocated from New York a month ago
That mini van that you drive really gets me going
And if it feels like it's right
Then it can't be wrong

No one understands the chemistry we have
And it came out of nowhere
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
It's not like we planned this, it's getting out of hand
And now we're gonna go there
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Walk my way
Mrs All American
Say my name
No need to pretend
Don't be shy
Mrs All American
I'll show you why
You're not gonna walk away
Yeah

Not just a neighbor
Oh hey there I'll ring your bell
Open your door, pucker up
And I'll kiss you well
My lips are sealed
There's nobody that I would tell
Your secret's mine, close your eyes
And I'll make you melt

No one understands the chemistry we have
And it came out of nowhere
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
It's not like we planned this, it's getting out of hand
And now we're gonna go there
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Walk my way
Mrs All American
Say my name
No need to pretend
Don't be shy
Mrs All American
I'll show you why
You're not gonna walk away
Oh yeah

Na na na na na na na na
You know what you like
Na na na na na na na na
You know what you like
Na na na na na na na na
Ah you know what you like
Na na na na na na na

Walk my way
Mrs All American
Say my name
No need to pretend
Don't be shy
Mrs All American
I'll show you why
You're not gonna walk away

(Walk my way)
Oh yeah
(Say my name)
You're not gonna walk away
(Don't be shy)
(I'll show you why)
You're not gonna walk away

Writer/s: HOOD, CALUM / CLIFFORD, MICHAEL / ROBSON, STEVE / GOLAN, ROSS
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., IMAGEM U.S. LLC
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Mrs All American

This song finds Luke falling in love with a girl who "relocated from New York a month ago." 5SOS's Michael and Callum wrote the song with Chicago songwriter Ross Golan (Justin Bieber's "Take You," Lady Antebellum's "Compass") and English songsmith Steve Robson (Olly Murs' "Troublemaker," 5SOS's "Don't Stop.")

The song only appears on the US version of 5 Seconds of Summer, replacing "English Love Affair."

The Beach Boys - God Only Knows

The Beach Boys - God Only Knows Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Pet Sounds
Released: 1966

God Only Knows Lyrics

I may not always love you
But long as there are stars above you
You never need to doubt it
I'll make you so sure about it
God Only Knows what I'd be without you

If you should ever leave me
Though life would still go on, believe me
The world could show nothing to me
So what good would livin' do me
God only knows what I'd be without you

God only knows what I'd be without you

If you should ever leave me
Though life would still go on, believe me
The world could show nothing to me
So what good would livin' do me
God only knows what I'd be without you

God only knows what I'd be without you

Writer/s: WILSON, BRIAN DOUGLAS / ASHER, TONY
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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God Only Knows

Brian Wilson wrote this song with Tony Asher, who was an advertising copyrighter and lyricist that Wilson worked with on songs for Pet Sounds. This song reflects Wilson's interest in spirituality, and it was a big departure from previous Beach Boys songs that dealt with girls, cars and surfing. Wilson explained to Goldmine in 2011: "Tony Asher and I tried to write something very spiritually. It's got a melody similar to the song (recites lyric to 'The Sound Of Music'), 'I hear the sound of music…' (Sings lyrics to 'God Only Knows') 'I may not always love you…' It was similar to it. Tony came up with the title 'God Only Knows.' I was scared they'd ban playing it on the radio because of the title but they didn't."

This song is considered a Beach Boys classic, but it only managed to scrape the Top 40 in the United States. That's because it was released as a B-side, partly because of fear that radio stations would refuse to play a song with "God" in the title. In the liner notes to the reissued Pet Sounds album, Tony Asher explained, "I really thought it was going to be everything it was, and yet we were taking some real chances with it. First of all, the lyric opens by saying, 'I may not always love you,' which is a very unusual way to start a love song."

Carl Wilson handled lead vocals on this track. Not long after the song was released, he said, "At present our influences are of a religious nature. Not any specific religion but an idea based upon that of Universal Consciousness. The concept of spreading goodwill, good thoughts and happiness is nothing new. It is an idea which religious teachers and philosophers have been handing down for centuries, but it is also our hope. The spiritual concept of happiness and doing good to others is extremely important to the lyric of our songs, and the religious element of some of the better church music is also contained within some of our new work."

The Beatles' "Here, There And Everywhere" was inspired by this song. John Lennon and Paul McCartney heard Pet Sounds at a party and went back to Lennon's house to write it. Paul McCartney once called "God Only Knows" "The greatest song ever written."

The famous French horn on this song was played by Alan Robinson, who appeared on the scores for many films, including The Sound of Music and The Ten Commandments. He got the call for the session because he could play without music written out. Brian Wilson sang him the horn line he had in mind, and Robinson played it by ear using a glissando technique suggested by Wilson.

Brian Wilson planned to sing the lead vocal himself, but decided that his brother Carl was better suited for the track. "I was looking for a tenderness and a sweetness which I knew Carl had in himself as well as in his voice," said Brian.

This was featured at the end of the 2003 romantic comedy Love Actually. It was also used in the films Boogie Nights (P.T. Anderson's drama about the porn industry) and Saved (a 2004 drama about a Christian high school, where there are two versions, both covers). (thanks, David - Roseville, MN)

This was the theme song for the first three seasons of the HBO television series Big Love, which ran 2006-2011.

Asked by The Guardian which Beach Boys song took the least effort to write, Brian Wilson replied: "I wrote 'God Only Knows' in 45 minutes. Me and Tony Asher."

In Al Kooper's tell-all autobiography Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards , Kooper talks about his evening visiting Brian Wilson only a week before Pet Sounds hit the streets: "Brian played a test-pressing of the record, jumping up and stopping cuts in the middle and starting them over to emphasize his points. He was very proud of his accomplishment, maybe even a little show-offish, but I wasn't about to argue. Do you remember the first time you heard 'God Only Knows'?"

A cover version of the song was broadcast simultaneously across BBC television and radio channels on October 7, 2014 to launch BBC Music. The new adaptation featured Brian Wilson himself as well as various guest stars including Pharrell Williams, Sir Elton John, Lorde, Chris Martin, Stevie Wonder, One Direction and Dave Grohl.

Harper Simon - Dixie Cleopatra

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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.